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Descend Further Into Tertium With Warhammer 40,000: Darktide’s Upcoming Free Update – Depths of the Damned

The Depths of the Damned update introduces Spillway, a new mission which sends players into the deep and dangerous recesses of an unseen area of the Hive. The notorious domain of Tertiums Water Cartel is a sprawling labyrinth of tunnels, waterways and forgotten passages, crawling with chaos, decay and threats best left undisturbed. Spillway’s journey is far from straightforward. Strike teams must choose their paths wisely, some routes are more perilous than others. One thing is certain, all lead to the Prophet of Decay – a twisted Psyker boss encounter. The Spillway campaign is only the beginning, Depths of the Damned also introduces an array of new content! The Update will be available from September 29th on Steam, PC, PlayStation 5 and Xbox Series X|S.

  • Expanded Arsenal: The warband is expanding their armory against Chaos with six new weapons coming to Darktide! Players will be able to unleash a mix of both new weapon marks and weapon families accessible to a range of in-game classes.The new weapon marks include the Crusher Krourk MK VII, Double-Barrelled Shotgun Krouk Mk IV, Gromm Mk I Battle Maul and Mk V Slab Shield. For the new weapon families Darktide is introducing the Ogryn Cruncher, Huntsman’s Shotgun and the Ogryn Thugshot. For a more in depth breakdown of the weapons check out Fatsharks forums for an upcoming Feature Highlight.
  • Face The Prophet of Decay: Deep within the Hive, something has taken root. Little is yet known about the Prophet of Decay, save for one grim certainty…they are no ordinary spawn of Chaos. A powerful Psyker, the Prophet has made the depths its domain and what awaits the Strike Teams in the dark remains to be seen. More information on the Prophet of Decay will be revealed in the weeks ahead.
  • Other Transmissions from the Hive: Alongside the above the Depths of the Damned update will also feature additional content, such as a new live event, store rotation and quality of life improvements.

Honeycomb: The World Beyond Xbox Review

Every so often there are moments in gaming that you will remember forever. One of those for me was playing Subnautica for the first time and seeing the water as you leave the life pod for the very first time. Honeycomb: The World Beyond was sent my way by Snail Games and in many ways manages to catch that same feeling except on land.

You work for Eon Corp, and as Hennessy, a bioengineer you are sent to a distant planet to help find clues on how to save the human race an possibly the Earth. SOTA7 is the name of the planet you find yourself on and it is beautiful, and home to many forms of life, some plant, some animal and not all of it friendly.

The first creature I came across was adorable admittedly, and attempted to mimic what I did. When I jumped or crouched, so did it. Eventually this made it trust me enough to pet it. Like an idiot I thought every animal would follow a similar pattern. This is how I died for the first time, a large bird looking creature and its friends killed me.

This one is a friend

The game is filled with things like this, and you will spend much of your time taking in sights, building a base and running experiments. Sometimes on the very animals and plants you have grown fond of. Don’t worry, you aren’t a monster, you aren’t murdering them in a lab or anything like that. It is all really more similar to creating new animals through breeding.

I don’t want to spoil to much for you, but suffice it to say the game is beautiful, but it does come with a warning. If you are looking for a combat focused game, this isn’t it. You can stun dangerous animals but you won’t be fighting anything really. This is a science focused game. You will spend a lot of time traveling, searching for samples and simply taking in the view. This is fun for a lot of people, others are going to hate it. I thought it was a nice way to relax after work. it is an 8/10 experience that fans of the genre will get into, but others will want to look at other Snail Game titles to get their fill of death in. Best wishes, and may the gaming gods bring you glory.

iRacing Arcade PlayStation 5 Review

If you remember, it was not that long ago I was talking about iRacing Arcade over on Steam. It has finally made its way over to the PlayStation 5 for people to enjoy. How does it hold up to its PC counterpart is what some of you may be wondering, however.

Truth be told, if you read my original review, there really isn’t anything new for you to learn here. The game has all of the newest updates, the same licensed tracks and series, and the controls feel even more natural on a controller than they do on a keyboard. This is where I will break from my Steam review a little bit.

