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December 2025 Archive

Dec. 28, 2025
1. Wordle hint and answer today #1653 (December 28 2025)
2. NYT Connections hint (Sun, 28 Dec)
Dec. 27, 2025
1. The seventh RPS Christmas Cracker 2025
2. Ro-Ghoul codes list
3. Hunty Zombie codes (December 2025)
4. The RPS 100: Reader Edition (2025) - your favourite games of all time
5. The Forge codes (December 2025)
6. The RPS Selection Box: James' bonus games of the year 2025
7. Past Wordle answers
8. NYT Connections hint (Sat, 27 Dec)
9. Wordle hint and answer #1652 (December 27 2025)
Dec. 26, 2025
1. The sixth RPS Christmas Cracker 2025
2. Mark's most anticipated PC games for 2026
3. All Mask Shard locations in Hollow Knight Silksong
4. The best Crests in Hollow Knight Silksong
5. NYT Connections hint (Fri, 26 Dec)
6. Wordle hint and answer #1651 (December 26 2025)
Dec. 25, 2025
1. Universal Tower Defense codes (December 2025)
2. The fifth RPS Christmas Cracker 2025
3. Call me an oaf, then, for I will gladly devour Banquet for Fools
4. The RPS Selection Box: Ollie's bonus games of the year 2025
5. Silksong: How to beat Skarrgard miniboss
6. Hollow Knight Silksong walkthrough
7. Hollow Knight Silksong tips for beginners
8. Hollow Knight Silksong: Exhaust Organ map location
9. Hollow Knight Silksong: All Cogheart Pieces
10. Hollow Knight Silksong: How to get more rosaries
11. Silksong - How to find and fix the Sinner's Road bench
12. The best Tools in Hollow Knight Silksong
13. Hollow Knight Silksong: How to beat Widow
14. How to beat Savage Beastfly in Hollow Knight Silksong
15. Hollow Knight Silksong: How to find Grand Gate bells
16. Hollow Knight Silksong: How to get the Needolin
17. All Mossberry locations in Hollow Knight Silksong
18. All Relic locations in Hollow Knight Silksong
19. All Flintbeetle locations in Hollow Knight Silksong
20. NYT Connections hint (Thu, 25 Dec)
21. Wordle hint and answer #1650 (December 25 2025)
Dec. 24, 2025
1. The fourth RPS Christmas Cracker 2025
2. Hades 2 is our favourite game of 2025 or: why we didn't give Supergiant's roguelike a bestest best review
3. NYT Connections hint (Wed, 24 Dec)
4. Wordle hint and answer #1649 (December 24 2025)
Dec. 23, 2025
1. 007 First Light has been delayed, so Hitman devs IO can further buff the Bondage
2. The third RPS Christmas Cracker 2025
3. "Horrible", "boring", and "cheap": Experts pan new chatbot NPCs, but some leave room for optimism
4. Infinity Nikki codes December 2025
5. After seven years well spent, Hollow Knight: Silksong is unforgiving, unmissable excellence
6. Call of Duty co-creator, Infinity Ward and Respawn Entertainment co-founder, and Battlefield head Vince Zampella dies aged 55
7. NYT Connections hint (Tue, 23 Dec)
8. Wordle hint and answer #1648 (December 23 2025)
Dec. 22, 2025
1. Take a tour of Fallout 76's Burning Springs with our recently defrosted Ohioan historian
2. The second RPS Christmas Cracker 2025
3. Fish It codes (December 2025) - Roblox
4. No roguelite reeks quite like the wonderful Morsels
5. Weak Legacy 2 codes (December 2025)
6. Hypershot codes
7. All working Borderlands 4 SHiFT Codes
8. Blox Fruits codes
9. NYT Connections hint (Mon, 22 Dec)
10. Wordle hint and answer #1647 (December 22 2025)
Dec. 21, 2025
1. The first RPS Christmas Cracker 2025
2. Deadly Delivery codes
3. What's on your bookshelf: Santa Maw
4. Brainrot Evolution codes (December 2025)
5. Volleyball Legends codes (December 2025)
6. Expedition 33 may be a turn-based RPG, but it refuses to behave like one
7. The Sunday Papers
8. NYT Connections hint (Sun, 21 Dec)
9. Wordle hint and answer #1646 (December 21 2025)
Dec. 20, 2025
1. Everyday Sororicide is a game about women dueling to the death where you can only play once a day
2. Amongst all the success, Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 studio Sandfall Interactive aren't interested in expansion
