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Admiring more interesting indie games Every weekend, indie devs show off current work on Twitter’s#screenshotsaturdaytag. And every Monday, I bring you a selection of these snaps and clips. This weekend, my eye has been caught my beings growing strange and wonderful bodyparts for cool movement. Also, there’s a photo of a cat. Forget building muscle, my new body goal is growing my neck into a grappling hook, like in party game Esophaguys (coming to Steam):...

They join Sega and Bandai Namco as so-called “validators” Square Enixare taking more steps to implement the controversial blockchain technology in their games. Squeenix have teamed with blockchain company Oasys, who describe themselves as “environmentally-friendly”. This is because of their less energy-intensive “proof-of-stake” mechanism compared to “proof-of-work” methods such as those used in Bitcoin mining. Oasys’s plans fits with Squeenix’s intention to develop tokenised economies built on blockchain in their future games....

Sunday dud It’s a phrase I often found myself echoing while playing Sunday Gold for review, too, both during its tedious, war of attrition-style turn-based battles, and while trying to figure out some of its more obtuse puzzles. BKOM Studios have tried to fuse one too many things together in Sunday Gold, and the result is a messy, somewhat artificial blend ofDeathloop’s style,Invisible Inc’s tension and a more action-led focus on the cerebral role-playing ofDisco Elysium....

There’s a free trial running until October 10th There’s a total of six indies on Ubisoft+ now. That’s not many at all, but the company says it’ll be adding more games on a “regular basis”. They’ll stick around for at least six months when they do pop up. Two indies have already been kicking about since the start of summer: tower-defence brawlerThe Last Friendand voyeuristic puzzlerA Normal Lost Phone. The latest additions mean you can play medieval comedy adventureAstrologaster, puzzle thrillerEvan’s Remains, turn-based tactics RPGFell Seal: Arbiter’s Markand small-town adventureLakeusing the service....

What the Nier: Replicant devs did next It’s a very odd feeling, building a catapult all on your lonesome while watching fiery death rain down on your enemy’s castle in the valley below. I suspect it’s probably a similar experience to watching the carnage ofChivalry II play out from the safety of a nearby bench. The newly announcedWarlanderfromNier Replicantdevs Toylogic certainly has the medieval setting in common with Torn Banner Studio’s first-person hack and slash, but this free-to-play multiplayer warfare game is an altogether different beast....

What is Assassin’s Creed Infinity, and which games will it support? Want to know more about Assassin’s Creed Infinity?Assassin’s Creed Infinityis not a new game in the popular stealth franchise. Instead, it is a hub from which you can hop into a series of differentAssassin’s Creedgames, acting as an Animus (the device used to leap into the past canonically in Assassin’s Creed) on your gaming platform. It’s an odd concept, but one that will seemingly let you collect various upcoming Assassin’s Creed games in one place and hop between them easily, while also diving into the occasional free content drop....

Hints and the answer to today’s Wordle word In this guide, we have three helpful hints that you can use to guess the Wordle answer today. If you can’t take a brainteaser so early on a Monday morning but don’t want to lose your Wordle streak, scroll down a little further to simply find today’s answer. Wrong day? Check out theWordle hint and answer for Thursday 12th Decemberinstead! Wordle September 12 hints...

The studio’s next game, Isonzo, is out tomorrow Focus Entertainment have paid an undisclosed amount to acquire historical shooter devs WW1 Game Series, known forVerdun,Tannenbergand the upcomingIsonzo, from M2H. Set on the Italian Front,Isonzoactually happens to be out tomorrow too. Have a peek at the game, replete with many moustaches, in the trailer below. Jos Hoebe, founder and creative director of WW1 Game Series, will retain a 33.33% stake in the company....

Hints and the answer to today’s Wordle word Okay, maybe that was a dream. In any case, below we’ll give you a helping hand with today’s Wordle answer in case you’re stuck guessing today’s all-important five-letter word. We’ll offer you three handy hints to help you figure out the solution, and then further below we’ll reveal the answer itself and an explanation of the word’s meaning. Wrong day? Check out theWordle hint and answer for Thursday 12th Decemberinstead!...

“Infinity is not a game, per se” About a year agowe learned about the existence of something calledAssassin’s Creed Infinity(or, more precisely, Project Infinity, but we’re all just calling it Infinity). The suggestion that Assassin’s Creed might become a live service online game akin to Fortnite wasquite upsetting to me. Thankfully, VP executive producer on Assassin’s Creed Marc-Alexis Côté (aka MAC) appeared on tonight’s Ubisoft Forward livestream to explain more about Infinity, and I am slightly less alarmed but no less confused....

There’s also one final Valhalla DLC to come A not-insignificant part of the Ubisoft Forward livestream tonight was dedicated to Assassin’s Creed. To celebrate the doughty action-adventure’s 15th anniversary, senior community developer Alice Terrett was joined by a, to his credit, very excited Danny “it’s the Daddy” Wallace, to lay out an almost MCU-like timeline of every Assassin’s Creed thing happening for the next good while. It includes new DLC for Valhalla, and a mysterious horror-ish tease....

A hands off presentation reveals that what’s old is new again It seems that when a franchise is reintroduced to a new generation, or at least re-upped so the first generation of franchise-enjoyers can buy the merch for their kids, you just sort of do the old thing again but with new faces and fancier SFX. My evidence for this is primarily Star Wars and that new Lord Of The Rings TV show, but now I can add Mirage to that list as well....

A massive amount of cooling for a very reasonable price. 360mm AiOs seem to be becoming more of a necessity these days, with ever-hotted high-end processors from the likes of AMD and particularly Intel. Thankfully, they’re also becoming increasinglyinexpensive, with this post in particular spotlighting a deal on the EVGA CLC 360. This cooler normally costs £109, but today you can pick it up for £82 after a 25% discount....