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January 2026 Archive

    1. One year on from Citizen Sleeper 2, I'm tempted back into its world with a physical release of its TTRPG spin-off
    2. Trust Me, I Nailed It is a turn-based strategy game where you make sick video edits of a really rubbish hero
    3. The Sims 4's next expansion looks perfect for all your reality TV show fantasies
    4. RuneScape: Dragonwilds's next big update ups the level cap to 99, even though it's literally pointless right now
    5. While the jury's still out on it, Highguard gets a temporary new mode that ups the headcount in matches
    6. Tiny Tina's Wonderlands SHiFT codes
    7. Build A Zoo codes
    8. Anime Eternal codes
    9. What are we all playing this weekend?
    10. NYT Connections hint (Sat, 31 Jan)
    11. Wordle hint and answer #1687 (January 31 2026)
    1. Nioh 3: How to Emote and use Gestures
    2. How to level up fast in Nioh 3
    3. Wreckfest 2's career mode is based around a fender bending moral alignment chart of lawful racers and chaotic crashers
    4. Arknights Endfield tier list
    5. Turtle Beach Burst II Pro gaming mouse review
    6. Beyond Good & Evil 2 director confirms team are "unaffected" by Ubisoft cuts, "remain committed" to the game
    7. How to respec in Nioh 3
    8. More than half of gamedev professionals see GenAI as harmful, according to GDC’s latest survey
    9. PSA: There's a free Fallout 4 mod for that Fallout Show NCR power armour Bethesda are charging $30 for as DLC
    10. World of Warcraft's getting a prop hunt mode, so you can pretend to be a chair during breaks from Midnight's voidpocalypse
    11. Yes, Paradox are aware that a “barrage of DLCs” can scare away new players, for all their bundles and discounts
    12. Yakuza Kiwami 3 & Dark Ties is getting a day one patch to ensure sunny Okinawa looks less deep fried
    13. NYT Connections hint (Fri, 30 Jan)
    14. Wordle hint and answer #1686 (January 30 2026)
    1. Whopping new Crimson Desert video sharpens suspicion that it's a really shonky Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom
    2. VHS-veiled Huntdown: Overtime, a retro gangland roguelite run and gunner, arrives in early access this year
    3. Time to climb a weird mountain in Cairn, the windy backpacking odyssey from the creators of Haven and Furi
    4. Turtle Beach Vulcan II TKL gaming keyboard review
    5. Yarrrrrgh, cool, so the cabin boy's now well and truly been let out onto the poop deck
    6. Stardew Valley creator breaks silence to shoot down myths about Haunted Chocolatier, including that 2030 release rumour
    7. Phasmophobia's 2026 roadmap promises map reworks, a one-off event, and that long awaited 1.0 launch
    8. Yakuza fans are demanding Sega recast a Kiwami 3 actor, and Dark Ties may make the situation worse
    9. Plants vs Brainrots codes
    10. Anthem revival efforts look to hinge on whether EA's Frostbite engine freezes attempts to wrangle its myriad quirks
    11. Blizzard veterans reveal Darkhaven, a Diablo 2-style RPG that trades "incrementalism" for "bold, expressive loot" and destructible terrain
    12. Fortnite Garden vs Brainrots codes
    13. GOG accused of using AI-generated art to promote sale, as job listing indicates they're keen to adopt "AI-assisted development tools"
    14. No Signal is a quietly engaging space mystery
    15. Nioh 3: What to do with the Dirty Key
    16. How to use Hot Springs in Nioh 3
    17. I tried to fight for RuneScape's sharksuit, but Jagex were having none of it - "it's for the greater good"
    18. Nioh 3 has a demo out on Steam right now, if you've got a spare 80GB of space knocking about
    19. NYT Connections hint (Thu, 29 Jan)
    20. Wordle hint and answer #1685 (January 29 2026)
    1. Dune: Awakening hopes to spruce up its endgame in its next major update, coming next week
    2. Coral Social Club is like Webfishing where you're the fish, or, uh, mermaids
    3. Unionised French Ubisoft workers put out call for an international strike held by all current employees
    4. Scare off legally distinct Victorian Ghostbusters with your legion of spirits in Ghost Keeper, out in early access now
    5. Assassin's Creed designer claims Ubisoft have suspended him for "alleged breach of the duty of loyalty" over new RTO policy
    6. Arc Raiders and The Finals hit by "extensive, co-ordinated DDoS attacks", according to developers Embark
    7. PC hardware makers Zotac warn memory shortages "raise concerns about the very survival of graphics card manufacturers"
    8. Dwarf Legacy turns Tolkien's sturdy miners into bullet hell mountaineers - don't mythril the demo
