Wordle hints and answer (#1025): How to solve the Tuesday April 9 Wordle

HomeGuidesWordle Wordle hints and answer (#1025): How to solve the Tuesday April 9 WordleStuck on today’s Wordle word for April 9? Read our hint or find the answer below! Stuck on today’s Wordle word for April 9? 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!...

April 9, 2024 · 6 min · 1144 words · Andrew Oliver

World's best/worst wizard physics sim Noita gets terrifying update featuring white holes and... cheese?

HomeNewsNoita World’s best/worst wizard physics sim Noita gets terrifying update featuring white holes and… cheese?Also new bosses, a new biome and new modding features Also new bosses, a new biome and new modding features Image credit:Nolla Games Image credit:Nolla Games Noita! A wizardly 2D dungeon crawler without compare, in both good and deranging ways. Man, it feels like only yesterday I equipped something without looking and suddenly everything that damaged me caused me to teleport at random....

April 9, 2024 · 4 min · 717 words · Susan Parsons

Balatro is getting just a little bit easier in the next patch, and you can try it now

HomeNewsBalatro Balatro is getting just a little bit easier in the next patch, and you can try it nowBeta branch now in public testing with heaps of balance changes Beta branch now in public testing with heaps of balance changes Image credit:Rock Paper Shotgun/Playstack Image credit:Rock Paper Shotgun/Playstack The deck-fixing roguelikelike poker ofBalatrois chuffing excellent, no doubt, but my main criticism has been that the higher difficulty modes are just a bit boring....

April 8, 2024 · 3 min · 596 words · Julia Wade

Baldur’s Gate 3 studio will likely bring their next game to early access again, but admit it’s not for every dev

HomeNewsBaldur’s Gate 3 Image credit:Larian Studios Image credit:Larian Studios It’s odd to think back on a time beforeBaldur’s Gate 3- and even stranger to think that the sprawling Dungeons & DragonsRPGwas actually kicking around for a long while before its 1.0 release blew up awards shows, social media feeds and fan-fiction hubs last summer. Putting the game outinto early access at the end of 2020- multiple years before it was ready for a full release -worked out very wellfor Larian though, so it’s maybe no surprise that they plan to do exactly the same with whatever comes next....

April 8, 2024 · 10 min · 2056 words · Melissa Cowan

Botany Manor review: peaceful and beautiful best-in-show plant puzzles

HomeReviewsBotany Manor Botany Manor review: peaceful and beautiful best-in-show plant puzzlesCome away, O human child! To the waters and the wild Come away, O human child! To the waters and the wild Image credit:Rock Paper Shotgun/Whitethorn Games Image credit:Rock Paper Shotgun/Whitethorn Games Image credit:Rock Paper Shotgun/Whitethorn Games No, you have to make those connections, and take all those steps, for yourself, and many of them are surprising, specific, and lovely. You find a note about roasting chestnuts in the fire, and look at the pot you’re holding with a seed that refused to germinate with water; you cross reference the train ticket you found with the type of wood that grows in that area to create the required type of smoke....

April 8, 2024 · 2 min · 362 words · Walter Coffey

Deep Rock Galactic Season 5 tunnels through time itself and lets you replay old seasons

HomeNewsDeep Rock Galactic Deep Rock Galactic Season 5 tunnels through time itself and lets you replay old seasonsGhost Ship explain the new season reactivation feature Ghost Ship explain the new season reactivation feature Image credit:Coffee Stain Publishing Image credit:Coffee Stain Publishing The developers are also replacing the existing Disable Season Content option with a Vanilla season that has no Performance Pass - it has a “balanced chance” to spawn Events and Warnings from every season....

April 8, 2024 · 3 min · 460 words · Sean Brown

Dragons Dogma 2 has 392 developer credits next to Starfield's 3,902, but credits don't tell the whole story

HomeNewsDragon’s Dogma 2 Dragons Dogma 2 has 392 developer credits next to Starfield’s 3,902, but credits don’t tell the whole storyMaster workers, all Master workers, all Image credit:Rock Paper Shotgun/Capcom Image credit:Rock Paper Shotgun/Capcom Add on top of this the game industry’s decisively shitty practise of not crediting everyone that worked on a game through its lifecycle, alongside DD2’s five year development time, and a clearer picture of just why this number could be so comparatively small starts to emerge....

