Get your Wordle week off to a flying start with our fantastic range of tips and tricks. Brush up your word-finding technique with our general advice, give your opening guess the best possible chance with our hint for today’s Wordle, or even take a cheeky little peek at the answer to the September 30 (1199) puzzle if you like—we won’t tell.
I’m annoyed with myself. Now I’ve got the Wordle answer staring at me, I honestly don’t know how I didn’t see it an entire row earlier than I did. I think I was too eager to completely rearrange the whole thing, instead of gently shuffling a couple of letters around. It’s all my own fault, although I wish it wasn’t.
Wordle today: A hint
Wordle today: A hint for Monday, September 30
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Read moreShould you be in need of a gaming laptop this year, but somehow remain empty-lapped after the Black Friday bonanza, don’t fret. There are still plenty of gaming laptop deals to be had over Cyber Monday. That even includes gaming laptops with current-gen CPUs and GPUs. Sometimes both, if you’re lucky.
This Cyber Monday, you could see yourself bagging an RTX 40-series gaming machine with enough clout to break through into the Borderworld and drag Half Life 3 kicking and screaming into existence. Failing that, you could at the very least end up with a portable gaming machine that doesn’t look like Knight Rider or some squashed Gundam reject, but instead rocks the kind of sleek aesthetic even a Bond villain would be jealous of. Imagine finding a machine with more RAM than even a hundr…
Read moreLian Li is suing a rival PC component manufacturer, Phanteks, for patent infringement, claiming that its new fans infringe on one of its patents involving daisy-chaining technology for RGB fans.
Lian Li told the Dutch company (via OC3D) in May 2023 that its D30 series fans violated its intellectual property rights. Lian Li alleges that Phanteks ignored the warning and continued to market and sell the fans.
On September 8, Lian Li officially filed the lawsuit in the California Central District Court seeking a permanent injunction against Phanteks, which would halt the sales of the fans in question, and damages.
We saw a lot of this daisy chaining fan tech at Computex this year from companies like Corsair, where you can connect multiple RGB fans together and attac…
Read moreIt’s amazing how cheap it can be these days to amass a killer board game collection, if you strike when the deals are right. This year’s Prime Day has some real gems at impressively deep discounts, including some of the most interesting releases of recent years.
When it comes to board game deals, the focus is often on family and casual games, but there’s plenty on offer this year for more diehard hobbyists—whether you’re into crunchy dungeon crawls, strategic deckbuilding, or just love big boxes full of plastic minis. With that in mind, I’ve sought out a really wide spectrum of games this year, to bring you what I think are the five coolest deals available.
- We’re curating the best Prime Day PC gaming deals right here…
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In my first 9 minutes of Sons of the Forest I grabbed some gear, made a crappy tent, ate a poisonous berry, fell in love with Kelvin, and had the crap scared out of me by a shrieking cannibal.
Naturally some players are getting a lot more done in that same timeframe, particularly speedrunner Benjamin Romero. Sons of the Forest has been out for less than a week but Romero has already beaten the game in under 9 minutes. You can watch the current record-holding speedrun embedded above. It won’t take long.
Note: Spoilers for Sons of the Forest’s ending below.
It’s what’s categorized as an Any% Normal Glitched run, though it takes a while for those glitches to become apparent. In the video, at 2 minutes in, Romero has essen…
Read more2013 was the goldilocks period for indie gaming on PC, the point at which there was surging interest in games from outside the mainstream publishing sphere, but not so many indie games struggling for prominence that some became lost in the crowd. It was during this period that we got Reus, a 2D sort-of god game that let players assume control of giants so powerful they could reshape entire worlds. To be perfectly honest, I wasn’t its biggest fan, but that didn’t matter one jot, as it went on to sell a million copies.
Reus’ developer, Abbey games, has made a bunch of interesting titles since, including Renowned Explorers and the more typical god game Godhood. Now, it’s teaming up with publisher Firesquid Games for a direct follow-up to Reus, ten years on since the original released…
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