Monster Hunter Wilds: Chapter 2-1 walkthrough It’s time to visit a fiery region in Chapter 2-1 Image credit:Rock Paper Shotgun/Capcom Wondering what to do or where to go in Monster Hunter Wilds’ Chapter 2-1? It’s time to return to the Scarlet Forest now that the Downpour storm is over - and maybe catch a few new creatures along the way using your net. Chapter 2-1 featuers the discovery of an expansive new region....

More layoffs as Behaviour Interactive and CI Games “adjust scope” and make “optimisations” Some Dead By Daylight and Lords Of The Fallen devs are out the door Image credit:Behaviour Interactive About 20 years ago, a travel company declared this Monday just gone, the 15th, to be the most depressing day of the year. They call it Blue January. Enter yet more studio layoffs. 2023’s trend continues with Dead By Daylight developer Behaviour Interactive getting rid of about 45 staff, per Kotaku , while CI Games has laid off 10% of its workforce, including from Lords Of The Fallen studio Hexworks and Sniper Ghost Warrior studio Underdog (via GI....

NBA 2K26 review Pick and scroll Image credit:2K NBA 2K26 offers some on-court improvements over its predecessor, while its other new wrinkles are a bit hit and miss. Developer: Visual Concepts Publisher: 2K Games Release: September 5th 2025 On: Windows From: Steam Price: $69.99/£59.99/€69.99 Reviewed on: Intel Core i7-12700F, 16GB RAM, NVIDIA RTX 3060 Ti, Windows 11 I regularly go against my best consumer instincts and check out the yearly iterations of sports games ....

New “What is Kemuri?” video reveals much more and yet nothing about the cool co-op action game The online not-linear-but-not-open-world-either game teases more secrets Image credit:Unseen Kemuri was first revealed at The Game Awards last December, a co-op parkour action game where you fight yokai and look cool from the creative and art director for Ghostwire: Tokyo , Ikumi Nakamura. The team at Unseen have done a seven minute video where talk a little bit about the content and vibes of the game, basically by just listing cool stuff....

New Sims 4 update adds glass walls, and I hope your virtual humans throw stones at you from their see-through prisons Do you really want their neighbours to see all the horrible stuff you do to them? Image credit:EA/Maxis Look, EA and Maxis, did you really have to do this? The Sims 4 ’s virtual humans, who’ve long been able to take solace in the fact that random virtual people in the street couldn’t see absolutely everything their despotic overlords force them to do indoors, no longer have that privilege....

Nioh 3: How to find and beat the Bloodedge Demon How to find the direction of the Revenant’s malice, and defeat its secret boss Image credit:Rock Paper Shotgun/Koei Tecmo Want to find and defeat the Bloodedge Demon in Nioh 3? One of the most notorious optional enemies in Nioh 3 is the Bloodedge Demon, a manifestation of evil energy whose location is randomised. The Bloodedge Demon only appears if you continuously summon and defeat Revenants and then manage to track their dispersed malice energy to a spot on the map which varies depending on which stretch of Nioh 3 you’re playing through....

NYT Connections hint and answers (Sunday, April 14) Need a hint for today’s Connections? Read our guide for help with Connections #308 Image credit:Rock Paper Shotgun/NYT This guide is for a previous day! Looking for today’s solution? Check out the Connections hint for Wednesday 11th February ! Want a hint for Connections today? Piggybacking off the monumental success of daily puzzle game Wordle , the New York Times has another fantastically popular word game out now....

NYT Connections hint and answers (Wednesday, March 13) Need a hint for Connections? Read our guide for help with Connections #276 Image credit:Rock Paper Shotgun/NYT This guide is for a previous day! Looking for today’s solution? Check out the Connections hint for Wednesday 11th February ! Want a hint for Connections today? Piggybacking off the monumental success of daily puzzle game Wordle , the New York Times has another fantastically popular word game out now....

NYT Connections hints and answers, Friday Mar 7 Need some Connections hints for today? Read our guide for help with Connections #634. 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 Friday, 7th March? We’re not sure why the NYT is making your Connections puzzle so difficult today, but we are sure we can help you out....

