The new Steam Deck OS update improves a little bit of everything

More balanced display colours! No more “spurious power LED blinking”! Brilliant, I hate spurious power LED blinking. Full patch notes are here. Also, sod it, lets pick out some of the best stuff. you could switch to that, from Stable, by selecting Beta in the System Update Channel section.

October 24, 2024 · 1 min · 49 words · Richard Haynes

This map ancillary might be my favourite thing a Total War Warhammer 3 patch has ever added

Im very excited about it. But I think this map is right on the money. Most of all, its weird! Either way, I appreciate the insight and transparency here. Whats the Xenomorphs charge bonus, Al? How viable is its missile block chance?

October 24, 2024 · 1 min · 42 words · Lawrence Welch

Warhammer 40000: Space Marine 2 rolls back difficulty changes that made fighting xenos "intense and stressful"

And this change wasn’t the only one that caused enough ructions to justify hasty recalibrations from Saber Interactive. It also created a modifier that forced players to stay close to one another, or face swift annihilation. “We will continue to monitor those changes and will continue to adjust the balance of Operations mode. This is not the last change.” Today, the devs have rejigged things. Mainly, that enemy spawn rate has been reduced....

October 24, 2024 · 1 min · 134 words · Jennifer Padilla

Why play a fascist? Unpacking the hideousness of the Space Marine

They are the ultimate embodiment of patriarchal xenophobic fascism. “They’re so far from our daily lives and concerns. “Space Marines don’t necessarily say things like ‘dismissed’,” Hollis-Leick observed. Much of the above reasoning is grounded in ostensibly neutral, best-practicey questions of craft and characterisation. In the course of what is technically a product review - see, reviews are allowed to be political! At its nastiest, this mentality both facilitates and camouflages bigotry....

October 24, 2024 · 3 min · 515 words · Laura Chen

Windblown, the new co-op hack-and-slasher from Dead Cells' developers, is out in Early Access now

First draft Windblownlooks rad. I can get my game-feelers on it now because it’s out in Early Access today. You cangrab it from Steamwith a 20% launch discount for 17.59/$20/20.

October 24, 2024 · 1 min · 30 words · Michael Frye

Wordle hints and answer (#1223): How to solve the Thursday October 24 Wordle

Stuck on the Wordle word for October 24? 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....

October 24, 2024 · 2 min · 402 words · Kara Contreras

Zotac Zone review: want a faster Steam Deck OLED? It’ll cost ya

Cor, phwoar, and indeed, wowzers. Much like a Zotac GPU, the Zone is chunkier than you might like but ultimately well-crafted. This is, at least, by design. My only complaint it that I wish these dials could control more, like thumbstick and trackpad sensitivity. Granted, not all of the Zones features are as reliably useful. Its thicker than the Deck as well, though not quite as wide. Even the ROG Ally X, with its jacked-up 24GB memory supply, cant keep up....

October 24, 2024 · 2 min · 234 words · Steven Carr

Minecraft: Bedrock Edition's hardcore mode and pocketable bags are now live in the Bundles Of Bravery update

I’m having a lovely time. The update brings hardcore mode to Bedrock Edition for the first time.

October 23, 2024 · 1 min · 17 words · Jimmy Williams

Most Prince Of Persia: The Lost Crown devs have moved to other projects, Ubisoft confirm, following report about rejected sequel pitch

Find the Gautoz report onYoutube, which is based on conversations with anonymous developers. Beware that it’s in French. And here’s Ubisoft’s statement in full from the game’s senior producer, Abdelhak Elguess. Ubisoft are in a prickly place at the moment. Ubisoft subsequentlykicked back the release of Assassin’s Creed Shadows to 2025to avoid another Outlaws-style spongy landing. Nowadays, projects of that scope with relatively modest commercial ambitions don’t seem to cut the mustard....

October 23, 2024 · 1 min · 72 words · Donald Perez

Nidhogg developer's Ghost Bike is now called Wheel World, and there's a new trailer

“Its of course our first 3D game, which also makes it our first game made with Unity. New territory or not, I’m excited for anything Messhof produce. Wheel World found its way onto the list ofour most anticipated games of 2024, thanks tonoted bike-likerAlice O.

October 23, 2024 · 1 min · 45 words · Valerie Camacho

NYT Connections hints and answers for Wed, October 23rd

Need some Connections hints today? Read our guide for help with Connections #499. 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? Once you get the colour association down, nothing here is too hard....

October 23, 2024 · 1 min · 123 words · Pamela Bartlett

Shin chan: Shiro And The Coal Town review: a nostalgic collectathon I can't stop thinking about

He seemed mischievous, a bit of a menace, and part of a fun family dynamic. Flash forward to now and I can only describe the lad as… jarring. But, and this is abigbut: I can’t stop thinking about it. Of all the games of 2024, Coal Town may have left the biggest impression on me. In a way, I hope it does for you, too. Being Shin chan is jarring and at times, a bit exhausting....

October 23, 2024 · 2 min · 265 words · David Smith

Skull Horde is a necromantic auto-battler from the makers of Bore Blasters

Reason number two is that it’s coming from the developers of the explosively moreishBore Blasters. Find a teaser trailer below. The teaser trailer is all cutscene, nothing in-game, sadly. Skull Horde’s fights take place in real-time, with your minions fighting for you autonomously. Your job is to choose where and when to explore and to make sensible decisions when upgrading your squad. The necromancer you play as, by the way, is a flying skull....

October 23, 2024 · 1 min · 107 words · Jorge Sullivan