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November 2025 Archive

    1. An Alienware Area-51 with with an RTX 5090 has a 31% discount for Black Friday
    2. The Sunday Papers
    3. Wordle hint and answer #1625 (November 30 2025)
    4. NYT Connections hint (Sun, 30 Nov)
    5. Black Friday can help you save a bundle on Alienware desktops with RTX 5080 GPUs
    1. Save $250 on the Lenovo Legion Go S with SteamOS this Black Friday weekend
    2. Become a wolfgirl with a fliphone and explore brutalist, liminal dreamscapes in nophenia
    3. The Long Dark: Wintermute's final episode catches a delay but nabs a concrete release date to make up for it
    4. Into the Fire mixes fire and rescue, mysterious folklore, and a volcanic island in what might be yet another Divine Comedy adaptation
    5. A new Dead Rising is reportedly on the way, and one that might come with a familiar face
    6. However a non-Hollow Knight game from Team Cherry might look, there's a particular through line you can still expect
    7. Save $500 on this iBuyPower RTX 5070 Rig for Black Friday
    8. What are we all playing this weekend?
    9. Wordle hint and answer #1624 (November 29 2025)
    10. NYT Connections hint (Sat, 29 Nov)
    1. Letter from the editor #16: spreading the acquired taste of RPS far-er and wider
    2. After six hours of tweaker gunslinging and trench warfare, I'm sold on Darktide's imminent Hive Scum update
    3. With Black Friday discounts, the top-spec Lenovo Legion Go S is faster than the equivalent Steam Deck OLED and almost as cheap
    4. Command a massive walking gun in Iron Nest: Heavy Turret Simulator
    5. Hytale's early access release date set in stone for January 2026, but its devs admit "the first impression will be rough"
    6. Seduce serial killers on the dark web in dating sim Killer Chat, which is free on Steam
    7. The PS5 DualSense controller is a surprisingly good PC pad that’s dropped to £43/$55 in the Black Friday sales
    8. Why are there so many bloody roguelikes or roguelites, and what really makes a game roguish?
    9. Ugreen’s 9-in-1 Steam Deck stand is perfect for resting weary handhelds, and it’s going cheap on Black Friday
    10. The best-ever lightweight gaming mouse, in my opinion, is £46/$50 off for Black Friday
    11. Recently unearthed Fallout: New Vegas builds could be "incredibly useful" for modders, preservationists claim
    12. Black Friday’s microSD sales cut prices on our top Steam Deck cards – and they’ll work on the Steam Machine too
    13. Oh hey, it's Black Friday, so here are the best Black Friday best graphics cards deals
    14. Control Resonant trademark applied for in Europe by law firm Remedy have used multiple times
    15. NYT Connections hint (Fri, 28 Nov)
    16. Wordle hint and answer #1623 (November 28 2025)
    1. In a break from tradition, Ubisoft have no plans for a second big Assassin's Creed: Shadows DLC expansion
    2. Arc Raiders: Untended Garden
    3. Arc Raiders: Espresso
    4. Arc Raiders: Armored Transports
    5. Arc Raiders: Greasing Her Palms
    6. Arc Raiders: Down to Earth
    7. Epic CEO wants Valve and Steam to stop requiring devs to disclose generative AI usage
    8. Arc Raiders: A Better Use
    9. Arc Raiders: Reduced to Rubble
    10. Paradox take the blame for Bloodines 2 not selling as planned, will "evaluate" how to do World of Darkness games going forwards
    11. "Essentially, War Sails is a large mod": Mount & Blade II: Bannerlord devs on delaying leaving port and why custom naval battles were a late addition
    12. The big brains behind TimeSplitters and GoldenEye are breaking into the Balatro business with Beyond Words
    13. Arc Raiders update 1.4.0 takes aim at locked room exploits and item swap-induced rapid fire
    14. The Forge: How to reroll your Race
    15. Cyberpunk 2's dev team is set to double in size by the end of 2027, hopefully meaning its cyberfoundations'll be laid by then
    16. Valve block Steam game with queer art in Russia after state censor attacks it for “promoting non-traditional sexualities”
    17. World of Warcraft's Midnight expansion releases in March, bringing a Voidstorm plague on all the new houses
    18. NYT Connections hint (Thu, 27 Nov)
    19. Wordle hint and answer #1622 (November 27 2025)
    1. Build a new life after a revolution on Jupiter in the very Animal Crossing-esque, co-op life-sim Young Suns
    2. Bungie admit to Destiny 2 having an audience problem, as they try to figure out how to not make a "dead live game"
    3. Nier Automata's 2B remains in crossover prison, this time relegated to Final Fantasy 7: Ever Crisis
    4. Elden Ring Nightreign DLC's first new class looks great for book nerds and grubby old men lovers
    5. After more than one controversy, layoffs, and a lengthy beta period, Splitgate 2 is set to return next month
    6. Arc Raiders: Flickering Threat
    7. Ubisoft staff up for "captivating" Beyond Good & Evil 2 but we both know they're just going to hurt us again
    8. Arc Raiders: Communication Hideout
    9. Arc Raiders: A New Type of Plant quest walkthrough
    10. Hooded Horse's latest strategy RPG looks like some Final Fantasy mercs invaded the world of Battle Brothers
    11. Arc Raiders: A Balanced Harvest
    12. Arc Raiders: What We Left Behind
    13. Embracer sell Neverwinter and Star Trek Online devs Cryptic, allowing them to gather their party and boldly go where Saber went before
