Blizzard announced that it would be bringing Pink Mercy back to Overwatch 2 a couple of weeks ago, but since then, we’ve seen quite a fallout in the community, with some devastated about the skin’s return while others couldn’t be happier. 

Pink Mercy is one of Overwatch 2’s rarest skins. Originally sold as part of a charity drive for the Breast Cancer Research Foundation, the skin was only on sale for a short time, after which Blizzard said it would not be brought back. There are plenty of other skins that are hard to get—Lego Bastion was part of a short-lived collab with the Lego company, while Winston’s Blizzcon Noire Skin was only around for a year before being canned. However, none of these other rare skins are as sought after by Overwatch 2 players because they aren’t Mercy, and, well, they aren’t pink. 

There are a couple of websites that sell accounts (which is not allowed under Blizzard’s TOS, if you’re wondering), and if you look at one of the po…

Almost a month after Payday 3’s disastrous launch, its highly-anticipated first patch, which is said to include over 200 quality of life improvements, has been delayed a second time with no estimated release date.

“We’re sorry for the lack of communication regarding the first patch,” Starbreeze community and influencer manager Elisabeth Elvestad wrote on the game’s Discord. “We have identified some issues that need to be fixed before we can bring it to you, but rest assured that this is the main priority for our teams.

“We’re spending additional time revamping our patching process to ensure that we can have a steady cadence and momentum with patches going forward. We are careful with giving you an ETA right now, as we want to make sure we can deliver before we do so. Please bear with us. The patch (and more news) are coming.”

Payday 3 players have been living on the promise of the patch ever since it was slated for the first week of October. Reports of matchm…

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After Morgan tried out the beta for Spectre Divide, a free-to-play shooter with an unusual two-characters-per-player setup, he said it was so fun that he couldn’t stop thinking about it. 

That’s admittedly no guarantee of success—I liked Concord when I previewed it, and its launch has been brutal—but Morgan’s enthusiasm is certainly a good sign for the competitive FPS, which we’ve just learned is releasing next week.

Spectre Divide’s teams of three are smaller than the usual five you see in shooters like Counter-Strike and Valorant, which it definitely takes after, but it’s not precisely a 3v3 game, because everyone’s got two bodies. As Morgan explained it: “You spawn in your first body and can switch to your second body at any time, wherever they are on the map.”

It’s weird, but Morgan says it works, and he also liked Spectre Divide’s shooting, which is more Rainbow Six Siege than Counter-Strike in that you can move and shoot without tank…

Amongst all the great torrent of information about Starfield that was revealed during yesterday’s online showcase was a look at the game’s two special editions. They’re both pretty expensive (one of them is really expensive, but it comes with a watch—more on that below) but if you’re willing to spring for them, you can get into the game up to five days ahead of the official launch.

The Starfield standard edition costs $70/£60/€70 and comes out on September 6. However, for $100/£86/€100, you can opt for the Premium Edition, which gets you the base game plus:

• Shattered Space Story Expansion (upon release)
• Constellation Skin Pack: Equinox Laser Rifle, Spacesuit, Helmet and Boost Pack
• Access to Starfield Digital Artbook & Original Soundtrack

If you’re a box collector, there’s also a Premium Edition upgrade option available from some retailers, like GameStop and Best Buy, that gets you a Steelbook case and a Con…

One of the biggest banes of trying to get work done on a laptop is the single screen setup. If you’re used to dealing with multiple monitors, being reduced to one can be incredibly limiting, having to switch apps constantly rather than immediately having all the information required on screen. The rise in work from home has seen solutions to this problem start cropping up, but the AR screened Spacetop has got to be one of the coolest ones yet.

The Spacetop is arguably a new kind of laptop. Instead of boasting a screen and keyboard in clamshell configuration, the Spacetop is a full sized keyboard and glasses set up that gives you as many screens as you can want. It feels a bit like science fiction, but Wired recently went hands on with the device and it looks to be one that’ll work very nicely with our current reality. 

The setup weighs less than 1.5 kgs and is by no means a gaming laptop, but the technology could be great for PC gamers further down the line. In its …

Dark Souls: Archthrones feels like a Souls series romhack, mashing up disparate parts of FromSoftware’s body of work in a custom campaign for Dark Souls 3. This is one for the fans, full of clever winks and references to other games in the series, but as one of those fans myself, I sure do not mind being pandered to.

From the jump, Archthrones’ opening level is a condensed homage to Demon’s Souls, featuring the same stinky potato boy Vanguard boss⁠—new school fans will recognize his moveset and animations from the Asylum Demon in Dark Souls and Erdtree Sentinels of Elden Ring. I thought I was a shoo-in for a first try victory against this clear “supposed to lose” boss, but at half health he whipped out a new funky moveset ripped straight out of Bloodborne’s Old Hunters DLC, and I was put in my place.

That kind of cheeky subversion of expectations gives me a lot of hope for Archthrones⁠—at its core this is an exercise in reference and imitation, bu…

Getting your Saturday Wordle off to the best possible start is easy—just take a look at today’s freshly prepared hint and those winning green letters will appear in no time. And if you’re further down the board and things aren’t looking too great, just click through to the answer to the August 17 (1155) puzzle and turn your game around in a flash.

I’m not going to win any records for speed today, but this turned out to be a very satisfying win. A few early crumbs led me in the right direction, then I had a little bit of struggle followed by a last-minute plot twist before my triumphant turnaround right at the end. I basically Wordle’d my way through a mystery novel today—just call me Poirot.

Today’s Wordle hint

Wordle today: A hint for Saturday, August 17

This is a name for a particular sort of bad weather. When this is happening the skies will go dark and cloudy, and there’ll be heavy wind and rain too. Hail might turn up if it’s…

Never underestimate the dread power of K-pop. A month and a bit after online social deception game Goose Goose Duck burst onto Steam’s most-played charts on the back of a stream from BTS member Kim Tae-hyung, the game has already smashed through the concurrent players’ record of its inspiration, Among Us. Goose Goose Duck reached a peak concurrent player count of 563,677 earlier today, beating Among Us’ all-time high by over a hundred thousand players.

The incredible surge in popularity has actually proven a bit of a problem for the game’s devs, who tweeted a few days ago that their servers had buckled under the pressure. “We expected a large increase in players but not like this,” tweeted the game’s official account, adding in a later reply to a fan that the developers were “in communication with providers to drastically increase [their] capacity”. Service was restored in a few hours, but it’s clear that the game’s sudden success has been a surprise to its creators, similar t…

Looking for a helping hand to guide you through today’s Wordle? Then you’ll want to sneak a cheeky peek at our hint for the March 19 (1004) puzzle. Need something more, like a full shove towards today’s answer? Then you’re in luck because the solution is only a single click away.

Wow, today’s game really put up a fight. My very promising start felt great in the moment, it’s just a shame it didn’t seem to lead anywhere for far too many follow-up guesses. The Wordle win streak saving turnaround at the last minute did help make it all feel worthwhile in the end, though.

Today’s Wordle hint

Wordle today: A hint for Tuesday, March 19

If you accepted, or at least tolerated, someone’s decision, it could be said you agreed to _____ by it. This word can also mean “to stay” as well. There are three different vowels hiding in today’s answer. 

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Is there a double letter in Wordle today? 

There are no double letters i…