It's happening. After three years of development, Terraria's highly anticipated and supposedly final 1.4.5 update finally has a release date. It's also imminent. Developer Re-Logic has set the date for January 27, less than two weeks away.

Re-Logic announced the release date earlier this week via a Steam post. "We have a few more things to get done between now and then," the studio wrote on Wednesday. "But start the countdown because Terraria 1.4.5 will be in your hands in 13 short days!"

While a specific release date has proved elusive up to this point, update 1.4.5 has been nearly finished for some time. Back in August, Re-Logic revealed that it was "in the endgame" of development for the update, having defined an internal launch window that it confirmed with various partners. Re-Logic wanted update 1.4.5 to be a global launch concurrent across all platforms, which is partly what has held things up.

Indeed, Re-Logic had hoped to release update 1.4.5 in December last year. But in another Steam post published on Boxing Day, it said that this "wound up being impossible" as it was "not possible to get every platform and global partner together in time".

Basically, Re-Logic realised that committing to a launch in December would have meant releasing in the same week as Christmas, and as a decidedly anti-crunch company, it didn't feel comfortable "asking all of our teams to forego time with family and friends and skipping the holidays." That's a fair perspective, especially when it only makes a few weeks' difference.

As for what to expect in update 1.4.5, the short answer is: a lot. Its main features are two crossover packs with Dead Cells and Palworld, adding weapons, items and entities from both games. This includes a "summonable Digtoise" from Palworld that can mine through blocks, which sounds neat.

There's also a ton of non-licenced additions coming in the update, including music blocks, numerous special boulders that do weird things like "fall" upwards and bounce between ores and chests, several "transformation mounts" that turn the player into creatures like bats, rats and velociraptor", new entities such as a pufferfish and six new types of slime, plus dozens more items and features. It may have been a long wait for 1.4.5 but, going by the list of what's being added, it seems like it'll be worth it.

Rockstar Games has seemingly gotten into contact with a terminally ill fan looking to play GTA 6 before its launch later this year on November 19, 2026.

That's according to a now deleted LinkedIn post from Ubisoft developer Anthony Armstrong, who appealed on behalf of a family member diagnosed with cancer and "given 6-12 months to live."

"The reason I am reaching out is that they are a huge GTA fan and, with this latest update, he may not be around long enough to actually get to see GTA 6 launch, best case scenario he will be leaving us the same month it does," Armstrong wrote, before hoping his family member could "have a chance to experience the game, before passing."

A later update on the post claimed Take-Two CEO Strauss Zelnick had reached out to put the family in touch with Rockstar Games, and a final update said, "We spoke to them today and got great news. That's all I can really say, but thank you all from the bottom of my heart." The post was likely deleted because of NDAs and such since Rockstar Games tends to be a fairly secretive company.

Still, the mammoth developer isn't opposed to opening its doors to fans going through difficult times. Rockstar Games did the same thing years ago, letting another terminally ill fan get their hands on Red Dead Redemption 2 before its official launch date. It's become somewhat of a heart warming industry trend too - just last year, Gearbox Software flew out a fan diagnosed with cancer to play Borderlands 4 early.

Box art isn't traditionally the first bit of art that's drawn up when making a game - whatever's printed on physical boxes and digital thumbnails usually comes when it's time to market the thing - but that's exactly what happened with Fallout 3 as the devs thought it was important to start at the very beginning and reimagine Fallout 1's box art.

"It started with the box art," lead artist Istvan Pely remembered in an interview with Edge Magazine. "The original Fallout 1 box, with the power armor on it, was iconic. To me, that was Fallout. So, that was the first thing, the first asset."

Looking at both games' boxes side-by-side is an interesting experience; both centre around that ever recognizable power suit, but Fallout 3's grimmer, murkier color palette drenched in shadows, alongside the power suit-wearers sunken pose, definitely shows where the industry was at in and around 2008.

"The next iconic thing was the Pip-Boy," Pely continued. "It's kind of an abstracted thing in the early games, but we wanted it to be an actual, physical device that you wear on your wrist. And then it was the Vault suit…"

Fallout 3's associate art producer Angela Browder recalled, "we had to decide what it was supposed to be made of. And then: what was the right shade of blue? Then: which gold looks like gold, but not gold - but also not yellow? The Vault suit took us forever."

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A new ingredient has appeared in the tray. I click to see what it is, forgetting that'll send it out onto the preparation mat. Instead of combining it with other ingredients to make a dish, I panic and click on the mat instead, which rolls up then unfurls to send a failed dish onto my conveyor belt in the form of a pile of poo. My only hope is that the customer I unlocked with the Poop Tasty upgrade appears. That goblin loves eating poo.

This is Goblin Sushi, a cooking game where you are a goblin chef with a queue of hungry dungeon dwellers to serve and ingredients including rice, seaweed, and a variety of fish and cave creatures to serve them. Looks like salmon nigiri is back on the menu, boys.

It's a simple item-combination game, like Cook, Serve, Delicious only you can use a mouse instead of the keyboard, with the tension coming from the endless stream of customers lining up like an angry Monster Manual demanding California rolls. As well as feeding them you need to clean their plates so more customers can take their place, and if you take too long to serve them, or they see piles of poo floating past on the conveyor belt, they'll get angry and tip less.

You need those tips because your goblin landlord arrives periodically, demanding your rent be served up on a platter like it's a blue-plate special. This is the source of what indie developer Old Cake Factory calls the "carpal tunnel gameplay". Pretty quickly you'll have too many hungry mouths to feed, especially when the two-headed customers arrive.

Goblin Sushi is a fairly basic cooking sim elevated by a cutesy/gross aesthetic, with customers including elderly goblin grandmas who have brought their tiny dogs, and huge dogmen who carry tiny goblin grannies. Adorable. It'll be arriving in early access on February 9, and you can play a demo on Steam now.