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Here's your NYT Connections hint today for Monday Jul 6

Our Connections hints guide provides daily hints, tips, and answers to help you solve today's Connections puzzle on Monday, ...
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Here's your NYT Connections hint for Sunday Jul 5

Our Connections hints guide provides daily hints, tips, and answers to help you solve today's Connections puzzle on Sunday, ...
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After spending more than a decade in early access, robotic survival game Scrap Mechanic enters 1.0 later this month

I wonder if that's how the developers behind Scrap Mechanic feel, given that the survival sandbox game about building fancy ...
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Build a medieval castle piece by piece and then defend it from enemy knights in the city builder and RTS Bergfried

Perhaps something from the RTS tower defence and city builder departments? Oh, and we'll throw in a medieval flavouring too, ...
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Dragon Age writer David Gaider's next game is a light-hearted heist RPG, if he can get the funding for it

Unfortunately for the studio, neither game did amazingly, but according to co-founder and Dragon Age writer David Gaider, the ...
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"I could feel myself coming apart at the seams": Suicide Squad leads on almost leaving the games industry after its failure

"I was following a spreadsheet, some elusive marketing-analysis spreadsheet that no one could present clearly." ...
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"You can literally reroute a river into a desert and cause it to bloom": Star Wars Galaxies lead says of his new sandbox MMO Stars Reach

Stars Reach is the new MMO from Ralph Koster, creative lead on Star Wars Galaxies, and it is a fully physically simulated sci ...
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Onimusha: Way of the Sword release date pushed forward, its devs deciding they'd rather fight vampires than cosmic entities and Scottish horrors

Onimusha: Way of the Sword's release date has been brought forward to early September, with Capcom avoiding some late ...
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Object Impermanence is a puzzle game where the moment you look away from something, it stops existing

This is to do with something called object permanence, an idea of understanding that even when you can't see something, it still exists, something that babies genuinely do struggle with. So how about ...
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"Low-effort slop": The creators of the Godot engine behind Slay the Spire 2 are cracking down on "vibe-coding" and now require genAI disclosures

The Godot Foundation have announced a crackdown on genAI code, including mandatory disclosures, following a wave of ...
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Valheim 1.0 won’t update the survival game’s sparse oceans, reveal devs Iron Gate, who add it’s "too soon to say" how long post-release updates will continue

Valheim's 1.0 release won't deliver any updates to oceans, devs Iron Gate have revealed, while not committing to post-release ...
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Steam Machine review: A singular living room PC that's more expensive than I'd like, but too special not to love

The Steam Machine is pricey, but it's still a decent games device and, more importantly, a singularly suitable PC for living ...