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It’s another big day for Xbox Game Pass as two new games join the service, including the full release of Obsidian Entertainment’s survival game Grounded.

Grounded and Moonscars are both set to join Xbox Game Pass and PC Game Pass today and will also be playable using Xbox Cloud Gaming. Grounded first launched into Xbox Game Pass back in 2020 as a Game Preview title, but today finally sees the survival game’s full release, which includes a campaign, new bugs, and a bunch more surprises to be uncovered in the Backyard.

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Grounded – Game Preview

The world is a vast, beautiful, and dangerous place – especially when you have been shrunken to the size of an ant. Explore, build, and survive together in this first person, multiplayer, survival-adventure. Can you thrive alongside the hordes of giant insects, fighting to survive the perils of the backyard?

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Moonscars

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Russian authorities have been trying to sow the seeds of a propaganda effort at convincing residents of occupied territories that Ukraine is already divided, according to a new report from the Main Intelligence Directorate of the Ministry of Defense of Ukraine.

“Ukraine has already been divided,” the Russian occupiers said, according to the intelligence agency. “In the territory of the western regions, Polish zlotys were put into circulation, in most shops there are double price tags. There is nowhere to run from Russia. Ukraine is not what it used to be.”

The false information, which has been focused on Melitopol in Zaporizhzhia, according to the agency, is intended to inject doubt into residents of Ukraine nearly six months into the war, the intelligence agency said.

“The moves are at undermining the moral and psychological stability of the Ukrainian-minded population remaining in the city,” the agency said in a statement.

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What you need to know

• The Xbox One and Xbox Series X|S consoles share an interface, with a large button on the dashboard dedicated to pooling your digital games.
• The Xbox Insider Program lets Xbox users test upcoming versions of the dashboard and other apps.
• The latest build on the Xbox Insider Program has some refinements to the Games & Apps library, adding a tabbed interface that separates content by source.

The Xbox dashboard has seen a few interesting updates in recent times, most notably perhaps the inclusion of Discord as part of the Xbox Insider Program. This latest Xbox Insider Alpha Ring build has issued some notable changes to the Games & Apps section, which is typically where you go to browse all of your installed content and available games for download.

The new interface revamps the “Full Library” section of the dashboard, which was admittedly a little cluttered

Vampire Survivors’ new 0.10.0 update adds a cheats menu, and after using it to unlock some things I had been stuck on, I dearly wish that more games included one.

Vampire Survivors, if you haven’t heard of it, is a delightful game about leveling up and destroying literally thousands of monsters in a single run. I’d describe it as roguelike-ish; you pick a starting character with certain attributes and a specific weapon, and you’ll level up that weapon, other weapons, and other items as you collect gems by defeating enemies. Your weapons fire automatically, so you mostly just have to worry about picking up experience and items while avoiding baddies.

The game launched in Early Access on Steam late last year, and has received regular updates that add things like new characters, weapons, power-ups, stages, and special items, though you typically have to unlock them by completing certain requirements.

On an average day about a dozen new games are released on Steam. And while we think that’s a good thing, it can be understandably hard to keep up with. Potentially exciting gems are sure to be lost in the deluge of new things to play unless you sort through every single game that is released on Steam. So that’s exactly what we’ve done. If nothing catches your fancy this week, we’ve gathered the best PC games (opens in new tab) you can play right now and a running list of the 2022 games (opens in new tab) that are launching this year.

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Release:‌ August 5
Developer:‌ Passion Republic Games
Launch price:‌ $35 |‌ £27.79 |‌ AU$53

Every now and then a game about giant monsters beating the crap out of each other releases, and the world joys. The latest kaiju