Need a hint for today’s Connections? Read our guide for help with Connections #343 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....

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! Did you know that the word ‘book’ is actually an ancient Sumerian greeting, short for: ‘can I have that book back I lent you eight months ago you said you’d have finished in like, two? This is going to be another one ofthose, isn’t it?...

Stuck on today’s Wordle word for May 19? 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?...

Debuting in France this summer Dead Cellswas blessed with several excellent animated trailers, each one produced by French animation studio Bobbypills. Now the slick metroidvania is getting a full animated television series from the same folks, and the first trailer is below. It’s in French, but you can turn on English subtitles. Also, the animation style is different from the trailers. I think I approve of everything about this. I like that it’s not treating the subject matter overly seriosuly - because who really cares about Dead Cells lore when the game is mostly about the wonderful feeling of rolling, dashing, and exploding enemies....

Need a hint for today’s Connections? Read our guide for help with Connections #342 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....

Alongside singleplayer pause Redfallis getting a final update which will add an offline mode and singleplayer pausing, among other changes. The news was announced via theRedfallaccount on X, which also thanked players for their “supportive messages” in light of developer Arkane Austin’s imminent closure by Microsoft. “Thank you for all your supportive messages,” beginsthe message on X. “We are working to release our final update, Game Update 4, that brings revamped Neighborhood and Nest systems, Single Player Pausing, Offline Mode, and more....

A pixel’s life for me Seablipis a pixel art pirate ‘em up, which promises an open world to sail around, islands to visit, crews to hire, bounties to hunt, and minigames through which to uncover treasure and fish. It looks adorable and it’s out in Early Access now. The bit that always interests me most in games like these is the crew management, because I like looking after little guys. The sailors in Seablip sound as if they have a fair amount going on: there’s a finite number of them so you’ve an incentive to keep them alive and happy, and they each have skills and attributes that’ll change as they go through fights....

No one would be surprised The nextCall Of Dutywill arrive on Game Pass on day one, according to anonymous sources. Microsoft’s strategy has long involved releasing all their first-party games on Game Pass, but there had been doubt over whether the same would be true of the first Call Of Duty to be released since Microsoft’s $69 billion acquisition of publishers Activision. According tothe Wall Street Journal(paywalled), who cite “people familiar with the matter”, the plans are due to be announced at the Xbox showcase next month....

Stuck on today’s Wordle word for May 18? 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?...

Elsewhere Entertainment team made up of Last of Us, Witcher and Far Cry alumni Around a week after Microsoftshuttered a number of beloved studioswith a track record of making excellent single-player, story-driven games, theirnewly-owned arm of Activisionhas revealed a brand new studio. Working on a new series of story-driven, triple-A games. The unveiling of Elsewhere Entertainment comes days after the sudden and shocking closure of Arkane Austin, Tango Gameworks and Alpha Dog Games, who between them have been responsible for games includingPrey,The Evil Within,Tokyo: Ghostwire,Hi-Fi Rushand more....

Amplitude and SEGA giveaway ends 23rd May Being offered a 4X game for free is definitely one of those cursed-monkey-paw situations. Sure, you’re saving physical currency, but at what price in terms of that most treasured and least tradeable of commodities, time? In the hours it takes to properly clean out a 4X game, you could probably build an empire yourself. OK, not a huge empire. An empire the size of the Vatican or thePrincipality of Sealand, perhaps....

Wrecked will kick off next Friday War never changes, and either doesFortnite’s love of a crossover. Thus,Falloutand Fortnite are colliding as the post-apocalyptic RPG heads to thebattle royaleshooter’s upcoming next season. The official Fortnite TwiXer account confirmed that Fallout would appear in its Wrecked season - that’s Chapter 5 Season 3, for those keeping count - by sharing an imagine of a Brotherhood of Steel knight in the iconic T-60 power armour looming over some yellow-orange clouds....

Resourceful Hell-wandering roguelikeHades 2has received its first proper patch, and it does everything the developers said it would. You now sprint faster and, significantly, you can gather more than one type of crafting resource per run (as long you’ve unlocked the tool that lets you gather that resource). This means Melinoë can now go fishing, dig up seeds, mine silver, and gain the trust of errant shades, all in a single night’s work....