Today’s Wordle answer for Thursday, May 8

Use our handy tips to improve every row in every game, scroll down to our exclusive hint for the May 8 (1419) Wordle if you’d like some guided help with Thursday’s word, or take a shortcut to a win any time you like with today’s answer. We’ve got all the tools you need right here,…

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Oblivion’s gloriously exploitable magic is even more busted in the remaster, letting one player turn into a high-speed leap wizard who can cross Cyrodiil in seconds

Over on Reddit, an Oblivion Remastered player going by the name of purpleturtlehurtler claims to have found the perfect balance of speed and fun. In a 90-second video, their high elven mage (with a custom class called “Master Blaster”) leaps from a frozen mountainside, flies through the air to land near the sunny Imperial City,…

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EA thinks it got Battlefield right this time, projecting confidence to investors in advance of a summer reveal: ‘When we get it right, Battlefield is a giant franchise and often the biggest shooter in the year’

After the unhappy reception for Battlefield 2042, EA went all in on player feedback, methodically addressing complaints and promising that the next Battlefield game will center the opinions of fans from the start, with what EA CEO Andrew Wilson calls “the biggest playtesting initiative in franchise history.” Wilson has been talking up Battlefield 6 (or…

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FTC loses bid to block Microsoft’s acquisition of Activision Blizzard, which already happened in 2023

More than a year after Microsoft’s $69 billion acquisition of videogame behemoth Activision Blizzard was successfully completed, the US Federal Trade Commission’s effort to block it has run aground. A federal appeals court has rejected the FTC’s appeal of a ruling that denied its request for a preliminary injunction against the deal, saying the lower…

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Confusion reigns as report of an A24 Elden Ring movie emerges, disappears, and emerges again

Hoo, boy. Alright, let’s see here. Yesterday, an otherwise unremarkable Tuesday rapidly became confusing for Elden Ring-heads and people looking at particular corners of the internet when Nexus Point News, an entertainment news site, published an article claiming that Annihilation and Civil War director Alex Garland is set to direct an Elden Ring film adaptation…

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Props for the honesty: Tim Sweeney says the reason ‘people characterize the Epic Games launcher as clunky’ is—wait for it—’because the Epic Games launcher is clunky’

‘The Epic Games Store launcher sucks less than it used to’ is not very high praise but it’s about as far as I’m willing to go. It has improved, undeniably, but it’s still painfully slow, awkward, and just not pleasant to use—not to the point that I refuse to use it, but if I have…

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