I don’t know if we’ll ever get another Sekiro game, but FromSoftware’s 2019 ninja sim lives on in everybody cribbing off its notes. We’ve already seen fellow soulslikes Wo Long and Lies of P borrow its signature moves, and the Resident Evil 4 Remake used a Sekiro-style parry system to great effect. But it feels like a whole new frontier altogether to see RPG old guards BioWare and Obsidian spice up their upcoming games with some of Sekiro’s signature moves.

For a quick rundown of what I’m talking about, I’d say Sekiro’s big innovations over Dark Souls were its emphasis on parrying over dodging, and its stagger meter in parallel to player and enemy HP. The former lent this wonderfully crisp, satisfying cadence to the combat (and was critically more forgiving than Dark Souls’ parrie…

For the most part, Windows 11 isn’t a bad operating system, even if its adoption rate is slower than Microsoft would like. Its system demands means it requires a relatively beefy system to run, and it comes with more than its fair share of bloatware crap.

Thanks to the release of a new version of Tiny11 builder, it’s possible to create a de-bloated Windows 11 image from any Windows 11 release, allowing you to free up system resources for the apps you actually want to use.

Tiny11 Builder is a free tool created by NTDEV. It’s been around for some time, but was limited to specific Windows builds. The new version (spotted by Neowin) allows you to use it with any Windows 11 version, as well as any language or architecture. This ability to take control of your Windows comes as a r…

 Pathfinder’s answer to the Open Gaming License, dubbed the Open RPG Creative License or ORC License, has been completed and released for public use. Created in direct response to Wizards of the Coast’s pretty nefarious attempts to clamp down on the use of its Open Gaming License to its own profit, the ORC license is designed to be “a system-agnostic, perpetual, and irrevocable open gaming license” that allows any game to create a safe environment for collaboration.  

 The Dungeons & Dragons OGL controversy

• For over 20 years, the Open Gaming License has allowed other companies to make D&D-based products freely.  
• In January, Wizards of the Coast tried to introduce a new OGL that gave them royalties and greater control, and revoke th…
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The Fable reboot is getting closer: A new trailer released during today’s Xbox Games Showcase revealed that it’s finally set to arrive sometime in 2025.

It’s been a long way for the new Fable. It was first announced in 2020, and we got a story-focused trailer in 2023 with a barebones setup: “With a dark threat looming, and in a world where your reputation precedes you, your choices will change Albion forever.” 

Aside from that, though, it’s been pretty much radio silence from Microsoft and new developer Playground Games, the studio behind the Forza Horizon series.

Xbox boss Phil Spencer did say in 2021 that we’ll be playing the new Fable before The Elder Scrolls 6, but let’s be honest, that’s a pretty low bar.

The trailer revealed today has a simila…

Let’s get Friday’s Wordle sorted. Give yourself the best start possible with our clue for the July 26 (1133) puzzle, and then use our tips to squeeze every last drop out of your follow-up guesses. Need something a little more direct? That’s exactly what today’s answer is for. Just give it a click, and enjoy your win.

It didn’t take too long to uncover a useful core set of green letters today, the only problem was working out what the heck to do with them. Nothing I tried seemed to fit, and I ended up going through the entire alphabet before I finally found the Wordle answer I’d been looking for.

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Wordle today: A hint for Friday, July 26

Anything that is completely covered or flooded with something could be called today’s answ…

Let’s make finding those green Wordle letters easy. Feel free to use our general tips if you’d like to improve your daily puzzle-solving, or take a look at today’s hint if you need something more direct. And if those winning letters still aren’t showing up, don’t be afraid to click through to the August 13 (1151) Wordle answer.

Picture the scene: I’m two guesses down the board, and I have enough clues to win. I’ve got a great green in place, and two strong yellow letters waiting to take their correct spots. The third go left me with the last two letters to find. Perfect. And then… nothing. My head emptied, and it took a heck of a lot of brow-furrowing before I spotted the answer right in front of me. Oops.

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Win every Wordle—and do it your way too. Whether you want today’s answer in an instant or would rather spend some time chewing over a helpful clue for the June 9 (720) puzzle, you’ll find everything you need, as well as plenty of tips and tricks waiting for you just below.

I found today’s Wordle to be a real head-scratcher. I’d worked out where a key letter couldn’t go… but it didn’t seem to fit anywhere that it was supposed to. I was on the verge of apologising to my win streak when I suddenly had a happy lightbulb moment. And although that didn’t instantly win today’s game, it got me close enough to today’s Wordle answer to eventually crack it. 

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A Wordle hint for Friday, June 9

This word is the nam…

Global news this week has been fixated on the missing Titan submersible, with rescue teams racing against time to find a vessel containing five people that has gone missing during a tourist dive to the wreck of the Titanic. It is a story that in some ways is made for 24-hour rolling news coverage, with the fatalistic ticking of the clock on the craft’s oxygen underpinning constant updates that all amount to the same thing: They haven’t found it yet.

One notable element in the reaction on social media has been frequent comparisons to a breakout indie hit from 2022, Iron Lung, to the extent it became a Twitter trend. In this game you play the sole crewmember of the titular craft, navigating an alien seafloor with analogue instruments and a black-and-white camera on the sub’s exterio…

As someone who used to watch the Dungeons & Dragons cartoon before school every morning, I was delighted to see the first animated short for Baldur’s Gate 3, which aired as part of the PC Gaming Show 2023 back in June. Now it’s got a sequel of sorts. Mashed, the premiere source of videogame parody cartoons, has made a new video starring the intrepid heroes of Baldur’s Gate 3.

The latest adventure of the Balduran Buddies sees Karlach, Astarion, Gale, and Shadowheart leaving the Early Access version of the game behind as they venture into the uncharted land of Launch. The original voice actors return, as does the authoritative narration of Amelia Tyler, who I would pay good money to have narrate my actual D&D campaign.

Rather than spoil it for you furt…