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Need a hint for today’s Connections? Read our guide for help with Connections #160 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....

Stuck on today’s Wordle word for November 18? 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?Retain your streak and see our list of hints below to help you out, or scroll down for today’s answer! Every day,Wordlepresents its legions of players with a deviously simple quandary: can you guess the right five-letter word within just six guesses?...

Original creator launches a new version of MS-DOS classic At the time of Star Fleet II: Krellan Commander’s release, I was still learning to spell and wrestling with the whole “going to the toilet independently” business, but if I’d had access to an MS-DOS PC between potty-training sessions, I dare say I’d have tried my hand at being an intergalactic warlord. Originally published in 1989 by Interstel Corporation and distributed by a little-known company called Electronic Arts, it’s an absurdly in-depth and fiddly-lookingspace simin which you fly around a randomly generated cosmos in your horrible Klingon-adjacent battlecruiser, blowing up or commandeering other ships, bombarding or invading planets, and generally speaking being a nuisance....

Promise it’ll remain business as usual for 24 Bit Studios Beloved indie outlet Annapurna have made their first-ever acquisition in the video game space, snapping up the studio responsible for co-developing a number of their biggest hits. South Africa-based 24 Bit Games boast credits across much of Annapurna’s catalogue, ranging from credits onGone Home- helping to patch the beloved narrative game on PC, as well as upgrade it to a newer game engine and fix various bugs - and the PC release of time-looping dramaTwelve Minutesto this year’s speedrunning FPSNeon Whiteand puzzle masterpieceCocoon, both of which they ported over to consoles....

No requiescat for the wicked Good news for those Assassin’s Creed fans who’ve already finishedMirage- a far more accomplishable task than in the series’ last few games - and are itching to dive back into the streets of ninth-century Baghdad for a fresh challenge: New Game Plus will arrive for free next month, along with a punishing new permadeath mode. Mirage dropped just over a month ago as a relievingly stripped-back take on the stab-and-parkour formula, following returningAC Valhallacharacter Basim in a standalone-but-also-sort-of-a-prequel adventure thataimed to go back to the rootsof Ubisoft’s long-running time-hopping franchise....

Because the Steam Deck ain’t for everyone FewBlack FridayPC hardware sales are as potent, moneysaving-wise, as the best Black Friday gaming laptop deals. From a few tenners to the best part of two grand, these laptops can and will come with seriously deep discounts. Pretty good showings, for devices that are gaming PCs, monitors, and gaming keyboards all in one. Most of this year’s Black Friday gaming laptop deals are rocking up-to-date Nvidia GeForce RTX 40 series GPUs, too, so they’ll be able to handleray tracingand roid their own performance viaDLSS 3....

Here’s the best MX Guardian loadout in Modern Warfare 3 Looking for the best MX Guardian loadout in Modern Warfare 3?The MX Guardian is easily one of thebest shotguns in Modern Warfare 3at the moment. As a fully automatic shotgun, it boasts a high fire rate without having to sacrifice its damage potential. Thankfully, due toCall Of Duty: Modern Warfare 3’carry forward' system, you can have this MW2 shotgun in your MW3 arsenal, so for the best MX Guardian loadout in Modern Warfare 3, read on below for the best attachments and equipment to use....

This is the best Tempus Razorback build in Modern Warfare 3 right now Looking for the best Tempus Razorback loadout in Modern Warfare 3?As far asassault riflesgo inCall Of Duty: Modern Warfare 3, there are certainly better choices, however, the Tempus Razorback does offer high handling and fire rate stats. Although the gun has a lack-lustre damage output it can provide good follow-up support, particularly for sniper builds. The Tempus Razorback is one of the many guns that can be ‘carried forward’ from MW2....

Get ready to grind Reports suggestedCall Of Duty: Modern Warfare 3was acrunch-driven 16 month project, and ourcampaign reviewthought it displayed characteristics of a rushed schedule-filler. Besides quality gunplay and a fantastic array of classic maps, MW3’s multiplayer doesn’t do much to differentiate itself from MW2, aside from being more of a frustrating grind. And its awkwardly positioned zombies mode, though it might appeal to some, has been robbed of its sickle-sharpening soul....

Hot drinks, chill conversation Bitesize café management game Zipp’s Café has hit PC, landing somewhere between the animal-noir atmosphere of raccoon detective gameBackboneand the chill relationships-and-drinks vibes ofCoffee Talk. That comes together in a short and sweet game set inside the titular café run by ex-con Zipp - who also happens to be a raccoon - in an effort to escape his life of crime. The café is built on the border between a city of animals and a surrounding ghetto populated by anthropomorphic insects, who serve as your clientele....

Resistance saving throw failed Look, I’m fairly certain you’ve playedBaldur’s Gate 3already. In fact, you’ve probably played a bunch of it, whether you’ve spent that time killing goblins, shagging bears or smooching the internet’s favourite vampire husband. So, like me, there’s no real reason you’d need another copy of the game. And yet. Baldur’s Gate 3 devs Larian have unveiled aswanky physical Deluxe Editionof the D&D RPG that packs in the game itself along with a load of physical bits and bobs....

Amazing Mazes and labyrinths can be confusing, frustrating, oppressive,nightmarish. They are the kinds of structures videogame developers are reluctant to put in their games, because the potential for the player losing heart or patience is relatively high. But as productions, they can be strangely economical, oddly light-footed. Mazes and labyrinths, after all, twist up space and as such, discover or create additional spacewithinspace. They allow vast journeys to happen within areas that are modest when judged in terms of square footage, journeys that encompass a multitude of locations that have an inherent, automatic atmosphere: tantalising forks in the path and mocking dead ends, hubs with corridors leading in all directions, leisurely perimeter paths and gristly knots of inner passages....

She loves watching me repair roads in Sebil Engineering Like so many of us, my kitten enjoys seeing shapes and colours move. But while she usually watches games and television with casual interest, she’s losing it overSebil Engineering. The great new physics puzzle game involves repairing roads while vehicles zoom across, endless streams of cars and buses that skid and flip and crash and tumble and oh, she cannot get enough....