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July 2025 Archive

    1. Battlefield 6's full multiplayer reveal sees EA trying to rebottle the lightning of Battlefield 3 and 4
    2. I've found slashed price Alienware gaming PCs, Laptops and GPUs in today's daily deals for PC gamers
    3. Baldur's Gate 3 hotfix takes care of Dark Urge spoilers, and politely hangs up your gang's buggy video calls
    4. Once Upon a Katamari will have you rolling up the annals of history, and it’s coming to PC
    5. How to get Spine Nubs in Grounded 2
    6. Our favorite SSD for Steam Deck is reduced by almost 40% at Amazon today
    7. Where to find Acorns in Grounded 2
    8. Square Enix turn an RPG into a town-builder with Octopath Traveler 0
    9. Grounded 2 modding kicks off with cockroaches dressed as clowns, which is good for bugphobes, so long as they aren't also circusphobes
    10. How to craft a Workbench in Grounded 2
    11. Grounded 2 briefcase code combination solution
    12. Wuchang Fallen Feathers: Winged Ascension and all riddle doors
    13. Dune Awakening's devs are testing a patch that'll let you deposit all of your blood and should help tackle ornithopter griefing
    14. You can get a 34 inch QLED Alienware monitor for just over $600 at Amazon right now
    15. I'm strapped to a rolling office chair with a ticking timer in a huge scary building
    16. How to unlock Buggy mounts with the Hatchery in Grounded 2
    17. How to get a Red Soldier Ant Egg in Grounded 2
    18. The unofficial Skyrim remake of Morrowind finally has a voice for every last character in Vvardenfell
    19. Elden Ring Nightreign Duos update delayed due to tsunami warning
    20. Utter A Name is a tightly packed mini murder mystery
    21. Hideo Kojima has "learned so many ways to kill people"
    22. Valve upgrade Steam's trailer player, and all it took was trawling through something like 400,000 videos
    23. Save on a microSD for your Steam Deck, with 1TB options discounted in US and the UK
    24. Get this QD-OLED gaming monitor from Alienware for just $765 with a handy voucher vode
    25. Wordle hint and answer #1503 (July 31 2025)
    26. NYT Connections hint (Thu, 31 Jul)
    1. Wuchang Fallen Feathers: He Youzai questline
    2. Wuchang Fallen Feathers: White-Robed Elder questline
    3. Wuchang Fallen Feathers: Fang Yao questline
    4. Subnautica 2 delay actually proves Krafton aren't mismanaging their games, says exec
    5. Where to find Blueberries and get Blueberry Leather in Grounded 2
    6. Where to find Lingonberries and get Lingonberry Leather in Grounded 2
    7. Where to find Stinkbugs in Grounded 2
    8. Grounded 2's early access gets off to a flying start as Obsidian detail the next year of updates
    9. Nvidia GeForce RTX 5050 review: Starting, and finishing, at the bottom
    10. Ninja Gaiden: Ragebound review
    11. Battlefield 6 won't cost $80, but EA aren't ruling out future price hikes "to capture the full spectrum of pricing"
    12. Peak cannibalism is delivered by the co-op climber's latest patch
    13. Where to find Grass Seeds in Grounded 2
    14. We need to reclaim software's wishing well from the cruelty of generative AI
    15. Oblivion Remastered mod delivers Tamrielic Teardown by letting you blow buildings to bits, with plans for full-blown house fighting
    16. NYT Connections hint (Wed, 30 Jul)
    17. Wordle hint and answer #1502 (July 30 2025)
    1. Parrying has never seemed more whimsical than in dollhouse soulslike Memoria Wake
