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Improve your daily Wordle guesses with our guides and tips, take a look at a hint for today’s game designed to give you a nudge in the right direction, or skip straight to the best part and read the answer to the April 15 (665) game—however you want to win today’s Wordle, we can help.

The answer to today’s puzzle was an obvious one… eventually. I had all the information I needed quite early on, but this was one of those days where I couldn’t see what I had until I was in danger of running out of guesses. It was frustrating, but at least I got today’s Wordle answer in the end.

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A Wordle hint for Saturday, April 15

If someone was in an extreme and most likely prolonged level of physical or mental pain, today’s word would be …

There’s a hint for today’s Wordle waiting just below if you’d like a helping hand with your daily game, as well as a selection of general tips designed to improve every guess you make, too. Need something a little more direct? I’ve got it covered. The answer to the October 2 (835) Wordle is never more than a quick click away.

I do love it when I get to kick off my Wordle week with a quick game, everything falling into the right places before I’ve even had a chance to rush off down all the wrong rabbit holes with far too many wasted guesses. With a bit of luck I’ll be able to say the same tomorrow—fingers crossed.

Wordle today: A hint

Wordle today: A hint for Monday, October 2

Thinking of cheerful celebrations and happy feelings will help yo…

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The first-ever gameplay trailer for the upcoming Batman: Arkham Shadow appeared at Gamescom’s Opening Night Live showcase tonight, giving us our first proper look at the upcoming VR take on the adventures of the most therapy-averse billionaire in history.

The new trailer focuses on exploration, dialogue, and of course plenty of fisticuffs, as the world’s greatest detective whomps the living hell out of dozens of flunkies and underlings on his way to ensuring that nothing ever really gets better in the bleak, crumbling metropolis of Gotham City. 

“A corrupt system has failed you,” the villainous Rat King (at least, I assume that’s the Rat King) says at one point. “Are you not angry? Fight back!” The man has a point, right? If your life is an endless swamp of fut…

Welcome to your latest Wordle win. Now you’re here, today’s answer is only a cheeky click away, ready to send your win streak score a little higher. If you prefer your help to be a little less definitive, feel free to spend some time mulling over the December 14 (908) hint, or take a look at our general tips and tricks.

I probably shouldn’t shout out Wordle answers as soon as they come to mind so early in the day, but I just couldn’t help myself. I didn’t have an especially smooth game—it took a few goes before I had much of anything to work with—but it all came together in one happy instant, and that made this Wordle win especially satisfying.

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Wordle today: A hint for Thursday, December 14

This widely used word ge…

Two of the largest NAND flash manufacturers are eyeing up a mega merger, reports suggest. Kioxia, once part of Toshiba, is said to be nearing a deal with Western Digital that would see the two companies combine to become a new SSD storage entity to rival market share leader Samsung.

According to Kyodo News, the companies are expected to agree to the merger by the end of the month.

US-based Western Digital’s shareholders are expected to own 50.1% of the new company when the deal goes through. Kioxia will make up the rest. Toshiba and SK Hynix will have a say in how the new company will be set up, however, as Toshiba still owns a huge stake in Kioxia since the company was spun out of its own memory arm and SK Hynix is an indirect investor, Nikkei reports.

Nikkei suggests…

Vampire Survivors has gotten its second round of DLC, Tides of the Foscari, and like the first, Legacy of the Moonspell, there’s a lot to love here: more characters, maps, items, and secrets for 2022’s best roguelike, all for just two bucks. While the starting map, Lake Foscari, didn’t immediately light my fire, the continuation of Vampire Survivor’s signature secrets and unlocks really won me over.

I missed Moonspell on the first go-around, so I wasn’t sure exactly what to expect when I broke my long absence from Vampire Survivors and loaded into Foscari. If I have one complaint about the whole package, it’s that this primary new map just needed some more visual flair. It’s got a great layout with more distinct landmarks (including a cheeky hedge maze) than many of the base game’…

Whatever help you need to solve today’s Wordle, you’ll find it right here. There are general tips that’ll give every guess a little lift, a brand new clue especially for the January 12 (937) game, and today’s answer if you need to turn a tough game around. 

