HomeNewsHelldivers The Helldivers 2 bot faction has been eradicated. What do now?I’ve seen Battlestar Galactica, I don’t trust what’s going on here at all I’ve seen Battlestar Galactica, I don’t trust what’s going on here at all Image credit:Arrowhead Image credit:Arrowhead Exciting news for the future of everyone’s favouriteco-opshooter that isn’tlegallyan adaptation of Starship Troopers. A few days ago,Helldivers 2issued a new major order to annihilate the Automatons, who had been pushed back like never before....

HomeNews The Maw - 8th-13th AprilOur weekly news liveblog, with this week’s freshest videogame releases Our weekly news liveblog, with this week’s freshest videogame releases Image credit:Internet Archive Book Images Image credit:Internet Archive Book Images Time for another sorry week of heaving news-fuel into the Maw’s thousand-and-one gullets and urgh, what’s that brooding stench? It reeks of embargoes in here. The air is foul with it. This week is the week of the inauguralTriple-I Initiative showcase, aka the IIIIs, aka a 45-minute dollop of trailers and announcements from such studios as Slay The Spire creators MegaCrit andDarkest Dungeondevelopers Red Hook....

HomeGuides Today’s NYT Connections hint and answers (Monday, April 8)Need a hint for today’s Connections? Read our guide for help with Connections #302 Need a hint for today’s Connections? Read our guide for help with Connections #302 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....

HomeGuidesWordle Today’s Wordle hints and answer (#1024): How to solve the Monday April 8 WordleStuck on today’s Wordle word for April 8? Read our hint or find the answer below! Stuck on today’s Wordle word for April 8? 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!...

HomeNewsBuckshot Roulette Unnerving £2 gem Buckshot Roulette is working on a multiplayer mode so you can play shotgun roulette with palsIt’s just hit Steam, too It’s just hit Steam, too Image credit:Mike Klubnika Image credit:Mike Klubnika Buckshot Rouletteis simple, and simply unsettling. Sat across the table from a mysterious opponent clad in a deeply unnerving toothy mask, you pick up a shotgun loaded with shells. Then, you decide whether to point the gun at your opponent or yourself, and pull the trigger....

HomeNews Use an inclined railway to purge demons in this Dreamcast-ish Meiji-set action oddityNo weapons, just a very slow elevator No weapons, just a very slow elevator Image credit:Gudouan Image credit:Gudouan “Who will rid me of these tiresome overfamiliar combat systems!” I bellow from my balcony over the castle square. From far away across the sea comes the response: “in our game, your primary ‘weapon’ is a sloping railway”. The game in question is Incline ～Railway of devil’s valley～ and yes, it has an incredibly irritating English-language title, but how about that red-hot funicular action in the trailer?...

HomeFeatures World Of Warcraft wasn’t the biggest threat to The Elder Scrolls Online; it was SkyrimCreative director Rich Lambert tells us about ten years in Tamriel Creative director Rich Lambert tells us about ten years in Tamriel Image credit:Zenimax Online Studios Image credit:Zenimax Online Studios When Bethesda was working out how to turn their popular Elder ScrollsRPGsinto an online behemoth to rivalWorld Of Warcraftback in the late 00s, the initial pitch was “Elder Scrolls with friends,” creative director Rich Lambert tells me....

HomeNews Yoshi-P says it’s “about time” for more Final Fantasy Tactics, does not mention Vagrant StoryI repeat, does not mention Vagrant Story I repeat, does not mention Vagrant Story Image credit:Square Enix Image credit:Square Enix Final Fantasy 16andFinal Fantasy 14boss Naoki Yoshida hastold The Gamerthat he reckons “It’s probably about time,” for a newFinal Fantasy Tacticsgame.The hint at some long term wish fulfillment came up during an interview with The Gamer’s Gabrielle Castania, in which Naoki ‘Yoshi-P’ Yoshida spoke aboutFinal Fantasy16’s upcoming The Rising Tide DLC, alongside DLC director Takeo Kujiraoka and localisation director Michael-Christoper Koji Fox....

HomeGuides NYT Connections hint and answers (Sunday, April 7)Need a hint for today’s Connections? Read our guide for help with Connections #301 Need a hint for today’s Connections? Read our guide for help with Connections #301 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....

HomeGuidesWordle Wordle hints and answer (#1023): How to solve the Sunday April 7 WordleStuck on today’s Wordle word for April 7? Read our hint or find the answer below! Stuck on today’s Wordle word for April 7? 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!...

HomeNewsFrostpunk 2 Frostpunk 2’s closed beta kicks off April 15th for those willing to pre-orderIt’ll run for a week It’ll run for a week Image credit:11 bit Studios Image credit:11 bit Studios Chilly survival citybuilderFrostpunk 2is due to release on July 25th, but you technically don’t have to wait that long to get your fingers cold. There’s a beta coming later this month, playable between April 15th and the 22nd, if only you’re willing to pre-order the digital deluxe edition....

HomeNews Gears 6 announcement coming in June showcase, says reportAlongside release dates for other major Xbox series Alongside release dates for other major Xbox series Image credit:Xbox Game Studios Image credit:Xbox Game Studios Microsoft are thought to be holding an Xbox showcase alongside Summer Games Fest and the event-week-formerly-known-as-E3. The Verge reports that a new Gears Of War will be announced at the show, alongside release dates forMicrosoft Flight Simulator 2024,Avowed, Indiana Jones And The GReat Circle, and a new Call Of Duty....

HomeNewsNo Plan B No Plan B offers close combat tactics in a brutal roguelike campaignOr less-brutal standalone missions Or less-brutal standalone missions Image credit:GFX47 Image credit:GFX47 I like close combat tactics, directing troop actions on a timeline, and breaching and clearing, but a recent revisit toDoor Kickersrevealed I no longer had the patience for its fiddly UI and grim scenarios. No Plan Blooks intriguing, then, for featuring all of the things mentioned above that I like, an unknown quantity of the things I don’t, and for having released on Steam this week....