Monster-filming horror game Content Warning is free to download for the next few hours

Launch your SpookTube career for nada, 2nd April only If you’re partial to the grim delights ofPhasmophobiaand not averse to the sicko enjoyments ofLethal Company, you might like newhorrorgameContent Warning, which kind of blends the two and has the additional virtue of beingfree on Steamtill 9am PT/5pm UK on 2nd April. In this spooky co-op treat from Landfall Publishing, you play a bunch of amateur filmmakers - or tubers, as the kids possibly still insist on calling them - who must board a spaceship, travel to another planet and film anything monstrous they stumble on....

April 2, 2024 · 2 min · 329 words · Mark Carter MD

Nightdive Studios are bringing back 90’s shooter PO’ed in all its frying-pan wielding glory

Reheated It’s usually better when writing about games to defer to personal experience before regurgitating marketing, but in the case of bizarre and deeply intriguing 90’sFPSPO’ed, the trailer thatSTAR WARS: Dark ForcesRemaster studio Nightdive released over the long weekend contains a quote that sums up my memories perfectly: “First game I ever owned and played on my PS1,” says quote-ee matt.baller, “In hindsight, I’m surprised I’m not more messed up.”...

April 2, 2024 · 2 min · 367 words · Christian Harrington

NYT Connections hint and answers (Wednesday, April 3)

Need a hint for today’s Connections? Read our guide for help with Connections #297 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....

April 2, 2024 · 3 min · 557 words · Brianna Kirk

Screenshot Saturday Tuesday: What's a three-day lag when there are all these games to admire?

I go on Twitter so you don’t have to Every weekend, indie devs show off current work on Twitter’s#screenshotsaturdaytag. And every Monday, I bring you a selection of these snaps and clips. Well, on Tuesday this week, thanks to the four-day Easter weekend. But the games look just as attractive and interesting as they did on Saturday, so what’s the hurry? Check these out! Elevating action from this “retro-styled isometric simulation game”:...

April 2, 2024 · 3 min · 559 words · Lee Sanders

Sons Of Valhalla Review: A mostly brilliant tac-and-slash tug of war

My first motion as staff writer is to lobby for a ‘bestest, but…’ sticker Like an aggressively competitive thane at a reindeer-piss guzzling contest, 2D tac-and-slash rogueliteSons Of Valhallanever lets up the pace for even a moment. Whether you’re charging across its pixel-art battlefields slashing and burning increasingly tough-to-crack strongholds, or making quick decisions to get the upper hand in its tug-of-war tactics, the only times Thorald is not doing cool violence, commanding others to do cool violence, or upgrading his camps so that he may act in cooler and more violent ways, is when he’s restoring stamina with a cool slug of mead or violently gnawing at health-boosting meat....

April 2, 2024 · 8 min · 1521 words · Catherine Huang

The Maw - 2nd April-6th April

Our weekly news liveblog, with this week’s gamiest videogame releases New week, new PC games! It’s another mercifully brief four day week in the UK due to reasons of religion, so let’s roll with an appropriately snappy intro that avoids any extended digressionary preambles about, oh, I don’t know, magpies fighting outside my flat this morning. Did you know that European magpies are great mimics? Second only to the Northern Mockingbird, apparently, though many ornithologists contend that the BrownThrasheris sorely overlooked....

April 2, 2024 · 11 min · 2169 words · Jeffrey Johnson

This spooky bunny horror game is free, but you can buy a cool zine to support the devs

I approve of Rental, and their zine The game itself is a nice intersection of cute (bunny girl Mui’s solemn face, you know how rabits kind of look serious all the time, because they’re always alert to being eaten?) and spooky (you are trapped in a house with some kind of ghost watching you). The theme of the original game jam was the 90s, and Rental has, for example, the fixed camera you loved fromResident Evil, just they are in a small cute holiday home and trained on a bunny rabbit....

April 2, 2024 · 2 min · 256 words · Jackson Fernandez

Wordle hint and answer #1018 (April 2 2024)

Stuck on the Wordle word for April 2? 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?...

April 2, 2024 · 6 min · 1222 words · Dennis Miles

Final Fantasy 14’s FF16 crossover, with a Torgal mount and minion up for grabs, kicks off tomorrow

Sic ‘em Final Fantasy 14’s crossover withFinal Fantasy 16, as teased last year, arrives tomorrow. The crossover between theMMOand latest single-player entry in theRPGseries has the usual selection of goodies up for grabs, including a very cute minion, a not-so-cute (but still kind of cute) mount, some Clive-cleavage armour and more. The FFXVI/XIV crossover event wasannouncedby Naoki ‘Yoshi-P’ Yoshida - FF14 director and FF16 producer - during last year’sFinal FantasyFan Fest in London....

April 1, 2024 · 2 min · 281 words · Robin Vasquez

NYT Connections hint and answers (Monday, April 1)

Need a hint for today’s Connections? Read our guide for help with Connections #295 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....

April 1, 2024 · 3 min · 557 words · Mr. Ryan Cohen Jr.

NYT Connections hint and answers (Tuesday, April 2)

Need a hint for Connections? Read our guide for help with Connections #296 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....

April 1, 2024 · 3 min · 556 words · Ricardo Pennington

Terraria will add roller skates for super-fast building and 2D grinding in its “final stretch” of updates

Re-Logic say they don’t know when 1.4.5 will launch or everything that will be in it just yet Terrariais apparently entering the “final stretch” of updates for the 2D crafting and exploration game (though whether this will actually be it remains to be seen), and it looks like developers Re-Logic are seeing off their 2D Minecraft-a-like in style. Emphasis on the ssssstyle. Teasing some new features arriving with update 1.4.5, described as being the game’s final major update - just like the last few “final” updates over the last nine (!...

April 1, 2024 · 2 min · 319 words · Frank Stafford

The voice behind Half-Life 2’s Vortigaunts has passed away

Despite a prolific film and television career, Louis Gossett Jr.’s only video game appearances were in the seminal shooter and Episode One Louis Gossett Jr., who made history as the first Black man to win an Oscar for Best Supporting Actor and had a prolific, successful career across film, television and stage - as well as voicing the friendly Vortigaunt aliens inHalf-Life 2and its follow-upEpisode One- has died. Gossett is likely best known in general for playing Emil Foley in 1982’s An Officer and a Gentleman, the role that won him the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor that same year, just one role of dozens across a career spanning almost 60 years....

April 1, 2024 · 2 min · 308 words · Gregory Duffy