Starfield has only been out in the wild a few days, but now it has the one mod to rule them all: the Starfield Script Extender (SFSE). The mod is the creation of Ian Patterson and Stephen Abel, who clearly spent this past weekend tinkering away while everyone else was exploring space, and this will be the foundation for most if not all of the more ambitious mods Starfield will receive.

The SFSE is a tool that adds additional scripting capabilities and functionality to the game, which basically means it gives modders a whole lot more to play with. If you’ve any intention of playing Starfield modded then this is almost the starting gun for the real work to begin (though the modders are already working fast, and here are the best Starfield mods so far). Scripts offer functionality that isn’t normally available through the in-game tools, and goes beyond Bethesda’s own scripting to allow for more complexity.

I can’t restart Baldur’s Gate 3 again, not for like, six months at least. I’ve got about half of Act 3 to go on my Tactician difficulty Dark Urge Paladin/Rogue, and then I’ve gotta put this thing down for a while. Imagine my surprise and despair, then, when I discovered that I missed the Dark Urge’s first major cutscene, which helps set the stage for the character and has unique interactions for every race and class.

The Dark Urge origin lets you fully customize the race, class, and appearance of your character, an amnesiac with an insatiable bloodlust and mysterious past. A post from user Hysorn on the Baldur’s Gate 3 subreddit helpfully drew my attention to the scene. It’s one of those long rest cutscenes, like most of the Dark Urge’s major story beats, and lets you muse about your old life before the events of the game. 

Valve’s been going pretty hard on Dota 2 this year, and the latest is targeting those who start fresh accounts in the free-to-play game so that they can play easy games and stomp rookies. Valve has also traced the accounts back to their main accounts, and says that from now on “a main account found associated with a smurf account could result in a wide range of punishments, from temporary adjustments to behavior scores to permanent account bans.”

Smurf accounts, for those of you who don’t know, are brand-new accounts used by experienced players to avoid playing at a proper matchmaking level—or to just cheat, grief, troll, and be broadly toxic without permanent consequence. 

Give yourself a helping hand with today’s Wordle—there’s a hint written especially for the September 2 (805) puzzle ready and waiting on this very page. Need something more direct? You’ve got it. Today’s answer is never more than a quick click or scroll away.

The odd collection of greens and greys I’d unearthed around the halfway point of today’s Wordle had me stumped for a while, and I struggled to find the connection between what I’d found and what I could create from them. Thankfully that issue worked itself out before the end and I found today’s answer, but that was definitely a close call.

Today’s Wordle hint

A Wordle hint for Saturday, September 2