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- November 10
- November 9
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- Five new Steam games you probably missed (November 10, 2025)
- I've already been getting my hopes up for The Expanse game from RPG factory Owlcat, and its main theme just skewered my Mass Effect-loving lizard brain
- This mad lad got Battlefield 6 to run on a 12-year-old AMD CPU, circumventing its stated anti-cheat requirements
- Before Titan Quest 2 gets a permanent price hike, you can grab the rare singleplayer-friendly Diablo-like on sale
- Mick Gordon is asking 'how heavy can we get it?' in his first full game soundtrack since Doom Eternal: 'I'm really exploring the extremes of distortion with this project'
- Microsoft Flight Simulator isn't just for nerdy dads anymore: Boeing will start using its tech to train actual pilots
- Minecraft cosplays have come a long way since I started playing over a decade ago, and this year has shown the most creativity I've seen yet
- The best playable game documentary on Steam is getting a Namco-centric DLC this week, including the worst version of Pac-Man
- Debate: Which Grand Theft Auto radio station has the best tunes?
- Battlestar Galactica Deadlock, one of the PC's best spaceship strategy games, 'will no longer be available for purchase on any platform' as of next week
- No Man's Sky is rerunning all of its expeditions from 2025, while also giving players another chance to add Mass Effect's Normandy to their spaceship collection
- Terminator 2D: No Fate has been pushed back a second time, as its publisher scrambles to assemble physical copies after tariff-induced shipping woes: 'We are sincerely sorry for the repeated delays'
- Rust doubles down on its 'controversial' meta changes by wiping everyone's crafting blueprints to 'bring back that sense of discovery', and it might become a regular thing
- Why I love driving around oddball Japan in Promise Mascot Agency
- This point-and-click horror adventure where you play a boy with a lightbulb for a head is currently free to keep on Steam
- Fresh from Space Marine 2, Titus gets promoted to captain in a slick animation that blesses an ad for toy soldiers with all the gravitas of a new Dune movie
- November 8
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- Stalker dev GSC Game World DMCA'd a Stalker-inspired indie off Steam, and the devs are crying foul: 'This is an abuse of power against small independent developers by a large corporation'
- FromSoftware's parent company let it slip that we'll get Elden Ring Nightreign DLC by March at the latest
- To the rapidly aging person reading this: GameFAQs is 30 years old, and people are sharing their memories of the venerable guide hub
- Blue Prince developer announces 'a plea for help': one of the game's lead playtesters 'has only a few months to find a living kidney donor'
- 'The human body is equivalent in mass to 50,000 crickets': In city builder Generation Exile, humanity's last hope for sustenance is cricket mush
- How a former NASA employee became the world's foremost author of videogame cookbooks: 'It can't look like you're eating a Pokémon'
- Arc Raiders briefly overtakes Battlefield 6's concurrent player count on Steam as it proves to be one of the hottest PC games this fall
- NetEase racks up its third studio casualty in one week, kneecapping dev working on a Warhammer MMO: 'Devastated doesn't even begin to cover it'
- Finally, Arc Raiders is the extraction shooter for people with jobs, and it's all the better for it
- You use Steam every day, but how well do you really know it? Our latest quiz tests you on everything from long-lost features to surprise free game releases to the most expensive thing ever sold on the storefront
- The weirdest FPS of the decade just got a free, standalone PvP mode that's a blast if you can keep your lunch down
- After Helldivers 2 stole its thunder, Starship Troopers: Extermination is now cribbing from Arrowhead's worksheet by adding airstrikes in its next update
- The roguelike's unstoppable conquest of gaming continues with Age of Empires 4's latest DLC, and players declare the invasion successful: 'It may be my new favourite way to play'
