Football Manager 2024's advanced access is available now

Early morning kick-off Other new features include smarter transfers and team building by opponents, new set pieces, and plenty of quality of life updates. We’ll have a review along near November 6th to determine whether this amounts to much.

October 21, 2023 · 1 min · 39 words · Keith Jimenez

NYT Connections hint and answers (Saturday, October 21)

Need a hint for today’s Connections? Read our guide for help with Connections #132 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....

October 21, 2023 · 3 min · 557 words · Emily Martinez

The scripting language powering some of the best written games now works with Unreal engine

Thanks to The Chinese Room One drawback thus far has been that there was no native integration with the Unreal engine. That has now changed thanks to a new open source plug-in created by The Chinese Room. Ink has long had native Unity support and has been used by developers on recent games such asSable,Goodbye Volcano High, and the upcoming Thirsty Suitors. It also has its own dedicated editor, Inky, with which you can write and test your own stories....

October 21, 2023 · 1 min · 152 words · Kara Garcia

Wordle hints and answer (#854): How to solve the Saturday October 21 Wordle

Stuck on today’s Wordle word for October 21? 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?Every day,Wordlepresents its legions of players with a deviously simple quandary: can you guess the right five-letter word within just six guesses? All you have to help you in finding the Wordle answer are the contextual clues you gain from each guess - but often, that’s not enough....

October 21, 2023 · 6 min · 1220 words · Jacob Pierce

Activision Blizzard push Diablo 4 discounts and free trials even as Season 2 updates divide players

Blood Harvests go down well, but Steam reviews at launch are Mixed Activision Blizzard rolled outDiablo 4’s Season 2, also known as the Season of Blood, this week, together withan absolute deluge of quality-of-life improvementsacross console and PC. The publisher have also now launched the hitherto Battle.net-based PC version on Steam, and are trying to attract newcomers with a discount on Valve’s platform and a free 10 hour trial this weekend (that’s 19th-22nd October) for Xbox players....

October 20, 2023 · 5 min · 1037 words · Robert Miller

Bit.Trip ReRunner’s Mario Maker-esque level editor makes a good game even better

Putting in the leg work Cor, it sure is good to be back in Commander Video’s running shoes again. I knowBit.Trip Runnerand Choice Provisions’ assorted Bit.Triprhythm games have been available on Steam for absolutely yonks (and still are, in fact), but my memories of these are all on the Nintendo Wii. That’s where I encountered most of the games first - and I haven’t really been back since. I dabbled in Runner 2 on the Wii U, but positively bounced off the 3D-ness ofRunner 3when it came to PC, preferring instead the clean, simple lines of its stark pixel sprites....

October 20, 2023 · 7 min · 1343 words · Dr. Bryce Stephens

Meet the men hiding their FIFA Ultimate Team addiction from their families

We ask the players and the experts why people can’t stop spending money on lootboxes Gaurav* wakes up at 4am on Saturdays and Sundays. His routine is the same each time. He quickly turns off his alarm. He slowly shuffles out of bed, keeping the light off to avoid waking his wife and his 18-month-old son. He goes out through the bedroom door, and along the hall, to his office. He sits back in his chair, and he gets high....

October 20, 2023 · 11 min · 2300 words · Christina Arellano

New Stellaris DLC Astral Planes will take you on a journey to other dimensions

“What will you discover, in a universe beyond limits?” Paradox’s space 4XstrategygameStellarisis getting a new Astral Planes expansion, in which you send ships through rifts to “completely different realms of existence, where fundamentals that were certain at home may not always be true”. I’ve read a few sci-fi novels in my time, and have come to the conclusion that tunnelling into other dimensions is seldom a wise move, but there’s no turning back at the threshold when you’re nurturing a mighty galactic empire, I guess....

October 20, 2023 · 2 min · 401 words · Tammy Beltran

NYT Connections hint and answers (Friday, October 20)

Need a hint for today’s Connections? Read our guide for help with Connections #131 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....

October 20, 2023 · 3 min · 557 words · Sonia Martin

Obsidian's Josh Sawyer wants to do Pillars of Eternity 3 with Baldur's Gate 3's budget

But not Baldur’s Gate 3’s camera, thanks All that’s from an extensive and good interview withTouchArcade(as noticed byVGC), in which Sawyer waxed lyrical about the creation of monkish murder mysteryPentimentand his many years in the roleplaying business, working on everything fromPlanescape TormenttoFallout: New Vegas. Crikey, that man has a CV and a half. “I don’t think I would makePentiment2,” Sawyer told the site, when invited to pitch his dream project. “I really do feel very satisfied with that game....

October 20, 2023 · 4 min · 646 words · Jason Perry DDS

This 24-in 165Hz Lenovo gaming monitor is down to £110

A great budget option. Lenovo’s G24-20 24-inch 165Hz gaming monitor is down to just £110, a good price for a model that was previously selling for £169. Here’s why we rate it - beyond the whole deal thing, obviously. With 144Hz monitors now at or around the £100 mark, there’s very little reasonnotto opt for one over a slightly cheaper 1080p 60Hz alternative. This monitor ticks all the basic budget gaming monitor boxes too, with FreeSync and G-Sync Compatible support, a fitting resolution for its size and a Fast IPS panel that provides a good mixture of pixel response times, wide viewing angles and accurate colour reproduction....

October 20, 2023 · 2 min · 276 words · Jason Ramirez

This 27-in 1440p 165Hz monitor is in the price/performance sweet spot for $280

Down from an initial price of $400. LG makes some of the best monitors going, in my opinion, with their Fast IPS panels being the basis of many great gaming monitors from other manufacturers too. Today we’re looking at one of their first-party options, the 27GP83A, which combines a winning spec sheet with a reduced price: $279.99 for a 27-inch 1440p 165Hz gaming monitor. As you might have guessed from the name, this is the 165Hz follow-up to the 144Hz LG 27GL83A, which was itself a slightly budget alternative to the legendary 27GL850....

October 20, 2023 · 2 min · 274 words · Crystal Mckinney

Wordle hints and answer (#853): How to solve the Friday October 20 Wordle

Stuck on today’s Wordle word for October 20? 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?Every day,Wordlepresents its legions of players with a deviously simple quandary: can you guess the right five-letter word within just six guesses? All you have to help you in finding the Wordle answer are the contextual clues you gain from each guess - but often, that’s not enough....

October 20, 2023 · 6 min · 1213 words · Jason Harrison