Wordle hints and answer (#978): How to solve the Thursday February 22 Wordle Stuck on today’s Wordle word for February 22? Read our hint or find the answer below! Image credit:Rock Paper Shotgun This guide is for a previous day! Looking for today’s solution? Check out the Wordle hint and answer for Wednesday 11th February ! Need a hint for today’s Wordle answer? We have you covered with a list of hints followed by today’s word to help you keep track of your daily streak....

Wuthering Waves: Echoes tier list Here’s our ranking of the best Echoes in Wuthering Waves Image credit:Rock Paper Shotgun/Kuro Games Looking for a tier list of the Echoes in Wuthering Waves? Echoes are the collectible fragments of defeated creatures Wuthering Waves , and they help Kuro Games’ new entry in the gacha space stand out from the competition. You’ll farm Echoes from all the monsters you defeat in Wuthering Waves, including bosses, and Echoes also serve as makeshift armour, augmenting the abilities of each character on your team....

XDefiant was apparently born from the ashes of a Splinter Cell game being made by the team behind Dispatch Sounds like it’s quite hard to make a video game Image credit:AdHoc Studio The leads behind the, potentially surprisingly, hit superhero game Dispatch , AdHoc Studio, have been all over the place. Telltale Games, Ubisoft, Night School Studio, some pretty notable names, but today we’re honing in on their time at Ubisoft in particular....

You’ll never guess what you do in Kill The Man In The House A short, colourful FPS experiment with a free demo Image credit:cannibal Kill The Man In The House is a video game title I can get behind. It tells me exactly what I need to do before I even boot up the game, which is otherwise powerfully weird-looking. The cover art is reminiscent of a children’s book, if it were for adults....

“You get twice the amount of Oblivion this year” says Skyblivion modder undeterred by official remaster “The real remake is the friends we made along the way” Image credit:ProstoOsen / Microsoft Virtuos Games’ remaster of The Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion is all but confirmed to be releasing later this month, and honestly, even that “all but” is looking shaky. A few different sets of images from the RPG have surfaced, supporting rumours that have been kicking about since an internal Microsoft document leaked in 2020....

A string of driver hotfixes suggests Nvidia RTX 50 GPUs are having trouble keeping their software down Latest update aims to fix 17 different issues Image credit:Nvidia Nvidia have released the latest in an unusually frequent series of GeForce driver hotfixes, with the vast majority of identified issues affecting the newest RTX 50 graphics cards specifically. GeForce Hotfix Display Driver version 576.26 targets various crashing and flickering problems with, among others, Black Myth: Wukong , Forza Horizon 5 , and Red Dead Redemption 2 – though it’s the growing regularity of these patch jobs that’s more disquieting than any particular instance of game breakage....

A year on, the RTX 4050’s appeal has grown – but better laptop GPUs loom DLSS 3 lets this entry-level mobile chip do what the Steam Deck can’t. Is that enough? Image credit:Rock Paper Shotgun With a desktop version of the RTX 4050 looking less likely with every turn o’ the Earth, the true entry-level GPU among Nvidia’s current generation solely remains in the realm of gaming laptops . It’s also, I’ll admit, overdue some consideration on RPS....

Action Game Maker is RPG Maker’s sprintier, jumpier sibling With 2D functionality provided by Godot Engine Image credit:Gotcha Gotcha Games Gotcha Gotcha Games, creators of the RPG Maker series, have announced Action Game Maker . Much like its predecessors, it aims to allow users to create games in its chosen genre without any programming experience, using a “node-based visual scripting system” (draggable arrows and concepts, basically). Could this finally be the opportunity to create the legally distinct Little Shop Of Horrors management sim of my dreams?...

After a few hours, Nightingale feels like one of the weirder Elder Scrolls RPGs At its worst, it’s about fighting the UI and stripmining the scenery Image credit:Inflexion Games The major thing Inflexion’s fantasy survival sim Nightingale gets right is that it makes procedural generation feel like sorcery. “Procgen” has become a ubiquitous concept in game design and especially survival game design, and I fear we’ve all lost sight of how magical it is to summon a landscape full of idiosyncratic flourishes from a hidden dataset....

Alan Wake 2’s The Lake House is a dark, brilliant parable on the devaluation of art and artists Francis Baconnaise Image credit:Remedy/Epic There must be hundreds of typewriters in the hall, their collective clacks a tidal wave of soulless automation, rising up to greet agent Kiran Estevez as she enters, pistol and flashlight in hands. Exploring rooms to the side, Alan Wake 2 : The Lake House’s star finds whiteboards and documents revealing the typewriter’s purpose: to mimic Wake’s writing....

