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Amazon Fall Prime Day is officially over. If you couldn’t partake in the two-day festival of discounts, don’t fret. Many of the best Prime Day deals are still live and in stock. If you’re still looking to upgrade your hardware and save money, these are remaining deals we most recommend checking out.

The best deal of the week is a 32-inch Alienware 34 OLED display for $800. It’s still expensive at that price, of course, but it’s not only one of the best curved ultrawide monitors you can buy, it’s also one of the best OLEDs on the market.

In our review, we were blown away by its impressive response time and brightness, which has been a pain point with many OLED gaming displays this year. 

This RTX 4070-powered MSI Aegis R for $1,500 stands out because of its 2TB S…

Fans of smooth movement be advised: Schmoovement has been found in new indie release Pseudoregalia, which hit Steam Friday the 28th from developer rittzler. It’s an exploration-focused Metroidvania platformer that starts simple with little jumps and develops a lot of cool movement synergy as you unlock new abilities.

It also has a chunky, low-poly, retro-inspired vibe, if you’re into that kind of thing.

The simple story revolves around Sybil, who finds herself pulled into a distorted and strange castle “deep within the realm of sleep.” It’s a technically-competent surrealist landscape to platform around, and frames the entire game pretty well, because the real focus here is on platforming and exploring in a way unencumbered by requirements that you do things in proper order …

Back in February, Elodie Games teased a new co-op action RPG codenamed Project Skies. Today it officially revealed the game, and it’s fair to say that things have changed just a little bit between then and now: It’s called Seekers of Skyveil, and it’s a “PvPvE fantasy extraction RPG” that blends conventional APRG mechanics with an unusual mix of other influences from games like League of Legends and Escape From Tarkov.

Seekers of Skyveil teams players up in groups of three “Seekers” and sends them out into a lush fantasy world on a quest for loot and treasure. But rather than a linear grind where you can come and go and run around as you like, in this game the clock is ticking and you can’t just head for home whenever you feel like it: There’s no town portal mechanic, so the only …

Get your weekly Wordle off to a flying start with our help. Take a peek at our tips if you’d like to give your daily game a fresh angle, read a clue for the April 1 (1017) puzzle if you’d like some direction, or click through to today’s answer if you want to win. Whatever happens, you’re no April Fool.

After my first two rows, I felt pretty sure I was well on my way to a win streak destroying loss, with only a single green letter to my name and no real clue what to do with it. Thankfully my next guess instantly turned the whole game around, today’s answer suddenly appearing as if it had been there all along.

Wordle today: A hint

Wordle today: A hint for Monday, April 1

Thinking of plants and trees will help you win today’s Wordle—leaves, sp…

Feeling a little stumped by today’s Wordle? Don’t worry about it—all the help you need is ready and waiting below. You’ll find the answer to the July 14 (755) game a quick scroll or click away, as well as a clue for today’s puzzle and a wide range of tips and guides designed to make every game that little bit easier.

Oof, this one hurt. Halfway down the board, all I had to show for my efforts were an unhelpful pair of greens and no ideas, so I knew it was time to change tactics. I made a short list of all the letters I had remaining and worked backwards from there, slotting likely candidates into place until I finally reached today’s Wordle answer.

Today’s Wordle hint

A Wordle hint for Friday, July 14

Traditionally today’s answer is another…

Blaze through your daily Wordle with a cheeky little peek at today’s answer. Or, if you’d rather take your time, feel free to take a look at our general tips or the clue written especially for the April 30 (1046) game. However you want to win, we can help.

Ah, so if it’s not that it’s got to be… no, never mind. I had that thought a few times in a row today, as four green letters sat next to one very stubborn grey. I would’ve liked to have wrapped this game up a little earlier than I did, but then again I’m not sure finding that last letter would have felt as good if I’d got the Wordle answer straight away.

Today’s Wordle hint

Wordle today: A hint for Tuesday, April 30

A predator on the hunt, stealthily stalking its prey, would be doing thi…

Suicide Squad: Kill the Justice League flopped badly when it launched earlier this year, and it hasn’t shown any signs of turning things around. At the moment, SteamDB indicates that 161 people are currently playing the game on Steam, and while that isn’t the whole picture—Suicide Squad is also available on Xbox and PlayStation—it’s sure not a sign of good things happening.

The persistently near-subterranean player counts has led to worries that WB Games might do a Redfall and pull the plug on planned future updates—although hopefully without pulling the plug on the entire development studio in the process. From a business perspective, it’s not an unreasonable suggestion: Why put however much money a full year of content takes to create (presumably a lot) for the…

In an interview with Aftermath, Yanis Varoufakis, former economist in residence at Valve, says that the company unintentionally prototyped the digital economic hellscape we’re currently forced to languish under. That hellscape is the subject of his book Technofeudalism: What Killed Capitalism, published earlier this year, and it’s one he says he helped create.

As Varoufakis describes it, we no longer live under capitalism. Instead, he says we’re in the age of “technofeudalism,” a condition which emerged from and supplanted capitalism. The essential feature of this new era, according to the economist, are algorithmic fiefdoms that masquerade as marketplaces, extracting rent and dictating the terms of exchange while producing none of the goods themselves. Amazon is a p…

These days Disney has its fingers in everything, but not so long ago the company was firmly in its old lane of animation powerhouse and theme park operator. With videogames in particular, Disney struggled to do much beyond licensing its characters, perhaps the biggest success being the collaboration with Square Enix that resulted in the Kingdom Hearts series. 

In the mid-2000s something changed, and Disney decided to grasp the nettle and make its own big-budget game with its most iconic character: the House of Mouse had acquired Junction Point Studios, a dream team founded and headed up by Warren Spector, and Epic Mickey began.

The idea behind the game had been floating around Disney for a while (though it hinged on re-acquiring the rights to Oswald the Lucky Rabbit), a…