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, I bring you not just screenshots but a screenshot of an options menu too, so I’ll hear no more griping about all the videos thank you very much. Hop on in to admire automative combat, cool platforming, an infinite city, and more attractive and interesting indie games....

Don’t act surprised

Project Rene could even have an Among Us-like mystery mode, suggests series VP Lyndsay Pearson The next Sims game - currently codenamedProject Rene, even though we all know it’ll almost definitely be calledThe Sims 5- will “definitely” have a multiplayer element of some kind, according to its devs. As guidance on what that could be, its team are unsurprisingly looking at the success of fellow cozy life-sim gameAnimal Crossing, as well as a perhaps less obvious inspiration in murder-mystery argument-starterAmong Us....

The Crucial MX500 is a stone-cold classic for a reason. Want a 4TB SSD for £160? Of course you do, you glorious data hoarder! The Crucial MX500 is my go-to SATA SSD recommendation, and it’s now available at this price in an Amazon Black Friday deal. The MX500 is worth recommending as it uses higher-performance, higher-endurance TLC NAND rather than QLC as you’d normally expect in a budget drive, and it comes with a DRAM cache that keeps performance high, especially in sustained write scenarios....

The Roccat Vulcan Pro is better than half price Possibly the single bestgaming keyboard dealof the earlyBlack Fridayperiod is, in a black mark for Anglo-US relations, currently only available in the States. But what a deal it is: the Roccat Vulcan Pro, a full-size mechanical board with ultralight half-height keycaps, macro recording, a removable palm rest, full RGB backlighting, and more goodies besides, has plummeted from $120 to $50 on Roccat’s own store....

Stuck on today’s Wordle word for November 20? 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?It’s the start of a new week, so let’s make sure we keep those streaks going with a fresh batch of hints for today’s word. Every day,Wordlepresents its legions of players with a deviously simple quandary: can you guess the right five-letter word within just six guesses?...

AMD’s best gaming CPU with a free copy of the new Avatar game. AMD’s Ryzen 7 7800X3D is the best value gaming CPU by a wide margin, often outgunning the Intel Core i9 14900K while costing nearly half the price. Today the CPU is down to just £329.99 at Overclockers and Amazon in the UK or $369 at Best Buy and Amazon in the US - with a free copy of theambitious Avatar: Frontiers of Pandora game(to be released in early December) included....

A stylish, high-end option with up to 70 days of battery life. Logitech’s MX Master series of office mice are incredible for getting stuff done, thanks to their iconic wide shapes, multiple scroll wheels and powerful software. Today the newest version, the Master 3S, has dropped from an RRP of £120 to £82 at Amazon UK, a historic low price. This latest edition is ideal for writing, programming, content creation and surfing the web, thanks to quiet button clicks, a fast and accurate ‘magspeed’ scroll wheel (and a secondary thumb wheel), and a high-end 8K laser sensor that allows for accurate tracking on any surface, even glass....

Need a hint for today’s Connections? Read our guide for help with Connections #161 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....

Stuck on today’s Wordle word for November 19? 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?Listed below are a set of hints to help you get to today’s answer without losing your streak, we also have the answer listed if needed. Every day,Wordlepresents its legions of players with a deviously simple quandary: can you guess the right five-letter word within just six guesses?...

Valve’s anniversary doc reunites the original team Half-Lifeturns 25 years old tomorrow, withnew maps and updates to celebrate. Valve also reunited the game’s original developers for an hour-long making-of documentary in which its original programmers and artists reminisce about creating the first-person classic at a time when many of them had never shipped a game before. Chief among the revelations within is that all of Half-Life’s textures were created by a single person, Karen Laur....

Jak attack Immortals Of Aveumnever looked like it was going to be successful, andit wasn’t. I root for it, however. In an industry where big budget blockbusters are most often sequels, or boringly safe, Aveum feels comparatively bold just by being a self-evidentaly daft first-person mashup of Call Of Duty and Doctor Strange magic powers. Now it has a demo, so you can try it for free. The demo features the first three chapters of Immortals Of Aveum and progression will carry over to the full game should you go on to buy it....

Nostalgia and novelty Half-Lifecame out 25 years ago tomorrow and to celebrate Valve ahve released an anniversary update. It includes four new multiplayer maps, updated graphics settings, and fully verified Steam Deck support. It also includes some new multiplayer models and skins, including proto-Barney and the original design for Gordon Freeman, pictured above. “We finally put our game through our own “Verified” tests, and… we failed super hard,” saysValve’s microsite on the update....