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“Only some parts of the show were aired” Frontiers Of The Mindis cursed, by which I mean that 7-Zip turned red while I was extracting the file. What unsightly encounter deep within the bowels of my download file caused this temporary anomaly? No time to think about that. After playing thishorrorgame, I’ve now got too manyotherquestions. Presented as an interactive CD-ROM experience (rad!) documenting the history of a fictional,Knightmareinspired kids show, Frontiers Of The Mind instills each click with a mounting unease as you explore its archives....

To arms I’ve been looking forward toplayingWarhammer 40,000: Space Marine 2for yonks, but had convinced myself that performance-testing it would have some of my lessergraphics cardsquivering in their PCIe slots. All those onscreen ‘Nids, yeah? And the stutterfest that was the recentpreview build? Surely enough to make a Tech-Priest shed at least one oily tear. But nah, turns out it’s fine. Pretty good, actually – perhaps not to the extent that you should tackle Space Marine 2 on a crusty notebook (or, for the record, aSteam Deck), but it runs decently on minimum specs and is noticeably more stable than in that preview....

Stuck on today’s Wordle word for September 10? Read our hint or find the answer below! This guide is for a previous day! Looking for today’s solution? Check out theWordle hint and answer for Thursday 12th December! Need a hint for today’s Wordle answer?We have a list of hints to keep that precious streak in shape and save any word-based disappointment. Every day,Wordlepresents its legions of players with a deviously simple quandary: can you guess the right five-letter word within just six guesses?...

Find all 19 Chapter 6 bosses in the vast openness of Mount Huaguo Trying to find all 19 bosses in Chapter 6 of Black Myth: Wukong?The expansive final Chapter ofBlack Myth: Wukongflips the usual semi-linear environmental progression on its head; after thefirst bossof Chapter 6, Mount Huaguo opens up into a dauntingly colossal landscape through which you can fly at high speeds with the help of your new Somersault Cloud Spell....

“Women, especially in tech, often seem to disappear when the story gets told.” Monica Harrington isn’t one of Valve’s official co-founders, but she was heavily involved in its formation and initial success - working by day as a marketing manager at Microsoft with responsibility for the games division, while helping her partner, Mike Harrington, and Gabe Newell get theHalf-Lifestudio off the ground. In a lengthy post onMedium- which Nic has already covered in the most recentSunday Papers, but which I think deserves a piece of its own - Harrington takes us through those heady early days....

Read and write Hack the planet, wizard fans. A modder has cracked open some previously disabled abilities in the official modding toolkit forBaldur’s Gate 3, making it possible for folks to create their own levels or alter the game’s existing environments. The toolkit (which was only made available last week) previously wouldn’t let you do any of that, due to “technical constraints and platform-specific guidelines,” according to developers Larian. But modders neither care nor sleep....

Need some Connections hints? Read our guide for help with Connections #455. This guide is for a previous day! Looking for today’s solution? Check out theConnections hint and answers for Thursday 12th December! Looking for a hint to help with today’s Connections puzzle on 09th September?Read on, for we’ve got the full rundown on everything you need to know to maintain your Connections perfect streak. Connectionsis a word puzzle game published every day by the New York Times (NYT), the hosts of the endlessly popularWordlepuzzle....

Martyn Ware not pleased with proposed no-royalties deal Any ambitions you may have had to relivethat scenefrom Trainspotting in the nightclubs ofopen worldgameGTA 6have been cruelly dashed. Martyn Ware - of 80’s synthpop band Heaven 17 -took to Xitterover the weekend to share his experience of Rockstar games attempting to licence his song Temptation. The offer, which Ware describes as for “a buyout of any future royalties from the game”, was allegedly for $7500....

If an Elder God falls in the woods with nobody around to hear it… I recently moved to a suburban neighbourhood where there is lots of relatively “wild” parkland and a few raggedy patches of woodland. I like to walk in the woods around evening time, after a hard day of writingstupid listicles about Call Of Duty. Forests are a critical preoccupation of mine, actually - checkthis lumpen thinkypiece I wrote about Alan Wake 2- but they’re also spaces for retreat and reflection, where I can shrug off the angst and lose myself in the spectacle of sycamores and silverbirch, arching over the path....

Animators, skin pack creators and players rally in the wake of dire trailer When Warner Brosreleased a fairly abysmal trailer for the Minecraft Movielast week, there could be only one possible result: the game’s legions of fan filmmakers, modders, texture pack creators, and garden-variety players would attempt to upstage it. That process begins with the speedy release of several fan reworkings of the trailer that use something like vanilla Minecraft graphics, rather than the original, unholy fusion of LB Photo Realism and Jack Black....

(In space) Well, if this isn’t a vastly impressive little gem I’m not sure what is.Qangais aspaceexploration game set in a loading screen-less solar system. It features ship travel, combat, trade, and base building, and you can do all of it alone or with space mates. It’s gota demo, but it’s also on the cheaper end if you fancy buying into early access. Considering the pricing, I’d say it’s a real looker, too....

A crate too far Star Wars Outlaws’next patch aims to tone down some of theaction game’s “incredibly punishing” insta-fail stealth sections, alongside adding tweaks for “narrative context” at other points in the story. That’s according to creative director Julian Gerighty, who recentlyspoke to GamesRadar+about what players should expect in the next update, coming “maybe in 10 days.” “You’re probably thinking of one of the early missions in Mirogana, which is incredibly punishing....

Stuck on the Wordle word for September 9? Read our hint or find the answer below! This guide is for a previous day! Looking for today’s solution? Check out theWordle hint and answer for Thursday 12th December! Need a hint for today’s Wordle answer?We have you covered with a group of clues followed by the word if you need it, to help keep your streak firmly in place. Every day,Wordlepresents its legions of players with a deviously simple quandary: can you guess the right five-letter word within just six guesses?...