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Stuck on the Wordle word for Feb 17? Read our hint or find the answer below! Need a hint for today’s Wordle answer?Wordleis one of those games you can play almost without even realising it. If you ever find your attention drawn from the big screen in the corner to the little screen in your hand, odds are good that you’ll head over to the NYT website and check out today’s Wordle without even really thinking about it....

A 400+ design bible is available to view now At least Alice: Asylum now has a dev partner, making the project one step away from just a hypothetical. McGee and his dev team are being joined by Virtuos, a support studio known for their work on games likeStar Wars Jedi: Fallen Order, and a few other heavy hitters. Looking at the design bible honestly? I can’t help but be a little intrigued at another trip in this series....

A reel catch It’s the dead of night. I’m in my little tugboat out on open waters. I can barely see three feet in front of my nose because of the thick blanket of fog, but I’m trying my hand at night fishing, hoping to hook somethingreallygood. I find a squid spot and start to fish, reeling in one or two fine-looking catches. The third one, however, is monstrous, a mess of jagged teeth and sickly pale flesh....

Mining for some gold Ghost Ship Games have found major success with their co-op space-mining simDeep Rock Galactic, and now they’re expanding into indie games publishing with Ghost Ship Publishing. The team have described the initiative as a launchpad for indies in the “rapidly growing Danish games industry and beyond.” Ghost Ship Publishing haven’t announced any games yet, but we’ll get to see their upcoming projects on March 2nd as part of Deep Rock Galactic’s fifth-anniversary livestream....

Here’s how to unlock the Claw Blade, Hand Cannon, and Karakuri Staff in Wild Hearts How do you unlock new weapons in Wild Hearts?If you’ve played an hour or so of Omega Force’s newRPGWild Hearts, you may have noticed that when crafting new weapons at the Blacksmith there are three weapon types that you can’t yet create. You can’t even see what they are. What gives? All eight of the weapon types in Wild Hearts are very complex and powerful, and well-suited to certain playstyles and situations....

The trilogy spanning campaign officially leaves beta To celebrateTotal War: Warhammer 3’sfirst anniversary, developers Creative Assembly are making the Immortal Empires campaign free to all owners of the Warhammer 3 base game. Previously, you needed to own all threeTotal War: Warhammergames to play Immortal Empires, since it compiles campaign maps, war units, and Legendary Lords from across thestrategytrilogy. Now, you’ll just need to own Warhammer 3 for access to the campaign....

Turns out there’s a big difference between a homesteading sim and a life sim Hot diggedy daffodil, am I glad I picked Casual difficulty inVeil Of Dust. Unlike some games, Veil Of Dust doesn’t make it sound like any sort of concession; the middle difficulty is called Challenge, and says “it’s pretty tough - you’ve been warned”. I took the warning seriously, and thank God, because even the easiest difficulty had me pouring dandelion tea down my brother’s throat like he was doing a kegstand (and in the game)....

Some free-for-alls are more freer for all than others From the heady mists of 1994 once cameMaster Of Magic, an all-time best 4X loosely summarisable as Civilisation crossed withMaster Of Orion. Coincidentally, I’ve also finally got into Total Warhammer lately, and spent some time reacquainting myself with Warlords Battlecry, and in between building city walls and crushing stupid aryan elfs, I’ve realised what truly connects all three: balance. They all, correctly, reject it....

10 hours in and I’m having a great time Like a sticky ball of regurgitated sap spat from the jaws of a giant dog, review code forWild Heartscame in hot and fast earlier this week. So while other outlets will be delivering their final verdicts on Omega Force’s beast batterin’ simulator today, I’m afraid I haven’t had the chance to play enough of it to give it a fair shakedown yet....

Use code SSCPA629 to get this reduced price. Solidigm’s P41 Plus SSD has featured on our pages before, but it’s worth mentioning again as this 2TB PCIe 4.0 SSD has finally dropped below the $100 barrier, at $99.99 when you use codeSSCPA629at Newegg. That’s a heavy reduction from its original $169.99 price point, and an awesome value for a drive that works well in PCs and even PS5s. As we mentioned previously, the P41 Plus manages to hit its low price point through two factors: first, it comes from the company behind Intel’s SSDs, before the processor firm divested itself of its storage business, with Solidigm being part of the Korean flash firm SK Hynix....

If you were a fan oflast year’sTactiCon, the digital festival highlighting all sorts ofstrategy games, you might be pleased to learn it’s coming back. Organised byOld Worldpublisher Hooded Horse, along with Firesquid, the publisher behindGreat Houses Of Calderia, the Steam event will showcase games in every tactical subgenre, and will run between May 11th-15th later this year. TactiCon is acceptingsubmissionsfor featured games starting today, and developers have until March 24th to have their games considered at no cost....

We’ll have something to show fans at [insert next big event] You can listen above, or onon Spotify,iTunes,Stitcher, orPocket Casts. You can find theRSS feed here, and you can discuss the episodeon our Discord channel, which has a dedicated room for podcast chat. Music is by Jack de Quidt. LinksWe recorded on Wednesday so some things may have changed by the time you listen to it. What are we playing?Nate has been dipping intoRing Of Pain; James has been playingTeam Fortress 2, as is his way; I’ve been building monuments inPharaoh: A New Era....

Quietly editing mentions of a “full-on update-sized update” Last week Valve announced a“full-on update-sized update”would be coming toTeam Fortress 2this summer, getting us all excited at the thought of new content after years in maintenance mode. Valve have now quietly edited their original announcementblog post, walking back the hype while emphasising the community-developed aspects of the update. Much of Valve’s “bleeding-edge” blog post is the same, but they’ve rephrased some key parts, like the mention of a “full-on update-sized update” is now referred to as a “full-on holiday-sized update....