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The Jackbox Megapicker will be out next month, and it’s free There’ve been a ton ofJackbox Party Packsover the last near-decade, each following a fairly similar structure: one or two standout games you’ll want to replay, a couple you might dip into every now and then, and at least one you’ll try once and then never bother with again. With 10 different packs to pick from, it becomes an increasing fuss to remember which pack has which game in, and then boot it up just to play its highlight before repeating the process when you choose to play something else....

Action-strategy with incredible spirit Every so often in the ignoble craft of james gournalism you stumble on a game that reminds you why you got into this weird and silly trade, a game that slices through the phantasmagorical mulch of a million Summer Game Fest announcements and clears the portals of the brain. It seems mad to think ofKanitsu-Gami: Path Of The Goddessthis way, given that on some level, it is a tower defence game....

Need a hint for Connections? Read our guide for help with Connections #369 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....

“If I say I want one, I’ll get in trouble” Look, everyone wants to playBloodborneon PC. It’s one of those universally accepted truths, like gravity or pizza being delicious. And, yes, nobody really knows why Bloodborne isn’t on PC yet, almost a decade after it released on PlayStation 4 - despite Sony’s apparent delight in bringingeveryotherPlayStationexclusiveto PC, just to mock us. It’s one of those universally accepted unknowns, like how gravity works or the actual best pizza topping....

“One scholarship place available” UK national treasures Inkle - they wholooped the globe in 80 days,vaulted the heavensandsang of the highlands- are making a brand new investigation-ma-jig called Miss Mulligatawney’s School For Promising Girls, though the presskit notes that this might not be the final title. It’s set in a 1920s boarding school, where you can expect “tuition in Latin, Geometry and a wide range of team sports, all within the beautiful setting of our isolated country estate”....

I Sora game you might like The games are being packaged together in a bundle as “Kingdom Hearts Integrum Masterpiece” that will set you back £85, for anyone who wants to take a wild run at the series at full speed. But you can also buy them singly, with the slow and reasonable patience of a true Donald Duck appreciater. Here’s the list of games that have come to the store:...

Stuck on the Wordle word for June 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?We have you covered with a group of clues followed by the word if you need it, to help keep your streak firmly in place. Every day,Wordlepresents its legions of players with a deviously simple quandary: can you guess the right five-letter word within just six guesses?...

It’s in more than 7 days though Ten years ago, we were drowning in early access survival games about chopping trees and crafting camp fires.Rustpit monstrous players against one another,DayZhad us dashing around for beans and bleach, whileThe Forestcreeped us the hell out in a dark jungle. There was even a week-long celebration here at RPS calledsurvival weekto get the genre out of our systems. A lot of those games have since graduated to a full 1....

The long grass is now your greatest ally These include making supply lines and attack origins visible on the Galactic War map, so you can (in theory) cut off invasions at their root, together with an absolute slew of stratagem and weapon balancing changes, an accompanying tsunami of tweaks for Automaton and Terminid enemies, and a positive landslide of, errrrm, reworks for planetary maps. Also, invite-only lobbies! Though they’re currently only localised in English....

Kicking off June 18th Everywhereis a creative suite that aims to let players build their own 3D games - such as shooters, racing games, and platformers - without code. Instead, players can use a developer- and user-created asset library to build and “remix” game worlds, then publish them for other folks to play. Those creative tools will be available to some people next week, when the closed Builders Beta launches on June 18th....

Kung-feudal In the past I’ve describedPhantom Blade Zero, the foetid and frantic new action-RPGfrom Chinese studio S-Game, asa Soulslike, and more specifically a Sekirolike. I must now hang my head and await the executioner’s ludicrously oversized hammer, for while Phantom Blade Zero’s ambience and layouts owe something to From’s work, the moment-to-moment has just as much in common with older hack-and-slash games such asNinja Gaiden. I played a bit of it at Summer Game Fest this week, and while I’m not rushing out to preorder (I never am, in fairness), I think it could be a good ‘un....

“Not even I can predict what’s in it,” says dev Mental Salvodescribes itself as having an “infinite open world” in which you can do so many things, “they’re impossible to list”. Were this a game from a triple-A publisher, I’d be heading down to their compound with some powerful magnets and cannisters of highly concentrated acid to wipe out their ungodly creation before it replaces the fundamental particles of our universe with waypoints....

Ominous When I playMinecraft, I mostly just want to build things, or maybe go exploring across its landscapes, which still have the power to surprise and delight me. My son, meanwhile, mostly wants to murder me - and in the game. The Tricky Trials update, out now, might help redirect his bloodlust. It adds trial chambers full of traps and treasure, including waves of hostile mobs to battle against. Trial chambers are large copper structures, in which you’ll find trial spawner blocks that bump out enemies - including two new mobs....