Door disrespecting FPS Anger Foot is out July 11th

I came to do two things, and they both involve putting my foot through doors If you’re not yet a dedicated Foothead, here’s the premise. You are a very destructive individual who cares but for two things: spiffy trainers, and leaving those trainer’s imprints in people’s faces. All who cross you in its short, speedy levels are doomed. They’ll wake up the next day, shake the bullets from their ribcage, go to brush their teeth, and realise it was not a terrible nightmare - for the indelible mark of your angry foot is now part of their crumbly visage forevermore....

June 8, 2024 · 2 min · 222 words · Ashley Cruz MD

Leery first-person reality show The Crush House steps into the limelight in August

“Thirst person shooter” The news panamax has come in and all the shipping containers are spilling off the deck in an uncontrollable catastrophe of trailers. Here’s another: you may rememberThe Crush House, the colourful 90s reality show where you film the cast by day, trying to please the audience, and creep around by night, trying to investigate the unsettling true nature of the show. No? You don’t remember? Well, it has been a long year....

June 8, 2024 · 2 min · 369 words · Wendy Robertson

Lost And Found Co. is a hidden object adventure in which you play as a duck-turned-human intern

This is who I would hire to find things for me I wrote aboutthe Wholesome Directearlier this evening and pulled out a handful of games I liked from the showcase. I didn’t mention the game I liked most, because I wanted to give it this fuller shoutout.Lost And Found Co.is a hidden object adventure game set in a colourful, densely detailed world, and there’s a demo available to play now....

June 8, 2024 · 2 min · 216 words · Bradley Nelson

Monster Hunter Wilds' new trailer shows sick cutscenes and lizard-worms that are gonna make even sicker pants

The leathery lizard-worms are called glops and there’s a helluva lot to hunt Capcom’s series about big beasts and the clothes you can skin/steal from them continues inMonster Hunter Wilds, which looked as great as ever in its newest trailer from tonight’s Summer Game Fest show. We get new peeks at some lovely dunes, reptile-chicken mounts and bulky weapons. Oh, and some monsters ripe for huntin', presumably. I’ve plopped Monster Hunter Wilds' second proper trailer above for you, dear reader....

June 8, 2024 · 2 min · 234 words · Charles Smith

NYT Connections hint and answers (Saturday, June 8)

Need a hint for today’s Connections? Read our guide for help with Connections #363 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....

June 8, 2024 · 3 min · 557 words · Mr. James Thompson

NYT Connections hint and answers (Sunday, June 9)

Need a hint for today’s Connections? Read our guide for help with Connections #364 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....

June 8, 2024 · 3 min · 557 words · Charles Pitts Jr.

Possessor(s) is a side-scroller from the folks behind Hyper Light Drifter

It’s what’s Inside that counts The creators ofHyper Light Drifterare not ones to rest. In the terrifying tidal wave of trailers that continually washes over us this weekend, they send word of a new game via the Devolver Direct.Possessor(s)is a side-scrolling character action game of mysterious sci-fi horror set in a “quarantined city ripped apart and flooded by an interdimensional catastrophe”. This is coming on top of the already-announcedHyper Light Breaker....

June 8, 2024 · 2 min · 273 words · Jason Williams

System Shock remakers Nightdive Studios are remastering The Thing

We are all very tired Announced during today’s Summer Game Festivities, the remaster encompasses a bunch of visual enhancements but still very much looks like a game from the early noughties. Here’s a squirming gobbet of announcement release to point your flamethrower at:

June 8, 2024 · 1 min · 43 words · Jessica Bell

Tenjutsu is a speedy and stylish beat ‘em up from Dead Cells designer

Those rival Yakuza aren’t going to kick themselves in the face! Pow! Biff! Dead! Cells! Catch that plate I just threw you! And this one! Oh no, there’s another plate coming toward you, also thrown by me! And look, you don’t have any free hands left to catch this one! Eat plate! You have been well and truly beaten up, but that’s fine. Here’s something nice to take your mind off the pain....

June 8, 2024 · 2 min · 367 words · Kimberly Parsons

The Finals season three takes its destructive players to 16th-century Kyoto next week

With bows, katanas and spears The Finalsis a multiplayer first-person shooter about stealing cash and demolishing buildings in a virtual reality game show. Why does it need to be set in a virtual reality game show? So it can do things like transport players to Kyoto in the year 1568, which is what will happen when season three arrives on June 13th. Here’s the season 3 announcement trailer, shown during last night’s Summer Game Fest broadcast:...

June 8, 2024 · 2 min · 303 words · Amanda Glover

Wholesome Direct 2024 featured an hour of delightful-looking games, cosy and otherwise

Many with playable demos The advertising bonanza formerly known as E3 continues into its second day with another set of streams. The Wholesome Direct was today’s highlight, in my mind. The yearly collection of games that may or may not be cosy, but which definitely do not involve stabbing men in the neck, always contains some games worth keeping an eye on. This year was no different, and you’ll find the archived stream below....

June 8, 2024 · 2 min · 248 words · Mr. Christopher Ramirez

Wordle hints and answer (#1085): How to solve the Saturday June 8 Wordle

Stuck on today’s Wordle word for June 8? 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?Wordleis an addicting but challenging test of word acumen. Luckily, you’re in the right place for some assistance. Every day, Wordle presents its legions of players with a deviously simple quandary: can you guess the right five-letter word within just six guesses?...

June 8, 2024 · 6 min · 1237 words · Carrie Sosa

Would you look at the size of this puzzle cube in The Talos Principle 2’s upcoming expansion

Boxing clever Wet chunks of summer games news continue to shower down on us like anexplosive blast of whale viscera. But look, this bit of news blubber is quite good. Philosophy-obsessed puzzlerThe Talos Principle 2is getting a big three-part DLC expansion, and some of the environments look lush. Not least this humongous cube sticking out from the sands of a tropical island at a jaunty angle. It is called the Hexahedron, and its interior constitutes a “large, continuous puzzle cluster” that the player will navigate....

June 8, 2024 · 2 min · 332 words · Brittany Allen