    14. You can now buy dark fantasy action-RPG Soulframe rather than begging for a code, and it has a Steam page
    15. Arc Raiders: A Lay Of The Land walkthrough
    16. Arc Raiders: Off the Radar
    17. Arc Raiders Eyes on the Prize quest walkthrough
    18. Arc Raiders Switching the Supply quest walkthrough
    19. Arc Raiders: Unexpected Initiative
    20. Arc Raiders: Market Correction walkthrough
    21. Arc Raiders: A First Foothold
    22. Death Stranding 2: On The Beach PC release confirmed by ESRB ratings board
    23. Marauding medieval masses mash together beneath the mainsail in Mount & Blade II: Bannerlord War Sails
    24. NYT Connections hint (Wed, 26 Nov)
    25. Wordle hint and answer #1621 (November 26 2025)
    1. Saturnalia creators Santa Ragione will "wind down operations" after Valve ban horror game Horses from Steam
    2. Predicting Steam Machine prices would be a lot easier if RAM costs hadn't gone horribly wrong
    3. Dosa Divas is a flavourful RPG village roadtrip and a more assured follow-up to Thirsty Suitors
    4. Quantic Dream's Spellcasters Chronicles plays better than I thought, but is still an oddly passive MOBA
    5. How to join all Sects in Where Winds Meet
    6. I'm a greedy, greedy city builder and tower defence game Monsters Are Coming is punishing me brilliantly
    7. Call of Duty: Black Ops 7 multiplayer review
    8. The Steam Deck LCD is 20% off, and I'm still not buying one because it's crap for RTS
    9. The Saudi Arabia fund behind the wildly leveraged EA buyout is dealing with "financial distress", claims report
    10. Far Cry's getting a TV series starring It's Always Sunny's Rob Mac, with each season designed to mirror a new game
    11. What time is the Steal a Brainrot Taco Tuesday event?
    12. NYT Connections hint (Tue, 25 Nov)
    13. Wordle hint and answer #1620 (November 25 2025)
    1. Tower of Fantasy is quitting the gacha life as it, sort of, transitions into a regular MMO
    2. Climb a dark fantasy tower and find the sweepstakes code in the Pocketpair published looter-shooter Vision Quench
    3. TimeSplitters: Rewind, the fanmade sort of remake project, finally makes it into early access 13 years on
    4. The Blood of Dawnwalker has no main quest, apparently, and now I'm a lot more interested in playing it
    5. Constance, a lovely looking hand-drawn metroidvania about creatively fighting your inner demons, is out now
    6. Reflections In Red is a new Thief fan level based on a very stupid castle from the Arkane Lyon dev behind The Black Parade
    7. Rockstar fired unionising GTA 6 devs following Discord chat about new company Slack policy, claims report
    8. Vampire: The Masquerade - Bloodlines 2 should have been called something else, agrees former creative director
    9. Valve confirm the Steam Machine will be priced like a PC with similar specs, rather than a console
    10. The Crew Unlimited devs have prevented the Ubisoft racer's "3rd imminent death", this time via a "Y29K" bug
    11. The Fallout TV Show season 2's NCR ranger power armour has already arrived in Fallout 4 thanks to modders
    12. This week in PC games: warriors, painters, roguelikes, sailors, shotguns, subs and metroidvanias
    13. NYT Connections hint (Mon, 24 Nov)
    14. Wordle hint and answer #1619 (November 24 2025)
    1. The Sunday Papers
    2. NYT Connections hint (Sun, 23 Nov)
    3. Wordle hint and answer #1618 (November 23 2025)
    1. Celebrate the fictitious 35th anniversary of Ruin, a faux point-and-click adventure game that never was
    2. Who knows if we'll ever get another Hollow Knight, but if we do, you can expect it to be as standalone as Silksong
    3. Varsapura adds some flashy-but-plain-looking, pyschic action to miHoYo's Genshin Impact formula in its first gameplay trailer
    4. Hytale gets a cheap price point, all because its devs don't think the game is good yet
