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![A viking in a village](https://cdn.mos.cms.futurecdn.net/moTwLpp3xay5qz2fzNghuX-320-80.jpg)
In co-op Viking survival game Aska you can work smarter, not harder, by making your followers do all your chores
By Christopher Livingston published
News Meet Bjorn, Freya, and all the other loyal NPCs you can put to work in your village.
![A man fighting a monster](https://cdn.mos.cms.futurecdn.net/5kmS695xkgoou8NCBrhaiA-320-80.jpg)
Survival base-builder Nightingale's offline mode has arrived—along with celebrities like Joan of Arc and Edgar Allan Poe
By Christopher Livingston published
News The very welcome change for solo players is live now.
![Skeletons dancing while wearing party hats](https://cdn.mos.cms.futurecdn.net/idFcH7EZTLoPdHpNPoZhzg-320-80.jpg)
Minecraft is celebrating its 15th birthday with '15 days of exclusive items and daily specials'
By Elie Gould published
News It's time to party.
![Valheim drakkar - the viking longboat is floating on the water near land with tall trees](https://cdn.mos.cms.futurecdn.net/YGZbztL5wa6TkkCY7LaVzR-320-80.jpg)
How to get to the Ashlands in Valheim without your boat catching fire
By Sarah James published
Fire up Build the Drakkar to make it to the new biome in one piece.
![A survivor in the cold holding a gun](https://cdn.mos.cms.futurecdn.net/8HChNC7yZUwyf4nTeWzh3-320-80.jpg)
Survival game The Long Dark announces 'the first change to our permadeath system that we’ve ever made'
By Christopher Livingston published
news The Long Dark's next chapter also brings an interesting new "alpha predator" and ultra-hardcore "misery mode."
![Several adventurers from Valheim gather in an accursed locale in the Ashlands, with one wounded viking being tended to by his compatriot amidst the smoke and ash.](https://cdn.mos.cms.futurecdn.net/sZgdvG8QHZPNSgo5pLYtv3-320-80.png)
Valheim's fiery Ashlands update leaps from public test to live servers, adding a new biome, over 30 new weapons, and lots of new and inventive ways to burn to death
By Harvey Randall published
News The weather here's nice and warm, but there are also the horrors.
![abiotic factor](https://cdn.mos.cms.futurecdn.net/sxrrgy5TsoaXhuRuL8SFPU-320-80.jpg)
Abiotic Factor's first major update adds alien cheese and corpse bags, as the Half-Life inspired survival sim sells 250,000 copies
By Rick Lane published
News What's that smell?
![V Rising castle relocation - Vampire on a throne](https://cdn.mos.cms.futurecdn.net/8upS7MvLJGqtRydPhBQg8k-320-80.jpg)
V Rising's teleporting castles are an ingenious solve for one of my biggest survival crafting bugbears
By Sean Martin published
Based I'm a one base kind of guy.
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