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Honk your way to greatness One community member,Gloomhonk, has risen to legend status for theircreative and hilarious clips, likethis takeon Don’t Stop Believin’ where you enrage the guitarist by bogarting all the solos. Or more recently, their version of theHelldivers 2main theme. Now, they’ve set their talents to creating custom backdrops for new tracks for players to go bell-to-bumper against each other in this year’sTootTally community championship. The championship - which is soon entering its finals - sees players compete for a crowdsourced prize pool....

To boldly grow There aren’t many ways left to put a twist onStardew Valley, but suffixing it with “in space!” oughta do it.Little-Known Galaxyis out in a week, and currently has a demo onSteam, where you can sample many of the delights that you’re used to from a Stardewlike when you’re new in town: meeting the locals, growing potatoes, and tidying up the place. Also, raising alien pets, seeking out new life, and new civilisations… It all takes place on a spaceship, you see, and this has some ramifications to playing the game beyond reskinning everything to be shiny metal instead of picturesque mud....

Square Enix’s next remake is… themselves? After rebootingFinal Fantasy 7as the trilogy of Remake, Rebirth and Really, You Went With That? (TBC), Square Enix are now planning to reboot themselves. Among the publishers’ revamped approach to making money - following a recent drop in profits, per their latest financials - is a more “aggressive” approach to bringing their games to more platforms than specific consoles (in other words, PlayStation) as exclusives, with a particular focus on “win[ning] over PC users”....

“Greg’s got a fantastic ear.” The story ofManor Lords’ soundtrack begins, as all inspiring tales do, with hunched-over late-night doom scrolling. It was pre-covid, and Pressure Cooker Studios’ composer Daniel Caleb was flicking through reddit posts when a trailer cut through the glare. He’d never heard ofManor Lordsbefore. It looked like a new IP, but already had a huge Reddit following. Caleb loved what he saw. At that point, Pressure Cooker mainly worked on film scores, but both Caleb and fellow composer Elben Schutte had always wanted to eventually move on to bringing their storytelling from cinema to games....

Stuck on today’s Wordle word for May 14? 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?...

They’ve also added cheese Cheese and loyal pets (two important items on Maslow’s hierarchy of needs) have been added to the co-op survival crafting gameAbiotic Factor. The dairy product manifests as various suspiciously coloured cheese wheels which you can cook and eat, while loyalty comes in the form of freakish pets that can now follow your every move. The pets themselves are technically not new to Abiotic Factor, but their player-tracking behaviour is....

Need a hint for today’s Connections? Read our guide for help with Connections #336 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 to Booked For The Week - our Sunday feature where we ask a selection of cool industry folks questions about books! Did you know that if you cup a book over your ear you can hear the gentle ambience of a thousand seagulls screaming how Charles Bukowski is literally them fr? I cannot judge these irritating gulls.“Air And Light…“is still one of my all time favourites....

Stuck on today’s Wordle word for May 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?...

Stuck on the Wordle word for May 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?...

Talk about a sucker punch Samurai action-adventureGhost Of Tsushima Director’s Cutis due to launch on PC this coming Thursday, May 16th - but it’ll be available on Steam in nearly 180 fewer countries than expected. That’s because its online features will require players to sign-in to a PSN account, and PSN accounts are not available in those countries. This is effectively the same issue thatrecently enraged Helldivers 2 players. The ‘purchase restricted countries’ were added to Ghost Of Tsushima yesterday, as visiblein an update tracked by SteamDB....

Great if you hate buildings Instruments Of Destructiongoes to the trouble of having a voiceover offer a preamble to each of its missions, but I don’t need it. Its launch trailerknowsI don’t need it, as its own voiceover makes clear: “Take this vehicle, destroy those buildings. Do I really need to explain why?” Nope! You don’t. And the smashing simulator’s 1.0 release is out now. This is the work of Luke Schneider, among others, and Schneider was the lead tech designer onRed Faction: Guerilla, the famed first-person demolish ‘em up....

Need a hint for today’s Connections? Read our guide for help with Connections #335 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....