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Today’s Wordle answer and hint for Tuesday, November 8

Whether you need a quick clue for today’s Wordle, were hoping to read some general hints and tips, or you’d like someone to point you in the direction of the answer to the November 8 (507) challenge as quickly as possible, you’ll find all that and more on this very page.

I was lucky enough to stumble upon a helpful combination early on and this clue formed the backbone of my following guesses. Although I have to admit it took a few pokes around the keyboard before I finally unearthed the right answer.

Wordle hint

A Wordle hint for Tuesday, November 8

The word you’re looking for today has many uses: it can describe a magical incantation, a short period of time, or the act of writing or speaking out the letters that make up a word in the correct order too. There’s a repeating consonant to find, so watch out for that.

Wordle help: 3 tips for beating Wordle every day

If there’s one thing better than playing Wordle, it’s playing Wordle well, which is why I’m going to share a few quick tips to help set you on the path to success:

A good opener contains a balanced mix of unique vowels and consonants.
A tactical second guess helps to narrow down the pool of letters quickly.
The solution may contain repeat letters.

There’s no time pressure beyond making sure it’s done by midnight. So there’s no reason to not treat the game like a casual newspaper crossword and come back to it later if you’re coming up blank.

Today’s Wordle answer

(Image credit: Josh Wardle)

What is the Wordle 507 answer?

I’m here to help. The answer to the November 8 (507) Wordle is SPELL.

Previous answers

Wordle archive: Which words have been used

The more past Wordle answers you can cram into your memory banks, the better your chances of guessing today’s Wordle answer without accidentally picking a solution that’s already been used. Past Wordle answers can also give you some excellent ideas for fun starting words that keep your daily puzzle solving fresh.

Here are some recent Wordle solutions:

November 7: BEGIN
November 6: STALE
November 5: DREAM
November 4: PHOTO
November 3: ALOUD
November 2: INEPT
November 1: PINEY
October 31: APTLY
October 30: WALTZ
October 29: LIBEL

Learn more about Wordle

Every day Wordle presents you with six rows of five boxes, and it’s up to you to work out which secret five-letter word is hiding inside them.

You’ll want to start with a strong word (opens in new tab) like ALERT—something containing multiple vowels, common consonants, and no repeat letters. Hit Enter and the boxes will show you which letters you’ve got right or wrong. If a box turns ⬛️, it means that letter isn’t in the secret word at all. 🟨 means the letter is in the word, but not in that position. 🟩 means you’ve got the right letter in the right spot.

You’ll want your second go to compliment the first, using another “good” word to cover any common letters you missed last time while also trying to avoid any letter you now know for a fact isn’t present in today’s answer.

After that it’s just a case of using what you’ve learned to narrow your guesses down to the right word. You have six tries in total and can only use real words (so no filling the boxes with EEEEE to see if there’s an E). Don’t forget letters can repeat too (ex: BOOKS).

If you need any further advice feel free to check out our Wordle tips (opens in new tab), and if you’d like to find out which words have already been used you’ll find those below.

Originally, Wordle was dreamed up by software engineer Josh Wardle (opens in new tab), as a surprise for his partner who loves word games. From there it spread to his family, and finally got released to the public. The word puzzle game has since inspired tons of games like Wordle (opens in new tab), refocusing the daily gimmick around music or math or geography. It wasn’t long before Wordle became so popular it was sold to the New York Times for seven figures (opens in new tab). Surely it’s only a matter of time before we all solely communicate in tricolor boxes.

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Over $1B worth of stolen Bitcoin found in popcorn tin

This could be my strong peasant heritage talking, but having a little cash squirrelled away for emergencies is always a good plan. A few bills stashed around the house in sock drawers, the back of a freezer, and in old food tins is fairly common practice for those of us who are ever ready for the proverbial rainy day. Making sure we’ll be covered for a few essentials like some emergency food if we ever need is all I’ve ever been able to spare as far as hidden house money goes, and as it turns out my meagre funds are severely rookie numbers.

