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Slim City Cities: Skylinesthe game that defined the city building genre in the wake ofSim City’s self-destructionnever truly grabbed me. It’s important to say that, because it helps with the context, and it’s context that I’m struggling with. For a follow-up,Cities: Skylines 2is basically good. I’ll even continue playing it, which isn’t that common after a review, especially for such a timesink. This time around, ithasgrabbed me, and yet it’s such a small step forward that I don’t feel entirely comfortable recommending it outright....

Little Chef is free and ready to play in your browser Flour, egg, banana, butter, salt. Given the ingredients at hand, I thought this was a decent attempt at making banana bread. The free cooking game Little Chef disagreed, and dubbed my dish ‘Eggy Mess’. Everyone’s a critic. But it’s fun to puzzle out potential recipes, dragging ingredients into the pot, brushing my cursor against little physics-simulated spoons and plant fronds, and discovering what fresh horror I’ve concocted....

Dogs, demons, accountants, mechanospiders, and everything in-between Recruit an army of soldiers, accountants, demons, dogs, dog-catching robots, nanite grey goo, zombies, priests, slimes, whales, fires, nuclear bombs, vampires, and other oddities to liberate the United States inMillion Monster Militia. It’s a roguelikelike deck-building strategy game where you draft units who drop onto a grid in random positions, enabling all sorts of abilities and combos depending on where they all land. It’s kinda likethe roguelikelike slot machine Luck Be A Landlorddressed for a Halloween party in a turn-based tactics costume....

But how long will it last? 343 Industries' and Microsoft’swell-reviewed, but fan-derided and far from chart-topping sci-fiFPSHalo Infiniteis experiencing a slight revival, and it’s all thanks to the magic of, er, Pokemon. Pokemon being one of several new custom gametypes knocked together by intrepid Halo players using the Forge map editor’s new AI toolkit, added inthe Halo Season 5: Reckoning updates, which allow you to bring campaign AI into Forge maps and tweak its behaviour at length....

How to play the Watermelon game Suika on Switch or for free! Update:Suika Gameis now available on theUK Nintendo Storeand theUS Nintendo Store, so you no longer need a Japanese Nintendo account in order to play the Watermelon Game! Isn’t that lovely? Below is the original guide. There are a couple of different ways to play the Suika game, and we’ll go over both of them below so you can try out the Watermelon Game for yourself and see what all the fuss is about!...

“Fun things happen more often if you don’t force them.” Immersive sims likeDishonoredorSystem Shockcan be very fulfilling, but they are also oddly stressful. After all, the flipside of the genre mantra of solving problems through imaginative application of the tools is that when you achieve a boring solution, that’s all your fault. Did you miss the final jump while trying for a complex, third-storey infiltration inDeathloop, resulting in a sadly non-immersive firefight in the courtyard below?...

Amongst several other bugfixes for crashing and performance Lords of the Fallendevelopers Hexworks are still busily carving a path through the game’s various bugs and performance issues. The latestLords of the Fallenupdate, Patch v.1.1.207, is a thrilling litany of technical gremlins that have now been tracked down and slaughtered. Amongst other things, the developers have turned off collision detection for an entire library, to avoid tanking the frame-rate when you - for reasons best known only to yourself - attack the books....

Need a hint for today’s Connections? Read our guide for help with Connections #130 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....

Performs well, looks good, highly recommended. Roccat makes some good mechanical keyboards, especially their Vulcan line which combines ‘floating’ low profile keycaps with pleasant tactile switches, a volume dial and a wrist rest. These keyboards are normally available around the $70 mark, but today you can pick one up from Amazon in black for $48 - a good deal for a full-size mechanical keyboard from a major brand. I used a Roccat Vulcan 120 (the same model in silver; a Vulcan 122 is white) for some time and these keyboards are quite strong choices....

“Peacefully populate the galaxy by any means necessary.” Space Tales has justlaunched on Kickstarter. Providing Saigon Dragon hit their funding targets, it’ll offer a 16-mission campaign with optional side missions, in which you can research army improvements and build up a squad of side-characters. What do I mean by optional side missions? Well, apparently there are larger, docile alien lifeforms who can be hunted down for bonus resources and so forth....

A relatively straightforward upgrade that nets you more space and more performance. There’s fierce competition in the 2230 NVMe SSD space right now, as these pint-sized SSDs are the only ones that will fit in PC handhelds like the Steam Deck and ROG Ally. Previously Sabrent were offering the cheapest option available at the 1TB price point at £85, but now Scan has reduced the price of the WD SN740 to just £80....

How the turn tables have turned Please ignore that I erroneously call this episode 34 at the start of the episode. In episode 35 of The Electronic Wireless Showpodcastwe briefly discuss Just Stop Oil’s game-themed protest at EGX this weekend, as well as re-highlighting a guide from the Arma 3 devs so you can tell when someone is trying to share fake war footage (originally created during the early weeks of the Russian invasion of Ukraine, but now relevant again with the spread of fake Israeli-Palestinian conflict videos)....