The first game to feature ptarmigans? The Long Darkalready offered an expansive survival game, including an open survival mode and many hours of a story campaign. Still, it’s getting bigger if you want it to with Tales From The Far Territory, a paid expansion pass that will deliver a year of updates beginning on December 5th. A new trailer shows a little of the new region below. Most of the major updates for the last couple of years of work on the base game focused on the campaign, but Tales From The Far Territory is explicitly an expansion pass for The Long Dark’s survival mode....

That’s less than 5p per gigabyte for a massive 2TB drive. Mainstream 2TB SSDs just barely breached the £100 barrier for Black Friday this year, and now the Integral V Series has firmly pushed beyond it. You can now pick up this 2TB SATA SSD for just £93, making the drive just 4.7p per gigabyte - a very reasonable asking price for a drive that’s significantly faster than an old HDD you may still have in your desktop or laptop…...

Hints and the answer to today’s Wordle word Clearly you’re playing Wordle this weekend too, and perhaps came here in search of a little help with the answer. Lucky for you, there’s some clues for you just below; or you can scroll down past the video to see the solution in full. Looking for today’s solution? Check out theWordle hint and answer for Thursday 12th December! Wordle November 26 hints...

I love a good sleuthing It’s getting to the time in winter when we reflect on the year, and pick our Bestest Best games that we’ve played over the past twelve months (okay eleven months, but December is always kinda quiet). We recently had this chat in the RPS hive-mind, and going through each month and making note of my favourite releases completely shocked me with how many fantastic mystery games have come out this year....

Do whatever the heck spiders do What if spiders had lightsabers is an impeccable premise for a game, andSpiderheckdelivers on that premise with aplomb. It’s an arena fighting game geared towards couch co-op and couch competition, but there’s online play and single-player modes too. Yesterday’s"THE TRIALS OF JAZEPS" updateadded new difficulty levels to wave survival, as well as custom trials you can send to your friends. It also chucks in some new maps with portals, because the only thing better than a lightsaber-wielding spider is a lightsaber wielding spider suddenly emerging from a portal....

Reports the US FTC could file an antitrust lawsuit provoked the response Activision Blizzard executive vice-president for corporate affairs Lulu Cheng Meservey hastweetedthat the company “won’t hesitate to fight to defend” Microsoft’s $68.7 billion (£57 billion) buyout of the publisher. The comment came after reports began circulating that the US Federal Trade Commission couldbring a lawsuitagainst Microsoft over the deal. Anonymous sources claiming to be close to the matter also suggested that a lawsuit from the FTC might begin as early as December....

A familiar but friendly face in the Black Friday sales

But Scaramouche, will he do the fandango With the possible exception of Gwent, mini-games inside open world RPGs tend to suck. They’re often poor imitations of much deeper and exciting board and card games you can play in the real world, offered as an unwanted break from the monsters I’ve come to stick a sword through. WillGenshin Impact’s upcoming Genius Invokation TCG buck that trend? Probably not, no, but we’ll know for sure when the Version 3....

Nothing beats the Truffle Hog Shuffle PlayingNidhoggis like playing a dozen frantic games of rock-paper-scissors back to back. Like all the best couch co-op games, it’s very easy to get to grips with the controls: you have a sword, and you can raise it or lower it across three different heights to try and get around your opponent’s guard. There are other things you can do, like ducking, and jumping, and throwing your sword....

Deals across the Raptor Lake range, but only in the UK Black Fridaygenerally doesn’t involve as many CPU deals as it does, say,SSD dealsorgaming keyboard deals– probably because there just aren’t that many CPUs. Nevertheless, a few choice discounts have emerged for an unlikely group of chips: Intel’s 13th Gen Raptor Lake processors. These only released late in October, so it’s a welcome surprise to them on the Black Friday chopping block so soon....

Join us for rolling updates on the day’s best bargains on SSDs, keyboards and more Black Friday: The Actual Day Itself has begun, which means this is perhaps your best chance of picking up the SSD, keyboard, GPU, or monitor you’ve wanted on the cheap. While we’re gathering upBlack Friday’s best PC gaming deals, discounts and price changes can come and go quickly. For that reason, we’re also running this liveblog....

It never “intentionally” lies Here’s an exciting ‘AI can do that now’ moment: Meta’s latest AI, Cicero, can beat human players at classic negotiation and betrayal game Diplomacy. While playing online atwebDiplomacy.net, it’s achieved “more than double the average score of human players”, ranking “in the top 10 percent of participants who played more than one game”. It can figure out who needs persuading to do what, then engage with those players using impressive and effective natural language....

Enter the demon world to sort your life out Imagine not being fazed that a powerful demon cursed you, while maintaining your style and composure to investigate how to free yourself before your time’s up. I’m not sure I could manage not to totally lose it under those circumstances, but survival horrorSorry We’re Closedfrom devs à la mode and publishers Akupara Games plonks you into the vaguely 32-bit shoes of cool cucumber Michelle to do exactly that....