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June 2026 Archive

    1. Green Suits is a surreal platformer stroke JRPG filled with Escher architecture and paranormal investigators
    2. Microsoft reportedly add Arkane and their Blade game to the potential shuttering pile
    3. Disassembling the Steam Machine suggests Valve are protecting its precious RAM by burying it under a dozen other parts
    4. Guns of Eschaton is a wild west soulslike FPS and posthumous release from the art director of Half-Life 2
    5. I attended a Tomb Raider and Horizon developer's boss design masterclass and came away both weary and enchanted
    6. Nivalis has a new name and a release date that will make your autumn backlog even bigger
    7. Ground Branch, a first-person tactical shooter from an original Rainbow Six dev, is finally hitting v1.0 after eight years in early access
    8. The worst thing about the Steam Machine isn't the price, it's how little I get to use the Steam Controller's snappy magnetic dongle thingy
    9. GTA 6 makers have 10 working days to voluntarily recognise Rockstar IWGB Game Workers Union or it may go to a government tribunal
    10. Generative AI is a "virulent plague" and even using it to eliminate "drudgery" has downsides, reckons long-time Dragon Age lead writer David Gaider
    11. "We're talking about at least half a decade of horror": former Exodus lead explains why he wasn't keen on doing a Baldur's Gate 4 despite Hasbro offering the chance
    12. State of Decay studio Undead Labs potentially up for closure, sources claim, with Bethesda and Blizzard also facing layoffs
    13. Paint and Seek codes
    14. "We were only three votes away": Stop Killing Games-backed California bill to keep online games playable fails to win over senate committee
    15. US lawsuit accuses Samsung, SK Hynix and Micron of worsening the RAM crisis by fixing memory prices and supply
    16. NYT Connections: Sports Edition Hints (Tuesday 30th June)
    17. NYT Connections hint (Tue, 30 Jun)
    18. Wordle hint and answer #1837 (June 30 2026)
    1. The Steam Machine's Companion Cube case is big, expensive, and based on a 19-year-old joke, so I hate how well-made it is
    2. Valve dropped that Steam Machine Companion Cube case down the legal incinerator after its makers neglected to get their permission
    3. "Everybody got the rug pulled out from under them": Xbox are putting third-party Game Pass deals "on pause", claims publishing veteran
    4. Rainbow Six Siege developers go on strike through July to protest mass layoffs and RTO policies at Ubisoft Barcelona
    5. Space shooter Hyperwired gives you a ship with a doofy power cable hanging out the back and challenges you to keep its battery charged
    6. Grow a Garden 2 weather events
    7. All seeds in Grow a Garden 2
    8. This week in PC games: a new King's Field-like RPG, an American Revolutionary War sim, and a dreaming megacity full of cool architecture
    9. Cyberpunk: Edgerunners 2 mantis blade slices its way out of Netflix's doors this autumn, with a fresh crew of tech-infused Night City dwellers
    10. NYT Connections: Sports Edition Hints (Mon 29th June)
    11. NYT Connections hint (Mon, 29 Jun)
    12. Wordle hint and answer #1836 (June 29 2026)
    1. Visual novel Coffee Talk Tokyo serves up an image of 'Cool Japan,' but not much more
    2. The Sunday Papers
    3. NYT Connections: Sports Edition Hints (Sun 28 June)
    4. NYT Connections hint (Sun, 28 Jun)
    5. Wordle hint and answer #1835 (June 28 2026)
    1. Joy Malignant is a photobashed, dice-based RPG where every choice you make affects how your faceless body looks
    2. Bloodwoven is a survival immersive sim set in a world built on top of the frozen corpse of a god
    3. Oh no, that's Lenovo saying they think these RAM prices will be the new normal and may never go back to how they were
    4. Civilization 7 devs talk 20th century leaders, controversial historical figures, and dealing with colonialism in 4X strategy games
    5. Star Wars Eclipse "literally cannot be finished" if layoffs go through, its devs reportedly say
    6. From Hydro Drift Ninjas to Sonic Napoleons: I spent far too long definitively ranking Tokyo Xtreme Racer’s best opponent names
