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March 2024 Archive

    1. The Sunday Papers
    2. NYT Connections hint and answers (Sun, Mar 31)
    3. Wordle hint and answer #1016 (March 31 2024)
    1. CD Projekt Red still 'don't see a place for microtransactions' in singleplayer games
    2. New Quest apps will be unable to support Oculus Quest 1 headsets from May
    3. Rain World is getting a new DLC starring the mysterious Nightcat
    4. NYT Connections hint and answers (Sat, Mar 30)
    5. Wordle hint and answer #1015 (March 30 2024)
    1. TimeSplitters fan remake - its last hope after Free Radical’s demise - struggles amid "incredibly challenging" industry
    2. Witcher 4 is more than ‘The Witcher 3 in new clothing’, promise CDPR, as over 400 devs work on Polaris
    3. Celeste creators’ next game Earthblade won’t be out this year, but studio assure development is “not stagnant”
    4. Dragon’s Dogma 2 now lets you start a new game and get a house earlier, as Capcom dare to ask about future DLC
    5. Reality Bytes: Underdogs is the undisputed champion of the VR arena fighter
    6. I hate that I sorta hate twin-stick shooter Windowkill
    7. Final Fantasy 7 Rebirth’s minigames are each a new sensory organ for its many novelties
    8. Dragon’s Dogma 2 proves that fetch quests are good as long as the space in between is interesting
    9. What are we all playing this Easter weekend?
    10. NYT Connections hint and answers (Fri, Mar 29)
    11. Wordle hint and answer #1014 (March 29 2024)
    1. The Outer Worlds and Thief are free from Epic next week
    2. Metal: Hellsinger VR re-tools the rhythm shooter for headbanging in a headset
    3. Embracer say their restructure is over, but it's "too early" to start acquiring studios again
    4. Sega Of America staff have ratified a union contract, the first to do so at a major US studio
    5. Dragon's Dogma 2: How to start a new game
    6. The developers of Dead Cells, Darkest Dungeon and Slay The Spire are launching their own "triple-I" Game Awards
    7. The Rally Point: Command & Conquer Generals would be the best game in the series if it didn't have boring racist stereotypes
