October means the video game pumpkins are back, baby!

Ghost Town’s Pumpkin Festival returns, plus other fun pumpkin games This year the pumpkins are back, and better than ever. Download the Pumpkin Fest for pay-what-you-can onItch, carve your very own pump with the tools provided, and place it among the efforts of others in a peaceful spooky scene. You can take a walk around and vote for your favourite pumps. But this isn’t the only pumpkin game to enjoy! I’ve found a couple of others, too....

October 18, 2022 · 3 min · 435 words · James Owens

Overwatch 2 players are eulogising out-of-action hero Bastion as if he'd died

Alas, poor Bastion! I knew him, Torbjorn Robot damage heroBastionhas been unplayable inOverwatch 2for the past week due to some unfortunateshenaniganswith his artillery ultimate. It was only meant to be temporary, Blizzard said. Yet this increasingly lengthy absence from the game’s resulted in some players treating the poor droid as though he’d passed away rather than becoming glitched out for a little while. Bastion first disappeared a week ago when Blizzard announced he’d be “taking a quick trip to the workshop” to have some work done on his ability kits....

October 18, 2022 · 2 min · 382 words · Garrett Ramirez

Superhero card battler Marvel Snap enters early access on PC today

No word yet on Marvel Happy Families or DC Cribbage Collectible card gameMarvel Snaphas been released into early access on Steam as a free to play download. Hailing from some of the devs behind Blizzard’s successful digital CCGHearthstone, Marvel Snap takes the House Of Ideas’ superheroic formula and runs with the current multiversal obsession of the MCU. The game also mixes in the art and variants you’d expect from Marvel’s comic book output....

October 18, 2022 · 2 min · 260 words · Wendy Meza

The Sims 4 is getting an official platform for hosting and downloading mods

A moderated but optional place for custom content The Simsseries has always had a vibrant modding community, but for the first time Maxis are taking steps to make it easier. In today’s Sims Summit stream, they announced that they were partnering with CurseForge to create a “moderated, curated space” forThe Sims 4players to download mods and custom content. The presentation about the new modding platform starts at the 12m 20s mark:...

October 18, 2022 · 2 min · 233 words · Angela Maldonado

The Sims 5 is in early development, shows powerful new creative tools

Codenamed Project Rene The Sims 4is now a free-to-play game - and yet somehow this isn’t today’s biggestThe Simsnews. That’s because, during today’s Sims Summit livestream, Maxis also announced that the next The Sims is in-development. Currently codenamed Project Rene, it’s a few years away, although we saw some early footage of its creative tools in action. You’ll find the chat about Project Rene at the 26m 50s mark in the vidoe below:...

October 18, 2022 · 2 min · 228 words · Jacqueline Garcia

Uncharted: Legacy of Thieves Collection – Steam Deck performance and best settings

How to make the portable PC a thief’s friend The PC continues to collect PlayStation mascots like they’re Maccies Monopoly tickets. This time it’s adventuring iron-quiffed quipper Nathan Drake, courtesy ofUncharted: Legacy of Thieves Collection, which is out on Steam on November 19th. And where there’s a Steam game, there’s usually aSteam Deckgame, so Liam and I have both busted out the handhelds to see how well this remastered bundle of Uncharted: A Thief’s End and Uncharted: The Lost Legacy takes to more portable hardware....

October 18, 2022 · 6 min · 1145 words · William Brown

Wordle answer (Tuesday 18 October 2022): Wordle word of the day #486 and hints

Hints and the answer to today’s Wordle word Wrong day? Check out theWordle hint and answer for Thursday 12th Decemberinstead! Wordle October 18 hints Need a few hints to help you towards the Wordle answer today? Well, without further ado, here you go: It’s time to reveal the answer to today’s Wordle. The word is… EXIST. Wordle is out to give us all an existential crisis with this one! To exist is, quite simply, to be an objective part of reality....

October 18, 2022 · 5 min · 923 words · Sarah Allen

Clean a haunted house in this fun little indie game

Late Night Mop does what you’d expect and does it well Reading the words “haunted house cleaning simulator,” I knew exactly what diddy indie gameLate Night Mopwould be. And it is what I had thought. And it is what you will have guessed upon reading that too. And yet, I enjoyed my ten minutes binning rubbish and mopping up stains (just stains, don’t worry about it). Then I played it again to see another ending, even knowing I am a big scaredy baby....

October 17, 2022 · 2 min · 373 words · Matthew Bailey

Have You Played... Vampire: The Masquerade - Bloodlines?

Whether you win the game matters not — it’s if you bought it. I refer toVampire: The Masquerade - Bloodlinesas “my favourite video game of all time” with such frequency that it’s basically a catchphrase of mine. The thing is, though, I really dislike slogans; they’re meant to stir up emotions while bypassing our capacity to think critically. So I thought this retrospective was a good opportunity to remind myself of why I still love this janky, weird ARPG about sad bloodsuckers so much, even 18 years after its release....

October 17, 2022 · 3 min · 446 words · Pam Smith

Konami are holding a Silent Hill stream this week

Tune in on October 19th at 10pm BST We might finally be getting anotherSilent Hillgame after a decade of mostly, well, silence. Konami have announced that a “Silent Hill Transmission” is set for this Wednesday, October 19th at 10pm BST / 2pm PDT. No details have been shared about whether you’ll be able to tune in on YouTube or Twitch for the stream, but Konami shared a link to a page on their site so you should be able to watch it there....

October 17, 2022 · 2 min · 292 words · Miss Dorothy Nelson

Minecraft's next new mob is the sniffer

More than half of votes went to this gentle giant The winner of this year’sMinecraftmob vote has been revealed, and it’s a giant creature called the sniffer. Sniffers are helpful beasties who can search up ancient seeds that grow into plants you can decorate with. The friendly cow-turtle-dog-thing won the vote held to decideMinecraft’s new mob, held for 24 hours between Friday and the start of Minecraft Live on Saturday. Sniffer topped the poll with more than half of the 3....

October 17, 2022 · 1 min · 205 words · Shawn Mcneil

Nvidia "unlaunches" the RTX 4080 12GB, will allegedly pay partners’ rebranding costs

Halted GPU could return as the RTX 4070 or RTX 4070 Ti In a bizarre twist to Nvidia’sGeForce RTX 40 seriesGPU rollout, it turns out there will be no 12GB version of the RTX 4080 at all.Nvidia announced an “unlaunch"of the graphics card, which would have sat below the RTX 4080 16GB and theRTX 4090, effectively cancelling it. The 16GB version will still release as planned on November 16th. “The RTX 4080 12GB is a fantastic graphics card, but it’s not named right”, reads Nvidia’s statement....

October 17, 2022 · 2 min · 294 words · Stephanie Kemp

Persona 5 Royal finally hits PC this week and here's why it's still the JRPG king

For real! I finished the originalPersona 5roughly four years ago, and it immediately earned my most coveted award: Edders Really Liked This A Lot, Perhaps More Than Anything Else. Since its updated and expanded Royal version dropped on PlayStation some years later, I’ve been afraid to make my return. You’d think I’d be itching to delve back into what’s essentiallythedefinitive version of the Phantom Thieves' adventure, and yet it’s precisely because it blew me away the first time that I’ve been reluctant to go back....

October 17, 2022 · 5 min · 943 words · Suzanne Harris