Why spend close to £1000 on a premium ultrawide when you can get a much larger 16:9 screen instead? Large gaming monitors can reach some crazy-high prices - so what’s to stop you from getting a smaller 4K TV instead? You get a much bigger screen for the money plus TV functionality, and if you choose carefully you won’t give up PC niceties like 4K 120Hz support or FreeSync and G-Sync compatibility....

An early Black Friday laptop deal starts the season well. The first Black Friday deals are starting to appear now that we’ve poked our collective heads into November. The first one we’ll look at is this £400 reduction on a current-gen Acer Nitro 16 gaming laptop from Acer’s own UK store. This results in a price of £1299 for a machine with an RTX 4070 graphics card, Ryzen 7735HS processor, 32GB DDR5 RAM, 1TB NVMe SSD and 16-inch 2560x1600 165Hz IPS display....

Vote now! Last time, you decided thatblink teleports are better than summoning spectral animals. I’m wholly unsurprised but I am glad that the fleeting beasties still earned a respectable share of science votes. This Halloween week, with eggs drying on your house and Snickers-sweet vomit running in the gutters, let’s consider death. What’s better: ghosts walking through walls, or soulslike bloodstains? Everyone knows two things about ghosts: 1) they’re dead; 2) they can walk through walls....

Stuck on today’s Wordle word for November 1? 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....

No release date yet Cities: Skylines 2launched last week and Colossal Order have spent the time since combatting performance issues andteeth conspiracies. Today they released a first video of its upcoming editor tool, however, and it looks neat. Sin wrote in herCities: Skylines 2 reviewthat the citybuilding sequel didn’t feel like a big enough step forward. My favourable reading on the situation is that this is because most of the sequel’s innovations lie under the hood, to enable a more interesting future of mods and - natch - paid DLC....

“We’re always rushing” to “capture the moment” It sounds like the developers at Ryu ga Gotoku Studio have a hard time keeping track themselves, especially given the rate at which Sega publish Like A Dragon games. According to studio director Masayoshi Yokoyama, Like A Dragon’s creators feel a lot of pressure to get the games done quickly, not just with a view to making money but because as projects that riff so copiously on pop culture, Like A Dragon stories go out of date fast....

Ain’t about how fast I get there, ain’t about what’s waiting on the other side In contrast, the nameless protagonist in Don’t Nod’s new climbing puzzle adventure (what even are genres?) is also silent. There are no other NPCs. You are climbing up through the ruins of an old civilisation. As such, Jusant relies on the devs having crafted an understandable world that you can barely interact with, aside from painstakingly climbing across it like a spidery archaeologist....

Indie first-person dungeon crawler going down a treat on 1.0 release day I’ve only just readSin’s thoughtson Akuma Kira’sLunacidand lo and behold, thePS1-styled, first-person dungeon crawler has now released out of Steam Early Access, to considerable rejoicing. Lunacid is a homage to classic FromSoftware games - no, not that juvenile upstartDark Souls, but King’s Field and Shadow’s Tower, which date back to the late 1990s. I played one of the King’s Field games as a sprog and found it to be an extended cave system full of lava, demons and torment....

When does Modern Warfare 3’s multiplayer and zombies modes unlock? Looking for the Modern Warfare 3 release time?Call Of Duty: Modern Warfare 3is upon us, and while the campaign is has been available since November 1 for those who pre-ordered, multiplayer and zombie modes will finally unlock for most members of the public on eitherNovember 9orNovember 10. If you’ve pre-ordered MW3, the earliest you can start preloading the full game isNovember 8, depending on your location across the globe....

Need a hint for today’s Connections? Read our guide for help with Connections #142 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....

Everything except Modern Warfare 3, and, well Narrative clambering adventureJusant, which Alice B justlabelled a masterpiece, has arrived on Xbox Game Pass today. Grungy, low fantasy stabbing sandbox Wartales has also arrived, several months after we labelled it thrilling. Here’s a full list of what’s to come in the first half of November: Of these, all are day one arrivals except for MonHunlike Wild Hearts. To my eye, the only major first-half-of-November release not listed is Modern Warfare 3....

Alan Wake 2 devs also touch on Control spin-off Condor and the mysterious Codename Vanguard Fresh from the release ofAlan Wake 2- and apparently with a view to driving me nuts, because I haven’t had a chance to play Alan Wake 2 yet - Remedy have shared some titbits about future projects. These include the modestly-known aboutControl 2, a sequel to the paranormal Brutalist telekinet ‘em up that is seeing “good progress”, and theforthcoming remakes of Max Payne 1 and 2, on which Remedy are collaborating with GTA andMax Payne 3developer Rockstar....

I go onto Twitter so you don’t have to Every weekend, indie devs show off current work on Twitter’s#screenshotsaturdaytag. And every Monday, I bring you a selection of these snaps and clips. Well, usually on Monday; yesterday I was instead up in the Highlands admiring autumn. But today! Today my eye has been caught by an even greater quantity of grappling hooks and slick movement tricks than usual, along with some chill scenes, typing violence, and giving ghosts the finger....