NYT Mini Crossword today: puzzle answers for Sunday, July 21
Love crossword puzzles but don’t have all day to sit and solve a full-sized puzzle in your daily newspaper? That’s what The Mini is for!
Love News
Echoes of the Emergent, a hauntingly beautiful Playdate exclusive, sold me on visual novels
Somehow in all these years, I’ve never gotten into visual novels, despite being a person who loves both reading and video games. The idea has always intrigued me in some way, but I’ve never really felt compelled to actually pick one up. That changed when I first saw the announcement for Echoes of the Emergent a few months ago. Described as “a personal journey through a shattered post-apocalyptic world,” all it took was a glimpse of Echoes of the Emergent’s gritty aesthetic and melancholic atmosphere to get me to preorder it. And now that I’ve finally gotten around to playing (reading? experiencing?) it, I’m kind of blown away.
Here's a game that combines jigsaw puzzles with arithmetic problems to great success
An upcoming indie puzzler takes on the complexity of circuits by reducing them to familiar puzzle pieces and simple math. In Electrogical, set to release this year and with a demo out now, you'll place pieces on the board to form a chain that adds, subtracts, divides, and multiplies to reach a set output—but the pieces you have are fixed in shape and rotation, the boards are weird sizes, and you might not need every part you have to succeed.
PowerWash Simulator keeps on giving, with two nautical maps chosen by the community coming to the people's champ in a free update
PowerWash Simulator just keeps on truckin' man: The first person shooter(?) where you blast muck off the environment to make it shiny and new again just got two new free maps, and I'm kind of in love with their summertime vibes.
5 Most Likable RPG Companions (& The 5 Most Insufferable)
Roleplaying games often include NPCs that accompany the player character on their journey. These companions help players to navigate obstacles, assist in combat, and generally make a game's story feel less lonely. The best companions have their own stories, goals, and personalities to make them three-dimensional and relatable, more than just a plot device to make the game easier.
VA-11 Hall-A developers are doing what Square Enix won't: making a spiritual successor to cult classic JRPG Parasite Eve
The developers behind VA-11 Hall-A just dropped a trailer for their next game that looks to be a spiritual successor to the Parasite Eve series, and it absolutely slaps.
FF7 Remake Part 3 Isn't The Final Fantasy Remake I Want The Most
I dedicated close to 200 hours this year to playing through, and. When I have the time, I'm playing in bits and pieces, and I caught the theatrical release of It's safe to say that I'm a fan of Cloud's story, and I'm certainly dedicated to seeing all the main parts of through to their completion. But there's one remake that I actually want a lot more than, and it's not because I prefer the original game.
NYT Mini Crossword today: puzzle answers for Saturday, July 20
Love crossword puzzles but don’t have all day to sit and solve a full-sized puzzle in your daily newspaper? That’s what The Mini is for!