    7. What are we all playing this weekend?
    8. NYT Connections: Sports Edition Hints (Sat 27th June)
    9. Wordle hint and answer #1834 (June 27 2026)
    10. NYT Connections hint (Sat, 27 Jun)
    1. "I torture myself over every last detail": Stardew Valley's creator is having a real time of it with Haunted Chocolatier's recipe book interface
    2. All Mutations in Grow a Garden 2
    3. Valve's Steam Machine gets competition in the "Stim Machine", a cheeky French PC box that's already reportedly been re-named
    4. Deep and volatile Terraria-style factory sim Sandustry hits early access in August, Hooded Horse announce
    5. How to survive the memory shortage crisis: a PC owner's guide
    6. Creative Assembly confirm Total War: Medieval 3's starting factions, pegging out a complex world of schemers and killers, feudal giants and emerging empires
    7. Clutch doesn't look like just a Forza Horizon clone, judging by its first lengthy livestream, though I'm concerned it might spread itself too thin
    8. "Once Darth Vader came for you, you were just going to die": We could have had an MMO about Jedi refugees hiding from the Empire, if Star Wars Galaxies had gone differently
    9. Scout Report: Megacopter is a very silly bloodbath
    10. South of Midnight studio Compulsion Games are allowing staff to openly seek new jobs ahead of possible Xbox layoffs, according to report
    11. NYT Connections: Sports Edition Hints (Friday 26 June)
    12. NYT Connections hint (Fri, 26 Jun)
    13. Wordle hint and answer #1833 (June 26 2026)
    1. A year on from its launch, former Blizzard devs' Wildgate only has one last update left, but it's not shutting down
    2. Punch a buff frog and try not to let it hit you back with its massive tongue in the frenetic BREKEKEKEX
    3. I don't know what a flesh disk jukebox is, but the Lynchian adventure game Something Beautiful makes me want to find out
    4. Enshrouded makes October even busier with a 1.0 release date, more details coming this summer
    5. Following the last Destiny 2 update, layoffs at Bungie are underway, with most of the shooter's team affected
    6. "We have our own list of features that we wanted to add": Valve say the Steam Machine's update support will be similar to the Steam Deck's
    7. Despite investors moaning that Elden Ring's success hasn't been milked hard enough financially, FromSoftware parent company's CEO has kept his job
    8. Elden Ring Scadutree Fragments
    9. Grow A Garden 2: All Pets, Pet Abilities, and Eggs
    10. Motorsport Manager 2 races onto Steam in 2027, teasing wannabe Wolffs and hopeful Horners with more dynamic race strategies and expanded off-track stories
    11. 7 Nights with Vroombi combines the horror of a haunted house with the mounting irritation of being a robot vacuum cleaner
    12. Former Halo art director who complained about "fraud" and "cronyism" warns looming Xbox layoffs are a chance for bosses to settle scores
    13. League of Legends' Vanguard anti-cheat finally gets the option to only run when you fire up a game, as Riot roll out "on-demand sessions" for "sufficiently secured" PCs
    14. Save the hassle of building a PC with these six prebuilt PC deals I've spotted
    15. NYT Connections: Sports Edition Hints (Thurs 25 June)
    16. NYT Connections hint (Thu, 25 Jun)
    17. Wordle hint and answer #1832 (June 25 2026)
    1. Folk Emerging is a 4X strategy sim entirely set inside the first few turns of a Civilization game, and I think it has huge potential
    2. How to get Seed Packs in Grow A Garden 2
    3. I've been trying to get my Steam Link to work for ten years, but I've fixed it just in time to save me spending £1000 on a Steam Machine
    4. Waiting for GTA 6's PC release might save you dropping an extra $20 for access to some special shops, based on my wading through GTA 5's editions soup
    5. "We’re not trying to build Titanfall 3," Empulse CEO says, though its’s scratching my wallrunning FPS itch all the same
    6. Citizen Sleeper creator explains why they're taking a swing with their new RPG
    7. "Characters will come and go": Total War: Medieval 3 won't have skill trees because Creative Assembly want you to think in terms of dynasties
    8. GTA 6 price confirmed: the standard edition will set you back $80, but on the bright side at least us PC players have plenty of time to save up
    9. Grow A Garden 2: Pet Tier List
    10. "We have to have free human expression in some capacity": Patreon CEO shares frustrations about getting adult content past payment processors
    11. Magic: The Gathering Arena devs' union officially elected, following claims Wizards of the Coast were dragging their heels on voluntary recognition
    12. NYT Connections: Sports Edition Hints (Wed 24 June)
    13. NYT Connections hint (Wed, 24 Jun)
    14. Wordle hint and answer #1831 (June 24 2026)
    1. Marathon's mid-season 2 update brings in an experimental PvE mode that will let solo and duo runners take on Cryo Archive
    2. "Truthfully, it's heartbreaking": Warframe dev on the hole that Destiny 2 leaves behind
    3. Dimhaven - The Lost Source invites you and your camera to look for your missing uncle on a strange island today
    4. HEAVYDELIC is a hand drawn, VHS tape and comic art infused platformer from an alternate timeline with roots in Slavic mythology
    5. "The combinations are in the trillions": Star Wars Galactic Racer’s creative director on speeder specialisation, storycrafting, and having “a bit of a smash”
