AMD’s Fluid Motion Frames (AFMF) technology has been part of a regularly updated preview driver since late September, and the red team has been adding support for a host of different RDNA 2 and RDNA 3 GPUs since then. And buried in the unveiling of the Radeon RX 7600 XT at CES 2024 this week is the announcement that AFMF is going to be part of the release driver for the new mid-range graphics card.
AMD Fluid Motion Frames is part of the red team’s answer to Nvidia’s DLSS 3 and Frame Generation, but doesn’t require GeForce hardware or even game integration to make it happen.
AMD does have a game-specific frame generation feature, currently only available in Forspoken and Immortals of Aveum, and coming to a suite of future games, but AFMF is driver-based and should work on any DirectX 11 or 12 game.
But it’s been sat in the preview stage for the last few months with no details about when it would hit the main driver stack. But with the note at the bottom of the AMD CES 2024 presentation stating that “AMD HYPR-RX with AMD Fluid Motion Frames (AFMF) available with AMD Radeon RX 7600 XT launch driver” we now know that it will be released on January 24.
That’s great news for gamers on lower spec hardware as it gives players the opportunity to smooth out their gaming experience on a huge number of titles, far more than the green competition.
Which is why AMD believes that Nvidia is potentially going to have to follow suit with it for once. AMD’s Aaron Steinman told Jacob that he believes Nvidia is “going to have to do something similar” if it wants to keep pace in the upscaling arms race.
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But frame generation—in either driver- based or game-specific trim—is no frame rate panacea, however, as you still need a certain level of gaming performance for it to be a benefit more than a latency hinderance. That said, with the recent update to the preview driver delivering support for the 700M-series iGPU, I’ve had Baldur’s Gate 3 running on my Framework 13 laptop to great success.
That’s the same 780M graphics silicon as in most gaming handhelds and the next-gen Ryzen 8000G desktop APUs, and I’ve seen FSR 2 Balanced performance go from around 30 fps on High settings to a pretty steady ~60 fps with AFMF enabled. And it looks and feels really good, too.
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They say imitation is the sincerest form of flattery, which means MSI must really like Nvidia’s Founders Edition design. It’s taken the core concept of Nvidia’s RTX 30- and 40-series FE cards, the push/pull fan concept, and reimagined it with its own RTX 4080 Super 16G Expert.
MSI tells me it liked how Nvidia’s Founders cards efficiently shift air from one side of a chassis, over the GPU, and out the other. This has been Nvidia’s approach ever since the RTX 30-series, and though it’s massively engorged the design with the 40-series, it’s proven a popular pick.
Though MSI is borrowing the FE’s core concept, it’s offering a completely different look. Nvidia’s opted for that sleek stealth black design for its new Super cards that seemed to be all anyone could talk about at CES, but MSI has opted for a more professional look for its Expert lineup. Befitting of the name, I suppose.
As is the case with many RTX 4080 and RTX 4090 cards, this card is a lot bigger than you expect it to be once you get up close. It should be half the size it actually is. Amongst a sea of graphics cards at MSI’s CES 2024 booth this stood out from the rest. Though I doubt it’s everyone’s cup of tea.
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MSI will roll out the Expert line with the approaching Super cards. Nvidia plans to release those throughout the month, starting with the RTX 4070 Super on January 17. The RTX 4070 Ti Super follows on January 24 and the RTX 4080 Super on January 31.
Yet while I like MSI’s take on a Founders Edition, it doesn’t hold a candle to that all-black RTX 4080 Super FE. Sorry MSI, I’m a sucker for stealth builds.
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One of the most surprising games to come out last year was Honkai: Star Rail, an action game disguised as a turn-based strategy game. Its characters perform anime-style fighting moves that take up the entire screen. It’s the flashiest RPG I’ve played in years.
It’s so good that I can’t see myself ever going back to Genshin Impact, MiHoYo’s breakout action RPG. I love many of the characters in Genshin and find parts of the freeform combat fun, but as soon as the encounters get tough and you’re managing a stamina meter like Dark Souls, I’m out. Give me the illusion of playing an action game without any of the fast-paced timing.
Zenless Zone Zero, MiHoYo’s upcoming action game without an open world, caught my eye because of its bigger emphasis on combat. You still pilot a group of anime characters with unique abilities in a Genshin-like party, but the training wheels are off. ZZZ is pure action like a Devil May Cry: You pummel enemies with combos and air juggle them until they pop. There’s a move list and animation cancels to squeeze out more damage. It’s Genshin Impact at twice the speed.
