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April 2024 Archive

    1. A Difficult Game About Climbing is a difficult game about climbing
    2. Square Enix announces £112m in "content abandonment losses" as it seeks to be more selective
    3. Deliver Us Mars developers lay off all staff but plan to 'rebuild brick by brick'
    4. Here are the new Game Pass library additions for May 2024
    5. I spent two hours getting beaten up in Shin Megami Tensei 5: Vengeance
    6. Spooky throwback Elder Scrolls 'em up Dread Delusion leaves early access in May
    7. How to upgrade Burgage Plots in Manor Lords
    8. Does Manor Lords have co-op or multiplayer?
    9. Farming explained in Manor Lords
    10. Razer to pay out over $1 million in refunds over its misleading (and hideous) Zephyr face mask
    11. Supermarket Times embodies a unique and quiet bovril-fueled brand of anarchy
    12. Harold Halibut review: a sweet, restrained story about finding your way home
    13. Manor Lords VR mod suggests that it would make a terrific god sim
    14. Elder Scrolls and Fallout devs Bethesda want to release games more often, but making them last is more important
    15. Retro RPG Beyond Galaxyland has vibrant pixel art and Pokémon's creature collecting
    16. May's RPS Game Club pick is... Deathbulge: Battle Of The Bands
    17. Vampire Survivors free cart-racing update finally answers one of the game's darkest mysteries
    18. Centum is a horror adventure about training up an AI, also featuring a demon catphone
    19. Palworld meets Yakuza in Paradise Killer devs and Ikumi Nakamura’s new open world crime game
    20. Palworld is getting new pals this summer, and there are plans for "many more"
    21. Todd Howard says Starfield's Shattered Space DLC arrives "in the fall", update fixing stupid map "really soon"
    22. Wordle hint and answer #1046 (April 30 2024)
    23. NYT Connections hint and answers (Tue, Apr 30)
    1. Dungeons of Hinterberg, Zelda meets Persona in the Alps, gets a playtest next month ahead of July release date
    2. Game of Thrones reportedly has an MMO in the works, nearly a decade after the last one was cancelled
    3. Don’t expect Ori 3 anytime soon, as devs say they’ll be working on No Rest for the Wicked for up to a decade
    4. First proper Manor Lords patch targets archers, trading, homelessness mechanics and over-expansionist AI
    5. Baldur’s Gate 3 companions are being modded into Stardew Valley, so you can romance Astarion all over again
    6. Echo Weaver is an Outer Wilds-inspired metroidvania in which the only resource is time
    7. If you just buy one Total War: Warhammer 3 Thrones Of Decay lord, make it Malakai Makaisson
    8. Top PC cooling component manufacturer EKWB accused of culture of racism, sexism and overwork
    9. I want to tell you more about my favourite weird aquarium game, but it has trapped me in my dad's basement
    10. Layers Of Fear dev's next original game will be revealed this year
    11. Amazon Prime Day 2024 is coming this July – everything you need to know
    12. Escape From Tarkov studio boss says he "did not foresee" players would get mad about charging extra for PvE
    13. Helldivers 2 patch makes life hellish indeed for smaller parties, but also makes maps more fun to explore
    14. The 20 best online board games on PC
    15. A bot in Tekken 8 is demolishing players by only pressing one button over and over
    16. Manor Lords dev wants you to decide whether the game should allow egg monopolies
    17. Driving Empire codes
    18. The Maw 29th April-4th May
    19. Wordle hint and answer #1045 (April 29 2024)
    1. NYT Connections hint and answers (Mon, Apr 29)
    2. What's on your bookshelf?: Citizen Sleeper's Gareth Damian Martin
    3. The Sunday Papers
    4. NYT Connections hint and answers (Sun, Apr 28)
    5. Wordle hint and answer #1044 (April 28 2024)
    1. This farming sim sits at the bottom of your screen while you kid yourself you're doing other things
    2. Banned WWE 2k24 modder has account reinstated after player backlash, some mods will return
    3. Escape From Tarkov studio head doubles down on belief new mode is not DLC, but says players can have it when the game is done
    4. What are we all playing this weekend?
    5. Wordle hint and answer #1043 (April 27 2024)
    6. NYT Connections hint and answers (Sat, Apr 27)
    1. A month after the Alone in the Dark reboot’s release, it looks like its developers are suffering layoffs
    2. This Ace Attorney collection is about to disappear from Steam, so grab it while you can (and cheap, for the next week)
    3. Celeste’s slick movement meets Zelda’s hookshot in Oyster Wars, “intense” platformer by an actual oyster farmer about revenge against Big Oyster
