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September 2024 Archive

    1. NYT Connections hints and answers (Tuesday 24th)
    1. How to unlock every Spell in Black Myth Wukong
    2. Crimson Desert, don’t let your slippery combat break my heart
    3. Enotria: The Last Song review: a straightforward, sunny Soulslike
    4. Honkai Star Rail codes [September 2024]
    5. Genshin Impact codes
    6. Disney Epic Mickey: Rebrushed review: a faithful remaster of a paint-splashing platformer
    7. MTG Arena codes
    8. The best Minecraft Bedrock seeds
    9. Valve’s ARM64 game testing points towards new Steam hardware, if vaguely
    10. The 88-year-old "Skyrim Grandma" isn't doing any more gaming videos (but will keep you updated on a quilt she's making)
    11. God Of War Ragnarok review: calm down now, I’ve known this wolf for ninety seconds
    12. All 107 Black Myth Wukong bosses
    13. Annapurna Interactive has "splintered into two groups, both of which are now working to pick up the pieces" says new report
    14. I didn’t play Shadowgate, but this skeleton reminds me of HeroQuest and that’s good enough for me
    15. Wordle hint and answer #1192 (September 23 2024)
    16. The Maw: what's new in PC games this week?
    17. Past Wordle answers
    18. NYT Connections hints and answers (Monday 23rd)
    1. What's on your bookshelf?: why have you put pumpkin spice in my grandfather's ashes edition
    2. The Sunday Papers
    3. Wordle hint and answer #1191 (September 22 2024)
    4. NYT Connections hints and answers (Sunday 22nd)
    1. Homeworld 3's coming paid DLC and free updates will now all launch in November, instead of running into 2025
    2. The Finals' fourth season kicks off next week with a new map, new tutorial and the return of ranked Cashout
    3. Sokpop's possibly haunted gardening game Grunn will launch next month
    4. Wordle hint and answer #1190 (September 21 2024)
    5. What are we all playing this weekend?
    6. NYT Connections hints and answers (Saturday 21st)
    1. Like A Dragon: Pirate Yakuza In Hawaii has been announced and is coming for you, Skull And Bones
    2. God of War Ragnarök on Steam Deck shows the best and worst of handheld PC-ing
    3. From Blizzard to Bethesda, game unions are sweeping the industry - here's how the CWA helps make them happen
    4. The joy of being disgustingly outnumbered as the Dwarfs in Total War: Warhammer 3
    5. Minecraft house ideas
    6. Black Myth Wukong Skandha locations
    7. Final Fantasy 16 review: if it were half as big it'd be twice as good
    8. Rain World's new slugcat will explore icy wastes and desert sands as The Watcher DLC gets a release date
    9. Wordle hint and answer #1189 (September 20 2024)
    10. NYT Connections hints and answers (Friday 20th)
    1. Store these system requirements in your head compartment before Microsoft Flight Simulator 2024 takes off
    2. Two Point Museum will open its doors to visitors in March 2025
    3. Minecraft console developer 4J Studios are making Reforj, their own open world survival game
    4. GTA Online is no longer supported by Steam Deck thanks to a slightly baffling Rockstar anti-cheat update
    5. Black Myth Wukong Chapter 3 map
    6. Black Myth Wukong Chapter 2 map
    7. Black Myth Wukong Chapter 1 map
    8. Black Myth Wukong: Chapter 3 walkthrough
    9. Black Myth Wukong: Chapter 2 walkthrough
    10. Black Myth Wukong: Chapter 1 walkthrough
    11. Black Myth Wukong Chapter 3 bosses