Like its other games, MiHoYo is intentionally courting character action game babies like me with ZZZ. Its producer, Zhenyu Li, told PC Gamer in an email interview that “a lot of effort” went into making a game that is approachable to newcomers, a task that even took throwing out the first draft of its combo system.
“Our original combo system was complicated and had too many constraints, creating high barriers for players to execute cool combos,” Li said. “However, after long-term observation of the market and player feedback, we realized that many players found traditional ‘hardcore’ action games too complex to enjoy.”
Li said the team “lowered the barriers for certain actions (like triggering quick time events),” to give casual players a chance in ZZZ’s fast-paced encounters. After playing several hours of the current beta, I can confirm that spamming attacks more or less works until you run into tougher enemies. In fact, it almost works too well to the point of making the early missions dull. I’m blasting through enemies so easily that all the complexity is washing over me. Eventually I unlocked a training mode to practice perfect dodges and precision character swapping, but I’m not convinced it’s all that necessary until much later in the game.
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Most projectiles and attacks are easily dodged, and most enemy types don’t require specific elemental attacks until later on. You can mindlessly lay into enemies and only swap characters when you’re prompted to for a combo attack until everything dies. Nicole, one of the first characters you meet, can suck enemies up into a black hole to set another character up for an easy KO. This is a gacha game, however, so many characters are locked behind a premium currency you can save up or buy with real money. I rolled and got Ben Bigger, a literal bear man who stomps around the arena to help stagger enemies and set up faster characters, like Anby, to slice them into oblivion. Or at least that was the strategy I tried to employ, but many fights were over before I pulled it off.
All of it is a joy to watch, though. You dart around the asphalt arenas like a Dragon Ball Z battle and the entire screen goes slow-mo as you land the final blow, which often captures your character cartwheeling mid-air before the score screen appears. Hits land with satisfying thuds and every ultimate has characters take over the entire screen in one powerful swoop. Like all of MiHoYo’s games, ZZZ’s combat has a rhythm to it, enhanced by electronic battle music and trap beats that go surprisingly hard.
Hollow Hollows
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You’d be forgiven for not realizing that ZZZ’s setting is actually similar to MiHoYo’s other games given how comic book its intro is. It’s a post-apocalyptic story set in the near-future. There are holes in the world called Hollows that are filled with monsters. Normal people can’t survive them, but “proxies”, like ZZZ’s main character, make a living leading squads into these danger zones to complete odd jobs. You browse an app full of requests like a gig worker and jack into a computer to remotely navigate your team through the Hollow.
“Our world is different from other post-apocalyptic settings where somberness and stark moral choices are rampant,” Li said. “Here, you don’t have to learn any profound lessons or save the world. Instead, you get to experience the lives of ordinary people who strive to achieve their own justice through rebellious means.”
Tonally, ZZZ veers much harder into anime tropes than Honkai: Star Rail’s tendency to satirize modern trends, like the metaverse. This is extremely clear in the first 10 minutes as a trio of Hollow mercenaries pratfall and wise-crack their way through a heist, depicted via cutscenes and comic book panels. I’m not usually a fan of stories with characters who can’t seem to take their own world seriously, but ZZZ speeds through these moments before they get too tiresome.
(Image credit: Tyler C. / MiHoYo)
Outside of the cutscenes, you only have a few blocks of New Eridu to explore. There are some characters to meet and stores to shop at, but most of your time is spent staring at a maze of television screens for each of the game’s missions. A collection of block-moving puzzles and enemy encounters stand in between you and your goal as you trudge through these 2D levels that give each mission its structure. You can zip straight to the objective or tap your way through the entire, multi-layered map to clean out all the resources, which any gacha game player knows is the best way to play without spending loads of money. None of them are particularly fun or hard to solve, unfortunately. They’re busywork before your 15 minutes of allotted combat time.
I get it conceptually: Hollows are extremely dangerous pockets of warped reality that a videogame level might ruin the mystery of. But these TV levels are so far removed from the meat of the game that they feel like a distraction or filler rather than an effective preamble to the thing you’re really here for. I reached a point where I avoided side missions simply to minimize how many block puzzles I’d have to solve.
Even though the beta is still running, it’s the TV levels that have kept me from jumping back into ZZZ over spending more time in Honkai: Star Rail’s charming events instead. ZZZ has all the aesthetic magic that I’ve come to expect from a MiHoYo game at this point. Its character designs rule and the combat animations are dazzling. But right now, its depth is buried underneath a tedious loop with little challenge.