3. The LCD Steam Deck's days are coming to an end, as Valve wind down production of the OG model
4. PowerWash Simulator 2's first bit of DLC takes you to the distant lands of Adventure Time's Ooo
5. Shock horror, Ark 2 has been delayed, with its story now apparently at the whims of Vin Diesel
6. Genshin Impact codes
7. Demon Soul Simulator codes
8. I tried to be heartless in Dispatch, but its characters had too much heart to let me
9. What are we all playing this weekend?
10. NYT Connections hint (Sat, 20 Dec)
11. Wordle hint and answer #1645 (December 20 2025)
Dec. 19, 2025
1. Dave the Diver's next DLC may not stick to sushi, but its underwater croc fights and jungle exploration have my attention
2. Crunch returns to Naughty Dog for Xmas as Intergalactic devs work overtime on a demo for Sony, claims report
3. Epic Games Store: What's this week's free game?
4. I may not achieve the ultimate goose shagging climax by Christmas, because my vomit children aren't earning enough billions
5. Xmas is almost here, so it's time to play Skeal
6. Hollow Knight Silksong: How to unlock Steel Soul mode
7. Roadside Shawarma codes
8. Where Winds Meet codes
9. Anime Weapons codes
10. Rally Point: Tempest Rising is clearly Command & Conquer, but more importantly, it isn't
11. Larian announce plans to let folks ask anything about their generative AI use, asserting "a lot has become lost in translation"
12. I've never felt more at home than in the labyrinths of Blue Prince
13. League of Legends is set for a big overhaul in 2027, as Riot lay "the groundwork for League’s next era"
14. NYT Connections hint (Fri, 19 Dec)
15. Wordle hint and answer #1644 (December 19 2025)
Dec. 18, 2025
1. Mirror's Edge players with a taste for Brutalism should bookmark VHOLUME, the new parkour game from a Babbdi dev
2. Assetto Corsa Rally's first big update adds in snow, an ice circuit and a majestic 70s stage smasher
3. This week's GTA Online Podium Car
4. Minos: Home A-Labyrinth temporarily turns Artificer's Ancient Greek maze-builder into a free Home Alone game
5. Horror game Horses sells 18,000 copies despite Steam's ban, but Santa Ragione are still closing down
6. I had it all, then I had nothing at all, then I had it all again, then I had a fatal amount of nothing at all in Crusader Kings 3
7. Roblox: Lootify codes December 2025
8. Build A Zoo codes (December 2025)
9. A future Silent Hill game could be set in Central or South America, says Konami producer
10. Anime Eternal codes (December 2025)
11. Arc Raiders is a good shooter, but it's also where I go for a relaxing walk
12. Bioware veteran heading Mass Effect-like Exodus' studio steps aside, leaving team to "polishing and tuning" ahead of 2027 release
13. Smarter than the Steam Frame: inside the VR mod that’s brought virtual reality to hundreds of games
14. Hard Void is a chilling 4X strategy game inspired by Stellaris and Master of Orion, where FTL travel risks getting Cthulhu's attention
15. Warhammer 40,000: Mechanicus II confirms 2026 release with a new trailer and promises of improvements on the demo
16. Alleged Horizon "clone" disappears from Steam and Epic Store, as Sony and Tencent settle their legal tiff
17. NYT Connections hint (Thu, 18 Dec)
18. Wordle hint and answer #1643 (December 18 2025)
Dec. 17, 2025
1. In furious sci-fi RTS Warfactory you have to manufacture every piece of your killer robot army
2. Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 how to get all Festival Tokens
3. GenAI users Larian forced to build Divinity around RAM shortage caused by GenAI
4. Yep, Fallout 5's world will be impacted by the happenings of the Fallout TV Show, sayeth Todd Howard
5. Steam Replay says 2025 releases accounted for 14% of the time we've collectively spent Steamilygamening this year
6. Stalker 2's Stories Untold update delivers a new questline and a place to chill in the Burnt Forest this week
7. Arc Raiders: Where to get Blueprints
8. We may have glimpsed Silksong's Sea of Sorrow expansion in a six-year-old trailer
9. Dispatch Season 2 can't take "GTA 6 amounts of time", fret Adhoc, as they decide whether or not to make it
10. Creative Assembly explain Total War: Warhammer 40,000's factions - the Eldar "play totally differently to anything we’ve ever done"
