Wordle answer (Sunday 9 October 2022): Wordle word of the day #477 and hints

Hints and the answer to today’s Wordle word Looking for today’s solution? Check out theWordle hint and answer for Thursday 12th December! Wordle October 9 hints Need a few clues to help you arrive at the Wordle answer today? Try these pointers to help you out: It’s time to reveal the answer to today’s Wordle. The word is… HOWDY. Writing Wordle definitions has taught me that there are actually very few words that are only ever used in a single context....

October 8, 2022 · 5 min · 923 words · James Kim

A text adventure started 40 years ago has only just been finished

Ferret was created by a bunch of British programmers in 1982 A piece of interactive fiction that was created for a 16-bit minicomputer in the early 1980s has finally been completed, four decades later.Ferret, a Zork-like text adventure, began development in 1982 for the Data General Nova 2. The game was put together by a group of software engineers from Data General’s UK-based Systems Division. Ferret only received a final functional release complete with an endgame in August this year, according toa poston the game’s Facebook community....

October 7, 2022 · 2 min · 306 words · George Dodson

Get an RTX 3080 gaming laptop for £1400

A great price on one of the fastest gaming laptops from MSI. It’s not every day that you see a top-end gaming laptop for £598 off, especially not when it’s a 15-in RTX 3080 model from MSI. This GP66 Leopard is one of the fastest gaming laptops on the market, with a Core i7 processor, 16GB of RAM, 1TB NVMe SSD and a 144Hz screen - not to mention that flagship-grade graphics card....

October 7, 2022 · 2 min · 284 words · Rhonda Browning

Got a big graphics card? Prevent GPU sag with this metal brace for $15

A small investment that’ll pay off down the line. Graphics cards are getting bigger, hotter and more expensive - and that first one is more of a problem than you might think. With theRTX 4090 and a whole family of oversized GPUson the way, those tiny PCIe slots on your motherboard are taking on an incredible amount of weight, such that even mid-range cards can sag and bend over time....

October 7, 2022 · 2 min · 392 words · Nina King

Gremlins’ Stripe bursts into MultiVersus next week as the game’s latest fighter

That leaves Black Adam to follow before season one ends Mischievous and malignant mini-monster Stripe is the next fighter coming to Warner Bros. licensed brawlerMultiVersus, it’s been revealed today. Stripe will arrive in the game next week, although there’s no more details about the character just yet. MultiVersus has teased Stripe with a video you can watch below, which is all very Gremlins. Stripe isn’t the only Gremlins character to come to MultiVersus....

October 7, 2022 · 2 min · 277 words · William Smith

Kojima Productions tease their next game, and actor Elle Fanning’s in it

Who is “WHERE”? A cryptic standee on display at PAX Australia has revealed that Elle Fanning is involved in a new game coming from Hideo Kojima’s Kojima Productions. An image showing a shadowy face with the words “Where am I?” features on the standee, alsotweetedby Kojima with the questions “Who is “WHERE”?”. People who scanned a QR code on the standee image were directed toanotherpicture on the Kojima Productions site, which shows Fanning’s face in red light and the message “Who am I?...

October 7, 2022 · 2 min · 336 words · Dr. Michelle Walker

Nier: Automata's secret church mystery: chaos, community, and an amazing mod

The hunt for a secret that didn’t exist Scrolling through Twitter, Daniel Griffiths' interest was piqued when he saw a post describing a mysterious phenomenon being shared in theNier: Automatacommunity: A2 opening a hidden door in The Copied City and strolling into a secret, never-before-seen area. Curious, he decided to pursue more knowledge, and landed in theNiermodding Discord server. Like him, many other Nier: Automata players who caught wind of the phenomenon sat upright - metaphorically and perhaps literally - and flocked to both Reddit and Discord to check out what exactly was up with the secret area....

October 7, 2022 · 10 min · 2130 words · Adam Roberts

No Man's Sky focuses on customising and accessibility in its relaxed Waypoint 4.0 update

The game now supports FSR 2 Sci-fi survival simNo Man’s Skysees the launch of its next major update today, and it’s about making things easier to do and doing them the way you want them. Key to this are custom game modes, auto-saves, dynamic difficulty, and inventory streamlining. There’s also a new relaxed mode for the particularly chilled among us. Watch the update trailer below for a rundown, and some trippy space visuals....

October 7, 2022 · 2 min · 402 words · Tracy Bond

Skyrim Modmapper creator reveals how they made their interactive Skyrim mod tracker site

It helps cut down all the fus The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrimis an increasingly ancient beast, gnarled and twisted over the past decade-and-a-bit by many, manymodsthat sometimes conflict with one another. That’s why Tyler Hallada put together Modmapper, a free tool released earlier this year that shows which of the mods hosted atNexusModsaffect which areas ofSkyrim. Now, Hallada’s written about the experience of creating the tool in a blog post, and the reasons for taking on the project....

October 7, 2022 · 2 min · 375 words · Henry Sanders MD

Space thriller The Invincible looks like it's going all in on sci-fi-flavoured Firewatch chats

We got an expanded look at the creepy robot scene in its E3 gameplay trailer Sci-fi thrillerThe Invincibleis one of those games that feels like it’s beenknocking aroundforabsolutely yonks, and every time there’s a new trailer for it, you go, “Oh yeah! That one! The one with the robots and the Soviet Alien dot detector thing!” The most recent trailer for The Invincible arrived during this year’s E3 madness, and featured astrobiologist Yasna having a suspenseful encounter with a big spider bot and its anti-matter death ray....

October 7, 2022 · 5 min · 892 words · Diana Reese

The new EA app replacing Origin is still a launcher you'll only ever use when forced to

Wanna play most new EA games? You don’t really have a choice Electronic Arts have formally launched their new store client doodad after a long open beta, replacing the much-maligned Origin with something they refer to as “the EA app” (its actual name is only “EA”). They say it’s faster and better. I think maybe it is? But it doesn’t really matter, as long as it’s not a disaster, because it’s not like you’re using it unless you have to anyway....

October 7, 2022 · 4 min · 718 words · Angela Johnson

Voice-activated trousers sadly can't save Weird RPG from mundanity

Silly items galore in this new action-RPG A new experience:Weird RPGis the first video game to make my lips numb. My character in the action-RPG is wearing magic tousers, see, which launch explosive basketball hoops every time I make noise into my microphone. Turns out, the most DPS-efficient noise is continually blowing to trill my lips like a child pretending to be a car. Weird RPG does have some fun ideas but sadly, it’s too mundane an ARPG to be truly weird—or good....

October 7, 2022 · 5 min · 880 words · Erica Campbell

Wordle answer (Friday 7 October 2022): Wordle word of the day #475 and hints

Hints and the answer to today’s Wordle word Looking for today’s solution? Check out theWordle hint and answer for Thursday 12th December! Wordle October 7 hints Need a little help getting the Wordle answer today? Here are a few hints to help you out: It’s time to reveal the answer to today’s Wordle. The word is… DANDY. I love the word dandy, and think it’s about time we brought it back!...

October 7, 2022 · 5 min · 940 words · Laura Wolfe