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The Pog decade continues to haunt us I don’t keep family photo albums to avoid the exact scenario described inCorporeal, a just-announced mysteryhorrorgame in which you piece together a haunted family photo album. Navigating “a series of immersive retro analog interfaces”, you will complete “tactile, minimalist puzzles” so as to combine eldritch snapshots and reveal new scenes. You know the kind of thing: that isn’t a freshly-baked muffin cooling on a second floor window ledge, it’s the Slender Man....

Scroll down for a picture of Cadia As members of RPS’s “nutritious”, “life altering” and “it cured my oddly-shaped bottom!” supporters program (not actual reviews) will get to read about this Friday, I’ve recently done a 180 in my opinions of scrappy ‘nid stomperWarhammer 40,000: Space Marine 2. That’s mainly down themultiplayerOperations mode. It isn’t quite as deep asDarktide, but it feels like much less work, and I’m starting to realise just how phenomenal the little details in the animation and sound are....

From increpare, creator of Stephen’s Sausage Roll Out 17th October onSteam,Mask Questis a platform game in which you hold and release a button to refill your character’s lungs while dodging police batons, bullets, gas grenades and drones. Neglect to do so, and you’ll pop your clogs. It’s the kind of mechanical tomfoolery you’d associate withPeter Molydeux, but in this case, it’s all the fine work ofStephen’s Sausage Rolldeveloper increpare andQuadrantdeveloper undef....

It Follows (me on Twitter) As you can see, that big lady is not stopping. The game sees players pushing past people who step in the way, scraping around for small change (to buy a ticket to get through a subway barrier), and slurping on that inhaler to keep a stamina meter up. Looks like the goal is definitely to channel the anxiety of a crowded space. It’s coming out on October 24th, just in time for spooksday, and is being made by Night Dial, a Belfast-based horror developer (as you can maybe tell by the accent of dying alleyway man in the trailer)....

Scrambled Maps scrambles maps I miss the height of Wordle mania not because of the game itself, which I still play on occasion, but because of the torrent of delightful, experimental browser-based puzzle games that followed in its wake. Worldle, Octordle, Moviedle, Waffle, Who Are Ya?, Cloudle and many, many more were a gold rush of bandwagon jumpers I was fully onboard with. Scrambled Mapstakes me back to those good old days....

And are likely working with Konami again As I type these words, specialist wifeguy assessor Brendy is rambling through the fog of Bloober’sSilent Hill 2 remake. Knowing Brendy, he’ll be sauntering down Neely Street like a gentleman dandy from 1920s Oxford, throwing out his cuffs and elbows and winking merrily at all the shambling depression metaphors who are trying to chew his legs off. While we await his verdict, here’s another excerpt from a chat with Bloober earlier this summer, in which I pop the extremely imaginative question of what they’ll doafterremakingSilent Hill 2....

95% off XCOM 2 is a steal “Turn-based” games are, as we know, all derived from Turn, the strategy game about a dog digging for coins released for the BBC Micro in 1987. Prior to this, all actions in games simply took place simultaenously, as fast as the player or players could make them. Fast forward to today and many games are now “turn-based”, from TacticsOgreReborn toAge Of Wonders4 to chess....

Let the good times roll, and roll, and roll Yesterday, Valve dropped aSteam client beta updatefocused largely on Game Recording – the beta version’srecently added clip-capturing utility. It’s a pretty wide-spanning array of improvements, adding support forultrawide monitorresolutions up to 32:9, the high-quality H.265 (HEVC) video codec – on Windows only for now, apologies to theSteam Deck– and the option to “record a specified game indefinitely with no specified time limit....

Stuck on the Wordle word for October 3? 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?Buckle up for a selection of clues to help you keep your streak intact. Every day,Wordlepresents its legions of players with a deviously simple quandary: can you guess the right five-letter word within just six guesses?...

You can literally carry your mates Despite just releasing yesterday, Amazon and NCSOFT’s massively mate-filledRPGThrone And Libertyhas already shot right upSteam’s most played charts. It’s sitting just behindBlack Myth: Wukongat number six at time of writing, which is sort of like getting the wobbly chair at a lavish dinner party. Sure, you’re 5% certain you’re going to break your neck at some point, but you’re still eating smoked salmon and chortling, so it’s a good evening....

Plastic Missile Look. Having basically sold both of my best standing legs to buy moreKingdom Death Monsterexpansions, I can’t bemoan anyone spending silly amounts of money on whatever plastic tat makes them happy. But I loveBaldur’s Gate 3, and it makes me sad to see all the wonderful art, writing, and acting that went into its characters reduced to $6 miniatures that look like their limbs would melt if I rubbed them between my thumb and forefinger....

Here’s a complete guide to Chapter 6, including how to beat Erlang Looking for a Black Myth: Wukong Chapter 6 walkthrough?Chapter 6 of Black Myth: Wukong amps up the boss rush side of the game, giving you free access to Sun Wukong’s home of Mount Huaguo via the Somersault Cloud. There’s actually not much to do on the mountain besides beat up a bunch of big ol' baddies, but Chapter 6 also gives the player access to the true ending of Black Myth: Wukong, including a cataclysmic rematch with Celestial Court do-gooder Erlang Shen....

Need some Connections hints today? Read our guide for help with Connections #478. This guide is for a previous day! Looking for today’s solution? Check out theConnections hint and answers for Thursday 12th December! Connectionsis a word puzzle game published every day by the New York Times (NYT), the hosts of the endlessly popularWordlepuzzle. Crafted each day by puzzle-maker Wyna Liu, Connections presents you with a selection of 16 seemingly disparate words, and you have to group them together in four sets of four, where each group of four words has a common theme....