There’ll be a supersized 2v8 mode this summer, too Afterteasing an upcoming chapter inspired by Dungeons & Dragons,Dead by Daylighthas revealed its next killer pulled from the pages of the fantasy pen-and-paper RPG: Vecna, long-running mega-baddie andinspiration for the Stranger Things villain. He’ll be voiced by Critical Role dungeon master Matthew Mercer and haunt a new dungeon map, where you’ll be able to do battle as new elf and bard survivors able to roll a literal d20 when they crack open treasure chests....

Here’s how to use the Haligtree Medallion to reach the Consecrated Snowfield Trying to make your way to the Consecrated Snowfield in Elden Ring?The giganticElden Ringmap is divided into 15-odd regions (soon to be one more with theShadow Of The Erdtreeexpansion), and one of the trickiest to reach is the Consecrated Snowfield. This high-level area joins theMountaintops Of The Giantswith the famousHaligtreein the far north, but getting there is easier said than done....

Here’s how to reach Crumbling Farum Azula in Elden Ring Wondering how to reach Crumbling Farum Azula in Elden Ring?One of the remotest regions of The Lands Between inElden Ring, Crumbling Farum Azula is an endgame region filled to the brim with high-level enemies andsome of the hardest bosses in the game. But as a floating island far to the east of the main continent, you can’t reach Farum Azula via any conventional means....

Quantity always wins I think most would agree that the artist formerly known as Twitter has never been in more need of a thermonuclear cleansing. The Musk era has transformed what was already fondly known as a hellsite into something at once more obnoxious and sadder, whether you’re talking about the web3 grifters or the resurgent debate-me cryptofascists or the recommendation algorithm’s perceptibly greater enthusiasm for quote-tweet flamebait. Still, there are lights in the darkness....

Cross-play will be in beta at launch We’re just a couple of days away fromGhost of Tsushima’s PC release date, as the former PlayStation exclusive prepares to drop its Director’s Cut - including its expansion and multiplayer DLC - on Steam. Having recently cleared up the question around whether you’ll need to sign in with a PSN account afterthe Helldivers 2 debacle- yes, if you want to play the co-op mode - developers Nixxes and Sucker Punch have now revealed that the login requirement will mean multiplayer won’t work on Steam Deck....

Set course for the settings menu Nic reckonsHomeworld 3, the long-awaited spacefaringRTS, ismostly pretty good. Qualified hoorays for that, as well as for the fact that it doesn’t make especially mad demands of your hardware: besides netting aSteam DeckPlayable badge from Valve, its minimum PC specs only list the likes of the Intel Core i5-6600 and Nvidia’s GTX 1060. Easily doable, for most aspiring galactic admirals. Once a battle gets underway, however,Homeworld 3’s performance can start tanking, turning an initially smooth engagement into a more stutter-prone light show....

Not everyone can wear every hat Graham said he wanted someone to write aboutLittle Kitty, Big City, asked if I liked cats, at which point my soul was possessed by some kind of deep animus. “I really like cats, I just hate the internet UWU nonsense about cats,” I said. “God it’s awful, I can’t stand it, Jesus Christ it’s just an empty and terrible way to talk about cats, cats don’t deserve to be the internet animal-” at which point Graham managed to interrupt and said I was exactly the person who should write about Little Kitty, Big City....

I say watch ‘em all Remember whenControlcame out and your mate Terry appeared out of nowhere to rant endlessly about how they’ve always loved brutalist architecture? Come on, Terry. No you haven’t. You spend weekends eating custard creams and watching Bake Off. You haven’t thought about brutalism since undergrad, be honest. Anyway, my version of that is Starship Troopers. As in, I’ve been waiting for a videogamey excuse to bang on about it in public for ages....

(It’s definitely real - there’s a free demo on Steam) Old-schoolFPSadventureThe Exploratorcontains much more intense shooty violence than the adorable lizardy folk that populate it might immediately suggest. I really want to use the word ‘zany’ without irony here to describe its hand-drawn 2D style and animations, but I’m afraid that ship has long since sailed into the sun. I’ll go with ‘caffeinated’ I think. Like the Adult Swim cartoons it reminded me of, it’s got a sense of the sardonic and a penchant for violence, but still comes from a place of having recently devoured several bowls of suspiciously colorful cereal....

Need a hint for Connections? Read our guide for help with Connections #339 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....

Squid pro quo The characters inRead Only Memories: Neurodiverare deeply into anime. They love manga and figurines and trashy movies and horror novels. The interests of the game’s creators have not so much leaked into this fictional world as they have been generously pumped in with an industrial hose. Even the visual novel’s loading screens take the form of those two-second intermission panels that flash up to signal an anime’s commercial break, complete with random characters announcing the game’s name (“Neurodiver!...

What’s Simlish for “I like your vibes”? The swimwear update is the first of two free updates, and the roadmap also features two destination kits - destinations being the in-game areas where your Sims go to hang out and do stuff, as opposed to residential areas, where they live and go to the toilet. Scuttlebut online suggests they’re build items for a cafe and a pool, which is inline with the teaser image on the official site....

The Dwarf’s new grudge system now requires a little less breathless violence to appease Thrones of Decay - the expansion forstrategy gameTotal War: Warhammer 3that finally made it viable to steamroll the old world with a doomstack of 20 tanks, just as Franz intended - just released around three weeks ago, but developers Creative Assembly are already on their third hotfix.This oneis mainly aimed at re-balancing an overly demanding new grudge system for the Dwarfs that punished players for stopping to enjoy a swift pint of Bugman’s instead of constantly being on the offensive, but also includes so many other fixes it’s veering into larger patch territory....