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Fans of the hit racing game Gran Turismo will soon get the chance to really test their skills. The game is about to let racers face-off against Sony AI’s GT Sophy, which is apparently nearly impossible for your average racer to beat.
The feature will drop with the game’s rev1.29 update on Tuesday, meaning you’ve got about a day to practice. Racers will be able to race against four separate, slightly different versions of the AI in the new Gran Turismo Sophy Race Together mode. There’s also a version where you can take on Sophy in a one on one race.
The best version of the AI will apparently be nearly unbeatable for your average gamer. A study on the AI published in Nature showed Sophy beat four of the world’s best Grand Turismo drivers and, it stands to reason, it’s only gotten better with time and increased learning.
“From the beginning, Gran Turismo Sophy was always about more than just being superhuman; we aspired to create an AI agent that would enhance the experience of players of all levels, and to make this experience available to everyone. We have now accomplished this with GT Sophy Race Together mode,” said Michael Spranger, chief operating officer of Sony AI, in a statement.

There will be different levels of races for differently experience drivers. Basically, on the easier leverls, you’ll be able to have a more powerful car that should help you close the gap against Sophy.
The AI racing mode will only be available through March, so try to beat Sophy while you can.

Fans of the hit racing game Gran Turismo will soon get the chance to really test their skills. The game is about to let racers face-off against Sony AI’s GT Sophy, which is apparently nearly impossible for your average racer to beat.

The feature will drop with the game’s rev1.29 update on Tuesday, meaning you’ve got about a day to practice. Racers will be able to race against four separate, slightly different versions of the AI in the new Gran Turismo Sophy Race Together mode. There’s also a version where you can take on Sophy in a one on one race.

The best version of the AI will apparently be nearly unbeatable for your average gamer. A study on the AI published in Nature showed Sophy beat four of the world’s best Grand Turismo drivers and, it stands to reason, it’s only gotten better with time and increased learning.

“From the beginning, Gran Turismo Sophy was always about more than just being superhuman; we aspired to create an AI agent that would enhance the experience of players of all levels, and to make this experience available to everyone. We have now accomplished this with GT Sophy Race Together mode,” said Michael Spranger, chief operating officer of Sony AI, in a statement.

There will be different levels of races for differently experience drivers. Basically, on the easier leverls, you’ll be able to have a more powerful car that should help you close the gap against Sophy.

The AI racing mode will only be available through March, so try to beat Sophy while you can.

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Following an action-packed trailer, a new Dungeons and Dragons: Honor Among Thieves clip uses a spell directly from the tabletop role-playing game.
The sneak peek released by Paramount Pictures features a scene including the game’s Speak With Dead spell, which allows the caster to perform necromancy to raise a corpse for questioning. Once reanimated, you can ask the corpse up to five questions — and as Edgin, a bard played by Chris Pine, finds out, it’s quite easy to fuck up.
Despite the simple instructions from Simon, a sorcerer played by Justice Smith, Edgin does not do a good job interrogating the dead. Simon is flanked by his fellow adventurers Holga, a barbarian played by Michelle Rodriguez, and Doric, a druid played by Sophia Lillis.
Beyond this scene you’ll spy Regé-Jean Page as paladin Xenk and Hugh Grant as the villainous Forge.
Dungeons & Dragons: Honor Among Thieves hits cinemas March 31.

Following an action-packed trailer, a new Dungeons and Dragons: Honor Among Thieves clip uses a spell directly from the tabletop role-playing game.

The sneak peek released by Paramount Pictures features a scene including the game’s Speak With Dead spell, which allows the caster to perform necromancy to raise a corpse for questioning. Once reanimated, you can ask the corpse up to five questions — and as Edgin, a bard played by Chris Pine, finds out, it’s quite easy to fuck up.

Despite the simple instructions from Simon, a sorcerer played by Justice Smith, Edgin does not do a good job interrogating the dead. Simon is flanked by his fellow adventurers Holga, a barbarian played by Michelle Rodriguez, and Doric, a druid played by Sophia Lillis.

Beyond this scene you’ll spy Regé-Jean Page as paladin Xenk and Hugh Grant as the villainous Forge.

Dungeons & Dragons: Honor Among Thieves hits cinemas March 31.

