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Connections hints and definitions for November 8, 2023 Hedge your bets with these Connections clues for a particularly difficult puzzle! <img loading=“lazy” src=“https://assetsio.gnwcdn.com/connections-hint-tips.png?width=690&quality=85&format=jpg&dpr=3&auto=webp" onerror=“this.onerror=null;this.src=‘https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEhe7F7TRXHtjiKvHb5vS7DmnxvpHiDyoYyYvm1nHB3Qp2_w3BnM6A2eq4v7FYxCC9bfZt3a9vIMtAYEKUiaDQbHMg-ViyGmRIj39MLp0bGFfgfYw1Dc9q_H-T0wiTm3l0Uq42dETrN9eC8aGJ9_IORZsxST1AcLR7np1koOfcc7tnHa4S8Mwz_xD9d0=s16000';" alt=“A Connections puzzle, showing the categories “Mild Oaths”, “Fast”, “Falsify” and “TV Shows” - 1”> Image credit:New York Times/VG247 From the New York Times, Connections tasks you with finding the hidden relationships between 4 groups of 4 words in only 4 guesses. The trick to completing the puzzle in time is differentiating between which words can be placed in multiple categories, so that’s where our Connections hints come in handy, helping you to figure out the correct placement of particularly tough words....

Cyberpunk 2077’s misbehaving passive skill effects can now be fixed with a mod Headhunters and Shinobi on PC no longer need to be wary of patch 2.01 saves. Image credit:VG247/CD Projekt Red. After a number of players began to notice that some of Cyberpunk 2077 ’s passive skill effects weren’t working as intended for them in saves made following the arrival of the game’s 2.01 patch, a modder has stepped up to rectify the issue....

Dead Rising Deluxe Remaster’s greatest addition? A whole lot more voice acting, with a Dragon’s Dogma style twist Dead Rising’s latest release replaces Frank West’s voice actor - but it turns out, Capcom had a pretty great reason to re-record all of the journalist’s dialogue… Image credit:Capcom/Adobe Stock If you’ve been wondering why Frank West has a new voice actor, we might have our answer: Dead Rising: Deluxe Remaster has a whole lot of new dialogue for you to hear - which means a lot of the game has been re-recorded....

Dear cash-strapped Dragon’s Dogma 2 players, a math whiz says they’ve worked out how you can make close to 500k gold per hour just selling fruit There’s a spreadsheet, and I can’t promise it won’t make your brain hurt. Image credit:VG247/Capcom You. Yes, you. Do you need money in Dragon’s Dogma 2 ? Well, first of all, stop getting so many haircuts, and second of all, you’ll be glad to hear that one player’s apparently worked out out how you can make even more money from the fruit-based cash farming method some players are employing....

Despite being a 20 year old single-player game, Half-Life 2 just hit an all-time high concurrent player count thanks to that anniversary update Turns out you can teach an old dog new tricks. Image credit:Valve Crikey, Half-Life 2 just turned 20 this week, but despite that, and even thanks to that, it’s just hit a new concurrent player count peak. Look, we all know that Half-Life 2 is one of the greatest games around....

Destiny 2 has reportedly suffered a “sharp drop” in popularity following the launch of Lightfall Around 100 employees are estimated to have been impacted by Monday’s job cuts at the studio. Image credit:VG247/Bungie The recent layoffs at Bungie were reportedly motivated, at least in part, by poor player retention numbers for Destiny 2 in the aftermath of the Lightfall expansion. According to a report from Bloomberg , two weeks prior to the layoffs, Bungie management issued warnings to staff that the company wasn’t on track to meet its revenue projections for the year....

Destiny 2: Lightfall breaks concurrent user record with over 316,000 on Steam alone The light may be falling, but the numbers continue to rise. Destiny 2 has broken its concurrent user record on Steam, passing over 316,000 users on launch day of the Lightfall expansion. This comes five years following it’s original launch. This figure, taken from SteamCharts is truly impressive, with the average rise and fall of weekly players shooting up over 200,000 players from the peak earlier in the week....

Diablo 4’s party scaling is exceptional, but it’s done dirty by the lack of LFG system Diablo 4 pretty much solved the level scaling problem of modern-day co-op games, but only if you have a stacked friends list. It may sound strange, but with as many co-op games as we’re getting these days, there’s still no standard of what you can expect in terms of level scaling or player progression when you join a friend’s game ....

Disney Plus’ Your Friendly Neighborhood Spider-Man isn’t even out yet, but you can already look forward to two more seasons of it Let’s just hope it’s actually good. Image credit:Marvel/ Disney The upcoming animated Disney Plus series Your Friendly Neighborhood Spider-Man isn’t out until tomorrow, but it’s already got two more seasons on the way. Most of us don’t know if Your Friendly Neighborhood Spider-Man is any good or not yet, given that the first two episodes aren’t officially out until tomorrow, January 29, but clearly Marvel and Disney are convinced by it, as the show has apparently been greenlit up to season 3....

Dragon Age: The Veilguard might not be as cool a name as Dreadwolf, but BioWare says the change is because the game isn’t all about Solas Couldn’t they have stuck with it anyway? Image credit:EA/BioWare Dragon Age: Dreadwolf’s name change to The Veilguard came as a small surprise, but BioWare didn’t do it just for the sake of it. Look, no matter what you say, The Veilguard just isn’t as cool a subtitle as Dreadwolf....

