Two of Destiny 2‘s most clearly overpowered items, the Recluse submachine gun and the Titan class’s One-Eyed Mask, will get long-overdue balance tweaks next season. As a player who owns and has used both: man, to hell with them. Recluse and OEM are powerful enough that in many situations you’re doing yourself a disservice if you don’t use them, they’re frustrating to play against, and they reduce build variety. They’re destructive forces. I might still use both post-nerf, but I’ll be glad to see their reigns end.

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It must be daunting, making a first person puzzle game about messing with physics. Do I even need to name the shadow looming over this whole genre?

Superliminal is a short, linear showcase of puzzles built around the creative use of perspective. You’re a volunteer, testing an experimental sleep therapy based on inducing dreams you can muck about in. Gentle, soothing jazz plinkles away in a series of rooms you must navigate by resizing objects, but there’s no embiggening gun or shrink ray here. You change the size of things by picking them up, then looking and moving around until they appear differently from your new position.

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Roman and Joyce always have a jigsaw puzzle on the go. Their current undertaking is a montage of book illustrations sliced into 10k pieces by one of Rooksburger s slightly blunt punching machines. Below are 36 pieces from that puzzle. Identify all the books to complete the defox. (more…)

The awesome destructive might and continent-shrinking mobility of a WW2 army came with strings. While an antique army could fragment at will and locust everything it needed from the countryside it passed through, its 1939-45 equivalent was an essentially indivisible organism, a tangle of dangerous tentacles emanating from a cumbersome organ-clump of vital support staff, equipment, and stores. The unmissable Unity of Command 2 recognises this with a set of mechanisms that are masterpieces of abstraction, and in doing so, breathes new life into operations ludologised countless times before.

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While I’ve stopped flying and am too dim for sims, goodness me Microsoft Flight Simulator still makes me coo and gasp in awe of planes. They’re like birds, but made of metal! Powered by science rather than magic! And their guts aren’t full of stones and digestive acids so you can go inside! Truly magnificent. My mooning continued last night with a new trailer for the upcoming pilot sim, which also revealed some of the planes and manufacturers who’ve signed up. These include the Boeing 747, I plane I am told is known as “the queen of the sky” for reasons I would rather not know.

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Dust off that beige robe, reader. Jedi: Fallen Order came out overnight, and you don’t need to pop off to a galaxy far, far away to jump in. The folks behind bangers like Titanfall 2 and Apex Legends have put together the first proper singleplayer Star Wars romp in years, letting you blast fascists through a beautifully complex star system as a sword-slinging, force-flinging slice of white bread. At least the robot’s cute, eh?

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The year is 2049.

My avatar, managing Tottenham Hotspur, is 67. Harry Redknapp is long dead. Chris Smalling is my assistant manager.

Now, as I finally wind down my Football Manager 2012 playthrough through an unholy combination of bugs and, well, having won everything, the future beckons. I m having an existential crisis and the line between real and fictional is melting.

But let s start at the beginning.

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Black Desert Online developers Pearl Abyss are in the process of branching out of their MMO roots, having announced a clutch of new games this week. But while they might be working on games as far removed as a shooter and a cutesy monster catch em up, it s Black Desert s battle royale-esque spinoff Shadow Arena that s furthest through development. I got my hands on it at G-Star in Korea, and talked to lead producer Kwang Sam Kim about how it takes as much inspiration from Tekken as it does Playerunknown s Battlegrounds.

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The Outer Worlds weapons are pretty darn complex. They may give you a tonne of scope for choice and customisation, but each weapon has many more associated stats than we’re used to seeing in games such as this – and that’s not even taking into account weapon type buffs, damage types, special effects, mods, and each of the many other elements that may affect your time with a particular gun.

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Star Wars Jedi: Fallen Order is out today, letting you follow in the roguish bootprints of young force punter Cal Kestis, played here by Archie of Archie comics. In celebration of his boyish padawan appearance, and the way he uses a deadly weapon like you d use a torch app with dodgy permissions to find your keys, let s make a list. A list of the least qualified Jedi (and Sith) in PC games.

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