NYT Connections hints and answers, Tuesday Jul 8 Need some Connections hints for today? Read our guide for help with Connections #757. Image credit:Rock Paper Shotgun/NYT This guide is for a previous day! Looking for today’s? Check out the Connections hint for Wednesday 11th February ! Need a hint for today’s Connections on Tuesday, 8th July? Even the sharpest minds struggle with Connections puzzles from time to time, especially when they require trivia knowledge outside their fields of interest....

Oh yes, I will take a look at the Vampire the Masquerade and Indian folklore inspired RPG Rakshasa, thanks Go on then! Image credit:Odd Compass Studio Every once in a while, a game rocks up that so quickly finds itself in my Steam wishlist I don’t even remember clicking the button. Today, that game is Rakshasa, Vampire the Masquerade: Bloodlines and Baldur’s Gate inspired first-person RPG set in modern India where you must face off against demi-gods and “centuries-old flesh-eating monsters” inspired by Indian folklore....

Once Upon a Katamari will have you rolling up the annals of history, and it’s coming to PC Gizza push Image credit:Bandai Namco Punishing my tendency to never bother watching Nintendo Directs, Bandai Namco used today’s Switch 2-focused showcase to announce Once Upon a Katamari : the first mainline, non-remake Katamari game since 2011. It’ll be out on PC as well, come October 24th 2025, and while you’ll once again be rolling up entire societies around a swelling sticky ball, this one will span a range of time periods - so you’ll be able to knead whole new planets out of feudal Japan or ancient Greece....

One of the most influential Japanese visual novels ever made gets a PC Steam remaster this week It must be Fate Image credit:Aniplex Inc This week sees the release of a new Steam edition of Type-Moon and Kinoko Nasu’s dark fantasy visual novel and dating sim Fate Stay/Night. I randomly watched one of Stay/Night’s many anime spin-offs, Fate Zero, during the pandemic lockdowns. It triggered a short-lived obsession with the Fate series - I even dipped a toe in the long-lived mobile gacha game Fate/Grand Order....

Oops, Battlefield 6 features revealed by leaked Battlefield Labs footage Classes, spawn select camera and destruction shown Image credit:Electronic Arts A bunch of playtester footage for the next, modern-day-set Battlefield game has slipped past EA’s non-disclosure agreements and erupted all over social media. The footage stems from the company’s Battlefield Labs community testing program , and consists of multiple consecutive minutes of burly shootyfolks running down alleyways through showers of grit, firing very briefly at enemy troopers, and getting themselves bullet-bonked back to the lobby screen....

Our favourite videogame vapourware: No Silksong Allowed Edition I am the god of development hellfire Image credit:Team Cherry Vapourware! We all say we despise it, but everybody loves thinking about games that spend an eternity in limbo, whether due to chronic mismanagement or simply because the developers feel no need to rush. So many teasers to unravel , so many conspiracies to bake from the most ludicrous of breadcrumbs , so much delicious exasperation to wallow in as yet another year goes by without a new trailer....

Palworld: Best Pals for Gathering Here are our picks for the best Gathering Pals in Palworld Image credit:Rock Paper Shotgun/Pocketpair Want to know which Pals in Palworld are best at Gathering? Gathering is one of the most important and self-explanatory Work Suitability skills in Palworld , measuring how fast your Pals are at harvesting crops from Berry, Wheat, and other Plantations. It’s always a relief to never run out of crops and to return to your base after a lengthy adventure to find that your Pals have been dutifully Gathering all the time you were gone....

Piracy, preservation, and the devs who don’t mind if you have to pirate their game The founder of the Video Game History Foundation and the devs of Slay The Princess on the place piracy has today Image credit:Black Tabby “Most of videogame history is alive and well due to the ability to pirate old video games,” Frank Cifaldi, founder of the Video Game History Foundation , tells me over a call....

Players voted for some of the worst choices possible in the Steam Awards Were the votes ironic? The player-voted Steam Awards have reached their conclusion, and the results are about as weird as the nominees . In fact, I’d go so far as to say that the weirdest game possible won in several categories, such as Red Dead Redemption 2 for the Labor Of Love award and Starfield for “Most Innovative Gameplay”....

Pokémon-with-guns game Palworld is so popular its servers are struggling to keep up Shifts a million copies in eight hours Image credit:Pocketpair Palworld was obviously destined for success the moment a million games journalists and Twitter users wrote “Pokémon with machine guns” . (Acceptable alternate nicknames include “Eevees with uzis” and “Abras who’ll stab-ya”.) Having finally launched into Early Access on Steam and Game Pass this week, that prophecy has rung true as the monster-catching survival game has caught (ha, ha) so many players that its servers are struggling to handle the load....

