Need a hint for Connections? Read our guide for help with Connections #235 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....

What order should you defeat all the Alpha Pals and other bosses in Palworld? What is the recommended boss order in Palworld?There are many different bosses scattered across the islands ofPalworld, and they don’t follow much rhyme or reason a lot of the time. If you’ve started a new game and noticed a Level 38 Mammorest Alpha Pal near your location, you’ll know that sometimes even beginner areas are filled with very powerful bosses....

The law is an ass Dig back far enough into the history of any word and you’ll find something sinister. Take “cute”. Nowadays it means pretty, lovable or charming, albeit perhaps with an undertone of mistrust or contempt, as in the phrase “that’s a cute observation, Edwin”. But the word originally evolved from “acute”, which very broadly means sharp or intense. “Acute” was once a Middle English word for a short-lived fever - it’s related to “ague”, a word you’ve likely come across in a medieval fantasyRPGsomewhere, which refers to fits of sweating and shivering....

Here are our picks for the best Pals for Planting in Palworld Want to know which Pals in Palworld are best at Planting?Planting is a vital Work Suitability skill inPalworldfor growing Berries, Lettuce, Tomato, and Wheat. As your base expands and you accumulate more Pals, you’ll need a constant supply of these important foodstuffs to keep the Pal work force well-fed and happy. Luckily, with the help of a few key Pals, Planting is an easy task to automate....

Here are our picks for the best Pals for Watering in Palworld Want to know which Pals in Palworld are best at Watering?Before too long, yourPalworldbase is sure to be exploding with a wide variety of crops, and you’ll need the Watering Work Suitability skill to ensure that all of those grains and plants don’t die in the sun. Most Water-type Pals in the game are servicable when it comes to Watering, but there are a few who are better than others....

My head is spinning after a few hours with the new game from former Sonic Mania devs A great 3Dplatformerseems to be a rare and special thing these days. I thinkPsychonauts 2was the last one that really took my breath away, but outside of that (as well as obviously every 3D Nintendo platformer), I often struggle to think of many games that could be considered its equal. There’s always something holding them back, isn’t there?...

Come and play this excellent roguelike deckbuilder with us Don’t worry if you missed Cobalt Core last year - it came out right at the start of November, slap bang in the middle of silly season for the year’s big blockbusters. But that’s exactly what Game Club is for, really - finally sitting down and playing all those good games you might have missed when they originally came out. And this one is really very special....

61 people reportedly laid off, QA and localisation teams most affected Sega of America will lay off 61 people in March, according to the state of California and the Sega of America AEGIS union. The layoffs are allegedly aimed at the company’s QA and localisation departments, and represent around 13% of Sega of America’s workforce. VGC has also obtained confirmation from California’s Employment Development Department, according to whom the layoffs fall in two batches of 49 and 12 staff, though they both come into effect on the same day....

New trailer walks us through the historical Japanese action-RPG Well look at that, a new trailer for Rise of the Rōnin - the fancy samurai action-RPGfrom Ninja Gaiden household Team Ninja. Set in 19th century Japan’s Bakumatsu era, the game is a mixture of open-ended exploration, sneaking and agile traversal that puts me heavily in mind of Ubisoft’sAssassin’s Creedseries. Unlike most Assassin’s Creeds, however, this one has a pretty in-depth, rigorous melee combat system, with bosses that look like they’re going to grind my gears no end....

We didn’t think there was much news happening this week and then loads did Here at the Electronic Wireless Showpodcastwe like indie games (inasmuch as “indie” can ever really be a helpful term; as the “good” doctor Peterson would no doubt say, what do words even mean? It’s bloody complicated!) and thus are using the news that Day Of The Devs is a non-profit (what does non-profit even mean? What does profit mean?...

Just £1 more than the slower 5700X3D that we featured yesterday. It was just yesterday that I was espousing the benefits of thenewly released Ryzen 7 5700X3D processor- a cutback version of legendary 5800X3D that breathes new life and exceptional gaming performance into classic Ryzen 1000, 2000, 3000 and 5000 systems. I was thrilled to see the 5700X3D debut at £233 at Amazon - before stocks were exhausted and it went back up to £240, anyway....

A killer announcement? The rumours were true!Until Dawn, Supermassive Games’ breakthroughhorror gamepreviously exclusive to PlayStation 4, is coming to PC in a remastered re-release later this year. An announcement trailer revealed during Sony’s State of Play showcase today confirmed the report, with UK studio Ballistic Moon working on a remastered Until Dawn said to be “rebuilt and enhanced” from the original. The brief snippets of footage seen during the trailer certainly look nice, but don’t really give a proper idea of how far those enhancements might go....

Tales Of Kenzera: ZAU impresses with its 30-minute Next Fest demo Confession time, folks. Of all the games shown off during The Game Awards last December,Tales Of Kenzera: Zauwas the one I glossed over the most. Listen, it was very early in the morning at the time, and it must have come at a peak eyes-glazing-over moment for me. However, having now played the first 30 minutes of Tales Of Kenzera thanks to its just-released early Steam Next Fest demo, I have seen the error of my ways....