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NYT Connections hints and answers, Saturday Aug 30 Need some Connections hints for today? Read our guide for help with Connections #810. 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, 30th August? Don’t let an impossibly difficult Connections puzzle bring you to tears; surely a word reveal or two, or maybe a hint or six, will make a difference....

Offensively good-looking Sims challenger Inzoi hits early access in March 2025 “Extra love and care” required Image credit:Krafton Life simulation game Inzoi will launch on PC via Steam early access on 28th March 2025, publishers Krafton have announced. Billed as a potential Sims 4 usurper, and equipped with syrupy Unreal Engine 5 visuals, it was originally slated for launch this year. The developers released a free character editor of the game in August ....

Peak is a small, goofy co-op climbing game from the devs behind Another Crab’s Teasure and Content Warning It’s peak, literally Image credit:Aggro Crab/ Landfall It’s a crossover episode! Like the great team-ups of the past (Scooby-Doo and Batman, the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles and Batman), Totally Accurate Battle Simulator and Content Warning developer Landfall , and Another Crab’s Treasure developer Aggro Crab have come to make Peak. As in it’s literally called Peak, not a qualitative descriptor that’s been more widely adopted into Gen-Z slang that you have to Google because you’re not a spring chicken anymore....

Praise the Kiryu, Steam’s latest Client Beta update will finally let you sort Like A Dragons and Yakuza into the right order Great news for sticklers to the Doomy Decimal System Image credit:RGG Studio Right, so. It’s supposed to go as follows: Yakuza 0 , Yakuza Kiwami , Yakuza Kiwami 2 , Yakuza 3 Remastered , Yakuza 4 Remastered , Yakuza 5 Remastered, Yakuza 6: The Song Of Life , Yakuza: Like A Dragon , then off into full-blown Like A Dragon land, and on to Like A Dragon: Pirate Yakuza ....

Prime Day slashes up to 40% off Samsung’s 990 Pro, the fastest gaming SSD around Get it before it’s gone UK deals: Samsung 990 Pro 2TB (with heatsink) - £145 (was £192) US deals: Samsung 990 Pro 2TB - $150 (was $250) (Fellow UK folk, don’t worry about the added cost of the heatsink knackering the deal’s value – it’s still cheaper than the non-heatsink 2TB model, at least while this price holds)....

Razer Viper Ultimate wireless gaming mouse drops to just $69.99 at Woot Or $59.99 using this limited time promo code. Image credit:RPS Photo Composite / Razer I now own the Razer Viper Ultimate because I needed something that actually works without making a big production out of it. It’s $69.99 right now on Woot, down from the usual $99.99, and that includes the RGB charging dock. No extra add-ons, no fine print....

Real-time tactics game Strategos aims to outflank Total War with over 120 factions at launch MicroProse announced as publisher Image credit:MicroProse Software MicroProse or whatever currently prospers under the decades-old MicroProse banner have announced that they’re publishing Strategos , a real-time tactics wargame set in classical antiquity. I hadn’t heard of the game before, and my first reaction to the above screenshot was “oh hey, Total War: Rome”. Then I veni, vidi, vickied on over to the Steam page , and it turns out that might be a flawed comparison, not least because Strategos is the creation of a single designer and programmer with artists working on contract....

Risk Of Rain 2 has a free update that lets you hatch lizard companions and turns chests into memory tests Alongside a new map Image credit:Gearbox Publishing Risk Of Rain 2 is one of my fave action roguelikes, as it’s a good time with pals and has all the hallmarks of things I enjoy most in my games: shooting and looting. That’s why the latest free update excites me so, as it introduces an artifact that makes chests malicious and another that lets you hatch angry lizard companions....

Saber boss explains Space Marine 2’s microtransactions: “People don’t want to be sold horse armour anymore" New Warhammer 40K game’s optional purchases won’t make players feel “poked” Image credit:Saber Interactive/Rock Paper Shotgun Our James recently stormed off to Cologne after having one too many kills stolen by Edwin in Warhammer 40,000: Space Marine 2 . “I’m never even going to look at another videogame again!”, he declared. Unfortunately for James, he accidentally walked straight into Gamescom....

Satisfactory is getting a photo mode, new building tools, proper controller support and programmable elevators Update 1.1 to make the factory sim yet more satisfying Image credit:Rock Paper Shotgun/Coffee Stain Publishing Coffee Stain remain dissatisfied with Satisfactory , their first-person factory sim, despite Matt Cox giving it the Cox’s Orange Pippin Award in our Satisfactory 1.0 review . They’re just about to release update 1.1 into public testing. This adds Photo Mode, programmable personnel elevators, and a bunch of twisty furnishings....

