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Hints and the answer to today’s Wordle word In this guide, you’ll find three clues that you can use to solve the Wordle answer today. If you’re just one guess away from losing a streak and would rather skip the puzzle altogether, scroll past the video to find the answer itself. Looking for today’s solution? Check out theWordle hint and answer for Thursday 12th December! Wordle January 5 hints The Wordle answer today is a tricky one, thanks to a pesky double letter....

Plus the usual cosmetic gubbins Imagine a battle royale game, right, but instead of dropping into an arena with one life and no guns, you actually start with your loadout and can respawn as many times as you like while you fight over control points in 9v9 matches. Now stop imagining that, because it’s exactly what you’ll get to do when Control mode temporarily returns toApex Legendsnext week as part of theSpellboundCollection Event....

My PC’s heart can’t take it Robots! Flesh! Fleshy robots! Robo-worms! Swirly Big Hero 6 lookalikes! Upcoming sci-fi Soviet FPSAtomic Heartseems chock-full of weird, mostly robotic things that want to kill you, and its latest trailer shows off all the ray-traced reflections and particle effects you can admire as they do so. We’ve seen a lot of this before, but it doesn’t half look pretty - and now at 4K, if you can handle that....

Late Christmas gifts Steam’sWinter Saleis still ongoing, with thousands of sales on games big and small. You only have ~24 hours left to nab yourself some good savings, so get at it! I’ve put down a handful of my own recommendations below, but I’m sure you can find other gems if you scroll for long enough. And of course, other giants likeElden Ringand the LEGO games are also heavily discounted....

Warren Spector’s next game has also been affected. Wizards Of The Coast, the owners of the Dungeons & Dragons IP, have cancelled at least five unannounced games, according to areportfrom Bloomberg. In a statement, the company say they’re still committed to video games and that they want to “focus on games which are strategically aligned with developing our existing brands.” Fewer than 15 people have lost their jobs as a result, although Bloomberg report that they’ll be able to reapply for new positions within the company....

They said it was safe, and all EA have dropped the ball. If you logged intoMadden NFL 23during at least a 22-hour period last week, there’s a good chance your Connected Franchise Mode saves have been permanently corrupted. If that wasn’t galling enough, the corrupting period (from Wednesday December 28th to Thursday 29th) came immediately after EA gave people the go ahead to log in. EA have said they expect to recover 40% of the saves, the wallies....

EVGA’s Z20 also comes with a full-size UK layout and RGB. The EVGA Z20 is part of a new breed of mechanical gaming keyboards that use optical switches, reducing the latency of inputs and raising longevity to seriously silly levels. It normally costs £130, but its price has been dropping steadily on Amazon UK - and now it’s reached a new low-water mark of £52.79. The EVGA Z20 received surprisingly good reviews from various outlets, despite its affordable price....

Reduced from a UK RRP of £243, and £28 cheaper than Amazon. Intel’s Core i5 13400F processor was just announced, but thanks to a discount code at TechNextDay you can pick up this brand new CPU for just a shade over £200 compared to £228 on Amazon UK. That’s a solid price for a 10-core CPU capable of boosting to 4.6GHz, with more cache and turbo power available to it than last year’s 12400F....

4K, 120Hz and incredible OLED image quality. The Gigabyte Aorus FO48U is one of the best-reviewed OLED monitors, with its 48-in LG OLED panel providing perfect blacks, gorgeous colours, near-instant pixel response times and fewer compromises than competing displays from the likes of LG, Dell and Samsung. While OLED TVs like the LG C2 are sold in larger numbers and therefore are more often available at a discount, it seemed prudent to underline the advantages of a display that’s actually built as a gaming monitor first and foremost, despite its titanic size....

Re-hear the call of Pripyat The problem with game of the year lists, if your feet are suitably submerged in the PC Gaming swamp, is that they don’t tend to highlight anything you won’t have already heard about. That’s less true for ModDB’s Mod of the Year Awards, which can shine a light on experiences that may have slipped under your radar. This year’s publicly voted for crop (as with most year’s crops) was heavy on mods for old-school shooters, though mostly not too old-school for me to skip them....

You’ll need to own the game to jack in SnazzyStardew Valley-like town simulatorMy Time At Sandrockis running its first open beta for multiplayer next week, allowing owners of the game to hop into a separate multiplayer area set in a “semi-fictional” version of Sandrock’s past that includes “compressed stories happening 50 years before single-player events”. A pseudo prequel is an interesting form for a multiplayer mode to take, especially considering this is the pseudo sequel toMy Time At Portia....

Out tomorrow, January 5th, for £799 / $799 Annual tech bonanza CES is underway over in Las Vegas this week, and Nvidia have used the occasion to announce the latest graphics card in theirRTX 40 seriesfamily, the RTX 4070 Ti. Out tomorrow, January 5th, at a starting price of £799 / $799, Nvidia say it’s faster than their previous flagship, theRTX 3090 Ti, and will “max out” 1440p monitors. In terms of specs, you’re looking at 12GB of GDDR6X memory, a boost clock speed of 2....

Alongside more new Vampire Survivors DLC At the end of their blog, the devs get mysterious when talking about what they’re working on. “There’s a lot of stuff, not exclusively related to Vampire Survivors, getting made behind the scenes in poncle,” they say. Their wording brings up lots of questions. Is it a brand new game? Something Vampire Survivors-adjacent? What does “exclusively related” even mean? Whatever it is, I’ll have my cloves of garlic ready....