Here’s what’s up, 90s rememberers: Palm OS is back, kind of. Thanks to the Internet Archive, you can now load up a suite of 569—and counting—apps (opens in new tab) from the golden age of the Personal Data Assistant. Though it’s only a soft-launch right now because many games are missing descriptions or manuals, the depth of what’s going on in here is incredible. It’s a catalogue of hundreds of apps and games I’d have figured were completely lost to the mists of time. I’d have thought wrong.
Alright, for everyone younger than 30 that is very confused by the prior paragraph, here’s the rundown: The Palm and Palmpilot were basically devices that were computers for your pocket—they called them Personal Data Assistants, or PDAs. They were smartphones before smartphones, or “the original smartphones” if you prefer, devices to run productivity apps and business organization for yourself.
Also probably to play games on even though you were supposed to be in a meeting and/or class.
In order to emulate the Palm apps, the archive actually loads up the entirety of Palm OS, the software that drove the early smart devices. Jason Scott, the archivist and historian behind the project, told The Verge (opens in new tab) that it only took six months to get the CloudPilot emulator up and running on the archive—all hail preservationists working in emulation, and big thanks to CloudPilot, POSE, and Copilot developers for carrying the torch.
If you want to click away a few hours in some classic late-90s time wasters, I’d recommend jumping right in to the archive of PalmPilot games. (opens in new tab) There’s a lot of good stuff in there, like Space Trader (opens in new tab), an adorably simple space sim about trying to get stupid rich and buy a moon to retire on.
Which, honestly, says a lot about the audience of the Palm PDAs and who was writing these games: People who would one day retire.
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I’ve played a lot of different VR games since 2016, and I’ve played them on a lot of different equipment. I’ve tried Sony’s PlayStation VR headset, two different models of the HTC Vive, Valve’s Index, and two versions of the Quest. The games I’ve played include Minecraft (my very first time in VR), No Man’s Sky, Doom, Fallout 4, and Skyrim, as well as fishing games, kayaking games, battle royales, a whole bunch of VR MMOs, and a stealth game I was so bad at I wound up owing the Australian government $200 million.
I even played with training software designed for soccer players where the sensors are strapped to your feet instead of your hands and you kick a virtual ball. Weirdly enough, it was one of the best experiences of the bunch.
I’m one of the lucky ones: VR never makes me nauseous, whether I’m doing barrel rolls in space or jumping out of a plane in a battle royale. On the other hand, I’ve been a bit unlucky in that I’ve never really been able to lose myself in VR. No matter how great it looks or plays, no matter the sights or sounds, I’ve never really been able to let my brain be fooled. I’m always aware I’m playing a game, wearing a headset, holding controllers, and shuffling around in a corner of my room.
VR can be fun, but it’s never been that convincing to me. I’ve never felt transported. My brain never gave up and said “This is reality.”
Except once.
It happened in the last game I would have ever expected—Rick and Morty: Virtual Rick-ality (opens in new tab). I know, right? You’d think that to forget the real world and embrace a virtual one, that virtual world would need to be photorealistic. It would have to be so visually convincing that your brain would accept it. It surely couldn’t be a game where you stand in a garage while cartoon characters swear at you. But weirdly enough, it was.
In Rick and Morty: Virtual Rick-ality you basically just hang out in Rick’s garage and mess with stuff. Solve puzzles, perform experiments, throw things around, break whatever you can, and occasionally go through portals. But mostly you’re just in a cartoon drawing of a garage trying to get Rick to stop yelling at you and figuring out what everything does.
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But at one point, after about 40 minutes of opening drawers, pouring out beverages, putting stuff into the washing machine, fixing things and breaking more things, I had to stoop down to read a note that was about floor level. To steady myself I reached out with my right hand to lean against the counter, but of course the counter wasn’t there. I was in a virtual garage, not a real one. And instead of the counter, there was empty space, so instead of steadying myself I fell forward, stumbled a couple steps, and collided with the extremely real closet door in my room.
It hurt and I felt like a dumbass, but it was the first time in a VR game where my brain just accepted a virtual reality as a real one. I think a large part of the reason doesn’t have anything to do with how photorealistic a game is, but how interactive a game is.
