Today's Wordle hints and answer (#1024): How to solve the Monday April 8 Wordle

Stuck on today’s Wordle word for April 8? 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?...

April 8, 2024 · 6 min · 1217 words · Anthony White

Unnerving £2 gem Buckshot Roulette is working on a multiplayer mode so you can play shotgun roulette with pals

It’s just hit Steam, too Buckshot Rouletteis simple, and simply unsettling. Sat across the table from a mysterious opponent clad in a deeply unnerving toothy mask, you pick up a shotgun loaded with shells. Then, you decide whether to point the gun at your opponent or yourself, and pull the trigger. Some of the shells are live, and others are blanks. Guess correctly, and you get to go again. It’s a brilliant execution ofa dead simple premise, combining the stressful calculation (and pure luck) of Russian roulette with the horribly effective atmosphere of your surrounding arena and theInscryption-like Dealer sat opposite....

April 8, 2024 · 2 min · 310 words · Kimberly Kim

Use an inclined railway to purge demons in this Dreamcast-ish Meiji-set action oddity

No weapons, just a very slow elevator “Who will rid me of these tiresome overfamiliar combat systems!” I bellow from my balcony over the castle square. From far away across the sea comes the response: “in our game, your primary ‘weapon’ is a sloping railway”. The game in question is Incline ~Railway of devil’s valley~ and yes, it has an incredibly irritating English-language title, but how about that red-hot funicular action in the trailer?...

April 8, 2024 · 3 min · 435 words · Shannon Lutz

World Of Warcraft wasn't the biggest threat to The Elder Scrolls Online; it was Skyrim

Creative director Rich Lambert tells us about ten years in Tamriel For starters, the camera perspective was “more MMO-based,” he says, pulled out to give a wider view of the player’s surroundings. But when the first and third-person “Skyrim cam” made an appearance, that was one of many features the team felt they had to incorporate and iterate on afterwards. “If [Skyrim] was going to be the game that everybody knew as Elder Scrolls, we had to be more closely resembling that game,” Lambert says, recalling how they had to throw out the game’s original “great walls of text” and opting instead for a greater focus on voiced conversations....

April 8, 2024 · 7 min · 1340 words · William Jenkins

Yoshi-P says it’s “about time” for more Final Fantasy Tactics, does not mention Vagrant Story

I repeat, does not mention Vagrant Story Final Fantasy 16andFinal Fantasy 14boss Naoki Yoshida hastold The Gamerthat he reckons “It’s probably about time,” for a newFinal Fantasy Tacticsgame. The hint at some long term wish fulfillment came up during an interview with The Gamer’s Gabrielle Castania, in which Naoki ‘Yoshi-P’ Yoshida spoke aboutFinal Fantasy16’s upcoming The Rising Tide DLC, alongside DLC director Takeo Kujiraoka and localisation director Michael-Christoper Koji Fox....

April 8, 2024 · 2 min · 282 words · Jennifer Whitney

NYT Connections hint and answers (Sunday, April 7)

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. In this guide, we’ll give you a handy hint selection for today’s Connections puzzle on Sunday, April 7, before revealing the group themes and the Connections answers themselves....

April 7, 2024 · 3 min · 543 words · Alexandra Hughes

Wordle hints and answer (#1023): How to solve the Sunday April 7 Wordle

Stuck on today’s Wordle word for April 7? 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?...

April 7, 2024 · 6 min · 1214 words · Jonathan Gonzalez

Frostpunk 2's closed beta kicks off April 15th for those willing to pre-order

It’ll run for a week Chilly survival citybuilderFrostpunk 2is due to release on July 25th, but you technically don’t have to wait that long to get your fingers cold. There’s a beta coming later this month, playable between April 15th and the 22nd, if only you’re willing to pre-order the digital deluxe edition. The beta begins on April 15th at 7pm CEST/1pm EDT/10am PDT. It contains a “part of the sandbox mode called the Utopia Builder Preview”,according to 11bit’s announcement....

April 6, 2024 · 2 min · 229 words · Scott Knight

Gears 6 announcement coming in June showcase, says report

Alongside release dates for other major Xbox series Gears 6will be announced on June 9th, according to a report byThe Verge. It’s been five years since the release ofGears 5. Since then, series stewards The Coalition have co-developed turn-based spin-offGears Tacticsand offered developer support to Microsoft stablemate Halo Infinite. There were rumours last year that The Coalition had cancelled two unannounced games in order to focus on production of the next Gears Of War....

April 6, 2024 · 1 min · 128 words · Robert Skinner

No Plan B offers close combat tactics in a brutal roguelike campaign

Or less-brutal standalone missions I like close combat tactics, directing troop actions on a timeline, and breaching and clearing, but a recent revisit toDoor Kickersrevealed I no longer had the patience for its fiddly UI and grim scenarios. No Plan Blooks intriguing, then, for featuring all of the things mentioned above that I like, an unknown quantity of the things I don’t, and for having released on Steam this week....

April 6, 2024 · 2 min · 234 words · Vanessa Allen

NYT Connections hint and answers (Saturday, April 6)

Need a hint for today’s Connections? Read our guide for help with Connections #300 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....

April 6, 2024 · 3 min · 557 words · Katie Moore

Palia developers lay off a third of staff just weeks after cosy life sim's Steam launch

Can’t get too cosy these days Palia, a cosy, free-to-play life sim, arrived on Steamjust a couple of weeks ago. This week, developersSingularity6 laid off 35% of their staff, thought to be around 49 people. “Following Palia’s release on Steam, we evaluated the support needed to deliver the highest-quality gameplay service for long-term stability. We made the difficult decision to reduce our workforce, which impacted around 35 percent of our talented and hardworking team members,” said Singularity 6in a statement shared with Polygon reporter Nicole Carpenter....

April 6, 2024 · 2 min · 284 words · James Bush

Wordle hints and answer (#1022): How to solve the Saturday April 6 Wordle

Stuck on today’s Wordle word for April 6? 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?...

April 6, 2024 · 6 min · 1212 words · Tracy Curry