Quick Links Navigating the twists and turns of today’sStrandspuzzle proving to be a challenge? No worries! If you find yourself scratching your head over a particularly tricky word, or if you’re at a loss for the entire solution, we’ve got you covered as your linguistic life raft. Get a nudge in the right direction and keep your winning streak alive (and those bragging rights intact). This guide will give insights on today’s theme, offer hints, and even provide the complete solution....

Quick Links Navigating the twists and turns of today’sStrandspuzzle proving to be a challenge? No worries! If you find yourself scratching your head over a particularly tricky word, or if you’re at a loss for the entire solution, we’ve got you covered as your linguistic life raft. Get a nudge in the right direction and keep your winning streak alive (and those bragging rights intact). This guide will give insights on today’s theme, offer hints, and even provide the complete solution....

Life is Strangehas always been a balancing act. It’s a series about the mundane and the magical, about everyday life and its protagonists' strange powers. It’s simultaneously cool, with a soundtrack that has often trended toward obscure indie folk cuts, and deeply corny, with characters who say things like “amazeballs”. It emphasizes choice, but within a rigid framework where, regardless of their decisions, players will largely see the same content and events play out....

For a long time, theYakuzaseries was the anti-Assassin’s Creed. WithUbisoft’s open-world juggernaut, each new entry has been an opportunity to explore a fresh location. The first game took players to the Holy Land of the Middle Ages, and the next game will dig deep on Sengoku-era Japan. In between, Ubisoft has spirited players all over the world, exploring locations like Ancient Greece, Ancient Egypt, different eras of British history, and colonial America....

I loved playingPersona 5 Royalon mySteam Deck, because it allowed me to do other stuff during its longer cutscenes and tendency for exposition. WhilePersona 5didn’t have that much voice acting, even in the main story, Royal added a lot more voice lines. That meant that I didn’t have to read everything – I could prop my Steam Deck up against something and have a snack while letting the lines play out automatically, or quickly check my emails to see if anything important had arrived in my inbox....

Last year,Spider-ManandRatchet & Clankdeveloper Insomniac Games was the victim ofa historic leakas hackers pilfered over a terabyte of data from the first-party studio in an attempt to blackmail Sony. The abundance of files were later shared online and includeda playable build of Wolverine, a roadmap detailing future plans including an unannounced X-Men game, and evena very early build of Spider-Man 3 with Silk. Also nestled among this gargantuan amount of information was one of PlayStation’s many scrapped live-service projects,a Spider-Verse game....

So, if we all agree that slow shipping isn’t really that big of a deal, do you think we can get Wizards of the Coast to reinstate print-to-demand for Magic: The Gathering’s Secret Lair? When WotC announced at the start of the year that Secret Lair would be switching to a limited-print-run model, that was the reason it gave for the change. “One piece of feedback we’ve overwhelmingly heard is that you want to have Secret Lair drops in hand more quickly,”the announcement said....

Quick Links Though Pikachu has been the face of Pokemon for almost 30 years, it isn’t always the mascot for thePokemon TCG. It’s often put on the backburner for other ‘mons, like Charizard and Rayquaza when the expansion calls for it, but Scarlet & Violet: Surging Sparks is the electric mouse’s time to shine. Continuing our trip through Paldea and beyond to investigate the Tera Pokemon, Surging Sparks gives Pikachu a lot of love, but also offers plenty of crystallised Tera Pokemon, and a load of Dragons to boot....

Niantic has heeded our calls.Pokemon Go’sadverts for Gigantamax raids showed four players teaming up to defeat a mighty Gigantamax Pokemon. In reality, the developer suggested finding 34-39 friends to overcome the challenge. Even players in big cities struggled to get groups of this size together, andeven then they struggled to beat the bossesplaced before them. Players were forced to coordinate strategies, utilising heals and shields as much as possible in order to catch the Pokemon....

Summary Pokemondeveloper Game Freak’s recent mega-leak has thrown up some pretty wild insights into the studio’s development process and plans,potentially revealing details about Gen 10andPokemon Legends: Z-A. Sorting through it all has been an ordeal, but the most bizarre part of the entire fiasco were several stories allegedly written by team members at Game Freak thathad humans giving birth to Pokemon children. One particular story about Typhlosion went viral more than others, and seemingly involved a Typhlosion kidnapping a young girl, wiping her memories of her family and friends, and then having a child with her....

Summary Digital Eclipse has confirmed thatMighty Morphin' Power Rangers: Rita’s Rewindwill launch on December 10, keeping its previous promise of a 2024 release. This year has been absolutely stuff with great games, from big releases likeAstro BotandLike a Dragon: Infinite Wealth, tosmaller indies like Animal Well and Another Crab’s Treasure. Although 2024 is winding down now and there are only a few major titles left before we jump into 2025, there’s at least one more game you should keep an eye out for - Power Rangers: Rita’s Rewind....

Summary Digital Eclipserevealed Power Rangers: Rita’s Rewindduring this year’s Summer Game Fest and while it wasn’t given a firm release date, the studio promised it would be here before the end of 2024. With two months to go, barring a last-minute delay,Digital Eclipse has now confirmed it will be keeping that promise, and you can save yourself a bit of cash by committing to Rita’s Rewind ahead of its now-confirmed release date....

Summary A controversial side effect of yesterday’sPS5system update has been reversed. Now, players won’t bespammed with excessive adswhen they hover over a game they own, withPlayStationsaying that this wasn’t supposed to happen in the first place. As many noted yesterday, Game Hubs had been updated to show updates from the PS5 news system. However, in practice, this just meant that loads of ads for other games would take up the screen - often ads for games that players already owned....