The NYT Crossword answers for Wednesday, September 24th 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 Wednesday, 24th September? Well, you have come to the right place! This is Rock Paper Shotgun’s NYT Crossword Companion — a guide that you can use to help you out during your puzzling adventures....

The Paranormal Activity games gets a slightly new name and a scarily underwhelming first gameplay trailer Might wanna pause that recording Image credit:DarkStone Digital You know, with the original Paranormal Activity steadily approaching two decades of existence, it’s becoming harder and harder to recognise what it actually was and is as opposed to the cultural consensus around it. First and foremost you probably think of it as a cheap, jump-scare-filled kind of horror movie, when in actuality the first entry in the series is a slow, tense window into the world of gaslighting and, obviously, the paranormal....

The Quarry devs’ horror hit Until Dawn is reportedly the next PlayStation exclusive headed to PC We’ll know more in the next two weeks, apparently Image credit:Supermassive Games Supermassive Games’ breakout horror game Until Dawn is apparently headed to PC, becoming the next previously PlayStation 4-exclusive title to make the leap as an enhanced re-release after the likes of Horizon Zero Dawn , God of War and The Last of Us ....

The RPS Advent Calendar 2024, December 5th We built this treehouse on a bed of sand Image credit:RPS The RPS Advent Calender 2024 is underway! Each day reveals one of our favourite games from this year, leading up to our Game Of The Year on the 24th. Check the main calendar post to see the full list. Hang on, before you enter today’s door, take off your shoes at do– Ach, it’s everywhere....

The RPS Selection Box: Graham’s bonus games of the year 2024 The old, the trash, and the loved Image credit:RPS My Selection Box picks are of three games that I did not vote for in the Advent Calendar. Two of them didn’t come out this year, which is an easy disqualification, but the reality is that I also don’t think any of them truly deserve a place in one of those hallowed chambers....

The RTX 4070 Super is hitting new price lows for Black Friday, so snap them up before RPS staff do Race ya Image credit:Zotac $590 is a decent deal for a model that’s spent most of the past few months at $610, but us Brits are getting the better bargain here - even if it’s not for the OC version. £500 means a hefty £49 slasheroo, the deepest discount this card has seen yet, and you’ll also get a key for Indiana Jones and the Great Circle to play when it releases on December 9th....

The Silent Hill 2 remake dev’s new horror game is a time-travelling jaunt through apocalyptic Eastern Europe Go to the past to help your time in the future to return to the past Image credit:Bloober Team SA Bloober Team have announced their next horror game at last night’s Xbox Partner Preview showcase. It’s called Cronos: The New Dawn and it’s about - bear with me here - going to the past, harvesting souls, then going to the future so they can help you....

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 working out what to do with about 200 apples and 50 pears. The parks round here are full of semi-forgotten fruit trees, so we went out last weekend and gathered a few buckets. It has now dawned on me that if I don’t eat apples with every meal and also possibly light fires with them, bathe in their juices and pound them up to serve as a low-grade polyfiller, my flat will soon be overtaken by rats, weevils and feral brewers....

The Sunday Papers Image credit:RPS Sundays are for sitting in a chair, I hope. Beyond that I dare not to dream. Folks continue to sing the praises of Arco , this year’s selected overlooked gem of overlooked gems. The latest is Matt Patches over at Polygon : Arco, by all accounts, has not found an audience. At least one dev blames the game’s ingenuity — being a mashup of ideas and flavors isn’t the easiest sell....

The tenth RPS Christmas Cracker 2025 There’s more, don’t worry Image credit:Rock Paper Shotgun We eight scribes from RPS are, Bearing jokes, we wrote in the past, Christmas crackers, god we’re knackered, After twelve months of graft. But first, time to enjoy your lovely joke! Q: What do you call a sheep with a superlative sense of rhythm? A: Unbleatable Rock Paper Shotgun is better when you sign in Sign in and join us on our journey to discover strange and compelling PC games....

The voice behind Half-Life 2’s Vortigaunts has passed away Despite a prolific film and television career, Louis Gossett Jr.’s only video game appearances were in the seminal shooter and Episode One Image credit:Valve Louis Gossett Jr., who made history as the first Black man to win an Oscar for Best Supporting Actor and had a prolific, successful career across film, television and stage - as well as voicing the friendly Vortigaunt aliens in Half-Life 2 and its follow-up Episode One - has died....

