Valve seems to be gearing up to release its first new game in four years, and we already know way too much about it: We’ve seen dozens of Deadlock’s characters and their full movesets on YouTube, we can poke around in its file directories, it has a pretty popular subreddit, and, as reported by VG247, it hit 17,000 concurrent players this weekend, rising to over 18,000 today. Not bad for a game that hasn’t even been announced yet.

You can observe the fluctuations of Deadlock’s crypto-player base over on SteamDB. According to the utility’s creator, Pavel Djundik, a Steam key submission months ago made the details of Deadlock’s playtest available for public view, and Valve took no action to change that. It certainly looks like the studio has been ramping up the size of Deadlock’s pla…

In one of this month’s more unexpected reveals, The Witcher 3: The Wild Hunt will be getting its own fully-fledged modding tools. They’ll arrive sometime in 2024, according to the game’s official Twitter account. 

This is wild (hunt) for a couple of reasons. First off, The Witcher 3 isn’t exactly a new game—it’s eight years old, in fact. I know, I don’t like that either. It’s had a big next-gen facelift recently, sure, but it’s pretty late in the game to provide full modding support.

Second, the game already has a pretty active modding community. We even have a list of the best mods for it. It’s not like there haven’t been fully-fledged quest mods, too, like this one that ties up Blood and Wine. You can even, as my fellow PC Gamer writer Joshua Wolens points out, …

However you’d like to play today’s Wordle, you’ll find hints and tips below designed to help. We’ve got general advice for newcomers looking to improve their daily game, today’s answer in big, bold letters if you’re struggling, and a helpful clue written just for the March 27 (646) game.

For a few guesses, today’s Wordle looked like it might be unsalvageable, just a messy scramble of yellows and one green that made no sense—until it all did. It was something of a relief to see the Wordle answer pop up immediately after that classic “lightbulb” moment. 

Wordle hint

A Wordle hint for Monday, March 27

You might not want to think about animal excrement while solving your Wordle, but I’m afraid you’ll have to today. This particular…

Diablo 4’s cow level isn’t real according to Blizzard, but a group of players has discovered the existence of a ritual that they believe will lead to the fabled, supposedly non-existent level, and their evidence is convincing. The problem now is actually performing the ritual, which, if the level really doesn’t exist, may be impossible. 

Cow-themed joke levels have been synonymous with the Diablo series after persistent rumors that one existed in the first game (it didn’t). Since then, Blizzard snuck cow levels in Diablo 2, Diablo 3, and World of Warcraft.

According to Diablo general manager Rod Fergusson in an interview with Kinda Funny, Diablo 4 doesn’t have a cow level because of its serious tone. But players have found a handful of strange items and locations in the…