Senior developer responds to fan outcry over blackboard scene Friends, there is trouble a-brewing down the radioactive watering hole. While Amazon’sFalloutTV adaptation haslaunched to pretty positive verdicts, a contingent of Fallout players are up in arms over its portrayal of the Fallout timeline. In particular, it’s being claimed that the show has written the events of Obsidian’sFallout: New Vegasout of the canon, despite reassurances from Bethesda Game Studios design director Emil Pagliarulo....

Need a hint for Connections? Read our guide for help with Connections #306 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....

And expands the forest of Yaesha I likeco-opshooterRemnant 2, because it doesn’t pretend to be much more than what it is: a dodgerollathon where, in between dodge rolls, you fill demons with bullets. I’ve been meaning to go back to it, so it’s convenient that there’s more DLC arriving soon. Dubbed The Forgotten Kingdom, it adds a new Invoker archetype, fleshes out an existing jungle biome, and introduces more gear, more monsters, and the like....

Hundreds of discounts and playable teasers in the chamber Steam’s next week-long celebration will pay tribute to that most treasured of genres, thefirst-person shooter. The PC marketplace’s FPS Fest kicks off next Monday, letting loose a hail of discounts and playable demos for shooters that prefer things from the first-person perspective. Following in the wake of other occasional celebrations of popular genres, such asFebruary’s Remote Play Fest, the FPS Fest will focus in on shooters where a first-person view is the only or default way to play, but otherwise won’t limit what that might include....

Paging doctor gamerthumb When I was a wee lad, my grandfather, an avid gardener, walked with me down to the end of his immaculately tended botanical kingdom, and bid I look upon his favourite flowers, bright blooms of Geraniums. He was a humble man, but even he could not disguise his pride at how wonderfully full and rich their colours and forms had come in this year. “Does the fragile beauty of these blooms not fill you with tender hope for the future?...

Vampirate diaries, part II Avast, me hearty bowls of soup! Welcome back to Plundertales, a chronicling of my journey to beststrategy gameTotal War: Warhammer 3as vampire pirate Count Noctilus without ever touching grass. When we last saw Noctilus, he’d just received a challenge from his ancient rival Gentlemen Jenkins, crudely scrawled on the rear of a carrier pigeon (I had to google ‘do birds have buttocks?’ to write that.) I say ancient rival, it’s been about 15 turns, but Horace said the column needed more drama and that Noctilus’ ongoing battle with the weevils to reclaim his biscuit tin ‘wasn’t testing well’ with the Treehouse’ preview audience....

It’s taken me four years to post Dépanneur Nocturne but it’s still great Dépanneur Nocturne is a type of game I adore: pay a few quid to see something different and weird and surprising and be done in an hour. The spark of novelty is important when most of my gaming time honestly goes on roguelikelike games and repeatable multiplayer murderfests. So here we are, out in the city at night, it’s late, it’s raining, and your beloved is waiting for you back home, but you want to bring her something nice so you nip into the local shop, thedépanneur....

Out of early access now - beware the piano-playing ghost Some new videogame releases pounce on us like excitable Golden Retrievers, while others become apparent to us more insidiously, like undead Golden Retrievers creeping back from the grave to do their master’s bidding unto eternity.Withering Roomsis one of the latter: released out of early access last week, and noticed by me just yesterday, it’s a haunted mansion metroidvania in which you are a small girl in a nightie who must use meat cleavers, pentagrams and spells of self-enlargement or possession or incineration to overcome various monsters of the Silently Hilly and/or Residentially Evil persuasion....

Stuck on the Wordle word for April 12? 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?...

$70 games with beaks and feathers? Sign me up! The $70 release day price for standard AAA titles is both unsustainable and on the way out, claims Saber Interactive CEO Matthew Karch, viaan interviewwith IGN reporter Rebekah Valentine. Speaking to Valentine, Karchreckoned in publicthat the $70 game is “going to go the way of the dodo" because it isn’t “sustainable”. Here’s the full chunk: “Look, you remember the hype for Cyberpunk, which I think actually ultimately performed okay, but when the expectations are so high and so much money is put into one title, it’s hugely risky for the company that’s doing it....

A “new entry”, not a Dead Space 2 remake Developers atDead Space remakecreators EA Motive were pushing to make a “new entry” in the sci-fihorrorseries before EA shelved it last year, according to the latest in a recent outbreak of Dead Spacey rumours and revelations that have spread through the bulkheads of the internet, coating everybody’s devices with necrotic slime. Today’s injection of mutagenic insider gossip comes fromBloomberg, who claim that a small team at Motive spent a few months working on a “new entry in the series”....

The best armor for every vocation in Dragon’s Dogma 2 Looking for the best armor in Dragon’s Dogma 2?Half of the joy ofDragon’s Dogma 2is obtaining cool sets of armor for your Arisen to look the part as they lead their pawns around the world. Unfortunately, good armor is pricey, and not all of the best armor sets are purchasable in shops. Additionally, the sturdiest armor inDragon’s Dogma 2can only be found in the endgame, courtesy of the Dragonforged....

Here’s how to raise affinity with your Main Pawn in Dragon’s Dogma 2 Looking to raise affinity with your Main Pawn in Dragon’s Dogma 2?Affinity is a hidden system inDragon’s Dogma 2where you can earn favour with NPCs in return for gifts, vendor discounts and unique visits to your dwelling. You can also raise affinity with your Pawns inDragon’s Dogma 2but this works slightly differently. Read on for an explanation on how to earn affinity with your Pawns....