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NYT Connections hints and answers, Tuesday Jan 6 Need some Connections hints for today? Read our guide for help with Connections #939. 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, 6th January? Perhaps this Connections puzzle seems impossible to solve right now, but there’s hope. With this guide by your side, you may yet uncover the four mysterious themes, as we’ve listed plenty of hints, tips, and word reveals to help you out....

NYT Connections hints and answers, Wednesday Dec 10 Need some Connections hints for today? Read our guide for help with Connections #912. 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, 10th December? Of course, a Connections puzzle wouldn’t be a true Connections puzzle without a stumbling block or two, but some days, there are just too many hurdles to overcome....

NYT Connections hints and answers, Wednesday Mar 26 Need some Connections hints for today? Read our guide for help with Connections #653. 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, 26th March? Connecting four words through a common theme can be easy-peasy or difficult, very difficult. Unfortunately, the NYT Connections puzzle often goes for the latter difficulty level, so brace yourself for a serious challenge....

NZXT’s new 280mm Kraken Elite RGB cooler is $70 off at Newegg A brilliant CPU cooler I’ve been using to great effect myself. Image credit:NZXT NZXT’s AiOs are some of the best liquid coolers in the business, whether considered in terms of performance or aesthetics, and their new Kraken Elite RGB release is now on sale at Newegg in the US. The 280mm size AiO in white is now down to $200 after a $70 discount, and highly recommended by this writer at that price....

Palworld tier list and the best Pals to choose Here’s a tier list of the best Pals in Palworld ranked Image credit:Rock Paper Shotgun/Pocketpair Looking for a Pal tier list to rank the best Pals in Palworld? As you journey through Palworld , you’ll come across Pals of different elements with varying Partner Skills which determine how strong they are in combat. With so many to choose from, a Pal list that is ever-expanding, and only a limited amount of space on your team, it can be hard prioritising which to recruit....

Palworld: Best Pals for Planting Here are our picks for the best Pals for Planting in Palworld Image credit:Rock Paper Shotgun/Pocketpair Want to know which Pals in Palworld are best at Planting? Planting is a vital Work Suitability skill in Palworld for growing Berries, Lettuce, Tomato, and Wheat. As your base expands and you accumulate more Pals, you’ll need a constant supply of these important foodstuffs to keep the Pal work force well-fed and happy....

Paradox respond to the accusation that they fix games with paid DLC - “we try to find a middle ground” Victoria 3 launching without proper warfare was a “fail”, acknowledges deputy CEO Image credit:Paradox Interactive Fire up the Steam page for Stellaris , one of my favourite space sims, and you will see 28 pieces of DLC, ranging from free character portraits to £35 expansion passes that span a bunch of species and story packs....

Pretty platformer sequel Planet of Lana II gets a pretty good Steam demo tomorrow, ahead of its surprise March release Beginneth the month of Mui Image credit:Thunderful Publishing Planet of Lana II , Wishfully’s followup to their tremendous puzzle-platformer original, punched our news mouths with a double hit of announcements last week. First, it’s got a release date of March 5th 2026 , a mere three weeks from now, and second, there’s a Steam demo coming even sooner, on February 11th....

Prime Day’s 15%-off deal lets the RTX 4060 remember it’s a mid-range graphics card Prime members can save over £40 on the DLSS 3-ready GPU Image credit:Gigabyte Graphics cards are always worth looking out for on sale events like Prime Day , largely because they’re so hideously expensive otherwise. Take Nvidia’s GeForce RTX 4060 , whose positioning in the RTX 40 series hierarchy would suggest an affordable mid-range GPU, yet routinely pushes £300....

Rally Point: Cyber Knights: Flashpoint is both worth playing, and worth waiting for a little longer Cyber Cyber, turning fight Image credit:Rock Paper Shotgun/Trese Brothers Cyber Knights Colon Flashpoint does not lead with its best foot. This is easier to shrug off while it’s still in early access, but I will confess some relief when I read that the Trese Brothers (It’s pronounced “Trese”) nudged their estimated release date back to 2025....

Reality Bytes: Lego Bricktales offers a glimpse of the future. But it could be even better Blockbuster Image credit:Rock Paper Shotgun/Thunderful Publishing VR is at its best when it makes you feel like you’re living in the actual future. Given how everything new and exciting ultimately becomes normal and mundane, this is perhaps an unfair expectation of technology that is now a decade old. Nonetheless, if you want me to sit with a shoebox pressed uncomfortably against my eyes for two hours like an ocular gom jabbar, then what’s inside the shoebox better be pretty darned transformative....

