In pensive browser game Agentia, you can explore and assemble poetry as a beetle, a dinosaur or an island

Deleuze and Guattar ‘em up Every time you load upAgentiayou are reincarnated as a different creature. There are no dungeons or fell beasts to wrangle with, however. There are snatches of music against a steady wash of animal and mineral noise. The latter tome begs to be navigated in a similarly pliant and loosely connected way. I enjoyed Agentia, which you canplay in a net web surfer for free. I know him a bit via Xitter, and always like hearing about his experiments....

September 5, 2024 · 1 min · 83 words · Jeffrey Stout Jr.

In space sim Tin Can, you are a janitor in an escape pod and all the red lights are flashing

I grab the faulty power transformer without listening, and am immediately electrocuted. Worse still, I have to hammer a quick-time button to recover. And I enjoy aspace gamethat makes me panic while alarms go off everywhere. We haven’t covered it before, but it’s basicallyMy Summer Carin space. Or perhaps Gravity starring Sandra Bullock, but funnier. The escape pod is notoriously troublesome. “I would rather die than have to escape in this thing,” he says....

September 5, 2024 · 1 min · 173 words · Christopher Gill

Openblack is a an attempt to recreate lost god game Black & White in a modern, open source game engine

That command line requirement is a signal that it’s still in many ways early days for the project. Its developers consider it v0.10, so I wouldn’t necessarily rush to dig out your old discs yet. There’s already a Linux build available, for example.

September 5, 2024 · 1 min · 43 words · Kelly Rowe

Parking Garage Rally Circuit is an arcade racer designed like a "lost Sega Saturn" game and from the maker of JellyCar

It now has a release date: September 20th. Halftone effects to make those pixels pop? It’s also got online multiplayer for up to 8 players. Walaber’s own site has ahistory page that runs down some of his old work. I’m sure Parking Garage Rally Circuit won’t do me dirty like that. It’ll be outon Steam in two weeks.

September 5, 2024 · 1 min · 58 words · Mary Ford

Play Japanese platformer Bakeru if you want to get better at pub quizzes

I am learned now Full disclosure: I hadn’t heard ofBakeruuntil Graham mentioned it to me. “Otogi Katsugeki Mameda no Bakeru: Oracle Saitarou no Sainnan!!” first launched in Japan in 2023 and the recently launched Bakeru is a Western-localised version of the same game. By this I mean that Bakeru moves and jumps and bashes with a lovely weight. The trajectory and angle of his jump isn’t too floaty, either. Sure, parrying (yes, there’s parrying too!...

September 5, 2024 · 1 min · 206 words · Suzanne Chen

Sightings of Helldivers 2 Illuminate faction on Galactic War map are "fake news", says Arrowhead boss

Development studio Arrowhead, aka the glorious government of Super Earth, are downplaying the rumours as usual. Ah, if only we had some means of shedding light on the reports. Some way of Illuminating the situation. Arrowhead have alsoadded weapons to the gamewhich seem designed with Illuminate biology in mind. To all this, add a brace of “leaked” character models and in-game sightings of uncertain provenance. Are you playing much at the minute?...

September 5, 2024 · 1 min · 72 words · Joan Gordon

Smite 2 early access review: prettier, snappier, but not spicy enough

MOBAs are like that. After 30 hours, it often still feels like that - but I am enjoying myself. Despite Valves third-person elephant in the lane. Knowing my MOBA fundamentals has definitely helped, though. Now you know your MOBA fundamentals, too! Except you dont, of course. They know these things, and they will kill you over and over again until you do too. Even in the post-launch buzz I couldnt find an Arena game....

September 5, 2024 · 2 min · 277 words · Teresa Jones

The bloody battles of Warhammer 40,000: Space Marine 2 make for a great photo mode

Spoiler warning:I’ll be showing stuff from later in the game. So if you might’t stand the smell of development fluid, get out of the red room. But the dedication to the atmosphere of interstellar conflict is still admirable. For fans of Starship Troopers gung-ho-ism, there are a lot of Klendathu drops in this game. The campaign is filled with incidental detail that fleshes out the world. A good photo mode is simple yet robust....

September 5, 2024 · 1 min · 95 words · Samantha Greene

Wordle hints and answer (#1174): How to solve the Thursday September 5 Wordle

Stuck on the Wordle word for September 5? Read our hint or find the answer below! This guide is for a previous day! Looking for today’s solution? Check out theWordle hint and answer for Tuesday 22nd April! Use ourWordle Solver toolto help you figure out the answer to any Wordle in moments! Just pop your current guesses in the grid and watch the tool instantly give you all the potential answers....

September 5, 2024 · 2 min · 404 words · Travis Wilson

How to complete Jet Kordo's Legacy in Star Wars Outlaws

The largest rock onTosharaisTyphon’s Rockwithin the Lost Steppe region, so it makes sense to start there. Climb the ladder and Data Spike the door inside to get into the stash. That rounds up our guide on Jet Kordo’s Legacy inStar Wars Outlaws.

September 4, 2024 · 1 min · 42 words · Kayla Gonzales

Nikhil Murthy's Syphilisation is a ferociously in-depth, empathic reworking of Civilization and other 4X games

Many 4X games are triumphal re-enactments of specific periods of colonial settlement and expansion. All of which is to say that Syphilisation is fascinating. It’s a reworking of the genre which dismantles and reconstructs concepts such as diplomacy, research and production. It’s also just left early access - find more details and a playthrough video below. Some quick notes on the title. One of Syphilisation’s most gripping devices is that it’s a conversation with itself....

September 4, 2024 · 1 min · 92 words · Kristen Washington

No Man's Sky's Aquarius update lets you go fishing across the galaxy

Today’s new update, however, adds fishing, and I can’t not write about that. You’ll need to find different bodies of water on different planets to collect them all. It’s got a built-in fridge for storing your catches within. However you collect your fish, you might cook ‘em for dinner if you wish. Aquarius is out now and free to all players. No Man’s Sky is also currently 60% offover on Steamas part of theSteam Space Exploration Fest....

September 4, 2024 · 1 min · 77 words · Robert Barron

Shadowrun and Battletech creators unveil cyberpunk horror RPG set on a "dying space station" where upgrades change your personality

Here’s the trailer. Some blurb: “the Arc is dying. Bodies were replaceable, resurrection assumed. But the darkness isn’t empty. It only feels that way at first.” But I’m more enthused about the game’s progression or upgrades element, which has uncommon narrative gravitas. “With each Graft, strange cravings and half-glimpsed memories flood your system,“the Steam page explains. “Now you remember the hot breath of a lover you never touched. Now you find yourself suddenly obsessing over cruel and sadistic impulses....

September 4, 2024 · 1 min · 144 words · Chloe Garrett