read-only 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! Books obviously come in many different sizes, but did you know that there’s an obscure law that dictates the legal limit for how long a novel can be? It’s measured in ‘George Martins’. If your story is more than three ‘Georges’ wide, you’re swiftly escorted to a cell and made to eat any bits of book that reference more than three characters in a scene with the same surname....

Stuck on today’s Wordle word for June 16? 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?If you’re on your last guess, don’t worry! We have you covered with a list of hints as well as today’s word itself. Every day,Wordlepresents its legions of players with a deviously simple quandary: can you guess the right five-letter word within just six guesses?...

No idea when or if the studio will return League Of Geeks are going “into hibernation”. The Australian developers behind fantasy strategy games such as the animal-themedArmelloand hellish remakeSolium Infernumsaid that their remaining staff are going to take an extended break, and they’re not sure “when (or if)” they will revive the studio. “With over 13 years under our belt as an entirely independent studio, and the economic situation in games being what it is right now, we have made the decision to put LoG into hibernation for the foreseeable future and take some extended time off,” saysthe announcement....

Hopefully it won’t be RePoop As the video says at the start, RePop lets players choose between “Original mode”, which maintains the grindhouse violence of the cult hit original, or the RePop mode which replaces some of that violence with “pop-art damage effects.” It’s one of several changes designed to make RePop the “definitive version of the game”, according to producer Yoshimi Yasuda. RePop will also have faster load times, support for 4K resolutions and 60 frames per second....

Need a hint for today’s Connections? Read our guide for help with Connections #370 This guide is for a previous day! Looking for today’s solution? Check out theConnections hint and answers for Thursday 12th December! 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. It’s calledConnections, and if you haven’t played it before, now’s the time to start....

Sales weren’t strong enough The developers ofWizard With A Gunare closing down. Galvanic Games, who released the sandbox survival game last year, said that ongoing sales of the game were not enough to keep the studio going, and they’d run out of time to find funding for a new project. “Despite the promising start of Wizard With A Gun, sales are not strong enoguh to sustain our studio,” said theannouncement shared on Xby company founder Patrick Morgan....

Stuck on today’s Wordle word for June 15? 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?...

Here are all the new weapon types in Shadow Of The Erdtree and where to get them Looking for the Elden Ring: Shadow Of The Erdtree new weapon types?Shadow Of The Erdtreehas introduced a huge amount of new content, arguably the largest amount in any FromSoftware DLC, which includes8 new weapon typesand over 100new weapons. If you’re a returningElden Ringplayer looking to explore all new weapon types in the DLC, we have gathered a full list below....

Now renters will just split the bills, but their building will collapse if they can’t cover the costs Cities: Skylines 2has found a delightfully straightforward solution to the very real-world problem of greedy landlords demanding excessive rent payments. The city-builder sequel will simply delete all its virtual leeches in its next patch, helping to bring down the cost of living in your digital metropolis. The changes arriving in Colossal Order’snext patchare dubbed “Economy 2....

“They made him apologize to people for what he said in the (People Make Games) interview." Back in February, Grahamwrote aboutpotential redundancies atDisco Elysiumstudio ZA/UM following the cancellation of a standalone expansion to that game, codenamed X7. Now, PC Gamer’s Ted Litchfield has spoken to 12 current and former employees about the circumstances surrounding the cancellation, notably the details of the layoffs, the expansion, and the “humiliation campaign” suffered by writerArgoTuulik as apparent retaliation for his participation in last year’s extensivePeople Make Games documentary....

He detects more than a whiff of Dragon Age 2 FormerDragon Agelead writer and Summerfall Games co-founder David Gaider has strung together some opinions on Xitter - the original spawning ground for all opinions - about the full reveal video forDragon Age: The Veilguard, expressing broad enthusiasm for the newRPG’s narrative tone, combat system and environments, while offering a more ambivalent analysis of BioWare’s decision to let players seduce every last member of their party....

Despite director saying there were “no plans” for a re-release of the tactical spin-off A remaster ofFinal Fantasy Tactics, the grid-based strategy spin-off from the RPG series that easily ranks as one of thebest Final Fantasy games ever made, is reportedly in the works - giving hope of its first official PC release. Talk of a Tactics remaster has been kicking around for a while, and recently came back into discussion in the wake of the recent drama around prolific Persona and JRPG leaker Midori, whorevealed themselvesto be a previously blacklisted male American leaker who resurfaced under the guise of a Japanese woman (complete with tweets apparently composed deliberately in broken English, ew)....

More details coming on the 26th The orcs and goblins of the Greenskins, the sizeable gourmands of theOgreKingdoms, and the angry Christmas ornaments of Khorne are the next three factions to get new units, lords, and campaigns as part ofstrategygameTotal War: Warhammer 3’s next DLC. The news comes via official posts by developer Creative Assembly on bothRedditandX. They’ll be more info on the 26th of June, when senior game director Rich Alridge will be dishing the toenail fungus on the fresh batch of toys....