    6. How to get Dragon's Breath in Grow a Garden 2
    7. Final Fantasy 7 Rebirth's subtle queer characters were all about presenting people "inhabiting this world in an authentic manner"
    8. Warhammer 40,000: Darktide gets a free update adding new enemies and an expeditions mode revamp as the Skitarii parachute in via DLC
    9. Here comes a new launcher for Warhammer 40,000: Rogue Trader, annnnd there goes the new launcher after a day of backlash from roaring traders
    10. Star Wars: Galactic Racer let me play podracer ping-pong, though its high-stakes roguelike gauntlet feels more tuned for pace-focused speeder freaks
    11. "It didn't look like things were going to change anytime soon": Valve insist price worries were never behind Steam Machine delays
    12. "This crisis was avoidable, but our bosses chose to drive blindly towards disaster": French videogame union STJV call for national industry strike day
    13. The seven best deals we can find in the UK and US — no Amazon required
    14. Stranger Than Heaven studio don't intend their "casting choices [to] take the spotlight and overshadow everything else", despite that now having happened two games running
    15. The RPS 2026 deals guide: Cheaper hardware, 100% Amazon-free
    16. Civilization 7 finally gets hotseat local multiplayer via a new update out now, which also makes cities moodier and overhauls governments
    17. NYT Connections: Sports Edition Hints (Tue 23 June)
    18. NYT Connections hint (Tue, 23 Jun)
    19. Wordle hint and answer #1830 (June 23 2026)
    1. EA are making another round of layoffs as they seek "to better meet fans’ changing needs", according to reports
    2. "It's too dangerous for us to speculate": Valve don't know if Steam Machine prices will drop in the future, after admitting that "some people are going to priced out"
    3. Steam Machine review: A singular living room PC that's more expensive than I'd like, but too special not to love
    4. Steam Machine prices start at £879 / $1049, Valve confirm, as "randomised reservations" open for the SteamOS PC
    5. Subnautica 2: What to do first
    6. In strategy game Scream Operator, you run every inch of a haunted house ride from the all-important pre-show to the Chainsaw Guys
    7. Gothic 1 Remake review - the classic RPG returns with countless subtle improvements
    8. Geareo is an extremely pleasing clockwork building game with pull-out model kits and flippable paper manuals
    9. Accidentally thrusting Morrowind to death just got more difficult, thanks to engine reimplemention OpenMW's chunky new update
    10. This week in PC games: synthpunk platforming, haunted house hoovering, and a game about growing a black hole
    11. CD Projekt boss "knows for a fact" a surge of games made purely with generative AI are coming, but doubts "whether this is really the path to follow"
    12. Grow A Garden 2: How to make money fast
    13. Wordle hint and answer #1829 (June 22 2026)
    14. NYT Connections hint (Mon, 22 Jun)
    1. The Sunday Papers
    2. NYT Connections hint (Sun, 21 Jun)
    3. Wordle hint and answer #1828 (June 21 2026)
    1. MonCraft 199X is a creature collecting survival game where the Y2K apocalypse actually happened
    2. As EA appear to renew the trademark for Ultima, its creator lies in wait to reclaim the game's copyright next year
    3. CD Projekt Red's CEO still thinks they need to finish their post-Cyberpunk redemption arc, and he's hoping The Witcher 4 will help
    4. Sony say goodbye to PC and hello to AI in their annual business report, which must be a good thing, right?
    5. To make Pragmata's Diana feel naturally childlike, a small group of women dubbed the "Diana Police" was set up to keep things in check
    6. What are we all playing this weekend?
    7. NYT Connections hint (Sat, 20 Jun)
    8. Wordle hint and answer #1827 (June 20 2026)
    1. "An elevated lifestyle no matter what happens outside”: we need more horror games set in billionaire apocalypse bunkers
    2. The Outer Worlds 2 studio Obsidian accused of "violating state wage and hour laws" for profit in California lawsuit
    3. Slay the Spire 2 gets a patch for broken RNG after player turns in gruelling eight hour video exposé
    4. PUBG now has genAI team mates capable of "intelligent decision-making", and I must remind you that Krafton are working on bots for the military
    5. Subnautica 2: Best Base locations
    6. What are we all playing this Steam Next Fest?
    7. Out of nowhere, excellent tactics game Battle Brothers gets a pile of dreadful swords - its first proper patch in a year
    8. The best PC games to play right now
    9. Subnautica 2: All Biomods and how to unlock them
    10. I might have hit that hospital with a high explosive shell, but Iron Nest: Heavy Turret Simulator hit me right in the feels
    11. Baldur's Gate 3 Path to Menzoberranzan custom campaign modders offer glimpse of their long-awaited demo level's "dark, ruined dungeon" as environments near completion
    12. Valve roll out a more detailed timeline for Steam Controller orders, giving you a clearer picture of when you'll hear about your reservation
    13. NYT Connections hint (Fri, 19 Jun)
    14. Wordle hint and answer #1826 (June 19 2026)
    1. Epic's plans for their big store revamp over the next year sound like they'll at long last meet the bare minimum
    2. God judged me for killing someone in Meaningless Random Numbers but I owe the devil some money so what else could I do?
