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Today's Wordle answer for Wednesday, April 24

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There's a hint for today's Wordle just below, ready to help out if you need it. You'll also find our quick tips if you'd like to give your puzzle-solving a more general boost, and the answer to the April 24 (1040) Wordle is further down if…

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Considered doomed 6 years ago, Fallout 76 is attracting record player numbers thanks to the TV series

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Following the success of the Fallout TV adaptation, Fallout 76 has—perhaps inevitably—attracted a new audience, reaching over a million players in a single day according to the series' official X account.

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German government wants games like Baldur's Gate 3 to 'also go on to be developed in Germany'

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Germany started giving out federal grants in 2020 to "achieve international competitiveness" in game development.

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Why won't fetch quests die? The horrible truth is: we need them

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I have a high tolerance for fetch quests. If Genshin Impact wants me to exterminate the same group of hilichurls over and over to search for a vengeance-obsessed NPC's lost sword, then I'll do it—I've got time to kill. But when an RPG jams…

Blizzard admits WoW is rough for new players and plans to fix that: 'We know that we have a lot of work to do'

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As the MMO enters a new era, Blizzard admits the new player experience could be better.

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I almost quit Fallout 76 until I realized Bethesda still hides its most important setting in a config file

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Fallout 76 has come a long way, but the PC version still requires a quick config tweak to really get cooking.

Gloomhaven studio releases a demo for a new game and lays off more than half its employees on the same day

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The studio hopes the demo for Ironmarked will help it find funding for the game.

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Coming up with 'skeleton outfits' was one challenge of being the Fallout show's costume designer: 'We dressed skeletons right and left'

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The show's costume department did "a ton of research" as it figured out how to distress the Wasteland's apparel.

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Fallout showrunners talk about the show's take on New Vegas: 'The idea that the wasteland stays as it is decade-to-decade is preposterous to us'

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I will begin by stating the obvious: There are going to be spoilers about the Fallout television show on Amazon. Much like being in the neighborhood when a nuclear blast goes off, you can either avert your eyes or suffer the consequences.

Everyone is thirsty for The Ghoul, but this isn't even the first time Fallout fans fell in love with an irradiated guy

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If you've accepted yourself as a ghoul lover, let me introduce you to John Hancock.

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Grand Theft Auto 5 actor 'shot some stuff' with Rockstar for a 'James Bond Trevor' expansion that never happened

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"We shot some stuff and then it just disappeared and [Rockstar] never did it, and they never followed up on it."

Where to find Archie in Destiny 2

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Track this cyber canine across the system to complete the 'Where in the System is Archie?' triumph.

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Todd Howard reveals his favorite moment from the Fallout television show, and in hindsight it's really no surprise at all

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Todd Howard recently shared his favorite moment from Amazon's hit Fallout television series, and if you've been keeping up with his work over the years it'll come as absolutely no surprise: It's the transition from the safety of the Vault…

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Meta is creating a Quest VR headset in the style of an Xbox, which probably means it's black with a bit of green

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We don't know what it looks like yet, which means there's a chance we're all surprised.

Games Workshop has announced a board game based on Warhammer 40,000: Darktide, but, uh, maybe don't get too excited

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Fatshark finally get a tabletop tie-in, but it doesn't look set to do the videogame justice.

18 times the Fallout show was exactly like a videogame

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The show takes a hilariously literal approach to adapting the Fallout games.

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I have become obsessed with a goat in Lovecraftian dating sim Sucker for Love: Date to Die For

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Sucker for Love: Date to Die For has introduced a new dateable entity and I have fallen head over hooves for her.

Star Wars Jedi: Survivor drops into Game Pass via EA play, which is a great excuse to try it if you noped out in 2023 due to its initially terrible performance

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Star Wars Jedi: Survivor is one of my favourite games from 2023—and it also received our pick for best adventure last year. It's leaps and bounds above Fallen Order, offering a really solid space romp that blends Sekiro-adjacent soulslike…

Asus ROG Carnyx review

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Asus comes out swinging with its first streaming microphone and does a pretty good job, but there's room for improvement.

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Asus is creating the VR 'gaming headset of the next generation' built on Meta's Horizon OS lifted off the Quest 3

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An ROG branded virtual reality headset built on Meta's OS? This I have to see, though we don't know much about it yet.

Team Fortress 2's latest silly business sees the game crashing because it thought players were Gordon Freeman

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Team Fortress 2 just received a huge update, upgrading it 64-bit, finally bringing the 17-year-old shooter into the modern age of gaming. But in true TF2 fashion, there was a problem that no one foresaw: the game kept crashing because it…

Final Fantasy 14 is bringing its Yo-kai Watch crossover back after 4 years, offering weapon glams, mounts, and a minion we crowned 'the ugliest MMO pet of all time'

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Final Fantasy 14 is no stranger to crossover events. Most recently, a FF16 crossover where you could wear Clive Rosfield's clothes and steal his dog hit the servers. But it's also had some cultural exchanges with Nier: Automata, GARO,…

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New rules to massively strengthen EU's right to repair successfully pass through European Parliament with 584 votes for, just 3 against

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The new rules will give customers new ways to claim support for a product throughout its lifetime, and also aid independent repair shops.

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Fortnite's battle royale mode was cooked up in the back of an Uber in 'like, three hours'

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"A school bus is going by us in traffic, and I’m like: Players are going to be on a bus in the sky."

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EK admits fault for financial issues facing employees and business partners: 'We are committed to fulfilling our financial obligations and regaining your trust'

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EK's CEO and founder, Edvard König, has released a statement on the financial difficulties alleged by various reports over the previous five days.

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Final Fantasy 14: Dawntrail's new benchmark will get a 2.0 version after player upset over lifeless eyes, flattened faces, and cursed lalafell dolphin teeth

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Final Fantasy 14—a game that itself received a complete 2.0 revamp—will get a 2.0 version of the preview benchmark tool for its upcoming expansion, Dawntrail. History doesn't repeat itself, but it often rhymes.

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Asus adds 'Intel Baseline Profile' to new BIOS files to combat stability issues but the TDP is still higher than Intel's actual baselines

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Is it really that hard to have a BIOS setting that enforces all of Intel's stock values?

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DDR5-10000 memory is closer than ever after JEDEC, the managing body of the standard, extends the base DDR5 spec

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The march towards DDR5-10000 continues. Although overclockers have already well and truly passed that mark, those kinds of speeds are all but out of reach without extreme cooling and you have the combination of top quality memory and a CPU…

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Fake Samsung 1080 Pro SSDs show up on Aliexpress, and the benchmark results are hilarious

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PCIe Gen 5 SSDs are now widely available. There are numerous examples of speedy Gen 5 x4 drives including Teamgroup Z540 And Nextorage X Series. But one of the names missing the Gen 5 x4 wave is Samsung. We're yet to see a true replacement…