New card battler Placid Plastic Deck blends Pokémon with Inscryption using the dark magic of ducks Fowl deeds Image credit:turbolento games / Fantastico Studio Like many an addled follower of the games industry, I have recently fallen under the spell of Balatro , and especially, its jokers. The mechanics and overall presentation may be exquisite, but it’s the thrill of discovering another mutant jester modifier that has me lunging for the Steam Deck in my sleep....

Nexus Mods’ latest modathon isn’t a typical modathon, it’s a first go at the same for multi-mod collections As the modding hosts continue to encourage giving one-click mod collections a go Image credit:Bethesda With their latest Fallout modathon having wrapped up at the close of last year, mod-hosting site Nexus Mods have decided to try something new with their latest event designed to supercharge mod creation around a specific game or theme....

Nightmare kingdom builder Norland has natural disasters, but don’t worry, it also has prophets of disaster Better stay friendly with the prophets, then Image credit:Hooded Horse “Nosophobia” is the fear of disease, “bathophobia” is the fear of depths, and “devlogphobia” is a mixture of nosophobia and bathophobia produced by reading Steam posts about Norland , a systems-rich and plague-ridden medieval colony sim from developers Long Jaunt and Hooded Horse, publisher of Manor Lords ....

No Man’s Sky has a Mass Effect Normandy again, together with new cross-save functionality “Nor Mandy Sky” was an ace strap last time so I’m using it again Image credit:Hello Games Back in the mists of 2021, No Man’s Sky revealed its very own Normandy SR1 space frigate . “The Normandy in No Man’s Sky ?” you cry. “Why, that’s a Mass Effect vessel. Some mistake here surely?” 1) My name’s not Shirley, and 2) Indeed it is a Mass Effect ship, but HelloGames struck a time-limited deal with BioWare to create a version for their own space sim....

Nvidia GeForce RTX 4070 Ti Super review: memory serves this refreshed GPU A much-demanded VRAM upgrade helps deliver decent peformance boosts Image credit:Rock Paper Shotgun I still don’t fully understand the rancor with which the RTX 4070 Ti is often regarded. Where some see an overpriced, memory-deprived albatross of a graphics card , I’ve only ever seen a fast and feature-rich GPU whose 12GB of VRAM is demonstrably fine for 99....

NYT Connections hint and answers (Thursday, July 11) Need a hint for today’s Connections? Read our guide for help with Connections #396 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 ! Want a hint for Connections today? Piggybacking off the monumental success of daily puzzle game Wordle , the New York Times has another fantastically popular word game out now....

NYT Connections hint and answers (Wednesday, February 21) Need a hint for today’s Connections? Read our guide for help with Connections #255 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 ! Want a hint for Connections today? Piggybacking off the monumental success of daily puzzle game Wordle , the New York Times has another fantastically popular word game out now....

NYT Connections hints and answers for Monday Feb 2 Need a Connections hint for today? Read our guide for help with Connections #966. 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 ! Looking for some Connections hints to help with today’s puzzle on Monday, 2nd February? This tricky Connections puzzle is sure to endanger your victory streak, no matter if you’re a new or an experience player....

NYT Connections hints and answers for Tuesday Feb 3 Need a Connections hint for today? Read our guide for help with Connections #967. 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 ! Looking for some Connections hints to help with today’s puzzle on Tuesday, 3rd February? Not to exaggerate, but some days the Connections puzzles are difficult enough to drive you into an abyss of frustration and despair....

NYT Connections hints and answers, Friday Oct 31 Need some Connections hints for today? Read our guide for help with Connections #872. 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 Friday, 31st October? Dividing sixteen words across four categories based on their shared characteristics isn’t quite as straightforward as it sounds....

NYT Connections hints and answers, Tuesday Sep 30 Need some Connections hints for today? Read our guide for help with Connections #841. 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, 30th September? Even after solving a hundred Connections puzzles, they never become easy. If the search for synonyms, homophones, machine parts, sports titles, horror flicks, and famous people has so far not given you the answer, it’s time to seek help....

