And while you’ve almost certainly outgrown real life trick-or-treating, that doesn’t mean you can’t celebrate Halloween within the bounds of your favourite games. I haven’t booted up WoW for many a year, and never at Halloween, but I particularly like the sound of the stink bombs. The Alliance part of the stink bomb quest equation involves cleaning up after said stink bombs because Alliance is laaaaaaaaaame. —PipOverwatchContinuing to avoid the obvious OverWITCH pun opportunity, Blizzard have, i

This week, NetherRealm Studios and Warner Bros. announced Injustice 2 for PC. Hellboy will be available for console players as of November 14 (the game’s console iteration launched back in May) as the final entrant of its Fighter Pack #2. The Hellboy DLC will be available to all players on November 21. While as yet unconfirmed, I presume the game’s Fighter Packs will be made available to PC players at launch, whenever that may be. pic.twitter.com/qckPwC6AOtOctober 27, 2017Again, no hard release

It’s a smart way of bringing people back to GTA Online if they’ve not tried it for a while. You can also get three Halloween-themed t-shirts for free when you sign in this week. Finally, from today players can buy the Vigilante, GTA’s version of the Batmobile, pictured at the top. It’s not cheap—it’ll set you back $3,750,000, which is just over £31/$40 worth of Shark Cards in real money. It’s a real willpower test for those of us who really like Batman, though.

As you might have noticed, Destiny 2 landed on PC earlier this week. And if you’ve enjoyed the guides and tips we’ve since posted, you might like to know the latest location of travelling arms vendor Xur. This week, he’s camped in a cave near the Giant’s Scar fast travel point on Io. Our sister site GamesRadar put together the following video that shows exactly where Xur’s hiding out this week. Until then, check out our review-in-progress where Tom bills it one of the most beautiful, satisfying

Earlier this year, online survival shooter Survarium dropped its update 0.47. Update 0.50 has now dropped, adding fully-functioning PvE for the first time by way of a new story mission. To complete the PvE mission, players will need a squad of three: they can invite their friends, or use the selection of random partners.” The developer adds: “When playing a mission, you must complete a series of tasks and ultimately reach a control point. Survarium’s update 0.50 is out now—more information can b

Last year, Andy reported on the return of Battlefield 2142 via its fan-made Revive project. The Revive Network project came in the wake of Gamespy’s 2014 closure, with the aim of making Battlefield 2142 et al playable online free-of-charge. The Revive Network team has however now posted the following statement:We will get right to the point: Electronic Arts Inc.’ legal team has contacted us and nicely asked us to stop distributing and using their intellectual property. Only a few months ago, we

With Destiny 2 finally out on the PC and looking pretty fantastic, Bungie has put up a blog post and developers update video looking ahead to the future of the game. “We’ve been playing the game in the wild for seven weeks, and like the Destiny experiences that have come before, we’re always thinking about where the game is heading next,” game director Christopher Barrett said. Barret said Bungie is currently focused on:New systems and rewards to give our most engaged players additional, optiona

In a developer update today, Overwatch game director Jeff Kaplan unveiled plans to improve the Overwatch viewing experience. A new “third-person smart camera” will be implemented when viewing matches in third-person mode, which will smooth out the camera and smartly follow the action. Similarly, broadcasters will be able to quickly replay moments from multiple camera angles and time scaling. This should translate to viewers at home in the form of “awesome instant replay moments framed up in cine

In lieu of bigger numbers, they reckon the genre could use a shot of good old-fashioned role-playing, and they intend to give it one with Soulblight, a top-down roguelike that’s fundamentally about writing and playing a character. At the time of writing, its campaign has earned $US3,311 and will run for another 30 days. To translate role-playing into roguelike form, Soulblight uses a ‘tainting’ mechanic. When you clear a level of the Sanctuary, the procedurally generated main dungeon, you select

Just two months after Overwatch’s massive launch, Blizzard acknowledged that its game had a toxicity problem. Yet it’s these marginalized players who are most hurt by Blizzard’s failure to stem the flow of bad behavior within its game. Learning from LeagueLuckily, Blizzard doesn’t have to start from scratch—several other games have made inroads in dealing with toxic players. Moreover, in one experiment it took 50 games’ worth of toxic behavior and two days for a chat suspension to be implemented