Saturnalia creators Santa Ragione will “wind down operations” after Valve ban horror game Horses from Steam Valve reportedly concerned about apparent depictions of “sexual conduct involving a minor” Image credit:Santa Ragione Saturnalia and Wheels of Aurelia developers Santa Ragione have announced that they will “wind down operations and face a high risk of closing the studio”, following Valve’s refusal to allow their upcoming horror game Horses on Steam, PC gaming’s largest digital storefront by some distance....

Sid Meier’s Civilization VII review One more turn Image credit:RPS / Firaxis Developer: 2K Publisher: Firaxis Release: Feb 10th, 2025 On: Windows From: Steam Price: £60/$70/€70 Reviewed on: AMD Ryzen 7 4800H, 16GB RAM Civilization is one of only two games I’ve had on every computer I’ve ever owned, in its multiple versions, since I first encountered it. (The other is NetHack.) It’s also important in my family. My wife plays it frequently (although she’s been on a Balatro kick recently), and I remember my middle child, in middle school, responding to a vocabulary quiz where they were asked to define “civilization” with the answer: “Civilization is a game designed by Sid Meier....

Silent Hill f gets a fresh trailer featuring more schoolgirl spooks ahead of September release Hinako still looks to having a very unnerving time Image credit:Konami Schoolgirl spookfest Silent Hill f has gotten a fresh trailer during Gamescom Opening Night Live , ahead of its release in September. In case you’re out of the loop, this trip to the quiet mounds is developed by Neobards Entertainment, and sees you take on the role of Shimizu Hinako....

Silent Hill f has been deemed too freaky for Australians… for now Refused classification Image credit:Konami Sorry Australians, you can’t confront the horrifying psychological manifestations of your inner turmoil. It would be too much for you, according to the government. The country’s classification board recently refused to grant upcoming horror game Silent Hill f an age rating, essentially preventing it from being sold in the country unless certain elements of the game are toned down or altered by Konami....

Space whale city builder Beyond These Stars now lets you visit planets, but not in a colonial way Slips back to 2025 release Image credit:Hooded Horse Space whale city builder Beyond These Stars has been delayed till 2025, developers Balancing Monkey Games have announced, for there are too many monkeys to balance, and too many astral cetaceans to wrangle before the early access launch. I react to this news with mingled happiness and disappointment....

Stalker 2: Should you give the icon to Pomor or Mityay? Will Pomor or Mityay give you the best rewards in “The Poppy Field” quest? Image credit:Rock Paper Shotgun/GSC Game World Wondering whether to give the religious icon in Stalker 2 to Pomor or Mityay? As soon as you enter Zalissya in Stalker 2 , there’s a good chance you’ll stumble upon “The Poppy Field” side-quest. Speak to Mityay in Warlock’s bar, and he’ll ask you to bring back a religious icon of his from a root cellar in the dangerous sleep-inducing Poppy Field....

Star Trucker delivers its chill mix of Euro Truck Simulator and Freelancer onto Steam and Game Pass this September Where we’re going, we don’t need roads. Because it’s space, innit? Image credit:Raw Fury It’s been almost a decade since Rebel Galaxy ably picked up the sci-fi trading and exploration mantle handed down by Freelancer , but it looks like a successor to the serene galaxy-venturing vibes of both is finally upon us....

Steam’s redesigned store menu is out in beta, so you can take the freshly embiggened search bar for a spin UPDATE: It’s now live for everyone Image credit:Valve Update: Valve’s Steam store revamp is now out of beta . You heard me, embiggened search bars for all, fling off your specs in joy! Actually, no, wait, your optician probably wouldn’t want you to d-. Original story continues below: Valve have released a revamped Steam store menu in beta, so folks can give a number of changes a whirl and offer feedback ahead of the full rollout....

Surgeon Simulator and Lost Skies devs Bossa Studios lay off a third of staff due to “perfect storm of events” Co-founder cites delayed funding, higher costs and AAA competition as causes Image credit:Bossa Studios Surgeon Simulator and I Am Bread creators Bossa Studios have laid off around a third of their staff, with 19 people departing the London, UK-based independent in December due to what co-founder Henrique Olifiers has called “a perfect storm of events” - heavy competition from blockbuster games at the backend of last year, increased operating costs, and delayed funding decisions across the industry....

Tear robot rivals limb from limb and then use their parts as your own in Gang Beasts-like brawler Mecha Mayhem Physics-based fighting game will have a roguelike story mode, online co-op and map maker Image credit:Duck It Games If Helldivers 2 hasn’t quite scratched your itch for reducing robots into piles of scrap, upcoming physics-based brawler Mecha Mayhem might. Gang Beasts in a world of Gundam-like bots, the fighting game lets you literally tear your enemies into pieces before repurposing their dismembered parts on your own bot....