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This little puzzle is yet another free browser game by David King who also created the Tiny Islands and several other small thing wot we’ve liked. Lets Go Build A ______________ is a bit more like your daily paper crossword. Just a small thing to tickle your brain. You might finish it. You might get halfway through, get stumped, and leave it be. Today’s challenge is building an album cover which I foolishly thought “ah, it’s just one brick thick....

Have you played Sid Meier’s Pirates? Myself, I’ve only touched the short demo that came in an old Xbox mag some decades back. This month’s free new Civ 6 update ditches all that land-lubbing nation-building in an attempt to recapture the 2005 swashbuckler - sans the fencing minigame, sadly. Rather than the era-spanning progression race of Civ proper, Pirates uses the game’s hexagonal atlas as a playground for swashbuckling rogues....

Properly revealed today, Cloud Gardens is a collaboration between Kingdom developer Noio and Eli Cauley, who’s developed a number of lovely solo games over on Itch. To see this content please enable targeting cookies. Manage cookie settings Cloud Gardens is a chill game about using plants to overgrow post-industrial wasteland dioramas ??? Aiming to release on Steam EA later in 2020 https://t.co/zhl7xwPDvz RTs and wishlists are super appreciated! ?#CloudGardens #indiegame pic....

You can play Cloudle for free in your browser. It’s made by Rob Ousbey, who released it on April Fool’s Day. In the usual Wordle way, you’re filling out a grid with guesses. Here, we select weather symbols rather than type in words, trying to guess the forecast for the next five days in a random city. Then in the usual Wordle way, it’ll tell us if a symbol doesn’t appear in the forecast at all, if it appears but not in the place selected, or if we have it correct....

According to a report by Bloomberg’s Jason Schreier, “Mismanagement and financial pressures” were the reasons behind the botched remake. Tension between Blizzard’s vision and Activision’s backing left the project neither a remaster nor a remake, and the results were embarrassing. Bloomberg’s report alleges that Classic Games, the internal studio who began the project, had started work on Reforged’s new voice-overs in 2017. As development progresssed, the relatively small team realised their grand promises were going to be tough to deliver with their current size and budget....

You can grab Costume Quest 2 here, where it would normally set you back £12. (Except for when they gave it away for free two years ago.) The Costume Quest series has a simple central conceit: what if Halloween costumes actually transformed you into whatever the costume depicted? The answer is a simplistic RPG in which you explore a world where sugar and costumes are not allowed, with plenty of expected Double Fine charm....

Valve explained in Friday’s announcement that this new anti-cheat feature “significantly restricts the types of programs and files that can interact with the game.” This doesn’t only affect cheats, it blocks loads of harmless software too. In its initial state, folks have reported it objecting to software including Discord’s overlay, some of Nvidia’s jazz, anti-virus, and the OBS video capture software. Sounds like some software developers will be able to make it comply with Valve’s new rules....

Paradox have talked about Lifestyles before but today’s video is a deep dive on each. Some more obviously map to RPG classes you’ll be familiar with but others take some explaining. A few are carried over from Crusader Kings 2. Your monarch modus operandis will be: Learning, Stewardship, Diplomacy, Martial, and Intrigue. In the update video below you can listen to Paradox’s developers highlight some fun perks and their intended uses....

The Cyberpunk v1.05 patch notes list fixes for dozens of bugs, including a great many which interrupt quests. Plus, Dum Dum should stop following V around. Crosshairs should stop lingering on the screen for-chuffing-ever. AMD Ryzen processors with 4 and 6 cores should be running a bit better. Processors which don’t support AVX instructions shouldn’t be crashing at the end of the Prologue either. And RTS reflections should be less weirdly bright....

I watched Daemon X Machina trailers around both its launches, and god it’s pretty. Those colours! Tango Orange deserts and turquoise skies - and then, why not, Tango Orange skies and turquoise deserts. DxM offers mech combat of the anime-not-MechWarrior variety. Think zippy, flying ninjas, more like a character action game, than slow and stomping battle houses. You can customise the mechs and their anime pilots, and there’s co-op and competitive multiplayer alongside the singleplayer story....