NYT Connections hints and answers, Friday Sep 12 Need some Connections hints for today? Read our guide for help with Connections #823. 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 Friday, 12th September? Whenever you’re facing a tough challenge, help will be waiting for you right here. It’s nice when your brain just makes an instant connection between four of the sixteen words in a Connections puzzle, but that can’t happen every day, can it?...

NYT Connections hints and answers, Sunday Jul 13 Need some Connections hints for today? Read our guide for help with Connections #762. 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 Sunday, 13th July? If there seems to be a disconnect between today’s Connections words, you can probably use some tips....

NYT Connections hints and answers, Thursday Aug 14 Need some Connections hints for today? Read our guide for help with Connections #794. 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 Thursday, 14th August? The links between the 16 Connections words can be quite obscure, but don’t worry if you can’t see the solution just yet....

NYT Connections hints and answers, Thursday May 29 Need some Connections hints for today? Read our guide for help with Connections #717. 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 Thursday, 29th May? The wordy Connections riddles are easy in theory, but hard in practice. Without any help, it would be impossible to solve every puzzle....

NYT Connections hints and answers, Wednesday Dec 3 Need some Connections hints for today? Read our guide for help with Connections #905. 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 Wednesday, 3rd December? There’s another deviously difficult Connections puzzle on your plate, but let’s wait a moment before we succumb to puzzle-induced despair, because a few hints and tips may still secure a victory for you....

NYT Connections hints and answers, Wednesday May 28 Need some Connections hints for today? Read our guide for help with Connections #716. 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 Wednesday, 28th May? If you find yourself switching words from one tentative Connections theme to another without much success, perhaps it’s time for some help....

Open betas are more “marketing tool” than “actual test” for bugs, says GTFO developer Which is why Den Of Wolves won’t have one Image credit:10 Chambers Den Of Wolves developers 10 Chambers have Thoughts about open betas, and whether they are genuinely designed to test for technical difficulties or are simply there to boost pre-orders. That’s in addition to a grab bag of new details about the forthcoming meatpunk shooter ’s missions and possible map fixtures such as in-game augmented reality devices....

Pizza Hero is Vampire Survivors with toppings as upgrades, and it’s free on Steam for a limited time Also there’s a dog Image credit:Astro Hound As a quick glance at my Papa John’s account will tell you, I’ve enough of an addictive personality that I’ve consciously avoided Vampire Survivors and its -likes, in the fear that the carefully balanced professionalisation of my dedicated goblin lifestyle will tip over the edge. As such, I don’t have enough experience to tell you whether the currently free Pizza Hero is an especially interesting or innovative riff on the formula....

Play viral Tetris with Winnie the Pooh’s horrible guts in this not very Disneyfied turn-based roguelite Out now in early access Image credit:Twice Different Back in 2022 , Winnie The Pooh entered the public domain in the USA, meaning that any denizen of that nation can publish work featuring the OG incarnation of A.A. Milne’s honey-supping woodland bear (the UK copyright expires in 2027). At some point in the future, once the newly founded Poohlike genre has matured, we can surely expect a renaissance of Winnie derivatives, ranging from erasure Pooh-ems through josei anime interpretations to Kaufman-ass Hundred Acre existentialism....

PowerWash Simulator 2 devs tell us their tips for real life house cleaning “Do you have a badly stained coffee mug?” Image credit:Futurlab “Do they have any tips for how to get water stains off a plastic shower floor? I’ve tried everything,” was Graham’s pitch for a question to ask PowerWash Simulator 2 devs FuturLab following the reveal event a few weeks back. They’re busy game development professionals, Graham, not your personal stain assistants....

Prince Of Persia: The Lost Crown review: move over Hollow Knight Royal jubilee Image credit:Rock Paper Shotgun/Ubisoft Developer: Ubisoft Montpellier Publisher: Ubisoft Release: January 18th 2024 On: Windows From: Epic Games Store , Ubisoft Connect Price: £45/€50/$50 Reviewed on: Intel Core i9-11900K, 16GB RAM, Nvidia RTX 3080, Windows 10 As Prince Of Persia subtitles go, The Lost Crown is certainly an evocative one. It conjures up images of forgotten pasts being rediscovered, of wrongs being righted, and power being restored to its rightful balance....