Season Finale But such concerns are for the future. FM24 is with us right now, and while it may be swapping the dugout for the stands ninety minutes from now, this isn’t some ceremonial exhibition match. It’s business as usual, and in mostly good ways. Sports Interactive have made meaningful changes to themanagement gameboth on and off the pitch, all built on top of fundamentals that remain as complex and compulsive as they have for years....

Sequel to cult hit adds four-player support and new Battle Grid There comes a point when adding yet another behemothicRPGto your collection of unfinished, behemothic RPGs ceases to be a mark of eccentricity and becomes an act of manifest self-hatred. I, for instance, have just activated a beta code for 100-hour levelling festWarhammer 40,000: Rogue Tradereven as I make a mental note that really, I’ve got to make some proper headway inBaldur’s Gate 3this evening....

Larian make over 1000 fixes, tweaks and changes Larian have released a newBaldur’s Gate 3update, Patch 4, which applies 1000 fixes and changes to the indecently expansive fantasyRPG- far too many to list on Steam. The most significant additions are accessibility settings for colour-blind people, the ability to visually customise hirelings upon recruitment, and the ability to clean up party members using sponges and soap, rather than lobbing bottles of water at them....

Need a hint for today’s Connections? Read our guide for help with Connections #144 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....

25 years late Radiant Silvergunis a little less well known than its successorIkaruga, but it remains a shmup classic from Treasure, the masters of the genre. It was released in Japanese arcades in 1998 and it arrives on Steam today. A vertically scrolling shmup, you’re given three primary weapons, three secondary weapons created by combining them, and a sword with which to take down enemies. While Ikaruga is better known for its colour-based combat,Radiant Silvergunstill rewards you for using the correct weapon for the right situation, and grants bonus points for killing three enemies of the same colour in a row....

No progression tweaks yet Payday 3’s launch was rough, with long queues awaiting would-be heisters in the always-online game, and issues with progression and absent systems awaiting those who could login. Starbreeze Studios have now begun the process of making good on promised fixes to those criticisms, with patch 1.0.1 live now. It mostly includes “minor fixes”, but lots of them. “The first patch for PAYDAY 3 is finally here, we’re looking at a massive amount of fixes to make your heisting a smoother experience,” begins thepatch notes....

Life’s a glitch StandRoboCop: Rogue Citynext to otherFPS gamesin a police line-up, and you’ll quickly notice the difference. This big guy is clunky, boxy, and has insane system requirements devoted to creating dazzling reflections. However, stand it next to other RoboCop games (maybe even the movies?) and it suddenly looks like a masterpiece in chrome. This is a filmic and faithful adaptation that’s likely to get instant fan approval, but didn’t leave my shooty thumbs that impressed....

ROY! ROY! ROY! First there wasJASON!, a martyred child whose name cracked a thousand lips, rawed a thousand throats, blistered a thousand fingers. Then cameFENTON!, a hunter-trickster spirit forsaken by Christ. Perhaps next will be ROY! The upcoming first-person survival horrorgame Rotten Fleshwill invite you to shout the name of your lost dog into your microphone, hoping that Roy will bark back to let you know where he is. Fun fact: other, nondog things will hear you shouting too....

Restless dreams Mobile-based interactive dramaSilent Hill: Ascensionis quite the thing, and is getting quite the reception. The cleanest summary I can manage is that developer Genvid and publisher Konami have launched a very bad streaming service dedicated to dunking on Silent Hill, with microtransaction-fuelled voting mechanics and a chatbox awash with 10 years of pent-up fan resentment and confusing references toJames Sunderland’s genitals. The project is essentially a CGI TV show broken into daily Twitch-style streams that follow the fates of characters around the world, who are being haunted by various Hilly apparitions - dudes wrapped in barbed wire, ash falling from the sky, you know the drill....

They’re not great While Rishi Sunak bundles nerds into Bletchley Park, we at the Electronic Wireless Showpodcastare investigating the real danger of AI:somewhat rubbish text-to-speech voicelinesmakingThe Finalsless fun. We discuss the arrival of AI voices in big-name games, the disappointingly businessy thinking behind it, and whether we can think up some uses for AI-generated material that we can actually get behind. All sparked byvoice actor Gianni Matragrano’s video compilationof the lines in question, which you should probably watch before listening to this episode, or there’ll be a bit where Nate appears to bellow “THE KING FISH” for no reason....

It has one key weakness The android is unresponsive, standing frozen mid-step with one foot off the ground. I hold its metal head in my hands, tilting it this way and that as I stare into its cold red eye. It offers no resistance to my pushes and pulls, as though I was a hairdresser directing a patron’s head. Based on Stanisław Lem’s 1964 novel of the same name,The Invincible’sFirewatch-like first-person adventure is intent on exploring how machines will come to shape humanity’s future....

The developers tell us why - and what classic survival horror is Yet the term survival horror has expanded to such a degree that it now seems to stand in, albeit rather awkwardly, for the entirety of video game horror. Even with the caveat that borders for these kinds of labels are notoriously hard to define, survival horror remains an unusually amorphous realm, one that (as a quick search of the relevant tag on Steam will reveal) lays claim as much to first-person bloodbaths like Zombie Army Trilogy as it does moody, combat-free adventures like Visage....

For Rent expansion coming December The Sims 4has long offered millennials the unattainable fantasy of owning their own home. On December 7th, it’ll instead offer something much closer to reality. That’s when the For Rent expansion will launch, adding multi-family lots so you can construct apartment buildings, rent out your spare basement, or have an authentically terrible time as a tenant. “Property owner Sims can be present property managers, living among their tenants, or they can live in a separate residence while generating income from several property investments,” saysthe expansion site....