But headcounts are only part of the picture Overwatch 2director Aaron Keller has posted a lengthy blog on Steam about the transition from 6v6 player matches in the firstOverwatchto 5v5 in the poorly received free-to-play sequel. It’s a juicy read for armchair designers and lapsed Overwatchers like myself, packing in analysis of class roles and the shift from the free choice of heroes to single hero picks and enforced team compositions....

Sea any? A time capsule is a boxful of objects from today’s world, buried or otherwise hidden away so that people from the future can rediscover and understand current Hot Trends such as wearing mismatched socks or electing washed-up businessmen with fascist tendencies. Unless, that is, it’s a time capsule in sci-fi oceansurvivalgameSubnautica, in which case it contains: THE FUTURE. Developers Unknown Worlds have been sneaking pictures of the forthcomingSubnautica 2into the original game’s time capsules, offering glimpses of its flora and fauna....

Stuck on the Wordle word for July 29? 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?We have you covered with a group of clues followed by the word if you need it, to help keep your streak firmly in place. Every day,Wordlepresents 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 #413 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! Except, as reader’s of last week’s edition will know, this is a lie. There are no industry folks, cool or otherwise, in this week’s column. It is simply a placeholder - as voted for by you ravenous spine-fiends - while I take a break for the rest of July....

Stuck on today’s Wordle word for July 28? 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?Buckle up for a selection of clues to help you keep your streak intact. Every day,Wordlepresents its legions of players with a deviously simple quandary: can you guess the right five-letter word within just six guesses?...

Alongside Steam Deck verification and performance upgrades Grimdark hack-and-slasherNo Rest For The Wickedhas received its first major update - or the first that isn’t focused on bug fixes and performance improvements, anyway. It focuses on revamping the Crucible, the endgame’s repeatable roguelite, adding more randomisation to arenas and a new system of player buffs. “One of the biggest features that we always envisioned for the Cerim Crucible but weren’t able to ship at launch is this Echoes....

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August 15th is factory day I like a good factory game, but there’s a fine line between “I enjoy this” and “I am uninstalling this before it ruins my year.” I can’t tell on which side of the divideShapez 2will fall, but I’m planning on finding out when it launches in Early Access next month on August 15th. Here’s the Early Access announcemnt trailer from earlier this week: Like most factory games, Shapez 2 is about laying down conveyor belts to carry items between machinery that alters those items in some capacity....

Stuck on today’s Wordle word for July 27? 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?We have you covered with a list of hints to help you maintain that precious streak. Every day,Wordlepresents its legions of players with a deviously simple quandary: can you guess the right five-letter word within just six guesses?...

16 years after the original It’s not often that a trailer release alone is enough to justify a post around here, butWorld Of Goo 2ought to be bigger on everyone’s radar. A sequel to one of the best games ever made ought to be cause for an international holiday. It’s being released next Friday, on August 2nd, and the new trailer below will gloop your tower with glimpses fo the puzzling tower-building to be found therein....

“We’re not going to consent to a contract that allows companies to abuse AI to the detriment of our members”, says president As of today, the The Screen Actors Guild-American Federation of Television and Radio Artists (SAG-AFTRA) has called a strike of the Interactive Media Agreement - effectively, video game voice acting, motion capture work, and other roles, the full list of which can be foundhere. The strike comes after over 18 months of negotiations with some of gaming’s largest companies - including Activision, EA, Insomniac, Take-Two, and WB Games - over AI protections....

“Literally nobody asked for it, but…” Chaotic poker-themedroguelikedeckbuilderBalatroquickly captured hearts and frazzled minds when it released earlier this year. However, nowhere in Katharine’s (RPS in peace)reviewdoes it address the one eternal issue:can it run Doom? Yes, according to reddit user UwUDev, whoshared their prototypefor how the seminal FPS could be played within the confines of a comedy poker game. The answer, apparently, is to just turn a big pile of Joker cards into portions of a video screen....