    3. "Hell or high water": the System Shock remake's co-director on the sneaky step taken to get the game made
    4. Latest official SteamOS update paves the way for Steam Machine with a bunch of new display features and faster patches
    5. The interstellar dice-driven RPG Citizen Sleeper is free for the next week, so now you've got no excuse to not play it
    6. After Epic outline a genAI focused Unreal Engine 6, Vampire Survivors studio Poncle say they're "reviewing" their Fortnite collab
    7. Reach the roof before your toe fungus reaches your brain in Moldrise, my favourite horror demo in ages
    8. How to get the Venus Fly Trap in Grow a Garden 2
    9. Signet City is an RPG where you play a brain fungus feeding off the emotions of your host, like a mushroom-themed Monsters, Inc
    10. Warren Spector-helmed Thick as Thieves developers OtherSide lay off 17 staff as they cancel multiplayer immersive sim Argos: Riders on the Storm
    11. What do Wheelbarrows do in Grow A Garden 2?
    12. RPS behind the scenes: How I bodge hardware photography
    13. Fortnite boss hopes to take on Roblox's massive everythingverse with a "very different" massive everythingverse, as Epic unveil genAI-infused Unreal Engine 6
    14. Dark Souls 2 seamless co-op mod is "close" to being playtest-ready, having morphed into one of its creator's "most complicated and ambitious projects to date"
    15. NYT Connections hint (Thu, 18 Jun)
    16. Wordle hint and answer #1825 (June 18 2026)
    1. Fired Rockstar developers can bring blacklisting claims against the GTA 6 developer, UK tribunal rules as final trial looms
    2. Abe Lincoln dodged the bullet in goblinAmerica, a brain-mottling shooter set in a putrefying alternative USA
    3. From its electric melee fights to its surprise Firewatch nods, Control Resonant's radical sequelcraft looks like it might just pay off
    4. "The world is built": Skyblivion devs call for extra quest-making hands to help overcome the massive mod's "final roadblocks" to release
    5. The Forge codes
    6. Many live service games are just an MMO subscription "hidden inside of a neat 'optional' package", argue Guild Wars 3 devs in a post about the new game's monetisation
    7. What do Gnomes do in Grow A Garden 2?
    8. Crusader Kings 3 devs Paradox will make the roaming mercenary lifestyle of playing as a landless adventurer free for everyone later this year
    9. The Guild: Europa 1410 is a medieval strategy reboot that plays like a fussy Kingdom Come boardgame
    10. Microsoft reportedly only announced Ninja Theory's new game at Summer Game Fest to try and attract a buyer for the studio
    11. NYT Connections hint (Wed, 17 Jun)
    12. Wordle hint and answer #1824 (June 17 2026)
    1. Naoki Hamaguchi explains why Final Fantasy 7 Revelation has that subtitle even if the game's central theme is "Resolve"
    2. Less than a month after launch, the entire Luna Abyss team has been laid off
    3. The European Commission will not legislate Stop Killing Games, but the campaign isn't dead yet, say its organisers
    4. Subnautica 2: How to unlock all Tadpole upgrades
    5. Subnautica 2: Where to find all the Leviathans
    6. Subnautica 2: Where to find all Adaptations and how to unlock them
    7. Subnautica 2: How to get the Repair Tool
    8. Subnautica 2: How to get a Fully Functional Fabricator
    9. Saber open the Hellraiser: Revival release date box and show it's coming in October
    10. Copa City is a sweet and sweaty mix of city-building and tycoon game in which you manage armies of football fans
    11. Life is Strange creator Don't Nod look to be in hot water as a financial report says they'll be out of cash by November
    12. Please help us find the players hiding in these screenshots of million-selling painterly stealth game Meccha Chameleon
    13. Hunty Zombie codes
    14. EA, the big brains behind The Sims 2 H&M Fashion Stuff, announce they're "transforming how brands connect with audiences" – with in-game billboards
    15. Assassin's Creed Shadows' final update adds one last story mission and a wearable Black Flag Resynced advert
    16. Another Xbocalypse begins: Microsoft are reportedly closing or spinning off Double Fine, Ninja Theory and Compulsion
    17. NYT Connections hint (Tue, 16 Jun)
    18. Wordle hint and answer #1823 (June 16 2026)
    1. Control a huge drilling vessel rife with bloody religious symbolism in Mole, a horror sim from former GTFO developers
    2. Xbox Games Studios loses two top execs, days after Microsoft gaming CEO calls for company "reset"
    3. The UK's dramatic under-16 social media ban will also apply to "gaming services", but at least they're not coming for multiplayer
    4. Nvidia G-Sync Pulsar monitors can successfully beat biology to hone motion clarity in games - though they're not yet worth the price
    5. This week in PC games: a trio of surreal shooters, a big Stellaris expansion, and a new RPG from Octopath Traveller devs
