Football’s world governing body FIFA has had its name on one of the best-selling videogames in the world for decades now. But that arrangement has come to an end, with Electronic Arts abandoning the license (opens in new tab), and in the aftermath one thing has become very clear: FIFA is absolutely clueless about videogames. 

Last month came the announcement of a FIFA game in Roblox which, and I swear I’m not making this up, doesn’t have football but does have bowling (opens in new tab). Now comes a press release (opens in new tab) trumpeting four new titles, all of which are “future-focused web 3.0 games”, and all of which look like absolute rubbish.

Core Keeper (opens in new tab), the early access survival sandbox, just added a whole bunch of sand. The Desert of Beginnings update is its biggest yet, adding a new desert biome, a magma-themed sub-biome, lots of new craftable gear, two bosses, and best yet, a fun new way to get around in the world.

Oh, and there’s a new bazooka, and this one doesn’t shoot grubs. It shoots, like, actual explosives. That’s a big plus.

Screen technology is always zooming ahead, with rival companies working to develop the newest and best panels. Whether we’re seeking deeper, darker blacks, higher resolutions, faster frame rates, there’s always something better to strive for in the world of displays. While reaching for the incremental stars is nice, what’s far more fun is the weirder displays.

Some weird screens seem a bit impractical like the new keyboard screen from Finalmouse (opens in new tab), but are still without a doubt very fun. Others like Corsair’s upcoming bendy screen (opens in new tab) make a tonne of sense. Being able to go from flat screen work to curved screen immersive gaming on the fly is a great idea, that might even be worth paying the price for. 

Neocore’s 2018 action-RPG Warhammer 40,000: Inquisitor – Martyr launched with options for your Imperial inquisitor to have a background as an assassin, psyker, or crusader—its equivalent of choosing your class. A year later, the Prophecy expandalone added a tech-adept as a fourth option. Neocore has continued updating what it would clearly like to be a live-service game with seasonal content, and has announced the Sororitas Class DLC (opens in new tab) will add a playable Sister of Battle to the roster this month.

The Battle Sister inquisitor has special abilities called Acts of Faith and can power-up into an Embodied Saint, getting access to Saintly Deeds and more powerful special attacks. She’ll have a resource called Fath to spend on those abilities, and when it runs out her time as an Embodied Saint will end.

Studio Trigger’s anime series Cyberpunk: Edgerunners (opens in new tab) seems to have revitalized a lot of people’s interest in Night City as a setting, with mods based on it taking over Cyberpunk 2077’s mod scene and now publisher R. Talsorian announcing a Cyberpunk: Edgerunners Mission Kit for the tabletop RPG.

R. Talsorian says the kit will be “Made in conjunction with CD PROJEKT RED using the Cyberpunk RED tabletop roleplaying game engine”. It sounds like the kind of introductory set aimed at players who are new to the pen-and-paper RPG, like the Cyberpunk Red Jumpstart Kit was. “The Cyberpunk Edgerunners Mission Kit will guide fans of the series new to tabletop roleplaying through the process of telling their own stories in Night City”, the announcement says. “At the same time, existing players of Cyberpunk RED will get their first glimpse into the cyberware, firepower, and netrunning skills of the 2077 era.”