The Maw: what’s new in PC games this week? Mekkablood, Final Fantasy 7: Rebirth and a nice bit of snowboarding Image credit:Judatone Studios In a bid to shore up the Treehouse finances following several staff departures, I’m announcing a new line of official Maw spin-off products. Presenting: New Viscous n’ Delicious Mawflakes! The ultimate cosmic breakfast cereal, available in all the colours of the rainbow plus 666 others that aren’t fit for human eyes!...

The NYT Crossword answers for Saturday, September 20th 2025 Get a bit of help with the NYT Crossword puzzle Image credit:The New York Times This guide is for a previous day! Looking for today’s NYT Crossword guide? Check out the NYT Crossword answers for Sunday, October 19th 2025 ! Need a hint for today’s NYT Crossword on Saturday, 20th September? You’re not alone! Every single day, the NYT delivers us a whole new crossword filled with challenges, nearly extinct words, and obscure puns....

The NYT Crossword answers for Thursday, August 28th 2025 Get a bit of help with today’s NYT Crossword puzzle Image credit:The New York Times This guide is for a previous day! Looking for today’s NYT Crossword guide? Check out the NYT Crossword answers for Sunday, October 19th 2025 ! Need a hint for today’s NYT Crossword on Thursday, 28th August? We have them! All of them , in fact. And they are all nicely tucked away so you can’t see them unless you really need them....

The NYT Crossword answers for Tuesday, October 7th 2025 Get a bit of help with the NYT Crossword puzzle Image credit:The New York Times This guide is for a previous day! Looking for today’s NYT Crossword guide? Check out the NYT Crossword answers for Sunday, October 19th 2025 ! Need a hint for today’s NYT Crossword on Tuesday, 7th October? Well, you have come to the right place. The NYT’s job is to test your mettle with the daily crossword, and it’s our job to get you out of any jams you find yourself in while completing it!...

The NYT Mini Crossword answers for Friday, September 12th 2025 Your perfect companion guide to understanding and solving The Mini Image credit:The New York Times This guide is for a previous day! Looking for today’s NYT Mini Crossword guide? Check out the NYT Mini Crossword answers for Monday, September 15th 2025 ! Need a hint for today’s Mini Crossword on Friday, 12th September? Friday’s NYT Crossword is here to test your mettle, stretch your vocabulary, and possibly make you question whether “eel” or “smurf” are the answers to everything (spoiler: they’re not, but they’re close!...

The original Resident Evil 2 from 1998 comes shambling and groaning back to PC Image credit:Capcom Step this way please, fans of pre-rendered backgrounds and pixellated blood spatters. There is something waiting for you in the window of the local internet video game store, GOG.com. Resident Evil 2 , the original 1998 survival horror, is now buyable, downloadable, and yes, even playable on PC. It’s up on GOG for £9 currently, boasting “Improved cutscenes and subtitles” while also making the bonus character scenarios unlocked from the beginning....

The second RPS Christmas Cracker 2024 Get it? Image credit:RPS The fell moons rise, and in their cold glare emerges a parcel from the dirt. Bloat and gangrene, crimped as if by tourniquet. A dark promise wriggles within. Grip the fibrous handles, feel its jagged soul imprint upon your palm. Now pull! Rend the sinew, tear muscle from bone, hatch their fetid gift! The yoke draws near! Take up the slip and read the words upon its face....

The sixth RPS Christmas Cracker 2025 Boxing day laffs Image credit:Rock Paper Shotgun We eight scribes from RPS are, Bearing jokes, we wrote in the past, Christmas crackers, god we’re knackered, After twelve months of graft. But first, time to enjoy your lovely joke! Q: What do you call a cream-filled French pastry you can’t identify? A: Eclair Obscur Rock Paper Shotgun is better when you sign in Sign in and join us on our journey to discover strange and compelling PC games....

The Steam Frame is real, and Valve want it to be the last VR headset you’ll ever buy But would you? Image credit:Rock Paper Shotgun Deckard lives . Valve have officially announced the long-leaked Steam Frame virtual reality headset, and as rumoured, it is indeed a hybrid VR kit: one that can play both high-fidelity games streamed from a PC, and simpler stuff that’s installed on the headset itself. A departure, then, from the Valve Index ’s pure focus on cabled-up PC VR....

The Sunday Papers Image credit:RPS The Sunday Papers is our weekly roundup of great writing about (mostly) videogames from across the web. Sundays are for waking up in a cold sweat at 6AM. It never ends. The monkey of life will never be off your back. You’re trapped. You try to get up, and your legs don’t work. You fall down, but don’t feel anything. What hell is this, you wonder in horror....