Skelattack is not about the many brave adventurers plundering a dungeon’s depths. It’s about Skully, an enchanted skeleton who doesn’t want adventurers poking around his dungeon. It’s a fittingly spooky 2D platformer with an anti-hero twist, and you can try it for yourself via the free demo available on GameJolt. Skully sports the double-jump and wall-slide you’d expect from a platformer protagonist, and his abilities hint at light RPG elements. And if you’re in the market for skeleton heroes, h

Despite being the one race in the galaxy that was actually accustomed to living their lives aboard spaceships, the quarians were not included in Mass Effect: Andromeda. “This official tie-in novel chronicles the journey of the Keelah Si’yah as it carries 20,000 drell, elcor, batarian, and quarian colonists to Andromeda,” BioWare said. As the pathogen jumps species, the ship’s systems begin to fail, making it clear this is no accident.” The Keelah Si’yah, according to the Mass Effect Wiki, depart

Steam and GOG aren’t the only digital storefront with Halloween sales on the go. The Humble Store has one of its own underway too, and for the first two days it’s giving a free copy of the steampunk airship combat game Guns of Icarus Online to anyone who shows up. To get it, head to the appropriate Humble Store page, click “Add to Cart,” and then make for the checkout. But why settle for just the free stuff? As always, a few ideas for your consideration:The Humble Haunted Halloween Sale is live

From the pastel portraits of its doe-eyed schoolgirls to the gentle melodies of its playful soundtrack, every aspect of Team Salvato’s Doki Doki Literature Club! Doki Doki Literature Club! Doki Doki takes great care to treat issues like depression and anxiety with more tact and delicacy than its apparent inspirations, like the infamous School Days . By comparison, Doki Doki leaves bloody bodies in its wake, and it’s all the more potent for it. Like Undertale before it, Doki Doki Literature Club!

Digital Extremes, the developer behind the massive free-to-play hit Warframe, has announced that it is halting development on its new shooter The Amazing Eternals. That’s all for aught now, as Digital Extremes appears to be canning the project in its current incarnation for the time being. However, we took an honest look at the current gaming landscape and how the game was performing in Closed Beta. Unfortunately, the game wasn’t attracting players fast enough to support a viable matchmaking pla

PC Building Simulator, a game about building a PC from scratch that was developed by an 18-year-old student in Romania, is growing up fast. “3DMark has been a key part of the PC builder’s toolkit for almost 20 years now. Millions of gamers, overclockers, and system builders have used Futuremark benchmarks to test and compare PC performance,””said Jani joki, Commercial Director at Futuremark. “We are thrilled to be working with The Irregular Corporation to help create an authentic, accurate and r

With Call of Duty: WWII just over a week away, preloading is now available on Steam and Sledgehammer has released the finalized system requirements, along with a rundown of what’s changed since the month-ago public beta. “As we mentioned during the Beta, we believe this will further ensure an optimal gameplay experience natively for PC players,” Sledgehammer said. It also warned that cheaters will have a rougher go of it with the full game than they did in the beta. “As previously posted, for th

Orc: Pâsh Flame of WarReader: John WatersPâsh has been a thorn in my side since before Minas Ithil fell. A while later he ambushed me sporting a new helmet. This time Pâsh came back almost immediately, renamed The Flame of War and sporting burns that made him look like he’s still smoldering. Pâsh must have caught wind of me checking out the place, because he followed me to the new zone and ambushed me. To rob me of any joy of getting my revenge on him, he’s made my vengeance require hours of act

Nemsy Necrofizzle, as Tim explained earlier this month, is a new Warlock-class Hearthstone skin that Blizzard is offering exclusively to participants of Fireside Gatherings, the fan meet-up events that bring players together for some face-to-face card-throwing. “With the surge of interest in Fireside Gatherings and Taverns, we’ve seen a rise in events created with inappropriate, false, or misleading information. “As a result, we’ll be dedicating additional resources towards vetting and reviewing

Extremely important news update from Assassin’s Creed: Origins. You can pet kitty cats. A few times while loitering in small towns, I noticed that the local cats would eventually wander over to take a look at me. And, there’s a way to pet them. For more about Assassin’s Creed: Origins, here’s my review in progress (which I’ll get back to once I’ve gotten tired of playing with cats) and a guide to unlocking the game’s best skill.