    8. Dragon's Dogma 2: Revive Pawns
    9. A new Borderlands is "in active development" but new owners Take-Two don't have much to say
    10. The Electronic Wireless Show podcast S3 episode 12: Helldivers 2 has a game master and this is good
    11. Pepper Grinder review: short, sweet and incredibly neat
    12. Void Sols is an atmospheric and highly customisable Soulslike for people who are rubbish at Soulslikes
    13. I'm enjoying the unique challenge of playing Darktide with rubbish weapons and no talents
    14. Dragon's Dogma 2: Loss Gauge
    15. The 30 best Steam Deck games
    16. How to get a Wrathful Invoker in Diablo 4
    17. Diablo 4 Invoker of Varshan: How to fight the Echo of Varshan
    18. Diablo 4 Whirlwind Barbarian build and best skills
    19. Diablo 4 Bleed Barbarian build and best skills
    20. Diablo 4 Ice Sorcerer build and best skills
    21. Diablo 4 Chain Lightning Sorcerer build and best skills
    22. Diablo 4 Blood Necromancer build and best skills
    23. Diablo 4 Bone Spear Necromancer build and best skills
    24. Diablo 4 Penetrating Shot Rogue build and best skills
    25. Diablo 4 Pulverize Druid build and best skills
    26. Diablo 4 Storm Druid build and best skills
    27. Diablo 4 Corpse Explosion Necromancer build and best skills
    28. Diablo 4 Twisting Blades Rogue build and best skills
    29. Diablo 4 Uniques: All Unique items and what they do
    30. Diablo 4 best class
    31. Diablo 4 Malignant Hearts list: All Malignant Hearts and effects
    32. Diablo 4 Fractured Peaks Altars of Lilith locations and maps
    33. Diablo 4 Scosglen Altars of Lilith locations and maps
    34. Diablo 4 Dry Steppes Altars of Lilith locations and maps
    35. Diablo 4 Kehjistan Altars of Lilith locations and maps
    36. Diablo 4 Hawezar Altars of Lilith locations and maps
    37. Diablo 4 Altar Of Lilith locations and statues map
    38. Diablo 4 Legendary items farm: How to get better gear
    39. Diablo 4 Levelling Guide: Fastest way to level up in D4
    40. Diablo 4 Gems: Crafting, tier levels and how to unlock the Jeweler
    41. Best Diablo 4 Sorcerer builds
    42. Best Diablo 4 Necromancer builds
    43. Best Diablo 4 Barbarian builds
    44. Best Diablo 4 Druid builds
    45. Best Diablo 4 Rogue builds
    46. All Diablo 4 Stronghold locations
    47. Diablo 4 Mystery and Helltide Chest locations
    48. Diablo 4 rarity levels: Unique, Legendary and more items explained
    49. Where to find Diablo 4 Lifesbane locations
    50. Diablo 4 endgame explained: What to do after the campaign
    51. Diablo 4 transmog sets: How to get new looks for your gear
    52. Where to find Diablo 4 Reddamine locations
    53. Diablo 4 Avarice the Gold Cursed: Location, spawn times, rewards
    54. Diablo 4 Wandering Death: Location, spawn times, and strategies
    55. Diablo 4 Ashava guide: Location, spawn times, and strategies
    56. Diablo 4 World Boss spawn times
    57. Diablo 4 Crushed Beast Bones locations: How to find and farm
    58. Diablo 4 max level: How long will it take to hit the D4 power cap?
    59. How to find and beat the Butcher in Diablo 4
    60. Best Diablo 4 Aspects: Location list and how to find all of them
    61. Diablo 4 gold farming: How to get gold fast in D4
    62. Diablo 4 mount quest: How to get a mount in D4
    63. Diablo 4 Paragon Boards and Points system explained
    64. What is Renown in Diablo 4? D4 rewards system explained
    65. How to get Diablo 4 Demon Hearts
    66. How to get Paletongue in Diablo 4
    67. How to get Grave Dust in Diablo 4
    68. Who is Lilith in Diablo 4?
    69. Diablo 4 respec cost and how to reassign skill points in D4
    70. Diablo 4 campaign length: How long is D4?
    71. Diablo 4 World Tiers and difficulty levels explained
    72. How to upgrade Healing Potions in Diablo 4
    73. Diablo 4 Secret of the Spring riddle solution
    74. How to get Murmuring Obols in Diablo 4
    75. Diablo 4 crossplay, cross-save and cross-progression explained
    76. Diablo 4 multiplayer guide: Adding friends, couch co-op and more
    77. How to get Whispering Keys in Diablo 4
    78. The best RPGs on PC in 2024
    79. In Chymicalia, you're the slave of a teleporting alchemy shop
    80. Dragon's Dogma 2: Wakestones
    81. Bandai Namco would like you to have a free dog
    82. Modern Warfare 3 and Warzone Season 3 brings back fan-favourite maps, adds new perks and modes
    83. Stardew Valley mini-update adds pet adoption, fixes moss issues arising from the 1.6 mega-update
    84. Embracer sell Borderlands devs Gearbox to Rockstar parent Take-Two for $460 million in shares
