NYT Connections today: answers and hints for Friday, September 8

NYT Connections today: answers and hints for Friday, September 8

Connections is the latest puzzle game from the New York Times. The game tasks you with categorizing a pool of 16 words into four secret (for now) groups by figuring out how the words relate to each other. The puzzle resets every night at midnight and each new puzzle has a varying degree of difficulty. Just … Read more

Nintendo Switch 2 may support Nvidia DLSS and ray-tracing

Nintendo Switch 2 may support Nvidia DLSS and ray-tracing

The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom will be Nintendo’s first Switch game to be priced at $70. News that Tears of the Kingdom, a sequel to one of the bestselling and most critically acclaimed titles on the system, will have an increased price compared to its predecessor came as a surprise over three-and-a-half years … Read more

A very red Mario-themed Nintendo Switch OLED is on the way

A very red Mario-themed Nintendo Switch OLED is on the way

Nintendo is launching a Nintendo Switch – OLED Model Mario Red Edition in October. The news capped off the company’s Super Mario Bros. Wonder Direct today, which shared new details on the upcoming platformer. Nintendo This new themed version of the latest Nintendo Switch iteration is completely red across the system and Joy-Cons. On the … Read more

S.T.A.L.K.E.R. 2 gets delayed again, but looks great

S.T.A.L.K.E.R. 2 gets delayed again, but looks great

At Gamescom 2023, Ukrainian game developer GSC Game World gave another update on its highly anticipated first-person shooter horror game S.T.A.L.K.E.R. 2: Heart of Chornobyl. It did push the game back until next year, but we also got our best look yet at gameplay in a new trailer. S.T.A.L.K.E.R. 2: Heart of Chornobyl — Bolts … Read more

New Alan Wake 2 trailer finally takes us to the Dark Place

New Alan Wake 2 trailer finally takes us to the Dark Place

This year’s Gamescom Opening Night Live concluded with a new look at Alan Wake 2, with a trailer finally showing off the Dark Place and what Alan Wake’s gameplay segments look like. Alan Wake World Premiere Trailer | gamescom Opening Night Live 2023 #ONL Alan Wake underwent a lot of development changes before it was … Read more

The impending Xbox 360 Store closure makes me wary of Game Pass’ future

The impending Xbox 360 Store closure makes me wary of Game Pass’ future

I’m an avid Xbox Game Pass user, often trying almost every game that comes to the service and closely following the games coming to and leaving the service each month. Following some recent announcements by Microsoft, though, I’ve been thinking a lot more about something else about Xbox Game Pass and Microsoft’s current digital-focused Xbox … Read more

Activision teases Call of Duty: Modern Warfare III’s biggest improvements

Activision teases Call of Duty: Modern Warfare III’s biggest improvements

Activision has just teased lots of new details about Call of Duty: Modern Warfare III, which launches this November. That includes the fact that the game will contain a Zombies mode, more open-ended campaign missions, and introduce a new “Call of Duty HQ” that will serve as a hub for all future Call of Duty … Read more

Buying a Nintendo Switch OLED? This deal will save you money

Buying a Nintendo Switch OLED? This deal will save you money

Nintendo / Nintendo If you’re on the way to buy the Nintendo Switch OLED, stop right now because you’ll be able to save some money if you take advantage of an offer from Monoprice. From the video game console’s original price of $350, it’s down to $340 for savings of $10. It’s not much, but … Read more

PC classic Quake 2 is now on Xbox, PlayStation, and Switch

PC classic Quake 2 is now on Xbox, PlayStation, and Switch

Lining up with the start of 2023’s QuakeCon, Bethesda released a remaster of id Software’s classic PC shooter Quake II across PlayStation, Xbox, and Nintendo consoles. Bethesda Softworks Quake II first released in 1997 and is a classic old-school first-person shooter with satisfying, fast-paced gunplay that only improves upon its predecessor. The game also has … Read more

Two games will launch as part of PS Plus Game Catalog in August

Two games will launch as part of PS Plus Game Catalog in August

Sony highlighted the various games coming and leaving PlayStation Plus Premium and Extra’s Game Catalog as part of its August update. While this month’s lineup is much more muted than the busy June and July updates, it notably features two games coming to Sony’s subscription the day they release. Sony Interactive Entertainment Historically, Sony has … Read more