I’m optimistic that MiHoYo might find some ways to fix these issues after gathering feedback from the beta. There’s a truly satisfying action game in there that could be what Genshin players like me have been hoping MiHoYo would make for years, but it’s not quite there yet.
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Last month the streamer and YouTuber JoCat—known for his Monster Hunter, D&D, and Final Fantasy 14 videos like ‘A Crap Guide to X‘—announced an indefinite hiatus.
This was in the wake of an innocuous video titled “I Like Girls” (a gender-swapped parody of Lizzo’s “Boys“) which in his own words “reached outside of its target audience”. JoCat said that wider reception from fringe elements caused waves of harassment, which included doxxing attempts, threats of violence, and a “suspicious package”.
As stated in the original announcement, JoCat had some projects he wanted to finish up before making his departure. “I’ll still be continuing Heart of Elynthi and the JOmega charity, but once those are finished I will be taking an indefinite break from posting anything online.”
Heart of Elynthi is JoCat’s D&D livestream (which he DMs), and will be posted as an unlisted, demonetised video alongside the end of his Baldur’s Gate 3 playthrough. The JOmega charity run however was completed yesterday.
In case you’re unfamiliar with Final Fantasy 14’s raiding scene, an Ultimate is a gruelling 8-man boss fight. They’re considered to be some of the game’s hardest brawls: a gauntlet of ultra-hard boss fights chained together where a single mistake spells doom for your whole team.
While an Ultimate itself takes around 15-20 minutes on a successful clear, actually learning the fight can take months. Or in JoCat’s case, over a year. JoCat decided to turn the event into a charity drive for trans rights, creating stretch goals on Tiltify for players who wished to donate. He also said he would donate one dollar for every death.
JoCat has now completed the raid with a total death counter of 1,573. Since his charity of choice is Gendered Intelligence, JoCat converted his dollars to GBP, upping his personal donation to nearly $2000. At the time of writing the campaign has raised £53,607 (over $60,000), though donations are still open for the next week.
After beating the raid, a swarm of supporters met JoCat in Radz-at-Han and promptly flooded his screen with particle effects—the closest thing you can really get to a standing ovation in an MMO. JoCat issued a thank-you to them live on stream, then later uploaded the full saga in a YouTube video.
“I wanna thank everyone, including the [team] that helped me reach this point, and all my friends—including all the trans friends I’ve made along the way that inspired me to not just do this, but to be myself,” he includes a few other special mentions, including the Ulti Project’s Sausoftheroll for developing and sharing strats, as well as Gendered Intelligence for coordinating with him on certain stretch goals—though he regrettably won’t be able to fulfil all of them.
JoCat then gives a heartwarming thank-you to his fans: “Thank you, I’m sorry to say that I think I do need this step away. For many years you’ve helped me—you’ve got me a house, you found me my fiance, you’re helping me pay off my parent’s house, and I cannot ever thank you enough for that.
“I don’t know when I’ll be back, if I ever [will be] … but after so many times of saying ‘you’re welcome’,” a catchphrase he finishes all of his ‘Crap Guide to X’ videos with, “it’s now my turn to say ‘thank you’. So thank you, I hope you have a wonderful night and a beautiful year.”
JoCat finishes the video with a clip from his time at the Latech School of Design in 2018, where after a presentation he’s asked whether he does YouTube videos because “that’s one of the best presentations I’ve ever seen, and it flows like a YouTube video … that’s pretty amazing.”
After a long period of development, the Wi-Fi Alliance has officially begun certifying Wi-Fi 7 devices. This paves the way for mass adoption of the new standard, providing more seamless interoperability. Until the next standard comes along, we can expect Wi-Fi networking to dramatically improve, with faster, more reliable connections and reduced latency. The latter is something gamers will appreciate.
Wi-Fi 7 is theoretically capable of delivering aggregated throughput of over 40 Gbit/s, even if speeds don’t come anywhere close to that limit. That’s fast enough to supplant consumer-level wired Ethernet. But speeds are just one of many benefits offered by Wi-Fi 7. It’s been designed to better handle multiple simultaneous connections, or maximize performance with a single connection. A key feature is MLO, or Multi-Link Operation, which dynamically assigns different channels and frequencies to deliver better performance with lower latency and less interference.
