Thursday, June 6, 2024

New Video Game Releases in Week 23 of June 3, 2024

Here’s the list of new video game releases in week 23 of 2024; the week starting Monday, June 3, 2024. The most popular video games released this week include: Destiny 2: The Final Shape, The Elder Scrolls Online: Gold Road, Tour de France 2024: The Video Game, Star Wars: Hunters, The Smurfs: Village Party & ...


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Wednesday, June 5, 2024

‘Wordle’ Answer Today 1083 June 6th 2024 – Hints and Solution (6/6/24)

Here is the Wordle answer today for the 1083 word, released on June 6th, 2024 and some hints to help you solve it.


Wordle is a very popular word game that has gone viral due to the results being posted all over social media by players and the simplicity of the game. The aim is to guess the five-letter American English word in six guesses or less.


There are no initial clues given as to what the word could be, but once you have made a guess, the tiles will change colour letting you know more about the letters in the word. The three different colours the tiles could change to are grey, yellow, or green.


Grey indicates that the letter you guessed is not in the word at all, so you should avoid using it in future guesses.


Yellow indicates that the letter does appear in the word, but not in the position you have it in now.


Green indicates that you have guessed the correct letter and placed it in the correct location, which is the colour you want to see!
Wordle Game – How to Play


There is also a hard mode for the game in which you are forced to use any correctly guessed letters from the previous row in every guess you make.


You may already do this, but there are times when there are multiple answers for the Wordle and you need to guess a word that contains the potential letters to help you solve the Wordle, which you will not be able to do with this mode.


You can always turn it back off during the game as well if you find it too difficult.


Hints for the Wordle 1083 Hints Today – 6th June, 2024




As the word can be quite difficult, we have some hints for Wordle 1083 to help you to solve it, which are:


Hint 1: Contains the letter H.

Hint 2: It starts with the letter E.

Hint 3: There are two vowels in the answer today (only one letter).

Hint 4: It is a noun.

Hint 5: A pleasant-smelling colourless volatile liquid that is highly flammable. It is used as an anaesthetic and as a solvent or intermediate in industrial processes.


QUIZ: How many questions can you solve from the quiz below?
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What disappears as soon as you say its name?












Echo


Distraction


Silence


Frustration






Correct!
Wrong!















What letter comes next in this sequence? O, T, T, F, F, S, S, ?












S


F


O


E






Correct!
Wrong!















If you divide 30 by a half and add 10, what's the answer?












15


25


70


60






Correct!
Wrong!















What occurs once in a minute, twice in a moment, but never in a thousand years?












The letter 'M'


Having a baby


Success


Fame






Correct!
Wrong!















How many animals of each species did Moses take with him into the Ark?












None


3


1


2






Correct!
Wrong!















If you pass the 2nd person in a race, what position are you in?












1st


3rd


2nd






Correct!
Wrong!















I am related to the water, but I am not wet. I am related to a shadow, but I am multicoloured. I create an illusion, but show what is real. What am I?












Diamond


Mirror


Clock


Gold






Correct!
Wrong!















What 10 letter word starts with gas?












Aberration


Retirement


Automobile


Television






Correct!
Wrong!















Jill and Mary enjoy playing hockey, Kim and Jill enjoy playing football, Kim and Mary enjoy swimming. Who enjoys both swimming and hockey?












Kim


No One


Mary


Jill






Correct!
Wrong!















A farmer had ten sheep. All but seven of them died, so how many sheep were left?












3


7


10


None






Correct!
Wrong!















When you dig a hole 4 feet deep, 5 feet wide and 6 feet long, how much dirt is in it?












None


200 pounds


100 pounds


300 pounds






Correct!
Wrong!















What common English verb becomes its own past tense by rearranging its letters?












Cry


Eat


Sleep


Sit






Correct!
Wrong!















What on earth could dance, and live and die, without legs, or lungs, or being alive?












Water


Sand


Fire


Wind






Correct!
Wrong!















What goes up and down, but never moves?












Air


Water


Road


Gas






Correct!
Wrong!















You're sitting in a cabin in the dark and cold and you are hungry. You have only one match. What do you light first?












A fire


None


A stove


Match






Correct!
Wrong!















I am an odd number. Take away one letter from me and I become even. What number am I?












seven


five


eleven


nine






Correct!
Wrong!















In the kitchen cupboard, there are three jars containing different items. Sugar is to the right of rice and the flour is to the right of the sugar. Which one is in the middle?












Flour


Sugar


Rice






Correct!
Wrong!















If a doctor gives you three pills and tells you to take one every half hour, how long will it take to finish all the pills?