After two guesses I was sure I was in trouble today, thanks to a stubborn yellow letter that refused to turn green in either of the most obvious places. After three guesses, I was just one letter away from winning today’s Wordle. I do love how dramatic the swings in this game can be.

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Wordle today: A hint for Friday, January 12

Today’s answer describes a specific set of directions used to get someone from one place to another. The quickest _____ might avoid a particular…

Valve’s Steam charts now have a new live category exclusively for the Steam Deck, letting you view the “Top Played” games for the Deck in the past week, month, and year. The list, which tracks changes in rank compared to the previous time period, also shows prices and whether the game in question is verified for Steam Deck. It’s a great way to see what other people are playing—and pretty dang good at highlighting deals, since the prices show current sale prices for the 2024 Steam summer sale.

There are more than a few interesting insights to be gleaned. PC Gamer staff were quick to note that both Hades and Hades 2 are holding onto spots in the top 10 for both the past week and past month categories, with Hades 2 beating out a lot of newer and fancier games. The dual placemen…

Last week, just about everyone in the games business was mad at Unity over a new, retroactive per-install fee for games made with the engine. Unity developers raised troubling question after troubling question about the proposal: How would installs be counted? What if someone reinstalls a game over and over? What about cases where a developer could end up paying Unity more than they made from selling their game? After over a week of turmoil, Unity has announced that it’s walking back the most objectionable aspects of the fee.

In an “open letter” published today, Unity executive Marc Whitten apologized for the company’s errors and outlined the revised plan. Here’s the big stuff:

• The new install fee (called a “Runtime Fee”) will not apply to games made with the U…
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Starfield is arguably this year’s most hyped game. At this point in time, the game runs well on AMD hardware thanks to its partnership with Bethesda, but Nvidia owners haven’t gotten as much love. Though the game runs well enough, Nvidia GPUs are uncharacteristically underperforming in Starfield, and official support for Nvidia’s bedrock technologies such as DLSS are missing.

Over time things will improve, as Nvidia and Bethesda release driver updates and patches. If you don’t want to wait, there’s an interim tweak you can do yourself, and if the early testing is to be believed, it can deliver major performance boosts for Nvidia owners playing Starfield.

Okhayko at Nexus Mods (via Reddit) has posted a very handy guide that gives Nvidia owners a welcome FPS boost. The secret …

Get as much or as little help with your daily Wordle as you want, thanks to our wide range of helpful hints and tips. Whether you’re looking for general advice, a clue for the March 13 (632) game, or the answer to today’s Wordle delivered on a platter, you’ll find it all right here.

I unearthed three yellows on my first go today—talk about luck. Taking four more goes to finally pin them down and find the other missing two letters wasn’t ideal, but at least I got today’s answer just in time.

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A Wordle hint for Monday, March 13

This word means to take responsibility for a mistake or something bad that’s happened. It’s also used when someone else holds another person (or thing) accountable for a similar negative situation. There are…

Keep your Wordle win streak going with our vast range of help. Take a look at our guides and tips, created to make every guess just that little bit better, read a clue written especially for today’s solution, and if you’ve run out of goes and just need someone to tell you the answer to the April 19 (669) game then don’t worry, today’s Wordle solution is waiting just below.

I didn’t have a lot to go on after my second guess had finished flipping over—just one yellow and one green—but they proved just how much you can do with not a lot. The green was exactly where it needed to be, and the yellow just happened to be the sort of letter that had to go there, which formed a natural pair with a letter I hadn’t tried yet. With those three letters fuzzily locked in, to…

Finish your Wordle week with your kind of win. Maybe you’d like to freshen up your daily game with our general tips, or give today’s puzzle a push with the October 29 (862) clue. Whatever you want is right here—even if you’d like today’s Wordle answer delivered on a shiny, clickable, plate.

