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5 days ago | gamespew.com | Kim Snaith

Architect Life is the Grand Designs video game you never knew you needed. This game, all about designing houses to fit a specification, feels like a more grown-up version of The Sims’ build mode. Architect Life doesn’t care about how people live; it only cares about where. And as a budding architect, complete with your own design desk to work from, where people live is down to you.

5 days ago | gamespew.com | Kim Snaith

Fruitbus is adorable: we can all agree on that. This cosy little adventure is about driving around in a bus inherited from your late grandmother — the titular Fruitbus, no less — creating fruit-based recipes and selling them to adorable anthropomorphic townsfolk. Foraging for fruit, cooking up delicious meals and selling them for coin is an incredibly wholesome way to spend your time, right? Right?

6 days ago | gamespew.com | Chris McMullen

Looking forward to Death Stranding 2: On the Beach? You can get a sneak preview right now, because the first hour of the game has just leaked on YouTube, four days before its release. The one catch is that you’ll need to speak Spanish to get the most out of it. Not to be confused with the hour-long gameplay preview that was released around a month ago, this is the first hour of the game, from opening logos onwards.

6 days ago | gamespew.com | Chris McMullen

Borderland 4’s story trailer has dropped and it’s setting players up for the fight of their life, diving into the events that have your vault hunter, or vault hunters, grounded. Gearbox Software has teased Borderlands 4’s big villain, the Timekeeper, who is the ultimate authority on Kairos, the setting for this fourth game. That might seem like a step down given that the previous had you roaming multiple planets, but your will is not your own, not at first.

6 days ago | gamespew.com | Chris McMullen

Developer Rebel Wolves has shared a deep dive into The Blood of Dawnwalker’s gameplay, showcasing this open-world action RPG’s combat, skills and exploration. Our biggest takeaway, however, is that the game’s best attack has absolutely nothing to do with its protagonist’s half-vampire status. Don’t get us wrong, it’s an informative twenty minutes, and we’re seriously hyped for this game. There’s gore aplenty, as hero Coen takes on foes and, at one point, slices their heads clean off.