The rumour sprang up via insider-gaming, who reported that unidentified sources had claimed they had documents showing a new AAA Alien game was being worked on with a release window of late 2023. It was also alleged that Grasshopper Manufacture was developing the game. I would usually link to insider-gaming’s report so you could see for yourself, but their entire site seems to be down right now. The rumour was picked up by other sites, and that was when it crossed Suda51’s path....

The year is 1976. Go on, pretend you’ve got sideburns, a massive ‘tache and some flares on. Twirl your medallion somewhat. You’ve been put in charge of building and managing a deep-sea research facility and the team of oceanlads needed to crew it. While you’re down there, mind popping out a load of clones spliced with whatever weird and wonderful creatures you find floating around? Oh, and weaponise them to use against the enemy, yeah....

Our Nate played it briefly last year, and describes it as “the colony manager for everyone who got really into the settlement building in Fallout 4.” Surviving The Aftermath’s arrival on Steam comes with a patch that adds in quests to make exploration. These little missions are only sidequests for now, and will task your colonists with things like scavenging and searching for lost people. Back in February, Nate had a chat with the game’s director and lead producer about the early access city-builder craze....

As well as stripping out lots of the new weapons that have flooded TF2 over the past decade, TF2 Classic recreates elements that had been seen in beta builds. These include weapons like the Spy’s Tranquilizer Gun and Scout’s Nailgun and ooh I think I see the Heavy’s big ol’ cartoon muzzleflash. Some bits are familiar from even further back. The TF2 Classic mod brings back VIP mode, where one player on Blu team plays a VIP armed with only an umbrella and the rest of the team need to escort the VIP through the map....

Instead I found some games about dead monsters, more or less. I found some of them suprisingly cathartic, and at least one of them surprisingly difficult. Skeleton Wave Who’s it by? FunnyKids Where can I get it? Steam How much is it? £0.80/€0.80/$1 This is a pretty simple concept: your village is being attacked by wave of animated skeletons (who make surprisingly different sartorial choices, if we are to assume they come from the same graveyard)....

TFT Set 3 champions guide In this TFT Set 3 champions guide, we go over all of the new origins and classes that are coming to Teamfight Tactics in the new set (or season to the rest of us). Several champions have also been allocated to these traits, so we will be listing which ones are available for each one. The new champions are not the only new things coming to TFT, as Riot have shown off details on another big change to the new season....

TFT set 3 tier guide The TFT set 3 tier guide has all the stats and skills for every champion in the latest season. All the stats are up to date as of the most recent patch. Contents TFT set 3 champion stats Tier 1 champions Tier 2 champions Tier 3 champions Tier 4 champions Tier 5 champions TFT champion set 3 stats Perhaps you want to make your own team compositions or tweak one of the ones found in our TFT comps guide?...

Best strategy games To set some ground rules before we begin, we’ve mainly focused on games about commanding troops of some kind, so if it’s settlement or colony sim games you’re after, then have a read of our best management games list. A handful of strategy games here do involve a bit of building, but there’s no football management or spaghetti junctions. And if your favourite doesn’t make the cut, please know it was number 51....

Tunic There is a joyful way to summon nostalgia and there is a cynical way. Cynical is McDonalds resurrecting some cursed Happy Meal toys you vaguely remember and advertising them with a multigenerational inspo-ad that flashes back to the 90s, when Gran was still alive. Tunic does it the nice way. It offers you a world in which not all rules or abilities are immediately explained, and then drip-feeds you the pages of a SNES-like game manual....

The Ascent has a seemingly typical cyberpunk world. A mega corp owns everything and everyone, the game takes place in an arcology made out of dirty metal and neon lights, and the society’s class structure is represented literally by the metropolis’s lower and upper floors. When the megacorp mysteriously shuts down one day, the world descends into chaos, and I guess you aim to fix that by causing more. I’m more interested in the game’s pitch as a shooter that can be played alone or with up to three pals, in which you can customise characters with cyberware and assign them skill points....

