West laid plans Not every March-released, fantastical action-RPGwill fall to bits on theSteam Deck.Horizon Forbidden West: Complete Editionsucceeds whereDragon’s Dogma 2 spluttered, quietly yet capably adapting to handheld hardware. Keeping performance up requires a fair bit of fine-tuning the graphics settings, and a girthsome install size might trouble the internal drives of smaller models, but otherwise, Forbidden West is just as portable-friendly asHorizon Zero Dawn. And that’s still one of thebest Steam Deck gamesaround....

Be the change you want to see in the world (with explosives) Just when you thought it was safe to go back to the post-apocalyptic wilderness, the giant dinosaur robots return. In fact, they never left! Go-gettin', arrow-shootin' warrior Aloy managed to delay the end of the world inHorizon Zero Dawn, but the death train is still chugging along to all life on Earth station via a (currently resonant) eco-disaster. InHorizon Forbidden Westit’s because the AI created to heal the planet from the prior extinction event caused by humans isn’t working properly....

Here’s all traversal methods in Dragon’s Dogma 2 Want to know how to fast travel in Dragon’s Dogma 2?As a huge, open-worldRPG,Dragon’s Dogma 2naturally encourages exploration. If you’re tired of meandering across Vermund and Battahl with your Pawns, however, it is possible to fast travel inDragon’s Dogma 2. Join us as we go through the key traversal methods in Dragon’s Dogma 2 including fast travel, Oxcarts and where to get Ferrystones and Portcrystals in the game....

It’s also “definitely not Bioshock in space" Following upyesterday’s newson Ghost Story Games’ upcomingJudas, courtesy of theIan Games Network, another interview with theFriends Per Second podcast, via SkillUp on YouTube, has shed light aplenty on the upcoming Bioshock-ianFPS game. The hosts played the game for 5 hours at Ghost Story Games in Boston, then interviewed director Ken Levine. Here’s a crunchy chipstick of a take to kick things off with; Judas is, says Ralph of SkillUp, “Definitely not Bioshock in space”....

My superhero fatigue sense is tingling In case Amy Hennig’s Captain America andBlack Panthergame1943: Rise Of Hydrawasn’t going to be quite enough to satisfy your Marvel hunger, Netease have just announced they’ve got another comic book bun in the oven for you.Marvel Rivalsis a free-to-play, third-person team shooter where two teams of six heroes and villains go head to head with each other in destructible arenas. I can’t say its reveal trailer has me particularly pumped - the game looks and feels a bit like it’s ten years too late....

Hello Games simply will not stop giving us more No Mans Sky Is there a developer more fiendishly dedicated to giving fans endless returns on their initial investment thanNo Man’s Skystudio Hello Games? It’s not a competition, mind, but they’d surely be a strong contender if it were. Despite dropping theOmega updatejust last month, and unveiling fantasysurvival gameLight No Fireatlast year’s Geoffies, the team are back once more with theOrbitalupdate. It looks to be a sizeable one too, with ship customisation and a “complete space station overhaul” among the new features....

Need a hint for today’s Connections? Read our guide for help with Connections #290 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....

The real-life Soledar salt mines were captured last February after more than a year of fighting You can now explore one of Ukraine’s most iconic natural landmarks - and the largest salt mine in Europe - inMinecraft. The virtual replica of the Soledar salt mines and their surrounding town, occupied by Russia troops for the past year in real life, has been led by the wartorn country’s government in an effort to help rebuild a school destroyed during the conflict....

Who can relate to having difficult relationships with their parents, am I right? I went intoOpen Roadspretty cold, knowing only that it was a story-driven road trip game with some element of mystery to it. The mystery is really just a backdrop, though - a device to better bring forth the themes of family and secrets. Most specifically it’s about mother-daughter relationships, as we join single mum Opal and her sixteen-year-old daughter Tess on a short (from our point of view) but bittersweet road trip when, going through Opal’s mother’s home post-funeral, they discover she may have had an affair decades before....

How the worm turns I caught a preview of this latest adaptation of Frank Herbert’s sci-fi novels at GDC last week, and came away surprisingly enthused about a game you could ungenerously characterise as a giant, orange-brown map with overly punitive thirst and temperature mechanics and more-or-less the same construction and crafting rhythms we see in every other survival game under the Arrakeen sun. Sandworms? They break things up a bit, which is to say, they burst through the desert and swallow you like plankton....

Vote now as we continue deciding the single best thing in games Last time you decided—by a margin of a mere three votes—thatdrawing Frog Detective’s magnifying glass is better than drawing Blade Runner’s gun. That might be the closest result yet. Now if only Frog Detective could become aBlade Runnercharged with helping attend a big dance party. Onwards! This week, I ask you to pick between a thing that skips frustration and a thing that is always, always there for you....

Stuck on today’s Wordle word for March 27? 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?...

It’s in beta for now, with a select group of games compatible Xbox Cloud Gaming, Microsoft’s game-streaming platform, finally lets you actually use a keyboard and mouse to play on PC. There’s a bit of a catch for now, though, in that it’s only a beta test for now with a small selection of games supported. Still, it’s something! The latest Xbox Update Preview - offered to those who’ve opted into the experimental Xbox Insider programme for testing non-final features in the Alpha Skip-Ahead ring - introduces keyboard and mouse support when using Xbox Cloud Gaming through the Xbox App on PC or supported browsers - Chrome and Edge, for now....