New ways to hunt the monst The ‘Basic Mechanics’ video should be familiar territory to anyone that’s dabbled in the monster-mash-to-majestic-merkin pipeline before, although we do get a closer look at the Seikret - your lizardy mount who cancarry a second loadout in its pockets. A small addition, but a neat one, is a hook attachment for your wrist-slinger that allows you to collect herbs and such from a distance, as well as bring stalactites down on your foes....

Know more morons One of the neat things aboutNorland’s fantasy medievalism is that specialist knowledge is tied to characters. So if there’s only one person in your village who knows how to brew tastier beer, and they die after being freakishly savaged by a passing wolf (it happens), suddenly your village will have no artisanal lager master. The results may be devastating. Luckily, you can share knowledge in a number of ways - by copying books, or having “wise conversations”....

The consumer is king What is it with monstrous eating mechanics in games of late? Last week it wascarnivorous post-Soviet elevators, now it’s retro fantasyRPGsthat devour themselves. InSuper Dungeon Muncher, you are a teeny-tiny hero navigating a corridor-shaped map full of fireball traps and crumbling platforms, spinning coins and patrolling critters. That’s the “Super Dungeon” part. The “Muncher” part refers to the corpulent red monster guzzling the whole level in your wake....

If I keep saying it they have to make it eventually As reported by Gematsu yesterday, SEGA have filed a trademark in Japan for the term “YakuzaWars”. This happened on July 26th, and while Gematsu speculate this might be related to the next game in theYakuza: Like A Dragonseries, I have other plans. For the imaginary game. That I have nothing to do with. SEGA are also the parent company ofTotal Warstudio Creative Assembly, who earlier this yearput out a surveyasking fans about potential settings they’d like to see for thestrategyseries....

Need a hint for today’s Connections? Read our guide for help with Connections #421 This guide is for a previous day! Looking for today’s solution? Check out theConnections hint and answers for Thursday 12th December! Want a hint for Connections today?Piggybacking off the monumental success of daily puzzle gameWordle, the New York Times has another fantastically popular word game out now. It’s calledConnections, and if you haven’t played it before, now’s the time to start....

Ringing in the changes Every so often, the fine folk of Resetera take a break from their usual schedule of complaining that video games journalists get all their news from Resetera, and post a Thing Of Beauty. For example: it’s thanks to Resetera memberAstralSpherethat I know about Alistair Aitcheson’sMagic Box and BizHawk retro emulation tools, which - amongst other things - allow you to play oldSonic the Hedgehoggames in giddy parallel, shuffling between them whenever you collect a ring....

Is that you, Gordon? As Hamlet requested of Horatio, it is time to absent myself from felicity awhile, and in this harsh world draw my breath in pain to tell you that theHalf-Life 3speculators are at it again. Over the weekend, the discovery of a mystery Valve project called “White Sands” on a voice actor’s portfolio has set tongues and fingers wagging about potentialHalf-Lifenews in the offing. Is it Half-Life 3, or something Half-Lifey but not Three-ey?...

Stuck on today’s Wordle word for August 5? Read our hint or find the answer below! This guide is for a previous day! Looking for today’s solution? Check out theWordle hint and answer for Thursday 12th December! Need a hint for today’s Wordle answer?Wordleis an addicting but challenging test of word acumen. Luckily, you’re in the right place for some assistance. Every day, Wordle presents its legions of players with a deviously simple quandary: can you guess the right five-letter word within just six guesses?...

Need a hint for today’s Connections? Read our guide for help with Connections #420 This guide is for a previous day! Looking for today’s solution? Check out theConnections hint and answers for Thursday 12th December! Want a hint for Connections today?Piggybacking off the monumental success of daily puzzle gameWordle, the New York Times has another fantastically popular word game out now. It’s calledConnections, and if you haven’t played it before, now’s the time to start....

read-only Hello reader who is also a reader, and welcome back to Booked For The Week - our regular Sunday chat with a selection of cool industry folks about books! July has shrivelled up like a freshly laundered sock left on the radiator for too long, and yet, it’s still hot enough that even typing the word radiator makes me want to inject concentrated Solero straight into my bloodstream. With my last remaining un-fugged brain cells, I have wrenched this column back from its hiatus, and who better than to get us into the swing of things once more than Baldur’s Gate 3 lead writer and bloody RPS legend Adam Smith!...

Stuck on today’s Wordle word for August 4? Read our hint or find the answer below! This guide is for a previous day! Looking for today’s solution? Check out theWordle hint and answer for Thursday 12th December! Need a hint for today’s Wordle answer?Wordleis an addicting but challenging test of word acumen. Luckily, you’re in the right place for some assistance. Every day, Wordle presents its legions of players with a deviously simple quandary: can you guess the right five-letter word within just six guesses?...

Need a hint for today’s Connections? Read our guide for help with Connections #419 This guide is for a previous day! Looking for today’s solution? Check out theConnections hint and answers for Thursday 12th December! Want a hint for Connections today?Piggybacking off the monumental success of daily puzzle gameWordle, the New York Times has another fantastically popular word game out now. It’s calledConnections, and if you haven’t played it before, now’s the time to start....

Where the Steam Deck OLED sought efficiency, the ROG Ally X powers up “Again, but better” has become the maxim of post-Steam Deckportable PCs. Or, to be more specific, post-Steam Deck OLEDones. Now that Valve have shown it’s possible to quickly turn around an upgraded handheld without enraging owners of the original, Lenovo have hinted at a newLegion Go, MSI have revealed an improvedClaw, and Asus have released this here ROG Ally X....