Possible GTA 6 parody websites hint at in-game activities, including buying tackle from Hookers Galore and posting creepy corndogs Tackle as in cod, not codpiece. Corndog as in dick. Image credit:Rockstar Games GTA 6 will feature a bunch of in-game websites with real-world URLs, going by various domain registrations spotted by an active and efficient dataminer. The site URLs offer potential clues about the businesses and organisations you might patronise, during your time in Vice City....

Praise the yak, thanks to Elden Ring’s latest update you can finally summon Torrent during the final bossfight The latest patch also brings new hair, inventory and summoning tweaks, and various balance changes Image credit:Bandai Namco We’re less than a day now from Shadow Of The Erdtree ’s launch, and as promised, FromSoft have just released the latest patch (notes here ) for the open world game . It’s only 6GB, and you’ll need it to play the expansion, so do click that button if you haven’t already....

S.T.A.L.K.E.R. 2’s first patch is coming next week, though my favourite parts are still the imperfections Finally, some British representation Image credit:Rock Paper Shotgun/GSC Game World Stalker 2: Heart Of Chornobyl has been in the wild for almost a week now, and it’s a great, if predictably somewhat shonky time, is the word on the street. Literally, that’s what the streets are saying. “It’s good! A bit shonky, though!” opined my postman this morning, enunciating each syllable by yanking the package further from my grasp....

Screenshot Saturday Mondays: A dashing wizard and a grasping church I go on Twitter so you don’t have to Image credit:Jacob Potterfield Every weekend, indie devs show off current work on Twitter’s #screenshotsaturday tag. And every Monday, I bring you a selection of these snaps and clips. This week, my eye has been caught by high-speed platforming, a creative use of your own corpse, a contribution to the yellow paint discourse, and more....

Shadows Of Doubt emerges from the wet alleyway of early access with 1.0 release next month Pinned to the board Image credit:Rock Paper Shotgun / Fireshine Games In Shadows Of Doubt you can fall from the roof of a corporate office building during a routine investigation, shatter all the bones in your frail detective body, wake up in a clinic fully healed, and then sprint out the door without paying your sky-high hospital bills while the clinic’s auto-turret shoots at you for doing a medical dine and dash....

Space Engineers 2 early access review: a solid and solitary box of building blocks - yet not much else Sturdy foundations Image credit:Rock Paper Shotgun / Keen Software House Developer: Keen Software House Publisher: Keen Software House Release: Jan 27th, 2025 On: Windows From: Steam Price: £25/$30/€29 Reviewed on: Intel Core-i7-11700F, 16GB RAM, Nvidia GeForce RTX 3060, Windows 10 It’s easy to feel pride when you’re flying through space at 1000 metres per second....

Square Enix’s baffling murder mystery social game Killer Inn gets a quick, free-for-all playtest ahead of its release next week A chance to see if this thing stands one Image credit:Square Enix In a few months time we’ll be approaching the anniversary of Square Enix realising that actually, their commitment to releasing certain games only on particular platforms isn’t that good for them after all . These following two years will supposedly have been a time of internal change for the studio, with that translated externally via the Final Fantasy 7 Remake games releasing on more than just PlayStation....

Stardew Valley mini-update adds pet adoption, fixes moss issues arising from the 1.6 mega-update ConcernedApe may never stop updating this game Image credit:ConcernedApe Stardew Valley , one of our favourite RPGs despite coming out almost a decade ago, still has an attentive steward in the form of developer Eric Barone. After the recent 1.6 mega-update to the game, which added a whole bunch of stuff, Barone (better known in his developer form as ConcernedApe) Xeeted out a list of fixes in the now-available 1....

Steam Deck Joel avenged: The Last of Us Part II Remastered nails handheld play Performance, settings, and battery life tested Image credit:Rock Paper Shotgun Image credit:Rock Paper Shotgun Steam Deck Academy brings together all our guides and explainers on getting the most out of your Steam Deck, no student loans or sweaty dormitories required. I should have been more specific when I said I didn’t want developers to make distinct Steam Deck ‘versions’ of their games: while locking settings, console-style, isn’t an ideal solution to ensuring capable performance on underpowered handhelds, offering the option of full Deck optimisation is very much welcome....

Streamer raising funds for cancer care loses $32,000 to Steam game malware thanks to “appalling levels of vetting” BlockBlasters allegedly beats Valve’s security Image credit:Genesis Interactive / Rock Paper Shotgun This week, a streamer attempting to raise money for their own cancer treatment instead lost $32,000 to malware added to a new Steam game after release. The Steam game, BlockBlasters, has now been yanked from sale, and the malware distributors reportedly identified and confronted by free-roaming cybersecurity nerds....