11. Anime Last Stand codes (December 2025)
12. Time is your biggest enemy in 2025's best mystery game. Well, time and ghosts...
13. The Elder Scrolls 6 is "progressing really well", Bethesda shout from the kitchen as they baste a GTA-shaped turkey
14. Doom's 32nd birthday has birthed a site which lets you rip and tear through fan-made levels in your browser
15. NYT Connections hint (Wed, 17 Dec)
16. Wordle hint and answer #1642 (December 17 2025)
Dec. 16, 2025
1. Larian boss responds to criticism of generative AI use: "it's something we are constantly discussing internally"
2. Let's all go steal porn from a dead billionaire's bunker
3. Larian want to complete Divinity in "three to four years", and they're making limited use of generative AI
4. Paradox show off their mysterious ass to tease Crusader Kings 3's 2026 expansions
5. Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 Antoine quiz questions and answers
6. Larian talk Divinity, their next RPG after Baldur's Gate 3: "it's almost as though it's the first in the series"
7. Dead Island 3 is aiming to unleash the hordes in 2028, with early production of key bits "moving at pace"
8. The Forge Pickaxe guide
9. Finally, Wreckfest 2 has added in a spacious family minivan for post-school run muddy motor murdering
10. Ninja Gaiden: Ragebound is both a speedrunner's dream and the perfect homage to the NES trilogy
11. Minecraft Mobs list for 1.21
12. Dress To Impress codes December 2025
13. Hollow Knight: Silksong's first big expansion, Sea of Sorrow, flows into our lives for free next year
14. Arc Raiders takes a turn for the Long Dark with today's Cold Snap update - beware the frostbite
15. NYT Connections hint (Tue, 16 Dec)
16. Wordle hint and answer #1641 (December 16 2025)
Dec. 15, 2025
1. A Game About Feeding A Black Hole, out today, is exactly what it proclaims to be, and surprisingly tranquil
2. Silent Hill f writer Ryukishi07 shares what he hopes you learn from his take on the horror series
3. Marathon lives, as Bungie set a March release date and try to convince you the extraction shooter is good now
4. Shadowrun devs' survival body horror Graft gets a gameplay trailer filled with fleshy delights
5. Ah yes, here's Megabonk's Halloween update, just in time for Christmas
6. Total War: Attila becomes Tolkien war, as a massive Lord of the Rings mod delivers its full campaign
7. Angeline Era is all about the joy of hidden worlds and the looping frenzy of combat Dodgems
8. I didn't expect a management game like The Alters to make me question my life choices
9. Uma Racing codes (December 2025)
10. Id Software devs form "wall-to-wall" union, with workers at Doom studio the latest to vote in favour
11. NYT Connections hint (Mon, 15 Dec)
12. Wordle hint and answer #1640 (December 15 2025)
Dec. 14, 2025
1. What's on your bookshelf: Fucksweeper and HoloVista's Nadya Lev
2. The Sunday Papers
3. Consume Me is an RPG minigame buffet that goes straight to the hits
4. NYT Connections hint (Sun, 14 Dec)
5. Wordle hint and answer #1639 (December 14 2025)
Dec. 13, 2025
1. Star Wars: Fate of the Old Republic's director unconvincingly attempts to dispel concerns over its release date
2. Become a forsaken nun and find absolution in the dead, almost-techno gothic horror world of Metamorphosis
3. Arc Raiders: Full Quest list
4. Exodus devs want you to know that despite Matthew McConaughey's AI deal, not a drop has been used in their game so far
5. RuneScape: Dragonwild's Fellhollow update gets a zombie-bashing and magical farming look-in ahead of its release next week
