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It’s “simmering” apparently There are many unsightly euphemisms for the various stages of game development. My favourite used to be “sunsetting”, aka cancelling a live service game, aka “we dragged the servers outside and smashed them with bats, gangland style”. But now there’s a new front-runner, “simmering”. You know what’s simmering? Quantic Dream’sStar Wars: Eclipse, that’s what. “Can I say it still exists? Because it exists,” the developer’s vice-president of marketing Lisa Pendse has revealed in a new interview from this year’s Tokyo Game Show....

Work-in-progress peeks at interesting indie games Every weekend, indie devs show off current work on Twitter’s#screenshotsaturdaytag. And every Monday, I bring you a selection of these snaps and clips. This week, enjoy being stalked through the streets by a murderous ice cream van, being killed by a walking shark, flushing yourself down a toilet as fast travel, and many more attractive and interesting sights. Come look at these indie games!...

What and where are they? Wondering how to find and scan planet traits in Starfield?While surveying planets throughoutStarfield’s expansive galaxy, you’ll sometimes be prompted to scan planet traits to unlock more survey data. These traits mark unique environmental landmarks on planets, but they can be a bit confusing to identify and find. Luckily, we’ve got your back with this guide. Here’s everything you’ll need to know about planet traits and how to find and scan them inStarfield....

“The psychic page was inspired by an extremely difficult client I had working the phones for a WYSIWYG page building website,” creator Jay Tholen tells RPS Hypnospace Outlawused to be a very different type of game than the one we know today. The authentic replica of the world wide web circa 1999 was originally designed to be little more thanornate level select screensin a stylish endless runner-style game, for example, providing extra context for your adventures pursuing “outlaws on the Hypnospace Highway”....

That’s a solid price for a 1440p 75Hz monitor of this size. Prefer a larger monitor? Right now you can pick up a Viewsonic 32-incher with a 1440p resolution and 75Hz refresh rate for just £150.74 using a 20% off voucher at Ebay. That’s a good deal for a monitor of this size and spec, especially from a brand like ViewSonic, and well worth considering for gaming and content creation. Let’s take a closer look....

An awesome deal on a hot-swappable keyboard that gets good reviews. So, those ticked boxes: this is a full-size ANSI/US keyboard in a familiar standard layout, with an Fn key providing access to macros, lighting settings, volume adjustment and media controls. The keyboard comes with Cherry MX-style mechanical switches of the light linear (red) variety, providing a soft touch and rapid actuation ideal for gaming. These switches are hot-swappable with other Outemu 3-pin options, so if you decide you want tactile or clicky switches down the line - or a key fails after you dump a can of soda on it - you can swap them out down the line....

But the number of cheaters seems to be dropping Thousands of people are cheating atWordleby looking up the answer and popping it in as their first guess, according to a new study of players’ daily guesses. Instead, anywhere from 0.2% to 0.5% of people are managing to pull off a first-turn win in Wordle’s normal mode, with Dilger converting that to between 4,000 and 10,000 players based on Wordle’s 1.7 million daily users....

Stuck on the Wordle word for September 25? Read our hint or find the answer below! 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. Wordle can be tricky, you see, and it’s not unusual to look for a little bit of help if you want to preserve your year-long winstreak....

Stuck on the Wordle word for September 24? Read our hint or find the answer below! 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. Wordle can be tricky, you see, and it’s not unusual to look for a little bit of help if you want to preserve your year-long winstreak....

Strength in numbers, Arisen? Dragon’s Dogmawas the action-RPG for people who wanted to play alone, but didn’t want tofeelalone. By far its most charming feature was the Pawn system, whereby you’d create an AI-controlled sidekick and hire two others, shared online by other players, to accompany you on your journey through a fantasy wilderness of tumbledown castles and goblin campfires. Pawns make dependable companions in many respects - pinning enemies for you to tag-team kill, healing or resurrecting you, opening chests you’ve missed, and enchanting your weapons at the outset of each skirmish....

Good grief It’s happening again. As sure as Square Enix overestimating their sales projections, as sure as John Riccitiello pissing off every available customer,EVE Onlinedevelopers CCP will try to make a first-person shooter set in the same universe. This time it’s called EVE Vanguard, a shooter “module” which will sit within the EVE launcher and asychronously connect to EVE Online. Vanguard is a PvPvE shooter that looks to have learned lessons fromHunt: Showdownand Escape From Tarkov, with players in squads fighting computer-controlled enemies in order to secure an item that other players on the same server will then compete to steal....

A beautiful case with wood. The Fractal Design North is one of the most popular recent PC case releases, combining a beautiful wood front panel, leather accents and excellent ventilation with a modern, easy-to-build mid-tower design. The North normally retails for £125 or more, but today you can pick it up for a more reasonable £110 when you buy from Box via Ebay, using codeSAVINGS20before September 28th. That’s the cheapest this case has ever been in the UK!...

It’s got mostly negative reviews on Steam Payday 3launched earlier this week. Asreported back in July, it requires players to connect to a server even if they’re playing solo or with a few friends in a private match. You can already guess the third sentence: the servers have been a disaster at launch, with players forced to queue for long periods just to play alone, if they can manage to play at all....