The co-op shooter remains too popular for its own good AsHelldivers 2continues to be struggling with its own success, suffering wildly overloaded servers that make it sometimes tricky to even log in, a new patch today has added a feature to help alleviate the pressure. Having previouslycapped the number of playersto 450,000, developers Arrowhead have now added an auto-kick to stop people hogging those precious slots while not playing. After 15 minutes, AFK players will now get booted....

Nearly ten years since successful Kickstarter It’s been radio silence ever since, but it has now once again resurfaced, with another gorgeous trailer and a promise that the development team, now smaller, is back “with the duty and conscience to fulfill what we set out to do.” “Began with a dream of two brothers. You supported. We became a team, then grew into a company and tried many hands to make light work,” says theKickstarter update, which sounds as if it has been machine translated into English....

New trailer details aliens and alt histories A lot of games have been attempting to get a bite of Civilization’s vast audience in recent years, such asOld WorldandHumankind. The next to try is Paradox’sMillennia, which covers 10,000 years via a historical 4X. Although, as a new trailer shows, history might include battling alien invasions or rogue AIs. It also now has a release date: March 26th. Most historical games are some form of alternate history, because it’s not like Gandhi actually launched any nukes at anyone, but I like that Millennia is introducing wildcard what-if scenarios....

Here’s how to heal a sprained ankle or broken leg in Nightingale Want to know how to fix a Sprained Ankle or Broken Leg in Nightingale?Nightingaleis asurvivalcrafting game that offers many challenges that must be surmounted in order to stay alive within the Faewilds. As you traverse these wild Fae lands, there’s a good chance that you might suffer the effects of a Sprained Ankle or a Broken Leg. Don’t despair and hop along in distress!...

Here’s how to get Stone Blocks in Nightingale Wondering how to get Stone Blocks in Nightingale?When it’s time to get started building your base inNightingale, you’re going to need a few basic building materials. Stone Blocks are key components for a good number of the structures on your crafting list, and while obtaining these chunks is a simple affair, you might still feel a bit lost if you’ve only just spawned in your Abeyance Realm at the very start of the game....

Here’s how to recruit NPCs in Nightingale and where to find them Want to know how to recruit Survivors in Nightingale?Survivors are NPCs that you can acquire inNightingaleto help you at your base and gather materials. These loyal recruits will also lend a hand in combat and can be a useful deterrent against Bound enemies. Although these fellow Realmwalkers can occasionally get in your way, they are valuable assets to accrue, especially early on in aNightingalegame and if you are playing solo, rather thanmultiplayer....

Need a hint for today’s Connections? Read our guide for help with Connections #256 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 of reductions across the board on 4070 units thanks to the release of 4070 Super. Nvidia’s RTX 4070 is a popular mid-range graphics card that delivers good rasterised performance with best-in-class RT and upscaling/frame generation features. Normally it costs around $550, but today you can get a three-fan Gigabyte Windforce model for just $530 thanks to a $20 off voucher at Newegg. To get this price, just use codeVGAEXCGBET625at the checkout....

How do you say “2XKO” anyway? Project L, Riot’s long-gestating fighting game which is focused on 2v2 tag team fights, finally has a real name. It’s “2XKO”, which is both awkward to type and to say. In a separatevideo previewing the year ahead, executive producer Tom Cannon says the name outloud, confirming at least that it is pronounced Two-Ex-Kay-Oh, and not, say, Two Times Kay-Oh or Double Knock Out or, I guess, Toox-Koh....

The actor with a thousand deaths adds another Hitman’s Elusive Targets started as a series of one-off assassinations, baddies who would appear in the live service game for a few days and offer one chance to kill them (don’t blow it!) before vanishing. While developers Io Interactive did eventually start bringing back Elusive Targets due to popular demand/widespread frustration, some have proved more elusive than others. Four years since he last appeared, a target played by famous dier Sean Bean will return in March....

It’s getting the Royal treatment If you’re unfamiliar with Shin Megami Tensei, it’s what gave birth to the Persona series. SMT 5 is very much about teenagers in Tokyo fighting off demons, except it’s more of a traditional dungeon crawler than Persona. Where hanging out with pals is a major focus of Persona, SMT 5 is heavier on combat and the min-maxing of your demon army. In the original Shin Megami Tensei 5, players would take the Canon Of Creation story path because, well, that was the only path available....

Devil takes the hindmost Satan has vanished, the throne of hell lies empty, and eight Archfiends are all jostling to be its chief seat warmer. It’s a great setup for a role-playingstrategy game, and the allure of plotting, scheming, backstabbing and shmoozing your way to victory remains as enticing today as it did whenSolium Infernumfirst came to PC in 2009. At the time, it launched to relative obscurity, and was mostly kept alive by dedicated play-by-email multiplayer groups....

Currently in testing, could be ready this year It’s probably pointed wording, that “access additional games on PC” bit, as the post stops short of promising that the PS VR2 will become another full-fat, play-anything PC VR headset like theValve IndexorMeta Quest 3. But any kind of official support for Windows games would be a huge step for the PS5-yoked PS VR2, which has enjoyed high praise among console players for its 4K OLED display and slick wireless controllers....