The latest trend among Starfield hopefuls appears to be ship kitbashing, as one very determined fan is passing the time by carving out ship parts from trailer footage and reassembling them in photoshop.

In this thread, user __ass writes: “I separated each individual module from screenshots to put together this ship,” which they have lovingly christened the “__Ass Fleet Ranger”. It’s a pretty convincing fake all told, one that had me double-taking and wondering if Bethesda had released a ship builder early.

The same user has also strapped together a mini fleet of vessels, as well as the Millennium Falcon from Star Wars.

The response to these nifty constructions has been pretty positive, with user sinjiitachimora commenting: “I wish we had a ship builder to mess around with until September, but these posts are getting me by, fantastic work.” 

Granted, Todd Howard did reveal that ship building is a late-game activity in a podcast with Kinda Funny Games a co…

The British entrepreneur Mike Lynch is among six people missing after a luxury yacht sank off the coast of Sicily during a storm. The Guardian reports that 22 people were onboard when the vessel sank, of whom 15 have been rescued by the Italian coastguard and firefighters, including a one year-old child, while one person has died.

Lynch and his 18 year-old daughter Hannah are among three Britons that remain missing, while his wife, Angela Bacares, has been rescued. Two Americans and a Canadian are also missing.

A statement from the Italian coastguard reads: “This morning at about 5:00 am, following a violent storm, a 56-metre yacht called Bayesian flying the British flag sank near Porticello.” 

Local reports said the boat sank after being hit by a waterspout, a mix of wind and water that can form in storms and is often referred to as a mini-tornado. The BBC reports that fishers saw the waterspout off the coast at around 3:55 am local time, and sh…

Described by PC Gamer’s own Richard Stanton as “Sekiro on a drunken night out”, Phantom Blade Zero looks pretty dang intriguing. Developed by S-Game (and making its debut in the PlayStation Showcase last year) Phantom Blade Zero does indeed look absolutely slammed with high-octane nonsense—and I mean this affectionately. I like nonsense a lot.

Its jet fuel combat had my interest, but a recent interview by our friends at GamesRadar with director “Soulframe” Liang doubles down on a similar sentiment shared in a PlayStation blog last year, and that has my attention: “It’s just like the old Souls games … You move around and explore in a seamless map, it’s just not a huge open-world map. But every region is connected together seamlessly.”

As someone very publicly on-record about my general malaise surrounding Elden Ring’s open world—a feature executed beautifully, but which constantly lies at-odds with the game’s other strengths—this has me v…

If you’re used to looking at system requirements with a feeling of “am I going to have to replace my GPU already” dread, you’ll be happy to know that Prince of Persia: The Lost Crown won’t demand a high-end rig. That cartoony art style was never going to be a real resource hog, but it’s still nice to see system requirements where ultra isn’t out of reach. You’ll probably be able to run this one on a laptop.

Each tier of system requirements for Prince of Persia: The Lost Crown targets a minimum of 60 fps, though Ubisoft notes it can go above 120 fps if you’ve got the hardware for it. To hit ultra on a 4K monitor you’ll only need a GTX 1060 with 6GB of VRAM. What’s more, it’ll only take up 30GB of hard drive space and doesn’t demand an SSD, which is becoming a rare thing these days.

“I know it’s not exactly the Prince of Persia fans have come to expect,” Mollie Taylor wrote after a hands-on with The Lost Crown last year, “especially with the hotly-anticipated Sands of Time…

The Pope’s Exorcist starring Russell Crowe is another one of those ambient movies for me, something whose ads I’ll see on Instagram in between lifting videos, ads for nootropics, pictures of modded Game Boys, and ads for meal prep services. Seriously, like a lot of the stuff on streaming these days, it looks like a fake movie from the Simpsons or 30 Rock, though it does look like they’ve got a Dragon Age fan or two on the crew.

I first noticed the swap by way of Kelgrid and Fleur Bleue on Twitter, though WhyNow Gaming points out that xMoonxCakex on the Dragon Age subreddit clocked this even earlier. It looks like, in the course of his regular exorcising, Russell Crowe exercises his right to check out a spooky crypt tied to the Spanish Inquisition. You can tell it’s the Spanish Inquisition because that’s their symbol chiselled on the wall, only they actually put the symbol of the Dragon Age Inquisition up there.

Although the names may sound the same, the Dragon A…

Following the archeology announcement and those Sniffer details, Mojang has announced yet another Minecraft 1.20 feature today and it’s a sweet one. The update will include a new biome after all: the Cherry Blossom biome. Mojang had kept pretty quiet about whether we could expect a new biome in 1.20 so this is a nice Valentine’s surprise.

“These beautiful new trees fill the horizon with a stunning shade of pink,” Mojang says. “Of course these new trees can also be broken down and crafted into a full wood-set, including the newly introduced hanging signs and cherry tree saplings to grow more of the lovely pink trees.”

From the screenshots Mojang has shared in its announcement post, you can spot cherry blossoms floating through the air beneath the trees, landing strewn across the ground. And the cherry blossom saplings look pretty cute in flower pots too. When they’re full grown, Cherry Blossom trees have a purplish bark and pink wood inside. Apparently sheep, pigs,…

The PC port of The Last of Us Part 1 is not good. In fact, it’s bad. We’re talking shader-plague bad, random-crashes bad, all-the-Steam-reviews-are-real-angry bad. It’s a shambolic situation for a marquee Sony game and yet another in a long line of exhaustingly shitty PC ports. 

But hear me out, what if it’s also a little bit good? Because I’ve been scanning through some of the clips and screenshots people are sharing online, and I think TLOU PC might be one of the finest works of absurd comedy of our era. I mean, look at this:

PC Joel lookin hella fine from r/thelastofus

To think, if TLOU’s PC version hadn’t careened into the platform backwards and on fire, we’d never know what it’d be like if Joel was played by Bogdan from Breaking Bad, and the world would be just that little bit darker.

Hair, in particular, seems to be an issue for the game at the moment. Whether Joel’s eyebrows, Tess’ waxy locks, or Joel’s daught…

Need a nudge in the right direction with Wordle today? Whether you’re in desperate need of a few more green letters or would just like a bit of help, our Wordle tips and advice are sure to set things right. There’s a clue for the September 29 (832) puzzle just below, and if you keep scrolling, you’ll soon find today’s answer if you need it.

I was certain I had today’s puzzle done and dusted for three guesses in a row, only to come up short every time. I ended up with just one guess left, and thankfully not a lot to choose from. I went with today’s Wordle answer more out of panic than anything else—thank goodness I did.

Today’s Wordle hint

A Wordle hint for Friday, September 29

The answer to today’s Wordle is a colour, specifically a very bright blue. This is the sort of blue you’d see in a cloudless summer’s sky or in a picture perfect tropical lagoon. Three of today’s five letters are vowels, and they’re all unique. 

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Keep your magnificent Wordle win streak going or get a brand new one off to the best start with our selection of guides, tips, helpful clues for today’s puzzle. And as always, the answer to the July 9 (750) game is waiting for you further down the page, meaning your latest win is just a quick scroll away.

Okay so now I feel silly. Looking back at today’s board I can see I almost had the answer on my second go, I just didn’t realise it at the time. I didn’t realise it on the next go either, or the one after that—I had to almost run out of spare letters before I noticed what I had all along and figured out today’s Wordle answer.

Today’s Wordle hint

A Wordle hint for Sunday, July 9

To go in somewhere or to input information into something are both alternative ways of saying the answer to today’s Wordle. Keyboards with a keypad will often have a special key with today’s answer written on them if you look. There’s just one vowel today. …