Reignbreaker is an anti-establishment roguelike that’s clearly pro-Hades From the makers of Say No! More Image credit:Thunderful Publishing A few months back, I enjoyed lurking a conversation on the RPS Discord about the proliferation of cyberpunk/steampunk/atompunk/what-have-you-punk variants and how most of them in fact lack the rebelliousness and counter-counter elements that punk actually entails. That discussion was back on my mind as I sat down to play Reignbreaker , a new action- roguelike from Studio Fizbin, at Gamescom 2024 – slightly wary of its self-described medievalpunk styling....

Rockstar continue to claim firings were about preventing GTA 6 leaks, as union push to get devs interim relief If granted, the relief would see the fired devs put back on Rockstar’s payroll until the date’s set for a full trial Image credit:Rockstar Games A preliminary employment tribunal hearing has seen the Independent Workers’ Union of Great Britain (IWGB) request that a judge grant interim relief to the 31 UK-based GTA 6 developers fired by Rockstar, reportedly following discussion of changes to Rockstar’s company Slack policies by staff on Discord....

Shift Up essentially confirm Stellar Blade 2 is in the works, haven’t revealed how revealing it will be Not much of a surprise, honestly Image credit:Shift Up Alright, so, I know those of us on PC haven’t even had the chance to play the first one yet, but it seems like Shift Up have essentially confirmed that Stellar Blade 2 is in the works. As spotted by Insider Gaming , Shift Up recently shared its investor relations presentation for May of this year, most of it being businessy nonsense neither you or I could give two tosses about....

Sike, Hades 2 devs Supergiant had another pre-full release patch hiding under their himation Before you ask, it’s sort of the Ancient Greek version of a toga Image credit:Supergiant The last patch is never the last patch. CD Projekt have been teaching us that lesson for about a year with Cyberpunk 2077 , and now Hades 2 is the latest game to have its devs go ’no, wait, one more’. To be fair to Supergiant, they did specify that the roguelike’s previous update would “likely” be the last one before full release....

Slay The Princess gets three new chapters and more when The Pristine Cut releases 24th October I keep wanting to call it a regicide-em-up because the accurate Latin is too awkward Image credit:Black Tabby A year and a day after wonderful horror visual novel Slay The Princess first released, the promised Pristine Edition is arriving this October on the 24th. Like a very loud sticker on a very large bag of crisps, it promises to have “roughly 35%” more stuff in it....

Slayers Unleashed codes: Claim free rerolls and boosts with these codes Unleash your inner demon-slayer with these powerful freebie codes Image credit:Slayers Unleashed Looking for the latest Slayers Unleashed codes for free rerolls, boosts, and more? Slayers Unleashed, like many hyper-popular Roblox experiences, is an unofficial adaptation of an anime series. In this case, the lucky adaptee is Demon Slayer, a series with a self-explanatory title that gives you a good idea of what to expect from the Robloxified fighting game version....

Some old mods from 2008 still work in Oblivion Remastered With a bit of tinkering Image credit:Bethesda There’s no official mod support for The Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion Remastered . But when has that ever stopped modders from forcibly isekai-ing their favourite anime characters into the wrong realm? Not even 24 hours have passed since the fantasy RPG remaster was released in a “surprise” announcement by Bethesda, and the modding scene has already created 90+ mods and counting (and that’s just on one popular modding website)....

Soulframe has the bones of a great action-RPG, but I’m enjoying it partly because it feels too late to enjoy Warframe Thoughts from a few hours in Digital Extremes’ pre-alpha prelude Image credit:Digital Extremes I’ve been trying to work out if I’m keen on Soulframe only because I feel guilty about missing the boat with Warframe . I reviewed Digital Extremes’ hit free-to-play shooter in 2013, back when people were still calling it a spiritual successor to the developer’s boomerang-throwing action game Dark Sector....

Soulframe keeps growing with new RPG customisation, a dungeon inspired by Blue Prince and a wizard’s staff 10th major update for Preludes version due this month Image credit:Digital Extremes " Soulframe has the bones of a great action- RPG ," I wrote last November . Developers Digital Extremes continue to graft flesh to those bones, plumping the world-building’s marrow and cranking the sinews of the combat. The game’s Preludes edition - a sort of relentlessly expanding limited-access beta - continues to be updated with new weapons, faction features, player Pacts (classes, essentially), areas, and enemies....