    85. Sega sell Company of Heroes developer Relic and lays off more staff at Creative Assembly and Hardlight
    86. Join us, varlets, to talk Warhammer 40,000: Darktide in today’s RPS Game Club liveblog
    87. Wordle hint and answer #1013 (March 28 2024)
    88. NYT Connections hint and answers (Thu, Mar 28)
    1. Ex-Dragon Age director’s new studio teases their new fantasy RPG ahead of a full reveal next week
    2. One of Ukraine’s most famous mines has been preserved in Minecraft to help rebuild a school bombed by Russia
    3. Here's how the Homeworld 3 devs are improving the game after delaying release over demo feedback
    4. What's better: A button to unlock all unlocks, or the spell Fireball?
    5. You can give Overwatch 2’s new drill-wielding, burrowing damage hero Venture a spin for free later this week
    6. Dragon's Dogma 2: Best Mage skills and augments
    7. Dragon's Dogma 2: Best Fighter skills and augments
    8. Dragon's Dogma 2: Best Archer skills and augments
    9. Dragon's Dogma 2: Best Thief skills and augments
    10. Xbox Cloud Gaming has added keyboard and mouse support for PC and browsers (sorta)
    11. Hellgate: London's original creator announces new Hellgate game
    12. Dragon's Dogma 2: Fast travel
    13. Horizon Forbidden West makes a fine Steam Deck game, if you can make room for it
    14. Open Roads review: a short but bittersweet story about families and secrets
    15. Build tiny castles in another new relaxing diorama-em-up, out now
    16. Dune: Awakening may eventually take players beyond Arrakis to other planets
    17. No Man's Sky Orbital Update brings full ship customisation and a complete space station overhaul
    18. Sandworms are the spice in Dune: Awakening's otherwise quite familiar survival simming
    19. Geneforge 2 - Infestation review: bold and great like Baldur's Gate
    20. Netease announce Marvel Rivals, a free-to-play 6v6 shooter that desperately wants to be superhero Team Fortress
    21. First Dwarf gameplay shows off colony survival combat as a mech-riding dwarf and a tiny polyglot dragon
    22. Failbetter's next game will be "gentler" than Sunless Skies: "you won't go mad or eat your crew"
    23. Horizon Forbidden West review: the action adventure sequel has even more robot dinosaurs, of course it's good
    24. Judas has reactive difficulty, evil dentist chairs, and a giant robot dog for fast travel
    25. Wordle hint and answer #1012 (March 27 2024)
    26. NYT Connections hint and answers (Wed, Mar 27)
    1. V Rising is getting a free Castlevania crossover to coincide with its 1.0 launch
    2. Diablo 4's Game Pass launch still requires a Battle.net account, of course
    3. Lego Fortnite gets driveable, customisable vehicles in Mechanical Mayhem update
    4. The Crew Motorfest arrives on Steam in April, weeks after The Crew 1 turns off
    5. Survival game City 20 is The Sims set in the world of S.T.A.L.K.E.R.
    6. Bioshock creator Ken Levine’s Judas has roguelike elements, organic powers, and non-linear storytelling
    7. Dragon's Dogma 2: How to enhance equipment
    8. Enshrouded adds deadly dungeons and potted plants today in "first big update"
    9. Tower Of Fantasy codes [April 2024]
    10. The best quest in Dragons Dogma 2 turns my weird hobby of NPC stalking into an actual objective
    11. Minor quirks aside, Horizon Forbidden West is a peach of a PC port
    12. Dragon's Dogma 2: How to change vocation
    13. Don't call it a God of War killer, but Flintlock feels like a classic summer blockbuster
    14. Cities: Skylines 2 now has mod support, so you can soon annoy drivers with Spaghetti Junction 2.0
    15. Palia: Temple of Roots walkthrough
    16. Bulwark: Falconeer Chronicles review: cliffside citybuilding that dries up sooner than you'd hope
    17. Helldivers 2 APC-deliverer isn't gamemaster Joel, claims source, raising grim prospect of multiple Joels
    18. Social MMO Sky: Children Of The Light is heading to Steam early access in April
    19. Free-to-play cosy life sim Palia has hit Steam, with a Spring-themed patch and a giant frog plush
    20. Mass Effect 5's top development brass includes a few original Mass Effect trilogy veterans
    21. Shindo Life codes [April 2024]
    22. NYT Connections hint and answers (Tue, Mar 26)
    23. Wordle hint and answer #1011 (March 26 2024)
    1. Ark: The Animated Series drops a surprise release, with Michelle Yeoh and Russell Crowe along for dino fun
    2. A year after leaving Evil Within and Hi-Fi Rush devs, Resident Evil legend Shinji Mikami has founded a new studio
