It’s a short tease, but you can see that Nuna is a bit older, and the world is a dreamy, peaceful, and magical place to explore. Never Alone 2 is designed to be played in couch or online co-op, which is appropriate for the name of the series, and I’m told it will feature landscapes beyond the icy tundra - like, for example, ‘forest valleys filled with ancient willows’. As in Never Alone, Nuna and Fox are hunting down a mystery that threatens their community....

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. In this guide, we’ll give you a handy hint selection for today’s Connections puzzle on Thursday, April 11th, before revealing the group themes and the Connections answers themselves....

Jordan Mechner on the sands of time, and making games based in history In the mind of Jordan Mechner, the sands of time flow both ways. It happens even when he doesn’t mean it to. When making theMyst-likeadventuregameThe Last Express, he set his story on a train crossing Europe in 1914 - the same year Mechner’s own grandfather became a teenage refugee, his life in a Jewish enclave on the Austro-Hungarian border shattered....

Stage an Intervention Revealed during yesterday’s Triple-i Initiative, procedurally generated detective simShadows Of Doubtlargest update yet is playable right now. Dubbed “The Sharpshooter Assassin”, the the patch introduces two new killer variants, both snipers who’ll blast lead from vantage points around the city. And the city’s expanding too, with new uber-rich gated communities as well as a contrasting shanty town. Not to mention a new auto-travel feature that lets you wander about these spots and attend to some casework without pausing the game....

I’m too cool to ever copy trends This weekLeague Of Legendsteased a PvEVampire Survivors-like mode, and recently World Of Warcraft revealed a limited time PvEvP battle royale with pirates. What’s going on? Is chasing trends a bit of a risky click? Should Age Of Empires II get a battle royale mode? All these questions and no more, just these ones, are discussed in this week’s episode of the Electronic Wireless Showpodcast....

Eight episodes of Pip-Boys, power armour and daddy issues Purnell plays Lucy McLean, a Vault 33 resident who must make her way to the irradiated surface and search for somebody - an open-ended premise that has served many Fallout games down the years. Walton Goggins, meanwhile, plays a legendary ghoul cowboy handed one last job, and Moten is a Brotherhood Of Steel trainee who soon discovers that the Brotherhood Of Steel aren’t as righteous as they claim....

Betting your hedges For someone so skeptical of taxonomy, I sure love a good subgenre dive. That’s partly because it’s so easy to find a healthy one now, and there’s a joy in shearing down multiple times and still finding material. You can start from “strategy games are in a good state” and go all the way down to “Turn-based strategy wargames that balance detailed simulation with accessibility and are set in World War 2” and still find several strong entries from the last few years....

Free-to-play now on Steam Early Access It’s been lovely to see Thatgamecompany bring the likes ofJourneyandFlowerto PC, following their debuts on other platforms long before, and oh look here comes their latest too.Sky: Children Of The Lightis now available free-to-play in early access on Steam, inviting everyone to explore a pretty world full of pretty sights and sounds in this “peaceful” MMO. Having installed it and started playing it myself, the important part is: yes, you can slide down hills in this one too....

Something I played when I was young and am therefore fond of if blissfully ignorant of their actual quality The legally distinct Cheerios inTiny Tires, the upcoming miniature racing game that looks to be a loving homage toMicro Machines, have their own physics. This delights me. So does the milk, actually, leaving trails on the checked linoleum tablecloth as the infinitely minute driver tries to compensate for its skidding effect on those titularTiny Tires....

Stuck on today’s Wordle word for April 11? 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?...

The stream itself and our highlights Today’s the birthday of the Triple-I Initiative, a 45-minute showcase of game announcements and trailers from the likes of Slay The Spire devs MegaCrit,Darkest Dungeondevs Red Hook andDead Cellscustodians Evil Empire. What makes a “triple-I” game a “triple-I” game, as opposed to (hawk, spit) a regular indie? I’ve given it some thought, and I think the answer is: “has more money and status than most indies, but not, like, Call of Duty levels, and also one of our partners is Gearbox Publishing, so this is perhaps ‘indie’ inthe Geoff Keighley sense....

Dollarydoo or dollarydon’t? Drop Bear Bytes, the studio behind post-apocalypticRPGBroken Roads, are named after Australia’s deadliest creature. The Drop Bear might look like a normal koala, but they’re actually dangerous predators, fond of jumping from trees to maul unsuspecting chumps who forget to take adequate precautions, like urinating on themselves. Really, the story is a wind-up the aussies liketo blag touristswith. If it looks like a koala, it’s just a koala....

Red Hook’s co-founders explain their latest act of butchery There have been a lot of remakes that takeprovocative creative libertieswith the original game of late. I’ve always felt like last year’sDarkest Dungeon 2was secretly one of them. Rather than simply building on the previous game’s premise of a Hamlet’s worth of upgradeable, derangeable heroes venturing into tabletopRPG-style labyrinths, it stripped awayDarkest Dungeon’s skin and moved its bones and organs around to create agruelling roguelike....