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As well as workplace bullying Lego Star Wars: The Skywalker Sagahas been in development for five years and suffered multiple delays, but it now has a new release date. The latest Lego spin on Star Wars, which covers all nine main films, will release on April 5th. At the same time as Warner Bros. announced the release date however, Polygon published a lengthy reporton extensive crunch suffered by employees working on the game at developers TT Games....

Paranormal pranktivity Panic. Panic at the museum reception desk, as the astronaut suit I have belatedly possessed is set upon by a four-strong team of ghost busters. We’re in the opening seconds of the round and only 20 minutes into myMidnight Ghost Hunthands-on preview, which means I’ve yet to figure out important concepts like ‘where the hunters spawn in’, or nuances like ‘this button lets me hide in props’ as opposed to ‘this button telekinetically waggles props about like ectoplasmic dinner bells’....

No news is good news Dunno if you’ve noticed, but there’s been a whole lot of news lately. Too much news in fact. Growing up, we barely had any news. There was just one bit of news that we’d all have to share. A man would drive around our village with the news in the back of his van, and we’d all come out of our houses to watch as he slid open the doors and pointed at it, saying “well, here is the news”....

A free browser game built using Wikipedia data Which came first, the founding of Siemens or the reconstruction of the Palace Of Westminster? And was Finland established as an independent state before or after the birth of Mexican film actress Dolores del Rio? The answers are “Siemens” and “after”, respectively. These are things I have learned today while playingWikiTrivia, a free browser game by Tom Watson which pulls historical dates from WikiData and challenges you to put them in the correct order....

Take photos of celebrity dogs Hear the namePupperazziand you can probably guess what it’s about. Dogs, yes. Taking photos of dogs. Perfect, no? It’s out now on Steam and Xbox Game Pass. Here’s the launch trailer: The name does, I suppose, bring connotations of other things. Hanging around outside clubs to get photos of dogs as they stumble into the night. Telephoto lenses trained on dogs on the beach. Helicopters hovering above dogs on dates in the park....

Learn which guns are best in Rainbow Six Extraction Looking for the best guns in Rainbow Six Extraction?If you want to beat back the Archaean hordes and survive on harder difficulties, you’ll need to know the weapons inRainbow Six Extraction. Since the members of REACT mostly have unique weapons (carried over from Rainbow Six Siege), knowing the right gun to use will help you recognise the characters that need to be on your team....

Learn how to defeat every enemy type in Rainbow Six Extraction What are the different enemies in Rainbow Six Extraction, and where are their weak spots?Rainbow Six Extractionthrows its players into a dark and dangerous world ravaged by an alien invasion. The aliens in question are known as Archaeans, and they come in various different shapes and sizes - some far deadlier than others. If you want to maximise your chances of survival, and minimise the risk to your squad, then you’ll need to do your homework....

How to earn REACT Credits in Maelstrom Protocol, and where and how to purchase them as premium DLC How do you get REACT Credits in Rainbow Six Extraction?REACT Credits are the premium currency used inRainbow Six Extraction, which can be exchanged in the in-game store to redeem cosmetic items and consumables. They can either be bought with real money or earned by participating in Maelstrom Protocol. How to earn REACT Credits in Maelstrom Protocol...

But where’s the forklift racing? Shenmue The Animation is a co-production of Cartoon Network’s adult-oriented spin-off Adult Swim and anime streaming service Crunchyroll. It’ll begin airing on February 5th with 13 episodes produced. I have regrettably been RPS’s resident anime guy for a long time, but I’m not so excited about this. The animation looks pretty rough to me, at least when compared to Netflix’s increasingly swish productions. Plus, a lot of what made Shenmue weird and interesting was its unusual commitment to simulating the world....

Deck Stranding confirmed Valve are gearing up for the first batch ofSteam Decksto be shipped to playersnext month. Part of the preparation is rolling out their compatibility review program, which will let you know which games on Steam work best with Valve’s handheld PC. The verification status of the first set of games can now be found viaSteamDB, though not yet the Steam interface itself. As spotted bythe SteamDeck community on Reddit, 67 games have so far received a rating....

A growth market Ah, to be good with plants. Apparently it was a thing, wasn’t it, that my generation all got into house plants, especially during lockdown. A friend of mine has a positively ebullient front room full of lush, green darlings that have names like Hercules. My brother-in-law, absent any real space, has mounted glass spheres of water on his wall and grows little flowers and trailing vines from them....

Great fixer upper opportunities There was a small recording blip at the start of this week’spodcast, but apart from the opening banter we’ve got a great episode this week. We open an estate agent to appraise the houses in games that would actually be good to live in. It turns out there aren’t that many. Not a lot of them would be convenient. There’s an excellent Cavern Of Lies this week, in which Nate hosts a game-themed episode of Through The Keyhole in character as Lloyd Grossman/a robot version of Matt Berry....

As the frisbee flies We’re in a bit of a “love letter” media period right now. Some old things come back with new things to say, like The Matrix Resurrections, and some old things come back simply to enjoy themselves, and remind yesteryear fans what they loved about the original in the first place, like Scream. Dotemu’s revival is really simple on the surface: two people pelt a frisbee back and forth with enough energy to knock the shit of each other, aiming to put the frisbee past their opponent and into a “goal” area....