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Wordle’s ‘Best’ Starting Word Has Been Found, And Ruined, By Maths
One of the cutest things about Wordle, and also one of the most important if you value having any kind of success with the game, is the selection of your starting word. For most players this has probably been their own favourite combination of vowels and consonants, but if you really want to get things…
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It Took Nine Months To Collect Breath Of The Wild’s ‘Impossible’ Arrow
An exceptionally dogged Breath of the Wild player has become the first to collect the game’s ‘impossible arrow’. The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild community is bonkers, combining all sorts of glitches to reach areas that the game would normally bar you from entering. These impossible-to-reach areas that exist outside the borders of…
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Watch A Guy Beat Sekiro In Two Hours, Blindfolded
You know how you can’t even get past the first area of Sekiro: Shadows Die Twice without crying? Well, this guy can play the entire game, in under two hours, blindfolded.
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Speedrunning Refs: Rapid Fire OK In Metroid Dread
In a small but significant win for accessibility advocates within speedrunning, it was announced last Thursday that the Metroid Dread leaderboards on speedrun.com will now allow runners to make use of rapid-fire assists, commonly referred to as turbo, during their runs, and that those runs will be placed on equal footing with players who choose…