    4. Manor Lords publisher reassures players struggling to buy at launch that "we'll run those 25% discounts often"
    5. Phantom Fury review: a retro shooter obsessed with inconsequential do-hickeys
    6. How to make weapons and armor in Manor Lords
    7. Upgrade your Steam Deck storage with Corsair's MP600 Mini 1TB SSD for just £70
    8. I followed this ox around in Manor Lords for a day to see what wisdom it could teach me
    9. How to build the Manor in Manor Lords
    10. Even if we never get Stellar Blade on PC, action-RPG Aikode looks comparably swish
    11. Unpacking the cursed digital object that is Steam’s clown reaction emoji
    12. I tried to recreate Stray in Lethal Company, with disastrous results
    13. Join us with your most valuable scrap to talk about Lethal Company in today's RPS Game Club liveblog!
    14. If you want a single-player Lethal Company, don't miss the developer's previous It Steals
    15. I respect Lethal Company's dedication to being a slapstick-fest that makes zero sense whatsoever
    16. Stay awhile and play this free Diablo-inspired indie as the mayor of Tristram
    17. Manor Lords: Which scenario should you choose?
    18. How to play third person in Manor Lords
    19. Manor Lords: How to raise armies
    20. Manor Lords: How to increase Treasury
    21. Manor Lords: How to get Influence
    22. Manor Lords: How to make Leather
    23. Manor Lords: How to make Tools
    24. How to get Herbs in Manor Lords
    25. Manor Lords: Full building list
    26. How to defend against Raiders in Manor Lords
    27. Manor Lords: How to store resources
    28. How to get more Oxen in Manor Lords
    29. How to place roads in Manor Lords
    30. How to demolish buildings in Manor Lords
    31. Counter-Strike 2 finally gets left-handed view models, seven months after launch
    32. You can now feed people to the big beast in The Wandering Village
    33. New Escape From Tarkov PvE mode exclusive to pricey Unheard edition despite promises of free DLC
    34. Manor Lords release date
    1. Wordle hint and answer #1042 (April 26 2024)
    2. NYT Connections hint and answers (Fri, Apr 26)
    3. Manor Lords too realistic or grimy for you? Try cosy survival townbuilder Diluvian Winds, out today
    4. After ten years, Korean MMO ArcheAge is closing its European and North American servers
    5. Bulletstorm and Outriders studio have cancelled development on a co-op action RPG
    6. BlizzCon won't happen in 2024
    7. Dr Robotnik's Ring Racers is a gorgeous free SNES-style arcade racer, built using Doom Legacy
    8. The Electronic Wireless Show podcast S3 Episode 16: the new hobbit life sim and our favourite The Lord Of The Rings games
    9. In new open world game Lost Legions you are a Roman "rebuilding the empire" behind enemy lines
    10. Lethal Company is as much about protecting the mundane, as it is a horror game
    11. The best microSD cards for the Steam Deck
    12. Gorgeous interactive fiction Pine: A Story Of Loss is a small sad game about a big sad man
    13. Inferni: Hope And Fear is an online co-op deckbuilding battle royale, if you were after such a thing
    14. RPS Game Club Asks: What do you think of Lethal Company?
    15. Fallout 4's "next gen" update is out today and might break your mods - here's how to stop it
    16. I have determined which Lethal Company monster is the hardest worker and should be hired
    17. SUDDEN DEATH is a free slice of interactive fiction about love, drugs, and Australian football
    18. Aqua horror sim Barotrauma has an update that makes opiates "less of a solution for everything"
    19. Assassin's Creed Mirage won't get story DLC, but the devs have "ideas on how we could extend the story of Basim"
    20. Paper Sky is a joyful flight sim for people who suck at flight sims, and there’s a demo out now
    21. Garry’s mod is removing “Nintendo Stuff” after takedown notices, but users suspect foul play from fraudsters
    22. The next free Total War: Warhammer 3 update makes spreading Nurgle plagues even more rewarding
    23. Wordle hint and answer today #1041 (April 25 2024)
    24. NYT Connections hint and answers (Thu, Apr 25)
    1. PUBG, the game that Fortnite copied, copies Fortnite by bringing back the battle royale shooter’s original map
    2. Former Fable devs reveal a new co-op RPG, then announce its development is on hold amid layoffs
    3. GTA5 nearly had story DLC that made Trevor a 007-style spy - until it was cancelled and turned into a GTA Online heist
    4. Dark Souls would’ve been a better game in early access, says dev behind Dark Souls-like early access game No Rest For The Wicked
