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How to get Uncut Skill Gems and use them for Gemcutting Wondering how to use Skill Gems in Path of Exile 2?Both Uncut Skill Gems and Uncut Support Gems are essential items if you want to unlock more abilities inPath of Exile 2. As the names suggest, Uncut Skill Gems can be turned into skills, while Uncut Support Gems are used to upgrade those skills. To get them, you’ll have to slay some enemies, gather some Gems, and find your way around the Gemcutting menu....

Snow day I am a Winter baby. My birthday is very close to Christmas, and so you’d think this might make me immune to the serotonin-sapping effects of the greyest season in a “I was born of the cold. Moulded by it” kind of way. No such luck, I’m afraid. So, since there’s only so many Vitamin D supplements and delightfully festive lunchtime Gin and Tonics one can consume, I figured I’d ask: what are your favourite comfort games for the bleaker months?...

A shadowy and sonorous 2D platformer - try the demo, eh In “non-violent and poetic” 2D platformer Symphonia, you’re an extremely fancy violinist exploring a realm of musical machines, where gas lanterns kindle fitfully as you approach, crotchets adorn vast cogwheels, and reams of what I really hope isn’t actual catgut feed through titanic pegboxes overhead. Sampling the demo, I was immediately enflamed by the orchestral score and placed in a mood of white-gloved sophistication only slightly spoiled by the familiarity of the underlying platform moveset, and by my repeatedly falling into pits....

Surprise release during Day Of The Devs One of video game’s greatest pleasures is being able to shoot bits off an enemy and then append them to yourself. TankHead gets it. It’s about steering a tank through a desolate sci-fi landscape, blasting similar tank and mecha enemies to bits, then scavenging them for parts using a drone. It’s been in quiet development for years, but it got a big reveal during tonight’s Day Of The Devs stream....

This door was ordered to open earlier When I were a lad, you’d open an advent calendar and get a piece of chocolate shaped like a bell with an aftertaste so rancid you’d wish you’d eaten the little cardboard window instead. And you’d bloody well make do, too. Not these days. Now, you get a squadron of tiny automata with drills for noses that burrow through your battle lines and utterly wreck your vulnerable missile launchers....

Gabe’ll fix it TheSteam Deck OLEDhas joinedValve’s Certified Refurbishedprogramme, offering a much cheaper way of getting your hands on the best handheld PC around. Provided you don’t mind it being in someone else’s first, anyway. As with official refurbs of the originalSteam Deck, “certified” Steam Deck OLEDs are formerly-broken models that have been returned to Valve, fixed up and tested in-house, thenput back on the market at steep discounts. You’re looking at £389/$439 for the 512GB spec and £459/$519 for 1TB, down from £479/$549 and £569/$649 respectively....

Stuck on today’s Wordle word for December 11? 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?If the solution won’t come to mind today, this guide can help you continue yourWordlestreak. 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?...

Patched Again! While it’s always worth starting a new game ofCyberpunk 2077just to hear Judy say “his own choomba shot him!” for the thirtieth time, there’s now a slightly more tangible reason to start a new journey into Night City’sopen world. Update 2.2 went live yesterday, bringing with it a host of fixes, as well as some deeper customisation options for both your character and vehicles. The base game is also 55% offon Steamuntil the 18th of December, with the Phantom Liberty expansion at 20% off, or both in a 48% off bundle....

Carrier update coming in January I feel guilty about repeatedly comparingNebulous: Fleet Commandto Homeworld, inasmuch as it’s an appalling bait-and-switch. It’s like offering somebody a cake that is actually a cunningly painted hunk of torpedo fuselage. It’s like offering to shake hands while wearing one of those comedy hand buzzers - except that the hand buzzer is an intricate simulation of zero-G physics, missile behaviours and comms jamming, featuring spacecraft with proper internal layouts that require you to think hard about attitude control if you don’t want, say, your engines to become Swiss cheese about 90 seconds before you need to retreat from combat....

It’s back online now Among my last-resort tactics for generating precious PC gaming news is to go on holiday - for as sure as toast lands buttered side down while cats always land on their feet, as sure as the number 13 breeds calamity andStar Citizencommitting to a release date guarantees a delay, myself going on holiday will always,somehow, conjure a big story from the crevices. It’s basic physics. In this case, I was on holiday from Friday through Monday, and this fact and this fact alone appears to have coaxed some toy manufacturer into taking the internet’s most cherished indie gaming platform offline by means of a “bogus” phishing report, sent by “AI-powered” brand protection software....

No more ult gain from terrain KOs Marvel Rivals, the free-to-play hero shooter from NetEase, launched late last week and is exceedingly popular. It’s currently fourth on the Steam daily most played, right between Path Of Exile 2 and the evergreenGrand Theft Auto 5. I think there are three reasons for this enthusiasm: 1) it’s free-to-play with the usual comet’s tail of microtransactables 2) it’s third-personOverwatchwith Marvel characters, a straightforwardly enticing licensing sandwich, and 3) people want to have sex with a larger-than-usual proportion of the cast and especially awful tongue-monster Venom, who has a good butt in this one....

Stop and shoot Ooh, this feels like the biggest news out of this evening’sWholesome Snackshowcase: nourishing photography adventureToemis getting a sequel, appropriately called Toem 2. It looks to follow much of what made the first so well liked, including its pocket-sized black-and-white worlds in which you wander about, snapping photos and helping the locals. All I can tell you is that Alice B liked the original game a great deal for its straightforward pleasures....

Increase your maximum Spirit in Path of Exile 2 by defeating bosses and equipping gear Need to get more Spirit in Path of Exile 2?As one of the main resources in the game, Spirit is used to unlock persistent buffs as well as minion sidekicks, which can translate to a massive permanent DPS boost. Needless to say, it’s important to gather plenty of Spirit for yourfirst character build. Using Spirit is relatively easy as you only need to allocate it once....