6. The devs behind Bradley the Badger want it to be the video game industry's satire moment
7. The Rogue Prince of Persia parkours around Hades in its own roguelite lane
8. What are we all playing this weekend?
9. NYT Connections hint (Sat, 13 Dec)
10. Wordle hint and answer #1638 (December 13 2025)
Dec. 12, 2025
1. In Lords of the Fallen 2, every limb you can see is there for your chopping pleasure
2. RPS Verdict: The Game Awards 2025
3. Fallout: Long 15, a huge NCR-themed New Vegas mod, could end up being this December's coolest Fallout thing
4. You don't need to have played OG Control to play Resonant, so say Remedy, but I wish they'd stop doing that
5. Resident Evil Requiem is "like jumping into a cold bath after sitting in a hot sauna"
6. Arc Raiders Expedition guide
7. Elden Ring Nightreign DLC: Scholar Remembrance quests walkthrough
8. Fruit Battlegrounds codes
9. Bee Swarm Simulator codes
10. Go on then, break 4:Loop's roguelike-ish mechanics with teleporting berry mischief, says Left 4 Dead creator
11. Deltarune Chapters 3 + 4 is a virtual Dip Dab, and its contrast of zingy humour and bitter story was delicious
12. All The Forge Ores and where to find them
13. After a rough reveal, Deus Ex Remastered gets an indefinite delay with existing preorders refunded
14. Star Wars: Galactic Racer sounds like a midi-chlorian-heavy MotorStorm, something I didn't know I craved
15. Total War: Warhammer 40,000 devs detail future factions, and when you can expect official modding tools
16. Clair Obscur: Expedition 33's free Thank You expansion is out now with "surprising new locations"
17. The Game Awards 2025 everything announced for PC – all the trailers, release dates, and announcements
18. Total War: Warhammer 40,000 is real and features Orks, Space Marines, the Aeldari and for some reason, David Harbour
19. Crystal Dynamics reveal two new Tomb Raider games -"the largest Tomb Raider world yet" and yet another classic TR revamp
20. Frictional reveal Soma follow-up Ontos, a lunar nightmare with talking rat walls and Stellan Skarsgård
21. It’s official: Control 2 is Control Resonant, a paranatural melee brawler with shapeshifting hittin' sticks
22. Capcom confirm Leon Kennedy's return in Resident Evil Requiem with new trailer
23. Larian reveal a new Divinity RPG that boasts "greater breadth & depth than ever before"
24. Left 4 Dead dev Mike Booth has teamed up with JJ Abrams to make another four-player shooter, with purple aliens this time
25. The Last Of Us game director reveals a fairytale forest platformer about a witch and her feathery familiar
26. Star Wars: Fate Of The Old Republic revealed - a KOTOR "spiritual successor" RPG led by Mass Effect's Casey Hudson
27. NYT Connections hint (Fri, 12 Dec)
28. Wordle hint and answer #1637 (December 12 2025)
29. Decrepit is a solo-developed soulslike about escaping a castle by dying in it
Dec. 11, 2025
1. The Game Awards 2025 livestream: all the announcements and reveals as they happen
2. Rockstar firings are a "deeply concerning case" that'll be looked into, says UK prime minister Keir Starmer
3. Elden Ring Nightreign DLC: Undertaker Remembrance quests walkthrough
4. Helldivers 2's Killzone crossover gear is returning via warbond, a year on from causing pricing controversy
5. Tomb Raider: Legacy Of Atlantis is the next Tomb Raider reboot project, going by alleged trailer leak
6. Arc Raiders: Marked for Death walkthrough
7. Arc Raiders: Broken Monument walkthrough
8. At last, I can redeem my dire Unbeatable preview performance
9. Arc Raiders: Echoes of Victory Ridge walkthrough
10. Arc Raiders: A Warm Place To Rest walkthrough
11. Outrun an alien invasion in kei truck racer DriveCrazy, which has finally motored out of early access
12. Arc Raiders: Industrial Espionage walkthrough
13. Dandy's World codes (December 2025)
14. Anime Vanguards codes December 2025
15. 007 First Light leak reveals that its villain wants to flyyyyyyy awayyyyyyy just like a dragonfly
16. Total War: Warhammer 40,000 reveal likely after telltale word "40K" spotted in Creative Assembly video
17. Avowed's facial mushrooms hide a fantasy romp that's well worth your time: disagree and my arquebus awaits
18. Tactics RPG Band Of Crusaders is a zealous take on Battle Brothers, but not (yet) the religious horror story I'm hoping for
19. How to get Miner Shards in The Forge
20. The Game Awards reportedly charges over $1 million for a three-minute trailer, while just a minute can run up nearly half of that
21. The Sins of a Solar Empire 2 campaign DLC is still coming, but it's years away – "We have a duty to deliver"
22. NYT Connections hint (Thu, 11 Dec)
23. Wordle hint and answer #1636 (December 11 2025)
Dec. 10, 2025
1. With little fanfare, Helldivers 2's creative director shares that Arrowhead are prototyping a roguelite mode
