Wordle hints and answer (#1071): How to solve the Saturday May 25 Wordle

Stuck on today’s Wordle word for May 25? Read our hint or find the answer below! This guide is for a previous day! Looking for today’s solution? Check out theWordle hint and answer for Thursday 12th December! Need a hint for today’s Wordle answer?We have you covered with a list of hints to help you maintain that precious streak. Every day,Wordlepresents its legions of players with a deviously simple quandary: can you guess the right five-letter word within just six guesses?...

May 25, 2024 · 6 min · 1270 words · George Walker

Wuthering Waves: Echoes tier list

Here’s our ranking of the best Echoes in Wuthering Waves Looking for a tier list of the Echoes in Wuthering Waves?Echoes are the collectible fragments of defeated creaturesWuthering Waves, and they help Kuro Games' new entry in the gacha space stand out from the competition. You’ll farm Echoes from all the monsters you defeat in Wuthering Waves, including bosses, and Echoes also serve as makeshift armour, augmenting the abilities of each character on your team....

May 25, 2024 · 4 min · 735 words · Walter Harris

Animal Well creator plans to follow the superb Metroidvania with a game that shares its world but “may not be a direct sequel”

Developer Billy Basso didn’t expect players to crack open the game’s secrets quite so quickly In a year already stacking up plates of delicious indie game dishes so fast they’re toppling over and crashing onto the floor, spilling splattered food over the carpet to be hoovered up by waiting dogs/cats/raccoons/mice,Animal Wellis one of the most generous helpings yet. The captivating, combat-freeMetroidvaniais rich with a delectable buffet of challenges, puzzles and secrets to find even once you’ve seen the credits roll....

May 24, 2024 · 3 min · 611 words · Shannon Colon

Besiege: The Splintered Sea review: a small vessel for expansive seafaring

Just one more tweak to get these timbers shivering just right I cannot compare my experience of writing a review for The Splintered Sea, the first paid expansion for dastardly clever physicspuzzlebuilderBesiege, to that of a journaling sailor facing lethal storms on the horizon. Still, if we take for granted the idea that a review is only really valuable as an insight into the experience of the player: I haven’t been feeling especially great this week....

May 24, 2024 · 6 min · 1163 words · Gregory Lee

Call Of Duty 2024 revealed as Call Of Duty: Black Ops 6, "a dark new chapter"

The number, Mason Activision have celebrated my birthday in the traditional manner by announcing a new Call Of Duty game. Said Call Of Duty game isBlack Ops 6, “a dark new chapter” in the Treyarch-helmedFPSsub-series which is known for seedier and weirder, alt-historical or post-future stories featuring hallucinations and cybernetics and catchy period music. What do we know about Black Ops 6? Friend, right now I can tell you little other than that the logo art appears to feature a wolf wearing the Capitol building as a hat....

May 24, 2024 · 2 min · 272 words · Stephanie Horn

Fortnite's new season adds War Buses, rocket-propelled fists, and a lawless desert biome

Like sand? This season’s for you We’ve known for some time thatFallout was comingtoFortnite, we just weren’t entirely sure in what capacity. Well, now we know that this season’s wasteland offerings take the form of a sort ofMad MaxmeetsFalloutmeets Borderlands-battle royaleaffair. There’s a big emphasis on deserts and vehicles, basically, with highlights including: mechanical fists, turrets on cars, and the possibility of manning one of two War Buses that patrol the reworked map....

May 24, 2024 · 2 min · 407 words · Ryan Young

How Baldur's Gate 3 might have brought back Candlekeep, the library fortress where Baldur's Gate began

Keeping it lit with Adam Smith Videogames and especially role-playing games are chock-full of sheltered upbringings that go tits up. Innocent times and places like the prologue forBaldur’s Gate, which unfolds in the vast, fortified monastery of Candlekeep (beware spoilers from this point on). BioWare’s first everRPGopens with your unsuspecting Chosen One learning the ropes from the old sage Gorion. There are fetchquests that take you around the enormous citadel, bits of combat training to do, cosy formative chinwags to have with characters like your childhood friend Imoen....

May 24, 2024 · 6 min · 1177 words · David Frazier

Looks like the Asus ROG Ally X will get a honking great battery upgrade

Refreshed handheld specs spring a leak The Asus ROG Ally X, a sort of semi-sequel to last year’sROG Allyhandheld PC, has had its specs spilled over atVideocardz. I’m usually a lot more suspicious of hardware leaks, which are often just out-of-date or otherwise inaccurate info, but I’ve also sat through enough mic-muted prebriefings to know an official slideshow when I see one, and that appears to be exactly what Videocardz got its hands on....

May 24, 2024 · 3 min · 548 words · Danielle Singleton

NYT Connections hint and answers (Friday, May 24)

Need a hint for Connections? Read our guide for help with Connections #348 This guide is for a previous day! Looking for today’s solution? Check out theConnections hint and answers for Thursday 12th December! Want a hint for Connections today?Piggybacking off the monumental success of daily puzzle gameWordle, the New York Times has another fantastically popular word game out now. It’s calledConnections, and if you haven’t played it before, now’s the time to start....

May 24, 2024 · 3 min · 556 words · Gregory Lee

One-of-a-kind strategy sim Workers & Resources: Soviet Republic gets 1.0 release next month

Red stars in our eyes …and here’s a resplendent bullet-point breakdown of the 1.0 launch from publishers Hooded Horse, who are elsewhere notorious for inflicting feudal village-coddlerManor Lordsupon the world. You know the old proverb: you can lead a Hooded Horse to communism, but you cannot make it seize the means of production. Yeah, I don’t really know where I’m going with that. It’s dialectics at a standstill, maybe. Perhaps we should allocate more resources to infrastructure, to get dialectics moving again....

May 24, 2024 · 2 min · 222 words · Christopher Gregory

Sims 4 devs assemble team to focus on fixing bugs and upping performance, updates to now land every two months

Starting with fixes for summoning a cheese toastie, among others, later this month The Sims 4is fast approaching its 10th birthday this September, a fact that genuinely instilled me with the crushing sense of time marching relentlessly on when I checked its release date a moment ago. That near-decade has brought a whole heap of additions, expansions, packs and updates to the enduring life sim game, to the degree that the underlying tech serving as the foundation for dozens of later mechanical and visual elements can sometimes look a bit wobbly these days....

May 24, 2024 · 2 min · 389 words · Melissa Cervantes

The opening hour of The Alters feels like 11 bit's first third-person narrative action game

Gears Of War Of Mine Calling it now: this is the least intriguing article you will read about 11 bit’sThe Alters, a blend of Danny Boyle’sSunshineand Duncan Jones’sMoonin which (deep breath) you are a marooned space engineer who must spawn different versions of himself by means of backstory-branching gadgetry in order to operate an enormous, rolling base and escape the apocalyptic rays of the local sun. We’re not going to talk about any of that hoity-toity quantum wheeling-and-dealing in this piece, however....

May 24, 2024 · 4 min · 812 words · Jeffrey Wall

Warhammer 40,000: Mechanicus is getting a sequel and Total War: Warhammer 3 is getting a big red dog

Clifford? is that you? What have they done to you boy? Skulls! You’ve got one. I’ve got one. Everybody has a lovely skull keeping their lovely face right where it should be. Warhammer is big, so it needs must have multiple of them, hence their yearly event Skulls, which collates a bunch of Games Workshop related announcements into a sort of bizzaro world Nintendo Direct if Yoshi was actually a parasitic corpse emperor....

May 24, 2024 · 2 min · 250 words · Donna Zuniga