    5. Warhammer: Vermintide 2 is free to keep forever on Steam, as long as you're quick about it
    6. What are we all playing this weekend?
    7. Wordle hint and answer #1617 (November 22 2025)
    8. NYT Connections hint (Sat, 22 Nov)
    1. Mount & Blade II: Bannerlord War Sails designer on ships that mimic horse archers and dredging for inspiration in French bogs
    2. Arc Raiders: The Root Of The Matter
    3. Seasons Of Solitude is a wistful turn-based strategy game with constantly changing prehistoric maps
    4. Arc Raiders: Source of the Contamination walkthrough
    5. Arc Raiders: Water Troubles quest walkthrough
    6. PUBG: Black Budget is an extraction shooter spin-off with an island trapped in a time loop of supernatural munching
    7. The Assassin's Creed 4: Black Flag remake will release in March 2026, according to the latest whispers
    8. Fallout 4's anniversary update "didn’t quite land with the impact many hoped for", so Nexus Mods have assembled their own
    9. Good news, people who wish Little Nightmares were more like Zelda - Tarsier's Reanimal will release in February 2026
    10. Vampire Crawlers: The Turbo Wildcard from Vampire Survivors is a first-person deckbuilding spin-off out 2026
    11. Erosion is a voxel open world shooter in which deaths cost decades, and you can win the Wild West with armies of cats
    12. Wordle hint and answer #1616 (November 21 2025)
    13. NYT Connections hint (Fri, 21 Nov)
    1. Here's an unedited bossfight video from Tides Of Annihilation to sate your hunger for Arthurian witch murder
    2. 80 Days co-writer Jon Ingold is making a code-breaking game inspired by Obra Dinn and his uncle's World War career, unless he's lying
    3. Where Winds Meet: How to play Gift of Gab
    4. Arc Raiders' latest update nerfs an overperforming pistol, rebalances boom damage and also has ducks
    5. In search of soul with the Steam Machine
    6. 99 Nights In The Forest: How to help the Deer
    7. PlayerUnknown's Prologue: Go Wayback! still has a terrible name and is out now in Early Access
    8. All currencies in Where Winds Meet
    9. Krafton CEO admits he did consult ChatGPT about the Subnautica 2 situation, and says he deleted the logs over confidentiality concerns
    10. Fallout: New Vegas' latest modathon has flying robots, evolving gear, and cheeky waving in its pockets
    11. D&D tabletop-style RPG Battlemarked is out on PC today with a singleplayer mode for Baldur's Gate 3 nutters
    12. Wordle hint and answer #1615 (November 20 2025)
    13. NYT Connections hint (Thu, 20 Nov)
    1. Fangtopia is a scarily delightful puzzle city-builder that I could probably sink my fangs into for a few hours
    2. Citizen Sleeper and Dishonored meet in the grimey, steampunk, dice-driven RPG Duskpunk, which is out today
    3. Mafia: The Old Country is getting a free update filled with challenges, a new difficulty, and an okay-looking cinematic mode
    4. Ark: Survival Ascended's famous-people-laden expansion Lost Colony gets a December release date
    5. Moonlighter 2: The Endless Vault is out now in early access with newly roguelike dungeons and more puzzling inventories
    6. Marathon's short film director doesn't know why this needs clarifying, but no, he didn't use AI to make it
    7. Arc Raiders: Straight Record
    8. Arc Raiders: Eyes in the Sky
    9. Hytale's original co-founder wastes no time showing off the game "as it is" after buying the rights from Riot
    10. Asbury Pines is a murder mystery of dizzying scale that has you joining the dots from the Stone Age to Armageddon
    11. Microsoft detail 'agentic AI' plan for Windows 11, immediately admit it might install malware on your PC
    12. Arc Raiders: How to complete Back on Top
