Less ragdolling, more air control I need to take all the opportunities to write aboutFall Guysthat I can get, given how much time I spend playing it with my son. This is a pretty good opportunity, too: a set of Star Wars skins are coming to the bean battle royale, as announced yesterday on May 4th, and they coincide with some major changes to Fall Guys' platforming physics. I refuse to acknowledge that May 4th is now “Star Wars day”....

Prompted by the closure of The Crew The UK government has responded to a petition asking for “government intervention” to force the industry to keep video games “in a reasonably working state when support ends”, rather than allowing them to become unplayable such as when online servers are shut down. The petition was prompted by the closure in March of ten-year-old Ubisoft racing gameThe Crew. The Crew’s servers were shut down for good earlier this year, and since it had no offline mode, this rendered the game unplayable even in singleplayer....

read-only Hello reader who is also a reader, and welcome to Booked For The Week - our new Sunday feature where we ask a selection of cool industry folks questions about books! The very first book was famously written in the 1200’s by notable scholar and six-time wrestling world champion Booker T, a fact you’d know if you simply read more books. This week, it’s voice ofHorizon Zero Dawn’s Aloy and many others, writer, singer, and endless other cool stuff, Ashly Burch!...

Stuck on the Wordle word for May 4? 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?...

Stuck on the Wordle word for May 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?...

Stuck on the Wordle word for May 6? 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?...

Nosedivers Earlier this week,Helldivers 2players on PC were told that they’dsoon need to link their Steam account to a PlayStation Network (PSN) account. Two days later and the game has received 100,000 new negative reviews on Steam. What’s more, developers at Arrowhead have made several statements to say that they’re on the players' side. “Ouch, right in the review score,“tweetedArrowhead game Studio’s CEO and creative director Johan Pilestedt. “Well, I guess it’s warranted....

Need a hint for Connections? Read our guide for help with Connections #328 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....

Frame break Modder Ryn (or “WistfulHopes” on Xitter) has beenposting her work so farand a few fans of the genre have been getting excited. You can see a good side-by-side comparison of the game with and without the shader inthis tweet from “MarrowOchi”. The shader is looking swish, with lots of pop art dithering and deep, thick outlines. “Here there’s contrasting highlights on the brighter tones compared to the shadow tones,” says Ryn, explaining the header image above....

Here’s our ranking of the best military units in Manor Lords Want to know the best units for your army in Manor Lords?One of the interesting inclusions thatManor Lordsbrings to the city-building genre is wargame-style combat. While the crux of the game is expanding your settlement from humble origins to a veritable castle city, you’ll also need to gather a collection of fighting men to have your back, and deciding which units to choose can be tricky....

There’ll be a paid Classic Mode II expansion after that Almost a decade after it set crowdfunding records on Kickstarter, and five years afterits release,Bloodstained: Ritual of the Night’s developers have announced the final free update for the Castlevania: Symphony of the Night successor. The former offers a solo or co-op randomiser mode that throws a series of rooms and bosses at the player(s) in an endurance challenge to see how long they can last, with challenges between the bosses unlocking more powerful upgrades....

Featuring imprisoned AI who paint pictures using AI Carceriis a fizzy and kaleidoscopic, first-person “chaotic Art-toy” in which you explore/hallucinate an island resort that’s also a concentration camp (“carceri” is Italian for prison) for sentient computer programs. Out sometime in May, it’s the work ofJames Beech, who describes himself as “an on-again, off-again AAA veteran” with credits on Metroid Prime 4,Remnant: From the Ashes, andCrysis 3. The environments take hefty influence from Carceri d’invenzione, a series of prints created in the 18th century by Giovanni Battista Piranesi, whose name has become a byword for impossible spaces....

Time to go back to the Old World Co-op horror gameContent Warning- aka “Lethal Companybut you’re role-playing as an abandoned places streamer and all your party members are squealing like hogs and putting on daft accents and Brian, will you please stop trying to feed me to that giant whisk so you can go viral” - has received a big update. Asdetailed on Steam, it introduces a new underworld map, 13 newmonsters, a new item, the Rescue hook, and a progression system whereby you can spend MetaCoins on upgrades for your cosy island haven....