Swipe left, swipe right, ach, won’t someone just show me a good time? The two best parts of a Choose Your Own Adventure book are when you initially feel out the shape and paths at the start, and then when you grow tired of dead-ends and faff and just start cheating. The same seems true forReigns: Three Kingdoms, the latest in the decision-making story series, which arrived on PC (and Switch) yesterday after a year exclusive to Netflix’s inexplicable library of mobile games....

Thrills! Chills! Kills! Kumitantei is very much a love letter toDanganronpa, pitting a class of 16 gifted students against each other in a killing game - or rather, science experiment - under the encouragement of an antagonistic conjoined cat-like creature(s) with more than a hint of Monokuma about it. The player will have to investigate crime scenes to solve murders and uncover the mystery of the locked bunker of the Janus Institute in which the group find themselves trapped....

Don’t reinvent the wheel, do reinvent mass production Core Engage and Daedalic Entertainment have released a new overview trailer forNew Cycle, their post-apocalyptic “dieselpunk” citymanagementgame. “New Cycle” is obviously a bit of a self-contradiction, and I suspect that’s deliberate - one of the questions the video leaves you with is whether there is “a future beyond survival”, or whether we are doomed to just repeat the processes of extraction and gradual building-up, resource overexploitation and encroaching disaster suggested by these 12 jam-packed minutes of in-game footage....

Need a hint for Connections? Read our guide for help with Connections #215 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....

Capcom are apparently making good on their vow to crack down on mods 11-year-old gameResident Evil Revelationsrecently released an update that apparently introduced DRM, only to swiftly roll back the patch after complaints from players that it reportedly caused performance issues. Capcom aren’t giving up that easily on their vow to crack down on mods, though. The recent update to Resident Evil Revelations sparked a wave of comments in its Steam forums about apparent performance problems, including reduced framerate, stuttering and sudden drops, crashes, and mods no longer working....

Standalone rebuild brings Unreal Engine 5 visuals, new abilities and gameplay overhauls, along with rewards for existing players God-battlingfree-to-playMOBASmiteis getting a full sequel, with an alpha test due to kick off this spring. The revamped rebuild will overhaul the decade-old game with fresh visuals and gameplay changes, but developers Titan Forge promise it won’t replace the original game. Smite 2is billed as a standalone sequel to Smite, which pits two teams of five players against each other in a fight to destroy their opponents’ base....

Team behind project had already put development on hold due to code problems A fan-made remake ofTeam Fortress 2in the Source 2 engine has been cancelled after the ambitious project, three years in the making, ran into a double-whammy of recent development issues and a legal takedown from Valve. Specifically, the remake was built ins&box- pronounced “sandbox” - thelong-in-development Source 2-based spiritual successorto immensely popular physics sandbox and piss-about simulatorGarry’s Modfrom developers Facepunch....

Plus! Why is Mario’s mouth moving like that The MSI Claw handheld makes an Intel power grab Since the value of portable gaming PCs is not determined by how rad of a name it has, it remains to be seen whetherthe Clawcan take on theSteam DeckorLenovo Legion Go. Still, it is the first of its kind to wield one of Intel’s new, supposedly much more graphically capableCore Ultrachips, the Core Ultra 7 155H....

Plus a wide range of other gaming handhelds, cameras and more. Lexar’s Play Micro SD cards are some of the most affordable 1TB memory cards you can buy, and now you can pick up one for just £67.85 - within £3 of the cheapest price ever recorded for this model, which was during Black Friday last year. These cards are rated for up to 150MB/s reads and have both UHS Speed Class 3 (3) and App Performance Class 2 (A2) certifications for minimum speeds, making them a decent choice for Steam Deck, ROG Ally and Lenovo Legion Go owners amongst other use cases in phones, cameras and more....

A cheaper way to maximise your PC gaming handheld’s internal storage. Choosing the lowest storage capacity Steam Deck or other PC gaming handheld then upgrading to a high-capacity SSD is often cheaper than choosing the highest-tier storage option out of the gate, and can even provide better performance too. If that makes sense to you, we spotted a 10% discount on the WD SN740, a solid PCIe 4.0 option that works well in the Steam Deck and even better in the ROG Ally, Legion Go and MSI Claw gaming handhelds that support faster PCIe 4....

Also supports 21 new languages It’s been a while since I played VVVVVV and I don’t remember it being particularly verbal, but its newly supported languages are: Catalan, Arabic, Welsh, German, Esperanto, Spanish, French, Irish, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Dutch, Polish, Brazilian Portuguese, European Portuguese, Russian, Silesian, Turkish, Ukranian, Chinese (simplified) and Chinese (tradiitional). Thefull 2.4 changelogincludes a host of bug fixes and upgrades. It’s not clear what’s changed to earn the verified status, but the only eplicit mention of the Steam Deck is that the game will now launch in fullscreen by default when booted on a Deck or in Steam’s Big Picture mode....

Stuck on the Wordle word for January 12? 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?Wordleis an addicting but challenging test of word acumen. Luckily, you’re in the right place for some assistance. Every day, Wordle presents its legions of players with a deviously simple quandary: can you guess the right five-letter word within just six guesses?...

Don’t dodge it Momodora: Reverie Under The Moonlight has been on my ‘to play’ list since a friend mentioned it several years ago. It’s been a long enough time that a sequel has emerged.Momodora: Moonlit Farewellis out now and like its predecessor is a 2D action platformer about smashing and dodging enemies. Moonlight Farewell is designed to be the “concluding story”, which answers many of the “mysteries and questions” raised by the Momodora 1-3, according to its developer....