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Very serious voice: Please, elaborate on these Chaos Gremlins As long-time readers will know, I’m a piteous mark for weird little game guys. I’m currently trying to puzzle out what the titularMother MachineinThe Curious Expeditionstudio Maschinen-Mensch’s upcomingco-opplatformerrefers to. But, if it’s a reference to forming a parental bond with what the game has saw-me-comingishly named “chaos gremlins”, I’m way ahead of you. Ah, the press release speaketh! Probably should have read some more before I began exclaiming “Chaos Gremlins!...

Capcom insist the change isn’t “a response to a changing cultural climate” Aside from being a game where you run around a shopping mall murdering the living dead, the originalDead Risingfrom 2006 is a clownish satire of sleazy tabloid photojournalism. It expresses this by way of its scoring system, where you earn “Prestige points” for snapping pictures that fit one of five categories: “Brutal” scenes of characters being slain; moments of “Horror”, such as the spectacle of an approaching horde; comical “Outtakes”, like characters caught in bizarre poses; moments of “Drama”, such as people reacting to discoveries; and “Erotic” photos of women alive or undead, which range from snaps of exposed underwear to close-ups of cleavage....

And do I detect a minty dusting of Dishonored? Valve’s third-person heroshooterDeadlockhasn’t been officially revealed yet, butthousands of you unscrupulous devils have been playing it thanks to stolen development builds. Speculation abounds that these “leaks”, coupled withValve’s obstinate silence about it, are a calculated publisher psyop. Are they deliberately letting people play the game early so as to temper the marketing rollout in some way? Perhaps handle any initial player criticism under cover of non-announcement?...

Stuck on the Wordle word for August 13? Read our hint or find the answer below! This guide is for a previous day! Looking for today’s solution? Check out theWordle hint and answer for Thursday 12th December! Need a hint for today’s Wordle answer?Wordleis an addicting but challenging test of word acumen. Luckily, you’re in the right place for some assistance. Every day, Wordle presents its legions of players with a deviously simple quandary: can you guess the right five-letter word within just six guesses?...

It’s basically blackjack for jokes Conan Throwbrienwelcomes its host to the stage with discordant jazz and uncanny colour bars glitches. It feels eerie. Desperate. A crushing inevitability. Four joke topics appear at the bottom of the screen. Ridiculous celebrity kids names. Action figures for news anchors. Diet water sales boom. You cautiously slide that last one over to the microphone. Throwbrien emits a string of chirps, like a flame-crested lyre bird with a wounded voicebox trying to mimic human language....

Can I see your id? Last week, Bethesda released a remastered edition ofDoomandDoom IIon Steam, with lots of extra episodes and improvements. One of these new features is a built-in browser for mods, and support for many existing mods that previously required a different version of the game. Basically, lots of good fan-made mods are now playable onthe Steam versionof ye olde Doom. That’s neat! Ah, but there is some demon excrement on the health pack, so to speak....

Need a hint for Connections? Read our guide for help with Connections #428 This guide is for a previous day! Looking for today’s solution? Check out theConnections hint and answers for Thursday 12th December! Want a hint for Connections today?Piggybacking off the monumental success of daily puzzle gameWordle, the New York Times has another fantastically popular word game out now. It’s calledConnections, and if you haven’t played it before, now’s the time to start....

Need a hint for Connections? Read our guide for help with Connections #429 This guide is for a previous day! Looking for today’s solution? Check out theConnections hint and answers for Thursday 12th December! Want a hint for Connections today?Piggybacking off the monumental success of daily puzzle gameWordle, the New York Times has another fantastically popular word game out now. It’s calledConnections, and if you haven’t played it before, now’s the time to start....

The move is the company’s “first significant investment in the Japanese video game market” Tango Gameworks are back from the dead. TheHi-Fi Rushstudio have been acquired - alongside the IP for future games in the rhythmactionseries - by South Korean company Krafton, who also ownPUBGStudios and Striking Distance, among others. “This strategic move will include the rights to Tango Gameworks’ acclaimed IP, Hi-Fi Rush,” Krafton said ina statementtoday. I particularly enjoy the hand-rubbing, grinning use of the word ‘strategic’ here....

Pinned to the board InShadows Of Doubtyou can fall from the roof of a corporate office building during a routine investigation, shatter all the bones in your frail detective body, wake up in a clinic fully healed, and then sprint out the door without paying your sky-high hospital bills while the clinic’s auto-turret shoots at you for doing a medical dine and dash. The early access game is on ourbest immersive simslist for a reason, you know, and now it has an autumn release date for the final version, along with a new trailer....

Stuck on the Wordle word for August 12? Read our hint or find the answer below! This guide is for a previous day! Looking for today’s solution? Check out theWordle hint and answer for Thursday 12th December! Need a hint for today’s Wordle answer?Wordleis an addicting but challenging test of word acumen. Luckily, you’re in the right place for some assistance. Every day, Wordle presents its legions of players with a deviously simple quandary: can you guess the right five-letter word within just six guesses?...

Need a hint for today’s Connections? Read our guide for help with Connections #427 This guide is for a previous day! Looking for today’s solution? Check out theConnections hint and answers for Thursday 12th December! Want a hint for Connections today?Piggybacking off the monumental success of daily puzzle gameWordle, the New York Times has another fantastically popular word game out now. It’s calledConnections, and if you haven’t played it before, now’s the time to start....

read-only Hello reader who is also a reader, and welcome back to Booked For The Week - our regular Sunday chat with a selection of cool industry folks about books! This week, I’ve been half reading in the garden and half staring in awe at my Kindle’s paperwhite doohickey and it’s ability to stay readable in searing sunbeams. I’m tempted to look up how it works but I don’t want to find out it’s made from the luminous, genetically-engineered husks of the workers that drop dead from dehydration at the fulfilment centers or something....