Today’s Wordle answer for Sunday, June 15

Finish the week with a guaranteed win. We’ve got a clue for today’s Wordle that you can either use as a springboard for your first guess, or keep to one side in case those green letters refuse to turn up on time. Prefer something a little more straightforward? Something that can save a win streak…

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Somebody actually bought that $3,000 Steam Deck prototype off eBay, then they let a YouTuber crack it open to see what’s inside

Tech YouTuber Bringus Studios has published a 36-minute video analyzing, testing, and disassembling the prototype Steam Deck that sold on eBay in April. Bringus’ analysis shows it to be a much less powerful device than what we ultimately got, but surprisingly close to the retail unit in terms of layout. Though Bringus Studios published the…

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Real-life rally racing is dying and triple-A rally games are dead, but the sport’s gotten a second life thanks to these excellent indie racers

The sport of rally racing is simple and accessible: you take a cheap city car, give it some all-terrain tires, and throw it down a hair-raising man-versus-nature gauntlet of winding dirt roads with a copilot shouting directions in your ear. There are no laps, no other drivers, and no pit stops. Unfortunately for fans, there’s…

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The Outer Worlds 2 director offers the most sympathetic answer I’ve yet heard for the $80 game question: ‘We don’t set the prices for our games,’ and ‘You’d have to honestly talk to the Xbox folks’

First reported by GamesRadar, The Outer Worlds 2 director Brandon Adler had the most reasonable and sympathetic developer-side explanation I’ve yet heard for a game’s $80 price tag: Sorry, but it wasn’t my call. GamesRadar asked Adler about The Outer Worlds 2’s retail price at last week’s Summer Game Fest. “We’re a game developer. We…

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This massive mod for Mount and Blade 2: Bannerlord not only converts it to Sengoku-era Japan, it adds fully simulated naval battles months ahead of the base game

Shokuho is hardly the first mod to adapt TaleWorlds’ Mount & Blade series to a new era of history. Mount & Blade: Warband’s startling array of total conversions practically let you command armies anywhere and, indeed, anywhen in the world. Yet not only is Shokuho a total conversion for the slightly less well-served Mount &…

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Two Point Museum’s latest update adds memorial exhibits for staff who vanish on expeditions, which you can put on display or sell for cold, hard profit

It may not have caught the same attention as Clair Obscur or Kingdom Come: Deliverance 2, but Two Point Museum is quietly one of the best games released this year. Two Point Studio’s latest management sim is comfortably its best yet, and a game that nudges the genre forward in small but meaningful ways. A…

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Satisfactory’s biggest patch since launch makes it friendlier for Steam Deck players: ‘It’s no exaggeration to say this update includes more than a year’s worth of work’

I’ve adored what I’ve played of Satisfactory, but I’ve held off on delving too deeply into Coffee Stain’s extraordinary automation extravaganza. See, I know that it’s going to obliterate my social life for at least a month, because that’s what factory sims do. Hence, it only seems fair that I bring my partner on that…

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Today’s Wordle answer for Saturday, June 14

Let us help you win Saturday’s Wordle, your way. Today’s answer is waiting below if you just like the idea of seeing five green letters pop up in an instant, and the June 14 (1456) hint’s happy to help if you’d rather take your time and see how you get on (while still knowing you’ve…

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