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Engineering its limits I spent the past weekend flicking between theDead Space remakeon my PC, and theDead Spaceremake on mySteam Deck. It’s a belter of a refurb, and for me personally, has been like getting dessert after being forced to finish myForspokenvegetables. Still, some lingering performance woes on the Deck mean I’m probably going to continueIsaac Clarke’s first and worst jobon desktop alone. To be fair, the remake is playable on Valve’s handheld....

“They order the living / They shepherd the dead” I love secret languages in games. I’m too slow to decipher any of them myself, but I enjoy seeing a game’s community pick apart foreign symbols to uncover a game’s deep mysteries (Tunic’smusical languagewas especially fun.) Fortunately for me, players have already deciphered the ‘Indecipherable’ text log in the newDead Space remake, revealing a poem that potentially hints toward the series’ future....

Can I get a lift? Let’s not muck about here.Homeworldis essentially justBattlestar Galactica, if it were a real-time strategy game that jumped through a hyperspace gate exclusively onto PC. There’s still much more to Relic Entertainment’s sci-fi take on the plot of exiles returning home, though. When Homeworld’s Kushan civilisation set out on their journey to the lost planet of Hiigara in the space-year of 1999, the game was doing something very unique compared with most other RTS games on the market....

Forbidden alpha footage The leaked footage mainly features a lot of characters running around in low-poly environments and some brief looks at combat against its familiar mechanical enemies. What was most interesting were the “join-PS4” and a “join-PC” options, potentially hinting at cross-platform play and a simultaneous PC release. There are still a number of question marks surrounding this footage, though. When it was originally posted, it was labelled as “Horizon Forbidden West leaked alpha’s multiplayer” - Forbidden West being the currently PlayStation-only sequel toHorizon Zero Dawn....

Amazon plans to build a “connected world” between the games, TV, and film Lara Croft has seen her fair share of live-action adaptations, but this time she’s raiding the small screen with aTomb RaiderTV series and a film in development at Amazon.THRreported that the Emmy-winning Fleabag writer Pheobe Waller-Bridge is set to pen (and executive produce) the upcoming show, though there’s no word on who’s attached with the film.THR statesthat Amazon is looking to “build out a connected world of Tomb Raider, with the video game, TV series and film....

Come 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 so very much! Come check out immersive sim piano-playing, hand-drawn and stop-motion art, alien horror and pandemic horror, dogfighting planes, and loads more! Cute handcrafted scenes in stop-motion language-learning adventure game Language Adventure:...

“Nothing could be further from the truth.” Microsoft and Sony have been in a months-long back-and-forth over Microsoft’s proposed Activision Blizzard acquisition and the issue ofCall Of Dutyexclusivity, and they’re not done yet. In aseries of tweetspublished last Friday, Microsoft’s chief communications officer Frank X. Shaw said Sony were “briefing people in Brussels claiming Microsoft is unwilling to offer them parity for Call of Duty if we acquire Activision," but added that “Nothing could be further from the truth....

A great price for a TLC PCIe 4.0 drive with DRAM cache. The Corsair MP600 Pro is a great high-end PCIe 4.0 SSD, so to get the 1TB model for $155 at Newegg, a reasonable $45 off, is a deal worth writing about. As you’d hope from a drive of this calibre, this uses more expensive TLC NAND flash and has a DRAM cache, providing noticeably better sustained performance than QLC drives without a DRAM cache....

The Looking Glass veteran talks about Garrett’s past, present, and unlikely future Some developers spend their careers inching towards their dream job, leapfrogging between roles in a grand strategy game of their own making. Others, like Randy Smith, simply show up on their first day and find they’re exactly where they’re meant to be. “The approach that Looking Glass had to creating games was pretty unique,” he says now. “Even to this day, there are few studios who have that same ideology and mindfulness in how videogames are made....

Stuck on today’s Wordle word for Jan 30? Read our hint or find the answer below! Need a hint for today’s Wordle answer?TheWordleanswer today is likely a word you’ll have heard before, but that’s not to say finding it will be easy. In fact, sometimes the simplest words are the most challenging to find, because there’s often a huge variety of very similar five-letter words, and with just six guesses to sort through them all, you may find that all-important winning streak comes to an end with today’s ill-fated Wordle attempt....

It’s Sakamoto’s favourite thing about LAD: Ishin I asked Sakamoto what his favourite thing from Like A Dragon Ishin was, whether it be a small thing or something your average player might not pick up on. After a “hmmm” and a slight pause, he answered the question with a slight grin on his face. After a second or two, the translator cackled uncontrollably and I, too, started laughing at him laughing....

Stuck on today’s Wordle word for Jan 29? Read our hint or find the answer below! Need a hint for today’s Wordle answer?Wordlegives its thousands of daily players worldwide a lovely little word puzzle with which to wake up their brains in the morning, or perhaps to while away the time during a lunch break at work. The challenge is simple - guess the correct five-letter word - but far easier said than done, considering just how many five-letter words there are in the English language....

Open fields aplenty in the reveal trailer American Truck Simulatorhasn’t yet received its already-announced Oklahoma DLC, but work is underway on the state that will follow it: Kansas. You’ll find a reveal trailer filled with grassy fields and grain silos below. As the DLC’sSteam pagesays, Kansas is knwon for “its native grasslands, streams, abundant blue skies, and green grassland vistas.” Work continues on thepreviously announced Oklahoma DLC. Last week, SCS showed some of thenew industry typesyou’ll be hauling for in the region, including a bus factory, municipal depots, and an electrical appliance factory....