Guide your NYT Connections game to victory with our help. Find focus amongst the word soup with our hints if you just need a little push—we promise we won’t give the puzzle away. Well, not unless you want us to, anyway. If you need help saving today’s puzzle or simply want to make sure you win the Thursday, September 7 (88) Connections no matter what, just keep on scrolling and you’ll soon find all the answers you need.
“Hiding in plain sight” describes my problem with today’s Connection. I saw what eventually ended up being today’s answers almost instantly—and because I did, I decided that they couldn’t possibly be right. A few wasted goes later I gave my first thought a try, mostly out of frustration—and won.
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They’ve been a long time coming. But the hot new generation of 4K gaming OLEDs have finally arrived. And the new MSI MAG 321UPX is easily the cheapest of the bunch.
At $899 from Newegg, it’s miles cheaper than the $1,299 Asus ROG Swift OLED PG32UCDM that we reviewed recently and that uses exactly the same 32-inch Samsung QD-OLED panel and has virtually identical specs across the board.
So, what exactly are those specs? We’re talking 32 inches of Samsung QD-OLED glory, 3,840 by 2,160 pixels, 240Hz refresh and 0.03ms response. Yum.
The result, on that Asus at least, is a gaming monitor that takes a decisive step towards perfection. You’ve now got the killer combination of super-tight 4K pixel density with that signature OLED per-pixel lighting and stellar contrast.…
Read moreElectronic Arts CEO Andrew Wilson announced today that the company is “advancing the way we work and continuing to evolve our business,” and by that he means it will be laying off approximately 5% of its workforce.
Wilson’s message begins with a triumphant note about how EA is “entertaining, inspiring, and connecting more people with more content and deeper experiences than ever before.” He goes on to say that previous restructuring efforts at EA, specifically leadership changes announced in 2023, “have positioned us to build bigger, bolder experiences for hundreds of millions of players and fans around the world.”
Then he really kicks it into gear: “As a company full of creators and storytellers, we believe in the value of teams innovating together, and continue to learn an…
Read moreDiablo 4 concluded its second and final beta period last weekend, and the numbers are in. The two beta weekends—which ran from March 17 to March 20 and March 24 to March 27—made up the largest beta in Diablo history, with over 2.6 million players hitting level 20 and earning themselves a coveted wolf puppy backpack.
Players managed to collectively spend 61.5 million hours in Diablo 4 over the course of the beta, an amount of time equal to over 7000 calendar years. That’s, uh, that’s too much time. If we bottled all that time up to use however we liked, we’d be able to travel back to the construction of the pyramids and still have 2000 or so years to spare. Diablo is too powerful, and must be stopped.
But there are plenty of other enormous numbers to distract us f…
Read moreWhat’s in a name? While we wouldn’t blame you for relying on the tried and trusted heavyweight names in PC hardware when picking out components for your next upgrade, sometimes it’s worth giving the new kids on the block a once over, just in case they have something interesting going on under the hood. Sometimes great deals on great components are to be found simply by doing a little digging past the name on the box.
Case in point: The Nextorage Japan 1TB Gen 4 NVMe SSD. We wouldn’t blame you if the name looks unfamiliar, as Nextorage has only been a name in the hardware industry since 2019 when it was created by Sony to build SSDs for the PlayStation 5. However, once Phison took a controlling stake in the company and imbued its latest drives with the mighty Phison E18 controller,…
Read moreLet’s sort out your first Wordle win of the weekend. We’ve got a few tips just below that’ll help with every guess you make and a clue for the June 29 (1106) puzzle to give you a little guidance too. Running out of rows? No problem. The answer to today’s Wordle is ready to save your game.
One of today’s yellow letters turned out to be the key to winning this one. If it couldn’t go there then that meant the only spot left was… and that meant… got it. I don’t think I could’ve asked for a more enjoyable Saturday Wordle.
Today’s Wordle hint
Wordle today: A hint for Saturday, June 29
Plains, mountain, and Grévy’s are the three types of today’s answer. These stripy equines live wild in East and South Africa, and like…
Read moreOne of the new base game features in The Sims 4 called Romantic Boundaries is attempting to mimic real relationships that are “nuanced and complex” by letting players tweak their Sims’ preferences around exclusivity and jealousy.
Arriving in the upcoming Lovestruck expansion. “[You can] define the conditions under which your Sims become jealous,” according to the patch notes. “These live in Create-A-Sim alongside the Gender and Sexual Orientation options in the Identity Panel, and you can change them at any point in time.”
There are different levels of jealousy that you can assign to Sims now: getting jealous at non-physical romance, physical romance, “WooHoo”, or if you don’t want to have to deal with all that emotional mess, you can change it so that they won’t get jealo…
Read moreFrostpunk 2 is set to launch on July 25, 2024, and ahead of it arrives this specially designed RX 7700 XT from Sapphire.
I just caught a peek of this card ahead of release at Computex and I’m way more into it than I thought I’d be. At first, I thought it to be your fairly standard promotional card—more or less just the game’s promotional materials printed on the backplate. But it’s not that.
Once out of its box, it was revealed to be far more in-keeping with the game’s actual setting: bleak, cold, and snowy. A two-tone design is something we don’t see much of in graphics cards, yet I think it works here pretty well.
It’s based on Sapphire’s Radeon RX 7700 XT 12GB, an all-white card available for around $430. The Frostpunk 2 version will be around $20 &ndash…
Read moreWe’ve got some general tips that’ll help with your daily Wordle right here if you’re not sure how to approach the evergreen puzzle game, as well as a hint for the June 22 (1099) challenge if you need it. You’ll also find today’s answer further down if you’re really stuck. Here’s to your latest win.
I’d like to personally thank my second Wordle guess today for quickly revealing three green letters in exactly the right places, leaving me with a perfect little set of gaps to fill and no word other than today’s answer worth trying. Wait, now what? What am I supposed to do until tomorrow?
Today’s Wordle hint
Wordle today: A hint for Saturday, June 22
Today’s answer is a formal word, one used for official commands or declarations. These orders will be …
Read moreDuring Microsoft’s Developer Direct event on Thursday, developer Ninja Theory announced Senua’s Saga: Hellblade 2 is out May 21st.
“Senua is on the trail of the Vikings who’ve been enslaving her people,” says writer Lara Derham. That brings her to Iceland, where she’ll be fighting “giants who’ve plunged the lands into chaos, which in turns has seen the rise of the Draugr, which has swept through the settlements she’ll discover.”
The presentation for Senua’s Saga heavily emphasized all the technology behind the sequel’s “next level” presentation, including a new motion capture studio and immersive binaural audio. They also apparently had a blast going on several trips to Iceland to scout around to make Senua’s Saga as authentic as possible, which I’m not jealous about a…
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