Dragon Quest 3 HD-2D Remake is looking like a beautiful, faithful, and powerful history lesson - hands-on As the Dragon Quest series approaches its 40th anniversary, Square Enix returns to the beginning with what’s looking like a gorgeous and incredibly faithful remake. While in the western world we pay more attention to Final Fantasy, Dragon Quest remains one of Japan’s most important video gaming exports. The truth is, we probably wouldn’t have many of today’s modern Japanese-made RPG tropes without Dragon Quest; it is the game that defined the parameters of the genre as we know it today....

Driving Empire codes for February 2026 Go from the pit-lane to the podium with these Driving Empire codes! Image credit:Voldex 4th February 2026: We checked for new new Driving Empire codes. Driving Empire is one of Roblox’s most exciting driving experiences because it’s filled to the brim with licensed sports cars, supercars and even a few hypercars and Formula 1-style racecars too. However, if you’re looking to get a competitive car for cheap, then you can use one of these Driving Empire codes to either get a free supercar, enough in-game cash to buy your way to victory or some tuning kits to upgrade the rides you already own....

Dynasty Warriors Origins review: 2025 has its first great action game A perfect jumping-on point, and an excuse to play the year’s first great action game. Image credit:VG247 Dynasty Warriors is a legendary IP for two major reasons. One, it’s an unparalleled action series that balances power fantasy and battlefield management better than anything else. Two, it’s the quintessential Three Kingdoms series, reveling in the romance - personality-focused and narrative-rich. But, given the series’ age, maybe you’ve felt a little daunted jumping in recently?...

EA execs seem to reckon Dragon Age: The Veilguard might have been better off keeping its once-planned live-service nonsense, because of course they do Whisper ‘We’ll bang, ok?’ if you feel like you’re in danger of being alien-shagging Fortnite, next Mass Effect game. Image credit:EA/BioWare Yep, it was always going to happen. Dragon Age: The Veilguard , a game that didn’t manage to hit EA’s targets for it (neither did this year’s EA FC, lest we forget), and came from a studio that’s since had its staffing slashed is now being suggested as something that might have benefitted from some live-service bollocks by EA’s execs....

EAFC 24 turned FIFA into an “interactive platform for the future of football fandom”, whatever that means That seems like a very long winded way of saying ‘football game not called FIFA’, but ok. Image credit:VG247/EA According to the bigwigs at Electronic Arts, EAFC 24 ’s launch managed to turn the popular FIFA series into a “powerful, interactive platform for the future of football fandom.” Yes, that’s the same game which, quite recently, briefly suffered from an issue involving sticky balls which proved such a big problem that some players were afraid to jump into their usual slate of weekend games until it’d been fixed....

Elden Ring ace casually kicks off a one-handed level one Shadow of the Erdtree run by battering boss while chowing down on a doughnut Sometimes people question your integrity, so you’ve just gotta merk a dancing lion while eating, you know? Image credit:FromSoftware/BioticNova Warning, spoilers for Elden Ring: Shadow of the Erdtree may lie ahead. You know how we’ve been telling you about Elden Ring players beating Shadow of the Erdtree’s bosses in a huge array of very interesting ways lately?...

Elden Ring’s Miyazaki isn’t fussed if you use that seamless co-op mod - and FromSoftware might even “consider ideas like that” for future games Fingers crossed, ’ey? Image credit:FromSoftware/ Bandai Namco A lot of Elden Ring players like to use a seamless co-op mode to help make playing with friends less of a pain, and director Hidetaka Miyazaki says that’s ok with him. To say that playing online with your buds in FromSoftware games isn’t the simplest thing in the world is possibly a bit of an understatement....

Embracer aside, Peter Jackson and Andy Serkis had actually been thinking about more Gollum for a while We still have our doubts, but it sounds like this specific pitch didn’t come from executives. Image credit:New Line Cinema Despite Embracer’s repeated warnings , the world was shocked when last week a new Lord of the Rings movie was confirmed. Moreover, it was revealed that the new big-screen project is titled The Hunt for Gollum , and everyone started questioning who asked for this....

Fallout 4 World Map with all locations unlocked Fallout 4’s world map has hundreds of locations to discover, however there’s an easy trick to unlock all of the main map markers on PC! Image credit:Bethesda/VG247 Fallout 4’s full world map has more than 200 main map markers to unlock stretching across the state of Massachusetts. Fallout 4 takes place in The Commonwealth, an irradiated wasteland for you to explore encompassing the ruins of the cities Boston and Cambridge, as well as the town of Lexington and the world-famous witching hub of Salem....

Fallout 4’s next-gen update is broken, but don’t worry, some fixes are coming next week Who knows if it’ll fix all of the update’s problems, though. Image credit:VG247/Bethesda History repeated itself when Fallout 4’s next-gen update arrived broken, but Bethesda has promised an update is coming next week. It must be written in a contract somewhere that anything Bethesda does with Fallout 4 , it has to be buggy as all hell, because that’s the only reason I can imagine the game’s next-gen update released in the state it did....