Never run out of juice. Have you ever been pretty deep into a Steam Deck session playing a very gra[hically extensive game like God of War: Ragnarok and realised just how quickly the battery gets drained? It’s a familiar and frustrating feeling for many Steam Deck owners. Luckily, there’s a solution! All you need to do is pick up a power bank that you can use to keep your Steam Deck charged on the go....
Whole cloth One of the many high concept ludonarrative experiments I’d one day like to bring to fruition is an immersive sim in which the player has access to many guns, but their default arsenal selection is an open packet of crisps which they hold out in front of them, in first person, and offer to NPCs. Some NPCs wouldn’t be swayed by this, but some would lower their weapons at the offer of a prawn cocktail treat, and so you’d be constantly playing chicken with various guards: edging closer toward them, your shaking hands rattling the delicious disks inside the oily packet, mentally weighing up whether it’s worth risking them turning hostile at the last second....
Just how many caves are there in Caves Of Qud? Last week, Brendy left a note in our weekly Maw liveblog abouta player-made mapof Caves Of Qud, thereportedly excellentsci-fi roguelike RPG that lets you “chisel through layers of thousand-year-old civilizations”, represented as 2DDwarf Fortress-esque layouts. Glancing over that map as a newcomer to the game, my eye was caught by the creator’s casual mention that Caves Of Qud is technically 2,147,483,646 levels deep....
The upgrade your upgrade deserves Anyone with the need for a new CPU and even the slightest inclination towards tech envy is currently waiting for new stock of theAMD Ryzen 7 9800X3D, the unbeatably powerful new chip that our boffin friends atDigital Foundryare calling the fastest gaming CPU ever. If, however, you’re hoping to switch to the 9800X3D from an older system with DDR4 RAM, you’ll need to upgrade that as well as the motherboard, as the entire Ryzen 9000 series only works with newer DDR5 memory....
Chasing waterfalls ‘Confident’ game design is one of those slightly fluffy critic words I sometimes find myself reaching for tenuously, knowing that - sigh - I’m going to have to do all sort of detestable nonsense like ‘back up my vague assertion with concrete examples that are useful to the reader’ if I do. Yuck. If there’s one type of design that deserves the accolade, though, it’sRPGs that are assured enough in the richness of their worlds to not feel the need to signpost every discovery....
Mexcellent WhileMechabellum’s disparate roster of roast ’em riddle ‘em robots might initially seem to lack the characterful coherence of a writhing Zerg ecosystem or ancient Greek phalanx, thisstrategyautobattler’s array of lumbering tanks, hulking automata, and zippy fliers do share a common thread: each one of them has the potential to be either the most terrifying nuisance on the field, or to instantly crumble like a soggy strudel in an angry washing machine....
Project Mugen no longer Netease’s free to play open world gachaRPGProject Mugen now has a proper name:Ananta. As Edwin points out in the Maw, it is very much like Spider-Man meetsZenless Zone Zero, with its mixture of cityslinging and unabashed anime teens with long, flowy hair and a penchant for metal accessories. So does it look any good? Well, the world is easy on the eye and traversing it seems fun....
Need some Connections hints today? Read our guide for help with Connections #539. This guide is for a previous day! Looking for today’s solution? Check out theConnections hint and answers for Thursday 12th December! Looking for a hint to help with today’s Connections puzzle on 2nd December?In this guide, we’ll outline exactly what you need to do to crack the code linking all of these disparate Connections words. Connectionsis a word puzzle game published every day by the New York Times (NYT), the hosts of the endlessly popularWordlepuzzle....
As little as £65 / $60 for a full-size mech board Events likeBlack Fridayand Cyber Monday, while devastating on the emotional wellbeing of hardware editors, are as useful for knocking a few more quid offalready-cheap bits of gaming gearas they are for saving hundreds onbig-ticket luxuries. It’s the re-bargainating aspect we must concern ourselves with here, as the Logitech G413 SE – already a premier choice of affordable mechanical gaming keyboard – is now more attainable still, dropping to £65 / $56....
Day two and already on the booze Today’s advent calendar window has an entire cult inside of it. Also, an alcoholic knight speaking in plummy prose between mouthfuls of booze and porridge. What’s more Christmassy than booze and porridge, eh? Not much, we’ll wager. You could pour the boozeinthe porridge, perhaps? You could call it ‘inebrioats’! Or, you could just playFelvidek! Nic:Felvidek was the loveliest surprise of the year for me....
Small yet spacious, like all external drives should be Got yet another quality PC storage deal for ya, this time courtesy ofCyber Mondayand the Samsung T7 – an almost comically dinky portableSSDthat can, nevertheless, stuff itself senseless with file backups and game installations. The 1TB model in particular is going mighty cheap, falling to $88 in the US and £67 in the UK. It’s a good, fast drive, this. I’ve got one myself, though since I packed it into a box two days ago and my wife would pour three different flavours of Innocent smoothie into my PC case if I broke open our nice, neat housemoving box pile to retrieve it, you’ll have to settle for that generic PR header image above....
Game of the leak Every now and then, somebody has the marvellous idea of developing technology thatmakes video games smell. I have never been more grateful for this recurrent Quixotic daydream’s mass market failure than when watching trailers for Urge, anopen worldsurvival shooter that is both fuelled and plagued by piss. “But hold your horses, young Edwin,” you sternly interject. “I do not wish to hear about, let alone play an open worldsurvivalshooter that is both fuelled and plagued by piss, on a website that children might read....
Stuck on today’s Wordle word for December 2? 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....
