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August 2025 Archive

    1. The NYT Mini Crossword answers and hints (Mon, September 1)
    2. Skyblivion project lead says release date reveal's finally getting "closer", as Oblivion remake mod shows off revamped intro
    3. The Sunday Papers
    4. The NYT Crossword answers and hints (Sun, August 31)
    5. NYT Connections hint (Sun, 31 Aug)
    6. Wordle hint and answer #1534 (August 31 2025)
    1. The NYT Mini Crossword answers and hints (Sun, August 31)
    2. What are we all playing this weekend?
    3. The NYT Crossword answers and hints (Sat, August 30)
    4. Amazon discounted this monitor, then raised the price again - but it's still a great deal
    5. The NYT Mini Crossword answers and hints (Sat, August 30)
    6. Turn your desk into a standing desk for under $200 right now at Amazon
    7. NYT Connections hint (Sat, 30 Aug)
    8. Wordle hint and answer #1533 (August 30 2025)
    1. The creators of Duskers are making a twisted dungeon roguelike driven by love and contempt for chess
    2. Militsioner isn't just a weird and ambitious immersive sim, it's a game of titanic emotional labour
    3. Sorry, Oblivion Remastered: dabbing, twerking, and the griddy are now unleashable on command in you
    4. All 45 Charms in Hollow Knight
    5. Sorry, Snake can’t infiltrate Groznyj Grad right now, he’s busy speedrunning monkey hunts
    6. Valve now require UK Steam users to verify their ages with a credit card, thanks to the Online Safety Act
    7. Battlefield 6 is getting persistent servers, and two vehicle-heavy maps are coming in the next Labs playtest
    8. Hollow Knight: How to get all 3 Nail Arts
    9. CD Projekt's mysterious Project Hadar is now their research focus, as Cyberpunk 2 and Witcher 4 gather steam
    10. Rally Point: Crop to Selection
    11. Over 450 Diablo developers vote to unionise, because "passion can’t protect us from job instability"
    12. Darkest Dungeon 2 is free this weekend on Steam as horrible mosquito folk swarm the Kingdom
    13. The NYT Crossword answers and hints (Fri, August 29)
    14. The NYT Mini Crossword answers and hints (Fri, August 29)
    15. NYT Connections hint (Fri, 29 Aug)
    16. Wordle hint and answer #1532 (August 29 2025)
    1. Get a 50-series PC for under $900, with a copy of Battlefield 6 included too
    2. My favorite gaming chair is discounted for Labor Day, and so is the recliner attachment
    3. Elden Ring Nightreign's evil Deep Of Night mode gets a release date, but some people are already playing it
    4. Coffee convos, demonic detectives, and cow life simming are part of a pro-Palestine charity bundle coming to Itch.io
    5. Space Marine 2's new Techmarine class, Helbrute mode and other update plans detailed in Year 2 video
    6. Atomfall's second expansion, The Red Strain, unleashes its crimson tendrils next month
    7. Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 sequel or DLC confirmed: it's only "one of the stories that we want to tell"
    8. "A culture of intimidation, retaliation and oppression": How Microsoft’s Gaza stance fuelled an industry-spanning boycott
