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How is this free?! I don’t know anything about VTubers, aside from the fact they’re virtual… YouTubers…? What I do know, is there’s aVampire Survivors-like calledHoloCure: Save The Fansthat’s entirely fan made, entirely free, and revolves aroundHololive, a VTuber agency replete with catgirls. I am taken aback by how good it is. Among many other things, Vampire Survivors squeezes so much out of its stages and items. There’s a list of things to unlock and they’re all yours if you’re willing to experiment with cloves of garlic and magic wands for 30-minutes at a time....

Stuck on Wordle word for August 21? Read our hint or find the answer below! Need a hint for today’s Wordle answer?Daily rituals are a wonderful thing. Some much-needed structure and familiarity. Whether it’s an omelette in the morning, a Friends episode in the evening, or a quickWordlein the afternoon. Every day, Wordle presents its legions of players with a deviously simple quandary: can you guess the right five-letter word within just six guesses?...

Stuck on today’s Wordle word for August 20? Read our hint or find the answer below! Need a hint for today’s Wordle answer?Let’s all just take a breather, eh? We’ll be back at the office desk in a few minutes, but right now, this time right here is reserved. It’s time forWordle. Every day, Wordle presents its legions of players with a deviously simple quandary: can you guess the right five-letter word within just six guesses?...

From original animator Jeff Lew If someone were to write the history of internet video, I think they’d need to mentionKiller Bean. Released in 1996, just a year after Toy Story, it was a two-minute, 3D animated short about gun-toting beans, and almost entirely the work of one person. A slightly longer and much improved sequel, Killer Bean 2: The Party, was released in 2000. Now it’s getting a video game from original creator Jeff Lew, and it’s an open world, first- and third-person roguelike shooter with the same acrobatic, John Woo-inspired combat as the nearly thirty-year-old animations....

Who’d want mashed sushi Dave The Diverteased its coming updatea couple of weeks ago, and it’s here now. It focuses on resolving quality-of-life issues in the sushi restaurant ‘em up, such as making the UI larger and allowing players to eliminate button-mashing. Reeling in fish you’ve gored with your harpoon in Dave The Diver normally means hammering a button, which is both noisy and, given you do it hundreds of times, somewhat tedious....

Hello hello hello games It has now been seven years sinceNo Man’s Skyreleased, which means there have been seven years of post-release updates. In a trailer released to celebrate the anniversary, Hello Games teased the next update by giving it a name: Echoes. There’s no further information about what the update will contain, althougha tweet about the trailerdid underline just how many updates there have been for No Man’s Sky by listing them all....

Server issues amid monetisation woes Wayfinderwill be free-to-play when it reaches 1.0, but it costs money if you want to get involved with the early access version which launched earlier this week. That didn’t dissuade players, it seems. Its launch was popular enough for its servers to fall over, leaving players unable to login, a fact for which its developers have now apologised. “Yesterday sucked. There is no other way to say it....

Stuck on today’s Wordle word for August 19? Read our hint or find the answer below! Need a hint for today’s Wordle answer?It’s time, once again, for us all to join our minds in pursuit of completing today’s simple but often mystifyingWordlepuzzle. Every day, Wordle presents 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....

An ironical yet fitting development Cave pops up in Portal 2 when you’re exploring the lower, older areas of Aperture Science, as voice notes recorded between somewhere in the 50s, 70s, and 80s - at which point he became incurably sick from rubbing moon rocks together, and the voice notes become increasingly emotional. One of his now enduring lines is that, in answer to the aphorism “when life gives you lemons”, he’ll “make life rue the day it thought it could give Cave Johnson lemons!...

Echoes of Thedas TheBaldur’s Gate 3modding scene remains dominated by blunt practicalities - more XP! More spellslots! More party members! HIGHLIGHT EVERYTHING! - but there are a few intriguing mods percolating to the top. We’ve already had one thatmakes Baldur’s Gate 3 a single character RPG, which I am hoping somebody at the RPS Treehouse will do a diary feature about, plus aPainterly Sceneryfilter created by 1wk, which makes the game look like it’s daubed on canvas....

A great price for a solid card for 4K gaming without RT. AMD’s RX 6800 is one of the best value high-end graphics cards on the market - and today you can pick up this GPU withStarfieldPremium Edition for just $430 at Amazon US, down from $490. Unfortunately, RT performance in these crop of titles (where available) is much worse than the RTX 3070, and many games also support DLSS rather than AMD’s FSR 2, leading to the 3070 having a solid lead in these titles....

Modder exhorts Rockstar to “focus on creating proper remakes” A singleGTA 5mod has rekindled the age-old shouting match about the precise legality and contribution of videogame mods, in the eyes of developers, publishers and players - while also threatening to trigger fresh debate on the use of large language models, aka AI, in game development. The mod in question, “AI Powered GTA V: Story Mode with AI NPCs” sees you investigating a cult of weirdo AI worshippers, with characters who speakAI-generated dialogue....

Please tell me how to do my job Hello everybody! This is Edwin, your resident news-wrangler. I’ve been in this glorious job for a whole two weeks now, and alas it is time to say goodbye… because I’m off on holiday. Genius-level journostrategist that I am, I managed to book a week away walking in Scotland during Gamescom before landing the gig, and I can’t rebook without incurring the everlasting hatred of Caledonian Sleeper....