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HomeGuidesNYT Connections NYT Connections hints and answers for Fri, November 22ndNeed some Connections hints today? Read our guide for help with Connections #529. Need some Connections hints today? Read our guide for help with Connections #529. 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! Looking for a hint to help with today’s Connections puzzle on 22nd November?...

Stalker 2’s bulletsponge mutants can be nerfed with this handy mod, saving you precious roundsDogged determination Dogged determination Image credit:Rock Paper Shotgun / GSC Game World Image credit:Rock Paper Shotgun / GSC Game World It’s not the only mod that has cropped up. It’s only been a few days since the game’s release but already we have a mod that willreduce the painfully high repair costsof your guns and armour, another that lets yousprint for longerwithout getting tired, and even one that introducesslow motion “bullet time"to the game....

HomeNewsFactorio The Factorio dev’s next game may take inspiration from World Of WarcraftAn MMOFB, then? An MMOFB, then? Image credit:Rock Paper Shotgun/Wube Software Image credit:Rock Paper Shotgun/Wube Software A little teaser story to end the week, care ofMawreader MiniMatt.Factoriodevs Wube Software have dropped the vaguest of hints about their next game project, or at least, shared one of their current inspirations: World Of Warcraft.The news comes in the shape of awrap-up articleabout the Factorio Space Age expansion, which we think ispretty decent....

HomeFeatures The RPS 101rd best game on PCThe games we wish had made the top 100 if it wasn’t horribly rigged The games we wish had made the top 100 if it wasn’t horribly rigged Image credit:Rock Paper Shotgun / Daedalic Entertainment Image credit:Rock Paper Shotgun / Daedalic Entertainment That there are more than 100 entire PC games is a revelation as shocking as it is disturbing, but despite recently spending days translating Horace’s sonorous yawps into the list that eventually became ourRPS 100, a chill silence recently befell the treehouse when we realised that some of our personal favourites had somehow been excluded....

HomeNewsMedieval 2: Total War Turn Medieval II: Total War into Redwall with this Mossflower TW modCheese is encouraged Cheese is encouraged Image credit:FleshEatingBeans Image credit:FleshEatingBeans Mossflower Total War: A Redwall Mod For Medieval 2 Total War!Watch on YouTube Mossflower Total War: A Redwall Mod For Medieval 2 Total War! ModderFleshEatingBeansdescribes Mossflower TW as “a campaign themed around the titular Redwall novel”. I’m not sure exactly how many different beasties you’ll be able to recruit, but at a glance, I count mice, hedgehogs, otters and…wait!...

HomeGuidesWordle Wordle hints and answer (#1252): How to solve the Friday November 22 WordleStuck on today’s Wordle word for November 22? Read our hint or find the answer below! Stuck on today’s Wordle word for November 22? 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!...

HomeNewsKill The Man In The House You’ll never guess what you do in Kill The Man In The HouseA short, colourful FPS experiment with a free demo A short, colourful FPS experiment with a free demo Image credit:cannibal Image credit:cannibal Kill The Man In The Houseis a video game title I can get behind. It tells me exactly what I need to do before I even boot up the game, which is otherwise powerfully weird-looking....

HomeNewsAssassin’s Creed Shadows Assassin’s Creed Shadows outlines its stealth systems - which luckily includes the ability to hide in shadowsAlso the return of double assassinations Also the return of double assassinations Image credit:Ubisoft Image credit:Ubisoft Assassin’s Creed Shadowsis making changes to how it handles stealth, versus other games in the long-running series. Gone is the companion eagle who can spot enemies for you, for a start; instead, players can hide in the - hey - shadows, lie on their tummies for the first time, and make use of a “shinobi and assassin arsenal” of smoke bombs and bells....

HomeFeaturesAvowed Avowed’s rickety combat feels like the undoing of its lush fungal worldBut perhaps it’ll grow on me, like the fungus But perhaps it’ll grow on me, like the fungus Image credit:Microsoft Image credit:Microsoft I have no idea how novel thisreallyis within the overarching Pillars world of Eora. Speaking as a newcomer to the setting, it was enough to keep me fussing around in the editor for half-an-hour. There’s a predictable price for embracing the game’s New Weird elements, however: other characters might find you repellent....

Here’s a S.T.A.L.K.E.R. 2 performance and settings guide I hope gets out of date really fastAnomalous material Anomalous material Image credit:Rock Paper Shotgun/GSC Game World Image credit:Rock Paper Shotgun/GSC Game World That makes my usual new-game performance analysis/settings guide song and dance harder to pull off, with or without theappropriate soundtrack. Is S.T.A.L.K.E.R. 2 in such dire technical straits that we should wait for a few patches before giving it a shake?...

If one thing works in S.T.A.L.K.E.R. 2, it’s the incomprehensible name generator for random NPCsAn exhaustive-ish list of its finest goon handles An exhaustive-ish list of its finest goon handles Image credit:Rock Paper Shotgun/GSC Game World Image credit:Rock Paper Shotgun/GSC Game World Because your life partly depends on relieving slain foes of their belongings, S.T.A.L.K.E.R. 2 encourages you to get up close and looty with these blokes, meaning you end up spending a lot of time reading goofy nicknames....

HomeGuidesNYT Connections NYT Connections hints and answers for Thu, November 21stNeed some Connections hints? Read our guide for help with Connections #528. Need some Connections hints? Read our guide for help with Connections #528. 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! Looking for a hint to help with today’s Connections puzzle on 21st November?...

HomeNewsOverthrown Overthrown is a city builder where you can throw your whole city at the sky because secretly, you hate city buildersAlso supports six player co-op Also supports six player co-op Image credit:Maximum Entertainment Image credit:Maximum Entertainment Overthrown - Gameplay Teaser TrailerWatch on YouTube Overthrown - Gameplay Teaser Trailer The crown doesn’t just give you superhuman strength. It also lets you sprint so fast that you can run on water. Combine your superhuman speed with your superhuman strength, and you have the means to accelerate the generic business of, say, turning trees into lumber....