    9. Earth Must Die publishers say an "alien orgy depicted as a gyrating lump on the floor" left the game's Steam launch "unclear"
    10. Anime Last Stand codes
    11. Arc Raiders update rips out one of the game's most maddening puzzles
    12. Monster Hunter Wilds patch stamps on DLC performance bug
    13. Baldur's Gate 3 studio boss calls out "hurtful", "personal" videogame reviewers - "sometimes I think it'd be a good idea for critics to be scored, Metacritic-style"
    14. Crusader Kings 3 has joined the big fleet of Paradox strategy games offering a paid DLC subscription service
    15. NYT Connections hint (Wed, 28 Jan)
    16. Wordle hint and answer #1684 (January 28 2026)
    1. Highguard’s genre soup makes for reasonably entertaining shootouts, if not much else
    2. "Enormously disappointing" - Darkest Dungeon's boardgame port is dead, but Red Hook are giving away game files to backers
    3. Helldivers 2's next warbond has an exploding hammer, for all of your explosive hammering needs
    4. CD Projekt and Nerial reveal Reigns: The Witcher, a strategy game in which Geralt dies a million, delicious ways
    5. "It's just as if it never existed" Following Ubisoft's Prince of Persia remake cancellation, actor discusses losing three years worth of work
    6. Valve will face that £656m UK lawsuit accusing them of overcharging Steam customers, as tribunal rule it can go ahead
    7. Hell Express is Death Stranding meets Helldivers meets Pacific Drive - aka, deliver letters to the dead in a combat truck
    8. Fallout New Vegas now has sneaky dogs thanks to a mod, so you and your pooch can patiently pad past predators
    9. This "Batman through the eyes of NPCs" video makes me yearn for a game about being a petty criminal in Gotham
    10. Ubisoft propose cutting up to 200 jobs at Paris headquarters, as unions reportedly agree three day strike
    11. NYT Connections hint (Tue, 27 Jan)
    12. Wordle hint and answer #1683 (January 27 2026)
    1. Yes I know Christmas was a month ago but SantaCorps 4 perfectly captures Sega Dreamcast era Sonic so play it anyway
    2. Gambonanza is definitely a chess roguelike deckbuilder in a post-Balatro world, but when it works, it works
    3. Highguard devs say it was always the plan to "go dark" after its reveal, à la Apex Legends' launch
    4. Arc Raiders' Headwinds update asks whether extra XP is enough to go solo in a group lobby
    5. Highguard, the new FPS from former Apex Legends and Titanfall devs, hits Steam after weeks of teasing silence
    6. Judge rules that RuneScape gold pieces are real property, which is bad news for the person accused of stealing 705 billion of them
    7. Strategy game Bolt Action is a tabletop WW2 miniatures port with indirect fire, armour facings and overwatch
    8. How to get Citrome in Arknights Endfield
    9. Old School RuneScape's 2026 roadmap includes the finale to a questline that's legally old enough to drink
    10. Banjo-Kazooie gets an unofficial PC port thanks to modders, with handy technical tweaks and Steam Deck support
    11. Hytale being unfinished is fine, but I'd rather see nothing than its WIP signs
    12. Play viral Tetris with Winnie the Pooh's horrible guts in this not very Disneyfied turn-based roguelite
    13. Skilful hero-juggling can elevate Resident Evil Requiem, even when Leon kicks the tension in half
    14. So you think you can type the word 'pistol' over and over again without making a mistake? Typing Break will put your confidence to the test
    15. Arknights Endfield: How to increase Power Output
    16. A ton of cut Baldur's Gate 3 early access encounters, including over 100 chats, have been resurrected by a modder
    17. This week in PC games: is Highguard a nothingburger? Plus, Winnie the Cthulhooh, Code Vein 2 and a plant-based RTS
    18. Stop Killing Games' EU petition amassed just under 1.3 million verified signatures, according to final count
    19. NYT Connections hint (Mon, 26 Jan)
    20. Wordle hint and answer #1682 (January 26 2026)
    1. The Sunday Papers
    2. NYT Connections hint (Sun, 25 Jan)
    3. Wordle hint and answer #1681 (January 25 2026)
    1. Tower Lab is a neat little tower defence roguelite I would have loved wasting time with in IT class as a teen
    2. Mörk Borg Heresy Supreme is as unkind as it is darkly enchanting
    3. After pulling Taiwanese horror game Devotion from sale in 2020, GOG say they find their decision "difficult to reflect on"
    4. Far and Herdling devs' next release is an already satisfying and tactile roguelike deckbuilding pinball game
    5. Look at that, Highguard is coming out next week after all, with a gameplay overview coming, oh, that's odd, launch day