    13. Possibly the most complex space strategy game yet made has just received its last major update before 1.0 release
    14. The great RPS Advent Calendar Guessing Game of 2025 has commenced
    15. Darktide's next new class is a dual-wielding miscreant who thinks the drugs do work, they just make heretics worse
    16. Dark fantasy bomb-making sim「TERROR」type:【A.L.C.H.E.M.Y.】’s frightful title cannot spoil its crusty 90s vibes
    17. "I really get the feeling that Planet Centauri is cursed", says dev of a game that's now been Steamrolled by Valve twice
    18. NYT Connections hint (Wed, 19 Nov)
    19. Wordle hint and answer #1614 (November 19 2025)
    1. "Justice for Lost Odyssey": Clair Obscur creative director calls for remaster of cult 2007 RPG
    2. Inkle's amazing Heaven’s Vault used to be a Dr Who pitch, but the BBC left them on read, and I'm kind of thankful
    3. EA and Codemasters are skipping a year with their F1 games, right as the sport gets some big rule changes
    4. How to play Uma Racing
    5. Totally Legit Wheeler Seller is here to pinch any pennies you didn't spend on Jalopy and My Summer Car
    6. Guild Wars Reforged, a free 20th anniversary revamp of the original Guild Wars, arrives this December
    7. Demonschool review
    8. Morsels review
    9. Fallout 4's latest modder-made expansion takes you to some Misery Islands with a history of "corruption, decay, and loneliness"
    10. Battlefield 6's California Resistance update delivers a new map and mode today, plus aim assist and gun accuracy tweaks
    11. Resident Evil Requiem won’t repeat Monster Hunter Wilds' technical blunders, Capcom say
    12. Interplay co-founder and LGBTQ+ icon Rebecca Heineman dies from cancer
    13. NYT Connections hint (Tue, 18 Nov)
    14. Wordle hint and answer #1613 (November 18 2025)
    1. Angeline Era, an Irish mythology inspired bumpslash action game from the devs behind Anodye, gets a December release date
    2. In a rare bit of good news, Hytale lives on, with its original devs buying the rights off of Riot
    3. Nier creator Yoko Taro would like you to know he has been working on games, they just keep getting cancelled
    4. Ahead of its early access release this week, Prologue: Go Wayback gets a roadmap filled with big ambitions
    5. Where Winds Meet player convinces one of the game's NPCs they're pregnant with his baby
    6. Subnautica 2 publisher Krafton allegedly looked to ChatGPT to figure out how to not pay that $250 million bonus
    7. Stalker 2's Expedition update brings A-Life improvements, harder difficulty options, and worsens bandits' eyesight
    8. Where Winds Meet: How to delete your character
    9. If Valve creates an "entry point" for living room PCs, the console-beating Steam Machines will follow, argues Baldur's Gate 3's publishing director
    10. How to turn off Roblox UI navigation
    11. Cities: Skylines creators Colossal Order are handing the series over to the Surviving The Aftermath devs
    12. This week in PC games: Demonschool and Moonlighter 2 head a procession of sheep dogs, shmups and sliding heroes
    13. Call of Duty: Black Ops 7 campaign review
    14. People are playing fewer games and new releases are "struggling", say Ubisoft UK, warning of falling revenues
    15. Where Winds Meet: How to complete Echoes of Old Battle
    16. Freshly spilled Blood Of Dawnwalker footage reveals an action-RPG where Witcher dialogue meets wall-walking
    17. NYT Connections hint (Mon, 17 Nov)
    18. Wordle hint and answer #1612 (November 17 2025)
    1. The Sunday Papers
    2. NYT Connections hint (Sun, 16 Nov)
    3. Wordle hint and answer #1611 (November 16 2025)
    1. Embrace your messy, cringey teenage emo years in rhythm game X visual novel I Write Games Not Tragedies
    2. Horizon was always thought about as a multiplayer game, says studio director, which speaks volumes about modern day Sony
