Here’s the answer to Wordle #331 If you’re new to Wordle, welcome! Wordle is a daily puzzle game in which you must guess a 5-letter word in 6 tries. It’s a lovely morning routine, but nobody likes to lose! If you aren’t feeling up to the challenge, we’re here to help. Below, we list a few clues to help you guess today’s Wordle answer. If you just want the solution, you can find that below as well....

Tool rates the diversity of characters Earlier this week, Activision Blizzard published a post on their website about their “Diversity Space Tool”. Developed by subsidiary King, it’s a tool for rating video game characters along certain axes in order to rate their relative diversity. Several people then pointed out that sounded mildly dystopian. Yesterday, Activison Blizzard responded, saying that the “prototype is not being used in active game development”, and was designed as an optional supplement to other work....

You are deader down where it’s wetter Another Crab’s Treasureis in some ways the most grimdark Soulslike yet. It’s about a cute crab battling other crabs at the bottom of a colourful sea, sure, but the different shells and the weapons you and your enemies are wielding are made from trash dumping into that colourful sea by humans. It’s still cute, though. There’s a reveal trailer below. I went quickly from “Aw, that crab is using a plastic straw as a sword!...

Play the entire game at half speed Arkane’s time-skipping shooterDeathloopoozes style from its environments and character designs. That makes it a natural platform for a photo mode, which is what the game’s third update adds alongside some impressive-sounding accessibility options. Here’s a trailer that shows the photo mode in action: Deathloop’s photo mode looks broadly similar to the photo modes which have been popping up in damn near every game over the past two years....

A great deal on a fast and capacious RPS-approved NVMe drive. PCIe 4.0 drives are coming down in price fast, and nowhere is this more evident than with Ebuyer’s recent sale on the WD Black SN770 2TB drive. It normally costs £190, but this has dropped to £170 today. That’s an awesome deal on a high speed PCIe 4.0 drive that works on both PC and PS5 and hits the current sweet spot for bulk storage....

A spoonful of ammo The name “Gunbrella” might already tell you everything you need to know about Gunbrella, a game in which you wield agunwhich is also anumbrella. Announced this past week, it’s a 2D “noir-punk” action game published by Devolver, about floating like Mary Poppins and stinging like, I dunno, a shotgun. You can find the announce trailer below. There’s plenty more to like in that trailer, from the colourful pixel art, to the enemy design, to what I’m hoping is a structure based around a train....

Here’s the answer to Wordle #330 If there’s anything that a Sunday shouldn’t be, it’s stressful. So, if you’re struggling with today’s Wordle, you’ll find a few handy hints below. If you just want the solution, you’ll also find today’s Wordle answer for Sunday 15 May. Wrong day? Check out theWordle hint and answer for Thursday 12th Decemberinstead! If you’re after some hints for today’s Wordle, we’ve got you covered. Simply follow the clues below for a little bit of help with this Wordle:...

Italy and Malta plant their banners as the Knights Of The Mediterranean Historical real-time strategy threequelAge Of Empires III: Definitive Editionwill see the arrival of a ‘casual-friendly’ mode that shifts the focus from combat to economic success in its latest DLC pack, Knights Of The Mediterranean. Developers Tantalus Media and Forgotten Empires have revealed that the DLC will also feature new Italian and Maltese civilisations, an allegiance-shifting diplomacy mode and a variation on random maps based on historic European wars....

London calling “The fleet does the flying, the marines do the dying,” says CCP boss Hilmar Veigar Pétursson. “I love Starship Troopers.” Pétursson is hardly the first person to profess an affection for Paul Verhoeven’s cult military satire. But he is one of the few with command of his own company of science fiction game developers. For well over half ofEve Online’s existence, he has led CCP in an effort to create the perfect spin-off shooter - stubbornly chasing the dream of a playable Starship Troopers, even as those brave young prototypes have been cut down by unimpressed players, one after the other....

Deathloop shows FidelityFX Super Resolution 2.0 looks better and can perform better too AMD’sFSR 2.0upscaler is out now – in only one game,Deathloop, but still. This is a big moment for the heavily upgraded FSR (FidelityFX Super Resolution), as it’s basically attempting to fight Nvidia’s rivalDLSS(Deep Learning Super Sampling) with some of its own tactics. There’s none of Nvidia’s machine learning enhancements, but whereas FSR 1.0 was a simple spatial upscaler – meaning data used for upscaling a frame could only come from within the frame itself – FSR 2....

There’s no chill in the metropolis of New Eridu MiHoYo have announced their new action RPG follow-up toGenshin Impact,Zenless Zone Zero, with registration for its closed beta beginning today. This one veers away from Genshin’s more traditional fantasy world towards post-apocalyptic urban science-fantasy, set in the effortlessly cool city of New Eridu. MiHoYo say this is “the last shelter for urban civilization due to the calamity”. So far, so mysterious....

Will the servers be dead by dawn? Saber Interactive have launched their cinematic co-op survival horrorEvil Dead: The Gametoday, Friday the 13th. No idea why they chose that date. Must be Bruce Campbell’s birthday or something. In this iteration of Evil Dead, you can play as Campbell’s legendary dumb chainsaw-handed hero, S-Mart employee Ash Williams, in both co-op and PvP multiplayer. There’s also characters from the Evil Dead movies and the Ash Vs....

Bricked it The Lego games I’m most familiar with are the licensed property games - yer Lego Indiana Joneses and yer Lego Star Warses where you run around a continuous level smashing things.Lego Bricktalesis more akin to last year’s extremely cute geometric puzzlerLego Builder’s Journey, in that you’re exploring detailed, colourful brick dioramas, and solving puzzles by bulding things out of titular hot-property block. In Bricktales, though, it’s way more granular....