Go! Go! Go! Go! The magic ofYakuzagames (now known as Like A Dragon, technically but hey) lies in the dramatic ascents up the Millenium Tower to prevent surprisingly muscular 60-year-old men from detonating Kamurocho. The rain falls. The lads rip their suits off. Then they settle things with their fists, because to do anything otherwise would be silly. But therealmagic ofYakuzalies in its minigames, one of the best being karaoke. And thanks to Game Informer’sinterviewwith Ryu Ga Gotoku Studio, we now know why their games are obsessed with the beloved singsong....

Vampire de-sizers A tiny bridge makes so much sense as a late-gameVampire Survivorschallenge stage. The game’s arguably at its most captivating when the hordes start clogging up your death machinery, squeezing you into tighter and tighter corridors as you pray for a power-up or multi-item chest. It’s pleasantly squirmy, but will the bridge added in yesterday’s appropriately titled “The Tiny One” update betoosquirmy? The update also added a couple new achievements, and an item that lets you banish a weapon or power-up of your choosing across all of your runs....

“?????“ Sometimes, my friends, the Internet pulls something out of the ether that truly stumps even the most knowledgeable and informed among us. Case in point: today’s rumblings that Grasshopper Manufacture, the devs behind theNo More Heroesseries, are working on a AAA game in the Aliens universe. This caught Grasshopper Manufacture’s founder and CEO Goichi Suda, aka Suda51, so much by surprise that he wordlesslytweetedhis utter bemusement at the rumour. I’m taking that as a no for the Alien game, then....

The fast and thrifty WD Blue SN570 strikes again I’ve been recommending the WD Blue SN570 to anyone who’ll listen for over a year, and now it’s not just one of thebest gaming SSDsyou can buy, but the star of several of thebest Black Friday SSD deals. Multiple capacities of this cheap but deceptively speedy solid state drive are on sale today, with savings of up to 44%. The Blue SN570 has 250GB and 500GB models, but since these are discounts on an already affordable SSD, you might as well go big with a 1TB or 2TB version....

Save £70 / $40 on the Logitech G Pro Wireless Back when our guide to thebest Black Friday gaming mouse dealswas but a wee list of early offers, I’d check every few days whether theLogitech G Pro Wirelesshad a compelling sale going for it. Every time, nada, at least in the UK. Only now, duringBlack Fridayproper, has its price dropped – and damned far too, with Amazon chopping £70 off the RRP to bring ourtop wireless gaming mousepick down to just £50....

Out today after two years in the pipes Half-LifeAlyx: Levitation is the most compelling reason to dust off my VR goggles I’ve seen sinceHalf-Life: Alyx. Out today after two years of development, the ambitious mod promises 3-4 hours of barrel-chucking, window-breaking, train-dodging, combine-blasting fun. Perhaps the full package will pale in comparison to Valve’s polish, but the bit in this trailer where the player scurries down a train while contorting around manhacks looks oh-so appetisingly transportative....

I’m now on the run for my dabloon crimes During my journey into the depths of TikTok’s dabloon craze, I’ve joined a cult who worship the high priestess Dabloonis, have sailed across the high seas on a pirate ship called The Dabloonian, and accidentally taken part in a dabloon heist that’s now made me a wanted fugitive by the dabloon police. It’s been a strange couple of hours. Dabloontok is TikTok’s newest trend, and is probably best described as a chaotic player-generated RPG where users collect an imaginary currency called “dabloons” cashed out by awkwardly photoshopped black cats (usually) in fantasy settings....

And a few hints on what to expect now that Season One is done A few weeks ago, I got the chance to visit Supermassive HQ for a hands-on with The Devil In Me, the fourth game in — and season one finale of —The Dark PicturesAnthology. While I was there, I also had the chance to interview three of the series leads: Tom Heaton, creative director on both The Devil In Me and Man Of Medan; Will Doyle, creative director across the whole Dark Pictures Anthology and director of last year’s entry House Of Ashes; and Dan McDonald, the studio director for the anthology....

Hints and the answer to today’s Wordle word OK, that last one’s less of an existential concern. But times are busy right now, and it’s understandable to want to keep up with Wordle while juggling a busy schedule. So if you need some help with today’s puzzle, read on below for a few clues to help you out, or scroll down below the video for the answer in full plus definition....

Creative Assembly aiming to keep single-player and multiplayer in step Immortal Empires wasintroducedtoTotal War: Warhammer3 for single-player and multiplayer back in August, supporting up to eight players for the latter. This mode brought in boatloads of stuff from the first two games in the series, set across a huge campaign and gigantic map. If the host owns all three games, that is. With the 2.3.0 update, an Immortal Empires host can choose which endgame scenarios they want to trigger, and when, or just switch them off....

An RTX 3070 laptop for only £949 Not only is that a big, meaty chunk of cash to carve off, it’s also an outstandingly low price for a gaming laptop with the RTX 3070 specifically. I’ve seen this high-end GPU in a few other laptops that are up for Black Friday sales, but they’re tending more towards the £1100 mark. In terms of getting the most graphical power for the least money, then, the Katana GF66 is unlikely be beaten today....

A tidy Black Friday discount on one of the fastest ever gaming CPUs. AMD’s Ryzen 9 7900X is an awesome gaming processor that also kicks a lot of butt in content creation tasks, but a high asking price means that it’s out of reach of many. However, that is slowly changing, with Black Friday Eve bringing a new low price on the high-end CPU: £475, down from a launch RRP of £600....

The 8-part drama will release next month It’s been a long while since there was a newSplinter Cellgame, but you’ll soon be able to listen to Splinter Cell on the radio. BBC Radio 4 are producing an eight-part drama series calledTom Clancy’s Splinter Cell: Firewall which will broadcast this December. The radio drama “follows veteran Fourth Echelon agent Sam Fisher on a new mission, recruiting and training the next generation of Splinter Cell operatives for the National Security Agency’s covert action division,” says the BBC....