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December 2024 Archive

    1. The RPS Selection Box: Ed's bonus games of the year 2024
    2. The ninth RPS Christmas Cracker 2024
    3. NYT Connections hints and answers (Tuesday 31st)
    4. Wordle hint and answer #1291 (December 31 2024)
    1. The RPS Selection Box: Ollie's bonus games of the year 2024
    2. The eighth RPS Christmas Cracker 2024
    3. What's on your bookshelf?: Time has no bearing here as we enter the space between the clock hands edition
    4. NYT Connections hints and answers (Monday 30th)
    5. Wordle hint and answer #1290 (December 30 2024)
    1. The RPS Selection Box: James’ bonus games of the year 2024
    2. The seventh RPS Christmas Cracker 2024
    3. NYT Connections hints and answers (Sunday 29th)
    4. Wordle hint and answer #1289 (December 29 2024)
    1. The RPS Selection Box: Brendan's bonus games of the year 2024
    2. The sixth RPS Christmas Cracker 2024
    3. NYT Connections hints and answers (Saturday 28th)
    4. Wordle hint and answer #1288 (December 28 2024)
    1. The RPS Selection Box: Nic’s bonus games of the year 2024
    2. The fifth RPS Christmas Cracker 2024
    3. NYT Connections hints and answers (Friday 27th)
    4. Wordle hint and answer #1287 (December 27 2024)
    1. I enjoy Rogue Flight a lot despite mostly hating its influences
    2. The RPS Selection Box: Jeremy's bonus games of the year 2024
    3. The fourth RPS Christmas Cracker 2024
    4. NYT Connections hints and answers (Thursday 26th)
    5. Wordle hint and answer #1286 (December 26 2024)
    1. The RPS Selection Box: Edwin's bonus games of the year 2024
    2. The third RPS Christmas Cracker 2024
    3. NYT Connections hints and answers (Wednesday 25th)
    4. Wordle hint and answer #1285 (December 25 2024)
    1. The RPS Advent Calendar 2024, December 24th
    2. The second RPS Christmas Cracker 2024
    3. NYT Connections hints and answers (Tuesday 24th)
    4. Wordle hint and answer #1284 (December 24 2024)
    1. The RPS Advent Calendar 2024, December 23rd
    2. King Legacy codes list
    3. The first RPS Christmas Cracker 2024
    4. Wordle hint and answer #1283 (December 23 2024)
    5. NYT Connections hints and answers (Monday 23rd)
    1. What's on your bookshelf?: I am 90% yule log but I need to keep up the streak edition
    2. All Marvel Rivals characters
    3. The RPS Advent Calendar 2024, December 22nd
    4. NYT Connections hints and answers (Sunday 22nd)
    5. Wordle hint and answer #1282 (December 22 2024)
    1. The RPS Advent Calendar 2024, December 21st
    2. What are we all playing this holiday?
    3. NYT Connections hints and answers (Saturday 21st)
    4. Wordle hint and answer #1281 (December 21 2024)
    1. Best Path of Exile 2 Ascendancy classes
    2. Here's how the strategy layer works in Menace, the turn-based squad combat RPG from the Battle Brothers devs
    3. Should you bother with... mini PCs?
    4. Rally Point: Oh phew, Songs of Silence is only pretending to be a card game
    5. Microsoft Flight Simulator and the quest to replace Earth
    6. Two Epic Games directors step down after US Department of Justice investigate games companies under antitrust laws
    7. The RPS Advent Calendar 2024, December 20th
    8. Here are 5 snowy games you can get for cheap in the Winter Steam sale
    9. Wordle hint and answer #1280 (December 20 2024)
    10. NYT Connections hints and answers (Friday 20th)
    1. After 7 years of alien war, Elite Dangerous pilots have finally defeated the Thargoids
    2. Goblin Camp is about weird little guys who get things done
    3. Frostpunk creators cancel "Project 8" and lay off staff amid concerns that "narrative-driven, story-rich games" don't sell
    4. Path Of Exile 2 early access review: an expressive, characterful ARPG with plenty to chew on
    5. Having Ciri as The Witcher 4 lead will help the game explore the Witcher world's sexism, say CD Projekt
    6. Caves Of Qud review: an obscenely rich roguelike realm you could get lost in for months
    7. Here is a page of insults
    8. The RPS Advent Calendar 2024, December 19th
    9. After much talk of an acquisition, Sony and FromSoftware parent Kadokawa announce "strategic alliance"
    10. NYT Connections hints and answers (Thursday 19th)
    11. Wordle hint and answer #1279 (December 19 2024)
    1. The Beastmaster of S.T.A.L.K.E.R. 2, part four: the last bite
    2. Best Minecraft mods (2025)
    3. Path of Exile 2 Ascendancy: Trial of Chaos
    4. Spider-Punk lands in Marvel vs Capcom Infinite thanks to a giant mod with a revamped art style and new modes out this week
