Wordle answer (Thursday 28 July 2022): Wordle word of the day #404 and hints

Hints and the answer to today’s Wordle word Then again, Wordle can be rather frustrating at times too. For all that it’s a simple game, it can be fiendishly hard to guess the correct five-letter word in just six guesses. That’s where we come in. Below you’ll find a handy list of three hints that you can use to help find the solution. Scroll a little further, and we’ll reveal today’s Wordle answer in all its glory, along with an explanation of the word’s meaning for those who need it....

July 27, 2022 · 5 min · 1053 words · David Sloan

2K have removed four WWE games from Steam

Only the tag team of WWE 2K22 and 2K Battlegrounds left standing Fancy a wrestle? Well, you’re more limited in choice now, because 2K have removed four of their past WWE games from sale on Steam, leaving just the recentWWE 2K22and the arcade-style2K Battlegroundsup. Console yourself by watching the 2K22 launch trailer below, as you weep into your tasselled and bespangled leotard. I’ve reached out to 2K for comment on why these wrestling games have been taken down, and I’ll update this post when I hear back....

July 26, 2022 · 1 min · 108 words · James Hinton

A new Tactics Ogre: Reborn leak brings screenshots and a release date

But no mention of a PC release The leak happened onPSDeals.netand the materials have since been removed, but not before beingspotted and shared by Twitter user Wario64. The list also notes that the cutscenes are fully voiced (in English and Japanese) and that all the game’s music has been re-recorded with level performances. The leak only mentions a PlayStation 4 and PlayStation 5 version of the game, and there is no official confirmation of any of these details or whether the Tactics Ogre series will make its debut on PC....

July 26, 2022 · 1 min · 206 words · Amanda Bennett

Aliens: Fireteam Elite season four adds crossplay and a new game mode

The end of its year one roadmap Aliens: Fireteam Elite’s season four kicks off today, and there are substantial new features to tempt you back to the co-op stand up fight. That includes crossplay, a new ‘prestige’ progression system that starts when players reach level 20, and a new game mode. Here’s a trailer for the new season: Let’s talk about the new game mode first. In the unimpressively named “Restock Turrets”, you have to keep your turrets restocked so they can keep firing on “Xenomorphs coming from every direction....

July 26, 2022 · 2 min · 332 words · Thomas Sandoval

Hard West 2 is so much more than supernatural cowboy XCOM

We sit down with devs Ice Code Games ahead of launch to take a deeper look at its new Bravado system “In anyXCOM-like, when you see that many enemies and that much firepower, in that good a position, you think, okay, I’m fucked up,” he tells me. “In just a second, I will show you how you can use Bravado to totally overturn the situation.” Bravado is a new addition to theHard Westseries, but the way it refuels your posse’s action points on KO-ing an enemy will be instantly familiar to anyone who’s dabbled in recentstrategy gamessuch asGears TacticsorWarhammer 40K: Chaos Gate – Daemonhunters....

July 26, 2022 · 10 min · 1947 words · Barbara Fuller

Meta Quest 2 VR headsets will cost $100 more starting next month

The future is expensive Meta are increasing the price of all versions of the Meta Quest 2, their flagship wireless VR headset, by $100. They announced the decision in a post on the Oculus blog, saying that the increase in price would help them “continue to invest for the long term and keep driving the VR industry forward.” Basically, Meta would like to lose less money now. “We’ve been all-in on VR since the early days of PC and mobile, all the way through to today’s premium standalone 6DOF headsets—and we’ve invested billions of dollars to help nurture a thriving VR ecosystem,” starts the post on theOculus blog....

July 26, 2022 · 2 min · 358 words · Cheryl Phillips

Monster Hunter Rise: Sunbreak’s first free update seethes with new beasts to hunt

It brings fresh monsters and the intriguing Forlorn Arena Even more giant lumbering beasts are heading straight forMonster Hunter Rise: Sunbreakwhen the first of its free title updates lands in August. Expect two new rare species along with a fresh area to explore. Let your finely crafted trousers tremble with anticipatory terror while you watch the trailer below. You’ll be able to journey to the Forlorn Arena thanks to the update, a new area that has a bit of anElden Ringvibe, if I’m honest....

July 26, 2022 · 2 min · 335 words · Rachel Robinson

New Return To Monkey Island clip looks gorgeous, says I

I like the animation I will hoover up any crumb about Return To Monkey Island I can find, no matter how small, so 43 seconds of new footage feels practically like a full meal. That’s the length of a new clip shared by Ron Gilbert on Twitter, and it shows Guybrush exploring a snowy town as well as how Return’s dialogue trees look for, I think, the first time. Here’s the tweet with the clip embedded:...

July 26, 2022 · 2 min · 318 words · Christina Stewart

Pick up an AMD Ryzen 5800X3D for £384 at CCL today

A rare discount on AMD’s fastest gaming processor. The AMD Ryzen 7 5800X3D is Team Red’s fastest gaming processor in many titles, yet it costs far less than the slightly older 5950X and only a bit more than the 5900X. Reason being? You get fewer cores than those processors, and slower clock speeds, but dramatically increased cache - a trade-off that often provides a massive performance improvement for gaming. The 5800X3D was extremely hard to find at launch, with AMD’s limited inventory being claimed as soon as the first reviews rolled in, but now we’re starting to see better availability - and today, the first proper discounts....

July 26, 2022 · 2 min · 283 words · Meredith Hughes

Pick up an RTX graphics card for £212 today

The price of the RTX 2060 has fallen off a cliff, which is awesome for patient PC gamers. The RTX 2060 is the most affordable RTX graphics card, making it your best shout for gaining the hardware to do real-time ray tracing and frame-rate-boosting DLSS without overpaying. This model debuted at £330, gotmore expensiveover time as the worst of the GPU supply shortage hit, and was impossible to find below RRP even after its next-generation successor, the RTX 3060 launched two years later....

July 26, 2022 · 1 min · 189 words · Timothy Graham

Rollerdrome's smooth, bullet time bloodsport is locked and loaded

It’s Tony Hawk meets Max Payne, and it’s rolling out next month Bullet time has gone in and out of fashion, yet it remains accepted as cool by everyone who has ever knocked back a fistful of painkillers and murdered half of New York City. Rollerskating has gone in and out of fashion too, and anyone who’s glanced at Instagram for the past couple of years will know which stage of the wave we’re at....

July 26, 2022 · 5 min · 965 words · Sara Gonzalez

The best perks in MultiVersus: The most powerful perks to apply to each character

Including the best Signature Perks for all characters What are the best perks in MultiVersus?Perks are an experimental feature in the latest open beta forMultiVersus. Each of the 17 playable characters has a long set of unique moves, but perks allow you to customise each character to your liking a little more. The game presents you with four categories of perks: Signature Perks ,which can only be applied to the character they’re designed for; and Minor Perks, which can be applied to anyone in the roster and fall into three distinct purposes (Offense, Defense, and Utility)....

July 26, 2022 · 6 min · 1111 words · Michael Moreno

The MultiVersus open beta kicks off today

Here’s when you can play, and how it’s different from early access Free-to-play Warner Bros. brawlerMultiVersusslams into open beta today at 5pm BST/6pm CEST/9am PST. We’ll be bringing you some thoughts later this week on whether MultiVersus is any good now it’s out of alpha but, for now, here’s a rundown of when and how you can play today. Check out the trailer below for a quick heads-up on how progression and rewards feature in the game....

July 26, 2022 · 4 min · 752 words · Jaclyn Case