30 minutes


120 minutes


90 minutes


60 minutes






Correct!
Wrong!















There are two ducks in front of a duck, two ducks behind a duck and a duck in the middle. How many ducks are there?












4


6


5


3






Correct!
Wrong!















What is half of 2 + 2?












1


3


2


4






Correct!
Wrong!










Riddles & Logic Quiz





Less Than Average

Better luck next time!








Average

Not bad!








Above Average

You know your riddles!








Genius!

Wow! Impressive!









What is the Wordle 1083 Answer Today? (June 6th, 2024)




Here is how I managed to solve Wordle 1083 in three guesses today. I guessed the word ‘AUDIO’ first, which is my usual starter word.


This was not a great starter word for today as no letters were revealed to be in the answer.
Daily Wordle 1083 Word 1 – June 6th 2024


I then wanted to guess a word that has two E’s in it, so I guessed the word ‘CHEER’ next.


This was a great word as it placed one of the E’s correctly as the fourth letter and the R at the end of the word.


It also showed me that there is a H and another E in the Wordle answer today.
Daily Wordle 1083 Word 2 – June 6th 2024


This made it easy to solve the answer to Wordle 1083 in my next guess, which is…


ETHER!
Daily Wordle Answer 1083 – 6th June 2024


Let us know in the comments section below how many guesses it took for you to solve the Wordle answer today and if there are any other games you want us to start covering!


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Destiny 2 Servers Are Still Struggling After The Final Shape Launch

Destiny 2 launched the Final Shape expansion today, the finale to its sweeping Light and Darkness Saga, however the launch has been plagued by server issues and error codes in its first 12 hours of release. While some issues have now been solved, players still are reporting issues with accessing the new content.

Some players have reported disruptions as they try to play through story content, having trouble loading into missions, or being removed from a mission just before the final cutscene played, while others haven't been able to load into the game at all.

Bungie issued an apology for the connection issues from the Destiny X (formerly Twitter) account and spoke candidly about the troubleshooting process, providing a timeline of the bugs it has already been able to resolve.Continue Reading at GameSpot


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What kind of bug would make machine learning suddenly 40% worse at NetHack?

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Members of the Legendary Computer Bugs Tribunal, honored guests, if I may have your attention? I would, humbly, submit a new contender for your esteemed judgment. You may or may not find it novel, you may even deign to call it a "bug," but I assure you, you will find it entertaining.


Consider NetHack. It is one of the all-time roguelike games, and I mean that in the more strict sense of that term. The content is procedurally generated, deaths are permanent, and the only thing you keep from game to game is your skill and knowledge. I do understand that the only thing two roguelike fans can agree on is how wrong the third roguelike fan is in their definition of roguelike, but, please, let us move on.


NetHack is great for machine learning…




Being a difficult game full of consequential choices and random challenges, as well as a "single-agent" game that can be generated and played at lightning speed on modern computers, NetHack is great for those working in machine learning—or imitation learning, actually, as detailed in Jens Tuyls' paper on how compute scaling affects single-agent game learning. Using Tuyls' model of expert NetHack behavior, Bartłomiej Cupiał and Maciej Wołczyk trained a neural network to play and improve itself using reinforcement learning.

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Halo Season 2 Limited-Edition 4K Blu-Ray Preorders Are Discounted

Season 2 of the Halo TV series aired earlier this year on Paramount+, thrusting Master Chief (Pablo Schreiber) deeper into his battle with the Covenant. Many critics and fans saw it as a radical improvement over Season 1, as it offered better action scenes, an engaging (and mysterious) storyline, and solid performances from its leading cast. Whether you're an avid fan or someone interested in checking out the show in its best possible visual and audio format, you can now preorder the limited-edition steelbook edition of Season 2 on 4K Blu-ray. This collectible version of Season 2 releases on July 23 and matches Season 1's steelbook edition. Best of all, both seasons are discounted at Amazon and Walmart.

Halo: Season Two (4K UHD Steelbook)



$53 (was $59)



Ahead of launch, the Halo: Season 2 (4K UHD Steelbook) is seeing a slight price cut, bringing it to $53 (down from $59). It comes with all eight episodes of Season 2 in 4K format along with HDR--so it should look great on all screens. You'll also get a slick steelbook featuring Master Chief on the battlefield. If you don't need the 4K resolution or steelbook, you'll find the Halo: Season 2 Blu-ray for $49.