    9. Bioshock successor Judas emerges from hiding as Ken Levine explains how you'll choose the game's final villain
    10. Civilization 7 is getting an even "harsher" Age transition option, as Firaxis roll out new sticky settings
    11. Quantum Witch is a sweet gay choose-your-own-adventure all about the replay value
    12. Tomb Raider developers Crystal Dynamics lay off more staff, say the series' future is "unaffected"
    13. Black Myth Wukong New Game Plus explained
    14. Resident Evil: Requiem director says it has a third person mode because Resi 7 was just too good at spooks
    15. Black Myth Wukong Old Rattle Drum quest
    16. Microsoft staff perform sit-in protest in company president's office over Israeli military ties
    17. The NYT Crossword answers and hints (Thu, August 28)
    18. The NYT Mini Crossword answers and hints (Thu, August 28)
    19. NYT Connections hint (Thu, 28 Aug)
    20. Wordle hint and answer #1531 (August 28 2025)
    1. This Anker power bank is ideal for your Steam Deck or ROG Ally, and there's 30% off at Amazon right now
    2. Alienware's Aurora R16 with an RTX 5070 Ti is reduced, and it comes with Battlefield 6
    3. The creator of Dread Delusion is making a turn-based JRPG set in another Morrowindy fantasy world
    4. Somebody has turned a daft English cheese rolling festival into an even dafter free Steam game
    5. Baldur's Gate 3 custom campaign mod recreates the original Baldur's Gate's Candlekeep and prologue
    6. Black Myth Wukong Best Weapons
    7. Vaults are open, flames are thrown and ghouls are sick, as Doom mod Fallout: Bakersfield shows off more shootering
    8. Black Myth Wukong: Secret Ending explained
    9. Konami blame Metal Gear Solid Delta: Snake Eater crash bugs on cranky crocs
    10. At a largely humourless Gamescom, train kickflipper Denshattack was a golden streak of joy
    11. No Man's Sky's Voyagers update adds in big custom ships crewed by you and your mates
    12. Paradox are "making adjustments" to Bloodlines 2's day-one vampire clan DLC plans, following backlash
    13. The NYT Crossword answers and hints (Wed, August 27)
    14. The NYT Mini Crossword answers and hints (Wed, August 27)
    15. NYT Connections hint (Wed, 27 Aug)
    16. Wordle hint and answer #1530 (August 27 2025)
    1. Save $900 on this RTX 5090 prebuilt PC, with big savings on an RTX 5080 version too
    2. The RTX 5080 is down to its MSRP and comes with Borderlands 4, if that's what you're into
    3. Wily FPS modders remake the original Quake from memory alone - imagine if triple-A remasters worked this way
    4. Silent Hill f loves combat so much, it feels like it's fighting itself
    5. Here's a Steam demo for Lumines Arise, the latest toe-tapping head exploder from the Tetris Effect devs
    6. Out very soon, Helldivers 2's giant Terminid caving update is a feast of nods to Aliens and Dune, plus dragons
    7. The NYT Crossword answers and hints (Tue, August 26)
    8. This week in PC games: a MGS3 remake, new Blumhouse horror and some freshly peeled spaceships
    9. The Samsung Odyssey G5 just fell below $300, but we reckon it'll drop further
    10. The NYT Mini Crossword answers and hints (Tue, August 26)
    11. Wordle hint and answer #1529 (August 26 2025)
    12. NYT Connections hint (Tue, 26 Aug)
    1. This Acer Nitro gaming monitor is still just over $100 at Amazon and we wonder if they've forgotten to update it
    2. It's a bank holiday here, please talk amongst yourselves
    3. NYT Crossword answers and hints (Mon, August 25)
    4. The NYT Mini Crossword answers and hints (Mon, August 25)
    5. NYT Connections hint (Mon, 25 Aug)
    6. Wordle hint and answer #1528 (August 25 2025)
    1. Climb And Slide codes - Roblox
    2. The Sunday Papers
    3. NYT Connections hint (Sun, 24 Aug)
    4. Wordle hint and answer #1527 (August 24 2025)
    1. Hollow Knight: Silksong is faster, prettier, and harder, yet still feels like a safe sequel
