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Need a hint for today’s Connections? Read our guide for help with Connections #222 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....

Here’s a tier list of the best Pals in Palworld ranked Looking for a Pal tier list to rank the best Pals in Palworld?As you journey throughPalworld, you’ll come across Pals of differentelementswith varying Partner Skills which determine how strong they are in combat. With so many to choose from, aPal listthat is ever-expanding, and only a limited amount of space on your team, it can be hard prioritising which to recruit....

As soulless and cynical as they come For a game that’s beenrepeatedlydescribedas “Pokémon with machineguns”, the first thing that strikes me aboutPalworldis just howun-Pokémon-like it actually is. To its credit, it does do quite a good Pokémon Legends: Arceus impression when you first step out on its big, Breath Of The Wild-style hilltop and take in theopen worldvista of its monster-stuffed starting continent. But if the opening moments of washing up on the island in nothing but your very scantily clad undies hadn’t already given it away (seriously, why do shipwrecks always destroy the clothes you had on, but not your smalls underneath?...

Shifts a million copies in eight hours Palworldwas obviously destined for success the moment a million games journalists and Twitter users wrote“Pokémon with machine guns”. (Acceptable alternate nicknames include “Eevees with uzis” and “Abras who’ll stab-ya”.) Having finallylaunched into Early Accesson Steam and Game Pass this week, that prophecy has rung true as the monster-catchingsurvival gamehas caught (ha, ha) so many players that its servers are struggling to handle the load....

It’s heading to early access on January 24th It struck me that if, say, my best puzzlestrategybudDorfromantikwas ever turned into a roguelike, this is probably a good approximation of what it would look and feel like, which is, frankly, yep, I’d like that game right now, please. Happily, with Roots Of Yggdrasil now approaching its early access launch on January 24th, I’m very happy to report that it’s come on leaps and bounds since that Next Fest demo....

Here’s all the best starter Pals in Palworld to help you get up and running Looking for the best starter Pals in Palworld?Palworldis a creature capture game where you collect ‘Pals’, colourful creatures with different elemental abilities in a similar fashion to Pokemon. Pals can either help you in combat to secure new, rarer Pals, or can work at your base farming, mining and gathering materials. As such, collecting the most efficient Pals early on in your playthrough is an important step to establish your base....

I cannot for the life of me figure out how to play Illumatrons A “third-person cyberpunk fighting MOBA”. A villainous esports team owner. A horde of teenagers Naruto-running through a convention centre. Even as a keen viewer of Leverage: Redemption, I was leery of the heist-o-rama tackling esports. And sure, its fake video game is baffling, but I was surprised by how many notes the esports episode hit right. With an Illumatrons team overworked to breaking point by an egotistical owner hawking dangerous supplements, it’ll take a con, a frame, fisticuffs, and powerful cheat software to save the day....

Stuck on today’s Wordle word for January 19? 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?...

When the LTT screwdriver is too expensive… If you’re working on computers, sooner or later you’re going to have to face the facts and pick up a screwdriver set. Sure, that old Phillips screwdriver your dad gave you does the job most of the time, but wouldn’t it be nice to put it somewhere safe and get something a little more adaptable? Walmart are doing a good deal on a Hyper Tough 77-piece screwdriver set, which is $10 versus its regular $16 - a good deal for a set that includes everything you’d need for PC building and maintenance and has attracted a 4....

Avowed! Hellblade 2! Ara! Diablo 4! Elder Scrolls! Indiana Jones! The Xbox Developer Direct livestream is actually one of three Microsoft marketing bonanzas hitting the internet today. First in line isBlizzard’sDiablo 4Developer Update at 9am PT, 12pm ET and 5pm UK, in which we’ll be hearing about the action-RPG’s recently announcedSeason of the Constructquestline and areas, together with many, many quality-of-life updates and new features. I’m not sure anyone at RPS towers is hungry for more Diablo right now, but I personally am always up for one of Blizzard’s flashy cinematic trailers, likethe announcement onewhere Lilith does a Cirque Du Soleil plunge out of a demon blood trapeze....

You can pet the giraffe, but maybe don’t I think we’re well into “milking the gimmick” territory for bodycamhorrorgames now - last week’sDigestedmay have been one giant snake too many - butZoochosisdoes have the additional virtue of being heavily inspired by the cute doggy scene from The Thing. And also, perhaps,Five Nights At Freddy’s. In this latest, gruesome escapade fromSparky Markydevelopers Clapperheads, you are a zookeeper working the night shift. Your job, initially, is to feed the incarcerated animals and clean up after them while giving them an occasional pat on the nose....

You liked good water? Well, have some bad water Your favourite beaver-based colony simTimberborn’s latest big update has arrived, and honestly, I’d say your poor beavers won’t appreciate it one bit. The main reason being, it adds a new ecological hazard called Badwater, that doesn’t only make your water bad, but your crops and beavers at risk of being bad. Still, there are plenty of new buildings to help you harness the power of the stanky water and errr, exercise halls for beavers to get their sweat on....

Indiana Jones And The Great Circle, Avowed and more Todd Howard introduced Indiana Jones And The Great Circle. It’s set during the era of the original films, with Nazis to punch and whip, tombs to puzzle through, and Marcus to chat to with a voice that really sounds like a young Harrison Ford. Most of the game takes place in first-person but during climbing and cutscenes it’ll shift to third-person and let you see Indy’s face....