Elden Ring Nightreign will get a new rock-hard Expedition mode called Deep of Night on 11th September. "Rock-hard" is a cliché worn to uselessness, of course: to be more specific, this is at least tungsten-carbide-hard, possibly even as hard as stishovite, though the exact degree of toughness is variable.

It's variable because Deep of Night gets statistically harder, the more you win, with a difficulty rating or "depth" that fluctuates based on wins and losses. Enemies are tougher than usual by default, and you can't specify which Nightlord you're hunting, so be prepared for nasty surprises. There are new special Depth Relics, exclusive to this mode, which sadistically bundle together additional buffs and debuffs.

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A bundle of games aiming to raise money to aid the United Nations' Relief and Works Agency (UNRWA) in their efforts to help Palestinian refugees is set to go on sale via Itch.io next week. Just over 380 games are part of it, including the likes of Coffee Talk, Lucifer Within Us, and a cow life simulator that features an alligator who's really into arson.

Organised by Junch and the South East Asian Games for Good initiative, the bundle's dubbed Play for Peace - Games for Palestine. It's taken over 10 months to come together. The result's a 382-game strong bundle that includes a huge variety of creations that contain not a whiff of AI or NFTs.

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In the grim darkness of the far future, there is only more bloody downloadable content for Warhammer 40,000: Space Marine 2. Developers Saber Interactive are supposed to be working on Space Marine 3, but you wouldn't know that from all the Stuff they've jammed into the previous game's year 2 content schedule. There's a major Anniversary patch due on 4th September, just in time for Silksong. Five more patches are coming over 2025 and 2026, plus nine DLC packs via season pass. The manufactorums are overflowing! Here's a video to lay it all out.

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Dig your finest cricket bat out of the loft - Atomfall developers Rebellion have revealed its second story expansion is set to arrive in September. It's dubbed The Red Strain, and looks to star a not-Robobrain who's connected to a bunch of crimson plantlife filling the Cumberland quarantine zone.

This second DLC follows Wicked Isle, the first Atomfall expansion that you got automatically if you plumped for the deluxe edition of the radioactive pasty survivathon. I still need to go back and play that expansion, and this next add-on looks like an intriguing excuse to do so.

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You know what, I'm going to bare all: I've still yet to play Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 beyond the hour or so I played at a preview event, during which I approximately deemed it "a pretty tidy slice of RPG with some cheeky QTEs on the side", but certainly not the diamond-plated GOTY candidate described by Nic in his review. As is my rotten nature, my desire to see what all the fuss is about is proportionately lower for knowing that they're going to make a sequel - or at least, some rather substantial-sounding DLC. Ugh, I have even more to catch up on now. Why do the gods mock me.

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Every October, Microsoft host an Employee Giving campaign for charities chosen by staff, with the company matching any funds they raise. During last October’s Giving month, a group of Microsoft workers organised a vigil for Palestinians killed by the Israeli military during the current invasion of Gaza, stumping up donations for organisations such as the Palestinian Children's Relief Fund, while paying tribute to fellow tech workers who’ve lost their lives in the war.

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Taking your Steam Deck on the go this Summer? You’ll probably know all too well just how quickly the battery drains, and while we’ve seen recent deals on some sizeable options like the AOHI Future Starship, this one is a bit more compact.

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If you’re looking for a discount on an NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5070 Ti PC, discounts are popping up all over the place.

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