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My eyes hurt from the extreme 90s CGI style of this Next Fest demo, and I couldn’t be happier Check out Fragrance Point! Image credit:Rock Paper Shotgun/Halber Ball Ah sure I’ve enjoyed the nostalgic resurgence of Quake /PlayStation-grade 3D art in video games, but I am fully blown away by indie game Fragrance Point looking like the truest classic 3D computer graphics: the shiny pre-rendered CGI from TV show transition cards, adverts for double-disc dance music compilations, and Windows Media Player skins....

Nine Sols review: A 2D Sekiro-like so good it converted me to an entire genre Mouse trap Image credit:RedCandleGames Developer: RedCandleGames Publisher: RedCandleGames Release: Out now On: Windows From: Steam Price: £25/€29/$30 Reviewed on: Intel Core i5-8600K, 16GB RAM, Nvidia RTX 2070, Windows 10] What to compare Nine Sols ’ flowing Sekiro -like 2D combat and layered metroidvania exploration to? The eternally sequel-less Hollow Knight ? The punishing roguelite trappings of Dead Cells ?...

Nvidia confirmed the GeForce RTX 40 Super series, and they’re out this month Meet the RTX 4070 Super, RTX 4070 Ti Super and RTX 4080 Super Image credit:Nvidia Nvidia have resurrected their Super refresh branding for a new trio of GeForce graphics cards : the RTX 4070 Super, RTX 4070 Ti Super, and RTX 4080 Super . The announcement, part of the GPU giant’s CES 2024 showcase, was light on specifics about gaming performance – but all three promise marked improvements on their 40 series predecessors....

NYT Connections hint and answers (Friday, February 2) Need a hint for today’s Connections? Read our guide for help with Connections #236 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 (Wednesday, June 12) Need a hint for Connections? Read our guide for help with Connections #367 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, Friday May 30 Need some Connections hints for today? Read our guide for help with Connections #718. 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 Friday, 30th May? Finding the Connections answers is such a fun but daunting task… If you’re looking for a stress-free Connections challenge today, perhaps we can arrange that....

NYT Connections hints and answers, Friday Nov 28 Need some Connections hints for today? Read our guide for help with Connections #900. 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 Friday, 28th November? Although it would be incredibly impressive, nobody expects you to solve every daily Connections puzzle without any help....

NYT Connections hints and answers, Friday Oct 3 Need some Connections hints for today? Read our guide for help with Connections #844. 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 Friday, 3rd October? The NYT Connections puzzle probably isn’t the hardest word puzzle ever created, but it certainly feels that way sometimes....

NYT Connections hints and answers, Saturday Jun 28 Need some Connections hints for today? Read our guide for help with Connections #747. 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, 28th June? When people say the NYT Connections puzzles are quite hard, they aren’t joking. If you feel like you’re drowning in false matches and obscure links within an endless sea of potential word themes today, we - the rescue party - are here....

NYT Connections hints and answers, Saturday Mar 29 Need some Connections hints for today? Read our guide for help with Connections #656. 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, 29th March? Connecting one theme is easy, connecting two is challenging, and connecting three can be a downright nightmare....

NYT Connections hints and answers, Thursday Mar 20 Need some Connections hints for today? Read our guide for help with Connections #647. 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, 20th March? If you can’t capture two or more Connections categories today, it’ll be hard to solve the puzzle....

NYT Connections hints and answers, Tuesday Feb 25 Need some Connections hints for today? Read our guide for help with Connections #624. 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, 25th February? If today is one of those particularly troublesome Connections puzzle days, don’t worry. As confusing as the four themes may seem, we’ve got the tools to help you out....

NYT Connections hints and answers, Tuesday Jul 1 Need some Connections hints for today? Read our guide for help with Connections #750. 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, 1st July? Lucky is the Connections player who doesn’t need these guides very often. For most word-puzzle enthusiasts, however, the Connections puzzles are a struggle more often than a breeze....

NYT Connections hints and answers, Tuesday Oct 14 Need some Connections hints for today? Read our guide for help with Connections #855. 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, 14th October? Rather than stare at the 16 words in today’s Connections puzzle, perhaps it’s more fun to have a peek at our hints and speed up the puzzling process....

Oh hey, it’s Black Friday, so here are the best Black Friday best graphics cards deals Big if true Image credit:Rock Paper Shotgun I’m trying something new for this year’s Black Friday coverage: drastically overestimating how long it would take to put together a guide to its best graphics card deals. How is it past 11 already. Still, I do hope this helps any potential upgrader or from-scratch DIY builder out there – GPUs haven’t been ‘cheap’ in years, and while RAM is currently doing its best to replace them as the most overpriced component type in PCdom, graphics cards are usually in drastic need of discounts....

Omens Of Destruction brings hot gnoblar on gnoblar action to Total War: Warhammer 3 Plus the series’ 100th legendary lord Image credit:Creative Assembly Here are some orc names I quite like. Haters will tell you these “aren’t real orcs”, but those fools are forever trapped in a stifling prison forged from the failures of their own imaginations. Suck it, haters: Ironspoon Rumpgouger Football Groinsmasha Krumpstopher Waagghken Korl Morx An orc that even these despicable haters are forced to admit is real, however, is Gorbad Ironclaw....

Out now in early access, The Tribe Must Survive is Frostpunk for people who love being afraid of the dark Do not let the campfire go out Image credit:Starbreeze Publishing Yesterday I was off sick with a fever and, as I often do when I’m laid up ill, immediately set out to consume the most nihilistic and depressing entertainment media I could find. On the film front, I watched Session 9, in which some men hired to remove asbestos from a collapsing 19th century asylum do not have a very nice time....

Paradox delay Prison Architect 2 and cancel preorders: “improving the performance has proven to be a task that will take time” Existing preorders will be refunded Image credit:Paradox Interactive Jail shake-and-breaker management sim Prison Architect 2 has been delayed indefinitely, a couple of months after publishers Paradox parted ways with original developers Double Eleven. Current developers Kokku will use the additional time “to improve both the game’s performance and its content”....

Path of Exile 2: Best PoE 2 Mercenary build Here’s the best Mercenery leveling build, with an emphasis on grenades Image credit:Grinding Gear Games Looking for the best Mercenary build in Path of Exile 2? The Mercenary is a new class in Path of Exile 2 that shares some initial similarities with the Ranger in that they both use ranged weapons. But while the Ranger relies on bow strikes, the Mercenary is all about rapid-fire tactics with his crossbow, which can shoot seven bolts in a row along with some really big explosives....

Pathologic 3 is a sickly horror story about time pretending to be an ’easier’ game Butchering “Butchering Pathologic” - Part 1: The Clock Image credit:Ice-Pick Lodge / Rock Paper Shotgun Butchering “Butchering Pathologic” is a series of articles on Pathologic 3, inspired by Quintin Smith’s peerless retrospective for the original game . The following contains abstracted discussion of my own experiences of disease. When you are caring for people fighting a long illness, it can feel as though time has stopped, not just because you are living one day at a time, but because each day needs to be built from scratch....