Ahead of Battlefield 6's reveal trailer later today, July 24th, the camo-clad shooter's release date appears to have been shot out into the universe by a leaker.

This isn't the first time EA's latest instalment of putting bullets in faces while someone shouts orders in your ear has been subject to some leaks. This time it's Dealabs' Billbil-kun, who'se got a strong track record when it comes to pulling back the covers on details about games and hardware prior to official reveals.

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The exact difference between a cool, fun sci-fi reference and a tiresome, please get out of my house and into the sea sci-fi reference will remain a mystery to me, but I haven't seen anyone try and do Milliways from Hitchhiker's Guide as a management sim yet, so sure, I'll bite.

Things do start off firmly in Mos Eisley territory though. You recycle industrial trash heaps to clear space for dining rooms, where the shanky lookin' clientele sit on rusted barrels and order a soup made from canonically repulsive beans. The advisor informs me the beans taste so awful that they used to be illegal. This implies the existence of some sort of rough-edged intergalactic bean squad. See if you can spot them in the trailer below.

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Thousands of creators today found their Itch.io projects missing from the online storefront - effectively delisted to anyone searching or browsing the site. Others still are reporting actual takedowns "with no notice", halted payouts, and those who have previously purchased their games being unable to download them.

Going by one image posted on the Itch Discord and shared on Bluesky by game developer Daffodil, filtering by the site's 'NSFW' category previously showed 28,114 results. It now shows 7,008.

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Right, here we go, this is gonna have to be be quicker than the tempo of your average Motorhead thrashathon. Brütal Legend, the heavy metal action-adventure Double Fine put out on console back in 2009 (before coming to their senses and doing a PC port in 2013), is free to grab as I write this, but won't be for much longer.

Following the death of Black Sabbath frontman and general face of the metal Ozzy Osbourne earlier this week, the studio have decided to give out the game in which he talks to a roadie voiced by Jack Black for zilch. However, it's a deal that kicked off in the dead of the night UK time, and isn't set to run for much longer.

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It looks like discounts are back on the menu (I need to watch the Lord of the Rings again). Alienware’s top-tier laptops are seeing price drops up to $1,200, with RTX 5090 and 4080 options going for less than you’d expect. Looking for a cracking desktop deal instead? The iBUYPOWER Element Pro is still one of the best 4K‑ready desktop deals around, and we’ve pulled in a couple of high-capacity Anker power banks for anyone lugging around their Steam Decks and ROG Allys (Allies?). On top of that, we’ve got some of the best GPU deals going right now — including PNY’s 5060 Ti and other fresh drops still in stock. Let's get into it:

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Look, I love the Steam Deck. In fact, we’re such big fans of it in our home that I have an OLED and my wife has the LCD model I had before it.

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For a low-stakes open world cycling game, Wheel World has a lot of lore. You wake up in the forest and discover a spirit called Skully, a ghost who offers the player a rusty bike and immediately ejects so much fantasy jargon and frontloaded backstory that I started to think it was an intentional joke. Thank Cog (the god of cycling) that this loredumping is not habitual. The rest of the game plays out as a chill and happy-hearted racer in a small but well-crafted world of rolling vineyards, bumpy forests, and honking city streets. It's a short tour, lasting only about five hours, but it's five hours nicely pedalled.

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Microsoft have done a U-turn and decided they don't fancy making a series that at least tries to satirise capitalism the face of a price hike. In the US, The Outer Worlds 2 will no longer cost $79.99, but the low, low sum of $69.99 instead.

For UK folks, that means a tenner's been knocked off what you'll pay to pre order the standard version of the RPG, which comes out on October 29th. Xbox and co will be doing the same with their other holiday period games this year, rather than pushing up how much folks are paying to £70/$80.

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The Rat King is dead, long live the Fool King. In this medieval roguelite autobattler, you must murder a skeleton monarch with dice. You will do this not by loading bags of D20s into a culverin and shooting the Fool King point blank, though yes, that sounds like an amazing lategame unlock. Instead, you will be rolling the dice to determine how many knights, peasants, wizards and crossbowmen you can summon to each battlefield. I've been playing the prototype, and while roguelites are thick as wheat these days, this is a promising contender. Here's a trailer.

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Developer Julian LeFay, a key cog in the early days of Bethesda and the development of classic Elder Scrolls RPGs Arena and Daggerfall, has died. His passing was announced by OnceLost Games, the studio he co-founded in 2019, and follows a years-long battle with cancer.

LeFay stepped away from his most recent development post as technical director at OnceLost, where he'd been working on Daggerfall-inspired RPG The Wayward Realms alongside fellow Bethesda veteran Ted Peterson, last week. OnceLost revealed at the time that this was due to his cancer worsening, writing that LeFay's doctors had informed them "his time with us is limited".

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