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August 2026 Archive

    1. The Blood of Dawnwalker review - worthy to sip blood at the top RPGs' table
    2. Mortal Shell 2: Blackridge Cliffs walkthrough (Part 6)
    3. Mortal Shell 2: Ruins Of Nochte walkthrough (Part 11)
    4. Mortal Shell 2: Gloomshade Grove walkthrough (Part 7)
    5. This week in PC games: Bank Holiday Mawnday Edition
    6. Mortal Shell 2: Desolate Peak walkthrough (Part 10)
    7. NYT Connections hint (Mon, 31 Aug)
    8. Wordle hint and answer #1899 (August 31 2026)
    1. Mortal Shell 2: Widow's Overlook walkthrough (Part 2)
    2. Mortal Shell 2: Prisoners' Domain walkthrough (Part 12)
    3. The Sunday Papers
    4. NYT Connections hint (Sun, 30 Aug)
    5. Wordle hint and answer #1898 (August 30 2026)
    1. Usual June mixes Hades-esque action, crystal crabs and ghosts to make for a game that'll do well in your Halloween rotation
    2. The Long Dark sequel Blackfrost hasn't been cancelled, but developer Hinterland are shifting a bit more focus onto the original's survival mode
    3. Mortal Shell 2 gets its first major update, adding in extra beacons, useful new items, and making riposte damage scaling actually work
    4. Star Citizen spinoff Squadron 42 has been delayed yet again, citing everyone going gaga for GTA 6, even if it isn't coming to PC yet
    5. "That is a lot of work": Persona 4 Revival producer says there's no plans for a Yosuke romance option, even if the team did think about it
    6. Booth snacks of Gamescom 2026, reviewed
    7. What are we all playing this weekend?
    8. NYT Connections hint (Sat, 29 Aug)
    9. Wordle hint and answer #1897 (August 29 2026)
    1. "I'm desperately looking for anybody who knows anybody at Valve": open world satire Future? No Thanks! is still locked in Steam horny jail
    2. Leaked footage of EA's long-silent Iron Man game comes blasting onto the helicarrier, showing off WIP combat, characters and customisation
    3. "Hopefully a meteor will strike the earth soon": Game devs talk genAI witchhunts and the importance of honing your visual literacy
    4. All working Borderlands 4 SHiFT Codes
    5. I found solace from Silent Hill: Townfall's stealthy horror in the soothing Britishness of its abandoned homes
    6. Solve a mountain mystery via the medium of creepy cards in Hillthorn, which has an excellent demo
    7. Nvidia DLSS 5's AI yassification filter reportedly escapes containment ahead of release, thanks to modders digging files out of NBA 2K27
    8. When Crusader Kings 3: By God Alone comes out, I'm going to turn the Roman Catholic Church into a polyamorous love nest
    9. Wordle hint and answer #1896 (August 28 2026)
    10. NYT Connections hint (Fri, 28 Aug)
    1. Say goodbye to stealing any car you like with a single button in GTA 6, and hello to whatever the hell the WAINK scanner is
    2. Your biggest choice in GTA 6 is whether Lucia and Jason stay a couple, but half-arsing it won't stop them doing crimes together
    3. Well, that extended look at a crime sim currently without a PC release date was heavier on gabagool than I expected
    4. Take to the skies in a Porco Rosso-esque seaplane and search for your missing uncle while you help rebuild an archipelago in Lou's Lagoon, out today
    5. GTA 6? No thanks, I'll be playing Volvy's Adventure: Reslimed, an action platformer from Devolver that's releasing day and date with Rockstar's behemoth
    6. Dwarf Fortress is getting the mother of all magic updates, extending to "the fundamental cosmological makeup of the universe"
    7. Oh lord, Konami want yearly Silent Hill games alongside vaguely described "experiences," just don't let that be another movie
    8. Attack On Titan Revolution codes
    9. Land Or Die codes
    10. Chicken Farm codes
    11. Exodus will likely win the Mass Effect spiritual successor war, thanks partly to its Cool Octopus, but I think it has a boring hero problem
    12. "We're not doing something that everyone [would] do": After Cost of Hope, Stalker 2 devs are working on multiplayer which won't be "session-based" like Counter Strike
    13. Ghost Driver codes
    14. Road Kings is sometimes American Truck Simulator in a disaster movie, but delivering crates of ellipticals is fun too
    15. The Witcher 3 Remastered includes work from a top modder, as CD Projekt Red follow the path they walked with the RPG's next-gen update
