No, Jabba The Hutt isn't a Star Wars Outlaws season pass or special edition exclusive

Ubisoft clarifies that Gold and Ultimate edition only grants access to a bonus Jabba mission Following a mild-to-moderate outcry, Ubisoft have clarified that queasy worm gangster Jabba The Hutt isn’t, in fact, aStar Wars Outlawsspecial edition or season pass exclusive. The apparently much-beloved star slug will appear in every edition of the game, but if you scrape together the credits for the Gold or Ultimate Editions, you’ll get access to a Jabba’s Gambit mission as part of the game’s season pass....

April 16, 2024 · 2 min · 261 words · Linda Floyd

NYT Connections hint and answers (Tuesday, April 16)

Need a hint for Connections? Read our guide for help with Connections #310 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....

April 16, 2024 · 3 min · 556 words · Jessica Olson

Palworld CEO says “many” clones of Pokémon-with-guns game are coming, with “Genshin Impact-level” successors

Working with budgets ‘ten times larger’ than Pocketpair, apparently Palworld, the viralsurvival gamethatstirred up controversy(and found plenty of success) on the back of being a Pokémon-a-like - with added guns and factory labour, mind - is now due to become the inspiration for its own generation of clones, according to the head of its developers. Pocketpair CEO andPalworlddirector Takuro Mizobe X-ed a screenshot of upcoming multiplayer sandbox-survival game Auroria, which appears to be, uh, Palworld in space....

April 16, 2024 · 1 min · 186 words · Nancy Lopez

Still Wakes The Deep’s authentic horror aims to channel Ken Loach by way of Stanley Kubrick

“In obscurity comes horror,” says lead designer Rob McLachlan Set in 1975 on an oil rig in the Scottish North Sea,horrorgameStill Wakes The Deepis less about supernatural events, and more about the people who experience them. Here, that’s Scottish electrician Caz McLeary and the crew of the Beira D rig. In bringing the rig to life, The Chinese Room turned to archival footage, oil and gas legislation, blueprints, and photographs. For lead designer Rob McLachlan, though, it was conversations with former platform workers that painted the clearest picture of what life on the rigs was really like....

April 16, 2024 · 8 min · 1522 words · Ruben Gross

Text Vault-Tec's number from the Fallout TV show to get a potential teaser for a November announcement

Don’t call the number if you’re around other people, though If you text the number you get a reply from Vault-Tec saying “The next available appointment is 33 weeks from now, please stand by!” (handilycaptured by X user FanaticalGuycos my response hasn’t come through yet). And then the significantly less immersive “Reply Y to get recurring marketing and other texts from FallOut”, which is quite funny. There is speculation that this is just a reference to Vault 33, the vault where main character Lucy was born and raised....

April 16, 2024 · 2 min · 296 words · Elizabeth Woodard MD

The Fallout TV show might have answered a decades-old question in the video games

Who shot first? With the arrival of Amazon’s Fallout TV series last week came the dropping of another bombshell: the possible truth behind a mystery that’s gone unanswered in the video games for over 25 years. Before you read on, please bear in mind thatspoilers for the Fallout TV show’s season one finale follow! Since the firstFalloutreleased in 1997, it’s never been quite clear who was responsible for turning North America (and the rest of the world) into a dusty irradiated wasteland full of super mutants, rusted robots and supersized cockroaches....

April 16, 2024 · 3 min · 504 words · Lawrence Simon

Wordle hints and answer (#1032): How to solve the Tuesday April 16 Wordle

Stuck on the Wordle word for April 16? 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?...

April 16, 2024 · 6 min · 1222 words · Casey Nguyen

World of Warcraft’s next expansion The War Within will run a beta before launch, and you can sign up now

First instalment in Worldsoul Saga trilogy due to arrive sometime this summer World of Warcraftis setting a whole new story arc in motion with its next expansion, The War Within. If you can’t quitewait until this summerto see what the first chapter of the new Worldsoul Saga trilogy has to offer, you might not have to wait so long. Blizzard are running a beta for War Within that will give testers the chance to delve into the subterranean addition early - and sign-ups are now open....

April 16, 2024 · 2 min · 322 words · Rebecca King

Final Fantasy 14's Dawntrail benchmarking tool has players happy with its new playable catmoms

Teeth remain an issue for some AsMMORPGFinal Fantasy 14’s upcoming Dawntrail expansion gets ever closer, Squeenix have released a benchmarking tool that lets you see how your rig might handle its graphical update. Not only that, but it also lets you sample the new female Hrothgar playable race. So far, folks seem to be happy with the tool and the catmoms. With Dawntrail set to launch on July 2nd, Squeenix’sbenchmark toollets you see how your PC will get on with said dawns and trails....

April 15, 2024 · 2 min · 279 words · Angela Rivera

Former Blizzard boss reckons you should be able to tip developers 'another $10 or $20' on top of $70 games

“I know $70 is already a lot, but it’s an option at the end of the game I wish I had at times. Some games are that special” The former president of Blizzard has suggested that players should have the option to tip developers after finishing a game. That’s on top of paying $70 for the game in the first place, mind. Mike Ybarra - who departed Blizzard earlier this year - proposed the idea in a post on X, saying “I’ve thought about this idea for a while, as a player, since I’ve been diving into single player games lately”....

April 15, 2024 · 3 min · 517 words · Nicholas Berg

Game-sized Fallout 4 mod Fallout: London has been delayed indefinitely by Bethesda’s incoming next-gen update

“The past four years of our work stand to just simply break” Fallout: London, theFallout 4mod set in a post-apocalyptic English capitalthat’s large enough to effectively be its own game, has been hit by an indefinite delay just two weeks from its planned release date. The reason? Fallout 4’s long-in-the-works next-gen update is now due to drop just two days after London’s planned launch date, which its fan devs say will “simply break” the ambitious project....

April 15, 2024 · 2 min · 409 words · Kiara Crawford

Goblin Stone review: turn-based charm spells only last so long

Goblin’ up my patience more like In the world ofstrategyandmanagementgameGoblin Stone, the goblins are nearly extinct. Getting murdered in large numbers by adventurers hungry for a quick experience point and a slack handful of coin will do that. I cannot tell you that youwillwant to bestow protection and prosperity on these gribbly green niblets. They exhibit a tweeness that you’ll either find charming or despicably manipulative, even when they’re showering in the blood of their enemies....

April 15, 2024 · 6 min · 1243 words · Jessica Costa

Hands on with Frostpunk 2 reveals a wasteland that’s more about wheelin’ and dealin’ than mere survivin’

Still plenty of ways to make children miserable, though My city has become far too egalitarian for the Icebloods. Marxist policy choices mean the faction are now protesting in my coal mines, shutting down a vital heat pipeline and fomenting further dissent among the now freezing broader populace. It is, regrettably, time to talk. They want me to pass the Apex Workers decree, a darwinian shift towards culling the weak while enhancing the strong....

April 15, 2024 · 7 min · 1357 words · Robert Hickman