Arrowhead emerge with a bullet-pointed peace offering to pacify mutinous Helldivers 2 players

Let the Super Earth burn. It seems to have picked up some steam inside the actual game, too. In short, we didnt hit our target with the latest update. All of that is on us and we are going to own that. As many of you have pointed out, and we agree, what matters most now is action. Said action, promises Arrowhead, will take the form of the following bullet-pointed agenda....

August 14, 2024 · 1 min · 150 words · Thomas Lynn

Connections hints and answers for Wed, August 14th

Need some Connections hints today? Read our guide for help with Connections #429. This guide is for a previous day! Looking for today’s solution? Check out theConnections hint for Tuesday 22nd April! Here are the 16 Connections words for today: What are today’s Connections groups? If not, check just below for the full answer. What are today’s Connections answers? As are Sting and Buzz, I spose, but not in Baseball....

August 14, 2024 · 1 min · 116 words · Mark Ruiz

Abiotic Factor's biggest update yet adds new sectors to explore, plus jetpacks, jeeps and laser katanas

Those 90s cowards.Abiotic Factoris the courageous game that has been correcting this historic oversight. It’s fun, and the fun just got funnerer. It’s all shown off in the trailer below. That was very dramatic for a crafting sim with a pooing minigame. The jetpack will let you reach awkward heights. These are all very useful objects, scientifically speaking. There are a lot of other tweaks. The developers also spent some time optimising performance in some of the wonkier areas....

August 13, 2024 · 1 min · 138 words · James Sanchez

Alien: Romulus has turned Alien: Isolation's savegame mechanic into a way of spoiling its own scares

“I played a few years after it came out. Don’t Breathe was coming out. Or was I waiting for Don’t Breathe to come out, and I was playing the game. It’s the same thing here. You’ll see they’re planted strategically throughout the film. When you see the phone, it’s like, brace for impact.” Is there a cinematic equivalent for discovering a pile of health refills next to an innocent-looking exit door?...

August 13, 2024 · 1 min · 78 words · Thomas Smith

Arcade shooter Nova Drift is a Petri dish in which to spawn the daftest, deadliest spaceship

Had you shown me this game back in 1995, I dare say I’d have shmupped myself. That “glittering heights” line is a touch premature, admittedly, not to say wildly unprofessional. But it does look very good, and the launch Steam reviewer verdicts are highly favourable. Again, though, these are my impressions going in. For those who’ve been playing already,here are the 1.0 release notes.

August 13, 2024 · 1 min · 64 words · Sara Larsen

Black Myth Wukong's benchmarking tool lets you test your rig's capacity for monkeying around

Wowee, would you look at that! That’s obviously with the caveat that I am not Mr. Hardware, aka our delightful James. Although I did question how it would evolve overtime, I really did appreciate the more linear exploration.

August 13, 2024 · 1 min · 38 words · Julie Bryant

Dead Rising Deluxe Remaster’s survivors are still idiots, but at least they can die horribly in style now

Im starting to regret giving Burt a gun, honestly. Thats a mannequin, Burt. They cant hurt you. Theyre actually known for not being able to move. It felt like an anomaly. If you’re new here, heres your orientation package. Hes covered wars you know! Its those three days - each two real-world hours long - that give Dead Rising its unique structure. But if you want that scoop, youll need to follow your leads....

August 13, 2024 · 3 min · 517 words · Jeffery Ortiz

Become an aging court jester trapped in a cyclical hell at the whims of a fickle audience in Conan Throwbrien

Four joke topics appear at the bottom of the screen. Ridiculous celebrity kids names. Action figures for news anchors. Diet water sales boom. You cautiously slide that last one over to the microphone. Have you folks heard about this one… There is an implied terror in this seemingly friendly opener. What if theyhaveheard this one? What will Throwbrien do then? Where to take it now? Banter with the audience? Make a pop-culture reference?...

August 12, 2024 · 2 min · 245 words · Amy Mcfarland

Doom modders are annoyed at the "chum-bucket" of wrongly credited mods in the latest Doom remaster

Can I see your id? Last week, Bethesda released a remastered edition ofDoomandDoom IIon Steam, with lots of extra episodes and improvements. Basically, lots of good fan-made mods are now playable onthe Steam versionof ye olde Doom. Ah, but there is some demon excrement on the health pack, so to speak. But he’s also a regularcreator of Doom mods. He explains the problem with the recent Doom remaster in that post, but let me break it down....

August 12, 2024 · 2 min · 255 words · Brian Guzman

Control 2, Condor and the Max Payne remakes are shaping up just fine, say Remedy

They’re now “scaling up” for full production. Teaser trailer with target visuals anytime, Remedy. I have yet to hear a telekinesis sound effect as gratifying as the one in Control. Remedy alsocancelled a Tencent collaboration codenamed Kestrel in May, freeing up resources and people for their existing franchises. We can apparently expect to hear more “towards the end of the year”. Here’s my pitch for the future of Control: make a spin-off series based on CTRL+ keyboard shortcuts....

August 9, 2024 · 1 min · 78 words · Brian Rodriguez

Here's a free miniature town-builder with trams from the creator of Viewfinder

The project in question isTramstertram. If you’re not so keen on trams, Stark has extensive prior for this kind of thing. He’s made similar building toys involvingtreehouses,fishtanks, andmining carts. Nice note to end the week on, I think?

August 9, 2024 · 1 min · 38 words · Jacob Kelly

7 Dos and 7 Don'ts in 7 Days To Die

In that time, many other survival games have sprouted, blossomed, and gently faded away. But mostly because I wanted to use that numberful headline. So, here you go: 7 dos and 7 don’ts in 7 Days To (7) Die. None of that is new to the game, like I say. It had the exact same appeal in 2013. But you know what? It’s basically Minecraft rules, immortality with a little wrist slap....

August 8, 2024 · 4 min · 701 words · Robert White

Cat Quest 3's pun-soaked animal pirate action-RPG is out on Steam now

Or was “Purr-ibean” the initiating pun? It’s also claws-out now on Steam, which has me feline fine. They’re great games to play with your kids, as a sort of My First Action-RPG experience. Cat Quest 3 continues in kind with solo and local co-op. I propose Vi-King Crabs. Cat Quest 3 isover on Steamfor 15.29/18/$18.

August 8, 2024 · 1 min · 55 words · Stephanie Kim