Puzzles meet platforming on the red planet Dunno if you’ve noticed by there’san awful lot of sci-fi gameson the way, most of which – these being games – revolve around shooting space creatures to glowing green bits.Deliver Us Mars, therecently delayedsequel toDeliver Us The Moon, takes a more peaceful option, now blending the original’s puzzling with some Tomb Raider reboot-style platforming. Your deadliest enemy here is gravity, and as far as I understand, you can’t shoot that....

Square Enix Montréal to be renamed Swedish media buyer-uppersEmbracer Grouphave completed their $300 million (£253 million) acquisition of former Square Enix studios, begun in May this year. The deal sees Crystal Dynamics, Eidol Montréal and Square Enix Montréal become part of a 12th operating group within Embracer. Square Enix Montréal will now change their name. Embracer’s deal with Square Enix wasrevealedto the world on May 2nd, and also included intellectual property ranging fromTomb RaiderandDeus ExtoThief....

The Lexar Play 1TB is £30 off today, and the faster SanDisk Extreme is also discounted. The Steam Deck is a brilliant system, but its internal storage is limited - from anywhere from 64GB to 512GB depending on the model you chose. Thankfully, Micro SD cards are getting extremely affordable, even in massive sizes all the way up to 1TB. Smaller sizes like 256GB and 512GB are better value per gigabyte, but today in the UK there’s been a big discount on a 1TB Lexar Play Micro SD card that brings it into contention too....

It’s the third year in a row for the Haunted PS1 team Skully the Skeleton is back for another yearly look at indiehorror gamesat today’s EEK3 showcase. The scares begin at 11pm BST/12am CEST/3pm PST, so particularly spooky if you live on the main European landmass. As one personnoted, Friday the 26th is twice as scary as the 13th. This year’s EEK3 waspushed backfrom August 19th to today due to a team member’s illness with Covid-19....

Here’s how Teravision Games are hoping to evolve the hide-and-seek genre started by Friday The 13th: The Game I think it’s fair to sayKiller Klowns From Outer Space: The Gamewas one of the more… leftfield reveals from this week’sGamescom Opening Night Livebonanza. In case you missed it, it’s a 3v7 asymmetrical multiplayer adaptation of the cult 1988 horror film of the same name, but details on how its creepy clowning around would actually work werefew and far between, to say the least....

A brief presentation has us sold Minecraft Legendswasfirst announcedat Geoff Fest earlier this year, and a smidgemore footagedropped again at a Nintendo Direct Mini. But despite both of these events, it’s been difficult to ascertain what the game actually, well,is. Aside from being a real-time strategy spin-off, there’s been nothing else to scan with our eyeballs for more info. Colour me intrigued, then, as I sat in a quickfire presentation at this year’s Gamescom and bore witness to some mythicalgameplay....

No gods or kings, only Hollywood creatives Streaming giants Netflix have aBioShockmovie to make and, after pointing their golf club at various directors, they’veselectedFrancis Lawrence. He’s best known for overseeing three of The Hunger Games movies and is working on the prequel coming out next year, The Ballad Of Songbirds And Snakes. Netflix have also hired screenwriter Michael Green for the BioShock flick. Green wrote the Kenneth Branagh versions of Agatha Christie’s Murder On The Orient Express and Death On The Nile....

It wouldn’t beGamescomwithout a Geoff Keighley liveshow to kick it all off, would it?Tuesday’s Opening Night Live showcasefeatured a huge amount of trailers to gawk at, a baggage carousel of content that moved at a blistering clip. Despite its two hour runtime a lot of interesting (and in most cases, new) titles weren’t given a huge amount space to breathe, their moment in the spotlight frequently cut short by another trailer waiting impatiently in the wings....

UPDATE: CNBC say report is just a ‘rumour’ Amazon are intending to announce they’ve made an offer to buy publishing colossus Electronic Arts later today, according to a new report from USA Today’sFor The Win, who cite sources from Swedish gaming agency GLHF. No clue yet as to how much they’d be paying, but it’s likely to be ranging in the hundreds of millions to billions of dollars. Maybe just not as many as Microsoft’s $68....

The dystopian future turns out to be pretty cool Rollerdromeis an all-action skater/shooter set in a dystopian, but near, future. Protagonist Kara Hassan is the newest competitor in Matterhorn’s games, hosted by the corrupt International Rollerdrome Federation. Your job is to skate through 12 intense arena maps battling both the house players and yourself, dodging attacks as you replenish your ammo with sick tricks to stay in the fight. With enough combo multipliers and top completion times, you might come out as the champion....

What to expect when new Simulacrum Frigg releases What do we know about Frigg in Tower Of Fantasy?When is she joining the Simulacrum roster, and what weapons and skills does she bring to the table? Frigg has been a part of theTower Of Fantasyroster in China for some time now, but very soon she and her signature weapon, Balmung, will be released to the wider world. Each character and weapon in Hotta Studio’s open-worldRPGadds new strengths and playstyles to switch between in the heat of combat, and Frigg is no different....

We’ve also compared it to Steam’s very first press release Valve have produced a teensy digital booklet about the history of Steam and theSteam Deckas they prepare to introduce it to potential customers in the Asia-Pacific region. The 50-ish-page guide to everything Steam Deck also features a rundown of Valve’s relatively short history of manufacturing hardware such as the Steam Link and Steam Controller, and the Valve Index VR headset....

Or £153 for a massive 2TB model. The WD Black SN770 is a good middle-of-the-road PCIe 4.0 SSD, outperforming PCIe 3.0 SSDs while costing less than the very fastest PCIe 4.0 models. It launched at £125 for a 1TB size earlier this year, but now it’s down to £84 where it’s rather more fetching. The 2TB size has also been reduced and is even better value at £152. Here’s why we rate these SSDs - and where to find them at the lowest price....