I met a money-eating axe murderer in Sorry We're Closed and now so can you

Aside from being a dry reflection of tabloid reporting on women who commit crimes (bad woman! sexy, bad woman!) this is also the kind of incidental character-building you might expect in this perky, retro-styled survival horror. It plays likeSilent Hillcharged with the hot pink body horror ofPorpentineinteractive fiction. It’s all given that late-90s Resident Evil look with cameras both fixed and following. She’s a real catch. I’m not the first of us to crawl through the demo, of course....

June 5, 2024 · 2 min · 220 words · Walter Romero

Silkbulb Test's demo is a fun quiz game as long as you ignore the noises and don't look behind you

The questions begin with relatively innocuous, CAPTCHA-style inquiries, such as “is this a door?” accompanied by a picture of a face. A few minutes later, there’s stuff like “Are you alone?” and “Is it safe to be alone?” “Hold shift to run” anytime now, Silkbulb Test. Hang on, the full game sounds worse. It’s an asymmetrical co-op and single player horror “experience”. Just like shopping at Budgens, then. Your principle tool in navigating these perils looks like it’s a customisable “Safe-T-Face”....

June 5, 2024 · 1 min · 131 words · James Clarke

Space-Western Wild Bastards has OK shooty, decent looty, but darn fine rooty and tooty

Information on booty forthcoming RoguelikeFPSWild Bastardsis thespacewestern follow up to 2019sVoid Bastards. This time, its less focused on exploration, more on individual, tense shoot-outs. The first thing youll want to do is whack mouse sensitivity as high as itll go. Seems as if Ol Jimmy Molasses has been gunking up the pistols again, varmint that he is. You get two outlaws quite quickly, a spidery Pistolier and a robot with a large laser shotgun....

June 5, 2024 · 1 min · 206 words · Brian Morrow

The Last of Us 2 will reportedly follow Part 1 onto PC, but potentially not until next year

Expect toneed to sign in with a PlayStation accountwhen it does, mind.

June 5, 2024 · 1 min · 12 words · Erin Smith

The PlayStation VR2 PC adapter gets a release date and price, but a lot of its best features won’t work

Itll play nice with SteamVR, at least We knew a PC adapter for PlayStations VR2 headsetwas on the way, andit looked to be fairly soon- and we were right! Sonys shiniest virtual reality offering is now confirmed to be adding official PC support via a nifty wired adapter at the start of August. Itll cost 50/$60 - but whether its worth the price given a number of key features will be missing is another question entirely…...

June 5, 2024 · 3 min · 464 words · Tami Fisher

Wordle hints and answer (#1082): How to solve the Wednesday June 5 Wordle

Stuck on today’s Wordle word for June 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! Need a hint for today’s Wordle answer?Wordleis an addicting but challenging test of word acumen. Luckily, you’re in the right place for some assistance. Use ourWordle Solver toolto help you figure out the answer to any Wordle in moments!...

June 5, 2024 · 3 min · 451 words · Stephen Ellis

Wuthering Waves Verina best build

In this guide, we’ll explainthe best build for Verinaand also offer a breakdown of her skillset. Wuthering Waves best Verina build Verina is a 5-Star Spectro Resonator who uses a Rectifier. Using Verina also requires management ofPhotosynthesis Energy, her unique resource. There’s a reson why Verina’s a must-have addition to every team - this is just too useful! That’s it for Verina’s best build in Wuthering Waves.

June 5, 2024 · 1 min · 67 words · Beth Shea

You can’t have sex with yourself in The Alters, “but it’s not like this topic is totally removed”

Or at least its complicated, to channel a bit of antique Facebook coyness.The Altersis a complicated game. The Jans have a hard time getting along, initially. What will he decide to believe in? How does it work for him in his life, for the people around him? 11 bit had a booth at their Alters hands-on event where journos could chat to AI-generated characters. But we wanted to focus on one topic at a time....

June 5, 2024 · 1 min · 159 words · Gary Reyes

How Deep Rock Galactic Season 5 drills back down to basics

Mine craft Dwarvenco-opcaperDeep Rock Galactichas spent years raising the stakes. If the subsequent question is “It used to be about therocks, y’know?” then DRGs imminentSeason 5 update, Drilling Deeper, is the answer. Since Hoxxes IV is an ugly planet a bug planet the local fauna have been evolving too. Theyre devious little bastards, though the Stalkers arent the grossest of Season 5s foes. This, it turned out, was the point....

June 4, 2024 · 1 min · 180 words · Isaiah Burns

How Elden Ring Shadow Of The Erdtree's new levelling system makes life easier for newcomers... or harder for veterans

Want some bite with your bark? Yes, I’ve played a portion ofElden Ring’s expansionShadow Of The ErdtreeandI think it’s brilliant. Well, here I am to flesh it out! Be warned, though, the role of the system is a jarring thing to condense into words. So my thoughts on the levelling system aren’t set in stone, nor are they definitive just yet. That’ll have to wait until I get my hands on the entire thing....

June 4, 2024 · 1 min · 149 words · Rose May

Jacking in to Stellaris as a fanatical cyberpunk corporate cult in The Machine Age

Everyone has different skills. Enterspacestrategystory-spewerStellaris, specifically, its spost specent spee-LCThe Machine Age. But what’s this? I recognise that from toys! Lets do some clicking. Justified because this is just a romantic extrapolation of how the advertising industry actually works. Plus, they just suit my playstyle. I call my empire the United Earth Corporation. Were also running the Augmentation Bazaars civic, which effectively lets us build Cyberpunks ripper docs on our planets....

June 4, 2024 · 2 min · 216 words · Madison Taylor

Just Cause creators Avalanche lay off 50 people and close their Montreal and New York studios

Avalanche’s Montreal studio had been open for all of eight months. Avalanche’s New York studio, meanwhile, dates back to 2011. Avalanche as a whole turned 20 in 2023. The layoffs follow hard on the heels of a unionisation agreement for Avalanche staff in Sweden.

June 4, 2024 · 1 min · 44 words · James Marks

Mech Engineer's demo is for people who love hateful interface design

Mech Engineer is a game with an attitude problem, frankly. There’s an innocent 30 seconds initially when you think it’s just badly designed. But then you realise that it is a creature of foul and labyrinthine purpose. There’s a calendar which lets you advance to the next day. Reading those sentences back, it sounds practically transparent. Like XCOM but with extra robots, right? Mech Engineer is nothing like XCOM. It is like tying your shoelaces with a pair of scissors....

June 4, 2024 · 1 min · 117 words · Sarah Smith