Skyblivion’s to-do list includes landscaping more of the world map’s cells, of which 87% are already done, including all 803 cells of Blackwood—where you’ll find the city of Leyawiin, The Drunken Dragon Inn, a couple of my favorite Daedric shrines, and a whole lot of swamps. There are 40 spaces that exist beyond the world map, however, like the land inside a painting you visit in the sidequest A Brush With Death, as well as the Daedric realms on the other side of Oblivion gates, which are being saved for last. (And which will apparently have “MUCH more diversity” than they did in Oblivion.)

Once cells have been landscaped they can be navmeshed, overlaying the pathing information that tells NPCs where to walk. “We’re currently around a third of the way through this mammoth task,” the team says, “which means that NPCs and quests are fully functional in those completed parts of the map.” Of the 199 quests from Oblivion, 97 are currently playable in Skyblivion, with another 25 described as work-in-progress. The entire Dark Brotherhood questline is among the playable ones, which will please its many fans, while the Thieves Guild and main storyline are the least complete.

Oblivion wouldn’t be Oblivion without its often quirky systems, and Skyblivion is bringing a bunch of them with it. Spellcrafting is done, as is alchemy, underwater combat, and the weather systems, while its classes, magic, attributes, and the inexplicable disposition-altering speechcraft minigame are currently work-in-progress. Oblivion’s level-scaling isn’t on the board, thank goodness, and last I heard Skyrim’s leveling mechanics were being adopted instead.

Unfortunately, to get Skyblivion done by its release date the team won’t be launching it with any of the expansions like The Shivering Isles, which was the most visually interesting element of Oblivion, as well as the home to its most twisted characters and quests. “In regards to DLC,” the team says, “our focus is 100% on Skyblivion for now in order to release the base game at some point in 2025. Once Skyblivion is in your hands, we shall turn our attention to The Shivering Isles and other extra content.”

The plan is for Skyblivion to be playable in both Skyrim and Skyrim: Special Edition, though you’ll need to own a copy of Oblivion too. If you’d like to lend a hand in getting it done by 2025, the Skyblivion volunteers page has all the info you need. 

Even though my early green wasn’t in the best place and my yellows were a little too flexible for comfort, today’s puzzle ended up being a quick and easy game for me. The leap from scattershot exploration to a targeted guess worked out exactly as I hoped it would. After yesterday’s failure, today’s Wordle answer came as something of a relief.

Today’s Wordle hint

A Wordle hint for Saturday, June 24

Anything impressively large or important could be described using today’s word. It’s also the name of a type of piano, and British slang for a thousand pounds (money, not weight). There’s just one vowel in today’s answer. 

Is there a double letter in today’s Wordle? 

No, there is no double letter in today’s puzzle. . 

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 not to treat the game like a casual newspaper crossword and come back to it later if you’re coming up blank. 

Today’s Wordle answer

What is the #735 Wordle answer?

Make sure every day’s a winner. The answer to the June 24 (735) Wordle is GRAND.

Previous answers

The last 10 Wordle answers 

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:

• June 23: COVET
• June 22: TASTE
• June 21: CRANE
• June 20: FROST
• June 19: KAZOO
• June 18: SHYLY
• June 17: RANCH
• June 16: STRAP
• June 15: MAYBE
• June 14: CRIME

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 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, and if you’d like to find out which words have already been used you can scroll to the relevant section above. 

Originally, Wordle was dreamed up by software engineer Josh Wardle, 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, 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. Surely it’s only a matter of time before we all solely communicate in tricolor boxes. 

Fortunately, you can earn experience points toward those levels in singleplayer as well as multiplayer matches. The amount of points earned is affected by how many turns a match lasts as a way of encouraging players to keep going rather than conceding early. A match that ends in the first few turns can earn less than 100 xp, while ones that last the full 16 turns seem to be worth around 800 or 900 points. It costs 1,000 xp to make it to level 2, and each level-up comes with a reward, either a cosmetic unlock or a free bundle of warpstone currency.

Like Blood Bowl 3 itself, this first season had to be delayed, and was released a month later than planned. An accompanying blog post says, “We understand that some of the content you expect in Blood Bowl 3 is not yet available. Season 1 is a first step in adding those important elements, and we will keep working on delivering features and exciting novelties over the next weeks, months, and seasons.”

According to that announcement, the much-requested ability to reconnect if you suffer a mid-match dropout is now active for players on PC, and admin tools for running custom leagues are being tested by “selected league administrators” before being rolled out to everyone. Making more post-match stats visible is apparently a priority as well, with the post including the following “non-exhaustive list of what we currently have or are working on.”

• W/D/L (Win/Draw/Loss) records.
• Skill Rating Points won after a game.
• Star Player Points won.
• Opponent’s W/D/L (to be added).
• Opponent’s Skill Rating (to be added).
• Team stats (to be added after Season 1).

The update accompanying the first season has also added manager progression (a persistent level that won’t be wiped each season), dugout visual customizations, the official ladder, and a “Distinctive team colors option”. The patch notes mention that “various AI issues” have been addressed, and the AI does seem to have stopped doing the thing where it occasionally takes several minutes to make a decision or just walks back and forth between two points. That said, it’s still not great at scoring touchdowns and I walked in a 4–0 victory on my lunch break.

