read-only Hello reader who is also a reader, and welcome back to Booked For The Week - our regular Sunday chat with a selection of cool industry folks about books! This week, it’s writer onMarvel’s Midnight Suns,Hindsight,Life is StrangeSeason 2 andmore, Emma Kidwell! Cheers Emma! Mind if we have a nose at your bookshelf? Another Sunday, another spectacular failure by our guest to name every book ever written. It is, as they say, how the book-y crumbles....

Stuck on today’s Wordle word for September 15? 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?Wordleis an addicting but challenging test of word acumen. Luckily, you’re in the right place for some assistance. Every day, Wordle presents its legions of players with a deviously simple quandary: can you guess the right five-letter word within just six guesses?...

Need some Connections hints today? Read our guide for help with Connections #460. 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 14th September?If today’s Connections is getting you puzzled, you’re not alone. Check out our hint section if you need a clue or scroll on to see the answers if your curiosity outweighs your pride....

An unexpected delay “All of us here at Weta Workshop are excited to have you join us in the Shire, a peaceful corner of J.R.R. Tolkien’s world. When a new Hobbit steps into Bywater for the very first time, we want that moment to be everything you’re hoping for,” reads the announcementshared via X. A Tales Of The Shire showcase stream will show more of the game in action on September 22nd, broadcast onYouTubeandTwitch....

The internet at its best Back in June,Edwin covered One Million Checkboxes, a website with one million checkboxes that players could check or uncheck, with any change visible to all other visitors of the site. It became an obsession for some in the two weeks the website was online, as players fought to fill all the boxes, or undo the work of their peers. The fight was far more complicated than it seemed, as the developer recently explained, with some players finding ways to encode hidden messages in the checkboxes....

Snap it up “It’s just fun, isn’t it?” wrote Alice B in herToem review. “It’s not groundbreaking, Toem, but it’s somehow nostalgic and modern at the same time, a silly world that you can just enjoy, guilt-free. No overwrought commentary on modern society. No hidden meaning. Occasionally some hidden socks, or ghosts you can only see when you’re wearing magic sunglasses, yes. Mostly having fun and taking pictures. I was here, I played Toem....

Stuck on today’s Wordle word for September 14? 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?Wordleis an addicting but challenging test of word acumen. Luckily, you’re in the right place for some assistance. Every day, Wordle presents its legions of players with a deviously simple quandary: can you guess the right five-letter word within just six guesses?...

Slice of life We’re having a bit of an indie freebie morning, it seems. My humble contribution is 50/50, a downloadable or browser-based game which I suspect will fill some of you with the deepest aggravation. As the name suggests, it’s about cutting things in half - specifically food items, such as fried eggs (easy enough) and candy canes (WTF). You draw a line down each object with your mouse, then click or hit space bar to perform a slice....

Plus a dozen other recommendations against misleading microtransaction practices A European consumer advocacy group have published an open letter to the European Union Commission expressing their concerns about video games that make use of premium in-game currencies - aka, make-believe money you can buy with real money, such as Minecoins in Minecraft’s Bedrock Edition. The group in question are the Bureau Européen des Unions de Consommateurs, or BEUC, who represent 44 non-governmental consumer organisations from 31 countries, and have been around since 1962....

Please and fang you InV Rising, you’re a fledgling vampire on a mission to become absolute bossferatu of aGothicopen world. You get aDiablo-ish combat system, the ability to shapeshift into a spider, and a whole castle to prance around in, crooning at the moon. I like this premise almost as much as I dislike the fact that V Rising is also asurvivalgame, in which you must fell trees and master a crafting system like a common turnip farmer....

Executives and around 24 staffers quit in the wake of failed negotiations Annapurna Interactive - the publisher behind games such asCocoon,Stray, andNeon White- have seen their entire staff resign after an internal dispute this month, viaBloomberg. The resignations came in the wake of a dispute between Annapurna Interactive president Nathan Gary and Annapurna studio head Megan Ellison. As Bloomberg report, negotiations were taking place to “spin off the video-game division as an independent entity....

From early game to endgame, these are the best armor sets in Black Myth Wukong Looking for the best armor in Black Myth Wukong?It’s probably not the best idea to challenge the Celestial Court in your starting gear, but as soon as you’ve made some progress in Chapter 1, you can find a much better armor set to make the journey to the west a whole lot safer. For this list, we’ve divided the best Black Myth: Wukong armor between “early”, “mid”, and “endgame” armor, referring to the moment they become available for crafting....

Improve your HP recovery and buffs with the most powerful Gourds in Black Myth: Wukong Looking for the best Gourds in Black Myth: Wukong?These unconventional wine bottles are your best friends during the Journey to the West; not only do they recover HP, but they can activate attack buffs, provide damage reductions, increase critical rate, and more. While most of the secondary effects come from your “drinks” and “soaks”, the Gourd itself is also important....