Need some Connections hints? Read our guide for help with Connections #463. 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 17th September?If you’re feeling frustrated over today’s Connections we have you covered with a set of hints and clues below. Connectionsis a word puzzle game published every day by the New York Times (NYT), the hosts of the endlessly popularWordlepuzzle....

[DOWNLOAD DEMO] You’re thrown into the game’s opening after you’ve entered your name in a purgatorial terminal, and it immediately feels a little likeBloodborne’s Yharnam might if Sony trolled the world by releasing it not for modern PCs, but for a consumer grade PC prototype left to marinate in embalming fluid for several decades. It takes an effort just to exist in this place - exploration drains away a resource named resolve....

Old town snowed Frostpunk 2was an ambitious gambit. With survival achieved, and the introduction’s excellently sinister advisor whispering evil Tory ideas, the whole city you built inFrostpunkis now just the headquarters for a sprawling expansion effort, and your rule is no longer absolute. Rather than retread the same “prepare for ultra-Winter” ground, your biggest obstacle will likely be your own people, now formed into shifting political parties, and looking outward with colonial eyes....

Free community version outlives the acquisition of developers Proletariat, Inc Happily, it transpires that Proletariat have resurrected their creation and handed it over to posterity in the shape of a free standalone Community Version,available on Itch.io. You’ll need to host your own server or join another group if you want to play multiplayer, but all the same, this is a lovely gift and one I’m delighted to transmit unto you, the active and efficient Magenauts of Rockus Paperus Shottegonne....

Army of eww I do get it. Metaphor: ReFantazio doesn’t just have Persona DNA; it has Persona’s heart, lungs, bone marrow, and at least one of its legs. The thing where you can land a real-time slash to start a turn-based fight with an advantage? Hey, that’s like Persona. You and your party members transforming into drastically more powerful superbeings? Bit like Persona, that. Winning yourself an extra turn by striking an opponent’s weakness?...

Some of the reasons are good, to be fair Strange Scaffold’s newly releasedFPSI Am Your Beastis very fun for quite a few reasons, but chief among them is a deep appreciation for the poetry of good videogame violence. I’m not using the big P word just to throw out an overly worthy comparison to something we might associate with craft or beauty, but as a nod toward the game’s playful application of what Ipreviously called‘a euphoric splurge of murderous game verbiage’ one morning where I had clearly eaten my wordy Weetabix....

Skip to the end As the end of the UK workday approaches, and the last few grains of sand trickle through the neck of the huge, obsidian hourglass our overlord Graham keeps on his desk, let me bid you goodbye by writing upSome Goodbyes We Made. Created by Safe Flight Games, it’s an hour-long collection of 11 minigames which include pint-sized visual novels, platformers and free-standing character creators, all contained within a charming faux-desktop interface....

“We have to get back to the core of what Battlefield is,” says Vince Zampella All this comes care ofan interview with IGN, who have also bagged the first piece of concept art, above. Good job, Ian Games! The artwork shows an urban riverside landscape covered in explosions, streaking missile smoke and raging wildfires. We can see helicopters and warships in the river, and the whole thing sports an orangey-dark colour scheme which, as IGN notes, recalls the key art for Battlefields 3 and 4....

Up all night to get plucky Ireallywanted to likeaction adventureThe Plucky Squiremore than I do now, having given its charming 2D to 3D platforming a proper whirl. Yes, it’s lovely to look at. Yes, hopping out of a storybook and making friends with an illustration on a coffee mug is cool. And yes, everyone can have a mildly fun time with its puzzles and fights. But that’s the problem: who is everyone?...

A retroactive reimagining You can’t travel back to the 1980s. But what if I told you it was possible to gently warp your memories of that time?UFO 50is a kart of 50 games that once existed for an old computer system, all lovingly restored by a gang of coders. The old console, of course, is a fiction. The LX-I never existed. But it’s a fun pseudo-history against which to create a grab bag of small games (some throwaway, others mighty) all designed with a distinct 80s look....

But which kinds of living dead? Why is every blockbuster video game now some kind of live service game? Speaking as a clueless idiot, the explanation I find most convincing is that it’s an attempt to bridge the gap between the returns publishers want from video games, versus how much we’re able or willing to pay upfront. “Triple-A” projects now cost exorbitant sums to develop, partly thanks to wider economic inflation, but also because publishers have spent decades teaching players that every sequel has to be More and Shinier....

Two thumbs sideways I am sure gladiator roguelikeRPGWe Who Are About To Die’s latest update is very nice, and its accompanying 30% celebratory discount even nicer. You can find thefull patch noteshere, and I’d be interested to hear how significant they are from the more fascina-pilled among you. They mean nothing to me, however, because We Who Are About To Die has been taunting me from my wishlist since it launched in early access a few years back....

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