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September 2026 Archive

    1. "A quite beautiful compromise": The LEGO Skylines devs did consider brick by brick building, but decided it was too much fuss for players
    2. The Witcher 3 Remastered has scuppered an ambitious cut plague quest restoration mod, but there'll be "something extra" in the update that gets it working again
    3. Past Wordle answers
    4. Wordle hint and answer today #1928 (September 29 2026)
    5. NYT Connections hint (Tue, 29 Sep)
    1. CD Projekt release full updated Witcher 3: Wild Hunt Remastered system specs, including ray-tracing and path-tracing requirements
    2. Fright Train is the best Call of Duty Zombies alternative I've played in ages, despite starring a dog
    3. Scout Report: Roguehate aside, Rogue Eclipse is a pretty cool time
    4. FC 27 Wonderkids: Best young players to recruit in Career Mode
    5. "We didn't want to demonise fetish or BDSM": People aren't dying in horror game Clive Barker's Hellraiser: Revival because of what they do in the bedroom
    6. Race for Eggs codes
    7. Race Horses codes
    8. Kick an Uma codes
    9. This week in PC games: new Ace Combat, Transport Fever 3, and a System Shock-alike set on a disco space station
    10. Loot to Forge codes
    11. "We clearly handled that responsibility poorly": Paradox ban Discord profile pics of historical figures born after 1800, after bust-up with Hearts of Iron 4 players over Atatürk banning
    12. NYT Connections hint (Mon, 28 Sep)
    13. Wordle hint and answer #1927 (September 28 2026)
    1. Fruit Zombie Survival codes
    2. Drag Drive Simulator codes
    3. Fortnite admin panel cheat codes
    4. The Sunday Papers
    5. Wordle hint and answer #1926 (September 27 2026)
    6. NYT Connections hint (Sun, 27 Sep)
    1. TALON TOWERS is a Fumito Ueda-coded parkour platformer about hopping around massive structures while avoiding falling to your foggy doom
    2. Suplex and shatter glass enemies after being in prison for committing a cardinal crime in the psychological horror beat 'em up Brokensides
    3. Video Game Menu: The Game is all about everyone's favourite gaming pastime: pressing random buttons in the menus and seeing what they change
    4. Cyberpunk 2077: Phantom Liberty's Chimera tank boss fight was apparently so complex it took two years of "reiterating over and over" to get it right
    5. "Do 665 runs if you want!": Control Resonant is getting a new game++ mode next month, and don't worry you happy snappers, a photo mode is on the way too
    6. Iron Soul Dungeon codes
    7. Ro-Ghoul codes list
    8. Survive the Swarm codes
    9. What are we all playing this weekend?
    10. NYT Connections hint (Sat, 26 Sep)
    11. Wordle hint and answer #1925 (September 26 2026)
    1. Control Resonant: Best Combo Finishers to unlock first
    2. Letter from the editor #20: Taking more care with my language
    3. Microsoft's failure to find a home for Ninja Theory voids the one, very tenuous upside to Senua's SGF reveal
    4. Control Resonant: How to find every Mysterious Dog toy
    5. Hytale's Chapter 1 update is all about them goblins, adding its first proper boss and "handcrafted" dungeon in October
    6. I got whomped by an Ork horde in Total War: Warhammer 40,000, definitely on purpose, to teach you a lesson about positioning
    7. Colourful JRPG Armed Fantasia has been cancelled, four years after a successful Kickstarter campaign descended into delays and lawsuits
    8. Arc Raiders is testing a PvE mode because "a large and growing group" refuse to hunt each other
    9. NYT Connections hint (Fri, 25 Sep)
    10. Wordle hint and answer #1924 (September 25 2026)
    1. LOVE alt delete is a Y2K horror visual novel where you use one AI chatbot to help you date another that, don't worry, doesn't use the nasty generative stuff
    2. I definitely suck at Iron Bramble's metroidvania grappling hook platforming, but its cyber-gothic megastructure world has me hungry for more
    3. The future of Marathon includes a fungus-filled Perimeter, a social hub, and a shift "beyond extraction"
    4. Once upon a time The Blood of Dawnwalker's timer mechanic was a lot tougher, and it's because of all those pre-release complaints that it was made easier
    5. Control: Resonant is only just out of the door, and Remedy have already put out a hotfix with some stun-buffing combat tweaks and more
    6. Control Resonant walkthrough
    7. Control Resonant: The Central Resonant walkthrough
    8. Best Minecraft mods (2026)
    9. Warhammer 40,000: Rogue Trader's final DLC is now coming in December, with an "unsanctioned psyker" companion who cries tears of blood
