If I never write about video games ever again, let this be my final plea

Because you make me use your store client… When I tick the box telling your unwanted launcher to remember my password, make it remember my chuffing password.

April 19, 2024 · 1 min · 27 words · Robert Boyd

No Rest For The Wicked devs working on fixes for performance issues and progression loss bugs

No rest for Moon Studios either No Rest For The Wicked, the top-downsoulslikethat released yesterday in Steamearly access, is already seeing its fair share of performance and QOL issues, including instability, lack of keybinding options, and players losing their progress. In response, developer Moon Studios have put out ablog sayingthat, yes, they’re aware of the problems and, yes, they’re actively looking to address the most common hiccups. In a section titled “Known Issues We’re Already Looking to Address,” the blog lists performance hitches and lack of options to pause in single player or rebind keys, as well as plans to add more aspect ratios and missing localisation....

April 19, 2024 · 2 min · 393 words · Amy Jones

No Rest for the Wicked’s PC performance suggests the wicked might be better off waiting

Got them early access growing pains Lured like an unsatisfied sailor by the siren song ofalleged performance woes, I’ve been givingNo Rest for the Wickeda cursory benchmarkin’, and yes! The isometricARPGdoessuffer from all the early access wonkiness you’ve likely heard about already today. I haven’t personally witnessed every single transgression listed by developers Moon Studios in theirknown issues blog post, helpfully posted justafterthe game went on sale, but there’s clearly more to be done in tackling No Rest for the Wicked’s slowdown and stuttering....

April 19, 2024 · 3 min · 588 words · Carrie Allen

NYT Connections hint and answers (Friday, April 19)

Need a hint for today’s Connections? Read our guide for help with Connections #313 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....

April 19, 2024 · 3 min · 557 words · Brian Barnett

Prison Architect 2 has been pushed from its already delayed release date next month all the way back to autumn

Devs need more time to polish after fixing crashes stemming from stability troubles It seems thatPrison Architect 2is going method in its approach to launching the 3D sequel to the jailhousemanagement game, as - like its inmates - it just can’t seem to secure a solid release. Originally due to arrive in March, beforebeing pushed into May, developers Double Eleven have now shunted it all the way back to September....

April 19, 2024 · 2 min · 368 words · Matthew Huynh

Stardew Valley gets yet another update, adding new mine layouts and ominous-sounding "fish frenzies"

Plus fixes and changes for modders It’s starting to feel like ConcernedApe (aka Eric Barone) may in fact be a modern day Sisiphus, destined to work onStardew Valleyforever. Following on from the megaupdate of 1.6 a month ago, and1.6.3 soon after that, the hardy perennialfarminggame has a new 1.6.4 mini update. The key addition this time is more new layouts that will appear after you reach the bottom of the mines, and more layouts for the volcano mines too....

April 19, 2024 · 2 min · 328 words · Kent Pratt

Suikoden spiritual successor Eiyuden Chronicles will get a sequel to ‘carry on the legacy’ of late creator

Yoshitaka Murayama passed away in February ahead of this month’s release for Hundred Heroes Eiyuden Chronicles, theRPGseries that’seffectively a sequel-slash-spiritual successorto nineties and early noughties JRPG classicSuikoden, will continue with a sequel despite the death of its creator earlier this year. “We want to maintain his legacy and vision with this game and know that he would have wanted the rich world he has created withEiyuden Chronicleto live on,” Rabbit & Bearwrote at the time....

April 19, 2024 · 2 min · 311 words · Allison Kidd

This amazing, surprising browser game shows the Internet can still be magical

Dive into an alien experience with Corru.Observer What I like about browser games is that clicking on a word in this mundane piece of software could take you anywhere, to anything. For example, if you click onthis link to the domain corru.observer, you’ll find yourself in a dark room before a strange glowing device. Apparently it’s your job to do… something with it? So begins one of the most surprising and delightful games I’ve played all year, a sprawling, shape-shifting sci-fi story which is still unfolding through updates....

April 19, 2024 · 4 min · 670 words · Nicholas Thornton

This delightful fantasy immersive sim somehow snuck its merry way into Steam’s FPS fest

I have found the spoon of legend Neverlooted Dungeonis anrpggame in which you can shoot a crossbow from a first person perspective. This, I imagine, was the pitch it used when trying to blag its way past the thermodynamically powered golem wearing aDaikatanat-shirt that guards the gates of Steam’scurrently-runningFPSfest. Whatever the excuse, this silver tongued rascal succeeded, and is now nestled comfortably between umpteen boomer shooter revivals, trying to squeezeUltimafactoids into the conversation....

April 19, 2024 · 3 min · 559 words · Kristy Ruiz

Well, whaddya know, there’ll officially be a season two of Amazon’s very popular Fallout TV show

Thumbs up In the most unsurprising news you might read today: Amazon are going to make a second season to their very popularFalloutTV show. That means one more season until weget Liam Neeson, right? The live-action Fallout series dropped a week ago, and quickly blew up into one of the biggest and best video game adaptations to date. From my own travels around the internet, it seemed to leavepretty much everyone pleased: people who’d never heard of Fallout before and seemed to appreciate it as enjoyable prestige television, Fallout fans who felt it was a faithful vision of the series’ gruelling post-apocalypse and critical political commentary (even if it’s perhaps a little lighter on that side than the post-Fallout 2wasteland hijinks), and Todd Howard, who can now presumably build his own massive underground vault and fill it full of the cash made fromeveryone wanting to play Fallout again....

April 19, 2024 · 2 min · 413 words · Nicholas Lozano

What's it like adding a world to Star Wars? The Outlaws developers explain

Some insights from Massive’s Julian Gerighty on negotiating with Lucasfilm Star Wars: Outlawsisn’t just anopen worldretread of existing Star Wars locations, like Tatooine. It contains a whole new moon of developer Massive Entertainment’s creation - Toshara, which is home to the Pyke criminal gang and visually defined by huge deposits of crystalline orange material and cities hacked out of mountains. What’s it like adding a whole bloody world to Star Wars?...

April 19, 2024 · 2 min · 388 words · Leah Hill

Wordle hints and answer (#1035): How to solve the Friday April 19 Wordle

Stuck on today’s Wordle word for April 19? 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?We have you covered with a group of clues followed by the word if you need it, to help keep your streak firmly in place. Every day,Wordlepresents its legions of players with a deviously simple quandary: can you guess the right five-letter word within just six guesses?...

April 19, 2024 · 6 min · 1241 words · Madison Johnson

Wordle hints and answer (#1036): How to solve the Saturday April 20 Wordle

Stuck on today’s Wordle word for April 20? 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?We have a list of hints to keep that precious streak in shape and save any word-based disappointment. Every day,Wordlepresents its legions of players with a deviously simple quandary: can you guess the right five-letter word within just six guesses?...

April 19, 2024 · 6 min · 1249 words · Roberta Long