Need some Connections hints? Read our guide for help with Connections #432. This guide is for a previous day! Looking for today’s solution? Check out theConnections hint and answers for Thursday 12th December! Looking for a hint to help with today’s Connections puzzle on 17th August?Luckily for you we have several. Below is a list of clues to help you figure out the Connection groups for today along with the answers themselves if you get really stuck....

Initial D(emo) JDM: Rise Of The Scorpion is a free prologue forJDM: Japanese Drift Master, a racing game about - who could guess - drift racing in Japan. It’s got an open world set in rural towns to burn rubber around as well as several story missions to play. You candownload it from Steam now. Does “prologue” just mean this is a demo? Well, it’s certainly designed to demonstrate the world and driving of the full game, but its story is also acting as an actual prologue, telling a separate story about a different protagonist than Japanese Drift Master proper....

Mojang “hard at work to restore the service globally” Minecraft’s Realms servers have been down for most of the past four days. Mojang’s official account for reporting service status updates noted that “intermittent failures or slowdowns” began on August 13th, and despite similarly intermittent reports of uptime in the days since, the servers remain inaccessible to most players today. “You may experience intermittent failures or slowdowns connecting to Realms. We are actively working to resolve this,” the Mojang Status accounttweeted on Tuesday....

Via Steam and Meta I’ve got a real soft spot forTrombone Champ, a rhythm game about tooting along to music that works perfectly with the mouse. I’m also a huge fan ofBeat Saber, a rhythm game in which you slice at blocks that whizz towards you in VR. This is a no brainer: yes, I will hold my hands in front of me as if holding a trombone, and parp most virtually....

Stuck on the Wordle word for August 17? Read our hint or find the answer below! This guide is for a previous day! Looking for today’s solution? Check out theWordle hint and answer for Thursday 12th December! Need a hint for today’s Wordle answer?We have a list of hints to keep that precious streak in shape and save any word-based disappointment. Every day,Wordlepresents its legions of players with a deviously simple quandary: can you guess the right five-letter word within just six guesses?...

They’ll be “smaller and more customized” in future For years, our PC storage has wobbled and buckled beneath the tyranny ofgigantic Call Of Duty installs. Like 13th century peasants straining to convey huge, teetering loads of freshly quarried LMGs, our SSDs cry out for justice. Perhaps scenting imminent rebellion and a mass audience desertion to low-poly shooters with more civilised file sizes, Activision have relented. Future installations of the much-paddedFPSwill be “smaller and more customised”, though in a last cruel stroke of villainy, they want you to download a large update to prepare the ground....

Aping the competition Black Myth: Wukongis an actionRPGthat leans a bit into the Souls camp and a bit into the adventure camp. And either way, it’s a spectacular journey that works for mostly everyone: those after challenging fights against Chinese mythological creatures, and those after the same thing, but with a little less challenge than your typicalSoulslikes. What separates Black Myth from the crowd, though, is its slick presentation and a sense of generosity....

Need some Connections hints? Read our guide for help with Connections #431. This guide is for a previous day! Looking for today’s solution? Check out theConnections hint and answers for Thursday 12th December! Looking for a hint to help with today’s Connections puzzle on 16th August?Connections can turn from light entertainment to pure frustration sooner than you think. If you’re stuck on today’s word list we have a range of hints below along with all word groups revealed to help you out....

I’m going to need a shorter working week There you are, rambling through the woods of Interactive Entertainment with an empty pack and a spring in your step. Here I am, lying in wait behind a tree. Wham! Bam! You reel back in consternation as I bounce into the path and clobber you with a sack containing no less than eight venerableRPGs, fromBaldur’s GatetoWarhammer 40,000: Rogue’s Trader- well over a thousand hours worth of dungeons, dragons, dicerolls, dwarven shopkeepers and many other things I refuse to spend time alliterating, all of which will (currently) set you back just £32....

Most recent Steam user reviews are Mostly Negative Crytek’s sweaty and superlativesurvivalboss-rush shooterHunt: Showdownhas been relaunched as Hunt: Showdown 1896, introducing a comprehensive technological update alongside a chronological leap forward to a new map in the Rocky Mountains of Colorado. As is tradition for big 2.0-style updates, some players absolutely loathe it, with recent Steam user reviews dragging the consensus underwater. Here’s how Crytek say the jump to a new flavour of CryEngine improves the game, courtesy of our dear friend Monsieur Press Release and his trusted associate, Senorita Blockquote:...

Journey to the Best… settings Unlike Ed, I wasn’t deemed important or youthfully handsome enough to getBlack Myth: Wukongreviewcode, leaving my only hopes of conducting some hardwarey performance investigation with therecently released benchmarking tool. The one that, by the admission of developers Game Science themselves, “may not fully represent the actual gaming experience and final performance at the time of the game’s release”. Monkey nuts. The tool does allow for tinkering with individual graphics settings, as well as fancier tricks likeray tracingand bothDLSS 3andFSR 3....

Lonely Mountains Downchill The mountain biking ofLonely Mountains: Downhillwas sometimes a relaxing ride down gentle slopes, and at other times a hairy hurtle down declivitous cliffs. Alongside the likes of theDescendersandRiders Republic, it offered a more laid-back game, open to furious time trialling but always remembering to let you stop and appreciate the view. Both the stakes and the poly count were low. Happy news then, that it is getting a snowy sequel....

Tall?! Any gags I could make about an update that letsTotal War: Warhammer3’s dawi play tall are far too obvious for the discerning comedic palette that brought you such bangers asthat time I just wrote “(penis)” a bunchso theOverkill’s Walking Deadpage wouldn’t quote me out of context, so let’s just dive right in to the details. The strategy game’s5.2 update is on the horizon, and tagging along with it are the first of the “extra bits” theteam teased in June....