All 83 Elden Ring DLC boss locations in Shadow Of The Erdtree Find all 83 Elden Ring DLC bosses with our Shadow Of The Erdtree boss locations guide Image credit:Rock Paper Shotgun/Bandai Namco Searching for the locations of all 83 bosses in the Elden Ring DLC? Bosses have been the lifeblood of From Software’s games over the past 15 years, and no Elden Ring DLC would be complete without a variety of new boss encounters for players to beat themselves against for hours on end....

All Attributes in Oblivion Remastered and how they work Discover the effects behind all of the main stats in Oblivion Image credit:Rock Paper Shotgun/Bethesda Wondering what Attributes do in The Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion Remastered? In Oblivion Remastered, Attributes function as your character’s main stats. They influence your maximum health, magicka regeneration rate, running speed, and more. Needless to say, Attributes are important, and it’s necessary to understand them to create an effective build as you tackle all of the challenges across Cyrodiil and the Planes of Oblivion....

All Races and passive abilities in Abyss Looking to reroll your Race in Abyss? Use this guide to learn what passive abilities make each of them worthwhile Image credit:Rock Paper Shotgun / Deep Spirit Games Trying to figure out the right race to roll in Abyss? If you’re fishing for some big catches in this Roblox fishing RPG, you’ll want to make sure you’re doing so with the right passive skills backing you up....

All Spiritspring Stone locations in Elden Ring: Shadow Of The Erdtree Here is where to find all Spriritspring Stones in Shadow Of The Erdtree Image credit:Rock Paper Shotgun/Bandai Namco Looking for all Spiritspring Stone locations in Elden Ring: Shadow Of The Erdtree? Whilst Spiritsprings are nothing new to Elden Ring players, Shadow Of The Erdtree offers a new puzzle mechanic around these shortcuts. Some Spiritsprings in Shadow Of The Erdtree, require you to break a stone cairn nearby, also known as a ‘Spiritspring Stone’....

Space saving solution That said, the P3 is a PCIe 3.0 SSD, so it can’t match the top transfer speeds of a PCIe 4.0 drive like the SN850X. But then the P3 is easily one of the fastest 3.0 SSDs on the market, still capable of booting and loading games very nearly as quickly as a good 4.0 model. UK deals: Crucial P3 2TB - £86 (was £102) It’s also more widely compatible with older PC systems, so it’s perfect if you want to add a whole heap of quick SSD storage to an aged rig that’s still largely relying on a hard drive....

Amplitude announce Endless Legend 2, an oceanic 4X with Manor Lords outfit Hooded Horse as publisher Me Clans, me precious Roving Clans! Image credit:Hooded Horse We called Amplitude’s fiendish and fanciful strategy game Endless Legend the best 4X of 2014 , and its hexcellence hasn’t dimmed with age. “The music, the amazing variety in terrain and units, the sheer quantity of words bringing to life every last quest, minor faction, creature, and environmental anomaly,” breathed a reverential Ollie in 2023....

Avowed and the Steam Deck make for uneasy partymates It technically works, emphasis on the technically Image credit:Rock Paper Shotgun Image credit:Rock Paper Shotgun Steam Deck Academy brings together all our guides and explainers on getting the most out of your Steam Deck, no student loans or sweaty dormitories required. I’m not saying you should play Avowed on a Steam Deck , merely that you can play Avowed on a Steam Deck....

Beaver colony sim Timberborn’s biggest ever update brings a tidal wave of pollution and disease You liked good water? Well, have some bad water Image credit:Mechanistry Your favourite beaver-based colony sim Timberborn ’s latest big update has arrived, and honestly, I’d say your poor beavers won’t appreciate it one bit. The main reason being, it adds a new ecological hazard called Badwater, that doesn’t only make your water bad, but your crops and beavers at risk of being bad....

Besiege’s next expansion goes where no medieval contraption has ever gone before: space! Feeling Buzzed Aldrin about this one Image credit:Spiderling Studios More like space the final funtier am I right (cue canned laughter that goes on a touch too long)? Besiege , the physics building game about building all manner of medieval machinery to destroy your enemy, has taken you to all kinds of lands and with its 2024 expansion, The Splintered Sea, a few oceans too....

Best deals for PC gamers today: Early Prime Day deals include AMD Ryzen and LG 1ms gaming monitor Plus more storage for your Steam Deck and PC. Image credit:AMD / LG Image credit: AMD AMD Ryzen 5 5500 6-Core Desktop Processor Price: $66.00 Original: $159.00 Discount: 58% See here You’re getting a 6-core, 12-thread unlocked CPU with a cooler for $66. It’ll handle 1080p gaming like a champ and doesn’t break the bank....