    6. After 250 hours, I keep coming back to Arc Raiders not because it's surprising, but because it's predictable
    7. What are we all playing this weekend?
    8. NYT Connections hint (Sat, 24 Jan)
    9. Wordle hint and answer #1680 (January 24 2026)
    1. Arc Raiders devs reveal plans for "new large Arc", a fresh map, and two more Expeditions this spring
    2. Arknights Endfield pity system explained
    3. 46 US lawmakers express "serious concerns" about the Saudi-led EA buyout's impact on game developers
    4. Steam Machine and Steam Deck support will be coming to Nexus Mods' Windows-only mod manager at some point
    5. All Arknights Endfield characters listed
    6. Become a literal galaxy brain in this ambitious space strategy sim about an AI seeking a new home for humanity
    7. Cyberpunk 2077 VR modder hit by alleged second DMCA strike, "forced to temporarily pause" Patreon
    8. World of Warcraft devs Blizzard slash outfit transmog prices in half and offer free wardrobe change, following fashion fee furore
    9. Forza Horizon 6's sprawling Japanese switchback spaghetti looks great, but I'm not sure I'll use its big blank settlement building valley
    10. In Double Fine’s "pottery brawler" Kiln, you can skip the fights and just sculpt pots in peace
    11. Ubisoft didn't cancel Beyond Good & Evil 2 because open world games are a "priority", but I suspect the real reason is more boring
    12. Fable's evil landlords won't grow devil horns, as reboot ditches classic character morphing due to a lack of belief in objective arseholery
    13. NYT Connections hint (Fri, 23 Jan)
    14. Wordle hint and answer #1679 (January 23 2026)
    1. "We all have strong opinions within the studio" – even Microsoft's own game developers are hesitant to use AI
    2. "What goes up must come down," Razer's CEO says of rising RAM and GPU prices – but admits "It is bad" right now
    3. Turnbound is a lovely plinky mixture of autobattler and inventory Tetris, where play order is decided by a cat's bum
    4. Open your cute Orcish vampire gob, Hytale's next update has summonable skeletons and non-scary snakes to shove in there
    5. I love that somebody is making a single-player flight sim dedicated to formation flying
    6. Which will take longer to complete: my ten unpainted Warhammer 40K miniatures, or my 1,813 unread Warhammer 40K book pages?