    2. Star Racer, a combat ship speedfest about evading the fuzz as an alien M.O.M, has zoomed out of early access
    3. Itch.io are seeking out new payment processors who are more comfortable with adult material
    4. My best PC gamer deals for today are all about discounted Samsung gaming monitors and graphics cards
    5. Monster Hunter Wilds is getting an endgame expansion "ahead of schedule", as Capcom keep hunting player approval
    6. Call of Duty launcher put on a space-saving diet, as Modern Warfare 2 and Modern Warfare 3 go back to standalone downloads
    7. Baldur's Gate 3's Amelia Tyler voices a cursed boardgame in this original Jumanji adaptation in all but name
    8. Where to find Weed Stems in Grounded 2
    9. Where to find Thistle Needles in Grounded 2
    10. How to get Crude Rope and craft a Pebblet Spear in Grounded 2
    11. How to craft a Torch in Grounded 2
    12. Sony are suing Tencent to "prevent irreparable harm" inflicted by Horizon knockoff Light of Motiram
    13. How to find Arachnophobia Mode in Grounded 2 and spider differences
    14. Where to find Grub locations in Grounded 2
    15. How to investigate the Snackbar Anthill in Grounded 2
    16. Despite Suicide Squad's fate, Warner Bros. look set to have Gotham Knights devs make a live service game
    17. Good news, dorks - it is not too late to be a janky-ass wolf
    18. Killing Floor 3 review
    19. Microsoft begin rolling out Xbox account age verification checks in response to UK Online Safety Act
    20. NYT Connections hint (Tue, 29 Jul)
    21. Wordle hint and answer #1501 (July 29 2025)
    1. Itch post new list of banned NSFW content that would rule out certain Kojima games and GOTY 2024 Mouthwashing
    2. Team Fortress 2's summer update is here, and a group of players have penned an open letter to Valve about matchmaking
    3. The best Graphics Card deals for PC Gamers today
    4. Hollow Knight: Silksong will be playable at Gamescom, as Xbox offer first chances to fiddle with the ROG Xbox Ally
    5. Roblox: Latest Azure Latch codes
    6. Cyberpunk 2077 modder makes NPC cleanliness optional in order to avoid popular "non-sexy mods" being "hidden unnecessarily"
    7. A spidery new mech crawls onto the eternal battlefield of The Forever Winter
    8. This week in PC games: Hobbits, gigahorses, internet fixers, ninjas, hellships, junkbots and window cleaners
    9. NYT Connections hint (Mon, 28 Jul)
    10. Wordle hint and answer #1500 (July 28 2025)
    1. Grounded 2: Release date, release time and Game Pass
    2. The Sunday Papers
    3. NYT Connections hint (Sun, 27 Jul)
    4. Wordle hint and answer #1499 (July 27 2025)
    1. What are we all playing this weekend?
    2. NYT Connections hint (Sat, 26 Jul)
    3. Wordle hint and answer #1498 (July 26 2025)
    4. My best deals for PC gamers today include an Alienware x16 laptop and savings on premium keyboards and mice
    1. Devolver sign up to publish Quarantine Zone, in which you run the checkpoint during a zombie apocalypse
    2. I'd love a good foraging simulation, thanks
    3. Wuchang Fallen Feathers: What to do with Bamboo Shoots
    4. Once again, I have been flanked by ginger cats the size of office buildings in a racing game
    5. Dear Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella, please prove that an AI didn’t write your insulting, vacuous blog about why you're laying off thousands during a time of huge profits