    3. Nvidia head reckons we’ll have games where AI generates ‘every pixel in real-time’ in under a decade
    4. Dragon’s Dogma 2 modders are finding ways around the otherwise acclaimed RPG's controversial microtransactions
    5. Bethesda tease "early builds" for Elder Scrolls 6 while celebrating the series' 30th anniversary
    6. Dragon's Dogma 2: How to change character appearance
    7. Millenia review: leaving your mark on history shouldn't be this hard
    8. Pokémon 'em up Cassette Beasts adds multiplayer on May 20th
    9. Slay the Princess’ endgame is now bigger and stranger with more choices and over 3000 words of new dialogue
    10. Helldivers 2 APC video surfaces, showing Joel personally delivering the unreleased vehicle
    11. Free horror game Fractal Sailor is about flying an airship through infinite godflesh while eluding a monster
    12. Raw Metal review: a brawler that thinks it's a stealth game
    13. I've been playing WitchHand and I really love summoning the cute cat familiars
    14. Here’s a second, very tiny look at Remedy’s co-op Control spin-off
    15. Final Fantasy 14 producer teases "secret" Final Fantasy 9 connection in Dawntrail expansion
    16. Screenshot Saturday Mondays: Please put grappling hooks in more Soulslikes (and all other games)
    17. GTA 6 release date could slip to 2026 under Rockstar "fallback plan", according to reports
    18. Come and greet our new staff writer Nic Reuben, someone you already know
    19. Dragon's Dogma 2 updates will give you new save option and make player dwellings available earlier
    20. Days Gone devs are getting back in the saddle and hiring someone with live service experience
    21. Dragon's Dogma 2 beginner's tips and tricks
    22. Amazon Spring Deal Days 2024: the best PC gaming deals, day 6
    23. The Maw - 25th-30th March 2024
    24. NYT Connections hint and answers (Mon, Mar 25)
    25. Wordle hint and answer #1010 (March 25 2024)
    1. The Sunday Papers
    2. NYT Connections hint and answers (Sun, Mar 24)
    3. Wordle hint and answer #1009 (March 24 2024)
    1. Final Fantasy 14: Dawntrail will arrive on June 28th, possibly thanks to Elden Ring's DLC
    2. What are we all playing this weekend?
    3. Wordle hint and answer #1008 (March 23 2024)
    4. NYT Connections hint and answers (Sat, Mar 23)
    1. You'll be able to play Fortnite in first-person later this year
    2. The Sims movie in the works from Barbie’s Margot Robbie and director of Loki and The Last of Us Season 2
    3. Tiny builder Summerhouse is even more delightful when you see what inspired it
    4. No More Heroes and Resident Evil devs’ cult shooter Shadows of the Damned finally gets a PC release this year
    5. I don't want to play Darktide, I want to walk around it looking at stuff
    6. My favourite PC case, the NZXT H5 Flow, is 21% off in the Amazon Spring sale
    7. Horses is an absolutely cursed horror game from the creators of Saturnalia
    8. Sky sailing is simple but still engaging in Passing By - A Tailwind Journey
    9. I am desperate for people to like my pawn in Dragon's Dogma 2
    10. Palia: How to make money fast
    11. Palia: Vampire Crab
    12. Get Dragon’s Dogma 2 for free with a Crucial T500 SSD in Ebuyer’s anti-Amazon Spring sale
    13. Critically acclaimed Dragon's Dogma 2 hits "mostly negative" on Steam after players raze it for microtransactions
    14. Path Of Exile 2 closed beta delayed until later this year
    15. One of the best Steam Deck docks is up to 40% off in Amazon’s Spring sale – though it's for Prime members only
    16. Today we learned about a survival game featuring Will Smith, but only because it's a massive failure
    17. Larian don't know what their next game is yet, but it won't be Baldur's Gate 4, or Baldur's Gate 3 DLC
    18. Fights In Tight Spaces devs announce fantasy follow-up Knights In Tight Spaces
    19. Italian-inspired Soulslike Enotria: The Last Song moves release date to August to avoid Elden Ring DLC
    20. Dragon’s Dogma 2 Steam Deck sitrep: it still doesn’t work, sorry
    21. Wordle hint and answer #1007 (March 22 2024)
    22. NYT Connections hint and answers (Fri, Mar 22)
    1. Dorfromantik devs tease new space game Project Mango
    2. Another new The Movies-like is coming this summer to fulfil the promise of your nostalgia
    3. Aussie CRPG Broken Roads has new release date after last year's sudden delay
    4. Solving the problems of generative AI is everyone's responsibility
    5. The Electronic Wireless Show podcast S3 episode 11: are AI NPCs the future? Our impression of what they sound like suggests no