    2. What are we all playing this weekend?
    3. NYT Connections hint (Sat, 23 Aug)
    4. Wordle hint and answer #1526 (August 23 2025)
    1. This Razer DeathAdder V3 Pro has a scary name but a sizeable discount at Amazon
    2. There's a new Platinum game hidden in the Metal Gear Solid 3 remake that's actually a remake of a rework of a Zone of the Enders 3 prototype
    3. Reclaim some desk space with a big discount on a heavy-duty monitor mount, perfect for Ultrawide screens
    4. Shovel Game combines Minecraft, Mozart and hell
    5. Silksong will get DLC and "some of the plans for that stuff are kind of ambitious as well"
    6. Bunnyhop elsewhere, streamers: EA are making Battlefield 6 more strategic, less run-and-gun following the beta
    7. How purple skin and a Spanish phone number almost sank The Rogue Prince of Persia
    8. The first hours of Vampire: The Masquerade - Bloodlines 2 uncloak a slick action game, but a limited RPG
    9. NYT Connections hint (Fri, 22 Aug)
    10. Wordle hint and answer #1525 (August 22 2025)
    1. The 'Great NVIDIA Price Gouge of 2025' could be nearing an end as Amazon starts selling 50-series GPUs for close to MSRP
    2. Subnautica 2 studio Unknown Worlds are now suing their former execs for stealing docs and sharing them with the press
    3. The Dark Queen Of Mortholme review
    4. Black Myth: Wukong walkthrough
    5. Black Myth Wukong: Chapter 6 walkthrough
    6. Herdling review
    7. Hollow Knight: Silksong finally gets a release date, and you've only got to wait a little bit skonger
    8. Black Myth Wukong: Chapter 5 walkthrough
    9. Black Myth Wukong: Chapter 4 walkthrough
    10. Black Myth Wukong: Chapter 3 walkthrough
    11. Black Myth Wukong: Chapter 2 walkthrough
    12. Amazon has SSD deals coming out of its metaphorical ears today, with 1TB drives as low as $90
    13. Black Myth Wukong: Chapter 1 walkthrough
    14. Daedalic reveal story-driven Star Trek: Voyager strategy game in which you can betray everything Janeway ever stood for
    15. The Chinese Room defend Bloodlines 2's paywalled vampire clans: "we have been expanding it from where we originally planned to land it"
    16. The frontline is a capricious seesaw in budget autobattler-RTS Operation: Polygon Storm
    17. NYT Connections hint (Thu, 21 Aug)
    18. Wordle hint and answer #1524 (August 21 2025)
    1. This Radeon RX 9070 XT is under $1,500 at Walmart right now - a $400 saving
    2. In Full Bloom isn't just about being a planet-devouring Sarlacc's babysitter, it's my brain on games showcase
    3. You can build 136 million different houses in Kingdom Come: Deliverance 2's new DLC, if you really must
    4. Microsoft lock in a release date for their ROG Xbox Ally handhelds, but no price yet because macroeconomics
    5. Dawn of War 4 is a "modern interpretation" of Dawn of War 1 with some cool Adeptus Mechanicus, er, mechanics
    6. Black Myth Wukong Chapter 5 map
    7. Black Myth Wukong Chapter 4 map
    8. Black Myth Wukong Chapter 3 map
    9. Black Myth Wukong Chapter 2 map
    10. Black Myth Wukong Chapter 1 map
    11. On the eve of Gamescom, Microsoft workers occupy the Xbox company's campus in protest at dealings with the Israeli military
    12. Two of my favorite Logitech keyboards are discounted at Amazon, and you can't go wrong with either
    13. All Black Myth Wukong secrets
    14. Lego Voyagers' building is better when you – and a friend – are the blocks
    15. Civilization 7's latest update has "hit mods harder than usual", but for a good reason
    16. Love or hate Pragmata's hacking, it’s more than just a minigame
    17. BioShock 4 studio Cloud Chamber lay off staff, as ex-Diablo lead Rod Fergusson comes aboard
    18. Vampire: The Masquerade - Bloodlines 2 sticks two bloodsucker clans, including the sexy one, behind paid day-one DLC
    19. Battlestar Galactica: Scattered Hopes is a fugitive roguelike fleet-builder from the makers of Crying Suns
