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HomeNews The Maw - 15th-20th January 2024Our weekly news liveblog Our weekly news liveblog Image credit:Internet Archive Book Images Image credit:Internet Archive Book Images Here are some other new games out in the next five days which we are holding to our ears and shaking gently: Victorian steampunk RPGSovereign Syndicate(15 Jan), analog horror call centre simulatorHome Safety Hotline(16 Jan), 4X god simDominions 6(17 Jan), paranormal spec ops FPSContain(16 Jan, early access), roguelike auto-battlerThe Last Flame(17 Jan, early access), turn-based strategy RPGAll Quiet In The Trenches(17 Jan), post-apocalyptic town builderNew Cycle(18 Jan), comedic action-adventure sequelTurnip Boy Robs A Bank(18 Jan), Pokemon shoxploitation simPalworld(19th Jan, early access)....

HomeNews This week’s Games Done Quick 2024 includes Starfield, Baldur’s Gate 3 and the world’s first speedrunning dogAlong with a race between Elden Ring and Sekiro Along with a race between Elden Ring and Sekiro Image credit:JSR via YouTube Image credit:JSR via YouTube Charity speedrunning extravaganzaGames Done Quickhas kicked off its first week-long event for 2024. Among the highlights are speedy plays of 2023 highlights includingStarfield,Baldur’s Gate 3andLies of P, along with a marathon from the world’s first canine speedrunner....

HomeNewsTwilight Oracle Try the demo of this retro-style point and click adventure and embrace the rainbowTwilight Oracle lives life in full colour Twilight Oracle lives life in full colour Image credit:Rock Paper Shotgun / Cosmic Void Image credit:Rock Paper Shotgun / Cosmic Void I mentioned this in aWhat Are We Playing?andthe podcast last week, but I’ve been playing a point and clickpuzzlegame calledTwilight Oracle, which is out at the end of the month....

HomeNewsWar Hospital War Hospital, out now, is a tug-of-war between empathy and efficiencyWorth a triage Worth a triage Image credit:Nacon Image credit:Nacon War Hospital | Launch TrailerWatch on YouTube War Hospital | Launch Trailer You have to triage them so that the most pressing cases are seen first, guesstimating how long it’ll take them to deteriorate based on the UI’s calculatedly imprecise visual language, while also ensuring that your doctors, nurses and medics don’t work for so long that they collapse, which entails a lengthy recuperation period....

HomeNews Widespread layoffs reported at Embracer and Gearbox-owned Lost Boys InteractiveBorderlands 3 and Tiny Tina’s Wonderland studio lose staff “at all levels” Borderlands 3 and Tiny Tina’s Wonderland studio lose staff “at all levels” Developers affected have been posting about the layoffs on Linkedin, though neither Embracer nor the studio’s immediate owner Gearbox have confirmed the news. “It seems a sizable portion of Lost Boys Interactive was laid off today, including myself,” former producer Jared Pacewrote on Friday....

HomeGuidesWordle Wordle hints and answer (#940): How to solve the Monday January 15 WordleStuck on today’s Wordle word for January 15? Read our hint or find the answer below! Stuck on today’s Wordle word for January 15? 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, January 14)Need a hint for today’s Connections? Read our guide for help with Connections #217 Need a hint for today’s Connections? Read our guide for help with Connections #217 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 (#939): How to solve the Sunday January 14 WordleStuck on today’s Wordle word for January 14? Read our hint or find the answer below! Stuck on today’s Wordle word for January 14? 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!...

HomeNewsDominions 6 Dominions 6 expands the already packed 4X series next weekPretender gods rise up Pretender gods rise up Image credit:Illwinter Game Design Image credit:Illwinter Game Design Dominions 6was announcedlast year, with promise that the latest iteration of the complex 4X god-battler would be thick with UI and quality-of-life improvements. I dared to dream of a game that was more accessible than Dominions 4, the last in the series I played....

HomeGuides NYT Connections hint and answers (Saturday, January 13)Need a hint for today’s Connections? Read our guide for help with Connections #216 Need a hint for today’s Connections? Read our guide for help with Connections #216 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....

HomeNewsOverwatch 2 Overwatch 2 is going to let non-support players heal themselves, to reduce the frustration of bad teamworkMercy me Mercy me Overwatch 2is going to receive some changes designed to make teamwork easier, and to makebadteamwork less frustrating. The latter is more interesting, because one of Blizzard’s proposed solution is giving Tank and Damage heroes “a modified, tuned-down version of the Support self-healing passive”, which would make them less reliant on Support players to heal everyone....

HomeNewsStarfield Starfield’s biggest update so far focuses on bug fixes, launches in beta next weekAlso “numerous graphic improvements” Also “numerous graphic improvements” Image credit:Bethesda Game Studios Image credit:Bethesda Game Studios Bethesda has already laid out their update schedule forStarfieldin 2024, which includesupdates every six weeks beginning in February. There’s an update coming before that, however, and arriving on the Steam beta branch next week. It won’t add major new features but includes “over 100 fixes and improvements”....

HomeGuidesWordle Wordle hints and answer (#938): How to solve the Saturday January 13 WordleStuck on today’s Wordle word for January 13? Read our hint or find the answer below! Stuck on today’s Wordle word for January 13? 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!...