    5. The RPS Advent Calendar 2024, December 18th
    6. Mass Effect-like Exodus's first gameplay video features duels with space bears and chats with thankful frogs
    7. Helldivers 2's first licensed crossover is also Killzone's official debut on PC, sort of
    8. Times Of Progress is an elegant, focussed city builder set during the Industrial Revolution
    9. NYT Connections hints and answers (Wednesday 18th)
    10. Wordle hint and answer #1278 (December 18 2024)
    1. I can't bear to play much of free horror game Toy Box, but I love the concept of pulling talking toys apart
    2. Elden Ring: Nightreign will support singleplayer, but it might not reward it
    3. The RPS Advent Calendar 2024, December 17th
    4. Gwent returns in The Witcher 4, according to CD Projekt's heavy hints
    5. NYT Connections hints and answers (Tuesday 17th)
    6. Wordle hint and answer #1277 (December 17 2024)
    1. Boomer shooter dev discovers his dogs have been barking on an "unbearable" loop for years
    2. Marvel Rivals tier list of best characters
    3. Playing Wreckfest while learning to drive was surprisingly helpful
    4. The RPS Advent Calendar 2024, December 16th
    5. The Maw: what's new in PC games this week?
    6. NYT Connections hints and answers (Monday 16th)
    7. Wordle hint and answer #1276 (December 16 2024)
    1. What's on your bookshelf?: I am going to sleep for several weeks edition
    2. The RPS Advent Calendar 2024, December 15th
    3. NYT Connections hints and answers (Sunday 15th)
    4. Wordle hint and answer #1275 (December 15 2024)
    1. Tiny Tina's Wonderlands SHiFT codes
    2. All working Borderlands 3 SHiFT Codes
    3. The RPS Advent Calendar 2024, December 14th
    4. What are we all playing this weekend?
    5. NYT Connections hints and answers (Saturday 14th)
    6. Wordle hint and answer #1274 (December 14 2024)
    1. Super speedy Doomy senate-stabbing Caesar's Revenge is more cartoon than cruelty
    2. Open world sword-swinger Crimson Desert horse-powerslides to a late 2025 release
    3. While CEOs got dressed up for the Game Awards, 461 workers at Zenimax Online Studios unionised
    4. Turok: Origins will revisit the dinosaur hunter in a third-person shooter with co-op
    5. Tekken 8's next fighter is Clive, actually
    6. The RPS Advent Calendar 2024, December 13th
    7. The Game Awards 2024: Everything Announced
    8. We're getting an Okami 2, with Hideki Kamiya at the reins
    9. Naughty Dog are making a sci-fi bounty hunter game called Intergalactic: The Heretic Prophet
    10. Aaron Paul stars in Dispatch, a story based superhero management game from ex-Telltale devs
    11. There's a new Sonic Racing game in development
    12. Classic '90s PC racing series Screamer is returning, from the makers of Hot Wheels Unleashed
    13. The creator of Ico and Shadow Of The Colossus is making a giant robot-piloting game
    14. Onimusha Way Of The Sword is the Capcom action-RPG's first new instalment in almost 20 years
    15. Helldivers 2's update adds the dreaded Illuminate faction, plus city maps and bouncy jeeps
    16. Borderlands 4 looks ready to drop the hottest memes of 2011 in first-look trailer
    17. The makers of Yakuza are working on "Project Century", a new third-person brawler set in 1915
    18. The Long Dark 2 announced with co-op multiplayer, new urban areas and sanity system
    19. It Takes Two devs are making a new co-op game called Split Fiction, coming March 2025
    20. Here’s the first look at The Outer Worlds 2 gameplay
    21. World Of Tanks creators reveal Steel Hunters, which isn't quite World Of Mechs
    22. Final Fantasy VII Rebirth is heading to PC in January, a year after its console launch
    23. The first Witcher 4 trailer is here, and Ciri is the star
    24. Solasta: Crown of the Magister is getting a sequel starring Baldur's Gate 3's narrator
    25. From Software reveal Elden Ring: Nightreign, a three-player co-op spin-off
    26. Shadow Labyrinth is a twisted bloodthirsty take on Pac-Man, out in 2025
    27. The creators of Sifu and Absolver are making a football game, set many decades from now
    28. Wordle hint and answer #1273 (December 13 2024)
    29. NYT Connections hints and answers (Friday 13th)
    30. Here’s the trailer for Ninja Gaiden: Ragebound, from Koei Tecmo, Dotemu, and the Blasphemous team
    31. Warren Spector and Thief's game director are making a multiplayer immersive sim called Thick As Thieves
    1. Mafia: The Old Country release date shrinks to summer 2025
    2. The Game Awards 2024 liveblog
    3. Path of Exile 2 Act Two bosses
    4. Marvel Rivals review: it's like Overwatch, if Overwatch was overcomplex and frequented Comic Con
    5. The Beastmaster of S.T.A.L.K.E.R. 2, part three: the stalker becomes the stalkered
    6. Total War: Warhammer’s Rich Aldridge on roleplaying, iteration, and lessons from nearly a decade on strategy’s most ambitious series
    7. Path of Exile 2 Act One bosses
    8. Band Of Crusaders is a dark fantasy party RPG with heady overtones of XCOM and Diablo
    9. The RPS Advent Calendar 2024, December 12th
    10. A minor tweak to Steam will soon let you change the way you download that monstrous 250GB update
    11. Untitled Goose Game and Thank Goodness You’re Here! publishers are doing a thing and I’m not sure what the thing is but it seems like a cool thing