Connections in the 6GHz band are now possible, which, along with a wider 320MHz channel width, will allow multiple devices to access speeds in the multi-Gigabit range. Households with many devices including PCs, phones and laptops can use Wi-Fi 7 to do things like stream 4K video and deliver untethered AR and VR services.
But Wi-Fi 7 isn’t just about raw speed and multiple-device support. Lower latency is something that gamers can take advantage of. Anyone that’s been frustrated by poor performing, crowded or congested networks should be happy with what Wi-Fi 7 has to offer. One of the less highlighted features of Wi-Fi 7 is 512 Compressed block-ack, which lowers overhead and improves efficiency. Additionally, Triggered Uplink Access improves performance in latency sensitive applications.
Pre-certified Wi-Fi 7 devices have been available for a while now. It was a highly touted feature on many Z790 refresh motherboards, while several manufacturers have already released Wi-Fi 7 ready routers. As long as you check periodically for firmware and software updates, these devices should work seamlessly with certified Wi-Fi 7 devices.
Don’t feel as though you need to rush out an upgrade to Wi-Fi 7 though. It’ll be with us for many years to come. Even now Wi-Fi 6E routers carry a price premium, especially the high bandwidth ones, and high end Wi-Fi 7 routers will remain expensive for the foreseeable future. At least you get back compatibility, so your older Wi-Fi devices will still function, albeit without Wi-Fi 7 exclusive features.
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AMD has kicked off 2024 for its Radeon line-up of graphics cards with the RX 7600 XT, sporting 16GB of GDDR6 VRAM and minor boosts to the GPU’s clock speed. It’s still using the same Navi 33 graphics chip as in the original Radeon RX 7600, so there are no additional shaders or memory controllers, though.
That means the new RX 7600 XT has 2,048 shaders and a 128-bit combined memory bus width, but AMD has upped the Game clock by 220MHz (2.25 to 2.47GHz) and the Boost clock by 100MHz (2.66 to 2.76GHz), increases of 9.8% and 3.8% respectively. The VRAM’s clocks are unchanged, though, so the transfer rate is still 18Gbps.
Unfortunately, the higher clock speeds and extra VRAM means the power demand has risen, too. Where the RX 7600 has a total board power of 165W, the RX 7600 XT pushes this to 190W. An extra 25W is nothing, to be honest, and should mean that it will only require a single 8-pin PCIe power connector.
I say ‘should’ because it’s not 100% clear in the various images of the third party models. There won’t be a reference Radeon RX 7600 XT from AMD, just the likes of Sapphire, PowerColor, etc but I think it’s safe to assume that you won’t need a secondary power cable.
With the combined higher clocks and the extra VRAM, AMD is claiming that the RX 7600 XT is anywhere between 6 and 31% faster than the standard RX 7600, at 1440p. Of course, these figures are for very specific games and the highest increases stated are for Forza Horizon 5, when using maximum ray tracing settings.
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When chip vendors release a new product, they typically like to highlight its performance by comparing it to a very specific model from the competition. In the case of the RX 7600 XT, AMD has bizarrely chosen Nvidia’s four-year-old GeForce RTX 2060 as the initial comparison point. The reason given for this odd choice is that 50% of the GPUs in the November 2023 Steam Hardware Survey are RTX 2060 or slower graphics cards.
The RTX 2060 is two generations old now so you’d expect a new architecture to perform a lot better, but AMD is clearly targeting PC gamers looking to do a GPU upgrade this year. However, it’s also pitching the RX 7600 XT at content creators on a budget, especially those using local generative AI systems.
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Stable Diffusion and Llama both like having access to lots of VRAM, but it’s not the primary factor behind how well such systems work. The same is true for video editing: Yes, memory is important, especially for high-resolution projects, but simply doubling the VRAM isn’t going to turn any GPU into a creation monster.
AMD is also claiming the RX 7600 XT to be a far better GPU than Nvidia’s GeForce RTX 4060, particularly in games that let you enable FSR 3 upscaling and Frame Generation (or Fluid Motion Frames). Some of the performance claims are rather astonishing, such as being 45% faster in Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3, at 1440p with both cards using upscaling and frame gen.
I’m not suggesting AMD is making up these figures (COD is well known for running well on Radeon graphics cards) but a broader selection of games is likely to tell a different story. We’ll let you know exactly what the RX 7600 XT is like when we get our hands on one to test.
You can expect to see all of the big Radeon vendors offering an RX 7600 XT variant or two and they should be available to buy on January 24. The SEP (aka MSRP) starts at $329: That’s $60 more than the regular RX 7600.
