Summer Games Done Quick 2022 nets more than $3 million for charity

Slayed at the end with an Elden Ring double-bill Annual speedrunning eventSummer Games Done Quickhas raised more than $3 million (£2.5 million) for the charity Doctors Without Borders. SGDQ drew to a close yesterday with an All Remembrances run ofElden Ringon PC, followed by a shorter bonus Any% run of the game to cap things off. You can watch HYP3RSOMNIAC take on FromSoft’s latest in just half an hour in the video below....

July 4, 2022 · 1 min · 160 words · James Harvey

Wordle answer (Tuesday 5 July 2022): Wordle word of the day #381 and hints

Hints and the answer to today’s Wordle word Wrong day? Check out theWordle hint and answer for Thursday 12th Decemberinstead! Wordle July 5 hints The Wordle answer today may be a word we all know, but that doesn’t make discovering the answer easy. Take a look at the below Wordle hints and see if they will lead you to the solution: Today’s Wordle answer is:FIELD. Field is one of those words that has way more versatility than you realise....

July 4, 2022 · 2 min · 290 words · Paul Mckay

Wordle answer (Monday 4 July 2022): Wordle word of the day #380 and hints

Hints and the answer to today’s Wordle word But it’s even more oodles of fun when you get it right, so take a look below at our list of Wordle hints to see if you can figure out the solution. Further below we’ll reveal today’s Wordle answer itself, along with a definition of the word in case you need it. Wrong day? Check out theWordle hint and answer for Thursday 12th Decemberinstead!...

July 3, 2022 · 2 min · 288 words · Lisa Conrad

Blade Runner's superior ScummVM version is available directly via GOG again

After being removed then bundled with Enhanced Edition You can once again buy the fan-created ScummVM release of 1997’sBlade Runneradventure game via GOG. The fan version was removed from the store a little over a week ago when Nightdive Studios released their ownBlade Runner: Enhanced Edition, thenswiftly bundled together with that remasterwhen people complained. Head to theBlade Runner page on GOGand it will default to the fanmade version. You can click a dropdown marked “Edition” in order to switch your purchase over to Blade Runner: Enhanced Edition, should you wish....

July 2, 2022 · 2 min · 250 words · Jared Martin

EA tweeted about single-player games and even their own devs were annoyed

Jokes gone wrong I can’t tell you how much I’d prefer to ignore brandter, in which corporate Twitter accounts pretend to be people with terrible senses of humour. Alas, in this instance I cannot. Yesterday EA tweeted a terrible meme and related it to single-player games, and in the process drew the ire of several current and former game developers at studios owned by EA. Here’s the tweet: They’re a 10 but they only like playing single-player games...

July 2, 2022 · 3 min · 523 words · Summer Cox

Final Fantasy XIV's next update will add a slice of Stardew

An island home to call your own Final Fantasy14’s next patch, 6.2, is scheduled to launch in late August. Among its many additions will be a new “Island Sanctuary”, a personal island where players can gather materials, build facilities and look after creatures. It sounds like a slice of Stardew. The island content was detailed in the latest ‘Letter From The Producer’. Unfortunately it’s not an actual letter, but an almost three-hour-long livestream currently archivedon Twitch....

July 2, 2022 · 2 min · 244 words · Alicia Hill

Monster Hunter Rise: how to unlock all new Switch Skills in Sunbreak and the base game

Unlock two new Switch Skills for each weapon in Sunbreak Want to know how to unlock all the new switch skills in Monster Hunter Rise: Sunbreak?TheSunbreakexpansion is here and brings with it two new Switch Skills for each ofMonster Hunter’s classic weapons. Sunbreak also introducesSwitch Skill Swap Scrolls,which allow players to dynamically change between two Switch Skill loadouts during battle. Unlocking both skill swapping and the new skills is mercifully much simpler than it was in the base game....

July 2, 2022 · 3 min · 585 words · Jason Wilson

Ubisoft to turn off online features for some old games, meaning players lose access to their DLC

Assassin’s Creeds and Far Cry 3 included Ubisoft are switching off online services for several older singleplayer games, includingAnno 2070,Far Cry 3, Prince Of Persia: The Forgotten Sands, andSplinter Cell: Blacklist. For several of those games, that means that as of September 1st, “the installation and access to DLC will be unavailable,” according toan Ubisoft support page. There are 15 games in total which will have their online features “decommissioned”, eleven of which are on PC....

July 2, 2022 · 2 min · 310 words · Adam Miller

Wordle answer (Sunday 3 July 2022): Wordle word of the day #379 and hints

Hints and the answer to today’s Wordle word Wrong day? Check out theWordle hint and answer for Thursday 12th Decemberinstead! Wordle July 3 hints If you’re struggling to get the Wordle answer today, maybe a few hints will help nudge you onto the right track: Today’s Wordle answer is:LILAC. Today’s solution has a fairly straightforward definition: it can refer to a prevalent garden shrub and its flowers, and also to the shade of purple those flowers commonly display....

July 2, 2022 · 2 min · 227 words · Melissa Owens

Disco Elysium has added dyslexia-friendly fonts for those million words

Devs want to “ensure everyone can have the best user experience” Detective RPGDisco Elysiumis not short on words, and now that text is a little more inviting. A free update yesterday added the option to display text in fonts which are intended to be easier to read for some people with dyslexia. The popular OpenDyslexic typeface is used for many languages, while Russian and Korean have their own fonts. I have a touch of the ol' dyslexia myself and do find this font helps me a bit....

July 1, 2022 · 2 min · 342 words · Kevin Gray

DLSS arrives in Monster Hunter Rise, but shaves off everyone's fur

Monsters, palicos and palamutes alike The arrival ofMonster Hunter Rise’s Sunbreak expansion has brought a swathe of quality of life improvements to Capcom’s beast-bashing action game, including support for Nvidia’s performance-boostingDLSStech. Announced earlier this week as part of the game’s 10.0.2patch notes, enabling DLSS does bring some welcome frame rate improvements to proceedings, but it also, err… has the rather unexpected side effect of shaving off everyone’s hair / fur. And in a game about felling all manner of feathery, scaly lizard animals, that’s not exactly ideal....

July 1, 2022 · 2 min · 334 words · Kristin Myers

Get a brand new AMD Ryzen 5 5600X for $176 with this Ebay code

JULYSAVINGS in the house. Want an efficient yet powerful processor for gaming? Right now you can pick up a Ryzen 5600X for $176 w/ codeJULYSAVINGSover at Antonline’s Ebay. That’s an awesome price for AMD’s six-core 12-thread Ryzen 5000 CPU, especially given how affordable compatible AM4 motherboards and DDR4 RAM is right now! The Ryzen 5 5600X is a processor that I’ve recommended on these pages many times before - and it features onour best CPU lists- but let’s quickly recap why this CPU is worth considering....

July 1, 2022 · 2 min · 324 words · Jacob Foley

Get the PowerColor RX 6700 XT Red Devil for $470 after a $50 discount

One of the best RX 6700 XT models at a great price. GameStop are offering an RX 6700 XT graphics card for $470, a price drop that’s since been matched by Amazon. We’ve linked to both retailers below, as the price is $50 below the US MSRP and hundreds of dollars cheaper than these cards cost earlier this year. This is a PowerColor Red Devil model too, a critically acclaimed design that offers excellent thermals with a triple-fan cooler....

July 1, 2022 · 2 min · 339 words · Joshua Johnson