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Is serenity only found in death? The demo for SNØ: Ultimate Freeriding isn’t that new. It actually came out in September, but I’m filing it under the secret best unspoken RPS site category of “News (To Me)”, a whizcrack piece of web 3.0 technology that allows us to travel back in time and ‘announce’ things that don’t seem any less noteworthy for their advancing age. If you think that’s a desperately cavalier and confusing way to run a news section, I can only suggest that you email a complaint to our news editor....

‘The Splitter’ is the game’s next elusive target I’ve got a strange relationship with thestealthsandbox murderbox that isHitman: World of Assassination. If you were to ask me to list my favourite games, the latest Hitman trilogy would be in the top five, no question. And yet, I must have gotten intimidated at some point with the amount of new updates and all the spiffy unlockable suits I was missing out on, and just haven’t touched it in a couple of years now....

Countdown to cosy Stardew Factory? Factory Valley? Whichever it is, Little Rocket Lab is a factory-builder about efficiently placing conveyors and robot arms, and is drawn in the warm, pixel art small-town of a Stardew-like. That sounds like a fitting combination, although it does mean you’re building a NASA-sized rocketship on the outskirts of your quaint hometown. That can’t be good for noise pollution. There’s an announcement trailer below. As you build and manage resources, you’ll also inevitably be chatting to the townspeople, “who want to help… and sometimes hinder,” according to the press release....

Alt: Mallard malady mender Duck Detective’s first case was The Secret Salami, which paired its cosy mystery about stolen lunches with a protagonist whose divorce and destitution were played entirely straight despite his being a duck. The results were seemingly delightful, and here comes a sequel. “This campsite might have ghosts, but the real thing haunting Eugene McQuacklin is his failed marriage and bread addiction,” the press release says. A game like Duck Detective risks having only one joke (“What if a duck… was a detective?...

Crazy taxi London Gatwick Airport is a rare shade of brown, known to neither science nor art. A brown that doesn’t appear on the light spectrum. No easel contains it. It is a dusty brown, a damp brown, a hot and earthy brown that hums with the stinging malodour of disturbed ancient moss where once old forests stood. Descending into Gatwick’s cloying brown from 33,000 feet is like flying under and up Gandalf’s wretched cloak and landing in one of the several horrible little magic pouches he keeps by his balls....

I’m going to pour cold water on it Pity the “relaxing” games which set out to blanket their players in a wholesome fog. These minimalist or slight experiences set their stall against the mainstream philosophy of video game design focused on action, rules, clear progression, and often violence. So it is withNaiad, a sometimes pleasant swim down a river in which you sing to make flowers grow and discover poems by interacting with birds, bees, butterflies and other fauna....

Need some Connections hints today? Read our guide for help with Connections #547. This guide is for a previous day! Looking for today’s solution? Check out theConnections hint and answers for Thursday 12th December! Looking for a hint to help with today’s Connections puzzle on 10th December?Read on; we’ve got tips galore and the answers for you below if you desire a helping hand. Connectionsis a word puzzle game published every day by the New York Times (NYT), the hosts of the endlessly popularWordlepuzzle....

Grinding Gear outline the first major post-launch changes Goblin-hitting bonanzaPath Of Exile 2launched into early access last weekend and the devs Grinding Gear Games have dropped some big patch notes that outline some things they’ve updated already, or things they plan on updating in a future patch. Things like dodge-rolling, checkpoints, items, currencies, and other stuff I can’t list here because the intro to this article would expand and pop into a flurry of common rarity boots and bones, maybe with the odd purple rarity sword mixed in....

Trash Kitsune It seems as if every “wholesome” game is either a Stardewlike or a Animal Crossingbut.Little Rocket Lab? Stardewlike. Piece By Piece? Animal Crossingbut. To be more specific, it’sAnimal Crossingbut your chibi fox protagonist is specifically running a shop, mending and painting objects to sell while maintaining cleanliness and the plants outside. If you can’t get enough of upcycling in Trash Goblin, here’s one more for you. Counter to its cosy vibes, the press release threatens an iota of challenge to your management....

Slightly less mystery would be grand, actually I’m quite smitten by the Nintendo DS stylings and traditionalroguelikecharms ofShiren the Wanderer: The Mystery Dungeon Of Serpentcoil Island, but I’m having real trouble summoning up the motivation to repeatedly grind through its opening levels to get to the interesting stuff. Early stages soon lose any real sense of surprise, and later ones can feel low on real agency. I want a new roguelike run to feel vital and verdant; heady with grand plans and plan-shattering twists....

Today’s door hides a game we missed …Arco! Edwin:I’m still struggling to decide how seriously to take Arco. It can look cartoonish and almost cuddly, with its gnat-sized characters hippity-hopping across luxurious, single-screen landscapes, and its taste for temples that look like buried, leering faces. The battling is freeze-time tactical positioning with bullet hell elements, set to swaggering guitar: it’s bouncy arcade fare with respectable intricacy. The dialogue can be quite quippy, as well: sometimes, it makes me think of Sword & Sworcery....

I am afraid If we follow Marshall McLuhan’s ideas about technology being an extension of the body, then the copy and paste keyboard shortcuts are my equivalent of a trip to one ofCyberpunk 2077’s ripperdocs. In the writing of this single article, I will use them for links, HTML code, and other ephemera. I even copied McLuhan’s name across from a different tab, which I’m sure he’d appreciate/be horrified by. I love those shortcuts....

Stuck on today’s Wordle word for December 10? 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 followed by today’s word to help you keep track of your daily 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?...