    12. NYT Connections hints and answers (Thursday 12th)
    13. Wordle hint and answer #1272 (December 12 2024)
    1. It's almost Christmas, which means it's time to play Skeal
    2. Curiosmos is a galactic playground of planet creation and creature evolution
    3. Hyper Light Breaker, the co-op, open world 3D prequel, will launch in Early Access in January
    4. TankHead offers vehicle combat in a sci-fi world where you scavenge parts from your enemies
    5. Path Of Exile 2 is so "severely overloaded" by players that Grinding Gear are hiring new support staff
    6. Path of Exile 2 Game Modes and Endgame guide
    7. Path of Exile 2 Ascendancy: Trial of the Sekhemas
    8. Symphonia might scratch your Silksong itch, even though it's not a metroidvania
    9. The RPS Advent Calendar 2024, December 11th
    10. Beautiful hand-drawn Cat Tram game arrives at station Steam today
    11. Path of Exile 2 Skill Gems and Gemcutting guide
    12. Here's Legacy Of Kain: Soul Reaver's iconic intro voiced by David Hayter - who originally auditioned for Raziel
    13. Valve are now selling refurbished Steam Deck OLEDs at up to £110/$130 off – if you can find them in stock
    14. Bulletstorm and Painkiller devs People Can Fly let over 120 people go and suspend or downsize projects
    15. RPS Asks: what are you favourite games for the winter malaise?
    16. You can now scan and steal paint jobs from any car in Cyberpunk 2077, plus more customisation with the 2.2 update
    17. NYT Connections hints and answers (Wednesday 11th)
    18. Wordle hint and answer #1271 (December 11 2024)
    1. Piece By Piece is about mending, painting and selling goods in a cute repair shop
    2. Friendly photography adventure Toem is getting a sequel with more black-and-white pocket worlds to explore
    3. Naiad review: still waters run deep they say, but then these waters aren't still
    4. Little Rocket Lab is a Factorio and Stardew Valley mashup about building a rocketship in a cute town
    5. Mallard mystery-solver is taking on a new case in Duck Detective: The Ghost of Glamping
    6. First big Marvel Rivals patch makes Doctor Strange less of a monster
    7. Beautiful, brainy space RTS Nebulous: Fleet Command is getting carriers and fightercraft
    8. How to get more Spirit in Path of Exile 2
    9. Total War: Warhammer III’s Gorbad Ironclaw feels like the perfect final expansion for the Greenskins
    10. If the demo for this magical Scandinavian skiing game is so "serene" then why do I die constantly
    11. Microsoft Flight Simulator 2024 review: a wonky career mode gives meaning to the formless flight sim
    12. Dread toy-peddler Funko Pop gets cool, handsome Itch.io taken offline via dodgy "AI-powered" brand protection
    13. Path Of Exile 2 patch makes looting significantly more rewarding, with further updates planned for dodge rolls
    14. The RPS Advent Calendar 2024, December 10th
    15. Jean-Claude Van Damme is coming to Hitman this week as a double-crossing ICA agent, and it’s free to play for a month
    16. This is my first time learning of this nearly useless novelty keyboard gift and I am in mourning for all the microseconds I’ve wasted in my life
    17. Shiren the Wanderer: The Mystery Dungeon Of Serpentcoil Island Review: a traditional roguelite heavy on charm but light on agency
    18. NYT Connections hints and answers (Tuesday 10th)
    19. Wordle hint and answer #1270 (December 10 2024)
    1. You can score Indiana Jones and the Great Circle for PC at a discount on launch day, here's how
    2. "Winners do drugs after all" - you can rewrite your favourite game screens with this fun tool