    5. Should You Bother With... Hall effect keyboards?
    6. Another Crab's Treasure review: a playful Soulslike for everyone, especially if you like crabs
    7. Sand Land review: a boring Mad Max lite that should have been very exciting
    8. Watching Civil War made me want more games with black and white stances on morality
    9. Manor Lords early access review: a sturdy and immersive builder that feels incomplete yet alive with promise
    10. Minecraft rolls out armadillo mob and rewilds biomes with eight new wolf variants
    11. Lords Of The Fallen's latest update adds cruel modifiers that turn it into a roguelike
    12. Steam says those hours you time criminals put in during advanced access now count toward the refund allowance
    13. The Don't Starve devs' new cutesy co-cop dungeon crawler is out in early access today
    14. Fallout 4: Best Power Armor and where to find
    15. NYT Connections hint and answers (Wed, Apr 24)
    1. Wordle hint and answer #1040 (April 24 2024)
    2. You can now pre-register for Genshin developer's Zenless Zone Zero
    3. Strategy RPG Songs Of Conquest will hit 1.0 with a final campaign next month
    4. Against The Storm's 1.3 update is out now and it's one for the zoomers
    5. Fortnite will let you hide "confrontational" emotes, including the game's most popular
    6. EGX and MCM Comic Con are sharing a London venue this year
    7. Innkeep satisfies my craving for a fantasy game that's just a grim drudgery simulator
    8. Latest Horizon Forbidden West PC patch finally fixes its weirdest issue
    9. Sweet Transit is a loveable city builder for model train nerds, out of early access now
    10. Hellish indie horror IRIS can get in the toaster and I’m sure the feeling is mutual
    11. The kissable frogs and sparky combat of Hades 2 looks set to bewitch fans
    12. Arise now, ye Cerim: No Rest for the Wicked’s performance updates are underway
    13. The original Fallout is the perfect antidote to Fallout fever
    14. Lethal Company gets worse as you get better
    15. ESA lawyer frets about some sort of terrifying ‘online arcade’ if preservation is made easier
    16. Metaphor: ReFantazio gets mega-trailer and October release date - good news, brawler-only parties are viable
    17. Whatever the Fallout TV show does with New Vegas lore, Josh Sawyer doesn’t care: “It was never mine”
    18. Cereballers is a free 2D football parody with a spark of real genius
    19. NYT Connections hint and answers (Tue, Apr 23)
    1. Wordle hint and answer #1039 (April 23 2024)
    2. StarCraft 2’s former lead multiplayer designer teases a new RTS he feels is a “paradigm shift” for the genre
    3. The Fallout TV show’s popularity has blown up Nexus Mods as everyone rushes to play Fallout 4 again
    4. WipEout and Skate co-creators tease a sci-fi sports game and roguelike strategy sim from their new studio
    5. Uncover the Smoking Gun has you solve a murder mystery by interrogating ChatGPT-speaking suspects
    6. A former Homeworld dev has made a free browser game that plays like an ultraviolent Office Space sequel
    7. First Tales of the Shire trailer reveals a life sim set in Tolkien's most Hobbity pastures
    8. No Rest For The Wicked: Where to get a Shovel
    9. An English Haunting is still an Edwardian point-and-click Ghostbusters, and also out in May
    10. No Rest For The Wicked: Merchant locations
    11. Tales Of Kenzera: Zau review: a beautifully designed yet imprecise platforming adventure
    12. No Rest For The Wicked: Runes
    13. Embracer will split into three companies, including Middle-earth & Friends
    14. Valheim's volcanic Ashlands update gets first proper trailer and breakdown
    15. Blue Prince is already the very best shapeshifting videogame house
    16. Fallout 76 Power Armor locations and where to find them
    17. Fallout 76 lockpicking: How to pick locks and upgrade the skill
    18. Fallout 76 mutations and all effects
    19. All Fallout 76 treasure map locations
    20. How does multiplayer work in Fallout 76
    21. The Maw - 22nd-27th April 2024
    22. NYT Connections hint and answers (Mon, Apr 22)
    23. Wordle hint and answer #1038 (April 22 2024)
    1. Eiyuden Chronicle: Hundred Heroes review: a relaxed JRPG adventure with a few old school quirks, but even more pals
    2. The Sunday Papers
    3. NYT Connections hint and answers (Sun, Apr 21)
    1. Wordle hint and answer #1037 (April 21 2024)
    2. Tinkerlands: A Shipwrecked Adventure is a free demo of 2D crafting and spider fights
    3. Palestinian Relief Bundle includes indie classics (and hundreds more) for just $8
    4. No Rest For The Wicked's first hotfix addresses durability and repair cost complaints
    5. Free Stars: Children Of Infinity, name-swapped sequel to Star Control 2, has tripled its crowdfunding goal
    6. What are we all playing this weekend?
    7. NYT Connections hint and answers (Sat, Apr 20)
    1. Wordle hint and answer #1036 (April 20 2024)
    2. Final Fantasy 14’s long-awaited graphics update in 7.0 will look better than the Dawntrail benchmark, Yoshi-P promises
