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November 11
- Bethesda shoots down Elder Scrolls 6: Sentinel announcement rumor on Skyrim's 15th anniversary
- Former id Software developers form their own employee-owned shooter studio in the wake of Microsoft's mass layoffs
- Marvel Rivals' creative director addresses hate speech controversy and promises 'we've ramped up our disciplinary measures'
- Got a Synology NAS? Time to check your updates, as two high-level vulnerabilities let ne’er-do-wells read and write files and conduct DDOS attacks
- Ex-Tekken director savages Xbox Series S in front of senior Xbox staff: ‘feels like having to do extra work for a slightly weaker child’
- Making room for GTA 6? Save up to $335 on PS5-optimized Corsair SSDs
- Dark Souls 2 and 3 multiplayer is back: We still don't know what went wrong but at least it didn't take almost a year to fix it
- Kioxia has chained together 640 SSDs to create a 157 *petabyte* storage solution, because AI data centers get all the cool toys
- Final Fantasy 14 players are gathering in virtual vigils to honour the passing of the game's most prestigious bass player
- No more need to slap 'reddit' on the end of your Google searches as Reddit Reviews is here to amalgamate everyone's thoughts
- Overwatch is adding 6v6 role queue to its Competitive play: 'We've realised that there doesn't have to be a winner between 5v5 and 6v6'
- AMD's Zen 6 gaming CPUs might be absolute monsters by the looks of the server chips—and there's a 3D V-Cache variant to keep an eye on
- Apparently now we *won’t* see a 24 GB RTX 5080, which is probably actually good for our wallets
- The best mid-range gaming headset looks pretty in purple, and it's at its best ever price right now
- Microsoft’s own upscaler and alternative to FSR just landed on Xbox Ally X handhelds - actually uses an NPU for something useful
- WoW: Forever to add extra gold to high-level quests, since it turns out you don't get extra cash at 60
- 'We're kind of friendslop': CEO of Jackbox Games sees the link between party games and this new trend but doesn't think it's necessarily 'a negative moniker'
- Steam's age verification in Australia now takes your account's age into consideration
- One Elder Scrolls fan is reviving and upgrading (with AI) a lost spin-off for the Nokia N-Gage and porting it to PC
November 10
- Sony cancels another live service game ahead of release, but at least there won't be any layoffs this time
- Capcom quietly updates the Monster Hunter Wilds beta listing on Steam, indicating a possible expansion playtest
- Bungie drops gameplay trailer for Marathon's 'co-op PvE roguelite' mode and swanky new social space
- 2 years after Unknown 9: Awakening bombed, Bandai Namco is closing the studio that made it
- PlayStation Plus PC app is being shut down in December because less than 0.4% of eligible subscribers are using it
- Grand Theft Auto 6 is 'the most pre-ordered' game of all time on both Xbox and PlayStation
- Note to self: If playing Call of Duty in an airport, don't say words like 'bomb' lest you want to evacuate an entire plane
- MS has messily patched a Microsoft Paint security vulnerability, but the update still isn’t showing up for some
- Educational game dev program cancelled because students were submitting games made entirely with AI
- ‘AMDLSS5’ gets Nvidia’s neural rendering running on AMD graphics cards and claims 64% better performance than other mods
- I feel better than ever waiting for GTA 6 on PC now Rockstar confirms it's targeting 30 fps on PlayStation and Xbox
- Our favorite ultralight gaming mouse has dropped to its lowest ever price on Amazon
- GTA 6 console preloads begin today, so I've found the extra controllers and storage you PS5 and Xbox owners will need while I cry into my just-a-PC-gamer soup
- Big Walk developer reveals it used generative AI 'sparingly', estimates 'well under 0.1%' was actually coded using LLMs
- Trump calls his pal Jensen Huang an ‘honourable guy’ and says he ‘probably has an excuse’ for Nvidia CEO’s affair with alleged spy
- Fallout and Elder Scrolls actor Stephen Russell returns as Garrett in Thief: The Tarnished Mirror: 'Great to be back with the old guy'
- Steam now lets you see exactly what frame rate you should get in games using a Steam Deck
- AMD's next-gen GPU architecture has appeared in new Linux kernel patches as GFX13 updates roll out
- Redditor runs PC cooling loop outside of their house to keep it cool in one of the bravest yet unnecessary mods I’ve ever seen
- Law firms lining up for a chance to bop Nvidia’s nose on behalf of its own shareholders; president Trump says FBI are sniffing around the AI company's case
- Rockstar is putting on a last-minute live music festival featuring Travis Scott and Cardi B to celebrate GTA 6's launch
