Today’s Wordle answer for Monday, February 10

Relax, you’re about to solve your daily Wordle game without any fuss, near-losses, or headaches. Keep it light with a quick look at our general tips and tricks, use the February 10 (1332) hint if you need a nudge, or go straight to today’s answer if you’re just here to win. You’ve got this. I…

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Valve bans games that rely on in-game ads from Steam, so no ‘watch this to continue playing’ stuff will be making its way to our PCs

First reported by Gaming on Linux, Valve has added a new advertising page to its Steamworks developer documentation. The page outlines what kinds of advertising and promotion it will allow on Steam, while explicitly banning in-game ads as a revenue model on the ubiquitous PC gaming platform. Product placement is still in, so long as…

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The PlayStation Network outage proves PC gamers were right to resist its mandatory sign-in requirement

Review-bombing campaigns are often motivated by half-baked culture war “controversies” about trans characters, queer developers, or supposed mafias of liberal writing consultants bending multi-million dollar companies to their will. Last May, though, we saw a great example of the review bomb’s utility in pushing back on a genuine consumer grievance: Helldivers 2’s PlayStation Network sign-in…

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