Ahead of November release Warhammer 40K: Darktide’s closed beta is underway, which you probably already know if you’re one of the people granted access to test the co-op shooter. If you don’t have access however, there’s still time as you can still apply and more players will be let in over the course of this weekend. You might also enjoy watching some streamers play so you have a better sense of it ahead of its release in November....

Hints and the answer to today’s Wordle word If you’re feeling a bit too chilled-out to really put 100% of your brain into it on this occasion, don’t worry, as below we’re put together a handful of hints to help you along your way. Alternatively, scroll down below the video for today’s answer in full. Wrong day? Check out theWordle hint and answer for Thursday 12th Decemberinstead! Wordle October 15 hints...

I’d already sat in on a briefing about Legends earlier this week with Narrative Design Director, Kevin Grace, who insisted that the game is primarily about “making friends”. Don’t worry, you are thinking of the right Minecraft spin-off here – your character will still be thwacking piglins. Making friends is easy with the three tools Legends puts at your disposal though, namely the Flame Of Creation, Banner Of Courage, and a magical lute....

Toge Productions still handling PC publishing, Chorus Worldwide taking over from PQube Fantastical slice-of-life adventure gameA Space For The Unboundhas resolved its publishing problems, developers Mojiken Studio have revealed. In ajoint statementwith UK-based publishers PQube, shared on the game’s Twitter account, Mojiken and the game’s PC publishers Toge Productions said they’ve “reached an agreement to the satisfaction of all parties”. Toge Productions will continue to handle publishing for A Space For The Unbound on PC, while Chorus Worldwide are taking over console publication....

That’s just 7.5p per gigabyte, a great value for a drive of this size. You know what’s quite lovely if you can afford it? Having a truly massive hard drive orSSD. Back in the day, I was over the moon when I picked up a 750MB drive for my gaming PC - I could do a full install ofCivilization 2! And have room left over for X-Wing Alliance! These days, PC storage offersslightlylarger capacities, but the thrill of having a really giant drive remains as strong as ever....

Boldly going where no PC has gone before Star Trek Onlineturns you into the captain of your own starship. This MMORPG neatly captures the essence of years of Gene Roddenberry’s hopeful, futuristic space romp, rolling in plotlines from the TV shows and movies to create a bizarrely playable blob of nerdy entertainment. It pits you against the Borg. It lets you visit Deep Space Nine. You can even battle the powerful and scary Crystalline Entity that wiped out Data’s homeworld....

The next season begins in December Overwatch 2won’t be seeing any significant rebalances to its roster of heroes until the free to play shooter enters its second season in early December, Blizzard have confirmed. The game’s developers shared a blog post updating players on how the company are monitoring gameplay, maps, and competitive rankings in the immediate post-launch period. There will, however, be a targeted adjustment to tank Zarya in the next major patch going live on October 25th, Blizzard said....

Judero brings chat and action in the Scottish Borders You can check out the next game fromBeeswingandDujanahdeveloper Jack King-Spooner with a swish demo launched alongside a crowdfunding campaign.Juderois its name, and a surprisingly action-heavy adventure through the Scottish Borders is its game. Expect folklore, witches, jokes, stop motion, and beasties to battle and mind control. Judero is a fantastical adventure crossing from round Peebles in Scotland’s Borders all the way over to the west coast, starring a strapping Celt named Judero (who may or may not be built upon an old action figure)....

Docking Station display bug fixes on the way as well Have you ever wanted to make your PC hardware boot slower for the sake of a sight gag? Now you can on theSteam Deck, with Valve’s latestBeta client updateextending the maximum length ofcustom startup animationsfrom 10 to 30 seconds. In case you missed the news, Valve recently legitimised user replacements of the Deck’s twinkling startup screen: instead of fiddling about with Linux commands, all you need is to create a couple of folders among the device’s files and drop a ....

24 hours to choose between tuff golem, rascal, or sniffer Voting for the new mob kicks off at 5pm BST/6pm CEST/9am PDT, and you’ll have 24 hours to scribble on your digital ballot paper. This year’s new mob vote is between three candidates:tuff golem,rascal, andsniffer. The tuff golem is a walking statue that you build, like snow and iron golems, and you can make it wear a swish cloak by popping a wool block in when you make one....

More than 20,000 bans were issued during the game’s open beta A new blog post detailingCall Of Duty: Modern Warfare 2’s Ricochet anti-cheat strategy has revealed that only PC players will be asked to register a phone number before they can play the game. This is different from the blanket phone registration requirements that Activision Blizzard implemented forOverwatch 2’s Defense Matrix at that game’s launch at the beginning of this month, beforeremoving themfor most players last week....

I hope the truth is out there, and not in here with me Do you like first-person games where you operate complex machinery by manually typing commands into computers and fiddling with buttons and switches and gadgets? Check out the demo forVoices Of The Void, an upcoming game about running a space radio telescope array. Alone. In the woods. It has a pleasing manual process to find, target, and analyse signals, and a whole complex of servers and machinery to mantain....

It’s pregnant with meaning Scorn is a deliberately grim game with a lot of body horror. Best avoid it and this review if you have issues with body horror themes. I was talking to a friend aboutScornand they asked, “Is there astory?”. And yeah, Scorn has a story. At some point there’ll be a two hour YouTube video outlining how it has a clear and nuanced plot, or that it’s a metaphor for periods and erections, or both....