Oh, word? Viral Steam hitLethal Companyis no stranger to mixing the scary with the slapstick, as anyone who’s beendispatched with a ladder to the headoreaten by a fire exitknows. The co-op scrap scavenging game’s absurd humour might just have peaked though, thanks to one of the funniest additions I’ve ever seen in a PC game. Lethal Company’s Patch 45 update added, among other things, an arachnophobia mode to help players with a fear of spiders confront its crawling Bunker Spider monster....

Need a hint for today’s Connections? Read our guide for help with Connections #183 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....

I go on Twitter so you don’t have to Every weekend, indie devs show off current work on Twitter’s#screenshotsaturdaytag. And every Monday, I bring you a selection of these snaps and clips. This week, like many weeks, my head is full ofMetal Gear Rising’s RULES OF NATURE. But unlike most weeks, it feels relevant. This week I saw an indie game where you slow-mo slice weapons and armour off robots in a forest and oh, that’s doubly rules of nature right there....

Fowl play in a wonderful procedural forest In this curious, moodysurvival-ish adventure, you’re an apprentice witch who travels about the land in a chicken-legged cottage loaned out by your mentor,the Baba Jaga. The cottage isn’t just mobile - you can expand it with second-floor extensions and decorate the interior with jaunty wooden furniture. Sadly, there doesn’t appear to be an option to employ gingerbread during construction, nor can you currently fly about on broomstick, but perhaps all that’ll be added on the road to 1....

Our weekly news liveblog It’s the second to last week before we set down our pickaxes, shoulder our packs and embark on that greatest adventure of all: holiday.The Mawtends to be at low ebb over the Xmas period, because it has a violent allergy to festive cheer. But for the moment, it still clamours for News. Some game releases we’re pondering this week: squad-based RTSStargate: Timekeepers(12th Dec), Settlers spiritual follow-upPioneers of Pagonia(13th Dec, early access), anime chainsaw metroidvaniaCookie Cutter(14th Dec), “pixel pulp” visual novelBahnsen Knights(14th Dec), and multiversal metroidvaniaTrinity Fusion(15th Dec)....

You’re (finally, properly) breathtaking This door to the RPS Advent Calendar is chrome-plated with a bright neon trim around the edges. It was all lovely and pristine looking until yesterday, when someone rudely broke out the graffiti cans and sprayed a big “Corpo 4LIFE” tag on the front. So ready your cyberware and fancy augments, folks. It’sCyberpunk 2077: Phantom Liberty! Ed:Ever sinceStarfieldcame out, I’ve been theCyberpunk 2077salesman. A lot of my friends who aren’t plugged into game industry happenings wrote it off after its disastrous launch and never looked back....

This is a perfect desktop replacement for gaming or working. Dell’s Alienware m17 gaming laptop is normally quite a pricey proposition, especially when you want one with an RTX 3070 Ti 8GB graphics card and Ryzen 6800H processor, but today you can get a machine with these specs - and a 17.3-inch 4K 120Hz screen - for just £1069 at Dell UK using the codeVOUCHERCODES7, versus the recently-discounted price of £1149....

“It’s Time to Split.” “The last day at FRD was very different from what I imagined,” senior tech artist Adam Kiraly wrotein a TwiX post. “I don’t think it sunk in properly just yet, but handed my keys in and left the building the last time. It’s Time to Split.” The last day at FRD was very different from what I imagined. I don’t think it sunk in properly just yet, but handed my keys in and left the building the last time....

Here’s how to get Swamp Hive Nectar in Avatar: Frontiers Of Pandora Wondering where to get Swamp Hive Nectar in Avatar: Frontiers Of Pandora?Swamp Hive Nectar is a crucial quest item in The Eye of Eywa, the tenth main mission inAvatar: Frontiers Of Pandora. To complete the quest, you’ll need to collect the nectar and use it in a special Aranahe clan ritual. The only issue is that the nectar is unable to be gathered whilst the RDA is in the area....

Stuck on today’s Wordle word for December 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?Below you’ll find a list of clues to help you solve today’s word and preserve your 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?...

The original id Software designer talks Carmack, cacodemons, and his Native American influence “When people read anything, no matter the source, they will believe it.” So saysDoomdesigner John Romero on the subject of his relationship with John Carmack. Together, the pair built id Software and theFPSgenre as we know it - before the cracks started to show during the difficult development ofQuake, ending their professional partnership. Yet any lasting acrimony has now dissipated....

Need a hint for today’s Connections? Read our guide for help with Connections #182 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....

For the Calendar! Doors for the door God! Calendars for the calendar throne! Jeremy:When my wife and I made the decision to move to the UK earlier this year, we both began looking forward to spending more time with family, seeing the sights around London, and in my case…finally getting into Warhammer. (For those interested, I put Warhammer on my list of “great British culture to consume,” right alongside Judge Dredd and Red Dwarf....