NYT Connections hint and answers (Sunday, November 5)

Need a hint for today’s Connections? Read our guide for help with Connections #147 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....

November 5, 2023 · 3 min · 557 words · Stephanie Jones

Wordle hints and answer (#869): How to solve the Sunday November 5 Wordle

Stuck on today’s Wordle word for November 5? 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?Every day,Wordlepresents its legions of players with a deviously simple quandary: can you guess the right five-letter word within just six guesses? All you have to help you in finding the Wordle answer are the contextual clues you gain from each guess - but often, that’s not enough....

November 5, 2023 · 6 min · 1186 words · Christopher Brown

Boiling Point: Road To Hell, one of the most delightfully buggy games ever, returns this month

Re-released but probably not fixed Here’s a trailer: The size of Boiling Point was core to its appeal. Set in a 25km square chunk of land, you could wander - and drive! - around a fictional South American country in search of your kidnapped daughter. Along the way you could chat to the locals and do jobs for six different factions, with a reputation system meaning that the nation’s government wouldn’t be too fond of you if you did jobs for the guerillas, the CIA not too fond of you if you did jobs for the government, and so on....

November 4, 2023 · 2 min · 222 words · Heather Henry

Diablo 4's first expansion revives Diablo 2's Mephisto, the Lord of Hatred

This weekend’s Blizzcon did bring other Diablo news, however. The third season of the action RPG will add a new weekly challenge dungeon called TheGauntlet, where players compete for Class ranking against each other, and the highest rank at the end of each week will have their name listed “in the Seasonal Hall of the Ancients for all of time.” The game’s first seasonal event will also arrive on December 12th, with the Midwinter Blight....

November 4, 2023 · 1 min · 118 words · Ashley Dominguez

NYT Connections hint and answers (Saturday, November 4)

Need a hint for today’s Connections? Read our guide for help with Connections #146 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....

November 4, 2023 · 3 min · 557 words · Scott Goodman

Overwatch 2's next hero is available to try this weekend

A limited trial ahead of full release next month Overwatch 2’s next hero is Mauga, a chaingun-loving tank that seems reminiscent ofTeam Fortress 2’s Heavy. He’s due to join the free-to-player shooter in Season 8 on December 5th, but you can also give him a go right now until November 5th in a limited-time trial. Mauga was revealed at Blizzcon this weekend with a new gameplay trailer that introduces his guns and his powers:...

November 4, 2023 · 2 min · 219 words · Sarah Sullivan

Wordle hints and answer (#868): How to solve the Saturday November 4 Wordle

Stuck on today’s Wordle word for November 4? 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?Every day,Wordlepresents its legions of players with a deviously simple quandary: can you guess the right five-letter word within just six guesses? All you have to help you in finding the Wordle answer are the contextual clues you gain from each guess - but often, that’s not enough....

November 4, 2023 · 6 min · 1185 words · Sarah Moon

World Of Warcraft's next three expansions have been announced, starting with The War Within

New playable race, new zones ManyWorld Of Warcraftexpansions add a new continent, but The War Within, announced at Blizzcon this weekend, is a little different. It’s set in a new subterranean world beneath Azeroth - and it kicks off a three-expansion story arc Blizzard are caling The Worldsoul Saga. Here’s the cinematic announcement trailer for The War Within, which features former Horde leader Thrall, current Alliance leader Anduin, and a really, really big sword....

November 4, 2023 · 2 min · 319 words · Jennifer Matthews

Activision defend Modern Warfare 3's larger install size, promising to shrink it before launch

Chunky download due to blending in stuff from last year’s Modern Warfare 2 Activision-Blizzard’sCall of Duty: Modern Warfare 3remake is a bit of a mammoth on all platforms, withthe Steam pagerequiring that you set aside 149 GB of SSD space unless you have Call of Duty HQ and Warzone already installed, which drives the total down to a relatively svelte 78 GB. Activision have now posted an explanation for the heavier footprint of this year’s Call of Duty, while pointing out that you can customise your install to lighten the load....

November 3, 2023 · 2 min · 358 words · Dale Johnson

Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3 chops much-disliked Weapon Tuning feature following community blowback

Sledgehammer take a sledgehammer to gun-tweaking option added by MW2 remake This year’sCall of Duty: Modern Warfare 3remake will no longer feature Weapon Tuning, a feature introduced by last year’s Modern Warfare 2 remake, which lots of people appear to despise. Unlocked by levelling up a weapon to the max, Weapon Tuning is an extra layer of the game’s Gunsmith weapon-building editor that lets you tweak individual attachment stats such as weight and length of grip, as displayed on a radar graph....

November 3, 2023 · 2 min · 322 words · Rhonda Wood

Chunks is the perfect symbol for Starfield: square, mildly unholy, but still quietly fascinating

No, YOU’RE obsessed with Starfield’s gourmet scene… I have a confession to make, readers. I’m mildly obsessed withStarfield’s cuboid food brand Chunks. In all honesty, I’m kinda obsessed withStarfield’s food in a more general sense, and I have almost as many screenshots of its tube-like meal boxes, stale toast slices, vacuum-packed sachets of rice balls, steak slabs and spiced worms - and, of course, Chunks - as I do its planets and NPCs....

November 3, 2023 · 8 min · 1519 words · Joy Graham

Come and chat all things Starfield with us in today's RPS Game Club liveblog

From 4pm GMT Hello folks. It’s time for the next gathering of theRPS Game Club! This month, we’ve been playing Bethesda’s mega space RPGStarfield, and we’ll be chatting about all your favourite/worst/merely mediocre moments, quests and stories from it later on today, Friday November 3rd, starting at4pm GMT / 9am PT / 12pm ET. We’re looking forward to it! So see you later on at 4pm sharp. Our live coverage of this event has finished....

November 3, 2023 · 3 min · 562 words · Kimberly Hensley

Diablo is getting a board game and tabletop RPG that will “continue the lore and story” of the video games

Blizzard devs are working with tabletop studio Glass Cannon Unplugged on the adaptations Surprise!Diablo 4only came out a few months ago, but there’s already a brand new Diablo game in the works. Two, in fact! The twist? These will be tabletop adaptations of Blizzard’saction-RPGseries, taking Diablo into the realm occupied by Dungeons & Dragons and Catan. Diablo: The Board Game and Diablo: The Roleplaying Game look to do exactly what they say on the cardboard tin, allowing players to venture into the undead-infested dungeons of Sanctuary and turn a load of hellspawn into demon passata....

November 3, 2023 · 2 min · 426 words · John Mullen