The factory has grown To say thatFactorio: Space Agethrows out the rulebook is an understatement. It’d be more fitting to say it’s somehow automated the whole process: an inserter plucked out the rulebook from my brain and deposited it in hot magma, while a new rulebook was churned out in a nearby machine and plopped into my brain from the other side - only for that to be immediately plucked out and incinerated as well....

Ants! Much the same as anyone with a soul, I find ants deeply fascinating and, much the same as anyone who occasionally drops small pieces of sandwich on the floor, I will continue to uphold my respect for them as long as they come nowhere near my feet. Yes. I admit it: I am a bug hypocrite, loudly extolling their virtue and beauty at a distance then getting irritated if they decide to come sit on me....

Purpose built for Steam. Hori’s latest addition to its controller lineup, the “Horipad Wireless for Steam,” is now available forpreorder on Amazon. After already releasing in Japan at the end of October, now the gamepad is coming to the US. See at Amazon Engineered to integrate smoothly with Steam’s platform, the new Horipad Wireless includes three dedicated menu buttons that provide quick access to Steam features—ideal for users who often navigate Big Picture mode on their PC....

Need some Connections hints today? Read our guide for help with Connections #512. This guide is for a previous day! Looking for today’s solution? Check out theConnections hint and answers for Thursday 12th December! Connectionsis a word puzzle game published every day by the New York Times (NYT), the hosts of the endlessly popularWordlepuzzle. Crafted each day by puzzle-maker Wyna Liu, Connections presents you with a selection of 16 seemingly disparate words, and you have to group them together in four sets of four, where each group of four words has a common theme....

Double, triple, quadruple bind Belovedrogueliketraumatic-childhood-em-upThe Binding Of Issac: Rebirthturned 10 yesterday, and it’s half off onSteamto celebrate. What’s more, maker Edmund McMillen has announced that the foretold online co-op update is due on the 18th of this month, alongside a “considerable” balance update. Consider me considering the considerability of said considerable update! “Isaac online will feature a full onlineco-opmode (with completion markers) alongside a considerable balance update that heavily focuses on buffing items you guys believe are lackluster/bad,”Ximbled McMillen....

I want more I have zero archaeology experience or knowledge, but I bet archaeologists really love their jobs (for the most part). They get to analyse and discover cool artefacts and educate us on the histories of forgotten civilisations. That’s dreamy stuff, that is. But I do wonder what it’s like for archaeologists to discover and study something they shouldn’t have; something with a disturbing secret - a curse, maybe. Bite-sizedhorror gameThe Children Of Clayexplores this idea and I’d like more of it, please....

Stuck on today’s Wordle word for November 5? 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?We have you covered with a list of hints to help you maintain that precious streak. Every day,Wordlepresents its legions of players with a deviously simple quandary: can you guess the right five-letter word within just six guesses?...

They don’t want it to feel like a “side quest” anymore Put your hand up if you’d forgotten that every Assassin’s Creed game is, strictly speaking, set in the present day. I know I had. That’s not the actual distant past you’re parkouring through. That isn’t actual Renaissance architecture you’re clambering on. It’s a holographic Animus simulation, conjured from ancestral memories flash-frozen within your DNA - convenient, inasmuch as it means that any inconsistencies are your DNA’s fault, not Ubisoft’s....

Branching paths Minor spoilers for the first few hours of Veilguard and heavy spoilers for Baldur’s Gate 3 For all the things Iended up enjoyingaboutDragon Age: The Veilguard, it isn’t much of anRPG. What little roleplaying it does offer revolves around what flavour of supportive hero you prefer, and you can count the number of impactful dialogue decisions on a three-fingered hand. This might sound utterly damning in the wake ofBaldur’s Gate 3’s incredible reactivity, and if I approached games as some sort of tedious comparative intellectual exercise rather than just, y’know, seeing how I felt about them, then I suppose it would be....

Bringing the curbstomp to Mercury While we’re getting a Gears Of War prequel inGears Of War: E-Day, this does mean that Gears Of War 6 is yet to be a thing. In a recent episode of IGN’s Podcast Unlocked, former Gears Of War director and currentDiablo 4lead Rod Fergusson revealed what his plans were forGears 6when he left. In short, he was going to take the game to space. Righto....

A demo to take you “beyond the lanes of the here and now” I didn’t sleep last night for entirely self-inflicted reasons and my brain feels like that one accursed hoover bag you refuse to empty, because there is no way of doing so that won’t turn the neighbourhood into Silent Hill. I need to avoid any complicated write-ups, or my brain will detonate similarly and paint north London grey....

Early door hunters say animations lack showmanship I didn’t get much further in the extremelypopular betafor the haute-couture-asaurusactionofMonster Hunter Wildsthan perfecting the exact orange-to-white ratio of my cat. Not because I wasn’t having fun, but because I immediately started looking up GPU prices after playing for ten minutes. As such, I didn’t spend enough time with the combat to get a proper feel for it. Cultural osmosis has once again allowed me to form an uneducated take, however, and I’m getting the sense there’s been some mixed reactions re: bonk quality....

Need some Connections hints today? Read our guide for help with Connections #511. This guide is for a previous day! Looking for today’s solution? Check out theConnections hint and answers for Thursday 12th December! Connectionsis a word puzzle game published every day by the New York Times (NYT), the hosts of the endlessly popularWordlepuzzle. Crafted each day by puzzle-maker Wyna Liu, Connections presents you with a selection of 16 seemingly disparate words, and you have to group them together in four sets of four, where each group of four words has a common theme....