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Also, you get a tricycle I’ll admit it, I downloaded the free prologue forhorrorgame Baby Blues Nightmares mostly because I couldn’t stop giggling at the offer to “utilize the unique abilities of a toddler”, encompassing “stealth gameplay”, “survival elements” and “upgradeable abilities”. It’s as though a toddler were actually an undersung class of special operator from a Tom Clancy shooter, rather than a wailing, hyperactive ball of tears and poop. Then again, I imagine Sam Fisher was a toddler once....

“Stealth” Epic client installation is just for crossplay, say Focus In the grim darkness of the far future, there is only widescreen. No ultrawide for the moment, sadly. As and when they add support for ultrawide monitors, perhaps they should call it “ultramarinewide”. Ha ha! Ha. Anyway, here’s what’s coming in the first round ofWarhammer 40,000: Space Marine 2patches. Saber Interactive’s well-regarded battle-bludgeoner isn’t fully on sale yet - the public release date is Monday 9th September, but certain Warhammerers have gotten early access by means of the blasphemous Chaotic rite of Preordering, may the God-Emperor shrive their souls....

Raise the dead gods and make your sunken base look fabulous After watching the announcement trailer forWhispers of the Eyeless, I have one request: please, do not have that voiceover in the full game. It is hammier than a hamster eating a ham sandwich in Hamburg during a performance of Hamlet. It starts with “The Whispers [of the Eyeless] call to me!!!” and does not improve from there. Beyond that, colour me fairly enthused....

How to choose between the Smash, Pillar, and Thrust Stance Wondering which is the best Stance in Black Myth: Wukong?Black Myth: Wukong features four different “Staff Stances” offering unique fighting styles. Each Stance comes with a different heavy attack and a passive skill tree, so by switching Stances, you can adjust your combat style to become more assertive, develop better evasive manoeuvres, improve your range, and much more. While you can only use the “Smash Stance” at the start of a new game, the “Pillar Stance” becomes available at level 5 and the “Thrust Stance” can be unlocked at level 20....

Stuck on today’s Wordle word for September 6? 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?If you’re on your last guesses for the day, don’t fear! We have you sorted with a list of hints as well as the answer itself to help you along the way....

These people should move to a nicer town The second season of animated show Arcane is due to arrive on Netflix this November. After an initial teaser trailerback in June, Netflix have now released a more substantial two-minute trailer that you can watch below. That looks like the beautifully animated melodrama I remember. It was also announced alongside the first trailer in June that Arcane’s second season would be its last....

Whether it’s NPCs or Yaoguai you’re missing, let’s complete your Journal Portrait collection Want to complete your Black Myth Wukong Journal?Every time you defeat a new enemy type or meet a new NPC in Black Myth: Wukong, their profile will be added to the in-game Journal under the “Portraits” section. Not only is this a fun way to track your progress, but you also get a ton of background lore, which makes your next encounter with that same enemy or NPC all the more interesting....

Game Science to work on expansions before any sequels Not very shockingly for a game thatset Steam recordswithin hours of release,Black Myth: Wukongis getting DLC, the first in a series of follow-up projects that continue theactionepic’s explorations of Chinese mythology. That’s froma new Bloomberg interviewwith Daniel Wu, co-founder of Hero Games, the largest external shareholder in Wukong developers Game Science. What the DLC actually consists of and when it’ll launch remain to be seen, but the article compares it toShadow Of The Erdtree, which has demonstrated how a timely and substantial expansion “can spur a fresh flurry of sales for the original....

Need some Connections hints? Read our guide for help with Connections #451. 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 5th September?A new day brings another devilishly difficult Connections puzzle. We’ve got all the hints you need to help you solve today’s conundrum bit by bit....

Starboy Pssst. You into hardcore 2D platformers? And do you like lil' green guys, just like, gooby wooby lookin' orbs of green? Then I present to youGimmick! 2, which has an unexpected exclamation point before the “2” and all of the above. It’s out now and will no doubt please fans who’ve been waitingyearsfor a sequel to the original Gimmick!, and possibly other platform enthusiasts who are after a decidedly different style of gap-hopper....

Long-awaited patch leaves beta with revamped splitscreen and bug fixes Did you forget aboutBaldur’s Gate 3? BecauseBaldur’s Gate 3did not forget about you. Specifically, it did not forget about the incorrigible evil-doers amongst you who’ve been gunning for some additional plot catharsis. Larian’s very bestestRPGhas been biding its time in the shadows while you’ve been busy with other games. It has lingered silently while you’ve been off heisting on Tatooine or getting all messed up by Golden-Eyed Beasts, waiting and watching for the perfect moment - and now, it has finally struck with an unholy new patch, which adds 13 new Evil Endings, revamped splitscreen and an official modding toolkit....

Deleuze and Guattar ‘em up Every time you load upAgentiayou are reincarnated as a different creature. “Creature” is perhaps too narrow a word - the game’s “playable characters” range from geese, microscopic life and triceratops to menhirs and small rocky islands. Each forms the heart of a diamond of delicately drawn, isometric grid terrain with a baby mobile canopy of clouds and sun. It looks like an illustration from an old botanical or geographical textbook, although the inviting emptiness around the visible area also dimly reminds me ofcertain elder RPGsI used to play on Macintosh....

Pushing my buttons We haven’t covered it before, but it’s basicallyMy Summer Carin space. Or perhaps Gravity starring Sandra Bullock, but funnier. The escape pod is notoriously troublesome. During the tutorial your colleague jokes that it is barely worth the effort of keeping the heap of junk maintained. “I would rather die than have to escape in this thing,” he says. Well. It is full of small moments of comic misjudgement....