    3. Suikoden spiritual successor Eiyuden Chronicles will get a sequel to ‘carry on the legacy’ of late creator
    4. Well, whaddya know, there’ll officially be a season two of Amazon’s very popular Fallout TV show
    5. Prison Architect 2 has been pushed from its already delayed release date next month all the way back to autumn
    6. No Rest for the Wicked’s PC performance suggests the wicked might be better off waiting
    7. If I never write about video games ever again, let this be my final plea
    8. Piecing It Together gave me a timely little island of calm
    9. This amazing, surprising browser game shows the Internet can still be magical
    10. The best farming games like Stardew Valley on PC
    11. Capcom plan to make Dragon's Dogma 2's dragonsplague less frequent, and more obvious
    12. No Rest For The Wicked: How to save your game
    13. What are ‘solvable’ games, and is being solvable a bad thing?
    14. Grow your very own grandpa in this wonderfully unpleasant little indie horror game
    15. Stardew Valley gets yet another update, adding new mine layouts and ominous-sounding "fish frenzies"
    16. This delightful fantasy immersive sim somehow snuck its merry way into Steam’s FPS fest
    17. Alice0 is leaving RPS, come and celebrate her work and make lamentation
    18. No Rest For The Wicked: How to repair equipment
    19. No Rest For The Wicked: Best stats
    20. What's it like adding a world to Star Wars? The Outlaws developers explain
    21. Fallout 76 has a hellish new area and Bethesda want you to nuke it
    22. Cities: Skylines 2 devs apologise for "rushed" DLC, offer refunds, promise conciliatory fan summit
    23. No Rest For The Wicked devs working on fixes for performance issues and progression loss bugs
    24. NYT Connections hint and answers (Fri, Apr 19)
    25. Wordle hint and answer #1035 (April 19 2024)
    1. Boys will once again be boys in Kingdom Come: Deliverance 2, revealed today for 2024 release
    2. Balatro ‘95 perfects procrastination by modding the roguelike deckbuilder into classic Windows Solitaire
    3. Ghost of Tsushima: Director’s Cut brings PlayStation trophies and friends to PC for the first time
    4. Arma and DayZ makers’ free-to-play looter-shooter Vigor is coming to PC, half a decade after consoles
    5. Braid's Anniversary Edition squeezes in one more delay, three years after it was first meant to arrive
    6. Larian have two new games in the works, "fueled by the very same fire" as Baldur's Gate 3
    7. How you sign in to this site is changing slightly
    8. The Electronic Wireless Show podcast S3 Episode 15: everyone loves Fallout and the Fallout TV show
    9. I spoke to an Nvidia AI NPC, and he mainly wanted to get me bladdered
    10. New Nancy Drew game Mystery Of The Seven Keys is out in May, thus making my life very slightly harder
    11. Dragon's Dogma 2 walkthrough
    12. Dragon's Dogma 2: When Wills Collide quest walkthrough
    13. Dragon's Dogma 2: A Scholarly Pursuit quest walkthrough
    14. Dragon's Dogma 2: Halls of the First Dawn quest walkthrough
    15. Morels 2 sure has a lot of unicorns, for a mushroom collection game
    16. Shadow-hopping platformer Schim emerges into the light in July
    17. Dragon's Dogma 2: All Sphinx riddle solutions
    18. 1000xResist is a time travel story inspired by Star Trek, the pandemic and immigrant trauma
    19. Homeworld 3 DLC plans revealed alongside collector’s edition with model spaceships
    20. No Rest For The Wicked will be playable on Steam Deck, although recommended PC specs may be a worry
    21. Manor Lords dev staves off early access disappointment by explaining his game isn't here to murder Total War
    22. NYT Connections hint and answers (Thu, Apr 18)
    1. Wordle hint and answer #1034 (April 18 2024)
    2. Bethesda's Todd Howard clarifies the fate of Shady Sands in the Fallout TV show timeline
    3. Militia to the gates, please - the Dwarf Fortress Steam edition's Adventure Mode beta is live
    4. What's better: a 'put back' action, or standing atop another player's head in an FPS?
    5. Lorelei And The Laser Eyes is a new notebook-is-mandatory puzzle stunner from the Sayonara Wild Hearts devs
    6. SteamWorld Heist 2 revealed, bringing a ragtag crew of seafaring robots to PC this August
    7. Dragon's Dogma 2: Dreams Apart quest walkthrough
    8. Dragon's Dogma 2: Legacy quest walkthrough
    9. Dragon's Dogma 2: The Guardian Gigantus quest walkthrough
    10. The Witcher 3's powerful new modding tools now in testing on Steam
    11. FACEMINER is the dystopian surveillance work-from-home side hustle you’ve always wanted
    12. GTA 6 publishers Take-Two cancel games and lay off hundreds to "rationalize" their pipeline
    13. To play Elden Ring: Shadow Of The Erdtree, you must defeat some of Elden Ring’s toughest bosses
    14. You can sign up to play Hades 2 early right now
    15. Wordle hint and answer #1033 (April 17 2024)
    16. NYT Connections hint and answers (Wed, Apr 17)
    1. The Fallout TV show might have answered a decades-old question in the video games
    2. D&D makers also want a Baldur’s Gate 4, but say they won't rush to a sequel (it shouldn't take 25 years, mind)
    3. World of Warcraft’s next expansion The War Within will run a beta before launch, and you can sign up now
    4. Palworld CEO says “many” clones of Pokémon-with-guns game are coming, with “Genshin Impact-level” successors
    5. Dragon's Dogma 2: A New Godsway quest walkthrough
    6. Get the fastest PCIe 4.0 SSD for $139 at Amazon
    7. After six months of renovations, Cities: Skylines 2 performance is considerably less terrible
    8. How Rockstar banning Cake Day helped launch a designer's career in edible games
    9. Dragon's Dogma 2: Convergence quest walkthrough
    10. Dragon's Dogma 2: Flickering Shadows quest walkthrough
    11. Dragon's Dogma 2: Nation of the Lambent Flame quest walkthrough
