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Admire these interesting and attractive 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, my eye has been caught by retro-inspired stylings everywhere from JRPGs to platformers, and a demonstration slicing a cat Revengeance-style (do not worry, the cat is fine, it’s not a real cat, it isn’t even meant to be a fake cat, it really is fine)....

The Star Wars Jedi Survivor Path of Persistence puzzle solution is a head-scratcher, but we can help in a pinch What is the Star Wars Jedi: Survivor Path of Persistence puzzle solution?The Path of Persistence puzzle requires some serious brainpower, as it requires grappling, wall-running, and moving terrain while thinking about the space in a different way than you might normally. And if that sounds confusing to you… well, it is!...

A stubborn malaise hangs over stability and ray tracing improvements Star Wars Jedi: Survivordevelopers Respawn Entertainment have been busy on patch duty, pumping out aseries of updatesaimed at addressing the torrid state of itsPC performance at launch. The newest, last week’s Patch 4, sounded particularly enthusiastic about tackling Jedi: Survivor’s technical troubles, so now would be a fine time to check in on the progress of this fixing-upping campaign. A few droid decapitatin’ benchmark runs later, I can say that Patch 4 (and its predecessors) have made meaningful improvements toray tracingperformance, and that there’s a lot less stuttering than there was at launch - even if this hasn’t been smoothed out entirely....

The Stone Age farming sim had a successful launch late last month The up-and-coming farmlife indieRoots Of Pachahas been pulled from Steam, following a dispute “over the rights” of the game between developer Soda Den and publisher Crytivo. The game is a prehistoric take onStardew Valley’s crop-growing, dungeon-exploring, people-romancing formula. ItsPAX East demo caught our eyeearlier this year, and the full release late last month charmed many fans on Steam for the short time it was available....

Keep your options open Our list of thebest open world games on PCis for those who look at a forest and think about seeing what’s in the middle. For the players who really do want to climb that mountain. Sure, the size of games these days means in some sense they all have an open world, but here we’re leaning in to those games that want you to adventure, where the onus is on exploring and seeing what you find....

Stuck on the Wordle word for May 15? Read our hint or find the answer below! Need a hint for today’s Wordle answer?It’s a new dawn, it’s a new Monday, it’s a new Mon-life. And what better way to start off a new week than with a brisk lunchtimeWordle? 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 the Wordle word for May 14? Read our hint or find the answer below! Need a hint for today’s Wordle answer?It’s nearly time for a brand new week, and what better way to kickstart your final day of rest before work begins anew, than by stretching those linguistic muscles with a dailyWordle? 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?...

Fast, silent, capacious. Samsung’s 870 Qvo SSD isone of the best optionsfor high-capacity solid state storage, with a simple 2.5-inch form factor that doesn’t take up a valuable M.2 or PCIe slot and a fast-enough SATA connection. While performance is good, at up to 550MB/s for reads and a little less for writes, the real benefit here is having up to 8TB of silent, reliable and low latency storage. You can currently pick up thisRPS-recommended gaming SSDin its ultimate 8TB form for less than £415 from two places in the UK: Tech Next Day, where you can use codeTND-10to get it for £414, and Amazon, where you can get the drive for £412....

A low price for a GPU that beats the RTX 4070 by ~20% in rasterised titles. AMD’s RX 6950 XT has been enjoying a surprising revival as of late, as precipitous price drops have positioned it as a cheaper competitor to Nvidia’s new RTX 4070 GPU that offers better performance in rasterised titles - by a significant ~20% margin, too. Today, the RX 6950 XT has dropped below the £600 mark for the first time we’re aware of, with a chunky triple-fan ASRock model costing just £598 at Overclockers in the UK....

Stuck on today’s Wordle word for May 13? Read our hint or find the answer below! Need a hint for today’s Wordle answer?There’s nothing like grabbing your phone to do today’sWordleas you wake up on a Saturday morning! It’s the perfect way to usher in the weekend - unless you’re struggling to guess today’s answer, of course. 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?...

Here are all the lightsaber colors available in Jedi: Survivor Looking for all the different lightsaber colors in Jedi: Survivor?Of course you are! What’s the point of a Star Wars game if you didn’t get the opportunity to pick the perfect blade color for your lightsaber and the Jedi wielding it? Fortunately,Star Wars Jedi: Survivorgives you even more customisation options when it comes to your lightsaber color than its predecessor did....

With lots of football, coming next year The first-person slice-of-lifer explores football’s impact on the city of Quito, or rather its impact on the people who lived there as excitement bubbled and kicking balls was a way to come together. You’ll be running around the city, dribbling balls, playing games with other kids, and generally having a super chill time exploring stuff, by the looks of it. And boy oh boy, Despelote is a looker....

Not the end of the world Coming-of-age visual novelGoodbye Volcano Highhas been delayed to August 29th, developers KO_OP have announced. The upcoming dino drama is being pushed back to deliver the “best version” of the game, avoid crunch, and move out of a busy launch period, the developers say. “With our current workload, we could not have met our June release date without significant cuts to the quality and scope of the game,” KO_OP explained....