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It’s the confrontation fans were waiting with bated breath for.
The Last of Us episode 6 took us to the settlement of Jackson, a key location in the Naughty Dog games (really, The Last of Us Part II) and now, the HBO adaptation. Here, Pedro Pascal and Bella Ramsey served up their finest performances yet, taking on an anticipated scene that recreated one of the game’s most famous (and painfully honest) moments: Joel and Ellie’s big argument.
The episode speaks to the fear of loss and grief in a variety of ways. Being reunited with his brother, Tommy (Gabriel Luna), Joel (Pascal) is able to confess his fears over being inadequate to protect Ellie (Ramsey), reminded of losing Sarah (Nico Parker) to violence during the outbreak — a loss also deeply felt by Tommy. Until this point, Joel hasn’t allowed himself to even use his daughter’s name, and a moment in which Joel sees a person who resembles his daughter in Jackson reminds us how deep he has concealed his memories.

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In an emotionally charged scene (the one we’ve been waiting for), Joel and Ellie have an argument over loss. Joel tries to explain his decision to have Tommy take her to the Fireflies in Colorado instead, having previously confessed to his brother his fears of failing Ellie. This deep anxiety speaks to the kind of love reminiscent of Bill’s line to Frank in episode 3, when Nick Offerman delivers the sentimental statement: “I was never afraid until you showed up.” Not having a bar of Joel’s reasoning, Ellie angrily admits she’s afraid of being without him.
The confrontation is also the first time Ellie brings up Joel’s daughter, Sarah. Coldly, Joel dismisses Ellie’s own experiences of loss as minimal compared to his. However, Ellie has experienced a colossal amount of grief in her 15 years, and throws it right back. Joel drops the immensely hurtful “you’re not my daughter, and I sure as hell ain’t your dad” line, declares they’ll go their separate ways, and Ellie is left extremely hurt.

Credit: Liane Hentscher/HBO

Spectacularly well performed by Ashley Johnson and Troy Baker in Naughty Dog’s game, the scene is a turning point for Ellie and Joel’s relationship — and one of the biggest moments for fans of the game. The confrontation cuts deep, and speaks loud of the unspeakable. And in the series, Pascal and Ramsey make it their own.

“Me and Pedro, both of us really felt the pressure of that.”
– Bella Ramsey

“Me and Pedro, both of us really felt the pressure of that,” says Ramsey in a behind-the-scenes clip released by HBO. “When you feel too pressured in something, when you’ve created that for yourself, it can be hard to perform how you want to. I had sleepless nights over that scene.”
“‘I didn’t envy them,’ said The Last of Us creator Neil Druckmann in the clip. “Trying to do a scene that exists in the game and was seared into people’s minds. They made it their own and it’s just as beautiful.”

“That scene is perhaps the most famous scene from the game. We did it almost exactly; we changed a few things here and there. The general execution of it was something that I thought was important we stick to exactly,” said director Craig Mazin in the clip.
The episode sees several changes from the game, the main of which is that we don’t actually see the Jackson settlement until The Last of Us Part II — we just see it way off in the distance. Instead, in the game, Joel and Ellie find Tommy and Maria at the hydroelectric plant that’s powering it nearby — and they’re ambushed soon after reuniting. When the fighting stops, Ellie overhears Joel’s plan to send her with Tommy instead, and she steals one of Tommy’s horses and runs away. Mazin and Druckmann left this chase out, but gave a subtle nod to it in the episode when Ellie and Tommy find Joel in the stables — he confesses to wanting to steal a horse and run, but decides to give Ellie the choice of who she rides with.
In the game, Joel finally tracks Ellie down to a teen bedroom in an abandoned house, where they have the confrontation depicted in the series within Ellie’s temporary bedroom in Jackson. The setting is a painful reminder of the teens lost in the last two decades. Within this room, Joel’s connection to his daughter could not be stronger, which brings his confrontation with Ellie quite literally closer to home.
The Last of Us is now streaming on HBO Max. New episodes air every Sunday at 9 p.m. ET on HBO.

It’s the confrontation fans were waiting with bated breath for.

The Last of Us episode 6 took us to the settlement of Jackson, a key location in the Naughty Dog games (really, The Last of Us Part II) and now, the HBO adaptation. Here, Pedro Pascal and Bella Ramsey served up their finest performances yet, taking on an anticipated scene that recreated one of the game’s most famous (and painfully honest) moments: Joel and Ellie’s big argument.

