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You’ll need the original game to try it Black & Whitewas a god game that frustrated more often than it delighted, but which was nevertheless delivered with enough verve and ambition to be worth playing. It’s a crying shame that it’s not currently available to buy anywhere digitally, presumably because the rights are soaked in a gutter between EA (the original publisher) and Microsoft (who bought and closed developers Lionhead)....

Coming September 20th Every week of late I seem to pop up here with another new arcade racer to talk about, and well, I wouldn’t want to break the streak. This week’s new hotness isParking Garage Rally Circuit, which is about powersliding around multi-storey car parks and is designed to look like a lost Sega Saturn game. It now has a release date: September 20th. Chunky polygons? Check. Halftone effects to make those pixels pop?...

I am learned now Full disclosure: I hadn’t heard ofBakeruuntil Graham mentioned it to me. Graham always has his hands on the video game pulse, gliding them over Xwitter or Steam or wherever and waiting for that “ker kun, ker kun” of a new Cool Thing. And that cool thing is Bakeru, described by its Steam page as “Japan-esque”, but is in actual fact,veryJapanese. I mean, you travel around 47 Japanese prefectures as a metamorphing tanuki who bashes evilness with his taiko drum sticks....

It’s all the fault of some decaying comms tech, apparently Helldivers 2’s third enemy faction is maybe definitely possibly probably almost certainly about to be released, as players report sightings of the mysterious menace on the game’s Galactic War map. Development studio Arrowhead, aka the glorious government of Super Earth, are downplaying the rumours as usual. They’re claiming (via in-gamebroadcast) that the fleeting appearance of a weird purple blob on the map screen is actually the result of fluids leaking from the corpse of a long-dead comms technician, stranded on a server farm somewhere....

“It’s not Deadlock” out of 10 Bear with me on this, but I adore how swordfighting works in Dune. Ubiquitous wearable sci-fi shields repel any attack that comes in too fast, so everyone has to learn this unique, overtly dance-like form of close-quarters combat where every thrust and parry is necessarily slow and considered. Picture it: careful judgments of your movements, weighing up the right time to strike, every measured jab part of a wider strategy that culminates in the kill....

Say cheese, my lord I’ve already said my piece on the hulking bugstomper in ourSpace Marine 2 review, but I’d like to celebrate one more thing about it - the photo mode. This is a fairly standard feature for a lot of blockbuster games, but in the world of Warhammer 40K there are so many mega-scale battles with pitch-perfect composition that I found it hard to resist hitting pause and taking a handful of snaps every few minutes....

Stuck on the Wordle word for September 5? 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 list of hints followed by today’s word to help you keep track of your daily streak. Every day,Wordlepresents its legions of players with a deviously simple quandary: can you guess the right five-letter word within just six guesses?...

Got you covered If somebody grabs you from behind and turns you into a human shield inCall Of Duty: Black Ops 6, they can drag you around for about five seconds before you die, assuming they don’t execute you early. Here are 12 things you can do in those five seconds: Lean back in your chair, throw your arms up and luxuriously stretch out your shoulder muscles, while gazing through the window opposite at the sun and clouds and savouring anew the wonder and strangeness of being alive, on this particular day in this particular place on this particular ball of rock, in a vast and empty cosmos...

Upgrade your Gourd by finding every Luojia Fragrant Vine in Black Myth Wukong Looking for Luojia Fragrant Vines in Black Myth Wukong?If you wish to upgrade your Gourds to get increased Gourd ‘uses’ - meaning more health recovery before you need to rest at a Shrine - Luojia Fragrant Vine is the item you need. Luojia Fragrant Vines are hidden acrossBlack Myth Wukong’s many regions, where they’ll appear as sparkly yellow flowers growing against large trees....

Bandai Namco and Amazon call time on anime MMO Blue Protocolis a Bandai Namco-developed anime MMO which released in Japan last year, and was meant to arrive in the west at some point this year courtesy of Amazon Games. Alas, that’s no longer the case - and the game is also shutting down in Japan early next year. Outwardly, Blue Protocol seemed to be following closely in the footsteps ofGenshin Impact, with a world of blue skies, green grass, and Breath Of The Wild-style enemies to bash through action-RPG combat....

Need some Connections hints today? Read our guide for help with Connections #450. 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 4th September?There’s no shame in looking for a bit of assistance when it comes to solving Connections - these word groups can be infernally hard to determine!...

Your package is on its way It is 1959. The cold war is in full swing, television is taking over, and environments have just become fully destructible. What a time to be alive.Deliver At All Costsis a chaotic courier sim set in those heady days that sees the player barrelling around a “semi-open” US town as they take on absurd odd jobs. “From delivering a giant flailing Marlin, to the disposal of an atomic bomb teetering on the edge of explosion,” say the developers, “always expect the unexpected....

If you already bought them, well, uhh Paradox are integrating four ofEuropa Universalis IV’s DLCs into the base game. The Rights Of Man, Art Of War, Digital Extreme Upgrade and Common Sense DLCs will be free to all current and future players of the eleven-year-old grand strategy game from October 17th onwards. On the same date, Paradox are also introducing a new Starter Edition of the game and lowering the price of the its Ultimate Bundle DLC collection....