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Nidhoggo Blade I’m a sucker for games where swords are the pointy death delivery devices they truly are, rather than the big, blunt sticks so many turn them into.First Cut: Samurai Duelseems to be aiming its blades at my heart, then. It’s a 2D sidescrolling swordfighter in which each connecting blow means instant death, and it has a January 17th release date. The release date announcement was marked by a new pixel blood-filled trailer:...

Years-long dispute with publisher now over Frogwares is “now the sole publisher ofThe Sinking Cityon all platforms”, says the developer. This brings to an end several years of uncertainty and litigation, which saw the Lovecraftian RPG delisted from Steam several times and at one point restored by its publisher via an allegedly pirated version of the game. The downside is that an updated version of the game is coming to all storefronts in the coming weeks and it won’t be compatible with old save files....

Try the free demo for this quartet of bite-sized investigations This was yet another game I had hoped to review properly when it came out in the middle of October last year, but alas, time. Really, though, time wasn’t much of an excuse in the end, as each case only takes just over an hour to solve. They’re quite diddy and compact in that respect, a bit like a serial police drama you can just binge watch all in one go and then wonder where your afternoon went....

New details pop up online Guild Warspublisher NCSoft’s long-rumouredHorizon: Zero Dawnspin-off is a full-blown MMORPG codenamed Project Skyline, will run on Unreal Engine 5, and is coming to PC and mobile with a PS5 release still TBC, according to a brace of job listings and CVs fished from the post-apocalyptic robo-wilds of yonder internet. Also according to the said listings, it won’t be out for a while. Partial though I am to metal dinosaurs, I’ve never warmed to the mainline Horizon games - posh landscape aesthetics and cinematic flourishes aside, I find them clunky and underwhelming in terms of quests and fights....

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. In this guide, we’ll give you a handy hint selection for today’s Connections puzzle on Tuesday, January 2nd, before revealing the group themes and the Connections answers themselves....

Were the votes ironic? The player-voted Steam Awards have reached their conclusion, and the results are aboutas weird as the nominees. In fact, I’d go so far as to say that the weirdest game possible won in several categories, such asRed Dead Redemption 2for the Labor Of Love award andStarfieldfor “Most Innovative Gameplay”. There’s a thing that can happen when video game awards are led by votes, whether by the public or even by a small team of journalists: you end up rewarding the good games that everyone played rather than the masterpieces played by only a few....

I go on Twitter so you don’t have to Every weekend, indie devs show off current work on Twitter’s#screenshotsaturdaytag. And every week, I bring you a selection of these snaps and clips. This week, let’s return kick off the new year with a jumbo-sized edition with even more games from across our Christmas holiday. Expect unexpectedly laid-back stressful horror, slow-motion stunting gunfights, a watercolour world, spaceships, mecha, and far too many legs....

No.22 of 24 Ooooh-Worthy Things happening at the House Of Mouse this year, apparently There’s been no official word from Ubisoft themselves about Star Wars Outlaws' release date yet, but now the cat’s seemingly out of the bag on this one (or should that be mouse out of the house?) it’s probably only a matter of time before they, too, narrow down its launch window. I’ll update this post as and when that information comes through....

New president looks back on “a year of tumult” Kiryu claimed that “extended reality” (a fuzzy, catch-all word for VR and AR functionality being built into daily life) is on the rise in several industries besides gaming. “A case in point is the way the architecture sector, which previously had limited integration of XR in its business, began increasingly adopting these technologies because they enable the conversion of real-world architectural structures into data, a process also facilitated by the widespread use of commercial drones,” he argued....

Our weekly news liveblog Happy new year all. What’s the weather like where you are? We’ve got Amber and Yellow warnings in London - I do not understand what these terms mean, but I’m going to add a Sapphire warning for escalating Maw activity. The creature was pretty lively over the Xmas weekend, but Graham managed to soothe it with posts aboutgaming-related new year resolutionsand, of all things,the Spike Video Game Awards....

The semi-retired Cain tells us that “there is so much about being a game director that is not fun” Tim Cain wrote what is perhaps gaming’s most famous and influential monologue: the introduction toFallout. “War never changes,” he says. “People loved it. I’m like, ‘I must be a writer.’” Yet much more recently, when Cain sat down to write his memoirs, nobody really liked what came out on the page. “I was really, really bad at it,” he says....

Stuck on today’s Wordle word for January 2? 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?...

Easy to get into, harder to exit While the weather outside is still a bit chilly and everyone’s bank accounts are recovering from the holidays, visiting an escape room with friends might not be at the top of your to-do list. Fortunately, you can currently get some of the same puzzly satisfaction for free - and without having to go outside - by nabbingEscape Academyover on the Epic Games Store for the next 24 hours....