Which planet tastes most like watermelon? RememberSuika Game? The charming puzzlerblew up late last yearthanks to its engrossing fruit-merging gameplay and colourful theme (and the help of a load of vtubers to boot). While the original was only on Nintendo Switch - although technically even that was a port of a game included on a projector, of all things - plenty ofSuika clones quickly emergedto fill its watermelon-shaped hole on PC....

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The Snow vs Snouts Lost Legend will introduce a new combat challenge Minecraft Legends, thereal-time strategyspin-off from the blockysurvival game, is bringing an end to its post-release content additions with one final update later this month. The endcap to Legends comes nine months after its release. The climactic update will add a last Lost Legend to the game, bringing the total number of optional gameplay challenges to nine. Snow vs Snouts tasks the player with blowing up a load of piglin bases across a frosty map using a souped-up redstone launcher with a more rapid cooldown and improved mobility thanks to a faster construction time....

Need a hint for Connections? Read our guide for help with Connections #213 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....

Valve announce new policy and player reporting system Little-known indie platform holder Valve have announced a new policy for Steam releases that make use of “AI” technology. To boil it down, developers will now have to disclose how they’re using AI tools on Steam pages, including what “guardrails” they’re putting in place for live-generated stuff that might be illegal or infringe on copyright. Valve are also introducing a new player reporting system for breaches....

5120x1440, 165Hz and DisplayHDR 400 support mark this out as a decent mid-range choice. If you want a gaming monitor that leaves no doubt that you are a very cool gaming person, look no further than this titanic 45-incher from Lenovo, the R45w-30. It’s £100 off today, making the price of admission to the really big monitor show just £699. For about twice the price of a good 1440p 165Hz monitor, you get a monitor the size of two 1440p 165Hz monitors - but, critically, with no gap in the middle....

Car progression, driver AI and race regulations are the “top three areas of feedback” We didn’t review Turn 10 and Microsoft’s latest Forza Motorsport and well, thank goodness, because I’ve just taken a look atthe Steam pageand it’s a regular six-mile pile-up in there. The game’s user reviews are Mostly Negative, three months after release, with complaints covering a wide gamut: the online being full of cheaters, the single player being boring, and the game being poorly optimised for PC....

“Our organization is still meaningfully larger than it needs to be” Amazon-owned Twitch have announced that they will lay off “just over 500” people - almost 35% of their workforce - in the course of on-going plans to “rightsize our company”, with CEO Dan Clancy conceding that the streaming service has been operating based on “where we optimistically expect our business to be in 3 or more years, not where we’re at today....

In the grim darkness of the far future, there is only More In the festively grim universe of Warhammer 40,000, space is sometimes racked by Warp storms – terrible cyclones of Chaos energy that have a catastrophic effect on imperial communications. One such storm hits the Koronus Expanse during the events ofWarhammer 40,000: Rogue Trader, erasing starcharts and obliging your character - a newly minted Rogue Trader, aka HighGothicCommander Shepard - to re-discover the systems and planets that make up your predecessor Theodora’s dominions, while gathering an entourage of indecently customisable warriors, and hunting down a series of badniks that include a mysterious Chaos cult....

Vote now as we continue deciding the single best thing in games Last time, you decided thatViscera Cleanup Detail’s Sniffer tool is better than a fresh new MMO server. This was a close win, 54% vs 46%, but know we now how we’re entering the new year: equipped to track down the sources of our problems, rather than running away from them. With that resolved, it’s time to get snarky. A real snark-off....

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Larian CEO, meanwhile, has finally “figured out” act 1 of next unrevealed project Acts! It used to be just those old-timey theatre productions that had them, but as in many other respects, videogames have nipped through a stage exit and stolen theatre’s underpants. One act isn’t the same as another, however: take the third act ofBaldur’s Gate 3, which many players feel isn’t a patch, or indeed a hotfix changelog, on the thunderously well-receivedRPG’s first two acts....

Game director Jeppe Carlsen and art director Erwin Kho on their puzzle game’s secret ending What best sells the mystery is a minority of puzzles that are so well-hidden, that a lot players might never know they exist. Those are the optional challenges that guard the way to Cocoon’s secret ending. Any given player might stumble on one or two clues for those puzzles, before shrugging and finding their way back to the main story....