The Rick and Morty game has cartoony looks, sure, but there’s so much stuff to pick up and play with, and objects act like you’d expect them to. If you want to open a bottle and pour out the contents, you pull off the cap and turn the bottle upside down. There’s buttons to push and levers to pull and drawers to open and things everywhere to pick up and use. It doesn’t look like the natural world, but it acts like the natural world (except for all the goofy sci-fi stuff), and I think that was the key for getting my brain to accept that a drawing of a countertop was a real countertop. As gorgeous as Half-Life: Alyx is, it never fooled my brain like that—but a cartoony Rick and Morty game absolutely did.
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The original Quake has gotten a fascinating makeover, as a new mod adds full ray tracing to the classic FPS. The free mod, which works with the Steam version of Quake or your version from 1996—probably—switches out all that old Quake lighting for newly ray-traced lights.
Y’all ever find out that someone has undertaken a quest you’d expect is time-intensive and absorbing… and just done it in no time at all? That’s how I feel about sultim_t (opens in new tab), the modder behind this ray-traced Quake project. This year I’ve already repored on how sultim_t brought ray tracing to classic Doom (opens in new tab) and Half-Life 1 (opens in new tab), and now Quake 1 as well.
In many ways this one’s fascinating compared to the others just because Quake did so much with its original lighting settings. It was a deliberately dark and spooky game, and the new ray traced environments can seem a bit clinical, even colorless, under the new lighting scheme.
If you’d like to fix that weirdness, YouTube user Mithe posted (opens in new tab) a way to avoid those colors: “HEY just so you know I highly recommend setting rt_sky to 1 in the console commands to eliminate the overly bright and washed out outdoors areas. For some reason its set to 9 by default. Also, you can enable sun shadows using “rt_sun 1” though I recommend setting volumetrics to simple if you do. “rt_bloom_intensity 0” to disable bloom, or 0.5 to reduce the intensity. Finally, you can enable a flashlight using rt_flashlight if you want.
If you’d like a very deep dive into how it looks, check out this video (opens in new tab), which dives really far into how to tweak the settings and get ideal results.
Watching Quake 1 get ray traced feels like coming full circle with ray tracing as a technology. That’s because many people’s—myself included—first encounter with the tech was that stunning demo of Quake 2 (opens in new tab) using ray tracing. That led to Quake 2 RTX, the first project to really try and understand what it takes to make ray tracing work in games.
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Gran Turismo series creator Kazunori Yamauchi has said that he would consider porting the PlayStation-exclusive racing series to PC. “Yes, I do think so,” Yamauchi said when asked if the Gran Turismo series could make the jump to PC.
The comment was made in an interview with GTPlanet (opens in new tab) during the Gran Turismo World Finals.
Yamauchi went on to say that “Gran Turismo is a very finely tuned title,” and seemed to imply that series developer Polyphony Digital would only want to do it if the port would run reliably in 4K resolution and 60 frames per second. “It’s not a very easy subject, but of course, we are looking into it and considering it,” he said.
It would be a slight surprise, but not a huge one, if Gran Turismo came to PC. The last few years have been rife with major games previously exclusive to Sony’s platforms being ported: God of War, Horizon: Zero Dawn, Spider-Man, and Uncharted 4, to name just a few marquee examples. The Gran Turismo series doesn’t command quite the same cachet that it did a few decades ago, but it’s still a major player in the world of racing games.
And the market for racing games is certainly there on PC, if the success of last year’s release of competitor Forza Horizon 5 (opens in new tab) is any indication. It certainly would make our top recommendation for the best PC racing wheel (opens in new tab) a bit less awkward—as of publication it’s the Gran Turismo branded Fanatec GT DD Pro.
The latest release in the series is Gran Turismo 7, which released on PlayStation 4 and 5 in March of 2022. It featured a large single-player campaign alongside the traditional arcade mode, as well as dynamic time and weather effects while racing.
It’s hard to say exactly what sets Gran Turismo apart from the rest of the racing sim genre, but like other franchises it certainly has its adherents. For many it’s the wild variety of cars on offer, including both production models and obscure short-runs of which only a handful exist. In many ways it’s the way the series sells itself: Gran Turismo is entirely obsessed with the very idea of the automobile at every point in its history.