    6. The Witcher 3 online mod adds multiplayer Gwent battles in its latest update, a bit like CD Projekt's Gwent game but with more losers being ridden around by winners
    7. Pumping out new Fallout and Elder Scrolls games faster is reportedly the plan at Xbox, as the spectre of potential corporate rejigging looms
    8. NYT Connections hint (Mon, 15 Jun)
    9. Wordle hint and answer #1822 (June 15 2026)
    1. How Croakwood captures the challenge of a townbuilder like Anno but avoids the stress and pressure
    2. The Sunday Papers
    3. NYT Connections hint (Sun, 14 Jun)
    4. Wordle hint and answer #1821 (June 14 2026)
    1. Vanillaware seemingly want their other games on PC too, but if you want that to happen, talk to their publishers
    2. Penguin Colony's demo shows life as a flightless bird is lonely, scary, awkward, and cosmically intriguing
    3. Zlin City: Arch Moderna is a diorama city builder made with actual, physical models and based on a real Czech city
    4. Whether you believe it or not, Final Fantasy 7 Revelation director Naoki Hamaguchi says the end's been planned from the start
    5. Nintendo reportedly look set to net so little from their Palworld lawsuit you'll wonder why they bothered
    6. "There's nothing worse than an AI-generated pitch": Bloober, Jagex, 11 bit and indie devs on the bruising hurdle of funding a videogame prototype
    7. What are we all playing this weekend?
    8. NYT Connections hint (Sat, 13 Jun)
    9. Wordle hint and answer #1820 (June 13 2026)
    1. How to upgrade your airship in Solarpunk
    2. I sure hope Crimson Desert's new pet limit means I can own 100 pigeons at once, even if I'll only have 50 in camp because Pearl Abyss are cowards
    3. Where to find Copper in Solarpunk
    4. Forza Horizon 6 PC players urged to check their Microsoft Gaming Services version, as Playground tackle disappearing saves
    5. Subnautica 2: How to cure Digestive Incompatibility
    6. Frontier are making a new Planet strategy management game that features neither Zoos nor Coasters
    7. Over the Hill might slap a chill sheen over SnowRunner’s rugged off-roading, but it’ll still drown your jeep in a second if you let it
    8. Subnautica 2: Where to find Fibrous Pulp
    9. Stranger Than Heaven will explore Tupac's "potential future" if "he was still alive now", according to RGG studio head
    10. I will always fear the idle genre but wizard school RPG Abracademia is more enchanting than most, with around 300 spells to learn
    11. "Pay the gravity tax": In crushing strategy game Asema, your factories will become a vortex if they grow too vast
    12. Stop Killing Games-backed California bill targeting online game shutdowns "isn't going to be an easy thing" to enforce, says the politician behind it
    13. NYT Connections hint (Fri, 12 Jun)
    14. Wordle hint and answer #1819 (June 12 2026)
    1. Ahead of its 1.0 launch, RuneScape: Dragonwilds fits in one more, scorching hot update later this month
    2. Bounce 2 is a sequel to an Atari "PONG killer" that I'm pretty sure never existed
    3. Starseeker: Astroneer Expeditions blasts off into early access today, with a full planet ready for you to explore
    4. How to get wheat in Solarpunk
    5. Tapestry is a painterly grand strategy multiplayer war game where you plot your victory at the start of every match
    6. X4: Foundations' Empire update, out now, delivers the space sim's biggest bout of battle balancing yet, plus RTS-style ordering and ship showrooms for showoffs
    7. From Mr. Potato Head to a cosmic '70s documentary, Spore's creators share how it came to be
    8. Scout Report: Hijong Park's Defender Patrol lets you shoot your copilot, article unnecessary
    9. Drums, cash grants, and bubbling capybaras: How Latin America's game dev creatives are outgrowing outsourcing
    10. Ubisoft are reportedly laying off up to 380 staff, as the Assassin's Creed publisher closes two studios and restructures another
    11. Valor Mortis' acrobatic new demo makes me want to believe it's a soulslike prequel to Ghostrunner
    12. "We have found ourselves over extended", new Xbox CEO says amid reports of plans for major job cuts
    13. Witcher 3 modders are restoring the RPG's massive cut plague questline, just in case CD Projekt's Songs of the Past expansion isn't enough extra Geralt
    14. NYT Connections hint (Thu, 11 Jun)
    15. Wordle hint and answer #1818 (June 11 2026)
    1. Wonky witch fable 1666: Amsterdam is the kind of sexy nonsense I want from Assassin's Creed: Hexe
    2. There's never been an easier time to boycott Microsoft, the most boring video game publisher in the business
    3. Every detail of Blood Dungeon looks slapdash, but its mix of platformer and Vampire survivors gets my heart thumping
    4. Valve won't let retailers stock physical Steam gift cards anymore because "scammers have adapted" to whatever security measures they've tried
