Sign-ups are now open HoYoverse have announced that sign-ups forZenless Zone Zero’s next closed beta test are now available. While the start and end dates of the next closed beta haven’t been unveiled just yet, we do know that there’s going to be a new character to play, a new faction, new missions, and overhauls to the game’s combat and exploration. I’d imagine it’s worth a look if you’re intoGenshin Impact, or are into your anime fights....

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Stuck on today’s Wordle word for March 17? 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?If you’re on your last guess, don’t worry! We have you covered with a list of hints as well as today’s word itself. Every day,Wordlepresents its legions of players with a deviously simple quandary: can you guess the right five-letter word within just six guesses?...

Need a hint for today’s Connections? Read our guide for help with Connections #279 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....

Stuck on today’s Wordle word for March 16? 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?...

Explore and survive the Smiling Islands If you’re fond of the fairly specific blend of doomy theology, rich art direction and Soulslike-tinted metroidvaning encapsulated byBlasphemous, you might also enjoySaviorlessfrom Cuban team Empty Head Games and publisher Dear Villagers, which now has a PC release date of 2nd April. In Saviorless you play Antar, “a recklessly curious child” who has travelled to an archipelago full of abominable creatures on a quest to become a Savior, whatever that means in practice....

Stab, slash, it’s all in the mind I know that “Made one guy admit he was wrong about a subgenre” isn’t the kind of achievement they put in accolade trailers, but I must creditWarhammer 40,000: Darktidewith tearing apart my blanket dislike of first-person melee fighters. Having spent months of stubbornly maining Veteran and sticking as closely as possible toFPSconvention, I’ve since found peace in the simple act of swinging knives/swords/giant electrified hammers into and through people....

Living on a prayer Combat is such a routine activity in video games that it often doesn’t feel much like conflict at all. It’s just something done to move the simulation along - a propulsive chore stripped of drama or significance or lasting emotion beyond a vague desire to see what lies beyond whatever it is you’re trying to kill. InDeath Of A Wish, combat has substance: it’s a form of redemptive self-expression....

Arctic Eggs’ low-poly graphics and moody dystopia recall the first Half-Life, with added frying pan I’ll be honest: fried eggs are my least favourite way to enjoy the versatile food. But even a noted fried-egg hater like me was left salivating over a pan full of sizzling yolks by my first look at strange yet mesmerising upcoming sci-fi cooking simArctic Eggs. You are a so-called Poultry Peddler trapped in the frozen wasteland whose apparent only way out of said frosty clime is by cooking up breakfast for your chilly companions....

Space to grow My day inLightyear Frontierstarts out with a bit of farming. On a good day, it’s raining, so I don’t need to water the crops. On a bad day, there are weeds spontaneously spawning from the sky and I need to catch them before they land right on top of my precious plants. Either way, when I’m done, I’ll put the day’s harvest into the processing machines to work while I’m away, and then go exploring for minerals....

150 Minecraft content packs a month, Bedrock only Going bythe announcement post, current Marketplace Pass offerings include Spark Universe’s Furniture: Modern 2, which harbours more flashy armchairs than I ever dreamed possible, and 4KS Studios' Hacker Tools, a secret base full of overpowered weapons. A Marketplace Pass costs $3.99 a month. Given that Minecraft is a game in whichyou can more or less build anything you want, and given that there are over a decade’s worth ofmods and other add-ons freely available for the Java edition, I would probably not take them up on that....

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Bellanoir makes its debut in first trailer Pocketpair have popped up a trailer forPalworld’s first new raid battle boss, Bellanoir, who is “coming soon” to the monster-catchingsurvivalgame in a big oldPalworldupdate that will also include some fixes and additional anti-cheating measures. First impressions: it’s an evil Goth girl with a jellyfish where her legs should be. This being a Palworld story, the (SFW) reactions I’ve read on social media and reddit fall into two categories....