    7. Helldivers 2 gets new stealth missions today, and its super-slimmed install size version is finally ready to take over
    8. Beware: the Killer Egg will return to Battlefield 6 multiplayer, along with Battlefield 4's Golmund Railway map
    9. "It is out of the question to let a boss run rampant" - Ubisoft workers strike against "disastrous" cutbacks
    10. Nexus Mods' latest modathon isn't a typical modathon, it's a first go at the same for multi-mod collections
    11. NYT Connections hint (Thu, 22 Jan)
    12. Wordle hint and answer #1678 (January 22 2026)
    1. Rule your own, slightly socially awkward knights in the round table management RPG Sovereign Tower
    2. Firestarters promises to mix Rollerdrome, arena shooters and visual novels into a government-sanctioned bloodsport
    3. Goofy name aside, action roguelite Lort looks like a neat fantasy alternative to Risk of Rain 2
    4. Prince of Persia: The Sands of Time remake and more cancelled by Ubisoft, with layoffs potentially on the horizon
    5. As it approaches its second early access anniversary, Enshrouded gets a 1.0 release window for later this year
    6. "They'll figure out how to get out of there eventually" – Arc Raiders' latest enemy won't stick to Stella Montis
    7. Cyberpunk 2077 VR modder doesn't rule out releasing it for free after DMCA, claims there was "no negotiation" with CD Projekt
    8. Arknights: Endfield release times
    9. Pirates director Gore Verbinski is iffy on Unreal Engine in movies: "I think it doesn’t work from a strictly photo-real standpoint"
    10. Anthem private server experimentation's underway, as the shooter's subreddit mods rethink retirement plans
    11. 80s-themed survival horror I Hate This Place is a gentler Darkwood based on a celebrated comic series
    12. Demon Soul Simulator codes
    13. Marathon Steam pre-orders no longer automatically try to install Destiny 2, as Bungie fix Freudian slip/bug
    14. Best graphics cards: the top gaming GPUs
    15. Life is Strange: Reunion, the time-fiddling finale of co-protagonists Max and Chloe's tale, arrives in March
    16. The Witcher 3 now has online multiplayer thanks to a mod, allowing gaggles and gangs of Geralts to gather
    17. TR-49 review – a code breaking puzzle game where you get all up in some dead authors' gossip
    18. NYT Connections hint (Wed, 21 Jan)
    19. Wordle hint and answer #1677 (January 21 2026)
    1. "Nobody's reinventing the wheel" with Marathon's mechanics, says former art boss, so the visual design needed to take risks
    2. Find out if you can run a Marathon with the extraction shooter's system requirements
    3. I knew I'd enjoy Rubato's demo from the moment the Earth blew up and I fell in the toilet
    4. Even in 2026's component hellscape, AMD's Radeon RX 9070 XT is that rarest of things: a high-end GPU that’s still decent value
    5. Steam's 'complete the set' bundles can now be gifted, with bits your mates already own accounted for
    6. Pathologic 3 is a sickly horror story about time pretending to be an 'easier' game
    7. RuneScape's Treasure Hunter microtransactions are now gone, restoring integrity as Jagex reveal integrity-focused 2026 plans integratively
    8. An ARC Raiders auction house would be "risky", but Embark are looking at a playable Speranza hub and an actual trading animation
