Rising costs, funding withdrawals and poor early access sales all factors in this “impossible decision,” the studio says Ah, man, this one really stings. League Of Geeks, the developers behindArmelloand the upcomingSolium Infernumremake, have announced they’ve had to pause the development of their spaceship colony roguelikeJumplight Odyssey"indefinitely" as the studio faces mass redundancies. Over 50% of staff have been affected, including the entire Jumplight Odyssey team, and part of their publishing and operations teams....

Room for one more? There’s also a chill and beautifully kept city square where you can converse with other players in real-time. Popcannibal are promising “real people, no bots” in these spaces, and I’ll be intrigued to see how it handles these larger spaces as we get closer to release. It doesn’t look like it’s going for the full-blown social MMO experience like thatgamecompany’sSky: Children Of The Light, for example, but I would also hope it feels a bit more ‘real’ and lively than, say, Animal Crossing does....

Will Mojang be bricking it? Fortnite’s much-touted crossover with Lego is almost upon us - and it’s showing off a pretty darn impressive transformation.Lego Fortnitewon’t just add a few minifig skins or some blocky guns, but a completely new co-opsurvival and crafting gamemode with more than a touch ofMinecraftabout it. A new cinematic trailer for Lego Fortnite finally gives us a look at what the long-anticipated mode will look like, revealing something that looks like an entirely new game - albeit playable in Fortnite....

Mech the most of it Mech-farming simLightyear Frontierhas confirmed its release for next March, landing around a year after the delayed chillspace gamewas originally meant to touch down on Planet PC. This being a mech game, you can also customise your mech by snapping on new parts that will help you efficiently tend your land.Armoured Corethis ain’t, but a gentle take on farming sims, stomping mechs and first-person shooting (here with seeds) it is....

Need a hint for today’s Connections? Read our guide for help with Connections #178 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....

A review-in-progress of Owlcat’s latest CRPG In the grim darkness of the far future… I will finish my review of Owlcat’sWarhammer 40,000: Rogue Trader. It turns out that trying to complete an estimated 100-hourRPGduring the run-up toThe Game Awardsis too much for this humble Scriptor. There are still many more tabletop-style planetary maps to discover and plunder, many more character levels to scale, and many more cursed artefacts to tamper with before my protagonist, the closet Chaos worshipper Bruschetta de Plonque, can pronounce herself mistress of the Kronos Expanse - assuming the Inquisition doesn’t claim her first....

Old friends and new faces join The Cursed Crew for a final curtain call Pour one out for Mimimi Games today, readers. Despite announcing they wereshutting up shopfollowing the release of this year’s fantasticShadow Gambit: The Cursed Crew, today marks the grand finale for their stealth strategy masterpiece in the form of a new free Treasure Hunt update, and the release of theirtwo paid expansions. Each brings a brand-new pirate to The Red Marley’s undead crew, as well as their own half-dozen story missions to play through spread across islands old and new, and once you’ve begun each of their respective questlines, they’re readily available to play in any of the game’s regular plunderings, too....

Two hours with Hadoque’s new psychedelic adventure Ultrosis one of those games you can’t help but pay attention to. Back when it wasfirst revealedin May at Sony’s pre-notE3 PlayStation Showcase, its colourful, fever dream visuals fromHotline Miamiartist El Huervo instantly made it stand out among all thedrab multiplayer shootersjostling for attention. Then, between talk of it being set inside a cosmic uterus known as The Sarcophagus and having to use seeds and plants over successive runs to alter the shape of the map to your whim, it only became more intriguing....

Packing in over 40 games and a whole lot of history Influential British developerJeff Minter, whose four-decade career spans the likes of Tempest 2000,Polybius,Space Giraffeand Revenge of the Mutant Camels, will be the focus of the next interactive documentary from the folks behind the roundly excellentMaking of KaratekaandAtari 50. Llamasoft: The Jeff Minter Storywill trace Minter’s output across eight platforms from the Sinclair ZX81 through to Tempest 2000 on the Atari Jaguar, with Digital Eclipse contributing new gameGridrunnerRemastered, a revamped version of Minter’s Commodore 64 shooter....

Here’s when The Day Before releases in your region When does The Day Before release in your region?Nothing’s ever for certain when it comes to Fntastic’s much-wishlisted, much-criticised upcoming multiplayer zombiesurvivalMMO,The Day Before. But it really does seem like the game may actually be releasing this week, just a few short hours before The Game Awards. If you’re looking to dive into The Day Before’s open world as soon as possible and see for yourself whether the game is truly real at last, then you’ve come to the right place....

Congratulations on being number 1000! Do you like robots and being given challenges? Then is the sixth door on this year’s RPS Advent Calendar is for you! It’s time to get sort of concerned about what counts as a person, while also solving puzzles, inThe Talos Principle 2! Katharine:There are games that make you think, and games that make youreallythink. The Talos Principle 2 is one of the latter, chucking head-scratching, first-person puzzle arenas at you while also stuffing extra philosophical questions and conundrums into every nook and cranny....

It’s based heavily on Trials: Ascend, but isn’t free-to-play Created by a former Hi-Rez subsidiary that includes several of the original Ascend leads, the newshooterretains its celebrated predecessor’s emphasis on agility and momentum, but will be a premium game sold for $20 with separately sold cosmetics, rather than a free-to-play affair. It also won’t have a singleplayer campaign, much to the probable consternation of Tribes: Vengeance fans, and the indifference of everybody else....

Vote now as we continue deciding the single best thing in games Last time, you decided thatDiablo’s Tristram theme is better than chain explosions. I hadn’t peeked at the votes while voting was still underway so I’m a little surprised by the outcome, given how much of the discussion favoured explosive practicality over emotive plucking. This week, I ask you to pick between two different types of cool missing. What’s better: ricochet attacks, or blue shadows on dodges and dashes?...