As reported by BBC News (opens in new tab), $3.36bn USD worth of stolen Bitcoin was seized by the police from one man’s home in Georgia last year. The funds were found on devices stored all over his house, which included a safe hidden under the floor, and a good old popcorn tin. According to the US authorities, the net worth made it the second largest seizure in history. That’s a Noah’s Ark level of preparation for a rainy day.

The home belonged to James Zhong, who pleaded guilty to using a flaw in the now defunct darknet website Silk Road’s payment system to steal the money. These are websites that are generally speaking dealing with illicit substances like drugs and other services, and require specific know-how to get to.

Sites like these were often early adopters of crypto currency payments thanks to the promise of further anonymity, so it’s no surprise to see names like Silk Road cropping up. Especially when it comes to crypto crime, but lately, scam sites are probably the biggest problems (opens in new tab) or you can just use malware. (opens in new tab)

Zhong committed the crime back in September 2012, when he set up multiple accounts on the website and deposited small amounts of Bitcoin. He then used the exploit to withdraw large sums of Bitcoin quickly from the website. These were then apparently stored in weird places around his home on devices and drives, alongside over $600,000 USD worth of cold hard cash.

For many years the over 50,000 Bitcoin stolen had seemed to just disappear into the ether. While it may only be worth about $1.1bn USD now as opposed to $3.36, that’s still a huge chunk of crypto to just stop existing for nearly ten years, which became a bit of a mystery.

While the authorities aren’t revealing exactly how they found the money, it’s said that cryptocurrency tracking techniques were used to track down the haul. While it might have taken ten years to get to the bottom of it, seeing that money recovered might be a bit of a wake up call for other crypto criminals out there. Especially with Zhong looking to face up to 20 years in prison for his crime.

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This accordion made out of two C64s is a chip tune delight

Before you start reading this article, go ahead and push play on Linus Åkesson’s Youtube video (opens in new tab) I’ve embedded above. The madman who took a Commodore 64 and turned it into a Theremin (opens in new tab) has done it again, but this time it’s double the C64 to make an amazing chip tuned accordion. If I hadn’t already lost my mind over this man’s last creation, it would be being absolutely blown to smithereens by this new wonder.

As reported by Fudzilla (opens in new tab), this keyboard accordion does more than just play some seriously cool music, it also has quite a few modifications that make it a fascinating musical instrument. As per a normal accordion, the left side plays melodies while the right provides chords. But Åkesson has added a few extra features which are laid out on his website (opens in new tab).

On this brilliantly named commodordion, the right side has also been built as a looping machine, allowing rhythms and chord progressions to not only be pre played and looped, but also adjusted on the fly. That’s a wonderful idea for any accordion set up, even if it isn’t made out of two old gaming machines.

Because of the addition of the machines, this accordion does require some form of power to make noise. To achieve this, Åkesson uses a custom power supply that boots both the C64s and loads specially written software onto both machines. This is all worked out so no display is required, and instead only beautiful music remains.

To get even nerdier, the bellows or middle squeezy part of the accordion is made of a whole lot of 5.25 floppy discs that have been sliced up and taped together. They control the volume of the accordion, and in this case there’s a hole drilled into them. Just outside of the hole is a microphone that’s picking up the air pushing out of the bellows, and adjusts the volume.

You can get a look at this process during the montage portion of the video, where you can witness the devastation of many floppy disks. There’s also a full detailed explainer on how the instrument works in the tale section, which talks about the coding, power supply, and bellows microphone trick in much more detail.

Unfortunately, one of the biggest downsides of this project is that in its current form the commodordion isn’t very practical. Åkesson explains that it’s uncomfortable to play due to the weight as well as the position of the keys of the C64. Still, with such a great sound and well thought out use of a looping side, I’m hoping we’ll see a more refined version someday down the line.

If you’d also like to see some more amazing instrument creations, supporting Åkesson is a proven way to make that happen. You can subscribe to his YouTube channel (opens in new tab), and hit him up on Patreon (opens in new tab) or Steady (opens in new tab).

