This week’s new videogame releases, care of our weekly newsblog Gamers, non-gamers and those who Walk Between – lend me your ears, eyes and other sensory organs! It’s time for another week of new videogames and videogame news, as sponsored by that extradimensional terror known as the Maw. May our children forgive us. Here are a few games releasing this week that we think could prove special:Mad Max-ish turn-based roguelikeOutcast Tales: The First Journey(29th Jan), 1970s French detective simChronique des Silencieux(29th Jan), raunchy gay sci-fi visual novelThe Symbiant Re:Union(29th Jan),Overcooked-style workplace comedySpeed Crew(31st Jan), swooping fantasy action-RPG epicGranblue Fantasy Relink(1st Feb), co-open world superhero murder partySuicide Squad: Kill the Justice League(2nd Feb), gilded PS2 RPG remakePersona 3 Reload(2nd Feb)....

Splice splice baby Palworldisn’t just about capturingnon-copyright-infringingPoke-fied wildlife, slaughtering the poor creatures and/or setting them to work in terrible gun factories. There’s also the frightful question ofPal breeding. Every Pal in the game can be bred with every other Pal to produce a Pal subspecies with a chance of inheriting traits from its parents. This is conducted via the celebrated Biblical method of constructing a breeding farm (unlocked at level 19) and placing a cake (unlocked at level 15) in a chest linked to that farm....

Corsair’s MP600 Core Mini SSD works well in the ROG Ally and Legion Go too. Corsair’s MP600 Core Mini SSD is a solid option for upgrading a PC handheld - devices like the Steam Deck, ROG Ally and Legion Go and so on. It’s a PCIe 4.0 NVMe SSD, so it offers slightly faster speeds on the latter two devices than on the Steam Deck, but it’s compatible with all three major options....

Stuck on today’s Wordle word for January 29? 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?We have you covered with a group of clues followed by the word if you need it, to help keep your streak firmly in place. Every day,Wordlepresents its legions of players with a deviously simple quandary: can you guess the right five-letter word within just six guesses?...

Remaking FF6 would take twice as long as the FF7 Remake project, says series producer Final Fantasy 6is one of the most belovedFinal Fantasy gamesin the series, so much so that evenstaff at Square Enix keep hasslingseries producer Yoshinori Kitase about when they’re going to remake it and give it the fullFinal Fantasy 7treatment. Alas, the prospect of such a project has had fresh water poured over it this weekend, with Kitase explaining that, given it’s already taken them ten years to makeFinal Fantasy 7 RemakeandFinal Fantasy VII Rebirth(with a third entry to complete the trilogy yet to come), a Final Fantasy 6 remake would likely take twice as long as that to actually make....

How does one frame per eight-and-a-half hours sound? Is there any greater scientific endeavour than the unending quest to getDoomto run on everything? Fromteletexttopregnancy teststotractorstoliteral rat brains in a jar, every time you think that we’ve exhausted the possibilities, someone finds a new way to play theseminal 30-year-old shooteron something new. Enter our latest contender for the weirdest/most ingenious way to play Doom yet: using bacteria found in the gut. Specifically, a display made of E....

Need a hint for today’s Connections? Read our guide for help with Connections #231 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....

Stuck on today’s Wordle word for January 28? 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?Buckle up for a selection of clues to help you keep your streak intact. Every day,Wordlepresents its legions of players with a deviously simple quandary: can you guess the right five-letter word within just six guesses?...

A fangame no more Bloodborne Kartis a fan game which aims to use From Software’s gothic horror action RPG as the basis for a PSone-era kart racer. Or it was. Its developers say that Sony have been in touch and, as a consequence, “need to scrub the branding off.” It’ll stil come out after it a short delay, but it won’t be called Bloodborne Kart anymore. “WHELP. IT HAPPENED. Sony contacted me,” lead developer Lilith Walthertweeted yesterday....

Those skeletons don’t need that gold I think fighting skeletons might be one of the most fundamental joys of video games. The more implausible its ambulation seems, the better, but I’m happy as long it clatters to the floor as a collection of distinct physics objects once I’m done. Dungeonborneseems likely to satisfy. It’s a “PvPvE extraction dungeon crawler” about delving deep below a dark fantasy world with friends, hitting skeletons and monsters with swords, and then leaving with their loot - or venturing further and risking it all....

42-inch or 55-inch models available; 4K 120Hz with G-Sync and FreeSync. The LG C3’s 55-inch OLED panel compares favourably to more traditional panel technologies, with perfect contrast, near-instant pixel response times, wide viewing angles, gorgeous colour reproduction and impactful HDR. TN, IPS and VA alternatives feel almost antiquated by comparison. OLED does have some drawbacks too, such as a non-traditional subpixel layout that isn’t well-handled by Windows at the moment. If you’re using this for sofa gaming though, you won’t notice any issues....

Need a hint for today’s Connections? Read our guide for help with Connections #230 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....

Should release soon Stardew Valley’s 1.6 update is almost done, with developer Eric Barone saying he’s “done adding major new content to it now.” He’s now in the “bug-fixing and polishing phase”. When it does arrive, it’ll be Stardew Valley’s first major update in over three years. “1.6 ended up being a little larger in scope than originally planned,” Baronetweeted yesteday. “I’m done adding major new content to it now, though, and it’s in a bug-fixing and polishing phase until it’s ready for release....