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Alan Wake 2 is out in the wild, as the 13-year wait for the follow-up to the thriller story of a writer who brings his stories to life is finally over. The psychological horror game is being published by Epic Games, and one developer at Remedy says that the team was wholly supported in its vision for the sequel by Epic, which has certainly paid off more than enough already.

The iRobot Roomba Combo j7+ is the top 2-in-1 pick in our guide to the best robot vacuums, as it adds a retractable mop for cleaning hard floors onto a powerful robovac for carpets and other surfaces. It's expensive at its usual list price of $1,000, but right now you can get it for $699 at Wellbots. Just use the code ENGROOMBA300 at checkout. While that's still far from cheap, it does mark the largest discount we've tracked. The Roomba Combo j7+ is undoubtedly a luxury purchase, but we found it...

Things are suddenly very busy in the Apple news world, with another Apple event suddenly thrust upon us amidst tons of back-and-forth rumors. This week also saw lots of news on the software front with the public release of iOS 17.1, macOS 14.1, watchOS 10.1, and other updates, plus the first betas of the next round of updates led by iOS 17.2 with a number of additions and changes. Apple's services were also in the news this week due to major price increases, so read on below for all the details ...

Close out spooky season with these great movies.

Marvelous is showing off its upcoming fashion influencer simulator Fashion Dreamer with a brand new music video featuring a collaboration with Nanawo Akari.

Finnish clothing company Makia has teamed with Remedy to release a line of high-end unisex streetwear inspired by Alan Wake 2. To celebrate the release of Remedy's highly-anticipated sequel, the "Cult Collection" of clothing "tells stories from darkness" and features jackets, sweatshirts, tees, and a cap. "The unisex streetwear collection draws inspiration from the nightmarish world of Alan Wake and the enigmatic Cult of Tree featured in the sequel," the team explains on the official website. "C...

Nothing feels better in Diablo 4 than hitting those big, screen-clearing numbers. Whatever class you play, whatever build you favor, finding the combination of skills, items, and paragon nodes that pop off just right is a feeling of unmatched satisfaction. There’s good news for all us Diablo IV players today, then, as Blizzard gives us the Diablo 4 patch 1.2.1 release date and details, which should make it easier than ever before to hit max DPS in the RPG.

Microsoft and third-party developers shared news about Microsoft Flight Simulator and new upcoming add-ons, while some have been released. 

South Park has acted faster than I expected, already adding a Baldur’s Gate 3 joke to the newest episode of the long-running cartoon. This has prompted an official response from BG3 developer Larian Studios though (no, I’m not joking), as the clip that’s making the rounds gets something wrong about the game.

Apple's upcoming "Scary Fast" event takes place on October 30 (or 31, depending where you are) when it is expected to unveil new 14-inch and 16-inch MacBook Pro models, and a new 24-inch iMac. It may also make some additional new products available, but there are a handful of rumored upcoming devices that we don't expect to make an appearance this month. To help set expectations ahead of Apple's October event, we've compiled a list of products that Apple is unlikely to announce during "Scary Fas...

The first Ghostrunner 2 update is already here on Steam and Epic, bringing some very welcome improvements to the pulse-pounding first-person platforming action game. If you’ve been bounding through the streets of Dharma City to its gorgeous synthwave soundtrack, but found your experience unfortunately impeded by enemies not appearing or other inconveniences such as FOV issues or being unable to keybind abilities correctly, then you may be in luck.

After the Total War Warhammer 3 community joined forces to voice concern over the increased pricing of the fantasy strategy game’s DLC with Shadows of Change, developer Creative Assembly has issued a statement on Steam forum moderation about removing community members who “come here to be disruptive.” This includes “doomsaying, calls for boycotts, or spreading misinformation,” months after some of the community called for boycotts after the DLC price increase.

Wa-hooing into the weekend. The weekend and a new edition of What Are You Playing, name a more iconic duo. This week, we asked you what's your favourite version of Super Mario Bros. 3 in honour of its 35th anniversary, a group of us NL writers had a good old natter about Super Mario Bros. Wonder, we chewed over the most difficult Mario games and we jumped for joy as Mario Party 3 was finally added to NSO. It's a lot of Mario, yes, but can you blame us?

Spider-Man games are skateboarding games, at least in spirit. As you make your way through the concrete jungle of New York, moving from mission to mission, you’re forced to recontextualize the mundane. A flagpole becomes a shining launch point, a skyscraper flips onto its side to become a flat surface used to reach up higher and higher. In many ways, skateboarding also encourages this new way of seeing the world around you. Out of the drab and often grey environments of modern cities suddenly sp...

