We’re getting into the entry-level with the RTX 5060 Ti and a price-savvy graphics card is just what the market needs right now. Available in 8 GB and 16 GB models and priced at $379 and $429, respectively, a good deal is what the RTX 5060 Ti aims to offer. It undercuts the previous generation, puts a small fire under the competition, and delivers some new features that you can either choose to take advantage of or not and still feel like you got your money’s worth.

With prices up in the air and what some might call ‘macro economic headwinds’ affecting global moods, I’m not sure how well this ‘good deal’ statement will age. In fact, I’ve just had a look around at retailers in the hours preceding publishing this review and the 8 GB card costs as much as the 16 GB card and the 16 GB card is just under $500. That’s not good. Yet in my pre-release isolation, I’ve been reasonably impressed with the RTX 5060 Ti 16 GB.



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Magic Untapped reports the latest Magic: The Gathering set, Tarkir: Dragonstorm, has been so popular stores are selling out of it and sometimes struggling to restock. “Demand for Tarkir: Dragonstorm has been exceptionally high and we are working to bring more to the market,” said Wizards Play Network community manager Nelson Brown.

It’s tempting to put this down to how traditional Dragonstorm is. It’s a return to a setting that debuted in 2014, with a theme—dragons, obv—which is as close to generic fantasy as you can get. But while some recent sets, like the racing-themed Aetherdrift and detective-themed Murders at Karlov Manor, have been criticized for leaning too hard into gimmicks, we did just have the extremely old-fashioned Foundations too. It’s not like this is the only chance players have had to put money down on conventionally themed cards this year.



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Jagex has launched its open world survival crafting game, RuneScape: Dragonwilds, into early access, even though it was only shown for the first time on March 31. Ahead of its release, a developer update livestream was scheduled to share some more details on the game, including its coveted release date, but little did we know that release date would be right now.

Prior to the release of its official teaser trailer which was shared only two weeks ago, Dragonwilds was technically first introduced in 2022 before being brought back to our attention in October 2024, when Jagex put out the feelers for some testers for a “new survival game set in the RuneScape universe.” Despite those brief mentions and the information on the Steam page, we haven’t been given a lot to go off when it comes to what to expect from the game.

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Whether you need a little Wordle help, a lot of Wordle help, or just a few quick tips, we’ve got everything you need right here. Go straight for today’s answer if you like the idea of winning in a flash, or take it easy and muddle through, knowing our clue for the April 15 (1396) game is here if you need it.

Finding a decent spread of clues wasn’t the issue today—the problem was working out what the heck to do with them afterwards. Nothing seemed to fit, no clever idea wanted to work out. Persistence was the only thing that paid off, eventually leading me to Tuesday’s winning word.

Today’s Wordle hint

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Wordle today: A hint for Tuesday, April 15



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The Zone might always be a place where stepping a few feet in the wrong direction will leave you compressed into a wet mess by a gravitational anomaly, but you can’t say it’s not improving. After completing months of major patches that smoothed out some of the rougher jank in the Stalker 2 experience since its November release, developer GSC Game World just released its Q2 2025 update roadmap to sketch out its plans for post-release support as it moves from fixes to new additions.

“The Zone is evolving and will continue to,” GSC Game World said in an accompanying news post on Steam. “Throughout the year, we will be delivering updates and hotfixes dedicated to making the game better in every aspect. With proper planning, double testing (internal and closed beta for big updates) of all features and fixes, and your feedback, Stalker 2: Heart of Chornobyl will become the game we imagined—and you deserve.”

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First on the Q2 docket is an initial beta deployment of an official Stalker 2 modding SDK. GSC Game World says it will be inviting modders to a closed modkit beta before eventually releasing the SDK with an accompanying mod guide. The studio also intends to support Mod.io and Steam Workshop integration.



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With a whole three seconds of footage, this month’s Nintendo Direct put a new release window on Hollow Knight: Silksong: 2025. The game has blown past announced release windows before, of course, but this does feel a bit more concrete—brief though the appearance was, this was still Nintendo announcing the lineup for its brand new console. There’s some weight to that.

But as the Silksong community once again goes wild with rapture, I’m left troubled by a question that’s been floating around this game for a while now: after this long of a wait, what are we actually expecting Silksong to be?

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As originally conceived, Silksong was just an expansion for Hollow Knight. If it had released as a relatively substantial DLC in 2019, I’m sure it would have been well received. Instead, that year it was announced as a full sequel, far expanded in scope from the original idea. And if that sequel had come out in 2020 and turned out to just be a new slice of good Hollow Knight content, we’d have probably all been happy with that too.



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On an average day about a dozen new games are released on Steam. And while we think that’s a good thing, it can be understandably hard to keep up with. Potentially exciting gems are sure to be lost in the deluge of new things to play unless you sort through every single game that is released on Steam. So that’s exactly what we’ve done. If nothing catches your fancy this week, we’ve gathered the best PC games you can play right now and a running list of the 2025 games that are launching this year.

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Epic’s weekly game giveaways are now as familiar a part of the PC gaming landscape as eye-wateringly expensive graphics cards and Half-Life 3 conspiracy theories. But this week’s offering is a little bit different.

For starters, there are three games to download and keep for free this week, rather than the traditional two. The first is Arcadegeddon, a cooperative rogue-like shooter developed by IllFonic and released in 2023. This is already available for free anyway, but you get $20 worth of the in-game currency ‘Arccoins’ with this download. The other is River City Girls, the well-liked side-scrolling beat ’em up originally launched in 2019.



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It is a tradition well-regarded that PC gaming’s long-standing FPS Doom be ported to every new piece of hardware that could, even vaguely conceivably, run it.

Last year, id Software surprise-dropped an updated Doom and Doom 2 as a collection, one that runs on modern hardware and has been pretty well-received. To wit, Limited Run Games is going to make a physical release of Doom + Doom 2. When it goes on pre-order on April 18 it’ll come in a standard case, a retro-style big box, or as one of 666 limited copies of a completely absurd $666.66 Will It Run Edition.



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Bungie’s taking a crack at the extraction shooter genre and so can you when the Marathon alpha test opens up later this month. Official launch day for Marathon isn’t until September this year, but it will be running an alpha and beta test before that. From what we’ve played so far, it’s all that Bungie FPS sauce in a different live service package than Destiny 2.

The first alpha will give players who get in a chance to try out four of its different characters (“runners”) and two maps in crews of three players all doing the PvPvE thing and trying to exfil with gear and completed contracts. Here’s the quick facts on the Marathon alpha:

When is the Marathon alpha test?



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