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January 2025 Archive

    1. NYT Connections hint (Mon, 20 Jan)
    2. What's on your bookshelf?: comment farming from the abyss edition
    3. Fisch codes January 2025
    4. Anime Royale codes January 2025
    5. The Sunday Papers
    6. Past Wordle answers
    7. Wordle hint and answer today #1310 (January 19 2025)
    1. Topdown tactical shooter Intravenous 2 now has Steam Workshop support and a map editor
    2. Sons Of The Forest now lets you build rafts - and don't worry, Kelvin is better at swimming now, too
    3. Genshin Impact maker will pay a $20 million fine to settle FTC charges that allege they misled players about lootbox odds
    4. NYT Connections hint (Sun, 19 Jan)
    5. Da Hood codes
    6. Honkai Star Rail codes [January 2025]
    7. What are we all playing this weekend?
    8. Wordle hint and answer #1309 (January 18 2025)
    1. NYT Connections hint (Sat, 18 Jan)
    2. Unless this cake is lying to you Silksong will reappear in April
    3. Hyper Light Breaker early access review: a flashy but hollow roguelike with few of Drifter’s charms
    4. Best Path of Exile 2 class: Rankings and tier list
    5. All free games on the Epic Games Store: What's free right now?
    6. This week's GTA Online Podium Car
    7. Path of Exile 2 beginner guide: What to do first
    8. Path of Exile 2: PoE 2 crafting guide and overview
    9. 11-bit's latest curiosity Death Howl is a sorrowing open world deckbuilder set in the Nordic Stone Ages
    10. PlayStation put the axe in a live service God Of War game, alongside a project from the Days Gone studio
    11. The Marvel Rivals devs might ban you for using a mouse-and-keyboard adapter
    12. That Oblivion Feeling
    13. Come say goodbye to Ed, our departing reviews editor
    14. Wordle hint and answer #1308 (January 17 2025)
    1. Tales Of Graces f Remastered is out on PC for the first time, with new quality-of-life updates
    2. NYT Connections hint (Fri, 17 Jan)
    3. Tokyo Xtreme Racer returns to the road for the first time in 18 years next week
    4. Blade Chimera’s demo suggests another rad 2D metroidvania from the Touhou Luna Nights devs
    5. Video game publishers are starting to use "anti-DEI" as a marketing meme
    6. Budget charm makes body-burying oddly enjoyable in Plague: London 1665
    7. Killer strategy boardgame Root's new Steam expansion has made me aware that Root exists as a PC game
    8. Minishoot' Adventures review: a deceptively simple blend of 2D Zelda and shoot 'em up action
    9. Path of Exile 2 best Witch build
    10. Path of Exile 2 best Mercenary build
    11. Path of Exile 2 best Ranger build
    12. Path of Exile 2 best Warrior build
    13. Somebody recreated all of GTA 4's Liberty City in GTA 5 aaaaand it's gone
    14. Path of Exile 2 best Sorceress build
    15. Path of Exile 2 best Monk build
    16. The Nintendo Switch 2 looks like a Steam Deck but worse
    17. More than 6,700 people bought the false N95 face mask from Razer - and now they're getting refunds
    18. Anime Reborn codes January 2025
    19. Genshin Impact codes
    20. Roblox: Lootify codes January 2025
    21. IGF 2025 nominees show what a wild and vibrant place indie gaming is
    22. Friendly adventure Lil Gator Game is getting a "game-sized" expansion called In The Dark
    23. Lonely Mountain: Snow Riders has a new release date and it's next week
    24. Afterlove EP, the final game from the creator of Coffee Talk, launches next month
    25. Wordle hint and answer today #1307 (January 16 2025)
    1. NYT Connections hint (Thu, 16 Jan)
    2. Forest Reigns is a STALKER-style FPS in which Paris has been conquered by sentient trees
    3. Bioshock's lead designer is making an elven real-time tactics game that looks like a painting and reminds me of Myth
    4. Path of Exile 2: PoE 2 Skill Tree guide
    5. Dress To Impress codes January 2025
    6. Doors codes
    7. The creator of retro FPS Fortune's Run is going to prison for three years
    8. Marvel Rivals to get two new heroes every three month season, say NetEase, and no, they're not adding role queue
    9. Petro-horror strategy game Anoxia Station makes Frostpunk look positively welcoming
    10. Wordle hint and answer today #1306 (January 15 2025)
    1. NYT Connections hint (Wed, 15 Jan)
    2. Rejoice wandering emperors, for Civilization 7 will be Steam Deck verified at launch
    3. Path Of Exile 2 hacker temporarily hijacks dozens of player inventories via admin account
    4. Elder Scrolls 4 Oblivion's rumoured Unreal Engine remake has a new take on stealth, stamina and blocking, say rumours
    5. Trigger Happy's Sam Prebble on perfecting the survival horror of Total Chaos - and playing the genre's classics for the first time
