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Admiring more upcoming 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. Look, I know I’m already running late on a series I revived only last week, but Monday was a bank holiday so we’re reconvening later than usual to admire screenshots and clips of upcoming indie games. This weekend, my eye was caught by a rocketjumping skeleton, a little guy of meat, and some very nice clours....

The $300 million deal includes Crystal Dynamics and Eidos-Montréal Square Enix are to sell most of their Western studios and intellectual property such asTomb Raider,Deux Ex,ThiefandLegacy Of Kainto Sweden’s Embracer Group for $300 million (£240 million) in cash, it has beenannounced. The studios being sold to Embracer include Crystal Dynamics, Eidos-Montréal and Square Enix Montréal, but not the UK-based Square Enix Collective. This means Square will retain publishing rights to IP including Life Is Strange,Just CauseandOutriders....

Fast IPS combines the motion handling of TN with the colours and viewing angles of IPS. The Dell S2721DGF is one of my favourite gaming monitors, with a 27-in Fast IPS panel that combines the strengths of TN and IPS. It’s right at the current spec sweet spot too: 1440p resolution, 165Hz refresh rate and G-Sync/FreeSync support. Now, this award-winning monitor is down to $300 at Best Buy, compared to $340 at Amazon and $350 from Dell direct....

Grow faster, pls The Garden Pathappeared just about a year ago, a sort of slightly more complex-lookingAnimal Crossing. Lauren played the demo a few months back and found it to be lovely, and indeed, what’s not to love about a pretty 2D world where you potter about and plant things, and trade things with different anthropomorphic animals that wander through. There’s a slightly chonkier preview build knocking about now, and I’ll say this for it: you need to put the time in....

Coming in the form of a season pass and DLC packs The planned updates will target The Long Dark’s core Survival mode and take the form of a season pass. The expansion will be spread through around 15 to 18 months in regular instalments for anyone who buys the pass. Hinterland are also aiming to offer the contents in three or four DLC packs after their release. Don’t fret if you don’t fancy buying access to the paid updates as there’ll still be free updates to the base Survival Mode, Hinterland say....

Heh heh heh… thank you New puzzle game Save Room is, unashamedly,Resident Evil 4’s inventory management spun off into a separate game. And why not! I’ve certainly enjoyed rotating guns around grids and cramming eggs into crevices, and you lot even decided thatinventory Tetris is better than fishing minigames. For less than two quid, yeah, I’ve been happy with this one. Save Room basically is just Resident Evil 4’s inventory Tetris, albeit on irregular grid shapes....

£29.99 is the cheapest we’ve ever seen this mouse, beating out last year’s Black Friday price, and it’s also 63% off its UK RRP. That’s a fantastic deal for a comfy mouse with 11 programmable buttons, adjustable weights and an ‘infinite’ scroll wheel.

Crosswordlike Puzzles inKnotwordslook a lot like crosswords, but gone is the list of clues. Instead, the board is split into segments and you are told precisely which letters must fit within each region. Your objective is to fit all the letters in as required, while still correctly spelling out words both down and across. At its most basic, a board will give you two adjacent two letter segments. One needs to contain the letters A and E, and the other needs to contain the letters S and R....

DLC and Deluxe Editions are going missing The Bethesda launcher isclosing its doors on May 11th, which means players need to migrate any games they own on the platform to their new home on Steam. It turns out that the process isn’t going well for some players, however, with reports of deluxe editions and DLCs going mission, and others receiving outright errors. When attempting to link accounts, several users say they receivean error that reads, “Account linking failed....

And new mobs, pets and capes Late last year, block-and-slasher Minecraft Dungeons introducedseasonal eventsin which solo players could fight through escalating floors of a big, shifting tower. Now the second seasonal event is live, Luminous Night, which lets you fight through that same tower at night with new biomes, enemies and rewards. Among the changes to the tower is the introduction of the Wildfire, a fireball-throwing mob type once offered up as a possible inclusion in Minecraft Earth....

Well? Happy May Day weekend, reader dear! Whether you consider this a celebration of spring, the start of summer, a day for workers, or just a long weekend, may you have a good’un. We’ve had a busy fortnight, withCJ Wheeler joining usas a news reporter andme becoming associate editor(I am still not sure what that means). So how nice that we’ll be away on Monday, returning on Tuesday. What are you playing until then?...

Shakespeare in war Rarely has the threat to bite your thumb at someone resulted in all-out nuclear armageddon, but one group ofFallout 76players will prove the exception tomorrow when they perform William Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet live in the game. The Wasteland Theatre Company has even built a stage they say is modelled after London’s Globe Theatre, renowned for its performances of the Bard’s plays. They’re a week late to celebrate Shakespeare’s birthday, but I won’t judge because Ican’t even add up properly in Freddos....

Correction: that’s 219,262,920,000 Freddos in real money Microsoft made public their all-cashproposal to acquire Activision Blizzardfor $95 (£76) per share on January 18th, which was justa bit of a shock. The proposed deal would further consolidate the games industry and bring huge franchises like Call of Duty,Overwatch, Warcraft, Candy Crush and, really weirdly,Crash Bandicootunder Microsoft’s stewardship. Activision Blizzard’s, ahem, controversial CEOBobby Kotick, who reportedly proposedbuying games media outletsto ‘change the narrative’ surrounding the company, commented on the shareholders' approval:...