The PUBG developers' new PVP shooter looks like top-down Rainbow Six Siege with a bit of Hotline Miami

Fancy a different sort of trip down the PUB? PUBG Corporation and Krafton have just gone and announcedProject Arc, a top-down 5v5 shooter “inspired byPUBG”. To be honest with you, it looks more inspired byRainbow Six Siegewith what looks to be one team aiming to hack a crypt by breaking down defences, while the other reinforces structures to prevent them from doing that. There’s also a big emphasis on sightlines, too, where gaining or robbing an enemy team’s vision is crucial to blatting them in the head with lead....

October 30, 2024 · 2 min · 333 words · Amanda Cox

We've temporarily closed comments for maintenance, but they'll be back

If an article is posted and there are no commenters, does it make a sound? Hark! Comments have been temporarily turned off on Rock Paper Shotgun. We and all of our sibling websites are moving to a new commenting platform and the existing comments need to be ported across. This process will take some time - days, perhaps - and we’ll update this post once it’s complete and commenting functionality has been restored....

October 30, 2024 · 2 min · 241 words · James Green

Wordle hints and answer (#1229): How to solve the Wednesday October 30 Wordle

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?If you’re on your last guess, don’t worry! We have you covered with a list of hints as well as today’s word itself. Every day,Wordlepresents its legions of players with a deviously simple quandary: can you guess the right five-letter word within just six guesses?...

October 30, 2024 · 6 min · 1225 words · Julia Anderson

Zero Orders Tactics is a clever turn-based god sim with a touch of From Dust

Rock Paper Mountain Classic god sims likePopulousandBlack & Whiteteach that deities love to reach their horrible holy hands into our world and mess with us directly. They teach us to see 1-1 divine intervention in every random house fire and every lightning bolt that miraculously strikes our enemies. By contrast, the forthcomingZero Orders Tacticsteaches that god prefers to operate via covert means, because after all, personally lobbing some electricity at somebody would beinelegant....

October 30, 2024 · 2 min · 407 words · Charles Shaw

Best Call of Duty Black Ops 6 LR 7.62 loadout and class setup

Here’s how to put together a stellar LR 7.62 loadout in Black Ops 6 Looking to build the best LR 7.62 loadout in Black Ops 6?The LR 7.62 is one of three Sniper Rifles in Call Of Duty: Black Ops 6. All of these guns are powerful weapons in the hands of a trained operator, though the LR 7.62 was an early favourite that won lots of praise in Black Ops 6’s beta....

October 29, 2024 · 4 min · 815 words · Jason Stone

Black Ops 6 QA staff walk out over Activision return to the office policy, which has "unquestionably harmed disabled employees"

ABetterABK and Communication Workers Of America back walkout A number ofCall Of Duty: Black Ops 6quality assurance staff from Eden Prarie, Minnesota have walked out in protest over Activision’s ending of hybrid or remote working, which was announced inDecember last year. They’re being supported by the Communication Workers Of America union, whoclaimthat Activision are forcing the return to the office on staff “with serious medical conditions and doctor’s recommendations to work from home”....

October 29, 2024 · 2 min · 413 words · Emily Smith

Bungie seek to reassure everyone that Marathon is still alive... by saying almost nothing about it

There’s a character called “Thief” Ziegler begins the video by saying there’s no gameplay footage to show, and talks in some very general terms about what the game is going to be - a PvP-focused extraction shooter. Ollie has already rounded upeverything we know about Marathon, and this devlog sadly doesn’t tell us anything new about the game. If anything it makes it sound less defined than before. Ziegler makes vague mention of player abilities, loot, and “runner” loadouts, while re-explaining some extraction shooter basics many first-person shooter fans will already know....

October 29, 2024 · 2 min · 376 words · Jared Carrillo

Indiana Jones And the Great Circle redefines the gun-toting archaeologist as a grabby Lucasfilm fanboi

Hands-on time The game’s almost sensual need to lay Indy’s mitts on everything says a lot about Indiana Jones as a character who figures things out as he bumps into them. It also speaks to The Great Circle’s unsurprising and rather numbing portrayal of “history” as a collectible commodity, but let’s not get too self-righteous straight off the bat. Let’s start with Indy himself. The original Harrison Ford character from the 1980s is one of the great comedic improvisers - not quite up there with Jackie Chan or Charlie Chaplin, but streets ahead of James Bond and his pocketful of Chekov’s gadgets....

October 29, 2024 · 7 min · 1486 words · Karen Buck

Monster Hunter Wilds will have a spider-free mode for those with arachnophobia

Legs redacted Spider dislikers, your concerns have been noted. At least by Capcom, anyway. The developers ofMonster Hunter Wildsare including an option in the upcoming beast-skinning action RPG that will turn all arachnid style monsters into something much less creepy and/or crawly. So how does it deal with eight-legged monsters? Theybecome slimes, of course. As Automaton note, so far only small monsters appear to be accounted for. It’s not clear how larger monsters with spider-like legs will be altered, if at all....

October 29, 2024 · 2 min · 252 words · Eric Hartman

NYT Connections hints and answers for Tue, October 29th

This guide is for a previous day! Looking for today’s solution? Check out theConnections hint and answers for Thursday 12th December! Looking for a hint to help with today’s Connections puzzle on 29th October?Read on, for we’ve got the answers to help you maintain a perfect Connections score. If you just want a clue or two to put you in the right direction, we’ve got those too. Connectionsis a word puzzle game published every day by the New York Times (NYT), the hosts of the endlessly popularWordlepuzzle....

October 29, 2024 · 4 min · 677 words · Joyce Moore

Path Of Exile 2 early access release delayed to December to ensure your POE microtransactions carry over

The older code is full of “strange demons”, it seems “One of the key promises we made is that all your microtransactions will work across bothPath of Exile1 and 2,” Rogers said in the video, as passed on by charming RPS doppelgangerPCGamer. “In order to do that, we have to integrate the account systems for not only Path of Exile 1 and 2, but also for the console realms as well....

October 29, 2024 · 2 min · 336 words · Nancy Moore

Wildly immoral tinseltown builder Hollywood Animal hits early access in January 2025

Wash that down with an extensive new trailer I missed my chance to write aboutHollywood Animalwhen a certain Nic Reuben swooped in like a rival showbiz talent scout and pinched the summer Steam Fest demo from right under my nose, capitalising on the fact that I was stranded in an airport at the time. I wrote abouta very rude Minesweeper “homage"instead. Hopefully that was for the best. It’s all very involved, and not just at the level of production technicalities....

October 29, 2024 · 2 min · 239 words · Trevor Drake

Wordle hints and answer (#1228): How to solve the Tuesday October 29 Wordle

Stuck on the Wordle word for October 29? 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?We have a list of hints to keep that precious streak in shape and save any word-based disappointment. Every day,Wordlepresents its legions of players with a deviously simple quandary: can you guess the right five-letter word within just six guesses?...

October 29, 2024 · 6 min · 1228 words · Austin Boone