Barone announced the Stardew Cup today over on Twitter, calling it “a competition of skill, knowledge, and teamwork” which he says will star “some of Stardew’s most dedicated players in their element.” Barone has put up $40,000 (almost £30,000) in cash prizes himself as rewards for winners. The event is being run and co-hosted by livestreamer Zach “UnsurpassableZ” Hartman, who gives an additional breakdown on how the competition will actually work down here in this video....

ConcernedApe has a habit of being pretty quiet between updates, at least on Twitter. He’ll pop up every several months to dole out a nice little teaser like this one to show off something in the works for the next update. It looks like Willy’s fish shop on the beach pier has a new back door. Where might it lead? Other locals in Pelican Town have bedrooms in their houses....

Starfield is making a return to what Howard calls “classic Bethesda style dialogue”. Comparing the game with other Bethesda RPGs, Howard said Starfield has passed 250,000 recorded lines of dialogue, which is more than twice the amount in Fallout 4 and more than four times Skyrim’s chatting total. We got to see some of Starfield’s points-based persuasion system in action, where your character has a set number of turns and persuasion points to plonk down for their speech choices....

The sale runs from today until January 5th at 10 am PT/1pm ET/6pm GMT over at the Steam store. From a glance at the Steam homepage: Sony’s cinematic hack-and-slasher God Of War is 40% off, as is Square Enix throwback tactical RPG Triangle Strategy, while modern indie greats like Unpacking and Noita are 30% and 50% off respectively. Even the already-cheap Vampire Survivors manages a 20% discount, reducing its price to £3....

Get the SteelSeries Arctis Nova 7 The Nova 7 is essentially the new design that debuted with the Arctis Nova and Arctis Nova Pro (fun fact - the headset that’s around my neck right now!), sans the control boxes that provide easy volume adjustment, connection to two sources and convenient recharging for the wireless model. That means you instead get a simple USB-C dongle to insert into your PC (a full-size USB-A adapter is also included), but the headset also works on PS4, PS5, Switch and many mobile devices with a USB or USB-C port....

TFT’s third set, Galaxies, hit the League auto-battler earlier this week with Patch 10.6. But while the eponymous world-hopping “Galaxies” mechanic won’t hit for another two weeks or so (according to Riot Mort’s notice on Twitter), there is at least one new dimension entering Riot’s wizard-chess arena. It’s mobile! Y’know, that tiny pocket-PC you might be reading this article on. Did you know they can play games these days? After two days in a limited closed beta, Teamfight Tactics launched today on iPhone and Android devices worldwide - save for China and Southeast Asia....

Casey Jones is a cool lad vigilante who carries all his weapons (mostly different kinds of sports stick) in a golf bag on his back, which makes him a pretty versatile fighter, and a very good boy. He’s an unlockable character, mind, so you don’t get him from the jump. The six-player co-op, meanwhile, looks absolutely bonkers. I really like the art style of Shredder’s Revenge - love a bit of nice pixelart, me - but that is a lot going on at once on a small screen....

For all its merits, grappling is normally a frantic affair. Stepping away from combat means soaring into unchallenged air, with the patience and the freedom to make hurtling through the skies look gentle. He fires one shot in the whole thing, and it’s fittingly lackadaisical. There’s a bit where he lands perfectly on a crane that I found myself nodding at, like a gentleman in a posh club. Same for the long bumslide montage....

Years in the making (the first version came out in 2014), the HD Project truly is astonishing. The two-person team have gone through and redone every texture in the game, remade many models, tweaked lighting, fixed some texture and model bugs which were present even in the official HD version, and re-added features removed by ports across the years. Many ‘HD’ mods make similar efforts, but this has an impressive devotion to following the game’s original stylisation, still all grungy and oversharp....

This guide will show you how to create the best Barbara build in Genshin Impact. Below we’ll cover everything you need to know about Barbara, including wishing, weapons, artifacts, ascension materials, talents, abilities, and constellations. How to build Barbara as your healer in Genshin Impact Best weapon: Prototype Amber Alternatives: Thrilling Tales of Dragon Slayers, Favonius Codex Barbara’s best when equipped with the easily craftable Prototype Amber, which helps shorten her lengthy cooldown times and even comes with a healing bonus....

