New York Times Connections Hints and Answers for #306 June 06, 2025

Connectionsis a daily word puzzle sorting game with a twist: you don’t know the categories that you need to sort the given words into. In order to win this challenging game, you’ll need to know a lot more than just therules of how to playConnections; you’ll need to know all the words, the categories, and you’ll need to be able to sort these words correctly without messing up more than three times....

July 4, 2025 · 3 min · 501 words · Teresa Johnson DDS

One Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom NPC Shows the Power of its Gameplay Loop

One of the highlights ofThe Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdomis the wonderful world that Nintendo was able to craft. The massive fields of Hyrule are a pleasure to explore, and the open world feels like an actual sandbox filled with potential. It is pretty impressive what the studio was able to pull off withThe Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom, and one NPC encounter makes it even better....

July 4, 2025 · 3 min · 630 words · Kim Stone

Outriders: Every Legendary Light Machine Gun

Bulky and heavy weaponry gets a bad rap in many video games. It tends to be wildly inaccurate, hampers mobility, and doesn’t complete with lighter and more accurate guns. Those who get ahold of a legendary light machine gun inOutsidersmight be tempted to get rid of it for exactly these reasons, but they’d be making a huge mistake. Indelicately put, these aren’t your daddy’s heavy weapons. RELATED:Outriders: Accolades System Explained What makes them so different?...

July 4, 2025 · 6 min · 1204 words · Hector West

Platinum Games Receives Tencent Investment, May Start Self-Publishing

Bayonettaseries andNier: Automatadeveloper PlatinumGames announced Tuesday that it would be partnering up with Chinese gaming conglomerate Tencent in an investment deal. The Japanese studio, known for its work onMetal Gear Rising: Revengeanceand other cult favorite action titles likeVanquish, will remain an independent developer but will look into self-publishing their titles as a result of the deal, according to president Kenichi Sato. Fans hoping for less platform exclusive projects from Platinum may find a move toward self-publishing welcome for the studio....

July 4, 2025 · 2 min · 347 words · Nicholas Griffin

Pokemon Best Grass Moves, Ranked

In thePokemonuniverse, Grass-types seem to forever be seen as the most harmless of the Pokemon. Many of them are flowers, mushrooms, or just a tangle of vines. Also, the power of Grass-type attacks is rather low on average. However, with each new generation ofPokemongames, the Grass typing has gotten new attacks added to its repertoire. After eight generations, Grass-types now have some incredibly strong moves. RELATED:Pokemon: The Best Electric Moves, Ranked The Grass arsenal features many moves that manipulate stats (mostly attack and defense), or add negative status ailments to the opponent and/or positive status effects to the user....

July 4, 2025 · 7 min · 1451 words · Eddie Martinez

Pokemon Scarlet and Violet New Legendary and Paradox Pokemon Tier List

Pokemon Scarlet and Violetcame with the highest number of new critters ever since Gen 5, which made players excited to discover all the possibilities offered by the Paldea region. Gen 9’s many gimmicks are not limited to gameplay features, but also include two new categories of pocket monsters in the form of the so-called “regional fakes” and Paradox Pokemon. While Wugtrio and Toedscruel didn’t leave the biggest mark on the franchise,Pokemon Scarlet and Violet’s Paradox Pokemonare incredibly strong critters that are seeing a lot of use....

July 4, 2025 · 8 min · 1540 words · Jason Mcpherson

PS5 DualSense Controller Gets Awesome Dragon Ball Makeover

Sony has remained relatively tight-lipped on the PlayStation 5’s design thus far, so fans were pretty surprised when Sony revealed theDualSense, the PlayStation 5’s controller. The DualSense is a revamped version of the DualShock, with a more ergonomic design and a neat two-toned color scheme. However, that design has been somewhat divisive, with some wishing for a simple, solid black design for the new controller.Custom DualSense designsfrom fans have filled in the gaps to some degree, offering mock-ups of special editions of the controller, from basic color swaps, to elaborateCyberpunk 2077themed ones....

