According to Alan’s voice actor That said, Porretta also told thepodcastthat they’re still “in the middle of working on it right now”, so I wouldn’t be surprised either if we didn’t get a date at all until much nearer the time. Have a watch of the video below (conveniently time-stamped at Porretta’s answer) to hear his full quote. Whenever it arrives, I’m very much looking forward to Remedy’s “first ever survival horror game” after revisiting theirrecent remasterofAlan WakeThe 1st a couple of years ago - although to say that first gamedidn’talso dip its writerly toes into the survival horror genre is mildly absurd, what with its prevailing spooky dark forests, horrible crows and actually haunted farmyard machinery....

Well if China are onboard with it… China’s antitrust regulator has approved Microsoft’s $69 billion acquisition of Activision Blizzard. The decision follows the EU’s approval of the deallast week. “China’s unconditional clearance of our acquisition of Activision Blizzard follows clearance decisions from jurisdictions such as the European Union and Japan, bringing the total to 37 countries representing more than two billion people,” says a Microsoft statement on the approval providedto Eurogamer....

“Explore the Horizon” arrives May 23rd In today’sForza Horizon 5livestream, developers Playground Games offered details of the open-world racer’s free “Explore The Horizon” update. It’ll launch tomorrow and includes six new cars, new photo mode features, and new pathfinder challenges. You can watch the archive of the full stream below. The upgraded photo mode, meanwhile, will allow players to tweak their photos in new ways, including the ability to alter the time of day, the weather, the position and emote of their character, and to create, save and apply presets under the Effects menu....

Two models are discounted, so choose from PC + Xbox or PC + PS4/PS5. Logitech’s G920 and G29 wheel and pedals sets are my go-to recommendations for aspiring racing fans, offering a noticeable improvement in control and feedback over a gamepad while costingfarless than more advanced direct drive alternatives from the likes of Fanatec. Today both models are discounted to £170, a healthy discount from their usual £240 price point and more than 50% off their UK RRP - nice....

Or the same extras with an RTX 4070 PC for £1091. Right now you can pick up a great deal on a powerful RTX 4070 Ti gaming PC over at CCL, equipped with a Core i5 12400F processor, 16GB DDR4-3200 RAM, an MSI Pro B660M-E motherboard and 1TB Kingston NV2 NVMe SSD - all for £1260. That’s an awesome spec for gaming at 1080p, 1440p and even 4K - such is the power of this mighty GPU!...

Everything you need to know ahead of the official announcement of Galactic Roaming (V1.1) When is the Honkai: Star Rail Version 1.1 livestream?Long-time fans will know that HoYoverse love a livestream — or “special program” to use their preferred terminology — to get players hyped for what’s next in their games. As we all suspected,Honkai: Star Railwill be no different, with the inaugural Special Program for the upcoming Version 1.1 taking place on Friday, May 26th....

Escape those caves in double-quick time For the last six years, mySkyrimwood elf has been stuck in some godforsaken cave in goodness knows what corner of Tamriel. I don’t remember why they were there, or what goal they were trying to achieve. It was just ‘one of those caves’ that looked cool and interesting when I came across it and I thought, ‘Yeah, all right, let’s have a go then, shall we?...

A turn-based roguelike Inkboundis a co-op turn-based roguelike, a jumble of genres I’ve seen so many times in the past decade they no longer conjure any feelings for me. It’s also from the developers ofMonster Train, however, the uncommonly good card game about stopping an onslaught aboard a multi-storey train to hell. That pedigree means it’s worth noting that Inkbound is now in early access. While the bare facts of its genres sounds derivative, there is something unusual about Inkbound’s combat....

You can even play using a TV remote control Add another one to the list of weird and delightful ways to play ye oldeDoom: teletext. A new mod converts Doom to a teletext signal, letting you play the seminal shooter rendered in blocky teletext art on a telly. You can even control it with your TV remote. Have a look in the video below! I really, really like the smiley face replacing Doomguy’s gurn....

…and just about gets there Planet of Lanahas all the hallmarks of a story-richplatformer. Across its six-hour run time, you’ll encounter a string of environmental puzzles, an evil plan concocted by a group of baddies, a rich orchestral soundtrack that swells at all the right moments, a cute animal companion, and a gorgeous world that needs saving. On paper, it has everything you could possibly want from this kind of game, but in practice, it can also be Lana’s undoing at times....

Admiring more attractive and interesting indie games 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. The difficulties of writing a column reliant upon a collapsing platform continue to be felt in a week when the #screenshotsaturday tag became overrun with spambots, but the games still shone through. This week, my eye was caught by colourful driving experiences in run ‘n’ guns and visual novels, multiple terrible squiggly beasts from horror games, a cute N64-style platformer, and lots more attractive and interesting indie games....

Stuck on the Wordle word for May 22? Read our hint or find the answer below! Need a hint for today’s Wordle answer?A new week brings a new onlsaught of toughWordlechallenges, but don’t fret! We’re here to help you each and every day with some handy hints, or you can just keep scrolling to find the answer. Every day, Wordle presents its legions of players with a deviously simple quandary: can you guess the right five-letter word within just six guesses?...

Stuck on the Wordle word for May 21? Read our hint or find the answer below! Need a hint for today’s Wordle answer?Wordleis back again with another little brainteaser, storming past that 700 marker with no signs of stopping. Wordle should be a relaxing start to your Sunday, but if you’re finding today’s Wordle answer particularly troublesome then you’re in the right spot. Every day, Wordle presents its legions of players with a deviously simple quandary: can you guess the right five-letter word within just six guesses?...