Month: September 2024

I’ve heard it said that Palworld’s pals bear more than a passing resemblance to Pokémon. Is Wumpo Botan actually Tangrowth? Is Lamball actually Wooloo? Is this thing Eevee? No. Shush. That is clearly Cremis. Zip it, buddy, before we all end up in the dock.

But I’ve gotta admit that the latest Palworld discovery—uncovered by a dataminer called Brian Cozzens and spotted by Eurogamer—really does ring the old Poké-bell. It’s not actually in the game (yet) but it’s called Dark Mutant and you can find its model and Paldex entry if you rummage through Palworld’s files. Or you can just check it out on this Palworld Paldex website.

Cozzens told Eurogamer that he found our friend Mewthree here while crafting an interactive map for the game. Let’s not beat aro…

It boggles the noggin that Nvidia can have posted the biggest ever loss in value for any company in the history of the world over the past three days, and that it will have precisely zero material impact on Jen-Hsun’s gang.

It makes sense after a stratospheric rise in market value, which briefly made Nvidia the most valuable company in the world, that there would be a correction, and that has happened over the past three days. It has now dropped in value by a combined total of 13%, which has effectively knocked over $500 billion off the stock.

Just over a year ago, at the end of January 2023, that sort of financial drop would have seen the company wiped out entirely, when its market capitalization was below the $500 billion mark. And yet here in June 2024 seeing that much wi…

Picture a scene where you have a great gaming laptop and you want to stream footage of your awesome gaming skills, to show off to your friends. You’ve got also Discord open on your phone, to offer friendly tips and insults to your teammates. So you’ll need a charger for both devices, plus a capture card for the video, right? Not with the new Avermedia Elite Go GC313Pro—multi-device charger, USB hub, and 1080p capture card all in one.

Okay, so that all sounds like it’s a setup for a cheesy infomercial, but that’s exactly the kind of scenario that Avermedia has in mind for its new GC313Pro. The base part of it is a 100W GaN charger, which is good enough for lots of entry-level gaming laptops, but it also sports a USB 3.0 Type-A port, to allow it to act as a docking station for…

The year is 2024. You’ve just purchased a new game on Steam. You open your library (or click the prompt on your receipt page) and direct the storefront to your SSD. You hang around a while to see how fast your download speed is, doing the prerequisite fretting over whether your internet is suddenly dying without you noticing, then go back to your life.

It’s not exactly a process that builds hype—I mean, it’s functional most of the time. Stress-free, even. But we’ve traded out convenience for theatre. The game installers of yore used to give you a feeling of transition from the ordinary doldrum of your life. A reward for buying and inserting a disk—animations, music, terrible font choices—a little treat while you waited for your computer to do its thing.

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While 2018’s Call of Duty: Black Ops 4 was always-online, it also didn’t have a singleplayer campaign (you could play against bots, but you still needed to be connected to the internet). The 2019 remake of Modern Warfare was the first CoD to be always-online on PC while also having a full singleplayer mode, and it’s been that way ever since. Over in Console Land, the singleplayer stuff remained accessible without a constant internet connection, though without your skins and so on. That’s not the case for Call of Duty: Black Ops 6, which will be always-online for everybody.

As the CoD blog explains, “To deliver the highest-quality visuals while also reducing the game’s overall storage space on your hard drive, Call of Duty: Black Ops 6 will use texture streaming across all…

Games get a lot of tat attached to them to bump that bottom line—boring t-shirts, $45 posters for unreleased games, the works. Sometimes you’ll get diamonds in the rough that genuinely give you something cool, but there’s a secret third option between tat and genuine novelty: Ordinary things executed with such perfect marketing fiat that you’ve just gotta throw your hands up and say shoot, you got me.

Such is the case with these two bottles of probably-okay wine—announced back in February (thanks, SiliconEra) the buzz around these finely-aged draughts of existential dread only kicked up recently on Twitter, going viral to the tune of 69,000 likes.

Honestly, while $80 is a little pricey for some wine—you do also get a nice glass, and the novelty of knowing t…

Three’s a crowd but four’s a party, as they saying goes. But is four really a party? Four might be fine for a dinner, a card game, or a wife swap, but if you want to have a real party you’ve gotta invite more people over.

In Baldur’s Gate 3 you can have a total of four characters at a time in your party, but deciding who stays behind at camp while you go running around the world can be tough. Now there’s a mod that changes that restrictive party limit.

The Party Limit Begone mod lets you have up to eight adventurers in your party instead of just four. I’ve tested it and it definitely works, and it’s also a breeze to install. Just download the mod (you’ll need a free Nexus Mods account if you don’t have one) and extract the folder into your Baldur’s …

Solve today’s Wordle exactly the way you want to with our helpful range of tips and advice. There’s a fresh clue for the May 17 (697) game waiting below if you’d like a hint, or today’s answer is only a quick click away if you need to rescue an unlucky game. You’ll also find past answers, general help, and plenty more.

The results of today’s opener really could’ve gone either way for me—one green and one yellow isn’t a terrible start, but it’s not good enough to guarantee a swift win either. Happily, luck was on my side this time, my follow-up almost gave me today’s Wordle answer, and my third go polished off a satisfying game.

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A Wordle hint for Wednesday, May 17

The word you need to find today describes a long, thin pie…

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I found a single green on my first go, and that meant the yellow I discovered at the same time could only fit in one of four places. Somehow I still got it wrong three times. As terrible as that performance was, at least when it did finally land in the right spot the whole game turned around in an instant, as if today’s Wordle answer hadn’t spent several rows trying to hide from me at all.

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Wordle today: A hint for Friday, March 15

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The way kids’ show characters like Dora the Explorer pause for responses as if they can hear all the five-year-olds shouting at them is mildly unsettling, and probably contributes to the confused notions kids sometimes have about television. The ones that lead to questions like: Can they see me?

Amanda the Adventurer, a “found footage edutainment horror” game that released on Steam this week, exploits that creepiness by having us watch and respond to VHS tapes of a made-up kids show starring a little girl named Amanda, who in the first episode bakes a pie without parental supervision despite the protests of her poor little friend, a Wooly the sheep.

Amanda of course does the Dora thing, where she asks you, the viewer, for advice. Except that when she asks something,…