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Take-Two boss says the company is a ‘hit factory’ that’ll always prefer game delays to ‘flops’

In its quarterly chat with investors today, GTA publisher Take-Two predicted that it would make a little less money this fiscal year than it had previously forecast: $5.4 to $5.5 billion in net sales, rather than $5.8 to $5.9 billion. And yet, the company is “highly optimistic” about future growth, mainly because it has confidence in its upcoming games.

Responding to some gentle investment banker pressure during the Q&A portion of the call, Take-Two CEO Strauss Zelnick said that the lower revenue expectation is mainly because people are spending less money in mobile games right now; Take-Two acquired mobile developer Zynga this year, which is expected to account for 45% of the company’s net sales. According to Zelnick, the downturn says nothing about Take-Two’s outlook for its upcoming “immersive core” games, a lineup he claims is arguably the “most robust” in the entire industry.

“Immersive core” is the label Take-Two uses in place of “triple-A.” It describes games that “have the deepest gameplay and the most hours of content,” the company says. The 2K Sports games, Grand Theft Auto 5, and Red Dead Redemption 2 fall into that category, and Take-Two says it currently has 21 “immersive core” games releasing before the end of March 2025.

That list includes Marvel’s Midnight Suns, the Firaxis strategy game which was delayed to December 2, Kerbal Space Program 2, which is out in early access on February 24 after a delay, and 2K’s NBA, WWE, and golf games. There’s a lot of other stuff we don’t know about, of course, and Zelnick says he feels “really good” about the games in the pipeline. If it didn’t, he says he wouldn’t be predicting “record results in the next three years.”

Responding to the question of why it seems to be taking a while for this “most robust” pipeline to start putting out games—investment banker pressure intensifies—Zelnick said that there are no “productivity issues” at Take-Two. According to him, the company just insists on releasing hits.

“We definitely have very high quality expectations and demands, and that’s reflected in the fact that we’re performing across the board,” Zelnick said. “This company is a hit factory. We haven’t had a disappointing release in as long as I can remember, and that’s honestly the most important thing.”

“If you have to choose, I’d much rather have the situation we’re in, which is [that] we’ve had some delays and we’ve had to revise down guidance. I’ll choose that any day over taking some flops.”

Either Zelnick means that Take-Two hasn’t had a financially disappointing release for as long as he can remember, or he’s already forgotten about NBA 2K23 and the GTA remasters, but alright, alright, I would agree with a toned down version of that statement—it’s true that Take-Two doesn’t release a lot of duds. Evolve and Battleborn come to mind as 2K-published games that were extinguished before burning as bright as the publisher would’ve liked, but neither felt like Anthem-scale bombs.

Zelnick then went on to deliver his version of the endlessly repeated (and wrongly attributed to Shigeru Miyamoto) industry wisdom that a delayed game is eventually good, but a rushed game is forever bad.

“If you have to choose, I’d much rather have the situation we’re in, which is [that] we’ve had some delays and we’ve had to revise down guidance,” Zelnick said. “I’ll choose that any day over taking some flops. That’s really the key in this business. We’ve had issues—we’ve been around long enough to remember them—where in the past we’ve had delays in titles, and it was ultimately always worth waiting for, because when we got to the other side, the results were delivered and the small amount of time delay didn’t ultimately matter in the context of the results we were able to deliver. I’m hopeful that’ll be the case here as well.”

I think we can safely assume that GTA 6 is among the big Take-Two games contributing to the company’s positive outlook for the future. Rockstar announced earlier this year that the next game in the series is “well underway,” and then a bunch of details about it were distributed following a hack. Regarding that hack, Zelick said during today’s call that the incident was “terribly unfortunate,” but that there’s “no evidence that any material assets were taken.”

Another place we can find hints about Take-Two’s upcoming games is the list of game titles that leaked out of an Nvidia server last year. Nvidia dismissed the list as testing material, but a lot of games on it have since been announced for PC—too many for it to be a coincidence. The games related to Take-Two on that list were “Bioshock 2022,” “BioShock RTX Remaster,” and “XCOM 3.”