    12. Dragon's Dogma 2: Best mods
    13. Fallout TV creators saved “iconic elements” for season 2 so it doesn’t feel like they just skimmed Wikipedia
    14. No, Jabba The Hutt isn't a Star Wars Outlaws season pass or special edition exclusive
    15. Still Wakes The Deep’s authentic horror aims to channel Ken Loach by way of Stanley Kubrick
    16. No Rest For The Wicked launch trailer drops as devs promise no microtransactions, always-online or anti-cheat
    17. Keanu Reeves to play Shadow in the Sonic 3 movie as Sega announce the Year of Shadow
    18. Manor Lords performs fine on Steam Deck – it’s the controls you’ll want to watch out for
    19. Text Vault-Tec's number from the Fallout TV show to get a potential teaser for a November announcement
    20. NYT Connections hint and answers (Tue, Apr 16)
    21. Wordle hint and answer #1032 (April 16 2024)
    1. Slayers Unleashed codes
    2. Just Cause developers Avalanche have unionised, covering over 500 employees
    3. Former Blizzard boss reckons you should be able to tip developers 'another $10 or $20' on top of $70 games
    4. Lethal Company’s first update in months makes it harder to be a shovel-armed killing machine or speedrunner
    5. Game-sized Fallout 4 mod Fallout: London has been delayed indefinitely by Bethesda’s incoming next-gen update
    6. Hands on with Frostpunk 2 reveals a wasteland that’s more about wheelin’ and dealin’ than mere survivin’
    7. LawBreakers is staging an unofficial comeback, five years after it (and its makers) shut down
    8. Final Fantasy 14's Dawntrail benchmarking tool has players happy with its new playable catmoms
    9. The Fallout TV show gave the Fallout games a huge player bump, as everyone remembers they like Fallout
    10. Pool Of Madness is pool by way of Lovecraft
    11. An action platformer about getting an eye back from ants affirms my belief that games need a Ronseal approach to their titles
    12. Screenshot Saturday Mondays: Flintlocks and chainsaw bayonets
    13. Goblin Stone review: turn-based charm spells only last so long
    14. Katharine is leaving RPS, come say goodbye
    15. The Maw - 15th-20th April 2024
    16. Wordle hint and answer #1031 (April 15 2024)
    17. NYT Connections hint and answers (Mon, Apr 15)
    1. Gestalt: Steam & Cinder will launch in May and the demo is out now
    2. The Crew has started disappearing from game libraries after its closure last month
    3. The Sunday Papers
    4. Wordle hint and answer #1030 (April 14 2024)
    5. NYT Connections hint and answers (Sun, Apr 14)
    1. Possibility Space closes down, founder blames staff leaks
    2. What are we all playing this weekend?
    3. Wordle hint and answer #1029 (April 13 2024)
    4. NYT Connections hint and answers (Sat, Apr 13)
    1. 64-player Pac-Man battle royale game Chomp Champs escapes the grave of Google Stadia onto Steam next month
    2. After laying off half of the studio, Immortals of Aveum devs have now reportedly furloughed most of those left
    3. Baldur’s Gate 3 does what Elden Ring couldn’t, sweeps BAFTAs to become first game to win every big GOTY award
    4. Steam’s FPS Fest unloads a clip full of deals and demos for shooters next week
    5. Here's a demo for POOLS, a Backrooms game with lots of lovely waterslides
    6. Dragon's Dogma 2: Feast of Deception quest walkthrough
    7. Dragon's Dogma 2: An Unsettling Encounter quest walkthrough
    8. Dragon's Dogma 2: The Nameless Village quest walkthrough
    9. Dragon's Dogma 2: The Stolen Throne quest walkthrough
    10. Dragon's Dogma 2: Disa's Plot quest walkthrough
    11. Dragon's Dogma 2: The Caged Magistrate quest walkthrough
    12. Dragon's Dogma 2: Monster Culling quest walkthrough
    13. Dragon's Dogma 2: In Dragon's Wake quest walkthrough
    14. Dragon's Dogma 2: Tale's Beginning quest walkthrough
    15. Dragon's Dogma 2: Gaoled Awakening quest walkthrough
    16. Dragon's Dogma 2: Seat of the Sovran quest walkthrough
    17. Carpathian Night Starring Bela Lugosi takes Castlevania back to basics
    18. Total Warhammer 3 without touching grass: unlikely allies, money troubles, and bilge rats
    19. Dragon's Dogma 2: How to identify Dragonsplague
    20. No, the Fallout TV show hasn't written Fallout: New Vegas out of history, says Bethesda design director
    21. No Rest For The Wicked release time and date
    22. Visit a mystical Montreal corner shop in this lovely little indie game
    23. Manor Lords’ early access launch is built on solid technical ground, mostly
    24. Fantasy games have a weird relationship with regional British accents
    25. Bore Blasters review: achieve catharsis as a dwarf yelling and shooting mud
    26. Bethesda would "probably say no" to an Elder Scrolls show or movie
    27. Withering Rooms is a haunted house action-RPG with notes of Bloodborne and American McGee's Alice
    28. There are gamer-branded flower seeds now - thank you, Guild Wars 2
    29. Remnant 2's next DLC adds new Invoker archetype that harnesses the "mystic power of the jungle"
    30. Last year's top guilty favourite action game has received a big free combat update
    31. Bethesda update Fallout 4 for your "next-generation PC"
    32. NYT Connections hint and answers (Fri, Apr 12)
    33. Wordle hint and answer #1028 (April 12 2024)
    1. Content Warning: All monsters
    2. The Rally Point: Humble turn-based wargame The Troop is top of its WW2 class
    3. The Electronic Wireless Show podcast S3 episode 14: battle royales, Vampire Survivor, and trend chasing
    4. The studio behind Journey have brought their "peaceful" MMO Sky: Children Of The Light to PC
    5. The Fallout TV show's Season 1 is now available to stream
    6. $70 titles are doomed to go “the way of the dodo” says Saber Interactive CEO
    7. Prince Of Persia's creator has seen the series "struggle to find its identity" at Ubisoft, but thinks they've finally found an elegant solution