Here’s what you need to know about the drive - and a few other highlights that you can find using that same Ebay code. Pick up the WD Blue SN550 for £80 (was £89) So, the WD Blue SN550. Katharine was a massive fan when she reviewed the drive last year, and it even takes a place of pride in the best gaming SSD rankings as the best cheap SSD on the market....

Best Genshin Impact Shenhe build for support Best weapon: Calamity Queller Alternative: The Catch While I’ve chosen to focus on Shenhe’s support abilities in this build, rather than her possibilities as a sub-DPS, you shouldn’t entirely neglect her potential to deal some damage while on the field. As such, her ideal weapon is a little rarer than I’d usually recommend for a support character: the Calamity Queller. This polearm adds a 12% DMG Bonus to Shenhe’s Elemental attacks, which as the cornerstone of her build are well worth boosting whenever possible....

With such a colossal database of mods and modpacks to choose from nowadays, it can be very daunting for a player new to modding, or someone who wants to set up their own modded Minecraft server, to even know where to look. That’s why we’ve put together this guide to the best mods in Minecraft for 1.19. Below you’ll find information on the very best modpacks and mods we’ve found over the years, along with download links for each one....

I’d obviously considered any potential “which Eivor is best?” to be pre-settled. It is basically a rhetorical question, I thought, in need of no further discussion. But things have changed since then. For example, it turns out that that eyeshadow is actually a tattoo. Ouch-o-rama! And, lately, I find myself inexplicably drawn to. I dunno, Boyvor? Is that what we’d call him? The good news is that, like every will-they-won’t-they relationship in the worst sitcoms of all time, there’s no need to actually commit....

Get the Corsair MP600 Pro LPX 2TB for £200 (was £230) So why is the MP600 Pro LPX so good? Well, its sequential speeds of 7100MB/s for reads and 6800MB/s place it amongst the upper echelons of PCIe 4.0 drives, but its incredible random speeds of up to 1.0M IOPS reads and 1.2M IOPS writes also mean it’s one of the fastest drives for game loads too. Those specs should put it amongst the recently released Samsung 990 Pro and WD SN850x, or maybe half a step behind, but well ahead of SATA drives, PCIe 3....

Get the Dell S2721DGF 27-in monitor for $299 (was $449) The Dell S2721DGF caught my eye a couple years back, as it used the same Fast IPS panel as the legendary LG 27GL850 while offering a better stand, higher refresh rate and more features at a similar price. Both monitors are recommended by Digital Foundry to this day, although they haven’t been tested over here at RPS. Either way, they’re top-notch monitors that will suit a wide range of games as well as ordinary office or content creation use....

Time to enjoy your lovely joke! Q. What goes great with Cult Of The Lamb? A. Cult Of The Mint Sauce

For the past couple of days I’ve been role-playing the kind of person we all hope we’d be (but in truth probably wouldn’t be) if putsch came to shove. The kind of person willing to risk everything to resist injustice and cruelty. An individual whose first thought on encountering an old man being beaten-up by a gang of uniformed thugs would be “How can I save him?” not “Poor bastard....

We start this quest by being beamed through some sort of portal, only to arrive on the other side being told off by a stranger who’s annoyed we were inside his sacred shrine. From the sounds of it this is a mission at the very start of the game - there’s a lot of dialogue and exposition with some truly gorgeous backdrops. Actually, what am I on about? This is a time loop game, literally any point of it could be the beginning....

The Game Music Festival kicked off last night with a quartet of soundtracks from Supergiant Games, dubbed The Symphony Of Four Worlds. You can catch the show below, with the music turning up at around 22:30 with Bastion’s “Build That Wall”. Now, with the strong musical pedigree their games sport, Supergiant end up doing this live music lark fairly frequently at conventions or in their own shows. What’s interesting here, though, is the way their games soundtracks have been arranged for orchestral performance....