    12. Black Myth Wukong Chapter 2 bosses
    13. Black Myth Wukong Chapter 1 bosses
    14. Final Fantasy XVI is an uneven PC port with performance to match
    15. Black Myth Wukong Best Spells
    16. Black Myth Wukong Best Builds
    17. The best Minecraft seeds 1.21
    18. The Bird Of A Thousand Voices is a simple, free and striking platformer weaving Armenian folk legends and fairy tales
    19. Here’s a demo for the Square Enix RPG remake that sounds a bit like anime Crusader Kings
    20. Revisit the shopping trolley pain of Jackass in racing game Slackers: Carts Of Glory
    21. Copycat forced me to refuse a dying elderly woman emotional comfort, then steal her chicken
    22. Nintendo and The Pokémon Company are suing the Palworld developers for "infringement of patent rights"
    23. The Lethal Company developer's next game is an open world where you can't see
    24. Wordle hint and answer #1188 (September 19 2024)
    25. NYT Connections hints and answers (Thursday 19th)
    1. My Time At Evershine promises to bring a new art style and expanded co-op to the farming life sim
    2. Prince Of Persia: The Lost Crown's story DLC Mask Of Darkness is out now
    3. Gold Teeth is a tabletop RPG about "piracy and occult horror" from RPS pals Jim Rossignol and Marsh Davies
    4. Saber won't say whether their CEO wrote this highly baity comment about games "imposing morals on gamers"
    5. Metroidvania Marko: Beyond Brave describes itself as "Slavic Silksong", and is out now
    6. EA confirm that Respawn’s next Star Wars Jedi game will be the series’ “final chapter”
    7. Peroxide codes: Free Product Essence
    8. Skate heelflips into my calendar with an early access release some time in 2025
    9. There shall be no Sims 5, you insolent fools, only a Sims universe
    10. Final Fantasy XVI’s wobbly Steam Deck performance gets it a failing grade from Valve
    11. Dead By Daylight codes
    12. All working Borderlands 3 SHiFT Codes
    13. LYMBUS is hostile to my existence and keeps demanding brain cells I haven’t grown yet
    14. Rockstar leak more clues of a Red Dead Redemption PC remaster
    15. You're now much stronger against tanks and armour in Helldivers 2, as Arrowhead patch for "more versatile" tactics
    16. Wordle hint and answer #1187 (September 18 2024)
    17. NYT Connections hints and answers (Wednesday 18th)
    1. Frostpunk 2 review: I became a dictator because everyone was so goddamn annoying
    2. Some Goodbyes We Made is a collection of sorrowfully sweet games about saying goodbye
    3. The Plucky Squire review: a charming storybook adventure, but I wish it let you go full plucko mode
    4. UFO 50 review: a pixellated portrait of the 1980s that offers a strange sort of time travel
    5. Metaphor: ReFantazio almost has me sold on its bonkers bad guy designs alone
    6. We should redefine live service games as the living dead
    7. People’s heads keep exploding for no good reason in I Am Your Beast and I’m very much onboard with it
    8. I completely missed that ace wizard battle royale Spellbreak had been brought back from the dead
    9. Tiny Tina's Wonderlands SHiFT codes
    10. Shindo Life codes
    11. The next Battlefield is a return to the "peak era" of Battlefields 3 and 4, with a modern setting and smaller headcounts
    12. We Who Are About To Die’s new update has finally given me the excuse I need to cowardly lob some rocks at the heads of seasoned opponents
