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Shu Takumi’s Nintendo DS banger is back from the dead Paranormal puzzlerGhost Trick: Phantom Detectivehas waited a long time for a revival, but Capcom have finally landed on a date for their remaster: June 30th. The game waspreviously leakedvia an age rating last year, before an official confirmation in last month’s surprisinglyPC-centric Nintendo Direct.Now, after a long wait, fans can look forward to bloody crimes and ghostly possessions this summer....

Performance improvements and a lower price make this a compelling 1080p GPU Until recently, the story ofIntel’s Arc GPUshas been a litany of mild disappointments. After years of it being easier to buy an original O’Keefe than a reasonably pricedgraphics card, the Arc series brought hope that it might actually be possible to get a decent PC upgrade for less than £500. Then they were repeatedly delayed, confirmed to possess some unwelcome technical quirks (like wantingResizable BARon at all times), and ultimately released with merely decent-ish performance....

Escape the pressures of other people As our resident walking simulator enthusiast, I was instantly onboard when Alice Bee asked me to play a new game exploring a forest. I’m always up for a wander in the woods. I ama bit of a genre puristso with a name likeSons Of The Forest, I was concerned it might be another of those so-called walking sims that are more concerned with making you listen to a Radio 4 dramatic monologue....

The latest patch also adds a hang glider, a boss fight, and a load of other fixes Sons Of The Foresthas been a big success -so popular it may have crashed Steam- but players have had some quibbles about thesurvivalsequel since its early access launch. Developer Endnight Games are looking to fix many of these problems, and add a bunch of new features, in the newest patch. Yesterday’s patch added a mid-game boss, a bucket of balance tweaks, multiple fixes for everyone’s absolute best friend Kelvin, plus much more....

A very puzzling collection Whether you like to visitspace, indulge in anRPGsor a grandadventure, get spooked byhorroror get uber techy withhacking, the chances are that there’s also a puzzle game for you - hence our list ofthe best puzzle games on PC. The queen genre straddles many others, so our list of the 25 best puzzle games has all that we just mentioned and more. Take a look to find a new favourite puzzle game today....

Trouble in Legoland TT Games - the studio behindLego Star Wars: The Skywalker Sagaand a bunch of other Lego spin-offs - have cancelled several games featuring high-profile IP, according to a report fromNintendo Life.Up to five games have apparently been shelved due to various reasons including a “Diablo-like” Disney crossover, a Lego Guardians Of The Galaxy game, and a non-Lego shooter featuring various Warner Bros. characters. The largest cancelled game is allegedly Project Marley, the codenamed Disney project which suffered from a lack of direction after four years in development....

Stuck on the Wordle word for Mar 10? Read our hint or find the answer below! Need a hint for today’s Wordle answer?I’ve played so many games ofWordlein the past year or so that I’ve developed a low-key irrational resentment of words that are longer or shorter than five letters. If I see a word I like, I want to bank it as a cool Wordle guess, and then I’m kind of mad to realise I can’t use it....

There are five “notable requirements” to get games onto the EGS After more than 18 months ofclosed beta testing, Epic’s self-publishing tools for developers are now available for all to use on the Epic Games Store. Previously, Epic had their own internal curation process for publishing to the store, but this changes from today, with developers now having much more control over getting their games onto the EGS. Well, almost....

Play the music, maestro Figment 2 has all the visual flair and catchy sing-songs of the first, but it feels weirdly smaller. Both games will run you about 5 hours each, but Figment 2 is a little less punchy, a little less diverse, and feels more like an encore rather than a dazzling comeback album. That’s not necessarily bad; I love an encore, and I enjoyed seeing more of Figment’s surreal, subconscious mind-world....

From choosing parts to installing Windows, here’s how to handcraft your own custom gaming rig Knowing how to build a PC is, at least in the view of this hardware ed, an underrated skill. The single, solitary advantage of buying a pre-built rig is convenience, but if you know (or are willing to learn)how to slap all the parts together yourself, you get to exert far greater control over the specific components in your PC while gaining a greater understanding of how the whole thing works....

Fortune favours the cold Now that you’veinstalled a CPU, the logical next step ofbuilding a PCwould be to install a CPU cooler. So, let’s do that. These essential chip-chillers come with varying degrees of sci-fi design tendencies, ranging from simple fan-and-radiator combos – air coolers, to use their actual name – to the mathematical pipework of “open loop” liquid coolers. For your first PC build, don’t worry about constructing an open loop system; I know this is guide is meant to inform you, but plumbing knowledge is more than you need at this point....

Install a new GPU in five easy steps The importance of the GPU in your gaming PC isn’t remotely reflected in the amount of effort required to plonk in a new one. While it’sthecomponent for making your games look all nice and shiny, installing agraphics cardalmost rivalsinstalling RAMon simple, speedy straightforwardness, and if you’re following our how to build a PC guide, this will almost feel like a reward for finishing off themotherboard installation....

Build the backbone of a more capable PC Whenbuilding a PC, installing the motherboard is the step that brings it all together – where it finally starts to look like a functioning gaming rig. It’s also where installing components like theCPU,RAMandCPU cooleroutside of the case pays off, as you won’t have to fumble with them any further while your hands are enveloped by the darkness of the case. They’re already in place, and can be carried along with the motherboard into your PC like a tray of delicious party nibbles....