The financial report also notes that last month’s Prince Of Persia: The Lost Crown was “unanimously praised by players and critics”. I think when a financial report is highlighting whatwe criticsthink, that probably means it didn’t sell that well, which is a shame. I completed The Lost Crown last night andKatharine was right, it’s great. I’d like a world where major publishers poured more money and time into mid-sized games rather than betting the moisture farm on another blockbuster Star Wars game, but my ideal world would include both, so hopefully Sargon gets a sequel at some point....

A sweet $60 discount returns after first debuting on Newegg last month. Last month we reportedthat a highly rated 1200W PSU was going cheap on Newegg, where you could pick up the SuperFlowerLeadex 1200W 80+ Platinum for just $160. After selling out rapidly, Newegg has restocked and is offering the same deal again, giving you a second chance to get a PSU that could well outlast every other component in your system!...

Feels like there’s a Deus Ex quote I should use here Elias Toufexis, voice actor forDeus Ex: Human RevolutionandMankind Divided’s cyborg protagonist Adam Jensen, has bid a formal “goodbye, but hopefully not farewell” to the character, expressing hopes that somebody with a lot of money will buy the license and restore poor moody Adam to our screens. Toufexis also shared a few parting speculations about the unannouncedDeus Exsequel from Eidos Montreal that wasreported cancelled last week....

It’s Disney’s “biggest ever entry into the world of games” Disney are taking out a $1.5 billion minority equity stake inFortnitepublisher Epic Games, and have announced “an all-new games and entertainment universe that will further expand the reach of beloved Disney stories and experiences”. According to Disney CEO Robert A. Iger, it’s “Disney’s biggest entry ever into the world of games”. Friends, we are witnessing the birth of a franchising megamoeba of titanic proportions - a new, Unreal Engine-driven “persistent universe” of playing, watching, shopping and other content-tickling opportunities, featuring characters and stories from Pixar, Marvel, Star Wars, Avatar “and more”....

We’re only on part one To be clear, only thefirst partof Artyz’s Elden Ring playthrough has been uploaded to his YouTube channel. Over the course of 46 minutes, he flips through the pages and loosely describes who he found, what he liked, and the challenges he faced. Artyz also mention that some of the map layouts stem from an artist named IAN OD AKAm because Artyz “wanted to avoid the tedium involved”, which is fair enough....

Bug hunt Helldivers 2launched earlier today and has been sat at the top of the Steam sales charts, with a healthy 60,000+ currently in-game. Alas, the co-op shooter also has a “Mixed” user review rating on the platform, thanks in part to optimisation and matchmaking issues. Developers Arrowhead say they’re working on a hotfix to address the issues as fast as possible. “I want to give you an update on the issues we’ve experienced today....

Seeing game played publicly was “equally thrilling and nerve-wracking”, say devs Naturally, and self-flatteringly, I’m now petrified thatI’msingle-handedly responsible for the delay. Please come back, Homeworld 3! I didn’t mean it! I’m pretty sure I’ll acclimatise to the control scheme with practice! True-3D starfleet management is always a bit fiddly! Besides which, I might not get to review it now!! I’m moving flat in May!!! “Watching you share your experiences, exchange and debate strategies, and give us constant feedback has been incredible,” reads the statement....

Here’s how to get Wheat in Palworld Want to know how to get Wheat in Palworld?Wheat is one of several crops you can grow via a plantation at your base inPalworld, and it’s a pivotal material that you’ll eventually need to craft the delicious sweets needed to breed future Pals for your Pal workforce. In order to grow Wheat, you’ll first need to stock up on Wheat Seeds. Below, we’ve listed all of the Pals who drop Wheat Seeds, and we’ve also outlined the process for planting these seeds and getting a thriving plantation started....

A price adjustment that makes it a better Asus ROG Ally or Steam Deck rival. Lenovo’s Legion Go is the most powerful and specced out PC handheld we’ve seen yet, with a mammoth 8-inch 1600p 144Hz screen, Z1 Extreme chipset and detachable controllers - one of which turns into a pseudo-mouse for FPS action. The Legion Go debuted at £699, a price at whichwe found it largely compelling, but now it’s dropped to something a bit more reasonable - £649....

Need a hint for today’s Connections? Read our guide for help with Connections #242 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....

Love the mood, hate picking litter for crafting I’ve long been enamoured with the landscape of the Pacific Northwest, from the Douglas firs and waterfalls of Twin Peaks to the redwoods I once swam beneath on a road trip. Thanks toPacific Drive’s Steam Next Fest demo, I have now also barrelled through the woods and backroads of a spooky alt-history PNW in a banged-up car which is itself a S.T.A.L.K.E.R.-esque artifact....

Play before the multiplayer pirate boat game ‘launches’ next week, wink wink Continuing their great prank of pretending they plan to releaseSkull And Bones, Ubisoft today launched an open beta for their multiplayer open-world pirate boat game. The free beta will run until Sunday night, after which Ubisoft will presumably delay the game for another seventeen years while once again redesigning the whole thing. When you buy your great grandniece Skull And Bones for her 17th birthday, you’ll be able to tell her you were there for the mythical open beta of ‘24....

League Of Geeks need a teensy bit more time for some extra polish League Of Geeks’s remake of cultstrategy gameSolium Infernumis having its release date pushed back by a week, the studio have announced. It will now launch on February 22nd, instead of its original date of February 14th - which is a damn shame, if you ask me, as nothing screams “romantic Valentine’s night-in” like trying to backstab your other half in a bid to rule hell in Satan’s absence....