In my Steam review, I said it would have been nice if the controls were a little more responsive, and I don’t know if it is due to updates or whatever, but they certainly are more responsive now than when I played it on Steam back in March.

My favorite part of iRacing Arcade is how approachable the game is, yet how much you can tinker with things if you want. iRacing has mastered making racing games, but they continue to find ways to make games that different types of fans can enjoy. This one is a 9/10 experience, with no wrong way to experience this title. Best wishes, and may the gaming gods bring you glory.

Investigate Palace Conspiracies in KOEI TECMO’s The Apothecary Diaries: The False Imperial Brother

 KOEI TECMO America and developer Gust in collaboration with TOHO Co, Ltd., announced The Apothecary Diaries: The False Imperial Brother, the first-ever console game adaptation of the popular franchise The Apothecary Diaries. Alongside Maomao and other iconic characters, fans will discover a new exclusive story and characters conceptualized by series author Hyuganatsu. The Apothecary Diaries: The False Imperial Brother is currently in development and set to release early 2027 on Nintendo Switch™ 2, Nintendo Switch™, PlayStation®5, and PC via Steam®.

In The Apothecary Diaries: The False Imperial Brother, players follow Maomao, a pleasure-district apothecary who now works in the rear palace. She finds herself investigating the Five Mysteries and Five Curses, two chains of strange phenomena and conspiracies causing chaos throughout the rear palace, the pleasure district, and streets of the capital. During her investigation, she stumbles upon the would-be-suspect, a masked man calling himself the “imperial younger brother”. As rumors swirl, Maomao is roped into an investigation that will lead her to uncover a shocking secret that could destroy the imperial court.

To conduct their investigation, Maomao will be joined by familiar figures such as Jinshi, the influential eunuch of the rear palace, as well as new characters including Guanyu, a travelling actor whose fame is growing in the capital. To uncover the truth behind the Five Curses and the identity of the “imperial younger brother”, fans will need to explore, gather evidence, and organize the information at their disposal to make deductions, while also gathering apothecary ingredients to concoct the medicines. 

During the investigation phase, players will be able to not only explore the scene, but also the surrounding city and the rear palace to find clues or interview witnesses. By venturing outside the city, Maomao will be able to gather the ingredients needed to concoct medicines that can serve as evidence or enable her to help her friends. Once the players have gathered enough information and evidence, they will be able to review them in the deduction phase.

Throughout the deduction phase, Maomao will review clues and succinctly summarize the facts to help her unravel the mystery and present her theory. However, simply presenting deductions will not always be enough, and fans will need to be able to present solid proof as the other party argues back. They will need to carefully select their answers by reviewing the information, present the relevant evidence by looking into Maomao’s notebook, or combine information together to convince the other party. The more information players gather, the more evidence they will be able to produce, helping them to solve the case.

The Apothecary Diaries: The False Imperial Brother will be presented in more detail during a special livestream broadcasted live from the KOEI TECMO stage at the Tokyo Game Show 2026 on Sept. 20, 2026, featuring the voice actors Aoi Yuki (Maomao), Takeo Otsuka (Jinshi) and Yohei Azakami (Guanyu).

The Apothecary Diaries: The False Imperial Brother is currently in development and is scheduled for release in early 2027 on Nintendo Switch™ 2, Nintendo Switch™, PlayStation®5, and PC Steam®. The game will include Japanese voices with English text.

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Orc Incremental Steam Review

Orc Incremental was sent my way by the fine folks over at Nice Ride, which is just 3 people making games, and according to their website, they don’t like AI making art or Dairy before 3p.m. You can also destroy their logo by playing a game similar to Brick Break, but you only get one chance, and if you miss the ball, the logo comes back, so I don’t know if anything happens if you succeed. I tried for like 20 minutes. So if anyone finds out, let me know.

The game is an homage to Warcraft 2 in many ways; you’ve got orcs vs elves and human-looking things, though the game didn’t seem to specify what they were. You will recruit all sorts of other creatures, like dragons and trolls, and fight griffins and others if you get far enough.

