Solve an Outer Wilds-style time loop, grow tea on the Moon, and fish on Neptune in this indie game anthology

(In space) Fish!Tea! Time! Space! An ‘immersive horror sim’! Stopping the sun from not burning anymore but also not getting burnt in the process!Locally Sourced Anthology I: A Space Atlasdoes not, somewhat disappointingly, offer the infinite possible game concepts that space allows for. It’s got eight though, which I must say is a good start. Eight experimental indies from different developers, each equally taking part in space as the last....

July 22, 2024 · 2 min · 287 words · Jessica Combs

Tiny Garden now has a Steam demo in which you can grow plants and customise your Polly Pocket

Or generic brand Polly Pocket equivalent Tiny Gardenis a puzzle game about planting flowers and crops you can then sell to buy seeds for new types of flowers and crops. That would be charming enough on its own, but your agricultural endeavours are set inside a Polly Pocket-style toy, with crops also able to be exchanged for furniture with which to decorate your diorama home. After blowing past its Kickstarter target, there’s now a playable demo....

July 22, 2024 · 2 min · 315 words · Jamie Coleman

Warframe boss thinks publishers should have more faith in burgeoning live-service titles instead of getting "terrified" when numbers drop

Tenno-longer with us Steve Sinclair, CEO ofWarframestudio Digital Extremes, reckons publishers should give live service games more time to find their footing, and not see dodgy release periods as a “make or break” indicator of a game’s success. “It comes out, doesn’t work and they throw it away,” Sinclair toldVGC. “Isn’t that a shame when you put so many years of your life into iterating on those systems or building technology or building the start of a community”, said Sinclair, “and because the operating costs are high, you get terrified when you see the numbers drop and you leave....

July 22, 2024 · 1 min · 197 words · Stephen Payne

Wordle hints and answer (#1129): How to solve the Monday July 22 Wordle

Stuck on today’s Wordle word for July 22? 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?If you’re struggling to finish today’s word, we have a helpful list of hints to give you a guiding hand and maintain your streak in the process....

July 22, 2024 · 6 min · 1227 words · Deanna Barron

NYT Connections hint and answers (Sun, Jul 21)

Need a hint for today’s Connections? Read our guide for help with Connections #406 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....

July 21, 2024 · 3 min · 557 words · Joshua Grant

What's on your bookshelf?: deluxe redux reflux remastered edition

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! Somethingextramagical has happened! And by magical, I mean that I’ve bollocksed it up, yet again! I foresaw this coming, honestly, and should have addressed it last week. Alas, I dared to dream that I’d have sorted things out by now. Well, this is what I get for mild optimism!...

July 21, 2024 · 1 min · 176 words · Dr. Ryan Castillo

Wordle hints and answer (#1128): How to solve the Sunday July 21 Wordle

Stuck on today’s Wordle word for July 21? 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?If you’re on your last guess, don’t worry! We have you covered with a list of hints as well as today’s word itself. Every day,Wordlepresents its legions of players with a deviously simple quandary: can you guess the right five-letter word within just six guesses?...

July 21, 2024 · 6 min · 1221 words · Anthony Navarro

FlatOut 1, 2 and Ultimate Carnage all get Workshop support, Deck verification in new updates

And FlatOut 2 gets revived multiplayer I like my car combat to be focused on collisions not guns, and for the vehicular argy-bargy to be an additional layer of excitement and strategy upon a racing core. FlatOut, then. A series of bumper car racing which managed to impress with its crumple zones long before the era ofWreckfestor BeamNG. Now FlatOut,FlatOut 2and FlatOut: Ultimate Carnage have all received an update on Steam to add Workshop support, Steam Deck verified status, improved performance, and in the case of FlatOut 2, re-enabled online multiplayer....

July 20, 2024 · 2 min · 279 words · Tracy Young

Microsoft say it's "misleading" for the FTC to call the Game Pass experience "degraded" now it costs more

Because the cheaper tier now includes multiplayer, they say Microsoft have responded to the US Federal Trade Commission’s assertion thatthe tech giant are now offering a “degraded” Game Pass experience, posing “exactly the sort of consumer harm” the FTC warned was possible in advance of theActivision Blizzard acquisition. Nuh-uh, say Microsoft, who call the FTC’s letter “a misleading, extra-record account of the facts”. Earlier this month, Microsoft announced that the price of a PC Game Pass has risen from $9....

July 20, 2024 · 1 min · 131 words · Michael Underwood

NYT Connections hint and answers (Saturday, July 20)

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. In this guide, we’ll give you a handy hint selection for today’s Connections puzzle on Thursday, July 25th, before revealing the group themes and the Connections answers themselves....

July 20, 2024 · 3 min · 543 words · Michael Cook

Pacific Drive's summer update adds a photomode and is the first of a new roadmap of free updates to come this year

“Dumpsters, DSLR’s, and Drives” Station wagon survival ‘em upPacific Drivehas received a summer update which adds a photomode, new upgrades for garage machinery, a new sideways dodge manouver for the car, and a piece of paid cosmetic DLC. This is the first of a new roadmap of post-release updates still to come. Does the use of “roadmap” here constitute a pun? The photomode can now be launched from the pause menu, and lets you fiddle with depth of field, focus control, and exposure times, as well as overlaying visual filters and altering weather conditions and time of day....

July 20, 2024 · 2 min · 281 words · Noah Hall

Wordle hints and answer (#1127): How to solve the Saturday July 20 Wordle

Stuck on today’s Wordle word for July 20? 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 a list of hints to keep that precious streak in shape and save any word-based disappointment. Every day,Wordlepresents its legions of players with a deviously simple quandary: can you guess the right five-letter word within just six guesses?...

July 20, 2024 · 6 min · 1257 words · Evan Miles

All new armor in Elden Ring: Shadow Of The Erdtree

Here are all the new Elden Ring DLC armors and how to get them Looking for every new armor in the Elden Ring DLC?Elden Ring’s base game already had an extensive selection of armor for your Tarnished, andShadow Of The Erdtreeups the equipment ante with a vast collection of helms and body coverings. All together, you can expect to find30 new armor setsin Shadow of the Erdtree, and a whopping 130+ pieces of individual armor that you can mix and match to take on the Shadow Realm....

July 19, 2024 · 2 min · 219 words · Brandy Flowers