    5. We're finally getting a Vanillaware game on PC - Muramasa: Revenant Blades, an expanded 4K edition of the gorgeous Japanese action RPG
    6. "Even dry and lost places can flourish with a little care": Waterful is a gentle, beautiful puzzler about drawing rivers that makes me yearn for something overwhelming
    7. NYT Connections hint (Wed, 10 Jun)
    8. Wordle hint and answer #1817 (June 10 2026)
    1. In Am I Nima, you must find and fuse words to convince your mother you're really her daughter
    2. Whoops! Sand: Raiders of Sophie's server slam got so slammed it isn't coming out tomorrow anymore
    3. You'll be able to change some parts of Final Fantasy 7 Revelation's story, but no matter what there's only one ending
    4. Big Walk was born during a COVID lockdown out of a distaste for birthday party Zoom calls
    5. Dragon's Dogma 2 is getting a frosty Dark Arisen expansion, plus two big updates that fix some of the things you moaned about back in 2024
    6. Square Enix whip out the defibrillator to bring back Kingdom Hearts 4 from the brink with a new trailer and promise of a PC release
    7. Before Darkness Falls is an Aliens: Dark Descent-style tactics game from former Frostpunk devs, and I did enjoy dying in its depths
    8. The Guild Wars games have always been set in a world abandoned by the gods, in new MMO Guild Wars 3, you'll see why they left
    9. 007 First Light: Uninvited Walkthrough
    10. Playing its mystery-drenched demo suggests I'll like everything about About Fishing, except the fishing
    11. Resonance: A Plague Tale Legacy devs learned to make melee combat on the job
    12. Yes, you have a gun in Gen Atlas, but Fumito Ueda doesn't want you to think it's a shooter
    13. Just like Luftrausers before it, Wind Runners is proving I'm too careless a pilot to survive a bullet-hell dogfight
    14. NYT Connections hint (Tue, 9 Jun)
    15. Wordle hint and answer #1816 (June 9 2026)
    1. Star Trek: Outposts Unknown's demo introduces an upbeat settlement builder, though my crew of clocking-out ship slackers wouldn't last a day in RimWorld
    2. Gothic remake lockpicking backlash raises the fascinating question of whether anybody really enjoys lockpicking in RPGs
    3. Stealth's been replaced with scrappy swordfighting in Resonance: A Plague Tale Legacy, but what I really miss are the rat swarms
    4. Resident Evil Veronica is the remake I'm most excited about, because the original was such a mess
    5. To the delight of its skateboarding aliens, I have failed to solo Saturday morning cartoon-styled co-op roguelike Maximum Thunderness as if I have four hands
    6. This week in PC games: some enormous space sims and strategy games, plus a cheery prop hunt where you paint your own camouflage
    7. "Trust that we're going to be smart about this" Amazon Game Studios boss says of 007 First Light sequels, while insisting he didn't confirm who'll publish them
    8. "We made a series of mistakes": GOG apologise for emailing Nazi symbols to people in newsletter about Slavic fantasy game
    9. Bleak, disquieting action game Virtue and a Sledgehammer blends family heartbreak with stout wall-smashing in its new demo
    10. Going by its demo, Ascenders: Beyond the Peak is a pitiless Darkest Dungeon-style climbing RPG in which one party member's fall could doom the rest
    11. Not even Crazy Taxi: World Tour is safe from generative AI, as Sega admit they used it to make background assets
    12. NYT Connections hint (Mon, 8 Jun)
    13. Wordle hint and answer #1815 (June 8 2026)
    1. One of Subnautica 2's ousted execs is now working on a sequel to ship-scavenging horror game Duskers
    2. "It is alive": the makers of 2024 horror GOTY Mouthwashing are back with perhaps the most dreadful World War tank sim you'll ever play
    3. Valheim 1.0 release date announced, so prepare to ward off "ancient evils and lurking threats" in its treacherously icy final biome
    4. El Paso, Elsewhere 2 invites you back into its moody, supernatural neo-noir world with sick flips and Frankenstein
    5. Play a parasitic brain mushroom in Signet City, the first-person fungalpunk RPG from the creator of Citizen Sleeper
    6. The Sunday Papers
    7. NYT Connections hint (Sun, 7 Jun)
    8. Wordle hint and answer #1814 (June 7 2026)
    1. Silent Hill 2 remakers Bloober Team are boldly going where few horror devs have gone before in Star Trek: Shadow Frontier, a "psychological thriller" starring Ro Laren
    2. Self-cloning strategy game The Alters is getting a 20 hour terraforming expansion that plays with the problem of age
    3. Ukrainian-made Lovecraftian horror game The Sinking City 2 finally has a release date, and you can play the first hour right now on Steam
    4. "Madness and intrigue": Capcom announce Resident Evil: Veronica, a remake of the 26-year-old Dreamcast hit, with a first-person trailer