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Bayonetta 3, one of the newest high-profile Nintendo Switch releases, is on sale for only $45 at Amazon. It’s the lowest price we’ve seen so far since the game launched in late October. Bayonetta 3 comes highly recommended from reviewers across the board, including here at GameSpot. Our Bayonetta 3 review scored the game a 9/10, calling it a “show-stopping spectacle.”
Bayonetta 3 was developed by Platinum Games and launched on October 28. Some of the discourse surrounding the game’s launch was around voice actor Hellena Taylor, who was omitted from the game amid a contract dispute, with Jennifer Hale signing on to play Bayonetta instead.
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In case you missed out on the most recent Fire Emblem Warriors game, there’s some good news for you. Black Friday weekend has brought a huge discount on the critically acclaimed action-RPG. At Amazon, the game is just $30 for a physical version. If you prefer digital, you can get a code for $35.
Fire Emblem Warriors: Three Hopes, a spin-off from Fire Emblem: Three Houses, goes into full Musou territory by giving players command of familiar characters who can demolish entire armies by themselves. Three Houses heroes like Edelgard, Claude, and Dimitri all have unique talents on the battlefield, there are multiple storylines to play through, and there’s even a layer of strategy that you can use to your advantage, that ties in nicely to the tactical-RPG roots of the source material.
Using Fire Emblem series mechanics like the weapons triangle, character classes, crests, and battalions will help you find victory against seemingly overwhelming odds.
“Fire Emblem Warriors: Three Hopes offers perhaps the most opportunity to entertain yourself outside of comboing through thousands of enemies that the studio has released yet thanks to its Fire Emblem: Three Houses-inspired content between missions,” Kyle Hilliard wrote in GameSpot’s Fire Emblem: Three Hopes review. “The result is a better-paced, more interesting experience than previous Omega Force games, but one that is still very much a Musou game.”
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Is it better to give than receive? Why not do both? With Nvidia’s Black Friday/Cyber Monday GeForce Now deal you will get a free $20 gift card with every purchase of a $50 gift card. That means you can give someone the gift of GeForce Now for six months of Priority, or three months of RTX 3080 membership and get yourself either two or one month in return for yourself.
Now, ain’t that swell? Of course you could always gift $20 and grab yourself the three months of virtual RTX 3080 gaming, or even keep the whole lot to yourself. Call it a gift to your inner gamer.
That’s not a million miles away from Nvidia’s October deal which saw you being able to grab six months of Priority membership for $30 (opens in new tab). If you look at this Cyber Monday price purely in terms of Priority membership, you’re getting eight months for $50 if you keep both gift cards for yourself.
GeForce Now is my absolute favorite streaming service. The Priority tier will get you 1080p RTX-based gaming at 60Hz on practically any internet-connected device, with priority access to servers so you shouldn’t have to queue (as you do with the free version).
The RTX 3080 tier, however, allows for higher levels of gaming fidelity, including ray tracing, exclusive RTX 3080 servers, and the ability to play at 4K HDR and up to 120Hz. Should your device be capable of such feats.
Which is one of the reasons that the Nvidia Shield set top tube is such a great little thing. Not only is it the best Android TV box you can buy, it’s also designed to work with GeForce Now and smashes 4K HDR gaming. I like it so much I’ve got two of them, I’ve even gone so far as to call it ‘the ultimate 4K HDR games console.’ (opens in new tab)
There are caveats with GeForce Now, however, and those mostly come around the library. It’s a PC-based service where Xbox Cloud Gaming is pure Xbox. That means instead of playing Xbox games on Xbox-based hardware, you’re playing on a streamed PC using your Steam or Epic accounts. And that means you can start or continue cloud saves on GeForce Now and continue them on your gaming PC later. But that does mean it relies on you having a decent Steam or Epic games library already. If you own a game on one of those platforms there’s a good chance you might find it GeForce Now.
But there’s a chance you may not. Not all Steam or Epic games are represented, but enough are that it means you will not want for things to play.
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“There’s just too much TV!” is a classic refrain these days, with a glut of streaming services swamping our capacity to enjoy the best the small screen has ever had to offer. But can you have too many games? When you have to download hundreds of gigabytes of game files over many hours just to see if you’re into it, then maybe.
