Folks rooting around in the recent release of Mafia III‘s Definitive Edition have found part of Berlin, a level scrap likely from a cancelled espionage game. Supposedly a project Hangar 13 started after Mafia 3, the game known as Rhapsody was never announced but whispers have leaked out before. Now here’s a rough outline of Berlin, which might be the most we’ll ever see of Rhapsody. That’s a nice little find, though it’s less nice that some players are reporting the Def Ed has brought new technical problems too.

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Quantic Dream’s trio of old PlayStation exclusives are being plonked in front of a new set of PC players next month, as Heavy Rain, Detroit: Become Human and Beyond: Two Souls are arriving on Steam on June 18th. They first launched on PC last year via the Epic Games Store, and it’s not long now before they’re freed of their exclusivity shackles. So, which will you try first? The murder mystery about finding your stolen kid? The android simulator that makes you decide if robots should be free? Or will you become a young girl trying to figure out what’s up with her weird friend? You decide!

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Minecraft Dungeons

may have borrowed very little from its parent game in terms of features, sticking largely to the blockbuster construction game’s aesthetics instead, but that’s not to say it hasn’t given plenty back. While Dungeons was being developed, according to executive director David Nisshagen in my interview with him, its team came up with illagers, a.ka. angry squidwards, in order to provide a staple humanoid mob for the player to batter by the dozen throughout the blocky ARPG’s levels. But the idea was swiftly nabbed by the regular Minecraft team, and before Dungeons was even in the game, illagers were HARR-ing their way across Minecraft worlds from the spring of 2019. So, if the folks at Mojang are open to sneaking elements into Minecraft from its younger sibling, what else should make its way in? Here’s my pick – but let me know what you’d like to see make the jump across in ye olde comments section.

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Good news for readers that pay in US dollars rather than pounds: Ubisoft are having a pretty comprehensive sale on their big hitting titles over on their US store right now, including 67% off Assassin’s Creed Odyssey and The Division 2, and a whopping 75% off Far Cry 5.

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Maybe there’s not much Minecraft in Minecraft Dungeons, but there is a pretty decent action-RPG or so I hear. Mojang’s click-click-click-click-clicking dungeon crawler launched today, with nary a block to mine or tree to punch but some weird and fun builds to experiment with. I’m up for an ARPG where one armour perk gives you a pet bat.

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In Minecraft Dungeons, you are a hero tasked with stopping the Arch-Illager and his army of monsters from taking over the Overworld. The journey will be a long one, spanning multiple difficulties, but there is plenty of loot out there to help you along the way.

If you are used to Minecraft’s focus on building and exploring, then the RPG style of this new game might be as alien to you as an Enderman in daylight. Help is at hand though as we will guide you through the monsters and the hidden treasures of Minecraft Dungeons. (more…)

Just when you thought the excellent Logitech G915 Lightspeed wireless keyboard couldn’t get any better, Logitech have just gone and announced they’re making a compact tenkeyless model of it, the G915 TKL. Launching this June for £200 (US pricing TBC), it’s still going to cost you a pretty penny when it comes out next month, but if you’ve been searching for a space-saving gaming keyboard that does away with all those pesky wires, then the G915 TKL could be just the thing.

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My guess is that when you were a kid, right, you were one of two types. You either used your action figures to play out imaginative (if potentially weird) stories, or you picked one of them up and went “I bet I can make Lion-O’s legs go in the splits so far that they fall off”, before proceeding to test your hypothesis.

Players of The Sims can broadly be divided into these two categories as well. And as far back as the first in the series, the latter set have been pushing the game to its tensile limits by introducing play challenges. In these, you create a Sim, or a family of Sims, and then play their lives out according to a set of very prescriptive and often torturous rules. Now, in the age of The Sims 4, these challenges have been refined. Sub-rules have been added. Players try to complete even the most difficult ones in a 24-hour span. It is compelling. And also frightening. Let me introduce you to some of my favourites.

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I have written several times about the tiny Norse boys of Bad North. This mini strategy game sees you marshalling different squads of troops to defend a procedurally generated island from viking invaders.

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Next up in the hack and slashin’ RPG series, Torchlight 3 previously had a change of heart after starting life as an online game called Torchlight Frontiers. Echtra Games have now announced that the currently-running closed beta will wrap this Friday. Now that they’re back in familiar territory, Echtra are planning some livestreamed announcements on the same day to talk about when the game will be “publicly available,” which might be anything from a public beta to an early access launch.

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