Wordle hint and answer #617- Sunday, February 26-
Congratulations, you’re about to win today’s Wordle. Whether you want to rush straight to the daily answer, get a helpful little nudge from today’s clue, or spend some time reading a guide designed to not only make the February 26 (617) Wordle but every Wordle more successful is entirely up to you.
Well, that was very nearly a disaster. I found the first slot’s green nice and early, but all the yellows I came across along the way just didn’t seem to fit. I ended up winning mostly because I had nothing else left to try rather than because I’d actually figured it out.
Wordle hint
A Wordle hint for Sunday, February 26
Any edible thick, sweet, liquid-like substance could be referred to as today’s answer. Maple, golden, and even cough, variants of thi…
Why Tiger Woods’ golf ball is a grenade, and other amazing videogame trivia-
This weekend a tweet from the Super Pod Saga podcast went viral, asking simply: “What is the most useless piece of video game knowledge you know?”
It turns out that people have remembered a lot of bizarre, funny and in some cases amazing pieces of trivia, the kind of knowledge that you’re very unlikely to stumble across outside of a thread like this. We open with this absolute stunner from Jan Bart van Beek, the studio director and art director at Guerrilla Games.
This does need one caveat. Tiger Woods’ last game as the face of EA’s PGA Tour was in 2013, after which the series would take a year’s hiatus before returning with the first entry on the Frostbite Engine: Rory McIlroy’s PGA Tour (in 2015), which doesn’t feature Woods as his ranking had plummeted so badly. Of course…
Warner Bros. wants to transform franchises like Superman into ‘always on’ live-service style games—which is somehow different from what its been trying for years-
Warner Bros. CEO David Zaslav has set out the company’s plans for the future, and, surprise surprise, there’s yet more live service stuff on the horizon.
The company’s latest ambitions were revealed in an earnings call yesterday (thanks, Eurogamer). Zaslav states: “We recognize that we can do a better job of managing and maximizing the value of our blue chip franchises like Game of Thrones, Harry Potter, and Superman.”
He then goes on to say that the company’s “focus is on transforming our biggest franchises from largely console and PC based with three-four year release schedules to [including] more always on gameplay through live services, multiplatform and free-to-play extensions.” The goal? “More players spending more time on more platforms.”
Earlier in the ca…
One year on, there have been more deaths in Elden Ring than there are people living on Earth-
Elden Ring publisher Bandai Namco has released a bunch of stats to celebrate the game’s first anniversary and, presumably, to taunt us all about how bad we are at it. There have been more deaths thanks to the game’s myriad hazards than there are people currently alive on Earth, which seems like a not-great record, and nearly six billion attempts to take down its various bosses, most of which failed miserably.
Of the nine billion deaths that have occurred in the Lands Between, a full 69% of them are due to enemies and NPCs. 15% are down to unchecked status effects—things like poison, blood loss, and madness—and 14% (or around 1.2 billion deaths) from falling, because gravity is the most persistent and enduring foe across the entire Soulsborne catalogue.
One of the…
World of Warcraft and WoW Classic 2024 roadmaps reveal Cataclysm Classic beta test is coming this winter-
As 2023 rapidly draws to a close, Blizzard has shared its World of Warcaft and WoW Classic plans for 2024, which will include three more content updates before The War Within expansion arrives in late summer (or maybe early fall), and on the Classic side, a not-too-distant beta test for the upcoming Cataclysm Classic.
“In modern World of Warcraft, you’re going to see three more content updates for Dragonflight arriving before World of Warcraft: The War Within releases next year,” executive producer Holly Longdale wrote. “In these updates, we’ll be wrapping up the story for this expansion and laying the foundation for our next one. Dragonflight Season 4 will revisit Dragonflight’s dungeons and raids, along with outdoor content, featuring updated rewards, and a few new t…
You’ve got one week to nab 69 games for $30, and for a good cause too-
Humble Bundle has put together a sprawling package of games and comics to help out relief efforts in Türkiye and Syria after last month’s devastating earthquake, and it’s a doozy. The Türkiye-Syria earthquake relief bundle features 69 games, including the likes of Ghostrunner, Pathfinder: Kingmaker, Payday 2, XCOM 2, Euro Truck Sim 2, and, well, 64 others. You’ll also get a couple of Starfinder TTRPG books and ten volumes of Saga, a beloved graphic novel series. All of the games are redeemable via Steam.
The bundle runs until March 8 at 2 pm ET / 11 am PT / 7 pm GMT. Getting them all costs $30/£24.92 (or more, if you want), with 100% of the proceeds going to three charities doing relief work in Türkiye and Syria: Direct Relief, International Medical Corps, and…