The Falconer arrives this week, alongside its 1.0 launch As time-travelling fantasy APRGLast Epochgears up for its 1.0 release this week, developers Eleventh Hour Games have revealed the final crop of character classes that will be arriving in the game on February 21st. Technically, they’re the final pair of the 15 mastery classes that you’ll be able to unlock after working through one of Last Epoch’s five base classes, but listen, I don’t even need to look at the other 14 masteries to know what I’m going to be aiming for come release....

Versus £280+ for a Core i5 13600K or 14600K with similar performance! Today you can find the 12600K for £167 at Amazon UK as a US import, versus £221 for the same CPU via Amazon UK itself. That £167 price includes an import fee deposit and shipping too! Looking at the specs, it’s clear what sets the (£289) 14600K and (£296) 13600K apart from the earlier 12600K: four extra efficiency cores (that boost performance in content creation workloads but not so much in games) and a maximum rated turbo speed of 5....

You might be able to complete that Defend event now, if you can get in I’ve been completely hooked onHelldivers 2since diving into itsexceptional Starship Troopers-y bug-blastathonlast week, and I’m far from alone - so many people are playing theco-opshooterthat developers Arrowhead capped the game’s servers at 450,000 simultaneous players over the weekend to try and alleviate connection and login problems caused by its enormous popularity. While the studio promise they’re still working on sorting those issues for good without making you wait in a queue, they’ve released a separate patch to make some in-game bug fixes and balance changes - notably twiddling the dials for some of Helldivers 2’s hardest difficulties and an event that wasn’t meant to be its hardest challenge, but has proved almost impossible for many players....

Almost triples the number of classes, adds unique starting locations, dozens of weapons, new bosses and more Despite plenty of rumours,we still don’t knowwhenElden RingDLCShadow Of The Erdtreewill arrive - it could be later this month, this year or maybe beyond even that. While we’re waiting on the official expansion, though, modders have beaten FromSoftware to offering a substantial new experience to those who’ve cleared every corner of the Lands Between....

“We do talk about that”, says Inflexion’s Aaryn Flynn Among the things I like bestest about Inflexion’s alt-Victorian fantasysurvival gameNightingaleis its Realm cards mechanic, whereby you generate and modify worlds by playing Major and Minor cards. Major cards are used at portals to conjure up a particular biome or world type and set the difficulty, including an approximate choice of resident NPC factions, local fauna and resources. Minor cards are played within worlds to mess with their workings....

Need a hint for Connections? Read our guide for help with Connections #253 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....

Control two characters at once, or join a pal in co-op New arcade shoot ‘em upNidusfirst caught my eye with its psychedelic bug blaston Screenshot Saturday Monday. Three months later, it has now launched, and for a mere £6 we can all fill our eyes with so many colourful insects. You’d have to pay at least £57 for that sort of fun down the pet shop. Nidus is an arcade arena shmup about a connected flower and wasp bashing bugs, blasting bosses, and just plain surviving to score mega-points on the leaderboards....

Please, Touch The Artwork 2 is out today In this comic and delightfulpuzzle game, you guide a besuited black and white, recently-risen-from-the-grave skeleton through an array of Ensor’s artworks. Within them, you’ll encounter several strange and eclectic individuals who are all searching for something - a patron at a seaside bar might want ten bottles of wine, for example, while a cigarette-smoking duck on a table of cooking ingredients is after 24 matches....

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, my eye has been caught by handcrafted art, intense fighting game violence, cosy management, and heaps more attractive and interesting indie games. Check these out! While I didn’t dig the first game in the Pixel Pulp series, I have always like their look andChristian Donlan’s review of Bahnsen Knightsdoes have me thinking I’ll try out the next one, which is apparently off to Alaska:...

Ya-ya-ya-ya-yAAA Sega’s upcoming reboot of ‘90s arcade classicCrazy Taxiwill be a “triple-A” game, according to the head of one of the Japanese studios working on the driving game’s return. Crazy Taxi was among the slew of Sega games revealed to be making a comeback during a rapid-fire trailershown at the Geoff Awards in December, alongside the likes of Streets of Rage,Golden AxeandJet Set Radio. While Crazy Taxi has seen - like all series with at least a crumb of public recognition - a more recent mobile game spin-off, the franchise’s last original PC entry was Crazy Taxi 3: High Roller, released 20 years ago....

This week’s new PC game releases and our weekly newsblog Another week of PC game releases is upon us and oh heck, slow down. There are an alarming number of games out this week that I want to play, from large-scale 3D productions to itty-bitty time-killers, each sinisterly appropriate to my Steam stats and wider research interests. Are videogame publishers andThe Mawin cahoots to overwhelm me with impulse-buys and sabotage my attempts to Report the News?...

Originally $18 and with many positive reviews. I’m a big fan of oversized mouse pads - desk pads, some call them. Today you can pick up just such a mouse pad from Lenovo in a comfortable 900x300x3mm (31.5x11.8x0.12") size for just $10. To get this reduction from the normal price of $18, use codeSAVE15ACCat the checkout. This particular model, for your reference, is the well-reviewed Legion Speed Gaming Mouse Pad XL....

Managed Deckocracy Helldivers 2is turning out to be an absolutelaugh riotof aco-opshooter; it may even have the potential to rivalDeep Rock Galacticon good vibes and teammate deaths as accidental comedy masterstrokes. Even ongoingserver connectivity issueshaven’t done much to spoil the sense of fun, which incidentally, can also be shared on theSteam Deck. Indeed, following a quickProton update on Valve’s part, its previously SteamOS-incompatible anti-cheat will no longer put the kibosh on you dropping into Helldivers 2 via your Deck....