Month: September 2024

Asus unveiled its first ROG NUC back at CES 2024. We got a look of the unit itself along with some launch specifications, but pricing and a release date were not revealed. We now have a pretty good idea of both thanks to a pre-order listing at European retailer Proshop (via NotebookCheck).

The listing reveals a launch price of €2,500. That’s for the high end version which comes with an Intel Core Ultra 9 185H CPU and RTX 4070 laptop GPU. This SKU comes with 2x16GB of DDR5 memory and a 1TB SSD. Proshop’s listing indicates a release date of April 10. 

€2,500 is a lot of money. At that price it’s unlikely we’ll be seeing this configuration topping bestseller lists. Thankfully, there’s at least one more affordable version coming. According to Asus’ product page, a…

Want to keep winning at Wordle during 2023? Of course you do. So it’s a good thing all the help you need to make the daily Wordle challenge as easy as you want it to be is right here, whether that’s the answer to today’s puzzle on a plate or a clue to make the January 2 (562) Wordle just a little bit easier.

I narrowly avoided one of those dreadful runs where one stubborn grey space keeps me from finding the answer, although it took until the very last guess to find the green. I had hoped in 2023 I’d have learned by now to go for the obvious word first because it’s often the right answer, but old habits die hard.

Wordle hint

A Wordle hint for Monday, January 2

Today’s answer is usually used to describe an item of clothing of various lengths that …

PC Gamer’s all-singing all-dancing all-action 30th anniversary issue is on-sale today, and includes a slew of major interviews with the creatives that have shaped our industry and some of the most important games in history. PCG’s editor Robert Jones sat down with Warren Spector and Paul Neurath, key members of the original System Shock team, which is generally considered the first game you could call an immersive sim, with its influence is still prevalent in the contemporary industry across the likes of Arkane’s various titles and 2K’s Bioshock series.

The origins of the game go back to its lead programmer Doug Church who, while Warren Spector was polishing up a proposal for something called Alien Commander, shared how bored he was with the then-industry’s over-reliance on genre …

Update: And just like that, the deal is done: Private equity company CVC has announced an agreement to acquire Jagex from current owner Carlyle Group in a deal that Jagex CEO Phil Mansell said will enable it to “continue to enhance our platform for the good of both our existing valued gamers and potential new gamers yet to experience our products.”

“We are huge fans of the RuneScape games, the large global community of players, and the Games-as-a-Service capability at Jagex,” CVC Sports, Media and Entertainment head Nick Clarry said. “Our ambition is to bring relevant experience from our sports, media & entertainment assets to help realise the full potential of Jagex over the years ahead.”

The cost of the acquisition agreement was not revealed but …

The answer for today’s Wordle is only a click away now you’re here, ready to dish out an easy win or turn what looked like certain defeat into an effortless victory. Need something a little less intense? Take a look at our clue for the June 19 (1096) puzzle instead, designed to give your game a bit of help while still leaving the fun bits to you.

One green, two greens, three greens, win. It’s not often I get to see fresh correct letters lined up as neatly as that, so it felt a little like I was literally chipping away at today’s answer as I travelled down the board. That was a satisfying game, I hope you enjoy it too.

Today’s Wordle hint

Wordle today: A hint for Wednesday, June 19

Brief. To the point. Text or speech that conveys the bare minimum.…

You’ll find a hint for today’s Wordle ready and waiting just a little further down this page, designed to help you get a smooth start, or untangle a mess of yellow letters before you hit the bottom of the board. We’ve got the answer to the August 29 (1167) Wordle on hand too, just in case you need it.

Nine grey letters in two guesses? C’mon Wordle, I thought we were friends. It didn’t feel like the most positive start at the time, but it did quickly rule out a lot of potential combinations, and to my surprise, I ended up winning with a few rows to spare. You can make sure you get off to a much better start than I did with today’s hint, if you like.

Today’s Wordle hint

Wordle today: A hint for Thursday, August 29

To win today’s Wordle you have to …

Halo Infinite has been on a roll lately, with its latest season having the makings of an honest-to-god comeback. The game is now well stocked with fun maps and game modes, while its battle passes have evolved from terrible to tolerable. The player count has jumped significantly, and a flood of nostalgia-bait maps from Halo 3 that will absolutely work on me are just a week away. 

The Halo community is pretty upbeat for the first time in two years, but I’d say players are almost universally displeased with the latest cosmetic launched in the Infinite shop today: the Mark V armor that Master Chief wears in the original Halo: Combat Evolved.

The design isn’t the problem—players seem to love the modern interpretation of the 22-year-old armor’s simpler polygons. The pro…

We’ve been waiting an awfully long time for something to finally drag virtual reality into the mainstream, and maybe—just maybe—this is it: Roblox, the massively popular gaming platform that draws in more people every single day than there are Canadians in Canada, is coming very soon to Meta Quest VR headsets.

The VR version of Roblox will be available on the Meta Quest 2 and Quest Pro headsets, and the new Quest 3 when it launches later this year. It will initially be available in open beta, which Meta said will be “a great opportunity for the Roblox developer community to optimize their existing games for Quest and build new ones for VR.”

Some existing Roblox “experiences,” as they’re officially known, will be published for the Roblox VR lineup automatically, b…

A class-action lawsuit has been filed in California against Stability AI, Midjourney, and DeviantArt by artists alleging these companies have infringed on their copyright. The issue largely stems from the use of copyrighted images found within massive catalogues of data used to train these companies’ AI art generation tools, which are often used without artists’ agreement or any form of compensation.

The artists are represented by the Joseph Saveri law firm (via Ars Technica), who notes “Stable Diffusion and other image-generating AI products could not exist without the work of painters, illustrators, photographers, sculptors, and other artists.”

“…The creators of these image generators violated the rights of at least thousands of artists when they created their various pr…

Deep in Baldur’s Gate 3’s mammoth patch notes for its fifth main update is a whammy of a line: “Minthara will still appear in Moonrise Towers if she was knocked out in Act 1.” That’s right⁠, it’s now easier than ever to recruit Baldur’s Gate 3’s “evil” companion without committing to an evil playthrough. Spoilers for Act 1 below.

About halfway through BG3’s first act, you can side with either Silvanus’ Grove or a marauding goblin tribe, with the former eventually netting you hunky druid Halsin as a companion, and the latter resulting in the friendship of Drow hardass Minthara. The goblin path is pretty heinous, so a lot of players (myself included) have missed out on Minthara’s unique character arc and romance subplot⁠—she placed dead last in our…