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Narrow down today’s Connections in an instant—and do it in whatever way suits you best too. If you’re after a few hints to get you started you’ll find them just below, for every colour the game has going.

Need something a little stronger? You’re in luck. All the answers to the September 13 (#94) Connections puzzle are right here and ready to go.

Why would I solve Connections in the expected order when I could find today’s groups in reverse instead? For some reason the purple words in this set stood out a mile, while the easier yellow and green pairings didn’t make much sense until there was nothing else left.

NYT Connections hint today: Wednesday, September 13

Yellow: If you wanted to get rid of someone, and you didn’t really care how they felt on the way out, you might use one of these words to send them on their way. Rude, but effective.

Green: This is a group of short and simple words. You’d use these to iden…

Prototypes of an unreleased Lenovo handheld called Legion Play are being sold in China, showing what could have been a would-be rival to Logitech and Razer’s cloud gaming devices. 

YouTuber Taki Udon (spotted by Tom’s Hardware) bought one of these prototypes and did an extensive hands-on with the rare unreleased handheld. Udon said he paid $160 for the unit on a second-hand market, and the seller told him that there were 1,000 models in “all different levels of quality,” but only 100 were in the condition you see in the video.

That’s not what it would’ve cost if it had officially made it to retail: For context, the Logitech G Cloud retails for $350, and the 5G-enabled Razer Edge will hit shelves at $399 later this month. Legion Play seems closer spec-wise to the G Cloud since both are powered by a Qualcomm Snapdragon 720G processor and have a similar design. 

The UI is what you’d expect from an Android device, and it includes a Tencent gaming app that lo…

A former developer who worked on the 2013 Deadpool action game says there’s no way it cost over $100M to make, despite long-standing rumors and even Wikipedia claiming otherwise.

“Not even close,” Chris Baker, a former developer who worked in Marvel’s games division at the time of Deadpool’s release, wrote on X of the rumored nine-figure budget. People insert this factoid into conversations about High Moon Studios’ game, but there’s actually no reliable source of that info. Wikipedia’s page for the most expensive games to develop cites a 2015 Gamespot listicle with no source either.

Baker took to X to dispute this claim after publishing a video retrospective of the Deadpool games he’s worked on over the years. “I wasn’t privy to the actual budget, but $100 million is GTA-level money, at least back then.” And he’s right: A 2008 Times profile of Leslie Benzies, a producer on Grand Theft Auto 4, quotes him estimating the budget to be around $100M.

An in-game joke abou…

It’s officially spoiler season for Magic: the Gathering’s new set, March of the Machine, and we’ve already got some hitters. The set’s story features the last desperate struggle of the planeswalkers to turn back the tide of Elesh Norn and her infinite hordes of Phyrexian death robots. It also features a reprint of a very cheeky monkey.

That’s right, Ragavan is coming to Magic the Gathering: Arena. As this set represents the climactic battle of all planes to push back the Phyrexians, it isn’t set in one particular place but instead across the entire Magic multiverse. And since we know that everyone’s favorite pilferer is the strongest hero in all of Kaladesh, it makes sense that he would make an appearance. His arrival in the Historic format is sure to cause a major commotion, with most folks thinking he’ll be banned on arrival or shortly thereafter, like he is in Legacy.

Ragavan isn’t the only hero answering the call to battle, however. Every booster will include a Multi…

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Bethesda popped up at Gamescom Opening Night Live to reveal that the Rev-8, a vehicle for traversing Starfield’s giant planets in bumpy style, is “available tonight” for free. I gotta say I’m getting big Mass Effect Mako vibes from this thing, but in a charming way—it looks bouncy, seemingly has the ability to hover to help you clear large gaps, and yeah, of course it’s got a gun on it.

The bigger news, though, is that Starfield’s first expansion, Shattered Space, has a release date. As teased at the end of the trailer above, it’s out on September 30. You can read more about the surprise patch on Bethesda’s website, which includes details on a number of bug fixes and details how to get ahold of your own Rev-8 (okay, it’s pretty simple: just talk to your ship technician).

Today’s ground vehicle DLC release answers what may be Starfield’s most-requested feature. Almost immediately upon release last year, Todd Howard was fielding questions about why there wer…

As per BioWare tradition, Dragon Age: The Veilguard will let you entangle yourself in hot, unprofessional workplace relationships with your colleagues at Veilguard Inc. The studio is also building on two lesser-discussed aspects of its previous games’ companion romances: They’ll be able to strike up relationships with each other, independent of the player, and, as hinted at in a recent Veilguard preview event, you’ll be able to help or hinder those budding dalliances.

“It felt right to also give them the opportunity to romance each other, and also romance other characters,” said John Epler, The Veilguard’s creative director. “We never want companions to feel like they exist just for Rook, just for the protagonist, they always should feel like real people.”

Corinne Busche, game director on The Veilguard, explained how this bolsters that “found family” fantasy BioWare companions have always been so good at evoking: “We’ve all been around that friend: They’ve fallen in lo…

With two weeks to go before the arrival of Star Wars Outlaws—August 30 is the big day—Ubisoft has revealed the official PC system requirements, as well as a rundown of PC-specific features you’ll be able to take advantage of if you’ve got the hardware to handle it.

You’re going to need some pretty heavy hardware to run Star Wars Outlaws at its “ultra” setting, but it’s reasonably forgiving at the other end of the scale. Of course, one of the great things about PC gaming is that you can fiddle: Turn this up so you can turn that down, until you find a balance of eye-candy and performance that makes you happy—or, at the very least, that you can live with until you’re able to upgrade your rig.

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• Visual settings: 1080p/30 fps/Low preset with upscaler set to quality
• GPU: GeForce GTX 1660 6GB / AMD RX 5600 XT 6GB / Intel Arc a750 8GB (ReBAR ON)
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