    10. Control Resonant: Welcome To Manhattan walkthrough
    11. Control Resonant: Orientation walkthrough
    12. Control Resonant: Which Aberrant Forms should you choose first?
    13. Control Resonant: How to unlock SHUM arcade cabinets
    14. Discord roll out revised age verification following delay due to pushback, pledging to be "safer for teens, same Discord for Adults"
    15. Control Resonant: Best Talents to get early
    16. Steam Frame-ready VR rhythm game Beat Saber is adding hand-tracking and a punchy new mode in its "biggest update ever"
    17. The Blood of Dawnwalker: How to romance Crake
    18. Bethesda say new underlings Obsidian will retain their "distinct" creative identity, despite no longer being as free to work on their own creatively distinct series
    19. After eighteen years of jaggedy bowling, a new mod bestows GTA 4 with DLSS and FSR support
    20. Following id layoffs, Quake Champions drops free-to-play nonsense and becomes a £9 game on Steam
    21. Wordle hint and answer #1923 (September 24 2026)
    22. NYT Connections hint (Thu, 24 Sep)
    1. The Blood of Dawnwalker: How to romance Anca
    2. The Steam Machine handles Control Resonant capably, but the promised Steam Deck support is a letdown
    3. "This one is especially bad": Steam game about mistreating ragdolls suffers second bout of mod-based malware this year
    4. Mortal Shell 2 walkthrough
    5. Behold! My desk is surrounded by books, D&D stuff from the '80s, and a judgmental frog with its arms crossed
    6. Mortal Shell 2: Forgotten Tower walkthrough (Part 25)
    7. Anime Dimensions Simulator codes
    8. Microsoft want to record your face and feed it to a generative AI, telling it to go off and design a game from your frown
    9. Dark Souls 2 seamless co-op mod is out now in alpha form, paving the way for more boss battering with mates
    10. State of Decay 3 studio Undead Labs lay off "a significant number" of "exceptionally talented developers" after gaining independence from Xbox
    11. Age of Empires studio World's Edge reportedly lose nearly half their staff and a new game project in mass Xbox layoffs
    12. Xbox lay off 268 people as Activision take over Halo and Rare, while Obsidian become part of Bethesda, plus Forza and Fable studios merge
    13. NYT Connections hint (Wed, 23 Sep)
    14. Wordle hint and answer #1922 (September 23 2026)
    1. Stuntboost is a Tech Dech, skateboarding platformer all about doing sick flips on cardboard constructs in your bedroom, and it's out now
    2. Furries, magical girls and slick hack 'n' slash combat blend promisingly together in the late 2000s inspired Break The Night
    3. Packed Lair, out today, is a Tetris-adjacent base builder about cramming as much as you can into a tiny evil lair to aid your army in conquering the world
    4. Love 'em or hate 'em, if it weren't for the Sonic the Hedgehog films, the blue blur might have been canned entirely, so says series boss Takashi Iizuka
    5. Minecraft: Where to find the Dappled Forest biome
    6. Prebuilt Steam Machine faceplate screens are here, delivering decent, surprisingly cheaper alternatives to Valve-approved DIY builds
    7. Minecraft: Where to find Abandoned Camps
    8. Minecraft: How to get Cushions
    9. Following a strong start, Rebel Wolves line up The Blood of Dawnwalker's first big patch for next month, adding in a new, easier difficulty mode and more
    10. "I'm still blown away by the amount of talent": Hellblade devs Ninja Theory face closure after Microsoft fail to reach a deal with buyers
    11. "Good luck today, Halo friends": After years of rivalry, Call of Duty's creators have taken charge of Xbox's defining FPS series amid yet more layoffs
    12. Today's changes might get Xbox a new Halo sooner, but history shows production line development makes for boring games