    6. Indie gaming's only three genres have inevitably converged into grimdark Balatro with a whimsical egg idiot
    7. Ubisoft date Assassin's Creed Shadows New Game+ mode alongside plans to make its open world more convenient
    8. The Alienware Aurora 16X with an NVIDIA RTX 5070 is down to its lowest price since launch
    9. My best deals for PC gamers today include massive discounts on Alienware gaming PCs and GPUs
    10. NYT Connections hint (Fri, 25 Jul)
    11. Wordle hint and answer #1497 (July 25 2025)
    1. What is the Feathering stat in Wuchang Fallen Feathers?
    2. Battlefield 6 has finally been revealed, with a firmly anti-helicopter trailer and no release date
    3. Wuchang: Fallen Feathers' surprise PC performance problems call for emergency settings treatment
    4. Chill micro citybuilder Pile Up! just emerged from early access, and its devs want you to try fearmongering
    5. S.p.l.i.t review
    6. Sike, Hades 2 devs Supergiant had another pre-full release patch hiding under their himation
    7. After 18 years, a surprise Half-Life 2 update makes it once again possible to beat a honking train on Highway 17
    8. Battlefield 6's release date appears to have leaked, jumping the gun ahead of its reveal trailer
    9. Commit culinary crimes in management sim The Diner At The End Of The Galaxy
    10. Itch.io apologise for "frustration and confusion" after delisting thousands of NSFW projects
    11. Brütal Legend goes free to grab as Double Fine pay tribute to Ozzy Osbourne, but you'll have be quick
    12. Wuchang Fallen Feathers: Madness and Inner Demon explained
    13. Wuchang Fallen Feathers: How to use Red Mercury to level up
    14. How to transmog in Wuchang Fallen Feathers
    15. Wuchang Fallen Feathers: How to summon
    16. Wuchang Fallen Feathers: 8 tips for beginners
    17. My best deals for PC gamers today include up to $1,200 off Alienware laptops and the best GPU deals around
    18. Wordle hint and answer #1496 (July 24 2025)
    19. NYT Connections hint (Thu, 24 Jul)
    1. This ROG Ally deal would have me tempted to give up my Steam Deck for one reason
    2. Grim and joyful deckbuilder The Royal Writ is coming for genre king Balatro next month
    3. Wheel World review
    4. Microsoft U-turn on charging $80 for The Outer Worlds 2 and other Xbox games, cue memes and pre-order refunds
    5. Autobattle your past self in Fool King, a promising strategy roguelite in which dice are soldiers
    6. Former Bethesda developer Julian LeFay, known as the 'Father of The Elder Scrolls', has died
    7. PC peripheral makers "deeply apologise" for hosting malware in their mouse software, by accident
    8. Rat King has eaten my lunch, and now it's going to eat yours
    9. League Of Legends fighting spin-off 2XKO dangles Vi in front of fans alongside a closed beta
    10. ZeniMax staff discuss Microsoft's "inhumane" mass layoffs and how the future looks for the "carcass of workers that remains"
    11. Splitgate 2 devs 1047 Games lay off more staff as the shooter heads "back to beta", eyeing a 2026 rerelease
    12. Wordle hint and answer #1495 (July 23 2025)
    13. NYT Connections hint (Wed, 23 Jul)
    1. SSR Wives is a sparky throwback survival horror with romantic intentions and iMacs for save points
    2. My best deals for PC gamers today include over 30% off big name gaming monitors and graphics cards
    3. Until Dawn devs Supermassive lay off "up to 36" workers, delay interstellar horror Directive 8020
    4. In acid-bright office shooter Gossamer Matrix you have to reload while managing a deskful of junk
    5. Helldivers 2 wants you to make sure virtual citizens don't wet the bed, and also here's another free cape
    6. EA let Battlefield 6 players lock weapons to classes in latest scuffle over how much Battlefield should enforce teamwork
    7. Space Marine 2 publishers reveal Hellraiser: Revival, a singleplayer horror with Doug Bradley returning as Pinhead
    8. Campaign asking EU to stop publishers "destroying" online games hit by anonymous transparency complaint
    9. Anti-porn group who tried to ban GTA 5 claim credit for Steam's sex game crackdown
    10. Scientifically funny survive 'em up Abiotic Factor is hitting version 1.0 today, and your pets are in danger
    11. Greedfall 2 studio Spiders set for layoffs that'll affect "most" of their animators and riggers, dev claims
    12. NYT Connections hint (Tue, 22 Jul)
    13. Wordle hint and answer #1494 (July 22 2025)
    1. Ubisoft CEO responds to Stop Killing Games, and casually mentions a new Ghost Recon game's coming
    2. There's a bunch of newly discounted AMD, Intel and Nvidia graphics cards at Amazon today
    3. I adore the Scavenger's Reign-style underworld of Cleanfall, in which you build airships out of bugs
    4. You can now try frame generation in any Steam Deck game, with all the thrilling disclaimers and caveats of desktop frame gen
    5. Cyberpunk 2077 patch 2.3 lets you ditch ridealong Keanu Reeves, but I raise you responding to his driving critiques via this mod
    6. Hell Clock review
    7. A surprise update for Fallout: Bakersfield, the Doom mod that rebuilds the RPG's Necropolis as a shooter level
    8. As Le Mans Ultimate emerges from early access, it’s still got work ahead to catch the top hardcore sims
    9. This week in PC games: Wuchang, Killing Floor 3, open world spirit biking and some eerie glyph puzzles
    10. The current developers of Vampire: The Masquerade - Bloodlines 2 are going "fully" indie again
    11. Scrapped Evolve sequel revealed by concept art, including an asteroid mining station straight out of Dead Space
    12. NYT Connections hint (Mon, 21 Jul)
    13. Wordle hint and answer #1493 (July 21 2025)
    1. The Sunday Papers
    2. Wordle hint and answer #1492 (July 20 2025)
    3. NYT Connections hint (Sun, 20 Jul)
    1. Warframe’s 2025 end of year update is all about The Old Peace, as hallucinated via communal Matrix bath
    2. Soulframe’s getting a bear quest, and its devs want you to keep bearing with them as you wait for it to emerge from alpha