The episode speaks to the fear of loss and grief in a variety of ways. Being reunited with his brother, Tommy (Gabriel Luna), Joel (Pascal) is able to confess his fears over being inadequate to protect Ellie (Ramsey), reminded of losing Sarah (Nico Parker) to violence during the outbreak — a loss also deeply felt by Tommy. Until this point, Joel hasn’t allowed himself to even use his daughter’s name, and a moment in which Joel sees a person who resembles his daughter in Jackson reminds us how deep he has concealed his memories.

In an emotionally charged scene (the one we’ve been waiting for), Joel and Ellie have an argument over loss. Joel tries to explain his decision to have Tommy take her to the Fireflies in Colorado instead, having previously confessed to his brother his fears of failing Ellie. This deep anxiety speaks to the kind of love reminiscent of Bill’s line to Frank in episode 3, when Nick Offerman delivers the sentimental statement: “I was never afraid until you showed up.” Not having a bar of Joel’s reasoning, Ellie angrily admits she’s afraid of being without him.

The confrontation is also the first time Ellie brings up Joel’s daughter, Sarah. Coldly, Joel dismisses Ellie’s own experiences of loss as minimal compared to his. However, Ellie has experienced a colossal amount of grief in her 15 years, and throws it right back. Joel drops the immensely hurtful “you’re not my daughter, and I sure as hell ain’t your dad” line, declares they’ll go their separate ways, and Ellie is left extremely hurt.

Spectacularly well performed by Ashley Johnson and Troy Baker in Naughty Dog’s game, the scene is a turning point for Ellie and Joel’s relationship — and one of the biggest moments for fans of the game. The confrontation cuts deep, and speaks loud of the unspeakable. And in the series, Pascal and Ramsey make it their own.

“Me and Pedro, both of us really felt the pressure of that.”
– Bella Ramsey

“Me and Pedro, both of us really felt the pressure of that,” says Ramsey in a behind-the-scenes clip released by HBO. “When you feel too pressured in something, when you’ve created that for yourself, it can be hard to perform how you want to. I had sleepless nights over that scene.”

“‘I didn’t envy them,’ said The Last of Us creator Neil Druckmann in the clip. “Trying to do a scene that exists in the game and was seared into people’s minds. They made it their own and it’s just as beautiful.”

“That scene is perhaps the most famous scene from the game. We did it almost exactly; we changed a few things here and there. The general execution of it was something that I thought was important we stick to exactly,” said director Craig Mazin in the clip.

The episode sees several changes from the game, the main of which is that we don’t actually see the Jackson settlement until The Last of Us Part II — we just see it way off in the distance. Instead, in the game, Joel and Ellie find Tommy and Maria at the hydroelectric plant that’s powering it nearby — and they’re ambushed soon after reuniting. When the fighting stops, Ellie overhears Joel’s plan to send her with Tommy instead, and she steals one of Tommy’s horses and runs away. Mazin and Druckmann left this chase out, but gave a subtle nod to it in the episode when Ellie and Tommy find Joel in the stables — he confesses to wanting to steal a horse and run, but decides to give Ellie the choice of who she rides with.

In the game, Joel finally tracks Ellie down to a teen bedroom in an abandoned house, where they have the confrontation depicted in the series within Ellie’s temporary bedroom in Jackson. The setting is a painful reminder of the teens lost in the last two decades. Within this room, Joel’s connection to his daughter could not be stronger, which brings his confrontation with Ellie quite literally closer to home.

The Last of Us is now streaming on HBO Max. New episodes air every Sunday at 9 p.m. ET on HBO.

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We’re way past the halfway point of The Last of Us, but we’ve only been given snippets of Ellie’s (Bella Ramsey) backstory. Well, if the trailer for episode 7 is anything to go by, we’re in for a look into the past.
In the next instalment of HBO’s adaptation of the lauded Naughty Dog game, the series takes time to look into Ellie’s beginnings as a FEDRA military cadet, and is the first we’ve seen of her best friend Riley Abel in the TV show.
Riley is a character featured in The Last of Us DLC, Left Behind, and is being played by Storm Reid. In the trailer, she reveals to Ellie that’s she’s joined the Fireflies, the armed resistance against the very institution Ellie is training with. Riley’s only been mentioned in passing by Ellie up until this point, but the trailer features an abandoned mall we’ve heard about before — Tess (Anna Torv) asks Ellie about it in episode 2, but she evades detail — and an encounter between Ellie, Riley, and what looks like a Bloater.
Yeah, we’re nervous.
The Last of Us is now streaming on HBO Max. New episodes air every Sunday at 9 p.m. ET on HBO.

