Need a hint for today’s Connections? Read our guide for help with Connections #264 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....

Co-op to come post-launch The two Ori games were gorgeous platformers that challenged your dexterity while tugging on your heartstrings. The next game from developers Moon Studios seems more likely to do the former than the latter.No Rest For The Wickedis a Souls-ish action RPG that apparently thinks you’reextremelywicked. It also got a release date today during a showcase stream: April 18th. Here’s the full showcase: Towards the end of the stream, Moon also outlined some of their Early Access roadmap plans, at least in brief....

The real treasure was the friends we ate along the way There are moments whereSons Of The Forestmatches the sublime paranoia ofSubnautica. There’s that same lurching, exquisite tension as you delve deeper and deeper into darkness where you are not welcome, supplies dwindling, footfall echoing, monstrosities skittering about in the black. On my most intense plunge into one cave, I groaned aloud as the path I was praying must be the exit twisted back on itself, sending me first down a rope, and then into a long slide down, down into the earth, back into the spindly clutches of pale, bifurcated mutants....

The first hour is hard as nails and takes absolutely no prisoners WhenOri And The Blind Forestdevelopers Moon Studios announced that their next game would be a top-down, online actionRPG, myinitial reactionwas, ‘Heck yes, sign me the hell up for this Souls-y, Diablo-y hack and slash.’ Having now played the opening 90 minutes of the game ahead of tonight’sWicked Inside showcase, that initial excitement has settled into more of a ‘Hoo boy, this thing is hard as nails....

If you grab it before March 14th Space Crewis superficially similar to FTL: you manage acrewinspaceas you deal with peril, put out fires and fight off aliens. It’s set apart by between-mission management, during which you get the steady dopamine drip of ship, crew and equipment upgrades and customisation. It’s free to keep from Steam for the next two weeks. Head over to theSteam page for Space Crew: Legendary Editionand you’ll find it 100% off until March 14th at 5pm GMT....

From quality-of-life to enormous overhauls, these are the 20 best mods in Elden Ring to date What are the best Elden Ring mods to download?Elden Ringalready has a gigantic expansion DLC in the form ofShadow Of The Erdtree, but that isn’t the only way to inject a bit of fresh new life into the Lands Between. If you want to customise your journey as a Tarnished, then mods are the best way forward....

Stuck on today’s Wordle word for March 1? 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?...

Hotfix 20 also stops money and loot exploits After putting everyonein the mood for a smooch on Valentine’s Daywith its hefty Patch 6,Baldur’s Gate 3is continuing the friendly atmosphere in its latest hotfix, which makes your party members want to hang out with you and everyone less likely to tell you to piss off (without good reason, anyway). Hotfix 20, or v4.1.1.4854838 if you love a long string of numbers (hi,Yoko Taro), largely takes aim at a bunch of bugs that impeded progress or caused other problems....

Close to 670 employees will be affected, as EA move to concentrate on their owned IP and online communities In Shakespeare’s Anthony And Cleopatra, said famous woman says “Give to a gracious message an host of tongues, but let ill tidings tell themselves when they be felt.” I.e., when you have good news you can go round the houses, but if you have bad news - like sending anall-hands email to the staff at EAto let them know that, less than a year afterthe last roundoflayoffs, a further 5% of them are getting booted - then you should just come out and say it as quickly and simply as possible....

Starting at 4pm GMT Today’s the day of theRPS Game Clubliveblog, where we’ll all pile into a single article to talk, in real-time, about February’s game pick,Cobalt Core. We’ll be kicking off shortly at4pm GMT today (Thursday February 29th), so go and grab a cuppa, switch on someappropriate music, and we’ll get this liveblog started. Our live coverage of this event has finished. –Katharine Castle So, here we are folks. Welcome to the RPS Game Club liveblog for Cobalt Core....

And there’s a new cinematic trailer to go with it Developers Spiders will be going into more detail about Greedfall 2 in aTwitchstream later this evening, starting at 7pm GMT / 8pm CET. They’ll be doing a live session with the game, so do check it out if the cinematic trailer above has whet your appetite. Said trailer certainly looks very dramatic. I never quite got round to playing theoriginal Greedfall, but some of the landscapes here look really quite captivating....

One of the fastest PCIe 4.0 options at a fair price. The KC3000 doesn’t quite have the reputation of competitors like the Samsung 990 Pro or WD SN850x, but the performance is extremely similar - not unexpected given that you’ve got a similar combination of performant TLC NAND flash, PCIe 4.0 controller and DRAM cache. For that reason, I’d put it amongst thebest gaming SSD contendersthat’s well worth considering - especially at this reduced price....

The future is bright We knew theHelldivers 2team werelooking ahead to the futurenow that they’d largely overcome the game’s most significant server issues. But we weren’t expecting to see new additions quite so quickly, as rideable mechs have been spotted in the wilds. When are they actually being added to the game? No idea. Do they look cool as heck? Yes, absolutely. Mech footage first emerged thanks to Reddit leaker fozzye18, who posteda clipentitled “Mechs… enjoy”....