Hints and the answer to today’s Wordle word If you’re playing on a mobile device, you can even buy some of those special phone screen gloves for an even cosier Wordle experience. Or, play in-browser on an old laptop and let the fan warm you up! Eh, enough depressing tips for the harsh winter; let’s get going with the Wordle hints instead. Or, if you just want to know today’s answer, scroll down below the video for the spoiler....

Confession: I’m a neat freak I love tidying up in games, and I’m not just talking about playingUnpackingandHouse Flipper, either. Any game I play with an inventory gets a regular, satisfying purge. I’m either marching to an in-game shopkeeper and holding my adventuring sack upside down, or just swiftly frisbeeing items straight into the bin. If it’s cluttering my screen, it’s cluttering my mind. Zero regrets.That’sthe gamer dopamine hit I’m chasing....

Multiplayer rekindled after nine months Praise the Sun! FromSoftware have announced thatDark Souls Remastered’s long dormant PvP servers have beenreactivatedat last. The fantasy action RPG’s multiplayer was scuppered earlier this year when a security vulnerability that could harm anyone playing online was discovered all the way back in January. PC servers for Remastered were taken offline until a fix could be found, along with every otherDark Soulsgame. There’s been a weird to-ing and fro-ing since then, with PvP servers for some Dark Souls games being brought back online again only to be withdrawn not long afterwards....

Mick Gordon hits back at Marty Stratton Gordon alleges that he’s yet to be paid for more than half of Doom Eternal’s music. “I created this music as part of the development process and shared it with id Software in good faith,” the composer said. “But id Software used the music in the game, marketing and soundtrack and still refuses to pay me for it.” Gordon alleges that Stratton and id Software’s Lead Audio Designer, Chad Mossholder, didn’t allow him to listen to the final album and didn’t ask for his approval, although he points out they weren’t contractually obliged to do....

That’s a spicy meatball Just over two weeks ago I predictedthe ZA/uM situation would only get messier, so slap my face and call me Mystic Meg.Disco Elysium’s game director Robert Kurvitz and art director Aleksander Rostov have, at least partially, offered up their side of the story on why they were fired from Disco dev studio ZA/UM in a Medium post titled ‘TO FANS OF DISCO ELYSIUM, CONCERNING THE SITUATION AT ZA/UM’....

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Child’s play Boy,American McGee’s Alicereally sticks in the mind of a ten-year-old, doesn’t it? It resides in the Goldilocks Zone of creepiness: just the right amount of creepy to be considered cool, and not quite creepy enough to cause nightmares. There were quite a few things I loved about the game, but none more than that deliciously haunting opening theme that played in the main menu. Have a quick listen-a-roo of the themehereif you like....

As long as I can play as a mechanical crocodile, I’m happy Aloy might not be the only person battling giant robot dinosaurs for much longer if a report that aHorizonMMO is in development is on the nose. Korean siteMTNclaim Sony are teaming up withGuild Warspublishers NCsoft to create a massively multiplayer take on Guerilla Games’ sci-fi action RPG. This partnership to create new games isn’t just limited to Horizon either, MTN’s source alleges....

“I view layoffs as a last resort,” says Zuck More than 11,000 workers at Meta will lose their jobs, the technology company has announced, a figure that includes some staff working in its VR team Reality Labs. The Company Formerly Known As Facebook broke the bad news to employees via amessageCEO Mark Zuckerberg shared earlier today. The job losses equate to 13% of Meta’s entire staff. Redundancies will affect staff across Meta’s global offices, including here in the UK....

The European Commission feel the deal could reduce competition significantly The EU’s business competition regulators are deepening their investigation into Microsoft’s planned$68.7 billion(£60 billion) deal to acquire Call Of Duty andOverwatchpublisher Activision Blizzard. The intention to conduct an in-depth investigation was announced in astatementon the European Commission’s website, and will focus on how the deal will affect console and PC games, along with PC operating systems. This means that both the EU and UK are now holding further investigations into the potential buyout of Activision Blizzard due to concerns that Microsoft’s acquisition of the company could reduce competition within the games industry....

Ebay code FLASH25 offers best-ever prices on two great gaming displays. LG’s C2 OLEDs are brilliant gaming displays at any size - and the 42-in and 48-in models are just small enough to fit onto an average to large-sized desk. That technically makes them “cool gaming monitors” and therefore well within my RPS deals duties.Bothare now discounted from Crampton & Moore via Ebay, with a 25% off coupon (“FLASH25”) that maxes out at a pretty sweet £150 discount....

The Dell S3422DWG offers an immersive 34-in span at 3440x1440 and 144Hz. It’s been a good week for monitor deals, but a lot of what we’ve looked at has been fairly expensive, from a42-inch LG OLED for £779or a34-inch QD-OLED ultrawide for £943. These are great monitors, don’t get me wrong, but you could spend a fraction of the money and still get a brilliant monitor. That brings us neatly to the subject of this deals post: the Dell S3422DWG, a 34-in ultrawide gaming monitor that sits at the comfortable crossroads of refresh rate and resolution: 3440x1440 and 144Hz....

A wallrunning experiment with new expanded modding capabilities An impressive video showingTitanfall 2-esque movement and mechs insideTeam Fortress 2makes me mighty excited for the future of mods in Valve’s multiplayer shooter. Valve are currently testing new expanded modding features in TF2, letting modders play with the VScript feature supported by games includingCounter-Strike: Global OffensiveandLeft 4 Dead 2. While it’s not yet clear what will happen, a proof-of-concept video mashing in wallrunning, swish grappling hooks, and pilotable mechs suggests great potential....