HomeNewsSUDDEN DEATH SUDDEN DEATH is a free slice of interactive fiction about love, drugs, and Australian footballsome of it is also about chips some of it is also about chips Image credit:BENNY BARASSI/GEELONG CATGIRL Image credit:BENNY BARASSI/GEELONG CATGIRL The closest I have come to having any interest in sport is when I got really into reading about football hooligans, or like,Blood Bowl, but I do absolutely recognise the romance of it all....

HomePodcasts The Electronic Wireless Show podcast S3 Episode 16: the new hobbit life sim and our favourite The Lord Of The Rings gamesWhat have we got in our digital pocketses What have we got in our digital pocketses Image credit:Private Division Image credit:Private Division Nate has been playing an impressive number of games, including one that did not allow him to invent the stick and therefore hampered his progress. We also talk about AI NPCs again, because one of them tried to get James drunk....

HomeGuidesWordle Wordle hints and answer (#1041): How to solve the Thursday April 25 WordleStuck on today’s Wordle word for April 25? Read our hint or find the answer below! Stuck on today’s Wordle word for April 25? Read our hint or find the answer below! Image credit:Rock Paper Shotgun Image credit:Rock Paper Shotgun This guide is for a previous day! Looking for today’s solution? Check out theWordle hint and answer for Thursday 26th December!...

HomeNews Former Fable devs reveal a new co-op RPG, then announce its development is on hold amid layoffsFlaming Fowl will shift to a smaller game they can fund themselves Flaming Fowl will shift to a smaller game they can fund themselves Image credit:Flaming Fowl Studios Image credit:Flaming Fowl Studios The developers behindFablecard game spin-offFable Fortuneand the digital adaptation of dungeon-crawling board gameGloomhavenhave revealed a new upcoming co-opRPG… only to announce at the same time that the upcoming game’s development has been put on pause amid layoffs at the studio and difficulty finding funding....

HomeNews GTA5 nearly had story DLC that made Trevor a 007-style spy - until it was cancelled and turned into a GTA Online heistThe ‘Agent Trevor’ pack would’ve accompanied zombie and alien-themed expansions The ‘Agent Trevor’ pack would’ve accompanied zombie and alien-themed expansions As a somewhat deflating example of the money-churning might ofGTA Onlinebecoming the sole focus of Rockstar’sGrand Theft Auto 5efforts over the last decade, the actor who played Trevor in the ridiculously well-selling crime epic has teased some details of planned story DLC that would have turned the controversial protagonist into a James Bond-style spy....

HomeNewsLords of the Fallen Lords Of The Fallen’s latest update adds cruel modifiers that turn it into a roguelikeOne for the masochists One for the masochists Image credit:CI Games Image credit:CI Games Lords Of The Fallen, an actionRPGthat was a mixture of fun and infuriating when it first launched, has received its final free update. It introduces the “Advanced Game Modifier System”, which sounds like something creepy bachelors would pay an extraordinary monthly fee for....

HomeNewsMinecraft Minecraft rolls out armadillo mob and rewilds biomes with eight new wolf variantsChewier on the inside Chewier on the inside Image credit:Mojang Studios Image credit:Mojang Studios Armadillos, the grumpy pistachio nuts of the animal kingdom, have been added toMinecraftin a recent mob update. You can brush them to harvest “scutes”, the boney armour plating of the animal’s back, which you can then use to craft armour for pet wolves. Speaking of wolves, this update also sees an explosion in canine diversity, with eight varieties of the wolf now appearing across different biomes....

HomeGuidesNYT Connections NYT Connections hint and answers (Wednesday, April 24)Need a hint for Connections? Read our guide for help with Connections #318 Need a hint for Connections? Read our guide for help with Connections #318 Image credit:Rock Paper Shotgun/NYT Image credit:Rock Paper Shotgun/NYT This guide is for a previous day! Looking for today’s solution? Check out theConnections hint and answers for Thursday 26th December! Want a hint for Connections today?Piggybacking off the monumental success of daily puzzle gameWordle, the New York Times has another fantastically popular word game out now....

HomeReviewsSand Land Sand Land review: a boring Mad Max lite that should have been very excitingMore like Bland Land, am I right? More like Bland Land, am I right? Image credit:Rock Paper Shotgun/Bandai Namco Image credit:Rock Paper Shotgun/Bandai Namco The plot of the game follows - as far as I can gather, because I’m not familiar with the source material - the plot of the anime, which expanded the original manga....

HomeNews Steam says those hours you time criminals put in during advanced access now count toward the refund allowanceNo more time crime No more time crime Image credit:3909 Image credit:3909 The full statement reads as follows: Today we have updated a portion of our Refund Policy regarding pre-purchased titles. This change covers titles that are in pre-purchase and offer “Advanced Access”. Playtime acquired during the Advanced Access period will now count towards the Steam refund period....

HomeHardwareNewsNo Rest for the Wicked (2024) Arise now, ye Cerim: No Rest for the Wicked’s performance updates are underwayAlready running better on low-end GPUs Already running better on low-end GPUs Image credit:Private Division Image credit:Private Division FollowingHotfix 1’s focuson the game’sdebatablyenjoyable weapon durability system, Hotfixes2and3have made a raft of tweaks aimed at getting those framerates up. Along with the general fixes and enhancements, they both also specifically address the prologue’s dramatic ship battle, in which a maelstrom of sea, rain, and fire effects conspire to batter performance harder than any other part of the game I’ve seen yet....

HomeNewsFortnite Fortnite will let you hide “confrontational” emotes, including the game’s most popularDon’t laugh Don’t laugh Royale-battler Fortnite will soon allow players to hide a handful of emotes the developers concede are “sometimes used in confrontational ways”. This includes the emote reported as the most-used in Fortnite’s seven-year history. That’s either a worrying indictment of the game’s players, or a (more?) worrying indictment of universal human psychology. What is the offending animation?...

HomeNewsIRIS Hellish indie horror IRIS can get in the toaster and I’m sure the feeling is mutualActively hostile to my attempts to not put it straight in the toaster Actively hostile to my attempts to not put it straight in the toaster Image credit:GazpieStudio Image credit:GazpieStudio Sometimes, I hear critics describe something as ‘actively hostile’ to the act of playing it, but with something close to admiration in their voices. I’ve always felt that I, too, would like to one day find an artwork that I could describe in the same way....