The final update arrived for the huge (and hugely impressive) free Skyrim total conversion mod Enderal yesterday. It’s a small patch but does bring a bit tease that the developers are now working on a new commercial project. They don’t give any hint as to what that might be, but considering the years they’ve spent with Enderal as well as Oblivion mod Nehrim, it’s hard not to assume/hope it might be some fantasy RPG dealio. Fingers crossed?

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Designed by Costantino Oliva, a lecturer at the University of Malta, Otogarden‘s a free-to-play game in which you guide a yokai spirit around a musical garden in an attempt to make a nice tune. Have a mosey about the greenery and you’ll help him with his research into musical participation in digital games. Even if, like me, you create something truly hideous, at least it’s helping him out. Right?

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Last week, IO Interactive said players would need to own Hitman 2 on the Epic Games Store if they wanted to import its levels to Hitman 3. That was pretty rubbish – for owners of the game on Steam, it meant you either couldn’t have those levels, or you’d need to buy it again. Thankfully, IO are looking for a solution, and guarantee players won’t need to rebuy the game after all.

“We are continuing to work with our partners to allow PC players who own Hitman 1 or Hitman 2 to import locations from those games at no additional cost,” they said on Sunday.

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Oh you lucky, lucky> lot. Yakuza 5 (along with Yakuzas 3 and 4) will finally hit PC on January 28th, with not just Yakuza’s main boy Kiryu to play as, but four other certified legends too. However, out of the four of them, only one doesn’t sport a giant back tattoo of a crane throttling a bear, or share ancestry with Marcus Fenix. Instead, they’re a cutesy high-schooler who dreams of J-Pop fame, and frankly it’s their storyline that holds the most weight.

Midway through Yakuza 5 you’ll go from slamming thugs around as a hulking specimen of a human, to attending fan meet-and-greets as Haruka. You must not skip dance practice. You must learn how to handle slimy interviewers. You must belt out glittery tunes. I was consumed by her schedule. Nothing was more important to me than helping her achieve her dreams, and this got me thinking; more games need a J-Pop idol section.

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Space Warlord Organ Trading Simulator

, announced last week with an extraordinary trailer, does largely what it says on the tin. “The information is in the title,” says its Steam description, blatantly written by developer Xalavier Nelson Jr. “There are slickened, detached meat products derived from alien and human bodies, and you sure do buy and sell them”. That’s that, then. But in a surprising exclusive, I can also reveal to you that SWOTS currently supports the Xbox Kinect (2010) as a control peripheral, plausibly making it the final Kinect game.

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