    13. All Star Tower Defense codes list
    14. ECHOSTASIS’s curious and thoughtful horror doesn’t overlook the importance of an excellent shotgun
    15. Wordle hint and answer #1186 (September 17 2024)
    16. Black Myth Wukong Best Spirits
    17. Black Myth Wukong Best Curios
    18. NYT Connections hints and answers (Tuesday 17th)
    1. Trust is a vampire FPS with immersive sim elements from the Forgive Me Father devs
    2. Menace’s turn-based battles are the galaxy’s deadliest teambuilding exercises
    3. A One Piece Game codes
    4. Closing the car boot on your head will now kill you in Pacific Drive
    5. Neon knight flier Hyperbeat looks like a stylish mash-up of Rez and Osu!
    6. Tiny Glade review: lovely tools and procedural flourishes make building castles a treat
    7. In handsome metroidvania Alruna And The Necro-Industrialists you are a dryad fighting the corpse of capitalism
    8. Mars First Logistics has turned into a Martian railway builder, with some very pretty, 100% authentic clouds
    9. Satisfactory 1.0 review: yes, it is
    10. The Maw: what's new in PC games this week?
    11. Resident Evil and No More Heroes creators join long list of devs who think Metacritic is bad for game dev
    12. This action roguelite’s demo has more stuff in it than some full games, plus some very good goblins
    13. Blox Fruits codes
    14. Wordle hint and answer #1185 (September 16 2024)
    15. NYT Connections hints and answers (Monday 16th)
    1. What's on your bookshelf?: Firaxis, Hindsight, and Life Is Strange writer Emma Kidwell
    2. The Sunday Papers
    3. Wordle hint and answer #1184 (September 15 2024)
    4. NYT Connections hints and answers (Sunday 15th)
    1. One Million Checkboxes players hid binary, QR codes and rickrolls among the boxes during its two week war
    2. Cosy life sim Tales Of The Shire needs more time in the oven, delayed until 2025
    3. Wonderful photography adventure Toem will be free from Epic next week
    4. Wordle hint and answer #1183 (September 14 2024)
    5. What are we all playing this weekend?
    6. NYT Connections hints and answers (Saturday 14th)
    1. Build A Boat For Treasure codes
    2. World Of Stands codes
    3. All syndicate vault locations in Star Wars Outlaws
    4. Ahoy Draculads and ladies, V Rising is free this weekend
    5. Black Myth Wukong Best Gourds
    6. Bonkers anti-immersive sim Mosa Lina now has co-op multiplayer, plus "super secret frog mode"
    7. Love, Ghostie is a sweet and silly shipper's treat
    8. Space Marine 2’s unyieldingly dull power fantasy has me begging for an Imperial Guard survival horror game
    9. Demon Soul Simulator codes
    10. Black Myth Wukong Best Armor
    11. Spray Paint Simulator announced, as PowerWash Simulator seethes
    12. A European consumer watchdog wants you to be able to buy exactly as much in-game currency as you need, not fixed chunks
    13. Faaast Penguin is that Super Mario 64 level where you race a penguin except now the penguin is 39 other players
    14. 50/50 is a cheerful, deeply heinous free game about cutting things perfectly in half
    15. Portal To The Cosmobeat is a brilliant, ridiculous and currently free mix of QWOP and Dance Dance Revolution
    16. Annapurna Interactive’s entire staff resign following dispute with owner
    17. Wordle hint and answer #1182 (September 13 2024)
    18. NYT Connections hints and answers (Friday 13th)
    1. Grapple Dogs: Cosmic Canines is out now, adding a shooty new character to the original's tricky platforming
    2. Convergence Games Showcase will feature announcements from indie publishers including Secret Mode, Thunderful and Kepler
    3. The Steam Families logo is clearly a Rorschach test, so what do you see?
    4. Unity is ditching their much-hated runtime fees effective immediately, a year after they infuriated basically every game developer
    5. Among the many beauties of Arco is that it's a secret, gentle introduction to bullet hell shooting
    6. How S.T.A.L.K.E.R. 2 moves the series forward – and why it reflects Ukraine’s "rebellious" spirit
    7. The blue pools of Planet Coaster 2 make me want to go to a real water park
    8. Hollowbody is almost a great survival horror game
    9. Best syndicate in Star Wars Outlaws
    10. Eve Frontier is a survival game spin-off of Eve Online and, yup, it's full of blockchain bullshit
    11. Doors codes
    12. Microsoft toss another 650 jobs onto the layoff pyre in the name of "sustainable future growth"
    13. Bee Swarm Simulator codes
    14. Free unofficial open world Superman game Undefeated gets a PC update with heat vision alongside a surprise PS5 launch
    15. Black Myth Wukong Best Weapons
    16. Nightmare Operator is a ghostly Tokyo-set shooter in which you switch bullets by doing Street Fighter moves
    17. Da Hood codes
    18. Caravan SandWitch review: a tiny open world with open roads and open arms
    19. An urgent update for the dogs next door
    20. Bramble Royale: A Meteorfall Story pops D&D party mechanics into a roguelike deckbuilder reminiscent of Adventure Time