    16. GTA 6 life simulation elements confirmed: thank god, we can turn the offensively hot Jason and Lucia into exhausted slobs like the rest of us
    17. NYT Connections hint (Thu, 27 Aug)
    18. Wordle hint and answer #1895 (August 27 2026)
    1. New D&D RPG Warlock is an open world spell-collecting game with a touch of Far Cry, and that's just fine by me, actually
    2. Resonance: A Plague Tale Legacy review – a competent action game spinoff that loses what made its predecessors unique
    3. I'm still not convinced The Witcher 3 Songs of the Past is worth pasting over the perfect ending that was Blood and Wine
    4. Final Swarm codes
    5. Rockstar finally break silence on "heartbreaking" GTA 6 leak, say it's "unfortunate that the intended game experience may now be impacted by some spoilers"
    6. D&D, LEGO, and mounting ennui: Our biggest games from Gamescom 2026
    7. I'm not a fan of Heroes of Might & Magic 3, but I can recognise that Ubisoft have done a faithful job of recreating the much-loved turn-based strategy RPG
    8. Metro 2039's return to the underground plays like the sneaky FPS you'd expect, but there are still good reasons to leave the beaten track
    9. Wordle hint and answer #1894 (August 26 2026)
    10. NYT Connections hint (Wed, 26 Aug)
    1. CD Projekt Red sweeten the Witcher 3 Songs of the Past honeypot with a free base game remaster, and, oh yeah, both original expansions too
    2. Crusader Kings devs Paradox officially reveal Afterworld, a Fallout-flavoured grand strategy game in which you can overrun America with a cannibal cult
    3. Imbricate human history all over again and throw climate change into the mix in Humankind 2, which arrives 2027
    4. Having taken over Cities: Skylines 2's resurrection, Iceflake Studios are also making a bricky city builder called Lego Skylines
    5. Rainbow Six Tactics transforms the demolition-driven Siege into a turn-based game while keeping the destructible environments, operators, and reconnaissance drones
    6. Cosmic horror and sea bird waddling sim Penguin Colony gave me a genAI fright in its release date trailer, but thankfully there's no actual cause for concern
    7. Roblox put a stop to games that include rewards for endless, TikTok-style scrolling, if you're under the age of 16 anyway
    8. Grow A Garden 2 codes (August 2026)
    9. Nvidia DLSS 4.5 Ray Reconstruction, out now, ups shadow quality and more accurately illuminates trash bags
    10. Nvidia tech behind PUBG's genAI team mates will let folks chat to creature-collecting RPG Aniimo's not-Pokemon next year
    11. Mortal Shell 2: What to do in the Forgotten Tower
    12. All Anomalies in Anomaly Cafe
    13. Modding up Skyrim for the first time in years has convinced me I might have been too quick to scoff at Bethesda themselves adding fishing to it
    14. Keep the Door Locked codes
    15. 31 years later, beautiful SNES RPG Terranigma is finally coming to PC, and I must lay the ghost of my console warrior childhood to rest
    16. Discord have yet to receive a GTA 6 leak subpoena from Take-Two, says marketing director, but they will "evaluate the validity and scope" if they do
    17. NYT Connections hint (Tue, 25 Aug)
    18. Wordle hint and answer #1893 (August 25 2026)
    1. How to Fish is Steam's latest cursed co-op sensation, now updated with private lobbies, eight player support, and anti-griefer measures
    2. Red Dead Redemption 2: Nuevo Paraiso, the latest Mexico expansion mod for Rockstar's western, releases next month
    3. The Witcher 4 is targeting release in 2028, CD Projekt Red confirm, while teasing that extra Witcher 3 DLC Songs of the Past has a "dark story" in store
    4. "We ended up kind of cornered there": Mortal Shell 2 devs say they didn't intend to "lock everybody out" by disabling achievements for Slayer Seal "easy mode" users
    5. Paradox's next grand strategy game is a post-apocalyptic wasteland tribe-battler called Afterworld, according to leaks ahead of Gamescom
    6. This week in PC games: Gamescom and GTA 6 fight for our attention, but don't forget Folk Emerging, MGS4 and the horror game about balancing a cake
    7. Sell Ores codes
    8. Haul a star through a labyrinth in Today's Star Is, a challenging free game from the Love Eternal devs with a new level coming every day
    9. Massive Morrowind mod Tamriel Rebuilt's Poison Song expansion is out now, complete with new quests to join Great House Indoril and the Ordinators
    10. Wordle hint and answer #1892 (August 24 2026)