2. Match delightfully silly, hand-drawn dogs in Dogpile, a roguelike deckbuilder take on Suika Game
3. Final Fantasy 7 Rebirth's director has one key, and likely familiar, word to keep in mind for part 3
4. Forgo therapy and destroy your robot-filled hometown in Virtue and a Sledgehammer
5. Warner Bros' game studios weren't really a factor in Netflix's acquisition, so you can add that to the list of concerns
6. Arc Raiders: Scrappy max level guide
7. AMD's FSR Redstone upgrades are a match for DLSS, even if they slay a sacred cow to do it
8. Doom co-creator John Romero's shooter was a casualty of Microsoft's cuts, but it's being "completely redesigned" into a smaller game
9. Sins of a Solar Empire 2's AI will now only hate you if you give it a good reason
10. Wheel World's chill racing made it the feel-good trip of the summer
11. Arc Raiders is set for a Cold Snap next week, and it looks like forgetting to pack your mitts could be deadly
12. Post-Black Ops 7, Call of Duty puts a bullet in releasing Modern Warfare or Black Ops entries back-to-back
13. New Divinity trademarks suggest Larian are behind Geoff Keighley's regal, inspiring and thick teaseage
14. At long last, a cosy game that lets you fulfil your dreams of running an electronics repair shop in turn-of-the millennium Tokyo
15. NYT Connections hint (Wed, 10 Dec)
16. Wordle hint and answer #1635 (December 10 2025)
Dec. 9, 2025
1. Dirt bike through the nature-encrusted ruins of post-apocalyptic 80s Germany in youthful adventure Verdant
2. You owe the giant horned cat money in Mandrake, the Sunless Sea devs' British folklore-steeped gardening sim
3. All Elden Ring: Nightreign bosses and mini-bosses
4. Unbeatable review
5. Elden Ring: Nightreign - main boss order
6. Lie to futuristic billionaires so you can steal their stuff in Pentiment and Pratchett-inspired Better Than Us
7. Assassin’s Creed Black Flag Resynced rated by PEGI, as the siren song of remake sea shanties grows deafening
8. Leon Kennedy's in Resident Evil Requiem, PlayStation Store cover art leak confirms
9. Civilization 7 update 1.3.1 drops today, rolling out a new island-filled map and knocking Egypt off the top of the pyramid
10. Whether middle-aged blokes showering or laser cannons are your thing, Like a Dragon: Pirate Yakuza in Hawaii had you covered this year
11. A Star Wars: KOTOR 2 Remake was "technically on the roadmap" as of March 2025, court docs reportedly reveal
12. NYT Connections hint (Tue, 9 Dec)
13. Wordle hint and answer #1634 (December 9 2025)
Dec. 8, 2025
1. Capcom seek new heights as they whisper potential new Ace Attorney, Mega Man, and Devil May Cry games into existence
2. Cassette Boy is a Fez-esque puzzle RPG that is Schrödinger's cat, the game
3. The Alters gets an update that includes a "gamer's den" and a photo mode so you can take pics of you, yourself, and yours
4. That "leaked" Shenmue 4 trailer has nothing to do with Ys Net, and they're so mad about it they might take legal action
5. How to get Fireite in The Forge
6. Team Fortress 2 mod Classic is now Classified, literally, and gets a short delay into 2026
7. Vote now for 2025's RPS 100: Reader Edition
8. Fallout season 3 will start filming next summer if all goes to plan, as its showrunners want to keep their big iron in the fire
9. Beyond Skyrim: Cyrodiil introduces you to Anvil via a quest about child labour, a shirtless chase, and quick maths
10. Publisher reveals and immediately cancels new Postal game after fans accuse it of using AI generation
11. Arc Raiders Field Depot locations
12. This week in PC games: a skating demon tries to eat the moon and Terminator game appropriately rewrites history
13. Ninja Gaiden 4 revives a long-dormant series without bowing to Sekiro
14. Tekken lead Katsuhiro Harada is leaving Bandai Namco at the end of this year, bows out with hour-long DJ mix
15. Hades 2's Melinoë can now run through Zagreus' underworld escape from the original Hades, thanks to modders
16. NYT Connections hint (Mon, 8 Dec)
17. Wordle hint and answer #1633 (December 8 2025)
Dec. 7, 2025
1. What's on your bookshelf: Santa Ragione co-founder and Saturnalia director Pietro Righi Riva
2. It’s intrigue, not action, that makes Atomfall such a compelling Lake District trip gone wrong
3. The Sunday Papers
4. NYT Connections hint (Sun, 7 Dec)
5. Wordle hint and answer today #1632 (December 7 2025)
Dec. 6, 2025
1. Embark dishes on all the goodies you'll get in Arc Raiders if you choose to prestige later this month
2. About Fishing is a game about eating curly fries with your grandpa and yes, fishing, until it isn't
3. As Path of Exile 2: The Last of the Druids gears up for release next week, its devs, sort of, delay its 1.0 release date