    3. Soulframe director chats “Wiz versus Waz” and a demo he hopes will help prove it's not just a soulslike
    4. What are we all playing this weekend?
    5. Wordle hint and answer #1491 (July 19 2025)
    6. NYT Connections hint (Sat, 19 Jul)
    1. Deals for today: iBUYPOWER Element Pro RTX 9070XT gaming PC Drops to $1,499
    2. If you've given up on Civilization 7, Civ 6 is free with all DLC expansions for a limited time on Epic Games Store
    3. FromSoftware are reportedly working on an unannounced game alongside The Duskbloods that could release next year
    4. When does Wuchang Fallen Feathers release?
    5. The Necromancer's Tale is the most I've enjoyed creating an RPG character in a while, and no I don't mean the walking corpses
    6. Elden Ring Nightreign's next enhanced boss wave crashes against the shores of frustration at the end of this month
    7. Engineering puzzle designer Zach Barth almost made a Factorio-like automation game, but "got really bored really quickly"
    8. Assorted lessons from a 40 hour Baldur's Gate 3 honour mode run that ended in fire and failure
    9. Rockbeasts is about managing an animal band in a BoJack-style world, but it'll need to do more than horse around
    10. Helldivers 3 is "hopefully many years away" says Arrowhead's CEO, who did not vote for gun
    11. 4X strategy game Entrotria is in theory Galactic Civilizations but looks like a Jackson Pollock painting
    12. World Of Stands codes
    13. Breath Of The Wild meets Banjo-Kazooie golem adventure Tall Trails is just plain nice
    14. Oblivion Remastered modder splices Fallout 3's level-by-questing into Cyrodiil, and my virtual knees are glad
    15. Valve are now removing a bunch of sex games from Steam to keep banks and card companies happy
    16. The Dark Queen Of Mortholme is a reverse Elden Ring where you play the final boss
    17. Wordle hint and answer #1490 (July 18 2025)
    18. NYT Connections hint (Fri, 18 Jul)
    1. Mixtape is a suave and syrupy retro music love-in with a useful undertow of hustle
    2. Pass Man: My doomed attempt to play Rematch as a support class
    3. The Drifter review
    4. Oblivion Remastered developers Virtuos are reportedly planning layoffs, with 300 workers at risk
    5. Paying the Subnautica 2 team their promised bonus would be "embarrassing", Krafton's CEO allegedly told the game's chief over lunch
    6. Deals for today: The best of Alienware's Black Friday in July sale
    7. Former Elder Scrolls developer Julian LeFay steps away from his Daggerfall-esque The Wayward Realms as cancer worsens
    8. James Bond's license holders let IO be "a lot more daring" than the Hitman studio thought
    9. Bird-bashing soulslike Wuchang: Fallen Feathers has some PC system specs, and they are not brutal
    10. R.I.P Total War: Warhammer's arse ladders (2016-2025)
    11. Wordle hint and answer today #1489 (July 17 2025)
    12. NYT Connections hint (Thu, 17 Jul)
    1. Come slide with me through loopy shooter maps in this homage to Counter-Strike's beloved glitch surfing
    2. Cyberpunk 2077 update 2.3 motors into your life this week with new cars, auto-driving, a taxi service and more
    3. Civilization 7 is getting auto-explore for scouts, reminding me that I both hate and love auto-explore
    4. Free shooter Straftat gets a 2v2 update and if my maths are correct this makes it twice as intense 1v1
    5. How to make a Minecraft Nether Portal (fastest method)
    6. "You can short a baby" in the sequel to Space Warlord Organ Trading Simulator
    7. This new co-op horror is like if the chefs of Overcooked got together for a night of R.E.P.O
    8. Put Big Butt Skinner in Frostpunk 2, win $10,000 maybe
