This 22TB WD My Book external HDD is down to $329.99 after a 45% discount

It’s too much space though, clearly. No one needs this much space, right? This is too much space. No one needs this much space. I apologise for wasting your time with this one. But. Well. If you actually can use 22 of your finest Earth terabytes, then you can pick up WD’s My Book external hard drive for $329.99, the same price as the 18TB version and 45% off this titanic drive’s MSRP....

August 25, 2023 · 2 min · 301 words · Julia Mason

Wordle hints and answer (#797): How to solve the Friday August 25 Wordle

Stuck on the Wordle word for August 25? Read our hint or find the answer below! Need a hint for today’s Wordle answer?Every day,Wordlepresents its legions of players with a deviously simple quandary: can you guess the right five-letter word within just six guesses? All you have to help you in finding the Wordle answer are the contextual clues you gain from each guess - but often, that’s not enough. Wordle can be tricky, you see, and it’s not unusual to look for a little bit of help if you want to preserve your year-long winstreak....

August 25, 2023 · 7 min · 1282 words · Charles Byrd

Armored Core 6: Fires of Rubicon Steam Deck performance and settings guide

Mechanical engineering Armored Core 6: Fires of Rubiconlaunches tomorrow with the distinction of being a FromSoftware game thatisn’tmissing a bunch of PC tech basics, with ultrawide and 120fps support welded on as standard. As I’ve been finding out, it’s also a fine fit for theSteam Deck: performance issues are few, controls translate comfortably, and it won’t hog too much space on amicroSD card. Handheld life is good for Fires of Rubicon, even if it likes to keep yours brutish and short....

August 24, 2023 · 4 min · 759 words · Sarah Vasquez

Baldur's Gate 3 best Warlock build guide

Channel might and magic with our Baldur’s Gate 3 best Warlock build What is a strong Baldur’s Gate 3 Warlock build?InBaldur’s Gate 3, Warlocks are a solid Class choice that can leverage an array of powerful Spells. Although they may not have the inherent power of melee masters such as Fighters or Barbarians, they can be, in many ways, much more powerful. InBaldur’s Gate 3, your companion Wyll is a Warlock, so if you don’t plan to build your own Warlock character, you can look to ourBaldur’s Gate 3 respec guideand respec your party mate to make him as mighty as possible....

August 24, 2023 · 6 min · 1077 words · Katherine Robbins

Baldur's Gate 3 best Wizard build

Become a spellcasting master with our Baldur’s Gate 3 best Wizard build guide What is the best Baldur’s Gate 3 Wizard build?Wizards are the most spell-driven class inBaldur’s Gate 3, with a stunning array of options at their disposal. Much of your Wizard build will involve making choices around selecting high-damage spells while ensuring that you also have spells at your disposal that can protect and heal as necessary. If you’re looking for the best Wizard build inBaldur’s Gate 3, we have a total overview of the class below, followed by our recommendations for the best Wizard race, subclass, background, and spells....

August 24, 2023 · 5 min · 965 words · Wendy Acevedo

BioWare lays off around 50 employees as work on Mass Effect and Dragon Age: Dreadwolf continues

BioWare dumps veteran devs but says it’s a “shift towards a more agile and more focused studio” Dragon AgeandMass Effect’sstoried developer BioWare have laid off around 50 employees, including veteran devs who had been with the company for 20 years, in what they call a “shift towards a more agile and more focused studio.” The reasoning behind the job cuts has a now-rote focus on efficiency that sadly echoes other redundancy announcements from this year - including ones from other widely admired studios likeFiraxisandCD Projekt Red....

August 24, 2023 · 3 min · 476 words · Jamie Erickson

Blasphemous 2 and its Goya-inspired brutal action-platforming is out now

I’d eat the wee guy on my back, too There are a lot of brutal action-platformers, butBlasphemousset itself apart with its pointy-helmeted protagonist and gory Catholic imagery. The sequel,Blashphemous 2, again puts you inside the barbed traffic cone of The Penitent One, this time in a new, no-less-grotesque world. It’s out now. Matt called Blasphemous 2 a “fittingly punishing mashup of Metroidvania andDark Souls"in his reviewlast week: He did also note that you might want to use a guide if you don’t want to risk missing important quality-of-life improvements, though....

August 24, 2023 · 1 min · 135 words · Amanda Robinson

Climbing puzzler Jusant will grip and release this October

Without belay Jusanthad one of the best demos I’ve played this year. It’s a climbing game where you reach and grab with each arm independently and need to carefully manage your stamina while scaling a huge, vertical fantasy world. It’s now has a new trailer and a release date, October 31st. In the Jusant demo, you were exploring a series of dusty, abandoned structures carved into the cliff face, and slowly reading notes and solving puzzles to piece together the story of its long-gone residents....

August 24, 2023 · 2 min · 253 words · Richard Edwards

Cyberpunk 2077: Phantom Liberty livestream offers a longer glimpse of five-star chaos

New cop chases, skill trees and more Cyberpunk 2077’s Phantom Liberty expansion got a new trailera couple of days ago, alongside news that many of its system overhauls will come to the base game for free. Now developers CD Projekt Red have gone into more detail about the changes in a new Phantom Liberty livestream which showed the expanded skill tree, some new perks, the overhauled vehicle combat, among other things....

August 24, 2023 · 2 min · 266 words · Carolyn Jimenez

Have you played... Below?

Fear of depths aquired I’m not really one for patience in games. I’m definitely the hack and slash ‘em to bits kind of player rather than a slick stealthy player. My approach to games is pretty unruly is what I’m trying to say, but there has been one game that tamed my rampaging ways and that was Cappybara Games’Below. Below is a game that’s best played slowly. You’re tasked with reaching the bottom of an island’s subterranean caverns, trying to survive against monsters, traps, starvation, and dehydration....

August 24, 2023 · 2 min · 383 words · Robert Hernandez

Hyenas' space-pirating actually makes for a refreshingly speedy extraction shooter

I’ve come away pleasantly surprised, if still a bit apprehensive I saw Creative Assembly’s live service heist ‘em upHyenasat last year’s Gamescom andcame away unimpressed. I thought it was obnoxious and underwhelming, in all the ways you’d expect from a colourful hero shooter whose hook is stealing Sonic merch. But this year I got to spend a good 30-minutes in a match against other players and have come away… pleasantly surprised....

August 24, 2023 · 4 min · 771 words · Keith Ross

No Man's Sky's Echoes update is out, with new robots, quests and revised space combat

Includes trench runs No Man’s Skydevelopers recently teased its next update, titled Echoes. It’s out now and it adds a new race of robots, expanded space combat, and a series of story quests that tie many of its new features together. Seven years after launch, it’d be nice if they commissioned a new piece of music for their update trailers: The race of robots are called the Autophage, a “long-hidden civilization” of robots cobbled together from scrap metal....

August 24, 2023 · 2 min · 220 words · Daniel Wood

Rejoice, Citizen Sleeper 2 is heading to Game Pass

Afterformally unveiling Citizen Sleeper 2: Starward Vectorduring this year’s notE3 season, solo developer Jump Over The Age have confirmed that it will also be launching day one on PC Game Pass (and the cloud) when it eventually comes out. Announced during today’s Xbox Gamescom showcase, the original game will be “sticking around on the service” after the release of the sequel, too - which is very good news for my still-mid-DLC Game Pass save file....

August 24, 2023 · 3 min · 443 words · Kathryn Davis