    5. What are we all playing this weekend?
    6. Summer Game Fest 2026 everything announced for PC
    7. It's not an Imposter, it's a spin-off: multiplayer backstabbing game Among Us has spawned a single player detective story
    8. Brace yourself, Mr Bond: 007 First Light is getting some pirate king DLC alongside New Game+ and extra TacSim challenges
    9. Square Enix reveal Final Fantasy 7: Revelation, the final part of the remake trilogy, coming to PC in 2027
    10. NYT Connections hint (Sat, 6 Jun)
    11. Wordle hint and answer #1813 (June 6 2026)
    1. 007 First Light walkthrough
    2. 007 First Light: The Past Never Dies walkthrough
    3. Assassin's Creed creator's forgotten fantasy game 1666: Amsterdam will finally release this year, over a decade after Ubisoft ripped it from his fingers
    4. "Overwhelming power": Fumito Ueda's giant robot game gets an official title and, wait a minute, is that a gun?
    5. Guild Wars 3 announced, following some domain digging unearthing a recently updated website and a mysterious teaser from ArenaNet
    6. Tupac Shakur joins Snoop Dogg in Stranger Than Heaven, which also has a release date once you've finished getting over the whole dead rapper cameo business
    7. "A new hunting ground for the ultimate apex predator" - Alien: Isolation 2 gets its first proper trailer
    8. MIA action-adventure Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: The Last Ronin resurfaces in the hands of noted katana enthusiasts Platinum Games
    9. Lego Batman: Old Gotham South Riddler puzzle locations and solutions
    10. Lego Batman: Tricorner Riddler puzzle locations and solutions
    11. Is Microsoft's $69 billion Activision Blizzard deal paying off? Xbox boss Asha Sharma says it's "hard to say how to think about those decisions"
    12. Summer Game Fest 2026 livestream: Join our liveblog for all the main show and Day of the Devs announcements
    13. Gothic's remake is out today, adding new detail and awfulness to the 2001 RPG's bustling prison world
    14. The Steam Machine and Steam Frame are shipping this summer, Valve confirm as the pair join the Verified program
    15. NYT Connections hint (Fri, 5 Jun)
    16. Wordle hint and answer #1812 (June 5 2026)
    1. Lexispell is Balatro for people that love spelling bees and hate gambling
    2. Rust's latest update asks you to say goodbye to your old outdated face and hello to your new, handsome one
    3. Development on Prologue: Go Wayback is ending as PlayerUnknown Productions lays off an unspecified amount of staff
    4. Unknown Worlds outline a bunch of incoming small Subnautica 2 updates including predator behaviour adjustments and proximity chat
    5. All 50 Bat Symbols in Lego Batman: Legacy of the Dark Knight
    6. Bond rights holders Amazon MGM have "a great relationship" with 007 First Light devs IO Interactive, but say it's "still too early to discuss future projects"
    7. "We didn't have the content needed to do it justice at the time": Helldivers 2 is finally getting a roguelite system Arrowhead experimented with pre-launch
    8. Witcher devs' Project Hadar will make you feel all of the open-world emotions, a new job ad suggests, though sorry it still isn't a cosmic Japanese horror game
    9. The best racing games on PC
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    11. Star Wars Zero Company release date leaks ahead of Summer Game Fest, and its XCOM-ish star warring isn't too far, far away
    12. Wordle hint and answer #1811 (June 4 2026)
    13. NYT Connections hint (Thu, 4 Jun)
    1. "One discovers, one guides, and one strikes the final blow": Ikumi Nakamura's new yokai-hunting game Kemuri is turning co-op into a ritual, somehow
    2. The best part of playing Mina the Hollower with difficulty modifiers is that I don't have to read tweets about it
    3. God of War Laufey and Wolverine are snubbing PC, as rumoured, but I bet they come crawling back sometime after the launch of PS6
    4. Forza Horizon 6 gets customisable interiors thanks to a modder who couldn't resist swapping the seats of their beemer
    5. 007 First Light: All The Time In The World walkthrough
    6. "The difference is not just that you can’t fight back, it’s that you feel like you shouldn’t": Alien Isolation's lead designer wants you to "respect" the dinos in The Lost Wild