- Underrated avian action adventure The Falconeer just got a free remaster that overhauls 'literally everything' about it: 'I hope and pray this remaster shows the dedication I have for my games'
- 'Roblox must do more to protect kids from sick and twisted freaks,' Texas attorney general says as he sues Roblox 'for putting pixel pedophiles and profits' ahead of safety
- My return to Rust is going well, other than my freakish Guns N' Roses-loving neighbor shooting me every time I try to hang string lights on my roof
- OG Fallout artist Leonard Boyarsky says The Outer Worlds 2 almost had its own 'old school Obsidian' evil ending, but it took too much effort for too little payoff: 'I love making these types of games, but it is very stressful'
- My new favorite deep Windows lore: Microsoft once broke its Bluetooth driver code by sticking a ® symbol in the name of its own mouse
- November 7
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- Steam's wider store pages are now live, and Valve says it tested them on 'a tiny old iPod' to make sure they'd still work on narrower screens
- Halo Infinite is entering maintenance mode: 'With multiple Halo titles in development, we'll need our whole team's combined focus'
- The Mass Effect TV series will 'explore a brand-new story within the universe’s timeline,' BioWare exec says: 'It won’t be a retread of Commander Shepard's story'
- A new Arc Raiders update just fixed a bug where an otherwise underwhelming item could glitch you through walls, so I guess it's back to being underwhelming
- Mass Effect boss Mike Gamble slips a hidden message into his N7 Day update, asks fans to stop yelling at him for not sharing more info about the new game
- Attention parents of Roblox kids: I regret to inform you they are making a Grow a Garden movie
- World of Warcraft: Legion Remix players discover infinite power farm that's so broken it's lagging the servers
- The life sim revolution was supposed to happen this year but it completely evaporated
- Larian publishing director balks at Square Enix's push to replace QA workers with AI: 'The idea that QA people can be replaced at a large scale is stupid … They are a massively advantageous vibe check'
- One techie has built a camera out of an old Logitech gaming mouse, and it's inspired by the Game Boy Camera
- 'Once gamers try it, they won’t want to go back': The curse of wonky high-FOV graphics may be a thing of the past with this single plugin
- Marvel 1943: Rise of Hydra has been delayed again, and it no longer has a clear release window: 'The team is working hard to create something truly special'
- Palworld community manager points to a new problem with GTA 6's delay: 'Expect to see many games swerve to avoid the 2027 awards season'
- There's a bug in Arc Raiders that's causing the sound to drop out for some players—here's how to fix it
- Surviving Mars: Relaunched is a solid but inessential remaster for one of the best city builders around, but I'm extremely excited about what comes next
- Take-Two's big boss Strauss Zelnick says it got the 'perfect result' from slimmed-down mob tale Mafia: The Old Country, so I'd brace for more games like that if I were you
- 23 years later, Morrowind on controller and Steam Deck just got a million times better: The latest version of OpenMW is out now
- Windows 'really does suck for some people': Ex Microsoft engineer Dave Plummer explains how he would fix the popular OS
- Right, that's it, I've already had enough of Arc Raiders' terrifying tumbleweeds
- Logitech MX Master 4 review
- The memory price crisis has foiled my penny pinching patience and made me regret not upgrading my gaming PC sooner
- How to complete Greasing Her Palms in Arc Raiders
- My favorite 1080p webcam is now at the lowest price it's ever been, at only $105
- 'This is cool and everything, but don't do it.' Sage advice for anyone hoping to copy the success of one Redditor's attempt at using Nvidia's $4,000 DGX Spark AI box to play Cyberpunk 2077
- If you think 2025 couldn't get worse, Collins Dictionary awards 'vibe coding' the word of the year
- CD Projekt Red tells Rockstar not to make the same mistake it did—posts a self-burn over Cyberpunk 2077's historically bad launch to support GTA 6's delay
- Arc Raiders players are finally revolting over expensive skin prices: 'How are you gonna just shrug at $25 skin bundles in a $40 game?'