    3. Blue Prince is a game full of secrets, and its developer has no intention of telling you if you've solved them all
    4. Concord lives! Or, lived, as community efforts to revive it already appear to be on hold after some DMCA strikes
    5. XDefiant was apparently born from the ashes of a Splinter Cell game being made by the team behind Dispatch
    6. What are we all playing this weekend?
    7. NYT Connections hint (Sat, 15 Nov)
    8. Wordle hint and answer #1610 (November 15 2025)
    1. Paralives delayed into 2026 as designer explains that life sims are "really 3 games in one"
    2. With GTA 6 still miles away, GTA Online's obscenely rich will soon be able to splurge their cash mountains on mansions
    3. Cyber bunny shooter Cicadamata reminds me of nu-Marathon and Jumping Flash and has a flipping cool shotgun
    4. How to pitch an article to Rock Paper Shotgun
    5. Why Hades delightfully fools my simple lizard brain and Wall World doesn't
    6. Black Ops 7 single-player doesn't allow pausing or mission checkpoints on top of being always-online
    7. The sanitisation of Skate reminds me how far counterculture has fallen and how hard it can be to stay inspired
    8. This Cyberpunk 2077 quest mod finally subverts a talking vending machine's tragic demise with a happy ending
    9. "It just works": Valve talk the Steam Frame, Android games on SteamOS, and putting a PC on your face
    10. Tomb Raider developers Crystal Dynamics make yet more layoffs, with"just under 30" workers losing their jobs
    11. Misery devs claim they've resolved "misunderstanding" with Stalker studio GSC Game World, as shooter returns to Steam
    12. "Stop this from happening again": UK politician calls out Rockstar over GTA 6 developer firings
    13. Wordle hint and answer #1609 (November 14 2025)
    14. NYT Connections hint (Fri, 14 Nov)
    1. Euro Truck Simulator 2's Nordic Horizons expansion finally delivers its cargo later this month
    2. Where Winds Meet: How to use Photo Mode to get daily rewards
    3. Lies Of P publishers Neowiz have three unrevealed RPGs on the way, plus WolfEye's next game and Lies of P 2
    4. MacVulpes InCulkin stares at a guy spitting blood, as Fallout season 2's latest trailer sets up many family searches
    5. Deep Rock Galactic unearths its season 6 update as Rogue Core spinoff gets delayed
    6. Inazuma Eleven: Victory Road brings Level5's rousing football RPG series to PC for the first time today
    7. 220 Rockstar staff sign letter to management calling for "immediate reinstatement" of fired workers
    8. Creators of Kerbal Space Program, DayZ, and a SpaceX engineer join forces to launch kittens into the atmosphere (virtually)
    9. Assetto Corsa Rally looks the part as it heads into early access, but I've found its driving a numb struggle
    10. Call of Duty: Black Ops 7's launch day patch notes are basically gun speed dating, and its endgame is a big fight in map soup
    11. Why a new Steam Machine when the first ones flopped? Because this time, Valve say, it'll actually have games
    12. Silent Hill f's latest update adds in a "casual" difficulty and the option to skip some of a new game plus run
    13. Subnautica 2 and InZoi publishers announce voluntary layoff program "amid the era of AI transformation"
    14. In going deeper, Wall World 2 brings its dullest moments to the surface
    15. Maybe hold off a bit longer on reinstalling your Fallout 4 mods, as Bethesda have two anniversary update patches planned
    16. Why is superhero comedy Dispatch a million-selling success story? It could be that weekly release schedule
    17. Horizon Steel Frontiers, an MMORPG twist on Sony's series about plinking robo-animals with arrows, is coming to PC
    18. From the desk of the Editorial Director of Rock Paper Shotgun: "Ahoy hoy"
    19. NYT Connections hint (Thu, 13 Nov)
    20. Wordle hint and answer #1608 (November 13 2025)
    1. You'll have to keep waiting for a Steam Deck 2, because Valve says the tech isn't there for it just yet
    2. If you own any Steam Deck verified games, then you've already got a guarantee they'll work on the Steam Machine
    3. Thanks to a massive community vote, Jagex are removing RuneScape's notorious Treasure Hunter microtransactions