April 8, 2024 · 1 min · 188 words · Emily Huang

How do we stop the next round of games industry mass layoffs?

HomeFeatures Image credit:Official GDC Image credit:Official GDC The carnage was uppermost in Larian CEO’s Swen Vincke’s mind when he acceptedBaldur’s Gate 3’s Best Narrative gong at the GDC Awards last month. According to Vincke, the layoffs can be traced straightforwardly to a pattern of executive greed that sees company leadership betting the livelihoods and stability of their workers on whatever new idea seems capable of delivering instant growth for shareholders....

April 8, 2024 · 11 min · 2211 words · Sandra Hall

How to get views in Content Warning: Top tips

HomeGuidesContent Warning How to get views in Content Warning: Top tipsHere are our top tips for getting views in Content Warning Here are our top tips for getting views in Content Warning Image credit:Rock Paper Shotgun/Landfall Publishing Image credit:Rock Paper Shotgun/Landfall Publishing Looking to get views in Content Warning?The premise ofContent Warningis to adventure with a party of up to four players into theOld Worldand filmspookyoccurrences. This footage is then uploaded to SpookTube, the game’s main content creation platform....

April 8, 2024 · 4 min · 760 words · Danielle Perez

It looks like the Splinter Cell remake might be about to reappear after years in the dark

HomeNews It looks like the Splinter Cell remake might be about to reappear after years in the darkSam Fisher’s return was sneakily announced two years ago Sam Fisher’s return was sneakily announced two years ago Ubisoft might be taking this whole stealth thing a bit far when it comes to their remake of the originalSplinter Cell. News of Sam Fisher’s returnfirst snuck out at the end of 2021, with little more spotlight than a brief blog post to confirm that, yep, it’s a thing....

April 8, 2024 · 2 min · 363 words · Jordan Arias

Raven Software's cancelled Call of Duty zombies game featured a Mad Max-style gladiator arena

HomeNewsCall of Duty Raven Software’s cancelled Call of Duty zombies game featured a Mad Max-style gladiator arenaLead designer Michael Gummelt spills some beans Lead designer Michael Gummelt spills some beans Image credit:Activision/Aspyr Image credit:Activision/Aspyr A couple of months ago, we learned that Raven Software lead designer Michael Gummelt had worked on a live serviceCall Of Dutyzombies gamebefore it got cancelled. Details were practically non-existent at the time, but YouTuber Glitching Queen recentlyinterviewedGummelt about what the game could’ve become....

April 8, 2024 · 2 min · 313 words · Matthew Hess

Screenshot Saturday Mondays: Side-dive, slide, and spin until you spew

HomeFeatures Screenshot Saturday Mondays: Side-dive, slide, and spin until you spewI go on Twitter so you don’t have to I go on Twitter so you don’t have to Image credit:Sprinkle Games Image credit:Sprinkle Games I’ve been a bit lukewarm onKiller Bean(coming to Steam), having previously only seen its third-person camera mode, but this first-person action is oh hello: See through the eyes of KILLER BEAN in first person mode!Wishlist Killer Bean on#Steam!...

April 8, 2024 · 6 min · 1075 words · Michelle Park

The Fallout TV show already has a second season in the works, it seems

HomeNewsFallout The Fallout TV show already has a second season in the works, it seemsCould it focus on the New California Republic? Could it focus on the New California Republic? Image credit:Amazon Image credit:Amazon Amazon’sFalloutTV series is yet to even premiere - it hitsPrime Videolater this week, on April 11th - but it already looks set tofollow The Last of Usin being the next big-budget post-apocalyptic video game adaptation with a second season in development....

April 8, 2024 · 1 min · 209 words · Laura Ward