Microsoft confirm additions for late March and early April Microsoft have confirmed the waves of games coming to Game Pass in late March and early April, headlined by theexpectedaddition of Diablo IV. This is the first Activision Blizzard game coming to Game Pass since Microsoft’s ridiculous $69 billion acquisition, with more due to follow. Beyond that, look forward to games including mech-riding farming game Lightyear Frontier and the colossal alien invasion strategy game from the XCOM Long War team, Terra Invicta....

Here’s how to increase your jump stamina in Lightyear Frontier Looking to get the Thruster Boost upgrade in Lightyear Frontier?Lightyear Frontierhas a host of Mech upgrades like the Thruster Boost to make exploration and resource gathering easier in the game. The Thruster Boost is greatly helpful when exploring new map regions as it increases your jump stamina and enables you to jump to further distances. To learn more about the Thruster Boost in Lightyear Frontier, including all materials and material locations, read below....

Here’s how to increase your carrying capacity in Lightyear Frontier Looking to increase your carrying capacity in Lightyear Frontier?Lightyear Frontieris a charming crafting,farming gamewhere you must set up a base on an alien world and colonise it for earthly inhabitants. As such, a large part of the game centres around resource gathering, and transporting quantities of ore back to base. If your resource farming is interrupted by the over encumbered warning message, you’ll likely need to upgrade your carrying capacity....

Here’s how to make every colour Lens in Lightyear Frontier Looking to make Lens in Lightyear Frontier?There are four different types of Lens inLightyear Frontierand you’ll need to know how to make them all if you want to fully upgrade your Mech Suit. Clear, Red, Blue and Yellow Lens all vary in rarity and require several different steps to make. Below we’ll go through each step and where you can find the associated Crystals needed to make them....

A dimension too far? The aforesaid hoverboard and glider, together with the streaking neon visual direction, suggest a game of fluid acrobatics, akin to the studio’s last releaseSolar Ash, which, to quote Ed’sreview, “has you rollerblade around shattered worlds like a post apocalyptic gazelle on wheels”. Perhaps that game exists deeper within Hyper Light Breaker, but during my 20 minutes with the game at GDC, I found myself stopping and starting and struggling to build momentum using a combat system that felt both deliberately challenging and stilted....

Here are the Nest locations for the first five biomes in Lightyear Frontier Looking for Nest locations in Lightyear Frontier?Nests inLightyear Frontierare hives in which the animals of the alien world live. Feeding Nests is a great way to replenish the natural resources of each biome, which usually houses around three Nests each. Below, we’ll list the Nest locations for the first five biomes, go through the steps to make Fodder and the rewards for feeding the animal populace in Lightyear Frontier....

Need a hint for today’s Connections? Read our guide for help with Connections #282 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....

Part 2 of our series on generative AI delves into the issues around how it’s currently trained In Part 1,Our Generation, we looked at what we mean when they use the term ‘generative AI’. Today in Part 2, The Art Of The Steal, we look at why people say generative AI is stealing art. Generative AI is all over the entertainment industries right now, and lots of people in games are making excited noises about finding new ways to integrate it into their products, from game developers and publishers such as Ubisoft and Square Enix to platform holders and hardware firms such as Epic and Nvidia....

Beam us your opinions and questions for March’s Game Club live chat By this point you’ve probably had enough ofhearingwhat Ithinkabout this month’sRPS Game Clubgame,Warhammer 40,000: Darktide. But what sayyou, dear readers? Once again, the Game Club liveblog looms, andas with Cobalt Core, we want your thoughts, feelings, and questions to shovel into the conversational fuel furnace. First up: I initially said we’d do the live discussion on March 29th, but forgot that it’s Good Friday, and thus everyone will be too busy with not working....

Explore the land of sand early If you’re keen to try outSand Land, an upcoming actionRPGfrom the developers of One Piece Odyssey and the creator ofDragon Ball, Akira Toriyama, then I have some great news. There’s a demo out right now that lets you explore a portion of the sandy map, try out a handful of the characters, and ride some rusty vehicles ahead of its release next month on April 25th....

It also brings new parental controls and family sharing options Valve have launched Steam Families on the Steam Beta Client, a suite of new and refreshed family sharing options that replace Steam’s existing Family Sharing and Family View features. The idea is that you’ll now have a single location where you can manage your family’s games from, as well as have more control over what and when other family members can play....

Payload’s open world survival builder launches into Steam early access on March 22nd Later this week, Payload Studios’open worldvehicular survival builderTerraTech Worldslaunches into early access. As the name implies, it’s a bigger, bolder and more ambitious take on their still very popular sandbox gameTerraTech, but according to Payload’s founder and CEO Russ Clarke, they’re viewing this new version as more of a successor to TerraTech than a full-bodied sequel. “The overall quality of experience is really a huge leap forward,” Clarke told me during a press presentation last week....

They should call it Riven: The Sequel To The Myst Remake Cyan Worlds today announced plans to launch their fancy real-time 3D remake ofRivenlater this year, coming with support for both VR cybergoggles and standard meatspace screens. Riven: The Sequel ToMystwas the 1997 sequel to Myst, the 1993 pre-rendered adventure game which sold a million CD-ROM drives andlaunched a thousand specks of spittle from John Walker’s mouth. The remake previously had a longwinded name of its own, Riven: New Discoveries Of The Lost D’ni Empire, but now is simply named Riven....