    4. Vampire: The Masquerade - Bloodlines 2's latest patch offers up fixes, as a roadmap promises more improvements
    5. The Steam Frame is real, and Valve want it to be the last VR headset you'll ever buy
    6. Valve’s new Steam Controller aims to entice a broader field of PC players, which I fear already includes me
    7. Hands-on with the new Steam Machine, Valve’s square shot at SteamOS PC redemption
    8. Valve announce a new Steam Machine, Steam Controller, and the Steam Frame VR headset – and I’ve played them
    9. If you hate the term extraction shooter, Marathon's former product manager is on your side
    10. Where Winds Meet's PC performance Wing Chuns itself with technical and presentational problems
    11. How to get a horse in Where Winds Meet
    12. Epic boss Tim Sweeney is right to call genAI a political topic - it's a mechanism of class war
    13. IWGB union file legal claims against Rockstar, due to GTA 6 maker allegedly refusing to negotiate over firings
    14. I learned Tai Chi from a bear in Where Winds Meet
    15. Where Winds Meet: How to equip Mystic Arts
    16. Where Winds Meet: How to fast travel
    17. Where Winds Meet: How to place a Signpost
    18. Where Winds Meet: How to increase Solo mode max level
    19. Arc Raiders celebrates the launch of a new region in the North Line update with microtransaction price cuts
    20. Anno 117: Pax Romana review
    21. The Outer Worlds 2's latest patch wrangles disappearing eyebrows and sideburns, stops nerds shouting at each other from miles away
    22. Winter Burrow is a survival game inspired by Over the Garden Wall that's as comfy as a pair of mouse-skin slippers
    23. Friendly Marvel Rivals meet-ups at Dr Strange's place have moved Netease to release a 100 player non-combat Times Square map
    24. Elden Ring Nightreign's The Forsaken Hollows DLC drops next month, brings back a beloved Dark Souls bumkicker
    25. NYT Connections hint (Wed, 12 Nov)
    26. Wordle hint and answer #1607 (November 12 2025)
    1. The Game Awards Future Class inductees reckon their advocacy might be being "punished" as programme is "left by the wayside"
    2. Too High also works as a word-fumbling spoof of massive social anxiety at parties
    3. The old are dying and the new struggle to be born in Stray Children, an RPG bullet hell of fruitful frustration
    4. Sony are still "fully dedicated" to releasing Marathon by March, as they sigh at Bungie's money numbers
    5. Battlefield 6's latest update shoots down hammer-wielding drone riders and permanently fixes lock-on missiles
    6. Fallout 4's script extender has already gotten its anniversary update, as Bethesda battle creation issues
    7. NYT Connections hint (Tue, 11 Nov)
    8. Wordle hint and answer #1606 (November 11 2025)
    1. Pilot a shrimp and do battle with giant, eldritch sea monsters in the Armored Core adjacent Shrimp Game
    2. A lead Kingdom Come Deliverance 2 quest designer leaves the game in the rear view mirror as he joins The Witcher 4 team
    3. The end of merch culture is upon us with an official Death Stranding exoskeleton
    4. Arc Raiders: How to get Rusted Gears
    5. There's no plans for cross progression in Helldivers 2 right now, but don't lose all hope just yet
    6. The first act of Ambrosia Sky, an im-sim where you clean up fungi on a dead asteroid colony, is out now
    7. The Elder Scrolls 6 is "still a long way off", but that's not stopping Todd Howard teasing an Oblivion Remastered-style shadow drop
    8. Post-apocalyptic shooter Misery's Steam page pulled following alleged takedown by Stalker devs GSC Game World
    9. 227 hours later, Football Manager 26 is both broken and, begrudgingly, brilliant
    10. MonsterVerze codes
    11. Elden Ring Nightreign DLC's planned to drop by March next year, FromSoftware's big corporate bosses reveal
    12. This week in PC games: Call of Duty, Where Winds Meet, alien fungus, chess-playing queens and pareidolia
    13. NYT Connections hint (Mon, 10 Nov)
    14. Wordle hint and answer #1605 (November 10 2025)
    1. 99 Nights in The Forest Codes
    2. The Sunday Papers
    3. NYT Connections hint (Sun, 9 Nov)
    4. Wordle hint and answer #1604 (November 9 2025)
    1. Genshin Impact's devs look to be working on a realistic fantasy MMO that uses some kind of AI, bad kind or not yet to be determined
