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Monster Hunter Wilds: How to beat Quematrice Learn the Quematrice’s weaknesses, drop list, and more Image credit:Rock Paper Shotgun/Capcom Need tips on how to beat the Quematrice in Monster Hunter Wilds? The Quematrice of Monster Hunter Wilds is essentially a cockatrice - a giant chicken/wyvern hybrid capable of roasting anyone who gets to close with a blazing dose of flame. Unlike most mythological cockatrices, though, the Quematrice doesn’t unleash its flames from its mouth....

Moonlighter 2: The Endless Vault gets a summer release window, which is precise enough to get me excited That’s amore! Image credit:Digital Sun I was quite pleasantly surprised when it was announced last year that Moonlighter was getting a sequel . In that “oh, I never would have guessed this game would get one” kind of way. Moonlighter 2: The Endless Vault , as its full name goes, doesn’t have an exact release date just yet, but during today’s Triple-I showcase it did get a release window, which is the next best thing I suppose....

More Avowed details: it’s a classless RPG with easy respeccing and “open zones” comparable to Outer Worlds Obsidian gives an extended breakdown of its Xbox Developer Direct presentation Image credit:Obsidian Entertainment Obsidian’s Avowed is a game for the more indecisive or changeable RPG player, with no “enforced” classes and an emphasis on easily respeccing and experimenting with different combinations of weapons and abilities. Or at least, that’s my overall takeaway from a new Xbox podcast interview featuring game director Carrie Patel and gameplay director Gabe Paramo....

Myst and Riven developer Cyan Worlds lay off 12, essentially cutting their team in half The studio is currently looking to secure financing for their next project Image credit:Cyan Worlds Bah, it’s never fun writing one of these, but unfortunately Myst and Riven developer Cyan Worlds have laid off 12 of its staff members this week, supposedly cutting the studio by about half. Cyan shared the news on their social media accounts yesterday, noting that “industry conditions” have “forced” the studio to “weigh the future health of our studio against the month-to-month realities of game development in 2025....

Nearly a third of all gaming PCs are still running Windows 10, even as Microsoft prepare to kill it Definitely no massive security disaster brewing there, nope It must have been a stressful few days for Microsoft. Game Pass changes nobody likes , admitting the first Xbox-branded handheld costs a thousand bucks , having to tell the Israeli military that they need to see other people. Yeesh. No wonder they’re so intent on blowing off steam by taking a scythe to Windows 10 security updates this month, a move that will effectively end official support for the operating system....

New Palworld patch stops other players stealing your best pals and makes pal breeding easier No-one takes my legally distinct Piplup Image credit:Rock Paper Shotgun/Pocketpair Palworld , the survival game filled with legally distinct Pokémon and numerous Glock-19s, has received its first major patch. Straight off the production line are fixes to crashes, as well as enemy pals getting stuck in walls. And if you’ve been plagued by other players stealing your flock, then worry no longer, as pal spheres chucked at your low-HP pals won’t capture them anymore....

New Planet Coaster 2 deep dive explains how you’ll need to sell your idiot guests sunscreen in case they blame you for the sun existing Tubular Image credit:Frontier Developments Having a list of Suffolk amusement park mascots one desperately wishes to outlive out of an innate desire for revenge is, I imagine, not a universal experience. Still, on the day Pleasurewood Hills mascot Woody Bear is taken by the soil, I will jig and whoop under the moon....

Nioh 3 is coming in 2026, but once again it looks like us PC gamers will have to wait Nioht for you Image credit:Team Ninja The Nioh games were some of the first non-FromSoft Soulslikes to find their own audience, probably in part because they’re not really Soulslikes at all. They’re Team Ninja action RPGs, drawn from their wellspring of experience making such games, and despite Nioh’s 2017 release date, it spawned from a project that began development all the way back in 2004, firmly pre-Souls....

NYT Connections hint and answers (Monday, April 29) Need a hint for today’s Connections? Read our guide for help with Connections #323 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 (Monday, February 12) Need a hint for today’s Connections? Read our guide for help with Connections #246 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 (Monday, July 22) Need a hint for today’s Connections? Read our guide for help with Connections #407 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 (Saturday, March 16) Need a hint for today’s Connections? Read our guide for help with Connections #279 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 (Saturday, May 4) Need a hint for Connections? Read our guide for help with Connections #328 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 (Sunday, June 23) Need a hint for today’s Connections? Read our guide for help with Connections #378 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 (Tuesday, July 30) Need a hint for today’s Connections? Read our guide for help with Connections #415 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, Sunday Jul 20 Need some Connections hints for today? Read our guide for help with Connections #769. 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, 20th July? If the Connections words aren’t clicking into place today, perhaps it’s time for some guidance....

NYT Connections hints and answers, Sunday Nov 2 Need some Connections hints for today? Read our guide for help with Connections #874. 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, 2nd November? Even if this Connections puzzle seems impossible to solve, there’s hope. With this guide by your side, you may yet uncover the four mysterious themes....

Palia developers lay off a third of staff just weeks after cosy life sim’s Steam launch Can’t get too cosy these days Image credit:Singularity 6 Palia , a cosy, free-to-play life sim, arrived on Steam just a couple of weeks ago . This week, developers Singularity 6 laid off 35% of their staff, thought to be around 49 people. “Following Palia’s release on Steam, we evaluated the support needed to deliver the highest-quality gameplay service for long-term stability....

Petal Runner is a slice-of-life Gameboy Advance style RPG about being a digital pet courier The ‘pet’ in ‘petal runner’ is a play on ‘pet’ as in ‘pets’ as in ‘cats and such’ Image credit:Nano Park Studios Are Tamagotchis a thing now again? I’m getting a sense they might be, but I’ll always associate them with the nineties. Ah, to return to a simpler time, where kids tripped each other up in the school hallways to steal toys , before Pokémon cards came along and everyone leveled up to stabbings....

Rally Point: Crop to Selection Why not write on every front? Image credit:Rock Paper Shotgun/Rhombus Studios Sometimes, readers, it’s tempting to do the popularity thing, and ask what you’re playing, or thinking of buying. There are countless popular games I never mention, surely I should be doing those? What if I am terrible actually and should write about the things that are making a big splash instead? But that way lies Views Brain....