We’re not interested in any old build though. We’re looking for the best build in the game, the one that makes you feel like the most powerful and unstoppable force in all of Paris. Below we’ll walk you through our pick for the best build in Steelrising, with in-depth explanations on how to go about getting the right stat setup, weapons, armour, modules, and more. Best build in Steelrising: Agility and Counterattack build There are several different paths to becoming an unstoppable force of machinery in Steelrising, but our favourite so far is definitely the Agility and Counterattack build....

These focus on the 256GB and 512GB models, the latter being the roomiest capacity that the Pro Plus comes in. Assuming that you do indeed find yourself constrained by your Deck’s own SSD, I’d suggest aiming for 512GB if you can – 256GB will hold a fair few games but might also fill up fast if you’re installing a lot of gigabyte-hogging AAA games. Then again, an extra 256GB might be fine otherwise – many of the best Steam Deck games, like Vampire Survivors, have a tiny installation footprint....

For those yet to stick their snout into Supermassive’s truffle-trove of horror offerings, the basic premise of these narrative adventure games can best be summarised: What if shouting at the screen to try and stop idiot characters performing horror film no-nos actually worked? The formula was both invented and, miraculously, perfected in 2015’s Until Dawn. Since then, the studio have released three ‘episodic’ (although narratively independent) Dark Pictures titles, and The Quarry, all of which can best be summarised: Like Until Dawn, but not as good....

Jonny Watts, CEO of Frontier Developments, said that the company will “continue to explore opportunities to grow Frontier’s resources”, and that they were hoping to further develop the newly acquired Canadian team. Complex Games have been around since 2001, and currently have a team of 20 staff. Frontier and Complex say they’ll begin work on “even more ambitious future titles” and continue to support Daemonhunters. You can read the full statement from Frontier here....

The Falconeer is, broadly speaking, one of those games, but in a much more novel and colourful setting. Instead of space, you fly over a vast ocean. Instead of ships, you ride a giant falcon, and fight flying dinosaurs, semi-mechanical (I think?) insects, and huge undulating serpents covered with gun banks. Instead of lasers, you fly into storms to charge up your lightning guns. Its world is so fresh that I’ve found myself rating it above games that, on reflection, have a lot more in them....

I’ve no idea how it plays these days myself. But at the very least, it’s a neat insight into the studio’s history ahead of Cyberpunk 2077’s release next week. Re-launched last year as a sort of library for all your other games libraries, GOG Galaxy is currently giving away the studio’s break-out 2008 RPG for folks who download (or update to) the latest version of the client. You can claim it by going to Galaxy’s “recent” tab and clicking the banner, with the game appearing in your library “after a while”....

This was formerly known as ‘Do Not Take Your Eyes Away From the Red Fridge’, and I gotta say I approve of the change. At tonight’s Guerrilla Games Collective stream we got confirmation that this is now being published by tinyBuild, and we got a weirdo trailer showing snippets of some very unsettling stuff. It’s all the usual things you’d hate to open your eyes and see in a dream: a rabbit doll, a vending machine full of limbs, a load of figures arranged on the ceiling like an Antony Gormley installation, floating wheelchairs in a grubby hospital, some guy running at you out of a dark corridor, and creepy kids’ drawings of families and stuff on fire....

Readers of a creative bent, sharpen your HBs, blow the dust/crumbs/dandruff off your GameMaker installs, and don your brainstorming berets – this column’s inaugural game design contest starts right here, right now. In a 38cm nutshell, interested parties have forty days in which to design and submit a Bismarck-themed single-player computer or board game. Submissions that attempt to tell the entire story of Operation Rheinübung, Bismarck’s first and last sortie into the North Atlantic, are very welcome, but given the competition’s time and component/installer constraints (see on) it might be wiser to try something less ambitious....

I’m vaguely irritated that licence Hokey Cokey is the reason I’m reminding you that Lego games make for some pretty good couch co-op, but here we are. There was no explanation from publishers Warner Bros. about their disappearance, and there is no explanation for their return - but yes, it’s licensing, innit. There is every chance they will disappear again at some point in the future, so grab ’em while you can....

