I met a money-eating axe murderer in Sorry We're Closed and now so can you

Delicious profit InSorry We’re Closed, an axe-murdering entrepreneur called Jenny is described in newspaper clippings as both a serial embezzler and as the city’s “wealthiest bachelorette”. Aside from being a dry reflection of tabloid reporting on women who commit crimes (bad woman! sexy, bad woman!) this is also the kind of incidental character-building you can expect in this perky, retro-styled survival horror. It plays likeSilent Hillcharged with the hot pink body horror ofPorpentineinteractive fiction....

June 5, 2024 · 3 min · 568 words · Benjamin Morris MD

Silkbulb Test's demo is a fun quiz game as long as you ignore the noises and don't look behind you

Have a seat Silkbulb Testis a game in which, going by its demo, you are strapped to a chair and made to answer questions projected onto a screen. You answer the questions by looking ponderously down and pressing the big red and yellow buttons on the desk in front of you. The questions begin with relatively innocuous, CAPTCHA-style inquiries, such as “is this a door?” accompanied by a picture of a face....

June 5, 2024 · 3 min · 449 words · Charles Peterson

Space-Western Wild Bastards has OK shooty, decent looty, but darn fine rooty and tooty

Information on booty forthcoming The first thing you’ll want to do is whack mouse sensitivity as high as it’ll go. Seems as if Ol’ Jimmy Molasses has been gunking up the pistols again, varmint that he is. Once this is sorted though, Wild Bastards appears to have pushed far more of its chips into the FPS pile this time around. You get two outlaws quite quickly, a spidery Pistolier and a robot with a large laser shotgun....

June 5, 2024 · 2 min · 274 words · James Nichols

The Last of Us 2 will reportedly follow Part 1 onto PC, but potentially not until next year

Development has apparently already finished, suggesting it might wait until the next season of the HBO show While there’s no word on whether a Last of Us 2 release on PC would be based on the remaster of the former PS4 exclusive, it seems extremely likely.The Last of Us Part Iarrived on PC in March of last year, six months after its own remastered re-release of the game formerly known as justThe Last of Uson PS5....

June 5, 2024 · 2 min · 282 words · Nicole Johnson

The PlayStation VR2 PC adapter gets a release date and price, but a lot of its best features won’t work

It’ll play nice with SteamVR, at least We knew a PC adapter for PlayStation’s VR2 headsetwas on the way, andit looked to be fairly soon- and we were right! Sony’s shiniest virtual reality offering is now confirmed to be adding official PC support via a nifty wired adapter at the start of August. It’ll cost £50/$60 - but whether it’s worth the price given a number of key features will be missing is another question entirely…...

June 5, 2024 · 3 min · 429 words · Benjamin Fields

Wordle hints and answer (#1082): How to solve the Wednesday June 5 Wordle

Stuck on today’s Wordle word for June 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?...

June 5, 2024 · 6 min · 1228 words · Mark Rodriguez

Wuthering Waves Verina best build

The best weapon, Echoes, and team for Verina Looking for the best build for Verina in Wuthering Waves?Arguably the best support character inWuthering Wavesat the moment, and possibly the best Resonator in general, Verina is a small but mighty force to be reckoned with. She can heal your team to a truly massive degree and also fits in just about any party composition, making her a true standout among Wuthering Waves' roster....

June 5, 2024 · 3 min · 477 words · John Jimenez

You can’t have sex with yourself in The Alters, “but it’s not like this topic is totally removed”

And nor is the topic of generative AI Call me aParanoidAndroid or a Suspicious Stanley, but when I ask a videogame developer a question and the videogame developer pauses for exactly 31 seconds and then says “no”, I tend to assume the answer is, in fact, “yes”. Or at least “it’s complicated”, to channel a bit of antique Facebook coyness.The Altersis a complicated game. It is a moody sci-fi extravaganza in which your character, beleaguered offworld miner Jan Dolski, has to create new versions of himself by branching off his own past timeline using a “quantum computer”, splitting the chain of events at trigger points by, say, having his younger self stand up to his domineering father rather than leaving home....

June 5, 2024 · 6 min · 1089 words · Michael Benson

Best light weapons in Elden Ring

Here are the best light weapons in Elden Ring Looking for the best light weapons in Elden Ring?Light weapons inElden Ringare a fantastic option if you’re looking to keep light rolls and carve out a dual-wield orDexterity build. The lightest weapons are usually Daggers, Whips, Fists and Claws followed by Light Thrusting Swords and Light Bows. There are also various lightweight Katanas in the game, if you’re looking for the Bleed build-up capabilities of daggers but with further reach....

June 4, 2024 · 7 min · 1417 words · Brenda Gibson

Deeply unusual gardening game Grunn’s shear snip deserves every award Geoff Keighley has ever invented

Shear genius I usually avoid writing sentences that could easily be quoted on a Steam page, but the exquisitely satisfying sound thatGrunn’s garden shears make is the exception. Please feel free to try any of these on for size: Grunn’s shear sound is the Wilhelm Scream of gardening equipment, sure to be referenced for decades to come. Grunn’s shear sound wormed its way past my eyes and into parts of my brain I’d previously assumed could only be accessed by either masterful ASMR or irresponsibly long Q-tips....

June 4, 2024 · 2 min · 341 words · Charles Wagner

Elden Ring Shadow Of The Erdtree hollows out everything you loved about Elden Ring, and it's brilliant

Three hours with Elden Ring’s upcoming expansion reveal a jarful of horrible secrets If you’reSPOILERsensitive, please do not read this article. Just don’t do it. I’ll be talking about a bunch of stuff that’sSPOILERY. But I’ll obviously try and not betoospoilery for those who’ve decided to keep reading this, and hence, probably aren’t asSPOILERsensitive. Right, onwards. Life In Jars is this YouTuber I’ve followed for a while. He makes videos that might involve, say, scooping up some puddle water, leaving it in a sealed jar for a while, then coming back to it a few months later....

June 4, 2024 · 8 min · 1516 words · Matthew Torres

How Deep Rock Galactic Season 5 drills back down to basics

Mine craft Dwarvenco-opcaperDeep Rock Galactichas spent years raising the stakes. Where its offworld mining concern once dealt merely with steep drops and irate bugs, it’s since had toface down the robotic armyof a rival mineral corp and anomnicidal alien plague. If the subsequent question is “It used to be about therocks, y’know?” then DRG’s imminentSeason 5 update, Drilling Deeper, is the answer. While matching previous seasons in scope, and even serving as a tie-in to the upcoming roguelike spinoffDeep Rock Galactic: Rogue Core, Season 5 is also a refocusing of sorts....

June 4, 2024 · 6 min · 1204 words · Vickie Lyons

How Elden Ring Shadow Of The Erdtree's new levelling system makes life easier for newcomers... or harder for veterans

Want some bite with your bark? Yes, I’ve played a portion ofElden Ring’s expansionShadow Of The ErdtreeandI think it’s brilliant. But there’s one thing I didn’t flesh out in the preview and that’s the DLC’s standalone levelling system,brought to our attentiona month or so ago. Well, here I am to flesh it out! Be warned, though, the role of the system is a jarring thing to condense into words. For context, I spent around three hours with Shadow Of The Erdtree’s opening area, the Gravesite Plains....

June 4, 2024 · 3 min · 494 words · George Berg