    6. Harold Halibut is very hard to enjoy when everyone's so openly passive aggressive toward you
    7. Every replay of Isle Of Maligree is worth reading
    8. Dice-building dungeon crawler Slice & Dice arrives on Steam with a big update
    9. Nancy Drew: Message In A Haunted Mansion traps you in a ridiculous hotel with an alarm clock for a best mate
    10. Time to upgrade to 4K? With these Amazon Spring sale gaming monitor deals, maybe
    11. Palia: How to get Silk Thread
    12. Palia: How to get Fairy Carp
    13. Riot's League Of Legends MMO has been "reset" and likely "going dark for several years"
    14. Typing dungeon crawler Cryptmaster announces release date during IGF award acceptance speech
    15. Venba wins IGF Grand Prize for 2024
    16. Wordle hint and answer #1006 (March 21 2024)
    17. NYT Connections hint and answers (Thu, Mar 21)
    1. What's better: drawing Frog Detective's magnifying glass or drawing Blade Runner's gun?
    2. With Bungie’s reboot of their ‘90s FPS a year away, free fan revival Classic Marathon wins the race onto Steam
    3. Uncharted director’s Black Panther and Captain America game revealed as Marvel 1943: Rise of Hydra, out 2025
    4. Everdeep Aurora is Hollow Knight for people who love Game Boys and are weary of combat
    5. The Callisto Protocol’s action-roguelike spin-off is to Hades what the sci-fi horror shooter was to Dead Space
    6. Amazon’s Spring sale is making RTX 4060 Ti discounts a little less rare
    7. For a best-case scenario future, generative AI must put creators at its heart
    8. Dragon's Dogma 2's character creator needs a randomiser button
    9. Palia: How to get Leather
    10. Psst, one of Intel’s low-key best gaming CPUs is down to £108 for Amazon Spring Deal Days
    11. Dragon’s Dogma 2 PC performance issues are a draggin’ slog
    12. Dragon's Dogma 2 review: an action RPG anecdote generator
    13. Obsidian's espionage RPG Alpha Protocol returns to store shelves after four years in license hell
    14. Amazon Spring Deal Days cuts the fast, roomy Crucial P3 2TB SSD to just £86
    15. Palia: Romance options
    16. Overwatch 2 Season 10 will unlock all current heroes and make future additions free
    17. One of the best cheap microSD cards is even cheaper for Amazon Spring Deal Days
    18. Ubisoft revealed an AI NPC prototype at GDC and everyone online made fun of it
    19. Bungie replace Marathon director amid reports of creative leadership shake-up
    20. Stardew Valley's huge update 1.6 brings new items, pets, and progression, and more players in co-op
    21. NYT Connections hint and answers (Wed, Mar 20)
    22. Wordle hint and answer #1005 (March 20 2024)
    1. Protecting art from generative AI is vital, now and for the future
    2. World Of Warcraft is adding a PvEvP battle royale mode with pirates
    3. Lightyear Frontier: Where to get Aluminum
    4. RPS Game Club Asks: what do you think of Darktide?
    5. TerraTech Worlds "isn't a sequel" to TerraTech, but does "supplant it in every way," say devs
    6. Lightyear Frontier: Carrying capacity upgrade
    7. Lightyear Frontier: How to make Lens
    8. Hyper Light Breaker's 3D reworking of Drifter's combat is promising but a little raw
    9. Lightyear Frontier: Nest locations
    10. Diablo 4, Terra Invicta, and Lightyear Frontier headline the next wave of PC Game Pass additions
    11. Lightyear Frontier: Thruster Boost upgrade
    12. The remake of Myst sequel Riven is coming later this year, complete with VR support
    13. Alone In The Dark review: a neatly crafted reboot that seems afraid to step into the unknown
    14. Elden Ring quests
    15. Sand Land, the upcoming action-RPG based on Akira Toriyama's manga, has a demo out now
    16. This indie RTS looks like a neat blend of anime Total War and collectible card game
    17. Steam Families launches into beta, making it easier to buy and share games with your kids
    18. Wordle hint and answer #1004 (March 19 2024)
    19. NYT Connections hint and answers (Tue, Mar 19)
    1. The Axis Unseen channels years of Skyrim design experience into a spooky, open world hunting game
    2. To understand the future of generative AI, we need better language to describe it
    3. Zenless Zone Zero's next closed beta is coming, along with new gunner character and their shape-shifting pistol
    4. You'll soon be able to play GOG games away from your PC through Amazon Luna
    5. Screenshot Saturday Mondays: Submarine dilemmas and slime problems
    6. Spooky Metroidvania Animal Well gets May 9th release date
    7. The Amazon Spring Deal Days sale begins this week, with PC gaming deals abound
    8. The Maw - 18th-23rd March 2024
    9. Wordle hint and answer #1003 (March 18 2024)
    10. NYT Connections hint and answers (Mon, Mar 18)
    1. NYT Connections hint and answers (Sun, Mar 17)
    2. Wordle hint and answer #1002 (March 17 2024)
    1. Doors codes April 2024
    2. What are we all playing this weekend?
    3. Wordle hint and answer #1001 (March 16 2024)
    4. NYT Connections hint and answers (Sat, Mar 16)
