Colony simulators can be overwhelming. Games like Dwarf Fortress and RimWorld use migration as both a fuel and a pressure valve, delivering caravan after caravan of fresh colonists at regular intervals to ensure the centre of balance of your community is always tipping forwards. Space Haven, which is set not on the filthy ground but in that big empty boob we call space>, flip-turns the usual template upside down. You command a ship that quite literally is always moving forwards, resources are scavenged from passing derelict hulls, and fresh crew pilfered from other ships.

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Load up, load up, budding Death Stranding posties, as 505 Games have finally revealed the PC requirements for Hideo Kojima’s upcoming delivery simulator. The good news is that you only need a GTX 1060 or RX 590 graphics card to be able to run the game at 60fps at 1920×1080, provided you’ve got a decent processor to go with it of course, so it should be pretty manageable for most gaming PCs. The bad news is that it’s going to hog 80GB of space on your SSD, so you may want to start re-stacking those files to make sure your PC’s storage banks don’t topple over when it arrives on July 14th.

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Spiderman has never been so popular. Thanks to Tom Holland and the MCU, who in the world doesn’t want to be Spiderman, web-slinging around buildings and beating up thugs with the twin fists of Great Power and Great Responsibility. And Minecraft makes this easy by giving you the ability to change your Minecraft skin to whatever you fancy.

This short guide to the best Spiderman Minecraft skin will reveal our pick for the best Spiderman skin out there and how to download it – along with a few alternatives if you want a selection of suits to choose from!

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Season 4 of Call Of Duty: Modern Warfare is finally here. With a download size that’s practically bursting at the seams, Infinity Ward’s new season of shootmen brings updated playlists, a new battle pass and post-Gold mastery challenges to the Modern Warfare arsenal. Meanwhile, Call Of Duty: Warzone‘s battle royale has been buffed up with 50-a-side firefights and three new mid-game events – including a healthy dose of prison abolition.

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You could fill a stadium with games that deserve a bigger audience. This marks the third time I’ve written about Realm Of The Ghost King (including calling it one of the best unknown games of 2018, out of thousands). It’s now part of the Itch Bundle For Racial Justice And Equality, and I hope it finally catches on.

It is terrific. Even though it’s a roguelike. You are a ghostie. You want a shot at the king, and standing in between him and you is a legion of monsters. But you have bombs. Oh, that age-old tale.

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If there’s one thing I really like about GTFO, it’s how nerve-wracking it is trying to creep past the developers’ freaky take on zombified people. It looks like it’s about to get even scarier, too, because the latest update, The Vessel, is bringing a brand new enemy for us to try our best to avoid. It’s also wiping away the old levels and bringing an entire new set for players to explore – to add to all the scariness, this new environment looks like it’s inspired by Alien.

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Ah, the mysteries of the Ebay voucher. They appear mysteriously on store listings apparently without rhyme or reason, with terms and conditions that should make things clearer only serving to muddy the waters. Today, said voucher can be used on a bunch of PC gaming hardware over on Currys’ UK Ebay Store, including monitors and graphics cards to SSDs and some of our favourite mice and gaming headsets. The discounts aren’t massive – just 5-8% off in most cases – but that still equates to some decent savings if you’re on the lookout for, say, a Samsung T5 portable SSD on the cheap, or some money off AMD’s Ryzen 7 3700X or an RTX 2070 GPU. And to save you the trouble of trawling through everything yourself to see what has a voucher and what doesn’t, I’ve picked out all of the best stuff below.

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Much like every other person with a Steam account and a penchant for penetrating plate armour with pikes and pillaging poor pig farmers, I’ve spent a good portion of the last few weeks with mammoth medieval moshpitter Mount & Blade II: Bannerlord. I’ve besieged castles, sired heirs, and sniped horses. But recently, I’ve been wanting a bit more from the experience. Enraptured by the possibility of meeting new and interesting people to stab, I strapped on my platemail and saddled up until my wanderings led me to the Bannerlord Roleplay project, and its director, ‘Flavberg’.

“If a player decides they want to play a priest character, they can write up a character sheet for this character, go on the server, and speak to the local church to join their parish,” says Flavburg, giving an example. “They can start preaching the word of God, help and feed the poor, or they can become corrupt and demand indulgences from criminals. There is no limit to people’s imagination.”

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Arcane, the cartoon set in the world of League Of Legends, will not be out this year. Riot Games announced yesterday that the global pandemic has somewhat hindered production, so they’re pushing it into 2021. Riot say they are “bummed” about the hold-up but “need to balance our excitement for the story with the safety and well-being of our teams and partners.” Yes, important to consider the well-being of your teams.

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The Call Of Duty: Warzone map is enormous. Larger even than the colossal locales of PUBG, Verdansk is home to many hundreds of unique buildings, thousands of loot drops, and up to 150 players at once. Our Call Of Duty: Warzone map guide will offer you an extremely detailed look at Verdansk and all its locations, even going so far as to rank the very best loot locations across the map.

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