Hints and the answer to today’s Wordle word But it’s understandable if you need a little help on this one. Don’t worry, we’ll get through it together. Below we’ve put together some hints to help you figure it out; or, if you just want to know the answer, scroll down below the video to see the solution in full. Looking for today’s solution? Check out theWordle hint and answer for Thursday 12th December!...

Yes, you can pet the sheep in Tiny Glade Many games make you think you’re going to have a grand old time building a cute village, then they trick you into managing supply chains, or fighting raiders, or eating your pals to survive. Not the case withTiny Glade, a lovely looking upcoming game where you really do just build dioramas of cute villages, castles, meadows, and ruins using friendly tools that help you make it look good....

Thrown under the motorbike Yesterday morning, John Garvin, the creative director of underwhelming zombie biker dramaDays Gonetweeted that its poor reception was due to “woke reviewers”. In a statement released this evening, Garvin’s former employers and Days Gone developers Bend Studio say they do “not share his sentiment, nor does it reflect the views of our team.” Bend Studio released the statement via Twitter: pic.twitter.com/BgnMUgqyN8 “We are aware of the comments made by our previous Creative Director on Days Gone regarding his personal view on the critical reception of our intellectual property,” starts the statement....

No word yet on whether it’ll come to PC though A gameplay stream for Square Enix’s fantasy action RPGForspokenhas been dated for December 9th, but PlayStation Japan have tweeted an image that suggested a demo announcement will feature as part of that. Although the tweet’s been deleted since, user Renka_schedule was able to take ascreengrab. You’ll be able to tune in to the Game Awards-adjacent Forspoken stream at 6pm GMT/7pm CET/10am PT, and presumably find out more about the demo during it....

You’ll get to cook stuff up in a “massive rolling chemistry set” on December 13th Rockstar have teased a new story update coming toGTA Onlinenext week, which pits players against a ramshackle bunch of rival drug dealers. The Los Santos Drug Wars kick off on December 13th with the first part of the update. Theshort poston Rockstar’s Newswire blog isn’t exactly awash with details at the moment, but it does give an idea about the kind of dodgy characters and shenanigans you’ll get to encounter, including an angry looking luchador and the return ofGTA 5’s Nervous Ron....

Tune in for a special late showing on the RPS react-o-tron Or! We’ll collapse from exhaustion thirty minutes in. Yes, it’s a late one if you’re a fellow UK dweller, with The Game Awards stream starting at 12:30am GMT. That’s a more reasonable 7:30pm EST / 4:30pm PST for those on the same continent as the master of trailermonies himself. Here’s the official YouTube stream, and you can find the special RPS Liveblog Widget: Caffeine Edition further down this page....

A PlayStation store listing leaked the date ahead of The Game Awards Capcom recentlyrevealedthat another round of closed beta is due to begin for Street Fighter 6 on December 16th, running through until December 19th. That should give more players a go with eight of the game’s characters, along with another chance for everyone who made it into the first closed beta back in October. You canstill applyfor the second closed beta if you want to put your name in the hat, but be aware that you’ll need to link a Capcom ID to Steam if you want to be considered this time around....

On yer bike, following an internal investigation this year At least, judging by the brevity of the “About Scavengers Studio” section in the press release it is. But look, a bunch of people put hard work into this game, and Season does sound extremely like my jam. You two-wheel your way through the world in an effort to capture memories of it before a cataclysm washes much of it away. At any point you can hop off your bike to capture things, be they images of buildings, videos of birds, or recordings of locals talking....

It’s “Stealth Strategy” now, Mimimi Games tell RPS, and here’s what that means for their new game, Codename Süßkartoffel The makers ofShadow Tactics: Blades Of The ShogunandDesperados 3have been thinking a lot about real-time tactics recently. Not just because they’re knee-deep in making their next tactics game at the moment, currently known asCodename Süßkartoffel(the word for “Sweet Potato” in their native German), but because they feel the genre as a whole doesn’t quite convey what’s so special about their catalogue of excellent stealth ‘em ups anymore....

Fixes to the shader compilation stutter mean you can now play an adequate game Since release last Friday,The Callisto Protocoldevs at Striking Distance Studio have been, I can only imagine,catastrophically hard at workon the PC build. The game was almost unplayable on PC because shader compilation was causing stuttering whenever anything new happened for the first time, which is not ideal in any game, but especially not an atmospheric horror game with jump scares....

Arguing the buyout presents a risk to industry competition In astatement released this evening, the FTC say their panel voted 3-1 in favour of filing the complaint against the acquisition. “Microsoft has already shown that it can and will withhold content from its gaming rivals,” said Holly Vedova, Director of the FTC’s Bureau of Competition in the statement. “Today we seek to stop Microsoft from gaining control over a leading independent game studio and using it to harm competition in multiple dynamic and fast-growing gaming markets....

Mimimi Games give us a new sneak tease of their next stealth strategy game, Codename Süßkartoffel There’s still so much we don’t know aboutthe next stealth strategy gamefrom the makers ofDesperados 3andShadow Tactics: Blades Of The Shogun. Until yesterday, all we had was a codename (“Süßkartoffel”, or Sweet Potato), and a few otherscantbusinessfacts developer Mimimi Games posted about on their blog last year. In fact, the only concrete thing we really know about it right now is that it’s not going to be Shadow Tactics 2....

Streets of rage I know it’s day eight of the RPS Advent Calendar, but there’s no time for that. A serial killer is stalking the streets of Kamurocho, and you’re the only detective who can solve the case! Reload them fists and investigate the bright streets of Tokyo inJudgment! Ed: Judgment is an action-adventure game from Ryu Ga Gotoku Studio, the folks behind theYakuzagames. Except that you don’t play as a member of the Yakuza but as defensive attorney turned private detective Takayuki Yagami, who must help bring down Kamurocho’s crime network....