The NYT Crossword answers for Saturday, September 27th 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 Saturday, 27th September? We get it! The NYT Crossword is a massive daily challenge....

The NYT Mini Crossword answers for Monday, September 15th 2025 Your perfect companion guide to understanding and solving The Mini Image credit:The New York Times Need a hint for today’s Mini Crossword on Monday, 15th September? It’s the start of a brand new week and what better way to kick it off than with a nice little brain teaser? And when it comes to brain teasers, NYT has the best....

The Outer Worlds 2: All 5 Mural locations All murals needed to complete The Pursuit of the Partite Pentaptych Image credit:Rock Paper Shotgun/Obsidian Looking for all Murals to complete The Pursuit of the Partite Pentaptych in The Outer Worlds 2? When you reach the second major hub of The Outer Worlds 2 , Golden Ridge, you’ll find yourself in an Art Deco-inspired tram station. These tram stations are scattered throughout Golden Ridge, and each contains a Mural....

The Outer Worlds and Thief are free from Epic next week April 4th-11th Head over to the Epic Games Store on April 4th and you’ll be able to grab The Outer Worlds : Spacer’s Choice Edition and Thief (2014) for free and to keep forever. Like a thief! Spacer’s Choice Edition includes Obsidian’s first-person scifi RPG The Outer Worlds alongside two DLC packs, Peril on Gorgon and Murder On Eridanos. The base game normally costs £50, and the Spacer’s Choice upgrade initially cost £10, so as far as Epic freebies go this is a big one....

The RPS Selection Box: James’ bonus games of the year 2025 Space, snaps, and stolen identities Image credit:Rock Paper Shotgun/Behaviour Interactive Inc./Keepsake Games/Annapurna Interactive RPS Advent Calendar voting remains an esoteric and mercurial process, even to those of us who practice in it. If two games get the same amount of votes, which goes higher in the list? Did Deep Rock Galactic: Survivor technically release in 2025 or 2024? These are questions most of us dare not ask, and those that do often vanish mysteriously overnight....

The Samsung Odyssey G5 just fell below $300, but we reckon it’ll drop further Time to play the waiting game. Image credit:Samsung No sooner had I hit publish on a lovely (and very cheap) deal for an Acer monitor , than I spotted the Samsung Odyssey G5 Ultrawide had seen a discount of its own . As I always say, 34 inches feels like the sweet spot ( sigh ) for ultrawide in my opinion, and this model offers just about everything you could want....

The Sims 4 has added vitiligo in a free update New ways for Sims to represent more of the world Image credit:EA A new update for The Sims 4 has added options to give characters vitiligo, the autoimmune disorder which causes patches of skin to lose pigmentation. Rather than a handful of preset full-body patterns, The Sims 4’s vitiligo impressively comes as loads of patterns for separate bodyparts, so you can create a wide range of effects....

The Steam Deck LCD is 20% off, and I’m still not buying one because it’s crap for RTS Valve slashes the 256GB version price for Black Friday Image credit:Rock Paper Shotgun The original 256GB LCD version of Valve’s Steam Deck is 20% off till 1st December , knocking it down to around $319.20 or £279.20 in the UK. It’s all part of this year’s Blackening of Friday, whereby whimpering price tags are shoved partway into sausage machines for the benefit of the first Xmas shoppers....

The wonderfully titled Schattenjäger is a bite-sized take on Castlevania where you can see the whole level at once Let’s all count together now Image credit:Tim Rachor Truth be told, I have never played a Castlevania game. Just haven’t gotten round to one of ’em yet! Symphony of the Night is probably more my speed over the original games, but I do see their importance too of course. However, what I have played, at least a little bit of, is a game that is very derivative of OG platformer except for the fact you can see the entire, 8-bit level at once: Schattenjäger....

This spooky bunny horror game is free, but you can buy a cool zine to support the devs I approve of Rental, and their zine Image credit:Animita Project I like horror , I like bunnies, I like cool little games. Hey, y’here that, Rental ? You’re alright, kid. It’s a free (free!) little game originally made for 2022’s 32bit jam that takes about 20 minutes to play through, wherein you play a child rabbit who has arrived at a holiday cabin with her family....

