An interview with the makers of an unofficial expansion of ten levels, just in time for Thief’s 25th birthday Hear ye! This month marked the 25th birthday ofThief: The Dark Project. While not as infinitely mutable as other 90’s icons likeDoom(which just turned 30, and can be played on a pregnancy test), stealth gaming’s grandpappy has maintained an enduring appeal and influence, especially for those more inclined to sneaking than slaughter....

Less than two months after its catastrophic Early Access release The Day Before, once Steam’s most wishlisted game before experiencing a bizarre journey throughmultiple delays, accusations of being a scam, apparent legal disputes and a catastrophic Early Access launch, will shut down its servers in one month. The effective end to the game will accompany refunds for anyone who brought it on Steam. In the two and bit years following, the game rose to the top of Steam’s most-wishlisted rankings despite suffering multiple delays - and at one point vanishing from Steam entirely over an apparent trademark clash....

Welcome to door 22 of the RPS Advent Calendar. To enter, you must prove your identity by answering a simple question. Who are you? A human… or a puppet? It’s been a great year for Soulslikes, butLies Of Ptops them all! Ollie:Lies Of P is easily the most accomplished non-FromSoftware soulslike I’ve played. It comes closer than any of them to equalling FromSoft’s creativity in its enemy designs, locations, and story....

A great price for a strong graphics card for 1080p gaming. If you’re looking for a great graphics card for 1080p gaming, three GPUs come to mind: the RTX 3060, the RX 6600 and the Arc A770. The latter is the most fascinating, in my opinion, as it’s seriously faster than its rivals in many games and comes with a better upscaler than AMD’s FSR in XeSS. Today you can pick up this GPU for just £266 thanks to an Amazon UK Lightning Deal on a graphics card that comes from Amazon US - with no extra import or shipping fees....

Stuck on today’s Wordle word for December 22? 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?Wordlechallenges its many players daily to guess the right five-letter word within just six guesses. If you’re having trouble, we’ve got a list of hints below to help you keep your winning streak intact....

Not “analogue”, as you read it just now I think I might just like games in which lots of particles fly around the screen. That’s was a big part of the appeal ofTo The Core, an incremental game with the spectacle ofVampire Survivors. I think it’s now the reason I want to play the oddly named(the) Gnorp Apologue. It’s an incremental town builder about… gnorps. Gnorps want to get rich. To help in their goal, they have a rock....

Need a hint for today’s Connections? Read our guide for help with Connections #193 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....

Starfieldwill receive updates “roughly every six weeks starting in February” if Bethesda hit their target, according to an end of year wrap-up. “These updates will include everything from quality-of-life improvements to content and feature updates,” includingpreviously mentionedcity maps, mod support and new methods of travel. The updates will also include expanded ship customisation, “with ship decorations, new ship building options, and more” accordingto the post. Bethesda will also add “all new Gameplay options” to let players make their experience easier or harder beyond the existing difficulty settings....

For your eyes only If you’ve opted in to the Steam client beta, you can now mark games in your Steam library as private so that they’re invisible to other users. That means that if you’re - as a hypothetical - a games journalist who once had to buy and install some games with questionable names and subject matter for an article you were writing, you can now hide that so it’s no longer visible to your friends or - hypothetically - your child....

Start your wallets 50% seems like a decent discount for a relatively recent game like Star War Wars Jedi: Survivor. 50% off Binding Of Isaac: Rebirth makes an already life-consuming game even better value. That recent, apparently-good RoboCop shooter, Rogue City, is 30% off. And so on and so onfor thousands of other games. On my own wishlist - which I mostly use to remind myself that certain games exist - there are also 20% discounts on climb ‘em upJusant, astral action-platformer Worldless, co-op survival shmupWizard With A Gun, narrative boatventureSaltsea Chronicles, and minimalist tower defenceThronefall....

What a year its been 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 may have changed when you listen to this. This weekwe’ve been playingThe Finals(cursed),PowerWash Simulator, and, yeah, Rogue Trader. Recommendationsthis week areFarrington’s Mellow Yellow honey and mustard salad dressing, Netflix showRussian Doll, and secret musicalWonka....

Return Pretender Dominions is a series where you can build the Ark Of The Covenant, which blinds everyone on any battlefield it appears on. Games where any soldier can receive a horror mark, which attracts unspeakable phantoms from beyond reality to randomly attack them, and if they survive, they’ll probably receive more horror marks. Games where I once deployed my entire military against an evil raven so large and powerful that I lost, leaving behind corpses that it fed on to grow even stronger....

Hark! The herald of darkness sings Before you open this door on the Advent Calendar, make sure you have enough batteries for your mega-powered torch. The environment be damned, throw those spent batts on the floor where you stand and open-palm slam the new ones in, because light is the only way you’re getting out of here alive. That and fabulous dance sequences, that is! Say hello toAlan Wake 2!...