Look at the screenshot above, then. You might think it looks like the UI from an early 2000s Paradox game that’s yet to have an art pass. But to me, it looks like heaven. This is an in-progress view of the menus from Kitfox’s upcoming Steam re-release of Dwarf Fortress, which aims to make the game accessible with a good tileset and a set of menu improvements. What you’re seeing above hasn’t had an art pass yet, according to the Steam blog post about it, but it represents an attempt to bring important information and actions together in one place when the player is inspecting a particular tile and the creatures upon it....

“We have implemented some hotfixes over the weekend and will be continuing to add more in the coming days,” the devs said a Twitter thread last night. They laid out their “plan for the upcoming week” for each platform, too. Techland posted the lists as images, so for your reading convience I’ve slammed their list of “things in [their] pipeline” for PC into text: The game looks a big hit, currently sitting with the fifth-highest concurrent player count on Steam....

What can you expect from a ReedPop-organised E3 in the second week of June next year? Well, they’re promising to “reunite the global video game industry for a week of titanic AAA reveals, earth-shaking world premieres, and exclusive access to the future of video games”. Crikey. It will take place at the Los Angeles Convention Center, and will be both a business and consumer-oriented event. E3 2023 will be open to publishers, developers, your friendly neighbourhood journos, and content creators, along with sections for the general public....

Where to find Mohg, Lord of Blood in Elden Ring Mohg, Lord of Blood, is found within Mohgwyn Palace. To reach Mohgwyn Palace, you must get the Haligtree Secret Medallion and use it at the Grand Lift of Rold, found East of Leyndell through the Forbidden Lands. If you want to take Mohg on early, you can also reach Mohgwyn Palace via Varre’s quest line. Keep in mind that Mohg, Lord of Blood is intended to be a late game boss, so you may find yourself struggling if you use Varre to arrive before level 100....

All the new Xbox & Bethesda Games Showcase announcements and trailers Xbox and Bethesda showed over 30 games at this year’s Not-E3 showcase, so there’s a lot to cover. If you’re looking for something specific, you can use the list below to hop to the game you’re most excited about. If you want a full round-up of every single trailer and announcement from the Xbox & Bethesda Games Showcase, simply scroll down a little further....

You can catch up on the full Xbox Games Showcase stream right here if you missed it, but you’ll find all the new game announcements right here in one handy list, along with all of their shiny new trailers. Our Nate will have more hands on impressions of Halo Infinite’s campaign gameplay very soon, but for now, here’s everything you missed from tonight’s showcase. Halo Infinite - new trailer and Holiday 2020 release date Xbox kicked off their Series X Showcase with a first look at Halo Infinite’s campaign....

It’s a brief teaser, sure, but I’m confident we can scrape together a game from these component parts. A digger? Dogs? An owl? Sounds like a smashing time already. Heart Of The Forest is being developed by Wanderlust: Travel Stories devs Different Tales. With that in mind, I’d expect something strongly centred on narrative, closer to the interactive fiction end of the table at which that gap year sim sat....

Our Factorio guide for 1.0 hopes to solve this problem for new players, as we delve into our top 15 Factorio tips covering everything from quality of life improvements to building strategies, and much more. Factorio guide: 15 top tips for beginners Factorio is an enormous game with lots to learn before you can create a colossal factory, but there are lots of little tips and techniques you can employ to help speed up your progress and get you started on the right foot....

If you’re just looking to snap up this red suit, hop into Fall Guys right now and check out the outfits section of your inventory. The big red coat top and bottom should be waiting for you to pull on before you go falling down any chimneys. You’ll have access to it if you log in between now and this Friday, December 25th. The information comes by way of, for some reason, a live action advertisement that publishers Devolver Digital had made up....

“With a long-term commitment to creating engaging seasonal content for the Fall Guys playerbase and with plenty of other exciting projects in the pipeline, there should be some great opportunities for people looking to take their next step in games with Mediatonic,” the company said in a press release. Yeah, they’re hiring. You can see some photos of the spot here, if you want. Fall Guys isn’t their only game, mind....

