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Make it harder, easier, weirder Against The Stormprovided some of the most fun I had playing a citybuilder last year. That was in part because, despite being set in a dark fantasy world in which you must satisfy an unyielding Queen, and despite being in early access, it’s remarkably graspable. It’s the kind of citybuilder where, if you place a building in the wrong place, it simply lets you pick it up and move it at no cost....

Hearings aren’t due to begin until August Google and Nvidia have both provided the US Federal Trade Commission with objections to Microsoft’s attempted acquisition of Activision Blizzard,Bloomberg report. The FTCopted last month to sue Microsoftto block the acquisition, arguing that the deal would suppress competition. “We are prepared to address and have been proactively addressing issues raised by regulators or competitors to ensure that the deal closes with confidence,” Microsoft spokesman David Cuddy told Bloomberg....

It’s Snake Google Stadia willclose its doors on January 18th. As a parting gift, Google have released the game they built to test the streaming service before the streaming service launched. “Worm Game” is a version of Snake with plenty of levels and modes to try and, of course, it’s playable within your browser. The Stadia team referred to the release as a “humble thanks” to players of the service:...

Stuck on today’s Wordle word for Jan 14? Read our hints and the Wordle answer below! In this guide, you’ll find three clues that you can use to solve the Wordle answer today. If you’re on your final guess and just need to know the solution, then simply scroll down a little further. Looking for today’s solution? Check out theWordle hint and answer for Thursday 12th December! Wordle today: Hints for the Jan 14 Wordle word...

You can also peruse our list of all upcoming games withTBA or rough release dates! There are currently no games of note scheduled for an October release. But check back soon and it may be a different story!

With a very sweary trailer A mod for the originalFinal Fantasy 7that adds full voice acting to the game is set to release today after seven years of work. Tsunamods’ Echo-S 7 mod has actors from around the world voicing every character in Final Fantasy 7, including the battle barks. You can see a trailer of the mod in action below, but if you’re watching in the office on your lunch break then be aware that there’s a fair few cuss words in it....

A remaster of a classic Desktop Dungeons: Rewindis an upcoming “modern remastering” of the original, with 3D graphics and the ability to rewind time rather than start each level from the very beginning. It’s got a demo you can play right now, and it’s adding free daily challenges with a sharable leaderboard later this month. I am hyped. Watch on YouTube It’s good at generating lots of small moments that feel satisfying....

This makes it £40 cheaper than the nigh-identical Ryzen 7 5800X. AMD’s cheapest eight-core Ryzen 5000 processor has hit a new price low at Amazon UK, making it a great time to grab the Ryzen 7 5700X to upgrade your machine from an older Ryzen model - or build a shiny new one. The CPU is now £185, a 44% drop from its £329 RRP and even cheaper than it was yesterday....

Sounds good to me Watch on YouTube Boudon’s comments come froman interview with Games Radar, where she said the studio has heeded people’s “desire for a character driven story, focused on the core pillars of the first ACs in a more intimate scale”. Those core pillars are stabbing, sneaking and running. I like those pillars. She also talks about how new tech and greater experience allows them to do a better, more thorough job of simulating a smaller city, with “a richer and denser map compared to the first ACs”....

14 years and counting That’s despite the most recent swing of Ubisoft’s game-cancelling scythe, which was brought down on three unannounced games last weekdue to the company’s underperforming sales. Watch on YouTube Ubisoft confirmed that yep, they’re still working on it in a statmentthey gave today to PCGames N. “Beyond Good and Evil 2’s development is underway and the team is hard at work to deliver on its ambitious promise”, they said....

Check out Babbdi toot suite As I scale the sides of apartment blocks with climbing axes and pole-vault through windows, I often feel like I’m breakingBabbdi. I feel I’ve done something particularly clever or busted outside the boundaries of its little brutalist city. I haven’t, but I’m delighted to explore with this feeling. Oh sure, my objective in this splendid free indie game is to find a way out of the terrible city, but I’ll enjoy my final hour here....

“For a long time nothing really happened there” GOG has decided to scrap theirGOG Connectservice, which allowed users to claim a limited selection of games they already owned on Steam for free. The service was quietly killed off at the beginning of this year and removed from GOG’s site, whichdidn’t go unnoticedby frequenters of the GOG subreddit. GOG confirmed the closure of Connect to RPS fan sitePC Gamer, saying “for a long time nothing really happened there, so we’ve decided to shut it down”....

Buy one and stop me You know that bit in The Matrix where Neo says he needs lots of guns, and racks of them pop out of nowhere? Well,Grand Theft Auto Online’s latest addition is the Gun Van, and it’s going for a similar vibe. You can flag down the entrepreneurial van driver to buy pieces from a weekly rotating selection of what Rockstar calls “top-of-the-line weapons, ammunition, and armor”. It’s pretty much just the GTA equivalent of an ice cream truck, but for guns....