    20. NYT Connections hint (Wed, 20 Aug)
    21. Wordle hint and answer #1523 (August 20 2025)
    1. Dante's epic poem La Divina Commedia is getting turned into a videogame again
    2. All Gamescom Opening Night Live Announcements
    3. Game Science reveal Black Myth: Zhong Kui, a new action-RPG that aims to catch Wukong players "off guard"
    4. Fallout season 2 radiates NEW VEGAS with a trailer heavy on stupid sexy House and a December debut date
    5. Zero Parades looks to be the new name of ZA/UM's post-Disco Elysium spy cRPG, not that its reveal paraded that around
    6. Prime Members can save $150 on an RTX 5070 at Amazon right now
    7. Vampire: The Masquerade - Bloodlines 2 finally has a full release date, plus a bloody good new trailer
    8. Silent Hill f gets a fresh trailer featuring more schoolgirl spooks ahead of September release
    9. Warhammer 40K: Dawn of War 4 announced, delivers Ork screamy RTSness next year
    10. Yep, Call of Duty: Black Ops 7 comes out this November, shows off a fresh trailer
    11. Valor Mortis will see Ghostrunner's creators give Napoleonic era Europe the soulslike treatment in 2026
    12. Black Myth Wukong Journal Entries
    13. How to find the Three Bells in Black Myth Wukong
    14. All 107 Black Myth Wukong bosses
    15. Our favorite microSD card for Steam Deck is almost half off at Amazon today
    16. Houses will eat you and horseguys will help you in new Chinese action-RPG Swords Of Legends
    17. Black Ops 7 release date spotted in the wilds ahead of Call of Duty's latest Gamescom blowout
    18. Steam now has "language-specific" review scores, which might make identifying certain review bombs easier
    19. Gamescom Opening Night Live 2025 livestream: watch all today's announcements here
    20. NYT Connections hint (Tue, 19 Aug)
    21. Wordle hint and answer #1522 (August 19 2025)
    1. This Micro PC is smaller than a Mac Mini, and just $133 right now at Amazon
    2. EA pave over Battlefield 2042's bullet casing-filled potholes with a "road to Battlefield 6"
    3. Mafia: The Old Country will get a proper open world mode via game update "in the coming months"
    4. Nexon respond to claims they're using AI-generated Tiktok streamers to advertise The First Descendant
    5. Fly a nuclear corvette in this Cold War-era Star Trek homage from one of my favourite space game devs
    6. Why the skibidi are you adding skibidi to the Cambridge Dictionary? We think it has "staying power", answer word boffins
    7. Gimmicks are god in Psycutlery, a delightful free spork-driven platformer from the creator of Psycho Waluigi
    8. Demon Slayer RPG 2 codes
    9. Roblox: Latest SpongeBob Tower Defense codes
    10. After Wuchang: Fallen Feathers' controversial patch 1.5 made key bosses immortal, here's the obligatory rollback mod
    11. You can save over $100 on this massive and best in class 4TB SSD for your PC right now
    12. This week in PC games: sword surfing, creature collecting and a big old bucket of Gamescom
    13. NYT Connections hint (Mon, 18 Aug)
    14. Wordle hint and answer #1521 (August 18 2025)
    1. What's on your bookshelf?: The Stanley Parable, The Beginner's Guide, and Wanderstop's Davey Wreden
    2. The Sunday Papers
    3. NYT Connections hint (Sun, 17 Aug)
    4. Wordle hint and answer #1520 (August 17 2025)
    1. What are we all playing this weekend?
    2. Save over 30% on this ASUS Gaming Monitor at Amazon, ideal for new PC gamers
    3. It's still ridiculously expensive, but you can save 15% at on an RTX 5090 at Amazon
    4. Wordle hint and answer #1519 (August 16 2025)
    5. NYT Connections hint (Sat, 16 Aug)
    1. Wuchang Fallen Feathers: Best spells
    2. I know, I'll use Deep Rock Galactic to identify the mushrooms in my palm pot
    3. Battlefield 6 beta's rush mode gets a balancing tweak with EA monitoring the situation, amid player complaints about battle bigness
