GeoGuessr plus Wordle makes Wheredle, a daily Street View guessing game

Not already playing enough -dle games each day? Here you go! Two smash-hit games combine in Wheredle, a daily puzzle game where you’re dropped into a Google Street View look at a random state in the USA, and need to guess which one it is. BitGeoGuessr, bit Wordle. You have seven attempts to guess the state, and each wrong answer gives you a hint by pointing, literally, in the right direction....

April 7, 2022 · 2 min · 356 words · Charles Davis

Get 16GB of Crucial Ballistix DDR4-3200 memory for £47

Still got 2400MT/s RAM? Upgrade to this 3200MT/s CL16 kit. Crucial has discounted its most popular RAM kit, a 2x8GB kit rated at 3200MT/s CL16. This is right at the sweet spot for price versus performance, and is a great choice if you’re building a new PC or upgrading an older one. Normallythese 16GB kits cost £55 or more, but today you can pick up this Ballistix memory for £46.79, the lowest price we’ve ever seen on RAM of this specification - and more than £20 off its RRP....

April 7, 2022 · 4 min · 690 words · Charles King

Lego and Epic Games are building "a space in the metaverse"

Please stop saying “the metaverse” The makers of Lego are teaming up with Fortnite creators Epic Games to build some sort of “metaverse” play space. I think that means they’re making an online Lego game, a concept which has existed many times before, but they don’t really say what it is they’re up to. In lieu of explanation, they repeat the word “metaverse”. The two companiesannounced todaythat they are forming “a long-term partnership to shape the future of the metaverse to make it safe and fun for children and families”....

April 7, 2022 · 2 min · 338 words · Kylie Curry

Remedy are remaking Max Payne 1 & 2

Things That Make You Go Woo! Grab your dual Berettas and scrunch your face up real hard, because oh me oh my Remedy have announced they’re going to remakeMax PayneandMax Payne 2. The remakes are still extremely early in development, so Remedy have little to say and even less to show, but all I need to know is: Max Payne, baby! As Alice Bee explained whenMax Payne turned 20 last year, it’s still extremely cool....

April 7, 2022 · 2 min · 341 words · Brittney Davis

RimWorld updated with Steam Deck support

Antagonise your colonists while on the toilet A newRimWorldpatch has brought “full support” for Steam Deck, updating the interface for Valve’s handheld gaming PC. The excellent sci-fi colony-building sandbox is the sort of game I would most like to potter around the house with, maybe play a few minutes on the pot, so that’s nice. Not that I would take a Steam Deck to the toilet. But in theory. Look, I’m just pretending this is about me so I don’t have to accuse you of anything....

April 7, 2022 · 2 min · 323 words · Tonya Mcdowell

Rogue Legacy 2 now has a release date, and the first game's free too

Roguelikelike platforming action After 20 months in early access,Rogue Legacy 2will leap to a full launch on the 28th of April. If you’ve missed out on the series of roguelikelike platformers where each run is another generation on your sprawling (and sometimes diseased) family tree, good news: this week Epic are giving the first game away free to keep. At heart,Rogue Legacyis a solid Castlevania-y stab-o-platformer with player classes. Off you go, mashing monster and bashing bosses, hoping to end the ultimate enemy....

April 7, 2022 · 2 min · 226 words · April Gray

This RTX 3080 graphics card costs just £860 in the UK

A price breakthrough for the best value high-end graphics card. Nvidia’s RTX 3080 is the most powerful GPU recommended in our roundup of thebest graphics cards, as it offers a ton more performance than the RTX 3070 and 3070 Ti - without the huge expense of the RTX 3080 Ti, RTX 3090 or RTX 3090 Ti. Therefore, it’s extremely exciting to see the RTX 3080 available at Laptops Direct for a recent low price of £860, some £100 below the cheapest RTX 3080 card on Amazon....

April 7, 2022 · 2 min · 303 words · Nancy Wheeler DDS

Dune: Spice Wars taking sci-fi strategy to early access this month

Cry “girl power!” and return to Spice World Funcom today announced an early access launch date of April 26th forDune: Spice Wars, a new real-time strategy game set in Frank Herbert’s sci-fi world of giant sandworms and winged underpants. Even aside from my enduring love of megafauna, Spice Wars is made by Shiro Games, the studio behind Wartales andNorthgard, and that’s enough to have my interest. Spice War is an RTS with “4X elements” where factions fight for control of Arrakis, a desert planet where… wait!...

April 6, 2022 · 2 min · 379 words · Julie Mclaughlin

Gears Of War studio show off Unreal Engine 5 tech demo

Next-gen straps and buckles As part of yesterday’sbig Unreal Engine 5 showcase, the studio behind Gears Of War 4 & 5 showed off a new tech demo built on Epic’s fancy newness. Microsoft say it demonstrates “100x more graphic detail”, which will really throw off all my reviews rating visuals on a scale of 1-5 stars. Come watch The Coalition’s vid to gaze deep into a man’s pores and coo over aggressive fog, but don’t assume the tech demo reveals any specific game they’re making....

April 6, 2022 · 3 min · 500 words · Jeffrey Green

Get an RX 6600 8GB for $369.99 at Amazon today after a $30 discount

A rare price drop brings the 1080p/1440p GPU to just $40 above MSRP. We may be slowly turning a corner in the GPU market, as graphics cards are gently dipping in price and approaching their MSRP. Case in point is the star of today’s deal post, the Gigabyte RX 6600 Eagle 8GB. This entry-level AMD GPU is designed for 1080p and 1440p gaming, and has been dropped $30 to reach $369....

April 6, 2022 · 1 min · 210 words · Lisa Mack

Intel have now suspended all operations in Russia, not just product shipments

CPU makers follow Microsoft, Activision Blizzard, EA and others Intelhave become the latest Western tech company to suspend all business operations in Russia, in response to ongoinginvasion of Ukraine. The CPU (andgaming GPU) makers announced in astatementthat they have immediately ceased their activities in Russia entirely, having previously only suspended product shipments to Russia and political ally Belarus. “Intel continues to join the global community in condemning Russia’s war against Ukraine and calling for a swift return to peace....

April 6, 2022 · 2 min · 276 words · Richard Hurley

Lego Star Wars The Skywalker Saga cheat codes: every secret character and vehicle unlock code

Discover every cheat code and extra for Lego Star Wars: The Skywalker Saga Looking for Lego Star Wars The Skywalker Saga cheat codes?While it differs from past Lego games in many ways,Lego Star Wars The Skywalker Sagastill has cheat codes that you can use to unlock secret characters and vehicles. In the Skywalker Saga, these offer some brand new characters, some holiday special variants, and some secret vehicles. In this guide, we’ll list all of the Lego Star Wars The Skywalker Saga cheat codes, which you can use to unlock secret characters and vehicles....

April 6, 2022 · 3 min · 481 words · Mary Ryan

Lego Star Wars: The Skywalker Saga review: an inconsistent intergalactic collectathon

Bitten off more than it can Chew Lego Star Wars: The Skywalker Sagarepresents great value. AllnineStar Wars films bundled up in bricks! But do its pieces really come together? Well, yes and no. The game is charming and breezy, offering plenty of locales and set pieces fans of the force will fawn over. Yet its episodes are wildly inconsistent, with stories told at lightspeed and open world hubs filled with so many collectible bricks it solidifies your brain to a lump of mortar....

April 6, 2022 · 6 min · 1075 words · Victoria Scott