Following yesterday’s surprise assault on the Xzar system by the Automaton menace, the helldivers are in shambles. Squads are failing Planet Defense campaigns in droves as players complain that the new civilian rescue missions are way too difficult. Helldivers 2’s galactic war is changing at a pace we don’t usually see in a multiplayer game: As players complete one conquest, developer Arrowhead then triggers new planetary conflicts as lightly narrativized events.

24 hours into the war’s new front, a red progress bar that’s longer than a blue progress bar suggests the robots are winning. With just four hours remaining on the countdown above the planet Draupnir, Super Earth might suffer its first major loss.

Is a (non-Terminid) bug to blame? Possibly. Just hours after yesterda…

Originally released in 2005, and developed by the Ukrainian studio Deep Shadows, Boiling Point: Road to Hell is an extremely buggy, flawed, and some would claim unforgettable open world FPS. It arrived at a time when open worlds were relatively uncommon and, well, kinda showed why: the game was absolutely overreaching in its goals, and pratfalled at nearly every turn. Now it’s being re-released on both Steam and GOG.

Get a load of the Steam store description. “Upon finding out his daughter has been kidnapped in the pseudo-South American country of Realia, Saul Myers, a veteran of the French Foreign Legion, must head to Realia on a rescue mission.” Saul Myers himself is a candidate for most forgettable protagonist ever, but that’s of a piece with a cast that includes the likes of v…

Thinking back on 2020 now is a bit of a weird experience, like looking back on a time that never was. Amidst all the turmoil in that particularly difficult year, there were at least some GPU launches to keep us busy while we weathered the storm, and of particular note was the launch of several of the RX 6000-series of AMD GPUs. 

We’ve just spotted a version of a particular stalwart of that generation, the Radeon RX 6800, in the form of the XFX Speedster SWFT 319 RX 6800 for $380 at Walmart, and even today its still got the sort of performance that gives some of the more modern cards a run for their money.

For a start, check out that VRAM, all 16GB of it. VRAM has been a bit of a contentious issue in more recent times, what with a fair bit of backlash for the RTX 4060 Ti…

If you need a quick clue to help you win today’s Wordle, you’ll be pleased to know we’ve got a fresh one just a short scroll away. And if you don’t? Scroll anyway, and either take a look at our general tips or take away the pressure with the answer to the May 2 (1048) Wordle.

I’m not sure I could be more annoyed with myself right now—today’s Wordle could have given me a lightning-fast win in two if it weren’t for one letter. Maybe tomorrow will be my lucky day, and today was just a test run? I suppose there’s only one way to find out.

Today’s Wordle hint

Wordle today: A hint for Thursday, May 2

Amongst other things, today’s word can describe a sharp cut with a knife, or the result of a controlled cut through a piece of fruit or meat. Bread …

Like the industrial revolution itself, Victoria 3 forges ahead with patches and expansions, tearing asunder the idiocy of rural life, melting all that was once solid into the air, and faring relatively poorly in the Steam reviews for its DLC (the Steam reviews for capitalism would have been terrible in 1848, which is probably why they didn’t have them). 

But the game’s next DLC is adding some ordem to all that progresso, taking us away from the empires of Europe in order to focus on South America, particularly Brazil.

Victoria 3’s Colossus of the South DLC is a narrative-focused “region pack” that will drop alongside the game’s 1.5 update on November 14, just over two weeks from now. Marketed as a “new type of product for Victoria,” these region packs …