    13. I taught an old man new tunes in rhythm-action shopkeeper sim Mr. Records, and now you can try the demo yourself
    14. Corsa Legends codes
    15. Blox Fruits codes
    16. Bungie decide their destiny is to do more Destiny after all, pledging to bring back vaulted Destiny 2 campaigns while declaring that Marathon "needs to evolve"
    17. Xbox reportedly set to lay off hundreds more staff and "consolidate" several game studios in second round of major cuts this year
    18. Nighthawks review – a series of vignettes that sometimes excel but more often falter
    19. NYT Connections hint (Tue, 22 Sep)
    20. Wordle hint and answer #1921 (September 22 2026)
    1. Ahead of GTA 6, Rockstar warn modders against making unofficial main story expansions, unauthorised ports and mods that combine GTA maps
    2. "It wasn't a planned thing": Breaking Benjamin singer on his mid-gig Fallout 4 mod promo being down to a broken drum and his love of VR
    3. Microsoft file patent for a machine learning system that would "train" itself on your playtime to work out when you'll be least annoyed by in-game ads
    4. Virtue and a Sledgehammer will begin battering down the walls and android ghosts of a hometown filled with emotional memories this October
    5. Fly between radio outposts inside a murky megastructure in The Hollowing, a follow-up to the brilliant spelunking sim Lorn's Lure
    6. "I thought people would leave": Hideo Kojima offers his account of Physint's switch from PlayStation to Xbox, as his studio insist they're in a "healthy, profitable state"
    7. The Steam Frame’s first post-launch update speeds up charging and ungarbles a mic bug
    8. The Blood of Dawnwalker: How to romance Lacra
    9. This week in PC games: Control: Resonant, Silent Hill: Townfall, and the history of Western philosophy as a pinball table
    10. Silent Hill: Townfall review - an often inspired, if slightly lumbering trek into the fog
    11. NYT Connections hint (Mon, 21 Sep)
    12. Wordle hint and answer #1920 (September 21 2026)
    1. Mortal Shell 2: Faded Citadel walkthrough (Part 24)
    2. Roll Anime To Fight codes
    3. The Sunday Papers
    4. NYT Connections hint (Sun, 20 Sep)
    5. Wordle hint and answer #1919 (September 20 2026)
    1. What are we all playing this weekend?
    2. Wordle hint and answer #1918 (September 19 2026)
    3. NYT Connections hint (Sat, 19 Sep)
    1. In the absence of a new Deus Ex, indie imsim Tokyo Walled City may scratch that stealth 'n' stolen passwords itch
    2. The Blood of Dawnwalker: The Heart Wants What It Wants walkthrough
    3. Tractor-battling teenage road trip RPG Keep Driving is getting official mod support via Steam Workshop later this month
    4. Single player games might require age verification if they use Steam under EU Kids Act's current draft, according to MEP's senior policy adviser
    5. Roman Sands RE:Build review: A unique and obliterating blend of resort sim, engineering horror and alchemic ritual
    6. Denuvo are suing a prolific cracker for bypassing their DRM on 26 videogames, despite not knowing their real identity
    7. Control Resonant review: A superbly strange action-RPG that'll make you feel tiny and godly at once
    8. Baldur's Gate 3 Act Two Expansion mod, out now in beta, adds a whole new region to explore after dealing with the Shadow Curse
    9. Build a Golem codes
    10. "Publishers are afraid of certain parts of the world": Saber Interactive's message to North American studios is to get their head out of their own geography
    11. NYT Connections hint (Fri, 18 Sep)
    12. Wordle hint and answer #1917 (September 18 2026)
    1. "Nearly everyone" laid off at Hyper Light Drifter devs Heart Machine after publisher drops unannounced game
