Category: Hi-end PC

Cut through the letter fog with our Wordle help. Heck, jump straight to today’s answer if you like—it’s ready to go and only a quick click away if you need to see it. Or spend some time puzzling out the December 11 (1271) Wordle with the help of our latest hint. However, you want to play—and win—we’ve got your back.

The vast majority of today’s word came quickly and easily—practically spilled out of my keyboard without me having to do any real hard work. Brilliant. That final letter though? May as well have not existed. I couldn’t even tell you why, really. It’s just like my mind decided to take a tea break without me. Hopefully, it’ll go the distance tomorrow, and not leave me floundering when it could be helping me win.

Today’s Wordle hint

Wordle today: A hint for Wednesday, December 11

Whatever help you need to solve Monday’s Wordle, you’re sure to find it right here. There’s a hint for today’s puzzle ready to go if you’d like someone to point you in the right direction, as well as general tips and the answer to the December 9 (1269) all laid out in the open if you’d like to guarantee yourself another win.

I wanted to be bold today. I wanted to use an untested opening word, something fresh and off the cuff. I wanted to not see five grey letters show up after that, but I sadly wasn’t that lucky. I did at least swiftly recover, finding a string of three greens to work with. I would’ve liked to have found the other two a little faster than I did, but I’ll take a slow win over no win.

Wordle today: A hint

Wordle today: A hint for Monday, December 9

Come click this way and read our hint for today’s Wordle. It’ll help straighten out a tough game if you need it to, or get you off to a flying start if you’ve only just begun. After all, it’s Saturday, you deserve an easy win. And don’t worry if those yellow letters are still causing you trouble, because we’ve got the December 7 (1267) answer right here and ready to help.

That… that wasn’t supposed to work. I tried out today’s answer almost as a joke, some silly little thing intended to eliminate a few ideas and hopefully find a green letter amongst the chaff. I honestly didn’t think it’d win the Saturday game. OK. So. I guess I just have to wait for tomorrow now, don’t I?

Today’s Wordle hint

Wordle today: A hint for Saturday, December 7

“A scenic tram ride, for cats.” That’s the powerful sell for Short Trip delivered in its trailer, after which anything I say would be redundant. But I’m going to say it anyway.

Short Trip is a hand-drawn game, all graphite pencil art on rough paper, about driving a tram up and down the hills of some lovely countryside. Also, yes, you are a cat and so are the passengers you pick up and deposit at each stop.

Ubisoft announced this week that their Call of Duty competitor XDefiant will be completely shut down on June 3, 2025.

Gamers who bought the Ultimate Founders Pack will receive a full refund, while others who made purchases since November 3rd of this year will get refunds on DLC or ingame coin purchases. The planned Season 3 update will drop sometime in the near future, but it will obviously be the last piece of content made for the game, and anyone who had not played the game before this week won’t be able to check it out, as new downloads, purchases or player registrations will be permitted (anyone who did play in the past is still able to redownload the title and play it until it goes dark in June 2025)

With this XDefiant becomes the latest in a fairly long line of live service games released by companies that try to go after market leaders without investing enough into their own offerings (in this case, Ubisoft was clearly trying to go for a slice of Call of Duty‘s success). While the game will have eventually lasted slightly more than a year when it’s sunset in 2025, it’s a situation that brings Sony’s Concord to mind. Investing in a live service game and pulling the plug less than a year after said title is live shows that whoever is in charge of decision making at these big publishers isn’t doing their job very well, and that ends up affecting the jobs of thousands of people who delivered exactly what they were asked to deliver, and yet end up being made redundant because the C-suite can never lose.

XDefiant wasn’t a terrible game by any means, but it wasn’t interesting enough to pull players away from their fast paced modern-day FPS of choice, which was Call of Duty. Or rather, it did garner a fairly healthy playerbase at launch, which then dwindled because the studio couldn’t provide updates at the pace it needed to. Should that have been the death knell for the whole team and game? In a less senseless world it wouldn’t have been, because success doesn’t necessarily come overnight for a project like this one. A similar story can be told about Anthem, Bioware‘s attempt at replicating Destiny for overlords EA, which ended up cancelling the 2.0 reboot of the game because they were perfectly fine having spent millions and millions of dollars making a title that underperformed, but couldn’t fathom spending some more to try to turn the ship around (which is even sadder when one considers that the original Destiny didn’t launch under the best circumstances, and it did require work to turn things around, but thankfully for Bungie back then, it got the time and money to do so)

How many of these stories will be told before the bubble bursts? How many families will have to hurriedly relocate because some faceless executive thought it’d be a good idea to challenge an already established behemoth under the assumption that their money sink would win right out of the gate? For the sake of this industry I hope not many, but sadly history makes me think next year we’ll see even more.