    9. Best deals for PC gamers today: Over 10% off prebuilt gaming PCs and massive savings on M.2 SSDs
    10. Officially licenced Like a Dragon spin-offs made by Roblox creators may be coming, and will have to stick to the karaoke lad lore
    11. Subnautica 2 studio will get their bonus, says Krafton, but it's not the $250 million promised
    12. Valve change Steam's rules to let banks and credit card firms prohibit "certain kinds of adult only content"
    13. Killing Floor 3’s next stress test launches today, and won’t share the last one’s five-year NDA
    14. Avowed's summer update revamps fighter and ranger skills so those pesky wizards aren't having all the fun
    15. Dark fantasy Frosthaven is a DM-free Dungeons And Dragons campaign in a box, and it's coming to Steam this month
    16. I just discovered a Dwarf Fortress cave diving roguelite
    17. Wordle hint and answer #1488 (July 16 2025)
    18. NYT Connections hint (Wed, 16 Jul)
    1. I've found the best PC gaming deals in the Black Friday in July sale at Dell - save up to $750
    2. There's a bunch of discounted AMD and Nvidia graphics cards now up to 50% off at Amazon today
    3. Amazon still has a saving on Samsung 990 Pro SSDs even after Prime Day is over
    4. Obsidian's hottest Dungeons & Dragons RPG of 2006 is out now in ostensibly enhanced form
    5. Here are all the confirmed ray tracing and DLSS games so far
    6. Grab this 2TB WD Black mini SSD for Steam Deck at its lowest price so far this year
    7. Tales of the Shire's system requirements have me considering grafting a graphics card to a Hobbit's bum
    8. Helldivers 2's latest patch lets you impale baddies with flags, as the bots take aim at the Democracy Space Station
    9. I'm travelling this week, and I wish I'd ordered one of these power banks for my Steam Deck
    10. ZeniMax Union say they're fighting for staff left in limbo by Microsoft cancelling MMO as part of mass layoffs
    11. Finally, a game about a boy who thinks he's a tomb searching for a dead body to bury inside of him
    12. Wordle hint and answer #1487 (July 15 2025)
    13. NYT Connections hint (Tue, 15 Jul)
    1. This Alienware Aurora 16 5060 gaming laptop for $1,100 is the best budget gaming laptop deal right now
    2. Open world wuxia RPG Where Winds Meet is having a city-sized playtest this month
    3. In bullet hell mining game Astro Prospector the real enemy is sleep
    4. All Pets in Grow A Garden
    5. Grow A Garden: How to get Dinosaur Egg and Primal Egg
    6. AMD's Ryzen Prime Day deals are somehow still live, here's the top discounts at Amazon
    7. Helldivers 2 players are pushing to rename one of Super Earth's cities 'Gun'
    8. Elden Ring Ranni quest walkthrough
    9. Master Of Command is a strategy game of crunchy musketry and Total War-style battles that tells the story of an army, not an empire
    10. Ancient Aliens vs Predator game briefly resurrected by Steam player thirst for Six Packs
    11. Kaizen: A Factory Story review
    12. Whether you love stealth games or hate them, Eriksholm isn't worth your time
    13. Subnautica 2 leak is "authentic" say publishers who benefit the most from that leak
    14. European Parliament vice president throws his support behind Stop Killing Games campaign
    15. This week in PC games: Stronghold, Destiny and Neverwinter Nights lead a host of drifters, necromancers and Pac-Monsters
    16. Elden Ring Nightreign's inevitable randomiser mod is here to spice up your runs with extra funky map scrambling
    17. Warhammer 40K: Dawn of War – Definitive Edition gets an August release date, with a chunky discount for Anniversary owners