    6. Starfield's abandoned gore and dismemberment system sure would have made it less grey
    7. DLSS 3: how it works, how it performs, and when you should use it
    8. This roguelike made me feel like a genius (I didn't know what was happening but I was pleased with myself)
    9. You’ve probably played 2005’s most experimental horror game
    10. Ex-The Witcher 3 devs' vampire RPG The Blood of Dawnwalker gets a trailer, looks Witcherish
    11. I reckon you autobattler sickos will like Annihilate The Spance, probably you RTS nutters too
    12. Wordle hint and answer #1305 (January 14 2025)
    1. NYT Connections hint (Tue, 14 Jan)
    2. Bungie and PlayStation are working on a MOBA inspired by Nintendo's Smash Bros, claims report
    3. What is Resizable BAR, and should you use it?
    4. Our 24 favourite games of 2024
    5. Flying city-builder Airborne Empire hits early access today with a new military element
    6. The future of MechWarrior looks uncertain amid Piranha Games layoffs and Toadman Interactive closure
    7. A One Piece Game codes
    8. Anime Vanguards codes January 2025
    9. Squid Game X codes January 2025
    10. Ahh! 72 indie horror games and a Haunted PS1 demo disc just screeched into 2025 honking the horn and apologising for being late
    11. New Square Enix policy will clamp down on harassers, bigots and "unreasonable" compensation requests
    12. Dynasty Warriors: Origins review: a glorious, melodramatic and convincing illusion of tactical warfare
    13. The Maw: what's new in PC games this week?
    14. Wordle hint and answer #1304 (January 13 2025)
    1. NYT Connections hint (Mon, 13 Jan)
    2. What's on your bookshelf?: Leverage Head of IP and former Deck 13 narrative director Christian Fonnesbech
    3. The Sunday Papers
    4. Wordle hint and answer #1303 (January 12 2025)
    1. Pure Rock Crawling looks like a knockabout MudRunner without the mud
    2. Minecraft's beta versions now offer adorable hot and cold pig variants
    3. Marvel Rivals' latest update disabled mods, meaning you can no longer play as Skibidi Toilet or Vegeta
    4. NYT Connections hint (Sun, 12 Jan)
    5. Blox Fruits codes
    6. What are we all playing this weekend?
    7. Wordle hint and answer #1302 (January 11 2025)
    1. NYT Connections hint (Sat, 11 Jan)
    2. Hit city-builder Manor Lords has been updated with two new maps and a heap of changes
    3. Object-ive Review: Cyberpunk 2077's scanner
    4. Era One is an enveloping space RTS from Homeworld modders that lets you clip together your own Mothership
    5. After five hours, Kingdom Come: Deliverance 2 is a beautiful and blundering Boy's Day Out in Historyland
    6. Rally Point: Zephon demonstrates that good 4X faction design is really characterisation
    7. The 30 best Steam Deck games
    8. Please help, Warren Spector keeps emailing me about books
    9. RGG ends Like A Dragon Direct by proudly announcing they won't charge for New Game+ this time, something most games don't do anyway
    10. The Last Of Us Part II will require a PSN account to play on PC, making it unplayable in over 100 countries
    11. Wordle hint and answer #1301 (January 10 2025)
    1. NYT Connections hint (Fri, 10 Jan)
    2. Assassin's Creed Shadows release delayed to March as Ubisoft's board consider a company sale
    3. Beyond Citadel is a fascinating, melancholy FPS, but you'll need a high tolerance for gore and titillation
    4. Goodboy Galaxy is a cleverly condensed low-stress Metroidy time
    5. Best graphics cards: the top gaming GPUs
    6. No, Call Of Duty doesn't need to evolve
    7. Dreams On A Pillow's developer on the challenges of making games from the West Bank
    8. I'm sad to announce I'm considering playing League Of Legends again
    9. Geoguessr-inspired detective game Locator is about puzzles, perspective, and empathy on an alien planet
    10. Here are all the confirmed ray tracing and DLSS games so far
    11. Boku No Roblox codes
    12. Marvel Rivals patch makes Hulk less hulky, Hawkeye less shooty and the Goddess of Death deader, just in time for Season 1
    13. Future Creative Assembly games may "require blood thematically", which sure sounds like a Total War: Warhammer 40,000 teaser
    14. My Summer Car trundles out of early access with version 1.0 after nine years in the chop shop
    15. You can save up to $400 Off Alienware m16 R2 gaming laptops today
    16. Transformers: Reactivate, the Autobot action game from the Gears Tactics devs, has been cancelled
    17. Wordle hint and answer #1300 (January 9 2025)
    1. NYT Connections hint (Thu, 9 Jan)
    2. MSI’s panoramic PC case severely underestimates how bad at cable tidying I am
    3. Space Engineers 2 launches this month and promises a refined and expanded starcrafting experience
    4. Stimulation Clicker is web 1.0 and web 3.0 having a fight inside one browser window
