There’s nothing like the joy of creation, and the flood of pain when that’s taken away. You can spend hours on a Minecraft build only for your friends to rig it with TNT and pressure plates, and while this was painful at the time, these are the memories I treasure most. You look back on these hardships with glee, and it’s something this brand-new physics-based strategy game perfectly understands. Inspired by RTS royalty Warcraft 3 and the thrill of building with Lego, this is Cataclismo, and it's out now. Continue reading New RTS Cataclismo fuses physics and strategy, and it’s out now MORE FROM PCGAMESN: Best RTS games, Best strategy games, Best city-building games

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Elden Ring is home to many caves, dungeons, and crypts, each with its own unique challenges and rewards. Sellia Crystal Tunnel can be discovered within the first moments of the game via a teleporter chest, though it can prove quite the challenge until a higher level. With proper guidance and perseverance, it can be completed early on, but not easily.

So, you're in the late game of Elden Ring and you've managed to conquer one of the toughest bosses in the game, Malenia. But now you're tasked with traveling to the Isolated Divine Tower to activate Malenia's Great Rune, which can be a little tricky to find, even for the most experienced Elden Ring players.

Digital Extremes is hard at work developing the new free-to-play fantasy MMO, Soulframe, and its name has confused parts of the gaming community who are under the impression its a Soulslike game. FromSoftware games Dark Souls, Demon's Souls, and Bloodborne have coined the subgenre Soulslike and Soulsborne over the years for their specific gameplay style and combat difficulty, but Soulframe has no relation.

It feels like The Sims has been around since the dawn of time, and its only gotten more immersive within the current generation. Players have also become accustomed to building iconic structures from television shows and films within the building parameters, and one player even recreated the disastrous Willy Wonka experience that happened in real-life Scotland.

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Apple’s illustrious original programming may face tighter budgets. | Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge Apple is known to spend billions of dollars on its Hollywood projects, but that could be set to change following production losses across the wider streaming industry. According to Bloomberg, Apple’s senior vice president of services, Eddy Cue, is pushing studio chiefs Zack Van Amburg and Jamie Erlicht to oversee project budgets more closely in a bid to make its Apple TV Plus streaming business more sustainable. Apple invests heavily in individual projects compared to larger streaming companies like Netflix, having spent over $500 million on movies from directors Martin Scorsese (Killers of the Flower Moon), Ridley Scott (Napoleon), and Matthew Vaughn (Argylle). While its original projects get plenty of attention during award seasons, B... Continue reading…

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