Halloween's over but you can still scare yourself witless with this VR recreation of Amnesia

Black Friday is over! Or is it? Was Black Friday ever truly just a day? Was it a weekend? Or is it even perhaps a state of mind. No, it's definitely that first one. The good news is that even though the darkest of retail days has come to pass, there are still plenty of deals available throughout the weekend and on into Cyber Monday. In fact, most of our favorite deals haven't budged an inch. 

"Yes, you can play Doom on my earrings," is a real tweet from completely serious streamer and self-taught developer Alina Matson. There's even a video to prove the claim.

There's just something special about the hectic nature of real-time strategy games like or the high level of tactics required to win a grand strategy game like that other video game genres can't replicate. Highly cerebral, PC strategy games span various genres, some of which can require split-second reactions while others are more of a slow burn.

Earlier this year, LinkedIn, a professional networking platform, introduced several AI tools that were integrated into the platform and could be used for specific tasks. These features were added to the premium and business versions of the platform. On the business side, AI tools on LinkedIn Recruiter are specifically helpful as they can assist employers and recruiters in not only finding the right candidates easily but also engaging them more effectively, so they never feel uncertain. As a result, these tools can boost the entire hiring process and allow businesses to find the right talent at a swift pace. Let us take a look at these tools.

is filled to the brim with witty references to its source material,. This fact shines through perhaps no better than with the game's list of unique instruments. Though many may not ever come to experiment with the lutes or flutes one can pick up along their journey, they are a fun little activity that bards can do whenever there's a little downtime.

Modern Warfare 3 has a promotional 'camo' skin, and it's the furthest thing possible from camouflage. Every time I think I'm over microtransactions—every time a new horse armour contender comes along—something hits my dome out of left-field like a high calibre sniper rifle and I'm left wondering: 'how did we get here?'

Here's how you can pet a dog and score an achievement in MWZ.

Activision's rollout of the new «Call of Duty HQ» launcher has been anything but elegant. The HQ, which is really just a rebranded frontend for a single CoD game, is the only way to launch the new Modern Warfare 3, and until yesterday, that process was a real slog. To play MW3, you had to first launch the CoD HQ, then click MW3, then return to the desktop, then wait for the actual game you wanted to play to boot.

Like many in my millennial age cohort, I've got a sickening nostalgic obsession with clear plastic electronics: Game Boys, OG MacBooks, Discmen. It's god's own design language, I tell you, not just rosy memories of the late '90s and early aughts! No doubt taking note of the many aftermarket solutions for giving the Steam Deck a clear plastic makeover, Valve's gone ahead and made its own, official version.

For this week's instalment of 'did you know you can play a game on that', I present to you the humble oscilloscope. The voltage graphing instrument used to chart electrical signals over time may sound like the worst way to spend a Friday night but 1) it's pretty neat, actually, you could learn something, and 2) some older models have Tetris built-in.

There was a lot of World of Warcraft news to unpack at BlizzCon 2023. Developer Blizzard Entertainment unveiled the Worldsoul Saga, a seismic story that will unfold over three expansions – beginning with The War Within in 2024. With a new region to explore, hero talents to unlock, and plenty more besides, it's proving difficult for individual features to break out over the noise. Well, besides the introduction of Delves, that is. 

Io games are increasingly popular, to the point that you’ve probably heard of at least one, even if you didn’t realize it. Beginning back in 2015, io games made a huge debut and were some of the most popular titles on the market all the way through 2018, with even PewDiePie once declaring an io game to be his “new favorite game.” Now that’s some popularity.