    18. Wordle hint and answer #1486 (July 14 2025)
    19. NYT Connections hint (Mon, 14 Jul)
    1. Wordle hint and answer #1485 (July 13 2025)
    2. NYT Connections hint (Sun, 13 Jul)
    1. What are we all playing this weekend?
    2. Wordle hint and answer #1484 (July 12 2025)
    3. NYT Connections hint (Sat, 12 Jul)
    1. Top city builder Against The Storm gets a grumpy bat faction and giant pooping birds in its next DLC this July
    2. Grow A Garden: How to get Candy Blossom and Bone Blossom
    3. Sea of Thieves is getting paid custom servers next year, and Rare are switching up their approach to seasons
    4. New Jurassic World Evolution 3 breeding trailer explains the fine art of dinosaur bonestorming
    5. Latest Monster Hunter Wilds update aims to rally the Steam reviews and slay the wildest monster of all - FOMO
    6. I've found the best Steam Deck accessory deals during Amazon Prime Day 2025
    7. My favorite microSD cards for Steam Deck have been heavily discounted in last chance Amazon Prime Day deals
    8. Leading Total War: Warhammer 3's peasants to victory with an irresponsible number of trebuchets (French for 'very bucket')
    9. I've built Nvidia RTX 5070 and AMD Radeon 9070XT gaming PCs using last chance deals from Amazon's Prime Day
    10. Morsels is my game of the summer, a stinking collage of Nuclear Throne and Pokemon
    11. I've found some awesome last minute prebuilt gaming PC Prime Day Deals that are cheaper than building one
    12. Today's the last chance to upgrade your gaming headset with these Amazon Prime Day deals
    13. Subnautica 2 publishers Krafton accuse ousted bosses of abandoning duties, and now those ex-leads are suing
    14. The best last minute gaming mouse deals in Amazon's Prime Day sale
    15. Don't miss these last chance deals on Steam Deck docks before Prime Day 2025 ends
    16. NYT Mini Crossword answers and hints (Fri, July 11th)
    17. Shark Dentist is about operating on a fool's idea of a shark
    18. Tony Hawk's Pro Skater 3+4 drops in full today, so of course a modder already has Mary Poppins poppin' kickflips
    19. I've found the best last chance gaming keyboard deals in Amazon's Prime Day sale
    20. I've tested these brilliant Steam Deck cases, and it's the last day to grab one in the Amazon Prime Day sales
    21. I've found some great last chance Steam Deck power banks that are discounted in the Amazon Prime Day sales
    22. Total War: Warhammer 3 gets the best bad news yet about future updates
    23. Wordle hint and answer #1483 (July 11 2025)
    24. NYT Connections hint (Fri, 11 Jul)
    1. Helldivers 2's next warbond is full of funky alien tech, including a "(somewhat) stable wormhole" teleportation pack
    2. Owlcat welcome Mass Effect comparisons with their Expanse RPG, but say they're approaching choice and consequence "differently"
    3. Manor Lords publisher's time loop tactics RPG Every Day We Fight is out today in early access
    4. Attention, massive Baldur's Gate 3 tadpole hypocrites, this mod'll let you get stompy for the first time since 2023
    5. Fancy snooping around The Witcher 3 palace from Blood and Wine? Well, this mod gives it a book-accurate interior
    6. Krafton plan to delay Subnautica 2 and deny the studio a $250 million bonus
    7. The video game voice actor strike is over, with new AI agreements reached over 'digital replicas'
    8. Assassin's Creed 4: Black Flag Steam update sparks more remake speculation, but hold fire, sailor
    9. Space Scum is a sci-fi strategy RPG take on Battle Brothers
    10. Wordle hint and answer #1482 (July 10 2025)
    11. NYT Connections hint (Thu, 10 Jul)
    1. You'll have to move quickly to save a third on this HP Omen 35L with an RTX 4080 Super
    2. The end is nigh, for Balatro and Wordle have had a terrible avian child
    3. Time Flies is about a bug finding god or learning guitar in something like 76.4 seconds, and it's got a release date
    4. Minecraft Enchantments list
    5. Oblivion Remastered performance improvements emerge through the gates with update 1.2, plus difficulty tweaks
    6. New charity game bundle raises funds to defend US immigrants against ICE
    7. The Games Industry On... Poached Eggs
    8. I Don't Want To Be A Good Woman is a "museum of resilience" that explores sexism and repression in Iran
    9. Mortality Decomp. Killers is a free Post Void-like that scores you on how many doors you've "killed'
    10. Steel Hunters, the mech shooter from World of Tanks' devs, gets a shutdown date just three months after releasing in early access
    11. Lo-Fi Games know you've spent a billion hours with Kenshi, so they're working on making the sequel's discoveries even less predictable
    12. Boku No Roblox codes
    13. The Last Of Us Part 2 gets new mode nobody asked for
    14. Dune: Awakening devs are reimbursing players for a Deep Desert patch mistake that lost folks bases and gear
    15. Gorgeous Alien-style space horror Routine is finally nearing "the finish line", despite a key departure
