ManaVoid Entertainment hoping to reach 1.0 in six months Roots Of Yggdrasil- an inkwashed, roguelikey, card-playing, turn-based citybuilder, inspired by Norse myth - shot to the top of my wishlist after I readKatharine’s previewlast week. And look,here it is in Early Access. Roots isn’t one of your traditional,SimCity-derived town sims in which you steadily colonise a single map (at least, until you lose patience with your glittering urban creation and press the Godzilla or Hurricane button)....

Need a hint for Connections? Read our guide for help with Connections #227 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....

ForthcomingPalworldupdates will add PvP multiplayer arenas, raid bosses, Xbox feature improvements, Steam-Xbox crossplay, extra islands, server transfers, new Pals and new technologies, according to an early access roadmap just released by developers Pocketpair. The monster-catchingsurvivalsim continues to setconcurrent play records on Steam, and Pocketpair are presently focussed onfixing bugs. Beyond that, though, the sky appears to be the limit, as you might expect of a game thatshifted a million copies in eight hours....

You go, Glen Coco! I wasn’t as sold on Half Mermaid’sImmortalityas the internet at large, but I’ll give Sam Barlow as much rope for his FMV games as anyone else. He recentlyXeetedabout the studio’s upcoming projects C and D, described as “next level FMV, hold onto your seats”, and “reinventing 3rd personhorroragain”, respectively. The games now have heavily redactedSteampages, and Barlow revealed a few more details onKinda Funny Games(helpfully transcribed a bitby VGCif you can’t be arsed watching)....

Fntastic re-emerge with a statement… of sorts Fntastic, the folks behind the debilitating ‘open worldzombie MMO’The Day Before, have released a statement to combat “misinformation” about its development and catastrophic release. They claim certain “bloggers” made huge money by creating “false content” about the game, and that its closure is thanks largely to a hate campaign that inflicted “significant damage”. Bizarrely, they also believe they “implemented everything shown in the trailers”....

Here are the fastest ground, swimming, gliding and flying mounts in Palworld Want to know which are Palworld’s fastest mounts?Travelling across the extensivemapinPalworldis much easier once you get yourself one of the fastest mounts in the game. Mounts fall into the following categories: flying, swimming, ground and gliding. Each is equipped to shepherd you across the continents and allow you to find new farming, exploration andbase locations. Below, we’ve rankedall mountsinPalworldbased on their sprint speeds and even suggested which mounts are the best for early, mid and late-game players....

We’ll know more in the next two weeks, apparently Supermassive Games’ breakouthorror gameUntil Dawnis apparently headed to PC, becoming the next previously PlayStation 4-exclusive title to make the leap as an enhanced re-release after the likes ofHorizon Zero Dawn,God of WarandThe Last of Us. The rumour comes fromDealabs’ billbil-kun, who has a fairly decent track record for breaking news such as therebooted Mortal Kombat 1andremastered Quake 2last year. Until Dawn set the template for Supermassive’s branching-narrative, interactive horror-movie games including theDark Pictures AnthologyandThe Quarry, similarly putting a bunch of familiar faces (Hayden Panettiere of Heroes and Scream fame appears, as well as a pre-James Bond/Freddie Mercury Rami Malek) through a slasher-film wringer where the player’s decisions - and sometimes their ability to respond to a quicktime event - can see them live or die in a variety of gnarly ways while looking into spooky goings-on....

A strong starting point for a performant PC - just add GPU, PSU, storage, case and cooler. Want to build a high-end gaming PC in the US? We’ve got you covered - or rather, Newegg has. They’re bundling an AMD Ryzen 7 7800X3D processor, one of the fastest gaming CPUs of all time, with an Asus ROG Strix B650-A Gaming WiFi motherboard and G.Skill Flare X5 32GB DDR5-6000 RAM for just $595, saving $132 over buying separately....

Drawing from alpha versions and Tom Hall’s Doom Bible BeforeDoombecame the lean, mean murdermachine we know and love, Id Software had far bigger plans for their seminal satanicFPS. Ideas dropped during development include a big focus on story, four playable characters, elemental shields, demonic weapons, and more. The mod Doom Delta brings to life many such ideas from sources including an old design document and leaked alpha builds, which I think makes it fanfic?...

Summerhouse hits Steam on March 8th As much as I love looking at and admiring sandbox citybuilders likeTownscaper, I am terrible atactually playing them. I get the same kind of blank canvas choice paralysis I do in games like Minecraft, or anything where there’s no real clear objective for what I’m meant to be building. I sit there with a big toybox of lovely things to stick together, but always end up deflated and disappointed with my own lack of imagination....

Iron Gate showcases a range of horrible Nordic munsters Rival survival simsPalworldand the just-launchedEnshroudedare now openly battling for hearts and minds on Steam, and here comes genre supremoValheimout of the blind corner like, errrr, one of the celebrity WWE wrestlers who hasn’t turned out to be Problematic - I don’t know, maybe Zack Sabre Jr? Educate me, wrestling fans. These are the Twitchers, an undead faction described in the video as “insanely more difficult than Grey Dwarfs, and more irritating than Grey Dwarfs”, which if you’ve tangled with Grey Dwarfs much, might sound rather mean-spirited....

Vote now as we continue deciding the single best thing in games Last time, you decided thatasymmetrical outfits are better than playing on an old patch. As a seasoned Destiny fashionista, I can respect this decision. However, as a fan of mods, I should point out that in many games, being forced onto a new patch might break compatability with a mod which added hundreds of pieces of stunning asymmetrical couture, and the developer hasn’t updated in years, and might never again....

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