Star Wars Outlaws isn’t out yet, but you can already buy extra Star Wars Outlaws. As usual for the publisher, Ubisoft is selling a season pass for its big open world Star Wars adventure that promises to dole out more story over the next six months or so.

One of these extra stories has already stirred a bit of controversy: the “Jabba’s Gambit exclusive mission” caused a stir when websites came under the impression that the famed galactic gangster would be stuck behind an extra paywall, but Ubi clarified that Jabba is one of the four syndicate leaders of the base game and will be featured extensively in the main story. False alarm, but still a bummer to have day one content locked behind an extra buy.

Today’s new info is what exactly those other two story packs will entail. First up is “Wild Card” (Fall 2024), where Kay Vess is hired to “infiltrate a high-stakes Sabacc tournament, but as she crosses paths with the notorious gambler Lando Calrissian, she soon learn…

We liked the action-RPG Last Epoch an awful lot when we most recently looked at it, calling its skill system “a brilliant new twist” on those offered by Diablo and Path of Exile. But that was in 2019, and we haven’t heard anything from the game since—until tonight, when Judd Cobler, founder and CEO of developer Eleventh Hour Games, appeared on the stage at Gamescom’s Opening Night Live to show off its upcoming Runes of Power update and the powerful new Runemaster mage class.

Eleventh Hour was founded by members of the /gamedev subreddit in 2017, with the singular goal of developing “the perfect ARPG.” After a successful Kickstarter campaign in 2018, Last Epoch went live in early access on Steam, slowly evolving its systems based on player feedback and becoming a low-key ARPG hit in the process.

“From the beginning, we wanted to create a different kind of studio that actually involved the player base in fundamental design decisions,” Cobler said. “It’s fair to say t…

The Nvidia RTX 4070 looks like it’s effectively had its base price cut from $600 down to $550 as a host of retailers and manufacturers are now offering cards for a new cut-down price. And one of them is a frickin’ Across the Spider-Verse card. 

Our colleagues at Tom’s Hardware spotted the trend, and this is certainly in response to the reception given the recent AMD Radeon RX 7800 XT, which launched at $500 and was warmly received. I mean, I liked it, but that’s mostly because it was a full $100 cheaper than the RTX 4070 and performed as well, if not better in a lot of games.

But at just $50—a price delta completely swallowed up by most third-party RX 7800 XT cards—it’s not quite so compelling. It’s frame rate advantage is modest in most cases, that 16GB GDDR6 isn’t so convincing against the RTX 4070’s 12GB GDDR6X, and is significantly disadvantaged when it comes to any game that heavily features ray tracing.

Plus, the RTX 4070 gets DLSS 3…

Well, here’s an article that future acquaintances will find when they Google my name for the rest of my life. You remember that Witcher 3 next-gen update? The one that polished the 2015 game to a mirror-sheen, finally added a fast travel point to Crow’s Nest, and integrated a bunch of popular mods into the base game? Well, it looks like one of those mods has added some searingly detailed genitals to the game’s more, ah, feminine monsters (thanks[?] Kotaku).

Now, the original Witcher 3 was plenty risqué as it is. The war that ravaged Temeria may have killed thousands, but it didn’t defeat anyone’s Woodstock spirit. All manner of characters cheerily greeted Geralt with their delicates on parade, but what makes this update odd is the characters it applies to and how perfectly manicured it all is.

So let’s drop the evasiveness, Kotaku’s fearless investigation turned up exhaustively-modelled vulvae on four characters in particular: The Crones of Crookback Bog (in their…

Newegg has an RX 6600 XT GPU on sale for $259.99, the cheapest we’ve seen it since its launch, and about $120 below than its original MSRP. Not a bad option if you’re looking for a budget GPU for an AMD build. 

The ASRock Challenger D RX 6600 XT should provide solid 1080p gameplay, slightly passing the RTX 3060 in performance and just a hair under the RTX 3060 Ti, which retails for around $400.

It was initially hard to recommend this RDNA 2 GPU because it was priced too high compared to the RTX 3060 Ti at launch, with its MSRP of $379. At this price, however, the RX 6600 XT is a strong choice for a 1080p GPU to stuff into a budget build, with good cooling and power efficiency.

We also like this graphics card over Intel’s affordable A750 GPU, which it beats at 1080p performance and sometimes even at 1440p. 

AMD’s FSR upscaling tech can give you a nice frame rate boost (sometimes 2.4x, according to AMD) on supported games, too. Like Nvidia’s DLSS tec…

Let’s finish the weekend with a win. You can go straight for the answer to today’s Wordle if you like—it’s only a quick click away, after all. Or maybe you’d rather spend some time with a fresh clue written especially for the June 9 (1086) game instead? However you want to win, we can help.

Wordle really made me work hard to find today’s answer, although “find” is perhaps too strong a word. It was really more of a “please let this be right, I’ve got nothing left to offer and all the letters I wanted to use have already turned grey” kind of scenario. Let’s hope Monday’s game is a little more relaxing.

Wordle today: A hint

Wordle today: A hint for Sunday, June 9

The answer today is the name of the tenth letter in the Greek alphabet as well as a mythical being from Japanese folklore that lives near ponds and rivers.  

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Is there a double letter in Wordle today? 

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The answer to today’s Wordle is waiting just below, alongside a wide range of handy tips and tricks, as well as a clue written especially for the April 21 (671) puzzle. Take your pick—you’re in complete control.

It took far too long today to pin that first green down, and in the end, it didn’t matter anyway because that green didn’t help me half as much as I’d hoped it would, solving one problem and leaving four others as mysterious and unsolved as they were before. I’d like to tell you I scraped by with a victory right at the end, but this was one of those days where today’s Wordle really didn’t come together for me at all.

Wordle hint

A Wordle hint for Friday, April 21

This word’s the name of a narrow boat with pointed ends, propelled along by a double-ended paddle. There’s only one vowel to uncover in this palindrome. 

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Is there a double letter in today’s Wordle? 

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Tony Hawk’s Pro Skater 1 + 2 is a (admittedly confusingly-named) remake of the first two entries in the hit skating series, smashing the first two games into one new shiny package. It’s also unexpectedly dropping onto Steam October 3, as announced by the game’s official Twitter account.

A brush-up of the 1999 and 2000s classics, the game feels like a bit of an apology letter after the disaster of Tony Hawk’s Pro Skater 5. Justin Towell gave it a 86 in his review when it was released in 2020, but it might’ve passed you by if the Epic Games store isn’t really your jam.

For a remake of a game from the early 2000s heyday of Ska music and pogs, it doesn’t seem to have bailed when it comes to the nostalgia factor. As Towell writes: “Crucially, Tony Hawk’s Pro Skater 1 + 2 feels like the series did in its heyday, even if the games aren’t exactly the same as the originals.”

The Steam page is already up, so you can go ahead and wishlist it if you’d like—you can even g…

You know those dystopian notions of seas boiling over thanks to climate change? Well, China has a neat idea to accelerate a process which is already giving us the warmest sea surface temps on record. Heating up the oceans directly with computers.

OK, that’s rather facetious; there have been numerous studies into such an endeavour, with Microsoft running a similar setup for two years near the Orkney Islands just off Scotland with some ecological success. But China has reportedly begun construction on what’s claimed to be the world’s first undersea data center. Allegedly, once complete the facility will have the computing power of “six million conventional personal computers.”

It’s unclear exactly what that means or what the hardware involved comprises. But it will be made of of no fewer than 100 of the huge looking “nodes” pictured above, each of which weighs an incredible 1,300 tons. However, you slice it, then, it’s a lot of kit being submerged 35m under water off the c…