My Menace campaign hasn't been a rousing success. In my first mission, I failed a string of optional objectives and saw one of my squads gunned down by a group of heavily-armed, jetpack-wearing space pirates. I got revenge by running them over with an APC. So, we'll call it a draw. But I need to up my game if I'm to kick these freeloading bandits off the planet Backbone.

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A Killer Inn 'free stay weekend' is underway, giving you a chance to try out Square Enix's new multiplayer shooter ahead of its upcoming launch. The stratospheric rise of Arc Raiders has proven that there's a huge appetite for the tension of uneasy-alliance multiplayer games where you're never quite sure who's on your side. Adopting the likes of Among Us and other hidden-identity favorites such as One Night Ultimate Werewolf, as well as the asymmetric elements of Dead By Daylight and Friday the 13th, this third-person shooter pits wolves against lambs in a struggle to survive.

Read the full story on PCGamesN: If you love the tension of Arc Raiders, you can try Square Enix's new deception-driven multiplayer shooter for free now, days ahead of launch

After an early-game battle inHyrule Warriors: Age of Calamity, the gregarious Goron Daruk offers the hero Link a massive hunk of Prime Rock Roast. “Why don’tcha dig in, little guy?” he says with a beaming smile. Link, expressionless, nods and grunts before tearing into the giant rock with his teeth. Zelda and Impa recoil with shock and horror. We’re not even allowed to see the “little guy” chowing down, but we hear the horrible gnashing of Hylian teeth on a rock dripping with lava.

It's just Overwatch now, and that feels right. Blizzard has finally pulled the ripcord as part of a massive overhaul and dropped the number. Wave goodbye to 'Overwatch 2' and say hello to this new era, bolstered by the en-masse arrival of five heroes, with five more set to come by the end of 2026. Even with the more rapid pace that we've seen established over the past year, it feels like a major change; Overwatch has finally woken up and matched speed with live-service rivals like Marvel Rivals and Deadlock. But director Aaron Keller says this move couldn't have happened until now.

Read the full story on PCGamesN: Overwatch's rebrand was the "right time, right place," director says, as the FPS embraces that the PvE dream is dead

Instead of playing the fruitless will-he-won’t-he games online, here’s a better use of your time. Between episodes of A Knight of the Seven Kingdoms — a satisfying, small-scale show that Game of Thrones fans (or Martin fans in general) shouldn’t miss — just read one of his pre-Game of Thrones novels, which are all self-contained and complete, no sequels necessary. In particular, my favorite book of his has always been his 1977 debut novel, Dying of the Light, a swooning, admirably nasty science fiction story that contains just about everything fans admire about Game of Thrones, apart from the dragons.