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Everyone, meet Dwayne. Dwayne, everyone. Sea Of Thievesis getting a mid-season update today, bringing the chance to catch up on all the pirate gossip with a trusty pet rock pal. The pocket pebble is only an emote that you can buy from the Sea Of Thieves store, but the company might help you keep it together on the long, lonely journeys across the game’s seas. The update also introduces a new time-limited event, The Secret Wilds, and some matchmaking improvements for PvP....

Announced by leaks, cancelled by leaks Now Ubisoft say that they have cancelled it. “We can confirm we will no longer support the development of Project Q in order to focus on priority projects, to which our teams are being reallocated,” an Ubisoft spokesperson toldVGC, after leaks over the cancellation earlier in the week. Ubisoft have been on a cancellation spree of late, withthree unannounced projects cancelled last week. The cancellations come as Ubisoft say they’re facing “worsening macroeconomic conditions” and are undertaking “targeted restructuring” - eg....

Seems like the ball is back in Yves Guillemot’s court The CEO of Ubisoft has apologised to staff for comments he made in an email last week, which appeared to blame employees for cuts and delays at the publisher.Kotakureport that Yves Guillemot began a Q&A meeting with an apology for his suggestion that sorting out issues at Ubisoft was the responsibility of lower-level staff, summarised by the phrase “the ball is in your court”....

Stuck on the Wordle word for Jan 19? Read our hints and the Wordle answer below! If you find yourself in such a sticky situation with today’s Wordle puzzle, don’t worry, because we’ve put together a series of handy hints to help you out below. Or, if you just want to know the answer and what it’s all about, scroll down below the video to see the definition in full....

Stay in the shadows Something you could never accuseA Plague Tale: Requiemof is a lack of eye candy. As grim, gory, and engulfed in rats as this medieval stealth adventure is,mon dieuis it a looker on PC. For those among us with one of the brawniergraphics cardson the market, it’s just become even prettier too, via the slightly delayed implementation ofray tracing. Only ray traced shadows, to be precise, though a quick test byWccftechsuggests they do amount to a visible (if subtle) improvement....

School’s out Indonesian studio Mojiken have been making games for years. Most of them are less than an hour long. They’re short, punchy adventures and cover everything from digital fortune tellers, violin-playing owl-men, and poetic folktales about potato-shaped forest creatures. A Space For The Unboundis Mojiken’s first ‘big’ release in that sense, clocking in at around nine-ish hours. What begins as a YA coming-of-age tale about a small-town romance quickly gains remarkable momentum, and suddenly you’re dealing with supernatural teens trying to desperately stop a world-ending calamity....

Brewing up a storm on April 20th Coffee Talk Episode 2: Hibiscus & Butterflycontinues the story of this chill, late-night café game set in an alternate, fantastical version of modern day Seattle, and I honestly cannnot wait. As we’ve seen from various trailers and demos over the last year or so, Episode 2 will introduce some new faces to its cast of regular customers, including influencer satyr Lucas and wannabe soprano banshee Riona....

The latest information on closed betas, platforms, character classes, and more Want to know the latest news about Blue Protocol?Blue Protocolis an upcomingfree-to-playopen-worldMMORPGfrom Bandai Namco and Amazon Games, the latter of whom recently saw success withNew WorldandLost Arkin the same genre. It’s drawing a lot of comparison toGenshin Impactthanks to its status as an F2P anime-inspired RPG, although in reality it should be quite different thanks both to its more science-fantasy inspired setting and its different monetisation model....

Mark your calendars for February 24th You may have seen I was dead excited aboutThe Pale Beyondin ourmost anticipated gameslist the other week, and now we finally know when it’s coming out. Publisher Fellow Traveller have announced this Arctic naval expedition gone wrong will be setting sail on February 24th, so ready your blankets and hot cuppas, folks. This icy, story-driven survival ‘em up will chill you the bone. In The Pale Beyond, you play a first mate who’s signed themselves up for an Arctic rescue mission to find a missing ship and its lost crew....

Thunderful are holding a “special broadcast” Thunderful Games haveannouncedthey’re going to be holding a special SteamWorld stream next Monday January 23rd, where they’ll be unveiling what’s next for the series. Taking place at 9.30am PST / 5.30pm GMT, it’s not clear what the SteamWorld Telegraph: Special Broadcast will entail just yet, but given we already knowseveral SteamWorld games are in developmentat the moment, here’s a rough guess-timate of what to expect....

One of the fastest PCIe 4.0 SSDs in the world for a great price. The WD SN850x is one of the very fastest NVMe SSDs in the world, with its PCIe 4.0 connection, super-fast TLC NAND flash memory and high-speed controller offering some frankly astonishing speeds - up to 7300MB/s reads and 6300MB/s writes, not to mention random read and write speeds of 800K IOPS and 1.1M IOPS respectively. This puts it within thetop echelon of SSDs- perhaps why we named it the best PCIe 4....

*With (optional) RGB, or without RGB for $133. DDR5 RAM is steadily getting more affordable these days, and even surprisingly high-end 6000MT/s kits are going on sale. That’s the case today with this deal on a 32GB dual-channel kit of DDR5-6000 from TeamGroup, specifically their T-Force Delta RGB RAM. It’s been reduced from its ridiculous launch MSRP of $339.99 down to $149.99, a great price for this spec and especially for a kit that comes equipped with RGB lighting....

Aha, it’s the Corpse-Stench Shack You may be able to hack your way across the Lands Between, but do you really know them? Can you tell your Nokrons from your Nokstellas? How about your Sanctums from your Catacombs? Can you distinguish between the Ainsel River and the Ainsel River Main? Look me in the eye and tell me you can pinpoint the Cathedral of Manus Celes, I dare you. Alternatively, you can try out this fan-madeElden RingGeoguessr-inspired game that plonks you into a random bit of the map and scores you based on how close you can drop a pin to your true location....