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Sumo Group studios have also co-developed games including Suicide Squad: Kill the Justice League and Hogwarts Legacy Sumo Group, the British video game collective which owns developers Sumo Digital, publishers Secret Mode and more - includingEverybody’s Gone to the Rapturedevs The Chinese Room - is laying off hundreds of staff, cutting 15% of their workforce “to better navigate the upcoming challenges expected in the coming months”. The news came just a couple of days after Secret Mode showed off upcoming PC releases Critter Café, freerunning Mario Kart-but-deadly-a-likeDeathsprint 66and The Chinese Room’s next moody titleStill Wakes the Deepduring Summer Games Fest over the weekend, with Sumo Digital chirpily celebrating the “busy weekend”on Monday....

Need a hint for today’s Connections? Read our guide for help with Connections #368 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. In this guide, we’ll give you a handy hint selection for today’s Connections puzzle on Thursday, June 13th, before revealing the group themes and the Connections answers themselves....

Procrastination bait meets productivity tools When I was a kid, one of my absolute favourite things to do on the PC was to mess around with a free virtual Felix - like the cat from the cat food adverts - who would roam around the Windows XP desktop, chasing balls of string between program windows and curling up to take a nap on the taskbar. I have no idea where the game came from - a dream, perhaps - but 30 years later, I still think about it as a perfectly formed way to lose hours on the PC without actually doing anything....

Stuck on the Wordle word for June 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?We have you covered with a list of hints to help you maintain that precious streak. Every day,Wordlepresents its legions of players with a deviously simple quandary: can you guess the right five-letter word within just six guesses?...

Stuck on today’s Wordle word for June 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?Buckle up for a selection of clues to help you keep your streak intact. Every day,Wordlepresents its legions of players with a deviously simple quandary: can you guess the right five-letter word within just six guesses?...

Arriving on Netflix this November I’ve never played League Of Legends and I have no interest in doing so, but Arcane was superb. Set within the world of Riot’s MOBA and starring several of its playable characters, Netflix’s mini series was better animated and better written than any of its peers. A second season is on the way and due to arrive this November. Its teaser trailer also refers to it as “the final chapter”....

Plus cloud saves, bug fixes, a better starting area Caves Of Qudhas been under development for over 15 years, but it’s finally reaching a 1.0 release later this year. Ahead of that happening, it’s received a final major content update which seeks to make the complex, detailed roguelike more approachable. The Spring Molting update, which is out now, makes the user interface work with both mouse and gamepad, adds Steam cloud saves, and more....

Raining demos like cats and dogs I’m a little sheepish about how much I’m looking forward toCat Quest3. It’s neither big budget and mainstream, nor a conceptually thrilling indie. If the first two games are anything to go by, it’ll be a paint-by-numbers action-RPG with simple combat, lots of grind, and endless cat and dog puns. Yeah. That’s why I like it, though. Now it has a release date: August 8th....

Here’s the date and time to start downloading Shadow Of The Erdtree Looking for the Elden Ring Shadow Of The Erdtree pre-download time?With the expansiveElden RingDLC just around the corner, you’ll want to make sure you can play it immediately upon release. Shadow Of The Erdtreeis scheduled to release globally onJune 21, but you’ll be able to pre-download the DLC much earlier if you have it pre-ordered. Join us as we go through the specifics, including the time and date the Shadow Of The Erdtree pre-download becomes available....

Here are the system requirements for Shadow Of The Erdtree Looking for the Elden Ring Shadow Of The Erdtree system requirements?Elden Ring’s DLCShadow Of The Erdtreeis an utterly massive beast capable of adding another 100 hours to your playtime, and if you’re curious about the system requirements to enter the Land of Shadow, you’re in the right place. Shadow Of The Erdtree PC requirements Here are both the minimum and recommended system requirements for running Elden Ring Shadow Of The Erdtree on PC....

Welcome to the retro-future AI nowadays is big business and it’s pretty terrifying, honestly.FACEMINERcaptures both of these things well, as it sees you build a biometric data processing empire from scratch. And most scary of all, is you’ll relish upscaling your organisation as you mine mugshots. I mean, I went from, “Hmmm, this is dubious”, to a sicko excited by the fact I didn’t have to click much to harvest strangers' portraits....

Less than a day away Looking for Shadow Of The Erdtree’s release time?The massiveElden RingDLCShadow Of The Erdtreeis less than 24 hours away, bringing dozens of hours of playtime and a devious array of new bosses and trials for your Tarnished to traverse. Since Shadow of the Erdtree’s global release times differ slightly depending on your region and whether you’re playing on PC or console, it can be a little tricky to figure out exactly when your journey will commence....

Kickstarter launching in July I try to avoid describing video games in mathematical terms, but I can hardly avoid it here. Treasure Planet’s flying galleons plus Spirited Away’s bath house plusSpiritfarer’s gentle building and management mechanics equalsHotel Galactic. Watch the trailer below and tell me I’m wrong. I’m not being reductive, right? Although it’s not like Spiritfarer wasn’t already channeling Ghibli. You build your hotel and design each room to cater to different kinds of guests, manage your staff by assigning actions and priorities, and seemingly form friendships with alien companions with special abilities and traits they can pass on to new joiners....