Get some factor fifty ready I like a city builder, me, and newly revealedBeware Of Light, from tiny indie studio Bajka Games, has a interesting hook (and a Ronseal-type name, which you know I appreciate). Your advanced colony ship has veered off course, and you’ve crashed on a dead, desert planet with no water or fossil resources like oil. It’s sort of a hotFrostpunk, because you have to manage manpower, there are limited resources to distribute, and nobody is going to help....

If you dislike getting stabbed in the back in first-person games, you might not likeVoin. If you like ravagedGothicmasonry and dramatic evening skies, you might like Voin. If you dislike fighting fireball-lobbing demons with a sword, you might not like Voin. If you like open-ended, changeable levels full of loot and secrets, you might like Voin. If you are confused about whether you’ll like or dislike Voin, you might want to try it for yourself during thefirst public Steam playteston Friday, March 8th....

Stuck on the Wordle word for March 5? 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?...

Plus new dance moves, of course Co-opdwarfFPS gameDeep Rock Galacticdropped a teaser of what’s arriving with Season 5, which is to say, a fair amount of things that’ll go well with a pickaxe and a pint of beer. The new season will be a prelude to roguelite spin-offDeep Rock Galactic: Rogue Core, it’ll have a new mission type, enemies, new overclocks, and the devs are looking into letting players activate past seasons....

Dune: Awakening’s gameplay trailer certainly looks like those new movies Dune: Awakening, themassively-multiplayer take on Frank Herbert’s sandy sci-fi universe from dong-loving devs Funcom, has shown off some more of its online, open-world Arrakis in a lengthy developer direct. We’ve also learnt more about what we will - and won’t - be able to do during our time exploring the planet. In a way that only feels right for a series notorious for ambitious - if often misguided, see Lynch and Jodorowsky - adaptations, Dune: Awakeningcertainly appears to be going for it....

Bit Reactor are working with the Jedi: Survivor studio on the mysterious project The developers of EA’s upcoming Star Warsstrategy gamehave confirmed the project survived last week’s mass layoffs at the publisher and the cancellation of a first-person Star Wars shooter fromApex Legendsstudio Respawn, who are collaborating on the upcoming title. The currently untitled Star Wars strategy game wasrevealed to be in the works at Bit Reactor a couple of years ago, with the newfounded studiomade up of former XCOM and Sid Meier’s Civilization devs from Firaxis, led by ex-XCOM art director Greg Foertsch....

Top tip Once you know how to enable Desktop Mode on theSteam Deck, you basically get the keys to its handheld gaming kingdom. Fromplaying Game Pass games on your Steam Decktoinstalling Lutrisand other non-Steam launchers, many of the device’s best hidden functions are enabled through Desktop Mode – not to mention its entire usabilityas a proper desktop PC. 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....

Best Mage builds and skills in Last Epoch Wondering what the best Acolyte skills and builds are in Last Epoch?For big magical power inLast Epoch, there’s no beating the Mage. This crafty spellslinger is the archetypal wizard seen in other RPGs, and while the in-game character model representing the Mage is noticeably older than his peers, there’s no denying that this wizened elder can still whip the rest of his party into shape....

A much-demanded VRAM upgrade helps deliver decent peformance boosts I still don’t fully understand the rancor with which theRTX 4070 Tiis often regarded. Where some see an overpriced, memory-deprived albatross of agraphics card, I’ve only ever seen a fast and feature-rich GPU whose 12GB of VRAM is demonstrably fine for 99.95% of games at 4K. A better deal than theRTX 4080for that resolution, in any case. Now, though, we can all agree: nobody should buy an RTX 4070 Ti....

Need a hint for today’s Connections? Read our guide for help with Connections #267 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....

Developer Strange Loop Games details the roadmap out of early access Ecois a very ambitious, wildly reactive multiplayersurvivalgame in which you try to save the world without accidentally destroying it. There’s a meteor scheduled to slamdunk the planet in 30 days, and in that time, you and your fellow players must progress from raising log cabins in the woods to building the means to develop technologies that might somehow avert the apocalypse....

I go on Twitter so you don’t have to Every weekend, indie devs show off current work on Twitter’s#screenshotsaturdaytag. And every Monday, I bring you a selection of these snaps and clips. This week, despite Twitter throwing a wobbly and doing its best to keep me from taking a good look at the tag, I still found plenty of interesting and attractive indie games to admire. Check ‘em out! The developer behind Super Kiwi 64 and Macbat 64 offers a different flavour of vintage platforming withToree Saturn(coming to Steam, with a demo there now):...

Out today It starts, much as when writing articles for videogame websites, with a blank page. More accurately, a white space of indefinite extent. In the middle of the white space there is a curious little yellow machine, a kind of motorised plunger akin to an oil derrick. In the story ofSixty Four, you’re late to some kind of social engagement, somewhere beyond that beaming expanse of whiteness. But there is time, even as texts from a friend appear down the lefthand margin, to mess around with the strange yellow machine....