The Witcher 3’s final patch delivering cross-platform mod support has been delayed until 2026 It was set to arrive ten years on from release, so what’s another few months Image credit:CD Projekt In May this year, despite being deep in development on The Witcher 4 and Cyberpunk 2 , CD Projekt revealed that they’d be whipping out one more patch for The Witcher 3 in honour of its tenth birthday. Said update was originally set to drop in 2025, but has now been pushed back into 2026....

This week in PC games: is Highguard a nothingburger? Plus, Winnie the Cthulhooh, Code Vein 2 and a plant-based RTS What we’re feeding the Maw Image credit:Wildlight Entertainment, Inc. Mawning all and happy new week to the sickos who celebrate the return of Monday. It’s time for another helping of cosmic despair as we slide irresistibly down the Gullet of Entropy, pawing in vain at the Tonsils of Hubris. Also, some new PC game releases....

TimeSplitters fan remake - its last hope after Free Radical’s demise - struggles amid “incredibly challenging” industry “Unless we have changes to our team composition, representation from TimeSplitters 2 and Future Perfect may be quite limited” Image credit:TimeSplitters Rewind team TimeSplitters Rewind , a fan-made remake of the zany shooters’ multiplayer in a single game, might well represent the last gasp of the beloved first-person shooter franchise following the closure of resurrected original developers Free Radical - who were working on their own TimeSplitters reboot - at the end of last year....

Total War: Warhammer 3’s developers are fighting to fix “a catastrophic failure in many of our AI systems” Look out for a patch soon Image credit:Sega All is not well in the Warhammer world. All is seldom well in the Warhammer world, of course - get off my lawn, Chaos! - but in this case, all is specifically not well with Total War: Warhammer 3 ’s non-player campaign factions. Creative Assembly are postponing more details of the delayed Tides of Torment pack while they fix what the strategy game ’s lead technical designer modestly calls “a catastrophic failure in many of our AI systems”....

Total Warhammer 3 without touching grass: unlikely allies, money troubles, and bilge rats Vampirate diaries, part II Image credit:Creative Assembly Avast, me hearty bowls of soup! Welcome back to Plundertales, a chronicling of my journey to best strategy game Total War: Warhammer 3 as vampire pirate Count Noctilus without ever touching grass. When we last saw Noctilus, he’d just received a challenge from his ancient rival Gentlemen Jenkins, crudely scrawled on the rear of a carrier pigeon (I had to google ‘do birds have buttocks?...

Turns out you have Helldivers 2 to thank for Arc Raiders moving away from a free-to-play model That, and the fact it doesn’t have a campaign Image credit:Embark Studios A few years ago, it would have been pretty easy to imagine Helldivers 2 releasing as a free-to-play game. It is a live service game after all, most of those are free-to-play because studios want to reduce the barrier to entry. Instead, it launched as a paid-for, $40 game, a far cry from free, but not the $80-$100 releases we’re seeing more and more of....

Ubisoft CEO responds to Stop Killing Games, and casually mentions a new Ghost Recon game’s coming “Nothing is eternal”, says Yves Guillemot Image credit:Ubisoft Ubisoft boss Yves Guillemot has responded to a shareholder question about the Stop Killing Games campaign - and in a very newsworthy corporate question and answer session, revealed that a new Ghost Recon game’s in the works. To quickly recap, Stop Killing Games aim to stop publishers rendering online games unplayable after the cessation of official support....

Ubisoft’s free-to-play shooter XDefiant, aka Ubisoft’s Expendables, will launch in May Clancy a game? Image credit:Ubisoft Good news, people whose day-to-day lives are woefully short on blingy Clancified squad-murdering. Ubisoft’s elusive free-to-play shooter XDefiant finally has a release date, 21st May 2024. Or at least, that’s when the preseason launches, providing six weeks of access to the modes, maps and factions from last month’s server test . The above headline comparison aside - which I think you can spin positively, given that the Expendables is actually quite a successful film franchise - XDefiant is sort of Ubisoft’s Smash Bros....

Voin is a dark fantasy hack-and-slash that handles a little like Doom Eternal Steam playtest coming on 8th March 2024 Image credit:tinyBuild If you dislike getting stabbed in the back in first-person games, you might not like Voin . If you like ravaged Gothic masonry and dramatic evening skies, you might like Voin. If you dislike fighting fireball-lobbing demons with a sword, you might not like Voin. If you like open-ended, changeable levels full of loot and secrets, you might like Voin....

WD’s Prime Day deals include their two fastest gaming SSDs, at up to $110 off Both the Black SN850X and the new Black SN8100 join the frivolities Image credit:Rock Paper Shotgun Although most of the fatter savings apply to the SN8100, the Black SN850X has been the best in its class for years now, balancing outstandingly quick game load times with a more general read/write speed advantage over similar PCIe 4....