Stumbling upon two yellow letters in as many guesses didn’t exactly fill me with confidence today, but after the initial wave of despair had died down and I looked again, I realised how lucky I was. I had already ruled out a lot of common letters, and if my yellows were wrong there then they could only go in one other spot—the winning one. 

Wordle today: A hint

Wordle today: A hint for Sunday, October 29

A fake, a lie (or a liar), a counterfei…

Boy, that sure didn’t take long. Blizzard announced today that Diablo 4, the latest iteration of its demon-clobbering action-RPG, will be coming to Steam on October 17, and is available for wishlisting now.

Diablo 4 on Steam will support cross-platform play with other versions of the game—Battle.net, Xbox One, Xbox Series X/S, PlayStation 4, and PlayStation 5—and will offer unique Steam-specific features including Steam achievements and integration with the Steam friends list. It will also be playable on the Steam Deck.

The launch of Diablo 4 on Steam will coincide with the start of the Season of Blood, the game’s second season and Blizzard’s hoped-for bounceback from the mess of season one. The Season of the Malignant, as it’s known, did not go over well with fa…

Solve today’s Wordle in a flash—just scroll or click down to the answer and keep your win streak safe. Prefer a hint first? Not a problem. You’ll find general tips as well as a fresh clue for the January 30 (590) Wordle just below.

One yellow. Then one green. Then… the full answer, as if my fingers somehow had a private line back to Wordle HQ and hadn’t bothered to tell me about it. I’m taking this easy start as a sign today—maybe even the whole week—is going to be filled with good luck.

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A Wordle hint for Monday, January 30

Today’s answer means to really want something specific to a passionate, and perhaps even irresponsible or unsafe degree. Pregnant women may _____ unusual food combinations. There are two vo…

Counter-Strike 2 seems to have got off to a solid start, but a few weeks after launch Valve has announced some big decisions. These will only affect a small number of players, but even so this is a real line in the sand that reflects the developer’s ambition to develop this game for a decade or more.

“Counter-Strike 2 represents the largest technical leap in CS history,” says a Valve statement, “and our goal is to continue to develop Counter-Strike for years to come. As technology advances, we have made the difficult decision to discontinue support for older hardware, including DirectX 9 and 32-bit operating systems. Similarly, we will no longer support macOS.”

Sorry Apple fans: you’re out. This may seem a rather hard-headed decision but, as Valve goes on to explain, …

A team of CD Projekt veterans including Witcher 3 co-director Mateusz Kanik, producer Jędrzej Mróz, and Cyberpunk 2077 senior producer Marcin Jefimow, have launched a new studio called Blank that is currently working on “a character-driven game set in an apocalypse, with a twist or two.”

(The studio name is technically Blank., with a period, but we won’t be using that.)

Kanik is serving as game director on Blank’s first project, while Mróz and Jefimow are onboard as executive producers. They’ll be joined at the new studio by Mikołaj Marchewka, formerly of Rookiez of Warsaw, in the managing director role, Witcher 3 game designer Michał Dobrowolski as design director, Witcher lead story designer Artur Ganszyniec as narrative director, and Gwent VFX…

Diablo 4 Sorcerers might be the weakest class overall, but they can still gather enough power to push through some of the action RPG’s hardest dungeons.

Sorcerers have struggled to compete with Diablo 4’s other four classes in endgame activities since launch. They’re exceptional for quickly gaining levels up to 50, but struggle to survive the deadly enemies you encounter in the game’s highest World Tier difficulty settings.

With a little bit of luck and a huge amount of help from season 1’s powerful Malignant Heart gems, Sorcerers still have some bite to them.

“I solo cleared a tier 100 Nightmare Dungeon, at level 91… as a Sorcerer,” wrote Reddit user Wunthr before explaining how they were able to survive enemies 63 levels higher than th…

Whether you’re completely stuck on today’s Wordle or just need a little push, everything you need to solve the daily puzzle your way is waiting just below. Check out our handy tips, read the March 24 (643) clue, or save your win streak with today’s answer.

