Call me solipsistic, but I’m still not convinced Indika isn’t a game someone made specifically for me. The tale of an Orthodox nun on a journey to the centre of the spirit through an alternate 19th-century Russia, it pulls on everything from Mikhail Bulgakov to 8-bit arcade games to create something that felt entirely singular when I tried its demo earlier this year. Now we know when the full thing is due, courtesy of the Future Games Show Spring Showcase.

Indika is set to release on May 8 this year on Steam, GOG, and Epic, and honestly I can’t wait. The game quickly became my most-anticipated release of 2024 after I tried out the demo, and got me sufficiently excited to make a TikTok. Do you know how into a thing I have to be to go TikTok about it? I did…

I didn’t learn about open-source game engine Godot until last year, when its profile was raised by an extraordinary fumble from commercial game engine Unity. Now Godot is being used to make Slay the Spire 2, which instantly became one of my most highly anticipated games when it was announced this week.

Slay the Spire 2 developer Mega Crit said last year that, despite already having spent over two years building its next game in Unity, it would switch engines if the company didn’t reverse an enormously unpopular new policy which would have, under certain conditions, charged game developers each time someone installed their Unity-based game. 

“We have never made a public statement before,” Mega Crit said in an open letter directed at Unity. “This is how badly you fucked u…

With rumours percolating that GTA 6 might be coming as soon as next year, Take-Two CEO Strauss Zelnick has been out and about, chatting about Rockstar’s game design philosophy and the approach the studio is taking to its next open-world crime caper. Turns out the goal is just to “seek perfection” and turn out “something you’ve never seen before”. Well, that’s easy then.

Zelnick was discussing Rockstar’s games on an episode of the Good Time Show Podcast, where—among chats about his fitness regime and career—he mentioned the difficulties that developers like Rockstar and Firaxis face when trying to create new entries in popular series like GTA and Civilization.

“That’s a challenge that the folks at Rockstar face every time there’s a new iteration of Grand Theft Aut…

Given Remedy’s preoccupation with looping stories in Alan Wake 2, it feels particularly fitting that the game now has a New Game Plus mode. Just as Alan himself is trapped experiencing the same events over and over, now you too can pretend you’re in the Dark Place by turning the year’s best horror game into a lovely endless limbo for yourself.  

As you’d expect, you can carry over all your unlocked weapons and upgrades from your first run—I reckon not having to hunt that stuff down will make a second playthrough very speedy indeed if you want it to be. Or you can properly put your accumulated arsenal through its paces by cranking the difficulty up to the new Nightmare level. 

What’s more exciting, though, is that New Game Plus also introduces new manuscript p…

How timely it is that, just days after the last Super Blue Moon, a second sneak peak at the Project: Blue Moon TTRPG should arise. This upcoming tabletop game by R. Talsorian games—makers of the Cyperpunk RED TTRPG—comes from Cody Pondsmith, whose mind birthed The Witcher TTRPG. 

Just to be clear, Project: Blue Moon isn’t the final name for the game. It’s just a working title, but where Ponsmith neglects it’s name, he sure as heck makes up for it in atmosphere. Prepare yourself for a dangerous, Japanese-themed world full of dragon spirits and ever-churning death machines.

The first Blue Moon TTRPG sneak peak (via Dicebreaker) showed off some ethereal, east-Asian inspired artwork featuring a great Torii gate and lanterns. Behind it, trees of…

The Steam Deck is a remarkably powerful piece of hardware, capable of doing all sorts of interesting things. But the Ukrainian military appears to have found one use that I’m pretty sure wasn’t anticipated in any of Valve’s design meetings: As a controller for a remote gun turret.

Photos of the Steam Deck purportedly being used to control a gun turret first turned up in mid-April, shared by TRO Media, but they looked a little suspect: There was nothing to indicate that the Steam Deck in question was being used as part of the weapon, and not just for a spot of Vampire Survivors during a reload. 

More recently, though, video from what appears to be the same event has turned up, and a Steam Deck is clearly being used to control the turret.

