Here’s our first proper look at Warhammer 40,000: Space Wolf, a free-to-play collectible card game headed to Android, iOS and PC in 2014.

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GOG.com Black Friday sale discounts 60+ games

Crusader Kings 2 mod floods the medieval world with the walking dead

If the world was struck by the zombie apocalypse today, modern fiction dictates we’d almost survive it. Of course this is a load of tosh and it’s inevitable we’d all succumb, but if we were to stand any chance the key to zombie defeat is a) guns and b) cars filled with stolen petrol. So what exactly would the chances of survival be if this hypothetical outbreak occurred before the dawn of sliced bread. Say, the middle ages? Would the sword and shield be enough? Let Crusader Kings Z provide you with the answers.

The Mandate trailer boards your ship and kills your crew

Super-exciting Kickstarter project The Mandate is off to a brilliant start, already soaring past its funding goal and now well on the pay to becoming the co-op sci-fi RPG of everyone’s spice-fuelled dreams. If one of your dreams consisted of breaching an enemy starship, sneaking on board and laying waste to its captain, then the latest trailer really is quite the treat for you. 

For everyone else, Walder Frey/Argus Filch/William Hartnell narrates it. That is to say, British British actor David Bradley recites Rudyard Kipling’s The Destroyers whilst men get shot with lasers. 

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Introversion break out official mod support for Prison Architect

It’s not just snoring bears Lily Allen’s trill-some cover of ‘Somewhere Only We Know’ brought back from snoozeville. There’s the cacodaemon Ith’to’il, awakened from a thousand year slumber, now clawing his way up from the earth’s core to claim his birthright: the green planet and everything on it. There are the clowns of Norfolk, finally free from stasis to terrorise the good people of England’s flattest county. And there’s Introversion, now returned after two months’ hibernation.

The Prison Architect developers have readied Prison Architect’s 15th alpha update to date - a significant patch that introduces tiredness to prison staff, staff rooms to aid their recovery, a round of performance optimisations, and - most excitingly - moddy, moddy mods.

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"We want to make PC gaming as simple as possible", say Nvidia

AMD have their tech in both of the new consoles, which I imagine is a bit like signing a contract ensuring your comfortable existence for the next decade. Nvidia have no such cushion - but they do get to play PC champions while their competitors remain understandably schtum.

Today, Nvidia are selling the idea of small form PCs as a like-for-like alternative to the Xbox One and PS4.

“Enthusiast players want the ultimate games system and that is the PC,” said consumer sales man Matt Wright.

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Green Man Gaming 4-Play sale cuts digits off Super Meat Boy and Magicka

I’d started to form a thought that a 4-Play sale might be about the welcome glut of four-player co-op games we’ve had this last half-decade - Left 4 Dead, Rayman, Ghost Recon, Monaco, even Mario - but soon had that misconception buried beneath a shroud of unexpected doominess. It turns out Green Man Gaming have asked their regular bargaineers what game they’d choose to spend their last four hours on Earth with. Battlefield 4, it turns out, and Skyrim, both of which will appear in this weekend’s sales.

Evidently still hot on that number, GMG have pledged to run at least four deals every four hours, across the next four days.

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New Screenshot Released For PC Exclusive “Reset”

Ultra Street Fighter 4 plays host to an unannounced new playable character. A piece of art doing the rounds this weekend suggests it may be the obscure Retsu.

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Steam concurrent users break 7 million

Yogscast’s Dwarven Dairy offers six games and more for $25 charitable donation

2014 WCS changes - How Blizzard are improving professional StarCraft 2

Here at the sharp end of the 2013 eSports calendar, we can start to see what the next year of StarCraft will look like. In the past few weeks we had the WCS Global Finals, the DreamHack Winter StarCraft 2 Finals, Red Bull Battle Grounds, IEM Singapore, and the finale of the World Cyber Games. It’s been a packed schedule, but also a diverse and entertaining one.

It’s also hopefully a sampling of what awaits us next year as Blizzard make some much-needed and long-awaited changes to their World Championship Series. If they bear fruit, we should have a 2014 competitive season that is easier to follow, more enjoyable to watch, and features a more diverse set of tournaments and players.

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Metro: Last Light DLC guide

WIth Metro: Last Light going on sale today, it’s worth looking at the grab-bag of DLC associated with it. While all of it is pretty cheap, time is not, and only some of Last Light’s extra levels are really worth investigating. Some of these DLC packs are cringe-worthy, the kind of schlocky, half-baked ideas that give DLC a bad name and make things like season passes a bad value. On the other hand, some it is almost inspired, adding some of the systemic depth that Last Light’s campaign lacked.

 So as you consider the Steam Autumn Sale, and are looking to return to the Metro, let’s look at what’s actually worth your time.

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Towerfall Ascension has no online multiplayer

Boo, Towerfall Ascension. Boo. That’s what I say to your purely offline multiplayer. Well, that may be too harsh but, still, it’s rare that I can get four friends round to share a single screen. It’s much easier to amass a group online.

However, it’s hard to stay angry at Towerfall for too long, what with all the added content we’re getting with the PC release.

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Mod of the Year 2013 nominations begin

ModDB have begun the first phase of their Mod of the Year contest. Every mod on the site can now be nominated to appear in 2013’s top 100 mods, from which a further round of voting will determine the overall winner, which will be announced on Christmas day.

Previous winners have included Black Mesa and Natural Selection, mods that have gone on to become fully-fledged commercial releases. The Mod of the Year is a great way of finding a set of extras to plug into your favourite games

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Minecrafting 125: House of Chests

Snapshot 13w48a landed this week, bringing a bunch of bug fixes like not being able to take screenshots of chat or inventories, misaligned textures, and various problems with the newly-added Twitch streaming capabilities. Shortly afterwards, we got 13w48b, fixing a few other bits and changing how you get out of Minecarts.  Nothing tremendously exciting. 

Instead, all the action has been going down in the community. For starters, congratulations are in order for Curseforge on gathering together 500 Minecraft mods. We weren't that impressed by what the 500th mod actually was, so if you're making a nifty Minecraft mod, you might want to go list it there.

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Just Cause 2 Multiplayer Is Coming To Steam, Final Beta Test Session Announced