Today's Wordle hints and answer (#950): How to solve the Thursday January 25 Wordle

Stuck on today’s Wordle word for January 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 followed by today’s word to help you keep track of your daily 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?...

January 25, 2024 · 6 min · 1261 words · Daniel Nelson

Uh oh, Balatro might be the deckbuilder to end all deckbuilders

It’s hard to poker holes in this moreish roguelike’s new demo When I sat down at my desk after lunch today, I thought, I’m just going to give this demo forBalatroa tiny go, just to get my head round its poker-based roguelike deckbuilding. Cut to several hours later and I’ve had to forcibly shut the game down and wrench myself away from it just to write this post, because listen, you need to go and play Balatro’s demo right now, because hot damn this is the good stuff if you’re into roguelike deckbuilders....

January 25, 2024 · 4 min · 797 words · Wendy Jackson

15 Enshrouded tips to get you started

These Enshrouded tips and tricks are vital for new players What are the best tips and tricks for players new to Enshrouded?Keen Games' new open-worldsurvivalcrafting RPG is a very impressive creation, with a massive and intricate map, great combat and exploration,phenomenalbuilding, and much more to enjoy. But as with most large-scale survival crafting games,Enshroudedcan get a little bit overwhelming for new players. In thisbeginner’s guide, I’ve put together the ultimate list of usefulEnshrouded tips and tricksthat I wish I knew when I first began playing the game....

January 24, 2024 · 10 min · 2112 words · Emily Ward

All Palworld mounts list

Here’s a list of all Palworld mounts including flying, ground and water mounts Searching for a complete Palworld mounts list?Palworldhas a hugemapthat can take hours of progression to explore. With a mount, you can travel across the Palapagos Islands with ease from the back of a trustworthy Pal. Several Pals act as mounts inPalworld, some of these specialise in ground traversal whilst others are either water or flying mounts that can jettison you across the map whilst also offering unique combat buffs....

January 24, 2024 · 2 min · 378 words · Morgan Jennings

AMD's great value Ryzen 5 7600X processor is down to $199 in the US, $100 below MSRP

In the UK? The Ryzen 5 7600 is down to £189, making it £20 cheaper than the 7600X. In the UK, it’s the 7600 that’s the better deal, at £189 versus the 7600X at £209, but both are fine value options too. If you’re building an AM5 system, the 7600X and 7600 are great choices as they supports all of the key features - PCIe 5.0, DDR5, integrated graphics - while delivering good in-game performance for much less than the rest of the Ryzen 7000 lineup....

January 24, 2024 · 1 min · 149 words · Michael Thomas

Balcony gardening sim Pocket Oasis has a beautiful hand-painted look and meditative vibes

It’ll be ready to blossom in May For those of us who don’t have a garden to grow plants in, an allotment is one way to get your green-fingered fix of tending to nature in return for its peaceful healing properties. When an allotment is a bit too cold, or muddy, or expensive, oroutside, upcoming gardening sim Peaceful Oasis looks to be a fine digital alternative. The meditative game tasks players with arranging pots on the balcony of a building in one of several European cities, tending to the plants with water and sun - and sticking them in a greenhouse if necessary - to bring them to flower or fruit....

January 24, 2024 · 2 min · 323 words · Clarence Glenn

Best skills to get first in Enshrouded

There are some real game-changers in the Enshrouded skill tree What are the best skills in the Enshrouded skill tree?Enshrouded, like many open-worldsurvivalcrafting games, implements a number ofRPGprogression systems. Chief among them is a skill tree, in which you start at the centre and branch off towards many powerful important skill nodes. If you’re wondering which areas of the skill tree to prioritise, then you’ve come to the right place. In this guide, we’ll walk you through 12 (well, technically 13) of the verybest skills in Enshrouded, where they reside in the skill tree, and what makes them so powerful....

January 24, 2024 · 5 min · 1060 words · Jonathan Jones

Dungeons & Dragons’ first virtual reality game likely won’t be Baldur’s Gate 3 in VR, but we can live in hope

On the way from the makers of digital dungeon-crawler Demeo Veteran pen-and-paperRPGDungeons & Dragons is getting its first officialvirtual reality game. Before you get all excited about being able to let Astarion bite your neck in first-person or shack up with a bear-shaped druid using hand tracking, know that it’s more likely to be a virtual reality experience emulating the original experience of rolling dice on a tabletop. Still, that’s what imaginations are for, right?...

January 24, 2024 · 2 min · 394 words · April Jenkins

Elite Dangerous and Planet Zoo devs Frontier kick off their own monthly showcase with a game reveal next week

Frontier Developments, the British developer-publishers behindElite Dangerous,Planet Zooand Warhammer games including Warhammer 40,000 XCOM-a-likeChaos Gate: Daemonhuntersand last year’s Age of Sigmar RTSRealms of Ruin, will host a new monthly developer showcase starting next week. Frontier Unlocked, as the show is called, will take place on the last Wednesday of each month and be streamed live via theirTwitchandYouTubechannels. The debut showcase happening on January 31st will kick off at 6pm GMT....

January 24, 2024 · 1 min · 141 words · Lisa Nelson

Enshrouded building guide: How to build any structure

How to get started building your own creations in Enshrouded Want to learn how to build in Enshrouded?If you’ve seen some of the incredible creations that the playerbase has already put out in Keen Games' new open-worldsurvivalcrafting gameEnshrouded, you’ll likely have guessed that this game has a very powerful and flexible building system.Enshroudedis a voxel-based game, meaning you can build structures a block at a time, likeMinecraft. But it also gives the player a few very useful and powerful quality-of-life tools which allow you to build far more quickly than just a block at a time....

January 24, 2024 · 6 min · 1189 words · Peter Smith

Enshrouded early access review: the best building system in the survival genre

Peel back the Shroud and there’s a solid foundation here I realised several hours into myEnshroudedplaythrough that I have an unspoken internal checklist for what makes a great open-worldsurvivalcrafting game. Great building, a sense of scale, a beautiful atmosphere, and the ability to die in extremely stupid ways. InMinecraft, it’s digging straight down into lava. InValheim, it’s getting crushed by the very tree you’d just chopped down. And after dying for the third time by trying to climb a slightly-too-steep hill, slipping down and building enough momentum to send me careening off the cliff to my death, I realised thatEnshrouded, too, ticks all the boxes for maybe one day being listed among the titans of the genre....

January 24, 2024 · 8 min · 1689 words · Donald Bush

Enshrouded: How to get the Grappling Hook

Here’s how to unlock the Grappling Hook early on Looking to obtain the Grappling Hook in Enshrouded?The Grappling Hook is a necessary item for any budding adventurer in Keen Games' new open-world survival crafting game,Enshrouded. Without a Grappling Hook, you’ll find that many important paths and areas are closed off to you. And that just won’t do. This quick guide will walk you through how to craft your own Grappling Hook using the Workbench at the beginning of the game, as well as how to use the Grappling Hook properly to ensure you don’t suffer any unnecessary fall damage....

January 24, 2024 · 4 min · 738 words · Heather Yang

Enshrouded: How to survive longer in the Shroud

Here are all the ways you can extend your Shroud timer in Enshrouded How can you stay in the Shroud longer in Enshrouded?The Shroud is the main point of difference betweenEnshroudedand other open-worldsurvivalcrafting games. Once you enter the Shroud, a timer begins to count down. If it reaches zero, you die. Which begs the question - how can you survive for longer in the Shroud? Thankfully, there are a few ways you can extend the Shroud timer and stay in the Shroud for longer, and we’ll go over all of them in our guide below....

January 24, 2024 · 4 min · 730 words · Billy Boyd