Wordle hint and answer (#609): How to solve the Saturday February 18 Wordle

Stuck on today’s Wordle word for Feb 18? Read our hint or find the answer below! Need a hint for today’s Wordle answer?Wordleis a daily word puzzle game and, despite being free, it’s fair to say that it’s been putting food on my table for nearly a year at this point. People love Wordle, but Wordle sometimes doesn’t love its fans back as kindly as it could, throwing out a challenge that just feels a bit too mean....

February 18, 2023 · 6 min · 1278 words · Mandy Garner

Best Wild Hearts Weapons and Tier List

Discover the best weapon in Wild Hearts, and see how we rank every weapon type Looking for the best weapon in Wild Hearts?Wild Heartsis all about smacking big beasties with anything and everything at your disposal. Of course, to topple the toughest bosses, you’ll need to use the best weapons. There are eight different weapon types at your disposal, though, so we’ve looked through them all to determine which takes the top spot....

February 17, 2023 · 10 min · 1928 words · Allison Short

Firaxis are making a new Civ game, but XCOM designer Jake Solomon is leaving

He’s moving on after two decades Director Jake Solomon is leaving Firaxis after two decades of work onMarvel’s Midnight Suns, XCOM: Enemy Unknown, andXCOM 2. This comes amid a studio shakeup with multiple senior roles sliding around the corporate conveyor belt. Firaxis also revealed that they’re in early development on the nextCivilizationgame. Jake Solomon worked as a creative director at Firaxis, and in a statement the studio say he was “instrumental in revitalizing the tactical turn-based genre....

February 17, 2023 · 2 min · 369 words · Kelly Walker

How to change your appearance in Wild Hearts

How to change your appearance with the Looking Glass Want to know how to change your character’s appearance in Wild Hearts?Wild Heartsallows players to customise the look of their character at the beginning of the game, using a surprisingly robust and powerful character creation system. There are no gameplay choices in character creation, no classes or weapons or perks to pick. Everything comes down to appearance. But what if, several hours into Wild Hearts, you find yourself no longer entirely satisfied with your character’s look?...

February 17, 2023 · 2 min · 426 words · Paul Green

Like A Dragon Ishin review: a step backwards in the best way

That’s radish I am legendary ronin Sakomoto Ryoma. I shout “yosh!” as I harvest six (6) gleaming radishes from my allotment. I shoot a bandit in the head with a revolver. I send my adoptive daughter to trade some homemade pickles. I partake in a brooding chat, then stamp on a dude’s head. I help a recluse regain his confidence. I have totally forgotten what I was meant to be doing....

February 17, 2023 · 7 min · 1368 words · Samantha Norman

Magicka's joy is discovering quite how powerful and dangerous magic can be

Wizards are just big magic toddlers I like wizards because they’re the dramatic combination of powerful, cocky, and a bit dim. Through some quirk of bloodline or destiny, wizards can access impossible forces simply by saying magic words. This does not engender caution. A wizard’s not a real wizard until they have accidentally set themselves on fire or unleashed an ancient evil. And if you throw four of this dim demigods together?...

February 17, 2023 · 3 min · 635 words · Nicole Bryan

Marvel's Midnight Suns is free this weekend, with Venom swinging in next week

The Redemption DLC pack drops February 23rd Spidey’s occasional rival and everyone’s favourite symbiote Venom is swinging intoMarvel’s Midnight Sunsas DLC on February 23rd. Venom was a villain in the base game, but he’s now transitioning into a playable antihero for the fight against Mephisto. To celebrate, the deckbuildingstrategygame is free to try on Steam for the entire weekend. The Redemption DLC pack adds Venom to the Midnight Suns’ roster, alongside 10 unique Hero abilities, fresh cosmetics, and new story missions....

February 17, 2023 · 2 min · 303 words · Jacqueline Santos

Octopath Traveler 2 review: the flawed JRPG returns for more of the same

The path well travelled Let’s start with what’s different. The big one is that Octopath Treveler 2 is set on a completely different continent with eight fresh traveller stories to pursue, meaning you can come to this without any prior knowledge of the first game and still have a great time. There’s some evolutionary work at play here in how its battle system operates and the way its character stories have been given a bit more connective tissue this time round (more on that in a sec), but the basic nuts and bolts are fundamentally the same....

February 17, 2023 · 11 min · 2154 words · Steven Edwards

Outbound Ghost devs DMCA strike their own game and accuse publisher of withholding royalties

“Conradical has not received a single dollar in royalties" Update: Digerati have provided a statement saying that “Conradical has been timely paid all royalties due to date,” and that “Conrad has refused to work with us” to identify issues with ports of TheOutboundGhost. The full statement is included below. Late last year, turn-based indie RPGThe Outbound Ghostwasdelisted from Steamafter a statement from lead dev Conrad Grindheim claimed his relationship with publisher Digerati had “dissolved....

February 17, 2023 · 4 min · 746 words · Michael Cook

This dating sim lets you romance a wrestler made entirely of green ooze

Head down to Cuddle Town Magic doesn’t always need to be like, cauldrons of bubbling newts. I’d say building a romantic connection with a wrestler entirely formed of green ooze, or training your M.E.A.T. at Mrs. Muscles gym counts as magic – pure magic, even. And that’s whatWrestling With Emotions: New Kid On The Blockoffers. It’s a wrestling dating sim with a splash of RPG, and almost certainly a game that’ll pin your heart in a bear hug and never let go....

February 17, 2023 · 3 min · 518 words · Travis Wood

Ultimate Audio Bang #30: Steam's most wishlisted FPS is in our crosshairs

Plus more stories from our hunts On this week’s episode of theUltimate Audio Bang, we get an update on Hayden’s knees and the various ways in which he’s attempting to save them. We also take a gander at fantasy FPSDark And Darker, Steam’s most wishlisted ‘shooter’. I’m less keen on it than Hayden is. In the second part of the pod, we talk about the goals we’ve achieved intheHunter: Call Of The Wild, including a tale about moose and a deer that knocked me out....

February 17, 2023 · 2 min · 255 words · Ann Lin

Watch Kerbal Space Program 2's new trailer ahead of its early access launch

Construct, fly, and crash Space exploration simKerbal Space Program 2is crash landing into early access on February 24th, just under a week, and developers Intercept Games are celebrating with a new gameplay trailer. The trailer begins at the Kerbal Space Center, on the planet Kerbin, as the cute little aliens attempt to build a working spaceship and rocket off into the Kerbolar System. Genuine question: does this make the green minions Kerbites, Kerbals, or Kermen?...

February 17, 2023 · 2 min · 222 words · Kevin Ali

Wild Hearts tips for beginners: 20 things I wish I knew earlier

20 handy tips for beginners getting started in Wild Hearts What are the top tips and tricks for beginners in Wild Hearts?The new monster-huntingRPGfrom Omega Force and Koei Tecmo may be a bit more streamlined than its closest rival, but there’s still an awful lot to learn inWild Hearts. You’ve got weapons and combos to master, food to cook and eat, gigantic upgrade trees to navigate, and vast open-world regions filled with oversized monsters to defeat....

February 17, 2023 · 13 min · 2769 words · Courtney Garza