    2. The Blood of Dawnwalker: How to escape Xanthe's trap
    3. The Blood of Dawnwalker: Should you kill or spare Xanthe?
    4. The Dark Knight Driveth
    5. Escape a roundabout as a stoned tuk-tuk driver in Zero Parades' free Director’s Cut update, which will add about 40,000 new words to the RPG next month
    6. Twitch CEO expects GTA 6 online multiplayer will launch next year, which if accurate would leave only the PC port's arrival point up in the air
    7. Three different 4X strategy games, three different solutions to "that inherent problem" of disappearing exploration
    8. "If the player trusts you enough, they are not going to savescum": Why the makers of some of the best RPGs on PC want you to get used to failing
    9. "We will not force it": The Blood of Dawnwalker's sequel might drop the timer mechanics, says director, but I hope they stick around
    10. Guild Wars 3 dev wants you to be able to take a break for months at a time and know you're "not going to be left behind"
    11. Helldivers 2 and Horizon Forbidden West delisted from Steam in the UK, Sony say they're "working with Valve to address the issue"
    12. NYT Connections hint (Thu, 17 Sep)
    13. Wordle hint and answer #1916 (September 17 2026)
    1. The Blood of Dawnwalker: How to complete Vicho's questline
    2. "15 years ago, people understood it was an unfinished game": As Endless Legend 2 hits 1.0, Amplitude reflect on how early access has changed
    3. Low poly horror Tumblebee combines the joy of tumbling bees with the not-joy of being chased by huge spiders
    4. Mortal Shell 2: The Silent Steps walkthrough (Part 23)
    5. Dog in the Machine reinvents the domino tactics of Into The Breach as a mecha dog show, with players teaching their hounds tricks
    6. MindsEye studio Build A Rocket Boy appear to be making fresh redundancies, as one staffer says he's "helping wrap things up here in the HR department"
    7. "A dried husk of a product": former Doom producer berates Microsoft for making Halo a "mid-tier" game and mourns the "financialisation" of AAA
    8. "We're trying to make it easier": Valve confirm the Steam Frame is just the start of plans to get Steam games working on compatibility-challenged ARM PCs
    9. "They often don’t make it in the door": Wardogs studio Bulkhead check for "anti-crunch messaging" on prospective hires' social media, CEO says
    10. Wo Long 2: Wings of Ember has a demo out, as Koei Tecmo carve an early 2027 release date into some hulking demons from Chinese mythology
    11. Total War: Shogun 2's Complete Edition adds 50 minor factions in return for breaking your mods, but fear not, players who stick to the old version will get legacy DLC for free
    12. Wordle hint and answer #1915 (September 16 2026)
    13. NYT Connections hint (Wed, 16 Sep)
    1. I am exhausted by Vholume, which I think means it's working
    2. Mortal Shell 2: Castigator's Keep walkthrough (Part 22)
    3. Skyblivion's release is "getting closer" as the massive Skyrim mod's makers start recruiting for a big final marketing push
    4. Tim Willits doesn't think Rideshare's generative AI is damaging Saber's reputation
    5. Marathon's next major update runs a few months further away, permanent PvE in hand, as Bungie ditch their "strict seasonal schedule"
    6. Paradox's grand strategy game Afterworld hasn't got a fixed history, it changes with every playthrough
    7. European Commission's proposed EU Kids Act could see online games forced to enact stricter age verification amid new rules around accounts for under 15s
    8. Lies of P's sequel is a Wizard of Oz homage called Wonders of O, going by a Neowiz trademark, and probably not a videogame based on a famous work of French erotica
    9. Valve considered making a new VR game for the Steam Frame, before tackling the "ludicrous" task of getting Half-Life: Alyx running standalone
    10. Grand Blue codes
    11. As Civilization 7 devs Firaxis prepare to unleash the nukes, the strategy game's latest update whips out a fresh take on the classic Real Earth map
    12. "Valve is under the impression that this game is way sexier": Nighthawks devs claim vampire RPG has erroneously been slapped with Steam adult content label
    13. NYT Connections hint (Tue, 15 Sep)
    14. Wordle hint and answer #1914 (September 15 2026)
    1. The King Is Watching devs are making The Crab is Walking, this journalist is writing
    2. "We track every server you enter": the Wardogs devs are "coming down hard" on XP farms and cash exploits, even as they encourage people to grind
    3. Valve decided that cutting the Steam Frame’s specs to avoid price rises wasn't "the right product choice" for the VR headset
    4. Steam Frame review: Another best-in-class VR headset by Valve, though virtual realities clash with economic ones
    5. Valve’s Steam Frame VR headset opens for orders, with the cheapest model priced at a lenswatering £889 / $1,059
    6. Blizzard say Battle.net isn't looking to fight Steam and Epic for supermassive storefront supremacy, despite recently nabbing The Witcher 3 and Cyberpunk 2077
    7. This week in PC games: become a magic girl in Kernel Hearts, a dog commando in Fright Train, or a capital class warship in Sublight
    8. Sony letter spells the end for unreleased The Last of Us Part 2 multiplayer mod, its creator says
    9. Untitled Boxing Game codes
    10. Roblox plan to grow their absurd gaming empire even further by letting devs release games as "standalone apps", potentially via Steam, Epic, and GOG
    11. A StarCraft open-world shooter that's "Deadwood in space", Diablo 5, and a new classic-ish World of Warcraft branch out this year make up Blizzard of reveals
    12. NYT Connections hint (Mon, 14 Sep)
    13. Wordle hint and answer #1913 (September 14 2026)
    1. Moss developer Polyarc share that they're shutting down just two months after releasing a VR-less port of the beloved mousey adventure games
