Need a hint for today’s Connections? Read our guide for help with Connections #141 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....

Nu order When was the last time you played a good 3D characterplatformer? For me, it was probablyPsychonauts 2. But before that? Outside of Mario? I’m not sure I’d be able to tell you. For whatever reason, the 3D character platformer has become an increasingly rare breed, it would seem, which makes them even more heartening to see when they do occasionally poke their head above the parapet and leap onto our screens....

Floating points Apologies to the chief, but there’s a not-entirely-accurate bit inKatharine’s postannouncingStarfieldas October’sRPS Game Clubgame. I, of the RPS Treehouse,dotruly loveStarfield, and have only been quiet about it because admitting you enjoy The Grey Bethesda Game but couldn’t get intoBaldur’s Gate 3orElden Ringfeels a bit like going to the Savoy Grill and only ordering chips. No one will ask you to leave, but they’ll probably start questioning your judgement....

Planet S is out after a year of early access, and it seems well worth playing You know what’s pretty great? Good video games. You know what makes good video games even better? Not having to pay a penny for them. Well, I come bearing great news for lovers of good video games you can play without paying a penny:Planet Sis totally free and by all accounts pretty darn good....

“This place is not a place of honour.” Some people sing the praises of “visceral” games. Others extol the virtues of “immersive” games. Me, I’m increasingly drawn to “perverse” games. No, not like that. Well, notentirelylike that. I mean “perverse” more straightforwardly as in deliberately awkward and unreceptive in their core design, almost self-defeating in a way that has you saying “WTF?” and hankering to know more. Take The Great Below, a newhorror… thingmabob from Cantabria-based Dobra Studios....

The Dell AW3423DWF delivers an incredible gaming experience. Dell’s Alienware AW3423DWF gaming monitor is a 34-inch curved ultrawide OLED that delivers an incredible gaming experience, thanks to its perfect contrast, excellent motion clarity and gorgeous colour reproduction. It’s also normally extremely expensive at $1000, but today you can pick up this model for $800 at Best Buy following a $200 price cut. So what makes the AW3423DWF worth its high asking price?...

Devs say they plan to respond to players’ demands while introducing their own wishlist of features Fans ofCounter-Strike: GO’s Gun Game successor Arms Race rejoice: you will be able to play the popular mode inCounter-Strike 2. Eventually, that is. Valve have promised that more modes, weapons and features are headed toGlobal Offensive’s full-bore sequel, but they might take a little while to arrive as they respond to what players are asking for....

Stuck on today’s Wordle word for October 30? 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....

Need a hint for today’s Connections? Read our guide for help with Connections #140 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....

The art style is gorgeous to boot Dungeons of Hinterbergpopped up during Xbox’s not-E3 showcaseover the summer,revealing a beautifully cel-shaded blend of dungeon-crawling, puzzle-solving and relationship-building. Having had a bit more of a look at the game’s social sim aspects via this week’s Xbox Partner Preview - yep, it still looks gorgeous and sounds fantastic. Developers Microbird have blended together the dungeon puzzles (in other words, shooting convenient targets to make platforms move and that sort of thing) and action combat ofZelda- with bombs and grapples at your disposal alongside a trusty sword - with the out-of-dungeon social maintenance ofRPGslikePersonaandShenmue....

Now shooting for a late November release after “abundant feedback” from this month’s Steam Next Fest demo Gangs of Sherwood, theco-op PvE gameinspired by the English folk hero but set in a gritty neo-medieval future closer to the grimdark world of Warhammer, has seen its release date pushed back by almost a month. Gangs of Sherwoodfirst stalked out of the shadows last summer, unveiling a distinctly different take on the classic story of the heroic outlaw stealing from the rich and giving to the poor....

Minecraft meets They Are Billions I’m not sure any of my Lego constructions would hold up to anything more aggressive than an accidental bump or the over-excited nose of a dog, let alone wave after wave of ghastly monsters. Soon I’ll be able to put that hypothesis to the test, as the next game from the creators of shopkeeping-sim-turned-dungeon-diverMoonlighterlooks to throw endless horrors at your custom-made grand design. Cataclismois a bit ofMinecraft-style building-crafting action with a good seasoning ofThey Are Billionstower-defence on top....

Need a hint for today’s Connections? Read our guide for help with Connections #139 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....