- PC repair shop discovers Corsair is selling Intel 14th Gen gaming rigs without all of the instability and voltage fixes, and there's no way around the problem
- OpenAI's Sam Altman is not looking for government rescue if things go bad: 'Taxpayers should not bail out companies that make bad business decisions'
- Arc Raiders clears up the mystery of Trials, explaining the challenges are unfortunately harder than they first appear: 'Here's the 101'
- I love Scrappy, but charging $10 for a new hat on a glorified menu in Arc Raiders doesn't sit right
- The objectively 13th best game you can play right now is free to play until November 10, so you're officially out of excuses buddy
- Gigabyte Aero X16
- How to complete Market Correction in Arc Raiders
- Borderlands 4's sales were 'a little softer than we would've liked' due to PC performance issues, says Take-Two CEO, but he's confident it'll have a long tail
- A rumour that Nvidia will cancel the RTX 50 Super cards because of RAM is almost certainly nonsense but everything won't be fine, either
- Where to find toasters in Arc Raiders
- Creative Assembly has revealed unique mechanics for the armies in Total War: Warhammer 3's Tides of Torment DLC, and their unit rosters too
- Don't sleep on the new solarpunk colony sim from devs behind Firewatch, Mini Motorways, Gone Home and more
- Despite another big delay, Devolver is still hell-bent on releasing a game on the same day as Grand Theft Auto 6: 'you can't escape us'
- November 6
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- Get ready to do the Silksong release date shuffle all over again: GTA 6's delay just blew up the whole game industry's holiday 2026 plans
- Well, PC gamers, time to make peace with the fact that we probably won't be playing GTA 6 until, like, 2028 unless we cave in and buy the console version
- Blizzard's reason for adding premium currency to World of Warcraft after 21 years of doing just fine without one has everyone worried about player housing
- It took a staggering 28 days, but DICE has finally disabled the bugged lock-on missile that broke Battlefield 6
- Take-Two boss says 'we've never regretted' delaying a game following the Grand Theft Auto 6 pushback, says other studios might have better luck if they did the same thing once in a while
- Even in early access, Tavern Keeper already feels like the fantasy pub sim of my dreams
- I just learned that before the internet, 'online' actually meant 'offline' and it's turned my world upside down
- Square Enix aims to have AI doing 70% of its QA work by the end of 2027, which seems like it'd be hard to achieve without laying off most of your QA workers
- Grand Theft Auto 6 delayed to November 2026: 'These extra months will allow us to finish the game with the level of polish you have come to expect and deserve'
- Things are so bad for Payday 3 at this point, even Crime Boss: Rockay City is making fun of it
- NetEase closes a fifth Western studio: Just two years after it was founded, Bad Brain Game Studios will shut down for good next week
- Netflix is reportedly turning the best cooking game, Overcooked, into a reality competition, and if it doesn't get Nicole Byer from Nailed It! to host, I will riot
- 'I briefly burst into tears': After 11 years of work, the dev of this fantasy sim is 'elated and grateful' to reach Overwhelmingly Positive reviews on Steam only 3 days after launch
- Is this puny Arm-powered PC with a desktop graphics card slot a glimpse of the future of gaming?
- The age of beige is back! SilverStone's new case is a glorious nod to PCs of the 1980s and 90s
- Rockstar co-founder Dan Houser wanted to kill Niko Bellic at the end of GTA 4, and only stayed his hand because the studio was 'Full of fear' and the game didn't quite work with it
- No more hiding the impact of AI: The US government is looking to force companies to report how many folks have been fired because of artificial intelligence
- How to complete A Reveal in Ruins in Arc Raiders
- I'm sorry to break the bad news, but you need to gather a truly massive amount of items and hundreds more in donations before you can reset your skill tree in Arc Raiders
- Ubisoft CEO claims it just stopped feeding the trolls when it came to Assassin's Creed: Shadows, which 'very quickly eliminated the fights, which were just fake fights'
- I think this $23 Amazon Basics USB desktop microphone should make more expensive models a little nervous
- PewDiePie creates an AI council, appoints himself supreme leader, and wipes out members who underperform—only for his 'councillors' to collude against him
- Arc Raiders' latest update will finally add the best and most terrifying map condition: 'Prepare yourself for the weekend'