    7. Tomb Raider: Legacy of Atlantis studio have used "AI-assisted tools" during development, but swear "any AI-assisted assets were either replaced or refined by humans"
    8. Control Resonant release date? Yeah that's nice, now move aside so I can look at its system requirements and ohhh that's a lot of SSD space
    9. Texturetown is a Frankenstein's MMO created by remixing Club Penguin, Pirates of the Caribbean Online and other dead MMOs
    10. Marathon season 2 launch plagued by anteaters, monkeys and weasels, with Bungie dishing out free gear to say sorry for the server issues
    11. NYT Connections hint (Wed, 3 Jun)
    12. Wordle hint and answer #1810 (June 3 2026)
    1. Rayman Legends was a timeless 2D platformer with beautiful art, but I'll grudgingly admit that its remake is an improvement
    2. Silent Hill: Townfall wants you to "fear the truth behind the static" when it arrives in September
    3. Copy animals' movements to turn into them, or fuse them to travel further in Mimic Meadows
    4. Dungeon Lurker's crunchy, grimey pixel art hides a metatextual secret beneath its roguelike, dungeon crawling veneers
    5. Pick your favourite Greek god and build a metropolis in their name in the strategy city-builder Theos: Cities of Myth
    6. Turn-based RPG Entropy offers up a world abandoned by the gods that looks like a PS1 game fished from a toilet
    7. Marathon season 2 kicks off with a "PvP-lite" mode that sounds more like a sidestep for those after PvE
    8. Silver Pines is a rotoscoped side-scrolling survival horror game that splices Silent Hill with Flashback, and it's out on October 8th
    9. "What the f*** do I pay you for if that’s your opinion?" Gabe Newell reportedly once shouted at one of Valve's Lionel Hutzes during Steam porn debate
    10. Time to Wake Up is an eye-catching puzzle adventure where your surroundings shift with every blink
    11. Mym's Sword is a delightfully ominous Zelda-style action platformer with magic rings and knife-wielding raccoons
    12. Weak Legacy 2 codes
    13. Wizard Alchemy codes (June 2026)
    14. After a week of playing on nothing but Panther Lake laptops, it's safe to say that Intel has its gaming mojo back
    15. Crimson Desert's forgettable story will undergo tweaks to "strengthen the narrative flow" in the coming months, as Pearl Abyss tease proper DLC
    16. Former Forza Horizon devs reveal Clutch, an open-world racer that blends classic battles for first place with the gadget-infused spectacle of action movie car chases
    17. Subnautica 2 update kicks off creature tweaks by making Marrowbreaches and Nibblers more dangerous, but easier to outfox
    18. Baldur's Gate 2 remake reportedly in development at Wizards of the Coast, possibly alongside a revamp of the first game
    19. NYT Connections hint (Tue, 2 Jun)
    20. Wordle hint and answer #1809 (June 2 2026)
    1. Best skills to unlock first in Lego Batman: Legacy of the Dark Knight
    2. "Flip the script": Capcom veteran casually pitches a Resident Evil 'creature collector' about curing the undead
    3. Former Dragon Age lead says product placements could help combat "overreliance on microtransactions" and I agree because every game should make you pick a watch colour
    4. Lego Batman: All 10 Batcave Waynetech Cache locations
    5. Minesweeper: Next-Gen adds layers of unholy tessellation and recursive sorcery to a blameless cult classic
    6. "Make the past less permanent": Tattoo Removal Simulator is a surprisingly poignant take on the PowerWash clean-up genre
    7. Factorio's next major update will be a swansong, as Wube Software "shift the focus onto long term support" and new projects
    8. Nvidia unveil their first all-in-one laptop processor, with support for DLSS, ray tracing, frame gen, and all those other RTX features you love and hate
    9. 007 First Light: All Card locations
    10. Tekken 8 game director bids goodbye to Bandai Namco following series boss Katsuhiro Harada's exit last year, but doesn't do an hour-long DJ mix
    11. This week in PC games: Summer Game Fest, the Gothic remake, and the policing of furry Chicago
    12. Fable's delay into 2027 is the right move, but it'll make looking through the window bars at GTA 6 on consoles slightly more painful
    13. NYT Connections hint (Mon, 1 Jun)
    14. Wordle hint and answer #1808 (June 1 2026)