Scree-ing holiday As someone who finds games about cars wot go fast only intermittently interesting, I’d expect a game about cars wot go slow to be positively soporific. Speed is, ultimately, the modus operandi of a car. It gets you where you need to go faster than a horse, and doesn’t do annoying things like pooing on your patio or dying (also, potentially, on your patio). Surely, then, playing a game about cars moving at the speed of a dead patio horse defeats the point, like playing a first-person shooter where all the guns fire backwards....

A five minute video was shared by a former developer A little while back, Embracer Group sadlyshut downTimesplitter’s studio Free Radical Design in a typical case of Embracer-led restructuring. After the closure, a former Free Radical developer revealed they’d worked on a"clone" of Fortnitebefore it transitioned to a remake ofTimesplitters2. And now footage has emerged of the cancelled project, which certainly does look like a team shooter reminiscent of Epic’s epic....

Not many of those Here’s all the games that will arrive on Game Pass in the first half of March: I’ve played an hour or so of Boltgun and I had a good time being a heavy Space Marine lad and pulping sprite enemies in first-person with a chainsword and, well, a boltgun. Remedy’s Control is also obviously beloved, riffing as it does on creepy SCP Foundation ideas and pairing it with some visually spectacular combat....

Strap in It’s been rumoured for a while that mechs were on their way toHelldivers 2, thanks to leaks and, y’know, official trailers. Well, now it’s actually confirmed: the official Helldivers 2 Xwitter account shared today that they were “ready for deployment on the battlefield soon”. HELLDIVERS! The EXO-45 Patriot Exosuits are in full production in the factories of Tien Kwan. Ready for deployment on the battlefield soon!pic.twitter.com/MfqDbWLhuG Pilotable mechs were discovered in an online game under mysterious circumstances andshared via Reddit earlier this week....

Promising signs, though true porting success remains to be seen Considering it’s one of the mostgawwwwjussgames you can get one o’ them PS5 machines,Horizon Forbidden West’s upcoming PC version has some pretty fair-looking system requirements. Thenewly released specs, which you can find below, suggest that pushing theopen world, robosaur-slaying sequel to its most extreme settings will take a burlygraphics card– but likewise, lower settings and resolutions can get by with much creakier hardware....

The first of three hours with Capcom’s sumptuous, chaotic action-RPG Before I sat down to play three hours ofDragon’s Dogma 2at a Capcom event last month, I gave myself two broad objectives. The first was to discover if there’s anything genuinely different aboutthis undeniably enchanting but very familiar sequelto one of the happiest, barmiest action-RPGsof the past 20 years. The second was to royally screw myself by fielding a party consisting exclusively of magic-users....

Here’s how to cast sorceries and incantations in Elden Ring Want to learn how to cast spells in Elden Ring?Spells aren’t for everyone in FromSoftware games, but they can get pretty insanely powerful - particularly inElden Ring. And with theShadow Of The ErdtreeDLC adding even more powerful spells into the mix, it’s a good time to learn how to cast spells if you don’t already know. Spells in Elden Ring are divided intoSorceriesandIncantations, which we’ll talk about more below....

Learn how to dismount at any time in Elden Ring How do you dismount in Elden Ring?Very early on in yourElden Ringadventure, you’ll be bequeathed an item which you can use to summon Torrent, a powerful spectral steed. Riding around on Torrent is a dream in the wideopen-worldLands Between, but actually mounting and dismounting has proven a tricky issue for many new players. In this quick guide, we’ll teach youhow to dismount in Elden Ring....

The easy way to add plugins for screenshots, recording, UI customisation and more Steam Deck Academybrings together all our guides and explainers on getting the most out of your Steam Deck, no student loans or sweaty dormitories required. Installing Decky Loader on yourSteam Deckis one of the biggest free upgrades you can make to it. With a few clicks (or touchscreen taps), you can open up a library of feature-adding plugins that are as versatile as they are easy to use....

Learn the best builds and skills for the Primalist class in Last Epoch Wondering what the best Primalist skills and builds are in Last Epoch?From the depths of the harsh frontier comes the Primalist, the barbarian, berserker, and druid ofLast Epoch. With the ability to summon animal armies, elemental fury, and a wide variety of different totems, the Primalist embodies the best traits of the wandering nature warrior trope present in many sword and sorcery stories....

Oculus accounts are being deleted March 29th Meta keep emailing me to tell me my Oculus account is going to be deleted on March 29th. It’s only today, seeing other people talking about it, that it occurs to me: this is not personal. Meta is perhaps going to deleteyourOculus account on March 29th as well, if you have one. You’ve got until that date to migrate your account, and if you don’t you’ll lose all your purchases....

Need a hint for Connections? Read our guide for help with Connections #268 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....

And tracks your shopping basket across all devices Afterseveral months on the Steam beta build, Valve last night officially launched an update which revamps the shopping experience and lets you hide your shame. Two universal conveniences: your shopping basket is now shared across devices, so no losing track of things you meant to buy later; and buying gift copies is now less faffy. More conditional: you can now choose to make individual games private, meaning no one will ever see if you own them or are playing them....