    11. NYT Connections hint (Mon, 24 Aug)
    1. Dig & Clean codes
    2. The Sunday Papers
    3. Wordle hint and answer #1891 (August 23 2026)
    4. NYT Connections hint (Sun, 23 Aug)
    1. Raise up a mech pilot and make sure she doesn't get Evangelion-level depressed in the sci-fi visual novel Valkyrie Iteration: Mecha Pilot Raising Pocket Simulator
    2. Chromatic aberration is made manifest in NECHROMIA, a high contrast survival horror set in a castle made of something else's memories
    3. Tulpa the Unseen Lover is a psychological visual novel about a depressed manga artist manifesting a cute, ominous anime girl made by former Spider-Verse animators
    4. Gorgeous and hazy pixel art horror farming sim Neverway has been pushed to 2027, but you can at least have a gander at some of the NPCs you can smooch
    5. Mortal Shell 2: Citadel Of Penance walkthrough (Part 9)
    6. "Buying any of our games helps support the studio": Psychonauts studio Double Fine are the latest former Xbox-owned studio to get the rights to their games back
    7. What are we all playing this weekend?
    8. NYT Connections hint (Sat, 22 Aug)
    9. Wordle hint and answer #1890 (August 22 2026)
    1. Mortal Shell 2: Best weapons and sidearms
    2. Indecently cool FPS platformer Cicadamata" is out now - please get yourself down that rabbit hole
    3. Letter from the editor #19: How do you solve a problem like GTA 6?
    4. Sandustry is the first factory simulation game I've played that gets heaps right
    5. GTA 6 leaker hunt is on, as Rockstar owners Take-Two file subpoenas asking Microsoft and Discord for records
    6. Be a Fish Bait codes
    7. Jujutsu Zero codes
    8. Fishing Tower Defense codes
    9. Magic Loot codes
    10. Beast of Reincarnation: All armor locations
    11. "The lines between redemption and revenge will blur", promises Cyberpunk: Edgerunners 2's latest trailer as the series locks in a late October release
    12. Beast of Reincarnation: All Manual locations
    13. Among Shadows is a Nightreign-style dark fantasy RPG with a touch of Among Us that makes me think wistfully of Dark Souls at its most treacherous
    14. “We’re going to take things slow": South of Midnight devs now own the rights to all their games again, after quitting Xbox, and are working on a new game
    15. PSA: In the latest GTA 6 leak's aftermath, it's not a good idea to download files with names like totallylegitgta6leakedbuild.exe
    16. NYT Connections hint (Fri, 21 Aug)
    17. Wordle hint and answer #1889 (August 21 2026)
    1. Mortal Shell 2: All Shell locations
    2. Mortal Shell 2's first balance patch makes its in-game economy a lot more lenient and nerfs some enemies and bosses for a smoother ride
    3. Active development on League of Legends fighting game spinoff 2XKO will be coming to an end at the end of the year
    4. Mortal Shell 2: Holding Cells walkthrough (Part 8)
    5. This game inspired by classic Minecraft dropper maps can't work out whether it wants to rapture you or make you throw up
    6. "Do questions like that create a self-fulfilling prophecy?”: Dishonored director Harvey Smith on the fear of asking if immersive sims are dead
    7. Final Fantasy Crystal Chronicles composer Kumi Tanioka says that she didn't make the new, very likely AI-generated album on her Spotify page
    8. Hold the throne, NBA 2K27's new MyNBA Legacy mode sounds a lot like basketball Crusader Kings 3
    9. Black Myth: Zhong Kui shows off 15 minutes of rollparrysliceage, and I've just learned that the bloke it's named after was a lethally effective headbanger
    10. A playable build of GTA 6 appears to have leaked, as Rockstar and Take-Two scramble to take down videos
    11. All of the pirates in Hooded Horse city builder Corsair Cove hate me because I can't make them eyepatches fast enough
    12. EA's Saudi takeover wouldn't have happened if the company's culture "had any semblance of a moral backbone", say staff fearing layoffs and ownership meddling
    13. NYT Connections hint (Thu, 20 Aug)
    14. Wordle hint and answer #1888 (August 20 2026)
    1. Sony are rebooting their live service Horizon game as a more traditional co-op affair, claim sources, with a proper Horizon Forbidden West sequel still years away
    2. Amid accusations of a post-beta difficulty bump, Mortal Shell 2 devs patch the new soulslike to stop players riposting so hard they steal enemy weapons
