Watch the Treehouse burn itself in hell in Solium Infernum It took all of one turn before the insults started flying in ourSolium Infernummultiplayer preview session this week. Specifically, they’d been launched straight into the court of League Of Geeks co-founder and studio director Trent Kusters, who was attempting to show us how the game’s asynchronous multiplayer mode worked in a six-player match-up - thepublic playtestfor which goes live today, Thursday January 11th, over on Steam....

Guess what happens when it catches you I’m pretty sure I’ve written about this somewhere already - I may have expressed it to a therapist - but when I was a lad, I had a recurring nightmare about a place called Snake World. It was a fizzing neon labyrinth that was both home to various evil snakes and sort ofmadeof snakes in probably-Freudian ways. Fortunately, I had a lucid dreaming strategy for escaping from Snake World: relax all my limbs as much as I could, then flail around violently to wake myself up....

Venba leads the nomination pack, with A Highland Song, Cocoon and more in hot pursuit Here’s the full list of nominees: Seumas McNally Grand Prize Honorable Mentions: Chants of Sennaar (Rundisc/Focus Entertainment), Final Profit: A Shop RPG (Brent Arnold),Goodbye Volcano High(KO_OP), In Stars and Time (insertdisc5/Armor Games Inc),Rhythm Doctor(7th Beat Games, indienova),Tchia(Awaceb/Kepler Interactive),The Cosmic Wheel Sisterhood(Deconstructeam/Devolver Digital) Best Student Game Honorable Mentions: A Day With Mochi (San Felicete Studio/Rubika Supinfogame), Barkane: The Folds of Calamity (Chase O’Brien & VGDev), Birds Aren’t Real: The Game (USC Games), Cyberside Picnic (Michael Luo/Cathode Radiator), Entangled (Fibula Studio), Lime Juice (Benbees), Re:Fresh (Merge Conflict Studio)...

Lucasfilm domain registrations surface ahead of Xbox showcase Indiana Jones And The Great Circle appears to be the title of Bethesda and Lucasfilm’s new Indiana Jones game created by Wolfenstein developers MachineGames, if a recent brace of domain registrations are any indication. The timing adds up. There’s anXbox Developer Direct coming on January 18th, which will cover the new Indiana Jones game together with Ninja Theory’s Celtic psychodramaHellblade 2, Obsidian’s RPGAvowed, and Oxide’s simultaneous-turn strategy offeringAra: History Untold....

New game avalanche reflects heavy investment “when the market was bursting” It’s time for another pull on the velvet rope labelled “too many games”. In fairness, this time the argument is a touch more involved than perennial moaning about backlogs – to whit, “there are too many games and it’s all the pandemic’s fault”. Nacon’s head of publishing Benoit Clerc has argued that the Covid lockdown years have bred too much investment in new games, and that we’re currently reaping the results in the form of an unsustainable glut of releases....

A newElden Ringupdate has patched the game’s Easy Anti-Cheat to support a recent SteamOS update, as detailed on publisher Bandai Namco’sofficial site. It’s good news for people playing the FromSoftwareRPGon Steam Decks, especially those haunted by memories of the game’stechnical tribulations at launch, some of which were caused by the anti-cheat functionality. It’s less great news for the millions hankering for the slightest whisper of new information about Elden Ring’sShadow Of The ErdtreeDLC....

Need a hint for today’s Connections? Read our guide for help with Connections #214 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....

Royal jubilee Then again, the speed with which Sargon can combo sword strikes with dodge rolls, execute a last-minute parry, and then launch himself back into the fray with a wall-belting dash kick almost makes him look more like a ballet dancer than a brute with blades. There’s never a sense that you’re struggling against the way he moves or trying to wrangle a character not meant for these kinds of acrobatics....

Let’s start as we mean to go on: with nonsense You can listen above, or onon Spotify,iTunes,Stitcher, orPocket Casts. You can find theRSS feed here, and you can discuss the episodeon our Discord channel, which has a dedicated room for podcast chat. Music is by Jack de Quidt. LinksWe record on a Wednesday so some things might be different by the time you listen. This weekwe’ve been playinghaunted moon salvage gameLethal Company, very cool racing gameExtreme Formula, and retro point n' click adventureTwilight Oracle....

A bigger update is coming next week The Finalshas a new patch and though it’s not a big one, it’s arguably a substantial set of changes. Specifically, update 1.4.1 addresses various issues with aim assist and zoom snapping - features designed to support those who play with a controller whether on PC or console. “These changes are the result of an in-depth review of how aim assist works — something we’ve only been able to validate with a player base as large as ours,” says thepatch notes....

These are the best weapons in The Finals right now What are the best weapons in The Finals?Your choice of weapon inThe Finalsis based on a few things. Chief among them is the question: what class are you playing as? Light, Medium, or Heavy? They all have their own unique roster of guns and melee weapons, and they’re all very powerful in the right hands and under the right circumstances....

Stuck on today’s Wordle word for January 11? 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?...

Stars of Starfield, Mortal Kombat, Baldur’s Gate and more call agreement with Replica - seemingly without their consultation - a “backstab” and “betrayal” Major actors’ unionSAG-AFTRAhave raised hackles among a number of voice game performers after striking a deal with a company that wants to create AI replicas of actors’ voices for use in games, among other things. While the union claim that their agreement withReplicawill allow for a “fair” and “ethical” approach to creating AI voices, it’s clear that a number of actors with credits in games fromBaldur’s Gate 3,Mortal KombatandStarfieldtoApex Legends,World of WarcraftandGenshin Impactdon’t agree....