You’ll need an outpost and a spare spaceship In smashing news for the galaxy’s irrational planet-haters, some adept tinkerer has created aStarfield modthat lets you build your own space-stations. Mind you, it appears the associated functionality was secretly part of Bethesda’s sci-fiRPGall along, perhaps destined to be unlocked by a DLC pack, like a slumbering fairytale royal awaiting true love’s kiss. The modder in question is vexthecollector, whose catchily-named Spacestations for Outposts lets you bolt together hab modules, windows and docking bays to fashion your very own Deep Space Nine....

I fear no boss, but that thing… Headless enemies aren’t exactly a new concept in games, so I’m not sure why the Headless inSekiro: Shadows Die Twiceinstills such dread in me. It’s so terrifying to face that I almost didn’t write this post, because I knew I’d have to drop into its heinous lair in order to take the screenshot you see above. But I’m a brave boy, so I dropped in, and of course died almost instantly....

It’s janky, but in a sweet way rather than a game-breaking way I am sure an honest, self-respecting Tolkienian fantasy dwarf would, if I pinched his apple cheeks and told him he’s very endearing, he’d at best glare at me and at worst kneecap me with his axe. And yet! That’s a large part of what I enjoy about the new subterranean survival-craft-‘em-upThe Lord Of The Rings: Return To Moria. It’s a slower, more weightysurvival gamethan you might be used to if you’re aValheimor ARK type, for example, and you’ll spend a lot of your time in the dark....

Pour one out for R.U.S.E. Ubisoft are “decommissioning” another slate of games next January, including Assassin’s Creed Revelations,R.U.S.E., and Trials Evolution. These games will remain playable, but their online services will be switched off meaning leaderboards, online multiplayer, co-op and other features will stop working. Here’s the full list of PC games which are impacted by the switch-off: “Decommissioning such services for older games is not something we take lightly, but is a necessity as the technology that drove those services has grown obsolete,” says theannouncement on Ubisoft’s site....

Phyre fest Your character inVampire: The Masquerade - Bloodlines 2isn’t a blank slate and will speak during dialogue scenes. New developres The Chinese Room introduced the protagonist in a new video, in which they show a couple of interactive conversation and then layout the backstory underpinning the troubled narrative RPG. Here’s the video, with the example conversations at 1m 25s and 12m 15s: Bloodlines 2’s protagonist is called Phyre, and they’re an Elder vampire first turned in the 17th century and now awoken in a modern world they don’t understand....

Stuck on today’s Wordle word for October 31? 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....

Our thoughts after two hours with Ubisoft’s latest Back in June, when our Ed got a 30-minute hands-off glimpse ofAvatar: Frontiers Of Pandora, he hadsuspicionsthat Ubisoft’s next big open world-athon was hiding some dark, terrible secret beneath the surface. It was almost too good, and too lovely-looking to be completely true, he proposed, and the brief tour of this rather enormous-looking game wasn’t quite long enough to really dig beneath the surface to see if Ubisoft’s lofty promises would hold up to closer scrutiny....

Embark Studios says that text-to-speech tech “gets us far enough in terms of quality and allows us to be extremely reactive to new ideas” The Finals, the cash-grabbing, destructible-scenerymultiplayer FPSfrom former Battlefield devs, iscurrently in the middle of an open betathat allows anyone to go and give its shoot-y, smash-y, cash-y gameplay a look. You’ll also be able to give it a listen - and you might notice something a little off about the announcers for its game show-within-a-game when you do....

“Other products in the Hunt franchise” would be “brand extensions”, says general manager Crytek have no plans to make a sequel to sweaty monster-culling FPSHunt: Showdown, and will thus hopefully avoidthe publicity problemscurrently faced by Activision-Blizzard’sOverwatch 2and Valve’sCounter-Strike 2- both presented as sequels with fancier technology, but in practice, more like service-game content seasonsarbitrarily upgraded into replacements, with the ‘previous’ games,OverwatchandCounter-Strike: Global Offensive, being taken offline to avoid splitting the playerbase....

Following reported job losses at fellow Sony-owned studios earlier this month Bloombergconfirmed that Bungie CEO Pete Parsons sent a company-wide email to inform staff of a meeting this morning, accompanying news of the layoffs. While the full extent of the cuts is currently unknown, those laid off include Destiny 2 community manager and accessibility co-lead Liana Ruppert, associate franchise editor Jason Guisao, social media lead Griffin Bennett, and event manager Matthew Bianchi, who took to social media to confirm they had been let go from the studio....

Game devs organise charity drive following outbreak of open war between Hamas and Israel Israel’s government have responded by declaring war and conducting a programme of air strikes that have killed over 8000 Palestinians, including thousands of children. Some have disputed the Gaza health ministry’s reported casualty figures, but the United Nations among other international organisationshave pronounced them trustworthy. The UN havecalled for an immediate ceasefire, as Israel moves ahead with plans for a ground offensive....

A nice $25 price cut versus its usual price. The 4000D Airflow is basically the younger brother of the 7000D Airflow that I use as my main work and gaming PC, which I’ve been really impressed with over the past year or so thanks to its temperatures, internal space and clean, modern design. The mesh-fronted case supports up to a 360mm AiO up front or 280mm on the top, and the 4000D Airflow comes with two 120mm fans pre-installed as well....

We’ll be chatting about Bethesda’s big space RPG from 4pm GMT As the end of October approaches, it’s time to gather in theRPS Game Clubspace port to talk about this month’s game pick:Starfield! We’ll be assembling in our traditional liveblog format onFriday November 3rd at 4pm GMT(9am PT/12pm ET) to chat about our intergalactic adventures, catalogue all the grey rocks we’ve landed on, and generally have an earnest (and hopefully fun!...