Nvidia reveals DLSS 4.5 with anti-aliasing upgrades and a dynamic, if slightly mad, 6x frame gen mode Numbers confirmed going up Image credit:Nvidia CES 2026 is underway in Las Vegas, and while Nvidia have passed on the opportunity to announce any new RTX 50 Super graphics cards – perhaps in the knowledge that they’d be hurled directly into the raging vortex of an ongoing component pricing snafu – the tech show has yielded some interesting GeForce news....

NYT Connections hint and answers, Thu 30th Jan Need some Connections hints for today? Read our guide for help with Connections #598. 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, 30th January? Just group the right words together and the Connections puzzle is done - while that sounds simple enough, it’s actually a daunting task as the New York Times doesn’t make their puzzles easy....

NYT Connections hints and answers for Mon, December 2nd Need some Connections hints today? Read our guide for help with Connections #539. 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 2nd December? In this guide, we’ll outline exactly what you need to do to crack the code linking all of these disparate Connections words....

NYT Connections hints and answers for Tue, November 19th Need some Connections hints today? Read our guide for help with Connections #526. 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 19th November? If you’re stuck on today’s Connections we have you covered with a set of hints and clues below....

NYT Connections hints and answers, Monday Dec 8 Need some Connections hints for today? Read our guide for help with Connections #910. 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, 8th December? The Connections puzzles never really become any easier, it seems, no matter how many you solve....

NYT Connections hints and answers, Sunday Oct 12 Need some Connections hints for today? Read our guide for help with Connections #853. 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, 12th October? Some days, the Connections puzzle comes together in minutes, and some days, it doesn’t. A daunting task it is, finding the hidden themes!...

NYT Connections hints and answers, Tuesday Dec 16 Need some Connections hints for today? Read our guide for help with Connections #918. 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, 16th December? Don’t allow your hopes for another Connections victory to get crushed by ridiculously difficult themes today....

Obsidian’s espionage RPG Alpha Protocol returns to store shelves after four years in license hell Maybe still my favourite Obsidian game? Image credit:Sega It’s deeply frustrating and disappointing when games get pulled from store shelves due to licenses expiring, and too few ever return. So it’s great news that almost four years after Sega stopped selling Obsidian’s fascinating spy thriller RPG Alpha Protocol on Steam due to music rights expiring , it has returned to sale on GOG....

Oneway.exe is the tale of an abandoned game that really, really wants your skin(s) That’ll do, piggy Image credit:Disordered Media I have come to the conclusion that it was a mistake to play the demo for cyber horror game Oneway.exe on my lunch break. I’m not going to tell you what I had for lunch - I think if I describe it in full, I will throw up. But I will say that it featured red peppers and purple onions, and I now wish never to see those colours ever again....

Palworld map of recommended area levels Find the Pal spawn levels for each region with our Palworld level map Image credit:Pocketpair Looking for a map of the recommended levels of different areas in Palworld? The Palworld map is dauntingly large, and it often takes players many hours to even get out of their starting islands. But for those who venture far into the unknown, you may soon find yourself up against far more dangerous Pals than you’re prepared to take on....

Point-and-click adventure game filled with “ah yeah, them” British actors Earth Must Die is out later this month You know, them, from that thing! Image credit:Size Five Games Anyone order a point-and-click adventure puzzle game for later this month featuring a cast of British actors that’ll make you go “oh, right, them!” when you Google them? Well, someone must have, because Earth Must Die, the next game from Lair of the Clockwork God developer Size Five Games, now has a release date....

Redfall’s final update arrives with offline mode as Arkane Austin devs praise their departing colleagues “So many people worked so hard to make this patch a reality” Image credit:Microsoft Arkane Austin’s ailing vampire shooter Redfall has received its final update, as the developers themselves are purged by parent company Microsoft. Announced a few weeks back , Redfall game update 4 introduces a much-requested offline mode and single-player pausing, together with some new progression features and activities: a Community Standing bar whereby Support currency can be spent on rewards from the Safehouse Skill tree, and Elder Nests, aka vampire nests with specially modified vampire bosses....

