Gaming

Today’s Wordle answer for Thursday, February 8

Need a Wordle win? Turn those grey letters into winning greens with our help. You’ll find a clue written especially for today’s Wordle just below, ready to give a little guidance without spoiling all your fun. Don’t panic if it looks like you’re running out of rows either, because the February 8 (964) Wordle answer…

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Nvidia’s AI is helping its engineers to bring better AI to the market faster

As you’re probably aware, there’s an insatiable demand for AI and the chips it needs to run on. So much so, Nvidia is now the world’s sixth largest company by market capitalization, at $1.73 trillion dollars at the time of writing. It’s showing few signs of slowing down, as even Nvidia is struggling to meet…

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FTC hits Microsoft with federal complaint over game division layoffs

The US Federal Trade Commission has filed a complaint with a federal appeals court over Microsoft’s plan to lay off 1,900 employees from its gaming division, saying the move “contradicts” Microsoft’s commitment to maintaining the studio’s operational independence while the FTC pursues its case against the merger. Microsoft completed its takeover of Activision Blizzard in…

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AMD makes further CPU market share gains with signs pointing to a recovery in the overall PC market

It’s pretty hard to say whether the PC market is truly back or not given ongoing global geopolitical uncertainties, but the signs are pointing towards recovery. Intel beat its revenue expectations in its latest financial report, while AMD happily shared data from Mercury Research that showed it gained some healthy slices of unit and revenue…

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I’m still catching up on 2023’s hidden gems, and now I want everyone to play the most underappreciated retro platformer of the year

I love a good throwback to the formative years of console gaming when developers had to create whole worlds with just 56 colors, but I’m always worried my trip through time will be spoiled by a game too busy winking at the camera to say anything new. Prison City, a platformer that debuted last August…

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The guy who made Daggerfall Unity is working on his own original Daggerfall-style RPG with a custom engine

It took nearly a decade of work, but Daggerfall Unity—the best version of Bethesda’s biggest RPG—finally crossed the finish line into a full 1.0 release in January. With that Herculean task complete, creator Gavin Clayton is moving on to a new project: Making a Daggerfall-style game of his own. “I’ve already started working on a…

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Disney invests $1.5 billion in Epic, announces new ‘entertainment universe’ in Fortnite

Disney has announced a $1.5 billion investment into Epic Games as part of a new partnership to create an “open games and entertainment universe” in Fortnite. “Our exciting new relationship with Epic Games will bring together Disney’s beloved brands and franchises with the hugely popular Fortnite in a transformational new games and entertainment universe,” Walt…

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The impact of 16,000 games industry layoffs, in one chart

Blizzard’s Unannounced Survival Game team, laid off in January 2024. Photo via a developer who asked to remain anonymous. The scale of the past year of videogame layoffs is a hard thing to wrap your head around. We’re confronted with more big numbers almost every week: the latest “regrettable” cuts made by this or that…

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Homeworld 3 delayed until May, as the developers make ‘the final tweaks needed to deliver at the level of quality that we strive for and you deserve’

Homeworld 3’s mothership needs just a bit more time in spacedock before heading out for places unknown. Gearbox announced on Wednesday that Homeworld 3 is being delayed by two months, from its planned March 8 release date to May 13, 2024.  In a statement about the delay, Gearbox and Blackbird Interactive said that they recently…

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Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3 has a free trial starting tomorrow, which is probably the best way to play Activision’s underwhelming sequel

Season 2 of Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3 starts today, though you’d be forgiven for dismissing it outright considering how poorly received Activision’s latest FPS behemoth was. But there’s also a free trial of the game kicking off tomorrow, and considering what the trial offers, it might just be worth paying attention to. Running…

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