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HomeGuides NYT Connections hint and answers (Monday, March 4)Need a hint for today’s Connections? Read our guide for help with Connections #267 Need a hint for today’s Connections? Read our guide for help with Connections #267 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....

HomeNewsEco Save-the-world sim Eco’s 1.0 plans include oil spills, garbage collection and a bustling art sceneDeveloper Strange Loop Games details the roadmap out of early access Developer Strange Loop Games details the roadmap out of early access Image credit:Strange Loop Games Image credit:Strange Loop Games Ecois a very ambitious, wildly reactive multiplayersurvivalgame in which you try to save the world without accidentally destroying it. There’s a meteor scheduled to slamdunk the planet in 30 days, and in that time, you and your fellow players must progress from raising log cabins in the woods to building the means to develop technologies that might somehow avert the apocalypse....

HomeFeatures Screenshot Saturday Mondays: ASCII tears and undersea fearsI go on Twitter so you don’t have to I go on Twitter so you don’t have to Image credit:@stuffbecauseidk Image credit:@stuffbecauseidk Every weekend, indie devs show off current work on Twitter’s#screenshotsaturdaytag. And every Monday, I bring you a selection of these snaps and clips. This week, despite Twitter throwing a wobbly and doing its best to keep me from taking a good look at the tag, I still found plenty of interesting and attractive indie games to admire....

HomeNewsSixty Four Sixty Four is a very elegant abstract factory sim with sinister depthsOut today Out today Image credit:Playsaurus Image credit:Playsaurus It starts, much as when writing articles for videogame websites, with a blank page. More accurately, a white space of indefinite extent. In the middle of the white space there is a curious little yellow machine, a kind of motorised plunger akin to an oil derrick. In the story ofSixty Four, you’re late to some kind of social engagement, somewhere beyond that beaming expanse of whiteness....

HomeNews Suika Shapes adds co-op multiplayer and a polygonal twist to the viral Watermelon GamePlus a whole lot of modes and modifiers to play with Plus a whole lot of modes and modifiers to play with Image credit:Zankai Image credit:Zankai Suika isthe puzzle giftthat keeps on giving. The viralWatermelon Gamethat launched a thousand non-Switch-exclusive clones has added another promising offering to its line-up ofSuika-liketwists on the simple fruit-merging game.To see this content please enable targeting cookies....

HomeNewsSynduality Synduality is like Armored Core as an extraction shooter, with a closed beta later this monthIts gameplay trailer has me exhausted already Its gameplay trailer has me exhausted already Image credit:Bandai Namco Image credit:Bandai Namco As a man in my thirties, the idea of going to a club is exhausting to think about nowadays, let alone do. I was thinking about this as I watched the new trailer forSynduality: Echo of Ada, a mech extractionshooterI would probably gladly play instead of going out - but is nevertheless very exhausting to watch itself, at least in this glimpse....

HomeNews That 189GB Epic Games “hack” may have been a scam aimed at other hackersSelf-described “ransomware” hackers now self-describe as “professional fraudsters”, reportedly Self-described “ransomware” hackers now self-describe as “professional fraudsters”, reportedly Image credit:Epic Image credit:Epic Last week’s allegedEpic Games hackwas a scam, so-called “ransomware” group Mogilevich have confessed, or at least, are reported to have confessed in a self-congratulary new statement. The group have not, it now seems, stolen a bunch of login data, WIP software and payment information from the creators ofFortnite; they were only pretending to have done so with a view to duping other hackers into buying their tools....

HomeNews The Maw - 4th-9th March 2024Our weekly news liveblog, with this week’s most appetising videogame releases Our weekly news liveblog, with this week’s most appetising videogame releases Image credit:Wendel Dietterlin, the Younger/Rock Paper Shotgun Image credit:Wendel Dietterlin, the Younger/Rock Paper Shotgun New week, new videogames, new newsblog. It’s another relatively quiet week for big name PC releases - no mega-sequels or adaptations, unless you’reseriouslyinto the Moomins - but if 2024 has taught me anything it’s that a breakout hit can come from anywhere, and I will accordingly be watching this week’s new games with deep suspicion and barely constrained panic....

HomeNewsThe Sims 4 The Sims 4 now has some tie-in jewellery, which I both hate and admireDon’t buy it though Don’t buy it though Image credit:EA Image credit:EA I’m a bit of a connoisseur of games tat, because most of it is yer standard “squinting statuette that collects dust on your matelpiece” and, like, an aged map, and whatever. Thus I quite like it when a game does something different (likeBanishers doing a quillpen, although that isn’t like, a big feature of the game or anything)....

HomeReviewsThe Thaumaturge The Thaumaturge review: a knotty detective RPG brewed in a rich, historical melting potMonsters in my pocket Monsters in my pocket Image credit:Rock Paper Shotgun/11 Bit Studios Image credit:Rock Paper Shotgun/11 Bit Studios Viewed from a top-down perspective, The Thaumaturge presents a detailed vision of early twentieth century Warsaw. |Image credit:Rock Paper Shotgun/11 Bit Studios When gathering evidence, Wiktor can use his thaumaturgy senses to reveal hidden details in the environment, sensing hidden emotions imbued in leftover objects that can evocatively captured in brief snippets of text....

HomeNewsTribes 3: Rivals Tribes soars out of the grave once again with Tribes 3: Rivals entering early access next weekYet another studio take a crack at Tribes, kinda Yet another studio take a crack at Tribes, kinda Image credit:Rock Paper Shotgun/Prophecy Games Image credit:Rock Paper Shotgun/Prophecy Games The fast-paced flag-capturing FPS series Tribes will return from the dead once again next week with the early access launch ofTribes 3: Rivals. Over the weekend, developers Prophecy Games announced March 12th is the date, with the full launch to follow after up to a year....

HomeGuidesWordle Wordle hints and answer (#989): How to solve the Monday March 4 WordleStuck on today’s Wordle word for March 4? Read our hint or find the answer below! Stuck on today’s Wordle word for March 4? 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!...

HomeGuides NYT Connections hint and answers (Sunday, March 3)Need a hint for today’s Connections? Read our guide for help with Connections #266 Need a hint for today’s Connections? Read our guide for help with Connections #266 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....