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HomeGuidesNYT Connections Connections hints and answers for Sun, October 13thNeed some Connections hints today? Read our guide for help with Connections #489. Need some Connections hints today? Read our guide for help with Connections #489. 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 13th October?...

HomeFeatures Image credit:Wikimedia/S.J. de Waard Image credit:Wikimedia/S.J. de Waard Wait! Before you throw up in your lap at the merest mention of buckets - I know, I strongly dislike many things that I then go on to evangelize at length - this is actually, potentially, unbelievably super duper exciting when it comes to not having to engage with any art on its own terms ever again. If your algorithm looks anything like mine (and what a weird turn of phrase that is, especially as you don’t actually look at an algorithm, you look at the results of an algorithm) then you’ll have seen ‘bucket gaming’ (or ‘bucking’) all over the internet, where traditional game playing is fed through the medium of a big fucking bucket the player wears on their heads....

HomeFeatures What’s on your bookshelf: Remedy Entertainment, Bioshock 2, and Gone Home’s Johnnemann Nordhagenread-only read-only Image credit:oldbookillustrations.com Image credit:oldbookillustrations.com Booked For The Weekis our weekly chat with industry folk about the books they love, have loved, and are hoping to love in the future. Hello reader who is also a reader, and welcome back to Booked For The Week - our regular Sunday chat with a selection of cool industry folks about books!...

HomeGuidesWordle Wordle hints and answer (#1212): How to solve the Sunday October 13 WordleStuck on today’s Wordle word for October 13? Read our hint or find the answer below! Stuck on today’s Wordle word for October 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!...

HomeGuidesNYT Connections Connections hints and answers for Sat, October 12thNeed some Connections hints today? Read our guide for help with Connections #488. Need some Connections hints today? Read our guide for help with Connections #488. 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 12th October?...

HomeNewsEuropa Europa is out now, offering a Ghibli-inspired world in which to fly and solve puzzles[rubs thighs] Europa-pa-pa-pa [rubs thighs] Europa-pa-pa-pa Image credit:Helder Pinto Image credit:Helder Pinto “Studio Ghibli” is a genre of game, in the same way “Aliens” and “Blade Runner” are genres of game. Blue skies, wind rustling grass that’s a just-so shade of green, a preoccupation with flight? Welcome to Ghibli town, friend. You’ll find all of the above and several other familiar pieces of iconography inEuropa, a puzzle and story-led adventure that’s out now....

HomeNewsThronefall Image credit:GrizzlyGames Image credit:GrizzlyGames Thronefallis a pleasant, minimalist mashup of tower defence and strategy, in which you build up a base during the day then defend it from monstrous hordes at night. It launched in Early Access in August last year and has been wooing people with its cool colour palette ever since. Now it’s hit 1.0. The 1.0 update adds three new levels, new weapons including a battle axe and blood wand, and some quality-of-life changes, including the ability to peek at future enemy waves so you can plan your defences accordingly....

HomeGuidesWordle Wordle hints and answer (#1211): How to solve the Saturday October 12 WordleStuck on today’s Wordle word for October 12? Read our hint or find the answer below! Stuck on today’s Wordle word for October 12? 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!...

It happens more than you might expect Image credit:Far Far Games Image credit:Far Far Games It’s a single player actionRPG, to start with - a genre I’m always interested in watching evolve in ways not tied to its usual form as a good-boy-points-vomiting loot casino. It’s also based on Slavic folklore, something that’s not too uncommon but strikes a wonderful mix between blackly funny whimsy and intense dread when done right....

HomeGuidesNYT Connections Connections hints and answers for Fri, October 11thNeed some Connections hints today? Read our guide for help with Connections #487. Need some Connections hints today? Read our guide for help with Connections #487. 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 11th October?...

HomeDeals Corsair MP600 2TB Mini SSD just hit its lowest price ever on Amazon—it’s perfect for Steam DeckSet on upgrading your internal storage? Here’s a deal that’ll save you some cash. Set on upgrading your internal storage? Here’s a deal that’ll save you some cash. If you care about my opinion, I generally still think sticking with amicro SD is the safer and simpler option for Steam Deckstorage, but if you’re set on upgrading the internal SSD of your handheld, the Corsair MP600 CORE Mini 2TB SSD is your best bet, now down to$129....

HomeNewsFootball Manager 2025 Football Manager 2025 has been delayed until March 2025, to avoid “compromising our usual standards"The series is moving to a new engine The series is moving to a new engine Image credit:Sports Interactive Image credit:Sports Interactive I was a few days late with the news when I wrotelast weekthatFootball Manager 2025had confirmed its release date for this November. Now I know that I shouldn’t have bothered: Sports Interactive have now delayed FM2025 until March 2025....

HomeNewsDisco Elysium Former Disco Elysium devs are working on a spiritual successor at new studio Longdue, though Robert Kurvitz and Aleksander Rostov aren’t involvedLong due indeed Long due indeed Image credit:ZA/UM Image credit:ZA/UM A representative of Longdue told us that “the studio isn’t ready to talk about specific names at the moment beyond the people mentioned in the press release, but they are looking forward to sharing more about the game and the studio in the future”....