- Phasmophobia raises over $200,000 for charity in the annual Ghost Hunts for Hearts collaboration with the American Heart Association
- 'The experiences on console and PC tend to be roughly the same,' says Take-Two CEO in response to question about GTA roleplaying
November 9
- A month after Paramount acquired Warner Bros. Discovery, its merged game division is laying people off
- Take-Two expects to make as much as $3.5 billion during the GTA 6 launch period
- A week after expanding its publishing division, Killing Floor studio Tripwire Interactive lays off 36 people
- AMD users are reporting a misfiring utility is eating SSD health by 1% a month. AMD says a fix is on the way for its GPU drivers
- Warhammer 40K: Rogue Trader follow-up Dark Heresy will launch at the end of January
- Cheaper OLEDs may be here even quicker than we thought as TCL CSOT says its new inkjet printing facility could be up and running as soon as this time next year
- The AMD Ryzen 7 7800X3D is at the lowest price I've ever seen it, and it's still one of the absolute best processors for gaming
- Move quickly, this is a rare chance to bag a current-gen graphics card actually under its MSRP
- 'Floppy disks are out, 21st century tech is in': The FAA is finally ditching 55-year-old storage
- The Golden Joystick Awards return this Wednesday—here's how to watch them
- Great news! Nier: Automata's install size is no longer 7x bigger than it should be (it was 366 GB)
- Skyrim lead designer gives the most succinct summary of Bethesda's design I've ever heard: 'You're not playing my game, I'm making your game'
- Consider this blackened plug your weekly reminder to check your RTX 50-series GPU cables
- World of Warcraft: Forever bumps dungeon XP from monsters by 50% after some community feedback I will diplomatically call passionate
- EVE Online's new expansion looks to make it simpler than ever to get into a huge space battle: 'Every 10 weeks or so, you're gonna know: I can roll up with whatever I have and go shoot some structures and have a big fight'
- 'I think we'd accidentally created the most hardcore extraction game of all time:' EVE Vanguard is taking hard-won playtest lessons into a '24/7 Alpha'
- Lead designer Bruce Nesmith says Skyrim was a hit because it was built on institutional knowledge from Oblivion
- Warhammer Blood Bowl has been delayed into early 2027
November 8
- Jackbox Games isn't interested in AI development: 'All that is done by people, and we have no intention of changing that'
- Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang admits to affair with alleged Chinese spy as company board launches investigation
- Skyrim lead designer Bruce Nesmith loved that Baldur's Gate 3 closed off story paths based on your decisions, but defends Bethesda's approach: 'They were both fun, they're just fun in different ways'
- Inspired by Dark Messiah and Thief, this stealth game sees you sneak through a medieval megastructure prowled by undead guards
- This massive mod essentially turns Skyrim into a persistent MMO 'where player actions create lasting consequences'
- As Wardogs Season 3 looms, Bulkhead claims to have built 'one of the world's most sophisticated anti-cheat systems', assisted by 'machine learning and AI'
- Path of Exile 2's game director thinks a death recap will finally allow us players to complain about the right things
- A BioWare documentary was already in the works when the shutdown was announced: 'With the studio's recent closure, the film is now a profound valediction'
November 7
- AMD CEO Lisa Su: 'We are a data center-first company'
- Linux on the desktop marches on as GOG announces its Galaxy client is getting a revamp headed to Windows, macOS, and your distro of choice
- Mass Effect composer Sam Hulick releases his 're-scored' trailer for N7 Day, 'my way of saying goodbye… at least for now'
- Todd Howard's game design power is knowing when to make things 'simple and digestible' according to Skyrim's lead designer
- After furloughing its developers and then hiring some of them back, Star Wars Zero Company developer has laid off an unspecified number of staff
- Nier: Automata developer is 'currently investigating' a bizarre update bug that drastically inflated the game's file size from 50GB to 366GB
November 6
- Here's what's in Path of Exile 2’s huge 1.0 release, coming in December
- Rockstar's having a sale on old GTA games on the only platform Grand Theft Auto 6 isn't coming to (ours)
- Path of Exile 2 announces a second new class, the Shadow, for its December 1.0 release
- Underkeep is my favorite old-school dungeon crawler since Legend of Grimrock, and yes that includes Queen's Domain