Remedy and Tencent’s co-op multiplayer game Kestrel has been cancelled Remedy to focus on “existing franchises” Image credit:Remedy Entertainment Remedy have called it quits on the project codenamed Kestrel. The co-op multiplayer game was an original IP being made with the backing of Tencent, but now Remedy say they’ve cancelled it to allow them to focus on “other games in our portfolio”, all of which are based on “existing franchises”....

Screenshot Saturday Mondays: Submarine dilemmas and slime problems I go on Twitter so you don’t have to Image credit:Johan Peitz Every weekend, indie devs show off current work on Twitter’s #screenshotsaturday tag. And every Monday, I bring you a selection of these snaps and clips. This week, my eye has been caught by a meaty walking truck, opportunities for hubris, slime cleanup troubles, submarine dilemmas, and more. Check out these attractive and interesting indie games!...

Scyla Anfingrimm, Skarr Bloodwrath, and other chill guys on the way for Total War Warhammer 3 Plus reveals of the upcoming legendary lord’s mechanics Image credit:Creative Assembly Death and taxes remain constant, the sun rises and sets each day, and I must write about every bit of Total War: Warhammer 3 news until the end of time. No-one is making me, I must add. I simply cannot help myself. Every addition is one step closer to us getting an official Clan Skurvy....

Skyblivion project lead says release date reveal’s finally getting “closer”, as Oblivion remake mod shows off revamped intro “Progress is generally good”, says Rebelzize Image credit:Skyblivion Watch out, there’s a goblin over there! Have you dispatched him with a deceased Blade’s rusty blade? Good, we can now keep trekking through the revamped Imperial sewers dungeon that unofficial Oblivion remake Skyblivion ’s devs have just shown off. The massive Skyrim mod ’s getting ever closer to the release its creators have pencilled in for later this year....

Soul Injector Commando is a fever dream’s fever dream about a dead guy firing humanity into billionaires They fell for the old fake meteorite ruse, idiots Image credit:Jeremy Couillard It’s pointless me trying to sum this game up before you’ve clapped the lips of your eyes around it and taken a long drag. There’s a trailer below. Do it now. Nod if you’ve done so. Right, that was Soul Injector Commando, a video game about shooting some semblance of everyday humanity into the bodies of the billionaires who’re behind all of the world’s problems....

Star Trucker review: sci-fi escapism and oil-stained mundanity make for a muscular, purposeful driving sim International lodestar Image credit:Monster and Monster/Rock Paper Shotgun Part wide-eyed escapism and part muscular, slightly ponderous driving sim, Star Trucker is as much about concentration as it is relaxation. Oh, and preparation - if you don’t want to end up asphyxiating miles away from the nearest cash n’ carry. Developer: Monster and Monster Publisher: Raw Fury Release: Out now On: Windows From: Steam / PC Game Pass Price: £21/€25/$25 Reviewed on: Intel Core i5-12600K, 32GB RAM, Nvidia RTX 2070, Windows 10 Keeping your eyes on the road isn’t easy when the horizon hosts crackling azure nebula; when the voluminous nightglow from the planet below makes even the gargantuan industrial indicators look like so many tiny, twinkling cat eyes....

Starfield is getting AMD FSR 3 support in beta sometime next week Following DLSS 3 support added last year Image credit:Bethesda Game Studios Starfield ’s next update to appear on the Steam beta branch will add support for AMD’s FSR 3, the magic frame-boosting tech that makes games run smoother without extra strain on your hardware. It should arrive in beta next week and in a final release later this month, Bethesda say....

Steam is now blocking NSFW updates for published adult-only games, according to a raunchy RPG developer “Valve isn’t the problem here,” developer reminds players Image credit:Crimson Delight Games The great ‘dematuring’ of videogames continues with reports that Valve are now forbidding “post-launch NSFW content” for games on Steam, even those that are already “adult-only”. That’s according to Crimson Delight Games, the developers of fantasy RPG Tales of Legendary Lust: Aphrodisia. They launched it on September 15th with adult content warnings, after submitting it to Valve’s review process in August, and had planned to add sexy scenes through updates while working on a big DLC expansion for 2026....