I somehow doubt that we’re going to see a new BioShock game this year, but 2K did confirm in 2019 that a new BioShock is in development. Maybe “2022” was just someone’s wishful thinking, but it could easily be a part of the slate of games coming out by early 2025, as could XCOM 3. If it truly exists, it seems like something we could hear about next year, after Marvel’s Midnight Suns has had some time in the spotlight.

And speaking of Firaxis, Civilization 7 could also happen in this timeframe. It hasn’t been announced or even teased at this point, but Take-Two’s strategy studio was recently looking for a narrative lead with a “knowledge and passion for world history,” and I’m pretty sure that’s not because it wants to produce historical romance novels or practice for Jeopardy! appearances.

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It’s not at all clear what Call of Duty 2023 will be

Call of Duty fans of the world got a small shock to the system earlier this year when Bloomberg reported (opens in new tab) that, despite a 17-year streak of releasing new CoD games, Activision would be skipping 2023. In place of a traditional release, the report claimed at the time, efforts would be solely focused on continued updates for this year’s game, Modern Warfare 2 (opens in new tab), and the upcoming free-to-play Warzone 2.0.

Activision didn’t outright deny the report earlier this year, but said today in its Q3 financial report that there will, in fact, be a new “premium” Call of Duty next year. What that exactly means, however, remains less than clear.

The announcement came from a section celebrating Modern Warfare 2’s big launch and looking forward to 2023. “Activision is looking forward to building on its current momentum in 2023, with plans for next year including the most robust Call of Duty live operations to date, the next full premium release in the blockbuster annual series, and even more engaging free-to-play experiences across platforms,” the report (opens in new tab) reads.

Author of the original report, Bloomberg’s Jason Schreier, responded to the announcement on Twitter, saying that the “full premium release” Activision is touting won’t be the standard Call of Duty game players are used to, but a paid expansion to Modern Warfare 2 developed by Sledgehammer Games. “It’s supposed to have lots of content! Maybe that’s why they call it a ‘full’ release. But it’s more MWII,” Schreier said.

Let me make this super clear:- The next game, by Treyarch, is coming out in 2024 – Next year there will be a Modern Warfare II “premium” (paid) expansion by Sledgehammer- It’s supposed to have lots of content! Maybe that’s why they call it a “full” release. But it’s more MWII https://t.co/jXKAiMFcTfNovember 7, 2022

Activision’s sparse details and Schreier’s claims complicate things. Schreier says CoD 2023 is “more MW2” and uses the word “expansion” to describe it, but he also says it has “lots of content” and probably includes new singleplayer and multiplayer features. Considering Activision is apparently confident in framing this as the next big CoD game, maybe this Sledgehammer project is more like a Modern Warfare 2 sequel than an add-on.

The confusion could perhaps be attributed to the vague and varying definitions of what a “full premium” Call of Duty is. Given the series’ history of rotating themes and settings, it’d be unusual to get a follow-up to Modern Warfare 2 (led by a different studio) so quickly. If that is indeed the plan, it’s understandable how this sounds like a less legitimate “full” CoD game than, for example, Treyarch’s next game.

Today’s financial report is Activision’s first official mention of a standalone 2023 CoD game—when the Bloomberg report claiming Treyarch’s next CoD game had been delayed a year first hit in February, the publisher’s response wasn’t exactly contradictory.

“We have an exciting slate of premium and free-to-play Call of Duty experiences for this year, next year and beyond,” Activision said at the time. “Reports of anything otherwise are incorrect. We look forward to sharing more details when the time is right.”

Now that Modern Warfare 2 is out, the time is apparently right. We’re likely months away from the day Activision is ready to formally announce whatever CoD 2023 actually is (and which team is making it), so until then, it’s all rumors and reports. We’ve reached out to Activision for clarification on the nature of next year’s CoD and will update the story if it arrives.