It's worth noting that if you order now, you'll get the best price Amazon offers until your item ships. Blu-rays often drop in price ahead of launch, so we wouldn't be surprised to see both editions follow that trend. Your payment method won't be charged until your order ships. Preorder 4K Steelbook Preorder Blu-ray

Halo: Season Two Special Features



Whether you opt for the 4K or Blu-ray edition, you'll gain access to over two hours of bonus features. This includes:

* Halo the Series: Declassified Episodes 1-8
* Silver Team Returns
* Kiki's Favorite Set: The Condor
* Brining the 26th Century to Life
* A Visit to Luma Pictures
* Building A Covenant Warship
* Making The Fall of Reach
* The House of Soren
* Writing for Halo S2
* Bigger Better Props




Before diving into Halo: Season 2, you'll probably want to have worked your way through Season 1. Thankfully, a variety of deals are available for the show's first season. If you're looking for another limited-edition steelbook, you'll find the Halo: Season 1 Steelbook on 4K for $43 (down from $59) at Amazon and Walmart. If you don’t care about steelbooks, you can save a bit of cash with the standard Halo: Season 1 4K UHD Edition, as it’s listed for $31. The cheapest option is Halo: Season 1 (Blu-ray) for $28. Depending on your location, Prime members can benefit from free next-day shipping on all titles.Continue Reading at GameSpot


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Tuesday, June 4, 2024

Bungie Warns Of Known Issues Ahead Of Destiny 2: The Final Shape Release

With not long to go now before Destiny 2 comes back online for the Final Shape launch, Bungie has warned of a few known issues that will launch with the new content. With issues that will potentially impact progression, audio playback, and other elements of the game, here's what Destiny 2 players need to know.

Most importantly, players who are taking on the Final Shape campaign in a fireteam should avoid joining missions in progress or swapping characters mid-campaign to ensure progress is correctly recorded.

Bungie also warns that the game won't currently work with 3D audio, and any players with 3D audio enabled won't get any sound from the game. Players are advised to disable 3D audio settings, including Windows Sonic for Headphones or Dolby Atmos, until this is fixed.Continue Reading at GameSpot


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In the final wait for Elden Ring's DLC, a modded Malenia is kicking the crap out of players – including Let Me Solo Her, who calls her "the strongest boss I've faced"

In wishing the hours away until Elden Ring's Shadow of the Erdtree DLC arrives, players are challenging a modded Malenia - and getting the stuffing beaten out of them. 

'Unalloyed Malenia' is, fittingly, a creation by MiquellaTheUnalloyed over on NexusMods. It's a complete overhaul of the base game boss that seeks to "significantly" increase the difficulty via brand new phases, animations, attacks, and more for what was one of Elden Ring's toughest bosses in the first place. 

"I've been working on this Malenia... It's hard to say how long, probably more than half a year, though it didn't have a specific beginning and end," the modder writes on NexusMods. They've actually learned modding "almost from scratch" for this creation, and the general goal is to make Malenia a challenge for anyone who thinks they've got her down to a science in the base game.

Enter LetMeSoloHer. The famed Elden Ring player became known the world over for hopping into other players' Elden Ring playthroughs and decimating Malenia, often without taking a single hit. They became really famous roughly a year after Elden Ring first launched, and they're so legendary that publisher Bandai Namco went and sent them a freaking sword. 

LetMeSoloHer faced off against Unalloyed Malenia roughly a month ago, and the fight was nothing short of terrific. The player calls them "the strongest boss I've faced," and in the video below, you can see why - in modded Malenia's first phase alone, there are plenty of new attacks to grapple with, including one that shoots deadly spears up in a line from the ground. 



The entire thing is basically a game of executing perfect dodges for over 10 seconds before Unalloyed Malenia pauses briefly, and LetMeSoloHer can land an attack. The modded boss' basic attacks are pretty much a variation of the infamous Waterfowl Dance attack, but chained together near-endlessly so it gives the player barely any chance to strike back. 

The second phase is nothing short of overkill. It's like Malenia's normal second phase, but with a ton of area-effecting attacks going on, one of which is Scarlet Rot, which LetMeSoloHer occasionally has to take a moment to stave off with some Preserving Boluses. You can definitely see why this is the strongest boss that LetMeSoloHer has ever faced.

If LetMeSoloHer is finding Unalloyed Malenia this hard, you can probably imagine how everyone else is faring. One streamer on Twitter wrote that they "hated" the boss, while the streamer below shows how Unalloyed Malenia parried them and then proceeded to stab their Tarnished to death. It's rough out there.


Offstream Unalloyed Malenia Attempt. Parried and stab by her. 🤣#ELDENRING pic.twitter.com/jXs0YlS7LJMarch 11, 2024See more


Elden Ring's Shadow of the Erdtree DLC releases later this month on June 21. I really hope there's something in there that can give these sickos something to rival Malenia.

