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I go on Twitter so you don’t have to Every weekend, indie devs show off current work on Twitter’s#screenshotsaturdaytag. And every Monday, I bring you a selection of these snaps and clips. This week, my eye was caught by dozens upon dozens of spam accounts hijacking the tag to promote cryptocurrency garbage.Twitter’s journey to uselessnesscontinues. But after reporting dozens of accounts in the vain hope that Twitter might at least knock these particular bots offline (knowing it’ll never actually address the wider problem), I was delighted to admire a great many attractive and interesting indie games....

Just to clarify The latestSteam Deckbeta client updateis out, and it’s made a pretty neat addition to the quick-access performance menu. A tap of the Y button now brings up a brief explainer for whichever individual setting is currently highlighted, a handy lil’ reference for anyone who wants to customise how their Deck (orSteam Deck OLED) runs without knowing exactly how things like TDP limits and half-rate shading affect performance. Clearly it’s also a brutal attack on the livelihoods of honest hardware editors who writeguides to this sort of thing, butwhatever, Valve....

The Pokémon-like Steam hit becomes, well, just Pokémon If the accusations ofPalworldpeeking at Pokémon’s homework for its catchable monster designs weren’t already rife enough, a modder has decided to take theGarth Marenghi approachand remove any possible question by turning Palworld’s Pokémon-a-likes into just straight-up Pokémon. The overhaul mod shared by YouTube ToastedShoes swaps Palworld’s Pals for their Pokémon equivalents, meaning that the Pokémon-like creatures wielding guns and labouring away in mines and factories become actual Pokémon wielding guns and labouring away....

An Elseworlds version of the Batman baddie kicks off Rocksteady’s first character-centric season of post-launch extras Suicide Squad: Kill the Justice League, Rocksteady’s multiplayer Destiny-like with DC villains, will fill the conspicuously Joker-shaped hole in its rogues’ gallery of Batman baddies in March with the launch of the live service game’s first season of free post-launch content. Kill the Justice League marks Rocksteady’s return to the DC universe after their trilogy of single-player Batman Arkham games: Asylum, City and Knight....

Our weekly news liveblog, with this week’s top videogame releases As W.H. Auden once wrote: “our apparatniks will continue making the usual squalid mess called History: all we can pray for is that Videogame News Writers may still appear to blithe it.” Welcome one and all to another week of addled product journalism care of your ever-salivating host, the Maw, ravenous hype god and certainly not a silly metaphor I’ve come up with to make my job sound grander than it should be....

Getting awesome-looking keycaps for 50% off is a huge win in my book. Listen up: this is one of the simplest and most effective upgrades you can give your mechanical keyboard, and right now it’s 50% off, just $12. To use these keycaps, you’ll need a mechanical keyboard that uses Cherry MX-style cross-shaped stems. This includes the vast majority of mechanical keyboards on the market - you’ll likely know if you don’t have them!...

Around three dozen staff affected. Virtual reality-focused developers Wimo Games have joined the ever-expanding list of studios to be hit by layoffs and closure in recent months, as the Battle Bows andMicro Machines: Mini Challenge Mayhem studio confirmed their closure last week. The studio was home to just shy of three dozen staff, who were confirmed to have been laid off when Wimo closed their doors last week. “I can confirm that this week we began winding down operations at Wimo Games,” CEO Dave Rosen told RockPaperShotgun in a statement....

Stuck on today’s Wordle word for January 22? 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 you’re struggling to finish today’s word, we have a helpful list of hints to give you a guiding hand and maintain your streak in the process....

Need a hint for today’s Connections? Read our guide for help with Connections #224 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....

Stuck on today’s Wordle word for January 21? 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 you’re on your last guess, don’t worry! We have you covered with a list of hints as well as today’s word itself. Every day,Wordlepresents its legions of players with a deviously simple quandary: can you guess the right five-letter word within just six guesses?...

No more seasons Halo Infinitewon’t receive a sixth season update and is moving away from the ‘seasons’ model entirely. Instead, on January 30th it’ll receive a new arena map, a new operation and a handful of other new features, and it’ll continue to be updated with shorter “Operation” battle passes in future. “We’re making a shift in how we’re approaching Infinite going forward. We’re no longer referring to seasons, we’re shifting away from seasons....

And is part of the studio’s “DNA” Indiana Jones And The Great Circle wasannouncedat this week’s Xbox Deveoper Direct. It looks good! There has been much discussion of its decision to make its tomb raiding first-person (with some third-person traversal and cutscenes), however. In an interview with Lucasfilm.com, game director Jerk Gustafsson said first-person was “part of MachineGames' DNA”, and that the perspective “separates our game from many other action-adventure titles....

A £15 upgrade As spotted byPC Gamer, theInfinite Wealth sitelists “New Game+” as an added feature alongside a bonus dungeon, a special sujimon, and new outfits. A Reddit userconfirmed that the official site was accuratevia Sega Support last month. None of this is made clearvia the game’s Steam page. The base edition already costs a hefty £60/€70/$70, while the Deluxe Edition costs £75/€85/$85 and the Ultimate Edition an absurd £95/€110/$110....