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Oculus co-founder creates a ‘thought-provoking’ VR headset that will literally kill you if you die in a game

Oculus co-founder Palmer Luckey has come up with an innovative and incredibly dangerous crossing of virtual reality and the real world: A VR headset that will literally kill you if you die in a game.

The headset isn’t a real product; it’s something more like a thought experiment made into cosplay.

Luckey introduced the idea of the headset in a blog post (opens in new tab) that describes the “SAO Incident,” a fictional event in the Sword Art Online (opens in new tab) series that saw 10,000 players trapped in a VRMMORPG, 4,000 of whom would ultimately die as a result of their in-game deaths. The SAO Incident—in the fiction—began on November 6, 2022, and to mark that anniversary Luckey unveiled his own ‘play-or-die’ creation on his blog.

“The idea of tying your real life to your virtual avatar has always fascinated me—you instantly raise the stakes to the maximum level and force people to fundamentally rethink how they interact with the virtual world and the players inside it,” Luckey wrote. “Pumped up graphics might make a game look more real, but only the threat of serious consequences can make a game feel real to you and every other person in the game.

“This is an area of videogame mechanics that has never been explored, despite the long history of real-world sports revolving around similar stakes.”

The headsets in Sword Art Online, called NerveGear, used high-intensity bursts of microwaves to kill their wearers; Luckey’s device takes a more kinetic approach to melting brains. It has three explosive charges embedded it, positioned directly atop the user’s forehead and connected to a “narrow-band photosensor” designed to detect a particular shade of red. When an integrated game-over screen appears, the color will flash and the charges will fire, “instantly destroying the brain of the user.”

The whole thing is troll-shaded theatrics, of course, and Luckey couldn’t help but add a supervillain flourish when describing his future ideas for the device, saying he has “plans for an anti-tamper mechanism that, like the NerveGear, will make it impossible to remove or destroy the headset.”

Has Palmer Luckey actually developed a real-life Call Up device (opens in new tab)? At the very least, it’s fair to assume he has the capability of putting a bomb into an Oculus Quest: After leaving Facebook, which acquired Oculus for $2 billion (opens in new tab) in 2014, Luckey founded a defense tech company called Anduril Industries (opens in new tab), which develops autonomous defense systems for the US military—and thus presumably makes it easier for him to get his hands on things that explode. He also said in the post that the triggering device “should really be tied to a high-intelligence agent that can readily determine if conditions for termination are actually correct,” which sounds like a pretty explicit connection to the work being done at Anduril—not that I’m suggesting he’s developing an AI-powered assassination device or anything like that. Luckey said in his blog post that he normally uses the embedded explosives “for a different project.”

Regardless of what’s actually packed in there, Luckey clarified that he is not actually using the thing, although he predicted that someday, someone might.

“There are a huge variety of failures that could occur and kill the user at the wrong time,” he wrote. “This is why I have not worked up the balls to actually use it myself, and also why I am convinced that, like in SAO, the final triggering should really be tied to a high-intelligence agent that can readily determine if conditions for termination are actually correct.

“At this point, it is just a piece of office art, a thought-provoking reminder of unexplored avenues in game design. It is also, as far as I know, the first non-fiction example of a VR device that can actually kill the user. It won’t be the last.”

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This year, Call of Duty’s secret weapon is Steam

Call of Duty is selling big on PC this year. Activision said in a Q3 financial report published today that Modern Warfare 2 (opens in new tab) has sold “approximately twice the level of recent strong titles in the series.” That’s a weirdly non-specific qualifier, though it’s in contribution to what has become the fastest Call of Duty in history to reach $1 billion in sales.

What changed on PC this year? Surely some of the increase can be attributed to enthusiasm around the Modern Warfare series, but the true culprit is Steam.

Modern Warfare 2 is the first Call of Duty to launch on Steam in five years. Starting with Black Ops 4 in 2018, the last four Calls of Duty (including Warzone) have only existed in the Battle.net client on PC. Thankfully, Modern Warfare 2 isn’t one of those “launches another launcher” deals either: hitting play on Steam gets right into the game.

