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Today's Wordle answer for Wednesday, July 3

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Give today's Wordle an instant boost with Wednesday's brand-new hint. It'll help give your guesses a nudge in the right direction, but still leave plenty of fun puzzling for you. Running out of rows? Don't worry about it—the answer to the…

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Just 3 months after launching Tales of Kenzera: Zau, developer Surgent Studios lays off 'just over a dozen' employees

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Less than three months after the release of its debut game Tales of Kenzera: Zau, Surgent Studios has laid off "just over a dozen" of its employees.

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The PC game releases we're most excited about in July

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Weird sci-fi survival, Dark Souls with guns, and many more interesting new PC games releasing this month.

Polyamory is coming to The Sims 4 for free alongside the Lovestruck expansion pack this month

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The "romantic boundaries" system will open up your Sims' relationships.

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Xbox Live suffers a 'major outage' that's keeping people from logging in, Microsoft says fixing it is 'taking longer than expected'

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Microsoft says a "major outage" at Xbox Live is keeping some users from logging in, and it's taking longer than expected to get the problem fixed.

Stardew Valley players on Steam Deck can test out the new Nexus Mods app

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True story: I bought Stardew Valley in 2017 and finally started playing it this past weekend. Why did I wait almost eight years before planting my first parsnip? Honestly, I was afraid it would become too much of a timesink. Judging from…

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Expansions are the best

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In this era of bite-sized DLC and season passes, we appreciate giant, game-changing expansions more than ever.

Academy Award-winner Cate Blanchett explains why she signed up for the Borderlands film: 'A touch of Covid madness'

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"Why is Cate Blanchett in the Borderlands movie?" is a very fair question to ask. The Australian actor has won numerous awards including two Oscars, four Golden Globes, four BAFTAs, and three SAG awards, and she can surely pick and choose…

Elden Ring: Shadow of the Erdtree players are sleepwalking through bossfights with the DLC's silly, pointy shields

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One of Elden Ring's greatest joys is the freedom it provides for exploring different philosophies of combat. Maybe you favor the tried-and-true strategy of hitting things with extremely large swords. Maybe you delight in the arts of high…

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Catholic Church prepares to canonise its first gamer saint—and yep, one of his favourites was Halo

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Carlo Acutis died in 2006 and has been credited with multiple posthumous miracles.

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The BBC dons its game dev cap to combine 2 things I fear and don't understand: The UK General Election and Roblox

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In the ultimate team-up of 'things I dread the societal consequences of', the UK General Election is coming to Roblox. It's courtesy of the BBC, and is meant to serve as "an engaging and fun way to learn more about the country’s election…

Lethal Company's next update introduces monsters that'll kidnap you and cut you up as well as its first and only vehicle

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Lethal Company just got a new major update and it's going to add even more monsters, as well as a van which you can use to run over entities or annoying teammates. The Company Cruiser is the first (and currently only) vehicle in the game…

The most popular RTX 40-series GPU on Steam is in a gaming laptop, not a graphics card

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June's Steam hardware survey shows ever more RTX 4060 laptop gamers.

Don't sweat it—Zenless Zone Zero's system requirements demand nothing more than a ten-year old GPU and 8 GB of RAM

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Persona 5 meets Street Fighter meets Genshin Impact. That's one helluva mix—if miHoYo can get the balance right. More importantly, the game will need to run smoothly on our gaming PCs before all that. That shouldn't be any issue, however,…

Palia developer Singularity 6 is now part of the Daybreak Game Company

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Daybreak's acquisition of Singularity 6 comes less than two months after major layoffs at the studio.

Mortal Kombat player wins $565, celebrates by breaking a light fixture worth $3,000

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Mortal Kombat player Dyloch has managed to overshadow his own Mortal Kombat 1 tournament win at the CEO 2024 fighting game championships with one of the most profoundly stupid—and expensive—post-match celebrations ever. Right after landing…

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Capcom's somehow come up with the *deep breath* Dead Rising Deluxe Remaster Digital Deluxe edition

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Last week Capcom announced Dead Rising Deluxe Remaster, a remake of the brilliant 2006 zombie smashing open-mall game in the publisher's RE Engine, and now it's released some more detail alongside the news we'll be playing it sooner than…

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I pitied Shadow of the Erdtree's future 'Let Me Solo Her' champion, but seeing how the Elden Ring community's handled business, I'm not so worried anymore

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Just a heads up before we get into this—spoilers ahead for the last boss of Shadow of the Erdtree. You've been warned, weary Tarnished.

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Capcom announces the next mainline Resident Evil is in development, and the great news is it's being helmed by Resident Evil 7's director

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Capcom finally gave us a shred of information about the next Resident Evil during the Capcom Next Summer 2024 stream, and while it's not much to go off, it sounds promising if you read between the lines.

Nvidia could face antitrust charges in France as 'the risk of abuse by chip providers' scrutinised by competition authority

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Nvidia is under the watchful eye of the French competition authority, Autorité de la concurrence, and may face charges for alleged anti-competitive practices, Reuters suggests.

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Asus ROG Strix Z790-I Gaming WiFi review

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Now that the Micro ATX form factor has all-but been relegated to the budget end of the market, Mini-ITX is where it's at if you want to build a high-end small form factor system. But creating such a board with a premium feature set is not…

Elden Ring maestro plays a saxophone to style on Shadow of the Erdtree's final boss, wins battle of the bands in 'a dozen attempts'

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I've been delightfully proud of (and fearing) the Elden Ring community ever since its first and final DLC released last month. Shadow of the Erdtree's final boss—spoilers, naturally—seems as though it should be a legendarily difficult…

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Samsung was either feeling generous or someone messed up big time when it temporarily slashed £1,400 off a 49-inch 240 Hz OLED gaming monitor

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We may never see a lower price for the Samsung Odyssey OLED G9 than what I caught it going for over the weekend, and that's because it appears to have been a complete accident. Samsung discounted its ultrawide 49-inch OLED gaming monitor…

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Today's Wordle answer for Tuesday, July 2

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The answer for today's Wordle is just an easy scroll away now you're here, just past a neat collection of handy tips and a freshly written clue for the July 2 (1109) puzzle. No matter how much (or little) help you need with Tuesday's…

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After years of coasting on Dr Disrespect's fame, it's hard to imagine a happy ending for Midnight Society

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It's a hectic time for those in the orbit of Guy Beahm, the streamer better known as Dr Disrespect who last week admitted to being banned from Twitch for inappropriately messaging a minor.

It took me 7 hours to beat Elden Ring: Shadow of the Erdtree's final boss, and people are already demolishing it without getting hit⁠ a single time

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Elden Ring: Shadow of the Erdtree might be the hardest thing FromSoftware has ever made⁠—or at least its bosses are. It took the entirety of a single, sweaty, stressful day off for me to beat the expansion's mega hard final boss, but the…

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Guy who mapped Skyrim's rivers decides to follow Fallout characters home after dismissing them

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With markedly different findings for companions and generic NPCs.

To combat torrent traffic, a South Korean ISP deployed a bold strategy: Infecting 600,000 of its own customers with malware

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We're certainly no strangers to the Machiavellian schemes of telecom companies in the US, where thanks to the restoration of net neutrality, we've only just recently been able to dodge the nightmare scenario of ISPs being legally empowered…