    8. Shadows Of Doubt update adds gated communities and snipers, making it even more of a reverse Hitman game
    9. All tonight's Triple-I Initiative game announcements in one place
    10. Tiny Tires picks up the legacy of the classic Micro Machines racing series
    11. Dead Space remake devs had ideas for a brand new Dead Space game before EA shelved the series, claims report
    12. Never Alone 2 revealed - still an Alaskan Native folklore adventure, but now designed for co-op
    13. Dragon's Dogma 2: Best armor
    14. Dragon's Dogma 2: How to raise Main Pawn affinity
    15. NYT Connections hint and answers (Thu, Apr 11)
    16. Wordle hint and answer #1027 (April 11 2024)
    1. EA deny that Dead Space 2 remake was in development before being shelved due to poor sales of first game
    2. What's better: Gliding powers or Dragon's Dogma 2's Unmaking Arrow?
    3. Spiritfarer studio's 33-player roguelike gives us a closer look at its MMO-style raids
    4. The Rogue Prince Of Persia is a new roguelite that combines wall running with Arkham-style agile combat
    5. Palworld is adding its own Pokémon Stadium mode with multiplayer PvP arenas later this year
    6. Eldritch fishing game Dredge is being made into a movie by the people behind the Sonic the Hedgehog films
    7. Laysara: Summit Kingdom is a stunning mountainous city builder that’s out now in early access
    8. Darkest Dungeon 2's free Kingdoms update "remixes" the first two games into a turn-based strategy game
    9. What The Car? gets a free demo and September 5th release date
    10. UnderMine 2 is the cave delving sequel to Thorium’s action roguelike
    11. Vampire Survivors is getting guns in a new Contra crossover gun-focused DLC called Operation Guns
    12. Slay The Spire 2 announced, entering early access in 2025
    13. World of Warcraft Classic revisits 14-year-old expansion Cataclysm next month
    14. Dragon's Dogma 2: Sacred Arbor location
    15. The Fallout TV show has revived an ancient argument about Vault Boy's thumb
    16. Broken Roads review: this Fallout-style RPG is Vegemite and (some) magic
    17. Destiny 2 The Final Shape's "game-breaking" subclass detailed in new Bungie video
    18. Helldivers 2's rewards system is getting an overhaul so your Major Order medals show up on time
    19. The best puzzle games on PC
    20. Dragon's Dogma 2: Best weapons
    21. Wordle hint and answer #1026 (April 10 2024)
    1. NYT Connections hint and answers (Wed, Apr 10)
    2. This "gamified focus tool" lets you construct your own lofi girl/boy to chill/study with
    3. Gigantic: Rampage Edition is out now, offering a second chance to fans of the shuttered hero shooter
    4. Paradox's grand strategy Star Trek Infinite will receive no further updates
    5. Dead Space remake devs EA Motive are building a team to work on future Battlefield projects
    6. Star Wars Outlaws story trailer dates Solo open worlder for August release
    7. Deathsprint 66 is Mario Kart by way of The Running Man by way of Squid Game
    8. Dragon's Dogma 2: All Riftstone locations
    9. The 15 best open world games on PC
    10. Children Of The Sun review: an intense and stylish puzzle of ultraviolence
    11. How to connect a Steam Deck to a TV
    12. First Total War: Warhammer 3 Thrones Of Decay trailer pits maggots against airships
    13. Genre-bending horror dating sim sequel Sucker For Love: Date To Die For unleashes a sexy goat mommy this month
    14. Playerunknown's Battlegrounds: Battlegrounds has added destructible terrain
    15. The RPS Game Club pick for April is Lethal Company!
    16. The time of the mecha-shark is upon us in upcoming Besieged expansion The Splintered Sea
    17. League Of Legends is getting a Vampire Survivors-like PVE mode
    18. Gaming’s number one ratmasher Vermintide 2 is getting a free map and enemy update
    19. World's best/worst wizard physics sim Noita gets terrifying update featuring white holes and... cheese?
    20. NYT Connections hint and answers (Tue, Apr 9)
    21. Wordle hint and answer #1025 (April 9 2024)
    1. Baldur’s Gate 3 studio will likely bring their next game to early access again, but admit it’s not for every dev
    2. Unnerving £2 gem Buckshot Roulette is working on a multiplayer mode so you can play shotgun roulette with pals
    3. It looks like the Splinter Cell remake might be about to reappear after years in the dark
    4. Screenshot Saturday Mondays: Side-dive, slide, and spin until you spew