    1. FF7 Rebirth's open world is both one step forward and one step back over FF15
    2. Stardew Valley creator confirms harvesting in a certain direction is faster - but not for long, as 1.6 fix due
    3. Fry bacon, sausages and cigarettes to escape an Antarctica where eggs are illegal in this surreal sci-fi cook-’em-up
    4. Trying to emulate Hollywood movie soundtracks is holding video game music back, says Final Fantasy composer
    5. Minecraft expands its subscription drive with the Marketplace Pass
    6. RuneScape co-creator returns with a new free-to-play fantasy MMO, a decade in the works
    7. Death Of A Wish review - a brutal and beautiful experiment
    8. Here are all the confirmed ray tracing and DLSS games so far
    9. Star Wars: Battlefront Classic Collection devs "working to address" bugs following disastrous launch
    10. While Waiting challenges you to make your own fidgety fun as you puzzle through life's little pauses
    11. Lightyear Frontier early access review: a speedy farming simulator with one sticking point
    12. Darktide’s melee combat is a rhythm game in disguise
    13. Cuban dark fantasy metroidvania Saviorless gets an April release date
    14. Palworld's first new raid boss is an evil Goth girl, coming soon
    15. Wordle hint and answer #1000 (March 15 2024)
    16. NYT Connections hint and answers (Fri, Mar 15)
    1. Final Factory's blend of space station building and exploration will launch in April
    2. RimWorld's Anomaly expansion adds scenarios inspired by The Thing and other horror classics
    3. Epic's spring sale is underway, and Deus Ex: Mankind Divided is free to keep
    4. Steam's spring sale is live
    5. Helldivers 2 Cutting Edge warbond is out, sparking fresh debate about the Illuminate faction
    6. The Electronic Wireless Show podcast S3 episode 10: making fun of that Ready Player One metaverse game
    7. Dungeons & Dragons survive-o-life sim coming from Disney Dreamlight Valley studio
    8. Star Wars: Knights Of The Old Republic remake release left in limbo by Saber Interactive sale
    9. How to be the worst wizard in Dragon's Dogma 2 - Third Impact
    10. Tangle Tower devs' love letter to Resident Evil hits Steam in May
    11. Ascendant Infinity’s lunkhead tone belies an intelligent team shooter
    12. Outcast: A New Beginning review: an open world dead end
    13. Elden Ring: Best early weapons
    14. Saber Interactive splits from Embracer, taking 3D Realms, Slipgate, Metro devs and more with them
    15. The Lord Of The Rings: Return To Moria's next major update adds a sandbox mode and single player pause
    16. Anime RPG Granblue Fantasy: Relink gets its biggest update yet with free new quest
    17. NYT Connections hint and answers (Thu, Mar 14)
    18. Wordle hint and answer #999 (March 14 2024)
    1. What's better: Highlighted interactive objects or retrievable reusable ammo?
    2. You can check out Celtic-fantasy action RPG Vindictus: Defying Fate until next week in its free pre-alpha test
    3. Vampire survival game V Rising sinks its teeth into a full-blooded 1.0 release this May
    4. Need to catch up with FF14 before Dawntrail? Best start now: there won’t be a free way to skip its story soon
    5. Sea of Stars is adding co-op multiplayer to the dazzling Chrono Trigger-inspired RPG
    6. The success of Helldivers 2 shouldn't come as a surprise
    7. How Mel Brooks and Twilight inspired a vampire visual novel mixing funny with therapy
    8. EVE Online dev CCP's blockchain "survival experience" Project Awakening is getting a closed playtest in May
    9. The Finals’ Season 2 is a happy hackathon that laughs in the face of physics
    10. Discord aiming to make more games playable inside the client with new dev tools
    11. Check out the trailer for this cyberpunk-noir detective game with a hard-boiled private dick
    12. The 10 best MMOs and MMORPGs
    13. Palworld devs want players to help test new content and find bugs
    14. How to summon in Elden Ring
    15. Dark Souls 3 overhaul mod inspired by Demon Souls gets demo release date
    16. Ereban: Shadow Legacy's blend of Splatoon and Assassin's Creed releases in April
    17. New Palworld mod adds three unreleased Pals, including that Pokemon Mewto rip-off
    18. Why did Digital Eclipse make Llamasoft: The Jeff Minter Story? It's a tale of centipedes, psychedelia, and tea
    19. Wordle hint and answer #998 (March 13 2024)
    20. NYT Connections hint and answers (Wed, Mar 13)
    1. Yellow Taxi Goes Vroom is an N64-style platform collectathon with no jump button
    2. TopSpin 2K25 will launch in April with pros past and present, including Serena Williams
    3. Payday 3 developer Starbreeze have switched CEO six months after disastrous launch
    4. Tribes 3: Rivals is out in Early Access now, for another shot at making Tribes popular
    5. Elden Ring: Best Dexterity weapons
    6. Stylish sniper puzzler Children Of The Sun hits Steam in April
    7. Former God of War and Star Wars devs team up to make new "single-player-focused action adventure"
    8. How to cure Poison in Elden Ring
