Turn your daily Wordle game into a sure thing with our extensive range of tips and guides. Make the most of every guess with our general advice, take a peek at the May 14 (694) clue if you’d like a little pointer in the right direction, or secure your win with today’s Wordle answer—it’s entirely up to you. Three greens, two gaps—how hard could it be? Well. This turned out to be one of the most nerve-wracking games I’ve had all week. The letters kept falling, and not a single new green or yellow was in sight. I finally got…
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Games industry veteran Tim Cain, the creator of Fallout and co-founder of Troika Games, has a YouTube channel where he reveals never-before-seen RPG history. It’s a regular source of fascinating info for those of us who love the games he’s worked on, and one of his previous videos discussed Vampire: The Masquerade – Bloodlines’ cut multiplayer component. In that video, Cain explained he joined Bloodlines late, as a programmer who was mostly responsible for boss AI. That means we have him to thank and/or blame for the fights against the wereshark hengeyokai and the Sheriff. More recently, Cain dug out…
From 2010 to 2014 Richard Cobbett wrote Crapshoot, a column about rolling the dice to bring random games back into the light. This week, it’s time for a quick round of Before They Were Famous. What happened before Cliff Bleszinski’s the “overnight” success? There’s almost never such thing as overnight success. Almost all success comes from much hard work, effort, a little bit of luck, and often previous, less-celebrated success. I’ve been working on death rays for years, yet still write a weekly column on obscure games rather than composing lists of demands to world leaders. Meanwhile, game developers often…
A strike on Mars turns violent, and now the labor force of the colony is engaged in outright rebellion against their oppressive employers. That’s the plot of upcoming Mars Tactics, a delicious-looking upcoming tactics game where you run the entire campaign as either the Capital or Labor factions, developing forces and moving them across Mars on a strategic layer in order to fight in turn-based battles across some really deep-looking destructible environments. There’s a really cool moment in the trailer where a grenade blows a crater in the Martian regolith as it knocks down a fence—and the advancing troops are…
Valve’s been hard at work on upgrades to the Steam client recently, and that means testing those upgrades before they roll out and break your launcher. Normal stuff, right? Anyway, to that end they need more people to test it, so they’re asking for that—and making it easier to do so, with a new one-click opt-in to testing. “We’re introducing a one-click opt-in, to make it easy for you to try out all the new features and provide feedback. Once the features ship to everyone on Steam, your client will be updated to the latest public version available,” said Valve in…
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The Pope’s Exorcist starring Russell Crowe is another one of those ambient movies for me, something whose ads I’ll see on Instagram in between lifting videos, ads for nootropics, pictures of modded Game Boys, and ads for meal prep services. Seriously, like a lot of the stuff on streaming these days, it looks like a fake movie from the Simpsons or 30 Rock, though it does look like they’ve got a Dragon Age fan or two on the crew. Can we talk about how “The Pope’s Exorcist” (yeah that film with Russell Crowe) uses the inquisition symbol from DRAGON AGE…
Players are quickly demonstrating that just like in Breath of the Wild, there’s no “correct” way to play The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom. One of the best parts of Breath of the Wild was that there was no one way that you had to do any particular thing. Sure, there were obvious intentions that Nintendo had for certain shrines and areas, but that doesn’t mean you had to do it that way – speedrunners proved that better than anyone. And that has stayed true for Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom, with players already showing that there…
Playing video games is an expensive hobby. Whether you’re purchasing a brand-new console or buying the latest releases, keeping your digital library padded with the latest games can be costly. Luckily, that’s beginning to change. More and more publishers have started embracing the free-to-play model in recent years, allowing players to leap into some good Nintendo Switch games without paying a cent. We’ve dug through some of the best free-to-play titles available on Nintendo Switch and compiled a list so you can enjoy some great games without putting too much stress on your wallet. From battle royales and fighting games…