    16. Wordle hint and answer #1481 (July 9 2025)
    17. NYT Connections hint (Wed, 9 Jul)
    1. HP is quietly clearing out its Omen RTX 4090 PCs, and at this price, it’s at least worth a look
    2. Elden Ring best weapons
    3. GeForce RTX 5060 Ti graphics cards are getting Prime Day price cuts, and yes, I mean the 16GB version
    4. Cheap gaming mouse needers: may I suggest the Logitech G305 Lightspeed, down to £28 / $28 on Prime Day
    5. Valve say controversial Mount & Blade: Warband mod accused of historical revisionism was taken down by creator
    6. Lord Of The Rings Online players finally complete the Great Hobbit Run by incinerating themselves in Mount Doom
    7. Eve Online has changed how pilots buy and sell its fancy golden space ticket known as Plex
    8. WD’s Prime Day deals include their two fastest gaming SSDs, at up to $110 off
    9. In this austerely beautiful moonbase management game, "your only choices will be impossible ones"
    10. Best Minecraft skins
    11. Peak modders are delivering peak modding: here's one that fills your game with the skeletons of dead players
    12. Prime Day sees the enduringly capable AMD Ryzen 5 7600X CPU fall to its lowest prices yet
    13. The 4K, 144Hz gaming monitor I use is £135 off for Prime Day – and $200 off in the US with no Amazon required
    14. With Need for Speed devs working on Battlefield, EA's beloved car culture site Speedhunters seems to have shut off its engine
    15. The SteelSeries Arctis Gamebuds, gaming earbuds done properly, are 26% off for Prime Day
    16. Very good strategy sim Shapez 2 hits 1.0 release in November, including a "permanent factory" mode
    17. Two of Samsung’s best gaming SSDs are on sale for Prime Day, and also it’s Prime Day I guess
    18. Romero Games have "completely" closed doors, but there's still hope for the Doom creator's new FPS
    19. Wordle hint and answer #1480 (July 8 2025)
    20. NYT Connections hint (Tue, 8 Jul)
    1. Best deals for PC gamers today: Early Prime Day deals include AMD Ryzen and LG 1ms gaming monitor
    2. Call Of Duty: WW2 pulled offline amid hacking claims after it starts messing with PCs and citing random lawyers
    3. Vintage Story's devs are trying to save some of cancelled Hytale's soul by turning it into an adventure mode
    4. Dying Light: The Beast wants to make you afraid of the dark again
    5. Lenovo Legion Go S SteamOS review: Windows get ye gone
    6. Stop Killing Games' proposals would make online-only games "prohibitively expensive to create", argue EU lobby group
    7. How to start the Radahn Festival in Elden Ring
    8. Dune: Awakening's latest patch takes aim at PvP border campers, and dishes out some extra Landsraad rewards
    9. Subnautica 2 is "ready" for early access says co-founder ousted from studio, but the publishers seem to disagree
    10. Game Pass will "either kill everyone else, or give up", says Dishonored and Prey dev Arkane founder
    11. Cyberpunk: Edgerunners 2 gets its first teaser, and you'd better "be prepared for sadness"
    12. This week in PC games: Tony Hawk, eerie cat miners and all the speedrunning you can eat
    13. Wordle hint and answer #1479 (July 7 2025)
    14. NYT Connections hint (Mon, 7 Jul)
    1. NYT Connections hint (Sun, 6 Jul)
    2. Wordle hint and answer #1478 (July 6 2025)
    1. What are we all playing this weekend?
    2. NYT Connections hint (Sat, 5 Jul)
    3. Wordle hint and answer #1477 (July 5 2025)
    1. Best deals for PC gamers today: Epic gaming monitors, rapid M.2 drives and a handy accessory
    2. Create sacred, obscene or cringey medieval art in the playtest for Scriptorium, an illuminated manuscript sim
    3. Mecha Break review
    4. Oblivion Remastered modder delivering Fallout 4-style settlement building reckons the game can still "usher in a modding renaissance"
    5. A hero for our times: Elden Ring Nightreign boss becomes unbeatable by refusing to show up
    6. Good work Cyber-Mastiff, I think you just solved all my problems with Darktide
    7. The Elder Scrolls Online studio's canned Blackbird game was a nimble, high-flying shooter, claims report
    8. Heist game Relooted takes playful, political revenge on both museums and looting sims
    9. Stop Killing Games' EU petition hits a million signatures, but "a significant number" could be fake
    10. Subnautica 2 creators offer no explanation for sudden regime change, instead promise "no loot boxes"
    11. BioWare's Anthem will finally shut down in early 2026, just shy of its seventh birthday
    12. Mount & Blade II: Bannerlord's War Sails expansion is terraforming the land to encourage maximum boat bastardry
    13. Wordle hint and answer #1476 (July 4 2025)
    14. NYT Connections hint (Fri, 4 Jul)
    1. Best PC gaming deals for today: I'm think these new monitor discounts are excellent
    2. Elden Ring progression route
    3. Best Minecraft Texture Packs
