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NYT Connections hints and answers, Saturday Aug 2 Need some Connections hints for today? Read our guide for help with Connections #782. 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, 2nd August? If you’re drowning in a sea of strange words that seemingly have nothing to do with each other, we’d be happy to toss you a life-saving buoy in the form of some hints and tips....

NYT Connections hints and answers, Thursday May 1 Need some Connections hints for today? Read our guide for help with Connections #689. 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, 1st May? The yellow word group is often doable, the green theme is usually not too hard, but the blue Connections group can be a real brain-racker....

NYT Connections hints and answers, Tuesday Dec 30 Need some Connections hints for today? Read our guide for help with Connections #932. 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, 30th December? Unless you’ve been blessed with an insanely high IQ, don’t push yourself to solve every Connections puzzle without help; it’s not worth the headache....

NYT Connections hints and answers, Wednesday Jan 7 Need some Connections hints for today? Read our guide for help with Connections #940. 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, 7th January? Sometimes you just need a bit of help to complete the devilishly tough Connections puzzle, and we’ve got everything you need....

Oblivion Remastered: How to get to the Shivering Isles Here’s the location of the Strange Door leading to the Shivering Isles Image credit:Bethesda Looking to enter the Shivering Isles in The Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion Remastered? The Shivering Isles is a smaller secondary map which is connected to the main map, Cyrodiil, via a Strange Door . The Shivering Isles, originally the main expansion DLC of Oblivion, has been built directly into the game for the remake, allowing you to enter it more or less immediately after you complete the tutorial....

Pacific Drive’s next update makes driving around endlessly sound pretty good, actually And there’s a few quality of life improvements coming too Image credit:Ironwood Studios You would think that with a game that is pretty much all about driving like Pacific Drive , the prospect of an update that promises “endless” driving wouldn’t be all that exciting or interesting. In this case you’d be wrong, though, as the game’s upcoming Endless Expeditions patch sounds like a pretty solid one....

Paradox CEO admits company made “wrong calls in several projects” in wake of Life By You’s cancellation No mention of all the other wrong calls Image credit:Paradox Interactive Paradox Interactive appear from the outside to be a company run by dice roll. That was the case earlier this year when they cancelled Sims competitor Life By You and closed its developers , weeks after it had missed a project release date....

Path of Exile 2: Best PoE 2 Witch build Here’s the best Witch minion build, emphasising curses, skeletons, and Occult magic Image credit:Grinding Gear Games Looking for the best Witch build in Path of Exile 2? As the Witch, you’ll raise skeletal minions to subdue all enemies in Path of Exile 2 . The Witch serves as the only class in the game that starts with a small army at her disposal, and this army will only grow in size and power with every level....

Persona 5 Royal is worth the price of Humble Choice alone this month It’s Steam Deck “Verified” and carries August’s bundle on its stylish, velvet-draped back. How good a deal are we talking? Persona 5 Royal’s lowest ever Steam price, according to SteamDB , is £19.99 / $23.99. Signing up to Humble Choice costs £11.49 / $14.99 . You do the maths, or don’t, because it’s clearly a steal either way....

Playing Wreckfest while learning to drive was surprisingly helpful Crash course Image credit:THQ Nordic At 9 years old, in the plastic seats of a Sega Rally arcade machine, I quickly learned that “automatic” is better than “manual” without understanding why. And now I know: changing gears is a fucking chore. This year, in my mid-thirties, I finally learned to drive. And weirdly, a racing game about destroying clapped-out old bangers helped me along....

Possess office equipment and batter your coworkers in Office Fight I’m going to need those TPS reports attached to a haunted monitor Image credit:Fenix Studios Between this, my supporter post later, and the fact I decided to watch Office Space again this week, I’d like to make it clear to any colleagues or management reading that I value and love them all dearly, and am 110% committed to the eternal grind machine of covering videogames online....

PowerWash Simulator 2 review Next to godliness Image credit:Rock Paper Shotgun / FuturLab Developer: FuturLab Publisher: FuturLab Release: October 23rd 2025 On: Windows From: Steam, Epic Games Store Price: £20/€25/$25 Reviewed on: Steam Deck The first level of PowerWash Simulator 2 is cleaning the moving van that just brought you to your fancy new office. ‘We’re not in Kansas anymore,’ say developers FuturLab, as you take in the map wall where you can select levels in an expanded PowerWash world, the open warehouse space where you can place items of furniture you buy and clean....

