Mecha pilot is you in Mobile Suit Baba Combine the turn-based mech battles ofInto The Breachwith the rule-changing puzzling ofBaba Is Youand you have Mobile Suit Baba, whose launch I entirely missed right before Christmas. Pick a squad of mechs to field in different scenarios where you must push, pull, and slam your way to victory. All of which will be so much easier if you rewrite the rules by shunting around syntax blocks....

Here’s a list of the best Lethal Comany mods and how to use them Looking for the best Lethal Company mods?Lethal Companyis quickly becoming one of the most popularhorror gameson Steam. As such, the players have already started to createLethal Companymods to make the life of a humble scrap collector a tad easier. Whether you’re looking for a way to get a larger Lethal Company group, more emotes or quality of life improvements like better stamina, this list of the best Lethal Company mods will have something for everyone....

Xwitter’s “Your game is too much like…” thread is well worth a browse Given the sheer quantity ofgames releasing on Steamthese days, having a neat little elevator pitch for your game can be vital in helping it stand out. For example, if I get an email saying a game is like “Obra Dinn meets such and such” or “Into The Breach but a deckbuilder”, that’s like personal catnip to me, and can be a handy indicator of whether I should investigate further - maybe watch a gameplay trailer for it, say, or see if it’s got a demo....

A controller announcement last year suggested a February drop for the long-awaited expansion We’ve had barely an official word onElden RingDLCShadow Of The Erdtreesince it wasannounced about a year ago, itself a year after the release of From Software’s superbopen-worldsoulslike. That hasn’t stopped a steady drip of decidedlyunofficialrumours and signs about theElden Ringexpansion could arrive, though - and the latest indication is that Shadow of the Erdtree’s release date might be soon....

Spring update will add hair accessories, beach toys and adorable plant pots The developers of renovation simHouse Flipper 2have outlined their own ongoing renovation plans for the chill clean-and-decorate game, including notable bug fixes and incoming features missing from its predecessor. It’s been just over a month since House Flipper 2 arrived, with devs Frozen District and Empyrean’s visual improvements and quality of life tweaks generally seeing a warm reception among fans....

Need a hint for today’s Connections? Read our guide for help with Connections #218 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....

Designer CV also outs mysterious unreleased sequel to a Raven Software “classic” First reported byMP1st, Raven Software lead designer Michael Gummelt mentioned a couple of cancelled projects on hisLinkedin page. One was a live service version ofCall Of Duty’s zombies mode, and the other, a revival of a classic Raven IP. I’m not sad about one and I’m mildly sad over the other, with the mystery not being too hard to solve....

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, my eye has been caught by a variety of cool and fun movement methods, from skimming your broomstick over the sea to committing violence while surfing atop an enemy’s body. Check out all these attractive and interesting indie games!...

Three more characters will follow throughout this year Tekken 8’s first DLC character will be a familiar face: Eddy Gordo, the capoeira pro who has previously appeared in the mainline roster of thefighting gameseries since 1997’s Tekken 3. Publishers Bandai Namco announced that Eddy will be Tekken 8’s first DLC addition alongside a look at the game’s opening movie, which shows the likes of Jin Kazama, Kazuya Mishima and the rest of the game’s roster preparing to fight and trading blows while thumping EDM plays in the background....

Our weekly news liveblog Time for another week desperately shovelling quotes, release dates and trailers into the Maw, our weekly news liveblog and also, an abyssal abomination poised to guzzle the waking world and all forms of existence, unless we can satisfy its hunger for headlines. The year is starting to pick up, with a few intriguing titles slated to drop this week in addition to the widely acclaimedPrince of Persia: The Lost Crown, out 18th Jan, which Katharine has called"a deep and challenging Metroid-like with some of the best platforming this side of Moon’s Ori games"....

Along with a race between Elden Ring and Sekiro Games Done Quick (this winter’s event isAwesome Games Done Quick, or AGDQ) continues to be, in my opinion, one of the very best things in the video game calendar. Combining the immense skill of the speedrunning community with efforts to raise money for good causes - this week’s event will benefit the Prevent Cancer Foundation - and a joyous celebration of video games and the people who play them, it’s a delight to tune into both impressive runs of well-known games and showcases of the more weird and wonderful titles people dedicate themselves to smashing into broken code....

Twilight Oracle lives life in full colour I mentioned this in aWhat Are We Playing?andthe podcast last week, but I’ve been playing a point and clickpuzzlegame calledTwilight Oracle, which is out at the end of the month. It’s cool! It reminds me a lot of Legends Of Kyrandia, in that it doesn’t need to explain why stuff in the world is like it is, it justis. Big talking fish? Sure. Skull floating in space?...

Worth a triage War Hospital,out now on Steam, is about subsisting on the periphery of a war and keeping it firmly off-screen by means of adept timemanagement. Set in 1918, it puts you in charge of a field hospital in northern France, a few minutes drive from the frontline. Here’s how all that works: casualties arrive from the trenches by ambulance or stretcher, and are carried by your medics to a clearing station, where nurses look after them before they’re seen by a doctor....