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A new cycle begins Season: A Letter To The Futurebegins with a goodbye. You wander around your home for the last time, choosing five objects which inspire deep memories that spur each of the five senses. You then place them into a cauldron one by one, your mother keeping a watchful eye. The ritual comes to an end and the result is a small glowing pendant that will protect you from the dangers of the outside world....

This roguelike is way better than it has any right to be Shoulders Of Giantsis out today on the Epic Games Store. When we first saw thetrailerfor Shoulders Of Giants, a few people on team responded with murmurings of “What the hell is this?”, which increased in frequency and volume as more bizarre things appeared on screen. I sort of did what the Goonies do when they first find the map to One Eyed Willie’s treasure, or what anyone in Pulp Fiction does when they open the briefcase:“Wooooaaaah....

A veritable Geralt Of Trivia “This guy walks all over the land delivering quest fixes out of his bag like santa,” Mills added. “I dunno if this qualifies as useless, those quest fixes were very useful.” Mills said that “hundreds and hundreds of fixes” were carried around through the game by the wandering merchants, although their usefulness didn’t last. “It’s not like this anymore, eventually his burdens were lightened and the fixes were moved to a more reasonable (but less interesting) place,” he said....

I Commissioned Some Bunnies continues the series started with bees It’s a simple proposition: across 15 pretty illustrations from a variety of artists, find and click on almost 800 rabbits and over 600 carrots. If you want, I suppose you can imagine clicking on a bunny counts as petting a bunny. Bunnies in launderettes. Bunnies in bedrooms. Bunnies journeying through space. Bunnies amidst a kaiju fight. Bunnies amidst nuclear ruins. Bunnies at the swimming....

A new blog post details what’s changing for the battle royale next month The revised Gulag’s weapon pool is expanding, too. Players will be able to get their military mitts on assault rifles, submachine guns, and light machine guns for their primary weapons. Shotguns are out, which makes roughly a third of us very sad, but you’ll still have access to handguns as a secondary. Anyone who wins a Gulag has more cash to look forward to, as rewards are going up next season to give returning, victorious players a leg up when they re-enter battle royale....

Innocn are quickly making a name for themselves with great value gear. Amazon US is running a Lightning Deal today that’s worth knowing about: just $180 for a 27-in 1440p 144Hz gaming monitor from Innocn. This brand is one I’ve covered before - my colleague John Linneman was impressed with both aportable OLEDand a40-inch ultrawidefrom the Chinese company - so it’s definitely worth trying in my view. This monitor appears to have launched towards the tail end of last year and attractedsome favourable reviewsfromsmaller outlets, although it doesn’t appeared to have been tested by an RPS-size joint (nor RPS itself, for the record)....

Stuck on today’s Wordle word for Jan 26? Read our hints and the Wordle answer below! To help make the task a little easier for you during your lunch break, have a scroll below and read our three handy Wordle hints, any one of which may elucidate today’s Wordle solution. If you’re still stuck and just want to preserve your win streak, check below the video for today’s Wordle answer and a definition....

Plus a deep look at its PvP mode Minecraft Legendsis an action strategy game, which means you view the world from above and command armies of mobs. But there’s still plenty that’s familiar from traditional Minecraft, if tonight’s presentation during the Xbox developer showcase is any indication. They also announced a release date: April 18th. Here’s the new trailer, although at the end of the post I’ll embed the longer game demonstration from tonight’s livestream:...

Parrying platformer Agent In Depth is fast and deadly A fast-paced game that’s all about reflecting bullets back with a katana sounds great to me, a known fan ofparrying projectiles. I bought new indie gameAgent In Depthwithin 20 seconds of seeing it. Then I played it. Oh no. I feel old. Am I too old? What I can tell you is, if you like fast-paced action platformers with bullets to parry, instadeath to punish you, and no checkpoints to support you, you might enjoy this....

When does Dead Space release in each region? Looking for the Dead Space release time?Dead Spaceis finally here, and this long-anticipated remake of ahorror classiclives up to expectations.In our review, vid bud Liam says that it’s the “Dead Space you remember but with a brilliant new sheen, luxuriously improved in small but considered ways.” That’s high praise, and he later reaffirms it by saying it “is one of the best action-horror games I’ve ever played”....

Do people even use speakers anymore? Beijing-based outfit Edifier have been making some of the best value computer speakers for a while now; in fact my roundup over at Digital Foundry dedicatestwo of the seven slotsto their designs. One that doesn’t feature on that list but has attracted strong reviews elsewhere is the Edifier R1280T, a 2.0 studio speaker set that delivers excellent sound for the money. These speakers are normallynormally around £100, but today on Overclockers you can grab a pair for £84 - lower than they’ve ever been before....

Building a better list of minimum and recommended hardware Thanks to the joys of late code delivery, a few of us are just now getting to grips with talkative Squeenix ARPGForspoken. While Alice Beehammers her reviewtogether, I’ve been on my usual hardware bullshit, mainly investigating thepeculiar system requirementsthat were released last week. These aren’t just an odd collection of specs because of the sheer weight and breadth of their demands; they also overtly target resolutions and framerates that hardly anyone is going to be engaging with....

Rhythm is a thumper I’m a fan of a rhythm game. Something where you can get into a flow state, you know? They can be perfect when you’ve had a long day and don’t want to engage brain. The thing is, I don’t thinkThumperis one of those games. Thumper is some kind of sci-fi nightmare in space, and it moves so fast that you can’t relax for a second. It does fulfil the “rhythm” part of of that brief, though, with a pulsing and tooth-jarring soundtrack by noise-rock musician Brian Gibson....