Project Citadel is a new RTS inspired by Halo Wars from former Ensemble and BonusXP devs Last Keep join the RTS “resurgence” Image credit:Last Keep There have been many attempts to reboot the RTS recently, ranging from throwbacks like the recent Age Of Mythology: Retold to splicey novelties such as Battle Aces . I’m not sure any have managed it, but I’m always glad to see fresh blood spilled in the house of Westwood....

Project Shadowglass channels Thief, Deus Ex and System Shock while dunking on generative AI Pixels like your Macintosh Performa used to bake Image credit:Starhelm Studios It is time to once again desecrate the much-pillaged tomb of Looking Glass Studios and have it away with the materials for a new dark fantasy immersive sim. Starhelm Studios have announced Project Shadowglass, a purebred first-person Thief-like with a light-shadow system, lockpicking, pickpocketing, noisy or quieter walkable surfaces, magical traps, heist planning and jailbreaks....

Read Only Memories: Neurodiver review - a bright cyberpunk noir overdosing on easter eggs Squid pro quo Image credit:Rock Paper Shotgun / Chorus Worldwide Games Developer: Midboss Publisher: Chorus Worldwide Games Release: May 16th 2024 On: Windows, Mac From: Steam Price: TBA Reviewed on: Intel Core-i7-11700F, 16GB RAM, Nvidia GeForce RTX 3060, Windows 10 The characters in Read Only Memories: Neurodiver are deeply into anime. They love manga and figurines and trashy movies and horror novels....

RoadCraft review Tires me out Image credit:Rock Paper Shotgun / Focus Entertainment A trundlesome road-building simulator with weighty vehicle physics and baby-brained AI drivers, in which logistics takes a long time. Developer: Saber Interactive Publisher: Focus Entertainment Release: May 20th, 2025 On: Windows From: Steam Price: £35/$40/€40 Reviewed on: Intel Core-i7-11700F, 16GB RAM, Nvidia GeForce RTX 3060, Windows 10 I am falling asleep at the wheel of a big bulldozer. RoadCraft is not necessarily a boring game, but it is so meditatively slow, lumbering, and bit-by-bit that I find myself dozing when I’m supposed to be, um, dozing....

RPS asks: please tell me your stupidest Oblivion Remastered anecdotes so far I ran into some goblins in the woods Image credit:Rock Paper Shotgun/Bethesda Softworks The Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion Remastered, I’m delighted to report, is still incredibly stupid. How stupid? This stupid . I first noticed its stupidity in the starting dungeon, where one of the emperor’s guards got shunted around floatily trying to contend with a jug I’d placed in his path....

Sandworms are the spice in Dune: Awakening’s otherwise quite familiar survival simming How the worm turns Image credit:Funcom When Herbert Spencer coined the phrase “survival of the fittest” to describe Charles Darwin’s evolutionary theory, I’m pretty sure he didn’t envisage the rise of a species of videogame, the survival sim, which would one day itself suffer an unsustainable population explosion during the layoff-ridden years of 2023 and 2024. What does it take to survive as a survival sim, in these days when every other game seems to be a survival sim?...

Cheaper and very cheerful Image credit:ASUS If you’re a newcomer to PC gaming (maybe you picked up our Lenovo deal we spotted earlier in the week ), you’ll know there are a dizzying number of options for monitors. Save on this ASUS Gaming Monitor Image credit: ASUS ASUS TUF Gaming 24 Monitor $109 (31% off) See here Offering a 23.6-inch 1080p panel, you’re not getting the highest resolution for the money, but 1440p would set you back further....

Scratch that, the Steam Machine is delayed after all – and Valve confirm RAM shortages will affect pricing “We have work to do,” says new blog post Image credit:Valve Despite AMD’s assurances to the contrary , Valve have announced that they’ve pushed back release plans for the new Steam Machine , Steam Controller , and Steam Frame VR headset. Alas, my curse of publishing news posts roughly 0.0045 seconds before a major situation change continues to ruin my life – sometimes I wish I’d never beaten the warlocks in that Titanfall 2 pub match....