NYT Connections hints and answers, Sunday Oct 19 Need some Connections hints for today? Read our guide for help with Connections #860. 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, 19th October? Brace yourselves; this Connections edition is rather difficult… Even for Connections puzzle standards. But there is hope!...

NYT Connections hints and answers, Thursday Sep 4 Need some Connections hints for today? Read our guide for help with Connections #815. 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, 4th September? Connections puzzles are no joke; you may brush up your knowledge of pop-culture and expand your vocabulary, but that still won’t guarantee a victory....

NYT Connections hints and answers, Tuesday May 27 Need some Connections hints for today? Read our guide for help with Connections #715. 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, 27th May? If you can’t solve the tricky Connections puzzle today, you’re probably not the only one....

NYT Connections hints and answers, Wednesday Jul 16 Need some Connections hints for today? Read our guide for help with Connections #765. 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, 16th July? Today’s Connections puzzle is a real brain-racker - so much that you may fear for your victory streak....

NYT Connections hints and answers, Wednesday Oct 8 Need some Connections hints for today? Read our guide for help with Connections #849. 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, 8th October? Some days you start the Connections puzzle full of hope, only to get crushed by ridiculously difficult themes....

Oblivion Remastered: How to join the Dark Brotherhood How to join the Dark Brotherhood and start killing NPCs Image credit:IGN/Bethesda Wondering how to join the Dark Brotherhood in The Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion Remastered? If you’re the wicked sort with a penchant for wetwork, there’s nothing like joining the Dark Brotherhood, Oblivion’s one and only assassination guild. Led by the mysterious Night Mother, the Dark Brotherhood provides assassination contracts on specific targets and gives you access to a variety of unique and high level items that you can’t find elsewhere....

Once Human is the centre of a storm of data privacy concerns over a policy line about collecting government ID Developers Starry Studio insist they haven’t broken the law Image credit:NetEase Following a backlash in the user reviews (the game was Mostly Negative on Steam at launch, but has since risen to Mixed) and on social media, the game’s developers Starry Studio have published a blog insisting that they harbour no dark intentions for your personal details - or at least, that they harbour intentions no darker than those of the many other developers who collect your personal information....

One-of-a-kind strategy sim Workers & Resources: Soviet Republic gets 1.0 release next month Red stars in our eyes Image credit:Hooded Horse Slovak studio 3Division’s city-building strategy sim Workers & Resources: Soviet Republic will leave early access on 20th June 2024 – a welcome blast of no-nonsense, planned-economy Soviet realism in the wake of the decadent capitalist theatrics of Summer Games Fest. Here’s a triumphal trailer with many a joyful image of high-density housing and locomotives in the snow....

Our cycling tour of PC gaming is complete, read it all here The collected Tour De Jeux Shotgun From The Archives is an ancient RPS tradition we can’t believe you’ve only just noticed. Each Wednesday, we resurface some classic RPS writing. It’s like it never left (the content management system)!. This week, it’s Alice O’s cycling tour of PC gaming. That’s 8 articles for the price of one, you lucky sherberts!...

The SteelSeries Arctis 7+ is a great cross-platform choice. SteelSeries make some of my favourite gaming headsets - and RPS’ favourite wireless gaming headset , which today is discounted to under £100 versus its normal price of £175. That’s a good price for the Arctis 7+, a comfortable and great-sounding headset that works not only on PC but also on Switch, PS4, PS5, Xbox One and Xbox Series X/S - that’s all the consoles!...

Paralives heats up the race to be the next Sims with early access release in 2025, confirms no paid DLC Shows off job system, group interactions and more in latest gameplay preview Image credit:Alex Massé After years without a new The Sims game, it seems like three are likely to land in fairly close proximity - sort of, anyway. We know that Paradox’s ambitious competitor Life By You will arrive this June (assuming no more delays ), while EA’s own free-to-play evolution of the OG life-sim series - currently codenamed Project Rene rather than The Sims 5 - is probably still a while off yet....

