Minecraft Liam:Those faces! Can you remember the first time you sawL.A. Noire’s faces? Watching in awe as they wiggled their eyebrows and grimaced, their skin contorting and their lips flapping as they threatened to break the kneecaps of a (probably innocent) man. I’m ashamed to admit that L.A. Noire’s face tech left me feral for about six months. I was obsessed with it, scurrying around showing it off to anyone who’d listen as I screeched about the future of video game performance capture....

Learn how to put together the best possible Cyno build in Genshin Impact It’s generally agreed he was worth the wait, though: not many Electro characters make for an effective main DPS, but Cyno handily bucks that trend with a set of powerful normal and elemental attacks. So read on for details of the best build we’ve seen for Cyno, including his best weapons, artifacts, party members, and more. How to build Cyno as your main DPS in Genshin Impact...

That’s £40 off its UK RRP of £90. The Elgato Wave:1 is an outstanding USB microphone, offering great sound quality, powerful software and plug-and-play simplicity. It normally costs around £90, its UK RRP, but today it’s dropped to just £49.99 on Amazon, making it the perfect time to upgrade your vocals. The best feature here is called ‘ClipGuard’, and basically it makes it much harder to stuff up a recording. Here’s how it works: at all times, the microphone is recording at two sensitivity levels....

Dreadful as in ‘full of dread’ It’s tough making a story where you establish early on that your main character will still be alive at the end. InThe Excavation Of Hob’s Barrow, a point and click, small town, folk horror adventure game, the events are narrated by the main character Thomasina, writing in the future, and the game walks a slightly different line. Rather than successfully making you believe a character you know survives is in peril, all the way through The Excavation OfHob’s Barrow you are aware that Thomasina in the future is alive but, somehow, definitely not okay....

Justice prevails Yakuza spin-offsJudgmentandLost Judgmenthavearrived on Steam! This means you can mete out justice with your fists and do some important detective work… and do some drone racing… and participate in some robot wars. It’sYakuzawith a murder-mystery twist that’s well worth your while even if you’re not actually that big on Kiryu or Ichiban’s antics. I’d even go so far as to say it might be the perfect side entrance into the Yakuza series as a whole....

Vote now as we continue deciding the single best thing in games Last time, you decided thatding! is better than the Howie scream. I have only word for that: yeeeuuuuaaaaauuuuughh! This week, I suppose it’s a question of spectacle. Do you want to do ridiculous cool things, or have ridiculous horrible things done unto you? Tell me, what’s better: ridiculous spell animations or the mangled hands of Ethan Winters? One of my favourite moments in RPGs is getting into a back-alley brawl with misguided muggers who don’t realise I have endgame magic....

Hints and the answer to today’s Wordle word If bashing your head against a brick wall is a little too much to ask for on a Wednesday morning, well, allow us to soften the blows with our Wordle answer guide. Below we’ll prod you gently towards the answer with our list of carefully curated hints; after which we’ll reveal the Wordle answer itself and an explanation of its meaning for those who want it....

Not a bad RX 6600 XT upgrade, but new GPUs are coming soon Still. AMD’s next-gen, RDNA 3-based GPUs are an unknown quantity, and the RTX 40 series will at first focus on high-end models like the RTX 4090. Even if its RDNA 2 architecture is on the way out, could the RX 6650 XT not find room in the pack as one of thebest graphics cardsfor 1080p and 1440p?...

More puzzle tombs arrive ahead of December’s final update Assassin’s Creed Valhallamight be winding down before the series heads to Baghdad withMiragenext year, but today’s free 1.6.1 update lets your friendly neighbourhood viking tackle one last set of puzzle tombs. There’s also a new building that lets you craft runes, along with the usual bug fixes and performance tweaks. The village of Ravensthorpe’s Oskoreia festival returns for one last bash next month too....

I prefer Snickers, but each to their own The next early access update for grim roguelikeDarkest Dungeon 2revamps its progression system and brings in some temporary hired muscle in the form of bounty hunters. The Altar Of Hope update is already live in the game’s experimental branch and is coming to the main game when devs Red Hook are satisfied with its stability. You can catch a glimpse of the bounty hunter in the teaser below....

AlienWorld Dig As players of Image & Form’s excellentSteamWorld Diggames will know, there is something innately calming about chiselling your way through a hunk of rock. In both of those western-themed platformers, you were hunting for gem-like treasures to take back to the surface so you could get bigger and better equipment to begin the dig cycle anew. Now imagine that surface is constantly under threat from waves of alien attacks and that’s pretty muchDome Keeperin a nutshell, a moreish, meditative mining game that sees you balance digging for resources and hunting for all-important relics while defending your eponymous dome from being smashed to smithereens....

Learn how to complete the Around the World SBC in FIFA 23 Looking for a FIFA 23 Around the World SBC solution?SBCs, or Squad Building Challenges, have been the best way to get top players for your Ultimate Team in recent years, andFIFA 23is no different. SBCs are challenges that task you with building a squad under specific criteria, and they often give the best Ultimate Team packs as a reward....

It’s happening the same day as the London Marathon Genshin Impactfans in the UK take note, because the fantasy action RPG’s mascot Paimon is heading to London this Sunday in massive, inflatable form. The character will be floating down the River Thames, and HoYoVerse are staging an opportunity to get up close at Tower Bridge. Oh, and they’ve chosen the date of the extremely busy LondonMarathonas the start of Paimon’s journey along the Thames....