Speed Crew is an Overcooked-like that swaps out kitchens for pit stops

Race your way to high blood pressure If I’m over at someone’s place with a bunch of people and they say, “Let’s playOvercooked!” I will always visibly recoil. The game is bad for my blood pressure and for the solidity of my friendships. So, I am terrified by the prospect ofSpeed Crew, an Overcooked-like set in racing pit stops as opposed to kitchens. I gave it a whirl and it has promise!...

January 31, 2024 · 2 min · 349 words · Cynthia Powell

Vampire: The Masquerade - Bloodlines 2 looks pretty Dishonored in this 14-minutes gameplay trailer

The most we’ve seen since Bloodlines 2 switched developers Following a string of wee teasers forVampire: The Masquerade - Bloodlines 2, Paradox have released an “extended gameplay reveal” trailer. This is the most we’ve seen of Bloodlines 2 since Paradox took theRPGfrom original developers Hardsuit Labs and handed it to The Chinese Room, the studio behindDear Estherand Amnesia: A Machine For Pigs. The trailer shows 14 minutes of our vamp creeping about a warehouse with a prettyDishonored-y combination of stealth and magical violence, showing very much why the sequel is now described as an “action RPG” rather than just “RPG”....

January 31, 2024 · 3 min · 480 words · Pamela Schmitt

Watch PlayStation's State of Play January 2024 game showcase here

15+ games in 40 minutes, starting 2pm PT, 5pm ET and 10pm GMT Tonight’s the night of Sony’s latest State of Play gaming showcase, a recurring round-up of PlayStation videogame announcements, trailers, celebrity developer cameos, and assorted high jinks. It kicks off at 2pm PT, 5pm ET and 10pm GMT. The show will be focussed on console games, as you’d expect, but many of the PS5 and PSVR2 projects in question will also be coming to PC, and you can watch the whole event right here....

January 31, 2024 · 1 min · 198 words · Michelle Brandt

What's better: Vampires or werewolves?

Vote now as we continue deciding the single best thing in games Last time, you decided thatdifferent puzzles on different difficulty levels is better than or bullet grazing. While longtime pontificators will know that that the foundation of our scientific method is a tightly controlled series of like-for-like comparisons, what the hey, let’s go wild for once. Having just watchedthat new Bloodlines 2 gameplay video, let’s consider vampires and, oh, I don’t know, what would be a wacky pairing, oh, werewolves?...

January 31, 2024 · 1 min · 202 words · Michael Powell

Wordle hints and answer (#956): How to solve the Wednesday January 31 Wordle

Stuck on today’s Wordle word for January 31? 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?...

January 31, 2024 · 6 min · 1216 words · Miranda Wyatt

20 Small Mazes is an extremely good game made of, er, 20 small mazes - and it's free!

Out the other side of Valentine’s Day Do you like puzzles? Do you like free games? Do you like freepuzzle gamesthat are charming and idiosyncratic? Then you’ll love20 Small Mazes, a game that is just 20 small mazes. As theSteam store pagesays, they’re good mazes, though. It’s out on February the 16th fromFLEB, which seems to be just one guy who really likes puzzles and making puzzles. I wholly support him....

January 30, 2024 · 2 min · 376 words · Brittany Mcknight

Best Grass Pals in Palworld

Here’s the best Grass Pals to have in your team in Palworld Looking for the best Grass Pals in Palworld?Grass Pals tend to be the best Planting Pals for your base and are extra efficient at taking down Ground-type Pals. This means, if you’re up against a Ground-type boss you’ll need the best Grass Pal inPalworldon your team. Additionally, if you want to keep your base flourishing and your Pals well-fed, you’ll need skilled Grass Pals to work for you....

January 30, 2024 · 2 min · 379 words · Richard Gutierrez

Best Kindling Pals in Palworld

Including Pals with level 4 and level 3 Kindling Work Suitability. Want to know which Pals in Palworld are best at Kindling?Kindling is an important Work Suitability skill inPalworldfor creating Ingots, which are necessary for crafting many of the more powerful items in the game. It’s worth prioritising Kindling as soon as you build either a Campfire (at Level 2) or an Electric Furnace (at Level 10), and chances are this is when most Palworld players will notice the “requires Kindling” message hovering above their unlit structures....

January 30, 2024 · 3 min · 528 words · Adam Fowler

Coridden is an action RPG with shapeshifters in which you can ride your friends

Valiant steeds wanted The one great weapon in my arsenal as mercurial uncle and cousin to several infant humans is the timeless game of Horsey. You know - when you get down all fours and offer to give the kid a ride around the sitting room. It’s murder on the old kneecaps, but as any shrewd parental tactician knows, Horsey is a game with a sting in its tail (making this a kind of scorpion Horsey, I guess)....

January 30, 2024 · 3 min · 626 words · Benjamin Aguilar

Former Cyberpunk and Bioshock devs reveal eerie post-apocalyptic open world shooter Hornet

Co-op, weird monsters and a “procedurally assisted” environment Antistatic Studios, a new outfit made up of formerCyberpunk 2077, Bioshock and Borderlands developers, have announced their debut title, a PvE co-op tactical shooter set on a haunted, post-apocalyptic continent. They’re codenaming it Hornet. The announcement trailer is sort ofLethal Companymeets STALKER with a bodycam found footage perspective. It’s quite the cocktail of tropes, though I’ll take this over another “Soulslike roguelite deckbuilder” or similar....

January 30, 2024 · 2 min · 385 words · Jacob Payne

Here's a free N64-style version of Celeste from Extremely OK Games

Devs give legendary 2D platformer a Nintendo makeover to celebrate 6th anniversary Celestecelebrated its sixth anniversary this month, and developers Extremely OK Games have marked the occasion by releasing a free Nintendo 64 homage to their excellentplatforming gameover on Itch. Made in just “a week(ish)”, Celeste 64: Fragments Of The Mountain channels the spirits of Super Mario 64 and Banjo Kazooie as it tasks players with collecting dozens of strawberrys hidden around its snowy 3D landscape....

January 30, 2024 · 2 min · 403 words · Robyn Baker

I'm stoked for this immersive sim about escaping a town in the shadow of a colossal policeman

Come watch ten minutes of Militsioner “All immersive-sims have some form of combat through which its immersion is revealed,” the Russian team said ina dev blog postyesterday. “Fighting the giant is not an option, so the player will have to resort to tricks - flattering, lying, stealing, giving gifts to appease the giant. His mood is the law, so as you get closer to Giant, different doors start opening up. So basically, we extend the classic immersive-sim staple of ‘talking your way out of the situation’ in to a fully fleshed dating-sim mechanic....

January 30, 2024 · 2 min · 333 words · Matthew Fox

Nebulous: Fleet Command is the hardcore version of Homeworld I didn't know I wanted

A new angle on real-time 3D space strategy Every “incoming missile” alert inNebulous: Fleet Commandspawns a host of questions, scattering through your brain pan like chaff. The most important of those questions is: “which missiles, exactly?” There are many species of self-propelled ordnance in this dangerously engrossingspace simfrom Eriadanus Industries - you can design your very own in the fleet editor - and while all are bad news, some are far worse than others....

January 30, 2024 · 7 min · 1334 words · Tonya Lara