As videogame marketing clichés go, there may be only one line more overused than “See that mountain? You can go there,” and MachineGames just trotted it out to pitch its new Indiana Jones game, The Great Circle. “In this game, you aren’t just playing as Indy. You are Indiana Jones,” says director Jerk Gustafsson.

No matter how good Indiana Jones and the Great Circle is—and I do think it’ll be good!—I can’t imagine truly feeling like I’m Indiana Jones. In real life I’d constantly be self-conscious about looking dumb in the hat. There’s no way I could hit anything with a whip. My fists don’t make that deep Foley pow when I punch things. But Indiana Jones has never aimed for relatability, anyway; the bombastic films were loving riffs on even hokier pulp serials and dimestore novels of the 1930s and ’40s. What Gustafsson is actually trying to do with that cliché, though, is justify a design decision that’s apparently taken a lot of players by surprise with today’s reveal: Indiana Jones and the Great Circle is a first-person game.



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Piracy is, and shall likely forever remain, a topic of hot-debate. Whatever your views on the morality of pirating copyrighted works, be they games, films or otherwise, it would seem reasonable to assume that you could talk about it on the internet without getting yourself into hot water.

That might not be the case, at least if these two film studios get their way. Via Ars Technica, film studios Voltage Holdings and Screen Media Ventures have filed a motion to compel Reddit to respond to a subpoena which asked the company to provide the IP address log information for six anonymous Reddit users who discussed pirating media on its platform.



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Keep your Wordle win streak heading in the right direction with our help. Whether you’re hoping to make the most of every guess, give your January 18 (943) game a bit of a boost with a handy hint, or you’d just really like someone to tell you today’s answer right now, everything you need is on this page.

Two green and two yellow letters on my opening guess? That’s a lightning fast win in two if ever I saw o—OK, so a win in thr—fine, fine, a win in four will have to do. It’s not often I come so close to finding the answer and then spectacularly fumble it, but I suppose today was just one of those days. 

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Wordle today: A hint for Thursday, January 18



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Before there was Wordle, there was Threes!: A simple, logic-based puzzle game that blew up into a huge, often-copied hit. Mobile gaming site TouchArcade called it “about as close as it gets to a perfect mobile game” when it debuted on iOS devices on February 6, 2014, and with the tenth anniversary of that big day coming up, developer Asher Vollmer has announced that it’s finally coming to Steam.

Threes! is simple to play. By sliding tiles on a 4×4 grid, adjacent 1s and 2s combine to make 3s. 3s can then be combined to make 6s, 6s into 12s, and so on. Empty spots on the grid are filled with new numbers as you slide the board; combining numbers clears up spots. The bigger the number you can put together, the higher your score, until the board fills up and you have to start over. And start over you will, because this game hooks quickly and deeply, and unlike Wordle you can play it as much as you want.



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This week I’ve been getting on the new APU and GPU train: With AMD and Nvidia both releasing new silicon that’s where my 2024 has started, elbow deep in chip benchmarking. My happy place.

The mid-life refresh of Nvidia’s Ada Lovelace generation graphics cards is here! They won’t dramatically upend the graphics card landscape, but then again, it’s hard to argue with more performance at the same or lower price points, so in that respect, they’re welcome improvements.

The RTX 4090 may still receive a Ti upgrade at some point, but it’s already the fastest card, so I’ll skip over that one. That leaves two cards that really could use the Super treatment. I’m pointing the finger at you two over there in the corner, the RTX 4060 and the RTX 4060 Ti.



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In November, fan translation group Hilltop Works released an English patch for Boku no Natsuyasumi 2 (aka My Summer Vacation 2), a beloved adventure/life sim that fans have been eager to play in English for more than 20 years. After that release Hilltop wasted no time leaping into its next project, which was announced today with an amusing trailer. Hilltop wasn’t kidding when teasing it as a “hidden gem”—I sure hadn’t heard of it myself.

“Rowdy Princess is a game by venerated game creator Shoji Masuda, the writer and director of cult darling Linda Cubed, all-time classic Tengai Makyō II: Manjimaru, and the beloved Oreshika series,” Hilltop tweeted alongside the announcement. Hilltop went on to elaborate that translator Cargodin “has been championing this game for over 10 years,” while graphics editing work is being handled by the same contributor who did a fantastic job with the legions of texture edits required for Boku no Natsuyasumi 2.



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Solve today’s Wordle in a flash with our help. Whether you’re looking for a quick click straight to January 16 (941)’s answer, a bit of a nudge from a fresh clue, or just some general advice on how to make the most of every guess, you’ll find everything you need below.

I felt very much like I was tripping over my own guesses today, each row somehow finding new and increasingly frustrating ways to be wrong. I’d find three yellow letters, then on my next guess they’d fall in completely different spots but refuse to change colour. Then they’d finally turn green and the greys would refuse to budge. It took every row on the board to win today’s Wordle.

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Wordle today: A hint for Tuesday, January 16



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Ned Luke, the actor whose roles include GTA 5’s Michael De Santa, has gone off on an AI company that released an unlicensed voice chatbot based on the character, and succeeded in having the offending bot nuked from the internet (first spotted by PCGamesN).

AI company WAME had tweeted a link to its Michael chatbot on January 14 along with the text: “Any GTA fans around here? Now take your gaming experience to another level. Try having a realistic voice conversation with Michael De Santa, the protagonist of GTA 5, right now!”



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There’s a helpful hint for today’s Wordle waiting a little way down this page, designed to point you in the right direction without immediately giving the game away. Of course you might want someone to immediately give the game away and save your win streak at the same time, which is why the answer to the January 15 (940) puzzle’s ready and waiting to go too.

Today’s Wordle wasn’t a smooth ride, but it was an enjoyable one. I just had one of those games where I kept being wrong in an interesting and obviously helpful way, and that meant every new step got me just that little bit closer to Monday’s Wordle answer. I wouldn’t mind if tomorrow’s game went the same way, really.

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Wordle today: A hint for Monday, January 15



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