I mean that in a good way I played a demo ofScene Investigatorsover the most recentSteam Next Fest, and was interested enough that I wanted to have a go with the full release. It’s billed as a detective game for true crime fans, but it reminds me of thosepuzzlebooks you used to get, where you are shown an illustration of a crime scene and, if you stare at it long enough, can figure out the assigned solution....

Stuck on today’s Wordle word for November 2? 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....

Tropey case It is perhaps ironic that in attempting to crystalise my thoughts aboutAlan Wake 2- a game about a novelist with such crippling writer’s block that they end up spawning an entire evil doppelganger of themselves to sabotage their own work - I, too, have been hopelessly staring at a blank screen for the better part of 24 hours. I have not, thank goodness, reached the stage where my psyche’s split in two (yet), but this spiral of self-doubt has now got to the point where I simply have put words, any words, in front of one another to write my way out of this hellish pit of despair....

Someone over there really doesn’t like Thomas the Tank Engine ModdingResident Evilwith Thomas the Tank Engine in place ofMr. X/Lady Dimitrescu/Nemesis/the monster of your choosing is so much a tradition at this point that Capcom may as well set the inevitableResident Evil Zeroremake aboard the interior of the chirpy children’s TV character. While players might be having fun modding Thomas,ShrekandBarney the Dinosaurinto its survival-horror series, Capcom has expressed concern that some mods may cause “reputational damage” to the company and their games....

Joining Gunbrella, Serious Sam, Reigns, Stronghold and Enter the Gungeon studios in the publisher’s growing line-up of in-house devs (Formerly) indie developers System Era, known for planet-exploring space sandboxAstroneer, have been acquired by Devolver Digital, known for putting out that offbeat indie game you like, probably. Devolver announced the dealin typical Devolver fashion, lamenting the fact they passed on publishing Astroneer eight years ago and plan to make up for it by enveloping the Seattle studio into its growing line-up of first-party devs....

“Only with careful performance will the victim yield maximum effect.” Vitae is a psychosomatic substance extracted from the bodies of tortured beings, and especially, human beings. As Alexander, the antagonist of The Dark Descent, explains in one of the game’s grimmer found documents, it’s generated in response to pain and fear, like the so-called ‘stress hormone’ cortisol. “As long as the body suffers it will continue to produce the vitae and saturate the blood with its properties,” Alexander writes....

An early Black Friday monitor miracle. Dell’s Black Friday deals have begun, and one nicety is that 5% off codes still work to knock a little extra off of their asking prices. Today we’re looking at a 27-inch monitor that hits the current price/performance sweet spot of 1440p and 165Hz, the Dell S2722DGM. It’s available for £175 when you use codeTELEGRAPH5MON, with discounts to £165 possible if you’re apart of the NHS....

Need a hint for today’s Connections? Read our guide for help with Connections #143 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....

No word of a lie PinocchioSoulslikeLies of P-aka Bloodborne for PC players- will be getting a sequel in the future, the game’s director has revealed. In the meantime, the well-receivedaction-RPGhas plenty on the way in the form of a patch out this month including gameplay tweaks, free cosmetics, a soundtrack release, and DLC. Jiwon Choi donned a rabbit-eared gas mask in a Director’s Letter to thank players for helping Lies of P to cross the one million sales mark in October, letting slip for the first time that a sequel is already in development....

Will the open-world zombie MMO’s ‘Final Trailer’ really be its last? Will it ever be The Day Of for much-delayed and gossip-laden zombieMMOThe Day Before? We’ll apparently find out in just over a month, as The Day Before’s release date has now been announced as December 5th following yet another slide back from its previous date of November 10th. That’s after developers Fntastic previously promised that there wouldn’t be any more delays - something its latest ‘Final Trailer’ presumably vows once again....

Cease and desist… being sad, that is! Last week on the Electronic Wireless Showpodcast, Alice and James use the Frasier-inspired browser RPG as a springboard to talk about The Simpsons a lot. And also fan-made video games, like a weird SpongeBob SquarePants fever dream that James experienced while full of milk and chili, and the Waterworld arcade game (as imagined in The Simpsons). Plus, we talk about games we’ve been playing recently, which includesAlan Wake 2....

Pro Dater Thirsty Suitorsis a dazzling new entry in a genre that is always badly in need of bolstering: turn-basedRPGswithout anime aesthetics and a story about something other than killing God. The game sees you play as Jala, who returns to her dilapidated hometown after getting dumped by the older woman for whom she abandoned college and her high school sweetheart. Waiting for her is a disappointed mother, a soon-to-be-wed sister who refuses to even speak to her, and a shadowy cabal formed of her spurned exes from the time in her life when rampant, unrelenting teen horniness nearly ripped the town apart....