The Walking Dead- Betrayal is a game about avoiding zombie hordes and murdering your fellow survivors-

The team behind the snowbound survival-and-murder game Project Winter is turning its talents to the zombie apocalypse in The Walking Dead: Betrayal, a new game in which players must work together to complete objectives, avoid the undead, and ferret out the “traitors” who for some reason are trying to get everyone killed.

The Walking Dead: Betrayal is a third-person action game for up to eight players, who find themselves stuck in the rural backwaters of Canada with no resources and a herd of walkers—The Walking Dead’s term for zombies—bearing down on them. The only way to escape is to work together to scavenge resources, cook food, craft weapons, and otherwise stay ahead of the relentless shambling hordes pursuing them. Proximity chat will encourage players to stick to…

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The Witcher 3 unwittingly added a mod called ‘Vaginas for Everyone’ after another chaotic modder snuck it in-

One of the year’s most unusual stories thus far has been the Witcher 3’s spiffy next-generation update not only polishing the game to a mirror sheen, but adding detailed vagina models to a select group of monsters. Four characters suddenly found themselves in possession of anatomically accurate nether regions (The Crones of Crookback Bog, who look more like Victoria’s Secret models than crones, and the vampire-like bruxae) and the weirder element was that, initially at least, the game’s developer CD Projket Red didn’t seem to know why.

When first reporting on this, PCG’s Josh Wolens speculated on a likely cause: The various community made mods that CDPR integrated into the new version of the game. Looks like that was on the money, because CDPR has now confirmed in a statement t…

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Today’s Wordle answer for Friday, May 24-

Take a look at our clue for today’s Wordle, written to give your guesses a helpful nudge towards the answer while still leaving all the fun bits to you. If you prefer, you can click your way through to the solution to the May 24 (1070) Wordle if you need to—it’s better than losing your hard-won win streak, after all.

The vast, vast quantities of grey letters filling up the first few rows of my Wordle guesses did all the heavy lifting this Friday morning. It’s always a little shocking to see an unimpressive (and slightly worrying) spread of grey and yellow boxes suddenly turn solid green, but it never gets old.

Today’s Wordle hint

Wordle today: A hint for Friday, May 24

Moving smoothly and with little or no effort is the key to winning today…

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The inevitable Half-Life 2 RTX remix is being made without Valve-

You can’t tell me that as soon as Portal got the full path tracing experience you weren’t sitting there jonesing for them to do the same thing with Half-Life 2. We all want it, and Nvidia has been working with, what it’s calling four of the HL2 mod community’s “top mod teams,” to make it happen. It’s called, obviously Half-Life 2: RTX.

But while Valve is aware of this Nvidia-backed project, the company behind one of the greatest PC games ever made has no formal involvement. Though, to be fair, that might actually mean it gets a release this side of the next ice age, such is the laggardly power of ‘Valve Time’.

It must be said, however, that development has only just kicked off, with the current four mod teams—now going by the sobriquet, Orbifold Studios—actively …

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This guy’s tech mandalas are giving me an ontological crisis-

Prepare to be mesmerised by the beauty of technological mandalas. These intricate and oh-so-delicate artworks by Leonardo Ulian are born of a marriage between tech and art, and the artist’s fascination with this idea that technology has become so important to us that it’s “almost something to worship.”

Ulian’s work ties wires, batteries, resistors, and other tiny components into incredible, vast webs that seem to move when you inspect them closer (via Designboom). 

There’s a big focus on the fact that these are parts that are often hidden to us—unless you’re into the whole transparent casing thing, of course. In bringing them to the forefront, and in such a fascinating way, Ulain’s work feels pretty impactful to me. 

I remember how good it felt going fr…

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Incredible CS-GO clutch sees player spared from death by the bomb-

We’ve already seen one miraculous CS:GO play recently, in which a player killed an entire enemy team with an incredible, one-in-a-million shot. Now, the Counter-Strike gods have intervened again, with a player surviving a dramatic 4-v-1 clutch all thanks to the bomb.

As reported by Dot Esports, it all happened in the final moments of a CS:GO match recorded by Reddit user Few_Willingness_3700. His Counter-Terrorist team were winning the match 15 rounds to 14. But the climactic round starts disastrously for the CTs, as all Willingness’ teammates are eliminated by the terrorists.

When the clip begins, Willingness is all alone and hunkered down in a corner on B site Inferno. They sit and wait until three of the four terrorists are in close range, unaware of Willingness’…

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If Intel’s latest GPU drivers are delivering a 750% fps boost in Halo imagine how bad it was before-

When Intel returned to the discrete graphics card market last year, it promised that the Arc GPU drivers would improve over time. And true to its word, that’s exactly what’s happened, with regular updates appearing to massively improve frame rates in older games. But I don’t think anything will top the one of the claims in the latest set of beta drivers.

Released yesterday, the new version of Alchemist drivers is said to provide up to 54% more performance in Returnal, at 1080p with ‘epic’ ray tracing enabled. That’s a healthy boost and it’s not the only game that’s been given a wave of the coding magic wand. Guild Wars 2 players might see 53% more fps at 1080p, with Ultra settings, and if you’re a fan of Yakuza Zero, then an extra 154% performance (again, at 1080p ultra graphics) …

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Up your game in Helldivers 2 with the brilliant Logitech G502 Hero gaming mouse, now just $35-

Helldivers 2 is by far the best co-op shooter at the moment, certainly in terms of the sheer amount of fun it is. If you’ve already been enjoying it, you’ll know just how fast and frantic the battles can get. Having a clunky old mouse won’t help matters, so if you’ve been looking to upgrade your rodent, then you probably won’t need to look any further than the Logitech G502 Hero.

It’s been part of Logitech’s mouse roster for years and it’s barely changed over time. When we reviewed the G502 Hero in 2021, we highly rated its flawless performance, thanks to the 25,600 DPI sensor and the 1,000 Hz polling rate. You’ll certainly have zero issues regarding precision and accuracy.

The G502 Hero isn’t super light but it still effortlessly glides across any surface, due to the large …

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Wayfinder sales halted as developer promises a major rework of the game- ‘We have no plans for it to disappear like so many online-only games’-

Airship Syndicate announced today that it has “reached an agreement with Digital Extremes to begin the transfer of the MMO action-RPG Wayfinder to Airship in earnest,” and that as the first step toward resurrecting the game, it has halted sales while it finalizes plans for what comes next.

Wayfinder looked very promising when we previewed it in 2023, but it was brought low by server troubles at launch resulting in hours-long queues, failed connections, and disconnections during gameplay. Combined with complaints about steep pricing on in-game items, it quickly added up to a “mostly negative” rating on Steam. 

Things got worse for developer Airship Syndicate a few months later when publisher Digital Extremes eliminated its external publishing wing. DE said it would trans…

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There’s a bunch of secret dialogue in Cyberpunk 2077’s main quest if you beat Phantom Liberty first, and some of it feels like groundwork for future Cyberpunk stories-

Cyberpunk 2077: Phantom Liberty seriously impressed me with its RPG reactivity⁠—the written-in bits that show CD Projekt Red anticipated and accounted for players’ actions. The goofy rocket guy easter egg was certainly fun, but I’m thinking more in terms of life path-exclusive dialogue or main game events that get a nod in Phantom Liberty.

It turns out this goes both ways, though, with special dialogue in 2077’s main quest if you beat the expansion first, with at least two of those scenes providing insight into the setting’s mysterious Blackwall: the barrier between the normal internet and a cyberspace dominated by highly advanced AIs that outgrew their programming. Cyberpunk 2077 and Phantom Liberty spoilers ahead.

The first instance of unique d…

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