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Shipment’s being decorated for the season for the next two weeks The Shipment map gets its Christmas on for a two-week period beginning tomorrow and lasting into the new year. As you saw in the ridiculously over-dramatic trailer, there’ll be festive bows and wreaths dangling from the shipping containers that make up the map. They’re flanked by snowmen, who you can’t easily mistake for other players because they so obviouslystand outfrom the rest of Shipment....

From original developers Hopoo Games Last month it was announced that the Risk Of Rain IP was now fully owned by Gearbox Publishing and that original developers Hopoo Games would not be working on future updates for Risk Of Rain 2. There was also the promise that Hopoo and Gearbox were working on one remaining Risk Of Rain project together, however. In Risk Of Rain, you select a survivor and then try to survive on an alien planet as waves of enemies attack....

We chat to the Surviving Mars devs about their latest otherworldly base builder “Do not be afraid to die.” That’s the advice of Haemimont Games' CEO Bisser Dyankov when it comes to playing their new open world survival simStranded: Alien Dawn. Havinglaunched into early accessin mid-October, the latest game from theSurviving Marsdevs has just recently doubled in size to include a brand-new desert biome in its Dunes And Moons update, adding harsh temperature extremes to deal with, new alien lifeforms to observe, and, you know, just the odd Chaos Moon to endure while you’re at it....

I’m not sure what’s going on in Roman Sands: REBuild, but I dig it

A workers work is never worked Exercise caution when opening door number 20 on the RPS Advent Calendar, because it’s an uncaring world of manual labour in space out there. If you open the door wrong you could cause a huge explosion that kills you - but to mitigate that risk you can spend money buying an Official Safe Door Opener. Don’t worry, you can just work more to pay it off....

Ray tracing and rasterised performance on the up; AMD FSR looks broken Hello, yes, I know this is our fourth post on the subject but it’s mostly good news –The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt’s next-gen update is now considerably less of atechnical muddle. After applying yesterday’sPC hotfix, performance with the new ray tracing settings is majorly improved, and if you don’t (or can’t) use those, The Witcher 3 no longer runs slower than it did before the next-gen update hobbled it....

Larian’s founder and director Swen Vincke reveals he’s still got a special something up his sleeve Larian’s now-traditional Panel From Hell method of update delivery dumped some importantBaldur’s Gate 3news last week. The weighty Dungeons & Dragons fantasy RPG has been in early access for a couple of years, but it’s now scheduled fora 1.0 release in August next year. As well as that, BG3 got itsninth update, the last significant one before release, which raises the level cap to 5 and adds Paladin as a playable class....

A week earlier than planned It’s been a while since I’ve playedBioShock, but was there a level where you explored a district run by a guy who was really good at laying pipes? Because Aquatico suggests that building an underwater city demands thatsomeonebe really good at laying pipes. Aquatico is the kind of citybuilder that’s concerned with logistics: how much fuel, oil, electricity, and oxygen you’ve got, and whether it’s efficiently routed throughout your sprawling, multi-tiered city....

Grab it in the next 19 hours If you already own and have played Wolfenstein: The New Order, then please instead enjoy this wonderful video from Marsh Davies' Fail Forward series: If you always meant to get around to The New Order but never did, there are 19 hours left tohead to the Epic Games Storeand add it to your account. As long as you do it within the time limit, the game is yours to keep forever....

Hints and the answer to this Wordle word If you’re not feeling festive because you’re currently struggling to guess the Wordle answer today, then fear not! Below, we’ve listed three handy hints that you can use to guess today’s Wordle answer, along with the solution itself just a little further down. Looking for today’s solution? Check out theWordle hint and answer for Thursday 12th December! Wordle December 20 hints Hark! If you are racking your brain for five-letter words and none come to mind, then we’re here to help!...

Break out the Kriek The Witcher 3’s next-gen update was borked on PC, but a fresh hotfix from developers CD Projeckt Red might have just unborked it. They say the update to the update “should improve the overall stability and performance”, which will hopefully be especially good news for anyone trying to de-neck nekkers on an ageing graphics card. Watch on YouTube Here’s their Tweet, where they also say more improvements are incoming:...

More revival than sequel, but I’ll take it Duelyst 2! It’s a thing! It’s a thing with a free public beta you can play right now, and it’s a good enough thing to be worth the risk of your boss coming over to ask why your screen is full of gorgeous battling wizards and creatures rather than spreadsheets. Duelystthe first boasted a dead clever combination of card-battling and physical manoeuvring, a bit likeMarvel’s Midnight Sunsbut better and multiplayer....

A drop in the ocean for a company that earns billions each year Fortnite developer Epic Games is settling two complaints made to the US Federal Trade Commission by paying out a total of more than half a billion dollars.Wall Street Journalreport that the FTC alleged Epic had violated protections intended to secure children’s privacy, and tactically drove players to make unintended purchases that amounted to hundreds of millions of dollars....