July 4, 2025 · 2 min · 347 words · Christopher Alvarez

Red Dead Redemption 2: How To Craft Small Game Arrows

Updated Jul 25, 2025, by Christopher Norman Worcester:With Red Dead Redemption 2 now available through PlayStation Plus Extra and Premium, new and returning players will once again be exploring Rockstar’s magnum opus. Because of the surge of players, we will be updating our most popular RDR2 guides, including the solution for crafting RDR2’s small game arrows. InRed Dead Redemption 2,players have a whole armory with which to hunt the plethora of animals in the game....

July 4, 2025 · 3 min · 580 words · Ashley Willis

Rumor: PS Plus Premium Adding One of the PS2's Best FPS Games

Summary Newly-surfaced evidence suggests that the originalTimeSplittersgame is coming to the Premium tier ofPlayStation Plus, to be playable on both PS4 and PS5. The big selling point of thePlayStation PlusPremium tier is the ability to play retro games. By and large, these offerings have mostly consisted of PS1 and PS3 titles, but Sony has recently made a greater effort to bring more PS2 games to the service. In fact,three PS2 games were added to PS Plus Premiumearlier this month, withSly Cooper and the Thievius Raccoonus,Tomb Raider: Legend, andStar Wars: The Clone Warsall joining the lineup....

July 4, 2025 · 4 min · 687 words · Denise Sweeney

Shenmue 3: How Long Does It Take to Beat?

A few years after it becameKickstarter’s most successful video game project,Shenmue 3has finally released. The new game begins right where its prequel left off over a decade ago, with Ryo Hazuki continuing to seek out his father’s murderer, and players are now getting an idea of just how long this new installment will take to play through. Shenmue 3takes players to a new setting in 1980s China, where they have both the main plot to follow and side tasks available in the many towns they pass through and characters they interact with....

July 4, 2025 · 2 min · 404 words · Julie Haynes

Star Trek: Resurgence's Cameos Should be Far Broader Than Spock

The Game Awards 2021 showed there’s still a hunger for choice-driven narrative experiences that characterized the output of Telltale Games before it shut down in 2018. Telltale was revived by LCG Entertainment the following year, and at The Game Awards revealed it is working on anepisodic title based onThe Expanse. Also revealed during the December 9 awards show wasStar Trek: Resurgence. Developed by Dramatic Labs, which includes former Telltale employees like Andrew Grant, Dan Martin, Kent Mudle, and Brett Tosti,Star Trek: Resurgenceis described as a “narrative adventure game"with branching storylines, as well as representation for the less diplomatic sides ofStar Trek....

July 4, 2025 · 4 min · 710 words · Sherry Bruce

Star Wars Eclipse May Be Another Example of a Game Announced Too Soon

With a resurgence of the covetedStar Warsfranchise in recent years seeing a plethora of new adaptations of the IP across different forms of media, the gaming sphere has been one of the most popular. One of the many Star Wars videogame titles that have been announced for the near future includesStar Wars Eclipse, which is a project that promises to be massively detailed, expansive, and narrative driven. However, a deflating byproduct of this alleged scale and depth is present within the reported release date of the game, with thisStar Warstitlebeing set for a 2027 or 2028 release date....

July 4, 2025 · 5 min · 953 words · Robert Nelson

Star Wars Jedi: Survivor Leak May Narrow Down Game's Release Date

Star Wars Jedi: Survivoris the highly-anticipated sequel toStar Wars Jedi: Fallen Order, and it is currently scheduled for a vague 2023 release. While a specific release date forStar Wars Jedi: Survivorhas not been announced at the time of this writing, a potential leak may narrow things down and give fans a much better idea of when exactly they’ll be able to play Cal Kestis' next adventure. The PlayStation Store recently added the page forStar Wars Jedi: Survivor....

July 4, 2025 · 2 min · 416 words · Ashley Baldwin