    9. Alleged Fable concept art seems to point towards a return to Fable 2's rogueish hive of scum and pub islands
    10. Cyberpunk 2077 VR mod flatlines, after CD Projekt file DMCA strike and request its creator drop their paywall
    11. Real-time tactics game Strategos is out now in early access with some clever communication and morale systems
    12. Shush, Helldivers 2's Redacted Regiment warbond is all about being sneakily stealthy and silently suppressed
    13. NYT Connections hint (Tue, 20 Jan)
    14. Wordle hint and answer #1676 (January 20 2026)
    1. You'll no longer earn Steam points from community awards, as Valve try to kill off clownface-farming
    2. Mochi-O's hamster warfare is a sweet, swift sugar rush
    3. Marathon release date locked in by Bungie, with the shooter finally set to run out of cover soon
    4. Rockstar North "remains open and operational", following boiler malfunction
    5. Hytale's first major update adds in dinosaurs, stops skeletons drowning and lets you have an early night
    6. Elder Scrolls Online will get new zones, but they'll "be a different flavour" from what came before
    7. Letter From The Editor #17: A sneaky look at 2025's Advent Calendar voting
    8. Ex-Assassin's Creed lead sues Ubisoft for around $1 million, alleging his exit was a disguised dismissal
    9. Valve rewrite Steam's GenAI disclosure rules to more explicitly allow AI-powered "efficiency" tools
    10. This week in PC games: a new Inkle game, a Total War alternative, a Paper Mario-like RPG and some bladesongs
    11. NYT Connections hint (Mon, 19 Jan)
    12. Wordle hint and answer #1675 (January 19 2026)
    1. The Sunday Papers
    2. NYT Connections hint (Sun, 18 Jan)
    3. Wordle hint and answer #1674 (January 18 2026)
    1. How game developers worldwide are reliving Y2K Japan, from Jet Set Radio to Dance Dance Revolution
    2. What are we all playing this weekend?
    3. NYT Connections hint (Sat, 17 Jan)
    4. Wordle hint and answer #1673 (January 17 2026)
    1. Don't worry about The Division, Ubisoft say as series executive producer jumps to Battlefield amid layoffs
    2. DLSS 4.5 does look nicer, I just wish it would explain itself better
    3. Arc Raiders: Where to get Blueprints
    4. Skyrim co-lead claims The Elder Scrolls 6's helm was once promised to him, and he envisioned a plot mirroring the best Star Wars film
    5. I love fantasy RPG Soulframe’s cosy start screen even though it could be a creepy piece of habit-forming design
    6. Amazon's once-hailed fantasy MMO New World will vanish from servers in a year's time
    7. That Assassin's Creed 4: Black Flag sea shanty deluge was just down to "technical issues", Ubisoft say
    8. Further testing seems to confirm Monster Hunter Wilds DLC performance improvement theory, to an extent
    9. Fallout Shelter is being turned into a reality TV series by Amazon, as vault life gets Squid Gameified
    10. Some of Resident Evil Requiem's regular zombies remember being alive
    11. NYT Connections hint (Fri, 16 Jan)
    12. Wordle hint and answer #1672 (January 16 2026)
    1. Hytale: How to get Cobalt
    2. The dice are as deadly as the pixelart is lush in dungeon RPG The Fortress
    3. Detective game makers tells us how they would murder Humpty Dumpty
    4. Monster Hunter Wilds' PC performance might stand to be improved by limiting DLC checks, but that's not necessarily a silver bullet
    5. Palestine Skating Game takes Jet Set Radio's rollerblades and spray paint to soldier-filled streets and towering concrete walls
    6. Hytale: How to get Thorium
    7. The Elder Scrolls Online's smaller expansions are "not in any way" a result of last year's layoffs
    8. How to unlock the Raven Cave in The Forge
    9. 007: First Light gets updated system requirements, with IOI’s apologies
    10. "The industry is trending away from crunch": Ubisoft, Naughty Dog and Remedy devs discuss the origins of overwork
    11. Bully Online shoved into a shutdown locker, as the modders behind it say that's "not something we wanted"
    12. Sega's beautiful singing boy Ecco the Dolphin is getting a new game from the original creator, with a countdown underway
    13. Hopetown studio Longdue confirm original narrative lead on Disco Elysium-esque RPG's exit, but say its opening is now playable
    14. The Assassin’s Creed 4: Black Flag remake sea shanty siren song grows even more deafening, as Ubisoft reupload a bunch of sailing tunes
    15. NYT Connections hint (Thu, 15 Jan)
    16. Wordle hint and answer #1671 (January 15 2026)
    1. Mirror's Edge's iconic art style? Yeah, turns out it was sort of an accident
    2. Point-and-click adventure game filled with "ah yeah, them" British actors Earth Must Die is out later this month
    3. What's next for GOG? Publishing games, maybe, but its new owner isn't in any rush
    4. As if making the System Shock remake wasn't tough enough, someone apparently called the FBI on Nightdive during development
