Today’s Wordle answer for Friday, February 14

Breeze through the Wordle of the day with our help. In a hurry? Skip straight to today’s answer and enjoy a guaranteed win. Just need a little help? Then take a look at our hint for the February 14 (1336) puzzle, written so it’ll point you towards today’s winning word, while still leaving all the…

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Obsidian plans to make RPGs for 100 years by ‘not trying to grow aggressively, expand our team size, or make super profitable games’

In a talk at this week’s D.I.C.E. Summit, an industry conference whose theme this year is sustainability, Obsidian Entertainment VP of operations Marcus Morgan and VP of development Justin Britch said they’re aiming for the studio to be around for at least 100 years, and think it can get there by staying lean, holding onto…

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Despite everything, Assassin’s Creed Shadows preorders are ‘tracking solidly,’ Ubisoft says, ‘in line with those of Assassin’s Creed Odyssey, the second most successful entry of the franchise’

It’s been a rough year for Assassin’s Creed Shadows, which has been the target of outrage from some perpetually-outraged corners of gaming fandom; it’s also suffered a few self-inflicted wounds, and of course an ugly delay that pushed it into 2025, and then a second, smaller postponement that bumped it to its current release date…

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Skyrim stealth archers and NCR Ranger wannabes rejoice: I’m 45 hours into Avowed’s hardest difficulty as a glass cannon gunslinger and I’ve loved every minute of it

Avowed might be one of the best wizard games around, with exciting, strange spells translated from Pillars of Eternity into a zoomed-in, action format. It’s hard to pass up stuff like Pull of Eora, a souped-up Mass Effect Singularity that yoinks enemies into an anti-gravity whirlpool. But I’ve been on a ranger kick lately, and…

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Bobby Kotick says he’d never have raised World of Warcraft’s subscription by even a dollar because ‘it’s a prickly audience, you don’t wanna do too much to agitate them’

Bobby Kotick, the former CEO of Activision Blizzard, made a recent appearance on the Grit podcast discussing his career in videogames. One of the threads is Blizzard Entertainment, a studio that Kotick clearly feels is capable of best-in-class entertainment but also one that was in some respects mismanaged: This is, of course, from the perspective…

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Elden Ring Nightreign director didn’t want to ‘encroach too much’ on the lore fans hold sacred by including Dark Souls bosses, but admits ‘I thought it’d be kind of fun’

There’s no end to the lore-driven theorizing that the most devoted FromSoftware fans can spin out of the characters, item descriptions, and cut content of Dark Souls and Elden Ring, and the developers know it. As I detailed in my big Elden Ring Nightreign explainer after playing the game in December, the new roguelike spin-off…

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Neil Druckmann wasn’t going to cast Laura Bailey in The Last of Us Part 2 because ‘she’s in everything,’ but changed his mind after studying her audition ‘frame-by-frame’

Laura Bailey is one of those prolific videogame actors whose voice you’ve probably heard whether or not you’ve heard her name. A few of Bailey’s recent credits include Marvel Rivals, World of Warcraft: The War Within, and Spider-Man 2. For that reason, Naughty Dog studio head Neil Druckmann says the developer almost didn’t cast Bailey…

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