Marathon’s playtest wasn’t great for Bungie, but Arc Raiders’ design director says it was a “great A/B test” for them At least someone got something out of it Image credit:Embark Studios There should have been two major extraction shooters launching in the last quarter of this year. One of them is Arc Raiders , which is in fact coming out later this month. The other is Marathon , which, well, you know ....

Mindwave is a punky, relentless and completely hypnotic Warioware Wahnderful Image credit:HoloHammer Please excuse the eyeball jelly. I’ve just got done tearing my face away from the screen it was attached to by the glitter and amphetamine-infused superglue secreted by Mindwave ’s minigame barrage. The current Steam demo is a generous slice of a wonderful thing its developers describe as a “cerebral microgame frenzy”. It’s the sort of thing you play for five minutes before realising, not unpleasantly, that you are most definitely inside of it now....

Minecraft is getting a visual overhaul you probably don’t need because of all of those mods you’ve got installed At least you can uninstall them when it drops Image credit:Mojang Minecraft is the best-selling game of all time, but it’s looked pretty much the same for the entirety of its almost 14 year run. There’s an argument to be made that it’s showing its age in places, an argument I won’t make because I don’t think so myself, but all the same, as revealed during today’s Minecraft Live, Mojang announced that the sandbox game is getting a pretty big visual overhaul update called Vibrant Visuals....

Monster Hunter Wilds: Chapter 4-2 walkthrough The Hunter Rank grind begins in Chapter 4-2! Image credit:Rock Paper Shotgun/Capcom Do you need tips for increasing your Hunter Rank quicker in Monster Hunter Wilds’ Chapter 4-2? Get ready for the grind using our walkthrough suggestions to level up faster while taking on challenging hunts. Before you can advance the story you’ll need to reach a certain Hunter Rank. This becomes a recurring objective in the following chapters....

Monster Hunter Wilds: How to beat Nerscylla Learn the Nerscylla’s weaknesses, drop list, and more Image credit:Rock Paper Shotgun/Capcom Need tips on how to beat the Nerscylla in Monster Hunter Wilds? The Nerscylla is a huge spider with a tough outer shell and annoying status effects. Get ready to fight off pesky webs, Poison, and Sleep while tackling this arachnid, who first emerged in Monster Hunter 4 and has always been troublesome over the years....

Multiplayer stealing sim Thick As Thieves lets you leave snide calling cards when you beat people to the loot Here’s what I’d write on mine Image credit:Megabit Publishing While prowling the ramparts of this year’s Summer Game Fest, I rode a zipline to a broken attic window and snuck into a sealed chamber containing Thick As Thieves , the unofficial multiplayer Thief game from Otherside Entertainment. Also in the sealed chamber: celebrated Looking Glass dude and Deus Exman Warren Spector, who walked us through a hands-off demo of the PvPvE heisting sim....

Nightingale: early access, trailer, story, and more Everything you need to know ahead of Nightingale’s release date Image credit:Inflexion Games What is Nightingale, and when is it coming out? As you’ll know if you read through our compendium of our most anticipated games of 2024 , Nightingale is the game I’m most excited to play this year. It’s a gaslamp fantasy survival crafting game by Inflexion Games, which tasks players with traversing an endless network of Fae realms, gathering resources, building bases, battling wonderfully - horrifically - designed creatures, and more....

No More Robot’s new cruise ship management sim is hella bleak, despite the input of former Overcooked 2 devs At least the Flying Dutchman didn’t have a bingo hall Image credit:No More Robots Whenever I find myself growing grim about the mouth, whenever it is a damp, drizzly October in my soul, I account it high time to get to sea as soon as I can. Specifically, I dream of cruise liners....

NYT Connections hint and answers (Saturday, June 1) Need a hint for today’s Connections? Read our guide for help with Connections #356 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 (Thursday, February 1) Need a hint for Connections? Read our guide for help with Connections #235 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 for Fri, December 6th Need some Connections hints today? Read our guide for help with Connections #543. 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 ! Looking for a hint to help with today’s Connections puzzle on 6th December? Read on; we’ve got all the Connections tips you could ever need....

NYT Connections hints and answers, Monday Sep 22 Need some Connections hints for today? Read our guide for help with Connections #833. 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 Monday, 22nd September? There may seem to be a disconnect between today’s Connections words, but hope is not yet lost....

NYT Connections hints and answers, Thursday Aug 28 Need some Connections hints for today? Read our guide for help with Connections #808. 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, 28th August? ‘Just find at least three themes and the Connections puzzle shall be complete’ - that’s easier said than done!...

NYT Connections hints and answers, Thursday Dec 18 Need some Connections hints for today? Read our guide for help with Connections #920. 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, 18th December? It’s impossible to make sense of the Connections word soup every day, all by yourself, as they’re way too devilishly difficult for that....

NYT Connections hints and answers, Thursday Feb 20 Need some Connections hints for today? Read our guide for help with Connections #619. 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, 20th February? One tricky theme and it’s all over… Or not, if you’ve got this Connections guide to help you out....

NYT Connections hints and answers, Tuesday Aug 19 Need some Connections hints for today? Read our guide for help with Connections #799. 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, 19th August? Play Connections puzzles, they said… Well, after solving a great many theme-guessers, it’s safe to conclude that these puzzles are hard ....

One of PC gaming’s key RAM manufacturers aren’t selling to regular humans anymore, so they can peddle more kit to AI companies RAMnarök continues as Micron shut down Crucial Image credit:Rock Paper Shotgun The ongoing chaos in RAM production , with mass shortages jacking up street prices to are-you-joking levels, now has a major manufacturer casualty. Micron have announced the end of Crucial, their consumer brand for PC memory and SSDs – and likely a familiar name to gaming PC builders who’ve been hooking up their storage drives and slotting in their RAM sticks for decades....

One year on from Citizen Sleeper 2, I’m tempted back into its world with a physical release of its TTRPG spin-off Wake up, Spindlejack Image credit:Lost in Cult Crafting a world that begs to be explored is a tricky thing to do, especially when the world is kind of sucky, doubly so when it’s woven mostly through words with only supplementary imagery to provide a broader context. Yet Citizen Sleeper’s is one I’m often thinking about because amongst all the grand sci-fi concepts is a grounded sense of reality that you’ll always find in the best of the cyberpunk genre....

Only toilets will save you from the monsters in Labyrinth of Wild Abyss I’ll uh pass Image credit:Cannibal Interactive From developers Cannibal Interactive, the creators of Purgatory Dungeoneer, springs forth a new labyrinth game. This one is called Labyrinth of Wild Abyss: LayeRedux and it has labyrinths. Except the labyrinths don’t just have single paths to their centres, but tube monsters covered in eyes who’ll stalk you slowly and methodically as you meander....

Overwatch 2 Season 10 will unlock all current heroes and make future additions free Alongside changes to Mythic skins, earning coins, and maps Image credit:Blizzard Entertainment In what’s quite the shake up for Overwatch 2 , Blizzard have announced that starting with Season 10, all of its heroes will be unlocked for all players. And this includes all new heroes going forwards, too, so the next hero Venture will unlock immediately for everyone when the latest season drops....