Wordle hints and answer (#1628): How to solve the Wednesday December 3 Wordle Stuck on today’s Wordle word for December 3? 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? We all know this already, but Wordle puzzles can really be tough on the brain....

Wordle hints and answer (#941): How to solve the Tuesday January 16 Wordle Stuck on the Wordle word for January 16? 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....

Wuthering Waves Calcharo best build The best weapon, Echoes, and team for Calcharo Image credit:Kuro Games Looking for the best build for Calcharo in Wuthering Waves? Calcharo is a DPS machine in Wuthering Waves , boasting a powerful fighting style that lets him exchange stacks of two resources - Cruelty and Killing Intent - in exchange for inflicting massive combos that can decimate any opponent on the field. Currently one of the top Resonators in the game, Calcharo’s worth mastering if you want to bring big damage to the forefront of your team and slay bosses fast....

You can now brew your very own (free) Valve-approved Steam games from the guts of Team Fortress 2 Valve unlock the client and server code for modders Image credit:Commie / Andicraft / Rock Paper Shotgun / Valve Valve have unleashed Team Fortress 2 ’s client and server game code into the wilds of the internet by way of a Source software development kit update, allowing modders to release their own Steam games based on the long-serving hat-powered FPS – as long as they give them away for free....

You can’t fool me with your “poorly drawn” rhino barbarians, Heroes Of The Seven Islands - the classic RPG enthusiasm is palpable Also skunk monks Image credit:Rap2h As much as I’m a sucker for the grimmest and darkest of grimdark fantasy settings, the try-hardness of it all can get a bit grating at times. You could make the same argument at the opposite end of spectrum, of course. Cosy games seem locked in a perpetual arms-race to twee each other into the dirt, chopping their rival’s dog-petting hands off and taking a sparkly tinkle on their pastel corpses....

“Unleash the Kraken,” bellows Skull and Bones, which somehow still exists Another season of updates for the industry’s most infamous AAAA game Image credit:Ubisoft I still haven’t left the starting area in Skull and Bones , but it’s a relief to know that as and when I do, I’ll have some big molluscs to bombard alongside those boring galleons. Ubisoft’s open world Jolly Rogerer forges bravely on with another season of updates, Eye of the Beast, despite Ubisoft recently jettisoning a bunch of games and studios in their efforts to buoy up the share price....

007 First Light’s first proper footage reveals a posh blockbuster with bubbles of Hitman The name’s 47, Agent 47 Image credit:Io Interactive Hitman hitmakers Io Interactive have just screened some extensive footage of their James Bond adaptation, 007: First Light , during Sony’s latest State of Play livestream. As you might expect, it looks and sounds a lot like Hitman, but the whole “James Bond” thing is a definite pace-changer. Catch the whole video below, plus a hasty, opinionated summary from me....

A Difficult Game About Climbing is a difficult game about climbing Get over it without Bennett Foddy Image credit:Pontypants I’m not sure how I, a committed Getting Over It With Bennett Foddy fan, managed to miss A Difficult Game About Climbing . It is, like its obvious inspiration, a difficult game about climbing, but here you’re using your arms independently to grip and hoist yourself rather than hooking and swinging a pickaxe....

After getting delisted in March, Dark and Darker will be completely inaccessible on the Epic Games Store later this year Dark times ahead Dark and Darker is a bit of a Schroedinger’s video game, isn’t it? Seemingly fleeting back and forth between a state of being available for sale and being outright delisted. Back in March, the multiplayer extraction game was delisted from the Epic Games Store, with developer Ironmace saying at the time that the “decision appears to be based on claims made by opposing parties in an ongoing legal dispute....

Alice0 is leaving RPS, come and celebrate her work and make lamentation Stop all the clocks We’ve suffered some body blows recently, but perhaps none will ever be as winding as the news I now deliver to you: Alice0 is leaving RPS. She recently celebrated 10 years here, so that should tell you something about how much of an influence she’s had over the tone of the site over it’s lifespan....

All Furnace Golem locations in Elden Ring Shadow Of The Erdtree Here’s where to find and how to kill Furnace Golems in Shadow of the Erdtree Image credit:Rock Paper Shotgun/Bandai Namco Want to know all Furnace Golem locations in Elden Ring: Shadow Of The Erdtree? You’ll likely encounter a Furnace Golem as soon as you start Shadow Of The Erdtree . There are 8 Furnace Golems in total in Elden Ring and they can be fearsome beasts with few weaknesses....

