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SpreadCheat is the most fun I’ve had in some time with a game that I completely avoided engaging with in any meaningful way. I solved every one of its simple spreadsheet puzzles by randomly clicking and dragging numbers until something worked, and I had a great time doing it. This is likely because this seems like the intended experience: Office Space your way through with minimal effort, then eat pizza with your bolshy wet wipe of a boss. Have a Steam demo.
Nvidia have released the latest in an unusually frequent series of GeForce driver hotfixes, with the vast majority of identified issues affecting the newest RTX 50 graphics cards specifically. GeForce Hotfix Display Driver version 576.26 targets various crashing and flickering problems with, among others, Black Myth: Wukong, Forza Horizon 5, and Red Dead Redemption 2 – though it’s the growing regularity of these patch jobs that’s more disquieting than any particular instance of game breakage.
A few years ago I found an old hardback tome of Solitaire rulesets on a garden wall. It was a bright, unambiguously pleasant day and I remember thinking ‘oh, that’s the wotsit that inspired those regency thingamajigs‘. So I took it home and tried my hand at a few variations, then forgot about the book entirely. After reading about Occlude, I can only wish my discovery had been more ominous, more foreboding. Why couldn’t I have found the book in a secret cellar, its hastily painted-over entrance given away by the motion of air through a dream-catcher? Why couldn’t it have been thrust upon me by a desperate man with hypnotic tattoos, pushed into my hands with a precautionary mutter to ‘Ware The Onyx Triangle?’
This is the ambience cultivated by Occlude, a “single-player cosmic horror card game for the terminally curious”, in which Solitaire is the basis for seven rituals involving Tarot cards, which steadily unlock access to an archive of fragmentary lore. Here’s a trailer.
Great news, fans of suffering in company. Elden Ring Nightreign’s PC system requirements are upon us. If you have at least 30 GB of storage, 12 GB of RAM, a processor or graphics card from approximately this decade, and some willing or easily subjugated friends to serve as co-op partners, then you too will be able to savour the experience of getting your arse chewed off by a three-faced wolf made of swords and fireballs.
I’ve always preferred building a machine piece by piece, but sometimes even I have to admit a good refurb sale is smarter. Woot’s MSI event sale, alongside Woot’s Spring gaming sale, feels like it was designed for anyone who wants real gaming hardware without paying real gaming hardware prices. Factory reconditioned means everything’s tested, backed, and a lot cheaper than pretending brand new is always better.
Amazon just dropped the best Steam Deck microSD card deal we’ve seen in two year, and I wouldn’t wait around to upgrade on this one.
Last April, Baldur’s Gate 3 developers Larian announced that they were working on two new games, neither of which is Baldur’s Gate 4. Now, fresh from the labour of pumping BG3 full of bees, Larian boss Swen Vincke has shared a little more about how Belgium’s finest mindflayer-wranglers are organising development of these mystery projects.
A long time ago in, well, this galaxy, actually, Quantic Dream announced that they were making Star Wars Eclipse, a cinematic adventure from the High Jedi era in which everybody can die. Alice Bee (RPS in peace) poured soothing oil over the flames of hype by saying it was probably going to be rubbish, citing reports of abusive working conditions. NetEase acquired Quantic Dream in 2022. Then, nothing was shown for many years. The world froze in anticipation like Han Solo doing jazz hands through carbonite.
Now, finally, some news, albeit the unofficial kind. Leaked concept artworks and pitching documents have shown off a few of the new game’s races.
Hello and good New Week to ye, traveller! And my, my – what a New Week it is. We’re taking the desperate toil of feeding the Maw to strange new places. I’ll spell that out in a separate post to come, once I’ve caught up on emails during my absence last week and in general, remembered how to do my job, but you may already notice certain sinister adjustments to the format. I welcome any feedback and wanton abuse. In the meantime, here are some new PC games.
Hello reader who is also a reader, and welcome back to Booked For The Week – our regular Sunday chat with a selection of cool industry folks about books! This column is likely slightly late today, but that’s simply because I know there’s at least one of you rapidly thumbing through the last few pages of your current book so you can share your thoughts. Laziness is, in it’s own way, the greatest form of charity. When I do it. Everyone else needs to pull their socks up. God.
This week, it’s Magic: The Gathering, Vanguard Exiles, and many, many more’s Richard Garfield! Cheers Richard! Mind if we have a nose at your bookshelf?
