A metroidvania of similar promise OK, so there’s plenty in Worldless that won’t remind you ofSilksongor its predecessor,Hollow Knight. Rather than a medieval bug exploring a labyrinth of bioluminescent rot and lore, you’re a vaguely humanoid cloud of shards and points, roaming an abstract landscape of soft curves and shafts of light. You’re Rayman butfancy, basically, and the world is no world but an uncreated expanse of elemental forces, though you’ll find you can run and jump on it much as you can the ledges of Hallownest....

But sadly not in playable form This isn’t a Mega-Scoop for the Ages, but it’s a fun little story. Tucked away in one dark corner of Remedy’s latesthorrorextravaganzaAlan Wake 2you’ll find an arcade cabinet machine dedicated to the very first game the Finnish developer ever made. The project in question isDeath Rally, a top-down combat racer for MS-DOS in the spirit ofMicro Machines, which graced CRTs all the way back in 1996....

Following on from Deck and Big Picture changes Valve have spent the past year or so gradually updating the Steam interface, partly to bring parity across its various forms such as the handheld Steam Deck and on-the-telly Big Picture mode. Now it’s virtual reality’s turn, with the launch of SteamVR 2.0. SteamVR 2.0 includes “most of the current features of Steam and Steam Deck”. There’s an updated keyboard with new languages and emojis, integrated Steam Chat and Voice Chat, and a better store interface that highlights VR games....

A Machine for Pissing it down What better way to follow upmy interview with Just Stop Oilthan by writing about ahorrorgame set on a haunted oil rig? The game in question is, of course,Still Wakes The DeepfromDear EstherandAmnesia: A Machine for Pigsdeveloper The Chinese Room. Set off the coast of Scotland in the 1970s, it sees you navigating collapsing gantries and flooded rooms while avoiding an unearthly terror apparently extracted from the ocean floor....

Cash grab Destructible money-grabbing multiplayer shooterThe Finalsis now available to play in open beta. The beta runs until November 5th and includes three maps, a new mode, and sixteen unlockable rewards that will carry over to the full launch. Here’s a new open beta trailer: The three maps include Monaco and Seoul and a new third map, Skyway Stadium, that wasn’t available in previous closed betas. Part of The Finals' sales pitch is that its levels are fully destructible, so players can smash their way through walls and ceilings to form their own routes, or flatten buildings entirely to crush those inside....

Plus it’s a Fast IPS screen, making it ideal for fast-paced esports titles. Here’s something you don’t see every day: a24-inchgaming monitor with a resolution of 2560x1440. It’s much more common to see 27-inch monitors at this resolution, with a 24-inch screen providing a sharper image as a result of a higher DPI. This model from Chinese manufacturer Koorui also comes with a Fast IPS panel with 1ms GtG pixel response times and a 165Hz refresh rate, making it a great choice for fast-paced gaming too....

The WD Black SN770 is a powerful performer too! Random read and write speeds are often a better indicator of gaming performance and are also competitive, at 650K IOPS and 800K IOPS maximum respectively - nearly reaching the 1M+ peaks of the fastest PCIe 4.0 SSDs on the market. That’s not bad for a drive that lacks a DRAM cache, which does slow down the drive in sustained write scenarios but doesn’t affect usability in gaming or other day-to-day use....

Is it Star Wars Outlaws? In other words, they say they’re making fat stacks right now and are spacing their investments out a bit so they can make even fatter stacks next year. Who even needs that silly Star Wars game or whatever it is, when you’ve got Assassin’s Creed: Mirage achieving a “solid launch with week 1 number of players in line withAssassin’s Creed OriginsandAssassin’s Creed Odyssey”, to say nothing ofThe Crew Motorfestaccomplishing “franchise record unit sell through, consumer spending and season pass adoption rate on the opening week”?...

Stuck on today’s Wordle word for October 26? 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....

Studio Wildcard shows off first gameplay and details some of the tech improvements in the overhauled survival sim Ark: Survival Ascended, the remake of dinosaursurvival gameArk: Survival Evolved, has resurfaced with its first gameplay trailer, showing off its flashy Unreal Engine 5 graphics, improved physics-based destruction and overhauled user interface. The biggest reveal, though, is that the Ark remake will apparently drop on Steam later today. Survival Ascended is aseparate gameto full sequelArk 2- due for release late next year - in that it looks to overhaul the original immensely popular survival sim and its expansions....

Inner demons! Insanity! Gridlessness! If you’re weary ofBaldur’s Gate 3’s whimsy, or you’ve finished gnawing the bones ofDiablo 4and are hungry for more of that sweet, sweet grimdark, you might like to check out Beast from Polish developer False Prophet, which goes into Steam early access today. It’s a turn-based tacticsRPGwith aGothichistorical setting, an extremely late-noughties insanity mechanic, a heavy metal soundtrack, plagues, heresy, dynastic feuding, and a protagonist with a dramatic eye scar and possibly non-metaphorical “inner demons”....

Colossal Order lay out plans for updates Cities: Skylines 2developers Colossal Order and publisher Paradox Interactive have penned a letter to their community about the game’s launch performance problems and other technical troubles, sharing details of forthcoming updates and smaller bug patches while also assuring players that “the issues are not deeply rooted in the game’s foundation”. The developers include a few thoughts about what performance means for amanagement simlike Skylines 2, revealing that they considered delaying release to improve and stabilise the game, but felt that postponing launch would be “unfair” to those who are less bothered by such things....

Customise your dream home, build up the island, make friends and beat the absolute bejeezus out of unwanted visitors If it wasn’t already clear thatLike a Dragon: Infinite Wealthis going to be plenty zany in that good ol’Yakuzaway, RGG Studio has now revealed that Ichiban Kasuga’s next adventure will pack in its ownAnimal Crossingminigame - but done Yakuza-style, naturally. Happy Resort Dondoko Island is a new activity revealed during tonight’s Xbox Partner Preview stream, showing off a mix of gathering, crafting and town management....