Need some games for the weekend again? Well Humble's WB: 100 Play the Legends bundle really does look like a really good deal filled with some great games. Here's the Steam Deck and desktop Linux compatibility.

Wordle today: The solution and a hint for Saturday's puzzle.

Gotega, too. After a recent teaser, Bandai Namco has now lifted the lid on Season 4 of Dragon Ball: The Breakers, arriving 1st November. As many fans guessed, the new raider joining the battle is Broly (available with TP Tokens). It doesn't end there, either. In addition to this are new survivor skins including Cheelai, Lemo, Bulma (Snow Gear) and Mr. Satan. This skin is available via Dragon Tier and the rest will be unlockable with TP Tokens. In the trailer above you can also spot a Gogeta came...

Scheduled to take place next month. Following on from the premiere of multiple Level-5 premieres in September, today marks the 25th anniversary of the Japanese publisher and developer known for series like Professor Layton, Yo-kai Watch, and Inazuma Eleven. As part of this celebration, it's apparently planning to reveal "release dates" for various upcoming titles at some point next month in November, so be on the lookout for this. Level-5's CEO Akihiro Hino has also shared a colourful anniversar...

The SNES and racer is making a comeback!

Developer Shift Up announced the celebrations for the first anniversary of the popular mobile game Goddess of Victory: Nikke, which will happen on November 4. 

For both the physical and digital versions of the game!

A South Park gag about Baldur's Gate 3 cross-saves earns it a talking-to from the developer.

‘I cannot in good conscience ship this stock’.

It's expected to include Mario Kart 8 Deluxe. As we get closer to the holiday season, new reports are emerging about the Switch bundle Nintendo will be offering. Although it's another Mario Kart 8 Deluxe deal, this year it will supposedly replace the original system with an OLED model. The source of this information is Dealabs, with additional details mentioning how this bundle will include a standard Switch OLED console (neon red/neon blue). So, don't get your hopes up for a special edition uni...

I wish The Finals didn't take itself so seriously.

Cities: Skylines 2, launches with relevant performance issues that have marred the experience for a number of early adopters on PC, but Colossal Order isn't staying idle.

Turnip Boy Commits Tax Evasion is the good kind of distraction: a silly, finite, Zeldalike in which you rollick around a pixel art pasture and tick off todo list items by bish-boshing enemies and assisting vegetables. Alice B called it the funniest game she'd ever played. This is an advanced heads-up that it'll be free to keep from the Epic Games Store from November 2nd.

Since Insomanic revealed its Wolverine game two years ago, fans have wondered if it’s set in the same universe as the studio’s Spider-Man games. In an interview with Kinda Funny, Spider-Man 2 director Bryan Intihar confirmed the answer is yes When host Greg Miller asked if it had been previously confirmed or denied whether or not their spin on Wolverine shared the same Earth as its Spider-Men, Intihar replied by saying, “They’re all 1048. I think I got that right, but yeah.” Inthiar is referring...

With just over a week to go until this year's BlizzCon - the show's first in-person event since 2019 - Blizzard has shared a full broadcast schedule detailing everything that'll be available to watch online as the two-day convention unfolds. This year's BlizzCon, which is being held at California's Anaheim Convention Center, runs from Saturday, 3rd November to Sunday, 4th November; all panels due to take place at the BlizzCon Arena during that time will be streamed in their entirety via YouTube ...

Remedy has two paid expansions coming to Alan Wake 2, and one of them has a very familiar ring.

It’s much more of a horror game than Control or the first Alan Wake.

Spooky season starts to close out with a bunch of new horror movies to watch at home.

Fortnite's original map is coming back, Epic have confirmed. The news was announced via X (formerly Twitter) weeks after several leaks had suggested that time travel shenanigans would revert the free-to-play shooter's map back to its original Chapter 1 layout.

Free-to-play battle royale shooter Apex Legends is finally introducing cross-progression as part of its 19th season, and ahead of its arrival next Tuesday, 31st October, developer Respawn Entertainment has detailed how the whole thing'll work. Cross-progression, once launched, will enable players to access their progression data, cosmetics, and currency via a single EA account across all platforms. Crucially, the cross-progression migration process is both automatic and mandatory, meaning there'...

A new option in Signalis lets you skip its tedious inventory management.