This is the third year running for the show that’s not E3 Summer Game Festhave announced the show will be back for the third time on June 9th to beam Geoff Keighley straight into your peepholes. Proceedings kick off at 11am PST/2pm EST/7pm BST/8pm CEST and are streamed live from Los Angeles across YouTube, Twitch and other platforms like Twitter and Facebook. Even though live digital events are convenient to watch wherever you might be sat – rocking chair in the attic, natch – I’m up for seeing this kind of thing with an audience around me, tucking into popcorn and smuggled-in sweets....

Watch your step in Sokobos, Ravenous Devils and System Purge After you move house there’s a weird period where you keep trying to get pans out of the fridge or cutlery from a drawer that doesn’t exist. In fact, I’m lagging several years behind and still trying to get cutlery out of the drawer in my flat share in London four years ago. Yesterday I walked straight into the sofa for no earthly reason....

Pen and paper games A niche genre. Games that are best enjoyed with a notepad often involve some mystery, or require drawing strange symbols or shapes that can’t be quickly or easily replicated on your PC. They might involve hurried arithmetic, amateurish maps, doodled floorplans, scatter-brained lists. In these cases it transpires that the giant machine whirring three inches from your nose just won’t cut it. Sometimes you gotta use a pencil....

Here’s the answer to Wordle #322 Below you’ll find a few hints for today’s Wordle, along with the solution itself and what it means if you’re unsure. Wrong day? Check out theWordle hint and answer for Thursday 12th Decemberinstead! Those who play Wordle every day will know that certain days are much harder than others - particularly if you’re playing on Hard Mode. If you’re looking for some clues to make guessing the right word a little easier, here are our hints for today’s Wordle puzzle:...

As studio heads depart Hangar 13 studio head Haden Blackman has departed from the company. In an announcement made internally earlier this week and shared with several media outlets, owners 2K Games said that Haden was “leaving the company to pursue his passion at a new endeavor.” Meanwhile, anonymous sourcestalking to Kotakusay that a Mafia prequel is in early development. Although the announcement doesn’t mention it, it looks like Blackman wasn’t the only departure, with chief operating officer Matthew Urban also leaving the company according to a post on LinkedIn....

Stripes the cat is a hero Asa dedicated reader of readme files, I am delighted to learn of aMorrowindmodder who added the family cat to comfort their children, who were afraid of mudcrabs. Stripes the cat arrives in Bethesda’s fantasy RPG as a fierce protector to help fight those horrible creatures, and assure everyone that everything is okay. What a lovely little tale, and a lovely little cat. I downloaded the mod and took Stripes along on my own adventure, have a look....

Here’s how Apex’s new Legend Newcastle works Want to learn about Newcastle’s abilities and how to play him effectively in Apex Legends?Newcastle is the latest Legend to be added toApex Legendswith the arrival of Season 13: Saviors. He’s a defensive-oriented Legend, but one who excels at moving between points of danger and providing protection where necessary. There’s a fair bit of nuance to each of Newcastle’s abilities - not to mention counterplay potential that you’ll need to watch out for....

I have two of these at home and they’re absolutely brilliant. The Cooler Master NR200P is, in my humble opinion, the best value Mini ITX case you can buy right now. For its street price of £110, you get a compact yet easy to build in design with a choice of mesh or glass side panels, plus a pair of low profile 120mm fans. Today however, you can pick up this brilliant little case for £76 in black or white, or £85 to £96 for colours like orange, purple, teal and pink....

The Razer Naga Trinity has three side panels, making it three times as good. The Razer Naga Trinity is a rather brilliant mouse for MMO gamers, or anyone really that likes or needs to have plenty of buttons right under their thumb. The Naga Trinity’s key feature is that it comes with three interchangeable side panels, each with a different amount of layout of buttons - so you can have a regular two-button side layout for FPS titles, a seven-button layout for more complex games (MOBAs?...

A supernatural wes-turn Rootin' tootin' turn-based-strategin’Hard West 2combines the shoot percentages of XCOM with a cowboy odyssey to retrieve your lost souls. If you like ponchos and silly hats, you can give it a go right now by signing up to its newly live open beta. It offers “a small slice of the game’s full campaign” and will run for a full month through until June 5th. Here’s a trailer showing off some of its systems and abilities:...

Some hope it might, weirdly, lead to open-sourcing Carmageddon In a curious bit of historical preservation, Microsoft have released the source code for 3D Movie Maker, a fondly remembered piece of software from 1995. You might best know it from Jerma985’s oft-memed Rat Movie (pictured ↑ above). This comes amidst a wave of source code releases for Argonaut Games' BRender engine, which was also used by games includingCarmageddon1 & 2, Privateer 2: The Darkening, Queen: The eYe, and and Croc....

They claim Bobby Kotick was “unfit” to negotiate the deal with Microsoft SomeActivision Blizzardshareholders want to rake through the company’s records to investigate whether CEO Bobby Kotick pushed through the takeover by Microsoft to prevent himself being found liable for alleged misconduct, according to a recently filedcomplaint. The ‘220 complaint’ – a legal recourse for shareholders to seek access to company books and records – was filed in Delaware by New York City Employees’ Retirement System and pension funds for teachers, police and firefighters on April 26th....

Revised abilities and new heroes Overwatch 2’s first beta test has been ticking along for a week now, and Blizzard have written aresponse to the feedback. It’s almost relentlessly peppy, but there are details in there covering why things are the way they are, and how they’ll be changing in future updates. “The main goals for our first Beta were to test our shift to 5v5, the new maps and Push game mode, overall balance, and build and server stability”, begins the post....