Month: September 2024

Brazil’s gaming scene doesn’t get enough attention, Wes said in his feature on Brazilian gamers and developers last year, but it will get a big publicity bump soon thanks to Steam’s first-ever Made in Brazil Sale, which will kick off tomorrow with more than 500 games made by Brazilian teams.

The sale was the brainchild of BitCake Studio founder Eduardo Lamhut, who tweeted about his plan for the sale back in September 2022. From there, BitCake coordinated the development and approval of the sale, which has attracted more than 250 game companies and a range of genres “from action and adventure to strategy and simulation.”

“Talking to other developers, we suddenly realized that there was never a Steam sale just for Brazilian games,” Lamhut said. “We’ve already seen sales focuse…

It increasingly feels like I need a full alignment chart matrix to accurately describe the intersection of cozy games and farm sims. Were I to build such a chart then Grave Seasons would be in the “lawful evil” category. It’s got those cute pixel visuals that immediately get clocked as cozy and it’s got farming and romantic entanglement with townsfolk except wait, it’s actually about catching a serial killer. And if you aren’t careful you might romance the culprit before you figure out who it is.

Grave Seasons is currently in development by indie studio Perfect Garbage and has been having a bit of a moment over on the cozy games corner of TikTok. Studio director Son M made a pretty compelling pitch for it on Twitter back in 2021, saying:

“I want to make a farming simulator m…

Update: There are now six, not five, 1440p gaming monitor deals we think are well worth their salt in the sub-$200 bracket, thanks to the Gigabyte G27Q being on sale for a cent shy of $200. This adds another IPS monitor to the list, too.

Prime Day is as good as here, and monitor vendors seem to be going a little ham in the sub-$200 1440p department, offering these five cracking discounts for what were, until pretty recently, some of the best gaming monitors on the market. These aren’t your run-of-the-mill sub-100 Hz displays, either, because each of them features a refresh rate of 165Hz or higher.

• We’re curating the best Prime Day PC gaming deals right here.

Display technology seems to b…

Don’t panic if the June 13 (1090) Wordle’s giving you a heap of trouble, because we’ve got today’s answer right here, ready to help you win. A bit too much? Then why not take a look at a helpful hint for today’s game instead? However you want to win, we can help.

What a fun game that was. I loved seeing the Wordle answer build up just that little bit more with each guess, seeing one more yellow turn green and fresh clues pop up as I went. I won’t win any speed records for that one, but I had a great time with it.

Today’s Wordle hint

Wordle today: A hint for Thursday, June 13

You might use this word when describing a personal feeling of sadness or anxiety, a strong fear or worry. The sensation is often more existential than caused by something spe…

Turn your Wordle around in an instant with a quick click through to today’s answer, or make sure you start off on the right track with our freshly-written clue for the April 6 (1022) game. However you want to play today, we’ve got the help you need.

“Yep, yep, nope, oh heck, save me, I think I’ve got this” is pretty much how today’s Wordle went for me. It took five goes before I found a green letter that made the few clues I’d gathered fall into place, and even though I did manage to find today’s answer just in time I can see that it still could’ve gone very badly for me on that last row. Let’s hope tomorrow’s game is a little less stressful.

Today’s Wordle hint

Wordle today: A hint for Saturday, April 6

You’ll need a bird brain to solve today’s …

There’s no getting around it: if you’re looking to pick up an RTX 4080 graphics card this holiday, the deals aren’t that impressive. Of the best GPU deals we’ve gathered, most sites are only cutting prices by $50-$100 bucks, the most elusive among them being the RTX 4080.

Good RTX 4080 deals are so rare that we’ve already seen one sell out—a $140-off deal for a Gigabyte card at Best Buy. Rest in peace, but the good news is there’s a Newegg deal that’s nearly as good still in stock: the MSI Ventus GeForce RTX 4080 16GB can currently be snagged for $1,080 at Newegg.

Just 20 bucks shy of the sold-out Best Buy card. Not too shabby, but be aware that’s only after going through Newegg’s $30 rebate process and punching in the $20 discount code BFCCY2Z36 at ch…

For a game notoriously bereft of major updates, Team Fortress 2 sure does seem to be everywhere recently. Or, more specifically, its voice cast is. When they’re not scouring suburban America for sandwiches, they’re performing adaptations of Europop classics (also for sandwiches). But now they’ve embarked on their strangest, most avant-garde quest yet: Playing Team Fortress 2.

The video was put together by a TF2 YouTuber named ShorK, and features Dennis Bateman (TF2’s Spy and Pyro), Gary Schwartz (The Heavy and Demoman), Robin Atkin Downes (The Medic), John Patrick Lowrie (The Sniper), and Ellen McLain (The Administrator) as they play a few rounds of TF2 as the characters they voice. How good are they? Well, uh… Look, it’s their first time playing, alright?

That’s righ…

Qualcomm has just taken the wraps off its new Snapdragon X range of laptop PC chips, giving us the full details of its first flush of ARM-based CPUs and a new lower-end model, too. The NEW Snapdragon X Plus processors will sit alongside the higher-spec X Elite chips, bringing the ARM architecture to the traditionally x86 dominated Windows desktop.

And, honestly, the new Qualcomm chips are the single piece of PC technology I’m most excited about seeing this year. With the promise that standard Windows games will “just work” with the Snapdragon X series, and the expectation that we are looking at performance levels around the already impressive AMD RDNA 3-based Radeon 780M built into the best of the red team’s laptop chips and the best handheld gaming PCs around, there’s some real p…

Scroll down the page and you’ll soon find a hint for today’s Wordle, designed to give your guesses a gentle prod towards the solution, while still leaving you with enough room to make your own fun. Need something more to the point? Then you’ll want to click or scroll to the March 2 (987) answer, ready and waiting to save your win streak.

Obvious. In plain sight. Practically laid out before me. That’s what today’s Wordle was—after I’d spent too many guesses chasing one particular letter around the board, desperately trying to make it flip from yellow to green. I’m glad I found the answer with a little room to spare, but I’m hoping for a better game tomorrow. 

Today’s Wordle hint

Wordle today: A hint for Saturday, Marc…

There are a few ways to get around in survival RPG Enshrouded. Running, obviously, and using your grappling hook to yank yourself across broken bridges and chasms. There’s also plenty of fast travel between ancient spires, your bases, and any flame altars you’ve placed in the world. Best of all you can leap off something tall and use a glider to soar across the landscape until you run out of stamina.

But have you considered… just going to sleep instead? One Enshrouded player has discovered a glitch that means jumping into your bed actually sends you floating into the air and across the sky for as long as you want, all while expending zero effort.

You can fly to any point on the map using a single bed from r/Enshrouded

In the…