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Connections hints and answers for Wed, August 14th Need some Connections hints today? Read our guide for help with Connections #429. 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 14th August? Wednesdays can be tough, we know, but we’re here to lighten the challenge just a touch with our daily Connections hints and answers guide....

Cyberpunk creator teases he has “ways” of bringing Keanny Reeveshand back from the dead in Cyberpunk 2 Resurrecting deceased video game celebrities is apparently another of Mike Pondsmith’s many powers Image credit:CD Projekt / Rock Paper Shotgun Warning : Spoilers for Cyberpunk 2077 lie ahead. Tabletop wizard and cool glasses-wearer Mike Pondsmith has teased having “ways” to bring Johnny Silverhand back in Cyberpunk 2077 ’s sequel. Actor and serial whoa merchant Keanu Reeves hasn’t been shy about being open to reprising the role were the opportunity to crash through his door waving some mantis blades about, but reconciling such a thing with the events of the first game could prove a bit complex....

Did Miyazaki poke fun at this viral tweet from two years ago with an Elden Ring: Shadow Of The Erdtree secret boss? Zanzibart…forgive me Image credit:FromSoft Early 2022 was a glorious time to be on Twitter. I mean, obviously it wasn’t, but it was still named Twitter. That’s something, right? May accelerated absurdity re-contextualise all your hells as, like, still hells but with air conditioning. It was February that year when Gearbox writer Sam Winkler done a funny tweet about Dark Souls ....

Elden Ring lore and story explained Time for a refresher of the entire Elden Ring mythos, ready for Shadow Of The Erdtree Image credit:Rock Paper Shotgun/Bandai Namco Want to brush up on your Elden Ring lore? It’s certainly a good time to revisit the story, with the colossal Shadow Of The Erdtree DLC mere days away. Over the past two years, Elden Ring has become just about my favourite game of all time, and a large part of that came from diving deep into the mythos and story of Elden Ring and learning just how much I missed on my first couple of playthroughs....

Elden Ring Nightreign is getting an “endless mode” with special relics and “magmafied” bosses, claim dataminers It’s allegedly dubbed Deep of Night, and you’ve got to dig pretty deep into the net to find much info on it Image credit:FromSoftware Some dataminers digging into Elden Ring Nightreign ’s files following the arrival of its Duos update claim to have uncovered some details about an endless mode. As reported by PC Gamer , said new mode is allegedly called ‘Deep of Night’, and will see you grouped with similarly skiller nighfarers to fight your way up through the ranks of a new rating system that players reckon could work similarly to Armored Core 6’s rankings....

Elden Ring Tarnished Edition’s new stuff is probably coming to PC as well Switch 2 reveal shows off Torrent customisation and Dark Souls 2 armour Image credit:Rock Paper Shotgun/Bandai Namco Elden Ring is getting a Tarnished Edition on Switch 2, but you are an enlightened individual who cares not for Switchery - why else would you be reading RPS, a website dedicated to PCs, the very best console? Are you some kind of Nintendo fan-enthusiast-zealot, here to gloat about the fact that the Tarnished Edition is a Switch 2 exclusive?...

Embrace your messy, cringey teenage emo years in rhythm game X visual novel I Write Games Not Tragedies Cue the G note Image credit:Studio Wife I’m not sure I’ve ever been so quickly transported back in time than I have in I Write Games Not Tragedies. It’s not that I completely relate to what takes place in the game, but its sense of place, of atmosphere and feeling, is one I understand in my soul....

Embracer will split into three companies, including Middle-earth & Friends Lars Wingefors to carry on as “a long-term, active, committed and supportive owner” Image credit:Embracer Famed mass-layoff-manufacturing corporation Embracer Group are dividing into three companies, which will be listed separately on Sweden’s stock exchange. Those companies are: Asmodee Group, which comprises Embracer’s tabletop games biz; Coffee Stain & Friends, an evolution of the existing Coffee Stain publisher, who will pursue “a dual focus on indie and A/AA premium and free-to-play games for PC/console and mobile”; and Middle-earth Enterprises & Friends, “a creative powerhouse in AAA game development and publishing for PC and console, as well as the stewards of The Lord of the Rings and Tomb Raider intellectual properties, among many others”....

Even with required ray tracing, Assassin’s Creed Shadows is blockbuster PC performance done right Land of the rising global illumination Image credit:Ubisoft/Rock Paper Shotgun Even though the Assassin’s Creed series has become something of a hooded, shifty-eyed poster child for AAA bloat and excess, its more recent editions have understood the need to keep the hardware side accessible, never over-gorging on fancy effects to the detriment of performance. That Assassin’s Creed Shadows adds mandatory ray tracing to its already hyper-detailed rendition of feudal Japan might, therefore, make it look like it’s going rogue....

Ex-Skylanders devs announce Voidling Bound, a monster-taming game that looks more Spore than it does Pokemon Me wonderful Voidlings Image credit:Hatchery Games Remember Spore ? I never played the original one myself, just that crappy one Spore Creatures on the DS, but I’ve long appreciated what Spore was trying to do from afar. There’s an almost whimsical macabre feeling to it, playing god and all that, leading a creature down the path of evolution....