    2. The Falconeer gets a new lease of life with a free remaster filled with improvements, fixes, and new bits
    3. The team behind Blue Prince puts out a call to get one of the puzzle game's devs a life-saving kidney
    4. You should never count Final Fantasy 11 out, as hopes for new areas emerge out of a recent dev livestream
    5. It's not just you, Steam's store pages are wider, and the difference only makes me a little uncomfortable
    6. What are we all playing this weekend?
    7. NYT Connections hint (Sat, 8 Nov)
    8. Wordle hint and answer #1603 (November 8 2025)
    1. BioWare are "focused exclusively" on the next Mass Effect, says exec producer, along with a Krogan teaser
    2. How to get all Companions in The Outer Worlds 2
    3. World Of Warcraft will get a new premium currency alongside Midnight for no obvious good reason at all
    4. First Europa Universalis 5 patch makes 350 fixes and stops you earning free Steam achievements
    5. "Ah shit, here we go again": GTA 6 developers speak from the picket line about Rockstar North "union-busting"
    6. Diggergun combines Spelunky-style delving with cursed Cornish mines and the cost-of-living crisis
    7. Mafia: The Old Country did better than Take-Two expected, now please do more "contained" story romps at decent prices
    8. Square Enix announce mass layoffs, with over 100 UK staff reportedly expected to be at risk
    9. Come say goodbye to Nic Reuben, chief librarian and RPS staff writer
    10. Marvel 1943: Rise of Hydra has been delayed again, this time without a new release window
    11. Wordle hint and answer #1602 (November 7 2025)
    12. NYT Connections hint (Fri, 7 Nov)
    1. Hi everyone, GTA 6 has been hit with delay number two
    2. A weaseetlduclob fights a salamander gang and grows ever more horrifying in abomination evolver Strange Seed
    3. Cat-and-mouse city-builder Whiskerwood is charming, engrossing and out now in early access on PC
    4. Arc Raiders' first proper patch sets up some stormy bunker raids, and stops you being pushed through a wall
    5. Hollow Knight Silksong walkthrough: Part 39 (True Ending)
    6. As Rockstar accuse fired staff of leaking secrets, unions launch street protests against publisher Take-Two
    7. Battlefield 6 devs temporarily confiscate the Infantry Fighting Vehicle's bugged lock-on missiles
    8. Best Sniper Rifle in Battlefield: RedSec
    9. Assassin's Creed Shadows' backlash reportedly corporately canonised by Ubisoft as a victory for being "more of a video game than a message"
    10. Football Manager 26 subs in a big beta patch with over 300 fixes and improvements, following polarising launch
    11. Wordle hint and answer #1601 (November 6 2025)
    12. NYT Connections hint (Thu, 6 Nov)
    1. The latest Peak update does in fact see the forest for the trees with its fungus and bug-filled woods
    2. Miss the Knight from OG Hollow Knight? There's a Silksong mod that'll solve your little bug blues
    3. Forget about those real leaves you have to deal this autumn with Leaf Blower Co, which arrives later this month
    4. The Sims 4 gets a laundry list of much needed, community-voted fixes to get the game back in ship shape again
    5. Best Pistol in Battlefield: RedSec
    6. Best LMG in Battlefield: RedSec
    7. Best Shotgun for Battlefield: RedSec
    8. Best DMR in Battlefield: RedSec
    9. Arc Raiders could get map conditions that alter the friction, for truly Tribes-esque sliding
    10. Congrats, Automobilista 2, your latest DLC has convinced me to spend 200 more hours driving in circles
    11. If your PC is too puny to launch Europa Universalis 5, there's a secret very low graphics preset
    12. Ditch any Fallout 4 mods which mess with the main menu ahead of its anniversary edition update, Bethesda warn
    13. I love the green fingers of Generation Exile, a solarpunk city-builder from ex-Far Cry and Firewatch devs, but it does feel quite messy
