Riot announce The Mageseeker, 2023's third League Of Legends spin-off

Sylas leads a revolution this Spring The Mageseeker follows the escaped mage Sylas on his revenge journey through the kingdom of Demacia. The kingdom has maintained peace with the blood of mages, so, of course, Sylas raises an army of rogue mages and leads a revolution. Riot describe the game as “an action-packed fantasy,” exploring themes of “power, identity, and justice.” Moonlighter was an interesting, moreish game, despite its simple combat, so I’m interested to see how the team expands their action chops while applying some new, fresh features to the LoL world....

February 15, 2023 · 1 min · 181 words · Jacqueline Walker

Spellcaster University shows it's harder running a magic school than going to one

If only I was a good enough wizard to make this admin disappear! I’ve never had much of a desire for “I’m attending school” sims, because I hated attending school and not having to do it is one of the prime benefits of growing out of your teens. Running a school though? That’s a challenge I don’t mind taking on. Twopoint Campus does a great plate-spinning take on a school admin sim, but if you want something with cards, a dark lord, and the option for organic school meals, then… well, then you’re making a very specific request....

February 15, 2023 · 3 min · 561 words · Colleen Moore

Spells & Secrets uses roguelike inspirations to bring a magical school to life

Enrollment at the Academy of Greifenstein will begin shortly Spells & Secretsis an eye-catching, dungeon-crawling, magic-slinging action-rougelite with a lot of potential — and it’s set in an academy for wizards, so basically catnip to me as a fan of a good high school story. I first became aware of this upcoming game while covering last summer’sFuture Of Play Direct, and I’ve been itching to write something about it ever since....

February 15, 2023 · 6 min · 1096 words · Emily Macias

This basic monitor arm is down to $22.79 after two coupon codes

I’ve never seen a monitor arm at this kind of price. It’s rare to see a double discount deal on Amazon, but today that’s exactly what’s happened with this promotion on the Irongear Single Monitor Arm. It normally retails for $75.99, but you can tick a 50% off coupon on the product pageanduse code2YXE4T73to knock the price down to just $22.79 - an incredibly low asking price for a solid budget option that can handle even ultrawide monitors up to 26....

February 15, 2023 · 2 min · 326 words · Alejandro Taylor

Through The Nightmares spins childhood fears into a devilish platformer

Sure are a lot of spinning blades in this dream Magic Week could use a dash moredarkmagic, I reckon.Through The Nightmaresmay not be about spellcasting and amateur alchemy, but it still draws upon the arcane and otherworldly, setting its deviously difficult action-platforming inside the sleepscapes of frightened children. You are the Sandman, and you are neither sprinkling happy dust on Danish eyelids nor delivering Liberace-haired boyfriends to vocal quartets. Instead, you’re an active fighter of nightmares, diving into the brains of restless kids to explore their most traumatic memories and, ultimately, defeat the monstrous embodiments of their fears....

February 15, 2023 · 2 min · 420 words · Jesse Morris

Upgrade your old laptop with this 240GB SSD for £14

There’s no excuse to use a HDD for your OS install any more. It’s no secret that there a ton of low-cost, high-speed drives out there in the world. We like to call them SSDs, and nowadays you can pick them up for extremely tiny prices. For example, this 240GB SSD from Netac is down to just £14, making it an essential upgrade for any old laptops or desktops sitting around still using mechanical hard drives....

February 15, 2023 · 2 min · 289 words · Austin Cook

Upgrade your Steam Deck with a SanDisk Ultra 512GB Micro SD card for less than £40

An incredible price for our ‘best cheap Steam Deck memory card’. SanDisk’s Ultra line of Micro SD memory cards has long been one of the most popular memory card options for Switch and Steam Deck, and now you can pick one up for just £40 at MyMemory - compared to £52 for the same model at Amazon UK. This makes it an awesome time to upgrade your gaming handheld, or your smartphone, or whatever cool gadget you have with Micro SD or full-size SD slots....

February 15, 2023 · 2 min · 293 words · Richard Melton

What's better: funicular fights or elaborate corridor architecture?

Vote now! Last time, you decided thatthrowing knives are better than active reload. I enjoyed the spirited discussion over which throwing knives are good and which are bad. I can’t help but feel active reload didn’t get a fair shake because so few games do it outside Gears Of War, but the results are science and we must continue. This week, I suppose our choices are both about architecture, but in very different ways....

February 15, 2023 · 5 min · 1025 words · Joseph Anderson

Wild Hearts devs address performance problems, promise patches and DLSS/FSR support

Early trial has been not-so-happy hunting Wild Heartsdevelopers Omega Force are looking to lower the blades of disgruntled PC players, penning a Steam news update that acknowledges performance issues with theearly trialof theirMonster Hunter-yRPG. “Omega Force are working continuously to improve performance and optimise the game for a wide variety of hardware specs across future updates”,the note reads. It also confirms that support for bothDLSSandFSRupscalers is on the way, and asks those who’ve found their hunts scuppered by dodgy performance to report their issues toEA’s support team....

February 15, 2023 · 2 min · 326 words · Anna Tran

Wordle hint and answer (#606): How to solve the Wednesday February 15 Wordle today

Stuck on the Wordle word for Feb 15? Read our hint or find the answer below! Need a hint for today’s Wordle answer?Wordleis a puzzle game that’s both super cosy and frustratingly tough. It challenges you with guessing a five-letter word in just six tries, which is going to prove particularly difficult today. Indeed, today’s Wordle word is a tough one, but that’s why we’re here to help. In this guide, you’ll find three Wordle hints that you can use to solve the Wordle answer today....

February 15, 2023 · 6 min · 1215 words · Joseph Good

Blanc review: heartwarming co-op, but its weak second half leaves you out in the cold

A tale of a fawn and a wolf pup I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again: if there’s a cute animal game that looks like it’s going to make me cry, then sign me up, I’m ready to go. In fairness, though, co-op adventureBlanclooks like it’s going to be a lot lighter than games likeEndling: Extinction is Foreverand the notoriously upsettingShelterseries at first glance, but I’ve learned toneverlet my guard down around these kinds of games....

February 14, 2023 · 6 min · 1075 words · John Reynolds

Campo Santo's In The Valley Of Gods has a probably meaningless 2029 release window

Digging up old bones It’s highly unlikely that a release window for,checks notes, six years in the future is concrete. What’s happening, then? Previously Steam didn’t have any hard and fast rules on how games displayed their release dates, but a fairly recent updateintroduced some new policiesthat standardises date displays (these policies still allow for a vague “Coming Soon” display, though). When the game was put on hold, Campo’s co-foundertold Polygonthat In The Valley Of Gods “certainly feels like a project people can and may return to....

February 14, 2023 · 1 min · 169 words · Timothy Smith

Deck-building and shoot 'em up combine in this fun free browser game

Dire Decks feels like it could have been a huge Flash game I’ve never met a deck I didn’t want to build, but I don’t think I’ve met deck-building in a shoot ‘em up before. That’s the offer ofDire Decks, a cute little arcade shmup which you canplay for free right now in your browser on Itch.io. As you face down endless enemies, you draw and play cards representing individual attacks and power-ups, drafting new and more powerful cards as you level up....

February 14, 2023 · 3 min · 603 words · Jacob Singleton