Of course it’s the sublime and beautiful horror game Saturnalia! Alice Bee: I think it was reasonably easy to guess that I would get Saturnalia on this list by hook or by crook - or, indeed, by terrifying masked creature. But I promise I will only carry you off to my subterranean nest and cannibalise you in part of an ancient folk ritual as last resort (or if you ask me real pretty, like)....

Last night, though, the devs pushed through a hot fix that will hopefully address the most serious issues (as well as changing one of the patterns on a sweater). Before you open Origin and install this, remember to move your mods and custom content out of your Sims 4 folder, and your saves if you want to be extra careful. Keeping them in there while a patch installs is, in itself, a known way to break your game....

Developed by Davey Wreden and William Pugh, The Stanley Parable is a tangled web of jokes, endings, meta-commentary and non-euclidean office architecture masquerading as a walking simulator. Not to be confused with The Stanley Parable (Wreden’s original Half-Life 2 mod) or The Stanley Parable: Ultra Deluxe (a polished-up re-release from Pugh’s studio Crows Crows Crows, due to release later this year), The Stanley Parable is still riotously funny even seven years on....

Yes, £130 / $130 is still eye-wateringly expensive for a 500GB NVMe drive (especially for us schmucks in the UK getting diddled on the exchange rate, there), but as you may have seen from my 980 Pro review earlier in the week, the jump from the outgoing PCIe 3.0 standard to the new PCIe 4.0 one is quite substantial - bigger, in fact, than the jump you’d get by switching from a SATA SSD to a PCIe 3....

That’s judging by some tests I’ve run using the Nvidia GeForce RTX 3070, on which overall stability seems to have improved as well. I’m still having trouble with AMD graphics cards, however, with FSR upscaling being a particularly reliable source of crashes. To the credit of CD Projekt RED, who unfortunately have experience in patching up troubled launches, this hotfix sorts out the next-gen update’s biggest problem: rasterised (i.e. non-ray traced) performance becoming worse than it was several years ago....

Here’s a trailer of the new version: Offered as a free update to the remake, this latest version aims to address each of the complaints and effectively represents a do-over. For starters, the art style now more closely resembles the thick-lined comic book style of old, as seen in the trailer above. Given the art style was just about the only notable thing about the original XIII, which was released in 2003, it makes sense to maintain the look even while making everything more detailed and higher resolution....

Well, almost completely new. As reported by PC Gamer, a team of modders headed up by the creator of expansive overhaul mod Daughters Of Ash, Grimrukh, are trying to create “a direct sequel to Dark Souls” with expanded lore and it’s own, bespoke map. But as Grimrukh explains on his site, he’s not creating the world from scratch. Rather, Dark Souls: Nightfall is being cobbled together from bits of Lordran, using existing map pieces and collisions to kitbash together a new adventure....

So why this desire to defend it? Well, it’s partly because I remember reviewing it six years back, and finding qualified enjoyment - trying to recognise it for the game it is, rather than measuring it against the games it foolishly tried to link itself to. And partly because I wondered if Dishonored had been called Thief: Dishonored, would it too have been so harshly judged? Maybe in 2020 Thief could be, if not amazing, a decent game in its own rights?...

Right? What a joy as it casually reveals surprise feature after surprise feature. I see swords, bows, magic spells, giant monsters, and skeletons to smash in dungeons - so far, so fantasy action game - then hunting wildlife, catching critters like Pokémon, hoverboards, motorbikes, dune buggies, parachutes, cute farming, a robot with a spinning wheel of chainsaws to harvest your farm’s lemon trees, a series of conveyor belts feeding live cows directly into a giant stew pot, foxes and giraffes running on treadmills to generate electricity, hoverboard tricks, a gyrocopter, a tank, a biplane with machineguns, and a space rocket oh my god this is Factorio too....

There’s a $500+ prize pool to be shared between the first three people who can complete the damn thing. The map came out five days ago, and as yet nobody has. Sickening, isn’t it? The track, Deep Dip, has absolutely no checkpoints whatsoever, but it does complete with Foddy-style philosophical musings that accompany significant plummets. A necessary salve, endorsed by the man himself. Here’s Trackmania event organiser BuckleysPants breaking down how the prize pool will be shared....