    2. Mortal Shell 2: Withered Shoals walkthrough (Part 21)
    3. Anime Dice codes
    4. The Veil codes
    5. The Sunday Papers
    6. NYT Connections hint (Sun, 13 Sep)
    7. Wordle hint and answer #1912 (September 13 2026)
    1. Anime Expeditions codes
    2. Mog Or Die codes
    3. What are we all playing this weekend?
    4. NYT Connections hint (Sat, 12 Sep)
    5. Wordle hint and answer #1911 (September 12 2026)
    1. "Why do we need more graphics?": 2010's Alan Wake was as photoreal as videogames ever needed to be, reckons original Thief designer
    2. Rockstar had a mole in the union worker Discord server "for over two and a half years", GTA 6 company reveals during legal battle
    3. PlayStation reportedly dumped Hideo Kojima spy action game Physint over exceeded budgets, missed deadlines, and Death Stranding sales
    4. Mortal Shell 2: Lonesome Spire walkthrough (Part 20)
    5. Wardogs presents a different kind of FPS power fantasy: making fat stacks as a pacifist rideshare driver
    6. GTA 6 online mode appears to receive Rockstar's first public acknowledgment, via mention of in-development "32 player format" in legal docs
    7. Ubisoft games on Steam may soon no longer require the pesky Connect launcher, thanks to a new tool the publishers are testing
    8. EA's Saudi Arabian owners are reportedly considering forming an ubermegacorp by merging them with Savvy Games
    9. For the love of god, [Insert game name here], let me pause cutscenes, my bladder can't take it
    10. NYT Connections hint (Fri, 11 Sep)
    11. Wordle hint and answer #1910 (September 11 2026)
    1. Do a bit of visual programming and watch your party of heroes conquer an evil tower in Dungeon Automata
    2. Shroom and Gloom is a positively mycelial roguelike double deckbuilder that's now out in early access
    3. GNOG and Goodbye Volcano High dev KO_OP share that they are laying off staff in the only, remotely good statement I've seen in a while
    4. Mortal Shell 2: High Lord's Keep walkthrough (Part 19)
    5. The Blood of Dawnwalker: How to complete Home Sweet Home
    6. Stylised XCOM-like tactics game Ex Sanguis straps Othercide's obsession with timelines to a leaner roguelike campaign
    7. "We’re going to become the new legend": Naoki Hamaguchi on making Final Fantasy 7 Revelation as if it's the last ever Final Fantasy 7 game
    8. Skyrim’s official IKEA crossover mod might be the most deftly-assembled Elder Scrolls gag ever, if not an ad blueprint other corps should follow
    9. "We want to invite people into this big tent with this grimdark setting": Creative Assembly on how they plan to ease strategy newbies into Total War: Warhammer 40,000
    10. Bargain with demons and boat with the dead in joyful RPG heist quest anthology Thousand Hells
    11. The Blood of Dawnwalker: All 7 endings
    12. Castlevania: Belmont’s Curse proves Dead Cells' developers were the right fit for a revival in this blessing for the Belmonts
    13. Steam beta update adds a new Big Picture view, screensavers, and a little treat for desktop Steam Machines
    14. Merge and Dig Simulator codes
    15. Spider Evolution codes
    16. As final hearing over GTA firings begins, Rockstar reiterate they "reject the claims" made by union and will defend themselves "vigorously"
    17. Kaiju Alpha codes
    18. Hideo Kojima spy action game Physint switches publishing allegiance from PlayStation to Xbox, probably increasing the chances it'll hit PC
    19. Wordle hint and answer #1909 (September 10 2026)
    20. NYT Connections hint (Thu, 10 Sep)
    1. Wanderburg, a bullet heaven where you drive around a Frankensteinian hybrid of a castle and a tank, is out in early access today
    2. Pile cards on top of each other and watch the magic happen in the textured and chunky roguelike deckbuilder Stack Order
    3. Mortal Shell 2: Deserted Slums walkthrough (Part 18)
    4. Lovely anime Sherlock series The Apothecary Diaries is getting a PC game spin-off, with Maomao chasing down another court conspiracy
