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Struggling with today’s Wordle? Use our handy Wordle hint selection to help you, or learn the Wordle answer today with our guide! This guide is for a previous day! Looking for today’s solution? Check out theWordle hint and answer for Thursday 12th December! Need a hint for today’s Wordle answer?We have you covered with a list of hints to help you maintain that precious streak. Every day,Wordlepresents its legions of players with a deviously simple quandary: can you guess the right five-letter word within just six guesses?...

Let the weather get you down Following two years in early access, roguelite citybuilderAgainst The Stormhas finally reached its 1.0 milestone. It’s a combination of genres that seem to pair together as naturally as sausages and strawberry jam. Don’t get me wrong, I’m a fan of both of these things as separate entities, but together? My assumption was that they would prove too strange to stomach, but much like the cursed pork and berry snack that became a staple of my university diet, the result is a thrilling concoction that delights the palette....

Phoenix Labs makes another round of job cuts Fae FarmandDauntlessdevelopers Phoenix Labs have cut 34 jobs following an internal review. It’s a sad end to a busy year for the Canadian studio, whobought their independence back from previous owner Garena in February, and laid off 9 per cent of their workforce in May. “After a rigorous review we made the decision to change the structure of our support teams, and we have made the tough decision to reduce our workforce by a total of 34 people, across our publishing, HR, IT, and shared services teams,” a representative toldGI, after employees broke the news on LinkedIn....

The untitled Dungeons & Dragons video game, which is currently codenamed Project Baxter within the studio - which some reason reminded me of the sort of cutesy nickname you’d give a grey old dog, like Major Muffins - will be set in the world of the hugely influential fantasy TRPG, which marks its 50th anniversary next year. While D&D can technically be played in any setting that players want, its official universe is the Forgotten Realms - familiar from the likes ofBaldur’s Gate 3and this year’sfar-better-than-expected D&D movie Honor Among Thieves....

Also, you are a miserable shut-in Endure The Swarm, which launches on Friday 8th December, takes that most abstract and respectable of game genres, the block-pushingpuzzler, and fills it with ghastly, flesh-eating insects. There’s no amount of pesticide that can stay this tide, nor (sadly) is there the option to stand on a chair screaming and waving a broom. Rather, you must call upon your mammalian mastery of spatial reasoning to survive....

Out of the loop Have you ever felt like you’re at least ten years too old to be playing certain video games? Whether it’s the humour falling flat, or just the general hyperactivity of its main cast being a bit too much, there are some games out there that you can’t help but bounce off. Hard. Alas, in the case ofIn Stars And Time, I’ve been thrown from its time-loopingRPGtrampoline with such violence that I now can’t even look at it without breaking out into a sweat....

It might actually be useful for PCIe 5.0 SSDs too. I’m writing to you from the scene of a terrible spit-take accident, as seeing the size and height of this gaudy Thermalright NVMe heatsink caused me to emit a fine mist of water over my desk. No keyboards or computers were harmed in the inchident, but I thought I’d let you know that this heatsink is also discounted by nearly £2 - from £9....

Need a hint for today’s Connections? Read our guide for help with Connections #176 This guide is for a previous day! Looking for today’s solution? Check out theConnections hint and answers for Thursday 12th December! Want a hint for Connections today?Piggybacking off the monumental success of daily puzzle gameWordle, the New York Times has another fantastically popular word game out now. It’s calledConnections, and if you haven’t played it before, now’s the time to start....

Don’t worry, you don’t need to have played the first one Outcast: A New Beginningis gearing up to drop its long-awaited sequel to the nineties sci-fiadventure game, with its newly-announced release date landing almost a quarter of a century after its predecessor. If you’re new, or have just forgotten what happened in thefirst Outcast- of which there’s a good chance given that time gap - you should apparently still be able to jump in here....

Bird’s eye spew? I’m in a weird place with the Meta Quest. It’s really its own platform these days, with its own specs and increasingly divergent library of games. At the same time, the Meta’s standalone headsets are by far the most popular PCVR devices. Therefore, most PCVR gamers will also have access to the Quest’s handful of VR exclusives. Generally, this column sticks to covering games you can play with any PCVR headset, Quest or no....

First trailer is live right now “Our trailer has leaked so please watch the real thing on YouTube,” RockstarXweetedtonight, after footage once again found its way online. Indeed, in the space of the last 30 minutes, I’ve been pointed to two different versions of the same leaked trailer, both with and without sound, albeit with some fool watermarking the whole thing with giant all-caps “BUY BTC” plastered in front of it....

I go on Twitter to find indie games so you don’t have to Every weekend, indie devs show off current work on Twitter’s#screenshotsaturdaytag. And every Monday, I bring you a selection of these snaps and clips. This week, my eye has been caught by games touching on chat around GTA 6 and Furiosa, along with spaceships, fungal horror, and the developer’s dog. Come admire all these attractive and interesting indie games!...

£130 for a high-end PC case and PSU is a great deal. Here’s a fun fact: Corsair started off making L2 cache modules in the 90s, before Intel started including a L2 cache in their CPUs. Corsair switched over to making RAM modules, and nearly 30 years later they’re still doing it - but the list of Corsair products has grown hugely. Today we’re looking at two of Corsair’s best products in a £130 bundle at Scan in the UK: their 4000D Airflow PC case and their RM750 power supply....