- Now just $480, the GeForce RTX 5070 is not only well under its MSRP but it's also the best GPU around for the money
- This bizarre but apparently usable RTX 5080 skateboard mod is kinda cool but surely if you wanted a mobile GPU there's a better way
- 'All you had to do was follow the damn law, Rockstar!': Workers are protesting outside Take-Two after GTA 6 dev's alleged 'brazen' union-busting
- I'm not here to make friends: I will fill you with bullets if I see you in Arc Raiders
- Rockstar co-founder says he's 'less scared than a lot of people' of AI: 'If you use it to try and substitute for creativity, it's going to be really generic'
- WoW's game director says they don't want combat AddOns to do anything the base UI doesn't: 'The overarching goal of the changes in Midnight is to level the playing field'
- Peak's new update added a ridiculously powerful enemy which was swiftly nerfed after being labelled 'too much of a constant run-ender'
- Great, now even malware is using LLMs to rewrite its code, says Google, as it documents new phase of 'AI abuse'
- You can watch RAM prices going up almost in real-time on Amazon and it's only likely to get worse
- How to unlock the Applied Esoterica badge in Peak
- Marvel Rivals subtly teases the arrival of two X-Men in the background image of the latest patch notes
- How to get the Competitive Eating badge in Peak
- How to get the Cryptogastronomy badge in Peak
- Arc Raiders review
- PC Gamer magazine's new issue is on sale now: Heroes of Might and Magic: Olden Era
- In a true nightmare scenario, this anticipated indie has been delayed only hours before launch for a 'boring and frustrating' reason
- Ball x Pit just got a Bug x Fix and all the icons in the encyclopedia are full-color now
- Rockstar says the employees it fired were leaking information, but it's not going to escape union busting accusations that easily
- November 5
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- Jennifer Hale did not see KOTOR's twist coming: 'Knights of the Old Republic really showed me the level of writing, storytelling, and surprise that was possible in games'
- Microsoft was apparently so embarrassed by Windows 98's infamous on-stage Blue Screen of Death it built a new testing room on campus to ensure it would never happen again
- Firefighters don't actually use the 'fireman's carry' anymore, and other things I've learned from the Steam reviews for simulator games
- Battlefield 6 lead producer comes back from vacation and immediately addresses a storm of feedback: 'Need to go action on a bunch of this now'
- Battlefield 6 players says they got banned from Steam forums for sharing a config tweak that lets PC players disable crossplay, and yes, PC players can disable crossplay
- Plants vs. Zombies: Replanted patch brings back the dynamic audio so many players were missing from the original game
- 'You can have the loot. My reward is justice': Arc Raiders players are appointing themselves Topside Sheriffs to dispense vigilante vengeance on raiders who don't play nice
- Sorry, Fallout fans, but Obsidian isn't really interested in making New Vegas 2: After years of working on other people's games, the studio is finding 'joy' in doing its own thing
- Discord is preparing to sell you skins for your favorite games now that it's monetized just about everything else it can
- 6 years after the original, Planet Zoo 2 is finally happening and may be out next year
- Do the titles of these games contain a colon, a dash, both, or neither? Test your punctuational prowess in our latest quiz!
- An extremely distracting horse forced Koei Tecmo to crop a game's box art before release, artist says: 'People's eyes were drawn to the horse rather than the character'
- One of the biggest streamers on Twitch is trying to take Asmongold and Emiru to court over defamation claims
- Veteran game developer Scott Miller explains why it took 3D Realms so long to get PC gaming's most ambitious but ultimately flawed sci-fi FPS game over the line: 'Let's just put all our eggs into the Duke Nukem basket'
- OneXPlayer's new OneXFly Apex uber handheld gaming PC starts at a ridiculous $1,599 when powered by AMD's top Strix Halo APU and goes all the way to $2,299
- Our national nightmare is over: Battlefield 6 challenges just got 100 times easier
- Now we've had Doom in space, it seems that data centers and even chip foundries might be next in line to orbit the Earth
- How to complete A Lay of the Land in Arc Raiders
- This 1080p 100 Hz gaming monitor for $70 would make for a rock solid second screen on a budget
- Counter-Strike 2 has a fancy new feature that makes demo playbacks 'match the player's original experience much more closely'
- This week, Blizzcon 2026 tickets go on sale almost a year in advance—so what exactly is Blizzard going to bring?
