The Canadian studio announced last week that following trials of the four-day week on two of their projects, they’ll take the whole studio to four days in April. They say they gave it a go after asking staff for ideas to help keep people at the studio, and this idea proved popular. They’re also planning to offer “extreme work location flexibility”, which sounds wikkid sikk. “Without our crew we are nothing....

So, a free House Flipper update has added those iconic domiciles, though scaled down a fair bit presumably because the game would suffer a catastrophic buffer if it attempted to sell them for the vast, many-zeroed number that such real estate would actually sell for in New York City. But they feel right to me, walking around these spaces felt the way they should feel as real homes rather than studio sets....

As I wind up doing in every class-based game, I’ve picked a character I like and now not playing them feels wrong. That character is Omen, and he is a sneaky teleporting bastard. The best kind. These are, if you’ll forgive some masturbatory horn-tooting, damn fine sneaks. I start by using Omen’s ultimate ability, which is a teleport that lets me appear anywhere on the map. It takes a while and alerts everyone in a large radius of the destination, though, so I need to be careful....

Read on for everything you need to know to unlock the Rapp H LMG, including details of how it interacts with MW2’s new weapon platform system. How to unlock the Rapp H in Modern Warfare 2 In order to unlock the Rapp H, you’ll need to complete the following steps: Once you’ve unlocked the Rapp H, be sure to check out our best Rapp H loadout guide to learn about its best possible set-up....

Unlocking the S0-14 requires you to work through one of MW2’s new weapon platforms, which can be a little confusing. Read on below for a clear explanation of everything you need to do to get your hands on the S0-14. How to unlock the S0-14 in Modern Warfare 2 To unlock the S0-14 in Modern Warfare 2, you need to progress the EBR-14 to Level 12. The EBR-14 is a marksman rifle rather than a battle rifle, and is the base gun for the Ordnance weapon platform....

Just look at this beast, honestly. That’s 49 inches of curved, ultrawide VA panel being beamed directly at your face holes. With a 5120x1440 resolution running at 240Hz, it’s going to take some serious graphical horsepower to get the most of this ludicrous display. As you can imagine, this hefty screen comes with an equally hefty price tag, but this is also the time of hefty discounts and as such you can save £280 on this monstrous monitor....

DeSalle has an autumnal theme, and is set across a “decayed urban sprawl” including a prison, church, bank and a saloon, alongside industrial and farming regions. Crytek also say it’s more vertical than their other, swampier maps, allowing players to climb areas to reach higher ground. Its inclusion on the test server brings the total map count of Hunt: Shodown up to three. That doesn’t sound like many, but each of its environments is large and varied....

As I mentioned before, I’m old and use a mousepad with a wrist rest. Two months ago, I was telling you my current pad was beginning to die. I have done nothing to replace or remedy it since. Death is well underway. The skin has peeled back, revealing a delicate layer of subcutaneous tissue which then split right in the wrist rest’s cleft. The pad clings to life but the wound festers and it will not survive....

Luckily, all my hobbies are things that do give me a sense of control. I had the presence of mind to bring my plant (James Plant) home from the office, so I have re-potted him into a much bigger home with more root space. I have made most of the cat and a third of the rainbow for my rainbow barf cat scarf. And I am playing lots of video games....

Hit GOG’s front page and scroll down to the giveaway banner to claim your free copy. The handout ends at 2pm on Christmas Day but it’ll be yours for keepsies. Based on a short story by Harlan Ellison (far shorter than the game), IHNMAIMS is as grim as you might expect from a story about a computer expressing its hatred of humanity. AM (formerly Allied Mastercomputer, now a declaration of existence) has five of you trapped to torture forever, warping the bodies and minds of the last remnants of humanity and putting them through horrible scenarios....

