Tag: games

Today’s Wordle clues, hints and answer for August 5 (#1508)

Today’s Wordle clues, hints…

Smooth out those Wordle-shaped lumps and bumps with our helpful hints. Go on, treat yourself. They won’t spoil your…
GTA roleplay’s latest craze has players risking their cars in tense bouts of high-stakes hide and seek

GTA roleplay’s latest craze…

My newest obsession in GTA 5 roleplay is playing hide-and-seek with other players, and allowing the winner to smash…
Beaver-themed city-builder Timberborn has gnawed its way out of early access, and surprise! It has Factorio-style automation now

Beaver-themed city-builder Timberborn has…

I thought Timberborn’s early access journey was more or less done and (saw)dusted when I last checked in on…
Larian says it’s going to expand the Baldur’s Gate 3 mod toolkit ‘to give you even more freedom,’ so there goes another 100 hours I’ve lost to modding

Larian says it’s going…

Baldur’s Gate 3 Patch 8 marked the last of Larian’s major updates, but that doesn’t mean we can’t get…
Deep Rock Galactic: Survivor is getting an expansion that introduces the series’ first ever new class, and it’s a dwarf driving a weaponised bulldozer that flattens terrain and enemies alike

Deep Rock Galactic: Survivor…

Deep Rock Galactic: Survivor is comfortably the best autoshooter to emerge off the back of Vampire Survivors‘ success. Far…
System Shock 2’s alien ‘sphincter doors’ were made with photos from a dev’s colonoscopy

System Shock 2’s alien…

In the latest episode of Nightdive Studios’ Deep Dive podcast, System Shock 2 artist and industry veteran Nate Wells…
How to access the Battlefield 6 open beta, how to preload, and when it starts

How to access the…

The Battlefield 6 open beta is imminent, and for the most part, it really is an open beta. EA…
The first thing Arc Raiders’ devs did during its extraction pivot was to reduce the speed of everything by 60%: ‘All the craft that was in the game was kind of background noise’

The first thing Arc…

Arc Raiders looked very different in its early stages of development, and even compared to its initial reveal trailer.…
The ‘Compiling Shaders’ screen is the worst screen in gaming: here’s how to make it suck less

The ‘Compiling Shaders’ screen…

I’m not sure exactly when it happened, but one fateful day in the recent past videogames collectively decided that…
Arc Raiders’ old machine designs sound so diabolical, it’s no wonder they were reworked or removed after poor playtest feedback: ‘At that time, they didn’t fit with the game very well’

Arc Raiders’ old machine…

I don’t think anyone had it on their bingo cards that Arc Raiders‘ machine design and AI would be…