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This’ll learn ya Welcome to Steam Deck Academy, where we take the microfibre cloth of understanding and wipe away the smudgy touchscreen fingerprints of handheld gaming ignorance. Here, eager students – that’s you, I’m assuming – can feast their minds on all theSteam Deckguides, explainers, and investigations that we’ve produced, as well as further instructive pieces to come. This project was born from both a belief and a concern. The belief is that the Steam Deck is very much a PC, and like all PCs, it hides its secrets well....

By “survivor-like”, I think they meanVampire Survivors-like. This is topdown game in which you run around, grow absurdly powerful, and battle huge, well, swarms - all of which seems deeply familiar. In fairness, in what is becoming a rapidly crowded genre, there’s plenty that Temtem: Swarm seems to do differently. It’s 3D, for one, and you can play it alone or in on-line co-op with up to three players. Your character upgrades are also, of course, evolutions of your Tems, which Crema say introduces the strategy of the original Temtem to the survivor-like genre....

These XPG Caster DDR5-6000 sticks are the same as I use in my Intel PC. I always love it when stuff I’ve legitimately bought appears on sale, and that’s the case today with this XPG Caster DDR5 kit that’s 10% off on Amazon UK today. That brings this 32GB dual-channel DDR5-6000 CL40 kit to £64, a great price for this spec - especially for an RGB-enabled model. I’ve been using this kit with an Intel Core i7-12700K system for the past year or so, and I’ve found that the DDR5-6000 provides a noticeable speed-up in many titles at 1080p and 1440p....

The Trust GXT 865 is actually a decent bit of kit too. Mechanical keyboards can be pretty cheap these days, but I’ve not never seen one on sale for as little as £4.99 - especially not for a full-size RGB model available for a brand I’ve actually heard of before! That is indeed the case at GAME though, who are selling the Trust Gaming GXT 865 Asta for £4.99 plus another £4....

17,000 words of patch notes to dig through A colossal new update forWarhammer 40,000: Rogue Traderlaunched last night, hitting the grimdark space-aristocratRPGwith so many changes that the patch notes are almost 17,000 words long. Fitting for a game that ourRogue Trader reviewcalled “engrossing, obscure and absolutely exhausting”. It adds loads of new voiced lines, fixes everything from wonky abilities to broken quests, reworks balance, improves performance, and so much more. Enough is changed that developers Owlcat are giving everyone in your party a free respec to adjust to what the game has become....

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It will break existing save files, though Xenonauts 2received its biggest update yet last night, adding a bunch of new things to the early access X-COM-like that will be sure to please yourrude Chief Science OfficerGaius BaltarJames Calliswhatever his name isSMUG FACE. Alongside a brand-new Cruiser UFO to pilfer for new technology to help fight back against your alien invaders, the Milestone 3 update also brings new story missions, weapons and vehicles, extending the campaign’s play time from 180 in-game days all the way up to 260....

Who Durst, wins Someone known only as UsagiCola, assumed fan of either Limp Bizkit or shitpost mods, or both, and who has now locked down their Xitter account (presumably because of their new Durst-related fame) happened to have the mod saved. YouTuberMicky Dhas shared the zip for the mod in a Google Drive link, viaXitter. I haven’t verified or tested that file myself, so I take no responsibility if you download that and it makes your computer explode....

No joke There’s a particular boss encounter inBalatrothat always feels like it’s cheating a bit. In this mesmerising poker roguelike, each stage is made up of three blinds - small, big and boss - with the blind essentially being a high score you have to hit by playing different kinds of poker hands - your traditional flushes, straights, pairs and so on. Each hand has its own number of chips and multiplier bonuses associated with it, and Balatro’s whole deal is about shuffling closer to victory by making the most of the cards you’re dealt....

Not quite Hamstardew Valley Riot Forge’slast stabat publishing smaller spin-offs from indie teams has resulted inBandle Tale: A League Of Legends Story, which at first glance has all the things I love in self-proclaimed cosy games: gorgeous pixel art, laidback objectives and characters cute enough to trigger primal cheek-squishing instincts. But despite looking like an SNES classic and playing like a mix betweenAnimal CrossingandStardew Valley, Bandle Tale unfortunately ties itself in knots with overly grindy crafting that had me rubbing my temples in an effort not to combust....

It’s been eight years sinceStreet Fighter Vhit PC. As you might recall, thefighting gamelanded with the poise of someone shattering both kneecaps on impact, as complaints about a small roster of characters and barebones story mode - to be filled in later with DLC - were made more egregious by a number of technical issues, including bugs and online issues caused by its wobbly servers. “In many ways, it’s the perfect fighting game, an easy 10, but it is woefully lacking in some areas,” Andi wrotein our own reviewat the time....

“Maintenance update” introduces a beer-induced minigame Ore-poachingco-opshooterDeep Rock Galacticwas updated today, primarily to address a series of longstanding technical issuesbut alsoto encourage you to get sozzled and turn into a filing cabinet. The patch adds a new Hidden Dwarf Double IPA bevvy to the space rig hub’s bar, and duly necking it will initiate a prop hunt minigame among your squad of dwarven miners. Fair enough! I’ve spent hours in the space rig, only some of them drunk off the existing menu, and still hadn’t fully appreciated how its detritus-rich catwalks and workbenches could actually lend themselves to a prop hunt mode....

“Free the world from stagnation, by harnessing the power of Ardore” As time goes by, it really does seem like there’s aSoulslikefor every occasion:Lies Of Pfor those who prefer their fairy tales more on the messed up side,Steelrisingfor those who like France and robots,Lords Of The Fallenfor those who like spectral moths and lanterns. Well, another joins the fray inEnotria: The Last Song, an Italian-inspired Soulslike with the loveliest setting I’ve seen in a while....