This 12TB Seagate hard drive is just $81.99 and perfect for storing your media archives It’s a refurbished unit, but with a three-year warranty and no bad sectors. Need to store a lot of non-critical data? Live in the US? Want to maximise value over speed? Have we got the storage device for you: a refurbished 12TB Seagate enterprise HDD. These drives typically go for around $130 new, but you can pick them up for just $82 in “refurbished - excellent” condition on Ebay US....

This week in PC games: Pathologic 3, a fresh Pokémon rival, a mind-bending FPS and some crablike base building What we’re feeding the Maw Image credit:Alientrap Before we begin the year’s first round-up of new PC game releases, an apology: we skipped feeding the Maw for one whole week back in December. In a deceptively carefree comment, I explained that I had too much seasonal blogmange to prepare, but this was actually a PR excuse to minimise hysteria....

This week in PC games: Tokyo Game Show, Silent Hill, babel city-building and an RPG about a fugitive king What we’re feeding the Maw Image credit:Hexecutable Hello reader who is also a player! Once again I have failed in my fervent efforts to meddle with the Earth’s rotation so as to suspend time exactly at 11.30am, Saturday morning. I fear that another week is upon us. Fortunately, it contains some new PC games, spanning full releases and early access launches....

Twin Peaks-inspired spooky private eye puzzler Silver Pines is set to deliver missing musician mystery next year As well as the chance to shoot some pesky birds Image credit:Team 17 Watch out. There’s a musician mystery afoot. They’ve gone missing, mysteriously. So says Silver Pines, a Twin Peaks-inspired survival horror puzzler that’s set to arrive next year, according to an announcement trailer that’s just barged into my house in a trench coat, waving a gun about and demanding to know whether I did it....

Ubisoft’s free-to-play shooter XDefiant defies its March release, server test due before ‘locking’ a new date “There are still some improvements that we need to test” XDefiant , the free-to-play arena- shooter - a la Apex Legends , Overwatch 2 , Valorant or the multiplayer team-based game of your choice - built around classes and factions from across the Ubisoft universe games from Splinter Cell and Far Cry to Ghost Recon and Watch Dogs , has been delayed....

Unbelievably, we have a choice of kaiju clean-up games Cleanliness is next to Godzillaness Image credit:Mythwright Marshal, if my hastily scribbled, made-up blackboard equations are correct, we should witness a double event within the next year or two. No, not a double kaiju event. A double kaiju clean-up event. Somewhat to my surprise, job sims in which you dismember dead Godzillas are a thing, now. And by thing I mean that there are at least two of them on the way....

Viktor Antonov, the key mind behind Half-Life 2’s City 17, has died Former Valve and Arkane colleagues pay tribute Image credit:Valve / Rock Paper Shotgun One of video gaming’s great urban fabulists, Half-Life 2 art director and Dishonored visual designer Viktor Antonov, has died at the young age of 52. While there has yet to be a formal announcement from Antonov’s family, several of his old colleagues have posted goodbye messages on social media....

VVVVVV, one of the best platformers of all time, is now Steam Deck verified Also supports 21 new languages VVVVVV was part of the initial wave of indie platformers, which means it was released in 2010 and is now a certified classic. To celebrate its 14th birthday, developer Terry Cavanagh has dropped an update which makes it Steam Deck verified and professionally translates it into 21 new languages. It’s been a while since I played VVVVVV and I don’t remember it being particularly verbal, but its newly supported languages are: Catalan, Arabic, Welsh, German, Esperanto, Spanish, French, Irish, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Dutch, Polish, Brazilian Portuguese, European Portuguese, Russian, Silesian, Turkish, Ukranian, Chinese (simplified) and Chinese (tradiitional)....

War Hospital, out now, is a tug-of-war between empathy and efficiency Worth a triage Image credit:Nacon War Hospital , out now on Steam , is about subsisting on the periphery of a war and keeping it firmly off-screen by means of adept time management . Set in 1918, it puts you in charge of a field hospital in northern France, a few minutes drive from the frontline. Here’s how all that works: casualties arrive from the trenches by ambulance or stretcher, and are carried by your medics to a clearing station, where nurses look after them before they’re seen by a doctor....