    5. Rockstar launch official roleplay mods store where you can spend $67 to turn GTA into Euro Truck Simulator 2
    6. How to install Hytale on the Steam Deck
    7. Playing Hytale on the Steam Deck takes some classic PC spannering, but the effort is rewarded
    8. I have no idea what you do in Hypnos, but its cosmic horror, megastructure world looks so pretty I'm not bothered
    9. Hytale: How to craft a Backpack
    10. The Elder Scrolls 6 in the Summerset Isles would be cool, or so recently unearthed Daggerfall-era dev D&D notes have convinced me
    11. All The Forge Ores and where to find them
    12. Forza Horizon 6's release date might have raced onto the streets faster than planned, thanks to an ad
    13. Former Activision CEO Bobby Kotick accuses Embracer of secretly organising a lawsuit against him and Microsoft
    14. Anthem could be revived as a trad BioWare singleplayer RPG for $10 million, says former Dragon Age producer
    15. Hytale: How to get Copper
    16. Games Workshop ban staff from using genAI in Warhammer, saying they're not “excited about it yet”
    17. Valve stress again that there'll be more Steam Machine Verified games than Steam Deck ones, with "fewer constraints" in their testing programme
    18. Hytale's first hotfix targets crash-inducing hairdos and buckets, as its devs outline update plans for the next few months
    19. How to play Hytale multiplayer
    20. NYT Connections hint (Wed, 14 Jan)
    21. Wordle hint and answer #1670 (January 14 2026)
    1. How to show coordinates in Hytale
    2. Hytale's out now and its devs are advising those suffering download issues or errors to keep plugging away
    3. “Lore should not be a strict set of rules," says Hytale developer in a tribute to player "archaeology"
    4. Hytale release time
    5. Hytale: "A basket with that identifier does not exist" fix
    6. Fallout: London hasn't developed into a Fallout 4-esque hub of new quest and expansion mods so far, and its lead has theories why
    7. Arc Raiders studio want future Expeditions to be less about fat stacks and FOMO
    8. Having asked Division devs to lay themselves off, Ubisoft are now cutting 55 jobs at Massive and Ubisoft Stockholm
    9. "AI is bad, game will be deleted" concludes developer behind sloppy Steam card battler, before setting the self-destruct timer
    10. Fired GTA 6 devs suffer setback in legal fight against Rockstar as UK court denies request for interim relief
    11. NYT Connections hint (Tue, 13 Jan)
    12. Wordle hint and answer #1669 (January 13 2026)
    1. Mama's Sleeping Angels is a Lethal Company-esque, dream-exploration, Y2K smorgasbord for the zillenialpha generations
    2. Big Hops, out today, is as delightful to play as it is to look at
    3. Here's a taste of what Arc Raiders would look like in first-person, though you're too late to try it yourself
    4. Restore mysterious cassette tapes from a missing, occultish musician in the very Her Story like Imprinted
    5. Detectives detect detectively in the demo of moody noir sleuth sim Obsidian Moon
    6. You can eat rats and unicorns in lip-smacking autobattler Dunderbeck, and I absolutely refuse to play the demo
    7. Ah yes, a Palworld card game is on the way, can't think of any other creature collector that has one of those
    8. Peter Molyneux's final game Masters of Albion will release in April - "it's the culmination of my life’s work"
    9. GOG's new owner will stick to its revamped classic and zero-DRM guns, but does think lessons lie in Steam's overstuffed embrace
    10. The Division: Definitive Edition looks like it may be a thing, assuming this poster in Japan's the real deal
    11. I spilled a full mug of tea over my work laptop – make me feel better by sharing your own broken PC stories
    12. This week in PC games: Hytale, Quarantine Zone, a weird Batman sim, and a fresh batch of RPGs and shooters
    13. Here's Doom running in Hytale before it's even out, thanks to modders
    14. RAM may be abominably expensive, but hey, at least SSD prices are also exploding
    15. Ubisoft once toyed with a "hidden" Assassin's Creed character creator that let you pick your ancestor from "millions"
    16. With Hytale early access imminent, lead dev urges folks to take a couple of steps to "significantly reduce launch-day stress"
    17. NYT Connections hint (Mon, 12 Jan)
    18. Wordle hint and answer #1668 (January 12 2026)
    1. The Sunday Papers
    2. NYT Connections hint (Sun, 11 Jan)
    3. Wordle hint and answer #1667 (January 11 2026)
    1. Oh yes, I will take a look at the Vampire the Masquerade and Indian folklore inspired RPG Rakshasa, thanks
    2. Take a shot at Wizard Pool, a fun twist on the cue sport filled with magical balls and shapeshifting tables
    3. As The Sims Project Rene switches to being "mobile-first," EA vaguely tease the series' "next evolution"
    4. Pilot a big ol' fort with steampunky legs in the deserty extraction shooter Sand: Raiders of Sophie when it launches in March