The purpose of a remotely-c…

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It took until the very last line, but I got there in the end. The best part of today’s Wordle was figuring out how the letters I had could fit together. The worst part of today’s Wordle was realising there were more potentially valid words remaining than I had guesses left.

Today’s Wordle hint

A Wordle hint for Monday, September 18

You could describe an honest and unvarnished conversation in this way. It’s a plain way of speaking—sincere and straight to the point. This word can also be a name…

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Today’s game was a quick and easy one for me: I only had two letters left to put in place before I was even halfway down the board, and I found those on my first attempt. Don’t worry if Wordle doesn’t flow quite as smoothly for you this Tuesday morning—that’s what I’m here for.

Today’s Wordle hint

Wordle today: A hint for Tuesday, November 28

A lengthy study might begin by outlining the _____ of the project, making readers aware …

Microsoft Gaming CEO Phil Spencer can’t be too concerned about how the Activision acquisition is going, because he’s dedicated over ten days of his life to getting every single achievement in Vampire Survivors, including the ones in its Legacy of the Moonspell DLC. Spencer ticked off the Victory Sword achievement—held by a mere 4.74% of Xbox players at time of writing—last Sunday evening, thereby ascending to the pantheon of S-Rank Vampire Survivors players and finally proving himself better than me at playing videogames. Which was probably his intention.

Assuming we can take old Phil at his word, this also means he holds the coveted EXTRA: Chaos Malachite achievement, currently held by a mere 1.87% of players and the rarest one going (so far as I can tell). I…

Cyberpunk 2077’s long, slow journey to redemption took a notable step forward today as its Steam user rating ticked over from “mostly positive” to “very positive,” meaning that 80% of its more than 553,000 user ratings are now a thumbs-up.

The big moment was noted by CD Projekt Red global community director Marcin Momot, who thanked fans “for acknowledging all the hard work the team has put in over the years since the release.”

You could argue that, as moments go, this one isn’t all that terribly big, and yeah, that’s fair. Despite its train wreck reputation, Cyberpunk 2077 was pretty okay on PC, especially if you had a fairly high-powered rig, and even when it first came out—which is to say, when it was in its worst condition—the Steam score never slipped below …

There is the suggestion going around that the green team is testing out a chiplet version of its top GeForce graphics card for the future Nvidia Blackwell GPU generation. This comes hot on the heels of another rumour stating explicitly that the Blackwell architecture is going to be used for data center silicon, too, and that this successor to Hopper will definitely be a multi-chip module GPU.

We’re at least a year out from the release of the Nvidia RTX 5090, but that’s not going to stop the rumour mill going into overdrive every time there’s the faintest whiff of next-gen silicon in the air. And that means we have to take every rumour with the requisite measure of salt given that at this point it’s all largely guesswork, conjecture, and hearsay.

The idea of Nvidia finally ma…

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A nice, simple, win in three was just what I needed after all the frantic fun I seem to have had the rest of this Wordle week. I may not be able to boast about any fantastic turnarounds or sudden sparks of inspiration with this one, but at least I had one day where my eyebrows didn’t repeatedly crash into each other as I scoured my previous guesses for clues to today’s Wordle answer.

Wordle today: A hint

Wordle today: A hint for Sunday, October 1…

A while back, Microsoft announced that Windows 11 was going to be getting Copilot—a new AI ‘personal assistant’ to replace Cortana within your OS. Well, it’s just dropped on Windows Insider builds and is shaping up to be an all encompassing little helper.

Windows Insiders on Dev Channel Build 23493 will have access to the new Copilot feature as of now, so will no doubt be making the most of it to access all those sneaky Windows features hidden three or four menus deep in the new OS.

“Windows Copilot will appear as a side bar docked to the right where it won’t overlap with your desktop content” says the Windows 11 insider blog (via Tom’s Hardware). 

Apparently, Copilot will “run unobstructed alongside your open app windows, allowing you to interact with…