    21. Steam Families is out of beta, letting you share games with up to five others
    22. Wordle hint and answer #1181 (September 12 2024)
    23. Wild Bastards review: a messy roguelike shooter that's nonetheless full o' beans
    24. NYT Connections hints and answers (Thursday 12th)
    1. Space noir roguelike Ostranauts is aiming for 1.0 in 2025, with help from Kitfox as publisher
    2. Nightingale's Realms Rebuilt update arrives tomorrow and aims to revive the game with a handcrafted campaign
    3. Dragon Age: The Veilguard will have a photo mode at launch, so you can finally take a close-up of the taint
    4. How to get the Secret Ending in Black Myth Wukong
    5. Please stab, toast and devour the demo for disgusting mushroom RPG Shroom And Gloom
    6. Black Myth Wukong Awaken Wine Worm locations
    7. Black Myth Wukong Luojia Fragrant Vine locations
    8. Turn heroes into god-beast fodder in this city builder influenced by Black & White and Cult Of The Lamb
    9. Should you keep the pearl in Star Wars Outlaws?
    10. Here are some PC bits you could buy for less than the PS5 Pro
    11. Minecraft's new faster update schedule will probably fill modders with both despair and nostalgia
    12. New Elden Shadow Of The Erdtree patch aims to fix the final boss’s eyeball searing strobe light migraine festival
    13. Ubisoft investor wants to dethrone Ubisoft's founders so Ubisoft can lay more developers off
    14. Ubisoft are adding offline modes to The Crew 2 and The Crew Motorfest after getting savaged over junking The Crew
    15. Co-op blunder sim Chained Together now lets you make your own hellish maps
    16. Wordle hint and answer #1180 (September 11 2024)
    17. NYT Connections hints and answers (Wednesday 11th)
    1. The best microSD cards for the Steam Deck
    2. Devil's Hideout review: scattershot horror through a surreal urban hell
    3. Planet-smelting sim Satisfactory is now satisfactory enough to leave early access
    4. Scyla Anfingrimm, Skarr Bloodwrath, and other chill guys on the way for Total War Warhammer 3
    5. The Ukrainian armed forces are reportedly using Steam Decks to remote-control gun turrets
    6. Star Wars Outlaws: BT-009S Fast Shot Trigger
    7. Warhammer 40,000: Space Marine 2’s PC performance is alright, even without much help from its settings
    8. Diablo IV support studio hit by layoffs putting 139 people out of work, proving that Embracer's "restructuring" is not over
    9. Bungie says Destiny 2's future lies in "unusual formats", like "roguelikes or survival shooters"
    10. This fictional CD-ROM about a Knightmare-style game show is secretly this year’s best horror game
    11. NYT Connections hints and answers (Tuesday 10th)
    12. Wordle hint and answer #1179 (September 10 2024)
    1. In strategy card game Roots Devour you are that tree the villagers warn people away from
    2. Black Myth Wukong Chapter 5 bosses
    3. Black Myth Wukong Chapter 4 bosses
    4. Black Myth Wukong Chapter 6 bosses
    5. Amazon tried to buy part of Valve in the days before Steam, according to former exec who says she's been "erased" from Valve's history
    6. All Black Myth Wukong Meditation Spots
    7. Minecraft creators are already trying to fix the Minecraft movie
    8. Baldur's Gate 3 level editor is cracked open by modders, bringing homebrew campaigns one step closer
    9. The Maw: what's new in PC games this week?
    10. Qanga is an indie Star Citizen in a seamless universe with no loading screens
    11. Star Wars Outlaws creative director admits forced stealth sections are “incredibly punishing”, says next patch will ease up on them