When you can get instant access to over 300 games, with pretty much something for everyone from the world of gaming, then such arguments go out of the window. And that’s the glorious promise of Xbox Cloud Gaming, part of the Microsoft Game Pass Ultimate subscription.
Sadly, that does make it $14.99/month for the privilege, which might feel like a lot to spend out on a games sub if you’re not sure how much you’ll use it. But you can grab a fresh sub for just $1 for the first month, and if you don’t want to carry on after that first 30-day period then you can just cancel recurring billing and not pay another penny than your initial one dollar down.
That said, it’s not just cloud gaming, because with Game Pass Ultimate you get both Xbox and PC Game Pass, as well as EA Play, too. Which means even if a game isn’t available via the Xbox cloud servers there are thousands you can just download to your device and enjoy… so long as you keep on paying Microsoft its sub money.
But it’s the Xbox Cloud Gaming feature that makes Ultimate Game Pass so, well, ultimate. It means you can log on from practically any device—including a Steam Deck—and be playing some of the latest Xbox games in minutes. The streaming is good, thought the resolution is limited to 1080p at best.
Personally, I think GeForce Now has the superior actual streaming quality (opens in new tab), but you do actually need to own the games to play them on Nvidia’s service. With Game Pass everything you see is fair game.
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If you’re in the market for the best Cyber Monday gaming monitor deals (opens in new tab) this weekend, you won’t go far wrong with this 27-inch IPS panel. The Lenovo G27Q-20 is currently on sale for £198.98 (opens in new tab) at Ebuyer, saving you a chunky £160 and making it an affordable option if you’re looking to make the jump from 1080p.
The Lenovo G27Q-20 gaming monitor comes with a native resolution of 2560 x 1440, so it doesn’t quite hit the 4K mark. It does boast a 165Hz refresh rate, however, along with a crisp 1ms response time, and AMD enthusiasts will be pleased to learn that it also offers Freesync support.
Sadly, I can’t give this specific monitor a personal recommendation as I haven’t used it—and we haven’t reviewed it—but on paper at least, it looks very similar to the Gigabyte G27Q (opens in new tab), which is my current main panel. And I am very much into that monitor’s high refresh rate, 1440p IPS style.
While it might be tempting to go for the biggest and the best 4K gaming monitor (opens in new tab), it’s not going to do you a lot of good if your GPU doesn’t have that capability. Likewise, the absolute best gaming setup isn’t going to mean a lot if your display isn’t up to the job. Basically, if aren’t planning on upgrading to 4K gaming in the next couple of years, or you’re simply after a second monitor, I would suggest you could do a lot worse than the Lenovo G27Q-20.
If all this talk of displays, refresh rates, and 4K resolutions has made you curious to find out which monitors we rate, our best gaming monitors (opens in new tab) guide should help you decide. Alternatively, if you think it might be time for a bigger upgrade, we’ve rounded up the best Cyber Monday graphics card deals (opens in new tab) too.
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If you need a fresh clue for today’s Wordle then you’ve come to the right place. If you need the answer to the November 27 (526) puzzle delivered as quickly as possible then you’re still in the right place. And if you’ve never played Wordle before and would love to read some tips and guides made to help you out then guess what? Yeah, you’ve got it.
I know I’ve got a bit of a problem on my hands when the answer to “What can fit between those two greens?” is “What can’t fit between those two greens?”, especially when those yellows refuse to show up no matter how much I try. Sometimes this scenario kills off my win streak, but today I got lucky and managed to squeak by on the last go.
Wordle hint
A Wordle hint for Sunday, November 27
The Wordle word you’re looking for today is another way of describing someone who feels joyful, glad or satisfied, and is generally considered the opposite of feeling sad. Today’s answer was also the title of the multi-million selling single tied to the Despicable Me 2 movie.
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 526 answer?
Is anything better than a weekend win? The answer to the November 27 (526) Wordle is HAPPY.
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 26: CLEAN
November 25: ITCHY
November 24: FEAST
November 23: DRIVE
November 22: PRIME
November 21: AXIOM
November 20: BRAVE
November 19: AVERT
November 18: GLYPH
November 17: THERE
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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