    4. Wuchang: Fallen Feathers bosses made unkillable in latest patch, seemingly to appease Chinese outcry
    5. All Grounded 2 Milk Molars
    6. Wuchang Fallen Feathers: Best weapons
    7. "Multiple" future Hardspace projects are coming, as Hardspace: Shipbreaker devs Blackbird Interactive take full ownership
    8. Itch.io deny mass delisting of paid adult content included "blanket" restrictions "targeting LBGTQIA creators"
    9. Rally Point: The wonderful vibes of Aetheris are a hint about its design goals
    10. Wordle hint and answer #1518 (August 15 2025)
    11. NYT Connections hint (Fri, 15 Aug)
    1. Amazon is giving away $30 of Amazon credit when you buy this Razer headset, and we have no idea why
    2. By Azura, an Oblivion Remastered modder's dropped collectable Adoring Fan skill bobbleheads all over Cyrodiil
    3. All Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 bosses
    4. Look, I just want to talk (about Burnout in wplace)
    5. Steam briefly gets a Crap Dungeon, the devs of which are "hoping it’s not actually crap"
    6. Peak's new Mesa update is just too damn deadly, cue three different types of tumbleweed nerf
    7. Blobun is a simple but very solid wee space-fillin' puzzler
    8. Battlefield 6's second beta weekend kicks off today, with EA making some playlist and matchmaking tweaks
    9. I have spent the morning learning about a recently deceased horse thanks to Umamusume: Pretty Derby
    10. That's a really cool scarf, Agent 47
    11. Valve explain why using PayPal for Steam purchases isn't currently an option in a whole bunch of countries
    12. Alright, I'm getting Archons of Doom out of storage
    13. My power bank is Steam Deck overkill, but it's reduced at Amazon
    14. It's hard to get excited about Steam Deck chargers, but these GaN options are discounted at Amazon
    15. Wordle hint and answer #1517 (August 14 2025)
    16. NYT Connections hint (Thu, 14 Aug)
    1. What's the point of no return in Wuchang Fallen Feathers?
    2. Football Manager 2026 revealed, after last year's edition was left in the changing rooms
    3. Mafia: The Old Country now has a first-person driving mod that's ideal for capo cruisin', when it's not utterly terrifying
    4. Bendy 1930s-styled roguelite Into the Unwell looks for laughs within its misery
    5. Krafton claim former Subnautica 2 leads have "resorted to litigation to demand a payday they haven't earned"
    6. Save $30 on this esports-ready keyboard, and then you'll have one less thing to blame for your performance
    7. Wordle hint and answer #1516 (August 13 2025)
    8. NYT Connections hint (Wed, 13 Aug)
    1. Monster Hunter Wilds’ PC performance patches will keep coming, if almost as slowly as the game still runs
    2. I've taken my desire for a new Burnout game down to the Paradise City in wplace
    3. This RTX 5080 GPU is down to its lowest price ever at Amazon right now
    4. All 24 Wuchang Fallen Feathers bosses in order
    5. Wuchang Fallen Feathers: How to beat Zhao Yun
    6. Peak's Mesa update lets you shimmy your sandy butt up some sandy buttes, adds tornados and dynamite
    7. Remedy are still backing FBC: Firebreak despite a slow Steam launch, confirming its next "major update" for September
    8. This Logitech G PRO X Superlight 2 may have too many names, but it's discounted at Amazon
    9. Wordle hint and answer #1515 (August 12 2025)
    10. NYT Connections hint (Tue, 12 Aug)
    11. This Lenovo Legion RTX 5060 desktop is under $1000 with a pair of discount codes
    1. Wuchang Fallen Feathers: How to beat Vermilion Feathers Honglan
    2. Mass Effect 5 devs should "scapegoat" Veilguard and a Dragon Age trilogy remaster was pitched to EA, says ex-BioWare producer
    3. The Battlefield 6 beta’s hacking problem shows the difficulty in playing cat and mouse with cheaters
    4. Mafia: The Old Country review
    5. Bithell Games are laying off most full-time staff, with the Tron: Catalyst studio "unable to secure a new larger scale project"
