The NYT Crossword answers for Thursday, October 16th 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 Thursday, 16th October? You are not alone! The NYT Crossword is a big challenge, and it comes around every day, too!...

The RPS Selection Box: Jeremy’s bonus games of the year 2024 Hauntings and dragons and whips Image credit:RPS 2024 was my first full year at RPS, and as a guides writer, it was a year packed with the sort of games that make you roll your sleeves up, wipe sweat from your brow, and stare up at the sky from the trenches, ruminating on what life is like when you aren’t dealing with back-to-back Soulslikes interspersed with gacha games that feature incomprehensible lootbox mechanics....

The Sims movie in the works from Barbie’s Margot Robbie and director of Loki and The Last of Us Season 2 EA will apparently have a “creative” involvement with the big-screen take on their hit life-sim There’s a The Sims movie in the works, and it’s already signed up some major star-power in the form of Margot ‘Barbie’ Robbie’s production company and the director behind Marvel show Loki and the upcoming second season of The Last of Us ....

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 realising that it’s been years since you looked behind your wardrobe. You gently lean the unwieldy thing away from the wall, centuries worth of grey-faced dust kings cursing at you as they’re unseated from the thrones upon which they’ve stocially squatted since the last great cleansing....

The Witcher 3’s REDkit mod tools launch May 21st, enabling a new era of ambitious overhauls Someone will stick Hatsune Miku in it, and why not you Image credit:Rock Paper Shotgun/CD Projekt Red After a month or so of testing, The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt ’s offiical mod tools REDkit will launch on May 21st. It’ll make it easier for players to make new quests, items, weapons and so on for the nearly nine-year-old RPG....

This Radeon RX 9070 XT is under $1,500 at Walmart right now - a $400 saving A great price for the power on offer. Image credit:iBuyPower If you’re looking for a solid PC build but don’t want to spend a fortune , you could do a lot worse than this iBuyPower option at Walmart. It’s a $1899.99 machine, reduced to $1,499 , meaning you’re saving $400 while still getting a fantastic gaming rig....

This week in PC games: a MGS3 remake, new Blumhouse horror and some freshly peeled spaceships What we’re feeding the Maw Image credit:Blumhouse Games Well, it happened again: the Maw devoured a Monday. My recent, highly suspicious news article about a sudden “bank holiday” was, of course, a hasty PR smokescreen to avert a stock market crash. In Horace’s name, we have now forced the Maw to sick up the missing Monday, but locating the gag reflex of a cosmic monster has its risks, and there have been a few casualties....

Tomb Raider and Perfect Dark devs Crystal Dynamics cut staff, promising that current projects are unaffected 17 people let go, including a senior combat designer Tomb Raider, Soul Reaver and Perfect Dark developers Crystal Dynamics are laying off 17 “talented team members” in order “to better align our current business needs and the studio’s future success”. According to a social media statement , they “did not take this decision lightly”. Oh, and “this change does not alter our current project plans....

Total War Warhammer 3 teases new content this month, and a hotfix ensures goblins will now get dismembered correctly A tremendous relief Image credit:Sega Back in June, strategy bods Creative Assembly put out a chunky , chatty video discussing the next expansion for Total War: Warhammer 3 . Aside from a not-so-subtle hint that the orcs, ogres, and Khorne pack would feature at least one colossal squig, it also ended with a tease at smaller bits of new content coming alongside regular patches....

Unity make another round of job cuts as CEO acknowledges “exhaustion associated with prior changes” Leaked memo touts greater focus on “fidelity for ubiquity”, live service and generative AI Image credit:Unity Game engine company Unity are making yet another round of job cuts across various departments, from software development to advertising. They’ve yet to specify how many people have been affected - according to a leaked memo from Unity CEO Matthew Bromberg, those concerned will be notified today - but several Unity employees have confirmed that they’re now looking for work on LinkedIn, amongst them senior technical artist Peter Roe and senior software developer Coline Turquin ....

Untitled Boxing Game codes (February 2026) Punch your way to success with these codes Image credit:drowningsome Looking for Untitled Boxing Game codes for free spins, cash, or emotes? In Roblox ’s Untitled Boxing Game, you’ll live out your boxing dreams in fast-paced fights. As you brawl against other players, you’ll spin for new fighting styles, work your way through quests to earn new titles, and earn new knockdowns, gloves, and entrances to show off in the ring....

