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Some stuff was good though! You can listen above, or onon Spotify,iTunes,Stitcher, orPocket Casts. You can find theRSS feed here, and you can discuss the episodeon our Discord channel, which has a dedicated room for podcast chat. Music is by Jack de Quidt. LinksWe record on a Tuesday so some things might have changed since we talked about them! What We’ve Been Playing This Weekinclude sleuth sequelAgatha Christie - Hercule Poirot: The London Case, a terribly named but quite sweet game,Mediterranea Infero(which is not a sweet game but does seem very good), andHearthstone, which Nate is hooked back up to....

Build stuff, sink pints, clean walls Lord Of The Rings: Return To Moriais a survival game that certainly shares something in common with bothValheimandDeep Rock Galactic: you and a few buds sink pits and set out on expeditions to mine ore, batter monsters, and push further into the darkness. Having watched its game director Jon-Paul Dumont steer me through a 30-minute demo, I’ve come away with the impression it’s far more than just a cheap LOTR pretender....

The NM610 is around six times faster than a SATA SSD in terms of sequential speeds. Here’s a strong pitch: Want a 2TB NVMe SSD for less than £60? You’ve got exactly that with this Amazon UK deal, courtesy of Lexar. The NM610 isn’t the fastest drive around, with a PCIe 3.0 interface and sequential speeds that top out at 3300MB/s, but it delivers a huge amount of storage space for very little money - while being around six times faster than SATA SSDs....

Today isStarfield early access release day, providing youbought the pricier editions, and senior Bethesda boffins are feeling appropriately festive, and probably also totally exhausted. Bethesda Game Studios director and executive producer Todd Howard has sent an email to staff thanking them for their efforts and ruminating a bit onStarfield’s “long and winding” development, which began with Howard chatting to ZeniMax Media’s now-passed co-founder Robert Altman in the wake ofSkyrim’s enormous success....

Stuck on the Wordle word for August 31? 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....

Welcome… to Casa Hastings Far bet it from me to complain aboutAgatha Christie - Hercule Poirot: The London Caseintroducing more incongruous eye candy, after myprevious conniptions over Hot Hipster Poirotwith his ankle-grazer trousers and his sexy egg-shaped head, but tick tock, it’s himbo Hastings o’clock. Released onSteamthis week, The London Case takes young Poirot to, err, London, charged with protecting a famous painting along with a representative of the insurance firm....

A powerful Masterwork Weapon awaits you in Baldur’s Gate 3 — if you know how to get it How do you finish the Masterwork Weapon in Baldur’s Gate 3?If you’ve been playing the game for any amount of time, you likely know thatBaldur’s Gate 3is full of secrets and mysteries. At a certain point, you may discover a quest calledFinish the Masterwork Weapon. Unfortunately, the quest itself can be rather vague, plus some of you may not even know how to pick it up in the first place....

Or so it says This year’sCall Of Duty: Modern Warfare 3will make use of Modulate’s ToxMod AI to help moderate voice chat in multiplayer, Activision have revealed. The system won’t detect offences in real time, nor will it be able to kick you from games for effing and blinding. It just submits reports of bad behaviour, with Activision staff making the final call on enforcement actions, which might involve reviewing recordings to work out the context of an outburst....

Mom: We have Armored Core at home People are already having fun withArmored Core 6: Fires Of Rubicon’s mech editor, creating robots that look like everything fromGrand Theft Auto’s CJtohorrific corporate marketing armed with twin gatling guns. For as amazing as AC6’s mech maker is, though, there’s one thing it can’t create: a tank strutting around on bare legs and heels. Lucky for us, then, thatCustom Mech Warsis on the way....

Blizzard’s Rod Fergusson tells RPS they were “nervous” about Diablo 4 cannibalising Immortal BeforeDiablo 4came out, Blizzard had concerns that their latest ARPG would tank the popularity of their most recent entry in the series,Diablo Immortal, Blizzard’s franchise general manager Rod Fergusson tells RPS. Immortal, which launched last year as a free-to-play MMO game, left quite abad tastein our mouths when it launched on PC, especially when it came to theprohibitively high cost of its various microtransactions....

Off the clock I like videogame worlds that are somehow vast and busy, yet pleasantly small and legible - Polly Pocket creations that have a lot of flex and bustle, when you look closely.Enter the Chronospherefeels like one of those games. Devised by Melbourne, Australia-based Effort Star, it sees you assembling a crew of alien roughnecks to breach and despoil astral “gigastructures” in top-down view. These gigastructures consist of tightly-packed disc-shaped labyrinths with distinct colour schemes, vegetation and screwy spacetime dynamics....

Follows Digital Eclipse’s Atari 50: The Anniversary Celebration The first published game by Prince of Persia creator Jordan Mechner has been given the star treatment in an interactive documentary that includes the originalKarateka, its early prototypes, a full remaster with dev commentary and a brand new game. The Making of Karatekais the next in Digital Eclipse’s ongoing effort to showcase video game history in the form of collections spanning games, interviews, materials and interactive timelines, after the superbAtari 50: The Anniversary Celebration....

Former Resi modders strike twice Appropriately for third-person shooters featuring icky electric zombies, Invader’s Daymare series has crept up on me. The second game, Daymare: 1994 Sandcastle,launches today. It casts you as Dalila Reyes, a special agent of Hexacore Advanced Division for Extraction and Search, aka H.A.D.E.S., and - wait a minute, I know this vibe! That annoying acronym? The washed-out, cadaver-on-concrete set dressing? The gimmicky ice-gun and scanner mode puzzles?...