ConnexionToday's Wordle answer for Wednesday, April 30
Today's Wordle: Help with the daily puzzle.
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Wagon is a 1-bit card-based spiritual successor to survival classic The Oregon Trail, and wastes no time getting right into the cannibalism
Dysentery is the least of your worries.
More than 19,000 NFT images briefly disappeared last week thanks to a server problem
The Clone X collection was only gone for a few hours, but the disappearance raised some rather pointed questions.
© OpenSea
I'm honestly shocked, but Arc Raiders is a much more exciting extraction shooter than Marathon
After 4 hours with both shooters, Bungie should be worried that Embark will steal its spotlight.
© Embark Studios
Splitgate 2 open beta test kicks off in May with a 'massive amount of new content'
Developer 1047 Games also teased "infinite maps," but we won't get to know more about that for a while yet.
© 1047 Games
The Elder Scrolls 4: Oblivion Remastered review
Oblivion Remastered is a beautiful, buggy wonder.
© Bethesda
'AI is going to become more and more difficult to detect': Fortnite has no plans to clean up increasing number of AI thumbnails cluttering up user-generated experiences
Fortnite Discovery has become a cesspit for AI-generated thumbnails.
© Epic Games
Electronic Arts lays off hundreds of employees and cancels 2 'incubation projects' including a new Titanfall game
It's all about "driving future growth," you see.
© Respawn
Dune-inspired indie roguelike admits it kinda ran out of ideas, but releases out of early access anyway and goes 100% free: 'Only so many things you can do that fit into the 'lateral worm cannon' mold'
"Master the piloting of giant mechanical worms!"
© Emerick Gibson
Eric Barone says Stardew Valley was about 'the fundamentals of human sustenance,' while Haunted Chocolatier is about 'what's next': 'There's another realm of the human experience'
What if making chocolate wasn't a traditional crafting system, but more "intuitive?"
© ConcernedApe
After getting Stardew Valley to 'a good place' with update 1.6, Eric Barone is now fully focused on his next game: 'I'm committed to not working on Stardew Valley until I'm done with Haunted Chocolatier'
Eric Barone's got a plan for getting Haunted Chocolatier across the finish line—or at least an idea.
© Future
We Will Be Gods promises months-long PvP wars with 'no fairness': 'There can be 140 people on one side and 70 on the other, and that's how it's going to be'
Multiplayer fantasy war game We Will Be Gods enters public pre-alpha in May, and will be free-to-play when it launches this year.
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Borderlands 4 is bringing its release date forward a week and I'm already breaking out my GTA 6 conspiracy board
Is Borderlands reverse delaying to avoid stepping on Marathon's toes? Or is it avoiding something even bigger?
© Gearbox Software
Nexon wins the bidding war to make a new StarCraft as well as distribute a Blizzard mobile game that's being called 'Overwatch 3'
I can't be the only one wondering: why?
© Blizzard
The Minecraft Movie is well on its way to becoming the most successful videogame film of all time, as it earns $816 million
All the credit surely has to go to the chicken jockey.
© Warner Bros
MSI Vector 16 HX AI gaming laptop review
A classic gaming laptop that delivers on the frame rate promise of Nvidia's RTX 50-series, but not on the battery life.
© Future
A Japanese retailer is only selling RTX 5090 and RTX 5080 GPUs for domestic use, which feels like a policy that is impossible to enforce
Pretty please can I spend thousands at your store?
© Future
For a limited time you can get all the XCOM games for just $10—yes, even that one
That's $269 and 100s of hours' worth of the best turn-based tactics around.
© Firaxis
Forget the rumoured 18 GB RTX 5070 Super, this utterly epic 96 GB Nvidia GPU will solve all your VRAM worries, kinda
All for the low, low price of $8,500.
© Nvidia
Fighting game Marvel Contest of Champions is coming to PC with over 300 characters
Marvel Contest of Champions launched on mobile devices over a decade ago, and is now bringing its giant hero and villain roster to PC.
© Kabam Games, Inc.
Thrustmaster T.Flight HOTAS One Microsoft Flight Simulator Edition review
A cheap-yet-cheerful starting point to an otherwise expensive hobby.
© Future
Devs lament Oblivion Remastered's surprise release as Todd Howard eats their lunch: 'I noticed a complete stop in game sales from about 2 pm onward on Oblivion day'
"I'm pretty sure Oblivion releasing gave us like a 10-20% haircut on daily revenue."
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Elden Ring legend Let Me Solo Her finally played Bloodborne, and came across new levels of pain: 'This boss took me more tries than any previous boss'
I can't believe he'd fight an orphan.
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Hello Kitty Island Adventure is getting its first major content update today, including a new area, more visitors, and the ability to finally place items on tables
It's time to welcome new friends to Friendship Island.
© Sunblink Entertainment
How to start Knights of the Nine in Oblivion and the remaster
How to begin your Pilgrimage to The Nine.
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Donkey Kong 64 composer shares why Nintendo didn't credit him in the Super Mario Bros. Movie for the DK rap—it owns the song, and didn't want to
"They're all the performers on the track. So they're all in the movie uncredited."
© Nintendo / Illumination
How to begin The Shivering Isles in Oblivion and the remaster
How and when you can unlock Oblivion's most beloved expansion.
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'There are currently three Xbox controller prototypes': New cloud gaming-enabled controller rumour suggests everything really is an Xbox
Xbox could be all-in on the cloud.
© Future
Save £100 on any Chillblast gaming PC worth over £2,000 with this voucher code
Stick a new PC into your basket before the end of May and get a tasty discount.
© Chillblast
Sea of Thieves has finally changed its broken ban system and, more importantly, actually tells you what you did wrong now
Not the type of points you want to be earning, really.
© Rare
I hear you, upgrading your PC has probably felt out of reach this year, but these are the 5 best Amazon and Newegg Gaming Week deals I've found so far to help you out
It's still possible to find good prices on some seriously great components.
© Super Flower, Teamgroup, AMD, Lexar
Intel's upcoming Panther Lake CPU looks like a killer gaming handheld chip thanks to a reported massive graphics upgrade, hefty AI performance and upgraded E-cores
50% more graphics cores, 180 AI TOPS, Darkmont cores, the works.
© Future
Chinese gamers are protesting Infinity Nikki by flooding its Steam launch with attempts to scare off would-be players
Infinity Nikki's Version 1.5 has slipped in some monetisation changes that haven't gone down well.
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Ubisoft remembers it owns Splinter Cell, patches Steam achievements into Blacklist 12 years after it first came out
Call it an act of conviction.
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Dragon Age creator says Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 is 'kind of to JRPGs what Baldur's Gate 3 was to CRPGs'
David Gaider's among the spellbound for Sandfall's latest hit.
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An Oblivion Remastered player ended up in 'the backrooms of Oblivion' trying to find the exact location from The Elder Scrolls 6 teaser trailer
The search for The Elder Scrolls 6 is a hard trek.
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Larian's Swen Vincke says AI-obsessed studios won't 'have a competitive advantage', because those tools are 'gonna be what's available to everybody'
Vincke says that all games'll need the human touch, even if AI's been useful for early prototyping and annoying busywork.
© Larian Studios
With Larian finally at the end of its journey with Baldur's Gate 3, what do we want next from the new kings of the RPG?
With Baldur's Gate 4 off the table, the studio has moved on to two mysterious new projects.
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Fortnite's rarest collaboration has returned to the store after a 1,794 day absence
Psycho Bandit's back, baby.
© Epic Games
AMD and Samsung demo 8K 120 Hz gaming and I am really, really struggling to care
So many pixels. So little point.
© Samsung 8K TV