The cheapest we’ve seen the AW3423DWF, a 34-inch beauty. As regular readers of this column will know, I’m a big fan of OLED TVs and monitors. One of my favourites is Dell’s Alienware AW3423DWF, a 34-inch ultrawide that offers a fairly standard 3440x1440 165Hz spec - but its QD-OLED panel makes for a night-and-day difference against your standard VA and IPS panel alternatives, with perfect contrast, near-instant pixel response times, gorgeous colour reproduction and stunning HDR....

Just two years after they were resurrected under original founders ResurrectedTimeSplittersdevelopers Free Radical Design could be the next Embracer-owned studio to be shuttered, according to recent reports. The rumoured closure comes just two years after the veteran British label wereresurrected by their original foundersto work on a new TimeSplitters game. Free Radical staff were told that the studio could face closure after being evaluated as part of Embracer’songoing restructuring efforts, according to sources “close” to the studio speaking toVideo Games Chronicle....

Vote now as we continue deciding the single best thing in games Last time, you narrowly decided thatsoulslike bloodstains are better than ghosts walking through walls. That sounds to me like the decisions of cowards who not only don’t want to be got by ghosts, they want to be warned about the presence of any danger. Maybe I’m being ungenerous; maybe what you truly enjoy is watching other people get extremely ghostgot....

Stuck on today’s Wordle word for November 8? Read our hint or find the answer below! This guide is for a previous day! Looking for today’s solution? Check out theWordle hint and answer for Thursday 12th December! Need a hint for today’s Wordle answer?Every day,Wordlepresents its legions of players with a deviously simple quandary: can you guess the right five-letter word within just six guesses? All you have to help you in finding the Wordle answer are the contextual clues you gain from each guess - but often, that’s not enough....

And it takes big teams and monetisation to make that happen People who play videogames want “new content literally almost every single day”, according to Blizzard president Mike Ybarra - indeed, “they want new stuff every day, every hour”. I do not want new stuff every day, every hour, Mike. Frankly, the idea makes me want to burn my possessions and go spend the rest of my life under a pine tree....

New update brings a Siege Crossbow to a swordfight MedievalmultiplayerclangfestChivalry 2gets a free Reclamation update today, the cherry on the cake of which - knob on the coronet? Prong on the portculis? Ah wait, jewel in the crown! - is new 64-player map The Reclamation of Montcrux, in which the rampaging Agathians attempt to overrun a fort held by the Tenosians, pitting petard against bombard, battering ram against ballista. Gosh, that’s a lot of medieval words....

Wingsuits and grappling hooks and building The open world co-op survival game I liked most wasWurm Online, in which every action was performed via a right-click menu and we needed a town meeting to discuss who would spend the hours necessary to flatten a small patch of land. I therefore look at co-op survival gameEnshrouded, with its voxel building, grapple hooks, wingsuits, and think: pah, what tomfoolery. This looksfun. Not at all my sort of thing....

The G2724D also comes with a Fast IPS screen ideal for a wide range of game genres, video and more. Earlier this year -in September to be exact- we spotted a great deal on Dell’s G2724D 27-inch Fast IPS monitor, which brought this model down from its original price of £299 to just £209. Two months later, we’re back with an even better bargain - just £179 for a 1440p 165Hz monitor that sits right in the sweet spot for gaming....

Former full-timers accuse company of “stalling and intimidation tactics” Laid-offDragon Age: Dreadwolf andMass Effectdevelopers are attempting to turn this year’s “N7 Day” of Mass Effect-themed festivities into a day of mass revolt. The developers in question are a mixture of former full-time staff and former Keywords Studios QA testers who have worked on Dreadwolf under contract. They’ve organised pickets outside BioWare Edmonton’s offices in Canada, and are calling on BioWare fans to get involved on social media, while trying to engage current BioWare staff in conversation about unionisation....

Chet your calendar In case you missed all our previous coverage, The Anacrusis (which is, in fact, the work of a team founded by original Left 4 Dead developer Chet Faliszek) is about running across maps full of unpredictable quantities and qualities of marauding alien wildlife. One to four players must use guns, crowd control abilities and the terrain to make up for their numerical disadvantage and push through to safety....

With a free heatsink to boot. Lexar’s NM790 4TB SSD has dipped to just £197, a great price for a high-end, high-capacity PCIe 4.0 NVMe drive that battles with the class-leading Samsung 990 Pro. This model is our currentbest cheap PCIe 4.0 SSD for gamingis well worth adding to your rig - though it has been slightly cheaper before and may yet fall further during the Black Friday sales. As James noted in his write-up of the NM790, the drive hits impressive speeds - up to 7400MB/s reads and 6500MB/s writes, with random speeds at 1....

Studio also suspending operations Revenant Hillwas to be the first game from The Glory Society, the new studio founded by former Night In The Woods developers Bethany Hockenberry and Scott Benson. Unfortunately due to “recent serious health issues” affecting several members of the team, the team have decided to “suspend operations” and end development. The announcement was made via the Glory Society account on X (formerly Twitter): An announcement:pic.twitter.com/UePYAHs5Vv “Unfortunately, recent serious health issues have necessitated two key members stepping away from the project indefinitely,” says the statement....

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