Activision has decided to share the wealth with Valve once again, and it’s apparently paying off. Modern Warfare 2 has been at the top of Steam’s top seller list since launch, and it’s also been a consistent top-fiver of Steam’s most-played list with a daily peak of around 200,000 players. That’s not a total tally of people logging onto the game, mind you, just a peak concurrent number.

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Possibly a more impressive figure is Modern Warfare 2 playtime. Activision says MW2 hit “new franchise engagement records for a premium Call of Duty release, with hours played in the first 10 days more than 40% above the prior franchise record.”

That’s a lot of team deathmatch. Longer sessions could be explained by all sorts of things, but I know what’s kept me playing longer than before: Modern Warfare 2’s more engaging, but often infuriating, progression systems. It’s neat that you’re forced to use a wider variety of guns to unlock everything you want, but those confusing menus sure do make it hard to know what you’re chasing.

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PS5 advert implies we’re waiting an extra six months for Final Fantasy 16 on PC

As reported by IGN (opens in new tab), an advertisement shared by the official PlayStation Twitter account (opens in new tab) seems to indicate that we’ll have to wait an extra six months for Final Fantasy 16 on PC. During a portion of the sizzle reel showcasing FF16, there’s fine print reading “Final Fantasy 16 anticipated summer 2023. PS5 exclusive for six months.”

That strikes me as a pretty clear statement, but the waters are muddied somewhat by the exciting new frontiers of timed console exclusivity we’ve explored in recent years. Take Deathloop for instance⁠—that was “PlayStation exclusive” in that it only launched on PlayStation and PC in 2021, with an Xbox version following a year later. So while the exclusivity lasts six months, that’s not confirmation it’ll come to PC six months after the PS5 launch. We’ve reached out to Square Enix for clarification, and will update this story if we hear back.

Barring further word from Square Enix, I think we have to turn to the recent history of mainline Final Fantasy games on PC for the best evidence of what the port’s timing will look like. Namely, there was a year and a half gap between the console (no Xbox snub here) and PC launches of Final Fantasy 15, while there was a similar delay between the PS4 and PC Epic Game Store releases of the Final Fantasy 7 Remake.

With that in mind, a six month delay looks not only plausible, but like an improvement over the waits we’ve endured in the past. It still feels bad though. Square Enix has been getting better at supporting the PC as a platform, putting out more stable releases with more robust graphics menus and even simultaneous launches of lower-profile games like NieR Replicant, Stranger of Paradise, or the upcoming Crisis Core Reunion.

Having a timed delay like this just feels annoying to me, a commitment to an earlier era of console competition and porting woes. It’s like PC Final Fantasy fans have to be disciplined slightly for not getting a PS5, and I’m not sure Final Fantasy Fever is at a pitch to encourage PS5 purchases where they wouldn’t happen otherwise.

Now I’m just starting to sound like a console war guy though, and that’s by far the worst thing to come out of this situation. If you’re looking for more information on the next Final Fantasy, check out our guide on everything we know so far about FF16 (opens in new tab).

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That wonderful little Gnome Child from RuneScape is coming to a MOBA near you

Smite, the long running mythology-themed MOBA, is having a crossover event with RuneScape (opens in new tab), that fantasy MMO where everyone looks like Andross from Star Fox. You know the one, a surprising amount of people born between 1991 and 1998 have a ton of nostalgia for it? The piece de resistance is the inclusion of the Gnome Child, a wee fey scamp who has starred in internet memes (opens in new tab) for over a decade.

The crossover event is adding RuneScape-themed skins for a number of characters, including Cerberus, Merlin, Bellona, and Neith. Vamana, the Fifth Avatar of Vishnu, has the distinct honor of playing host to the Gnome Child. The skins will be available for purchase starting November 15, and pricing has yet to be announced. Users on Reddit (opens in new tab) have speculated they’ll fall at 600+ gems (~$15), which is in line with other premium and crossover offerings for Smite.

