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December 23, 2025

Avowed didn’t rewrite the RPG rulebook in 2025, but it still gave me some of my biggest gaming ‘wow’ moments of the year

Avowed is an open-world RPG set in 2025 that emphasizes exploration and features a variety of beautifully crafted environments, including deserts, swamps, mountains, and lava lakes. The game invites players to immerse themselves in its world, despite having a narrative that may lack depth and somewhat dated quest design. One notable quest involves placing an item as a tribute to a lost love, highlighting the game's ability to evoke emotional connections. While it does not innovate the RPG genre, Avowed is praised for its visual appeal and the captivating experience it offers players.

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October 4, 2025

Save $130 in PC Games With This Week’s Epic Games Free Deal

Every week, the Epic Games Store offers free games for players. This week, the free titles are Nightingale and Firestone Online Idle RPG. Nightingale is a first-person action-survival game currently in Early Access, featuring exploration, crafting, and combat in a magical world. It typically costs around and will be available for free next week. Firestone Online Idle RPG includes multiplayer elements and clicker mechanics, providing a casual RPG experience. The base game is free, and a bundle valued at will be available for free next week. Next week, Gravity Circuit, an 8-bit style platformer reminiscent of classic games, will also be available for free. It typically costs around . Additionally, the Rogue Journeyman Bundle for Albion Online, valued at , will be available for free next week.

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October 2, 2025

Minecraft New Update 3.20 Ushers in Bedrock 1.21.111 “The Copper Age”

The latest Minecraft update, "The Copper Age," is version 1.21.111 for Bedrock and 3.20/1.029 for consoles, released on September 30. Key features include: - Copper Chest: Players can summon a copper golem to acquire a copper chest, which can oxidize or be preserved with wax. It can be crafted from a standard chest and copper ingots. - Copper Equipment: Copper can be used to craft tools, weapons, and armor that do not oxidize. Copper armor has higher durability than leather but less than iron. - Copper Golem: Summoned with copper and carved pumpkins, it collects and sorts items from copper chests. It drops 1 to 3 copper ingots upon demise and can transform into a statue block when fully oxidized. - Copper Decorations: New items include copper torches, bars, chains, and lanterns that oxidize over time. - Shelf: A decorative block that can store items and connect with powered shelves for redstone functionality. - Accessibility: Updated dye icons for colorblind accessibility and text-to-speech support for dressing room pages. - Blocks: Fire-related changes to blocks and bug fixes for water placement and block destruction. - General Improvements: Corrections to grass color in swamps and enhancements for multiplayer experiences. - Graphical Enhancements: Updates to volumetric fog and particle textures, along with fixes for graphical bugs. - User Interface: Improvements to icons and display issues, including new icons for sale banners. Players can expect potential hotfixes in the coming weeks.

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September 16, 2025

How to get to Putrified Ducts in Hollow Knight Silksong

Putrified Ducts is an optional area in Silksong located in the top right corner of the map, offering valuable tools beneficial for exploring Bilewater's swamps. There are two routes to reach it: through Bilewater or Memorium. The Bilewater route requires defeating the boss Groal and is challenging without the Wreath of Purity, which neutralizes maggots in Bilewater. The Memorium route is recommended and requires the Clawline and Faydown Cloak, allowing access to hidden paths. In Putrified Ducts, players can find the Wreath of Purity, the Apostate Key, and a haven for Silksong fleas. The final Pale Oil needed to upgrade Hornet's needle can be collected from Fleatopia in Act 3.

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August 13, 2025

Minecraft New Update 3.18 Applies Fixes via Bedrock 1.21.101

Mojang has released a new patch for Minecraft, version 3.18/1.027 for the Bedrock version 1.21.101, to address various issues from the recent experimental game drop features. The patch includes fixes for several crashes, corrected grass color in Swamps and Mangrove Swamps, ensured Firefly Bush particles appear correctly, increased Firefly Bush generation frequency, fixed item placement issues in Bundles with Hoppers, resolved download failures on PlayStation 5 when joining Realms and multiplayer worlds, and corrected the command selector ‘c=-1’ issue.