NYT Connections hints and answers, Wednesday Aug 27 Need some Connections hints for today? Read our guide for help with Connections #807. 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, 27th August? Whether you’re close to the Connections solution or far off still, this guide will help you find the remaining themes....

Ok is not ok, good is bad, great is the new great and BioShock 4 is coming out, as Take-Two boss stops short of claiming that up is down Maybe Strauss Zelnick’s been asked about the GTA 6 price one too many times Image credit:2K Take-Two CEO Strauss Zelnick has reaffirmed 2K Games’ assertion that the reportedly troubled BioShock 4, currently in the works at Cloud Chamber , will make it to release....

Onimusha: Way Of The Sword is a moody demon parry fest, but Sekiro can sleep easy for the moment Swords need no hands-off demonstrations Image credit:Capcom Towards the end of my hands-off demo for Onimusha: Way Of The Sword , Capcom introduced me to a bunch of ragamuffin ninjas who moult their injured selves when struck. It looks like they’re springing out of their own dying heads, like Athena bursting from the skull of Zeus....

Overwatch 2 is going to let non-support players heal themselves, to reduce the frustration of bad teamwork Mercy me Overwatch 2 is going to receive some changes designed to make teamwork easier, and to make bad teamwork less frustrating. The latter is more interesting, because one of Blizzard’s proposed solution is giving Tank and Damage heroes “a modified, tuned-down version of the Support self-healing passive”, which would make them less reliant on Support players to heal everyone....

Parking Garage Rally Circuit is an arcade racer designed like a “lost Sega Saturn” game and from the maker of JellyCar Coming September 20th Image credit:Walaber Every week of late I seem to pop up here with another new arcade racer to talk about, and well, I wouldn’t want to break the streak. This week’s new hotness is Parking Garage Rally Circuit , which is about powersliding around multi-storey car parks and is designed to look like a lost Sega Saturn game....

Peak cannibalism is delivered by the co-op climber’s latest patch Yes, every Peak headline I write will contain the same pun Image credit:AggroCrab / Landfall Well, after a prolonged period of teasing, Peak developers Aggro Crab and Landfall Games look to have bitten the human bullet. Nestled among the notes for the climbing game’s latest patch are the words “added cannibalism”. It’s not enough that you can mod Peak so that you and your buddies will be surrounded by the corpses of fallen climbers as you attempt to do an Edmund Hillary....

Playground’s Fable slated for 2025 release - here’s a trailer hinting at what it’s like to play Albion’s greatest hero (retired) holds forth Image credit:Microsoft Microsoft and Playground’s genuinely long-awaited Fable reboot will launch in 2025, and they’ve released a new trailer which… seems… good? And is also quite informative about the moment-to-moment of the game. The video is framed as the memoir of a paunchy retired champion, Humphry, who once mentored a young heroine I presume will be the game’s main character, though it’s ambiguous....

Reanimal review – the dollhouse horror of Little Nightmares gives way to a grimier tale of war and slaughter Hey, Tarsier, leave them kids alone Image credit:THQ Nordic / Rock Paper Shotgun Developer: Tarsier Publisher: THQ Nordic Release: February 13th, 2025 On: Windows From: Steam , GOG , Epic Games Store Price: £35/$40/€40 Reviewed on: Intel Core-i7 12700F, 16GB RAM, Nvidia RTX 3060, Windows 11 In an industry pestered by calls to “think of the children”, Tarsier’s games are useful reminders that children can be utterly depraved in ways no coddling adult would ever dream....

Red Faction: Guerrilla dev’s barmy physics sandbox Instruments Of Destruction leaves early access in May The only good building is a flattened building Image credit:Radiangames Do you remember the noughties fan warz over which game had the best terrain destruction physics? The victors of that particular forum skirmish were probably DICE’s Battlefield games, with their woozy Frostbitten cinematography and dependable multiplayer tactic of having a whole team focus fire on a single capture point, gradually reducing it to stumps of foundation....