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Vote now as we continue deciding the single best thing in games Last time, you decided overwhelmingly (94%!) thatknocking folks over edges is better than big engines rising from the bonnet. Honestly, I cannot disagree. I adore that giant supercharged engine. I will always pick the cars with that giant supercharged engine. But imagine if someone were standing atop that giant supercharged engine’s towering intake, and I kicked them off it....

Stuck on today’s Wordle word for Jan 25? Read our hints and the Wordle answer below! I’m not going to lie to you: today’s puzzle is a bit of a tricky one. Luckily, we’re here with the clues to help you arrive at the answer! Alternatively, scroll down below the video to see today’s solution in full along with a definition. Looking for today’s solution? Check out theWordle hint and answer for Thursday 12th December!...

They want to apply tech such as ChatGPT and DALL-E to consumer products In a statement on theircorpo blog, Microsoft said the research partnership would focus on three main areas: supercomputing at scale, the cloud, and “new AI-powered experiences”. That last one’s relevant to us, because Microsoft are planning to use OpenAI’s tech in their consumer products. Whether that means Microsoft’s Windows software or their Xbox and PC games hasn’t been discussed publicly yet, but it’s possible that advances in responsive AI or asset generation could be incorporated into both further down the line....

You don’t have to be depressed to work here, but it helps Even before the monsters arrived, the USG Ishimura was a nightmare. I mean, yes, the hulking spaceship whereDead Spacetakes place isn’t exactly a floating Hilton once its crew have been turned inside out by a bunch of drooling flesh moths, but there is ample evidence that the Ishimura was a miserable place to live and work long before that happened....

Shadow Gambit: The Cursed Crew is coming later this year Mimimi Games have beenteasingtheir nextstealth strategy gamefor over two years now, and finally, we know what it is. Today, the makers of Desperados 3 and Shadow Tactics: Blades Of The Shogun revealed that the game formerly known as Codename: Sweet Potato (or Süßkartoffel, in their native German) is now calledShadow Gambit: The Cursed Crew, and it’s all about undead magical pirates....

Maybe it’s for you It seemed a shame, givenForspoken’s somewhatunusual system requirements, that its demo remained unavailable on PC. Well, that’s no longer the case. As of today, you can now give Square Enix’s Cuff-ing season action-adventure a whiz before you decide whether you want to pay £65/$70 for it. You can grab the demofrom Steamorfrom Epic. It requires 42GB of disk space. Forspoken has had mixed reviews this week, with critics lampooning its snarky dialogue, lamenting its empty open world, and la-criticising its story for only becoming engaging near its end....

All aboard Honkai: Star Rail Honkai: Star Rail, the intergalactic interrailing RPG from the makers ofGenshin Impact, is gearing up for its final closed beta. It’ll leave the station on February 10th and you can sign up to take part now. Or you can just watch a new trailer below. It might be inscrutable if you’re not already invested in these characters, though: If you want to sign up to participate in the beta,you can do so at its official site....

Based on my calculations, that’s 5p per gigabyte. While we spend a lot of our time over here in the deals corner of RPS covering high-speed NVMe SSDs, I also try to keep an eye out for good deals on classic 2.5-inch SATA SSDs as well. These drives are physically larger, slower and not much better value than NVMe M.2 alternatives, but occasionally prices become so low that you have to take notice....

Should be out in the next few months, Mr. Freeman Time to dust off your headset and motion controllers, because a free VR version ofHalf-Life 2: Episode Oneis coming to Steam. Created byHalf-Life 2: VR Mod’s SourceVR Mod Team, Episode One is the first of Valve’s episodic adventures to get the virtual reality overhaul treatment. It’s planned to follow up with Episode Two at an unannounced, but at a later date....

Completely bananas Fun story: I didn’t know whatQbasic Gorillaswas called for over 20 years. As a kid, we would refer to it simply as “TheBanana Game”. I had to rely on my Dad to play it, as only he was able to access an unfathomable portal called “DOS”, summoning it out of the inky void using long strings of seemingly random letters; an incantation that gave it a sort of mystical allure....

Tunic and Betrayal At Club Low lead the nominations The IGF has been running for years and does better than most videogame awards at highlighting interesting, exceptional work. As always, this year’s ultimate winners will be selected by a jury of game developers and announced during the Game Developers Conference, which runs March 20th-24th. The awards ceremony is on Wednesday, March 22nd and will also be broadcast on Twitch. Here’s the full list of nominees:...

Luck of the draw Most deckbuildingstrategy gamessee you create a single deck of cards over the course of the game. With every completed stage, you’re given the chance to add in new cards and take out old duffers, carefully honing those rough edges until it’s your very own death by paper cut machine.Mahokenshiisn’t most other deckbuilders, though. Here, you’re tasked with creating a fresh deck of cards each time you start a new mission, bolstering your initial crop of starter attacks and movement cards with new, more powerful attacks on the fly as you move around its hex-based landscapes....

Next-gen upscaler comes to Hitman 3 and Marvel’s Midnight Suns this week There’s a new Nvidia GeForce Game Ready Driver out, and for once it sounds pretty interesting – especially if you’re lucky/rich/unhinged enough to have dropped megabucks on one of Nvidia’s megabucksRTX 40 seriesGPUs. The 528.24 WHQL driver is mainly aimed at tuning up GeForcegraphics cardsfor imminent PC releasesForspoken, theDead Space remake, andDeliver Us Mars. All three will includeDLSSsupport, which might come in handy for Forspoken in particular, given its slightly bananassystem requirements....