NYT Connections hint and answers (Thursday, July 18)

Need a hint for today’s Connections? Read our guide for help with Connections #403 This guide is for a previous day! Looking for today’s solution? Check out theConnections hint for Tuesday 22nd April! It’s calledConnections, and if you haven’t played it before, now’s the time to start. We’ll also explain how to play Connections if this is your first time coming over from Wordle! If not, check just below for the full answer....

July 18, 2024 · 1 min · 134 words · Lisa Mclaughlin

Portal-hopping shooter Splitgate 2 revealed, looks like the original cult FPS but with a lot more money

I promise nothing bad will happen to it on the other side. “This is a revolutionary step forward for competitive shooters,” he went on. Hark at me and my jadedness! I’m just grumpy because I keep accidentally writing “Slipgate”. I’ll have to give the 2021 game a try. Splitgate 2 is out in 2025. Read more about it onSteamand theEpic Games Store.

July 18, 2024 · 1 min · 62 words · Lorraine Brady

Streets Of Rogue 2's chaotic open world sequel delayed from August until October

The reason for the delay? “I, uh…. couldn’t program quite fast enough,” says developer Matt Dabrowskiin the announcement. Compared with other disciplines, programmers are notoriously bad at predicting how long a given task will take. That’s pencilled into the schedule for sometime in late August or early September. Assuming I can still wreak havoc as a vampire or zombie, I’ll be happy.

July 18, 2024 · 1 min · 62 words · Cynthia Williams

Until Then is the only visual novel game I've truly enjoyed

A wonderful thing I’ve triedvisual novel gamesin the past, likeA Space For The UnboundandHatoful Boyfriend. I’m a needy soul, someone who demands immediacy and a special emotional sauce. Until Thenis, without a doubt, the only visual novel-y game I’ve truly enjoyed. On the surface, the game’s setup is traditional high schoolers-go-about-their-high-school-lives fare. The twist is that there’s an underlying supernatural mystery to compliment the high school shenanigans. Through background noise and adverts and everyday tidbits, it’s clear that the world’s amiss....

July 18, 2024 · 1 min · 163 words · Gregory Valentine

Vultures-based roguelike that looks like a vintage Resident Evil game

Regretfully, you do not play a bird Crow Country,Conscript, and nowVultures - Scavengers Of Death. We really do seem to be living through a craze for PS1-stylehorror games. In Vultures, you play as a Vulture. Vultures is neither a linear story like Resident Evil nor an open world. From my experience with survival horror: take the shotgun and everything will right itself. Otherwise, there’s a strong Resi feel to the item rotating, keycode smashing, and inventory Tetris....

July 18, 2024 · 1 min · 91 words · Jermaine Hicks

Warhammer 40,000: Speed Freeks is a twisted metal death rally with Orks coming in August

A stompa is what it sounds like. There’s also Deff Rally, where teams of 8 drive and fight to capture points. Has there ever been a truly great game about vehicle combat? One where the combat involves projectile weapons, not playing bumper cars, I mean? I’d argue cars are an awkward steed to ride into battle, but what do I know. I prefer Split/Second to Blur, so I’m immediately thrown through the front windscreen of this discussion....

July 18, 2024 · 1 min · 77 words · Michelle Wilson

Wordle hints and answer (#1125): How to solve the Thursday July 18 Wordle

Stuck on today’s Wordle word for July 18? Read our hint or find the answer below! This guide is for a previous day! Looking for today’s solution? Check out theWordle hint and answer for Tuesday 22nd April! Use ourWordle Solver toolto help you figure out the answer to any Wordle in moments! Just pop your current guesses in the grid and watch the tool instantly give you all the potential answers....

July 18, 2024 · 3 min · 465 words · Leslie Conner

If we just went an entire year where every game was as short, cheap, and existentially harrowing as Clickolding that’d be great, thanks

In your hand is a clicker counter. What do those eyes convey? If nothing else, they betray a deep certainty that whatever else happens, youre going to click. If you stop clicking for a moment, a prompt appears in the corner telling you the controls. At least, I think it’s a prompt, because it might actually be a threat. Left click to click. He’d like you to click 10,000 times, like....

July 17, 2024 · 2 min · 327 words · John Lopez

Multiplayer FPS Over The Top WW1 guns for Battlefield's crown with 200-head battles and Mount & Blade-inspired melee

Over The Top WW1 is a historical multiplayershooterfrom the peeps behind the fairly well-receivedBattle Cry Of Freedom. If I can fit those map files on a floppy disc, this is an automatic Bestest Best. You canread more on Steam. I’ll fetch my shovel.

July 17, 2024 · 1 min · 43 words · Jordan Hill

No Man's Sky's Worlds update adds walking houses, fancier weather and a touch of Starship Troopers

Catch a deep dive trailer for the Worlds update below. Skies have more colours, iceworlds boast shinier glaciers, and deserts have more diverse vegetation. The update also makes a few improvements to performance. My laptop began to hyperventilate when I tried scrolling all the way to the bottom.

July 17, 2024 · 1 min · 48 words · Lauren Freeman

NYT Connections hint and answers (Wednesday, July 17)

Need a hint for Connections? Read our guide for help with Connections #402 This guide is for a previous day! Looking for today’s solution? Check out theConnections hint for Tuesday 22nd April! It’s calledConnections, and if you haven’t played it before, now’s the time to start. We’ll also explain how to play Connections if this is your first time coming over from Wordle! If not, check just below for the full answer....

July 17, 2024 · 1 min · 133 words · Jill Morris

Orcs Must Die! Deathtrap to continue killing Orcs in 2025 with new co-op thrills and roguelite progression

and Orcs Must Die!!! or perhaps Orcs Must Die!! ?, to indicate a mounting existential crisis. Now, Robot have stepped things up by announcingOrcs Must Die! They’re also promising randomised buffs and debuffs for heroes, traps, weapons, stats and levels. Weather and time of day will further influence the odds. As for the third game, I can’t find a review on here. All I can find is a blood trail leading to a pit full of stakes....

July 17, 2024 · 1 min · 118 words · Thomas Thomas

Prime Day slashes up to 40% off Samsung’s 990 Pro, the fastest gaming SSD around

Get it before its gone Prime Day 2024has delivereda rather good deal on a rather good budget SSD, but now Amazons supersale settles down into its final hours, I think we can afford ourselves a look at something…spicier. Something superlative, in fact, as the Samsung 990 Pro is the singlefastest NVMe SSDIve ever tested for game load speeds and it can be yours for 24% off in the UK, or 40% off in the US....

July 17, 2024 · 2 min · 257 words · Robert Sweeney