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FromSoftens When I finished myreviewfor Soulslike Lies Of P, the devsreleased a patchnot long after that nerfed bosses and made things for ol' Pinnochio easier overall. Sod’s Law struck that day… and it’s returned with a smirk.Shadow Of The Erdtreehas just been patched, making its Shadow Realm Blessings stronger from the off, and in turn, things a little easier for everybody. Such is the life of a reviewer, eh. In what FromSoftware are calling “Calibration Update - Version 1....

FPSOTY (Frying Pan Sound of the Year) Fallen Acesis a stylishFPSlead pipe ‘em up with immersive sim elements, published bygood gun-knowersNew Blood Interactive. Your gumshoe ‘tagonist wakes up, hungover of brain, skint of wallet, and unshaven of face, to discover your apartment - undoubtedly reeking of smokerettes and dehydration wee - is being broken into by foes goonly and mookish. They take a while to boot the door down, which gives you a moment to observe the place and consider which of Fallen Aces' expansive makeshift weapon selection you’d like to batter them with....

Some welcome quality-of-life changes as the new expansion approaches early access We’re only a couple of days away from the early access launch ofDawntrail,Final Fantasy XIV’s latest expansion and first in over two years since the climactic Endwalker. Asthe summery story expansionprepares to drop, Square Enix have run down everything else arriving in theMMO’s 7.0 patch, which notably includes its long-awaited graphical overhaul along with several other nice-to-have improvements whether you’re playing Dawntrail or not....

Here is the full Redmane Freyja quest walkthrough in Shadow Of The Erdtree Looking for a full walkthrough of the Freyja quest in Elden Ring: Shadow Of The Erdtree?The Redmane Freyja quest is one of many newNPC questlinesyou can complete to get unique items and lore tidbits inShadow Of The Erdtree. As a follower of Miquella and former comrade in arms toRadahn, Redmane Freyja is a curious character who becomes intent on discovering the promise made between the two Empyreans....

The bug report Game development studio and intergalactic war ministry Arrowhead have launched a new series of written update posts for players ofHelldivers 2to help keep the war record straight. Mostly, this is the usual case of somebody on the team gathering quotes as the developers batter their fingertips against keyboards to bring you, the video gamer, fresh cannons and what-have-you. But there is some insight into what the conflict-pushers at Arrowhead have enjoyed most about player actions over the last month, including bringing an entire planet to the liberated state of post-existence....

Here’s how to navigate to the Temple Town Ruins in Shadow Of the Erdtree Want to know how to get to the Temple Town Ruins in Elden Ring: Shadow Of The Erdtree?The Temple Town Ruins are tucked away in the northwest corner of theShadow Of The Erdtreemap and are accessible right after you enter Scadu Altus, though you need to trek slightly off the beaten path to reach them. They’re a useful location worth exploring if you’re trying to collect everything thatElden Ring’s huge new DLC has to offer....

Blade stunner Boil the kettle, we’re having cheap ramen. If you likedTownscaperfor simple seaside town tinkering, or enjoyed the forest-dwelling demo ofTiny Glade’shomely castle creation, you might get a satisfied sigh out of this.Dystopikais a cyberpunk build ‘n’ chill where you place down skyscrapers, apartment blocks, factories, and imposing ziggurats straight out ofBlade Runner. There’s no goal, no big number to hit or yammering town mayor to appease. Just some low tempo music, straightforward building controls, and the ability to insert your own cat pictures on the sci-fi billboards....

Need a hint for Connections? Read our guide for help with Connections #381 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 Pokémon Company said they would “investigate and take appropriate measures to address any acts that infringe on intellectual property rights” The studio behindPalworldnever received any formal complaint or threat of legal action from Nintendo or The Pokémon Company despite widespread debate over the open-world ‘Pokémon with guns’ survival game earlier this year. That’s the claim from Pocketpair CEO Takuro Mizobe in a recent interview withGameFile(thanks,Eurogamer), where the dev was asked abouta pointed statement made by The Pokémon Companyin the wake ofPalworld’s release saying they would “investigate and take appropriate measures to address any acts that infringe on intellectual property rights related to the Pokémon”....

Did latency just drop sharply while I was away? The internet doesn’t exist in the world depicted by the film Aliens, though variations of it crop up in the expanded universe. Nor does the idea of a digital society. There’s networked communications tech, but it consists of signals between bodies in deepest space, light years apart, of lonely video terminals in cramped dockloader apartments, and of maniacally collaged CCTV feeds of Marines getting their asses kicked, man....

Boulder’s gate The thing everybody forgets about Sisyphus is that he was an absolutely awful bastard who deserved everything he got. Prior to being the guy who has to push a boulder up a hill for all eternity, Sisyphus was a crafty Ephyran tyrant who used to murder his guests for kicks, and who once fathered children with his own niece in a bid to depose his own brother. Charming! The Ancient Greek gods were outraged both by the king’s violation of the norms of hospitality, and by his general insistence on being too clever by half - and I feel a similar way reading the Xitter feed of Bashir “ManliestDev” Kashalo, who is making a game in which you play as Sisyphus after his eventual demotion to Hell’s chief stone-shover....

Technically a remaster of a remaster Dead Risingis a proper gem, taking an overdone trope - zombies in a shopping centre - and turning it into a brilliantly quirky and challenging survival game that fully delivers on the madcap joy of using anything you can find to mow down hordes of the undead and then snap photos of them. Truly a proto-Instagram-era Nostradamus. Almost ten years after the first game came to PC, and upsettingly close to 20 years from its debut, the original Dead Rising is coming back in a fresh remaster....

Getting’ testy with the final preview build I don’tdislikeThe First Descendant. It has a good grasp of the numbers-go-up-yay appeal behind looter shooters. Sometimes you get to grapple onto a vast robot crab. The first evil alien overlord you fight is named Greg. Not bad, not bad. It’s also, wholeheartedly and unapologetically, a big graphical show-off, complete with multipleray tracingmodes and shinier power armour than if you fed the entire cast ofWarframethrough an industrial car wash....