    9. Arsenal codes [April 2024]
    10. Alleged leaked Spider-Man: The Great Web trailer shows off Insomniac's cancelled co-op spin-off
    11. Chasing The Unseen is like Getting Over It for people who have the Headspace app, and it stressed me out
    12. Nightingale's latest patch fixes major crashes, material losses, and improves the UI
    13. Helldivers 2 patch makes the toughest Terminids less frequent and easier to kill on higher difficulties
    14. Monster Hunter Stories is coming from Nintendo 3DS to PC with a remaster
    15. This chill picross logic game about very prescriptive camping was a hit on Switch, and now it's coming to PC
    16. Helldivers 2 doesn't really have "stealth gameplay" - "it's just that everything just has to make sense"
    17. Wordle hint and answer #997 (March 12 2024)
    18. NYT Connections hint and answers (Tue, Mar 12)
    1. Destiny 2 is crossing over with Ghostbusters next week, complete with a Slimer Ghost and Ecto-1
    2. PUBG is taking the fight to Fortnite with destructible environments and more transportation items in 2024
    3. The Finals’ Season 2 brings hacker powers, a 5v5 mode, new map and more to the multiplayer shooter this week
    4. Final Fantasy 16’s PC release sounds pretty close, with a demo first so you can test its “somewhat high” specs
    5. The 25 best co-op games on PC in 2024
    6. Snufkin: Melody Of Moominvalley review: a simple pleasure
    7. The author of Ready Player One is making a doomed web3 Fortnite clone
    8. Almost a year after ending its open beta, MultiVersus will return on May 28th
    9. The 15 best PC games to play right now
    10. Screenshot Saturday Mondays: Getting about with rope arrows, public transport, and a Mary Poppins umbrella
    11. Driving Empire codes [April 2024]
    12. Zenless Zone Zero release date, story, gameplay, and more
    13. The Maw - 11th-16th March 2024
    14. NYT Connections hint and answers (Mon, Mar 11)
    15. Wordle hint and answer #996 (March 11 2024)
    1. The Sunday Papers
    2. NYT Connections hint and answers (Sun, Mar 10)
    3. Wordle hint and answer #995 (March 10 2024)
    1. Warner Bros. leave developers feeling "sick and dizzy" as more Adult Swim games are being delisted
    2. What are we all playing this weekend?
    3. NYT Connections hint and answers (Sat, Mar 9)
    4. Wordle hint and answer #994 (March 9 2024)
    1. A decade later, they’re still trying to make a Watch Dogs movie - but now it has a director, writer and star
    2. Valiant Hearts: Coming Home, sequel to the WWI adventure game, escapes mobile and Netflix exclusivity onto PC
    3. Fortnite’s Myths & Mortals season lets you wield godlike powers and bullet-bend as avatar Korra later today
    4. Akira Toriyama, Dragon Ball mangaka, Chrono Trigger designer and creator of Dragon Quest’s Slime, has died
    5. Minami Lane's management is simple but still gently compelling
    6. Reality Bytes: Vampire: The Masquerade - Justice wants to be a bite sized Dishonored, but is defanged by sloppy design
    7. Should You Bother With... AMD Fluid Motion Frames?
    8. How to be the worst wizard in Dragon's Dogma 2 - Part Deux
    9. The Night Wanderer is a sci-fantasy Soulslike that blends sword-fighting with cybernetics
    10. You don't get to lead a holy war in Dune: Awakening, but you do have to think about religion
    11. Elden Ring: Best blunt weapons
    12. Dune Awakening release date speculation
    13. In Darktide’s gruesome co-op, my greatest ally is a rock
    14. EA puts a bunch of classic games and also The Saboteur on Steam for the first time
    15. Dragon's Dogma 2 cooking features "real meat" - does that mean vegans shouldn't play it?
    16. You can download Dragon's Dogma 2's character creator for free, so I've made my kitten as a companion
    17. If Helldivers 2 players want mechs, they need to liberate a planet riddled with Automatons first
    18. Spellcasting room-clearance puzzler Tactical Breach Wizards gets new beta that includes the whole game
    19. Elden Ring stats explained
    20. NYT Connections hint and answers (Fri, Mar 8)
    21. Wordle hint and answer #993 (March 8 2024)
    1. Overwatch 2 is getting Cowboy Bebop skins and the trailer is everything you want
    2. Fallout's TV series looks pretty good in latest trailer, will release April 11th
    3. The best Deus Ex game will soon be free to keep from the Epic Games Store
    4. Dragon's Dogma 2 expands the original game's absolutely daft NPC affinity system
    5. Warner Bros. did a Coyote Vs. Acme on Small Radios Big Televisions, so the dev has made it free to download
    6. Palworld breeding combos
    7. Helldivers 2 devs apologise for trolly responses to player complaints about gun balancing
    8. The Electronic Wireless Show podcast S3 episode 9: hiding your shameful sex games with Steam's new update
    9. Zoria: Age Of Shattering review: a systems-heavy RPG that punches above its weight
    10. After years of silence, Unknown 9: Awakening re-emerges as a supernatural mash-up of Assassin's Creed with Star Wars Force powers