    4. MindsEye director reportedly says the studio will relaunch the game, as around 300 staff are at risk of being laid off
    5. Dying Light developers Techland are cancelling two games, according to report
    6. Come hither, wannabe astronauts, the European Space Agency are doing a Spaceship Game Jam
    7. The new shooter from Romero Games loses funding as staff post they've been let go thanks to Microsoft cuts
    8. Manor Lords is getting a "full rework" with a new affinity system, map, shops and workstations
    9. Here's five great immersive sims Microsoft didn't just cancel
    10. Battlefield 6 reportedly has a 100 million player albatross around its neck, and its single-player is running "massively late"
    11. Best RTX 5090 deal in the July 4th sales: Save $900 on this HP Omen Max laptop
    12. I just found up to $1000 off gaming laptops and prebuilds in HP's new 4th July sale
    13. Some of the best Steam Deck micro SD cards score big discounts before Amazon Prime Day
    14. Three former Ubisoft execs found guilty of sexual and psychological harassment
    15. Hades 2's latest patch is "likely" the last one before it emerges from the early access underworld
    16. "The performance tanked for me once I had around 70 ostriches" is my new favourite negative Steam review of all time
    17. Ease the Witcher 4 wait with tiny plastic Geralt in a new skirmish miniatures game
    18. A new MMORPG from the Elder Scrolls Online devs has reportedly been cancelled as part of Microsoft's layoffs
    19. The Lenovo Legion Go S runs SteamOS, beats the Steam Deck, and it's discounted right now — so I had to try it
    20. Wordle hint and answer #1475 (July 3 2025)
    21. NYT Connections hint (Thu, 3 Jul)
    1. Microsoft cancel Perfect Dark reboot and shut the developers down in the name of "continued success"
    2. July 4th deals have started early, and I've found the best high-end gaming PC deal out there right now
    3. More World of Darkness RPGs deserve "the Bloodlines treatment", say White Wolf, especially Mage: The Ascension
    4. Leading Total War: Warhammer 3's peasants to freedom from their equine oppressors
    5. Minecraft: How to make a Saddle
    6. I've found some huge discounts on Steam Deck micro SD cards, Secretlab chairs, and a RTX 4070 Ti PC
    7. Helldivers 2's Super Citizen Edition is being updated to stop folks accidentally buying the same warbond twice
    8. Rare's mysterious nature sim Everwild has been cancelled as part of Xbox mass layoffs, according to reports
    9. How to get a Happy Ghast in Minecraft
    10. Microsoft layoffs are reportedly underway, with ZeniMax and King employees losing their jobs
    11. New Sims 4 update adds glass walls, and I hope your virtual humans throw stones at you from their see-through prisons
    12. Our cycling tour of PC gaming is complete, read it all here
    13. Chaotic hoarders beware, Minecraft is about to get an invasion of copper golem housekeepers
    14. Nexus Mods are set to introduce adult mod age verification for UK and EU users soon
    15. Dave The Diver director finally puts 2023's silliest debate to rest: no, it's not an indie
    16. Krafton suddenly replace three Subnautica 2 leads with one of the execs behind Callisto Protocol
    17. Explore a torrid trench dimension as 12 perma-killable lost souls in this Amnesia-style horror game
    18. Dead Take is an FMV horror with Midsomer Murders' Ben Starr and Casualty's Neil Newbon
    19. Wordle hint and answer #1474 (July 2 2025)
    20. NYT Connections hint (Wed, 2 Jul)
    1. Deals for today: Alienware Black Friday in July sale is twisting my arm
    2. Blade and Phoenix are coming to Marvel Rivals this July in Season 3, along with rumoured "anti-heal" mechanics
    3. Someone please just send him up there already
    4. The spirit of Zachtronics lives on in Kaizen: A Factory Story
    5. Worship is like Pikmin but you can draw spells with your own blood
    6. Red Dead Online just got some surprise new missions, and one involves investigating "undead plagues"
    7. Space Marine 2's getting a second year of DLC, and a big anniversary update for you to dig your chainsword into
    8. Age Of Empires-style RTS Game Of Thrones: War For Westeros wants to be as vicious as the best boardgames
    9. Ubisoft hand over unfinished Heroes Of Might And Magic game to publisher of Manor Lords
    10. All Grow A Garden Mutations
    11. Steam’s updated PC performance monitor is quietly clever, and not just because it digs into frame generation
    12. Key Fairy is a "hand-drawn, pacifist, folkloric bullet-hell", and its demo actually lives up to how interesting that description is
    13. New Fallout 4 quest mod has you investigating alien abductions for an iconic Elder Scrolls voice actor
    14. Grand Theft Auto and Red Dead Redemption writer's new novel is about ill-fated game development
    15. I've found some insane discounts on new Alienware laptops and more gaming rigs today
    16. Wordle hint and answer #1473 (July 1 2025)
    17. NYT Connections hint (Tue, 1 Jul)