Wordle answer (Wednesday 25 May 2022): Wordle #340 solution and hints

Here’s the answer to Wordle #340 If you want the joy of figuring out the answer but need a helping hand, you’re in the right place. Below, you’ll find three hints that will help you find today’s solution. If things are looking dire and you want to skip the puzzle, you can also scroll down to find today’s Wordle answer. Wrong day? Check out theWordle hint and answer for Thursday 12th Decemberinstead!...

May 24, 2022 · 2 min · 344 words · Joshua James

You Suck At Parking's new multiplayer mode is Mario Kart meets Micro Machines, and honking good fun

Hot wheels If you’ve spent any time driving round a busy car park, this is probably a sensation that will feel familiar to you: roaming the lanes looking for that last, elusive parking spot, only to be faced with another car coming down the other way, their headlights somehow glaring at you to BACK OFF, PAL, this ismyspot and I’m not giving it up for no one. You Suck At Parking captures a similar vibe, only you’re both dodging land mines at high speed in order to reach said space, or hand-braking round corners to avoid deadly magnets twirling around in circles....

May 24, 2022 · 5 min · 913 words · Rebecca Morgan

A sticky cursor bug is causing players to lose Lost Ark's new Legion Raid

It won’t come unstuck from the UI The ‘Destined For Destruction’ update for fantasy action RPGLost Arkarrived last week but it appears to have introduced a bug that makes the cursor stick to part of the UI and prevents clicking. Reddit userSagezuwas flummoxed by the bug over the weekend and shared their woe at crashing out of Lost Ark’s first Legion Raid, Valtan, which arrived as part of the May update....

May 23, 2022 · 2 min · 249 words · Steven Jones

AMD detail Ryzen 7000 CPUs with 5.5GHz clock speeds and 15% faster cores

Will also introduce Smart Access Storage for faster load times Of all the internal gubbins, the biggest change is the use of new Zen 4 cores. Compared to the Zen 3 cores in the Ryzen 5000 series, these are up to 15% faster in single-core workloads – like those often imposed by games – and can hit boost clock speeds of up to 5.5GHz. That equals the newIntel Core i9-12900KS, and AMD’s current top-spec CPU, the Ryzen 9 5950X, maxes out at 4....

May 23, 2022 · 3 min · 604 words · Patty Clarke

Babylon's Fall's Season 2 update is being extended to "re-evaluate" the game's future

Graphical improvements are on the way, too Square Enix and PlatinumGames have announced they’re extended season two ofBabylon’s Fallfrom three months to six in order to “re-evaluate the game’s future operating roadmap". The game’s second season is still due to launch next week on May 31st, but will now run through November 29th instead of the originally planned date of August 22nd, the devs said ina statementon the game’s Hanging Garden website....

May 23, 2022 · 2 min · 420 words · Ryan Barnes

Final Fantasy XIV fixed on Steam Deck with Proton Experimental update

Valve un-break the MMO’s problematic launcher TheSteam Deckonly had a few weeks of getting to knowFinal Fantasy XIVbefore the latter’s 6.08 update wrenched them apart. In less undeservedly romantic terms, it was the MMO’s newly added launcher that – unlike the rest of the game – didn’t work well at all with the Deck’s Proton compatibility software. Two months later, however, Valve have released an update on Proton’s experimental branch that fixes the launcher, making FFXIV playable on the handheld PC once again....

May 23, 2022 · 2 min · 319 words · Joseph Thompson

Floppy Knights review: a joyful card game that offers more the longer you play

Acute strategy Every kid is a goddamn dork. Some people - the cool kids of school - think they’ve got it all figured out, while others just mope about in their groups of indie kids, emos, and nerds, to name but a few very atypical retinues. It’s all a lie, though: in reality everyone’s an idiot as a kid, blissfully unaware of adult problems as they struggle through the most painfully awkward years of their lives....

May 23, 2022 · 4 min · 817 words · Dennis Cortez

GSC Game World are back working on S.T.A.L.K.E.R. 2 again

The Ukrainian team has now relocated to Prague Active development on first-person horror immersive simStalker 2: Heart Of Chornobylhas begun again according to a discussion with developers GSC Game World on the game’s Discord server. Theconfirmationcame on Friday from representatives of GSC Game World. One Discord user in the ‘ask_gsc’ channel on GSC Game World’s Discord server hadasked: “So how is going the game development at the moment? Is it continues?...

May 23, 2022 · 2 min · 217 words · Joshua Frank

My Time At Sandrock early access review: a wild west life simulator that does it all

Whoever smelt it Very sorry to anybody who knows me in the real world, but I’m never happier than when I’m playing a town simulator. When fully in the grips ofMy Time At Sandrock, my little made-up computer game life is all I can think about. My relationships with real humans fade into the background, to be replaced by an altogether more fulfilling kind of relationship, one based entirely on gifting the same jar of honey to a cartoon character over and over again until they admit that they love me....

May 23, 2022 · 5 min · 887 words · Jill Wyatt

New RX 6800 XT price drop: $700 on B&H Photo or Amazon

$30 cheaper than last week as the GPU market continues to improve. AMD’s RX 6800 XT graphics card offers astupendous amount of performancefor 1440p or 4K gaming, and now it’s hit a new low price in the US. B&H Photo is asking $699 for a reference design by Sonnet, and that’s been matched by Amazon too. That’s $30 cheaper than it was last week, and shows the continued march of graphics cards towards reference design MSRPs....

May 23, 2022 · 2 min · 317 words · Jason Strong

Pick up the Logitech MX Master 3 wireless mouse for $55 at Office Depot (was $100)

Using a combination of codes to unlock this super-low price. The Logitech MX Master is an incredibly popular series of office mice, and today the latest MX Master 3 has dropped from its usual price of $100 to just $55 at Office Depot. That’s a massive discount, achieved via a combination of an Office Depot price drop to $75, a 25% off code (SELFMADETECH)anda 30% back rewards code (90893995). This isn’t thebest mouse for gaming, but based on my experiences with the original MX Master and its successors, plenty of PC gamers will use something like this for surfing the web, working and playing single-player games, then switch to something lighter if needed for multiplayer gaming....

May 23, 2022 · 2 min · 251 words · Katherine Barker

Where to find the Putrid Rat in V Rising

Here’s how to summon the Putrid Rat in V Rising Trying to find the Putrid Rat boss in V Rising?Usually inV Risingyou must take to the Blood Altar in order to track, find, and slaughter the formidable V Blood carriers dotted about Vardoran. It’s an important part of the progression in Stunlock’s new survival game, because the more bosses you slay, the stronger your vampire becomes. But the Putrid Rat is a special case, because it cannot be tracked using the Blood Altar....

May 23, 2022 · 2 min · 390 words · Charles Howard

Wordle answer (Tuesday 24 May 2022): Wordle #339 solution and hints

Here’s the answer to Wordle #339 There’s nothing better than texting your friends to let them know that you’ve guessed today’s Wordle solution on the first try, so we’re here to help you figure out today’s answer. In this guide, you’ll find three hints that you can use to solve today’s Wordle, as well as the answer itself further down. Wrong day? Check out theWordle hint and answer for Thursday 12th Decemberinstead!...

May 23, 2022 · 2 min · 364 words · William Green