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Stuck on the Wordle word for August 16? Read our hint or find the answer below! Need a hint for today’s Wordle answer?We’re halfway through the week, and what better way to mark the occasion than with aWordle? Don’t panic if you’re already feeling a bit worn down from the past few days, though, because we’re here to help so that you don’t lose that precious streak. Every day, Wordle presents its legions of players with a deviously simple quandary: can you guess the right five-letter word within just six guesses?...

Getting to grips There are loads ofgood Steam Deck games– as in, games that happen to play well on aSteam Deck, even if they were originally crafted around desktop hardware and intended to be poked around with amouseandkeyboard. This is a joy of the portable PC in itself: that if you already have a populated Steam library, a box-fresh Deck will immediately have a selection of familiar favourites to install at no extra cost....

Will we beat climate change, then? Starfield fans have predicted the worst for our precious green marble, calling attention totiny hints in certain screenshots. Has Earth become one of those far-future quarantine zones? I’m wondering if Bethesda will need to fully devastate the place for the more practical reason of not having to commit to a realistic rendering of familiar environments. Though I do kind of yearn for the opportunity to take the Constellation crew on a trip to my own birthplace, a creepy village in North Yorkshire....

Lilith you build it Being a reviewer during Big Game Season often feels like being chased through a massive, winding building in a serial killer movie (or possiblyUntil Dawn). You gallop shrieking and blundering round a corner and are confronted by a series of ominous doors with labels such as “Baldur’s Gate 3”. You only have a few seconds to pick one and dive through, sweating in the knowledge that each door leads to a confusing network of corridors that exist wholly apart from each other - that each door not opened is a route to an Elsewhere you are doomed to never know, unless you’re commissioned to do a, haha, “retrospective” 10 years later....

How different economic agents interact The new system is “similar in concept” to that of the first game, but has been redesigned to offer a more convincing, organic sense of production and resource exchange, without being too tricky to get into. “We wanted to create a deep and complex system without it being too complicated for you to manage, allowing you to spend more time building the city rather than worrying about every minute detail at every possible turn,” the post reads....

I’m a big fan of this one, as my monitor uses the exact same panel. LG’s 27GN950 monitor is one of my all-time favourites, as it’s the perfect complement to a high-end gaming PC. You get a 4K resolution for pin-sharp graphics and text, a 144Hz refresh rate and Fast IPS panel for excellent motion handling, and a 27-inch span that fits easily onto a desk or monitor arm. After debuting at an eye-watering $800, this monitor has dropped on Amazon....

Swamp and circumstance of inglorious bore I used to be into deserts, but ever sinceKenshiI have become a swamp fangirl. I also consider nomadic cultures to be woefully under-represented in games. You’d think, then, that a game about a nomadic Iron Age people larking about in a horrible swamp would be made for me, but unfortunately,Gordis somehow both a game where you can feed a child to a forest-dwelling horror, and a game that’s kind of dull....

I’m role playing being a tired person I have, for the past several weeks, been playingBaldur’s Gate 3, theRPGequivalent of paying for ex-special forces lads to kidnap you at an unappointed day when you’re walking your labradoodle, and put you through a rigorous (pretend) interrogation schedule. Will you learn something? Will it occupy your waking thoughts until it’s over? Is the commitment of everyone involved assured? Yes. But would describe the experience as restful?...

Drop-in PvP, indeed I’ve been itching to playLords Of The Fallensince I discovered that it’s a closetLegacy of Kain: Soul Reaverhomage (see my bio), with a sorcerous lantern that lets you switch between the living and unliving worlds of Axiom and Umbral. Each realm has a different layout, architecture and ambience, and you’ll need to alternate between them to expose routes and bypass obstacles, as indicated by clumps of ashen butterflies, making your way back to Axiom by means of an Effigy of Emergence....

Pondering the Orbo ComedyplatformerOrbo’s Odysseyis a game about being locked in your boss’s office. Here are some things I might do if I were locked in my boss’s office (sorry Katharine): approve expense claims, sift their browser history for blackmail material and oh, who am I kidding, what I’d really do is perch on the desk, quiet as a churchmouse, waiting to be let out. Orbo’s boss keeps an… atypical office, however....

This is basically two 27" 1440p 120Hz 1000-nit screens glued together. And given that it’s effectively two 27-inch 1440p 120Hz monitors glued side-to-side, it’s perfect for multi-tasking too, as you can easily split the screen into halves, thirds or quarters - something that’s been made much easier in Windows 11 thanks to that convenient window sizing tool that pops up when you hover over the maximise button. And if you want to use this for content creation, the VA panel’s good colour accuracy, 125% sRGB coverage and 85% DCI P3 coverage means that it’s actually quite capable...

Lay your head on that pillow and… SPOILER WARNING FOR PEOPLE SENSITIVE TO SPOILERS. SPOILERS. I HAVE WARNED YOU. RIGHT, ONTO SPOILER TERRITORY. I met this really nice bard inBaldur’s Gate 3called Alfira the other day. She was perched on a rock, swinging a sweet medley to a couple of squirrels. Beingthebard Edders Sheeran, I wandered over and listened to her perform. She kept getting stuck on some verses, so I helped her fill in the blanks....

Stuck on Wordle word for August 15? Read our hint or find the answer below! Need a hint for today’s Wordle answer?August has slipped away into a moment of time, because we’re somehow already halfway through! What madness is this?Wordle, of course, marches on regardless, serving up yet another tricky brainteaser for you to solve today. If you’re struggling to find the Wordle answer today, we’re here to help! Every day, Wordle presents its legions of players with a deviously simple quandary: can you guess the right five-letter word within just six guesses?...