    14. The Steam Deck now lets you do low-power, screen-off downloads, finally
    15. Baldur's Gate 3 custom campaign mod Path to Menzoberranzan's now targeting a first playable alpha release in the first half of 2026
    16. Glittering, gut-churning FPS Hyper Demon gets a free standalone 1v1 multiplayer release on Steam
    17. NYT Connections hint (Wed, 5 Nov)
    18. Wordle hint and answer #1600 (November 5 2025)
    1. Your Wreckfest 2 ride merely adopted the rust and dents; mine had its scuffage moulded by the new CRAP-IT tool
    2. Best Carbine in Battlefield: RedSec
    3. Arc Raiders review
    4. Best SMG in Battlefield: RedSec
    5. Sorry our servers fell over, say Arc Raiders devs, here's some free virtual cash and a rucksack
    6. Civilization 7's nautically-themed 1.3.0 update arrives today, delivers "significant buffs" to popular civs
    7. Pillars of Eternity's turn-based mode arrives in open beta this week, and draws on lessons from Deadfire
    8. Wordle hint and answer #1599 (November 4 2025)
    9. NYT Connections hint (Tue, 4 Nov)
    1. Former World of Warcraft designer Greg Street's MMO Ghost is no more, as NetEase shuts down yet another studio
    2. Lethal Company's dev talks his relationship with horror, and the Zork roots of his latest game
    3. Stop Killing Games' UK petition has been debated in parliament: "The law works, but companies may need to communicate better"
    4. Following layoffs at Heart Machine, Possessor(s)' narrative director makes a case for still picking it up
    5. The Sims 2 lead designer on the importance of the series' diversity: "It’s a medium of self-expression"
    6. Unbelievably, we have a choice of kaiju clean-up games
    7. Best SGX Loadout for Battlefield: RedSec
    8. Best Assault Rifle in Battlefield: RedSec
    9. Best M433 Loadout for Battlefield: RedSec
    10. A Japanese association that reps publishers like Square Enix has called on OpenAI to stop training Sora on Japanese media
    11. Best M4A1 Loadout for Battlefield: RedSec
    12. Arc Raiders and the Steam Deck make a good team, on the proviso of a Proton handshake
    13. Cyberpunk creator teases he has "ways" of bringing Keanny Reeveshand back from the dead in Cyberpunk 2
    14. Saints Row's original design director is pitching a "grounded" 70s open world prequel with absolutely no dildobats
    15. Rockstar's Agent was compromised because open worlds and spies don't mesh well, Ex-GTA writer Dan Houser says
    16. All 48 Hollow Knight Silksong bosses in order
    17. Come groom hellhorses for the amusement of a torture god in Sha Beast Dressage
    18. This week in PC games: Europa Universalis 5, Football Manager 26 and an army of eggs, Lovecritters and Bigfeet
    19. Come say hello and welcome to Callum Williams, our new Guides Writer
    20. Battlefield 6 introduces a Casual Breakthrough mode aimed at more "relaxed" field battling
    21. Wordle hint and answer #1598 (November 3 2025)
    22. NYT Connections hint (Mon, 3 Nov)
    1. Best Arc Raiders skills to unlock first
    2. The Sunday Papers
    3. Wordle hint and answer #1597 (November 2 2025)
    4. NYT Connections hint (Sun, 2 Nov)
    1. Satisfactory meets Genshin Impact in Arknights: Endfield, whose second beta test sign ups are open now
    2. Frostpunk 2's first bit of DLC gets a seasonally appropriate release date, though it does sound a bit bare-bones
    3. PUBG creator's oddly named open world survival roguelike Prologue: Go Wayback gets an early access release date
    4. Rockstar have been accused of union busting after the firing of more than 30 staff members
    5. Arc Raiders' first roadmap promises lots of goodies like a new map, quests and more before the end of the year
    6. What are we all playing this weekend?
    7. Wordle hint and answer #1596 (November 1 2025)
    8. NYT Connections hint (Sat, 1 Nov)