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Mount & Blade II: Bannerlord War Sails designer on ships that mimic horse archers and dredging for inspiration in French bogs “Yeah, this doesn’t fit realistically, but once we can find a meaningful reason to have such a ship, then it fits” Image credit:Taleworlds Can a ship be a horse archer? This is one of the many maritime musings Mount & Blade II: Bannerlord ’s devs had to grapple with when putting together the flotilla of vessels which make up its naval warfare-themed War Sails expansion....

Multiplayer FPS Over The Top WW1 guns for Battlefield’s crown with 200-head battles and Mount & Blade-inspired melee Blocking out the craters Image credit:Flying Squirrel Entertainment If DICE’s Battlefield series lacks for one feature, it’s surely the option to dig trenches. Properly dig them, I mean, not just waft them into existence with a wave of your magic trowel, a la Battlefield V . Think Minecraft, but with howitzers instead of Creepers....

Netease announce Marvel Rivals, a free-to-play 6v6 shooter that desperately wants to be superhero Team Fortress My superhero fatigue sense is tingling Image credit:Netease In case Amy Hennig’s Captain America and Black Panther game 1943: Rise Of Hydra wasn’t going to be quite enough to satisfy your Marvel hunger, Netease have just announced they’ve got another comic book bun in the oven for you. Marvel Rivals is a free-to-play, third-person team shooter where two teams of six heroes and villains go head to head with each other in destructible arenas....

Netflix’s “Team Blue” of Halo, Overwatch and God Of War vets close without a single game to their name Streaming giant’s blockbuster venture shuttered after around two years of operation Image credit:Netflix Netflix have shut down one of their more trumpeted video game initiatives - a Californian studio known as team “Blue” and stocked with former Halo, God Of War and Overwatch developers. It was a major plank in Netflix’s on-going efforts to extend their film and TV streaming empire to what Nic insists on calling the “greasy screen” ....

New Elden Ring update patches Easy Anti-Cheat as rumoured Shadow of Erdtree release date approaches FromSoftware still silent about February 2024 listing Image credit:Rock Paper Shotgun/FromSoftware A new Elden Ring update has patched the game’s Easy Anti-Cheat to support a recent SteamOS update, as detailed on publisher Bandai Namco’s official site . It’s good news for people playing the FromSoftware RPG on Steam Decks, especially those haunted by memories of the game’s technical tribulations at launch , some of which were caused by the anti-cheat functionality....

New Palworld update adds the first Raid Boss Bellanoir and a bunch of items and fixes Developers tease larger update with new island for this summer Image credit:Pocketpair/Rock Paper Shotgun Pocketpair have released a new Palworld update, Steam version v0.2.0.6, which introduces the monster-catching survival game’s first Raid Boss, a gloating Gothy squid-lady by the name of Bellanoir. She’ll be available to conjure by using slabs at new Summoning Altars. Be prepared for a tough fight, especially if you opt for the “extreme” version of the boss....

New Quake singleplayer map pack remixes multiplayer levels from Counter-Strike, Mario Kart, and more “Wait, is this from…? Oh god I can’t believe they made this” Image credit:Rock Paper Shotgun/Colossus Johnsto’s Law states: if a game has a level editor, someone will recreate de_dust2. The iconic Counter-Strike map is, I have argued , “one of the fundamental shapes of video games”. Recreating levels from other games is a mapping tradition as old as creating your house (not to be confused with MyHouse )....

No-one told me Battle Brothers had gladiatorial arenas and this can only end excellently For the glory of Rome, whatever the hell that is Image credit:Rock Paper Shotgun/Overhype Battle Prose is a diary of Nic’s exploits in emergent turn-based tactics game Battle Brothers “What do you mean the game didn’t save ?!”, Thilmann had not so much asked Slackbladder as stowed the question in a sack of rocks, spat on the sack until no moisture remained in his body, then swung the sack at Slackbladder’s forehead, leaving the thief dazed and more than a little soggy....

No Man’s Sky adds ship wreck salvaging for new bits to stick on your own craft with the Breach update Get your zero-g coat, it’s time for a space walk Image credit:Hello Games If the interstellar equivalent of scrabbling around under the sofa for loose change or dragging a slightly rusty bumper out of a scrapyard is something you yearn for, No Man’s Sky ’s latest update sounds right up your slightly grimy alley....

No Rest for the Wicked’s PC performance suggests the wicked might be better off waiting Got them early access growing pains Image credit:Rock Paper Shotgun/Private Division Lured like an unsatisfied sailor by the siren song of alleged performance woes , I’ve been giving No Rest for the Wicked a cursory benchmarkin’, and yes! The isometric ARPG does suffer from all the early access wonkiness you’ve likely heard about already today....

NYT Connections hint and answers (Friday, June 28) Need a hint for Connections? Read our guide for help with Connections #383 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 28) Need a hint for Connections? Read our guide for help with Connections #262 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, Wed 29th Jan Need some Connections hints for today? Read our guide for help with Connections #597. 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, 29th January? As you may already know, the New York Times’ Connections puzzles are notoriously difficult. Even to veteran puzzlers, the daily “group ’em together” problem may be impossible to solve....

NYT Connections hints and answers for Friday Jan 23 Need a Connections hint for today? Read our guide for help with Connections #956. 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 Friday, 23rd January? Even as an experienced Connections player, you’re allowed to look for help from time to time....

NYT Connections hints and answers for Sat, December 7th Need some Connections hints today? Read our guide for help with Connections #544. 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 7th December? You’re in the right place. We’ve got the lowdown on all of the Connections words of today to help you maintain your perfect score....

NYT Connections hints and answers for Wed, October 30th Need some Connections hints today? Read our guide for help with Connections #506. 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 30th October? You’re in good hands, and we’re the only resource you need to figure out all of these Connections groups word by word....

NYT Connections hints and answers, Monday Nov 10 Need some Connections hints for today? Read our guide for help with Connections #882. 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, 10th November? A simple Connections puzzle is a rarity, and today’s edition, unfortunately, isn’t among the easier ones....

NYT Connections hints and answers, Saturday Sep 20 Need some Connections hints for today? Read our guide for help with Connections #831. 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 Saturday, 20th September? Solving the Connections puzzles without any help is admirable, but nobody expects you to pull that off every day....

NYT Connections hints and answers, Thursday Oct 16 Need some Connections hints for today? Read our guide for help with Connections #857. 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, 16th October? If you’re still in search of the hidden themes today, no matter if it’s two, three, or four themes you’re missing, you’ve come to the right place to get help....

NYT Connections hints and answers, Wednesday Jul 23 Need some Connections hints for today? Read our guide for help with Connections #772. 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, 23rd July? Connections puzzles are truly captivating… Sometimes, a little too much. If you’d like to do other things besides staring at the wordy puzzle today, this guide may be useful to you....