    3. STALKER 2 gets serious performance and visual upgrades with its 2.0 update, testing confirms, polishing up one of the biggest flawed gems in FPS games
    4. "Through the looking glass": as Arkane fight for their future, Dishonored veteran Harvey Smith reveals new studio dedicated to immersive sims
    5. STALKER 2: Cost of Hope review: An expanded Zone that begs to be explored, even as its faction war fizzles
    6. "Without us, Bethesda games aren’t Bethesda games": Rallies against Microsoft layoffs at Elder Scrolls studio continue, with unionised devs' morale "on the upswing"
    7. Mortal Shell 2: Flooded Village walkthrough (Part 5)
    8. Immersive sim Retrospace, aka '70s System Shock, gets an October release date plus a trailer full of funky guns and sentient black holes
    9. Latest alleged GTA 6 leak "risks tarnishing the reputation of our communities", say Stop Killing Games after hackers claim pro-consumer motivations
    1. Mortal Shell 2: Mushroom Village walkthrough (Part 3)
    2. Clipmatrix is a Counter-Strike-like, bunny hopping, platforming romp through surreal and industrial locales
    3. GTA 6 footage once again appears to leak online, this time because of a group that wants games like The Crew to have offline modes and the end of digital preorders
    4. Mortal Shell 2: Prologue walkthrough (Part 1)
    5. Entropy, a deliciously miserable Final Fantasy-esque RPG where your party members can permanently die, is now out in early access
    6. Subnautica 2's Buddy System update brings in the promised proximity chat, easier trading, and emotes so you can sarcastically applaud your friends
    7. Scout Report: Neofeud 2 is not subtle, but neither are guillotines
    8. The Lantern of the Laughless Saint, a Morrowind-inspired RPG weirdfest out this week in early access, has immediately seduced me with dialogue camera hijinks
    9. Marathon's limited time Ordnance Heist is a multi-run and map event that nets you a cool gun you can't keep
    10. Trainwatch is a life sim, a horror game, and a time management experience rolled up into a haunting story about the eerie places you see from a speeding carriage
    11. Wordle hint and answer #1887 (August 19 2026)
    12. NYT Connections hint (Wed, 19 Aug)
    13. Rather than calling for GTA 6 boycott, fired Rockstar workers urge players to support them in their legal battle against the studio by buying union merch
    14. Stare at an imprisoned god to stop the apocalypse in Sarco, a no-saves horror game in which you'll also, somehow, have to explore a gutted scientific base
    15. Talking trees, flying witch heads and an unsettling rabbit man await in the shrubbery of cursed woodland ranger sim I Hear the Forest
    16. Death Stranding meets party-based tactical combat in open world RPG Fog'n'Silence, in which you lead twisted humans through the Afterlife
    17. Deus Ex director and immersive sim legend Warren Spector is retiring, despite having "three games in particular" he'd still like to make
    18. NYT Connections hint (Tue, 18 Aug)
    19. Wordle hint and answer #1886 (August 18 2026)
    1. The US Senate are investigating Roblox for prioritising "revenue and engagement metrics over the safety and well-being of our children"
    2. I'm not saying Bethesda are trolling me specifically, but Fallout 4 and Skyrim updates are imminent just as I've modded up the latter for the first time in ages
    3. Mortal Shell 2 review: A monumental heavy metal sequel with the spirit of a '90s PC game
    4. Boardroom beat-em-up Stick It to the Stickman punches its way out of early access next month, complete with neurolinkage and an "absolutely absurd finale"
    5. Sraëka Lillian's one-a-week RPG "sketches" are a lovely series of experiments with hoary old conventions from Final Fantasy and Dragon Quest
    6. Mortal Shell 2: Sunken Village walkthrough (Part 4)
    7. Mortal Shell 2: How to complete Hilga's questline
    8. How to get the Troubadour's Lute in Mortal Shell 2
    9. Mortal Shell 2: How to Harden
    10. Mortal Shell 2: How to complete Gorf's questline
    11. Mortal Shell 2: How to get the Axe and Dagger
    12. Mortal Shell 2: How to parry
    13. How to Fast Travel between Beacons in Mortal Shell 2
    14. Mortal Shell 2: How to revive your Shell
    15. Mortal Shell 2: Immersive vs Action camera
    16. Grow a Chicken Fighter codes
    17. Witcher 3 cut quest restoration mod The WAR Project is finding a new voice for its fresh Vernon Roche lines, following alleged "severe incident of gross misconduct"