    11. This upcoming metroidvania reminds me of Kill La Kill and Mega Man Legends
    12. EA will expand Apex Legends "beyond the traditional battle royale universe" with new ways to play
    13. Kunitsu-Gami: Path Of The Goddess looks like a beautiful blend of Yokai, Pikmin, and tower defense
    14. NYT Connections hint and answers (Thu, Mar 7)
    15. Wordle hint and answer #992 (March 7 2024)
    1. Unknown 9: Awakening gives a first look at its mix of Psi-Ops and Assassin’s Creed, ahead of a summer release
    2. Persona 3 Reload adds FES expansion The Answer as its ‘final chapter’ DLC later this year
    3. Frostpunk 2’s release date brings a frosty survivalist chill to this summer
    4. What's better: left-handed FPS options or a little hand for a cursor?
    5. Sleight of Hand looks like a noir spiritual successor to Metal Gear Acid from dev behind puzzle gem Framed
    6. Frostpunk devs 11 bit announce fantasy game Creatures Of Ava, in which you befriend animals with a magic flute
    7. Frogwares reveal wet survival horror sequel The Sinking City 2, taking the dev "in a newer direction" in 2025
    8. Ghost of Tsushima Director's Cut comes to PC in May
    9. Last Epoch: Best Sentinel builds and skills
    10. How to kill skeletons in Elden Ring
    11. How to Power Stance in Elden Ring
    12. Nightingale early access review: a numbers grind disguised as a gaslamp survival game
    13. Helldivers 2 patch nerfs the best guns as designer says the balancing process will be "never-ending"
    14. How to Gesture in Elden Ring
    15. Dragon's Dogma 2's Magick Archer class makes me want to solo the game
    16. Strange Scaffold's next game is about stalking and sacrificing your neighbours to keep the world from ending
    17. The Outlast Trials hits 1.0 release with new ending, single player tweaks and Toy Factory map
    18. NYT Connections hint and answers (Wed, Mar 6)
    19. Wordle hint and answer #991 (March 6 2024)
    1. Game Pass's most exciting new addition in March is a farming sim with mechs
    2. Chivalry 2's new update adds unofficial server support and skill-based team balancing
    3. Migrate your Oculus accounts to Meta this month or lose your games
    4. How to be the worst wizard in Dragon's Dogma 2 - Act 1
    5. Helldivers 2's mechs are "ready for deployment" soon, say Arrowhead
    6. How to install Decky Loader on the Steam Deck
    7. How to dismount in Elden Ring
    8. Footage of Free Radical's TimeSplitters cancelled Fortnite clone has emerged online
    9. Last Epoch: Best Primalist builds and skills
    10. Berserk Boy review: a fast and frantic platformer dashed by swift credits
    11. How to cast spells in Elden Ring
    12. Voin is a dark fantasy hack-and-slash that handles a little like Doom Eternal
    13. Horizon Forbidden West’s system requirements don't want a sci-fi PC
    14. The upcoming horsegirl sim fundamentally misunderstands the point of a horsegirl sim
    15. Expeditions: A Mudrunner Game review: the dirt's as good as ever, but the science is a bit too clean
    16. This new survival city builder feels kind of Dune-meets-Frostpunk
    17. Steam now lets you hide individual games from people's prying eyes
    18. Crema tease new Temtem game with fresh combat system alongside plans to remove all Temtem microtransactions
    19. NYT Connections hint and answers (Tue, Mar 5)
    20. Wordle hint and answer #990 (March 5 2024)
    1. Suika Shapes adds co-op multiplayer and a polygonal twist to the viral Watermelon Game
    2. Synduality is like Armored Core as an extraction shooter, with a closed beta later this month
    3. Dune MMO will let you use The Voice, sell bases and drink blood-water - but not kill or ride sandworms (yet)
    4. The Thaumaturge review: a knotty detective RPG brewed in a rich, historical melting pot
    5. Former XCOM devs say their Star Wars strategy game is "unaffected" after EA cancels Respawn FPS amid layoffs
    6. How to enable Desktop Mode on the Steam Deck
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    10. Screenshot Saturday Mondays: ASCII tears and undersea fears
    11. Deep Rock Galactic season 5 will add new missions, DLSS3 and a way to play past seasons
    12. Sixty Four is a very elegant abstract factory sim with sinister depths
    13. Tribes soars out of the grave once again with Tribes 3: Rivals entering early access next week
    14. The Sims 4 now has some tie-in jewellery, which I both hate and admire
    15. Save-the-world sim Eco's 1.0 plans include oil spills, garbage collection and a bustling art scene
    16. Last Epoch: Best Mage builds and skills
    17. Nvidia GeForce RTX 4070 Ti Super review: memory serves this refreshed GPU
    18. That 189GB Epic Games "hack" may have been a scam aimed at other hackers
    19. The Maw - 4th-9th March 2024
    20. Wordle hint and answer #989 (March 4 2024)
    21. NYT Connections hint and answers (Mon, Mar 4)
    1. NYT Connections hint and answers (Sun, Mar 3)
    2. Wordle hint and answer #988 (March 3 2024)
    1. Vampire Survivors' latest update is an ode to its original game engine
    2. KeeperRL, ambitious blend of Dwarf Fortress and Dungeon Keeper, hits 1.0 after eleven years
    3. Payday 3's first Operation Medic Bag patch includes 300 fixes and an unready button
    4. Starfield's new beta update arrives next week and lets you smile in photo mode
    5. What are we all playing this weekend?
    6. NYT Connections hint and answers (Sat, Mar 2)
    7. Wordle hint and answer #987 (March 2 2024)
    1. Fall Guys survival update adds new creator tools, invisibility, and explosive rhinos
    2. Space Crew: Legendary Edition is currently free to keep from Steam
    3. Ori dev's No Rest For The Wicked hacks-and-slashes onto Steam Early Access in April
    4. Borderlands studio Gearbox reportedly to be sold by owners Embracer
    5. Sewer levels have always been the worst, but Star Wars: Dark Forces Remaster's one is an all-time stinker
    6. How to get the Glider Launcher in Sons of the Forest
    7. Palworld type chart: All element types explained
    8. Palworld: Tips and tricks for beginners
    9. Soulslikers are going to love Ori studio's new ARPG No Rest For The Wicked
    10. Beware fake Helldivers 2 pages on Steam promising steep discounts
    11. Balatro's Endless mode is perfect: a fun victory lap before you extremely die
    12. Best Last Epoch class and mastery tier list
    13. March’s RPS Game Club pick is... Warhammer 40,000: Darktide!
    14. The best Elden Ring mods (2024)
    15. Before you brush your teeth tonight, remember to install Doom on your electric toothbrush
    16. Best Mining Pals in Palworld
    17. Star Wars Outlaws release date, story, gameplay, and more
    18. Sons Of The Forest review: beautiful survival horror with a few missteps
    19. Crash Bandicoot 4 studio Toys For Bob split from Activision and Microsoft to go independent
    20. Wordle hint and answer #986 (March 1 2024)
    21. NYT Connections hint and answers (Fri, Mar 1)