HomeGuidesNYT Connections NYT Connections hint and answers (Thursday, June 27)Need a hint for today’s Connections? Read our guide for help with Connections #382 Need a hint for today’s Connections? Read our guide for help with Connections #382 Image credit:Rock Paper Shotgun/NYT Image credit:Rock Paper Shotgun/NYT This guide is for a previous day! Looking for today’s solution? Check out theConnections hint for Wednesday 8th January! Want a hint for Connections today?Piggybacking off the monumental success of daily puzzle gameWordle, the New York Times has another fantastically popular word game out now....

HomeNewsPayday 3 Payday 3’s latest update adds “solo mode”, but it still requires an initial internet connectionA step in the right direction A step in the right direction Image credit:Starbreeze Image credit:Starbreeze Payday 3launched last year to dismal reviews, due to bugs and features fromPayday 2that were absent in the sequel. One such piece of missing functionality was the ability to play alone or offline, but an update coming today makes some progress towards fixing that with the addition of “Solo Mode”....

HomeNewsSelfloss Selfloss is a relaxed, fish-fancying jaunt through exhaustion, desolation, and melancholyDare u seek the Loss fish? Dare u seek the Loss fish? Image credit:Goodwin Games Image credit:Goodwin Games After chatting to a long man, reminiscent of a stretched, ghostly goose, I reach the crest of a bright hill, and meet a very large woman with fish earrings, who points toward a stony, somewhat desolate island atop which sits a ruined fort....

HomeNews Steam’s 2024 summer sale is now liveGames you don’t have to play are now cheaper Games you don’t have to play are now cheaper Image credit:Valve Image credit:Valve You can tell when a major Steam sale goes live, because the Steam store stop loading. If you can make it past the “something went wrong” message you’ll find that the Steam summer sale is now underway.This year’s event includes a page of"featured deep discounts", which highlights “especially great deals on some of the all-time greats....

HomeNews Steam’s new Game Recording beta lets you instant-replay all those Elden Ring deathsWatch and learn Watch and learn Image credit:Valve Image credit:Valve From ShadowPlay to OBS, there’s no shortage of tools and apps that can record and share your finest gaming moments and/or hilarious failures. No matter to Valve, who’ve updated theSteambeta client with a replay system of their own. I still feel that Valve’s effort isn’tquitewhat I personally want from a lightweight capturing tool: I find my most clippable moments in games happen unexpectedly, with little warning to hit a ‘Start recording’ shortcut, and while the always-on recording option would suit better, I’m equally un-keen on traipsing through two hours of footage to find a nine-second clip of aDarktidebaddie copping a particularly funnyrock throw....

HomeHardwareFeaturesThe First Descendant The First Descendant is playable on Steam Deck, despite some temporary compatibility confusionDude, where’s my Microsoft Visual C++ Redistributable? Dude, where’s my Microsoft Visual C++ Redistributable? Image credit:Rock Paper Shotgun Image credit:Rock Paper Shotgun Image credit:Rock Paper Shotgun Steam Deck Academybrings together all our guides and explainers on getting the most out of your Steam Deck, no student loans or sweaty dormitories required. Besides givingThe First Descendantthe ol’benchy markson desktop, I was curious to see how this gleaming looter shooter would run on the less flexing hardware of theSteam Deck....

HomeNewsThe First Descendant The First Descendant’s endgame won’t be about “meaningless DPS" or “piling on specs"New looter shooter to focus on strategic depth and “party play” New looter shooter to focus on strategic depth and “party play” Image credit:Rock Paper Shotgun/Nexon Image credit:Rock Paper Shotgun/Nexon Live service games such asThe First Descendant- aWarframe-ishco-oplooter shooter coming next month - can often suffer from a chronic case of numbers-itis, a tragic and goopy disease that stagnates game feel, letting raw and tasteless maths multiply and overwhelm what I, in all my critical wisdom, call “fun button pushy....

HomeNewsTribes 3: Rivals Tribes 3: Rivals already in trouble as developers shift focus elsewhere"Neither game had enough success yet to support the studio" “Neither game had enough success yet to support the studio” Image credit:Rock Paper Shotgun/Prophecy Games Image credit:Rock Paper Shotgun/Prophecy Games Development on slip-slideyFPSTribes 3: Rivalsis set to slow, just months after itsearly access launch, as developers Prophecy Games say it’s not proving successful enough to “support the studio....

HomeNewsCrusader Kings III Wife pestering you about every little pregnancy? Crusader Kings 3 will soon let you decide which messages are importantMute your heir Mute your heir Image credit:Paradox Interactive Image credit:Paradox Interactive Image credit:Paradox Interactive God, that’s an exciting menu.Crusader Kings 2and other Parastrats likeStellarishave long enjoyed a similar feature that lets you decide, in itty-bitty detail, which message types you think are important, and which you don’t give two figs about....

HomeGuidesWordle Wordle hints and answer (#1104): How to solve the Thursday June 27 WordleStuck on today’s Wordle word for June 27? Read our hint or find the answer below! Stuck on today’s Wordle word for June 27? Read our hint or find the answer below! Image credit:Rock Paper Shotgun Image credit:Rock Paper Shotgun This guide is for a previous day! Looking for today’s solution? Check out theWordle hint and answer for Wednesday 8th January!...

HomeGuidesElden Ring Ansbach questline guide - Elden Ring: Shadow Of The ErdtreeHere’s our full walkthrough of Ansbach’s quest in Shadow Of The Erdtree Here’s our full walkthrough of Ansbach’s quest in Shadow Of The Erdtree Image credit:Rock Paper Shotgun/Bandai Namco Image credit:Rock Paper Shotgun/Bandai Namco Looking for a full rundown of Ansbach’s questline in Elden Ring: Shadow Of The Erdtree?Ansbach has an involvedNPC questlinethat involves a few different characters inShadow Of The Erdtree....

HomeNewsAtari 50: The Anniversary Celebration Atari 50’s already generous retro time capsule will add 39 new games in Expanded Edition this OctoberBringing the total number of games to over 150 Bringing the total number of games to over 150 Image credit:Atari/Digital Eclipse Image credit:Atari/Digital Eclipse Atari 50 was already a fairly comprehensive offering of retro games spanning half a century, launching in late 2022 as a playable museum of sorts charting the classic publisher’s output across arcade machines, the 2600, 5200, 7800 and Jaguar home consoles, 8-bit computers and the Lynx handheld....

HomeNewsDragon Age: The Veilguard Blockbuster games are in the grip of a “fidelity death cult”, says former Dragon Age producerIt’s “a trap that dev teams are kind of laying upon themselves” It’s “a trap that dev teams are kind of laying upon themselves” Image credit:EA Image credit:EA Dragon Age: The Veilguardconsultant and formerDragon Ageexecutive producer Mark Darrah has published a Youtube video addressing the question: “why do AAA games take so long?...