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HomeHardwareNews Valve’s ARM64 game testing points towards new Steam hardware, if vaguelyARM offensive ARM offensive Image credit:Rock Paper Shotgun Image credit:Rock Paper Shotgun SteamDBreveals a piece of software named ‘ValveTestApp3043620’ that’s associated with dozens of PC games, ranging fromLeft 4 Dead 2andGarry’s ModtoAmong UsandHollow Knight, which in turn have tags like ‘proton-arm64ec’ and ‘proton-arm64ec-experimental’. To “Occam’s Razor” an explanation for this, the mysterious app suggests that Valve are testing out a version of Proton (the compatibility layer that makes Windows games run on the Linux-based SteamOS) that could work on ARM64 processors....

HomeGuidesWordle Wordle hints and answer (#1192): How to solve the Monday September 23 WordleStuck on the Wordle word for September 23? Read our hint or find the answer below! Stuck on the Wordle word for September 23? Read our hint or find the answer below! Image credit:Rock Paper Shotgun Image credit:Rock Paper Shotgun This guide is for a previous day! Looking for today’s solution? Check out theWordle hint and answer for Wednesday 8th January!...

HomeGuidesNYT Connections Connections hints and answers for Sun, September 22ndNeed some Connections hints today? Read our guide for help with Connections #468. Need some Connections hints today? Read our guide for help with Connections #468. Image credit:Rock Paper Shotgun/NYT Image credit:Rock Paper Shotgun/NYT This guide is for a previous day! Looking for today’s solution? Check out theConnections hint for Wednesday 8th January! Looking for a hint to help with today’s Connections puzzle on 22nd September?...

HomeFeatures What’s on your bookshelf?: why have you put pumpkin spice in my grandfather’s ashes editionread-only read-only Image credit:oldbookillustrations.com Image credit:oldbookillustrations.com Booked For The Weekis our weekly chat with industry folk about the books they love, have loved, and are hoping to love in the future.Hello reader who is also a reader, and welcome back to Booked For The Week - our regular Sunday chat with a selection of cool industry folks about books!...

HomeGuidesWordle Wordle hints and answer (#1191): How to solve the Sunday September 22 WordleStuck on today’s Wordle word for September 22? Read our hint or find the answer below! Stuck on today’s Wordle word for September 22? Read our hint or find the answer below! Image credit:Rock Paper Shotgun Image credit:Rock Paper Shotgun This guide is for a previous day! Looking for today’s solution? Check out theWordle hint and answer for Wednesday 8th January!...

HomeGuidesNYT Connections Connections hints and answers for Sat, September 21stNeed some Connections hints today? Read our guide for help with Connections #467. Need some Connections hints today? Read our guide for help with Connections #467. Image credit:Rock Paper Shotgun/NYT Image credit:Rock Paper Shotgun/NYT This guide is for a previous day! Looking for today’s solution? Check out theConnections hint for Wednesday 8th January! Looking for a hint to help with today’s Connections puzzle on 21st September?...

HomeNewsHomeworld 3 Homeworld 3’s coming paid DLC and free updates will now all launch in November, instead of running into 2025For better or worse For better or worse Image credit:Gearbox Image credit:Gearbox Homeworld 3is condensing its release schedule for post-launch updates. Instead of free and paid content arriving into 2025, it will all - three free updates, and two paid DLCs - arrive together in a “one major update” in November....

HomeNewsGrunn Sokpop’s possibly haunted gardening game Grunn will launch next monthFrom the Bernband developer From the Bernband developer Image credit:Sokpop Collective Image credit:Sokpop Collective Grunnis a self-described “extremely normal gardening game”, in which you tend to a garden, explore different realities, and try not to die. We’ve been excited to get our hands on its shears for a while, thanks in part to an excellent demo, and in part due to it being from Sokpop Collective member andBernbanddeveloper Tom van den Boogaart....

HomeNewsThe Finals The Finals' fourth season kicks off next week with a new map, new tutorial and the return of ranked CashoutThe teaser trailer is great, too The teaser trailer is great, too Image credit:Embark Studios Image credit:Embark Studios The Finals' fourth season approaches. It’ll kick off on September 26th, with a new map, a new tutorial and the restoration of Cashout as the core ranked mode. There’s a new trailer below, which is worth watching even if you don’t play The Finals, says I....

HomeGuidesWordle Wordle hints and answer (#1190): How to solve the Saturday September 21 WordleStuck on today’s Wordle word for September 21? Read our hint or find the answer below! Stuck on today’s Wordle word for September 21? Read our hint or find the answer below! Image credit:Rock Paper Shotgun Image credit:Rock Paper Shotgun This guide is for a previous day! Looking for today’s solution? Check out theWordle hint and answer for Wednesday 8th January!...

HomeGuidesNYT Connections Connections hints and answers for Fri, September 20thNeed some Connections hints? Read our guide for help with Connections #466. Need some Connections hints? Read our guide for help with Connections #466. Image credit:Rock Paper Shotgun/NYT Image credit:Rock Paper Shotgun/NYT This guide is for a previous day! Looking for today’s solution? Check out theConnections hint for Wednesday 8th January! Looking for a hint to help with today’s Connections puzzle on 20th September?...

HomeReviewsFinal Fantasy XVI Final Fantasy 16 review: if it were half as big it’d be twice as goodClive service game Clive service game Image credit:Square Enix Image credit:Square Enix I’m reasonably sureFinal Fantasy 16isn’t the longestFinal FantasyI’ve ever played, but it feels that way, for a multitude of reasons. The major one is that a lot of its quests exist to create distance between places and plot beats. They are overwritten errands such as bringing people lunch or fetching herbs or carrying letters - dessicated, MMO-ish fare, thrust into a moderately enjoyable action-RPGfor the sake of incremental worldbuilding and scale....

HomeFeatures From Blizzard to Bethesda, game unions are sweeping the industry - here’s how the CWA helps make them happenAn interview with an organiser at the Communications Workers Of America An interview with an organiser at the Communications Workers Of America Image credit:Communications Workers Of America Image credit:Communications Workers Of America “We have been sold this myth for a very long time that unions have to be for blue collar workers in an industrial setting in the early 1900s,” Autumn Mitchell tells me....