You start at level one, and as you kill enemies, you will gain money to spend on upgrades. You start with 1 single orc and the ability to throw a fireball yourself. It won’t take long before you can recruit another.

The upgrades you pick are very important, as is the fireball you can throw. Eventually, the formation you pick will become important as well. I was lucky enough to play alongside another reviewer, and he had to do his first rebirth well before I did, and I believe this is because we used wildly different strategies. He put his orcs and ground troops in the front and mid-range to the sides, while I had my mid-range guys in the back. My longer-range catapults ended up in the back, and his ended up where my mid-range guys were. This resulted in me making it to around level 110 or so before I chose to rebirth the first time, while he had to do it before level 100.

Rebirthing is very important, as this is where you can unlock permanent upgrades as well as other game modes, such as the ability to do quests, which will also unlock other stronger permanent upgrades. They all make you restart ( in a separate game mode; you can switch back and forth willingly. The further you get and the more money you earn, the more points you will get to buy those upgrades.

So is the game worth buying? Yes, absolutely. My favorite part is that even when you walk away, your little army will continue to earn money for you. So feel free to shut the game down, turn your laptop off, go to work, and come home to some money to upgrade with. The game is a 9/10 experience. Best wishes, and may the gaming gods bring you glory.

Ground Zero Hero PlayStation 5 Review

Ground Zero Hero Was Sent my way by the one and only Atari, which still blows my mind that I get to work with. But here we are, about to discuss what I can only describe as the most bonkers action roguelike I have ever played. For the low price of $10, you can control some sort of weird nuclear apocalypse as a mutated freak with a random mutation, such as laying eggs, shooting spikes from your back, or being a cyclops shooting a laser out of your eye. You can then kill weird enemies, like living trees during the day, for example, with the exploding eggs you lay. This is assuming one of the eggs doesn’t hatch into a superhero named Chicken Man, who will fight with you for a bit before leaving for the home planet that apparently needs him.

Yes, that is a UFO; no, I can’t and Won’t try to explain that crocodile with a hat.

The more enemies you kill and absorb, I guess, the more nuclear fallout from it, the stronger you get. You can collect new mutations or upgrade the ones you have to make it easier to survive. This is all before nightfall, when vampires and werewolves show up. You can, of course, simply go underground and sleep in the sewers for the night to pass time and save, of course. This makes the far deadlier night creatures go away.

There are, of course, different biomes with different enemies and different animals to ride. Yes, you can, for example, ride a two-headed cow in one, for a little bit. Then it explodes killed a bunch of animals. To make things a little extra wtf is you do have a food meter to watch. That food is candy, and if it runs out, you will start to die. So if you see a piñata, go smash it. Don’t worry; this is pretty easy to keep track of, and unless you are kind of negligent, it never really becomes an issue.

This brings me to my only real issue with the game: the upgrades you get between the runs seem kind of lackluster and pointless. They are kind of expensive, and unless you buy a ton at once never felt like they made a difference, as opposed to just upgrading my powers did. This isn’t a deal breaker or anything, but it did kind of take away from it a bit. It is still an 8/10 experience for me. Best wishes, and may the gaming gods bring you glory.

Moonlighter 2: The Endless Vault PlayStation 5 Review

Moonlighter 2: The Endless Vault was sent my way by 11 Bit Studios, a company I love working with. Obviously, I appreciate being sent a copy of what could be argued is their most anticipated title. Being a fan of the first game, I have been waiting for this one to hit consoles and to see what Will has been up to. Now, it is worth saying this: Moonlighter 2 is a direct continuation of the first game; it takes place right after the first game, and you will play as Will, the main character from the original, with many characters returning. The game does a great job of catching you up if you want to start here, however.

You can quickly switch weapons before heading out to collect relics.

The main gameplay is simple: at night, head out into the dimensional gate, collect relics to sell in your shop, and sell them to the people of Tresna. The more money you earn, the more upgrades you can buy to make these journeys easier, grab more loot, make more money, and appease the endless vault to get more of its secrets. Why do you want its secrets? Well, to find out, you will need to play the game; I won’t spoil the story for you.