- Revenge of the Savage Planet director isn't happy with the sequel's revenue, despite it bringing in millions of players on Xbox Game Pass: 'If you give stuff for free, what you've done is told people not to pay for it'
- 'I was single and miserable': Rockstar co-founder Dan Houser admits that his life in New York is why GTA 4's story was so dark
- Rockstar co-founder moved to New York to help create GTA, in part, because he got chased by a guy with a machete: 'I thought—this is not good—and I ran off'
- That guy from The Big Short movie who correctly predicted the World Financial Crisis has just placed a billion-dollar bet against Nvidia (and AI specialist Palantir)
- YouTuber salvages 500 disposable vapes to not only power his gaming PC, but take his entire house and workshop off-grid
- Most of Arc Raiders' Mobility skills don't work how you think they do, so I guess it's time to start building your Expedition caravan to respec
- Amazon threatens legal action against Perplexity over claims of 'illegal conduct' and it's all because of an AI shopping agent
- Kingdom Come: Deliverance lead says Obsidian should use its Microsoft fortune to make games more like Kingdom Come: Deliverance—'Give me something more than... level grinding in a static scripted world'
- New World proved that the hunger for a modern MMO is clearly there—but the only studios with enough cash to make them are too shareholder-brained to try
- This new leaked AMD Strix Halo variant could be the ultimate chip for handheld gaming PCs
- Football Manager 26 launches straight into a relegation battle as Steam reviews plummet to Mostly Negative: 'Been playing since 1993 and this is the worst one'
- Raising a digital digit to Nvidia, China reportedly set to ban foreign-made AI chips from state-funded data centers
- Electronics researchers have developed a new way to stack transistors in a die, to keep Moore's law alive for as long as possible
- EA's bug-blasting mission in The Sims 4 continues, with its latest patch preventing Sims from WooHoo-ing in broken steam rooms and rampaging werewolves from getting distracted by Tiktok
- Bethesda just can't help itself: It's gearing up to break some Fallout 4 mods one last time for the road—but at least it's just the main menu ones this time
- AMD posts record profits but it's not just all about endless chips for generating AI slop, gaming CPU and GPU sales are booming, too
- Final Fantasy 14's voice actor for beloved catboy G'raha Tia gets crowned sexiest man alive, entirely vindicating my taste in fictional men
- Warhammer's ridiculous new Christmas merch lets you dedicate your tree to the Chaos gods with a set of evil baubles
- Minecraft's DLC crossovers never fail to impress me, and the new Dragon Ball Z collab changes the experience entirely
- Ex Microsoft engineer Dave Plummer says 'SD cards are lame!' and opts to rescue a 200 lb 14-inch magnetic disc drive from the '80s with just 622 MB of storage
- Apple's new web store looks all spiffy, but its devs forgot to do something kinda important: Disable the sourcemaps
- Victrix Pro BFG Reloaded review
- Arc Raiders finally addresses the worst part of winning in an extraction shooter: sorting your inventory
- Tiny PS5 build reduces size of original console by 60%, making it look like a mini PC while slashing its power draw and temps too
- MindsEye loses its free-roam mode, gains a dodge roll, and rebrands itself as 'Powered by Arcadia' whatever that means
- 'In a true RPG, you need to think about what is happening': RPGs have been coddling us, says Outer Worlds 2 director, who's glad to see games like Baldur's Gate 3 let players make mistakes
- Blizzard doesn't intend to rework Diablo 4 over and over again, but it also doesn't want to leave behind 'stuff that no one wants or cares about'
- November 4
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- If you don't already own XCOM 2 or Midnight Suns for some reason, they're part of a big Firaxis Steam sale right now along with a bunch of other strategy greats
- This is where I found the Anvil blueprint in Arc Raiders
- Finally! The Steam Deck can now download games in a new 'display-off, low-power' mode before automatically going to sleep
- Telltale-style adventures are back: Dispatch has sold more than a million copies in 10 days
- Rockstar co-founder Dan Houser says there's a reason the Grand Theft Auto games are always set in US cities: 'Guns'
- Bend fire and lightning with Avatar's Azula in Magic: The Gathering
- The tech industry came for Steam and whiffed so hard that it's had to admit that it didn't even really like making games in the first place
- My favorite genre of Arc Raiders videos so far is people discovering why Leapers are called that
- Balatro's new merch is just as unhinged as we've come to expect
- Director Paul WS Anderson says you can blame Metal Gear Solid for the Monster Hunter movie, because juxtaposing machine guns and monsters is simply 'great imagery'