    5. Our 50 most anticipated PC games of 2025
    6. AMD’s CES 2025 announcements include what will probably be yet another 'world’s fastest' CPU
    7. Ro-Ghoul codes list
    8. World's biggest game publisher Tencent threaten to sue US government for listing them as a Chinese military company
    9. Smite 2's Aladdin will trap players in a lamp with an angry genie as the MOBA becomes free-to-play
    10. Former Annapurna staff reportedly found new studio to rescue sold-off Private Division projects, including new Game Freak game
    11. Wordle hint and answer #1299 (January 8 2025)
    1. NYT Connections hint (Wed, 8 Jan)
    2. The US just added the world's biggest games publisher Tencent to their list of Chinese military companies
    3. World Of Stands codes
    4. Behold the Lenovo Legion Go S, the SteamOS handheld PC that isn’t a Steam Deck
    5. Bee Swarm Simulator codes
    6. Type Soul codes January 2025
    7. The $1999 Nvidia GeForce RTX 5090 makes the rest of the RTX 50 series look suspiciously sensible
    8. Strategy game The Deadly Path is Dungeon Keeper with a writhing helping of tabletop time management
    9. Fruit Battlegrounds codes
    10. School shooting lawsuit reveals that Black Ops Cold War cost $700 million, the highest development cost yet reported by a publisher
    11. UFO 50 speedrunners complete its most opaque game in under five minutes
    12. Balatro mod Jimbo's Big Naturals is a lot funnier and safer for work than it sounds
    13. Anime Dimensions codes
    14. Voice-controlled murder mystery Dead Meat hits Steam this year, but its embrace of generative AI might spoil a great idea
    15. Wordle hint and answer #1298 (January 7 2025)
    1. NYT Connections hint (Tue, 7 Jan)
    2. Intel Arc B580 review: Late arriving, still welcome
    3. Many are the nostalgic 2D Sonic fangames, but Sonic Galactic might be the best
    4. GTA copycat Paradise is an alleged crypto scam, yet continues to gain Steam wishlists
    5. Fallout creator asks why triple-A RPGs focus on violence, doesn't provide very hopeful answer
    6. Tyrant’s Realm is a grimy, spartan soulslike infused with Deathtrap Dungeon nostalgia
    7. Artifact saw a mysterious player count jump over new year, six years after Valve’s trading card game died off
    8. The Maw: what's new in PC games this week?
    9. NYT Connections hints and answers (Monday 6th)
    10. Wordle hint and answer #1297 (January 6 2025)
    1. What's on your bookshelf?: ITU Copenhagen Games Professor Martin Pichlmair
    2. NYT Connections hints and answers (Sunday 5th)
    3. Wordle hint and answer #1296 (January 5 2025)
    1. What are we all playing this weekend?
    2. NYT Connections hints and answers (Saturday 4th)
    3. Wordle hint and answer #1295 (January 4 2025)
    1. Roblox: SpongeBob Tower Defense codes January 2025
    2. Roblox: Rate My Car codes January 2025
    3. Marvel Rivals unbans Steam Deck and Mac players wrongly caught up in cheater purge
    4. SpaceCraft is aiming for the gap between Starfield, Satisfactory and Eve Online
    5. I am patiently waiting for someone to run Doom on one of these absurdly overpriced digital typewriters
    6. Peroxide codes: Free Product Essence
    7. At this year's big speedrunning fest, Elden Ring bosses will be defeated with the power of saxophone
    8. Mechabellum Season 2 brings a square-jawed Sergeant specialist who’s definitely seen things no man should see
    9. NYT Connections hints and answers (Friday 3rd)
    10. Wordle hint and answer #1294 (January 3 2025)
    1. Bioshock was "basically a corridor", says Ken Levine - Judas won't be, and characters will have long memories
    2. Coven is a cheerfully monstrous witch's delight
    3. Gar-Type is a free pixelart shooter based on a cosmic horror meme about a lazy, ravenous housecat
    4. Go Fishing codes January 2025
    5. Indiana Jones And The Great Circle is a game about a man with hands
    6. PlayerUnknown's Battlegrounds creator wants to build a "metaverse" but says it might take 15 years and can't explain what it will look like yet
    7. The 30 best survival games on PC
    8. Ancient Chinese RPG The Bustling World is, in fact, all of the genres, from city builder to life sim
    9. Doom on a CAPTCHA is the most frustrating though admittedly raddest way to prove your humanity to an algorithm
    10. MTG Arena codes
    11. Enjoy some Ryanair Boeing 737 safety manual ekphrasis in Johnson A Plane Man
    12. Delightful dark fantasy fable Ghost Of A Tale, aka Ico meets Redwall, is getting an Unreal Engine sequel
    13. Wordle hint and answer #1293 (January 2 2025)
    14. NYT Connections hints and answers (Thursday 2nd)
    1. Demon Soul Simulator codes
    2. The RPS Selection Box: Graham's bonus games of the year 2024
    3. The final RPS Christmas Cracker 2024
    4. NYT Connections hints and answers (Wednesday 1st)
    5. Wordle hint and answer #1292 (January 1 2025)