Put a spring in your step I didn’t really know anything about Moomins going intoadventuregameSnufkin: Melody Of Moominvalley, besides that their heads always looked palatable to me - like bleached kidney beans. Plus the Moomin merch I’d seen over the years in official Moomin shops or the odd gift store was delightful, so if someone had rocked up with a pencil case adorned with Moomin heads back in school, you bet I would’ve been jealous....

In a real “no thanks, I hate it” move that seems to be aimed at making me, specifically, have some kind of coronary event, Walker Labs and Readyverse studios have announced a new battle royale game, designed with Ernest “I Tip My Hat To You, Sir!” Cline. Cline, who you will remember is the writer of Ready Player One, is apparently one of the co-founders of Readyverse, and I’m sad to see he’s still in search of a second idea....

New gadgets, guns and revamped competitive progression The second season ofpretty damn excellentmultiplayer team shooterThe Finalsis landing later this week. The hacker-themed Season 2 will introduce a new playstyle with world-altering gadgets, a brand new five-on-five game mode, an extra map, beta support for private matches and more. Announcedwith a glitchy, chiptune-backed trailer,The FinalsSeason 2 centres around the exploits of rogue hackers CNS and their effect on its game show-within-a-game. Accordingly, the headline addition is the new Hacker playstyle, offering a set of gadgets for each of The Finals Light, Medium and Heavy classes focused around ‘hacking’ the world to do some pretty out-there things....

Our weekly news liveblog, and the week’s most appetising game releases A new week has slouched into view, and with it a slight shift inThe Maw’s terrifying visage. A new presence can be seen through the mist, perched on its shoulder, whispering tendrils of video game news nuggets into its greedy, hungry ear. The Maw appears sated, but will the distraction hold while we await the return of our news editor Edwin, whose long weekend sojourns won’t conclude until tomorrow?...

Stuck on the Wordle word for March 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?...

Need a hint for today’s Connections? Read our guide for help with Connections #273 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 10? 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?...

Need a hint for today’s Connections? Read our guide for help with Connections #272 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....

Only “fair to transfer no one’s games since they can’t do them all” More developers have confirmed that they have been told by Warner Bros. Discovery that their games will imminently be delisted from digital storefronts.Soundodger+ and Fist Puncher are both due to vanish, following in the footsteps of puzzle gameSmall Radios Big Televisions, whose developer announced its imminent delisting earlier this weekand released the game for free in response....

Stuck on today’s Wordle word for March 9? 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?...

Talk to Me’s Sophie Wilde will be our hero hacker (probably), with director behind A Plague Tale TV series talking the helm Remember when Ubisoftannounced they were working on a movie adaptation of hacking series Watch Dogs, before it was even released? I sure didn’t! Well, allow us both to be reminded of something from over a decade ago, because theWatch Dogsfilm is still apparently A Thing. It’s more of A Thing now, too, because it has actual names attached rather than just a corporation’s vague “excitement” about licensing out its IP....

Video game developers pay tribute after influential artist and writer dies aged 68 Akira Toriyama, the mangaka whose work in video games included designing the characters for two of the most influentialRPGsever made,Chrono TriggerandDragon Quest, on top of creating one of the most influential series across all of pop-culture inDragon Ball, has passed away. Toriyama, of course, was best known for writing and illustratingDragon Ball, his massively influential eighties manga that spawned a hit anime, sequels including the even more popular Dragon Ball Z and countless video game adaptations over the years, including (at least in more recent years) Dragon Ball Z: Kakarot - a playable retelling of the Z sagas as an open-world RPG - and flashyfighting gameDragon Ball FighterZ....

Here are the best blunt weapons in Elden Ring for Strength, Dex, Faith, Intelligence builds and more Looking for the best blunt weapons in Elden Ring?The best Blunt Weapons inElden Ringtend to be Strength-based Hammers or Warhammers. However, there is also a range of Dexterity, Faith and Intelligence options too if you want to maximise your Strike output. Join us, as we go through our top picks for blunt weapons in Elden Ring for both early and late-game playthroughs and provide you with the location for each weapon, stats, loadout recommendations and more....