- One of the studios NetEase killed earlier this year is back from the dead as an 'independent production company,' but its original boss is nowhere to be seen
- World of Warcraft director says it's not getting easier in Midnight because it's coming to consoles: 'There's no reason for us to hide anything about this'
- The Séance of Blake Manor review
- I think I've found the best early loot spot in Arc Raiders and nobody seems to know about it
- Lord of the Rings Online player accurately recreates Frodo's journey to Mount Doom in 10-hour YouTube video: 'When I saw how perfectly the game followed Tolkien's imagination, I decided to do it properly'
- 'The return of baby driver': The Dwarf Fortress Siege Update briefly reintroduced an old bug where dwarf babies pilot their moms like mech suits until they die of dehydration because babies don't know what drinking is
- Arc Raiders and Battlefield 6 prove that great performance and low system requirements are king for multiplayer PC games in 2025
- Study says only 72% of game developers reckon that Steam has a monopoly on PC games, and even with some big caveats, it makes me wonder what the other 28% are thinking
- Japan's biggest publishing house and one of the world's largest manga producers takes aim at OpenAI, accusing it of 'trampling on the dignity of artists'
- The kit filter: The perfect parts for building your first gaming PC
- Give it up for the MCHOSE Ace 68 Turbo, the world's first 16 kHz keyboard and surely the last word in technological overkill
- If Microsoft can't source enough electricity to power all the AI GPUs it has, you have to wonder how Amazon is going to cope in its new $38 billion deal with OpenAI
- Toasty CPU? This microwave PC build demonstrates that you ain't seen nothing yet
- Approximately 2,555 days after a 'day one' giveaway, people are finally receiving copies of a game they won 7 years ago
- British MPs are comparing one another to Cliff Bleszinski's dead live-service FPS LawBreakers to score points as videogame debate comes to UK Parliament
- Civilization 7's latest update brings a sweeping balance pass and a broadside of naval mechanics, while Firaxis offers Blackbeard for free as a 'special thanks' to players
- 'The world became stupider' when Internet Archive's Open Library was hit by a lawsuit: 'We survived, but it wiped out the library'
- Where to find mushrooms in Arc Raiders
- As if being a gas station attendant in Roadside Research wasn't stressful enough, I'm also an alien who has to research humans while trying not to poop goop everywhere
- Razer's knocked $900 off the price of the glorious Blade 14 gaming laptop, cementing its place as the object of my technological desires
- I've been playing with the 'world's first' glasses-free 3D handheld PC and my early impressions are that the $1,500 Abxylute 3D One is absolutely huge, annoyingly clunky and a little bit silly
- 'Gamers deserve clarity': UK Parliament debates videogame ownership while also beating the dead horse named Concord
- The 25th anniversary of the ISS operationally in orbit reminded me the ESA once challenged an Assassin's Creed and Far Cry dev to get DOOM running on a satellite
- EA pinky promises to 'maintain creative control' in its post-buyout era, but the list of 'cultural values' it plans to keep doesn't mean much at all
- I was fighting my inventory more than enemies in Arc Raiders until I discovered the magic space-saving button
- Stellar Blade studio swears it wasn't doing anti-small-penis 'hate speech' in art that had men in a tizz, and promises it won't ever 'tolerate' it in future
- Best weapons in Arc Raiders
- Dwarf Fortress' Siege Update is out now, renewing Bay 12 Games' quest to create a simulation more complex than life itself
- This new Warhammer roguelike from the developer of Boltgun is also the official next game in the Vampire Survivors series
- The fastest RTX 5080 gaming laptop we've ever tested has over $1,000 knocked off the price
- Windows 'update and shut down' reboot glitch finally fixed, saving tiny gaming laptop batteries everywhere
- Creepers have no power over you now, someone has made a mod which forces them to ask you for permission before they explode
- Ayaneo is teasing a 'mobile phone truly made for gamers' and I hope it keeps its promises
- Technology IP firm files lawsuits against AMD for 'its extensive and unauthorized use of our semiconductor portfolio,' citing the move as a 'business highlight'
- 2025's best survival game just got a huge update that adds an ultra-hard mode and one of the community's most requested features
- I was baffled when I found out Minecraft's most popular Marketplace mod just adds owls—but now I've tried it, I can't live without it
- The Mailroom is a scarier version of Papers, Please, set in the Devil's corporate office that's full of frogs and toilet paper
- The Golden Joystick Awards has published its shortlist of 12 games that could take home its Ultimate Game of the Year trophy, and voting's open now