    5. Blood of Dawnwalker's troubled power fantasy has me yearning for a more desperate, systemic vampire survival sim
    6. No Man's Sky's 10th anniversary update will let you rule space stations, built floating orbital bases and go on holiday to the sun
    7. Cult classic shoot-em-up Touhou Koumakyou: The Embodiment of Scarlet Devil has a remake out now
    8. Unionised Blizzard workers vote through contract giving them a say on genAI adoption and protection against layoffs
    9. Dungeon Lootr codes
    10. Blood of Dawnwalker devs Rebel Wolves are already looking for someone to help write a sequel, so here's where I'd like to see its vampy tale go next
    11. Onimusha: Way of the Sword - Best Oni and regular skills
    12. Rally Point: Strong simulation and team building can't carry Menace forever
    13. Zombiepunk action RPG Stupid Never Dies is a vibrant feast for the eyes, ears, hands and teeth, even if it is a smidge overwhelming
    14. I'm not saying Fallout 4 modding drama gets to people, but here's Breaking Benjamin's singer begging concertgoers to try his AI-assisted first person mod
    15. "You can never see outside of yourself": The House Before is a body horror game in which you are a house tunnelling through its own soul
    16. FromSoftware's first experiment with, of all things, horse armor DLC runs awry, as Elden Ring players manage to spawn free duplicate items in multiplayer
    17. "Most people" at Bethesda wanted to make Elder Scrolls 6 before Starfield, claims Skyrim co-lead, but Todd Howard dragged them aboard his rocketship
    18. Steam achievements for Persona 6, Fable, Stranger Than Heaven and a host of other upcoming PC games appear to have leaked
    19. NYT Connections hint (Wed, 9 Sep)
    20. Wordle hint and answer #1908 (September 9 2026)
    1. Onimusha: Way of the Sword - All bosses
    2. ROLLA is evil, fleshy, monstrous, B-movie-esque Katamari Damacy, and is out this month
    3. Humanity's best friend is coming to Old School RuneScape, and seeing a low-poly shiba has me temporally disoriented
    4. PowerWash Simulator devs FuturLab laid off staff and cancelled an unrevealed project earlier this year, but certainly kept quiet about it
    5. NBA 2K27 gives DLSS 5 a more faithful-looking game debut than feared, provided it’s running on the LeBron of GPUs
    6. "Justice at last feels within reach": Final hearing in Rockstar and fired GTA devs' legal battle will kick off with a union rally
    7. I dig how Sprawl Zero rampages along the mirror's edge between world and corridor
    8. "We believe in the power of connection": Donald Trump Tetris parody game rouses the mildly worded wrath of the Tetris Company
    9. Trump regime's Tetris ripoff yanked from White House website after Tetris Company declare they "take copyright infringement very seriously"
    10. Gakuran codes
    11. Karinderya codes
    12. The Blood of Dawnwalker: How to complete A Bulwark Against Darkness
    13. "Material uncertainty" hangs over the future of Life is Strange developers Don't Nod beyond January 2027, as negotiations over potential layoffs begin
    14. "20 players is the sweet spot": Guild Wars 3's action game combat is a first for MMOs, but it doesn't work at traditional raid scale
    15. It's still very much possible to make good Skyrim mods "without any use of AI" in 2026, declares the maker of a new DLC-sized Black Marsh expansion
    16. NYT Connections hint (Tue, 8 Sep)
    17. Wordle hint and answer #1907 (September 8 2026)
    1. "You'll be able to engage in these high stakes arms races": Civilization 7's Arc of Tomorrow update aims to be a proper Cold War simulator
    2. New horror game The Well Is Not Empty combines photophobic monsters with timer light switches and a lot of frenzied digging
    3. Mortal Shell 2: Outskirts Of Mammon walkthrough (Part 17)
    4. Combat and socially agonised teens impress in Persona 4 Revival, the RPG that series director Kazuhisa Wada feels a "duty" to make
    5. This week in PC games: Wardogs, Shroom and Gloom, a heist game from the King of Dragon Pass creators, and a bullet time FPS inspired by F.E.A.R.
