Rise of the Tomb Raider, the sequel to 2013’s excellent reboot of the franchise has been out on the Xbox One for some time now (Scarelt Dragon loves it.). It just landed on the PC, and expectations are high for the newest installment in the beloved franchise. Fortunately, Digmbot has gone hands on with the game and has a full breakdown on the PC specific features, the port’s performance and the gameplay. Click the video below. You know you want to.

Oh boy. January 19th, 2016 is going to be a great day if you like RPGs, rogue-lites, horror or any combination of them. Red Hook studios is releasing Darkest Dungeon on the 19th, and they’ve put out a sweet new trailer to tease us all. For those that don’t know, Darkest Dungeon is a gorgeously hand crafted dungeon crawling rouge-lite. Part members can go insane with unpredictable effects, the risk reward is off the charts thanks to permanent death, and even the amount of gear you take into a dungeon with you is an often agonizing decision. We here at the station have put a ton of hours into the early access version, and we’re practically salivating over the thought of a finished game. But until then, wipe your chin off and gaze at this trailer.

Fallout 4 was wildly popular when it launched, and it still is. Maybe the hype’s died down a little but it’s still a very well-played game right now. Bethesda knows how to hold an audience. However, the game is still prone to strange and amusing bugs from time to time because… well, it’s a Bethesda game.

If you’re opted into Steam’s beta updates feature though, you’ll be pleased to know that the next patch is being implemented to rid the game of more bugs as well as bringing in some new options such as a status menu for your settlers.

The full patch notes can be discovered over on the relevant topic at the Bethesda forums, but a number of things stand out for me because of how I play the game. As well as the afore-mentioned menu snapping for settlement building parts has been made a bit easier, and their handling with a gamepad smoother. There’s also been a fix for NPCs getting stuck in Power Armour which I’m hoping means I can recover the one set that I had a settler climb into who has so far refused to get out. The bug that causes settler numbers to display incorrectly has also been fixed, and while it doesn’t specifically mention the Pipboy that is the only place I can think of that the numbers ever displayed inaccurately.

Of course, I play around with Fallout 4’s settlement building a lot so maybe none of this means as much to you. If you’re the quest completer sort then this patch also comes with a long list of quest bug fixes, including some that stopped quests getting completed and some that would lose companion options or even in once case caused Dogmeat to get stuck in a location if he was your companion.

If you want to give it a go but aren’t opted into the beta updates then follow these steps:

• Log into Steam
• Right click on Fallout 4 in your Library
• Select Settings
• Select Betas
• Select Beta Update from the drop down menu
• Select OK.
• Wait a few minutes and Fallout 4 should update.

Running the same process and opting out on the drop down should pull you back out if you want to reverse it.

Otherwise safe to say this patch will come out of beta soon enough and fix the bugs for those of us who don’t wish to opt into the beta update program.

Everyone likes freebies, and one of the things I most often hear when discussing the quality of games nowadays is that people wish the day of the demo would return. People like to try before they buy and that is fair enough.

One of the closest modern equivalents right now is the odd free weekend that some developers give on Steam for their games, and right now the developers of one game are not only letting people try their game for free – if you do try you get to keep it. Not bad.

Consortium is an immersive sim set on an airship in the near future, your choices matter and the game itself will react to the decisions and moves you make. Feedback is mostly positive as well, so this seems like a very good deal.

Of course, there is a reason for this free weekend and that comes in the form of the game’s sequel Consortium: The Tower, for which developer Interdimensional Games will be launching a Kickstarter campaign tomorrow.

Either way, free is free and this looks like a good one to pick up. If you’re interested, head on over to the Steam page for the game now.

SMITE has released it’s first god in the Japanese Pantheon, Amaterasu the Shining Light. As always, its time to jump into an Arena match and test out the new god’s abilities!