Petro-horror strategy game Anoxia Station makes Frostpunk look positively welcoming First demo offers powerful atmosphere and a fussy interface Image credit:Abylight Studios You know when you drop your nice, shiny pen and it rolls under your bed, and you look under there and see it winking from the depths of a stygian expanse of superannuated dust bunnies, lakes of mildew and anomalous debris that absorbs far too much light? Just me?...

PlayStation finally drop the PSN account requirement that annoyed every PC player The mandatory becomes optional Image credit:PlayStation / Naughty Dog Looks like they finally got the message. “An account for PlayStation Network will become optional for these titles on PC,” said PlayStation in a short and quiet blog post that includes the upcoming PC release for Spider-Man 2 , and The Last Of Us Part II . It’s been eight months since PlayStation provoked mass annoyance among PC players by making a PSN account mandatory to play Helldivers 2 , and later Horizon Zero Dawn Remastered ....

Raven Software’s canned games include “an ambitious new Call of Duty: Zombies live service project” Designer CV also outs mysterious unreleased sequel to a Raven Software “classic” Image credit:Activision First reported by MP1st , Raven Software lead designer Michael Gummelt mentioned a couple of cancelled projects on his Linkedin page . One was a live service version of Call Of Duty ’s zombies mode, and the other, a revival of a classic Raven IP....

Resident Evil Requiem is “like jumping into a cold bath after sitting in a hot sauna” Leon and Grace are splitting screentime to deliver the full spa experience Image credit:Capcom Have you showered yet today? No? Then maybe treat yourself to a bath if you can. It might help prepare for Resident Evil Requiem . Capcom formally confirmed last night that, as leaked , it contains Leon Kennedy. Some of their devs have now offered a bit more detail as to how it’ll feel to play as both him and co-lead Grace Ashcroft....

Rule your own, slightly socially awkward knights in the round table management RPG Sovereign Tower An imperceval task Image credit:Wild Wits You ever accidentally find out that you’re the sovereign of an entire nation as dictated by a prophecy even though you’re technically just random nobody, and so you wind-up being the one to have to make all the decisions about how your nation is run? No? Well, that’s fine, but if you’d like that to be you, I’ll introduce you to Sovereign Tower, a management RPG where you send off your knights of the round table to deal with all manner of quests....

SAG-AFTRA union reach “tentative agreement” with game companies that could end the latest voice actor strike The deal includes “necessary AI guardrails”, say union Image credit:SAG-AFTRA Video game voice actor union SAG-AFTRA say they’ve reached a “tentative agreement” with a group of games companies that could bring an end to the latest voice actor strike, providing it gets approved by the union’s National Board and members. This tentative deal “puts in place the necessary AI guardrails that defend performers’ livelihoods in the A....

Save $30 on this esports-ready keyboard, and then you’ll have one less thing to blame for your performance All play, no work. Image credit:Logitech We’ve covered a few keyboards recently , and while those are great for work and play, the Logitech G Pro X 60 is all about maximising your efforts in whichever competitive title you’re playing. Save $30 on this Logitech G PRO X 60 keyboard Image credit: Logitech Logitech G Pro X 60 Keyboard $149....

Save the world in Great God Grove by firing messages out of a news megaphone at Picasso-faced weirdos An efficient post delivery system, out later this year Image credit:LimboLane, Fellow Traveller Tropes aren’t actually bad, right? Like, I’m not actually mad that a lot of games use ’the world is ending and you have to save it’ as an inciting incident. When people complain about something being ’tropey’ I think often what they’re complaining about is that the work isn’t putting any kind of interesting spin on the tropes....

Shadow Of The Erdtree mod resets the difficulty to Elden Ring levels and gets rid of Scadutree fragments If you can’t beat ’em, normalise ’em Image credit:Rock Paper Shotgun/Bandai Namco Elden Ring ’s Shadow Of The Erdtree DLC yet hovers at Mixed in the blood-encrusted annals of the Steam user review consensus. As Nic wrote earlier in the week , a portion of the negative feedback is aimed at the expansion’s difficulty, which is certainly a Thing To Hear after years of being told by kindly gamers that I only hand out low review scores because I can’t press the buttons in the right order....