Botany Manor review: peaceful and beautiful best-in-show plant puzzles

HomeReviewsBotany Manor Botany Manor review: peaceful and beautiful best-in-show plant puzzlesCome away, O human child! To the waters and the wild Come away, O human child! To the waters and the wild Image credit:Rock Paper Shotgun/Whitethorn Games Image credit:Rock Paper Shotgun/Whitethorn Games Image credit:Rock Paper Shotgun/Whitethorn Games No, you have to make those connections, and take all those steps, for yourself, and many of them are surprising, specific, and lovely. You find a note about roasting chestnuts in the fire, and look at the pot you’re holding with a seed that refused to germinate with water; you cross reference the train ticket you found with the type of wood that grows in that area to create the required type of smoke....

April 8, 2024 · 2 min · 362 words · Sara Alexander

How to get views in Content Warning: Top tips

HomeGuidesContent Warning How to get views in Content Warning: Top tipsHere are our top tips for getting views in Content Warning Here are our top tips for getting views in Content Warning Image credit:Rock Paper Shotgun/Landfall Publishing Image credit:Rock Paper Shotgun/Landfall Publishing Looking to get views in Content Warning?The premise ofContent Warningis to adventure with a party of up to four players into theOld Worldand filmspookyoccurrences. This footage is then uploaded to SpookTube, the game’s main content creation platform....

April 8, 2024 · 4 min · 760 words · Johnny Mendoza

It looks like the Splinter Cell remake might be about to reappear after years in the dark

HomeNews It looks like the Splinter Cell remake might be about to reappear after years in the darkSam Fisher’s return was sneakily announced two years ago Sam Fisher’s return was sneakily announced two years ago Ubisoft might be taking this whole stealth thing a bit far when it comes to their remake of the originalSplinter Cell. News of Sam Fisher’s returnfirst snuck out at the end of 2021, with little more spotlight than a brief blog post to confirm that, yep, it’s a thing....

April 8, 2024 · 2 min · 363 words · William Peterson

Raven Software's cancelled Call of Duty zombies game featured a Mad Max-style gladiator arena

HomeNewsCall of Duty Raven Software’s cancelled Call of Duty zombies game featured a Mad Max-style gladiator arenaLead designer Michael Gummelt spills some beans Lead designer Michael Gummelt spills some beans Image credit:Activision/Aspyr Image credit:Activision/Aspyr A couple of months ago, we learned that Raven Software lead designer Michael Gummelt had worked on a live serviceCall Of Dutyzombies gamebefore it got cancelled. Details were practically non-existent at the time, but YouTuber Glitching Queen recentlyinterviewedGummelt about what the game could’ve become....

April 8, 2024 · 2 min · 313 words · Taylor Taylor

Screenshot Saturday Mondays: Side-dive, slide, and spin until you spew

HomeFeatures Screenshot Saturday Mondays: Side-dive, slide, and spin until you spewI go on Twitter so you don’t have to I go on Twitter so you don’t have to Image credit:Sprinkle Games Image credit:Sprinkle Games I’ve been a bit lukewarm onKiller Bean(coming to Steam), having previously only seen its third-person camera mode, but this first-person action is oh hello: See through the eyes of KILLER BEAN in first person mode!Wishlist Killer Bean on#Steam!...

April 8, 2024 · 6 min · 1075 words · Taylor Evans

The Fallout TV show already has a second season in the works, it seems

HomeNewsFallout The Fallout TV show already has a second season in the works, it seemsCould it focus on the New California Republic? Could it focus on the New California Republic? Image credit:Amazon Image credit:Amazon Amazon’sFalloutTV series is yet to even premiere - it hitsPrime Videolater this week, on April 11th - but it already looks set tofollow The Last of Usin being the next big-budget post-apocalyptic video game adaptation with a second season in development....

April 8, 2024 · 1 min · 209 words · John Fernandez

The Helldivers 2 bot faction has been eradicated. What do now?

HomeNewsHelldivers The Helldivers 2 bot faction has been eradicated. What do now?I’ve seen Battlestar Galactica, I don’t trust what’s going on here at all I’ve seen Battlestar Galactica, I don’t trust what’s going on here at all Image credit:Arrowhead Image credit:Arrowhead Exciting news for the future of everyone’s favouriteco-opshooter that isn’tlegallyan adaptation of Starship Troopers. A few days ago,Helldivers 2issued a new major order to annihilate the Automatons, who had been pushed back like never before....

April 8, 2024 · 2 min · 214 words · Michael Turner

The Maw - 8th-13th April

HomeNews The Maw - 8th-13th AprilOur weekly news liveblog, with this week’s freshest videogame releases Our weekly news liveblog, with this week’s freshest videogame releases Image credit:Internet Archive Book Images Image credit:Internet Archive Book Images Time for another sorry week of heaving news-fuel into the Maw’s thousand-and-one gullets and urgh, what’s that brooding stench? It reeks of embargoes in here. The air is foul with it. This week is the week of the inauguralTriple-I Initiative showcase, aka the IIIIs, aka a 45-minute dollop of trailers and announcements from such studios as Slay The Spire creators MegaCrit andDarkest Dungeondevelopers Red Hook....

April 8, 2024 · 28 min · 5906 words · Beth Bell

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

HomeGuidesWordle Today’s Wordle hints and answer (#1024): How to solve the Monday April 8 WordleStuck on today’s Wordle word for April 8? Read our hint or find the answer below! Stuck on today’s Wordle word for April 8? Read our hint or find the answer below! Image credit:Rock Paper Shotgun Image credit:Rock Paper Shotgun This guide is for a previous day! Looking for today’s solution? Check out theWordle hint and answer for Thursday 26th December!...

April 8, 2024 · 6 min · 1144 words · Jessica Henderson

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

HomeNews Use an inclined railway to purge demons in this Dreamcast-ish Meiji-set action oddityNo weapons, just a very slow elevator No weapons, just a very slow elevator Image credit:Gudouan Image credit:Gudouan “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 · 2 min · 371 words · Tyler Hardin

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

HomeNews Yoshi-P says it’s “about time” for more Final Fantasy Tactics, does not mention Vagrant StoryI repeat, does not mention Vagrant Story I repeat, does not mention Vagrant Story Image credit:Square Enix Image credit:Square Enix 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 · 6 min · 1088 words · Amanda Garcia

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

HomeGuidesWordle Wordle hints and answer (#1023): How to solve the Sunday April 7 WordleStuck on today’s Wordle word for April 7? Read our hint or find the answer below! Stuck on today’s Wordle word for April 7? Read our hint or find the answer below! Image credit:Rock Paper Shotgun Image credit:Rock Paper Shotgun This guide is for a previous day! Looking for today’s solution? Check out theWordle hint and answer for Thursday 26th December!...

April 7, 2024 · 6 min · 1140 words · Karen Torres

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

HomeNewsFrostpunk 2 Frostpunk 2’s closed beta kicks off April 15th for those willing to pre-orderIt’ll run for a week It’ll run for a week Image credit:11 bit Studios Image credit:11 bit Studios 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....

April 6, 2024 · 5 min · 992 words · Karen Adams