Hints and the answer to today’s Wordle word If you want to get through Friday with your Wordle winning streak intact, then allow our guide to nudge you in the right direction. Below the video you’ll find today’s Wordle answer, along with a definition. If that’s a bit too much of a giveaway, then first you can check out our handy Wordle hints to see if you can figure out the answer before it’s revealed to you in all its glory....

The Junkertown map is also temporarily disabled due to bugs Overwatch 2heroBastionhas been missing-in-action for over a week now, but Blizzard have now set a date for his return, alongside fellow missing hero Torbjorn. Inan updateon theOverwatchforums, Blizzard confirmed that the missing characters should be returning to the game on October 25th, alongside the Junkertown map, which has also recently been disabled due to graphical performance bugs. Their return coincides with the game’s next planned update....

Some hefty chunks of RPG going for nothing It’s that time of week again, as the Epic Games Store rotates its free games and grants us two fresh things to play for nowt. If we don’t own them already, that is. There’s a strong chance that you might have already picked up either or both of this week’s freebies. One is Bethesda’s first instalment of their take on the retro-futuristic post-apocalypse inFallout 3....

Development is also “in the home stretch”, says producer YoshiP Square Enix have released a new cinematic (with a teeny sliver of gameplay) trailer forFinal Fantasy 16today, and crikey, there’s a heck of a lot of summons action in there. Technically, the summons are called Eikons in this version of Squeenix’s long-running JRPG series, and from the looks of the trailer, you’ll be battling as them directly in big, dramatic battle sequences....

It’s 20% discounted until the full release This year’s edition comes, again as per usual, with a handful of major new features. Those include improved AI managers, new player animations, a new “fan confidence” rating for managers, and and a new “Squad Planner and Experience Matrix” to revamp the recruitment of new players. It’s this last one that seems like the most significant or noticeable change. The squad planner is a new screen in the game where you can rank your players based on their ability to perform in certain positions within your formation....

Legendary tier level 99 bat pants can’t change my mind I watched a badminton match where one player was so dominant, his opponent looked like he’d largely given up. The commentator said, “Yep, the belief has all but vanished”, as it panned over a guy who simply wanted to be anywhere but that court. At the time, I’d already sunk some hours intoGotham Knightsand taken a quick break from the action to keep tabs on a tournament and collect my thoughts....

A real tearjerker A while backI wrote about Codenames, an excellent board game with a free browser-based version that made for some great long-distance family time during lockdown. Now, dear reader, I return once again with a free browser-based game that’s perfect for long-distance fun. But this time, it’s just about the funniest game I can remember playing. It’s calledGartic Phone. I laughed so hard I cried oceans of tears playing Gartic Phone for the first time with the family over drinks (this definitely feels like a game best played while tipsy)....

The successor to one of Intel’s best gaming CPUs provides more cores, but limited FPS gains The Intel Core i5-13600K fills a familiar role in the latest13th Gen/Raptor Lakeseries of CPUs. There are chips in this family with many more cores and even higher clock speeds, like the £700 Core i9-13900K, but this is the one most upgrade-seekers will probably look to first: a mid-range champion to take over from theCore i5-12600K....

Just play the original In every story where a wish is granted - whether by some primary-coloured goon sticking out a lamp, a creepy piece of fairground entertainment, or a piece of cursed bushmeat - there’s always an ironical sting in the tale. You wish for health and it turns out you can’t die. You wish for a personal chef, but it turns out he only does offal. You wish everything you touch to turn to gold, then it’ll turn out there’s no way to turn it off - or it kicks in just as you go to the toilet, that kind of thing....

We’ve played it, and it’s shaping up to be something very special indeed About three years after I graduated, I returned to the city where I went to University. Immediately after arriving, I embarked on an early-evening pilgrimage of sorts, my only goal to wander once familiar paths in an attempt to capture a spark of the life I no longer lived. As I ambled past houses that used to be homes, local haunts and darkened lecture halls, it was the differences that stood out the most....

Will run for two days before the full release Here’s the new launch trailer for Re:Verse: The early access begins on October 24th at 3am BST (7pm PDT Oct 23rd) and ends at 7am BST on October 26th (11pm PDT Oct 5th). You’ll need to own Resident Evil Village and have a Capcom ID, but otherwiseit’s available from Steamand doesn’t cost any extra monies. Re:Verse is a multiplayer mode in which up to 6 players, each controlling an existing Resident Evil protagonist, battle one another with guns, drones, and powerups that turn them into Resident Evil monsters....

GTX 1080 on the minimum spec, Windows 11 on recommended As a James who’s always forgetting things, I’m probably the main target audience of theSilent Hill 2 remake– one of yesterday’smany Silent Hill game and film announcements. Nevertheless, I wouldn’t have expected such high demands from its PC system requirements, which have appeared onSteam. Highlights include theAMD Radeon RX 5700andNvidia GeForce GTX 1080– a former flagship! – listed among the minimum specs, alongside a 12GB RAM requirement, and Windows 11 as the recommended OS....

Cheeky players had found ways to bypass the beta’s end Street Fighter 6’s beta ran from October 7th until the 10th - or at least it was meant to. Some cheeky players found a way to keep playing the beta after it ended, prompting Capcom to release a new update earlier today to delete it from player’s hard drives. On October 14th, asper Games Radar, a mod was released for the beta that allowed players to keep entering its offline versus mode....