Greg ‘Ghostcrawler’ Street left Riot Games earlier this year after close to a decade at the studio Greg ‘Ghostcrawler’ Street, the influential developer with credits on bothWorld of WarcraftandLeague of Legends- including the MOBA’sunreleased MMO- is working on a newMMORPGunder his own studio. Street unveiled new studio Fantastic Pixel Castle and its upcoming “epic new MMO”, currently codenamed Ghost, ahead of a fuller livestreamplanned for November 8ththat will apparently share more about the studio and its game....

Everything old is new again Fortnite’s nostalgic latest season has kicked off, bringing back a slew of weapons, vehicles, items and cosmetics from thebattle royale game’s first chapter. The truncated Fortnite Chapter 4 Season OG - which will last just four weeks, rather than the usual three months - has also restored the game’s original map as seen in Chapter 1, meaning the return of places like Tilted Towers, Loot Lake and Greasy Grove....

Bust ghosts, snap pics and manage social media Honkai: Star Railhas dropped a release date and details for its 1.5 update, taking the anime sci-fiRPGto a spooky new region with new events and three new characters along for the ride. Honkai: Star Rail1.5 - aka The Crepuscule Zone - will chug into thefree-to-playgacha game on November 15th, as revealed during the latest special program livesteam from developers miHoYo. Heading up the update will be new characters Huohuo, Hanya and Argenti....

Starting a series looking at fake games made for movies and TV “The game is called Bloodthyrster X,” the nerd-coded detective explains, twisting in their ill-fitting suit and furiously shaking an upside-down Xbox controller while their colleagues stare aghast at a TV screen looping a three-second clip of shoddy CGI ultraviolence. “The objective is to run over babies in your minivan while shooting cops and other players. It’s taking over the dark web… and IRL....

Flock, stock and two smoking barrels Valve have now removed the birds in the course of the latest Counter-Strike 2 patch, which also re-enables Counter-Strike 2 workshop features, letting people upload maps and host them on community servers. Thanks to Alice0 for tipping me off about this and pointing me towardthis Reddit thread’s worth of ruffled feathersfrom a couple months ago, in which Global Offensive players were all in a flap about various misleading decorations on maps like Inferno andOverpass, ranging from the aforesaid Hitchcockian invaders to flies over rubbish bags and poor, innocent flowers....

Need a hint for today’s Connections? Read our guide for help with Connections #145 This guide is for a previous day! Looking for today’s solution? Check out theConnections hint and answers for Thursday 12th December! Want a hint for Connections today?Piggybacking off the monumental success of daily puzzle gameWordle, the New York Times has another fantastically popular word game out now. It’s calledConnections, and if you haven’t played it before, now’s the time to start....

Drill through a bunker door, extract samples from monsters, and more Pull switches, press buttons, unscrew panels, mix chemicals, switch broken parts, and pray that following procedure is enough to save you from impossible horrors. That’s the fun ofUnsorted Horror, a cracking free collection of short first-personhorror gameswith dramatic, doomful scenarios and big, weird machines. No, absolutely you do not get a gun. If you enjoy figuring out how doodads work while feeling like the world has possibly already ended and everyone just kept on going, do play!...

A walking sim of Gothic scale If you’ve ever gazed out across a landscape of misty spires and vast machines and thought “ah, if only I could explore and savour all that without getting my head kicked in by walking skeletons every five minutes”,The Silent Swanfrom Basque Country, Spain-based developer Praenaris might be the game for you. Released today, it gives you a massive, gloomy map full of towering, greeny-blackGothicstructures that are packed with backstory documents, but contain absolutely no enemies....

“What if the real official lore was the friends we made along the way?” Vampire Survivorsis getting an Adventures update that will add “self-contained miniature story modes that reset and remix the game’s content, following the Survivor’s cast on a series of wacky sidequests”. That’s according to developer Poncle, who are clearly in a whimsical mood this week. After all, if there’s one thing this game aboutauto-massacring ever larger crowds of kamikaze night creatureshas been lacking, it’s some proper narrative context....

Final Fantasy XIV’s world of Eorzea is a utopia. Sure, there’s the looming threat of Garlean invasion and/or the possibility of world destruction throughout A Realm Reborn and its expansions - but on the plus side, almost everyone you meet is up for a round of cards. Over the last quarter-century, Triple Triad has managed to escape its origins as a fun side minigame inFinal Fantasy VIIIto become a fully-fledged phenomenon in XIV....

Stuck on the Wordle word for November 3? 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....

In the grim darkness of the far future, there is only teamwork Owlcat Games have whisked the wrappers offWarhammer 40,000: Rogue Trader’s co-op functionality, explaining how you and up to five other players can team up to navigate the Games WorkshopRPG’s100-plus hoursof grid-based combat, violent religious differences and unrepentant planetary colonisation. Here’s a quick rundown on how themultiplayerworks, gleaned fromthe latest developer livestream, with some additional thoughts fromPolygon. You can have friends join you at any point in the campaign by sharing a code and loading a save....

Love that 2.5D style “Star Ocean” is a fantastic name, evoking a sense of adventure, 16-bit blue skies, the majesty of space. “The Second Story R” is a terrible subtitle, evoking WhatsApp messages where I accidentally press ‘send’ too soon. Combined they produceStar Ocean: The Second Story R, a beautiful-seeming 2.5D remake of a Square Enix PlayStation JRPG. It’s out on Steam now and there’s a demo. You play Star Ocean: The Second Story R as either Claude or Rena, with different companions able to join your party based on who you choose....