We’re way past the halfway point of The Last of Us, but we’ve only been given snippets of Ellie’s (Bella Ramsey) backstory. Well, if the trailer for episode 7 is anything to go by, we’re in for a look into the past.

In the next instalment of HBO’s adaptation of the lauded Naughty Dog game, the series takes time to look into Ellie’s beginnings as a FEDRA military cadet, and is the first we’ve seen of her best friend Riley Abel in the TV show.

Riley is a character featured in The Last of Us DLC, Left Behind, and is being played by Storm Reid. In the trailer, she reveals to Ellie that’s she’s joined the Fireflies, the armed resistance against the very institution Ellie is training with. Riley’s only been mentioned in passing by Ellie up until this point, but the trailer features an abandoned mall we’ve heard about before — Tess (Anna Torv) asks Ellie about it in episode 2, but she evades detail — and an encounter between Ellie, Riley, and what looks like a Bloater.

Yeah, we’re nervous.

The Last of Us is now streaming on HBO Max. New episodes air every Sunday at 9 p.m. ET on HBO.

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If Quordle is a little too challenging today, you’ve come to the right place for hints. There aren’t just hints here, but the whole Quordle solution. Scroll to the bottom of this page, and there it is. But are you sure you need all four answers? Maybe you just need a strategy guide. Either way, scroll down, and you’ll get what you need.
What is Quordle?
Quordle is a five-letter word guessing game similar to Wordle, except each guess applies letters to four words at the same time. You get nine guesses instead of six to correctly guess all four words. It looks like playing four Wordle games at the same time, and that is essentially what it is. But it’s not nearly as intimidating as it sounds.
Is Quordle harder than Wordle?
Yes, though not diabolically so.
Where did Quordle come from?
Amid the Wordle boom of late 2021 and early 2022, when everyone was learning to love free, in-browser, once-a-day word guessing games, creator Freddie Meyer says he took inspiration from one of the first big Wordle variations, Dordle — the one where you essentially play two Wordles at once. He took things up a notch, and released Quordle on January 30. Meyer’s creation was covered in The Guardian six days later, and now, according to Meyer, it attracts millions of daily users. Today, Meyer earns modest revenue from Patreon, where dedicated Quordle fans can donate to keep their favorite puzzle game running. 
How is Quordle pronounced?
“Kwordle.” It should rhyme with “Wordle,” and definitely should not be pronounced exactly like “curdle.”
Is Quordle strategy different from Wordle?
Yes and no.
Your starting strategy should be the same as with Wordle. In fact, if you have a favorite Wordle opening word, there’s no reason to change that here. We suggest something rich in vowels, featuring common letters like C, R, and N. But you do you.
After your first guess, however, you’ll notice things getting out of control if you play Quordle exactly like Wordle.
What should I do in Quordle that I don’t do in Wordle?
Solving a Wordle puzzle can famously come down to a series of single letter-change variations. If you’ve narrowed it down to “-IGHT,” you could guess “MIGHT” “NIGHT” “LIGHT” and “SIGHT” and one of those will probably be the solution — though this is also a famous way to end up losing in Wordle, particularly if you play on “hard mode.” In Quordle, however, this sort of single-letter winnowing is a deadly trap, and it hints at the important strategic difference between Wordle and Quordle: In Quordle, you can’t afford to waste guesses unless you’re eliminating as many letters as possible at all times. 
Guessing a completely random word that you already know isn’t the solution, just to eliminate three or four possible letters you haven’t tried yet, is thought of as a desperate, latch-ditch move in Wordle. In Quordle, however, it’s a normal part of the player’s strategic toolset.
Is there a way to get the answer faster?
In my experience Quordle can be a slow game, sometimes dragging out longer than it would take to play Wordle four times. But a sort of blunt-force guessing approach can speed things up. The following strategy also works with Wordle if you only want the solution, and don’t care about having the fewest possible guesses:
Try starting with a series of words that puts all the vowels (including Y) on the board, along with some other common letters. We’ve had good luck with the three words: “NOTES,” “ACRID,” and “LUMPY.” YouTuber DougMansLand suggests four words: “CANOE,” “SKIRT,” “PLUMB,” and “FUDGY.”
Most of the alphabet is now eliminated, and you’ll only have the ability to make one or two wrong guesses if you use this strategy. But in most cases you’ll have all the information you need to guess the remaining words without any wrong guesses.
If strategy isn’t helping, and you’re still stumped, here are some hints:
Are there any double or triple letters in today’s Quordle words?
Two words have twice-occurring letters.
Are any rare letters being used in today’s Quordle like Q or Z?
No.
What do today’s Quordle words start with?
L, C, O, and Q.
What are the answers for today’s Quordle?
Are you sure you want to know?
There’s still time to turn back.
OK, you asked for it. The answers are:

