HomeGuidesWordle Wordle hints and answer (#1147): How to solve the Friday August 9 WordleStuck on the Wordle word for August 9? Read our hint or find the answer below! Stuck on the Wordle word for August 9? 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!...

HomeNewsCat Quest: Pirates of the Purribean Cat Quest 3’s pun-soaked animal pirate action-RPG is out on Steam nowCo-op cats Co-op cats Image credit:The Gentlebros Image credit:The Gentlebros Did The Gentlebros come up with the pun “Pi-Rats” and then work backwards from there in deciding thatCat Quest 3should be pirate themed? Or was “Purr-ibean” the initiating pun? I feel that the action-RPG sequel had to begin with one of wordplay or another, given that its Steam page boasts that it also has “furr-ocious spells” and “gla-meow-rous costumes”....

HomeNews Meta reportedly close Ready At Dawn, creators of some of the best VR gamesFading echo Fading echo Image credit:Meta Image credit:Meta Facebook and Oculus Rift ownersMetaare reportedly closing Ready At Dawn Studios, the outfit behind the excellentEcho VRandLone Echogames, as part of wider reductions at the company’s Reality Labs division. A Meta spokesperson also told the site that the reductions at Reality Labs aren’t evidence of cuts to the number of first-party games on Quest VR headsets, and that Meta are still committed to VR development....

HomeNewsElite Dangerous New Elite Dangerous spaceship is advertised as a space trucker’s dream, but it’ll cost yaFor ten? Ten-four For ten? Ten-four Image credit:Frontier Developments Image credit:Frontier Developments Spaceship likers, come hither. Long-runningspace simElite Dangeroushas just unloaded a new interstellar vessel into its universe, and she’s a beaut. The new Type-8 Transporter is a medium freighter capable of hauling a maximum of 406 tons of cargo. It’s got a default jump range of 17....

HomeGuidesNYT Connections NYT Connections hint and answers (Thursday, August 8)Need a hint for Connections? Read our guide for help with Connections #424 Need a hint for Connections? Read our guide for help with Connections #424 Image credit:Rock Paper Shotgun/NYT Image credit:Rock Paper Shotgun/NYT This guide is for a previous day! Looking for today’s solution? Check out theConnections hint and answers for Thursday 26th 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....

HomeNewsRoblox It’s been banned in my house for several years Image credit:ArcadeRockstar Image credit:ArcadeRockstar Robloxhas been banned in Turkey, with a government agency citing concerns over “child exploitation.” Turkey Today reportsthat the government has four key concerns which led to the ban: the sexual exploitation of children, “rampant” reports of pedophilia, children being incentivised to play Roblox via the virtual currency Robux, and the “inability to effectively monitor and regulate inapproriate content” on the platform....

HomeGuidesWordle Wordle hints and answer (#1146): How to solve the Thursday August 8 WordleStuck on the Wordle word for August 8? Read our hint or find the answer below! Stuck on the Wordle word for August 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!...

HomeNewsTales from the Mabinogion Former Assassin’s Creed and Warhammer Online dev announces new fantasy game based on Welsh mythIt’s written primarily in Welsh It’s written primarily in Welsh Image credit:Stevan Anastasoff Image credit:Stevan Anastasoff Former Ubisoft and Eidos-Montréal developer Stevan Anastasoff has announcedTales from the Mabinogion, a third-person narrative game based on ancient Welsh folklore that’s written primarily in the Welsh language. The game puts you in charge of a wandering monarch, who is embarked on a quest to save the realm from a horrible fog....

HomeHardwareFeatures I spent a week using supermarket own-brand gaming peripherals, and suggest that you don’tThis seemed like a good idea eight days ago This seemed like a good idea eight days ago Image credit:Rock Paper Shotgun Image credit:Rock Paper Shotgun Asda being what it is (Americans, if you’re unfamiliar, think Walmart with less gun violence), it’s all dirt cheap as well.£17for a full-size keyboard.£16for anFPSmouse. Overwhelmed with curiosity, I ended up taking home a complete starter set (keeb, different mouse, headset, and mousemat) for£45, or about a third of the price of theLogitech G515 Lightspeed TKLthat I’d shortly kick off my desk....

HomeNewsODDADA Musical exploration toy ODDADA will launch next weekOb-La-Di ODDADA Ob-La-Di ODDADA Image credit:Sven Ahlgrimm, Mathilde Hoffmann Image credit:Sven Ahlgrimm, Mathilde Hoffmann It now has a release date: August 15th. This trailer explains more: ODDADA | Release Date TrailerODDADA’s release date trailer.Watch on YouTube ODDADA | Release Date Trailer Its playful, physical interaction reminds me of the work of Vectorpark, and its colourful toy-like dioramas are reminiscent ofGNOG. ODDADA isn’t really a puzzle game, however, but an open-ended toy....

HomeNewsFinal Fantasy XVI Nvidia have added a Final Fantasy XVI driver profile, fuelling PC release hopesEikon’t believe it Eikon’t believe it Image credit:Square Enix Image credit:Square Enix Hmmm… it could be nothing, but the technomancers at Nvidia have just updated their graphics drivers, and among the list of game profiles now listed in their control panel tool isFinal Fantasy XVI. The blockbuster JRPG isn’t out on PC yet, and developers Square Enix have not given a concrete release date for it, but this does seem to be prep work for the inevitable....

HomeGuidesNYT Connections NYT Connections hint and answers (Wednesday, August 7)Need a hint for today’s Connections? Read our guide for help with Connections #423 Need a hint for today’s Connections? Read our guide for help with Connections #423 Image credit:Rock Paper Shotgun/NYT Image credit:Rock Paper Shotgun/NYT This guide is for a previous day! Looking for today’s solution? Check out theConnections hint and answers for Thursday 26th December! Want a hint for Connections today?...

HomeNewsTotal War: Warhammer III Total War Warhammer 3 teases new content this month, and a hotfix ensures goblins will now get dismembered correctlyA tremendous relief A tremendous relief Image credit:Sega Image credit:Sega Total War: WARHAMMER III - Thrones of Decay Announce TrailerWatch on YouTube Total War: WARHAMMER III - Thrones of Decay Announce Trailer Whether this is all just bluster meant to keep the perpetually orc-pilled masses (me) sated until the DLC, I can’t be certain....