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A Silent Hill 2 fan believes they've discovered a hidden message that adds further credence to a long-held fan theory about the seminal horror game.

Riot Games has pulled a promotional poster after fans pointed out it seemed to have been made using AI.

The UK's Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) is calling for an investigation into Apple and Google's mobile ecosystems.

Hello! Welcome back to our regular feature where we write a little bit about some of the games we've been playing over the past few days. This week we explore a game that's also a music album, we struggle to be okay with the ultra violence in a supposedly silly zombie splatfest, and we engage in the age-old video game pastime of grinding.

I bloody love a theme park: the sights, the smells, the gleeful screams, the sense of utter transportation. But most of all, I love the breathless clash of science and art behind these thoroughly encompassing illusions. I’m the kind of theme park nerd who still gets genuinely giddy when they see technology and creativity crash together like this, and who's been daydreaming their perfect rides and coasters into existence since a run-in with Disney's Haunted Mansion at the age of three became a bit of an obsession. For people like me, the original Planet Coaster was a dream. For all its flaws, it was a brilliantly implemented, beautifully presented suite of creative tools capable of turning theme park flights of fancy into digital reality, and its sequel promises the same, but more.

I've always wanted to build a white gaming PC, and over the Christmas '23 holidays I had the chance to do just that with a build designed to excel at high refresh rate 1440p gaming. Along the way, I discovered the best way to find the perfect components to fit your theme and budget, a brilliant PC case worth considering and a whole load of reasons why these white-coloured builds are so popular nowadays - despite white-coloured components often coming at a premium!

The Rogue Prince of Persia's enormous new update, Second Act, is here.

We've been poring over dozens of games updated for PS5 Pro, but the one that's most caught my attention is Stellar Blade. This game impressed when it launched on PS5 in April this year, but its slick action and stunning locales were let down somewhat by inconsistent performance and poor image quality. On PS5 Pro, developers Shift Up has delivered a simple but extremely effective upgrade that solves both of these concerns.

RollerCoaster Tycoon Classic is heading to Switch at the start of next month.

Wuthering Waves developer Kuro Games has announced a PlayStation 5 release date for its open world action-RPG with gacha.

Stalker 2: Heart of Chornobyl developer GSC Game World has announced the game has already sold 1m copies in just a few days since release.

Snufkin: Melody of the Moominvalley is coming to PS5, Xbox Series X/S, and Windows and to celebrate, Raw Fury has revealed DLC is on the way.

Strange Scaffold's sublime shooter, I Am Your Beast, now has nine new levels as part of a free expansion.

BioWare has released a rather hefty patch for Dragon Age: The Veilguard, which among a myriad of bug fixes, also adds some quality of life changes.

Sega's iconic fighting series is making its 3D PC debut on Steam this winter with Virtua Fighter 5 R.E.V.O, 18 years after its original release.

Black Myth: Wukong is set to receive "some surprises" later this year, the game's director Feng Ji said, suggesting DLC is indeed on the way.

Konami has deployed a new Silent Hill 2 Remake update to address graphical glitches affecting the horror game on PS5 Pro.

Stalker 2 was made in the midst of war. You've probably heard how Ukranian studio GSC Game World bussed workers out of the country shortly before the Russian invasion. Or how some developers have died in the war. While the first-person shooter released this week doesn't assault the player with overt references to that ongoing conflict, small glimpses of Ukrainian nationalism do peek through - the flag's colours on a box of matches, a field of poppies marking the eerie resting spot of fallen soldiers.

With Black Friday on the horizon, Sony has launched a raft of deals a week early. You can save £65 on PS5 consoles (excluding the PS5) pro until 12th December, selected DualSense controllers are £20 off, and you can also get up to £220 off a PSVR2. If you've been waiting to get your hands on some Sony goods over Black Friday, you can officially start now.

Warhammer 40K: Space Marine 2 developer Saber Interactive has announced it's banning mods from public online sessions, blaming them for a "non-negligible" amount of server instability seen by players - even those who don't have mods installed.

Assassin's Creed Shadows is set to overhaul stealth mechanics for both its dual protagonists, but will also include an option to allow insta-kill assassinations on all enemies.

Stalker 2: Heart of Chornobyl lives up to its legacy with incredible atmosphere, engaging systemic gameplay and a fair amount of technical issues. Thankfully, GSC Game World's day one patch has solved a lot of the woes suffered by reviewers, but the game still suffers from everything to minor, amusing bugs to more serious issues and heavy CPU utilisation. Suit up Stalker, let's explore the lay of the land on PC and Xbox Series X/S.

Dragon Quest 3 HD-2D Remake has become the top-selling game in Japan for 2024, despite only releasing a week ago.

Following the success of its Festival of Seasons concert, which you could say hit all the right notes, Stardew Valley is touring another musical rendition for the beloved video game.

Pack points in Pokémon TCG Pocket can be spent to acquire new cards, but you may not have realised they will expire if unused.

Uncork'd Entertainment has acquired distribution rights to 'George A. Romero's Resident Evil' - an investigative documentary which looks into the filmmaker's unrealised film adaptation of the video game series - in the US and Canada.

The first-ever open-world entry in the Star Wars games catalogue has just been given a discount ahead of Black Friday next week. Star Wars Outlaws is down to just £50 on Amazon on PS5 and Xbox at the moment. The deal is also live in the US, where it's also down to just $49.99.

Obsidian’s upcoming RPG Avowed takes place in the same fantasy universe as Pillars of Eternity, but structurally it’s a very different game. Where Pillars and its sequel Deadfire were isometric throwbacks to the golden age of CRPGs, Avowed is a thoroughly modern, immersive 3D experience that, at a glance, has little in common with the likes of Baldur’s Gate or Icewind Dale. And while it’s hardly the first RPG series to make such a jump, with Fallout famously doing the same, the fact that the Pillars games were nostalgia pieces makes this subsequent modernisation akin to history repeating itself.

Avowed is a bizarrely elusive prospect. Obsidian’s latest fantasy RPG was initially suspected to be its equivalent of Skyrim, but this is a description the studio has repeatedly refuted. It takes place in the same universe as the Pillars of Eternity games, but its glossy, modern package seemingly runs counter to the heritage of that series. Unlike Obsidian’s other recent games, such as the diminutive survival game Grounded or the medieval murder mystery Pentiment, it has no clear defining quality beyond its genre and who is making it (which some might argue is enough).

There's been a question mark over this one for years, but it seems BioWare did once plan to let you import your Hero of Ferelden, your Grey Warden protagonist from Dragon Age: Origins, into Dragon Age: Inquisition. It was only at the last minute that the studio cut the feature and swapped a Grey Warden character called Stroud in their place.