    12. Heaven 17 composer calls out Rockstar over alleged lowball GTA 6 music offer
    13. NYT Connections hints and answers (Monday 9th)
    14. Wordle hint and answer #1178 (September 9 2024)
    1. What's on your bookshelf?: pay 3 billion pounds to read five minutes early edition
    2. The Sunday Papers
    3. NYT Connections hints and answers (Sunday 8th)
    4. Wordle hint and answer #1177 (September 8 2024)
    1. Planetary Annihilation's factory management spiritual successor has hit its Kickstarter funding goal
    2. Peter Molyneux thinks generative AI is the future of games, all but guaranteeing that it won't be
    3. Shinji Mikami thought Tango Gameworks would be safe from closure if they made Hi-Fi Rush games
    4. NYT Connections hints and answers (Saturday 7th)
    5. What are we all playing this weekend?
    6. Wordle hint and answer #1176 (September 7 2024)
    1. Warhammer modder's new strategy RPG Whispers Of The Eyeless is Darkest Dungeon, but you're running the dungeon
    2. Toddler horror sim Baby Blues Nightmares lets you doodle your own horror game NPC graffiti
    3. Best Stance in Black Myth Wukong
    4. Warhammer 40,000: Space Marine 2's first patches to fix crashes and controller issues with ultrawide on the way
    5. Helldivers 2 is getting "significant changes" in September, as Arrowhead take inspiration from "player fantasies"
    6. Risk Of Rain 2 slaps a patch on the bug-ridden DLC that accidentally made the final boss invincible
    7. Lone Survivor creator's gorgeous "Zelda x Demon's Souls" action-RPG is back in development, over a decade since reveal
    8. NYT Connections hints and answers (Friday 6th)
    9. Wordle hint and answer #1175 (September 6 2024)
    1. Openblack is a an attempt to recreate lost god game Black & White in a modern, open source game engine
    2. Parking Garage Rally Circuit is an arcade racer designed like a "lost Sega Saturn" game and from the maker of JellyCar
    3. Arcane season two gets a new, substantial trailer ahead of its November launch on Netflix
    4. In pensive browser game Agentia, you can explore and assemble poetry as a beetle, a dinosaur or an island
    5. Heed the Dark Urge and check out Baldur's Gate 3's Patch 7, which adds 13 new evil endings plus official mod tools
    6. Black Myth Wukong Journal Entries
    7. In space sim Tin Can, you are a janitor in an escape pod and all the red lights are flashing
    8. Gimmick! 2 is out now, which is great news for fans of difficult platformers starring fun lil' green guys
    9. Black Myth: Wukong's first DLC is aiming for a Shadow Of The Erdtree-style second wave of popularity
    10. Play Japanese platformer Bakeru if you want to get better at pub quizzes
    11. The bloody battles of Warhammer 40,000: Space Marine 2 make for a great photo mode
    12. Sightings of Helldivers 2 Illuminate faction on Galactic War map are "fake news", says Arrowhead boss
    13. All Star Wars Outlaws Experts: Locations and abilities
    14. Smite 2 early access review: prettier, snappier, but not spicy enough
    15. NYT Connections hints and answers (Thursday 5th)
    16. Wordle hint and answer #1174 (September 5 2024)
    1. Blue Protocol's western release has been cancelled and its Japanese servers will shut down early next year
    2. Europa Universalis IV is folding four of its dozens of DLCs into the base game
    3. No Man's Sky's Aquarius update lets you go fishing across the galaxy
    4. Nikhil Murthy's Syphilisation is a ferociously in-depth, empathic reworking of Civilization and other 4X games
    5. Warhammer 40,000: Space Marine 2 review: a devoted sequel of swords and spectacle
    6. The first Minecraft movie trailer looks expensively naff
    7. 12 things to do while you're a meatshield in Black Ops 6
    8. How to complete Jet Kordo's Legacy in Star Wars Outlaws
    9. The people behind amazing Brutalist parkour game Babbdi are making a free 1v1 FPS with over 100 maps
    10. Hero shooter Concord taken offline as Sony say its "initial launch didn't land the way we'd intended"
    11. Deeply destructive driving game Deliver At All Costs will see you smashing 1950s America to pieces
    12. Shadowrun and Battletech creators unveil cyberpunk horror RPG set on a "dying space station" where upgrades change your personality
    13. NYT Connections hints and answers (Wednesday 4th)
    14. Wordle hint and answer #1173 (September 4 2024)
    1. Black Myth Wukong: How to open Pagoda Realm doors
    2. Star Trucker review: sci-fi escapism and oil-stained mundanity make for a muscular, purposeful driving sim
    3. Risk Of Rain creators wind down work on unannounced project and take jobs at Valve
    4. OneShot: World Machine Edition will bring the quietly beloved RPG to Steam Deck
    5. Wordle hint and answer #1172 (September 3 2024)
    6. NYT Connections hints and answers (Tuesday 3rd)
    1. Black Myth Wukong fox quest walkthrough
    2. Black Myth Wukong: How to parry
    3. Star Wars Outlaws Fathier Racing explained
    4. Black Myth Wukong: Drunken Boar questline walkthrough
    5. Should you choose Eleera or Gorak in Star Wars Outlaws?
    6. 1TB Lexar Play Micro SD Card Gets a Significant Price Drop at Amazon
    7. Black Myth Wukong Buddha's Eyeball locations
    8. Black Myth Wukong Best Skills
    9. Black Myth Wukong Old Rattle Drum quest
    10. Black Myth Wukong Man-In-Stone quest
    11. How to get into Kaslo's Parlor in Star Wars Outlaws
    12. Warhammer 40,000: Space Marine 2 announces global release times, won’t use DRM software such as Denuvo
    13. Should you give back Gorak's Ring in Star Wars Outlaws?
    14. Bicycle delivery sim Parcel Corps is delayed but at least it's funny about it
    15. Risk Of Rain 2 creators “still believe that Gearbox is heading in the right direction” despite troubles with recent DLC
    16. The Maw: what's new in PC games this week?
    17. Wordle hint and answer #1171 (September 2 2024)
    18. NYT Connections hints and answers (Monday 2nd)
    1. What's on your bookshelf?: Still Wakes the Deep, Little Orpheus and Robocraft's Robert McLachlan
    2. The Sunday Papers
    3. Wordle hint and answer #1170 (September 1 2024)
    4. NYT Connections hints and answers (Sunday 1st)