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Play for free for a week Stellaris Nexushinges off one of the downsides of the Paradoxspace game’s epic scale -the amount of time it takes to finish a match- to present a bite-sized side dish of 4X nibbles if you only have an hour to play instead of, say, a day. Now that plate of nibbles is offering up, er, a basically identical plate of bite-sized nibbles that you don’t have to pay for right away, as the game has seen its early access release date - planned for tomorrow, no less - replaced by a last-minute week-long open beta....

Our weekly news liveblog This week is the week ofThe Games Awards, aka Geoffest, aka the Ke3ghleys - an absolute banquet of trailers, release dates and game announcements for the Maw. There are a few reveals in the offing. Some, we already know about, and may even have written up in advance; others, we’ll learn about together with your good selves when the livestream begins at 4.30pm Los Angeles time on 7th December, which equates to 12....

Did you ask for marbles for Christmas this year? Solve puzzles with balls and bugs inCocoon! Ed:Cocoon is a puzzler where you play as an insect lad who carries orbs that contain entire worlds. You can treat these orbs like big marbles to manipulate the mysterious alien realms you inhabit, by, like, plopping them down on receptacles or rolling them through pipes. This is where the biomechanical world responds in turn, as gigantic doors yawn open, or platforms form beneath your feet like a network of veins....

I’ve tested the RK61 and it’s extremely good for the money. Keyboard company Royal Kludge aren’t doing themselves any favours with that name, but they do make some of the best cheap options on the market. Today their RK61 keyboard is down to $39.99 at Amazon US, a great price for a 60% keyboard with 2.4GHz wireless, Bluetooth and USB-C connectivity, hot-swappable switches and single colour backlighting. I’ve tested out the RK61 for Eurogamer, where I ranked it as one of thebest 60% keyboards on the market....

That’s $10 cheaper than usual. Gosh, Micro SD cards are so cheap now. Right now you can get a fast and capacious 512GB Samsung Evo Select memory card for just $24.99 after a $10 price drop. That’s an absurd price for this amount of storage, especially for an A2-rated card that’s ideal for Steam Deck, ROG Ally and Nintendo Switch. Samsung’s generally considered to be one of the best makers of flash memory in the world - if notthebest - and their Evo Select lineup attracts warm reviews wherever it goes on the basis of its performance and value....

Put on your tin-foil hat and virtual shirt We’re mere hours away from thefirst trailer for Grand Theft Auto 6, the simple teaser image for which has already sparked an internet-wide meme and thrown infinite fuel on the ever-burningGTA 6rumour fire.Big questions remain, of course. Not least: when will GTA 6 actually be out? Yet some eagle-eyed internet detectives reckon GTA 6’s release date has been staring us all in the face - and nips - for months....

Stuck on today’s Wordle word for December 4? 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?Below is a list of clues to help you out and ensure you keep that all-important streak going! Every day,Wordlepresents its legions of players with a deviously simple quandary: can you guess the right five-letter word within just six guesses?...

A nice price drop on the ultimate AM4 gaming processor. AMD’s Ryzen 7 5800X3D processor is well-known for offering a sharp upgrade to gaming performance over all other CPUs compatible with the company’s now defunct AM4 motherboard platform. These days the processor costs around £290, but today the price has dipped to £271 - making it a good time to get that final CPU upgrade for your Ryzen 1000-5000 system....

This is a great deal for anyone that wants a powerful PC for gaming and content creation. From one AMD CPU to another - the last deal we posted was on an AM4 gaming-focused processor, the 5800X3D, and now we’re looking at the opposite end of Team Red’s lineup: the 7950X. This Zen 4 design includes 16 cores and 32 threads, making it their ultimate consumer CPU for highly threaded workloads like video production, 3D rendering… and yes, many video games too!...

Need a hint for today’s Connections? Read our guide for help with Connections #175 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....

Let’s hit the town, baby! It’s door number three! This one leads to a night out. Can you pet a dog? No. But you can pet the rats. It’s kind of grim but very cool post-Soviet slice-of-lifeNeyasnoe! Alice0:It’s your big night out! Hit up a bar, drink, dance, chat with friends and strangers, steal drinks, smoke, take drugs, get your blood pressure taken, scoff a kebab, visit a book shop, catch plague from petting giant rats seething in crumbling apartments, get your cybernetic implants checked at a back-alley clinic, drink, smoke, visit a gallery, drink, chat, travel to other districts, drink, smoke, eavesdrop on existential conversations, and pet rats....

Stuck on today’s Wordle word for December 3? 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?We have you covered with a list of hints below, varying from easy to difficult to help you maintain your precious streak. Every day,Wordlepresents its legions of players with a deviously simple quandary: can you guess the right five-letter word within just six guesses?...

In substantial new 2.1 update If you try to use any of the metro stations in Cyberpunk 2077 as it is right now, you’ll find a fast travel point at best. After update 2.1, there will be 19 stations that are enterable spaces where you can board a train and then sit with other passengers to watch Night City whizz past your window. This is what I love, whether it’s taxis inGrand Theft Auto4 or horse-drawn carts inSkyrim, and I’m excited to do it more....