It’s very easy to use a Minecraft seed to create a new world. To do so, first launch Minecraft. Then from the main menu, click Singleplayer, then Create New World, and then More World Options. Enter your chosen Minecraft seed into the black text box, and then click Create New World. Simple! Now comes the fun part: choosing which cool Minecraft seeds you want to explore in your latest 1....

That’s not to say there isn’t room for improvement; between Gearbox’s Homeworld Remastered Collection and a fresh wave of interest in the upcoming sequel, modders have been returning to their old stomping grounds. While the engines of space-war haven’t yet hit fever pitch, let’s take a peek at what modders have done so far with the remaster. As with most modern releases, installing mods for Homeworld Remastered is easy, and further simplified if you have the Steam version....

Perks in Modern Warfare 2 are divided into three slots or categories: Basic, Bonus, and Ultimate. We’ll go over our recommendations for each of these slots below, along with our opinions on the overall best perks in Call Of Duty: Modern Warfare 2. Many of the perks in Call Of Duty: Modern Warfare 2 will be familiar to players of previous COD games, but there is a key difference in how perks work this time around....

Repentance expands Isaac again with new items, playable characters (including one that’s actually two character), floors, enemies, bosses, room layouts, achievements, and challenges, an art style tweaked to be a bit closer to Flash Isaac, and a new final boss with a new ending. And presumably some secrets. It’s made with some of the folks behind the huge mod Antibirth, and many of its additions are based on that, though loads is new too....

Fear not. Below, we’ll walk you through the very best places to go to find lots of Smart Mesh in a short space of time. Seeing as it’s such a useful material, we’ve also listed all the possible items and pieces of gear you can craft using Smart Mesh. Where to find Smart Mesh in The Cycle: Frontier Smart Mesh is an important gateway material into the mid-game of The Cycle: Frontier....

It’s also a much better way of letting me know what the hell your game’s about, mind. Back in March, Janerka posted a short comic on Twitter regarding an embarrassing moment regarding his nipples and a mailman. It “did numbers”, so to speak, so the dev tried what everyone does when a Tweet goes viral and tried to ride that wave with a link to his new game. Unfortunately, it turns out nips don’t sell games, and less than 100 people ended up wishlisting his irreverent fantasy romp through the tweet....

I’m not tainted by nostalgia, and I enjoyed myself too. It’s pretty good! It makes me miss The Showdown Effect. It’s quite bare-bones, at the moment. There’s an endless survival mode and team-based capture the flag, but the AI is so easy to walk over that it’s only really worth bothering with the first one. The best part is the “Superman” button, which lets you zoom through the air horizontally....

GOG started a wee pre-Black Friday sale earlier this week, and now the main thing is on. Hit GOG for the Black Friday bonanza with thousands of discounts. Games which caught my eye include: A Plague Tale: Innocence - £8.79 (74% off) Control + DLC - £10.49 (70% off) Cyberpunk 2077 - £24.99 (49% off) Death’s Door - £12.59 (25% off) Deus Ex - £0.69 (86% off) [nice -ed.] Deus Ex: Human Revolution Director’s Cut - £1....

The lumbering forms of Elden Ring’s trolls disguise an ancient melancholy. Turned traitors in the war between demigods and giants, their reward for loyalty to the Golden Lineage was an eternity in shackles, used as frontline fodder in bloody conflicts or beasts of burden hauling funereal carriages around the Lands Between. Since learning their history, I often muse sadly upon it, as I weave between their horribly gnarled legs in my freshly tarnished underwear and hoover up the shiny objects scattered underneath their feet....

I’m not going to get into the phrase Play With Life, because by itself that’s a fairly brilliant bit of meaningless ad nonsense like the “No games, just sports” from What Women Want, or Lucky Strike’s famous “It’s toasted!” (which was a real thing and not just a scene in Mad Men). But the updated Sims website is a confusing mix of things. Like, I don’t know who this is for....