What’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,…

Let’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. 

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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…

One 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…

Frostpunk 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…

We’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 …

During 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…

Stardew Valley is a game known for its cosy homegrown feel, with complex, well-written characters populating a little village trying to scrape by under the looming shadow of a mega-corporation. So obviously, an AI company made a mod that scrapes out their personalities and replaces them with a large language model, with the appetising sales pitch: “By default, there are 33 provided brains.”

InworldAI promises to “craft characters with distinct personalities and contextual awareness that stay in-world or on brand.” Watching Pelican Town’s civilians rattle off lines of inoffensive text, however, feels like I’ve stumbled into some alternate JojaMart bad ending, where all the textured characters of Stardew Valley have been body-snatched by clones.

Stardew Valley works well becau…

There’s a clue for today’s Wordle waiting just below if you need it, a handcrafted hint to help light the way. And if you don’t, that just leaves you with more time to browse our general tips and guides, there to ensure every guess is as productive as possible. Need something more direct? You’ve got it. The answer for the October 3 (836) Wordle is only a click away.

I rushed into Wordle today on pure instinct alone, and felt a wave of dread wash over me as my thoughtless effort returned four greys and a single green. Well, no turning back now. Somehow my second guess ended up more than pulling its weight, almost filling out the entire row with more green letters—and once they were in place, the Wordle answer soon turned up.

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Valve’s been hard at work on upgrades to the Steam client recently, and that means testing those upgrades before they roll out and break your launcher. Normal stuff, right? Anyway, to that end they need more people to test it, so they’re asking for that—and making it easier to do so, with a new one-click opt-in to testing.

“We’re introducing a one-click opt-in, to make it easy for you to try out all the new features and provide feedback. Once the features ship to everyone on Steam, your client will be updated to the latest public version available,” said Valve in an announcement.

Steam’s big public beta includes a revamped game overlay and notifications system. One system lets you use a whole new notes app, which you can use to record info about your game that’ll …