    18. This week in PC games: survival horror in a waterlogged city, kaiju chaos in a destructible city, and old school GTA vibes in an isometric insurgency simulator
    19. Kingdom Hearts 4 releasing in late 2027, according to a trailer in which Donald Duck and Goofy go to hell, miss a skeletal fiesta and rock up as creepy force ghosts
    20. Rideshare Stimulator finally gets its genAI disclosure after much Saber-rattling, and it turns out the game also uses the tech for in-game music
    21. NYT Connections hint (Mon, 17 Aug)
    22. Wordle hint and answer #1885 (August 17 2026)
    1. The Sunday Papers
    2. NYT Connections hint (Sun, 16 Aug)
    3. Wordle hint and answer #1884 (August 16 2026)
    1. Ron Gilbert talks the untraditional way he got Thimbleweed Park 2 funded, and his frustrations with modern publishing deals
    2. O EMPIRE! WARD OFF THY ROT puts you in an abandoned, dithered world with a cursed object and asks you to do one thing: survive the journey
    3. "For a few weeks, women were just dropping their babies": The Witcher 3 lead on designing NPCs that react appropriately
    4. Slay the Spire 2 updates are slowing down again, but don't fear, it's all in the name of more modes, an alternate Act 2, and a character with a bandaged foot
    5. Stalker 2: Heart of Chornobyl's meaty 2.0 update brings functional fog, a suite of A-Life improvements, and more when it arrives next week
    6. What are we all playing this weekend?
    7. NYT Connections hint (Sat, 15 Aug)
    8. Wordle hint and answer #1883 (August 15 2026)
    1. The Watcher is a creepy surveillance thriller with shiny Unreal Engine props - I just hope it's not as talkative as its trailer
    2. Have your say on the RPS Supporter program with this short, yet deeply opinion-absorbent survey
    3. I love the Dark Soulful architecture of The Canon of Balls, a rolling open world game inspired by Sega, Fumito Ueda and Minecraft parkour
    4. Total War: Warhammer 3 is getting a big free vampiric update in September, alongside the epithet-stuffed Lords of the End Times DLC
    5. I'll make you a deal. You can see my desk, but only if you make a sacrificial offering to Ugly Squidward
    6. NYT Connections hint (Fri, 14 Aug)
    7. Wordle hint and answer #1882 (August 14 2026)
    1. Invisum Piscium 嫌魚 is a dreamlike walking sim about fragments of conversations and a deep craving for water fish haven't procreated in
    2. Five years after acquiring Oxenfree developer Night School Studio, Netflix are shutting them down
    3. Phasmophobia devs Kinetic Games mosey into publishing with a witchy delivery game, a parasitic Metroidvania, and more
    4. Amiga strategy classic Defender of the Crown is back with both old and fresh graphics, and an all new roguelite mode
    5. Sandustry, the factory game where every single pixel is a resource you can build with, is out in early access
    6. "Obvious tells and subtle hints" - Alien: Isolation's lead designer on the lethal variety of The Lost Wild's dinosaurs
    7. Rintama High codes
    8. TR Legacy codes
    9. Devil Hunter codes
    10. Mini War codes
    11. Horse Racing Legends codes
    12. Troubled Witcher multiplayer spinoff Project Sirius struck with new round of layoffs
    13. Necrons are "extremely arrogant aliens that feel like they cannot die," so their weakness in Dawn of War 4 is an obvious one: greed
    14. Do a literal monster mash in Dance of Theseus, a strangely undisgusting blend of plastic surgery and Balatro-style fashion battles
    15. "We're not really sure what Big Walk's future looks like," say the waddling co-op puzzler's devs, though it probably doesn’t involve DLC
    16. Twitch are scraping streams for AI training by default, and even their own execs don’t know what user data may have been swept up
    17. NYT Connections hint (Thu, 13 Aug)
    18. Wordle hint and answer #1881 (August 13 2026)
    1. Immortality developer Sam Barlow reveals Precognition, a sci-fi horror collaboration with Brandon Cronenberg about "really terrible things that are just around the corner"
    2. Subnautica 2 now has a beta update branch, letting players try out patches before they're finished, but beware, your saves won't carry over
    3. The Steam Frame needs to be more than a cool device if Valve want to reshape the VR market
    4. Amazon are getting out of the MMO game, handing control of Lost Ark and Throne and Liberty to developers, but it won't all be smooth for players
