Castlevania on ‘roids Anyone up for side-scrollingBloodborne? That’s the distinct vibe emitting from every gothic orifice ofThe Last Faith, a Metroidvania coming this year. Some more footage of the thwack ‘em up platformer was shown off at today’s Future Games Show. You can stroke your beard and make approving sounds at it, if you watch the trailer below. You’ll play as a bloke called Eric who is highly efficient at slashing and shooting even the largest of monstrosities, which is quite handy because there’s a lot and they’ve invaded....

Gravity Falls meets Pikmin Tinykin is about an astronaut named Milo returning to earth after a long space voyage. Milo might reasonably fall to his knees and scream “You blew it up, damn you!” when he gets there, because the earth he lands upon has beenblown upseveral times larger than normal - either that or he’s been made much smaller and is now the size of a penny. Milo must then have to navigate the abandoned world with a Pikmin-like army of aliens by his side, ready to solve puzzles....

Hints and the answer to today’s Wordle word Wrong day? Check out theWordle hint and answer for Thursday 12th Decemberinstead! If today’s Wordle is adding a little bit too much complexity and stress into your Sunday, then have a look at these Wordle hints to see if they can trigger any ideas: Today’s Wordle answer: what is the Wordle word for 12 Jun? Tricky one, this word. It may seem simple, but there are a couple of traps you can fall into which can easily use up all your guesses....

What was that noise? No, not SHODAN or GLaDOS. I mean the other sort. The magic formulae of raw computer nonsense that runs under the cover of your favourite game and makes enemies flank you, or friendly NPCs toss a health kit just in time. Good AI is not an unbeatable genius. It is smartly stupid. It is both surprisingly clever and capable of wonderful carelessness. It can remind us of ourselves....

Fingers crossed for more No Code news Last night’sDay Of The Devsstream closed out with an announcement from Annapurna Interactive, confirming that their annual summer showcase is happening again this year. Pop July 28th in your diaries, or feel free to mark it on your decorative floral-print wall calendar if you so wish. There’s a very short preview trailer of past Annapurna-published games to pique your interest below. Annapurna promise “reveals, announcements, and much more” at this showcase....

Venturing forth on Steam, GOG and the Epic Games Store after 18 years Interplay’s formerly console-exclusive action RPGBaldur’s Gate: Dark Alliance 2is being re-released this summer 18 years after it spawned, marking its first appearance on PC. It’s obviously the follow up toBaldur’s Gate: Dark Alliance, which was similarlylate in coming to PC(and modern consoles) at the end of last year. Scout the next game’s trailer out below. You can choose from five classes in Baldur’s Gate: Dark Alliance 2....

This December Videogame publishers look at animated series like I look at air fryers: everyone else seems to have one, so I want one too. I assume that’s why BioWare are working with Netflix to produceDragon Age: Absolution, a new animated series coming this December. Here’s the trailer: There’s not much information about the series, other than a short synopsis: That’s it. It is, apparently, a “new saga” and not directly based on any of the existing games or Dragon Age stories....

Criticisms of severe crunch have been aimed at ZeniMax management Staff who worked for Bethesda on post-apocalyptic multiplayer RPGFallout 76have come forward to share their stories from its development, and they don’t make for pleasant reading. Developers who spoke anonymously toKotakusaid they’d crunched in ten-hour shifts over six days a week prior to Fallout 76’s launch, with some saying they fantasised about being injured to avoid having to come into work the following day....

The controversial monetisation model of Diablo Immortal explained What is the real cost of Diablo Immortal, and is it in fact pay-to-win?Diablo Immortalis already infamous for its microtransaction monetisation model, which many players have pointed out are effectively loot boxes under a not-even-that-different name. You might have seenreportsgoing around that it costs somewhere in the region of £88,000 / $110,000 to fully upgrade a character (and that an F2P player would need to grind for ten years to earn the same upgrade materials for free)....

Finally, some good content It’s only a short trailer right now, but Return To Moria, due out some time next year, is looking both moody and potentially memetic. Who doesn’t love screenshots of Dwarves doin' stuff? Drums in the deep, lads! Look at those caverns! Phwoar! It’s set in the Fourth Age, which is the peacetime era immediately following the War Of The Rings (what happens in the movies, basically), and players embody a Dwarf summoned to a proc-gen Moria by Gimli to reclaim lost spoils....

Until June 20th What is building a PC but piecing together an elaborate, electronic jigsaw? Equally, what is building a jigsaw but piecing together an analogue cardboard PC you can’t do anything with after it’s finished? These similarities are why building a PC isn’t as strange a subject for a videogame as it first appears. If you like your electric jigsaws, then good news: there’s now an open beta available forPC Building Simulator 2....

An Epic Games Store exclusive arriving in autumn Guns and swords are a useful combination, so imagine having a gat-toting frog riding on top of a blade-wielding robot. That’s essentially the cut and thrust of Moving Pictures Interactive’s roguelite co-op action adventureShoulders Of Giants, coming to the Epic Games Store later this year. They’re not quite a 21st century Banjo-Kazooie, but they’ll do in a pinch. This is obviously a sci-fi game, what with the frog in a space suit that’s piloting a robot....

You know what they say about screaming in space One time in the office (so, a hundred years ago) a hypothetical was posed: if you were given the chance to go to the moon, with a guarantee that nothing would go wrong, would you take it? “No,” I said. “No way. Not a chance. I wouldn’t like it.” People were shocked at my refusal. “But nothing will go wrong!” they exclaimed....