FACEMINER is the dystopian surveillance work-from-home side hustle you’ve always wanted the world’s first ‘hardcore thriller clicker’-type game Image credit:Wristwork Ltd FACEMINER is a clicker/ puzzle game where you work from your CRT monitor to analyse packets of facial surveillance data for a mysterious company. It describes itself as a ‘hardcore thriller clicker set in 1999’. As a connoisseur of unusual word combinations - as well as a believer in the satirical power of clicker games since playing Universal Paperclips - I immediately set about downloading the free Steam demo ....

Final update to Morrowind-like RPG Dread Delusion adds a big nautilus with a town built inside its shell Plus a “hard” mode <img loading=“lazy” src=“https://assetsio.gnwcdn.com/dread-delusion-cephalok-final-update-1.jpg?width=690&quality=85&format=jpg&dpr=3&auto=webp" onerror=“this.onerror=null;this.src=‘https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEhe7F7TRXHtjiKvHb5vS7DmnxvpHiDyoYyYvm1nHB3Qp2_w3BnM6A2eq4v7FYxCC9bfZt3a9vIMtAYEKUiaDQbHMg-ViyGmRIj39MLp0bGFfgfYw1Dc9q_H-T0wiTm3l0Uq42dETrN9eC8aGJ9_IORZsxST1AcLR7np1koOfcc7tnHa4S8Mwz_xD9d0=s16000';" alt=“An “endless” undead character from Dread Delusion stands before a stonework city. - 1”> Image credit:DreadXP In a recent interview, the director of The Elder Scrolls Online said that if you made Morrowind today, it would struggle to find an audience. “If you play that right now,” he said, “there is no compass, no map, literally the quests are like ‘go to the third tree on the right and walk 50 paces west’… And if you did that now, no one would play it....

First proper Manor Lords patch targets archers, trading, homelessness mechanics and over-expansionist AI No release date as yet Image credit:Rock Paper Shotgun/Hooded Horse Manor Lords developer Slavic Magic, aka Greg Styczeń, has laid out the broad strokes of the game’s first proper patch in early access. This follows a boisterous opening weekend that has seen the new city builder top purchase charts on Steam, causing Valve’s mighty servers to crumble under the strain like overloaded oxen....

Former Blizzard boss reckons you should be able to tip developers ‘another $10 or $20’ on top of $70 games “I know $70 is already a lot, but it’s an option at the end of the game I wish I had at times. Some games are that special” Image credit:Rockstar Games The former president of Blizzard has suggested that players should have the option to tip developers after finishing a game....

Former Mass Effect writer’s studio Worlds Untold are “pausing operations” in what staff call a studio closure Mac Walters outfit now seeking a new funding partner Image credit:Worlds Untold Earlier this week Humanoid Origin, a studio led by former Mass Effect director Casey Hudson, closed doors without a game to their name . Now, sadly, it’s the turn of Worlds Untold, a studio founded by another former Mass Effect developer, Mac Walters....

Frogwares regain control of The Sinking City, but all old saves will break soon Years-long dispute with publisher now over Frogwares is “now the sole publisher of The Sinking City on all platforms”, says the developer. This brings to an end several years of uncertainty and litigation, which saw the Lovecraftian RPG delisted from Steam several times and at one point restored by its publisher via an allegedly pirated version of the game....

Ghibli-style charmer Mika And The Witch’s Mountain swoops into early access in August This is my BROOMSTICK Image credit:Chibig Mika and The Witch’s Mountain appears to be an unofficial video game adaptation of Kiki’s Delivery Service , which is a Studio Ghibli film about a witch who decides to go postal, but not in the Running with Scissors sense. Created by developers Chibig and Nukefist, it’s a “mini open world” game about carrying packages by broomstick while investigating the titular mountain, flying through hoops a la Pilotwings, and savouring the balmy inconsequentiality of an island that reminds me of Super Mario Sunshine....

GOG are doubling down on game preservation, and making it easier to see which games run well on modern PCs DRM-free game merchants want to refocus on restoring old classics Image credit:GOG Over the years, game retailers GOG have drifted from almost purely offering classic oldies to welcoming more and more modern blockbusters onto their storefront. In one sense, they’ve turned from a game preservation champion into a slightly dustier, DRM-less Steam....

Gray Zone Warfare may be the new FPS hotness, but my experience with it left me cold I don’t think it’s for me Image credit:Rock Paper Shotgun/Madfinger Games As I write this, Gray Zone Warfare is sat at fourth place in Steam’s top sellers list. I’ve seen loads of vids from big FPS YouTubers pivoting to it as the next big thing, especially for the Escape From Tarkov-likers. So I gave it a whirl, both as someone who wanted to see what these more hardcore extraction shooters were like and to play a video game that worked....

GTA 6 release window could slip to 2026 under Rockstar “fallback plan”, according to reports The studio is still publicly aiming for a 2025 release date Image credit:Rockstar Games GTA 6 is facing development troubles, leaving leadership “nervous” that the hotly anticipated open world crime-athon could be “falling behind’ expected schedules. That’s according to Kotaku , who were told by an anonymous source that studio heads are “worried” that the game could miss 2025 completely and not see release until 2026....