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It’s all about the third parties Originally announced at Gamescom, andlive as of last night, the Epic First Run program allows developers who release their games exclusively on the Epic Games Store to receive 100% of their revenue from sales for the first six months. After that, Epic will take its 12% cut of revenues. “Currently 67% of our player base is playing third party games,” he said. “And 50% of them are exclusively playing third party games....

No mine is an island David Moralejo Sánchez’sOutpath, a blend of island base-building game and idle clicker, is now out on Steam with a launch discount and a rapidly growing sackful of positive reader reviews. The gist, for those who missed out on the demo: you walk around small islands punching resources out of the landscape, building crafting stations and dwellings, and slowly amassing the means to access other islands. Or, you ignore all that, and treat the whole thing as an idle clicker, with no time limit and no real opportunity to fail....

A very, very familiar time Having dipped into some deathmatches inCall Of Duty: Modern Warfare 3’s beta over the weekend, I have come to the conclusion that - surprise! - it’smoreCall Of Duty! But the biggest surprise? How familiar it felt. So, it might be a bit odd that MW3 is wholly unsurprising for being more COD and simultaneously, a surprise for being more COD. Really, I think it comes down to developer Sledgehammer’s decision to mash some of COD’s previous triumphs with some of its finest maps....

Need a hint for today’s Connections? Read our guide for help with Connections #128 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....

From the well-known brand “Bogseth”. Power banks have come a long way over the past few years, and now offer capacities similar to laptops and the capability to recharge at very high speeds. Today we spotted a nice deal on a 24000mAh portable charger that offers 22.5W charging for just £14 with a 28% voucher applied on the Amazon product page, down from an RRP of £27. With up to 22....

The Ryzen 5 7600X + MSI B650 Tomahawk WiFi for £400. With the release of Intel’ssomewhat underwhelming14th-gen processors today, I feel a lot of people are going to be looking once more at AMD Ryzen 7000 systems. These CPUs offer the same access to DDR5 RAM and PCIe 5.0 components as Intel’s latest offerings, yet typically consume less power while delivering better gaming performance at the high end. That makes it easier to build a balanced system, especially with deals on Ryzen 7000 CPUs and motherboards starting to become more commonplace....

CD Projekt engineer reflects on development and looks to the future CD Projekt RED’s Colin Walder, engineering director for management and audio, has shared a few thoughts on how the Polish developer’s next WitcherRPG, codenamed Polaris, will improve on the cataclysmic development ofCyberpunk 2077. There’s not a lot to share at this stage, of course, but what there is sounds like a step in the right direction. “This isn’t just something that happened at CD Projekt,” he added....

Stuck on today’s Wordle word for October 17? 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?Every day,Wordlepresents its legions of players with a deviously simple quandary: can you guess the right five-letter word within just six guesses? All you have to help you in finding the Wordle answer are the contextual clues you gain from each guess - but often, that’s not enough....

Bib Goes Home and Lost On Mars are extremely neat, one of a kind video games The Alt Controller showing atEGXthis year was properly top tier stuff. There was, of course, the Future Of Play booth that our Graham organised for the show (the contents of whichyou can see right here), but every year the Leftfield Collection houses a couple more custom controller games that are just as illustrative of all the amazing things going on in the world of interactive entertainment these days....

Fighting combos, restorative mushrooms and excellent comedy putdowns I love it when game namesdo what they say on the tin, but I love it even more when they contain hidden depths behind that initial simplicity.Hermit And Pigis indeed a game about a reclusive old hermit and his truffle-hunting pig, but this charming adventureRPGalso has one of the most involving turn-based battle systems I’ve come across in a while. Taking place in first person a laDragon Quest, Hermit must deal with all sorts of mad and angry wildlife as he hunts for his favourite forest mushrooms, and their scowling (and endearingly daft) expressions are just the tip of this excellent iceberg....

Or also had alien space worms, or mechanoid moths… you get the picture My demo put me in the spiky red army boots of its Fossorians, aspace mole factionwho are big into mechs, and riding around on giant motorbikes and other four-legged creatures they’ve enslaved. You begin with a base and a general to lead your army with, and ultimately this is a game about gathering resources, growing your ranks, upgrading your HQ with different building types, and gradually pushing out into the map to claim it for your own....

Door to door gunman Let me put you at ease.Endless Dungeonis a very splashy, confidently clever roguelike about spannering turrets, hosing bullets, and popping bugs like angry little pimples. It sounds disgusting when I type it out loud like that, so let’s pivot to the reliable food analogy. It is a delicious game, a hearty stew. A tasty one-more-go-er, perfectly suited to serving up in these dreary autumn months. There. Now that you’ve been pacified by the imagery of a steaming bowl of pleasing dungeon gumbo, you will forgive the 400 words I have written below about doors....

Firearms company considered games “a primary means” of reaching “the next generation” As revealed by the disclosed documents, Remington signed a deal with Activision Blizzard in 2009 to feature the Adaptive Combat Rifle or ACR in Modern Warfare 2. The ACR was one of several military semi-automatics Remington hoped to flog to civilians, according to the WSJ. The deal didn’t involve an exchange of money, but Activision Blizzard and Remington agreed to keep it confidential....