Retro-anime stylings mixed with a roguelike make for a happy me A little bit more on the setup, then. Mullet Mad Jack is set in a retro-futuristic tower where a hostage is, allegedly, being kept against her will by some robotic billionaires. You’re a guy called Jack, you have a mullet, and you’ve been employed to save the hostage. Doing so means distributing justice in tight corridors as you ascend each floor, with bullets, kicks, dashes, and katanas....

Check out Fragrance Point! Ah sure I’ve enjoyed the nostalgic resurgence ofQuake/PlayStation-grade 3D art in video games, but I am fully blown away by indie gameFragrance Pointlooking like the truest classic 3D computer graphics: the shiny pre-rendered CGI from TV show transition cards, adverts for double-disc dance music compilations, and Windows Media Player skins. My eyes are still reeling from the gloss and glitz and pulsating lights of the Steam Next Fest demo, and I welcome this pain....

Need a hint for Connections? Read our guide for help with Connections #243 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....

Here’s all the server commands in Palworld Want to know all the admin commands in Palworld?PlayingPalworldwith friends is one of the best ways to capture all of the Pals in the game and truly lay claim to the Palpagos Islands, and one of the best ways to do this is on a private server. If you’re the admin of adedicated Palworld server, you might be wondering about the commands at your disposal....

Here’s how to catch and breed Jetragon in Palworld Want to know how to catch and breed Jetragon in Palworld?Jetragon isPalworld’s apex opponent, a legendary Level 50 Dragon Pal that exists to take on all contenders and test the mettle of experienced Palpagos Islands adventurers. Like all Pals inPalworld, however, Jetragon can be defeated and caught with the right amount of skill and luck. This heavy-hitting Celestial Dragon Pal makes for a very powerful ally on your personal squad, and if you like, you can even breed more Jetragons to become unstoppable....

Patch 6 will also bring new camp idle animations, Legendary Actions for Honour Mode and bug fixes Romance sim masquerading asfantasy RPGBaldur’s Gate 3is putting vaseline on its lips, wiggling a little bit of tongue out and practising in the mirror for its next big update. That’s right, just in time for Valentine’s Day (or maybe just after), Larian are dropping the “Improved Smooches” patch. That’s the slightly more titillating name I’ve given what’s officially known as Patch 6, based on Larian’s own tease of what to expect - headlined by a short clip of the internet’s problematic fave vampire Astarion locking lips and, er, forehead with Tav, showing off a couple of the newromance optionswhen wooing your Faerûn bias....

Private equity firm CVC reportedly spends £900m on veteran MMO developers Jagex, the British developers of veteran fantasyMMORuneScape, have announced their acquisition by a potentially surprising new owner: the private equity firm best-known for owning major sports brands including Six Nations Rugby, Spanish football league LaLiga, French football governing body Ligue de Football and the Women’s Tennis Association. The deal was reportedly closed for almost a billion pounds. Although Jagex have developed and published a number of other games over the years, from a RuneScape card game spin-off to RTS games and looter-shooters, none have recreated the success of their flagship MMO....

Not a one-word article One-Punch Man is a manga, anime and nowadays, videogame series that began life as a webcomic in 2009 - a drawing exercise for budding artist “One” thatfound popularity and evolvedinto a full-bore parody of the shonen action genre. One-Punch Man himself, aka Saitama, is essentially a NEET Superman - an apathetic homebody in yellow pants and red wellies who begins his story as the most powerful superhero in existence, for reasons unexplained....

Showcase of plant-based games also includes Magical Delicacy demo You know what does have a launch date now?Botany Manor, a lovely 3Dpuzzlegame about growing plants, which I first learned about via theSteam Next Festdemo, and with which I immediately fell in love. I am heartened to know it is coming out really quite soon - April 9th. A mere two months from now! I gave Botany Manor a shout out inour pick of Next Fest demosto play right now, because it was a nice puzzle game with an extra dash of imagination....

Stuck on the Wordle word for February 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?...

DLC will add new species, biomes and more Against The Stormis a peach; a fantasy citybuilder that was excellent in Early Access, a Bestest Bestwhen it hit 1.0, and which has been tweaked and improved through post-release patches. Update 1.1released last monthwith a set of changes designed to make the early game of the roguelite citybuilder more varied. Update 1.2, meanwhile, will add a Production/Consumption Trends window. This lets you see the resource history of the last 30-minutes of game time, giving you an easier view of your city’s performance....

Here’s all the monsters in Lethal Company and how to beat them Looking for a list of all Lethal Company monsters and ways to beat them?As you explore to find scrap inLethal Companyand meet your quota for ‘The Company’, you’ll come across various monsters. As of writing, there are19 monstersinLethal Company. These monsters range from amusing to outright terrifying and are the main obstacle in your way to achieving sweet, sweet profit....

It’s coming soon! Out in a couple of weeks Taking inspiration from how odd medieval art could get, in Inkulinati you pick a scribe to play as, represented on the page, and then draw in weird farting rabbits and dogs with spears to sally forth. If your Inkulinati is killed or knocked off the page, your enemy wins, and vice-y verse-y. It sounds whimsical, but I played a bit around the early access launch and it can get tasty, requiring the kind of “planning a few moves ahead” thinking that I’m just not very good at, but do respect....