“Right now it is crucial our team gets some sleep” In a post onXwitterand throughSteam’s newsfeed, Pilestedt delves into the main reason why folks may have struggled to login over the past few days. “To speak in technical terms, our services as well as our partner services have a rate limiter that denies connections beyond a volume per minute to prevent the entire system from failing”. In other words, the rate limiter gate has been bulging at the seams since launch....

Need a hint for today’s Connections? Read our guide for help with Connections #246 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....

Never Grave: The Witch And The Curse’s demo is actually pretty all right When I first sawNever Grave: The Witch And The Curserising up theSteam Next Festcharts at the end of last week, I thought, “Oh! That’s a neatHollow Knight-looking Metroivanida roguelike, I’ll definitely give that a go.” And having played its demo over the weekend, I can confirm: it’s certainly an intriguing little thing that I’ll be keen to keep an eye on when it launches into early access, possibly sometime next month....

“We want to give it space so it can be enjoyed the way we believe it deserves” The Thaumaturge, the detectiveCRPGblending together eastern-European fantasy, alt-history Warsaw andeven a bit of Pokémon(orPersona, if you prefer), has been pushed back from its planned release date next week to the start of March. With development said to be finished, creators Fool’s Theory say that it’s simply to let the game breathe a bit easier....

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. This week, my eye has been caught by high-speed platforming, a creative use of your own corpse, a contribution to the yellow paint discourse, and more. Check out these attractive and interesting indie games! A right sprightly wizard inSpring Dash(coming to Steam, with a demo there now—which our Jamesrecommends):...

Check out the announcement trailer for Threshold As a big fan ofmoody first-person games where you follow procedures to do a job, I’m quite interested in the recent announcement ofThreshold. Made by a former Arkane level designer, it’s about a train maintenance job at a border post atop the world’s tallest mountain, where the air is so thin you need to huff top-ups from cans. Concrete information on Threshold is a bit thin at this point but I can tell you that you have a bucket and some planks, so what more do you need to know?...

Our weekly news liveblog, with this week’s best/bizarrest videogame releases If the rumours are true, it’s a time of much rejoicing for Switchers and StayPlationers desperate to get their mitts on the likes ofStarfield. But of course, the onlyrealwinner here is the Maw, that ghastly extra-dimensional monster that hungers to gobble up the entire universe unless we can placate it with regular offerings of videogame news. Here are a few new PC games we’re minded to feed to the beast this week: surreal metroidvaniaUltros(13th Feb); neoclassical multiplayer puzzlerIslands Of Insight(13th Feb); period journo-bothererNews Tower(13th Feb); colonial spook-hunting RPGBanishers: Ghosts Of New Eden(13th Feb); bullet hell roguelikeDeep Rock Galactic: Survivor(14th Feb); retro Croft trilogyTomb Raider I-III Remastered(14th Feb); hellish boarding simHelskate(15th Feb); barmy animal sandboxGoat Simulator 3(15th Feb); open ocean loot ‘em upSkull And Bones(16th Feb)....

Kingston’s NV2 bucks the trend of recent SSD price increases. The Kingston NV2 is the company’s budget PCIe 4.0 SSD of choice, with a range of potential sub-components that combine to produce up to 3500MB/s reads and 2800MB/s writes while using less power than PCIe 3.0 drives, thanks to fewer PCIe lanes being needed for the drive to achieve its speed goals. The drive uses more expensive TLC flash memory, but isn’t equipped with a DRAM cache, so sustained performance falls down compared to similarly-fast models with DRAM....

Planting the flag Ultrosis one of those games that’s born to stick in the memory. Not only is it one of the most visually vibrant games of the year so far with its neon colour palette that’s an instant-KO-to-my-eyeballs, but the way it twists and rewires core tenets of theMetroidvaniarulebook also make it one of the boldest and most daring examples of its genre. I’ll say it now: it doesn’t always stick the landing....

I rememberreading about The Granniesa while back. They’re a group of game devs based in Melbourne who formed a gang (the titular Grannies) of older people in Rockstars rootin', tootin' cowboyRPGRed Dead Redemption 2- specificallyRed Dead Online. In the pursuit of fun, The Grannies, using a glitch known to a lot of the community, broke through the invisible walls in the game’s wild west and into another, wilder west - a landscape nobody was really meant to see....

Jeremy, Edders, Edwin, Kiera and Ollie join Inflexion’s CEO for a co-op playthrough Twas brillig, and the RPS editors did gyre and gimble in the wabe: all mimsy were the studio executives, and the guides writers outgrabe. If you’re still reading, congratulations, you’ve either got a dangerously high tolerance for bad literary jokes or you’re really eager to hear aboutNightingale, the newsurvivalsim from Inflexion, which launches into early access on 20th February....

Stuck on today’s Wordle word for February 12? 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?...

Need a hint for today’s Connections? Read our guide for help with Connections #245 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. In this guide, we’ll give you a handy hint selection for today’s Connections puzzle on Sunday, February 11th, before revealing the group themes and the Connections answers themselves....