'If [money] is an issue, pirate it and buy a copy later': the devs of our favourite surprise horror hit want you to play it spoiler free—by any means necessary

‘If [money] is an issue, pirate it and buy a copy later’: the devs of our favourite surprise horror hit want you to play it spoiler free—by any means necessary

Slay the Princess is one of our favourite unexpected hits from this year. It’s a choose-your-own adventure style narrative game about a dutiful mission to (you guessed it) slay a princess. I’m too much of a wuss myself, but PC Gamer senior editor Robin Valentine highly recommended it back in November, calling it the year’s…

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Open-world crime game Samson beats up a bunch of bugs in a new patch, as developer admits it ‘released a game with flaws’

Liquid Swords has been open about the development difficulties it has encountered with Samson, its newly released open-world crime game that adds a roguelike spin to Grand Theft Auto’s loop of driving and fighting. The studio led by Just Cause creator Christofer Sundberg “laid off half the team” last year, forcing them to rework Samson…

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Former Dragon Age developers are not happy with EA CEO’s suggestion that The Veilguard should have live service features: ‘I’d probably quit’

EA’s CEO, Andrew Wilson, recently voiced some bizarre criticism of Dragon Age: The Veilguard during a quarterly financial call. He suggested that the game struggled because it didn’t have any live service components. EA did announce that The Veilguard underperformed, even if expectations were perhaps set a little too high, but blaming this on the…

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Today’s Wordle answer for Sunday, June 15

Finish the week with a guaranteed win. We’ve got a clue for today’s Wordle that you can either use as a springboard for your first guess, or keep to one side in case those green letters refuse to turn up on time. Prefer something a little more straightforward? Something that can save a win streak…

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