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August 13, 2025

Minecraft’s Latest Update 1.027 Applies Fixes on August 13

Players on consoles can download Minecraft update 1.027 (ver. 01.027.000), which is a minor patch enhancing the gaming experience as part of Bedrock version 1.21.101. The update addresses multiple issues, including: - Resolved crashes that could disrupt gameplay. - Fixed a crash occurring when treatment packs were removed during game loading or when entering a world. - Adjusted grass color in Swamps and Mangrove Swamps. - Ensured Firefly Bush particles appear in intended locations. - Increased frequency of Firefly Bush generation. - Fixed item placement issues with Bundles when interacting with Hoppers. - Corrected a problem on PlayStation 5 with downloading large packs while joining Realms and multiplayer worlds. - Fixed an issue with the command selector ‘c=-1’ not returning the furthest matching entity. Players should expect another patch before the next significant content release.

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July 21, 2025

Yogscast Games’ The Royal Writ Launches August 7 for PC

The medieval roguelike deckbuilder, The Royal Writ, developed by Save Sloth Studios and published by Yogscast Games, will launch on PC via Steam on August 7. Players command cards on the battlefield, strategically positioning them to advance toward the enemy while facing the risk of permanent destruction for cards that fail to achieve victory. The game features a diverse army of characters with unique abilities, including an injured flamingo and a short-sighted chicken archer. There are two campaigns: one focused on quelling a rebellion and another introducing gunpowder as a new adversary. Key features include intuitive gameplay, roguelike progression, card permadeath, a charming art style, memorable NPC encounters, special boss mechanics, a gradual difficulty ladder, challenge modes, and collectible relics that alter gameplay dynamics.

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July 3, 2025

Epic Games Store Now Has $40 Worth of Free Games

The Epic Games Store is offering two free games for PC gamers until July 10. Players who claim them during this period will retain access indefinitely. The first game is Backpack Hero, developed by Jaspel, which has a Metacritic score of 76 and an 86% approval rating on Steam from nearly 7,000 players. It offers 10 to 60 hours of gameplay and features a deck-building roguelike mechanic focused on item organization within a backpack. The second game is Figment, created by Bedtime Digital Games, with a Metacritic score of 77 and an 87% approval rating on Steam from over 1,000 reviews. It provides 5 to 6 hours of gameplay and is set in a whimsical, musical action-adventure within the human mind, where players solve puzzles to confront nightmares.

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June 30, 2025

Xbox confirms brand new games releasing this week – and there’s 18 of them

Xbox is set to release 18 new games from June 30 to July 4 across its consoles and platforms. Game Releases: - 30 June - Mystic Pathways: Crystal Quest (Xbox Series X/S, Xbox One, PC) - 1 July - Irem Collection Vol. 3 (Xbox Series X/S, Xbox One) - No Heroes Here 2 (Xbox Series X/S, Xbox One, PC) - 2 July - Mecha BREAK (Xbox Series X/S, PC) - Arena Renovation (Xbox Series X/S) - Dead of Darkness (Xbox Series X/S, Xbox One, PC) - Mystic Thief - Elemental Conquest (Xbox Series X/S) - Rally Arcade Classics (Xbox Series X/S) - SpongeBob: Krusty Cook-Off Extra Krusty Edition (Xbox Series X/S, Xbox One) - 3 July - Music Drive: Chase the Beat (Xbox Series X/S, Xbox One) - 4 July - Aery: Titans of the Future (Xbox Series X/S) - All the Words She Wrote (Xbox Series X/S, Xbox One) - Beat of Life (Xbox Series X/S, Xbox One) - Farm Together 2 (Xbox Series X/S) - Frozen Axe (Xbox Series X/S) - Golf Guys (Xbox Series X/S, Xbox One, PC) - Hexa Road (Xbox Series X/S, Xbox One) - Novel Rogue (Xbox Series X/S, Xbox One, PC)

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May 10, 2025

Celebrate Star Wars being good again with up to 85% off EA’s Jedi and Battlefront games until May 15

This year's Star Wars Day has generated excitement among fans and gamers, partly due to the success of the Andor TV series and the announcement of Star Wars Zero Company from Bit Reactor. EA is offering discounts of up to 85% on its Star Wars games on Steam, including Star Wars Jedi: Fallen Order for .99 (£5.24) and Jedi Survivor for .99 (£11.99). The 2015 reboot of Star Wars: Battlefront is available for .99, while Battlefront 2 is priced at .99 (£6.99). Star Wars: Squadrons is also on sale for .99 (£5.24). These offers will be available until May 15. Future Star Wars gaming projects include Zero Company, a third Jedi game from Respawn, and ongoing developments for Star Wars Eclipse and the KOTOR Remake.