Valve launches SteamVR 2.0 beta with ‘goal of bringing all of what’s new on the Steam platform into VR’-

Great news, VR fans. Valve has just released SteamVR 2.0 in beta. This is the software that powers the entire virtual reality experience on Steam, from hooking up to hardware to the interface you use to whizz around virtual worlds, and it just got a ton more features.

“Today we are shipping SteamVR 2.0 in beta,” a Steam representative says. “We see this as the first major step toward our goal of bringing all of what’s new on the Steam platform into VR.”

Today’s beta release adds Steam Chat and Voice Chat, an improved Steam store with VR front and centre, and an updated keyboard. It also adds “most of” the current features from Steam and Steam Deck. That’s potentially pretty big, as since the launch of the Steam Deck, we’ve seen both Steam Deck and Steam receive heaps of impr…

Today’s Wordle hint and answer #672- Saturday, April 22-

Solve the April 22 (672) puzzle in a flash—today’s Wordle answer is only a quick click away. Once you’ve won, feel free to spend some time with our guides and tips or take a look at our extensive archive of past answers. Wherever you click, you’re sure to find helpful advice that’ll improve your daily game.

There was a danger I’d end up with a “skyscraper” today—building a tower of greens without ever finding the letters around them—but I just about managed to avoid this frustrating situation, revealing today’s Wordle answer with a few guesses left in the tank.

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A Wordle hint for Saturday, April 22

If an individual person or a large corporation has run out of money or is struggling for cash, they might be described as…

Wordle hint and answer #623- Saturday, March 4-

Keep on winning Wordle, and do it in your own way with our handy range of helpful hints and tailored tips. If you’d like a clue created especially for the March 4 (623) Wordle, you’ll find it just below, and if you’re stuck or short of time, then don’t worry, because today’s answer is only a quick scroll or click away.

After a run of unproductive openers Wordle decided that today would be my lucky day, my first two guesses giving me just enough of everything to turn that third row into a winning set of greens.

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A Wordle hint for Saturday, March 4

In fashion, today’s answer is used to describe the seasonal shifts in colours and styles. Perhaps a certain sort of collar or trouser length is currently the hottest thing around, for example.…

Wordle hint and answer #670- Thursday, April 20-

Whether you’ve been playing Wordle since the very beginning or it’s your first game, you’re sure to find all the help and advice you want right here. Need the answer in a hurry? Not a problem—just click or scroll straight to it. Did you just need a little nudge in the right direction? Great: you’ll find a fresh clue for the April 20 (670) Wordle below.

I decided to go with an opener I don’t normally use today, and somehow it immediately turned over three of the five letters I needed to find. I’d got the answer in two—great stuff—although now I have to wait longer than usual for tomorrow’s Wordle fix.

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A Wordle hint for Thursday, April 20

Today’s answer is most commonly used to describe the shallow and usually round di…

World’s best chess player loses tournament after ‘horror mouseslip’-

World Chess Champion Magnus Carlsen exited an online tournament on Thursday after accidentally moving his queen to the wrong square, allowing rival Hikaru Nakamura to take it with his king and ultimately win the match. Chess.com called the move a “horror mouseslip” for Carlsen, who left the event in third place with $15,000.

After beating Carlsen in that armageddon match (a special ruleset for tiebreakers), Nakamura went on to win the Chessable Masters tournament and its $30,000 top prize on Friday, putting him ahead of Carlsen in the rankings for this year’s multi-event Champions Chess Tour. 

The result of Carlsen’s fatal misclick can be seen in the screenshot above. At the top right of the board, Nakamura’s king (black) can be seen capturing Carlsen’s defenseless quee…

WoW’s new specialisation deals damage by buffing everyone else, so of course it’s getting booted from groups for ‘low DPS’-

The Augmentation Evoker came to World of Warcraft with patch 10.1.5 last week, bringing a whole new type of DPS to the game. For the uninitiated, this new spec works by buffing party members to bump their damage numbers rather than melting faces itself. It’s comparable to the Dancer from Final Fantasy 14 or the Bard from Dungeons & Dragons—basically, when an Augmentation Evoker’s in the group, everyone does better.

So obviously they’ve been getting kicked out of groups for no reason. A reddit thread on the World of Warcraft subreddit emerged with a compilation of screenshots from the Wyrmrest Temple discord, community server for Evokers. Typing “!augdps” in the augmentation channel will have Carlygos, the server’s friendly bot, drop an ever-evolving montage of people mis…

Watch a latex-clad billionaire punch out poor people in the debut gameplay trailer for Batman- Arkham Shadow-

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The first-ever gameplay trailer for the upcoming Batman: Arkham Shadow appeared at Gamescom’s Opening Night Live showcase tonight, giving us our first proper look at the upcoming VR take on the adventures of the most therapy-averse billionaire in history.

The new trailer focuses on exploration, dialogue, and of course plenty of fisticuffs, as the world’s greatest detective whomps the living hell out of dozens of flunkies and underlings on his way to ensuring that nothing ever really gets better in the bleak, crumbling metropolis of Gotham City. 

“A corrupt system has failed you,” the villainous Rat King (at least, I assume that’s the Rat King) says at one point. “Are you not angry? Fight back!” The man has a point, right? If your life is an endless swamp of fut…