- Legendary FPS maker John Romero delivers the objectively correct answer when voting for the most satisfying weapon in gaming history: 'I strongly agree, Mr Romero'
- 'One of the chillest communities I’ve ever encountered': Arc Raiders solos are choosing love over war, and it's beautiful
- After being inspired by Toby Fox to make his first RPG in decades, cult developer Yoshiro Kimura couldn't help but make it weird: 'Some people are going to look at it and go that's kind of odd, but that's just the way my games turn out'
- November 3
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- Arc Raiders studio is returning loot to players who get hosed by cheaters: 'We're committed to building an environment where gameplay is about skill, teamwork, and fun'
- Post-heist reports reveal the password for the Louvre's video surveillance was 'Louvre,' and suddenly the dumpster-tier opsec of videogame NPCs seems a lot less absurd
- Here are the Europa Universalis 5 unlock times for your region
- It sure looks like World of Warcraft is getting its first premium currency after 21 years to monetize player housing in its next expansion
- Sure, there might as well be a 'World Solitaire Championship' and it might as well be hosted by Stephen A. Smith
- Pillars of Eternity's 10-year anniversary turn-based mode will sidestep the biggest issues I was worried it would have, and you can try it this week
- The MMO being led by former WoW designer Greg Street looks to be dead as his studio officially closes after NetEase ends funding: 'While we'd love to make our game, our first priority is to help our developers find employment'
- Redditors painstakingly measure Battlefield maps to prove BF6's biggest battlefield is only the 26th largest map since Battlefield 3
- I'm dying way less in Arc Raiders now that I know how healing actually works
- Arc Raiders gives free money to everyone to say sorry for the weekend server struggles
- Samsung and other memory manufacturers reportedly leave DDR5 buyers hanging as prices expected to surge 30–50% every quarter from the end of 2025 through the first half of 2026
- Trump says that nobody 'other than the United States' should have Nvidia's Blackwell AI chips
- Square Enix, Bandai, and other Japanese studios demand OpenAI stop using their content without permission, drop a not-too-subtle hint about legal trouble if it doesn't
- Just Cause 5 would be a 'no go' according to the series' creator, as 'extremely few from the original team' remain at Avalanche Studios
- The most dangerous thing in Arc Raiders is a ladder that leads to nowhere: 'My whole squad was wiped'
- We need to commit—it's time crunchy, complicated RPGs made their mainstream comeback for good
- How to complete Marked for Death in Arc Raiders
- After the Saudi-backed EA buyout, OG Sims director says diversity isn't just 'critical,' it's 'existential for the business': 'Love is love and people are people'
- Where to find Rusted Tools in Arc Raiders
- It looks like a NUC, it smells like a NUC, but this is not a NUC: Asus ditches the Intel naming for new AMD-powered mini PC, but restricts its GPU choice
- Whether you're AMD red or Nvidia green, we can all agree both these heavily discounted gaming PCs come with the best CPU around
- Battlefield 6: Understanding the best settings for your GeForce GPU
- Lethal Company developer says the freedom afforded by text adventure design is why his latest game took 10 years to make: 'That made it very easy for this project to spiral out of control'
- Windows 11 insiders can now share Bluetooth LE audio over two pairs of headphones, so now you and your bestie can both sob over K-Pop Demon Hunters on the plane
- Where to find olives in Arc Raiders
- How to complete Broken Monument in Arc Raiders
- Saints Row 1's director is pitching a prequel that gets 'back to the roots of what made SR 1 entertaining,' but I mostly want to know what became of the Saints Row 2 PC patch whose developer died
- REPO's monster update has arrived, and it is so much scarier than I thought it would be all because of one beast
- Starfinder: Afterlight snags Red Dead Redemption 2's Roger Clark to voice its narrator, and he's just as Arthur Morgan about it as you'd expect
- Schedule 1's Halloween update arrived two days late because the developer thought he should 'probably play it safe' and test it first
- The MSI Claw handhelds are the first non-Xbox devices to get the Windows Full Screen Experience, with more said to arrive 'in the coming months'
- Lone developer shrinks Windows 7 down to 69 MB, claims 'virtually nothing can run' but that it does actually boot
- How to complete With a Trace in Arc Raiders
- As players debate whether to purchase Possessor(s) after Heart Machine lays off staff a week before launch, its creators and publisher respond: 'As a developer who is slated for lay off—please buy this game!'
