Stuck on today’s Wordle word for December 23? 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?...

An end of year round-up, possibly The existence of the Upper Lunch Hut implies the existence of a Lower Lunch Hut, but as far as I can tell, no such building exists. It’s one of many mysteries that surround the edifice, which I discovered during a holiday in the Cairngorms this August, while everybody else at RPS was writing about some tyrannous entity called Gamescom. First, the approach: having exited a vast pine forest of primeval aspect and supernatural disposition, with distant, daylit clearings leading the eye deeper and deeper into the undergrowth, till it feels at last as though your gaze has become tangibly enmeshed with clutching root and lowering branch - having finally escaped from that terrible, terrible forest, with its single, mournful stream crossed by a bridge of predatory bareness that is surely a haven for trolls, you set out across a grey and purple oblivion of reed and heather, a moorland rising to the border between glens, broken only by the stark red stain of a door....

Draft restrictions ban daily login rewards and limit digital wallet top-ups Chinese regulators have announced far-reaching curbs on monetisation and reward systems for online games, in a move that has wiped almost $80 billion from the market value of the world’s biggest videogame publisher Tencent and their rival NetEase. Under the new government restrictions, which are pending final approval, online games in China will be banned from giving players rewards for logging in every day, spending money within the game for the first time, or spending money several times consecutively....

Games rated at AO because of their use of the tech will circumvent restriction usually reserved for violent and sexual content The Epic Games Store will allow blockchain games rated Adults-Only back on the PC marketplace after a new exception to its content policy. While blockchain games as a whole have been allowed on the Epic Games Store for a while now, a number of games built around the controversial tech’s use in concepts such as NFTs have been caught in a separate EGS restriction on games rated Adults-Only by the US Entertainment Software Rating Board....

That’s £40 off its normal price. I’ve long been a fan of NZXT’s AiO liquid coolers - in fact, I’m building a PC with onetomorrow. You might be joining me on that, as today NZXT’s Kraken 240mm AiO is down to £90 at Scan UK after a £40 discount. That’s an excellent price for an all-in-one liquid cooler that sports an LCD screen for monitoring your temps or showing off your cat....

Not very grim If you’re looking for something short, free, simple of concept and pleasant of execution to play this Decemberween, may I recommendGrimhook, a first-person action-platformer which had the misfortune to launch on 9th December, while the entire videogame journalism profession were recovering from theGeoffapocalypse. Here’s the setup: you are an irreverent young man called Dart exploring a bunch of caves with the aid of a grappling hook and a grumpy goddess trapped in a pebble....

Company “saddened and angered” by theft of employee information and dev materials Earlier this week,hackers published over 1.6 terabytes of data stolen from Spider-Man developer Insomniac Games, with files ranging from employee passport scans, Slack conversations and employment records to details of several forthcoming games. Totalling around 1.3 million files, the hack includes a fully playable WIP PC version of Insomniac’s Wolverine game, which has yet to be formally shown off beyond some initial concept images, and is at present only confirmed to release on PS5....

Patch 1.4.0 is much chunkier than Konami’s previous updates Metal Gear Solid’s Master Collectionwas afairly underwhelming packageof some of the greatest video games ever made when it released back in October. While official updates since then have done little to address some of its most egregious problems - leaving modders to step in, as usual - the game’s latest patch has finally offered up a decent serving of improvements direct from the source....

Need a hint for today’s Connections? Read our guide for help with Connections #194 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....

Another year oVR. A new one just begun It’s also been a year of interesting shifts. What was proclaimed the inevitable future of VR eighteen months ago – the Metaverse – is now dead in the water. Or at least, it’s crawling weakly toward the ocean while our hero follows slightly behind, almost pitying the poor wretch, but still intent on drowning the malignant charlatan in the shallows. Meanwhile, the headsets that have dominated this year point to the growing platform-based nature of VR....

Another couple RPS Christmas gaming traditions I’m going to toss out two more of my RPS Christmas traditions together because frankly it’s the last workday of the year and I’m in a tizzy. I trust you will pace yourself and enjoy these traditions responsibily, like a Cadbury selection box. Or slam right through them, that’s fine too. Afterplaying Skealgot your toe tapping to the beat and your heart pounding with power and pleasure, you’re ready to trash Christmas with a catchy tune inDracula Cha Cha....

There’s still a bunch of stuff for you to read, though If you were unhappy with the Advent Calendar this year then, well, ya boo sucks, but we’re once again providing a clutch of extra options with ourRPS Selection Boxes, where everyone on staff picks games that they wanted to recommend but felt were cheated out of a place on the calendar or that otherwise didn’t quite make the cut. I persist in calling these hon....

App Store page suggests a launch for Director’s Cut edition next month The $40/£35 Mac release will include everything in the previous Director’s Cut - including cosmetics fromHalf-LifeandCyberpunk 2077- plus support for MetalFX Upscaling on Apple’s most recent graphics API, Metal 3, for seemingly better performance and fidelity.