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HomeGuides NYT Connections hint and answers (Monday, February 5)Need a hint for Connections? Read our guide for help with Connections #239 Need a hint for Connections? Read our guide for help with Connections #239 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....

HomeGuidesPalworld Palworld: Best Pals for TransportingHere are our picks for the best Pals for Transporting in Palworld Here are our picks for the best Pals for Transporting in Palworld Image credit:Rock Paper Shotgun/Pocketpair Image credit:Rock Paper Shotgun/Pocketpair Want to know which Pals in Palworld are best at Transporting?Transporting doesn’t initially seem like the most exciting Work Suitability skill inPalworld- after all, it’s technically just moving harvested items into storage containers.However, initial impressions are deceiving!...

HomeGuidesPalworld Palworld: How to get Pure QuartzHere’s how to get Pure Quartz in Palworld Here’s how to get Pure Quartz in Palworld Image credit:Rock Paper Shotgun/Pockerpair Image credit:Rock Paper Shotgun/Pockerpair Want to know how to get Pure Quartz in Palworld?One of the late game crafting materials inPalworldis Pure Quartz, which is used to build the Circuit Boards that you ultimately need to automate your base. Pure Quartz is elusive and fairly tricky to acquire, and chances are you’ll need to venture into the Astral Mountains,Palworld’s northern snow-covered zone, to mine it....

HomeNews Respawn are “thinking about Titanfall a lot,” even if it’s to serve Apex LegendsCallbacks must be “thoughtful and respectful,” says Apex narrative chief Callbacks must be “thoughtful and respectful,” says Apex narrative chief Image credit:Respawn Entertainment Image credit:Respawn Entertainment Like manyTitanfallenjoyers, I look at the gleaming success of battle royale spinoffApex Legendswith both a smidge of pride and a gutful of sadness that I haven’t had any wall-running, mech-droppingFPSadventures since....

HomeNewsRoblox Roblox adds instant text translation using AI, plans to apply the tech to voice chatHypothetical real-time translation of voices would aim to match speaker’s rhythm and intonation Hypothetical real-time translation of voices would aim to match speaker’s rhythm and intonation Image credit:Roblox Image credit:Roblox To see this content please enable targeting cookies.Manage cookie settings To see this content please enable targeting cookies.Manage cookie settings The AI-powered tech allows for Roblox-specific slang and lingo on top of everyday conversation, as well as allowing for typos and abbreviations, with the Roblox developers breaking down their use of a language learning model in adetailed blog post....

HomeFeatures Screenshot Saturday Mondays: Flushing the urinal and kiting the rat ballI go on Twitter so you don’t have to I go on Twitter so you don’t have to Image credit:Frogman Interactive Image credit:Frogman Interactive 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. We’re a bit short this week because of the rolling technical disaster that is modern Twitter, but I’ve still enjoyed ogling everything from a must-have immersive sim feature and a very unpleasant nighttime drive to lovely simulated water and strange spaceship shenanigans....

HomeNewsTarnished Blood Tarnished Blood is Darkest Dungeon meets Monster Hunter with a fancy timeline mechanicAnd there’s a demo And there’s a demo Image credit:Galaktus/Nakayama Games Image credit:Galaktus/Nakayama Games If you’d told me back in 1999 that a rudimentary grasp of sound editing software would stand me in surprisingly good stead as astrategygame player, I’d have asked you who the hell you are and what you’re doing in my house. But in the years that followed, after you’d been sent to the slammer for crashing through my window bellowing about cheap Audible subscriptions, I might have checked out games likeGhost TrickandPhantom Brigade- each sort of an exercise in placing actions on a timeline like audio layers to produce a winning composition - and thought “hey, that hysterical burglar was onto something”....

HomeNews The Maw - 5th-10th February 2024Our weekly newsblog with this week’s top videogame releases Our weekly newsblog with this week’s top videogame releases Image credit:Wikimedia Commons/José Guadalupe Posada Image credit:Wikimedia Commons/José Guadalupe Posada The clouds over London have settled into the shapes of loading icons. The birds are singing old Celtic ditties. There are extinct species of fern growing through the vents of my i7 12700F. All these troubling signs point to but one, dire outcome: it’s time for another week of new videogame releases, and another week of feeding videogame gossip and reportage to the Maw, our weekly news liveblog....

HomeNewsFootgun Underground This roguelike has you batter mutants with ricocheting footballsA solid pitch A solid pitch Image credit:Turtle Knight Games/CobraTekku Games Image credit:Turtle Knight Games/CobraTekku Games I’ve never been a true “Football Enjoyer”. I’ll weirdly get into it at certain times, like when the World Cup is on and I get suckered into the belief that, “It’s actually coming home this time”. But maybe Icouldbe a football enjoyer, now that there’s a roguelike out there that combines football skills with room-clearing....

HomeGuidesWordle Wordle hints and answer (#961): How to solve the Monday February 5 WordleStuck on the Wordle word for February 5? Read our hint or find the answer below! Stuck on the Wordle word for February 5? 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, February 4)Need a hint for today’s Connections? Read our guide for help with Connections #238 Need a hint for today’s Connections? Read our guide for help with Connections #238 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 (#960): How to solve the Sunday February 4 WordleStuck on today’s Wordle word for February 4? Read our hint or find the answer below! Stuck on today’s Wordle word for February 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!...

HomeNewsFinal Factory Final Factory is Factorio in space, with exploration and fleet combatA demo is available now A demo is available now Image credit:Never Games Image credit:Never Games Final Factoryseems expansive as far as factory builders go, given that it features not just the sprawling bases you expect but also spaceship construction, interstellar exploration and fleet combat. On the other hand, as far as 2D, topdown space games go, it seems much more approachable than most....