    6. Onimusha: Way of the Sword - Underground Laboratory mask puzzle solution
    7. The Blood of Dawnwalker: Can you defeat Brencis in the Prologue?
    8. NYT Connections hint (Mon, 7 Sep)
    9. Wordle hint and answer #1906 (September 7 2026)
    1. The Sunday Papers
    2. NYT Connections hint (Sun, 6 Sep)
    3. Wordle hint and answer #1905 (September 6 2026)
    1. Deliver packages in foresty mountains and avoid thieving boars in the Death Stranding-adjacent and quite calm-looking Pinetrail
    2. Laser Guy is a twin-stick "anti-shooter" about a stressed out game developer who can't stop shooting laser beams from his eye
    3. The ESRB wouldn't let Valve release the cinematic trailer for Left 4 Dead 2, so what did they do? They "leaked" it, obviously
    4. Double Fine's first game post-Xbox split is a goofy bus driving sim all about slapping passengers who don't follow the rules and doing a good job
    5. Mortal Shell 2's latest update adds in an experimental new mode that adjusts the challenge based on how much you do or don't die
    6. What are we all playing this weekend?
    7. Onimusha: Way of the Sword - How to parry and deflect
    8. Onimusha: Way of the Sword - How to Issen and Chain Issen
    9. Onimusha: Way of the Sword - How to get Power Stones
    10. Onimusha: Way of the Sword - Stout Pillar locations
    11. NYT Connections hint (Sat, 5 Sep)
    12. Wordle hint and answer #1904 (September 5 2026)
    1. Mortal Shell 2: Desolate Keep walkthrough (Part 16)
    2. The Penguin from Penguin Colony interviews The Dog from The Thing
    3. "Top-down Zelda meets Bloodborne": action RPG Withering Realms is out now in early access, should you fancy riding the shoulders of a horrible doll
    4. Mortal Shell 2: Sanguine Caverns walkthrough (Part 15)
    5. Moonlighter 2: The Endless Vault review – a pleasant bout of number go up that’s most remarkable for how much of an improvement it is
    6. Wonderland codes
    7. Junk Mechanics codes
    8. Anime Origins codes
    9. Playing Mass Effect-inspired RPG Exodus was an uncomfortably familiar space trip, despite some brilliant zero-G fights
    10. Dead By Daylight codes
    11. Former PlayStation indie boss Shuhei Yoshida and the founder of TIGSource are throwing a Game Poem jam that "challenges traditional boundaries between art forms"
    12. Lego Skylines' devs want your city's problems to be visible without digging into a stats screen, which means finding a "family friendly" version of showing homelessness
    13. I’m an ethical muncher in The Blood of Dawnwalker, which means I’ve forced poor Coen to slurp up nine million rats
    14. NTE codes
    15. Blood of Dawnwalker's first patch offers relief from buggy tutorials and tight-lipped NPCs, but Rebel Wolves are still working on fixes for the stuttering and shader crash problems
    16. Miami-Dade police outraged by proposals to turn parts of Miami into GTA 6, saying that Rockstar's game embodies what they "work every single day to prevent"
    17. NYT Connections hint (Fri, 4 Sep)
    18. Wordle hint and answer #1903 (September 4 2026)
    1. Constantly reshape the world beneath your feet in the reality-bending "puzzle-first" Uncanyon, the next game from the devs behind the trippy Maquette
    2. Mousey city-builder Whiskerwood gets a bit wetter today with a hefty nautical update that lets your rodent kingdom venture out on the open seas
    3. While us lot in the West might like Dragon's Dogma 2's friction, Japan doesn't quite agree, and its producers say balancing that has been a real challenge
    4. Experiencing some day one Blood of Dawnwalker issues? Its devs know, and have some temporary solutions to help get you bloodsucking
    5. Onimusha: Way of the Sword is best when it's silly, and despite some gloomy open world slogging, sometimes even remembers it
    6. Final Fantasy 7 Revelation's release date puts an end to the remake trilogy in sight, and then pushes that end a bit further away with Sephiroth and Vincent DLC
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    8. The first big Crimson Desert DLC arrives in October, seems to be set in a crimson desert beyond Crimson Desert's existing crimson desert
