Some people call me the space cowboy There are cold opens and there are freezing ones. Sci-fi roguelike shooterWild Bastardsdoesn’t start on its strongest cowboy boot. You are dumped into the middle of an interstellar chase and summarily shown the ropes. The guns feel simplistic, the arenas bare, the loot vanilla, and the entire loop of beaming down to a planet and getting into small-scale “showdowns” threatens to become stale within the first hour or so....

Stuck on today’s Wordle word for September 12? 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 an addicting but challenging test of word acumen. Luckily, you’re in the right place for some assistance. 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?...

No, after you, I insist Abandon all hope, ye who are shackled to your workmates inChained Together. The “co-op” game about escaping hell now has a map editor that’ll let you make your own infuriating obstacle courses for condemned souls to throw themselves upon. Finally, you can make the endless mountain of perdition you have dreamed about since being emotionally scarred byGetting Over It. “This update is designed to unleash your creativity,” say developers Anegar Games in thebrief patch notes....

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…is the taint even in Veilguard? It’s been ten long years sinceDragon Age: Inquisition, which means the next game in the series -Dragon Age: The Veilguard- likely has some modern design trends to catch up on. Here’s one: The Veilguard will be the first game in the series to include a photo mode when it arrives in October. IGNhas the first details on the photo mode, including a spread of new screenshots....

Consumer advice you can trust Today’s big news fromthe other sideis that a tuned-upPS5 Prois on the way, and a base spec, Blu-ray-driveless model will set you back £700. Or $700, in Ameridollars. That’s a lot of cheddar for a living room games box, and while us Windows lot can’t quite claim pointing and laughing privileges – speccing a 4K-capable,DIY builddesktop for seven hundred quid is certainly beyond me – the fact is that if you can get some pretty nifty PC kit for less....

Here’s the road to Black Myth Wukong’s Secret Ending, a.k.a. the True Ending Are you hoping to get the Secret Ending in Black Myth Wukong?There are two endings in Black Myth Wukong: the “Default Ending” and the “Secret Ending”, also known as the “True Ending”. Reaching the first is relatively simple (just finish the game), but unlocking the Secret Ending is very difficult, as you’ll need to complete hidden parts of the map....

Expect “free game drops” throughout the year, rather than one big summer update If there’s one thing I’ve heard fromMinecraftmodders when I’ve asked for their thoughts on the future of Minecraft, it’s some variation on “fewer updates, please”. This might seem unreasonable if you’re not into modding, but the price of updating a game is often that you break any mods designed for it. Hence, the parts of Minecraft’s history many seasoned Minecraft modders - together with server owners and pro mapmakers - remember most fondly are the longer lulls between updates....

(New york accent) plus noifs Sometimes, FromSoft craft the most masterfully tense boss duels you’ve ever seen, and sometimes, they aim laser pointers at both your eyes, cut off your feet, and expect you to dodge invisible leopards spitting lighting from the cockpit of a fighter jet made of other, more invisible leopards - as was the case withShadow Of The Erdtree’s final boss’s final phase. If you had absolutely no trouble with this boss, I’m happy for you, as long as you go sit in the corner and keep it to yourself....

And cats in hats Tomorrow will see the release ofNightingale’s Realms Rebuilt update, which hopes to revive the ailing Early Access gaslamp survival craft ‘em up. It’s aiming to do that with a new handcrafted campaign, which now sits alongside the procedural worlds already present, along with new weapons, spells, boss battles, dungeons and much more, as the developers outlined yesterday in a new blog post. “The core questline of Nightingale has been completely recreated thanks to the incredible feedback we’ve received from the community,” startsthe post....

Funish the fungus with fungusto Earlier today, Nic did me a great injustice by waving aside my suggestion that he write aboutShroom And Gloom, because “I want to read you describing mushrooms in interesting ways”. Nic, I have no interesting ways to describe mushrooms right now. I used up all the mushroom lore I’ve ever gleaned from real-life foraging when I wrote aboutMorels 2, and I spent most of that article whining about unicorns....

Here are all outcomes for the pearl in Star Wars Outlaws Wondering if you should keep the pearl in Star Wars Outlaws?Choosing who to give the pearl to inStar Wars Outlawsis a choice you’ll face after completing the main Safecracker quest on Kijimi and the subsequent ‘Broker’ questline for Danka. Essentially, Danka will ask Kay to help her fulfil a contract for the Ashiga Clan. Danka has brokered the sale of a ‘Bivalve’, a clam filled with precious pearls....

Die in space with better QoL Ostranauts is a “hardcore noir space-sim”, in which you scavenge shipwrecks in order to expand and customise your own ship. Every system onboard your vessel can be interacted with via its own panel of buttons and displays, and it’s all but inevitable that you will die due to your own incompetence or carelessness. The only hope is that the death is interesting. I badly want to create a captain, hire a crew, build a ship, and go die in space, but as soon as I see a UI with 18 buttons on it, and have no immediate idea what they do, I’m out....