Here are our picks for the best Pals for Handiwork in Palworld Want to know which Pals in Palworld are the best at Handiwork?Handiwork’s an important base skill inPalworld, since it measures whether your Pals are able to build structures and crafts on their own. Automating your base is a pivotal part ofPalworldas you level up, and with a hefty 51 Pals possessing the Handiwork Work Suitability skill, you might be wondering which are the most capable workers....

But you might need to wait two years for Nordic Horizons When times get tough and winter seems endless, just remember the wise words of many a mesh-back cap: keep on trucking. What welcome news, then, that yet another expansion is in the works forEuro Truck Simulator 2. The ‘Nordic Horizons’ expansion will offer new routes including through Finland’s Lapland, Sweden’s Norrland, and up through Norway all the way to the Arctic Ocean, with pretty things to admire ranging from bridges and tunnels to cute fishing villages and reindeer....

“I believe this would have been in place of Ghosts” Fuck it, NX1.pic.twitter.com/KDPh6pwHxn The first video shows off the “Moonbase Assault” level, where as you’d expect, a moonbase is being assaulted. The action is COD in a nutshell: waking up, some astronaut shouting “Let’s get you inside!”, followed by a lot of shuddering and explosions. The footage certainly seems high quality, suggesting a level that was a fair way through development....

Annapurna say March release date will “ensure the most polished experience for players” Open Roads, the story-driven game about a mother and daughter embarking on a road trip to learn about their family’s past, has seen its release date delayed by a month. At the time it was revealed, the game was in the works at Fullbright, the studio known for the similarly narrative-drivenGone HomeandTacoma. Followingallegations of “toxic” behaviouragainst Fullbright co-founder Steve Gaynor the following year, Gaynor stepped back from development on Open Roads - while still continuing to write for the game....

Launch their first fundraising campaign Day of the Devs, the folks behind the yearly showcases spotlighting indie games and creators, have officially become a non-profit organisation. Alongside the news, the group have launched their first fundraising campaign and detailed dates for multiple events this year. Those efforts include the group’s first fundraising campaignnow live on FundraiseUP, which will offer supporters rewards including game keys, tickets and merch in return for their donations....

The latest Embracer studio to suffer under the megacorp’s ongoing restructuring efforts are Eidos Montreal, with a newDeus Extitle two years into development reportedly cancelled and dozens of staff confirmed to be laid off. Embracer’s latest butchery afterclose to 1,000 job cuts last year- likely to be a good deal over that number now - and the closure of veteran studios includingSaints Row creators VolitionandTimeSplitters devs Free Radicalfirst broke viaBloomberg, citing sources “familiar with the moves”....

Need a hint for today’s Connections? Read our guide for help with Connections #232 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....

To the ships! In a conversation withEurogamer’s Bertie Purchie, game director Carrie Patel and gameplay director Gabe Paramo drilled down into some details on Obsidian’s upcoming first-person fantasyRPGAvowed. Part of the Pillars Of Eternity universe,Avowedis set in a place called the Living Lands, an island continent with, I infer, very sedate night life, because Patel confirms you can’t romance your companions. Patel says, regarding putting romances in your game, “to pay them off, you really have to invest a lot in doing them well....

Here are our picks for the best Gathering Pals in Palworld Want to know which Pals in Palworld are best at Gathering?Gathering is one of the most important and self-explanatory Work Suitability skills inPalworld, measuring how fast your Pals are at harvesting crops from Berry, Wheat, and other Plantations. It’s always a relief to never run out of crops and to return to your base after a lengthy adventure to find that your Pals have been dutifully Gathering all the time you were gone....

Blockbuster VR is at its best when it makes you feel like you’re living in the actual future. Given how everything new and exciting ultimately becomes normal and mundane, this is perhaps an unfair expectation of technology that is now a decade old. Nonetheless, if you want me to sit with a shoebox pressed uncomfortably against my eyes for two hours like an ocular gom jabbar, then what’s inside the shoebox better be pretty darned transformative....

“We don’t want the game to feel like a life commitment” Rocksteady and Warner’s much-disparaged live service superhero snuff fantasySuicide Squad: Kill The Justice Leaguegoes into Deluxe-preorder-only early access today, Monday 29th January, at 9pm, or if you’re from the UK or US east coast, Tuesday 30th January at 12am ET and 12 GMT. Non-Deluxe peons get to play it from Friday 2nd February. With just a handful of hours till the initial release we still don’t have review code, which is generally a good sign that a publisher thinks the game in question is going to get a mild-to-severe kicking....

One of the best value GPUs hits a new low price. AMD’s RX 7800 XT is arguably Team Red’s best value graphics card from this generation, offering great performance for 1080p and 1440p gaming with the ability to stretch to 4K in titles that offer FSR 2 upscaling. Relatively few cards have been available at the launch RRP of £479, but today you can pick up the excellent Sapphire Pulse 16GB model for exactly that much rather than the £519....

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, I’m wondering what we’re going to do with RPS once the games industry realises there’s no point making or releasing any other games after seeing the ability to parry-counter dialogue by shooting that. A problem for later....