Is it going to be worth paying 22% more for 8GB more VRAM and slightly higher clocks? That’s a tricky question to answer as AMD’s own benchmarks suggests that there’s no quite enough of a performance boost to justify the extra cash, it’s certainly less than Nvidia was charging for the RTX 4060 Ti with another 8GB of graphics memory. We’ll know for sure once we’ve full tested the new Radeon RX 7600XT ourselves.
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Kickstart your Wordle week with an easy win—just click your way straight through to the January 8 (933) answer if you like. Would you rather take your time, but would still like a little help? No problem. There’s a helpful clue for today’s Wordle waiting just below, and plenty of general tips for the daily game too.
My brain seemed to go on holiday this Monday morning, and it took the English language with it. In hindsight I can see I had absolutely everything I needed to solve today’s Wordle staring me in the face from my second go, but at the time I was so blind to it, I may as well have had my eyes closed. Not a great start to the week, but at least I have plenty of time to make up for today.
Wordle today: A hint
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Wordle today: A hint for Monday, January 8
Today’s answer means “the last of something”. This could be an exam, or a racing lap, or a sporting event. Whatever happens, there are no more after it.
Is there a double letter in Wordle today?
No letters are used twice in today’s puzzle.
Wordle help: 3 tips for beating Wordle every day
If you’ve decided to play Wordle but you’re not sure where to start, I’ll help set you on the path to your first winning streak. Make all your guesses count and become a Wordle winner with these quick tips:
A good opener has a mix of common vowels and consonants.
The answer could contain the same letter, repeated.
Avoid words that include letters you’ve already eliminated.
You’re not racing against the clock so there’s no reason to rush. In fact, it’s not a bad idea to treat the game like a casual newspaper crossword and come back to it later if you’re coming up blank. Sometimes stepping away for a while means you can come back with a fresh perspective.
Today’s Wordle answer
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What is today’s Wordle answer?
Here’s your latest win. The answer to the January 8 (933) Wordle is FINAL.
Previous Wordle answers
The last 10 Wordle answers
Previous Wordle solutions can help to eliminate guesses for today’s Wordle, as the answer isn’t likely to be repeated. They can also give you some solid ideas for starting words that keep your daily puzzle-solving fresh.
Here are some recent Wordle answers:
January 7: STONY
January 6: CABLE
January 5: LUNGE
January 4: SCANT
January 3: TWIRL
January 2: AGING
January 1: MURAL
December 31: SALTY
December 30: THREE
December 29: CHILD
Learn more about Wordle
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There are six rows of five boxes presented to you by Wordle each day, and you’ll need to work out which five-letter word is hiding among them to win the daily puzzle.
Start with a strong word like ALIVE—or any other word with a good mix of common consonants and multiple vowels. You should also avoid starting words with repeating letters, so you don’t waste the chance to confirm or eliminate an extra letter. Once you’ve typed your guess and hit Enter, you’ll see 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.
Your second guess should compliment the first, using another “good” word to cover any common letters you might have missed on the first row—just don’t forget 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 correct word. You have six tries in total and can only use real words and don’t forget letters can repeat too (eg: 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.
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Final Fantasy 14‘s annual fan event was in full swing yesterday, and the announcements of new features—and trailers—from the Dawntrail expansion were coming pretty fast. The new Pictomancer was on display, the mystical painter joining FF14 as a magical ranged damage job.
The intelligence-based Pictomancer isn’t just pure damage, however, and has some abilities that buff its party members. Some players are comparing it to the magical counterpart of the physically-oriented Dancer class. It will have the ability to paint the creatures it faces, landscapes, and weapons—all of which are implied to take a bit of time—complimented by a limited selection of instant-case powers.
The Pictomancer will be available at level 80 if you own Dawntrail, allowing you to immediately use it as your primary class for the expansion story. The trailer for Pictomancers, released yesterday, shows off an array of splashy, over-the-top paint-based effects.
An aside during the larger presentation also showed off a feature letting players use several dye colors on a single set of equipment. Examples shown included a leather outfit where the underlying clothing could now be dyed, and a suit of armor with cape and skirt that previously only allowed the cloth to be dyed, but now let the armor itself change color as well.
Much to the excitement of players, the inclusion of playable female Hrothgar catfolk is now fully and officially confirmed—so yeah, those people going on about that pair of legs were right. The lionesses will arrive with Dawntrail, but for now you can just watch a nice trailer showing off their animations, athletics, some stretches, and various other goofy emotes.
