Grove Keeper is Dungeon Keeper versus woodcutters and your greatest weapon is a giant in his underpants

Today’s Wordle answer for Monday, June 2

The perfect start to your Wordle week is right here. Spend a while with our tips if you’d like to give your daily guesses a bit of polish, or take a look at the June 2 (1444) clue if you’d rather read something more specific. It’ll help, promise. The answer to today’s Wordle is only…

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It doesn’t really make sense that soccer star Ronaldo is now a Fatal Fury character, but if you follow the money you can see how it happened

Soccer players aren’t generally known for their fighting prowess, but that’s not stopping SNK from adding famed footballer Cristiano Ronaldo to the lineup of Fatal Fury: City of the Wolves, the latest addition to the long-running Fatal Fury series of fighting games. “One of the top football players in the world,” Ronaldo’s character page states….

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Roblox wants AI to make its games photorealistic, but the devs making those games aren’t sold on the idea: ‘I don’t think that your average player right now wants to do that’

When Nvidia comes out with something like DLSS 5, promising that AI can be used to make realistic videogames look even more shiny and real, it makes a kind of sense. Of course Nvidia thinks that’s what we want. When the same kind of promise comes from Roblox, it makes less sense. Roblox Reality promises…

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Bill Laimbeer’s Combat Basketball

The 1980s were a Golden Age for cartoonish super villains. Consider the brutish evil of Dolph Lundgren as Ivan Drago in Rocky IV, the greed of Michael Douglas as Gordon Gekko in Wall Street. Yet both pale in comparison to Bill Laimbeer as portrayed by himself on the Detroit Pistons. Consider: Bill Laimbeer was on…

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Netflix’s long-awaited Gears of War movie might actually have a director, and it’s the guy who helmed Bullet Train and codirected John Wick

Remember that Gears of War movie Netflix was working on? Nobody would blame you if you didn’t. The streaming service and purveyor of aggressively mediocre action flicks nabbed the film rights for Microsoft’s cover-shooter series way back in November 2022. The plan was to lead with a feature film and then segue into an animated…

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