Victoria 3's Pop system is so detailed that your country basically doesn't need you around

But it’s more fun if you are I’m going to level with you: I’m not a GSG player. I play strategy, sure, butgrandstrategy has always been a bit beyond me. I’m a fundamentally un-grand person; I spend most days dressed like a 14-year-old fan of Tony Hawk, I do not like olives or scallops, and I’m unable to predict the consequences of actions if they exist outside of, say, a 12 month timeframe....

August 30, 2022 · 8 min · 1566 words · Andrew Wiley

We'll have to wait for MultiVersus online couch co-op, game director says

Mappable specials and directional attacks coming in next patch Warner Bros’ licensed brawlerMultiVersuswon’t be getting support for online couch co-op anytime soon, game director Tony Huynh has said. Huynh wasreplyingto a question on Twitter about whether the MultiVersus team were working on implementing a spin on that most Nineties of features. Speaking of Nineties nostalgia, you can watch a retro trailer for MultiVersus below. Makes me feel ten again. That doesn’t mean there won’t be online couch co-op in MultiVersus at some point....

August 30, 2022 · 2 min · 305 words · Aaron Tran

Wordle answer (Tuesday 30 August 2022): Wordle word of the day #437 and hints

Hints and the answer to today’s Wordle word In this guide, you’ll find three clues that you can use to help solve the Wordle answer today. If you’d rather just cheat and get the answer without the puzzling pandemonium, simply scroll down a little further to find today’s Wordle answer. Wrong day? Check out theWordle hint and answer for Thursday 12th Decemberinstead! Wordle August 30 hints If you'’re struggling with the Wordle answer today and need a helping hand to nudge you in the right direction, look no further....

August 30, 2022 · 5 min · 992 words · Rose Velez

World Of Warcraft: Wrath Of The Lich King Classic’s pre-patch resurrects Death Knights today

Get an unholy head start before the full expansion arrives in September World Of Warcraft Classicreturns to theWrath Of The Lich Kingexpansion in September, but there’s a pre-patch coming today that resurrects the game’s first hero class a little early. The Death Knights aren’t the only thing arriving in WOW Classic before the expansion though, as there’s a fresh profession and a zombie infestation to consider too. Have a watch of some of the senior dev team discussing Death Knights in the video below....

August 30, 2022 · 2 min · 420 words · Donna Holmes

Wordle answer (Monday 29 August 2022): Wordle word of the day #436 and hints

Hints and the answer to today’s Wordle word In this guide, we’ve got three handy hints that should nudge you in the right direction. If solving the Wordle answer today feels like too much for a Monday morning, you can keep scrolling to find the answer itself further down. Looking for today’s solution? Check out theWordle hint and answer for Thursday 12th December! Wordle August 29 hints A blank grid and no idea where to start....

August 29, 2022 · 5 min · 1011 words · Scott Schmidt

Wordle answer (Sunday 28 August 2022): Wordle word of the day #435 and hints

Hints and the answer to today’s Wordle word Looking for today’s solution? Check out theWordle hint and answer for Thursday 12th December! Wordle August 28 hints Need a bit of help with the Wordle answer today? Here are three clues we’ve devised to get you on the right track: It’s time to reveal the answer to today’s Wordle. The word is… GAUZE. Gauze fabrics are typically so loosely woven as to be more or less transparent, which is why wearing something gauzy is often considered a bit risqué (especially if there’s nothing underneath)....

August 28, 2022 · 5 min · 921 words · Amy Norton

Create your own Disney avatar in Dreamlight Valley's free character creator

Then take a selfie Disney Dreamlight Valleypitches itself as a “life-sim adventure game”, in which you can return a cursed land to health while hanging out with characters from across the Disney pantheon. I’m skeptical of it in several different ways, but there’s now a free character creator to download and try ahead of its launch next month, and hey, I had fun with it. You’ll find the character creatorover on Steam....

August 27, 2022 · 2 min · 348 words · Robert Rodriguez

Former Payday developers are working on a new co-op heist shooter

GTFO developers 10 Chambers say it’s in pre-production The second project from 10 Chambers, the developers of co-op horror shooterGTFO, will be a co-op heist shooter. Creative director Ulf Andersson shared the news at Gamescom, saying that making a game in the genre “feels like it’s an unclosed chapter”. Andersson previously worked on Payday 1 and 2 at Overkill Software, before leaving to found 10 Chambers. “So for me, this game is a game that just has to be made,” said Anderssonin an interview with NMEat Gamescom....

August 27, 2022 · 2 min · 254 words · Kristie Stephens

Netflix cancel Resident Evil live action series after one season

Because it was bad and no one liked it Netflix have announced that they’re not ordering a second season of their live actionResident Eviladaptation. As reported byDeadline, the critically maligned series failed to find much of an audience since being released on July 14th. Resident Evil apparently launched at a respectable number two in Netflix’s top 10, with 72.7 million hours viewed, but there was no expected bump in week two’s 73....

August 27, 2022 · 2 min · 215 words · Jennifer Frost

Total War's developers are making a third-person melee action game

At their studio in Bulgaria Creative Assembly have a mixed history when it comes to games that don’t have “Total War” in the title, but that’s not stopping them from trying. The studio announced today that alongside future Total War games, the recently announced Hyenas, and another unannounced project, they also have a fourth game now in development. It’s an action game and they’re recruiting staff “with experience working on third-person titles using the Unreal 5 engine....

August 27, 2022 · 1 min · 189 words · Blake Mccarthy

What are we all playing this bank holiday weekend?

Well? Hallo! Monday is a bank holiday for us here in the UK, so we’ll leave you with Alice Bee until the rest of us return on Tuesday (well, aside from those of us taking more time). This is the last big holiday weekend of summer, a traditional time to get out in the countryside or down to the seaside. Could use a little heat and joy withthe terrible, terrible winter to come....

August 27, 2022 · 4 min · 671 words · Hayden Todd

Wordle answer (Saturday 27 August 2022): Wordle word of the day #434 and hints

Hints and the answer to today’s Wordle word Looking for today’s solution? Check out theWordle hint and answer for Thursday 12th December! Wordle August 27 hints Need a hand getting to the Wordle answer today? Here are a few hints to get you started: It’s time to reveal the answer to today’s Wordle. The word is… RUDER. We’ve all encountered rude people in our time — someone who’s impolite, bad-tempered, or just downright disagreeable — but encountering an even ruder person requires a point of comparison....

August 27, 2022 · 5 min · 917 words · Joseph Colon

Dead Island 2 is a surprisingly polished zombie 'em up that sticks to the script

Back from the dead Eight years ago Graham (who used to be to blame for all of this) gothands-onwithDead Island 2, back when the game was being developed by Yager, the folks behindSpec Ops: The Line. Since then,development changed handslike a baton at the Olympic relay; Yager left a year later, to be replaced by Sumo Digital, only for Sumo Digital to leave and be replaced by Dambuster Studios. Usain Bolt hasn’t expressed interest yet, but there’s time....

August 26, 2022 · 5 min · 864 words · Karen Gibson