Dreams, Media Molecule’s new game/experiment/here’s-the-engine-we-use-to-make-games-now-make-your-own-thing officially has some form of launch date in the form of early access, for an April 16 release.

Hey, let me hit with you with a hot take: Walking kinda sucks. Hotter take: Running is even worse. How about the hottest take of them all: Running whilst adorned with piles of body armour and medical supplies whilst wielding heavy firearms as well as enough bullets to punch through a lead-lined safe is the worst. I know you all …

Real time strategy that mixes magic with relaxation and a deep system of ideas that you can learn at your leisure? That’s the kind of game that I could easily spend an afternoon with as I spend hours searching and taming magical islands.

I may be imagining this, but couch co-op seems to be on the rise again. While it’s definitely still sitting in the hospital recovering from the devastating wound online multiplayer inflicted upon it, it seems to be trying to open its eyes again and asking for a glass of water from the nurse who’s just so happy to see it coming to. There’s something special about couch co-op that can’t be captured by a long distance internet connection.

It seems that you can get a simulator for just about anything these days. While I stand by that European Truck Simulator is the most boring game I have ever played, I understand the allure of the genre in delivering fact-based gameplay. PC Building Simulator is no exception, now out of Early Access on Steam and ready to purchase. The …

Nearly five years ago, bohemia Interactive’s trailblazing zombie-infested survival game was released on PC as an alpha, early access game. It’s gone through sweeping changes in that time, getting new features, new guns, tuned gameplay and the sorts of frequent feedback-based tinkering you’d expect from an early access game.

12 players enter, only 1 can leave. Scavenge for weapons, harvest zombie hives to level up, and combine your advanced parkour mobility with brutal combat skills to outrun, outsmart, and outplay your opponents in Dying Light: Bad Blood.

Dead Cells has seen remarkable success during open development in Early Access. But if you were struggling to stay away from the random Castlevania runs, your wait for the full release is almost over.