Each weapon feels vastly different, and you will find your favorite very quickly, just to discover that every weapon within those categories of weapons are also quite different. I fell in love with the great sort originally to later find a spear I didn’t want to live without, even though I didn’t like my first spear.

Combat is quick and fluid, and each dimension has its own enemies and gimmicks to contend with, and relics that act differently in your backpack. If you want to make the most money, you will need to master them all, and dying will bring their worth down immensely, so know when to retreat with what you have. It is far better to retreat with a couple of relics worth a bit of money than to leave with a lot worth next to nothing. Trust me, I have the trophy for dying with a backpack filled with relics, and not on purpose.

The one issue I had with the game is that the very beginning of the game can be one hell of a grind if you aren’t smart about how you pick your upgrades, and if you are, it is still a hell of a grind. You only get 2 potions to start healing, and very few hit points, with no way to really replenish them, and the money early game just isn’t there to afford upgrades. Unless RNgeus is on your side and blesses you with some great loot and perks early, your starting runs will be a struggle to even reach the boss, let alone beat him. But once the upgrades start a couple of hours in, the game really opens up.

/ So is Moonlighter 2: The Endless Vault worth the $30 price tag? If you liked the original, this is everything the first one was and better; if you missed the first and are worried because it is a continuation, don’t be. The game starts by telling you how we got here. It is a 9/10 experience that I am glad to have experienced. Best wishes, and may the gaming gods bring you glory.

Port of Jumanah Has Set Sail on Steam, Epic, and PlayStation Store

 Red Dunes Games and Agate today announced that Port of Jumanah is now available on Steam, Epic, and PlayStation Store. Divers will also be tempted by a new full-release trailer showcasing the game’s fast-paced underwater expeditions, exotic sea creatures, vibrant worlds, and evolving port.

In Port of Jumanah, you play as Mansour, a pearl diver about to embark on the adventure of a lifetime. Descend fearlessly into dangerous waters to fight sea monsters, experiment with new equipment and upgrades, and make decisions that shape each expedition. Back on shore, the resources and allies that you recover will help rebuild Jumanah’s port and open new possibilities for future runs.

“Port of Jumanah is an homage to our region’s Pearl Diving history…with a delightful touch of nonsense. At its heart is an upbeat Arabian regular guy who always seems to encounter dangerous and often cute things (but mostly dangerous) with a cheerful disposition and sheer grit. Whether you play casually or hardcore, just remember the often-forgotten rule of the sea: if it looks suspicious, it probably is. Enjoy, habibi.” said Sultan Darmaki, CEO and Creative Director at Red Dunes Games.

Key features include:

  • Dive into ever-changing danger: Explore the depths, confront sea monsters, and discover new opportunities during each expedition.
  • Build a powerful loadout: Upgrade your gear and experiment with different combos to tackle increasingly dangerous encounters.
  • Recruit unusual allies: Meet a colorful cast of characters who can help (or complicate) the journey.
  • Rebuild the port: Bring your discoveries back to Jumanah and transform the port as progress continues.
  • A playful maritime adventure: Experience a colorful, story-rich world filled with humor, fantasy, and decisions that you’ll probably regret.

Maneater 2 announcement trailer

Maneater was a blast. Pure and simple. Fun, goofy, bloody, weirdly educational fun. Seeing confirmation we’re getting a sequel absolutely brought a smile to my face. I can’t wait to see what kind of bizarre mutations we’ll get and hopefully some new ways to devour our prey. I liked that there will be new predators as well to face off against. As you’d imagine, I’m really pumped to dive back in as a shark. May the gaming gods bring you glory.

Until Dawn 2 release date trailer

I’m still very confused how this is a sequel to Until Dawn. I gave some leigh way when the Until Dawn 2 reveal trailer dropped. After getting a more in depth look, I’m still fairly convinced the title was tacked on for brand recognition. On it’s own, the game looks nice visually so far. The story elements aren’t really grabbing me so far. I’ll keep an eye out but in the end I’m not really anywhere near as hyped as I should be. May the gaming gods bring you glory.