    3. Tekken 8's next character will be revealed this week, and clues point to a certain lady in red
    4. The RPS Advent Calendar 2024, December 9th
    5. I have rarely hated a bad guy as much as I hate Voss in Indiana Jones And The Great Circle
    6. It’s worth downloading the demo for uncanny horror Eclipsium just to stare at your hands
    7. The demo for Oolo offers up a magical metroidvania with hints of classic Zelda
    8. The Maw: what's new in PC games this week?
    9. Wordle hint and answer #1269 (December 9 2024)
    10. NYT Connections hints and answers (Monday 9th)
    1. What's on your bookshelf?: Divinity: Original Sin 2, Baldur's Gate 3, and Saltsea Chronicles’ Charlene Putney
    2. The RPS Advent Calendar 2024, December 8th
    3. The Sunday Papers
    4. NYT Connections hints and answers (Sunday 8th)
    5. Wordle hint and answer #1268 (December 8 2024)
    1. Ballionaire, the physics roguelike in which you build pachinko boards, drops on December 10th
    2. Escape Simulator 2 announced with promises of Dracula's castle and an improved escape room editor
    3. Caves Of Qud, one of the most exciting development projects in PC gaming, hit 1.0 this week
    4. The RPS Advent Calendar 2024, December 7th
    5. What are we all playing this weekend?
    6. NYT Connections hints and answers (Saturday 7th)
    7. Wordle hint and answer #1267 (December 7 2024)
    1. The Witcher 3’s Gwent is getting a full physical game next year, so you too can play cards while the world burns
    2. Infinity Nikki: How to get Essence
    3. Canine filth-criminal Doronko Wanko is getting some new dog breeds to cause tangible financial damage with
    4. Path of Exile 2 Attributes and character sheet breakdown
    5. What is Tidal Guidance in Infinity Nikki?
    6. Mandatory ray tracing makes Indiana Jones and the Great Circle pretty yet brutal, like Indy himself
    7. How to heal in Infinity Nikki
    8. How to improve your Stylist Rank in Infinity Nikki
    9. Object-ive Review: Total War Warhammer III’s Crown Of Command
    10. Indiana Jones And The Great Circle review: a grand adventure that keeps faith with the movies
    11. How to upgrade clothes in Infinity Nikki
    12. The RPS Advent Calendar 2024, December 6th
    13. How to get Bling fast in Infinity Nikki
    14. The Beastmaster of S.T.A.L.K.E.R. 2, part two: the Zone bites back
    15. NYT Connections hints and answers (Friday 6th)
    16. Wordle hint and answer #1266 (December 6 2024)
    1. Total Chaos is a grimy horror FPS from the Turbo Overkill devs
    2. Drivers Of The Apocalypse combines Mad Max with the vehicle-grappling of Just Cause
    3. Infinity Nikki Kindled Inspiration solutions
    4. Eriksholm: The Stolen Dream is a stealth 'em up that's a bit Desperados, a bit Dunwall
    5. In ocean co-op horror Darkwater you can ride a torpedo through an infested submarine's hull
    6. The Thing: Remastered review: a fantastic remaster of a game best observed from a distance
    7. Probably-magnificent mystery house puzzler Blue Prince will release in spring 2025