    6. Cyberpunk 2077 gets its most effective horror mod yet: a story-driven rent system featuring landlord selfies
    7. This week in PC games: deep-sea roguelite raids, first-person horror cookery, and a spruced-up Dawn of War
    8. NYT Connections hint (Mon, 11 Aug)
    9. Wordle hint and answer #1514 (August 11 2025)
    1. What's on your bookshelf?: Starcraft II writer and Warhammer design veteran Andy Chambers
    2. The Sunday Papers
    3. NYT Connections hint (Sun, 10 Aug)
    4. Wordle hint and answer #1513 (August 10 2025)
    1. What are we all playing this weekend?
    2. Wordle hint and answer #1512 (August 9 2025)
    3. NYT Connections hint (Sat, 9 Aug)
    1. Thousand Hells: The Underworld Heists is a surreal tactical RPG journey into mythical underworlds from Six Ages' devs
    2. Ok is not ok, good is bad, great is the new great and BioShock 4 is coming out, as Take-Two boss stops short of claiming that up is down
    3. How payment networks control the definition of acceptable sex in videogames
    4. Jump gaps and ruin lives in 1000 Deaths, an offbeat 3D platformer about making decisions for jerks
    5. Battlefield 6's beta been treating you to infinite loading screens? EA are on the case
    6. I love this keyboard and mouse combo, and now they're on sale at Amazon
    7. Classic shooters Heretic and Hexen re-released as an "enhanced" bundle with cross-platform multiplayer and mod support
    8. Rally Point: This year's low-intensity strategy game for when it's too hot is... two! Of them. Two games.
    9. Microsoft have halted development on Just Cause devs' 70s co-op smuggler Contraband
    10. Wordle hint and answer #1511 (August 8 2025)
    11. NYT Connections hint (Fri, 8 Aug)
    1. The big laptop back-to-school roundup: Every hot discount that's live at Dell, HP and Lenovo
    2. Folk Emerging is a fascinating 4X strategy game about prehistoric nomads that ends where Civilization begins
    3. Is This Seat Taken? I hope not, because the sitting-themed logic puzzler is out now
    4. Battlefield 6 Early Access: How to join the Open Beta
    5. Apex Legends' latest go at a compressed battle royale forgets the journeying spirit at the genre's heart
    6. Promise Mascot Agency update adds Tony Hawk-level truck rail grinding I didn't know I needed, and new difficulty modes
    7. Zangief basically gets his own game in Hades-style wrestling roguelike Realm Of Fame
    8. Sony are confident Marathon will release by March 2026 and that their live service transition is paying off
    9. Call of Duty: Black Ops 7 follows Battlefield 6's lead, will also require secure boot on PC
    10. Microsoft equipped Israel’s "indiscriminate" Palestinian surveillance operation with Azure cloud tech, claims report
    11. With Battlefield 6 beta queues stretching around the block, a "substantial increase in server capacity" should just have helped
    12. Elden Ring Nightreign is getting an "endless mode" with special relics and "magmafied" bosses, claim dataminers
    13. Monomyth isn't just Arx Fatalis again but it also is and that's good
    14. Wordle hint and answer #1510 (August 7 2025)
    15. NYT Connections hint (Thu, 7 Aug)
    1. This Lenovo gaming laptop with a 5070 is now under $1,300 with a huge back-to-school discount
    2. You can still get early access to the Battlefield 6 beta but you'll have to watch 30 minutes of those awful Twitch people
    3. Lenovo's new Legion Pro laptop has an RTX 5070 Ti, OLED screen, and a pretty sizable $650 discount right now
    4. Former Dragon Age producer posts tell-all video about the messy birth of EA and BioWare's Anthem
    5. Stickbossman, I think you'll find my chainsaw has an appointment
    6. Persona 5 Royal is worth the price of Humble Choice alone this month
    7. Wuchang Fallen Feathers: How to beat Fierce Tiger
    8. Quartero, Dota 2’s new dealer of free hats, is a nice chap who surely won’t kill me and sell my skin
    9. Wuchang Fallen Feathers: Huang Jian'e questline
    10. Wuchang Fallen Feathers: Nian Suiching questline
    11. The humans are revolting in Ashes Of The Singularity 2, the latest planet-scale RTS from Oxide Games
    12. League of Legends: Wild Rift exec producer says AI slop-looking anniversary video "did not hit the mark"
    13. Please make the USA the villain in the next Call of Duty or Battlefield game