    5. Deep Rock Galactic Season 5 tunnels through time itself and lets you replay old seasons
    6. The Fallout TV show already has a second season in the works, it seems
    7. Balatro is getting just a little bit easier in the next patch, and you can try it now
    8. World Of Warcraft wasn't the biggest threat to The Elder Scrolls Online; it was Skyrim
    9. The Helldivers 2 bot faction has been eradicated. What do now?
    10. Best Dragon's Dogma 2 vocations: Every vocation ranked
    11. Dragon's Dogma 2: Best Sorcerer skills and augments
    12. Dragon's Dogma 2: Best Mystic Spearhand skills and augments
    13. Botany Manor review: peaceful and beautiful best-in-show plant puzzles
    14. I am obsessed with this detailed but very weird aquarium sim
    15. Best SSD for gaming: our top SATA and NVMe picks
    16. How do we stop the next round of games industry mass layoffs?
    17. Content Warning: How to get views
    18. Raven Software's cancelled Call of Duty zombies game featured a Mad Max-style gladiator arena
    19. Yoshi-P says it’s “about time” for more Final Fantasy Tactics, does not mention Vagrant Story
    20. Use an inclined railway to purge demons in this Dreamcast-ish Meiji-set action oddity
    21. Dragons Dogma 2 has 392 developer credits next to Starfield's 3,902, but credits don't tell the whole story
    22. NYT Connections hint and answers (Sat, Apr 6)
    23. The Maw - 8th-13th April
    24. Wordle hint and answer #1023 (April 7 2024)
    25. NYT Connections hint and answers (Sun, Apr 7)
    26. Today's NYT Connections hint and answers (Mon, Apr 8)
    27. Wordle hint and answer today #1024 (April 8 2024)
    1. The Sunday Papers
    1. No Plan B offers close combat tactics in a brutal roguelike campaign
    2. Frostpunk 2's closed beta kicks off April 15th for those willing to pre-order
    3. Palia developers lay off a third of staff just weeks after cosy life sim's Steam launch
    4. Gears 6 announcement coming in June showcase, says report
    5. What are we all playing this weekend?
    6. Wordle hint and answer #1022 (April 6 2024)
    1. There’s now a cure for Dragon’s Dogma 2’s dreaded pawn pox Dragonsplague: mods
    2. Helldivers 2 adds explosive crossbow, grenade pistol and other ways to blow up friends by "accident" next week
    3. Life is Strange devs Deck Nine accused of crunch, sexism and abusive behaviour amid allegedly toxic culture
    4. Company of Heroes and Dawn of War devs Relic suffer layoffs one week after reclaiming independence from Sega
    5. Castaway is a miniature Link's Awakening - plus a 50-floor challenge tower
    6. New Arc Line is a party-based steampunk RPG with notes of Bioshock and Dishonored
    7. Conquering Total War: Warhammer 3 as a pirate with a pathological aversion to ever touching grass
    8. Content Warning: Best mods
    9. Enjoy/endure real serfdom in wonky but loveable Under the Yoke
    10. Mech fanciers ahoy, here's a Steam demo for the Front Mission 2 remake
    11. Dragon's Dogma 2: Best Warrior skills and augments
    12. Dragon's Dogma 2: How to unlock Warrior
    13. Dragon's Dogma 2: How to unlock Sorcerer
    14. The best Steam Deck docks
    15. My obsession with a singular board game makes me fear the unchill passage of time
    16. Elder Scrolls Online's new Gold Road expansion might just make me an MMO convert
    17. Dragon's Dogma 2: How to unlock Mystic Spearhand
    18. WOW Classic's Season Of Discovery doesn't player test new content, leading to more bugs - but more fun
    19. Shake-ups at Square Enix see Dragon Quest’s long standing top producer step down
    20. System Shock remake's next update will rework the final boss battle and add a female character option
    21. Total War: Warhammer 3’s upcoming Thrones of Decay expansion gets huge pricing change
    22. NYT Connections hint and answers (Fri, Apr 5)
    23. Wordle hint and answer #1021 (April 5 2024)
    1. Goblin Stone is an XCOM-like with card combat, colony building and goblin breeding
    2. Nuclear Throne developer Vlambeer returns, now solely owned by co-founder Jan Willem Nijman
    3. Roblox Studio head: 'you can say, okay, we are exploiting child labour'...
    4. Stop Killing Games hopes to petition regulators to stop developers from shutting down games
    5. The Crush House is a saucy 90s reality TV show simulator from the developers of Reigns
    6. Dragon's Dogma 2: Best Trickster skills and augments
    7. Dragon's Dogma 2: Best Magick Archer skills and augments
