The powerful Nydak Alpha is probably the third-most dangerous foe you’ll encounter in the treacherous and hostile ruins of Dathomir in Star Wars Jedi: Fallen Order. And that’s pretty damn higher up the pecking order, believe you me. The King of Nydaks must be handled with extreme caution, lest he batter you into oblivion with his powerful clawed arms. Our Star Wars Jedi: Fallen Order Nydak Alpha boss fight guide will walk you through how to defeat this dangerous foe.

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When I first clapped eyes on the new Endgame Gear XM1, I thought I’d accidentally picked up my trusty Logitech G Pro Wireless again. Aside from the obvious wire sticking out of the XM1, both gaming mice have smooth, lightweight shells that fill the palm and sit close to the ground, and both have two small black side buttons that feel nigh-on identical in shape and size under the thumb. They even weigh practically the same amount, too, with the XM1 coming in just a gram heavier than the Logitech’s featherweight 69g. Is it worth considering as a cheaper, wired version of my best gaming mouse champion? Here’s wot I think.

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Counter-Strike: Global Offensive has never been all that interested in world-building. It’s an esport: the pro players are the real characters, inhabiting faceless Terrorists and Counter-Terrorists in high stakes matches where every bullet counts. Operation Shattered Web mixes things up, bringing a host of new player skins with CS:GO’s first-ever battle pass. Now, you can stride through time-worn battlefields as a gruff n’ tough special-force veteran or notorious global criminal of your choosing.

Unless you want to be a woman. There’s only one of those.

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For good and janky ill, Freeman: Guerrilla Warfare hews very close to the design TaleWorlds came up with in Mount & Blade well over a decade ago. It puts you in a fictional modern land of warring factions, free to wander about on an overland map with a few dozen towns, lots of armies and bandits and so on. You can do what you like but really it’s just a framework for lots of pitched battles as you hire and direct a band of soldiers to fire their guns at whoever you feel like.

But that’s not important. What’s important is that unlike M&B, it lets you manually equip all of your lackeys. And you can make them look cool as hell. Wars are not won on the battlefield. They are won in the wardrobe.

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Goodness me, Valve actually are making a new Half-Life game. Following the weekend’s leaky rumours of Half-Life: Alyx, Valve have confirmed yup, it actually is real. They actually are making a new Half-Life, and it actually is for VR. They call Half-Life: Alyx “our flagship VR game” but aren’t saying much of anything about what it is until an unveiling on Thursday.

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I love the smell of technology bringing people together in the morning. Not in that hollow, Zuckerberguian sense: I’m talking about VR communities where deaf and hearing people hang out and learn VR-adapted sign language. The tech isn’t perfect, but it’s more than enough to prop up some bridges. You can see them for yourself, thanks to YouTuber and VR documentary maker “Syrmor”.

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We all know the type: that vain old Sith who just loves to walk around bare-chested so he can show off his Sith’d up pecks, and hurling rocks with the Force just because he can. Taron Malicos is my pick for the most enjoyable boss fight in all of Star Wars Jedi: Fallen Order, and it’s not just because I managed to defeat him extremely cleanly on just my second attempt at Jedi Master difficulty. Our Star Wars Jedi: Fallen Order Taron Malicos boss fight guide will walk you through this dangerous dual-wielding Sith’s many attacks, and how to gain the upper hand in this epic duel of the fates.

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Click here if you have Steam. What’s downloading is a true space oddity. Spacewar! was one of the first multiplayer games ever made. It was made before we landed on the moon, in 1962, and it ran on the PDP-1, MIT’s supercomputer.

It’s a space shooter with two ships firing at each other. There’s a black hole in the middle, adding some gravitational trouble to the game. It s very basic, but it s also one of the most played games on Steam. It started out as an example for developers using Steam’s SDK, but it has ended up with a far more nefarious purpose.

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Dragon Quest might be over three decades old, but you wouldn’t know it looking at Steam. In all that time, only one mainline entry in the cult JRPG series has hit PC. That’s not about to change anytime soon. Fortunately, Square Enix have announced that peculiar spin-off Dragon Quest Builders 2 will arrive on PC in just under a month. As a multiplayer, voxel-bashing open-world sandbox, Builders is a real odd’un, taking a hint of Minecraft to create something that’s as much a traditional hack n’ slash as it is a creative toolbox.

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The Xbox Adaptive Controller is a lovely thing. Last year, Microsoft aimed to make gaming more accessible by providing a handy little rectangle with two huge buttons and dozens of slots for plugging in new input options. The idea was, you’d mix and match new input options to create a customised controller playable by anyone, regardless of physical requirements.

Finding those inputs, however, could be an expensive hassle. This week, Logitech aimed to make rounding out the XAC more affordable and accessible by releasing their own Adaptive Gaming Kit – an all-in-one set of 12 buttons and triggers of various sizes and sensitivities to plug into the Adaptive Controller.

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