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Cut straight to the best bit by clicking through to the answer to the January 26 (1317) Wordle. If that’s all a bit too much all at once for a Sunday puzzle session, feel free to sit a while with our hint for today’s game instead, designed to help without handing you today’s winning word…
Daniel Erickson, CCO of Thought Pennies studio, recently announced that staff had been laid off and an upcoming game canceled. “Over the last three years at Thought Pennies we built something amazing”, he wrote on LinkedIn. “We never missed a milestone, our feedback was great, our partnerships strong. We went from two people and a…
On January 23, Atari put out a press release disavowing “RealPongCoin” or “$PONG,” a new crypto meme coin whose account on X, “The Everything App,” was launched that same day. Though the company was once poised to go all-in on crypto and NFTs itself, Atari has since shuttered that side of the business and refocused…
I don’t trust Square Enix to program worthwhile mouse-and-keyboard controls so I don’t know which key fast-forward is assigned to, but I can tell you it’s the right trigger on my controller, and that finishing Final Fantasy 7 Rebirth has probably halved the lifespan of that trigger. Obviously I keep it held in whenever Chadley…
In a January 24 interview with NPR’s All Things Considered, Stardew Valley creator Eric “ConcernedApe” Barone discussed his debut game’s legacy nine years on, including his famous propensity for interrupting development on the upcoming Haunted Chocolatier to put out patches and new content for his 2016 farming RPG. “I do take in a lot of…
While the big Vermintide 2 news last year was the addition of PVP in Versus mode, the PVE side of things is still being catered for. Its latest addition is Verminous Dreams, a campaign of linked maps that pits the Ubersreik Five against their old enemies the skaven once again. The first two of its…
First reported by Massively OP, Final Fantasy 14 producer Naoki Yoshida has issued a statement on the game’s forums regarding a player-made plugin that can reveal private account details in-game. Yoshida doesn’t name a particular mod in his post, but he is almost assuredly referring to PlayerScope, a plugin that has drawn criticism from the…
I’m reaching between my knees to yank at the column-mounted gear lever of a tiny, cramped car that owners were so desperate to leave behind, they abandoned them in the streets of Prague en masse. How did I get here? The short answer is Jalopy. The idiosyncratic 2018 simulator, in which you drive and maintain…
Here’s some videogame news you don’t see every day. The Royal Shakespeare Company, known mainly for its contemporary adaptations of the Bard’s plays, has announced a video game adaptation of MacBeth. Titled Lili, the game is a modern “screen-life thriller” in which players experience Shakespeare’s bloodiest story through Lady MacBeth’s personal devices. According to a…
Celeste developer Extremely Ok Games has announced the “difficult decision” to cancel its follow-up project Earthblade, citing long term creative difficulties compounded by a conflict within the studio regarding the rights to Celeste. In a blog post published on the Extremely Ok Games website, studio director Maddy Thorson wrote, “We are opening the year with…