They’re launching a ‘double Kickstarter’ to do it It’s been a hot minute since I last crossed paths with JRPG series Wild Arms and Shadow Hearts, but today the key creators behind both of these late 90s and early 00s RPGs have announced they’re making two brand-new JRPGs that are inspired by their previous works - and they’re launching a ‘double Kickstarter’ campaign to help fund them. The games are called Penny Blood and Armed Fantasia (no points for guessing who’s making what), and based on what I’ve seen so far, I’m intrigued....

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 26 hints Need some help getting the Wordle answer today? Here are a few clues to help you out: It’s time to reveal the answer to today’s Wordle. The word is… IRONY. Isn’t it ironic? Well, actually, the lyrics to the Alanis Morisette song “Ironic” describe unfortunate coincidences, which aren’t the same thing at all....

£50 below its UK RRP, and a fantastic price for a great 1440p GPU. The AMD RX 6700 is retailing for £300 right now, a great price for a strong 1440p graphics card with support for hardware-accelerated ray tracing and FSR 2.0. The card in question is a PowerColor Fighter model, with a simple two-fan design that should be more than capable of dealing with this mid-range card’s modest 175W TDP....

Powerful AA energy, but that’s no bad thing Revealed at Gamescom Opening Night Live,Atlas Fallenis an upcoming action RPG being developed by Deck 13 Interactive, the folks behind The Surge games. It’s eschewing the robotic antics of its predecessor in favour of a Middle Eastern-inspired semi-open world filled with towering blocks of sand, rolling dunes, and mahoosive beasties. I managed to see a brief 30-minute presentation of the game here at Gamescom, which gave off the impression that it’s shaping up to satisfy those craving a AA title to plonk on their shelf....

FromSoft still working on the other games in the series Elden Ringdevs FromSoftware have restored the PC multiplayer servers forDark Souls 3, the studio has announced today. Servers were disabled for allDark Soulsgames in January following the discovery of a security vulnerability that could affect anyone playing Dark Souls 3 online. Today’s restoration marks the first step in gettingmultiplayerback on track for the series on PC. FromSoft made the announcement on Dark Souls 3’s SteamEvents page, and onTwitter, apologising for the long wait....

Rock out to the free demo over on Steam A slice-of-life game about a demon punk rock band having a quarter-life crisis?Dead Pets Unleashedlooks exactly like my cup of tea, or rather, a fizzling concoction of Red Bull, battery acid, and popping candy. After launching a Kickstarter campaign, developers Triple Topping have released aDead Pets Unleashed demo, so players can get a taste of the highs and lows of band life and, after playing the demo myself, it’s definitely worth checking out....

Yes, there is sound in space Sci-fi space flight simElite Dangerous’ director has owned up that the game uses noise from recordings of actual space. David Braben said that Frontier Developments incorporate audio from projects such as the British Antactic Survey’s Halley Research Station, which is where the data was collected that revealed that classic environmental disaster, the hole in the ozone layer. Braben’s revelation was prompted by the recent public acknowledgement from NASA that, yes, people really can hear screams in space....

Build A Rocket Boy’s growing blockchain team is for “research” The mysteriousEverywherewas one of the most bafflinggame reveals of Gamescom Opening Night Livethis year, and while the words ‘metaverse’, ‘NFTs’ and ‘blockchain’ weren’t anywhere to be seen during Tuesday’s showcase, it certainly sounded like it hadsomething to do with at least one of them. Now, after the internet noticed the studio is currently hiring for three positions to form a “blockchain team”, developer Build A Rocket Boy have responded to the claims on Reddit....

I can see Geoff from up here! That means that you can zoom over Koelnmesse, which is where Gamescom’s happening right bloomin’ now. Nice bit of Inception-style weirdness there, Microsoft Flight Simulator devs. I’ll give it a go later and see if I can spot our roving reporter Ed. Witness the realism for yourself by watching the trailer below, like some kind of human aircraft gliding above. Recent changes to Flight Simulator have seen theUSA zhuzhed upin World Update 10, andItaly and Maltain World Update 9 back in May....

A great price on a 4K 120Hz TV that’s also an incredible PC monitor. The LG C2 OLED probably isn’t your first thought when you’re considering a new desktop monitor, but its incredible image quality and new smaller 42-inch or 48-inc sizes make it a surprisingly valid choice. Right now you can pick up this monitor in either size for under £1000, depending on where you shop, a price that puts it make more affordable than smaller monitors with worse HDR performance - and that makes it well worth considering....

Carrop soup, sir? Harvestellais Square Enix’s chill life simulation game about farming and crystals. It was announced back in June, but a trunk of new details was released today including a lengthy video demonstration in the middle of Nintendo’s Treehouse livestream at Gamescom. Watch it below, if only to read the delightful vegetable names. The video is split into chapters, and the Harvestella showcase begins around the 49m 20s mark....

Get a quick cash injection with the most lucrative schemes and side-jobs How can I make money fast in Saints Row?It’s hard to overstate the importance of cash inSaints Row. Not only does the game’s main objective require you to accumulate money as part of your efforts to expand the Saints' reputation and cement them as the leading gang in Santo Ileso, but many of the game’s systems require you to have plenty of cash to lay down on incremental advancements throughout the story....

Picture perfect Nostalgic yet unknown is perhaps a good way to describeOUupon first glance. It’s a game clearly designed to mimic the picture book imagination of childhood with its hand-drawn visuals and the innocent silent presence of its protagonist, a young boy named OU and his opossum friend. Even its music is reminiscent of some lost, unknown childhood as we’re lulled into the strange world of U-Chronia with the smooth instrumentation of a single guitar and its occasional percussion....