HomeFeaturesThe Settlers The Settlers: New Allies offers a fresh yet familiar take on the 30 year old seriesA 12 month delay has seen improvements across the board, and launch is just the beginning A 12 month delay has seen improvements across the board, and launch is just the beginning The road to launch has been a uniquely turbulent one forThe Settlers: New Allies. After an eight-year absence, the next entry in Ubisoft’s beloved city-building series wasfinally revealed in 2018, only to bedelayed indefinitely two years later....

HomeNews Also the Sims sequel will have multiplayer, but it isn’t an MMO The Sims 4didn’t have toddlers until they were added in 2017, and sims' early years will continue to telescope when March comes around. That’s when infants will finally be added to the game, turning babies into full sims. The latest update also offered news on Project Rene, the eventual successor toThe Sims 4. The key takeaways: it’s not an MMO but it will have multiplayer as well as singleplayer, and it’s years away from release....

HomeHardwareDeals This 1TB portable SSD is down to £60 using this £10 off codeIntegral’s USB-C portable SSD supports speeds of up to 500MB/s. Integral’s USB-C portable SSD supports speeds of up to 500MB/s. Portable SSDs are jolly useful for quickly transferring large files, like Steam game file backups or 4K videos, from device to device. I’ve said before in similar blogs that I use one to ferry videos from my computer downstairs to my TV, but I also rely on one to quickly set up a PC for performance testing and copy game files to my Steam Deck....

HomeGuidesWordle Wordle hint and answer (#591): How to solve the Tuesday January 31 WordleStuck on the Wordle word for Jan 31? Read our hint or find the answer below! Stuck on the Wordle word for Jan 31? Read our hint or find the answer below! Image credit:Rock Paper Shotgun Image credit:Rock Paper Shotgun Need a hint for today’s Wordle answer?One of the cleverest things about the simple daily word guessing gameWordleis that each day might be easy for some but completely stump others, and it all depends on how your mind is working on the day, and the starting words you choose to use....

HomeNews Book Of Demons continues its papercraft Diablo tribute with new roguelike deckbuilderHellcard is heading to Steam early access on February 16th Hellcard is heading to Steam early access on February 16th It’s been a hot minute since the papercraft Diablo-likeBook Of Demonslast stomped through these monster-infested halls, but developer Thing Trunk are back today with news of the next chapter in their dungeon-crawling fantasy series.Hellcardwill continue the story of Book Of Demons when it launches into Steam early access on February 16th, but instead of slicing up devil flesh in traditional hack and slash fashion, this time you’ll be building decks of cards to tackle each dungeon layer as a roguelike....

HomeHardwareFeatures Even after big fixes, the Dead Space remake can stumble on Steam DeckEngineering its limits Engineering its limits Image credit:Rock Paper Shotgun Image credit:Rock Paper Shotgun I spent the past weekend flicking between theDead Space remakeon my PC, and theDead Spaceremake on mySteam Deck. It’s a belter of a refurb, and for me personally, has been like getting dessert after being forced to finish myForspokenvegetables. Still, some lingering performance woes on the Deck mean I’m probably going to continueIsaac Clarke’s first and worst jobon desktop alone....

HomeNews Fans decipher Dead Space Remake’s ‘Indecipherable’ text log and find tasty Easter eggs"They order the living / They shepherd the dead" “They order the living / They shepherd the dead” I love secret languages in games. I’m too slow to decipher any of them myself, but I enjoy seeing a game’s community pick apart foreign symbols to uncover a game’s deep mysteries (Tunic’smusical languagewas especially fun.) Fortunately for me, players have already deciphered the ‘Indecipherable’ text log in the newDead Space remake, revealing a poem that potentially hints toward the series’ future....

HomeNews Over 12 minutes of early Horizon multiplayer game footage leaks onlineForbidden alpha footage Forbidden alpha footage Footage purporting to be fromHorizon Forbidden West’s multiplayer alpha has appeared online. The leak surfaced onRedditover the weekend, claiming to be from a “very old alpha” build from summer 2020. It’s an interesting watch, as while the world and robo dinos look like classic Horizon, the characters jumping around fighting them look a lot more stylised than their hyper-detailed mainline counterparts....

HomeFeatures Thief developer Randy Smith says “immersion is totally incompatible with ego"The Looking Glass veteran talks about Garrett’s past, present, and unlikely future The Looking Glass veteran talks about Garrett’s past, present, and unlikely future Some developers spend their careers inching towards their dream job, leapfrogging between roles in a grand strategy game of their own making. Others, like Randy Smith, simply show up on their first day and find they’re exactly where they’re meant to be....

HomeNewsLike a Dragon: Ishin It’s Sakamoto’s favourite thing about LAD: Ishin I went to Berlin not long ago to sample the emotional highs and lows ofLike A Dragon: Ishin, a remake of a spin-off that was previously only released in Japan back in 2014. Aside fromalmost crying and racing chickens, I had the chance to interview Ryu Ga Gotoku Studios' chief producer Hiroyuki Sakamoto, who revealed his favourite thing about the game: Goro Majima’s undeniable sex appeal....

HomeGuidesWordle Wordle hint and answer (#589): How to solve the Sunday January 29 WordleStuck on today’s Wordle word for Jan 29? Read our hint or find the answer below! Stuck on today’s Wordle word for Jan 29? Read our hint or find the answer below! Image credit:Rock Paper Shotgun Image credit:Rock Paper Shotgun Need a hint for today’s Wordle answer?Wordlegives its thousands of daily players worldwide a lovely little word puzzle with which to wake up their brains in the morning, or perhaps to while away the time during a lunch break at work....

HomeNewsAmerican Truck Simulator American Truck Simulator DLC will head to Kansas after OklahomaOpen fields aplenty in the reveal trailer Open fields aplenty in the reveal trailer American Truck Simulatorhasn’t yet received its already-announced Oklahoma DLC, but work is underway on the state that will follow it: Kansas. You’ll find a reveal trailer filled with grassy fields and grain silos below.American Truck Simulator - Kansas Expansion Reveal TeaserWatch on YouTubeAs the DLC’sSteam pagesays, Kansas is knwon for “its native grasslands, streams, abundant blue skies, and green grassland vistas....

HomeNewsBattlefield 2042 Battlefield 2042 will revive its old class system next weekDevelopment apology tour continues Development apology tour continues Battlefield 2042 Gameplay | First Look At New SpecialistsWatch on YouTube Battlefield 2042 Gameplay | First Look At New Specialists Next week’s release wasconfirmed via Twitter, at the same time as thelengthy 3.2 patch notes. Dice say they’d normally put out patch notes the day before an update drops, but they want to give players more of a heads-up in future....