“Desperate to escape one of the darkest corners of Great Bear Island, he must somehow survive his fiercest enemy yet,” Hinterland say. “Can Mackenzie recover the Hardcase, continue his search for Astrid, and also save the innocents caught up in this deadly confrontation?” It’s all good and grim down here in the new launch day trailer Hinterland have posted. I’d been quite into The Long Dark’s survival mode sandbox even before its story mode episodes began launching....

The Medium is a game that I would definitely recommend people play - not in the same way I recommend stuff like Outer Wilds or Return Of The Obra Dinn, which are excellent GOATest of all time games. No, I would recommend it because it is a weird oddity that has good stuff and also bad stuff and weird choices. It’s the sort of thing that inspires people to give it 10/10 and 3/10....

Every year Graham opens the secret panel in the back of all our heads (with a little screwdriver) and removes our batteries so we don’t cause any trouble over the break. On January the 4th he’ll put new ones in, but to keep you amused until then we’ve left you a little Christmas cracker with a joke inside. There’s one for every day of the break! You can find articles you might not have read, or help cover the cost of fresh batteries, with the RPS supporter program....

Apparently ignorant of their products’ ability to frighten and maim, PC gaming hardware makers sometimes try to manufacture an imposing aura by giving them big, bad names. You’ve probably seen these already: keyboards named after swords, laptops christened as mythical animals and the like. But some go full spooky, consulting the Halloween kids’ costume pantheon of creatures and creepers. Is an eerie moniker enough to strike fear, even before it has the chance to cause minor injuries or force you into a tedious warranty replacement process?...

I’m convinced that there’s a middle ground, where you can have a slasher horror that loves the tropes and knows how to work them, but still feels smart and fresh in 2022. And, preferably, stars pro-wrestler and part-time actor David Arquette. This week I played some of The Quarry. Supermassive Games’ interactive survival horror Until Dawn came close in 2015, though the latter half became a little too earnest and frantic for my money....

Shadows Of Forbidden Gods is different. It’s all about building the power of your evil god under the radar until it’s too late for anyone to defeat you. The more I’ve played it, the more I start to suspect that this concept will always suffer from being gamed by player who’ll seek the most efficient paths. Any system of influencing and manipulating characters will necessarily be abstracted, and at some point subtlety becomes just another numerical value....

But even though I knew this was a roguelite survival adventure going in, I wasn’t expecting there to be quite so much adventuring to it and so little chill sledding with my dogs. Look, let me illustrate this with like, five minutes I clipped from what I played last night. D’you see what I mean? I thought Alaska was supposed to be big and mostly empty and whatever, but apparently you can’t move for skunks and caribou....

It’s not an exact copy. Roger had to reorganise the interior of the original to fit all the rooms inside, but if you know the game you’ll be familiar with what’s made it into the build. He said: “I managed to squeeze in every location featured in the game from the Foyer, Study, Kitchen and fold out Garden on the ground floor, to the Curiosity Room and Japanese Gallery on the first floor, the Maritime Room & Art Studio on the third floor and the Attic at the top of the house, containing a microbuild of the dollhouse itself....

Like a lot of good stories on the Internet, it started with razzing: With this tweet blowing up, someone tagged in Gwen Frey, who was behind Baguette Boy when she worked at Irrational. She went on to explain the birth of bread-bearing boogieboy in a Twitter thread. Frey explained that part of her work on Binfinite and its DLC was placing all the background characters. Because every character comes at a performance cost, many of these were “chumps” without AI, without the ability to pathfind around, just bodies looping animations with a few flourishes like voice lines....

From this images (tweeted by the official Sims account yesterday) we can infer that snowboarding, climbing, and tobogganing with a child will all be on offer. One image also shows two Sims in front of buildings that look like they may be Japanese in design. No confirmations, but it’d be nice to have an expansion that didn’t feel wholly North America-focused. For further demystification, look to the stream of the trailer, which goes live at 4pm BST/8am PT today....

Read on to learn exactly how Neighborhood Stories work in The Sims 4 and — crucially — how it will affect your existing and new saves. On this page: How do Neighborhood Stories work in The Sims 4? How to customise Neighborhood Stories from Patch 125 in your game How to enable or disable Neighborhood Stories How to play with socially directed Neighborhood Stories from Patch 121 Method 1: Phone Calls Method 2: Direct Dialogue What can go wrong: known Neighborhood Stories glitches from Patch 121 What are Neighborhood Stories Aspirations?...