- How to complete Eyes in the Sky in Arc Raiders
- Cyberpunk creator says 'Contact me' after Keanu Reeves said he wants to be Johnny Silverhand again, then tries his luck and tells Scarlett Johansson, 'I have roles for you. You can do anything'
- Battlefield 6 is introducing a casual Breakthrough mode 'to create a more relaxed way to play', making it easier to progress and complete challenges
- Our pick for 2024's best tactics game just got a community pack of featured levels—which ignore the dev's difficulty balance goals because 'our community, god bless em, have no such qualms'
- How to complete What We Left Behind in Arc Raiders
- How to complete Reduced to Rubble in Arc Raiders
- A new biome is coming as an alternative to the Tropics in Peak, but the only downside is you might be attacked by spiders
- November 2
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- Five new Steam games you probably missed (November 3, 2025)
- 'I've fixed the sun': Heroic modder finally deals with 20-year-old bug in Street Racing Syndicate
- Mortal Kombat: Legacy Kollection launches to mixed reviews on Steam
- Loot envy is at an all time high in Path of Exile as lucky players print the rarest items in the game while everyone else sifts through trash
- Arc Raiders players stuck in login queues and long matchmaking times as it blows past its Steam player peak of 330,000
- PSA: Look out sweaty PvPers, Arc Raiders' foliage looks a little different depending on your graphics settings
- Final Fantasy 14 and World of Warcraft are starting to meet in the middle on modding, and it's a strange new world for MMOs and their AddOn communities
- Debate: What is the greatest boss theme of all time?
- MCM Comic Con cosplayers never fail to amaze me with their outfits, and hopefully next year my inspiration manifests into my own weekend pass
- Game developers have suddenly become obsessed with eggs for some reason, and you can play two ovoid games for free right now
- That VR Thief game will slip from the shadows in December, and I'm beginning to think it might be good, actually
- Remedy is 'not satisfied' with its Q3 results after FBC: Firebreak's flop, and has 'moved development resources' to other games in production
- 'I sometimes lie in bed thinking about it': Rockstar co-founder Dan Houser explains why open world spy game Agent never worked out
- Doom designer Sandy Petersen alleges former Xbox boss Don Mattrick killed Ensemble Studios and its Halo MMO to protect his personal stock bonus: 'Don started as an EA hatchet man so what would you expect?'
- Reliably good puzzle game-maker Draknek and Friends just released a spooky new game
- November 1
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- Andrzej Sapkowski say these days 'it's so rare' for CD Projekt Red to ask him about Witcher lore
- 'Skinballs,' a Saints Row test NPC that looks like four floating scoops of ice cream, has been preserved as part of a museum collection
- Build and defend your little time-looping castle town in Super Fantasy Kingdom
- Beloved boomer shooter Dusk celebrates coming to Xbox with new 'Dusk Gulch' level riffing on Halo's best multiplayer map
- Can you name every Warhammer PC game in five minutes? No, you definitely can't, and frankly I'll be amazed if you can even get half
- The Dwarf Fortress of survival gaming has been in continual development for 33 years, and its creator doesn't think he'll ever stop updating it: 'When I accomplish one feature, I always have two more waiting'
- The PC game releases we're most excited about in November
- Beaver-themed city builder Timberborn will leave early access soon, and while there's no specific date yet, you can try out some of its new features right now
- GOG's preservation program now includes Splinter Cell, Resident Evil HD and, er, Spore, while you can also get 95% off XCOM 2 in its Autumn Sale
- This wildly ambitious Bully mod adds online multiplayer, racing minigames and even a rat-based deathmatch, but the modders' demand for lunch money has fans worried about Rockstar's response
- Hyperbeat review
- Brendan Greene's open-world survival roguelike hikes into early access later this month, and it'll actually let you save your run through its brutal wilderness