I’m not entirely sure how I went from one yellow to four greens in a single guess, but I’ll happily take that incredible turnaround—especially as today’s answer was only one more straightforward guess away. Maybe I got lucky. Maybe my subconscious spotted a combination I hadn’t. Either way, I won today’s Wordle with plenty of goes to spare.

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A Wordle hint for Friday, March 24

You’ll need to think of DIY materials if you want to win today. This thick paste-like substance is ofte…

Like the dread Ur-Shulgi stirring from centuries of torpor to cast down the enemies of the Banu Haqim, Vampire: the Masquerade – Bloodlines 2 has returned from the dead to, uh, send a tweet. And make a news post. And tease further updates in September! The prophets told us this day would come.

Earlier today, the official Vampire: the Masquerade – Bloodlines 2 account tweeted, cryptically, “Rise, Kindred, and join us in September for a big announcement!” Not exactly scintillating, even if that was the first tweet on the account since it was purged of content sometime in the last year.

But we did get a link to a news post and an FAQ on Paradox’s website in subsequent tweets, where the company announced some of the announcements it would be announcing at its Septemb…

Roblox Corporation has announced the creation of a new category of experiences, which is what it calls the games people create on the platform, for people aged 17 and older. “17 to 24 year-olds are the fastest-growing group on Roblox, and in 2022, people over 17 made up 38% of our daily active users,” said Roblox in the announcement. “We’ve heard your feedback on wanting to be able to build experiences that feature more mature themes and storylines that appeal to older users”. 

Users wishing to create or take part in anything in this category will need to provide a selfie and a photo ID to Roblox. This means Roblox now has four categories of experience, starting at “All ages” (“infrequent mild violence and/or light unrealistic blood” allowed), then Ages 9+ (“mild…

Looking for some weekend Wordle help? There’s a hint for today’s puzzle waiting just below, ready to offer a clear path through the grey letter fog. Need something a little more direct on the weekend? You’ve got it. The answer to the December 23 (917) Wordle is only a quick click away.

A win in three quick guesses on a Saturday morning? I love it. Just a nice case of almost being right, almost being right in a slightly more accurate way, and then sitting back as today’s Wordle answer revealed itself. What more could I ask for? Other than for tomorrow’s puzzle to turn up a little earlier than usual so I can play again, that is.

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Wordle today: A hint for Saturday, December 23

Today’s answer refers to a sort of slant, angle, or gr…

Everything you need to win today’s Wordle the way you want to is right here and ready when you are. Take a look at the helpful clue for the April 24 (674) game, read some tips and tricks designed to make every guess as good as it can be, or simply skip straight to the good stuff and click down to today’s Wordle answer—it’s entirely up to you.

Things weren’t looking good for me today: I found myself four guesses down the board with nothing to show for it other than one yellow and one green. The good news was, once I’d got over the feeling I was about to lose, I realised my previous guesses had not only eliminated a heap of letters, but they’d also left me with just one clear word to go for—and it worked. 

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Scientists in the US managed to put together a living computer by cultivating over 80,000 mouse stem cells (via IT Home). One day, the hope is to have a robot that uses living muscle tissue to sense and process information about its environment. 

Researchers at the University of Illinois have used tens of thousands of living mouse brain cells to build a computer that can recognize patterns of light and electricity. The team presented their findings at the American Institute of Physics in the form of a computer about the size of your palm. 

The scientists grew the computer, made of 80,000 reprogrammed mouse stem cells, and placed them between optical fibers on a grid of electrodes. The cells were kept alive in an incubator during the experiment, and the team trained…

The latest trailer for Warhammer 40,000: Rogue Trader emphasizes choice and consequence, highlighting its equivalent of alignment—the conviction system. “While exploring you will be met with a great number of hard decisions,” the trailer says. “Do you try to save the population of a dying world? Or burn it all with the intent of containing heresy?”

Owlcat’s CRPG tracks your response to dilemmas like this on three axes, with five ranks to measure how far you go along each. The Imperialis conviction measures your fire-and-brimstone dedication to the God-Emperor, while Hereticus goes up when you prioritize power over morality and give in to the temptations of Chaos. Benevolentia increases if you act like individual human lives actually mean something—a controversial belie…

The Diablo 4 preorder beta is now underway, and as you might have expected, it’s not going perfectly smoothly. The biggest and most obvious issue for people trying to get into the beta is lengthy queue times: I’m currently staring at an “87 minutes left” message as I try to get in on the action.

