The developer offered a tiny hint The answer was found this week by Glenn “Netrix” Anderson, after atiny hint offered by the designer of the puzzle, Brandon Dillon. After finding the solution, Anderson, who is also a programmer in the video game industry,tweeted that, “It was really cool to take part in this experience. The incredibly talented team that made Hack ‘n’ Slash a reality has been an inspiration to me as a programmer and game developer....

Some of the minds behind The Expanse and Wheel Of Time are involved If the recentGod Of Wargames weren’t cinematic enough, streaming providers and general tessellators of cardboard boxes everywhere Amazon have greenlit a TV show based on Kratos’ adventures.The Hollywood Reporter, erm, reports that Wheel Of Time’s Rafe Judkins is showrunner on the project, backed up by writers and executive producers Mark Fergus and Hawk Ostby. Those two worked on The Expanse, and were nominated for the Academy Award for Best Adapted Screenplay for Children Of Men....

Shipment made its way into Call Of Duty back in the original Modern Warfare, and it’s been something of a series staple. You’ll need to own Modern Warfare 2 to access this reimagined version of Call Of Duty’s smallest map, but if you do then there’s some festive frivolities coming on December 21st. A Christmas-themed version of Shipment will feature in a Naughty List playlist running through January 4th. Oh and, as Mattnotedearlier this week, the update also kicks off a time-limited Warzone Cup mode that’s pretty much justRocket Leaguein COD....

Rob an art museum and steal awards on a quest for revenge The excellent wall-demolishing heist simTeardowntoday launched a free update adding a new mini-campaign starring the daughter of a character from the original campaign. Across the five new missions of Art Vandals, she’s out to get revenge on an artist by raiding a modern art museum in a scenic seaside village. New crimes, new crimetools, and a new crimeplace? I thought I had retired but you got me: I’m in....

Bloons TD6 is free to keep right now The Epic Games Store’s Christmas sale is now underway, with discounts including 40% offFIFA 23, 25% off Spider-Man Remastered, and 100% off one new game each day for the next fifteen days. Each new free-to-keep mystery game will be revealed each day at 4pm GMT/8am PT/11am ET. Today’s first game? Bloons TD6, a tower defense game that has over 200,000 positive reviews on, uh, Steam....

Island paradise At some point recently, Crocs became cool. And as someone who grew up in the “Crocs are for dweebs” era, this makes little sense to me. Crocs? Cool? These sillies must be mistaken. Thankfully, after a couple of weeks withLil Gator Game, I finally get it. All these people weren’t talking about the shoe, of course! They were talking about Lil Gator Game, which features the most loveable croc of all (please don’t lecture me on the difference between alligators and crocodiles, I love them both equally)....

It’s out now More than half the rhythm games I see on PC seem to feature courses that look like bullet hell levels, designed for players with the perseverance, patience and 12-fingered hands I lack.Melatoninlooks more my pace, with pastel hand-drawn art, chill beats, and levels about dreams and reality merging together. It’s out now. Here’s the release trailer: There’s seemingly some Rhythm Heaven* inspiration here, as each level depicts a scene and an activity that the player is tapping to make the characters perform....

With a name like that, grab it while you can While I procrastinate as hard as the next desk jockey, in truth I’ve never had the patience forMinesweeper. It doesn’t have the fast pace and stunning climax of Solitaire, y’know? So what if we jazz it up by smashing in another puzzle game. Like inMinesweeper Tetris, released for free on Steam this morning, which kinda adds Tetris by making the screen slowly fill in with fresh lines of mines, challenging you to clear mines quickly....

It has crossplay, assuming it’s not crashing for you If it was what they thought, it hasn’t worked. Players report that Re-Elected isn’t an upgrade at all, but that it has broken their save games, their mods, and introduced new launch and crash bugs to the nine-year-old game. Saints Row IV: Re-Elected was released on Steam, GOG and the Epic Games Storeon December 8th, with new crossplay functionality between players who purchase from different digital stores....

OK, this one is ridiculous. I get that. And yet - I’m posting it anyway. This is a deal on an18TBhard drive from Amazon, a Seagate Exos X18 7200RPM CMR drive that will allow you to install all the games** or back up all the things**, or maybe both. This huge HDD has been reduced to £287, a historic low, which works out as 1.6p per gigabyte - absolutely crazy given the size we’re working with here....

It doesn’t sound like you can collect them all, though Starfield’s lead quest designer Will Shen has fielded some questions from players in a second video in Bethesda’s Constellation Questions series. Among the morsels that Shen reveals about the upcoming sci-fi RPG were some details about how the game’s faction system will work compared toFalloutand The Elder Scrolls. You can watch Shen talk aboutStarfield’s factions, companions, and quests in the video below....

The first big price cut on the new-style headset for PC, PS5, Switch and mobile. The Nova 7 is essentially the new design that debuted with the Arctis Nova and Arctis Nova Pro (fun fact - the headset that’s around my neck right now!), sans the control boxes that provide easy volume adjustment, connection to two sources and convenient recharging for the wireless model. That means you instead get a simple USB-C dongle to insert into your PC (a full-size USB-A adapter is also included), but the headset also works on PS4, PS5, Switch and many mobile devices with a USB or USB-C port....

In partnership with Crystal Dynamics The nextTomb Raiderwill again be developed by Crystal Dynamics, but this time with “full support and publishing” provided by Amazon Games. It’s the second game which Amazon have announced they’re publishing in quick succession, after last week revealing that they would bring Bandai Namco MMOBlue Protocolto the west. Amazon Gamesannounced the Tomb Raider deal earlier today. Scot Amos, studio head at Crystal Dynamics, said that they have “an extraordinary opportunity following our acquisition by Embracer to redefine what a publishing relationship is for Tomb Raider....