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We want Steam Deck vent scents and an old PC booting up in a forest Nvidia’s marketing team this week announced an Nvidia-branded shower gel and deodorant as a PR stunt for social media giveaways. As far as I can tell, their Sphynx Ampere toiletries do not smell like new graphics cards, so who cares? However! This does make me wonder: which PC gaming smells would you like as a shower gel, perfume, deodorant, aftershave, air freshener, or such?...

Hints and the answer to Wordle #551 In this guide, we’ve got three clues that you can use to solve the Wordle answer today. If you’re just looking for the answer to maintain a streak, then scroll a little further down. Looking for today’s solution? Check out theWordle hint and answer for Thursday 12th December! Wordle December 22 hints The Wordle answer today is a double-letter doozy, and they’re always the toughest beasts to wrangle....

Two major updates are planned for next year, between smaller drops The Dragonflight expansionlaunchedon November 28th, and is very draconic indeed. You can now play as the dracthyr evoker class, journey to the Dragon Isles, and ride a drake mount. So, yeah, lots of dragons. Dragonflight isn’t the only thing to happen to World Of Warcraft in recent weeks either, as Blizzard revealed that veteran developerChris Metzen is returningfrom retirement to work on the game....

Every day, something new (and likely horrible) Whileour RPS Advent Calendarhas been counting down to the reveal of our favourite game of the year, another advent calendar has brought far spookier treats. The low-fi indie developers of the Haunted PS1 community have another Madvent Calendar this year, offering another 24 small horror games and oddities released daily. So far, these have ranged from an extreme snowboarding murder game to a pleasant little online social network where you leave messages for other people by decorating plants and plaques in a sunny courtyard....

Brew-tiful times out now I’m a big fan of life-sim mini-games. Cooking, crafting, mining, gardening, and all those other videogame-y tasks make something that’s a bit mundane into a fun little treat. It looks like developers Niceplay Games agree, as they’ve taken the joy of tactile crafting and created an entire potion-brewing sim around it - and not only is their crafting system both creative and clever, it’s oh so satisfying....

It’s not going to get less weird I’ve been playingBlacktail, ostensibly for review, but with all the seasonal nonsense going on I haven’t played enough to give you a big wot I think. It’s worth writing about though, so here I am, doing that. It’s a weirdo little first-person action-adventure game where you play as the 16-year-old Yaga, who has been run into the forest because the local villagers think she’s in league with the witch Baba....

Only in the first area, though Watch on YouTube There area few other restrictions: you have to play one of the new Dracthyr characters, and you can’t level above 63 or play beyond the “A Charge of Care” quest. That also means you’ll only be allowed to swoop around the Waking Shores zone, which is the first area in the expansion. The swooping does look nice. It’s less flying and more gliding, like Batman does in the Arkham games, diving to build momentum then spreading your wings and surging forward....

Up to four players can slaughter the classics Just as Tiktok riffed on Vine for a new generation, co-op rhythm gameDisaster Band’s taken the bold spirit of Wii Music and turned it into a nail-biting way for up to four people to parp out the greatest hits of Edvard Grieg. There’s Steam Workshop support too, so you can always chuck in your own self-penned future hits to jam along with. Have a watch of the game’s trailer below, if you don’t overly value your ears....

Garrett would be proud Cute, free little thief homageLi’l Tafferstarts you off in front of a door to a big manor, along with five instances of an ability called ‘knock’. Reader, I am telling you this so that you don’t waste all of them pointlessly knocking on the door like I did, as you are in fact supposed to use them to knock out guards. Watch on YouTube You’ve got to break into the manor, steal a crown and 200 gold’s worth of coins, then get out of dodge....

Care for a game of darts, Watson? Some point-and-click adventures prefer their heroes all comedic and wacky, your Guybrush types. Others are more stoic and action-orientated, such as Indy Jones or Graham of Daventry. Who fits better as an adventure game protagonist than Sherlock Holmes, consulting detective, though?The Lost Files Of Sherlock Holmes: The Case Of The Serrated Scalpeltaught me that when I was about eight years old, trying to figure out its mysteries while sitting at my dad’s Amstrad 286 accompanied by my sister Gem....

Not to be confused with Lego Bricktales Bricky puzzle gameLego Builder’s Journeyis the latest freebie being given away on the Epic Games Store as part of their Christmas sale. Honestly, I did not immediately mistake this forLego Bricktales, which I’m sure you didn’t either. Builder’s Journey tasks you with solving puzzles by, well, building with Lego. It’s also a bit of a looker, with some snazzy visual accoutrements such as ray tracing and global illumination....

More like snoremir Super quick, very good card battlerMarvel Snaprolls out a new location every week, then boosts it with a 40% likelihood to appear for 48 hours. New, temporarily common locations are a clever way of mixing things up, imposing restraints or possibilities depending on how much you tinker with your decks. The latest location, Vormir, is a bit borked. I just spent a minute or so swapping emotes with someone while the game tried to load our (unrelated) animations, which might not sound like much but constitutes a good third of a match’s normal running time....

It’s a step up from of the other dubious legendaries so far As you might have noticed, there’s just a few days until Christmas lands on us all like an overladen sleigh pulled by some very exhausted and confused reindeers.Overwatch 2’s marking the occasion by turning robotic damage heroBastioninto a gingerbread automaton with a new legendary skin. Seeing as it’s the holidays, Blizzard are charging just a singleOverwatchCoin for the skin, which is way, way less than the thousands that legendaries usually cost....