If you’re wondering what the hullabaloo is about, RuneScape’s Gnome Child NPC had a bit of a second life as an internet mascot, likely born of his almost surprised, but somehow also blasé expression, one that seems to carry the “eh, I guess I’ll just roll with it” ethos of a generation of posters.

It doesn’t hurt that RuneScape has a lot of pull with gamers of a certain age, almost the way Minecraft and Roblox hooked zoomers. Gnome Child was also a font of delightful non-sequiturs (opens in new tab). “Dimensionality is a function of consciousness… That’s all you need to know,” he would tell 12-year-olds. “Guthix’s angels fly so high as to be beyond our sight, but they are always looking down on us,” he would announce to individuals with yet-to-be-completed algebra homework.

Honestly most of those original dialogue lines are funnier than the memes that followed, but it does rule that former PC Gamer editor Steven Messner helped secure the inclusion of a Gnome Child card (opens in new tab) in RuneScape’s ill-fated CCG spinoff.

The whole skin collection’s a real winner as far as I’m concerned. I’m a big fan of when games combine incongruous art styles, especially low-poly character models in otherwise hi-fi environments, see also that hilarious FF7 Remastered mod (opens in new tab).

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It turns out that Liam Hemsworth was almost cast as The Witcher back in 2018

Look, we’re all sad that Henry Cavill won’t be Geralt anymore (opens in new tab). And I think a lot of us also harbor doubts that his replacement on Netflix’s hit fantasy series, Liam Hemsworth, is up to the task of filling the role.

He’s probably a very nice guy but he seems more like a Lambert (opens in new tab) type: younger, smaller, kind of a headache, more prone to getting himself into avoidable trouble that he’s not quite up to handling. A little brother figure, I suppose, although that could just be preconceived notions speaking. Hemsworth is of course an actual little brother—to Thor actor Chris Hemsworth, who is without doubt a man of Cavillian stature.

That said, Hemsworth hasn’t landed the role just because he happened to be standing nearby when Henry quit. According to Witcher fan site Redanian Intelligence (opens in new tab), he actually auditioned for the job in 2018, and while the gig ultimately went to Cavill, Hemsworth was one of the frontrunners.

In fact, Hemsworth made such a positive impression that when it came time to find a replacement Geralt, Netflix reportedly did not hold a full casting process for the role but instead just picked him as the new Geralt.

I won’t lie, I still have a very hard time envisioning this guy:

Liam Hemsworth

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As this guy:

The Witcher

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But then again, I said the same thing about this guy:

Henry Cavill as Geralt

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And it all worked out very well in the end. So for now, I’m feeling a little more optimistic about Hemsworth’s casting, and I’ll definitely be sticking around to watch The Witcher season 4—although if Henry changes his mind somewhere between now and then, that’d be fine too.

Some fans are already sharing mockups of Hemsworth in the Geralt role, and while it’s completely speculative, it’s not a terrible look. Maybe a little more Thor-like than I’d prefer, but there’s probably not much to be done about that.

Before any of that, though, we’ve got The Witcher season 3 (opens in new tab), which will feature Cavill in the lead role. It’s expected to release sometime in summer 2023.

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Today’s Wordle answer and hint for Tuesday, November 8

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A Wordle hint for Tuesday, November 8

Over $1B worth of stolen Bitcoin found in popcorn tin

This accordion made out of two C64s is a chip tune delight

Take-Two boss says the company is a ‘hit factory’ that’ll always prefer game delays to ‘flops’

It’s not at all clear what Call of Duty 2023 will be

Oculus co-founder creates a ‘thought-provoking’ VR headset that will literally kill you if you die in a game

This year, Call of Duty’s secret weapon is Steam

PS5 advert implies we’re waiting an extra six months for Final Fantasy 16 on PC

That wonderful little Gnome Child from RuneScape is coming to a MOBA near you

It turns out that Liam Hemsworth was almost cast as The Witcher back in 2018

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