Secure ropes We come to the sixteenth door of the advent calendar, but unfortunately it’s quite far up above you. You’re going to have to climb. Keep a firm grip as we go. It’sJusant! Alice Bee:I started meditating a few weeks ago, which means I’m now one of those pricks who says “ooooh, youmusttry [thing that is new to me]” at everyone they meet, like the first time someone at work tries Huel or discoveres Sufjan Stevens....
Starfield? Really? The nominees for the public-voted Steam Awards have been announced and they are, perhaps more than ever before, baffling to me. If I was being uncharitable, I’d say that’s because the list is overrun by games with large multiplayer communities that can be encouraged to vote for them - but who would want to be uncharitable? Let’s instead say that the list is certainly not boring, even ifStarfieldgets a nod for “most innovative gameplay”....
£99.99 is the lowest price we’ve ever seen for this model. Microsoft’s phenomenalEliteSeries 2 controller is down to £100 after a £60 discount at Amazon UK. That’s a great price for, in my opinion, one of the very best gamepads for PC and Xbox - and well worth picking up for the holidays. If you want just the core controller without its accessory bag (purchaseable separately), you can get the controller for even less - £78!...
Stuck on today’s Wordle word for December 16? 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?Buckle up for a selection of clues to help you keep your streak intact. Every day,Wordlepresents its legions of players with a deviously simple quandary: can you guess the right five-letter word within just six guesses?...
More mellow than Melville It turns out the inside of a whale is rather peaceful. In the course of 15 minutes, I have not encountered any Biblical prophets or half-digested chunks of giant squid (or half-digested giant squid prophets). The game’s map is a shadowy, oceanic shantytown that, according to the Steam page, will eventually span two or three hours of placid roving and tinkering. Movement is very fiddly, in a playful way: you have to keep clicking a big brass key to wind up your ship, and you must turn the steering wheel with the mouse: there are no keyboard controls....
“We see the confusion, the frustration, and the distrust of us across the community" I haven’t been keeping up with player reaction to the latest Twar and Twarhammer games, but it seems players are none too pleased with Creative Assembly right now. In a rather dramatic open letter, the company’s vice president Roger Collum has acknowledged thatTotal War: Warhammer 3’s Shadows of Change add-on and the recent historical strategy outingTotal War: Pharaohdid not ship in a desirable state, with complaints ranging from wobbly execution to overpricing....
Kojima aiming for something “achievable only through the medium of film" The upcoming film adaptation of Norman Reedus Walking Simulator - akaDeath Stranding- has signed up arthouse darlings A24. As wefirst heard last year, the movie will be based on the debut release from Hideo Kojima’s post-Konami studio Kojima Productions. The game follows Norman Reedus’ Sam Porter Bridges as he trots his way across a very Iceland-looking North America with a massive stack of crates on his back and a baby in a jar on his front....
MyHouseOfLeaves.wad The first mod I ever downloaded was forSkyrim. Itreplaced NPCs with Shrek. The second was a texture pack forDark Souls: Remastered. I believe that these two examples form a representative sample of what mods are: quality of life improvements, and Shrek.Doom’s modding community, known by its file package WAD, is the Ur modding community. Thanks to John Carmack’s lightning-fast engine, creating levels and content for Doom has been accessible for 30 years....
These aren’t your granddaddy’s Imps There are as manyDoom modsas there are stars in the sky: jillions of accursed celestial bodies orbiting the supermassive black hole that is id Software, each infested with its own local flavours of cacodemons and keycards and shotguns. I’ve played just a handful - certainly, far from enough to pronounce myself any kind of expert - but I do feel like I’ve played one of the best in the shape of Siren, aDoom IItotal conversion from Dithered Output, the first episode of which can be downloaded free fromItch....
Devs from Ultrakill, Turbo Overkill, Prodeus and more weigh in on why the shotgun is cool To celebrateDoom’s 30th birthday we had a discussion about the (understandably) vauntedFPS’s influence, and what games would look like without it. It seems particularly interesting today in light of the recent resurgence of Doom-style shooters, often known as “boomer shooters” because of their deliberately retro style and singular focus on shootin' stuff and bein' cool, much like Doom....
Just over two years after being acquired A number of staff have been laid off at 3D Realms and Slipgate Ironworks - the developers behindGhostrunner,Shadow Warrior,Duke Nukemand more - as the game industry devastation wrought by Embracer’s restructuring efforts continues. While Embracer and the studios themselves are yet to officially confirm the layoffs, Miller’s reports were corroborated by posts from a number of former 3D Realms and Slipgate staff announcing that they had been laid off....
“We made a big game, so I think there’s a fair price to be paid for that” If you’ve been holding out hope thatBaldur’s Gate 3might find its way onto PC Game Pass in the future, I’ve got some bad news for you: it’s very unlikely to happen. Vincke’s reasoning is fairly sound in my book, expressing an honest evaluation that the sheer scope of Baldur’s Gate 3 - which will likely take you dozens of hours to finish, even without falling deep into its side quests or trying to bed the sexy vampire man - means it’s completely acceptable to ask players to pay for the game and recoup its development costs, especially as it doesn’t ask for any extra investment beyond that price tag....
“Decommissioning a game, and especially our first one, is not something we take lightly,” say Ubisoft Ivory Tower Ubisoft’sopen-worldmultiplayer driving gameThe Crewwill switch off its servers next spring, just shy of the series’ 10th anniversary. The shutdown will leave the car-basedMMOimpossible to play, with the game pulled from sale ahead of the move. Developers Ubisoft Ivory Tower announced that support for The Crew 1 will be pulled on March 31st,confirmingit “means that the game will not be accessible anymore on any platform....
