Why not start the week with a game of the NYT’s Connections word game? It’s usually difficult, always good fun, and there are hints for it below if you need them. What should you do once you’ve finished? Why, play some more word games of course. I’ve also got daily Wordle hints and answers, Strands
Month: August 2024
Welcome to Next Week on Xbox! This weekly feature highlights all the games arriving soon on Xbox Series X|S, Xbox One, Windows PC, and with Game Pass. Discover more about these forthcoming titles below and explore their profiles for additional information (note that release dates are subject to change). Let’s dive in! Pepper Grinder Devolver
Developer Type Moon Studio BB and publisher Bandai Namco have teamed up for Fate/EXTRA Record, a remake of Fate/EXTRA that will be coming to Switch, PlayStation, and PC in 2025. As part of FGO Fest 2024, Type Moon has provided a trailer and release window for Fate/EXTRA Record, which was initially announced in 2020. Unlike
Turtle Beach Stealth 500: One-minute review The Turtle Beach Stealth 500 Wireless Headset is the next addition to the already well-established Stealth series. Compatible with PlayStation, PC, Nintendo Switch, and both Android and iOS mobile devices, this versatile wireless headset is easy to set up and boasts a decent build quality, alongside clear audio regardless
Kai Cenat, one of the fastest rising and biggest streamers on Twitch, has given his home a massive maker to bring attention to the demand for a Bloodborne remaster. Ah, Bloodborne. Requests for a remaster/ remake/ PC port are arguably PlayStation fans’ version of “new Smash character?” in Nintendo Directs, albeit an increasingly unlikely thing
Booked For The Week is our weekly chat with industry folk about the books they love, have loved, and are hoping to love in the future. Hello reader who is also a reader, and welcome back to Booked For The Week – our regular Sunday chat with a selection of cool industry folks about books!
Earth Defense Force 6 reviewed by Travis Northup on PlayStation 4 and 5, also available on PC. Earth Defense Force 6 is yet another riotous entry in one of the most ridiculous and corny series ever to make very poor use of our fancy gaming hardware. It looks at least a decade out of date,
Darksiders, the slightly edgy take on the Zelda format, is getting a brand new game though don’t expect much from it just yet. It’s been six years since the last entry in the main Darksiders series was released, Darksiders 3, which received some pretty mixed reviews upon its release. Aside from the spinoff title Darksiders
In my experience, tower defense games are either strategic masterclasses, like every instalment of the Kingdom Rush series, or completely miss the point of the genre by disregarding the importance of the towers, as seen in Dead Ground. The next contender in this increasingly populated market, Lesson Learned: Cult of the Elizabeth, comes courtesy of
Image: Nintendo Life Patrick the starfish from Nickelodeon’s Spongebob SqaurePants series could be getting his very own video game, according to a new online listing. For a brief amount of time, the online store ‘igabiba‘ had a page up for “The Patrick Star Game“, which is described as an open-world physics-based playground by Outright Games.
Today’s Connections is not too bad, but there are hints below if you need them. What should you do once you’ve finished? Why, play some more word games of course. I’ve also got daily Wordle hints and answers, Strands hints and answers and Quordle hints and answers articles if you need help for those too.
Summary Valorant is live now and free-to-play for everyone on Xbox Series X|S. Regular balance patches are essential to creating a highly competitive landscape – especially for tactical shooters. Valorant on Console receives the same regular balance updates that PC players experience – patches every two weeks. Valorant is now live on Xbox Series X|S–
Aniplex and Type Moon have announced through a trailer that Fate/Stay Night Remastered will summon its way onto Switch on August 8th. It is now available on the US Switch eShop at a discounted price of $26.99, a 10% sale off of its MSRP of $29.99, which will last until August 21st. This marks the
World of Warcraft: The War Within, is almost here. It’s an ambitious looking expansion, taking players deep underground to lands and cultures unseen up until this point. But according to associate design director Maria Hamilton and lead prop artist Jordan Powers, this new selection of zones was built on the back of one special zone.
Every now and then, a joke is just too good to stay a joke. Such is the case for Divorced Dads, a collectible card game that has its origins in a viral video skit from comedian Graeme Barrett, aka AudioOpera. You’ve probably seen something of his when doomscrolling Instagram or Tiktok; his most-shared video by
Volgarr the Viking is back, and more than a decade on from the release of the original game comes Volgarr the Viking II. We reached out to the team at Crazy Viking Studios in hope of finding out more about the sequel, ahead of release on Xbox, PlayStation, Nintendo Switch and PC. Their CEO and
Image: Nintendo Update [Sat 3rd Aug, 2024 03:30 BST]: Nintendo recently launched a website in Japan featuring replays of the fastest times in the Nintendo World Championships: NES Edition tournaments. The same ‘Donkey Kong Barrel Roll’ replay (which can be seen in the original story below) is notably featured on this page (thanks, OatmealDome). You