No spoilers, in part because there’s very little to spoil, but to give you a sense of what to expect: Protectors tells a very brief story about some City 17 citizens taking refuge in a dank hideout, and some Combine soldiers who investigate said hideout. Protectors was created by TheParryGod, who has several other Half-Life machinima shorts on his YouTube channel. “The idea for this project has been sitting and morphing in my head since about 2011 when I first got the taste for video editing, stitching together clips from Garry’s Mod in glorious 360p,” reads the description under the video....

If you’re struggling to find the solution to today’s Wordle, you’re in the right place. Below we’ll give you today’s Wordle answer and an explanation of the word if needed. But first, we’ll offer you a few hints to help you figure the answer out for yourself. Wrong day? Check out the Wordle answer for Tuesday 14 February instead! Wordle June 30 hints The Wordle answer today may not be as straightforward to solve as one might hope....

It’s actually quite simple and easy to pull off with a bit of practice, too. Read on to learn how to infinite climb in Tower Of Fantasy. How to infinite climb in Tower Of Fantasy Infinite climbing is a very useful movement technique in Tower Of Fantasy, which allows you to bypass the usual stamina depletion of climbing if you can master the tech. Here’s how to do it: Here’s what the infinite climbing tech looks like in action: Doing this repeatedly allows you to scale walls at a comparable speed to the usual jump-climbing, but without ever losing stamina....

On this page, you’ll find an up-to-date list of all active Tower Of Fantasy codes, as well as step-by-step instructions on how to redeem them. We’ll also keep a handy reference list of expired codes on-hand for you to check against any you find. Last checked on: 13th February, 2023 Tower Of Fantasy codes Here are all the active codes that you can redeem right now in Tower Of Fantasy:...

Tower Of Fantasy is a “shared open world RPG”, which sees you select a server from a series of regions and create a character. This is one of the game’s key differences to Genshin Impact, placing it more in the MMORPG space to Genshin’s comparatively solo RPG experience. Although I wouldn’t say the ToF server I’m on is teeming with players like World Of Warcraft, but there seem to be a fair few catboys and girls populating global chat with either requests to party up or all sorts of nastiness that makes the world feel lived in, in both the nicest and absolute worst sense....

In this guide, we’ll explain how to defeat the Siege Engine boss in Tunic, so that you can complete the Forest Fortress dungeon. How to defeat the Siege Engine in Tunic The Siege Engine has five attacks that it will use throughout the fight. These attacks are: Lunge Swipe: The Siege Engine rears back and then lunges forward for a swipe with its sword. Roll as the sword sweeps towards you to avoid damage, or use your shield to block....

That doesn’t mean they’re going to stop making games with an entry fee, but it means that free-to-play is becoming a larger part of their business. The comments come after Ubisoft announced a new free-to-play game, Tom Clancy’s The Division Heartland, earlier this week. Duguet said that Ubisoft “are building high-end free-to-play games to be trending toward triple-A ambitions over the long term.” In other words, the free-to-play games they want to make will have the production values of their other games....

Ukie’s “Devices For All” campaign wants UK video game companies to support their pledge, which aims to provide students and families across the UK with laptops, computers, and any other educational devices they need over the next few years. “There’s a need right now for devices in schools across the UK, but the digital divide is huge, existed before the pandemic and requires real, long-term solutions,” said Shahneila Saeed, head of education at Ukie and director of the Digital Schoolhouse national education programme....

The goose game is lovely solo, but I will admit that there was more than one occasion on which I wished that my little feathered devil could waddle just a bit faster. If only I could just nab something from the local shop and then outrun the woman chasing me off I could—well now I can. House House say in their update post that you can progress a saved game whether you’re playing solo or co-op, meaning you can bring a friend in to help out if you’re stumped “and vice versa, if you and your friend do such a bad job cooperating that you have a falling out and you need to go back to single player,” they say....

Below you’ll find our beginner’s guide to V Rising, which we’ve packed with useful tips and tricks for new players. You’ll learn about avoiding sunlight, crafting equipment, tracking and defeating bosses, building spectacular castles, and much more. The sun has set. The Bloodmoon rises. Now is the time to venture out into the wonderful world of Vardoran. V Rising has all the basic pillars of a great survival and crafting game....