Not fussed by the Nintendo Switch 2? This handheld PC might be just what you’re after. Image credit:Lenovo If there’s one thing we’re thankful for in 2025, it’s the emergence of handheld gaming PCs. For those of us with less time to kill than we used to have, or just stuck on ungodly commutes, being able to fire up a huge chunk of a Steam library while on the go almost feels like it shouldn’t be possible without some sort of ‘monkey paw’ recompense but here we are....

Among Us devs reveal indie game fund Outersloth alongside new games from the creators of Celeste, Venba and Thirsty Suitors Innersloth want to “share their success” Image credit:Innersloth Among Us developers Innersloth have announced Outersloth, a fund for independent game developers, alongside a bunch of games funded by the aforesaid fund for independent game developers. They all look rad, and Outersloth itself is a cool initiative. “It’s no secret the games industry has been through a lot of turmoil with layoffs and a lack of funding,” reads the announcement release....

Arc Raiders devs reveal plans for “new large Arc”, a fresh map, and two more Expeditions this spring Escalation now underway, frosty weather to continue Image credit:Nexon Har(c)ken to me, defenders of Speranza! Embark have just announced their plans for ARC Raiders updates over the first four months of 2026. The extraction shooter’s next season is called Escalation, and its offerings range from new maps and enemies to new Raider decks, changes to existing maps, and more Expeditions....

Assassin’s Creed Shadows: How to change seasons How to switch betwen the four seasons in Assassin’s Creed Shadows Image credit:Rock Paper Shotgun/Ubisoft How do you change seasons in Assassin’s Creed Shadows? Assassin’s Creed Shadows has all four seasons, and uses them to mark the passage of time. This not only has a visual impact on the environments but also on gameplay functions - for instance, you’ll have difficulty sprinting through snow during winter, but it can also hide the sound of your footsteps....

Assembling furniture is anything but “wholesome” in this fantastic Steam Next Fest demo I’m really excited for Miniatures after playing this Image credit:Rock Paper Shotgun/Other Tales Interactive You know those wee indie games about opening boxes and organising items and assembling furniture and they’re all very cute and colourful and fun and “wholesome”? Miniatures is not one of those games. Oh certainly you will open boxes and organise items and assemble furniture in its Steam Next Fest demo, but it’s not cute or colourful or wholesome....

Avowed: Best Fighter abilities Here are the best abilities for a pure Fighter or multiclass build in Avowed Image credit:Obsidian Building a Fighter in Avowed? Combat in Avowed can be highly chaotic, with enemies lashing out at you from all sides and priests healing those enemies on the regular. It’s very easy to be overwhelmed and stomped into oblivion, and the Fighter is the one class that can reliably act as a tank to fend off attackers....

Baldur’s Gate 3 custom campaign mod Path to Menzoberranzan’s now targeting a first playable alpha release in the first half of 2026 Production is in full swing on the tutorial level that’ll make up this demo Image credit:Larian / Rock Paper Shotgun After a bit of scope re-evalution over the summer , the modders behind Baldur’s Gate 3 custom campaign mod Path to Menzoberranzan have set a new target in terms of releasing the a first publicly playable taste of it....

Baldur’s Gate 3’s Amelia Tyler voices a cursed boardgame in this original Jumanji adaptation in all but name Even has its own Van Pelt Image credit:Ludogram There are a number of official Jumanji video games, but they don’t seem very Jumanjish to me. You’ve got a bunch of nineties-to-noughties minigame compilations, a pachinko adaptation, and a few reportedly dismal games based on the recent Dwayne Johnson movies, also feat. Steve off Infiniminer and Amy Pond from Dr Avenger: Endgame....

Battle Vision Network is a competitive match-three puzzle battler from the makers of Grindstone Players decide the evolving story by playing matches Image credit:Capybara Grid -based puzzler Grindstone was a favourite of Katharine’s, who found it to be her go-to during regularly scheduled moments of “cat-based paralysis”. I didn’t spent quite so many hours of feline enforced stasis with it, but I too was drawn in for a respectable time chunk....