There’s a hint for today’s Wordle just below; feel free to use it to give your game the best possible start, or to stop Friday’s puzzle from slipping away from you a few guesses down the board. Hoping for something a little more direct? Then you’ll want to click through to the August 2 (1140) answer. However you win, have fun.

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When was the last time AMD’s graphics subdivision sold more graphics cards than Nvidia? According to data from industry analysts, the answer is way back in 2005 when the company was called ATI and had yet to be acquired by AMD. Ouch.

But wait, there’s good news. Kinda. The latest data from JPR shows AMD regaining some market share from Nvidia. Don’t get too excited. The new figures put AM…

In 2021, Microsoft’s gaming division published games like Forza Horizon 5, Halo Infinite, Age of Empires 4, and Psychonauts 2. It was declared Metacritic’s publisher of the year thanks to its games receiving an average metascore of 87.4, helped also to the Xbox Series X port of Microsoft Flight Simulator releasing that year. While in 2022 Microsoft backed some well-received smaller games—…

A young swordsman is caught up in a feud between rival martial arts families, and must take to the road in order to improve his skills and become a hero. It’s the delightful plot of so many fantasical wuxia stories, and Wandering Sword, a forthcoming tactical RPG from Chinese developer The Swordman Studio looks to create that rich world in beautifully-lit 2.5d style.

Wandering Sword will …

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Piranha Bytes, creators of the Gothic, Risen, and Elex series, was recently closed by parent company Embracer. That’s a shame, but there’s still one studio out there carrying the torch for ambitiously janky mid-budget European RPGs, and that’s Spiders.

The French studio responsible for games like Steelrising, The Technomancer, Bound By Flame, and Mars: War Logs is currently devel…

A recent Windows security update is causing some VPN connections to fail, Microsoft has said. The company is working on a resolution.

The KB5036893 update, known as the April security update, was first released on April 9, 2024. Since then, and after rolling out across heaps of PCs, Microsoft has noticed the inadvertent effect the update is having on virtual private networks. It’s causing…

Like millions of people around the world, I love coffee. In fact, just the thought of writing that made me go and make a mug. I also love computers and gaming, spending many hours engrossed in both of them. If only there were a way to combine all those passions into one handy system. Well, one popular engineering YouTuber has done precisely that and it’s the most glorious PC-with-coffee machine…

Remember For Honor, Ubisoft’s vikings-vs-knights-vs-samurai multiplayer melee game? It’s been some time since we last gave it a look, but here are a couple of things about it that you might find useful today: One, yes it is still running (and has actually added a pair of additional factions, the Wu Lin and Outlanders), and two, it’s free to play for a week.

For Honor is a hell of a thing.…

From the same warped mind who brought you Austin Powers in Mass Effect, here’s Shrek in Fallout 4, which takes another Mike Myers character and inserts him into a videogame where he uncannily seems to belong.

In this case maybe it’s because Fallout already has gigantic green mutants in it, or maybe because Fallout 4 is so moddable we’ve already seen it turned into anime and a musical. Alt…