LOYAL
CAMEL
ODDLY
QUITE

If Quordle is a little too challenging today, you’ve come to the right place for hints. There aren’t just hints here, but the whole Quordle solution. Scroll to the bottom of this page, and there it is. But are you sure you need all four answers? Maybe you just need a strategy guide. Either way, scroll down, and you’ll get what you need.

What is Quordle?

Quordle is a five-letter word guessing game similar to Wordle, except each guess applies letters to four words at the same time. You get nine guesses instead of six to correctly guess all four words. It looks like playing four Wordle games at the same time, and that is essentially what it is. But it’s not nearly as intimidating as it sounds.

Is Quordle harder than Wordle?

Yes, though not diabolically so.

Where did Quordle come from?

Amid the Wordle boom of late 2021 and early 2022, when everyone was learning to love free, in-browser, once-a-day word guessing games, creator Freddie Meyer says he took inspiration from one of the first big Wordle variations, Dordle — the one where you essentially play two Wordles at once. He took things up a notch, and released Quordle on January 30. Meyer’s creation was covered in The Guardian six days later, and now, according to Meyer, it attracts millions of daily users. Today, Meyer earns modest revenue from Patreon, where dedicated Quordle fans can donate to keep their favorite puzzle game running. 

How is Quordle pronounced?

“Kwordle.” It should rhyme with “Wordle,” and definitely should not be pronounced exactly like “curdle.”

Is Quordle strategy different from Wordle?

Yes and no.

Your starting strategy should be the same as with Wordle. In fact, if you have a favorite Wordle opening word, there’s no reason to change that here. We suggest something rich in vowels, featuring common letters like C, R, and N. But you do you.

After your first guess, however, you’ll notice things getting out of control if you play Quordle exactly like Wordle.

What should I do in Quordle that I don’t do in Wordle?

Solving a Wordle puzzle can famously come down to a series of single letter-change variations. If you’ve narrowed it down to “-IGHT,” you could guess “MIGHT” “NIGHT” “LIGHT” and “SIGHT” and one of those will probably be the solution — though this is also a famous way to end up losing in Wordle, particularly if you play on “hard mode.” In Quordle, however, this sort of single-letter winnowing is a deadly trap, and it hints at the important strategic difference between Wordle and Quordle: In Quordle, you can’t afford to waste guesses unless you’re eliminating as many letters as possible at all times. 

Guessing a completely random word that you already know isn’t the solution, just to eliminate three or four possible letters you haven’t tried yet, is thought of as a desperate, latch-ditch move in Wordle. In Quordle, however, it’s a normal part of the player’s strategic toolset.

Is there a way to get the answer faster?

In my experience Quordle can be a slow game, sometimes dragging out longer than it would take to play Wordle four times. But a sort of blunt-force guessing approach can speed things up. The following strategy also works with Wordle if you only want the solution, and don’t care about having the fewest possible guesses:

Try starting with a series of words that puts all the vowels (including Y) on the board, along with some other common letters. We’ve had good luck with the three words: “NOTES,” “ACRID,” and “LUMPY.” YouTuber DougMansLand suggests four words: “CANOE,” “SKIRT,” “PLUMB,” and “FUDGY.”

Most of the alphabet is now eliminated, and you’ll only have the ability to make one or two wrong guesses if you use this strategy. But in most cases you’ll have all the information you need to guess the remaining words without any wrong guesses.

If strategy isn’t helping, and you’re still stumped, here are some hints:

Are there any double or triple letters in today’s Quordle words?

Two words have twice-occurring letters.

Are any rare letters being used in today’s Quordle like Q or Z?

No.

What do today’s Quordle words start with?

L, C, O, and Q.

What are the answers for today’s Quordle?

Are you sure you want to know?

There’s still time to turn back.

OK, you asked for it. The answers are:

LOYAL

CAMEL

ODDLY

QUITE

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