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The absolute worst thing in Aliens: Dark Descent isn't an alien, but the timeline in the top-right of the screen - or as I like to call it, Satan's Fast Forward Button. In this scrappy but compelling top-down tactics adaptation from Battlefleet Gothic: Armada developer Tindalos Interactive, you lead up to four Colonial Marines around labyrinths of corridors, flaming wreckage and sealed rooms, completing missions of the "activate the generator" variety while fending off - or preferably, avoiding - xenomorphs of all sizes and degrees of canonicity.

Has Microsoft ruled out an upgraded version of the Xbox Series X console as a mid-generation upgrade for the existing line-up of consoles? According to an interview with Bloomberg, Xbox chief Phil Spencer doesn't 'feel an imperative' to deliver a more powerful machine, saying 'right now, we're set on the hardware we have'.

The $1099 Innocn 48Q1V ticks a lot of boxes for me. It's a 4K OLED PC monitor with DisplayPort and HDMI 2.1 inputs, a matte finish and a refresh rate that tops out at 138Hz - oh, and it's gigantic at 48 inches. As a fan of OLED technology in the living room, I was eager to adopt one as a PC monitor - and find out if I could use it like a regular LCD without worrying about burn-in. One month in, I've got some preliminary results to share.

The New York Times has responded to the comparisons between its new game Connections and BBC quiz show Only Connect.

A new duplication glitch has been discovered in Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom which can fill up your wallet very quickly, depending on how fast you can press the A button.

Final Fantasy 16 will have a day one update to address a small variety of issues, but will not be required to play the game.

Henry Cavill has praised his co-stars on The Witcher, complimenting their work bringing characters to life that could otherwise have been "oversimplified".

Final Fantasy 16 will include a New Game Plus mode, Square Enix has confirmed.

Chad Stahelski, director of the upcoming Ghost of Tsushima film adaptation, has stated he is looking for ways to "leave [the film] open to expand further from there".

You've got to love flatscreen to VR modders. They continue to keep PC VR alive and kicking by working tirelessly to produce epic VR conversions of some of gaming's greats, and it's all seemingly done in their own time for little to no financial reward. Aside from maybe the occasional Patreon subscription that is.

Here's a question for all you armchair General Pattons and Joan of Arcs: has a tactics or strategy game ever made you jump? I've been thinking about this a lot while playing Tindalos Interactive's promising movie adaptation Aliens: Dark Descent, out next week on console and PC, in which you guide a quartet of gung-ho yet fragile troopers around xeno-infested bases, tracking down survivors and trying not to wake the full wrath of the Hive.

Some Final Fantasy players have revealed they plan to boycott Final Fantasy 16 due to the development team's "continuously questionable response" to the lack of diversity in the game.

Nvidia's RTX 4060 is coming at the end of the month - and as a result, it seems that price-cutting in the entry level graphics card market is absolute carnage at the moment, to the point where we've even seen the potent RTX 3060 Ti available at sub-£300 prices. Meanwhile, the RTX 3060 - the world's most popular GPU, according to the Steam Hardware Survey - is now available for well under £300/$300, pricing on Intel's Arc A750 can deliver some preposterously good value, while last-gen AMD RDNA 2 cards are so cheap, it's causing problems for the new RDNA 3-powered RX 7600.

Pre-orders are now open for Sony's Marvel's Spider-Man 2, and both the Digital Deluxe and the Collector's Edition include extra skill points.

Blizzard has revealed that the "significant majority" of players have yet to complete Diablo 4.

The Callisto Protocol's "final chapter", Final Transmission, will release later this month.

Team Deathmatch is on the way to Valorant.

Halo developer 343 Industries has acknowledged that Halo Infinite "struggled" to provide a "consistent pipeline of new content for players", saying it needs to "start showing more noteworthy improvements" when it comes to the shooter's "technical and experiential quality".

I'd never normally start with a definition, but I gather "jusant" translates as "ebb", the movement of the tide out to sea. And this is where Jusant's Steam demo begins. What manner of post-apocalypse is this? It's a dry one. The water has gone, we walk over sun-baked earth whose smoothness suggests that it was once far below the ocean, and there's more to climb here because there's less liquid moving around to cover it all up.

Viking survival game Valheim now has difficulty options, so you can make the experience a little easier - or more difficult, if you prefer.

A demo for space hospital game Galacticare will be released next week as part of Steam Next Fest.

Diablo first hit PCs more than 25 years ago, and it has since become one of those rare franchises that just doesn't seem to get old. While there's a level of consistency across the various series entries, what really sets Diablo 4 apart is the fact that it was a multi-platform release on day one, and given how PC ports have fared lately, it would not be unreasonable to be wary of its quality. The happy news is that it's not difficult to run Diablo 4 across a range of PC hardware with excellent results - but there's a caveat to that: to achieve parity with PS5 in texture quality, a 16GB graphics card is required.

Flintlock: The Siege of Dawn will now launch in 2024, Ashen developer A44 Games has said.

You can thank (or blame) Telltale Games for the mainstream rise of the choice-driven adventure game. That's not to say games like The Walking Dead brought some unseen revolution in video game storytelling. Story-driven games defined by user choice go back decades, the mechanics were present in many Western RPGs, and that's without starting a discussion on the history of visual novels. But it did cause a wider gaming population to embrace the idea, leading to a mainstream shift in storytelling to player agency that still continues to evolve today.

If Lies of P wasn't already Bloodborne enough for you, then modding team Garden of Eyes has you covered.

One of my favourite paintings is Cucumber House, a watercolour - I think - by Eric Ravilious. It's an airy study in quiet. To me, it always feels like a day off school. We're inside some kind of greenhouse and various plants are growing. Glass slants overhead and there's a sense of careful order, of something lovingly tended, to the layout, the tables, the leaves and shoots. Cucumber House was painted in 1935, and I don't see the thirties as an enormously quiet decade. Ravilious himself would be killed in the war that was already starting to rumble. And yet: breathe in, breathe out. I really do love this painting.

Xbox has no immediate plans to shutter Redfall developer Arkane, after the studio's latest launch failed to find much of a positive critical or commercial reception.

Twitch has introduced a new Partner Plus programme with a higher revenue split, but its qualification criteria means most streamers will miss out.

The film studio behind the Super Mario Bros. Movie has moved to shut down reports it is making a Legend of Zelda film next.

Hello! Welcome back to our regular feature where we write a little bit about some of the games we've found ourselves playing over the last few days. This time: looting, toasters, and ancient memories of spiders.