Elden Ring archeologists are still finding unused content hidden in the action RPG's files, seemingly revealing that one popular NPC was almost given a completely different voice.


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Taking The Acolyte Into New Star Wars Territory Was 'Freeing'

For longtime Star Wars fans, the latest Disney+ series, The Acolyte, is an exciting prospect. After all, this particular series is set in the final days of the franchise's High Republic era, bringing this period to live-action for the very first time. It's also set over 100 years before the prequel trilogy, as Anakin Skywalker is still a long way's off from being born at this point in the timeline.

For Leslye Headland, getting to explore this all new era of Star Wars was one of the most appetizing elements of the project.

"It was totally freeing. It's one of the reasons I set the show there, so that I wouldn't feel constrained," Headland explained to GameSpot. "However, it was a lot of responsibility for sure to be the first person playing in that time period."Continue Reading at GameSpot


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Monday, June 3, 2024

Fallout: New Vegas director Josh Sawyer reveals which characters he took from Black Isle Studio's canceled Fallout 3

Fallout: New Vegas director Josh Sawyer has revealed which ideas made it into his game from his former studio's canceled version of Fallout 3.

Sawyer's career got started at Black Isle, the legendary CRPG studio behind the first two Fallout games, and D&D RPGs like Planescape: Torment and Icewind Dale. Towards the end of the studio's life, the team - including Sawyer - was working on what would have been Fallout 3, a project codenamed Van Buren. Black Isle would be closed down and the project canceled before it could be brought to life, but that didn't stop Sawyer from borrowing a few ideas for New Vegas several years later.

In an interview with Sector, Sawyer was asked what he brought to the Mojave from Van Buren. In response, he said that "there's a lot of stuff," although much of it was eventually modified. Citing fellow Black Isle developer Chris Avellone's work on Fallout 3, Sawyer notes, for example that "there were ideas like [major protagonist faction] Caesar's Legion that came over, although my interpretation of Caesar's Legion was very different from the design in the initial documents."

Individual characters also made the jump; Joshua Graham, the Burned Man, had a presence within Van Buren, but was also changed substantially; companion Arcade Gannon was originally a character that Sawyer played in an early tabletop campaign version of Fallout 3.

Sawyer notes that there were plenty of other, "big and small elements" that he pulled across, but that now, 14 years after the game's release and more than two decades since Van Buren's cancelation, "it's been so long that it's hard for me to remember." That, he explains, is "why I don't answer when fans ask me stuff online. It's gotten to the point where my memory is actually influenced by other people talking about it. And I don't even know if I'm telling the truth anymore."

With the rise of the Fallout TV show, Sawyer did have a reasonable amount to say about his time on New Vegas, particularly as its player counts climbed in the show's wake. From his vibes-based weapon design to his true RPG inspiration in the face of Fallout 3-related criticism, we learned an awful lot about the Mojave in the past couple of months.

12 years later, I ruined my Fallout: New Vegas replay before I even started it.


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My Baldur's Gate 3 party would hate this Destiny 2 D&D crossover and its mind flayer propaganda

The Stranger Things and Baldur's Gate 3 double whammy has catapulted Dungeons and Dragons back into the mainstream, bearing gaming fruit in the form of crossovers with Minecraft, Dead by Daylight, and soon, a sick cosmetic set in Destiny 2.

Earlier this week, developer Bungie announced a collaboration with rights holder Wizards of the Coast to let Guardians "use their bardic inspiration on fashion rolls with all-new in-game cosmetics." Titans will get to enjoy the regal Draconic set, Hunters have the sweet Spectral Displacer set, and Warlocks can grab the ominous Flayer's Dominion set if they want to risk a tadpole swimming into their noggin. Not a cosmetic my Baldur's Gate 3 party would approve of.



An Adventurer's Pack Bundle also includes a Queen of Dragons ship, the Owlbear Chariot Sparrow, and the Eye Tyrant Ghost shell - and, elsewhere, the Bigby’s Fist finisher and the Natural 20 emote, "which will be randomly rolled each time it’s used, as the fates designed," will also be available.

All of the above can be bought in-game at the Eververse store after June 4, alongside the Destiny 2: The Final Shape expansion, which is concluding a 10-year saga for the shooter. 

Guardians looking to take down the Witness might want to start preparing by, firstly, clearing a lot of space in your storage (up to 300GB on Steam), and secondly, avoiding The Final Shape spoilers that accidentally leaked via PS5's streaming service. 

Check out everything else you need to do in Destiny 2 before The Final Shape. 


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