Genuinely legendary game designerRon Gilbert– whose works include the classic adventure gameMonkey Island, the RTS Total Annihilation (as producer), and the term “cutscenes” – is making a new game. The Terrible Toybox website describes it as “Classic Zelda meets Diablo meetsThimbleweed Park”, and one of the other people working on it is Elissa Black, co-designer and writer of the wonderfulObjects In Space… who is also, I’ve just learned fromher personal website, working on a retro 90s style turn-based spaceship command game influenced by the 1971 mainframe adaptation ofStar Trek....

Ascend a tower with the power of guns, hair and anime Mullets aren’t just coming back into fashion, they’re everywhere at the moment, adopted largely by lads who love draft beer and The Football. And seemingly byMullet Mad Jack, the protagonist of a single-player roguelikeFPSwho would shove draft beers into the skull of a billionaire robot, then shoot him in the gonads. What I’m trying to say is, Mullet Mad Jack is fashionableandno-nonsense, which makes for a great hang if you’d like to burn some aggression once in a while....

He could be foraging for tangerines Elden Ringis already home to a lot of rotten creatures. Serpent snails that spit at you, ulcerated spirits with bark for skin, a big pair of hands. Now we know of another rotten creature who’s going to join the roster when theShadow Of The ErdtreeDLC drops next month: a bloke who’s head would make for an excellent lottery draw. All that’s from a single but pithyXweet....

Need a hint for today’s Connections? Read our guide for help with Connections #338 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....

Lo-fi beats to get extremely stressed to I’d like to start this review with a question: What’s the difference between overcoming a challenge and thinking “I did it!” and one that leaves you sighing “It’s over!”? I may leave little insights scattered throughout. APaper Trail, if you will. Apuzzle gamenamed Paper Trail that has you solve discrete head-scratchers by folding the screen like a piece of paper in different ways to create new paths, I might even say, if I were trying to cram a bunch of information right at the top without breaking theme....

New studio Kokku is taking over Prison Architect 2was delayed last month from a planned May release dateuntil September. Now it’s changing developer. Double Eleven are parting ways with publisher Paradox Interactive after nine years working on the series, and a new studio, Kokku, are taking over. “Double Eleven has been with us since the console port, led the development of the game on all platforms, and has been working on Prison Architect 2 over the last few years....

Infinity on the cheap Video games must be three hours-long or infinite and nothing in between. The latest Steam event is designed to celebnrate the latter. The Endless Replayability Fest runs from now until May 20th, “celebrating games and demos you can play over and over again.” Fests mix the discounts of a Steam sale with demos for upcoming and unreleased games. You’ll therefore find plenty of demosunder the appropriate category, including colony simsNorlandandMini Settlers, and several other games, none of which I’d heard of....

The first trailer premieres on YouTube tomorrow A while back Ubisoft revealedabout a billion Assassin’s Creed projects. The first of these to leap into the carefully placed haystack of release wasMirage, which I liked. Up next, it seems, is the artist formally known as Assassin’s Creed: Codename Red. All we knew about red was that it would be set in feudal Japan, something fans have been clamouring for for literal years....

All coming in part five of the Tales From The Far Territory series I’ve played little of legendary survival simThe Long Dark, or The Short Dark, as I guess it has proven for me. I fell off the game after succumbing to my first wolf. But I’ve sampled enough to know that adding a “Misery Mode” to the game is sort of like upending a bucket of water over a drowning person....

The winner gets $15,000 Buckle up. A bunch of players are competing to cross the finish line of a brutally difficult tower of racetracks in racing gameTrackmania, with a prize pool of $30,000 waiting for the first three drivers to reach the top. The course is a huge, winding gauntlet made of pieces suspended in midair, and even expert players have fallen from their positions over 1000 times, their carshurtling back to the bottom of the towerto start again....

Fangs for the memories My evolving relationship withVampire Therapistcontinues apace - much how protagonist Sam’s acumen as an unlicensed therapist for the unsettled undead develops at speed. He’s a vampire doing therapy for other vampires, while also undergoing therapy, as a vampire, from another therapist (who is a vampire). Vampire Therapist! I’ve been able to get to grips with a playable preview - I’d say I got my teeth into it, but I’m not that much of a hack fraud - which means I got to see some of the things that creative director Cyrus Nemati told me aboutin our interviewin action....

Praise Paeguth Everything about Dread Delusion leans into the trappings of the era it loves. The slopes are a little too steep, the textures a little too blown-up, or haphazardly applied. Enemies approach you like stiff marionettes, eager for blood but unable to expand their minds beyond petty swipes. Low fidelity slashing noises whiff through the hot pink air as they attempt to hurt you. You may feel like you have played this game before, but not quite....

How to equip more Talismans in Elden Ring Want to equip more Talismans in Elden Ring?The answer is the Talisman Pouch. These one-of-a-kind items permanently increase your Talisman slots inElden Ring, allowing you to equip more Talismans at once. And seeing as many of these Talismans proffer quite astonishingly powerful benefits, it’s well worth knowing where to get these Talisman Pouches. In this short guide, we’ll explore each of the differentTalisman Pouch locationsin Elden Ring and how to obtain them so you can equip the maximum number of Talismans at once....