Today’s Wordle answer for Monday, April 7

We’ve got a hint for today’s Wordle right here and ready to help get your Monday game off to the perfect start. It’s been designed to give you a boost without giving the answer away (not straight away, anyway), so why not take a quick peek? And same as always, the answer to the April…

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Microsoft unveils AI-generated demo ‘inspired’ by Quake 2 that runs worse than Doom on a calculator, made me nauseous, and demanded untold dollars, energy, and research to make

Before the disaster that was Stadia, Google demoed its game streaming tech via a free version of Assassin’s Creed: Odyssey you could play in your browser. My fiancée has fond memories of whiling away slow nights at work playing this massive triple-A game on a crummy library OptiPlex. Whatever came after with Stadia and game…

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You really should play Sultan’s Game, a beautiful, cruel card shuffler which launched on Steam recently

Challenged to a supernatural game by the sultan, you have to fulfill the conditions of a mystical game that demands you commit dreadful sins: Carnality, Bloodshed, Conquest, and Extravagance. You’ll have to desperately scheme, manage your limited resources, and explore the depths and heights of society to win a stay of execution—and to survive the…

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Five new Steam games you probably missed (April 7, 2025)

Best of the best (Image credit: Xbox Game Studios) 2025 games: Upcoming releasesBest PC games: All-time favoritesFree PC games: Freebie festBest FPS games: Finest gunplayBest MMOs: Massive worldsBest RPGs: Grand adventures On an average day about a dozen new games are released on Steam. And while we think that’s a good thing, it can be…

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The rights to one of the greatest PC games of all time languished in the vault of a Midwestern insurance firm until a frustrated player bugged them about a re-release, ‘But they asked me if I wanted to do System Shock 3’

Speaking to Nightdive founder Stephen Kick and VP of business development Larry Kuperman at this year’s Game Developers Conference, I was curious about how it felt to be returning to System Shock 2 for the studio’s upcoming remaster. After all, I had a loose understanding that Shock 2 is the game that kicked off Nightdive…

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Superb city-builder Against the Storm will round off its roster with a DLC of bats, who ‘take pride in enduring what breaks others and cannot stand being favored’

Against the Storm is one of the best city-builders of recent years, taking the SimCity cycle of building cities destined to be destroyed by natural disasters and infusing it with a roguelike structure, such that the death of your city is merely a part of the game, rather than the end of it. Yet alongside…

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