Valve rewrite Steam’s GenAI disclosure rules to more explicitly allow AI-powered “efficiency” tools Though robo-generated game content must still be declared Image credit:Rock Paper Shotgun/Valve Valve have reportedly rewritten Steam’s AI disclosure form, essentially a declaration of a game’s generative AI usage that developers and publishers must complete to sell on the platform. The new form, shared by consultant Simon Carless , now specifies that while the presence of in-game GenAI content must still be divulged, including on the game’s store page, the usage of AI-based production tools for “efficiency gains” does not require disclosure....

What’s on your bookshelf: Nyamakop and Relooted’s Marcia Shange read-only Image credit:oldbookillustrations.com Booked For The Week is our irregular chat with industry folk about the books they love, have loved, and are hoping to love in the future Hello reader who is also a reader! It’s finally time for another edition of our thrillingly erratic column on game developers and their bestest books. This week, we’re having our ears bent by Marcia Shange, chief operating officer of South Africa, Johannesburg-based developers Nyamakop, creators of puzzle platformer Semblance and the forthcoming postcolonial heist ’em up Relooted ....

What’s on your bookshelf: Santa Maw read-only Image credit:oldbookillustrations.com Booked For The Week is our (notionally) weekly chat with industry folk about the books they love, have loved, and are hoping to love in the future He’s making a list, he’s checking it twice, he’s checking it thrice, he’s checking it four times, he’s checking it five times, he’s checking it Six times, he’s checking it Six times, he’s checking it Six times… Hello reader who is also a reader....

What’s on your bookshelf?: why have you put pumpkin spice in my grandfather’s ashes edition read-only Image credit:oldbookillustrations.com Hello reader who is also a reader, and welcome back to Booked For The Week - our regular Sunday chat with a selection of cool industry folks about books! Once again, the dastardly autumn breezes have blown my schedule all out of whack, so no cool industry person this week. Instead, here is a short excerpt from another weird story I starting writing, also containing poultry for some reason....

Where Winds Meet’s PC performance Wing Chuns itself with technical and presentational problems Whoops-xia Image credit:Rock Paper Shotgun/NetEase Games Not for the first time , there’s a new, wuxia-inspired RPG whose technical fortitude shatters faster than a bandit’s teeth. A few hours into the F2P, bear-brawling Where Winds Meet , it does at least seem to be arriving on Western PCs (it’s been out in China for nearly a year) in better overall shape than Wuchang: Fallen Feathers did....

Winter Burrow is a survival game inspired by Over the Garden Wall that’s as comfy as a pair of mouse-skin slippers Out on PC today Image credit:Pine Creek Games A mouse cannot live on adorable visual aesthetics alone, but Winter Burrow is definitely handsome enough to get me through to lunchtime. In this just-released survival game from Danish developers Pine Creek Games, you play a rodent who has returned from the Rodent Big City to fix up their old treestump home....

Wordle hints and answer (#1014): How to solve the Friday March 29 Wordle Stuck on today’s Wordle word for March 29? Read our hint or find the answer below! Image credit:Rock Paper Shotgun This guide is for a previous day! Looking for today’s solution? Check out the Wordle hint and answer for Wednesday 11th February ! Need a hint for today’s Wordle answer? Wordle is an addicting but challenging test of word acumen....

Wordle hints and answer (#1044): How to solve the Sunday April 28 Wordle Stuck on today’s Wordle word for April 28? Read our hint or find the answer below! Image credit:Rock Paper Shotgun This guide is for a previous day! Looking for today’s solution? Check out the Wordle hint and answer for Wednesday 11th February ! Need a hint for today’s Wordle answer? Buckle up for a selection of clues to help you keep your streak intact....

Wordle hints and answer (#1082): How to solve the Wednesday June 5 Wordle Stuck on today’s Wordle word for June 5? Read our hint or find the answer below! Image credit:Rock Paper Shotgun This guide is for a previous day! Looking for today’s solution? Check out the Wordle hint and answer for Wednesday 11th February ! Need a hint for today’s Wordle answer? Wordle is an addicting but challenging test of word acumen....