Doesn’t look very luminate to me Honestly, I turn my back onshooter-of-noteHelldivers 2for (checks calendar)… one, maybe two weeks, and you all go and transform a planet into a black hole. “You” being the players who completed the metagame’s last Major Order and successfully pumped the Terminid supercolony of Meridia full of an experimental “Dark Fluid” - which Super-Earth, incidentally, pinched from the Illuminate faction during the First Galactic War, akaHelldivers1....

Everything was mega in the 1990s In EA’s Desert Strike - released way back in the dim salvages of 1992 - you are a helicopter pilot scooting around a Sylvester Stallone reinvention of Iraq, shooting down tanks and fighters with guns and missiles while rescuing VIPs and fretting constantly about your wafer-thin armour and espresso-sized fuel reserves. It was a no-frills piece of Gulf War fanfic, complete with George Bush ending cameo, and a well-madeshooterthat used to drive me nuts on Sega Mega Drive....

I could listen to these clicky clacks all day If you love cosy games where the biggest challenge is choosing between which farm utensil to place next to your barn doors, thenTiny Glademay be just the game for you. It’s a creative building game likeThe Sims 4but with none of the fuss of actually controlling lives - and no quests, combat or arbitrary challenges of any kind. Instead, Tiny Glade simply offers a meadow and tools with which to build....

This week’s most auspicious game releases, plus our weekly news liveblog It’s a period of frightful bounty for the Maw, our resident Hadean icon of videogame news consumption. Look forward to trailers, celeb cameos, surprise demo releases, around a million hours of interlude music, and hands-on impressions fresh from the creaking furnace chambers of my jetlagged brain. Still, SGF isn’t All She Wrote this week. A few brave developers and publishers are releasing new games alongside the event, like individual rockets plunging into Uncle Geoff’s Fervid Fireworks Show....

Oh dear Original article:The onslaught of funSteam Next Fest demosyou can play right now continues and will not relent.Card Bardis a deckbuilding roguelike shooter in which your wee gunman is seemingly frozen in abject terror as little pill-shaped baddies creep towards him like bacteria on a petri dish. Good thing you have a hand of cards, each one showing how many bullets will bop forth from your body when you select it....

Tower of Adversity, Tactical Hologram: Calamity, and the limited-time Depths of Illusive Realm Curious about endgame modes in Wuthering Waves?If you’re getting close to the endgame of the gacha RPGWuthering Waves, it might be time to start taking on the game’s endgame modes, including the Tower of Adversity, Tactical Hologram: Calamity, and the limited event Depths of Illusive Realm. These are where your characters' builds truly become important — just a single stat can make or break a run or boss fight in any of these modes....

What they are and how to use them to your advantage Want to learn about Resonance Energy and Liberation in Wuthering Waves?Wuthering Waveshas a combat system that’s more in-depth compared to other gacha RPGs, which means there are more skills and stats to master. Amid all of these skills, one of the best ways to maximize damage is by focusing on your characters' Resonance Liberations, which deal large amounts of damage (or occasionally healing) and just might be what you need to finish a tough fight....

What you’ll find in all 4 different modes Wondering how Tactical Hologram challenges work in Wuthering Waves?Tactical Holograms are optional challenges hidden throughout the world of Solaris-3 inWuthering Waves. Interacting with these holograms will initiate some type of challenge, whether it’s a parkour course, a set of targets to hit, or a massively challenging boss. Completing these will grant you access to a chest with a handful of Union EXP and usually some Astrite, Shell Credits, Wood-textured Shards, and even weapons, making them a relatively straightforward way to get these resources if you’re at a standstill in the game’s story....

Tanks for this A DIY engineer has created a realistic tank simulator that puts the average haptic controller to shame. The mechanical monster is jury-rigged to the top of an office desk and must be reloaded with a new shell after every shot. The recoil is terrifying. It’s operated by three people: one person drives the tank with a steering wheel and levers, another uses cranks to aim the gun barrel, and a third reloads the shells that eject automatically from the chamber after every desk-lifting blast....

Need a hint for today’s Connections? Read our guide for help with Connections #358 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! Did you know that the word ‘book’ was originally spelled with several extra ‘o’s in it? This was changed when it was collectively decided that telling someone to “please, just read a book” was resulting in several more murders a year than anyone could be bothered to keep track of....

Stuck on today’s Wordle word for June 3? 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?...

With a campaign mode and boss fights I haven’t playedBloodborneand so references to its world or characters mean little to me. Kart racers, meanwhile? There I’m in my element due to a lifetime of Mario Kart, Diddy Kong Racing andSonic & All-Stars Racing Transformed. It’s those games that make me interested inNightmare Kart, a PSX-aesthetic racing game which was formerly known asBloodborne Kart, and which is out now. Here’s the launch trailer:...