    5. "The world's becoming so bleak": How Soulframe hopes to escape Warframe's shadow, with a little insight from Elden Ring
    6. Scale Slimy Fish codes
    7. Merge A Black Hole codes
    8. You can hug the Super Earth grunts in Helldivers 2's Devoid of Liberty update, which revamps NPC troops and adds new Illuminate enemies
    9. Saber admit Rideshare "Stimulator" features generative AI writing, but deny they replaced taxi game's lead writer with ChatGPT
    10. Roll to Defend codes
    11. Catch A Monster codes
    12. Build an ASMR Tower codes
    13. Build a Soccer Squad codes
    14. All Haul The King is a co-op comedy corpse-dragging simulator from the makers of Eclipsium, one of 2025's best horror games
    15. Spaceship bullet heaven Seven Suns of Orion has what Vampire Survivors lacks: semi-Newtonian physics and railguns
    16. NYT Connections hint (Wed, 12 Aug)
    17. Wordle hint and answer #1880 (August 12 2026)
    1. As Peak gets its final big update, developers Landfall and Aggro Crab explain why it isn't a "forever game"
    2. "I think that might be a misread": Thief designer on why making a triple-A immersive sim doesn't really work
    3. As Xbox head Asha Sharma reportedly visits Bethesda HQ, workers put up red flags representing laid off staff and a giant inflatable rat outside
    4. Paralives' latest update throws out its wonderfully awful homunculi babies and makes it so that dead bodies should no longer litter the streets
    5. I'm enjoying leaving my body behind in Project Looking Glass, an astral horror game in which you telewarp around a map of your terrible memories
    6. Even 10 years on, Sean Murray feels like he could work on No Man's Sky "forever," even if he knows "there probably is some end date" for it
    7. I never developed a taste for Soulslike games and it's my old boss's fault
    8. Supermassive Games are the latest studio to announce layoff plans, with 75 jobs at risk just three months after Directive 8020 launch
    9. Dress To Impress codes
    10. "Time will tell": Bit Reactor talk queerness in Star Wars: Zero Company and whether they'll keep working with Saudi-owned EA
    11. Knytt, one of 2006's most charming indie platformers, has a surprise Steam re-release - and it’s still free
    12. Mortal Shell 2 will let you lower its difficulty by making executions refill your health, or up the challenge by turning off the sun
    13. Stop Killing Games join lawsuit against the PlayStation Store's "Sony Tax," in latest venture beyond game preservation
    14. Shipping ore between the asteroid mining stations of Profits 2167 would be much easier if it weren't for the darn space bug infestation
    15. NYT Connections hint (Tue, 11 Aug)
    16. Wordle hint and answer #1879 (August 11 2026)
    1. Over the Hill, SnowRunner's hippie off-roading cousin from the Art of Rally devs, gets an October release date
    2. In cosmic roguelike The Carcass, you build a colony inside the corpse of a god that's slowly becoming aware of you
    3. All Anomalies in Keep The Door Locked
    4. Someone's head is killing me in Memoirium, a PSX-styled soulslike about battling through bizarre dreamscapes and decorating your bedroom
    5. "Expect fake messages": A load of Steam user personal info has been stolen thanks to a cyberattack on one of Valve's partners, claims report
    6. This week in PC games: GoldenEye returns (sort of), plus janky arcade football, ballpoint cities, and a game about keeping the monsters inside Area 51
    7. If you drove yourself mad building computers in Minecraft, Pight's redstone-inspired puzzling is an affordable palate cleanser
    8. Gothic 1 Remake devs hint at next game while announcing a photo mode, "Marvin mode" for cheaters, and some mysterious "alternative progression systems"
    9. NYT Connections hint (Mon, 10 Aug)
    10. Wordle hint and answer #1878 (August 10 2026)
    1. The Sunday Papers
    2. NYT Connections hint (Sun, 9 Aug)
    3. Wordle hint and answer #1877 (August 9 2026)
    1. Come for Beastfolk Barber's cute, furry hairdressing, but stay for its thoughtful approach to worldbuilding
    2. Danchi Days, out this October, brings the Hamtaro: Ham-Ham Heartbreak vibes I've been desperately craving since childhood
    3. Polyzonia is an ecosystem sim about breathing life into the Amazon rainforest until it can look after itself
    4. Big Walk's voice chat volume issue has been resolved with its latest patch, but House House are sticking to their guns on its overall design