    8. Here's a new trailer for Menace, the turn-based mechwar RPG from the Battle Brothers devs
    9. I've changed my mind - Mekkablood: Quarry Assault is the only good videogame
    10. FPS Abyssus is allowed to call itself ‘brinepunk’ but you all need to stop this nonsense immediately afterward
    11. Spacefaring RPG Citizen Sleeper 2: Starward Vector gets a release date: January 31st 2025
    12. Northgard, Dune and Wartales devs Shiro Games reveal sci-fi MMO SpaceCraft
    13. Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Tactical Takedown is a bodacious turn-based battler from the Clickolding devs
    14. You can play the demo for heavy-breathing open world mountain climber Cairn now
    15. Moonlighter 2: The Endless Vault is the sequel to the shopkeeping dungeon crawler, out next year
    16. Infinity Nikki Observation answers
    17. How to get the Miracle Outfit in Infinity Nikki
    18. How to pass time in Infinity Nikki
    19. How to get Revelation Crystals in Infinity Nikki
    20. Danchi Days is a Game Boy Advance-style quest to host a Japanese summer festival, inspired by Earthbound
    21. How to get Bedrock Crystal in Infinity Nikki
    22. How to get Resonite Crystals in Infinity Nikki
    23. How to get Tricky Patch in Infinity Nikki
    24. Final Fantasy creator's artful RPG Fantasian Neo Dimension launches on PC today
    25. Yes, Capcom heard you loud and clear about the dodgy hitstop in Monster Hunter Wilds beta - and they’ve tweaked it for the full release
    26. Infinity Nikki banner schedule
    27. Infinity Nikki review: it's like Genshin, if Genshin shopped at ASOS and renounced violence
    28. How to get more Energy in Infinity Nikki
    29. The RPS Advent Calendar 2024, December 5th
    30. Predator and Friday The 13th devs IllFonic have "refined" an unspecified number of jobs out of existence
    31. How to save outfits in Infinity Nikki
    32. Infinity Nikki Breezy Meadow Whimstars
    33. All 366 Whimstars in Infinity Nikki
    34. Infinity Nikki Florawish Whimstars
    35. Infinity Nikki Memorial Mountains Whimstars
    36. Infinity Nikki Stoneville Whimstars
    37. How to invite friends in Infinity Nikki
    38. Infinity Nikki release time
    39. How to get Stellarite in Infinity Nikki
    40. Infinity Nikki: All Outfits
    41. NYT Connections hints and answers (Thursday 5th)
    42. Wordle hint and answer #1265 (December 5 2024)
    1. The next Dragon Age game might be another "reinvention", say BioWare, drawing parallels with Final Fantasy
    2. Subnautica clone Astrometica is the most flagrant rip-off I've played in a year that also contains Palworld
    3. The creators of Jett and Sword & Sworcery are making a 2D mystery action game
    4. You can grab Shadows Of Doubt, Citizen Sleeper and more in Jingle Jam’s 2024 bundle, and support eight worthy causes
    5. The RPS Advent Calendar 2024, December 4th
    6. Indiana Jones And The Great Circle's recommended PC specs require some deep pockets
    7. Ubisoft shut down multiplayer shooter XDefiant and lay off hundreds who worked on it
