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Stuck on the Wordle word for May 19? Read our hint or find the answer below! Need a hint for today’s Wordle answer?I don’t know if you know this, butWordleishugelypopular. Here’s a bit of inside baseball about games journalism: judging by what you guys are clicking on, Wordle is easily the most popular game of the last couple of years. Nothing else can touch it. Who’d’ve thought this simple little word puzzle game could even giveElden Ringat the height of its popularity a run for its money?...

This rebranded Ergotron LX is strong, stable and now super cheap. Update (22nd May): This is the final day to grab this excellent deal on an Ergotron-built monitor arm! Original article continues: Ergotron make some of the best monitor arms around - reliable, capable and generally brilliant - but they’re also pretty pricey. That’s probably why Amazon hit up Ergotron to make its Amazon Basics monitor arms, which offer the same excellent quality in unbranded form for considerably less money....

Take a road trip From now until May 25th, you can nabDeath Strandingfor free from the Epic Games Store and keep it forever. If you always meant to go for a hike across Hideo Kojima’s strange, sci-fi package delivery sim, now’s your chance. You can head to itsEpic Games Store pageto add it to your account now. As long as you do it before 4pm BST on May 25th, it’s yours forever....

Get cash back to spend on future purchases The Epic Games Store has introduced a “rewards program” through which players can get 5% back on eligible purchases. That means that if you buy a game for £20, you’ll get £1 back to spend on a future game. Today is also the start of theEpic Games Mega Sale, which includes discounts on games across the store and an additional 25% off eligible games with the Epic Coupon....

Celebrating three years of Humble Games Wizard Of Legend is getting a follow up I’m not the biggest fan of the name, but I love love love the 2D animation in#BLUD. The great visuals don’t come as a surprise when you know that developers Exit 73 are also an animation studio too, with #BLUD being their debut game. This vampire-slayingRPGhas you play as Becky Brewster, a highschooler who spends the day fretting about homework and friends and the nighttime slaying demons....

And you can’t even stomp on people So, your spaceship crash-lands on a planet quarantined due to a nanite infestation and a friendly faction pull you from the wreckage. Then something something PMCs blah blah revered old tech whatever whatever ooh how mysterious who are you things things and you get to stomp around in a mech doing fights. It’s an uninteresting blast of sci-fi words and emptiness, and wrapped in dull banter between NPCs....

Breezy flying and friendly faces Thatgamecompany, the widely admired studio behindFlowerandJourney, are bringing their peaceful MMOSky: Children Of The Lightto PC. The game’s all about flying through endless fluffy clouds, exploring ancient ruins, and befriending wordless strangers throughout the chill open world. There’s no release window yet, but check out its gorgeous new trailer below. That probably looked familiar to those of you who’ve played Journey, and that’s because Sky elaborates on all of Thatgamecompany’s prior work....

Not built different Lego 2K Drivehas stirred up a surprising amount of thoughts, perhaps moreso than any other video game so far this year. I think it’s because the game is an open world kart racer, a combination of words that sing to my nostalgic love for old-school racers, where as a kid I’d worshipped the majesty of Muppets Race Mania and Mario Kart (this is the only time I mention Mario Kart)....

For its 10th anniversary Free is free and spooky shooterMetro: Last Lightis currently free to keep from Steam. It has been made available by developers 4A Games in order to celebrate its 10th anniversary. The catch, sort of, is that this is the Complete Edition, a version that does not normally even show up in Steam search results. The slightly-improved Metro: Last Light Redux will still cost you a few quid or bucks....

They should’ve just called it Mortal Combat Mortal Kombat fans have been relentlessly teased these past few weeks withMK12 name-dropsin the middle of an investor call, developer jokes online, andbrief clipsthat hinted at a timeline reset (plus a nasty case of leakage). Developer Netherrealm have now ended the speculation and announced the next game in their brutal fighting series:Mortal Kombat 1. And it’s coming September 19th. As the ending ofMortal Kombat 11and its Aftermath expansion teased, the latest game ushers in a reborn universe for the long-running series....

The 8GB RTX 4060 Ti launches first at £389 / $399 Hey hey, we’re finally getting some real mid-rangers in the RTX 40 series, as Nvidia have announced the GeForce RTX 4060 Ti and RTX 4060GPUs. These will finally bring Nvidia’s Ada Lovelace architecture, complete with improvedray tracingperformance andDLSS 3support, beneath the £400 mark. In fact, there will be two versions of the RTX 4060 Ti, with the 8GB VRAM edition getting a confirmed released date of May 24th....

Corsair’s MP600 Pro LPX is a fantastic fit for PC or PS5. The Corsair MP600 Pro LPX is a high-end PCIe 4.0 SSD with TLC flash memory and a DRAM cache, and I’d rank it right behind the (more expensive) Samsung 990 Pro and WD SN850x as thebest gaming SSD on the market. Unlike those drives though, the MP600 Pro LPX comes with a heatsink by defaultandis often priced more aggressively, making it a great value choice that doesn’t sacrifice performance....

Clean up the ocean Is there a bad idea forPowerWash SimulatorDLC? I’m not sure, but this seems a particuarly good one. So far the clean ‘em up has been expanded with free crossover levels set inLara Coft’s ManorandFinal Fantasy VII’s Midgar. Next up? Bikini Bottom from SpongeBob SquarePants. The SpongeBob SquarePants Special Pack will feature six new maps, including locations from the show such as Conch Street, The Bikini Bottom Bus, The Krusty Krab, The Patty Wagon, The Invisible Boatmobile and The Mermalair....