Every Wordle player should try Waffle, a daily word puzzle that’s gotten more popular than actual waffles-
If you type Waffle into Google you will no longer find a delicious square breakfast treat covered with syrup and powdered sugar as the number one result. Instead (at least in the US and UK) you will find Waffle, one of the many daily word puzzle games that were inspired by the sudden smash-hit success of Wordle.
That’s pretty impressive—waffles have been around since the 14th century and Waffle only popped up in February of 2022.
Granted, if you want to eat a waffle you probably just go and eat a waffle, you don’t look it up on Google it first. But Waffle (the game) is still pretty darn popular. According to Waffle’s creator, James Robinson, the game now has roughly 450,000 daily players, and that success hasn’t gone unnoticed.
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Granblue Fantasy- Relink is February’s surprise banger, shifting 1 million copies in under 2 weeks-
Like I pointed out at the end of last year, mid-January to early February was pretty damn big for gaming. Games like Palworld I did not see coming, while others like Suicide Squad: Kill the Justice League and Tekken 8 have been having their moments. One game I pointed out but didn’t particularly expect to bang was Granblue Fantasy: Relink, a JRPG from a relatively niche franchise that’s gone through its fair share of development hell.
Yet here we are, nearly two weeks after release, and the game has kinda banged. It managed to sell 1 million copies in just 11 days across PlayStation 4, PlayStation 5 and Steam. Even on Steam alone it’s been doing pretty dang well for itself, regularly breaking 100,000 concurrent players over the past week-and-a-half and nabbing itself a spot on the…
Hogwarts Legacy sold over 22 million copies, Warner Bros. exec brags it’s ‘the best-selling game of the year in the entire industry worldwide’-
Warner Bros. Games has announced that the Harry Potter action-RPG Hogwarts Legacy sold over 22 million copies by the end of 2023, with roughly 2 million of those sales over the December festive period. “But it’s not just the units sold that I’m so proud of, it’s just that it delighted the fans so much,” Warner Bros. Interactive Entertainment president David Haddad told Variety.
Haddad is positively gushing about the game. “It brought Harry Potter to life in a new way for gamers where they could be themselves in this world, in this story,” says Haddad, “and I think that’s really why it resonated so well and remains the best-selling game of the year in the entire industry worldwide. That’s a position that typically is held by one of these incumbe…
Helldivers CEO wants to keep the ‘T-pose of democracy’ fall damage bug- ‘We’ll add inflatable bouncy bags that deploy from under your armpits or some sh-t if we have to’-
The “T-pose of democracy,” as we learned yesterday, is a recently discovered glitch in Helldivers 2 that enables players to survive fall damage that would normally be fatal by doing a hug emote while sailing through the air like an errant (but loving) cannonball. It’s funny and clearly not supposed to be like that, but even so some players are hoping that Arrowhead will leave it alone. And it turns out they have a friend in a high place: No less than Arrowhead CEO Shams Jorjani.
The glitch is very straightforward: If you find yourself launched into the sky by an explosion or some other bit of kinetic bad news, you can reduce the damage you take on your inevitable impact—and thus increase your chances of survival—by holding an emote before you stick the landing. The “hu…
‘Doom runs on everything’ goes corporate as pricey lawnmower company sets up its army of grass-guzzlers to mow down hell-
Husqvarna is a manufacturer of, among other things, pricey robotic lawn mowers and chainsaws. And it is now preparing, for reasons best known to itself, to beam Doom out to around 30,000 owners of its Husqvarna Automower NERA range.
The manufacturing firm showcased what it was working on at Dreamhack Winter 2023 with a “LA(w)N” party (sorry), which it claims was the first multiplayer championship hosted on a non-gaming device. But now it’s ready to roll the thing out to a bunch of (presumably slightly bewildered) enthusiast gardeners, with the original shareware episode of Doom arriving as a free update to their lawnmowers, playable between April and September 2024.
“The original team at id Software boasted some of the greatest developers ever,” says Björn Mannefr…
Nvidia could face antitrust charges in France as ‘the risk of abuse by chip providers’ scrutinised by competition authority-
Nvidia is under the watchful eye of the French competition authority, Autorité de la concurrence, and may face charges for alleged anti-competitive practices, Reuters suggests.
The report from Reuters claims the Autorité will lay out charges against the graphics card giant, citing people with direct knowledge of the matter. The exact details of any charges have not been made public yet, though will likely regard “allegedly anti-competitive practices.”
The Autorité has already had one bust-up with Nvidia—an impromptu raid of Nvidia’s offices in September last year. According to a press release by the Autorité, which doesn’t name Nvidia directly, a raid was carried out “at the premises of a company suspected of having implemented anticompetiti…
Take-Two CEO says GTA 6 ‘needs to be something you’ve never seen before’ a year after leaks where it looked like something we’ve seen before-
With rumours percolating that GTA 6 might be coming as soon as next year, Take-Two CEO Strauss Zelnick has been out and about, chatting about Rockstar’s game design philosophy and the approach the studio is taking to its next open-world crime caper. Turns out the goal is just to “seek perfection” and turn out “something you’ve never seen before”. Well, that’s easy then.
Zelnick was discussing Rockstar’s games on an episode of the Good Time Show Podcast, where—among chats about his fitness regime and career—he mentioned the difficulties that developers like Rockstar and Firaxis face when trying to create new entries in popular series like GTA and Civilization.
“That’s a challenge that the folks at Rockstar face every time there’s a new iteration of Grand Theft Aut…
Cross Pokemon with The Binding of Isaac and you get this cheerily violent roguelike-
After seven years in the works, solo-developed roguelike Patch Quest has released its final version, a massive roguelike where your explorer uses their powerful lasso to capture and tame any of the many monsters that inhabit a huge labyrinth. It’s pretty much what would happen if you combined Pokemon with The Binding of Isaac, a simply to play yet wildly diverse set of attacks and movement mechanics ranging from gliding, leaping, and surfing to tunneling and spider-man-esque webslinging.
It definitely retains that Isaac DNA, however, becoming ever more of a bullet hell about dodging enemy attacks as you get deeper into the game. The roguelike quilted terrain of Patchlantis also rearranges itself every night, so if you’re defeated and sent back to base camp you’ll have to explore a…