Total War: Warhammer 3’s next updates will tackle “anti-player bias” and self-destructive AI Plus more mothers for the motherland Image credit:Creative Assembly. Back in Total FebWar, the Total War: Warhammer III team penned a desperate missive in entrail fluids, full of scrawled warnings about the changes coming to the strategy game ’s AI. With their last ounce of strength, they rolled out a beta test for the planned tweaks. Now, the results are in , circling in the eerily fallow wake of over 50,000 campaigns, like carrion crows with tangible datasets grasped tight in their beaks....

Transformers: Reactivate, the Autobot action game from the Gears Tactics devs, has been cancelled Layoffs very likely to happen, say Splash Damage Image credit:Tencent Gears Tactics and Wolfenstein: Enemy Territory developers Splash Damage have cancelled Transformers: Reactivate, the Hasbro action game they announced in 2022. They will also be “scaling down to refocus our efforts on other projects”, and “a number of roles across the studio are now potentially at risk of redundancy”....

Upgrade your Steam Deck storage with Corsair’s MP600 Mini 1TB SSD for just £70 Pair one of the best M.2 2230 SSDs with your Steam Deck for a healthy storage boost Although Corsair aren’t included in our current best gaming SSDs guide, their compact form factor SSDs, including the MP600 Mini , are probably some of the best M.2 2230 SSDs on the market to pair with your Steam Deck gaming console....

V Rising dedicated server setup and settings: How to set up your own V Rising server A comprehensive guide to setting up your own V Rising dedicated server Want to know how to set up your own V Rising server? There are a few very big benefits to running a dedicated server for V Rising , and thankfully the devs at Stunlock Studios have supplied us with a variety of options and tools when it comes to setting up our own multiplayer spaces....

Vampire: The Masquerade - Bloodlines 2 mods are flowing, offering quicker movement, more blood, and a manicure Also, a de-fogging for creatures of the night who prefer to prowl clear evenings Image credit:Paradox Interactive Vampire: The Masquerade - Bloodlines 2 is out now , and naturally modders have immediately emerged from the shadows to start shaping it into what they want from a bout of neck-biting. Make sure to check out Dominic Tarason’s review for us if you’re still hunting for verdicts before you drain your wallet, but if you’re looking to start modding away, I’m glad to report that Bloodlines 2’s quickly amassing a nice array of early tweaks....

Victory Heat Rally looks like an electrifying retro arcade racer, and it’s releasing this winter Hot hot heat Image credit:Skydevilpalm There seems to be a wave of retro racers around recently, and each one seems to pick a particular target to shoot with its nostalgia gun, whether Wipeout or Lotus or Micro Machines or whatever else. Maybe I’m forgetting some classic arcade racer, but Victory Heat Rally feels less laser targeted and more a modern take on the spirit of the genre....

Warhammer 40,000: Space Marine 2’s first patches to fix crashes and controller issues with ultrawide on the way “Stealth” Epic client installation is just for crossplay, say Focus Image credit:Focus Entertainment In the grim darkness of the far future, there is only widescreen. No ultrawide for the moment, sadly. As and when they add support for ultrawide monitors, perhaps they should call it “ultramarinewide”. Ha ha! Ha. Anyway, here’s what’s coming in the first round of Warhammer 40,000: Space Marine 2 patches....

What’s next for the Umurangi Generation devs? Why, a game about penguins and people going mad on a mountain of course This is the climb Image credit:Origame Digital How do you follow up a game like Umurangi Generation ? Maybe move from photography to videography, or go full shooter (which developer Origame Digital do appear to be making too , that one’s just not had a full reveal yet). Perhaps instead of either of those things, you’ll make a game about penguins, which, yeah, no more beating around the bush, that’s exactly what they’ve done....

What’s on your bookshelf?: Deus Ex, Looking Glass Studios, and Otherside’s Warren Spector 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! This week, it’s Looking Glass Studios’ legend, Deus Ex director, and Otherside ’s Warren Spector - who I suspect might have realised the very secret goal of this column....

What’s on your bookshelf?: you are safe to lick the green books again 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! No cool industry person this week. Instead, fantastic news: thanks to a new device that identifies trace levels of the arsenic once used to make book covers green, you can go back to laying fat St....