Edwin Evans-Thirlwell

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Clapped-out Soul Reaver enthusiast with dubious academic backstory who obsesses over dropped diary pages in horror games. Games journalist since 2008. From Yorkshire originally but sounds like he's from Rivendell.

A collage of hands parts make a face to the left and to the right is a 3v3 card game in Out Of Hands.

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The Maw: what's new in PC games this week?

Liveblogless edition

April 21, 2025Edwin Evans-Thirlwell

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A generator billows black smoke into the sky in city-builder survival sequel Frostpunk 2

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Frostpunk 3 could launch "as early as 2027", with an untitled "larger-scale" 11 bit game planned for 2029

This War Of Mine company bolsters mixed financial results with big announcements

April 17, 2025Edwin Evans-Thirlwell

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A red-robed figure with energy pouring out of their hand, advancing away from you into the woods in Mandragora: Whispers Of The Witch Tree

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Witch-hunting fantasy action-RPG Mandragora is out now and feels like a gem

With words from the writer of Vampire: The Masquerade - Bloodlines

April 17, 2025Edwin Evans-Thirlwell

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Ciri standing in a crowd of villagers in The Witcher 4

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Beware! Beware! The Witcher 4 beta scams!

CD Projekt call out filthy playtest fraudsters

April 17, 2025Edwin Evans-Thirlwell

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A Roving Clans rider navigates a desert with their brethren in an Endless Legend cinematic.

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Endless legends: how Amplitude bought their independence back from Sega

"I was asking for quite a lot."

April 17, 2025Edwin Evans-Thirlwell

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A person in a huge weird spacesuit with a split bulbous helmet in Cronos: The New Dawn, facing the camera with a shattered building behind.

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Here's a new trailer for Cronos: The New Dawn, the Silent Hill 2 remake studio's sci-fi horror shooter

Dead Spacious

April 16, 2025Edwin Evans-Thirlwell

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A partly clad young masculine character kneeling in a dark wilderness area with a glowing firebird on a branch nearby, from the cancelled game working-titled Project 8.

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Frostpunk developers share new details of Project 8, their ill-fated fantasy game about grieving

11 bit CEO explains the cancellation in more depth

April 16, 2025Edwin Evans-Thirlwell

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An illustration of a make-believe film studio from the 1920s, showing the big sign over the gate with the name Endless Bear Pictures

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I want to film The Lord Of The Rings in Hollywood Animal, but my writers keep trying to make porn instead

A few hours with the showbiz tycoon sim

April 16, 2025Edwin Evans-Thirlwell

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A view of a weird shattered red anomaly through a tugboat window in fishing sim Dreadmoor

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Lovecraftian fishing sim Dreadmoor is Dredge with the first-person sailing of Sea Of Thieves

Hook, line, shiver

April 15, 2025Edwin Evans-Thirlwell

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A possible leaked image of an Elder Scrolls 4: Oblivion remaster, showing a soldier in armour standing against a blazing numeral

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Elder Scrolls 4 Oblivion remaster images discovered on Virtuos Games website

Files no longer accessible, but allegedly shared on Imgur

April 15, 2025Edwin Evans-Thirlwell

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A man in medieval pageantry and full plate armour advancing on ruined swampland houses in Blight: Survival.

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In Blight: Survival you roam a decaying medieval world putting the sword to fungal zombies

Haenir's action-horror now taking sign-ups for early testing

April 15, 2025Edwin Evans-Thirlwell

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A screenshot from Metro 2033 depicting a man in a gas mask wielding a gun facing towards the camera at a short distance.

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Classic post-nuclear shooter Metro 2033 Redux is now free to keep on Steam and GOG

But only for 48 hours

April 15, 2025Edwin Evans-Thirlwell

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