    8. Dragon's Dogma 2: Best Warfarer skills and augments
    9. Dragon's Dogma 2: How to get a house
    10. Dragon's Dogma 2: How to unlock Magick Archer
    11. Dragon's Dogma 2: How to unlock Warfarer
    12. Dragon's Dogma 2: How to unlock Trickster
    13. The best Steam Deck cases
    14. The Electronic Wireless Show podcast S3 episode 13: all work and no play? Let's talk about free games
    15. Dragon's Dogma 2: Romance, gifts and Affinity system
    16. Well toot my lizards, Void Bastards is rustling up a space-western sequel
    17. The Dead Cells developer's new roguelike Windblown has a dash so potent it makes the game seem disposable
    18. Content Warning: How to change faces
    19. Save the world in Great God Grove by firing messages out of a news megaphone at Picasso-faced weirdos
    20. Last Epoch developers would appreciate it if you’d stop committing forgery, please
    21. 2D monochrome adventure Skaramazuzu has Hollow Knight’s adorable melancholy
    22. New Palworld update adds the first Raid Boss Bellanoir and a bunch of items and fixes
    23. Wordle hint and answer #1020 (April 4 2024)
    24. NYT Connections hint and answers (Thu, Apr 4)
    1. What's better: Security cameras following your every move, or shopkeepers annoyed when you don't buy anything?
    2. Atari are now publishers for the whole RollerCoaster Tycoon series, after buying missing 2004 sequel for $7m
    3. Knights of the Old Republic remake devs insist the game is “alive and well” after their split from Embracer
    4. Borderlands makers Gearbox don’t quite escape Embracer layoffs despite recent sale, as studio confirm fresh cuts
    5. You’ve got a couple more days to grab vampire survival game V Rising for $20 before its price nearly doubles
    6. The Horror At Highrook is an occult cardgame set in a Darkest Dungeon-style mansion
    7. A year on, the RTX 4050’s appeal has grown – but better laptop GPUs loom
    8. Red Faction: Guerrilla dev's barmy physics sandbox Instruments Of Destruction leaves early access in May
    9. Content Warning devs fixing mic, video and connection problems after "wild ride" of a launch
    10. Dragon's Dogma 2: Pawn quests
    11. Lovely free Lovecraftian first-person parkourer Grimhook to become a "complete" game
    12. Science reveals some people might just be better at Fortnite because they see in a higher FPS
    13. Dead Cells custodians Evil Empire are reportedly working on a new Prince of Persia roguelike, out this year
    14. Just 66 titles saw 80 percent of all playtime in 2023, most older games like Fortnite or GTA 5
    15. The Elder Scrolls 6 and ESO devs are "equal partners" in the evolution of Elder Scrolls lore
    16. Wordle hint and answer #1019 (April 3 2024)
    1. NYT Connections hint and answers (Wed, Apr 3)
    2. Arma's 'Rats map' April Fools' is now a real Tiny Wars mode you can play
    3. Game Pass on PC gets six new games for April
    4. Former Dragon Age director's new game has Zelda's physics powers and Colossus' climbable bosses
    5. Hide among NPCs and knife your pal in this free same-screen multiplayer murderfest
    6. This spooky bunny horror game is free, but you can buy a cool zine to support the devs
    7. In Left 4 Dead and Diablo-influenced space shooter Jump Ship, you can wreck yourself by making pizza
    8. Screenshot Saturday Tuesday: What's a three-day lag when there are all these games to admire?
    9. Sons Of Valhalla Review: A mostly brilliant tac-and-slash tug of war
    10. Helldivers 2’s latest patch adds blizzards and sandstorms, rebalances bunker and personnel missions
    11. Monster-filming horror game Content Warning is free to download for the next few hours
    12. Nightdive Studios are bringing back 90’s shooter PO’ed in all its frying-pan wielding glory
    13. Browse RPS ad-free with our new free monthly Standard subscription trial
    14. The Maw - 2nd April-6th April
    15. Wordle hint and answer #1018 (April 2 2024)
    1. NYT Connections hint and answers (Tue, Apr 2)
    2. Final Fantasy 14’s FF16 crossover, with a Torgal mount and minion up for grabs, kicks off tomorrow
    3. Terraria will add roller skates for super-fast building and 2D grinding in its “final stretch” of updates
    4. The voice behind Half-Life 2’s Vortigaunts has passed away
    5. Ubisoft’s free-to-play shooter XDefiant defies its March release, server test due before ‘locking’ a new date
    6. NYT Connections hint and answers (Mon, Apr 1)
    7. Wordle hint and answer #1017 (April 1 2024)