The next round of changes include a rework of the pre-match inducement phase, adding the board game’s “expensive mistakes” rule (which mean if you have 100,000 gold or more in your treasury there’s a chance to lose some), as well as “More readability optimization like selection circles based on role”.

Leaning into the apocalyptic angle of Broken Roads, we’ve also got a fantastic feature this issue on the very best post-nuclear apocalypse PC games of all time. From Fallout to Stalker and onto Metro and more, we highlight the games that let you have plenty of fun while surviving in an irradiated wasteland. And, talking of surviving, this issue also boasts an awesome feature on horror survive-’em-up The Outlast Trials. It’s not a game for the faint of heart!

Venturing into previews land this issue, we’ve got a selection of fantastic new games to get excited for, including XCOM-style WWII turn-based tactics game Classified: France ’44, racing game management simulator F1 Manager 2023, team-based dino-slaying MMO Exoprimal, old-fashioned FPS spellcaster Immortals of Aveum, unique boomer shooter Hellscreen, and knee-dragging, pulse-quickening motorbike racer MotoGP 23.

And this issue’s reviews section is absolutely stacked. We’ve got official PC Gamer verdicts on Street Fighter 6, The Mageseeker, Ravenlok, Bramble: The Mountain King, Warhammer 40,000: Boltgun, Star Trek: Resurgence, Roots of Pacha, System Shock and more.

All that plus an epic group test of six of the best OLED gaming monitors on the market right now, the next entry in our awesome XCOM 2 diary feature, a fantastic re-install feature on seminal Star Wars PC game Jedi Knight II: Jedi Outcast, a look at a cool new mod called Skyrim on Skooma which is making gamers trip-out in Skyrim with often hilarious effects, all the latest updates from the team as to what they’re playing right now, spicy opinions on the biggest PC gaming news stories, a comprehensive gaming PC buyer’s guide to suit any budget, a love letter to Final Fantasy IX’s brilliant bite-sized vignettes, and a report on just what we think PC gaming graphics will look like in 10 years. And, that’s far from all, either.

Issue 385 is on shelves now and available on all your digital devices from the App Store and Zinio. You can also order directly from Magazines Direct or purchase a subscription to save yourself some cash, receive monthly deliveries, and get incredibly stylish subscriber-only covers.

Enjoy the issue!

Wudijo’s been omnipresent in the Diablo 4 community pre- and post-launch, and recently answered a whole load of questions on the Diablo 4 subreddit (including his preferred breakfast choice of “nutella on bread”, which suggests my daughter may grow up to be an ARPG badass). I found it pretty intriguing how he talks about the game, which all comes from the fact that many of us as players flail wildly away at something like Diablo 4 (OK, just me) whereas he’s so clinical about what works and doesn’t and why. It would be surprising if anyone outside of Blizzard knows more about Diablo 4 than Wudijo.

One of the biggest player gripes at the moment is the grind after around level 70, where progress becomes glacially slow. “I agree the grind becomes relatively monotonous after 70-80 where you have all your legendaries, most of your gear, legendary paragon nodes and most important glyphs, so it’s mostly min/maxing from that point,” says Wudijo. “I doubt it will stay that way with seasonal content maybe introducing more ways to break the monotony of the grind, e.g. with more side content similar to Helltide […] The game is clearly built with a lot of room for adding stuff in seasons. I guess we’ll see where they set the bar with the upcoming first season reveal”.

That’s a rather positive outlook on what definitely feels like something of a heave in the game as-is, though we’ll soon enough see how big Blizzard’s ambitions for the post-launch support are. Wudijo also agrees the Vulnerability mechanic is currently an issue, in this case the trouble being it’s too good. Players feel like, if you’re not using Vulnerability, your build is automatically sub-optimal.  “Vulnerable is way too mandatory, literally every good build NEEDS to have it,” says Wudijo, before suggesting ways it could be nerfed while remaining interesting and that “Blizzard could compensate with buffs elsewhere”.

Wudijo’s main is Rogue because “I always like the fast/agile classes”, and he ranks the rest as Druid > Sorceror > Barbarian > Necromancer. The Rogue’s only problem he reckons is Rain of Arrows because “The whole animation is way too long”. Most fun builds? “Twisting Blade, Barrage, Rapid Fire (Rogue in general is best in slot for fun)”. On hardcore mode Wudijo’s “glad they’re finally doing something about disconnects with the Scroll of Escape”.  What’s the Diablo 4 endgame now? “Complaining about nerfs on Reddit”.

In terms of what he’d specifically like to see with endgame in future, Wudijo lists “more pinnacle bosses”, “pinnacle dungeons of some sort”, scaleable seasonal content in nightmare dungeons and other endgame content along the lines of Helltide. He also points out a feature many players would agree the game should add: “Loot filters: needs to happen, and soon. The amount of trash loot at high levels is daunting. I want to feel happy seeing an item flash up in a different color based on my choices once in a while instead of looking through 1000 items and just vendoring them all”. And some big praise amid the smaller criticisms: “Combat is by far the best in D4 out [of] all ARPGs I know”. 

Finally, there’s a very sweet story about how Wudijo got into ARPGs in the first place: “There was this one guy playing Diablo 2 at a LAN party back when I was like 11 or so. I got it from him and tried it out afterwards, which is when I started playing ARPGs”. That guy, that unknown LAN legend, created a monster.