- All that stands between a hacker and admin privileges on some Linux distros is a 257-character long string of literally anything
- Live from this very minute, Newegg has a 200 Hz, 1440p gaming monitor going for just $129 in its early Black Friday goodie box
- A public petition to save BioWare has drawn enough signatures that the Canadian government will at least have to think about it: 'This is absolutely possible,' MP says
- David Gaider has been working on Owlcat's Expanse RPG: 'The Expanse has long been one of my favourite series, and so obviously I jumped at the opportunity to be involved'
- WoW: Forever takes 250,000 GB of memory to run, and I can't even joke about Sam Altman being jealous because that's almost nothing compared to the monolithic demands of AI
- Skyrim's lead designer has 2 big asks of The Elder Scrolls 6: Sentinel, and only one of them is something most players have ever thought about
- Adding PvE to Arc Raiders 'isn't a difficult thing to do' but the question still stands how Embark can 'cater to the specific needs of the players'
- Discord is cutting memory usage and speeding up boot times - joins Xbox, Epic, Steam, and more for similar upgrades just this year
- Zelda: Ocarina of Time remake reportedly running at 60 fps on PC just hours after game's official Nintendo Switch 2 release
- Zelnick doesn't regret GTA 6's delay because shipping an unfinished game rarely ends well: 'There was a very high profile release that fell into this category'
- WoW: Forever is working on its server tech to make cities less empty, say devs
- Saudi Arabia owns EA, and according to a Reuters report, Unity is next
- Richard Garriott on the state of the games industry: 'The bells and whistles are no longer what's important'
November 5
- Xbox enters the 'faster PC launcher' arms race, its app loads faster now too
- Warren Spector sounds even angrier about BioWare's closure as he recounts the massive salaries of EA execs: 'Is there ANY accountability left in this world?'
- Sam Altman is annoyed his DRAM comment was 'taken out of context'
- Nvidia, Micron, and other AI stocks take a dive after elections
- EA's releasing a truckload of classic games on Steam, and 7 of them are remasters
- Rockstar drops a pile of new GTA 6 launch screenshots featuring dancers, combat dogs, and so many pores
- 45% of PC Gamer readers cleaned out their rig in the last six months and now I feel like a right grubchild for not remembering the last time I dusted mine
- Take-Two boss Strauss Zelnick isn't too concerned about piracy ahead of GTA 6 even if he is 'worried about everything all the time'
- After all the queuing drama in beta, WoW: Forever's launch was buttery smooth
- Experimental project beats Intel in bringing 'real Intel XeSS super resolution' to SteamOS and Proton games on Linux
- FSR 4.1.2 now on Xbox and Xbox handhelds, just in time for a certain big GTA 6-shaped game
- Switch 2 sales dropped 37% this summer, mostly before the price hike hit; Nintendo now expects sales to slump 16.9% in console's second year
- Oh hell yes: Pillars of Eternity 1 and 2 are getting full-fat gamepad support and you can try it right now
- Critical Role's upcoming series with Hololive gave Matt Mercer 'a deeper understanding and appreciation' for vtubers
- The Elder Scrolls 6 is reportedly more than two years away, and some fans are not coping well
November 4
- No GTA 6 November: Here's what you can play on PC instead
- Data centers were some of the biggest losers in last night's US midterm elections
- French game union accuses Microsoft of 'sabotaging' Blade and then using the fallout to justify closing Arkane
- Former Halo composer Marty O'Donnell loses election, then gets absolutely bodied by his opponent: 'The fight is finished'
- New Blood CEO would rather shut down the boomer shooter studio than sell out: 'In 20 years, we're done. I'm gonna say goodbye, shut it down'
- Nexus Mods takes the Valve approach to AI-generated content: No outright bans but mandatory disclosures
- 'How can prices fall when there's nothing left?' TeamGroup CEO reckons supply-demand memory equilibrium may not happen until late 2028 at the earliest
- I'm watching YouTube videos in glorious stereoscopic 3D on my Steam Frame with just a free plugin and a long-forgotten dream of a new Nintendo 3DS
- Dead by Daylight apologises to fans after gifting DLC to TheBurntPeanut and has since 'removed the content that was granted'
- The best mini-LED 1440p gaming monitor we've ever tried has dropped down to $250, which is almost normal 1440p prices
- AMD says it's going to beat Intel in total revenue for the very first time by the end of 2026
- WoW: Forever's massive pre-launch balance patch breaks from the chains Classic power, increasing 'the health of higher level creatures to compensate'
