James Cunningham

Eden Crafters is a first-person automation game that's easily described as a cross between Planet Crafters and Satisfactory.

From disco balls to grown-up party bags, we reveal the best ways to throw a successful soiree

Some battles are always going to end in defeat no matter how much effort goes into fighting back. The enemy is unlimited and vicious, and the closest thing to victory is surviving another minute against overwhelming odds. The monsters just keep coming, slowly but relentlessly getting meaner over time, and while each new upgrade puts the odds a little closer to even again there's no winning a war of endless attrition. That doesn't mean the journey down to inevitable defeat can't be a good time, though.

Whether you throw endless deaths at the problem or scrape by with a sliver of health, there's a way through every challenge Void Sols has to offer.

Hard as it may be to believe, PS Vita games are now over a decade old. Time is harsh and unforgiving as the years fall off like a cheesy movie calendar effect. Somehow a little arcade game that was released initially for the Vita, Don't Die Mr Robot, has cleared its ten-year anniversary, and while in that time it received PS4, Switch, and PC versions with the DX treatment, those are still from a while back. Annual sequels were always tiresome (even a stone-cold classic like We <3 Katamari felt a little too soon back when it was released) so a gap between new games is appreciated, but a decade is a long time to wait for the December 3 Steam release of 3D Don't Die Mr Robot.

As advice goes, "don't die" isn't all that great. Yeah, I'll get right on that avoidance of total failure, thanks. Still, it's the one thing Mr. Robot needs to do, but also in most cases the one inevitable result of the situation he finds himself in. The thumping techno beat and disco dance-floor levels may give the vibe of a killer nightclub, but it's one populated by wandering spike-balls, missiles, homing-bots, laser-guards, giant ambling brutes, and for some reason, lots of exploding fruit. Mr Robot has a damage tolerance of zero, with one single hit being all it takes to put him down, but despite this while lasers and spikes are instant death, a good explosion doesn't phase him in the slightest.

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Steady-state is a nice idea but it rarely works out in practice. Fortunes change for better or worse, and while everyone likes to think eternal growth is attainable it's at the mercy of forces people really don't like to think of being outside their control. When the mechanic Morgan returns to her home town to stay with her aunt she finds the region in decline, with derelict machinery everywhere and businesses just barely hanging on. Aunt Ilonka's rocket project is sealed shut and she won't talk about it, and while the townsfolk are cheery enough it's clear there's a pall hanging over the place. Cute, vibrant, and cozy are all very well and good, but without some serious inspiration backed up by hard work there's no avoiding that the town is in a death spiral. If only an energetic and helpful mechanic was available to fix everything. If only...

There's a lot to be said about space, but one of the biggest things to keep in mind is that it's completely unforgiving. Space isn't by any means hostile, of course, in the same way air isn't hostile to fish; it's not a fish's environment, so if very specific precautions aren't taken then the results are a lifespan measured in seconds. Take that seriously (while throwing in sci-fi ideas like artificial gravity) and people can survive in space, but otherwise it's probably a terrible idea. Still, space is where everything is, with riches far beyond anything that one lone, comfortable planet could ever provide, so while the losses may be potentially huge, the gains can be even bigger. This works out great for the corporations, but maybe not so much for the workers caught up in the occasional disaster.

Infrastructure has become a favored asset class in recent years given its outperformance in high-volatility periods like 2022 and its overall ability to provide alpha, yield, an inflation hedge, and a cushion against economic shocks. Our research suggests that private infrastructure: