Survival crafting game The Planet Crafter released into 1.0 this week, ending several years in early access with a big patch that added a multiplayer online co-op mode for up to 10 players, a huge change for the previously singleplayer experience of landing on, surviving, and terraforming a desolate alien world.

The release also includes three new biomes to explore on the terraforming alien world, and new animals to introduce to the environment that are quite different from anything in The Planet Crafter so far—mostly because they are pretty dang big.



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There’s a hint for today’s Wordle waiting below, as well as some easily digested general tips and the answer for the April 13 (1029) puzzle. However you want to play the game, we can help you make the most of it.

I can see I did well today. I found plenty of green letters nice and early, and they quickly led me to the one word I needed. And because there were always so many alternatives to choose from, I never quite lost that horrible feeling that I’d run out of rows before I ran out of words to put in them, even when I was one letter away from winning. 

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Wordle today: A hint for Saturday, April 13



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It’s despairingly common to hear about game studios closing lately, but I don’t think I’ve ever heard a studio owner blame their company’s closure on leaked information that has yet to be made public. That’s what happened today when every employee at Possibility Space, a relatively young studio whose first game hadn’t yet been revealed, was suddenly laid off.

Employees received news of Possibility Space’s closure “in a nice surprise morning email” today, according to a former senior environment artist at the studio. 



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If you’ve ever seen the 1971 cult-classic film Vanishing Point, Heading Out will be almost immediately familiar: It’s a stylish “narrative-adventure driving game” inspired by great road flicks of the past that puts players behind the wheel of a mighty muscle car and on the run from the police and the ever-present fear that’s never far behind.

Despite its look, Heading Out isn’t just a driving game. Running the open road is obviously a big part of it, but the story matters too. Each leg of your journey will take you through encounters with locals and cops, impromptu races, and radio station interludes, before ending in a town or city where you’ll gas up, stock up, get some sleep, and have some brief adventures before heading back out to the highway. 



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It’s been in the works for years. It’s been wishlisted by millions of Steam gamers. It’s finally out on April 26th. And now the full system requirements for Manor Lords, everyone’s most wanted city-building smorgasbord, have been released. And, huzzah, they’re mostly very modest indeed.

For minimum support, publisher Hooded Horse says antediluvian CPUs starting with the Intel Core i5 4670 and AMD FX 4350 will do. Yup, that’s an AMD Bulldozer chip in the minimum specs list for a new 2024 PC title.



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The R-36 Eruptor is a hell of a democracy spreader. 

Available in Helldivers 2’s new Democratic Detonation Warbond, the Erputor is a primary weapon that fires “jet-assisted shells” which explode on impact, and can destroy fabricators, bug nests, gunships, tanks, and other vehicles and structures. Basically, it packs the power of a support weapon stratagem like the Anti-Materiel Rifle, but in a primary gun.



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The sound of a crunching floppy disk drive may well be the soundtrack to a large part of my misspent youth. Please insert disk four of five. Oh you’ve lost it? No games for you, little Andy. No games for you.

Putting my childhood trauma aside for a moment, it turns out that floppy disks may not be quite as dead as we thought. Incredibly, San Francisco’s Municipal Transportation Agency is still reliant on three 5.25-inch floppies to load the software required to run the central servers for its Muni Metro light rail line each morning, which in turn controls the system that allows trains to run in automatic mode while in the subway system. (via Ars Technica). Totally reasonable, that.



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Turn today’s Wordle around in an instant with our help. Click straight through to today’s answer if you like—it’s ready and waiting to save your game if you need it. Or if you’d just like some idea of where to aim your guesses, take a look at a fresh clue for the April 11 (1027) game instead.

By my second go, I was looking at pretty much a full row—of yellow letters. Luckily for me, I had one green to go with them, and that meant I was able to sail through today’s Wordle quite quickly. I think I’ve had such an easy time of things this week (so far…), I almost wouldn’t mind a real hair-pulling challenge tomorrow.  

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Wordle today: A hint for Thursday, April 11



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Sky: Children of the Light is definitely an MMO, with other players constantly around you as you explore, but figuring out how to make friends in Sky isn’t all that well explained. Like Thatgamecompany’s prior game Journey, Sky takes a somewhat minimalist, anonymized approach to multiplayer and friendship online. 

The important thing to know is that you’ll need to unlock the ability to interact with each friend you make, which is part of the “dual consent” multiplayer system that TGC’s creative director Jenova Chen says is critical to designing a non-toxic online space. Here’s what you need to know about finding your existing friends and adding new ones in Sky.

How to add a friend in Sky

How to add a friend you already know

  • Open Sky’s menu and navigate to the “Friends” screen
  • Choose “one-time Friend code” and pick a nickname then either scan the QR code or copy the text code on screen and send to your friend
  • If receiving a one-time friend code, go the the “Sky codes” section of the menu to enter it

Adding a friend from your Steam friends list does not appear to be possible at launch on PC, but Steam friends integration is mentioned as part of Sky’s early access plans and will likely be added later. 

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How to add a friend that you’ve met in-game

  • Press F (X on gamepad) to open the interactions menu with a nearby player
  • Spend one candle to offer friendship to that player
  • If accepted, set a nickname for your friend
  • You now have access to the tree of unlockable friendship abilities with that player


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We can speculate about why there are a lot of horror games nowadays, versus barely none at all about 10 years ago. Maybe horror games are less expensive to make and thus more viable for smaller developers, especially when the unheimlich effect of early 3D graphics is so suited to the genre, not to mention the benefits that darkness and repetitive labyrinthine interiors may have on smaller development budgets. Maybe it’s an unconscious push back against the brash, saccharine vibe of most popular contemporary videogames; if the Fortnite-ification of everything sets your teeth on edge, maybe an unrelentingly violent game about psychopathic nuns will act as salve. OR: maybe people are just generally more messed up in the 2020s, and love to watch horrible things and be scared. 

I like to speculate but I don’t know why there’s nearly a dozen new horror games on Steam every week, not counting the extremely low-effort entries. But I do know that Withering Rooms enters a crowded indie horror market. And despite ticking a lot of horror cliche boxes, it manages to be interesting all the same. It’s set in an ailing Victorian-era mansion which has devolved from coal baron’s home to cholera hospital to mental asylum. I reckon horror games don’t always need to be set in filthy old mansions, but I may be in the minority. 



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