    5. Two months after revealing Crossfire, That's No Moon have seemingly laid off 14 members of staff
    6. What are we all playing this weekend?
    7. NYT Connections hint (Sat, 8 Aug)
    8. Wordle hint and answer #1876 (August 8 2026)
    1. Space News Network is No Man's Sky but you're a roving journalist, blasting bandits while trying to keep your subscribers happy
    2. "Machines that weren't game machines before will become game machines": Take-Two CEO predicts that streaming will help fix the industry's hardware pricing problem
    3. Very well, I'll show you my desk, but there's nothing you can say about the mouse mat that I haven't already grumbled to myself
    4. "Ideas like this usually just die": Inside generative AI’s effect on modding, and how host sites struggle to maintain transparency
    5. "Credible military storytelling": Ubisoft announce playtests for new Ghost Recon game alongside a sizeable Wildlands update and a Future Soldier giveaway
    6. Co-op climber Peak finally reaches the summit, with its last major update bringing two foreboding new biomes next week
    7. The makers of the glorious Othercide have another tactics RPG bloodbath out in September, with a playtest live now
    8. Quake gets a free new chapter promising "ferocious combat, labyrinthine level design, and nightmarish realms" to celebrate its 30th birthday
    9. NYT Connections hint (Fri, 7 Aug)
    10. Wordle hint and answer #1875 (August 7 2026)
    1. Arise Dark Lord is an action-RTS hybrid styled like a Lord of the Rings map where you raise an army of the undead to kill all humans
    2. Repair sick robots and contemplate the role of healthcare providers in the deeply textured, pixel art, cyberpunk visual novel All Our Broken Parts
    3. After a successful first week, Mistfall Hunter gets a roadmap promising a much requested solo mode for one of its maps
    4. Moonlighter 2: The Endless Vault gets a 1.0 date and demo as the original goes temporarily free
    5. Fields of Mistria enters 1.0 with a delightful, retro anime trailer and a promise of more to come
    6. Marble Souls dares to ask what would happen if the bloke from Dark Souls got stuck in a physics-driven ball, and it's out this year
    7. Fear not, samurai masochists, Onimusha: Way of the Sword's flashiness hasn't replaced its challenge
    8. Halo Studios seemingly cut staff after Halo: Campaign Evolved launch, including a 6-year veteran producer
    9. Helldivers 2 getting an upgraded level cap probably isn't what that spooky teddy bear teaser was about, but is almost definitely in preparation for it
    10. Anime Card Collection codes
    11. Big Walk simulates the strange, childlike sensation of being unexpectedly separated from your friends, and the joy and relief of finding your way back
    12. Roblox causes Wall Street value estimators to cry themselves a $9 billion puddle, as a result of pushing less kids towards aggressively monetised viral games
    13. The three biggest RAM makers have already sold all their 2027 output, report says, potentially stretching price woes into 2028
    14. Just in time for pre-Songs of the Past DLC refreshers, Witcher 3 modders have restored a cut menu which lets you watch story recaps at any time
    15. NYT Connections hint (Thu, 6 Aug)
    16. Wordle hint and answer #1874 (August 6 2026)
    1. "Believable and consistent up close": What the dinosaurs of The Lost Wild share with Microsoft’s cancelled Everwild, according to the designer who worked on both
    2. Cut a Gem codes
    3. Even after 200 hours, Marathon's greatest secret is still deciphering the rhythms of rival players
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    9. Tell a whole town what to believe in Static Hour, a rolodex-flipping newsroom thriller about investigating a strange epidemic of violence
    10. Beast of Reincarnation is getting some "story pacing improvements" in its first patch, as part of "ongoing adjustments" from Game Freak
    11. I like being king of some weird and sexy knights in fantasy RPG Sovereign Tower, but I'm not convinced the time travel element is my cup of spiderwine
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    14. EA’s Saudi takeover will be "a real waste" if it turns the publishers into a "sequel-and-mega-franchise machine", Helldivers 2 studio boss says
    15. "If Quantic Dream wants to destroy jobs, it must pay": French union call strike as they demand extension to layoff negotiations with Star Wars Eclipse studio