    14. After being "wrongly banned" from Steam over sexual content rules, horror game Vile: Exhumed launches for free
    15. Battlefield 6's open beta makes enabling secure boot on your PC mandatory, because cheaters
    16. Wordle hint and answer #1509 (August 6 2025)
    17. NYT Connections hint (Wed, 6 Aug)
    1. This comically large Samsung Odyssey Neo gaming monitor just got an equally gigantic discount at Amazon
    2. Peak devs highly unamused by "microtransaction-riddled Roblox rip-off" Cliff
    3. Helldivers 2 patch puts a stop to the warp pack's cheekiest party trick, because "you are done, it is time to go home"
    4. The best Steam Deck power banks
    5. Silent Hill f has a big combat focus with weapon degradation and you know what, I'm sure it'll be fine
    6. Unleash blunt force castration on execs when Stick It to the Stickman finally launches in early access this month
    7. Come win the crowd in Bloodgrounds, a gladiator tactics RPG with Darkest Dungeon-style town management
    8. With Stop Killing Games-supported EU petition now closed, the campaign's loudest voice reckons it's "done about as well as is humanly possible"
    9. Battlefield 6 open beta maps and modes shared, as EA write an essay about tweaks based on Labs feedback
    10. This Power Bank is an ideal Steam Deck companion, and it's just $28 at Amazon today
    11. Wordle hint and answer #1508 (August 5 2025)
    12. NYT Connections hint (Tue, 5 Aug)
    1. Build underwater cities out of Tetris pieces in Podvodsk, a game jam freebie from the Loop Hero developers
    2. Call of Duty QA staff secure union contract with Microsoft to stop them being treated like cannon fodder
    3. This incredibly cool retro Xbox-inspired keyboard from 8BitDo is almost half price today
    4. Wuchang Fallen Feathers: How to beat Bo Sorcerer
    5. Wuchang Fallen Feathers: How to beat Commander Honglan
    6. Wheel World, let me build weirder bikes
    7. 2K comment on reports Bioshock 4 is in trouble: "we have a good game, but we are committed to delivering a great one"
    8. 70 seconds makes all the difference under the new Marvel Rivals approach to rage-quitters
    9. You can get an RTX 5070 GPU for under $550 right now at Amazon if you're a Prime member
    10. Fatekeeper looks like a spiritual successor to Dark Messiah, but where's the kick?
    11. Another Skyblivion dev diary shows off the new dungeons and expanded cities Oblivion Remastered never bothered with
    12. This week in PC games: a new Mafia, a bustling Homeworld homage, a cosmic lighthouse and some strange jigsaws
    13. Valve point to Mastercard restrictions as the payment firm deny influencing adult game removals
    14. Wordle hint and answer #1507 (August 4 2025)
    15. NYT Connections hint (Mon, 4 Aug)
    1. The Sunday Papers
    2. Wordle hint and answer #1506 (August 3 2025)
    3. NYT Connections hint (Sun, 3 Aug)
    1. Wuchang Fallen Feathers: All 4 endings
    2. What are we all playing this weekend?
    3. Save over $800 on an NVIDIA RTX 5070 PC from Lenovo, now under $1,400
    4. Wordle hint and answer #1505 (August 2 2025)
    5. NYT Connections hint (Sat, 2 Aug)
    1. You can save hundreds on this Alienware Aurora R16 with an RTX 5080 in the back to school sales
    2. I'm still strapped to a rolling office chair with a ticking timer in a huge scary building
    3. Dell's impressive Back-to-School deals include big savings on XPS models and more
    4. Graham Smith is leaving RPS, come say goodbye
    5. Battlefield 6's PC specs don't look too lofty despite all the booms, and Steam players won't need the pesky EA App
    6. After three deafening hours of its multiplayer, Battlefield 6 sure looks like a Battlefield game
    7. Finishing Skyblivion is a new dev diary series about the last leg of the Oblivion remake mod's run to release
    8. Major payment firm behind Itch adult game cull say they themselves face "restrictions" from another banking firm
    9. In praise of one-job RPGs, the greatest antidote to FOMO
    10. Assassin's Creed 4: Black Flag voice actor claims Ubisoft threatened to sue him over remake tease
    11. I was a fool for skipping Widelands, the only game as good as The Settlers
    12. Praise the Kiryu, Steam's latest Client Beta update will finally let you sort Like A Dragons and Yakuza into the right order
    13. Wordle hint and answer #1504 (August 1 2025)
    14. NYT Connections hint (Fri, 1 Aug)