Vote on this terrible question to help decide the best thing in games Last time, you decided thatcameras which actually take pictures are better than running into a wall so fast you hurt yourself. Immersive sims shudder in revulsion from this outcome (but sadly don’t take damage from their vibration). Cameras won by only eight votes, so you’d better join in if you feel strongly about this week’s face-off. And this one might involve taking a face… off....

We talk Spidey’s PC features and development with Insomniac Games and Nixxes Marvel’s Spider-Man Remasteredis the latest ex-PlayStation exclusive to rock up on PC, following a collaborative effort between original developers Insomniac Games and porting specialists Nixxes. It’s also a skyscape-swinging, baddie-decking good time, so says Alice Bee’sreview, and one that comes with plenty of special features just for the Windows version. I’ll be posting a more performance-and-hardware-focused guide to it later this week, but in the meantime I called up Jurjen Katsman, founder and senior director of development at Nixxes, and Mike Fitzgerald, core technology director at Insomniac, for a chat about how Marvel’s Spider-Man Remastered makes the jump to PC....

Hints and the answer to today’s Wordle word Below, you’ll find three hints for the Wordle answer today which will push you in the right direction. If you don’t like the puzzle and just want to continue a winning streak, then skip down past the clues to find today’s Wordle answer. Wrong day? Check out theWordle hint and answer for Thursday 12th Decemberinstead! Wordle August 10 hints Cheating might be wrong, but a few clues to help you find the Wordle answer today is perfectly fine....

Just $99 for a highly rated USB cardioid condenser mic, equalling its lowest ever price. Overall then, an awesome mic for the money, and if you’re interested in streaming or recording audio for a podcast or a VO, then this is a nice deal!

The first planned release from Embark Studios needs a bit more time The announcment was posted to the game’sTwitteraccount, where the team wrote that “Arc Raiders is an ambitious game, and we will be using this extra time to expand the experience, and allow it to reach its fullest potential.” So it goes! When a game needs a bit longer in development, it’s good that it should get that time....

From summoning to combat to soloing Elden Ring’s patch 1.06 offers dozens of small tweaks that should make your journey across The Land Between just a little easier. The biggest of the changes are to how summoning works, but there are also tweaks to quests, attack speeds, and bug fixes that’ll maybe not make you die less, but will at least make your deaths fairer. As thepatch notes explain, the major addition is “the function to send summoning signs to summoning pools in multiple areas, including distant areas....

Are we the baddies? Elite Dangerous’s Update 13 is live now, bringing an end to the two-year-long Azimuth Saga and laying the groundwork for the space sim’s ominously titled next chapter, Aftermath. There’s a cinematic video below which reveals the climax of the event, and then I’ll dig into the patch notes a little. Top tip: don’t give a speech about how this is your day of ultimate victorybeforeyou fire your giant space lasers and wipe out your enemies once and for all....

Die of cold or cholera There are many different kinds of townbuilders these days, but two of the most popular are “it’s a bit like Settlers,” and “it looks a bit like Settlers as a ruse but really it’s about everyone dying of cholera.“Farthest Frontieris the latter: a city management game from the makers ofGrim Dawnwhere its picturesque exterior gives way to an interier that’s reminiscent ofBanished. As of today, Farthest Frontier is now in early access....

The Pico-8 games are freely available elsewhere An NFT minter using the GameStop marketplace has admitted to minting developers' games without their consent or knowledge. The games, which are freely available on itch.io, were sold several hundred times before GameStop delisted them, and continue to exist on GameStop’s servers regardless of the wishes of the original creators. As reported byArs Technica, the NiFTy Arcade was a bit different from most of the NFTs on offer in GameStop’s marketplace, selling the ability to access certain games from one’s wallet, rather than (receipts for) JPEGs....

The XCOM studio’s next game was originally supposed to launch in March Tactical superhero ‘em upMarvel’s Midnight Sunshas been delayed for the second time. Pushed back once before, it’s now nebulously due “later this fiscal year.” OnTwitter, the team said that the delay would be used “to make sure we are delivering the best possible experience for everyone,” also noting that it is “easily the biggest game we’ve ever made.” Fair enough!...

The developers have revealed two additional monsters as well as quest expansions and more paid DLC More monsters and expanded Anomaly Quests are coming toMonster Hunter Rise: Sunbreaktomorrow, August 10th, in the free version 11 update. Today the developers at Capcom revealed two additional monsters that will be released in version 11, the Silver Rathalos and the Gold Rathian. Both have new moves from their previous appearances in the series, and can enter a dangerous “Incandescent” state - so you’ll need to be master rank 10 to go out a-huntin' for ‘em....

Update: out of stock! Update: the Iskur XL appears to be out of stock at Amazon and now back at a more regular price of £490. Original article follows below: The XL version of the Razer Iskur gaming chair is down to £287, nearly half the price it is onRazer’s official websiteand an all-time historic low price. Curiously, it’s also nearly £230 cheaper than the regular size version! Katharinereviewed that Iskur previouslyand rated it highly, so if this size fits you then this is a nice chance to pick it up at a very fair price....

Cloudbusting Peter is a guy with his head in the clouds. Literally. Well, sort of. A climate science lecturer at Cambridge University, Peter’s great passion in life is cloud research. All he wants to do is study clouds: their different formations, their flight paths, their properties, everything. He finds them so fascinating that they’re the subject of his 100-page PhD thesis. It’s a poetic subject and one that matches his temperament as a boyish and awkward researcher....