4. In true roguelike fashion, Slay the Spire 2 is only being made because of a 50/50 coin flip
5. Romeo is a Dead Man sets its outlandish sights on a February 2026 release date
6. A look behind the lists and some lessons from this year's RPS 100
7. I helped a parasitic worm eat my neighbour's eyeball in 2025's weirdest horror RPG, and I'd do it again
8. What are we all playing this weekend?
9. NYT Connections hint (Sat, 6 Dec)
10. Wordle hint and answer #1631 (December 6 2025)
Dec. 5, 2025
1. Elden Ring Nightreign DLC: How to unlock Scholar and Undertaker
2. Elden Ring Nightreign DLC: How to unlock the Great Hollow
3. Netflix to buy Warner Bros for $82.7 billion, including the creators of Batman Arkham and Mortal Kombat
4. Breaking Horses: the thrill of going off-map
5. Elden Ring: Nightreign - All weapons
6. Restaurant Tycoon 3 codes
7. Fallout co-creator Tim Cain's rejoined Obsidian full-time to work on a mystery game, but plans to keep his YouTube chats going
8. Dead By Daylight codes
9. Honkai Star Rail codes [December 2025]
10. Don't assume Skyblivion is getting spellcrafting, as its team say UI lead was consulted on delay video despite post suggesting otherwise
11. Arc Raiders: Best guns tier list
12. The 100 best PC games of all time in 2025
13. Hytale won't be on Steam right away, as its devs want to avoid "overindexing on negative reviews" from players who "aren't as well-informed yet"
14. Don't look too closely at the best puzzle game of 2025
15. Total Chaos stitches Doom to Resident Evil, and it's scarily good
16. Samson, a gritty driveabrawler about duffing up dudes and drifting to defeat daily debt spikes, drops in 2026
17. NYT Connections hint (Fri, 5 Dec)
18. Wordle hint and answer #1630 (December 5 2025)
Dec. 4, 2025
1. Years after toxic workplace allegations, Fullbright's next game asks you to chat it up in a hot spring
2. Neath, the Rogue Legacy devs' RPG set in an "irradiated, inverted tower" warped by godly whims, arrives 2026
3. Sable creative director's new studio Eteo are aiming to release their first game in 2027, and have a newsletter starting next year
4. Dawn of War 4 Warhammers out a fresh trailer, introducing the Dark Angels and teasing a playable Primarch
5. Hello Sunshine aims to be the world's best and most poignant escort quest
6. Hooded Horse reveal Substructure, a factory sim from a top Factorio modder in which you excavate the layers of a rogue planet
7. Carmageddon: Rogue Shift puts a roguelitey twist on the series' classic wheeled warfare, will start bending fenders in early 2026
8. Best character class in Elden Ring: Nightreign
9. Creative Assembly reveal Total War: Medieval 3, while teasing a huge game announcement to follow
10. Wreckreation studio put entire staff on notice of redundancy, but still believe in their latest Burnout revival
11. Dueling Grounds codes (December 2025)
12. Fallout season 2 still sounds like it won't commit to a New Vegas ending, but for the love of all that's Housely, I hope it will
13. The Forge: Cash farming guide
14. One of PC gaming's key RAM manufacturers aren't selling to regular humans anymore, so they can peddle more kit to AI companies
15. Eclipsium is cosmic horror at its most fidgety and free-wheeling
16. Russia bans Roblox, with state censor accusing it of spreading "LGBT propaganda" and "justifying terrorism"
17. Destined Ascension codes
18. Hi-Fi Rush is ditching Denuvo in January, and it'll become unplayable if you don't grab the latest patch
19. Element-bending RPG The God Slayer has decent fight scenes, but systemic smarts could elevate it
20. NYT Connections hint (Thu, 4 Dec)
21. Wordle hint and answer #1629 (December 4 2025)
Dec. 3, 2025
1. PlayerUnknown wants to listen to your Prologue: Go Wayback feedback, just not all of it
2. Epic ban Santa Ragione's Horses just before release, allegedly with a weird reminder that NFT games are fine though
3. Chill cyberpunk city builder Dystopika's B-Sides DLC offers up polished experiments for you to play with
4. The wonderfully titled Schattenjäger is a bite-sized take on Castlevania where you can see the whole level at once
