New York Times Connections Hints and Answers for #405 June 27, 2025

Connectionsis a word-sorting game from the New York Times. With less than four mistakes, you need to sort sixteen words into four categories without any additional hints as to what those groups might be. But today’s puzzle is even more challenging thanthe rules ofConnectionsmight make it sound; the categories for this one are pretty hard to figure out. Thankfully, if you are stuck on this one, this article will help you get through whatever part has you stuck....

June 4, 2025 · 2 min · 392 words · Jeffery Lee

One Piece Characters With Unknown Past

Summary One Pieceis in its Final Saga, and the story is moving quickly towards its conclusion. But there are still many characters who have yet to make any moves, and they are going to affect the overall story. Fans have been waiting to see these individuals in action for a long time. There is a general belief that these characters will be involved in the story soon, and when they are, Oda will also reveal details about their past....

June 4, 2025 · 5 min · 980 words · Rachel Guzman

One Sage in Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom Sticks Out Like a Sore Thumb

Warning: This article contains major spoilers for The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom. Proceed at your own risk. The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdomdelivers in a big way in building upon the foundation created byBreath of the Wild.Not only are its mechanics more fleshed out and unique, butThe Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdomcontains a more comprehensive story and more fully realized characters than its predecessor....

June 4, 2025 · 4 min · 641 words · Raven Ramirez

Pathfinder Creator Paizo Announces New OGL Following Dungeons and Dragons Controversy

Paizo creatorPathfinderjust announced the Open RPG Creative License–its answer toDungeons and Dragons’recent actions involving the Open Game License. With support from several TTRPG companies already, the Open RPG Creative License may forceDungeons and Dragonsto rethink its current course of activity.Recently, leaks from within Wizards of the Coast all but confirmedDungeons and Dragonswas replacing the OGL–the legal protections that allow players to make and sell third-party content–with a new version full of restrictions and control that would harm creators....

June 4, 2025 · 3 min · 441 words · Alexander Oliver

Pokemon Brilliant Diamond & Shining Pearl: How to Get Mamoswine

Quick Links As players progress further intoPokemon Brilliant DiamondandPokemon Shining Pearl, they’ll have opportunities to catch Pokemon with less-common typing, such as Ice or Steel-type. Ice-types are sought out because of their advantage over the powerful Dragon-type Pokemon. Common Ice-type Pokemon trainers can catch in the wild is the Dark/Ice-type Sneasel, but players can get Swinub if they want the Ice/Ground-typing instead. Swinub and its evolution Piloswine made their debut inPokemon Gold/Silver, but they weren’t given their third and final evolution, Mamoswine, untilPokemon Diamond/Pearl....

June 4, 2025 · 3 min · 458 words · Joseph Mccann

Redditor Claims to Have Made $11 Million on GameStop Stock Surge

For years now, gamers have watchedGameStop(GME)warily, waiting for what seemed like an inevitable burnout. Even with the last generation of consoles, onlookers assumed the world of gaming would become fully digital before long, but thismost recent generation of consoles still offers disc drives. To the surprise of many, GME’s stock has actually been rising steadily. Controversy throughout the initial phases of lockdown initially sawGameStop’s stock plummeting, but things really turned around for the retailer in October of 2020....

June 4, 2025 · 2 min · 417 words · Debbie Morales

Rumor: Dead Island 2 Release Date Could Be Sooner Than Expected

The originalDead Islandgame was trapped in development hell before finally launching in 2011. The originalDead Islandhad somewhat mixed reviews at the time of its release, but it still managed to earn a cult following of dedicated players who enjoyed its co-op zombie slaying and open world exploration. NowDead Island 2has suffered a similar fate, with the game first announced all the way back in 2014 with still no firm release date....

June 4, 2025 · 2 min · 407 words · Jonathan Hernandez

Sony Patent Could Have Interesting Application for VR

With Sony teasing its new upcomingPlayStation VRheadset in a blog post back in February of this year, virtual reality fans have been wondering what the upgrades to the PSVR will be. While Sony has been tight-lipped about its VR successor, a new patent may have just revealed a surprising new feature. The firstPlayStation VRhas been a success for Sony. Sales are expected to be over five million, which is good for something that could be considered a niche device....

June 4, 2025 · 3 min · 481 words · Jacob Johnson

Star Trek: 7 Destroyed Starships

Summary Most stories based in a science-fiction universe have a variety of starships the characters use to get around and have epic adventures. There’s nothing like building a massive starship only to blow it up when the story needs somewhere to go. TheStar Trekfranchise has plenty of starships for both story-building and destruction. It’s not a surprise that not every ship that the Federation sent into the cosmos made it back in one piece, or at all, and plenty of starships were lost in the dark void of space or blown to dramatic smithereens in a historic battle....

June 4, 2025 · 5 min · 918 words · Tiffany Taylor

Starfield Fan Builds Incredible Custom PC Inspired by the Game

The officialStarfieldaccount has shared photos of an incredible custom-built PC inspired by the game.Starfieldcontinues to build growing fan anticipation ahead of its upcoming release.First announced by Bethesda at itsE3 2018 Press Conference,Starfieldimmediately grabbed the attention of gamers with its promise of in-depth space exploration and beautiful graphics. As players await the game’s release, fans have been showing their love for the game in many different ways.RELATED:New Starfield Lore Timeline Has Fans Wondering About Earth’s Fate in the GamePC custom-builder modsbyben has built a highly detailed and undeniably gorgeous AMD gaming PC inspired byStarfield....

June 4, 2025 · 3 min · 451 words · Connie Gomez

Strange Apex Legends Bug On Olympus Map Makes Players Invincible

DespiteApex Legendsbeing in the midst of its Season 8 content at the moment, it seems as if the fast-paced battle royale is more popular than ever. In fact,Apex Legendsset a new player recordon Steam recently, reaching almost 200,000 players on at a single time on that platform alone. However, having more players engaging with the game than ever before can bring a slew of both positive and negative effects, such as more opportunities for glitches and exploits to rise to the surface....

June 4, 2025 · 3 min · 520 words · Benjamin Moore

Super Mario Bros. Wonder's Characters Break A Huge Series Tradition

Summary The revealed changes thatSuper Mario Bros. Wonderwill be making to both its characters and their abilities have broken one of the series' longest-standing traditions which could make or break the game’s success. Despite its nebulous position within the official franchise, it was thanks to its earliest games likeSuper Mario Bros. 2that helped lay the groundwork for characters to have their own unique gameplay styles and abilities. But while these abilities were carried through to recent games likeSuper Mario 3D World + Bowser’s FuryandNew Super Mario Bros....

June 4, 2025 · 3 min · 626 words · Lawrence Sweeney

Superfuse: Best Fire Elementalist Build

When it comes to taking out mobs of enemies inSuperfuse, nobody can do it like the Fire Elementalist can. It takes a careful build, but those who execute on it will find that this hero will never run out of energy and can kill every enemy on the screen simply by being around them. RELATED:New Action RPG Superfuse Combines Diablo and Invincible For gamers who are enjoying a different build inSuperfuse, do not take this as a mandate....

June 4, 2025 · 4 min · 650 words · Shawn Bryan