You’re a band of dodgy adventurers, tossed around inside a stagecoach as it travels across a scrolling landscape, the visual manifestation of Slay The Spire’s forks and encounter nodes. Your goal: a distant mountain where a final boss lies in wait. When you cross paths with enemies, Dark Dungeoneers will recognise the battle formation. Four desperate fighters stacked against various horrors. There will be mace slams, pistol shots, throwing daggers, fire bombs, bleed-inducing throat slices....

Developers KeokeN Interactive say Deliver Us Mars follows Kathy Johanson, who you might remember as the little girl from the first game, as she escapes terra firma. She’s taken a shuttle to Mars to pursue some cheeky thieves who nicked vital equipment to keep Earth from plunging into full-on climate collapse – oh, and she’s searching for her missing dad too. There’ll be more rocket launches, puzzles and zero gravity shenanigans, but this time around you’ll even be able to go scuba diving too....

The glitch involves one fireteam joining the other at a precise point during the countdown to an activity starting, bypassing a check which should say “Wait hang on no this isn’t right.” The timing is tricky to coordinate, given internet latency, but after an hour of faff we Guardians from Rock Paper Scoutrifle finally got a team of 12 into the Deep Stone Crypt. Hey, if Atraks-1 can duplicate herself, we should be allowed to even the odds....

On November 8th, Citron responded to a Twitter user with a screenshot showing MetaMask and Wallet Connect integration within Discord. Both those services offer ways of connecting to cryptocurrency wallets or so-called decentralised apps. The tweet was met with near-instant backlash on Twitter, with 4.6k repsonses and 6.7k quote tweets at the time of writing. Many of the responders said they had instantly cancelled their Nitro subscription; Nitro is Discord’s premium service which costs $10 a month....

In a Stage Channel, certain participants are marked as speakers while everyone else is the mute audience. You might think of it as like livestreaming without the video component, or like a live podcast. Or, wait - it’s radio. You remember radio, right? Because for a moment there, I did not. This functionality has become sought after by social media companies in the past few months due to the surge in popularity of Clubhouse, a mobile app that was suddenly being used by Silicon Valley and US media folks....

Gordon alleges that he’s yet to be paid for more than half of Doom Eternal’s music. “I created this music as part of the development process and shared it with id Software in good faith,” the composer said. “But id Software used the music in the game, marketing and soundtrack and still refuses to pay me for it.” Gordon alleges that Stratton and id Software’s Lead Audio Designer, Chad Mossholder, didn’t allow him to listen to the final album and didn’t ask for his approval, although he points out they weren’t contractually obliged to do....

“Your war is not over… slaying the Khan Maykr left an imbalance of power that threatens all of creation,” the blurb blasts. " The legions of Hell have razed the heavens, threatening to expand their control across dimensions. With the aid of an old ally, battle your way back to Urdak and decide the fate of the cosmos. Your mission is now your own." Update 3 launched alongside the expansion, mostly with bug fixes and network optimisations for Battlemode....

The developers of Goblinz Studio call Legend Of Keepers a blend between roguelite and dungeon defender. You’ll hire up your monster crew and manage your stock of dungeon traps. Oh, and “deal with employee strikes and other fun events,” Goblinz say. You can spot one of those events down here in the launch trailer, a shameful case of “anthropophilia”. Scandalous stuff, that. During the actual dungeon crawl, invading heroes wander through your traps....

Usually the code to a particular safe lies somewhere near that safe on a piece of paper; but sometimes the solution is hidden as a riddle, or a mathematical problem. And we didn’t play this game to think about maths, did we? So to make things easier, below you’ll find every single safe code in Dying Light 2, along with a few details on where you can find each safe and how the answer can be found....

Yes, EA CEO Andrew Wilson followed in Ubisoft’s footsteps by saying that he thought NFTs and play-to-earn would be “an important part of the future of our industry.” In fairness, he also used the phrase “on a go-forward basis” four times during the call, and who’s to say which is worse. Wilson initially mentioned NFTs unbidden, as one of many things players supposedly want from FIFA. “They want more modalities at play inside the game, which go beyond just straight 11 on 11 football....