    9. Epic Games Store: What's this week's free game?
    10. Deck & Conn is a cat-and-mouse MicroProse homage to a 55-year-old Star Trek game that might not be chunky enough for today's simulation sickos
    11. This week's GTA Online Podium Car
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    14. "I'm a massive fan of Aliens, but it is a very different beast": Why Creative Assembly are still ignoring every movie but the original in Alien Isolation 2, despite heading planetside
    15. Planet Coaster and Jurassic World devs Frontier have teamed up with Disney to make what is probably a Disneyland tycoon game
    16. The mishap-strewn warfare of Worms: Galactic Tactics gives hope it’s not just a comedy XCOM
    17. The Witcher Remake is currently on the back burner because progress on it depends on The Witcher 4's development, CD Projekt Red confirm
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    19. "A game for everyone is a game for no one": Don't expect an easy ride in Carcass Clad, the co-op tank horror game from the makers of Mouthwashing
    20. There's already a The Blood of Dawnwalker mod which triples the length of its main quest timer, ensuring saving your family from vampires isn't stressful
    21. Wordle hint and answer #1902 (September 3 2026)
    22. NYT Connections hint (Thu, 3 Sep)
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    9. You can't pet the talking rat wall in Ontos, the new space horror game from Soma's creators, but surely it can run Doom
    10. Rockstar unveil the "next evolution" of modded GTA 5 roleplaying, while staying totally mum on when PC pretenders might be able to migrate to their next game
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    12. Crafting daft vessels in ShipShaper brings transient laughs, but its honest love for boat building is infectious
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    14. "I just want to go back inside": How Creative Assembly use weather to make you crave claustrophobic interiors in Alien Isolation 2
    15. "The internet we once loved is gone": SteamDB founders announce the community-run database has been acquired by Nexus Mods' owners
    16. In Dungeon Settlers, you build a colony on top of a teeming RPG labyrinth in a trim take on Rimworld
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    19. Baldur's Gate 3's Mizora becomes a fully-fledged companion thanks to a new mod, just in case you fancy adding a calculating cambion to your crew
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    25. "You can’t just throw new people at that problem": Bethesda devs doubt future Elder Scrolls and Fallout games will have the same "quality level", after losing seasoned staff to Xbox cuts
    26. Aiming to supercharge The Blood of Dawnwalker's early mods, Nexus Mods release their own "streamlined" open-source Unreal modding tools
    27. The adult game crackdown is "ridiculous for our art form", say Hellraiser devs, but they think they'll survive thanks to that Clive Barker association
    28. NYT Connections hint (Wed, 2 Sep)
    29. Wordle hint and answer #1901 (September 2 2026)
    1. "It's just such a huge galaxy to fill": Don't expect any Total War: Warhammer 40,000 sequels, but do expect lots of updates that builds upon its sandbox
    2. Drive a train around an ash-covered world collecting ingredients for the last ever s'more as an anthropomorphic bird in the surreal and comically ominous Cinderline
    3. Cyberpunk 2077 launched when it did because its devs wanted it "out the door" says CD Projekt Red CEO, but I wonder if he forgot about that reported mandatory crunch
    4. Life is Strange developer Don't Nod look primed for layoffs, as the studio announces a "transformation initiative"
    5. Double Fine are all in on making Brutal Legend 2, if you're willing to give them $100 million in their game jam Kickstarter, anyway
    6. The Witcher 3: Songs of Past looked alright in its behind-closed-doors preview, though I'm more enticed by the remaster’s combat upgrades
    7. Nvidia DLSS 5 releases this week with NBA 2K27, so the AI yassification filter's busy beautifying basketballers early doors
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    11. All the RPS Supporter rewards for August 2026: fatty felines, GTA 6 pondering, and a heap of barely washed radishes
    12. Star Wars: Zero Company devs left without pay, report claims, with "most" staff furloughed prior to launch
    13. Skyblivion "will not be shadow dropping after over a decade of hard work", say modders still planning a regular release date reveal despite delays
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    15. NYT Connections hint (Tue, 1 Sep)
    16. Wordle hint and answer #1900 (September 1 2026)