There are currently eight playable races in Final Fantasy XIV, and the Hrothgar were the only one locked to a single gender. The other species once locked to a single gender, the rabbit-eared ladies of the Viera, had their boyish bunny counterparts released in 2021.
Final Fantasy 14: Dawntrail is set to release in Summer 2024.
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Looking for today’s Wordle answer? Keep your win streak safe and sound with our help. Give every guess a boost with our handy tips, find focus with a fresh hint for the January 7 (932) puzzle, or go grab yourself a win with the solution to today’s game. However you want to play, we’ve got it covered.
I definitely took the scenic route to today’s answer, but at least I got there in the end. Still, there’s something satisfying about solving a Wordle by process of elimination, slowly chipping away at the alphabet until there’s just one word left. I wouldn’t mind another game like today’s, really.
Wordle today: A hint
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Wordle today: A hint for Sunday, January 7
The answer today can refer to anything with a rocky, stone-like, aspect to it. This is often literal, but can also apply to a stern, emotionless, face too.
Is there a double letter in Wordle today?
No, there is no double letter in today’s puzzle.
Wordle help: 3 tips for beating Wordle every day
Anyone can pick up and play Wordle, but if you want to do it well and make all of your guesses count, these quick tips will help get you started on your Wordle winning streak:
Choose an opener with a balanced mix of unique vowels and consonants.
The answer may contain the same letter, multiple times.
Try not to use guesses that contain letters you’ve already eliminated.
Thankfully, there’s no time limit beyond ensuring 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. Sometimes stepping away for a while means you can come back with a fresh perspective.
Wordle today: The answer
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What is today’s Wordle answer?
And here’s your second win of the weekend. The answer to the January 7 (932) Wordle is STONY.
Previous Wordle answers
The last 10 Wordle answers
Past Wordle answers can give you some excellent ideas for fun starting words that keep your daily puzzle-solving fresh. They are also a good way to eliminate guesses for today’s Wordle, as the answer is unlikely to be repeated.
Here are some recent Wordle solutions:
January 6: CABLE
January 5: LUNGE
January 4: SCANT
January 3: TWIRL
January 2: AGING
January 1: MURAL
December 31: SALTY
December 30: THREE
December 29: CHILD
December 28: LEARN
Learn more about Wordle
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Wordle gives you six rows of five boxes each day, and you’ll need to work out which secret five-letter word is hiding inside them to keep up your winning streak.
You should start with a strong word like ARISE, or any other word that contains a good mix of common consonants and multiple vowels. You’ll also want to avoid starting words with repeating letters, as you’re wasting the chance to potentially eliminate or confirm an extra letter. Once you hit Enter, you’ll see which ones 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 next guess to compliment the first, using another “good” word to cover any common letters you might have 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 simply a case of using what you’ve learned to narrow your guesses down to the correct word. You have six tries in total and can only use real words and don’t forget letters can repeat too (eg: 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.
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If you’re used to looking at system requirements with a feeling of “am I going to have to replace my GPU already” dread, you’ll be happy to know that Prince of Persia: The Lost Crown won’t demand a high-end rig. That cartoony art style was never going to be a real resource hog, but it’s still nice to see system requirements where ultra isn’t out of reach. You’ll probably be able to run this one on a laptop.
Each tier of system requirements for Prince of Persia: The Lost Crown targets a minimum of 60 fps, though Ubisoft notes it can go above 120 fps if you’ve got the hardware for it. To hit ultra on a 4K monitor you’ll only need a GTX 1060 with 6GB of VRAM. What’s more, it’ll only take up 30GB of hard drive space and doesn’t demand an SSD, which is becoming a rare thing these days.
“I know it’s not exactly the Prince of Persia fans have come to expect,” Mollie Taylor wrote after a hands-on with The Lost Crown last year, “especially with the hotly-anticipated Sands of Time remake currently drifting on the desert winds. I’d consider it no bad thing that it’s going for such a different feel, though. With the team behind the excellent Rayman Legends working on The Lost Crown for the last four years, the result is a gorgeous 2.5D sidescroller that hearkens back to Prince of Persia’s origins while imagining a new future for the series and features all sorts of utterly devious puzzle platforming with some mighty satisfying execution.”
For me, Prince of Persia will always first and foremost be a 2D game about a rotoscoped guy being impaled on spikes and gorily halved by chomping metal teeth, so a return to a sidescrolling Persia seems fine by me. It’ll be out on January 18 via Epic and the Ubisoft Store.
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