Valve’s ARM64 game testing points towards new Steam hardware, if vaguely

ARM offensive Valve are likely up to something hardware-related again, reportNotebookCheck. Their next chunk of plastic and wires – following theValve Index,Steam DeckandSteam Deck OLED– could swap PC gaming’s favoured x86 architecture for ARM, the type of processor favoured by the Nintendo Switch, Macs, and mobile phones. The most boring outcome of this would be something like Valve just releasing SteamOS for MacBooks, Apple’s M series of mega-fast laptop and desktop chips being arguably the most famous examples of ARM architecture in action....

September 23, 2024 · 2 min · 408 words · Amanda Lin

Wordle hints and answer (#1192): How to solve the Monday September 23 Wordle

Stuck on the Wordle word for September 23? Read our hint or find the answer below! This guide is for a previous day! Looking for today’s solution? Check out theWordle hint and answer for Thursday 12th December! Need a hint for today’s Wordle answer?Wordleis an addicting but challenging test of word acumen. Luckily, you’re in the right place for some assistance. 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?...

September 23, 2024 · 6 min · 1257 words · David Reid

Connections hints and answers for Sun, September 22nd

Need some Connections hints today? Read our guide for help with Connections #468. This guide is for a previous day! Looking for today’s solution? Check out theConnections hint and answers for Thursday 12th December! Looking for a hint to help with today’s Connections puzzle on 22nd September?We’re here to lend a helping hand. Below we have a range of clues to help you get to today’s Connections answers. Connectionsis a word puzzle game published every day by the New York Times (NYT), the hosts of the endlessly popularWordlepuzzle....

September 22, 2024 · 4 min · 666 words · Jeffrey Robles

What's on your bookshelf?: why have you put pumpkin spice in my grandfather's ashes edition

read-only Hello reader who is also a reader, and welcome back to Booked For The Week - our regular Sunday chat with a selection of cool industry folks about books! Once again, the dastardly autumn breezes have blown my schedule all out of whack, so no cool industry person this week. Instead, here is a short excerpt from another weird story I starting writing, also containing poultry for some reason....

September 22, 2024 · 2 min · 287 words · Sarah Wilson

Wordle hints and answer (#1191): How to solve the Sunday September 22 Wordle

Stuck on today’s Wordle word for September 22? Read our hint or find the answer below! This guide is for a previous day! Looking for today’s solution? Check out theWordle hint and answer for Thursday 12th December! Need a hint for today’s Wordle answer?Wordleis an addicting but challenging test of word acumen. Luckily, you’re in the right place for some assistance. 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?...

September 22, 2024 · 6 min · 1207 words · Tony Becker

Connections hints and answers for Sat, September 21st

Need some Connections hints today? Read our guide for help with Connections #467. This guide is for a previous day! Looking for today’s solution? Check out theConnections hint and answers for Thursday 12th December! Looking for a hint to help with today’s Connections puzzle on 21st September?If today’s assortment of words has you in a tizzy we have just the thing to help. Below is a host of hints to help you solve the word groups....

September 21, 2024 · 4 min · 679 words · Justin Adams

Homeworld 3's coming paid DLC and free updates will now all launch in November, instead of running into 2025

For better or worse “Following the release of update 1.2, we made the decision to combine all remaining paid DLC and free content drops in the roadmap into one unified delivery in November. Combining the content into one beat will allow us to focus all our resources and provide you all with a higher-quality experience,” saysthe announcement of the roadmap change. “With the changes we’re making, we want to assure those of you who purchased the Year One Pass that you will be getting everything we’ve previously promised....

September 21, 2024 · 2 min · 294 words · James Cruz

Sokpop's possibly haunted gardening game Grunn will launch next month

From the Bernband developer Grunnis a self-described “extremely normal gardening game”, in which you tend to a garden, explore different realities, and try not to die. We’ve been excited to get our hands on its shears for a while, thanks in part to an excellent demo, and in part due to it being from Sokpop Collective member andBernbanddeveloper Tom van den Boogaart. Now it has a release date: October 4th....

September 21, 2024 · 2 min · 227 words · Aaron Mendoza

The Finals' fourth season kicks off next week with a new map, new tutorial and the return of ranked Cashout

The teaser trailer is great, too The Finals' fourth season approaches. It’ll kick off on September 26th, with a new map, a new tutorial and the restoration of Cashout as the core ranked mode. There’s a new trailer below, which is worth watching even if you don’t play The Finals, says I. The Finals just has the best trailers in video games right now. I’m sure I’ve written about this before, but just look at this thing....

September 21, 2024 · 2 min · 308 words · Ray Davis

Wordle hints and answer (#1190): How to solve the Saturday September 21 Wordle

Stuck on today’s Wordle word for September 21? Read our hint or find the answer below! This guide is for a previous day! Looking for today’s solution? Check out theWordle hint and answer for Thursday 12th December! Need a hint for today’s Wordle answer?Wordleis an addicting but challenging test of word acumen. Luckily, you’re in the right place for some assistance. 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?...

September 21, 2024 · 6 min · 1231 words · Cory Butler

Connections hints and answers for Fri, September 20th

Need some Connections hints? Read our guide for help with Connections #466. This guide is for a previous day! Looking for today’s solution? Check out theConnections hint and answers for Thursday 12th December! Looking for a hint to help with today’s Connections puzzle on 20th September?We don’t judge, Connections can be a tricky beast to solve and with only four guesses (to score the best) sometimes you need a little nudge in the right direction....

September 20, 2024 · 4 min · 738 words · Mr. Isaac Carr Jr.

Final Fantasy 16 review: if it were half as big it'd be twice as good

Clive service game I’m reasonably sureFinal Fantasy 16isn’t the longestFinal FantasyI’ve ever played, but it feels that way, for a multitude of reasons. The major one is that a lot of its quests exist to create distance between places and plot beats. They are overwritten errands such as bringing people lunch or fetching herbs or carrying letters - dessicated, MMO-ish fare, thrust into a moderately enjoyable action-RPGfor the sake of incremental worldbuilding and scale....

September 20, 2024 · 8 min · 1602 words · Samantha Lang

From Blizzard to Bethesda, game unions are sweeping the industry - here's how the CWA helps make them happen

An interview with an organiser at the Communications Workers Of America “We have been sold this myth for a very long time that unions have to be for blue collar workers in an industrial setting in the early 1900s,” Autumn Mitchell tells me. “The very simple definition of a union is just you and your co-workers coming together and forming a collective body. You can do that anywhere.” A QA tester with Zenimax currently on union leave, Mitchell joined theCommunications Workers Of America(CWA) as a full-time organiser after she and her colleagues formed what was, at the time,the biggest union in videogames-ZeniMax Workers United....

September 20, 2024 · 9 min · 1846 words · Keith Lutz