It's really quite interesting how, in a time where big budget live service games are doing anything they can to get you to continue playing (and importantly spend money on) them, the sort of spiritual opposite of this to rise out of this are games where you just hang out with a few buds doing silly nonsense that don't cost very much. Lethal Company, Peak, you know the kinds of games I mean, and yesterday a new one I quite like the look of arrived: RV There Yet?

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It's been so long since I played a Telltale-style game that all the Telltale quirks feel novel again. Timed dialogue choices and action QTEs. X will remember that. Hashtag 4 Clementine. Created by a team co-founded by former Walking Dead and Wolf Among Us developers, Dispatch brings all of that charming, movie-night energy to bear on a superhero comedy premise you might broadly recognise from The Boys and Invincible, except that it's more laidback and banter-driven than either of those. So far, anyway - the game's first couple of episodes are out now on Steam.

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Once upon a time, Stellar Reach developer James Miller wanted the stars to move about over the course of 4X strategy game campaigns that might stretch for hundreds of years. In reality, stars are in continual motion: our Sun, for example, orbits the centre of the Milky Way galaxy, which means that right now, you and I are technically travelling at hundreds of thousands of miles an hour in the rough direction of Vega, 25 lightyears away. Eek!

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Update: In a follow-up Steam post, EC Digital have revealed they're working with Valve to have their Scarface re-release's Steam page hidden in the short term, amid "urgent discussions with multiple parties concerning the project’s status". Their post continues as follows:

After careful consideration, we believe that temporarily hiding the store page is the most appropriate step forward, and we’ve already begun coordinating with Valve to make that happen shortly. The current page was initially intended as a placeholder while we worked through ongoing licensing and technical matters. Unfortunately, the unintended release of certain builds on other platforms caused unexpected complications and concerns. Because of that, we feel it’s necessary to pause and reevaluate.

We want to apologize to the community for the confusion and concern this situation may have caused. If things change and we’re able to bring the game back in the future, we’ll let you know right away. This was entirely our responsibility. We also kindly ask that no one harass or share the personal information of anyone involved. Some of our partners working on completely separate projects have already been negatively impacted, and we deeply regret putting them in that position.

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Maybe prepare to dig out your finest gaudy suit and mountains of, er, a certain substance. A PC re-release of Radical Entertainment's Scarface: The World Is Yours has suddenly popped up on the Epic Store and Steam. The Epic version is available already, having been "unintentionally pushed live" early due to backend issues, according to new publishers EC Digital Entertainment.

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Steam is getting a new eight-week calendar feature for both games you've wishlisted and recommended games based on your previous playtime. No longer will you have to source recommendations by reading tea leaves, or visualise your wishlist by labelling different-shaped food in your fridge. Now, you'll get a proper, personalised Monday-to-Friday chart that refreshes every day.

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