    5. Silent Hill f writer Ryukishi07 explains how the cultish town isn't just a place now, but a "phenomenon"
    6. Isopod is a respectable follow up to Webbed's wonderful act
    7. What are we all playing this weekend?
    8. NYT Connections hint (Sat, 10 Jan)
    9. Wordle hint and answer #1666 (January 10 2026)
    1. Larian hope to have future companions spend less time jumping straight into your bed, and more time with each other
    2. Arc Raiders: Full Quest list
    3. Arc Raiders: Workshop upgrade items
    4. What's that appalling stench? Ah yes, Pathologic 3 is out on PC today
    5. Larian will no longer use GenAI for Divinity concept art, and any genAI used for other games will be "trained on data we own"
    6. Hooded Horse ban AI-generated art in their games: "all this thing has done is made our lives more difficult"
    7. Steam Workshop mods should hopefully suffer less update-induced hassle, thanks to new version control tools
    8. Rally Point: Unorthodox. Complex. Laborious. Not just XCOM again. Of course I love USC: Counterforce
    9. UK Green Party MPs would be 'compelled' to support Stop Killing Games, if a proposed policy amendment passes
    10. Free bad dating sim Don't Stare makes me want to play an Elder Scroll where NPCs object to your gaze
    11. NYT Connections hint (Fri, 9 Jan)
    12. Wordle hint and answer #1665 (January 9 2026)
    1. For its gaming hardware contingent, CES 2026 was a good week to bury good news
    2. Ooh, that rumoured Witcher 3 DLC could be something really funky, if it's set where the latest report suggests
    3. Microlandia is a "brutally honest" scion of SimCity that thinks of cities as "beautiful but insane machines"
    4. Minecraft's getting cuter baby animals whose single pixel eyes you can stare into as you nudge them into lava
    5. Architect Of Ruin is a beautiful dark fantasy temple builder from former Valve devs and Hooded Horse
    6. GTA 6 may not yet be "content complete" and another release delay is possible, claims Jason Schreier
    7. Larian announce plans to let folks ask anything about their generative AI use, asserting "a lot has become lost in translation"
    8. A new StarCraft shooter's reportedly set to be revealed this year, possibly as a BlizzCon headliner
    9. Arc Raiders Expedition guide
    10. My Winter Car is out now - a frosty early access sequel to the hateful motoring sim that has you "spiraling even deeper"
    11. PUBG: Blindspot, the top-down one of Plunkbat's siblings, deploys into early access next month
    12. Wolfenstein 3 is reportedly in the works at Machine Games, possibly alongside a Rainbow Six Siege-ish multiplayer thing
    13. Rockstar continue to claim firings were about preventing GTA 6 leaks, as union push to get devs interim relief
    14. Wordle hint and answer #1664 (January 8 2026)
    15. NYT Connections hint (Thu, 8 Jan)
    1. Fortnite's latest collab with an adult animated series that's somehow still going is none other than South Park
    2. Whoops, looks like PEGI accidentally revealed that a new Life is Strange is on the way
    3. The Elder Scrolls Online is ditching yearly expansions and folding its premium content into the base game, but it's also gaining a battle pass