    16. Big Walk isn't an open world hangout sim, it's a secret Predator game, or it would be if House House would quit fixing the voice volume
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    18. NYT Connections hint (Wed, 5 Aug)
    19. Wordle hint and answer #1873 (August 5 2026)
    1. EA have gone private, as Saudi Arabia and Jared Kushner's investment groups complete their $55 billion acquisition
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    3. Almost 10,000 people have played Baldur's Gate 3 in a portrait aspect ratio, so join me in figuring out why they'd commit such sacrilege
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    5. The demo for 500 FINGER FILLET taught me that none of you should let me anywhere near a kitchen knife, also can someone call a doctor
    6. This Game Costs 200 Dollars is a game that really does cost $200, doesn't look very good, and almost made its dev $1.3 million
    7. Sci-fi MMO Cinder City is getting a pre-alpha playtest later this month so you can put its RAM hogging requirements to the test
    8. Is 8GB VRAM enough for a graphics card in 2026? Yes, but GPU makers should still try harder
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    11. 13th century Mongolian courier sim The Legend of Khiimori becomes a battle against supernatural "poison of the earth spirit" with its Corruption Update
    12. Hooded Horse's watery 4X sequel Endless Legend 2 gets a 1.0 launch date and a new faction of terraforming desert dwellers
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    17. Assassins Creed Black Flag Resynced's Kraken wheel will no longer be "wheely expensive" following the latest update, which will also teach you how to throw cash
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    19. Microsoft will let devs bring more Xbox 360 games to PC in the coming years via backwards compatibility, leaked document suggests
    20. Scout Report: Cato colon Buttered Cat makes a gentle puzzling challenge of an old bit
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    32. NYT Connections hint (Tue, 4 Aug)
    33. Wordle hint and answer #1872 (August 4 2026)
    1. Samsung, who've been accused of worsening the RAM crisis via price fixing, reckon components will only get more expensive in 2027
    2. Tongue your friends in Big Hops Together, the froggy platformer's new eight player co-op update, which was inspired by Mario mods
    3. Capcom are reworking Dragon’s Dogma 2's infamous Dragonsplague so you can "enjoy the strategic decisions we originally envisioned" for it
    4. Fantasy RTS Flow of War is an immediately moreish blend of worker herding, fortress building, and 90s-style visuals
    5. AMD graphics card price hikes are reportedly following Nvidia's, as the AI-fuelled RAM shortage continues to set wallets alight
    6. The Soulslike genre has grown stale after Elden Ring, and only FromSoftware can take it to strange new places
    7. Making Baldur’s Gate 4 would be "a great challenge" for Rogue Trader devs Owlcat, co-founder says, as the studio reiterate their commitment to CRPGs
    8. This week in PC games: Beast of Reincarnation, Big Walk, and Marvel Tōkon, plus a round table RPG, some flammable robots, and a flock of lovestruck pigeons
    9. American Truck Simulator trundles off to a land of enchanted highways and giant bovines with a freshly announced North Dakota expansion
    10. Wordle hint and answer #1871 (August 3 2026)
    11. NYT Connections hint (Mon, 3 Aug)
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    3. NYT Connections hint (Sun, 2 Aug)
    4. Wordle hint and answer #1870 (August 2 2026)
    1. Manage a cafe by day, go to bed and fight in your dreams in a world without sleep by night in Hips N Noses
    2. Silent Hill: Townfall's devs say they're purposefully playing against your nostalgic tech feelings, but I'm not sure it'll work on me
    3. Crimson Desert's latest patch is good news for all you moneygrubs, as it adds in a bounty of new trading posts and goods to pawn off
    4. Got a spare $10? Net yourself almost 150 games and help support laid off game devs with the game industry hardship fund bundle
    5. "I sense immense expectations": Final Fantasy 7 Revelation's director on ending the remake trilogy and DLC
    6. What if Stop Killing Games win? Anthem, SpaceCraft and Warframe devs on the "massive undertaking" of preserving an always-online game
    7. What are we all playing this weekend?
    8. NYT Connections hint (Sat, 1 Aug)
    9. Wordle hint and answer #1869 (August 1 2026)