No word on a release date yet Spirit of the North followed in the wake of indie darlings likeJourneyandAbzuas a quietly meditative single-player adventure through nature that laid out its moving story without a word of dialogue. Four years on from its release - and three years after it came to PC - developers Infuse Studio have revealed a full sequel. Spirit of the North 2looks to follow closely in the pawprints of its predecessor....

Stuck on today’s Wordle word for October 28? 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....

Stuck on today’s Wordle word for October 29? 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....

Don’t make me a liar, Remedy You haven’t even downloaded Remedy’sAlan Wake 2yet, assuming you’re planning to, which means it’s already time to start thinking about what you’ll do once you’ve finished it. Apologies, the news beat is a cruel mistress and the present is always past, but in my defence, jumping irresponsibly around the timelinedoesmake sense for a supernaturalhorrorgame that follows two characters through different dimensions. Remedy’s plans for the game include a chunky New Game+ mode, aka “Final Draft”, which will hopefully arrive in late November, and two DLC packs, Night Springs and The Lake House....

A technical showcase, but not everyone’s invited You can probably guess what’s coming.Alan Wake 2’s PC performance has been the subject of nervous uh oh-ing since well before the release of itsonerous system requirements;Remedy comms director Thomas Puha evenimplored playersto “look at the image quality” instead of framerates, likeDean Learner exalting the storytelling of Punch of Judy. Actually, that’s not fair.Alan Wake 2 is much more enjoyablethan Punch and Judy. And, like Remedyverse predecessorControl, there is something impressive about just how much visual tech you can choose to put on show:ray tracing,path tracing,Nvidia Ray Reconstruction, frame generation viaDLSS 3, the lot....

New tech will also make life easier for overseas developers All that’s according to a new video presentation popped up by Capcom R&D, voiced by an unnamed member of staff. “In the course of operating RE Engine so far, several issues have come to light,” it explains. “First, the scale of projects has expanded and diversified. Compared to the first release ofResident Evil7, the number and the scale of recent projects has ballooned more than five times....

But no solid confirmation for the moment “Our marketing campaigns have started incorporating voices into some of the new Hunters and those trailers, giving them a little more personality and backstory,” he went on. “But as far as like, a dedicated single player campaign, or an entirely extra product that’s a single player thing, we don’t have anything to announce there. “But we do like narrative, we do like the backstories....

Give your mouse a workout From now until Monday,Diablo 4is free to play. The trial is available viaBattle.netand includes the entire game. If you want to keep playing past Monday, it’s currently 25% off, too. Depending on your temperament, a free dose of Diablo is either a “first hit’s free” trap, or an invitation to click your mouse and dissociate, which frankly you could do while running Notepad.exe. For me, a lapsed Diablo player who was never convinced the latest sequel offered something worth returning for, it’s a pretty tempting method of satisfying my curiosity....

Mickey says cough up Mouse house life simDisney Dreamlight Valleyhas been in early access since it launched last year, with the plan being that it would ditch the fee and become free-to-play upon its full release. That plan has changed. Dreamlight Valley will leave early access on December 5th but will remain a paid-for game. “This choice ensures that Disney Dreamlight Valley will be able to continue delivering on a premium game experience for all players,” saysthe announcement....

Time travel afoot Fortnite’s original map is coming back, Epic have confirmed. The news was announced via X (formerly Twitter) weeks after several leaks had suggested that time travel shenanigans would revert thefree-to-playshooter’s map back to its original Chapter 1 layout. I’ve never been a Fortnite player, but I’ve played enough live service games to understand the appeal of an old version - whether map or mode - returning for another go around the content carousel....

A great GPU for 1440p, ultrawide and even 4K gaming. Ebay has decided we have entered Halloween season with the publication of aSPOOKY20code good for20% off a range of PC gaming components and peripherals(and other stuff). We’re zeroing in on an RX 7800 XT graphics card, the best value option from AMD’s RDNA 3 lineup. The Gigabyte Gaming OC model is down to £485 from a price of £560. That’s a good deal, with the cheapest RX 7800 XT elsewhere coming in at £510....

Need a hint for today’s Connections? Read our guide for help with Connections #138 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....

My cousin Balin will give us a royal welcome I’m braving the long dark of Moria, and the major dilemma at present is that I can’t line up my feasting table with my hearthfire. In Free Range Games’s plucky dungeon simThe Lord of the Rings: Return to Moria, you’re a dwarf trying to reclaim the once-proud undercity of Khazad-dûm, tunnelling between procedurally generated networks of halls and crafting your own havens and upgrade facilities from long-wrecked forges and mansions....