How high-fidelity does a flight sim need to be? Early on in Terry Pratchett’s novel The Light Fantastic, a spell is cast to map the world. Real-life software developers, including video game developers, have been casting spells like this for decades. At what point will this phantasmagorical planet be Earth-like enough? It sounds like there’s not much further to be gained from bumping the resolution of the environment. Do we really need more resolution than a few millimetres?...

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It looks like one, sure. You do most things with cards, and characters acquire more cards over time. But even if you absolutely, utterly, and correctly loathe card-based systems, this game has none. Units can’t be levelled, so losing them isn’t painful beyond the cost to replace them. So how do you recruit more units? How do you fight battles? But it’s not a card game. The former is fine....

There have even beenhintsthat Valve are resurrecting theirSteam Machinemini PC concept, years after a flopping first attempt. To find out, Ive dedicated really very little of my desk space to two modern mini PCs. Both of these are perfectly tolerable to live with, a general usability sense. To a wall, even, if you want to get all hammer-drilly about it. Also: theyre cute. Whole computers, in dimensions akin to that of the box that Dominos send their cookies in....

Rich in more ways than one Ahhh, the lap of the ocean is calming isn’t it? And it’s really warm here, too. What’s interesting is that the sounds of the sea are occasionally masked by the sounds of multiple segways. Of course, it’sLike A Dragon: Infinite Wealth! And my goodness, what a lovely place to be. All bolstering Kasuga’s laidback attitude and sunny demeanor, despite the circumstances he finds himself under....

And, yes, naughty Riot Games! It’d be like letting a big suitwearer at Pepsi go to all the important meetings at Coca-cola. And they have now stepped down, it seems, to avoid Tencent and Epic any further heat. No more boardroom naughtiness, corpoboys and corpogirls! In video games, we’ve seenValve hit with an antitrust lawsuitin the past. Big business gonna business big.

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Need some Connections hints today? Read our guide for help with Connections #556. 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? The inclusion of the word ‘gorilla’ is what helped me connect today’s purple category....

Down in the bonehoard At any given moment I am in the center of a wonderful vortex of skeletons. Bones splash and rattle and burst out of the ground in sharp, horrible spurs. My weakest skeletons, sensing their death coming, explode into fire and shards. Foul little bone scorpions skitter around on fans of legs made from human hands. This is a review in progress. It has to be. Lets compromise: I have toured the dark caverns and the antediluvian crypts....

Like the air’s a bit thin. A guy called Mo, who seems nice but isn’t particularly talkative. Prefers paper and pencil. God my lungs are about to burst. Ed:Threshold is a short psychological horror about working a shift atop a lonely mountaintop borderpost. But first he shows you the ropes, since you’re new to it all. Notice the train that blazes past the post? Blowing into the whistle forces air out of your lungs, though....

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And now?Nowwe finally get a look at how you do things. Like sucker-punching armoured space bears in the face with electro-pistols. Here’s the new trailer: What can we glean from it? There’s a pretty planet covered in sickly fog and a fight with an armoured space bear. The key to beating the bear is to bash it in the head. On a more serious note, this “celestial tech” seems to be the crux of the combat....

Need some Connections hints today? Read our guide for help with Connections #555. This guide is for a previous day! Looking for today’s solution? Check out theConnections hint for Tuesday 22nd April! Of course, we’ll also show you the full puzzle solution. 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? The ‘dome’ Connections were much harder to me, especially since it includes the Teapot Dome event....