PUBG’s creator announces 3 games with more on the way

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PlayerUnknown Productions, the studio created by the developer that gives PlayerUnknown’s Battlegrounds its name, announced three games today. One is a free tech demo that’s available now on Steam, another is a survival game that will enter early access next year, and the third is the project all of PlayerUnknown Productions’ work is building toward.

PLAYERUNKNOWN Productions Studio Journey

Brendan Greene is a video game developer who goes by the moniker of PlayerUnknown and is widely seen as the creator of the battle royale genre. This last-man-standing concept first gained traction through his mods for DayZ and Arma 3 and then became a mode in Sony Online Entertainment’s H1Z1. Battle royales hit the gaming zeitgeist harder than ever when PUBG launched in 2017, eventually inspiring copycats that became some of the best royale games like Fortnite and Apex Legends. Greene has been relatively quiet since moving off PUBG development in 2019 to create PlayerUnknown Productions. Now, we finally know what this Amsterdam-based studio is working on.

At the PC Gaming Show today, Greene unveiled three separate projects that PlayerUnknown is working on and teased more that are on the way. It all begins with Preface: Undiscovered World, a free tech demo meant to show off the capabilities of the Melba game engine that will power all of PlayerUnknown Productions’ titles.

“In Preface, users can witness an Earth-scale world generated in real-time by our machine learning agents directly on their GPU,” Greene says. “This digital planet is still quite empty for now, but every person who enters it and shares their feedback contributes to its future development.”

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Those learnings from Preface: Undiscovered World will be brought forward to Prologue: Go Wayback!, a single-player survival game that uses machine learning for its terrain generation and forces players to deal with unpredictable, emergent weather conditions as they journey toward a weather station to call for help. A Steam early access release for Prologue: Go Wayback! is set for the second quarter of 2025, although playtests will occur before then.

The true goal of Preface: Undiscovered World, Prologue: Go Wayback!, and one more game that Greene isn’t announcing at the moment is to lay the technical foundation for Project Artemis. Project Artemis is meant to be the ultimate project that PlayerUnknown Productions is building toward with all its titles. Greene admits that his “vision for Atremis is challenging,” as it will be a massive multiplayer sandbox game. Project Artemis does not have a release window, but we’ll at least hear from PlayerUnknown Productions a lot more often now.

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Wordle Today: Wordle answer and hints for December 5

We have the solution to Wordle on July 16, as well as some helpful hints to help you figure out the answer yourself, right here. We’ve placed the answer at the bottom of the page, so we don’t ruin the surprise before you’ve had a chance to work through the clues. So let’s dive in, starting with a reminder of yesterday’s answer.

Yesterday’s Wordle answer

Let’s start by first reminding ourselves of yesterday’s Wordle answer for those new to the game or who don’t play it daily, which was “CRYPT.” So we can say that the Wordle answer today definitely isn’t that. Now, with that in mind, perhaps take another stab at it using one of these Wordle starting words and circle back if you have no luck.

Hints for today’s Wordle

Still can’t figure it out? We have today’s Wordle answer right here, below. But first, one more thing: Let’s take a look at three hints that could help you find the solution, without giving it away, so there’s no need to feel guilty about keeping your streak alive — you put in some work, after all! Or just keep scrolling for the answer.

Today’s Wordle includes the letter W.

Today’s Wordle uses two vowels.

Today’s Wordle is a word for giving someone a special gift or characteristic.

NYT Connections: hints and answers for Thursday, December 5

Connections is one of the best puzzle games from the New York Times. The game tasks you with categorizing a pool of 16 words into four secret (for now) groups by figuring out how the words relate to each other. The puzzle resets every night at midnight and each new puzzle has a varying degree of difficulty. Just like Wordle, you can keep track of your winning streak and compare your scores with friends.

Some days are trickier than others — just like other NYT Games favorites The Mini and Strands. If you’re having a little trouble solving today’s puzzle, check out our Connections tips and tricks guide for some good strategies or check out the hints for today’s Connections puzzle below. And if you still can’t get it, we’ll tell you today’s answers at the very end.

How to play Connections

NYT Strands today: hints, spangram and answers for Thursday, December 5

Strands is a brand new daily puzzle from the New York Times. A trickier take on the classic word search, you’ll need a keen eye to solve this puzzle.

Like Wordle, Connections, and the Mini Crossword, Strands can be a bit difficult to solve some days. There’s no shame in needing a little help from time to time. If you’re stuck and need to know the answers to today’s Strands puzzle, check out the solved puzzle below.

How to play Strands

You start every Strands puzzle with the goal of finding the “theme words” hidden in the grid of letters. Manipulate letters by dragging or tapping to craft words; double-tap the final letter to confirm. If you find the correct word, the letters will be highlighted blue and will no longer be selectable.

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