Fallen Order Tomb of Miktrull guide: Tomb of Miktrull walkthrough How to raise the Spire of Miktrull and escape the Tomb Star Wars Jedi: Fallen Order Tomb of Miktrull walkthrough I won’t waste any time with this Tomb of Miktrull walkthrough, because I think we all just want to complete it and then forget about it forever. No? Just me? There is a video version of the walkthrough above, but here are the step-by-step instructions: From our starting point looking up at the grand Tomb of Miktrull, head to the right and grapple onto the wall....

How to get the Far Cry 6 secret ending Unlike many other secret endings in the history of the Far Cry franchise, in order to reach the Far Cry 6 secret ending you’ll need to play a fair bit of the game first: enough to get you off Isla Santuario, the starting island of the Far Cry 6 map, and onto Libertad Island. This will likely take you a couple of hours of playing through the story missions on Isla Santuario....

Preview packs were introduced recently to FIFA 21, and a post on the FIFA 22 site says that they’re being added from launch this time “following a positive reception from fans.” In reality, FIFA Ultimate Team has at the centre of several government’s efforts to crack down on gambling among children in online games. In 2018, sixteen gambling regulators united to issue a warning about loot boxes and digital football cards....

Sales of Final Fantasy XIV Starter Edition and Complete Edition, as well as those Free Trial registrations won’t be available for a little while. According to producer and director Naoki Yoshida’s post, “These temporary suspensions will be phased in over the next few days as we work with our retail partners.” Right now, there’s no set date for their return to stores. Yoshida says they’ll “continue to monitor the situation as we consider the timing around resuming sales....

While not quite as pressing as the very real problem of developers scrambling to reimburse their losses through GDC relief funds, the show’s cancellation also scrubbed clean a solid week of valuable developer insights. In light of this, GDC will be streaming a select playlist of developer sessions and awards over on their Twitch channel starting Monday 16th, with a full schedule lined up on the GDC Virtual Talks hub....

Please do not let this one pass you by. There’s a bit in that trailer where the player legs it into a cupboard, only to turn around and hear their gun click emptily at a pursuing buzzer drone. That’s Receiver. It’s about dealing with the agonising, dread-inducing foibles of realistically-modelled weaponry, where every safety and hammer and slide rail and feed ramp spells potential disaster. I just had to deal with one of those awful listless clicks myself, thanks to leaving my revolver’s hammer primed and being unable to snap the chamber shut....

In response, they’re calling for Ubisoft Paris employees to strike from 2 to 6pm on Friday, January 27th, with demands that include an “immediate 10% increase for all salaries” and the “implementation of a 4-day week.” The union tweeted the call to strike earlier today, with open letters shared in both French and English. “If the request to employees to be ’especially careful and strategic with your spending’ is ironic considering the company’s editorial strategy of the last few years, it is not funny,” says the letter....

You also discover at the end of the tutorial that your giant angry house has a “Soul Cannon”, which is a gun that only fires if you feed it the soul - and permanently kill - one of the children. Still with me? I’m enjoying it so far. During battles, you choose which children to place at which gun position, and each kid brings their own particular weapon and skills....

All you need to do to get your free copy of The Council is enter the promo code RPGPARTY at checkout when you buy a game worth at least £8 / $8 from the adventure / RPG sale. The code is valid until the end of the sale at 8.59am GMT on March 26th, and it probably goes without saying that you can only use it once. I enjoyed The Council when I played it back in 2019, even if its plot goes massively off the boil in the middle of the fourth episode....

“Leaving is bittersweet as I love our Gears family, the fans, and everyone at The Coalition and Xbox,” he tweeted. “Thank you, it has been an honor and a privilege to work with you all.” He’s leaving The Coalition just before the release of Gears Tactics, the XCOM-like spin-off coming out on April 28th. He’ll start his new job at Blizzard in March, and all we know so far about his role is that he’ll “oversee the Diablo franchise”....