    8. NYT Connections hints and answers (Wednesday 4th)
    9. Wordle hint and answer #1264 (December 4 2024)
    1. One of strategy gaming's true oddballs returns in Creeper World IXE, which pits starships against oceans of wrathful gloop
    2. Battlemage lives: Intel announce the Arc B580 and B570 graphics cards
    3. Tic Tactic turns the world's most boring game into a promising roguelike deckbuilder
    4. Here’s me getting overly excited about the new one-way doors they’re adding to Two Point Museum, plus an interview
    5. Elden Ring 2 isn't in development right now, but From Software do have several other games in the works
    6. The robotic overlords of strategy-RPG Heart Of The Machine have graced us with a release date
    7. The RPS Advent Calendar 2024, December 3rd
    8. A Difficult Game About Driving is a difficult game about driving
    9. You’ve got ten days to pick up the original Warcraft I & II from GOG before Blizzard pull them, but GOG will support their preservation forever
    10. NYT Connections hints and answers (Tuesday 3rd)
    11. Wordle hint and answer #1263 (December 3 2024)
    1. Urge is the most interesting open world shooter in a long while, and also, the most revolting
    2. One of the best cheap mechanical keyboards, Logitech’s G413 SE, is even better value on Cyber Monday
    3. If you’re waiting on a Ryzen 7 9800X3D, get prepped with Cyber Monday savings on compatible DDR5 RAM
    4. Mechabellum review: impeccably designed and maniacally moreish mech strategy
    5. NetEase's new Spider-Man-esque open world gacha RPG has a proper name - Ananta
    6. Cyber Monday slices up to 38% off the HyperX Pulsefire Haste, a lovely lightweight wireless mouse
    7. City builder Workers & Resources finally brings socialism to the USA and UK with latest DLC
    8. Get the Perfect Steam Deck Power Bank for $74 This Cyber Monday
    9. 'Stop talking s*** about us' - Half-Life 2 mod blacklists a handful of YouTubers as 'anticitizens' and blocks them from playing
    10. The Samsung T7, a modern classic of a portable SSD, is up to 45% off in the Cyber Monday sales
    11. The RPS Advent Calendar 2024, December 2nd
    12. I’m much more excited for Avowed after hearing the team say that what makes RPGs special is “missable content”
    13. Black Friday? Never heard of it. But the Asus ROG Ally is £100 / $150 off on Cyber Monday
    14. If you need an absorbing dungeon RPG this winter, here's one with over two billion floors
    15. Hyperdrive Inn is a Lucasarts style adventure game made entirely from scanned fabric samples
    16. The Maw: what's new in PC games this week?
    17. Wordle hint and answer #1262 (December 2 2024)
    18. NYT Connections hints and answers (Monday 2nd)
    1. What's on your bookshelf?: Games journalist and Slann butt-sculptor extraordinaire Kiera Mills
    2. The dazzling and desirable RPS Advent Calendar 2024
    3. The RPS Advent Calendar 2024, December 1st
    4. The Sunday Papers
    5. Wordle hint and answer #1261 (December 1 2024)
    6. NYT Connections hints and answers (Sunday 1st)