    4. Jet Set Radio Future on PC? It's not a guarantee, but a new project may lead to such a, well, future
    5. Sandfall Interactive have some light regrets over how they handled Clair Obscur: Expedition 33's final boss
    6. Ubisoft close the studio behind Assassin's Creed Rebellion days after the developers vote to unionise
    7. Turns out you have Helldivers 2 to thank for Arc Raiders moving away from a free-to-play model
    8. Parasite Mutant explores the horrors of running circles around not-quite-Xenomorphs, and its demo is out now
    9. Should you choose Solo or Online mode in Where Winds Meet?
    10. Deep Rock Galactic's Season 6 secret release date looks to have been cracked in minutes by astute diggers
    11. Creature collector RPG EvoCreo brings its turn-based monster battling to Steam, a decade on from mobile
    12. All Wayfarer locations to complete the Where Winds Meet map
    13. Steam's ancient behemoths face increased competition from new games in the store's 2025 money-making rankings
    14. How to heal yourself in Where Winds Meet
    15. Please let Red Dead Redemption 2’s unsolved ancient spiderweb mystery end by revealing that RDR2 is a spider's dream
    16. SteamOS seduces another handheld as a new Lenovo Legion Go 2 readies for June
    17. Help! I'm caught in the grip of a clicker game where you feed the belly of a fusion reactor
    18. Fallout 3: District of Columbia doubles the size of DC's ruins by resurrecting a bunch of cut areas
    19. FPS Quest turns the perpetual battle for a good frame-rate into an emergent shadow war between rival geeks
    20. Fallout season 2 is fuelling another Steam player bump, as folks once again remember they like Fallout
    21. Wordle hint and answer #1663 (January 7 2026)
    22. NYT Connections hint (Wed, 7 Jan)
    1. If you wish Satisfactory were an FPS, try new open world game StarRupture, out now in early access
    2. This Red Dead Redemption 2 mod turns the western into Cowboytamari Damacy, but you'll likely never be able to try it
    3. Sure, Cyberpunk 2077 modders, I'll spend 100 hours watching Kurt Hansen's evil selfie blimp fly around my flat
    4. How a SpaceX engineer ended up working on a spiritual successor to Kerbal Space Program
    5. From Nvidia with love, 007: First Light’s PC requirements are here
    6. Extending Cyberpunk 2077's pre-heist rise through the ranks would risk a "meandering, unfocused experience", argues Cyberpunk 2 director
    7. The fastest gaming CPU now has a very, very, very, very, very, very, very slightly faster replacement
    8. Dragon Quest VII Reimagined gets a demo this week, and your progress'll carry right over into the full game
    9. Nvidia reveals DLSS 4.5 with anti-aliasing upgrades and a dynamic, if slightly mad, 6x frame gen mode
    10. Wordle hint and answer #1662 (January 6 2026)
    11. NYT Connections hint (Tue, 6 Jan)
    1. Through modding wizardry, a seemingly cut Ashley opening level has been found in Resident Evil 4 Remake
    2. Gloomwood rings in the new year with a very vertical update filled with piggish cops and a useful new gun
    3. Clair Obscur: Expedition 33's writer doesn't want to follow audience expectations despite being "a bit of a people pleaser"
    4. Baba is You gets one last big update leaving custom level makers with some foxy new toys
    5. Grand strategy game Terra Invicta is an alien invasion sim so vast and slow the aliens seem lost within it
    6. Hytale's devs hope to "redefine the block-game genre" with their world generation, and they've now explained how it works
    7. Styx: Blades of Greed paints a nice stealthy picture in its latest trailer, even if its titular goblin can't shut up
    8. Quake goes Brutalist again with a "megalithic" 77 map mod that's available as a free standalone game
    9. Arc Raiders has aggression-based matchmaking to push pugnacious PvPers together, but it's "not a full science"
    10. GTA's Ned Luke gets swatted for the 8th time while streaming with Red Dead's Rob Wiethoff: "there's so many douchebags out there, Rob"
    11. Hytale will launch with native Linux support, though the Steam Deck is "not officially recommended"
    12. The Witcher 3 reporting winds continue to howl of mysterious extra DLC allegedly arriving this year, and there's one thing I'd love to see it do
    13. This week in PC games: Pathologic 3, a fresh Pokémon rival, a mind-bending FPS and some crablike base building
    14. Hollow Knight Silksong: All Materium locations
    15. Fallout: London's next DLC, Last Orders, will be served up early this year if current pint-pulling plans hold
    16. Wordle hint and answer #1661 (January 5 2026)
    17. NYT Connections hint (Mon, 5 Jan)
    1. The Sunday Papers
    2. NYT Connections hint (Sun, 4 Jan)
    3. Wordle hint and answer #1660 (January 4 2026)
    1. What are we all playing this weekend?
    2. NYT Connections hint (Sat, 3 Jan)
    3. Wordle hint and answer #1659 (January 3 2026)
    1. The most important PC gaming news stories in 2026
    2. Jeremy's most anticipated games for 2026
    3. NYT Connections hint (Fri, 2 Jan)
    4. Wordle hint and answer #1658 (January 2 2026)
    1. The final RPS Christmas Cracker 2025
    2. The RPS Selection Box: Mark's bonus games of the year 2025
    3. NYT Connections hint (Thu, 1 Jan)
    4. Wordle hint and answer #1657 (January 1 2026)