- Dodgy download and spoofed job ad led to $6.3 billion Binance hack: attacker offered fake software and fake job to infiltrate company wallets and steal billions
- Bethesda's associate art director really did try to fit 7,000 actual steps into Skyrim's 7,000 Steps: 'I take no responsibility for the Frost Troll'
November 3
- Valve admits it's 'running behind' on approving Steam games because it has to keep re-reviewing them, which surely has nothing to do with AI
- Google criticized by NYC mayor Zohran Mamdani following AI policy change: 'Google is trying to use its monopoly power to force AI into our public schools'
- Ubisoft reportedly wants to buy Arkane from Xbox
- Control Resonant is Remedy's fastest-selling game to date, tripling the studio's quarterly revenue
- The Elder Scrolls 6 is still a long way off, Bethesda warns: 'It'll be some time before we're ready to share more'
- Bethesda's first full-time QA tester got the job by being an extremely chill hang
- 'Just deleted a couple terabytes of AI slop': Itch.io pushes back against the flood of AI on its storefront
- The latest version of Metal Gear's must-have visual mod slices load times, adds raw mouse input, and restores Mel Gibson
- The Elder Scrolls 6: Sentinel is finally made official
- Morrowind's gravity is no longer '0.01% off' in the new release of its fan-made engine, finally making it playable
- 2 of my favorite studios are teaming up for their first-ever showcase this week, and have a Steam sale going right now
- Mike Flanagan thinks 'Warhammer is a fascinating world' but can't tell us anything else about the upcoming Warhammer 40,000 project because 'Henry Cavill would be furious'
- Modders bring Steam Frame build of SteamOS and all of its translation layer goodness to Mac
- The Overwatch devs hear your complaints about skin distribution but concede that some cosmetics need to 'support the actual bottom-line business'
- Upcoming Final Fantasy 14 update should massively cut down on dungeon queue times
- Users pull $3.6 bn from Binance as it reopens following $6.3 billion mega-hack - FBI says North Korean hacking group 'TraderTraitor' to blame, North Korea says nuh-uh
November 2
- Xbox COO who left after just 3 months shoots down claims she was 'fired for a policy violation,' says her story is about 'core values'
- 'There was some really fair criticism': Arc Raiders' devs understand why players were so upset about its AI use but say that it was 'too impractical to record' every voice line
- Thief Remastered's new expansion is being made by the legendary Black Parade mod team, and it's out next month
- It's definitely coming up to Black Friday because I've already spotted a RTX 5080 gaming PC cheaper than any I've seen for a while
- Yakuza creator's studio, and the game it was working on, are now officially gone
- Nightdive is reviving the iconic trapezoid big box for Thief: Remastered's special edition… but only on console
- Ray tracing memory usage could be reduced by up to 90% thanks to 'most significant' DirectX update
- Arc Raiders devs used a music sample 'from a piano in Chernobyl' that someone had discovered in the Forbidden Zone
- Valve's Steam Frame has taken a spot in the top ten most popular VR headsets on Steam
- Final Fantasy 14: Evercold's story will have a faster tempo, with worldbuilding in side quests, says Yoshi-P—but I'm not sure that was the problem with Dawntrail
- The HeroQuest board game is coming to Steam with a quest editor and multiplayer
- Footage of what sure looks like a Persona 1 remake has leaked
- Obsidian's Josh Sawyer on RPG cities: 'Compared to a dungeon, generally speaking, a town is 4x the expense per square foot'
- Here's one bit of good news for Mass Effect: modders are bringing the multiplayer mode to Mass Effect Legendary Edition
November 1
- Jagex partnered with a RuneScape-inspired idle game to turn the sequel into an official spinoff
- GOG wants to bring back physical games, but it's 'a very, very complicated thing'
- Valve's long-lost prototype Portal prequel appears online after nearly 20 years
- 'An absolute behemoth': Wildly ambitious FPS Selaco is getting a massive update that doubles its size and adds 'a heavy machinegun that fires literal explosions'
- Chronicles: Medieval developer faces imminent closure after losing funding: 'What makes it hurt is how close we are. Early access is in reach'
- It's not just Steam: New game pages created per day on Itch.io have doubled in the last two months, with AI slop the likely culprit
- Forza co-creator Dan Greenawalt is reportedly leaving Microsoft
- After almost a decade of work, Alien: Isolation mod tools hit 1.0 with support for 'full custom maps, missions, modes, characters, weapons, animations, sounds, models, textures, and more'