Finally, some action My earliest memory of theCommandosseries of tacticalstealth gameswas my dad bringing home a box copy of the original. “The missions take months. Months!” his mate had told him. Get less shit mates, thought I, for I had already played it elsewhere, and knew that the missions took mere minutes if you put the game on easy then rushed your objectives, bonking nazis along the way. I did not rush the newSteam demofor Kalypso’s revival,Commandos: Origins, but it’s still doable inside half an hour....

Need some Connections hints today? Read our guide for help with Connections #491. This guide is for a previous day! Looking for today’s solution? Check out theConnections hint and answers for Thursday 12th December! Looking for a hint to help with today’s Connections puzzle on 15th October?If you’re feeling frustrated over today’s Connections we have you covered with a set of hints and clues below. Connectionsis a word puzzle game published every day by the New York Times (NYT), the hosts of the endlessly popularWordlepuzzle....

And it has a demo out now If you’ve read any of my stuff by now, you’d know that I am a simple man who enjoys violence in his games. No story? Absolutely fine by me - cuts the faff. This is why I like the demo forfirst-person shooterCop Bastarda lot. It’s set in early 90s Japan, where you’ll smoke fools with guns in straightforward homage to 90s action movies. And it has an updated demo - not officially part of the latestSteam Next Fest- out right now....

That sinking feeling The developer ofFull Fathomdescribes it as a “thalassophobia sim”. You are the lone engineer on a rustbucket submarine exploring the dangerous waters of a submerged country in an alternate reality 1990s. The warning lights on the control panel are flashing, a buzzer is spluttering like a dying bluebottle, and your robotic assistant is about as useful as an umbrella in the Mariana Trench. Things could not get any worse....

My name is Ashimus Ketchumus Palletemus… The allure of the sea-green GameBoy screen is difficult to resist. Picking up from where Pokémon left off two decades ago,Letalisis a bleepy-bloopy retro RPG about wandering from town to town and doing battle with dodgy local leaders to prove your worth. But you won’t be doing the fighting yourself, God no. Leave that to the squad of Roman gladiators hiding in your back pocket....

Here are all the cooking answers needed when helping Fabienne at the Hushed Honeybee Looking for all Metaphor ReFantazio cooking answers?Once you progress throughMetaphor ReFantazioenough to take up residence at Grand Trad, you may encounter a Young Nidia Man on Sunlumeo Street who asks for information about the cooking at the Hushed Honeybee Inn. What follows is the ‘Help the Hushed Honeybee’ quest wherein you must help Fabienne cook for the customersat night....

Here are all the ingredients needed to make Redgrass Roasted Bidou Looking for all ingredients needed to make Redgrass Roasted Bidou in Metaphor ReFantazio?As you progress throughMetaphor ReFantazioyou’ll gain the option to help Fabienne cook at the Hushed Honeybee Inn at Grand Trad. She’ll offer to teach you how to cook Redgrass Roasted Bidou, but you’ll need to bring her the ingredients first. For all Redgrass Roasted Bidou ingredient locations, see our full guide below....

Limb crim If I could extend my arm forty times its normal length, while also granting it the flexibility of a sock filled with mince, I’d probably just use it to take the bins out without leaving my chair. But what if someone were to use this power… forevil?That’s the gist ofMy Arms Are Longer Now, a cartoony “stealth-comedy” game about worming a single stretchy limb into people’s valuables, which has aSteam Next Festdemo out now....

Modes like this are the “holy grail” of game design, comments game director In the grim darkness of the far future, you will not have to worry about getting preyed upon by rival Space Marine chapters whilst duffing up the Tyranids, for there are no plans to add a PvPvE mode toWarhammer 40,000: Space Marine 2. That’s according to game director Dmitry Grigorenko, who observes that enjoyable PvPvE is the “holy grail” of game design, much-sought and seldom claimed....

“There are certain genres that are like that,” says deputy CEO Last October, Paradox Interactive announced that they and development studio Harebrained Schemes werebreaking up, followingunderwhelming salesof Harebrained’s 1930s-set XCOMlike,The Lamplighters League. The publishers had already made layoffs at Harebrained in the run-up to release, implying that preorder numbers were low; ultimately, Paradox wrote it off as a $22 million flop. At the time of the “parting of ways”, Paradox chief operational officer Charlotta Nilsson washed her hands of XCOMlikes entirely, commenting that “a new project or sequel in the same genre was not in line with our portfolio plans”....

“The players expectations are that the game is flawless” says Bethesda’s Bruce Nesmith How do official Bethesda bug compilation videos coinciding with a game’s launch sound? Or at least, a proper list of known bugs on day one, to preempt any compilations created by vengeful players?SkyrimLead Designer andStarfieldSystems Designer Bruce Nesmith has spoken a little about the “interesting problem” of how open developers should be about technical issues on day one, given the expectation some players have that every game should be “flawless”....

Stuck on today’s Wordle word for October 15? 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?Wordleis a tough test of word acumen, but luckily we’re here to provide you with the tips you need. Every day, Wordle presents its legions of players with a deviously simple quandary: can you guess the right five-letter word within just six guesses?...

It’s cheaper than Black Friday last year. Looking for a new gaming monitor? I don’t mean to tempt you, but this is one hell of a deal. Beating its most recent Black Friday pricing ($1179) by over $200, theSamsung 49" Odyssey G93SC Series OLED Curved Gaming Monitor is now down to $949 at Amazon. That’s $650 off its original list price, and one of the best deals of the year so far....