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Resident Evil Village is coming to Apple-flavoured smart devices just in time for Halloween on 30th October, 2023.

Upcoming augmented reality horror, Scrylight, will be a "fully immersive, 360 degree ghost hunting experience" that will not just turn your own home into a haunted house, but also interact with your real-life smart lights and doorbells, too.

Mortal Kombat goes back to its roots with Mortal Kombat 1, a fresh reboot that delivers some of the most striking visuals seen from a fighting game to date. Lighting quality, materials across its detail-rich stages and motion capture are all brilliantly realised on Unreal Engine 4 here. It's a big revamp over Mortal Kombat 11, with developer Netherrealm Studios focusing its efforts on current-gen consoles, but in a surprise turn, a Nintendo Switch version is available, handled by Shiver Entertainment and Saber Interactive and as the social media memes have revealed, it's not particularly impressive. In fact, Netherrealm's Ed Boon has pledged to fix it. Based on what we've seen, this would be an remarkable feat.

Logitech's no stranger to racing peripherals, with their G29 racing wheel being a budget mainstay since the PS4 days - and earlier racing wheels being a popular choice since the turn of the millennium. What is new is a focus on higher-end sim racing gear, which this year includes a direct drive Pro Racing Wheel ($1000/£1000), load cell Pro Racing Pedals ($350/£350) and a branded Logitech G Edition Playseat Trophy racing cockpit ($600/£529). This combination basically ticks all the boxes for an enthusiast-grade setup, and at $1950 all-in it's definitely priced like one too - though you can certainly spend far more on racing setups if you want.

Publisher Plaion marked the release of Payday 3 earlier this week by giving away "a month's average salary" to one lucky Londoner.

Actor and voice artist Cameron Monaghan has confirmed that a third Star Wars: Jedi game is on the way.

There's nothing like going for a nice long walk around the world of The Witcher 3 and meeting some of the locals there. They say the nicest things. "Sod off, you misborn clod," a guard will tell me. "Got so fucked up once, blood came out me ears," a chap at the docks will announce. Or if I'm really lucky, "Go fuck your mums tits!" What a world to live in.

Team Cherry has quietly updated Steam assets for its highly-anticipated Hollow Knight sequel, Hollow Knight: Silksong.

A Tarnished has had the honour of exploring a world other than the Lands Between – Armored Core 6: Fires of Rubicon's maps.

Supermassive Games' second instalment of the Dark Pictures Anthology, Little Hope, is coming to Nintendo Switch on 5th October 2023.

UPDATE: Digital Foundry has just completed its review of Cyberpunk 2077 2.0 on PC, with a strong focus on the new ray tracing innovations added to the game in the form of DLSS 3.5 ray reconstruction. This new technology aims to drastically improve denoising. With current forms of RT, rays are traced - but they are limited in number compared to reality, producing a 'noisy' image that requires processing to increase coherency. Different effects may require different denoisers and all of them are tuned by human input. Ray reconstruction aims to take that task out of the hands of the developers, relying on machine learning to do a better and faster job.

A CD Projekt Red developer has finally quashed the rumour that an NPC based upon Elon Musk was in the game at all, let alone recently removed.

Starbreeze insists it is "working hard" to keep servers online after Payday 3 players endured a second consecutive evening of disruption.

Ten days after Unity successfully enraged huge swathes of the development community by announcing sweeping, and wildly unpopular, changes to its Unity Engine business model, the company has said it's "sorry" and walked back on significant aspects of its new pricing plan.

If you've been eagerly awaiting the arrival of Total War: Pharaoh next month, on 11th October, there's a bit of bad news - for some purchasers, at least: developer Creative Assembly has announced it's delaying the title into "early 2024", but only on the Epic Games Store.

Valve has once again dropkicked the dreams right out of anyone hoping a whizzier, more powerful Steam Deck might be happening soon; it's now provided a clearer timeframe for what it considers to be the current Steam Deck's minimum life span, saying not to expect any kind of performance upgrade "in the next couple of years".

Like A Dragon has long been defined by its iconic nightlife location of Kamurocho, with all the seediness and criminality that comes with it. To now jump on a plane and find the franchise far from home in the bright Hawaiian sunshine is almost disarming, but then this is simply another step in the series' reinvention. Infinite Wealth's change of location follows the last main instalment's introduction of a charismatic new protagonist, Ichiban Kasuga, a new location in Yokohama, and a new turn-based battle system inspired by classic JRPGs.

If you cast your minds back to 2020, you may recall Spider-Man being a hot topic of conversation. This was not because he had just used his web-tastic athleticism to save a school bus of children from careering off the side of the road, or swept MJ off her feet (literally) before kissing her while upside down.

The third major patch for Baldur's Gate 3 is now being rolled out, and it includes the long-awaited Magic Mirror feature.

Honkai Impact 3rd is getting a Part 2, with a new combat system and story that leaves previous protagonist Kiana behind.

The leak of unredacted Microsoft documents lays bare the firm's plans for console hardware for this year and beyond. We're getting a new, impressive-looking controller, mid-generation refreshes of the existing Xbox Series consoles, and we have a strong idea of Microsoft's thinking for the next generation. There are some controversial ideas presented in terms of its revised Series machines but I'm more concerned about the plans for the Gen 10 consoles. Xbox needs to be radical, it needs to align more closely with the best in PC innovation, and the vision presented is either problematic and unambitious.

Yesterday, Activision announced what players can expect in Season 6 of Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2 and Warzone, The Haunting, which has a spooky theme just in time for Halloween.

I can't remember much about my history lessons at school, and one of the things I specifically can't remember, if such a thing is possible, is whether we spent a lot of time talking about memory. You know, how memory works and how it doesn't work - how it records but also warps, and how consensual group memories can settle into odd shapes and be manipulated as they settle.

Lego has announced another Super Mario set - this time, a shelf-sized model of a Piranha Plant.

Nintendo Switch Online's retro library is growing bigger yet again with another Kirby addition.

A cosy new hobbit-based Lord of the Rings spinoff game has been teased by Wētā Workshop and Private Division. Yes, it is actually happening.

Hello! Welcome back to our regular feature where we write a little bit about some of the games we've found ourselves playing over the last few days. This time: turtles, RPGs and getting back to basics.

In a positive development for Microsoft, the UK's Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) has "provisionally concluded" the company's revised deal to purchase Activision Blizzard will be enough to grant approval.

"Wikipedia isn't a reliable source" is one of those things that was drummed into me repeatedly at school. "Anyone can write anything there." Of course, when I first poked at this idea it felt a little heavy handed: nearly everything is cited, sources are monitored for reliability, and it's rare for outright sabotage to last longer than a few minutes. There's another layer underneath that though, and sometimes it takes diving into a page's edit history to find the trails of bias and misinformation that are hidden by Wikipedia's neutral voice. This is, in part, what underpins Neurocracy, the murder mystery you solve by trawling through Omnipedia, the corporate-sponsored Wikipedia of the future.

Ubisoft sure does love a sequel, and it's now confirmed - in just about as understated a fashion as is possible - that it's got another one in the works, this time in the form of The Division 3.