Stuck on today’s Wordle word for February 11? 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?...

“I realised that people die” A couple of weeks ago, Hideo Kojima announced that he wasreturning to the action espionage genrewith a new game, codenamedPhysint. After going independent, Kojima said he wanted to create his own IP, and then his own franchise, which led toDeath Strandingand its upcoming sequel. He also has lots of other new ideas, he says, which led to the creation of his upcoming experimental horror gameOD....

Need a hint for today’s Connections? Read our guide for help with Connections #244 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....

Demos and discounts on co-op darlings The best games areco-op games, and one of the best features of Steam is Remote Play, which turns local co-op games into online co-op games through the power of internet magic. Here’s a trailer: The fest runs from Monday, February 12th until Saturday, February 24th at 10am PT (6pm GMT). You can see the kind of games that might be includedon Steam’s Remote Play category, where you’ll also find the Fest once it kicks off....

The exploding wasn’t a bug The Finalsupdate 1.7.0 released this past week and makes substantial changes to the destructive shooter’s progression. It should make it much faster to advance through battle pass levels, if skins and cosmetics are what you’re after. Several of the changes double or even triple the amount of XP you get for certain actions. For example, opening a vault now nets you 200 rather than 100 XP, and stealing a cashout nets you 300 rather than 100 XP....

Double, double stack and trouble You might rememberStacklands, a joyful survival village builder in which you stack and combine cards to craft and advance your society.WitchHand, which released this week, takes the same concept and applies it to developing your own witches coven. Here’s a release date trailer which seems to give the measure of the thing: In WitchHand, everything is a card. You stack cards on top of each other to perform actions, placing workers to explore for resources, or research new spells, and so on....

Stuck on today’s Wordle word for February 10? 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?...

Started life as an effort to fund real-life legal battles against corporate polluters An upcoming game about taking planet-wrecking corporations to court hopes to go beyond its onscreen battles by raising money for real-life environmental aid. BehindAll Riseis a team including both climate experts and top-notch games talent with credits spanningHorizon Forbidden West,Thirsty Suitors,League of LegendsandParadise Killer. The result is a game that Fossielvrij’s Dr. Joost Vervoortdescribesas a combination of Phoenix Wright’s comic take on legal proceedings,Disco Elysium’s narrative world-building andSlay the Spire’s deckbuilding cardplay....

It’s “time for something shiny and new” Dead Cellsdevelopers Motion Twin have announced their roguelikeMetroidvaniawill receive its final update with the launch of the appropriately titled Update 35: ‘The End Is Near’. It’s been a pretty great run as these things go: over the course of seven years, Dead Cells has received four major DLC expanions, a mobile release and, of course, 35 of those big title updates. However, current custodians Evil Empire are now moving on to greener, “secret projects”-flavoured pastures - the emphasis being on pastures plural there, if theirXweetabout it is anything to go by, too....

Roll for initiative FormerFortniteand Blizzard developers have formed new studio Lightforge Games to make amultiplayerRPG that applies the collaborative world-building and storytelling of original tabletop Dungeons & Dragons to the polished video game presentation of its successors in the likes ofBaldur’s Gate 3. Project ORCS, as the game is currently codenamed - with ORCS being an acronym for “Online Roleplaying with Collaborative Storytelling” - is effectively a few steps up from tools like Roll20 and Tabletop Simulator that allow pen-and-paper roleplayers to play online by providing a digital simulation of miniatures, dice and so on....

Take-Two financials suggest otherwise It’s time to play everybody’s favourite game - no, notGTA 6, but the GTA 6 Release Date Quiz. Who’s stepping up to the podium this time? Why, it’s Ubisoft CEO Yves Guillemot, who offered thoughts on the matter in a recent investor Q&A. Fingers on the buzzers, everybody! “What we’ve seen in the past is that each time there’s a big release like GTA, there are more and more people coming back to the industry, and that helps other games to sell as well,” hetold investors on the call....

Explore planets through interactive music videos Take your protein pill and put your headphones on for the free demo ofAsterism, an “interactive music album” exploring a solar system one song at a time. Each visit to a planet lasts as long as the song, whisking us through scenes reflecting the lyrics and mood, rendered with a mix of 3D computer art and a range of handmade physical mediums. I was delighted from the first twang....

A quick chat with artist El Huervo about influences, from Cthulhu to Spielberg When playing any character-driven videogame I sometimes experience a sensation akin to my eyes unfocussing, and remember that I’m not, strictly speaking, controlling a body in a world, but interacting with a simulation that includes representations of a body and a world. The character is just an interfacial node in a vast tangle of visible and invisible elements; by moving the character, I cause objects, surfaces, creatures to load or unload, spring into motion or change colour and a million things besides....