Released in September 2021, Sable is an open-world game about a young woman’s rite of passage to pick her future career. I was impressed by the writing captures Sable’s anxiety and the care, caution, and celebration of her clanfolk. So building a hoverbike, she sets out to explore the world and herself. It’s a striking world, with a look inspired by French artist Mœbius. It’s a interesting world too, a desert pricked with technomagical temples, ancient devices, vast skeletons, abandoned towns, and crashed spaceships....

Last week, several high-ranking members of Lab Zero accused Zaimont of controlling, abusive, and sexual behaviour. They publicly announced their resignations as they made allegations, saying the board had asked him to leave but he wouldn’t. Some also claimed he’d said people who didn’t support him should quit by August 31st. A number of high-ranking people did leave, including the former CEO and creative director, though to be clear: not all made or supported accusations....

A Highland Story stars Moira McKinnon, a teenager who lives with her mum deep in the Highlands and has never seen the sea. So when her uncle invites her to visit his lighthouse for the solstice, she sets out adventuring on foot. It’s a dramatic reaction to the state of bus routes in the Highlands, but I can’t say it’s wholly unjustified. Inkle first showed a wee bit of the game in 2020 but didn’t have a name and were vague on what it was....

I’ve been looking forward to the launch of Intel’s Xe GPUs ever since we got our first glimpse of them at CES 2020. Back then, it was Intel’s DG1 prototype that took centre stage, and today’s initial crop of Iris Xe graphics cards are based off that very same design. Outwardly, they look quite different from Intel’s first prototype. So far, two models have been confirmed: the one shown up top there, which has been made by Asus, and another altogether bluer version pictured below made by Colorful....

A new 15-minute video from its developers talks about the challenges of simulating interstellar travel - from the engine changes required to support such vast scale, to the reasons for even wanting to. “To me the most compelling reason to make KSP2 interstellar was to create unknown regions for exploration,” says Nate Simpson, the game’s Creative Director. “The Kerbolar system is a known quantity. We can’t think of anything more exciting than the unknown, and we think discovery as an impetus for flight is maybe the strongest possible driving force....

It’s Thursday, and that means new free games on the Epic Store. Between now and February 20th there are two quite fight-y games up for grabs. The first is Kingdom Come: Deliverance, a rare medieval RPG that focuses more on historical stuff rather than the fantastical. Next up is Aztez, a side-scrolling brawler set in Aztec times when the only colours they had were red, white and black. Released in 2018, Kingdom Come: Deliverance is an open-world game set in Bohemia in the year 1403....

Naturally, you can take some Michael Bay-esque shots of postman Sam jumping away from explosions, jumping off of cliffs, and other such things that seem totally against company health and hazard policy. At a glance, it reminds me of Horizon Zero Dawn’s photo mode with a similar interface and options. Here’s some options wot you can spot in the video if you’re willing to squint past the Twitter compression:...

“Revisit the ruins of Eg-Lana, following the discovery of survivors from a tribe believed to be extinct,” the devs say. “Exiled from Eg-Lana for lacking the required intelligence, the 4th Children have broken the seal to unleash an invincible power.” As an exuberant idiot myself, yeah, I can totally imagine smashing a seal which locked away a terrible force. I bet it would make a good noise when I broke it....

It’s a game where you’re a jack of all trades, with each small job being a mini-simulation. You’ll balance bricks on a wheelbarrow, mix concrete, and lay foundations. Every nail needs stuck, every tile placed. You’ll even need to order (or steal) the supplies. Take a look at the video below, in which the player has to fix some brickwork. Every step is accounted for. When he needs a trowel to flatten down the cement, he has to take the bus into town to buy it....

Riot say that Viego the Ruined King, a jungler champion, is the first of the lot coming later this month. They’ve also revealed his set of abilities and he sounds, as I suppose royalty are wont to be, pretty possessive. Viego’s “Sovereign’s Domination” ability temporarily controls an enemy champion that he’s helped kill, giving him access to their items and abilities. He’s also got a camouflaging Black Mist that you can spot in the flashy cinematic that Riot released to herald his arrival....