Feel free to use our clue for today's Wordle whenever you're feeling a bit stuck. Unleash it right at the start if you're not sure what sort of opening word you'd like to go for, and don't worry about spoiling the fun—it's written to help, not immediately give the game away. You could always save it for later too, as a bit of a nudge just when you need it....
You know that part in Barbie The Movie where the beloved bubbly doll played by Margot Robbie totally kills the dancefloor fun by asking, "Do you guys ever think about dying?" like it's the most normal question to ask mid-bop?That's what Final Fantasy 14 has done to me with Dancing Green's theme song, Ride the Rhythm, though I'm not sure who's the Margot Robbie in this situation.As is Square Enix...
The co-op shooter FBC: Firebreak is struggling badly, but Remedy isn't giving up on it. Today the studio announced plans for its first "major update," set to arrive in late September, that it hopes will make the game more accessible to newcomers, and more engaging for veterans.FBC: Firebreak stumbled out of the gate, with serious balance problems and a real lack of content. "The good news," we said in our...
We described Crossfire: Legion as "a promising, if somewhat sparse tactical RPG" when it appeared in the 2022 PC Gaming Show, shortly after its early access launch in May of that year. It went into full release in December 2022, but never managed to gain any real traction with players, and now, a year and a half after its last update, it's going away for good."It is with the deepest...
Ya'll ever see a videogame skin so bad you're forced to immediately go to sleep? My eyes rolled all the way back in my head perusing the day one store offerings of Off The Grid, an NFT-powered battle royale that launched yesterday on Steam after a stint in early access on the Epic Games Store.For the low price of 74 GUN (Off The Grid's premium currency that's also a crypto...
It's been five years since the Prince of Persia: The Sands of Time Remake first leaked out of the Russian Uplay store, and while plenty has happened since then, one thing that definitely has not happened is the Prince of Persia: The Sands of Time Remake. It's basically Skull and Bones redux: Repeated delays, a studio change, a whole-ass reboot, more delays, more studios, and most recently a very funny...
For ten years, I've been obsessed with a single dialogue choice (really a collection of choices) at the beginning of Pillars of Eternity's first expansion, The White March: Part One.Once you've finished beating back an ogre attack on the town of Stalwart, you're free to poke around, meet the residents, accept side quests, all that classic RPG jazz. At the docks, interacting with a suspicious barrel of fish reveals there's...
Rainbow Six Siege pro Sho "BlackRay" Hasegawa of the Japanese CAG Osaka esports organization has been arrested along with six others for allegedly kidnapping and confining a man for a period of three months, during which time they tortured him and extorted around 2 million yen ($13,000).A machine-translated report by Jiji.com (via SiegeGG) says the victim was held at multiple locations between January 29 and April 30, during which time...
Ichiro Lambe is a games industry veteran with one hell of a CV: he co-founded Worlds Apart (which became Sony Online Denver), founded Dejobaan Games (probably best-known for the excellently named skydiving game AaaaaAAaaaAAAAaAAAAA!!!), and consulted at Valve for a spell, during which he was one of the key movers behind the creation of Steam Labs.Steam Labs is all about poking at the data and experimenting with how the platform...
With the launch of The Edge of Fate expansion, we’re introduced to yet approach to gear and levelling in Destiny 2, including Armour 3.0 and world/gear tiers. I swear it’s a yearly overhaul at this point. But boy, what a grind it is this time around, pushing us towards the Portal—a brand-new ‘main menu’ so to speak—to climb through the ranks. While it's already caused some controversy, such as stealing...