Need a hint for Connections? Read our guide for help with Connections #283 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....

Maybe still my favourite Obsidian game? It’s deeply frustrating and disappointing when games get pulled from store shelves due to licenses expiring, and too few ever return. So it’s great news that almost four years after Sega stopped selling Obsidian’s fascinating spy thriller RPGAlpha Protocolon Steam due tomusic rights expiring, it has returned to sale on GOG. I’m always surprised that Alpha Protocol hasn’t reached serious cult classic status because, as much as parts are distinctly wonky, the globetrotting sneak-o-shooter fizzes with ideas for intense dialogue, branching plot, and reputation systems with consequences....

Nab up to 22% off the speedy Samsung Evo Select Amazon’s big sale events, as overfrequent as they are, do at least reliably provide the discerningSteam Deckowner with good opportunities to grab a newmicroSD card. Case in point,Amazon Spring Deal Days– which launched today – has some alluringly low prices on the me-approved Samsung Evo Select. That’s on both the 256GB and the (also me-approved) 512GB models. The Evo Select is already one of the better budget options for instantly upgrading your Steam Deck’s storage, with low RRPs and respectable game loading performance....

Alongside changes to Mythic skins, earning coins, and maps In what’s quite the shake up forOverwatch 2, Blizzard have announced that starting with Season 10, all of its heroes will be unlocked for all players. And this includes all new heroes going forwards, too, so the next hero Venture will unlock immediately for everyone when the latest season drops. Otherwise, there’s changes to unlocking premium skins, earning premium coins, and some tidbits on what we can expect from Season 11....

A bargain (and all-time low) price for the Core i5-12400F While there are minor thrills to be had finding the very latest PC hardware in theAmazon Spring Deal Dayssale, don’t underestimate the draw of an older favourite emerging with a new, knockdown price. So it is with theIntel Core i5-12400F: this was a great-value midranger when it was new, and now you get it at a true budget-tier price of £108....

Live now on Windows, Mac, and Linux versions, though not Game Pass yet Eight years after launching,Stardew Valleyjust keeps getting bigger and bigger. Update 1.6 arrived yesterday, with enough changes that the patch notes are 7308 words long. It bumps the farm-o-life sim’s co-op player limit to eight, adds hundreds of new items, opens up a new progression system for “powerful perks and items”, adds new events, lets you drink mayonnaise, and so much more that....

With added cel-shading Project Birdseye focuses on the shooter’smemorable Black Iron Prison environment, which will be given a striking comic-book makeover from its originally dank and dark look with vivid colours, fast-paced action and comics-influenced menus and fonts. That “super-fast action” looks to be top-down, twin-stick-style blasting of hordes of monsters, with a bit of melee combat and skills mixed in - at one point in the trailer, the character reflects an enemy projectile back at them....

NEO NPC is currently showing off some not-so-great dialogue It’sGDCweek, and conversations are being had about AI. Ubisoft have blundered into this, in classic Ubi style, by revealing that they’ve had an R&D team beavering away on a project called NEO NPC. It’s the usual pitch. “Have you ever dreamed of having arealconversation with an NPC in a video game?”, asks Ubi’sofficial postabout it. And what all people who make this fail to understand that the answer most normal people give if they think about it is “Erm, probably no, actually?...

T’Challa’s granddad and a fresh-faced Cap will be joined by a US soldier and Wakandan spy in WW2 Paris The first full story trailer for Marvel 1943: Rise of Hydra confirmed that the story set during the middle of World War II will follow a fresh-faced Steve Rogers - aka Captain America - and Black Panther. If you’re wondering how Black Panther could be around decades before his appearance in the modern-day Marvel movies and keep things canon, this isn’t the latest title-bearer T’Challa but Azzuri, the future Black Panther’s granddad....

Vote now as we continue deciding the single best thing in games Last time, you decided thathighlighted interactive objects are better than retrievable reusable ammo. I understand why you decided that. Your fondness for this thing makes perfect sense. It is very helpful. An immensely practical thing. And still… ah, we must move on. This week, I ask you to pick between two right different right-clickings. What’s better: drawing Frog Detective’s magnifying glass or drawingBlade Runner’s gun?...

With the developers' blessing of the “true tribute” Bungie’s reboot of their nineties pre-Halo debut shooterMarathonseems to be slowing down its pace a little in order to get across the finish line, with a change in director and a delay meaning themultiplayer-only loot-shooter reimaginingof the FPS is now expected to arrive next year - or potentially even after that,according to recent reports. In the meantime though, another revival of the 30-year-old former Mac exclusive looks set to beat the original developers at their own race onto Steam....

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Bad manors Detective Edward Carnby looks very different these days, and not only because he’s made of a lot more polygons. Gone are the professorial waistcoat and bow tie of his angular 1992 incarnation, replaced instead by the grubby suit of a life-bruised 1930s noir PI, complete with hipflask of brandy for when the stress of being unaccompanied with the lights out gets too much. Carnby isn’t the only one who’s transformed in this reboot ofAlone in the Dark, the classic survival horroravant la lettre, either....