5. Weeks after an indefinite delay, Mina the Hollower's success is a "make-or-break" moment for Yacht Club Games
6. Total War: Warhammer 3's latest free update adds dancing Chaos armies, Norscan Spoils, High Elf patronage and just, too much, basically
7. The Forge: How to find Bard's missing guitar
8. Skyblivion's release has been delayed to 2026, but you can check out an interactive version of its map
9. Vending machines rule, waiters suuuuuccckkk: so sayeth the "touchstone" of Bioshock creator Ken Levine's Judas
10. Meet Willem Dafoe and other animals in 100 tiny free worlds created by brilliant game developers
11. Elden Ring Nightreign's pre-Forsaken Hollows DLC patch is out now, boosting melee attacks and fixing misbehaving churches
12. Don't expect a SteamOS phone after the Steam Machine, Valve engineer says
13. Speed saves lives in Haste, 2025's best game about outrunning an apocalypse
14. Haunted videogame No Players Online resurrected on Steam after a disgruntled "former friend" had it exorcised via DMCA
15. Avowed's new game plus, fresh kind of weapon and photo mode are now coming in a beefy anniversary update
16. Saudi Arabia will reportedly own almost all of EA if the buyout goes through
17. The Forge: How to complete the Goblin King quest
18. NYT Connections hint (Wed, 3 Dec)
19. Wordle hint and answer #1628 (December 3 2025)
Dec. 2, 2025
1. Embark almost put crafting timers in Arc Raiders when the game was F2P, but the model made it "hard to respect the player's time"
2. Helldivers 2 install size reduction effort yields 131GB in cuts, and you can try the slim build right now
3. The 30 best Steam Deck games to play in 2025
4. Horses review
5. The Forge: How to find Tomo's Cat
6. Routine review
7. Of course Hitman 4's coming, say devs IO, as they lay groundwork for a Diana Burnwood/Eminem buddy cop flick
8. The best microSD cards for the Steam Deck
9. Helldivers 2's latest patch buffs a bunch of guns, nerfs tongues, and dials down the drawbacks of using scopes
10. Wuchang: Fallen Feathers' tangram-like level design shines past its rough edges
11. Best weapons in Where Winds Meet
12. A Lies of P co-op mod offering multiplayer boss battles is out now, with full seamless runs in the works
13. Splinter Cell remake gets new director who's also old, as its original director sneaks back into the chair
14. NYT Connections hint (Tue, 2 Dec)
15. Wordle hint and answer #1627 (December 2 2025)
Dec. 1, 2025
1. Shapeshift while chatting to surreal, conversational mortals to figure out where God went in Burden Street Station
2. That Zelda-ish, Diablo-ish RPG Monkey Island designer Ron Gilbert was working on has, unfortunately, been canned
3. Haunted PS1's Madvent Calendar returns with 24 micro-games that'll put you in the horror-holiday spirit
4. Styx: Blades of Greed isn't releasing in 2025 after all, but that's okay, because it's got a firm release date now
5. CD Projekt plan to release The Witcher 4, 5, & 6 within six years of one another, and oh, are those pigs flying?
6. Fortnite chapter seven: Pacific Break adds self-revives and "self-build", as its art faces AI use allegations
7. Wonder of Blue is a very pretty, startlingly hard Alice in Wonderland dungeon crawler, with zero American McGees
8. Beyond Skyrim: Cyrodiil, the full Imperial expansion from the devs of Skyrim's massive Bruma mod, gets a bird chatter-heavy teaser
9. GTA 6's wholesome Boris Bike docking revealed in alleged WIP Rockstar portfolio video
10. Kill this tractor so you won't have to awkwardly ring your parents, Keep Driving's tyres squeal
11. This week in PC games: Marvel beat 'em ups, Nightdive shooter revivals and a festive selection of horror games
12. "We feel we’re reaching a new level": Cyberpunk 2077's multiplayer mod just completed its "most stable and successful test" yet
13. Roblox Black Friday 2025: All of this year's cosmetics
14. The snazzy and sumptuous RPS Advent Calendar 2025
15. NYT Connections hint (Mon, 1 Dec)
16. Wordle hint and answer #1626 (December 1 2025)