Some of us at PC Gamer are looking at even longer wait times:

An hour into the beta, Blizzard has reported “an issue affecting our authentication servers,” which it said could result in slow or failed login attempts. That might sound familiar: The dreaded Error 37 that plagued the launch of Diablo 3 back in 2012, was also an authentication server problem. It’s the one thing about Diablo that genuinely scares us. 

Some things, it seems, never change.

Some people who w…

Whatever help you need to solve today’s Wordle, you’ll find it right here. There are general tips that’ll give every guess a little lift, a brand new clue especially for the January 12 (937) game, and today’s answer if you need to turn a tough game around. 

After two guesses I was sure I was in trouble today, thanks to a stubborn yellow letter that refused to turn green in either of the most obvious places. After three guesses, I was just one letter away from winning today’s Wordle. I do love how dramatic the swings in this game can be.

Today’s Wordle hint

Wordle today: A hint for Friday, January 12

Today’s answer describes a specific set of directions used to get someone from one place to another. The quickest _____ might avoid a particular…

Just $10 separates these two great graphics cards, so which one is worth splashing out $500 on? Well, the good news is that no matter which one you go with, you’re getting the latest generation of GPU from AMD and Nvidia, both packed with all the features you expect in a modern graphics card.

The cheaper of the two is Gigabyte’s take on Nvidia’s GeForce RTX 4070. It has higher clocks than the reference design (2,565 vs 2,475 MHz) but a 4% overclock is barely going to be noticeable in games. It sports a pretty large heatsink and cooler, so you’ll need to make sure you’ve got plenty of room inside your PC case for it.

Rather than using the 12VHPWR power connector that many RTX 40-series cards sport, Gigabyte has fitted a standard 8-pin PCIe connector, which means you won’t nee…

Fatshark said it would continue to support Vermintide 2 after the launch of Darktide and has done just that, with additions like new free levels and remastered levels from the original Vermintide. Next up, pyromancer Sienna will finally get her fourth career: the necromancer.

Each of Vermintide’s other heroes has had a fourth career added as DLC, with Kruber getting the option to become a grail knight, Bardin an engineer, Kerillian a Sister of the Thorn, and Saltzpyre a warrior Priest. We’ve been waiting a while for Sienna to receive a similar treatment, and design director Joakim Setterberg explained why in a recent dev blog. “Looking at the career designs it was clear that the Necromancer would be the most complex class of the bunch,” he wrote, “and that it made most sense for i…

Before Diablo 3 is officially sunset and begins repeating its past seasonal themes, season 29 will arrive with a solo-only mode and a rework of its endgame Paragon system—two common requests from fans over the years.

Diablo 3 season 29 is available to play in an early form on the game’s PTR starting today. In it, you can try its new “solo self found” mode that bars you from playing with others for the bonus XP or ability to trade items. Other action RPGs, like Path of Exile, offer this mode so solo players can have separate seasonal leaderboards from those who play in groups. Solo Self Found will also be available to play in Hardcore mode.

Paragon points, Diablo 3’s powerful endgame progression system, will now have a limit for each stat you can increase. Previously, y…

Pokémon Card Game—not to be confused with the Pokémon Trading Card Game—isn’t a real game. It’s malware disguised as a Pokémon NFT game that’s designed to fool unsuspecting Pocket Monster fans into clicking on a compromising link. This malicious Fakémon installs remote control software on infected computers, which hackers can then use to access private user data and make your PC susceptible to more malicious attacks.

According to cybersecurity analysts at ASEC, via bleepingcomputer, hackers went as far as creating a pretty convincing fake website for their fake game and even a fake marketplace where you can claim and mint Pokémon Card NFTs. The fake site offers no real Pokémon NFTs, however, just headaches. 

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