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October 31
- Here are some 360 degree screenshots from Fallout 76's beta
- Just Cause 4 system requirements and season pass revealed
- Dusk, the Quake-inspired retro FPS, will be out in December
- Fortnite's glider re-deploy feature is here to stay, but will be less stealthy after next patch
- Discover the hidden horrors of Fallout 76 in the 'Tales From the West Virginia Hills'
- Fortnite's next big in-game event announced, pray for cube death
- HTC joins movement to build a single cable for VR, but we still want wireless
- Asus launches ‘TUF’ gaming laptops with 144Hz displays, certified ruggedness
- This War of Mine: The Last Broadcast DLC tackles truth and consequences in November
- Titanfall dev is releasing multiple games next year
- Here's your first look at Henry Cavill as Geralt in the Witcher TV series
- Undertale creator releases mysterious new, free game
- EA imagines 'a world where games are no longer bound by device or CPU or GPU'
- Bethesda elaborates on Fallout 76's microtransactions and Atoms currency
- Itch.io's free games section is a festival of scares right now
- The Blackout Club awakens suddenly into Early Access
- Following PC beta woes, Fallout 76 will get a lengthier session later this week
- Devolver Digital co-founder talks about how crunch affects indie studios
- There's yet another Bubsy game in the works, this time by the Bit.Trip team
October 30
- Ultima-inspired MMO Shroud of the Avatar goes free-to-play
- An issue with the Fallout 76 PC beta is forcing some to redownload the game
- GTA Online's Halloween event features murder, mayhem, and free t-shirts
- This 3GB GTX 1050 is just $110 right now
- Itch.io's Halloween sale runs until Thursday
- EA reveals Project Atlas, a game platform built on AI and cloud computing
- Another ridiculously wide monitor emerges, this time it’s built for gaming
- EVGA launches the cheapest GeForce RTX 2080 Ti, but it’s out of stock
- Some users are complaining of GeForce RTX 2080 Ti cards dying
- Scum is apparently getting naked butts and other bits
- Intel hires another former AMD manager for its discrete graphics division
- Management sim Project Hospital launches with new video
- This HyperX Pulsefire gaming mouse is just $25, an all-time low
- Undertale tweets make cryptic tease for tomorrow
- Today’s Google Doodle is a Halloween-themed multiplayer game
- General Grievous joins Star Wars: Battlefront 2
- Detective thriller Twin Mirror shows off gameplay in new trailer
- Red Dead Redemption 2 isn't confirmed for PC yet, but Farming Simulator 19 is
- New Chasm DLC provides a hardcore new mode with leaderboard support
October 29
- World of Warcraft's pacifist panda has reached level 120 by only picking flowers
- EA promises no 'pay to win' Battlefield 5 progression systems
- The Humble Store is giving away Murderous Pursuits with Halloween sale purchases
- Corpse Party: Book of Shadows, a grisly Japanese slasher game, is now on Steam and GOG
- GOG is also having a Halloween sale
- Walmart is selling its own line of gaming PCs and the specs don’t suck
- Blizzard is giving away free Hearthstone cards during BlizzCon
- The cheapest second-gen Threadripper is now a 12-core CPU priced at $649
- AMD is still planning to launch high-end graphics cards at some point
- Adata built an overclocking lab to find extreme new ways to speed up RAM
- You can play Battlerite Royale for free this week
- Monster Hunter: World's raid boss, Kulve Taroth, is coming to PC November 2
- Graveyard Keeper update lets you raise the dead and make them do your boring chores
- The Steam Halloween Sale 2018 is alive
- Hitman 2 studio 'had to let a lot of people go' following split with Square Enix
- Lead the resistance against the Nazis in Through the Darkest of Times
- God Eater 3 release date announced
- Maid of Sker is a new and extremely British horror game
- No Man’s Sky delves beneath the waves in The Abyss update, available today
- Dataminers suggest Chinese EVE Online cheaters could be punished with virtual menial labour
- This Unity tech demo shows the potential future of open world games
- Desert Bus for Doom adds violence to the monotony
- Fallout 76 live action trailer makes the post-apocalypse look really zany and fun
October 28
- New Anthem footage shows full first mission and ultimate abilities
- One Finger Death Punch 2 due in April, will contain secret cancelled project
- Red Dead Redemption 2 companion app points to PC version of the game
- Black Ops 4 players are crouch-running at super speeds thanks to a perk glitch
- The Evil Within 2 adds new difficulty mode and enables cheats
- Star Control: Origins opens up to mods with new world editor
October 27
- A YouTuber has broken into World of Warcraft: Classic's world a week early
- Soulcalibur 6 adding Nier: Automata's 2B to fighter roster
- Murderous Pursuits is free to keep forever if you download now
- Twin-stick shooter Helldivers gets free weekend and difficulty upgrade
- Dungeon Keeper had a developer crunch warning hidden in its MS-DOS files
- Call of Cthulhu launch trailer lets you glimpse the horrors that lurk within
October 26
- Turn Monster Hunter's cat pals into man's true best friend with the Canine Palico mod
- Ninja is hosting a 12-hour New Year's Eve livestream from Times Square
- Twitch Sings is a livestream karaoke game set to begin beta testing later this year
- Teens rejoice! Snap Camera brings Snapchat filters to Twitch
- Blizzard Esports mobile app features schedules, scores, and built-in Twitch linking
- You can now play Half-life as originally intended: as Spyro the Dragon
- Esports org Virtus Pro terminates social media reps following offensive tweet
- Wow, this is one of the ugliest cases we've ever seen
- Get a stick of 8GB DDR4-2400 RAM for just $54
- Western Digital lays claim to the biggest capacity hard drive ever
- AMD releases GPU drivers (64-bit only) optimized for the Fallout 76 beta
- Microsoft completes GitHub acquisition, promises not to screw things up
- The next Fractured Space update will be its last
- Two Point Hospital will add Sandbox mode next week, reveals Halloween event
- Elite Dangerous Beyond—Chapter Four explains how Scenarios impact factions
- Vote for the ultimate game of 2018 in the Golden Joystick Awards
- Just Cause 4 'panoramic trailer' tailored for 4K ultra-widescreen monitors
- Team Fortress 2008 throwback mod Steam page removed (Updated)
- For Honor Halloween event returns with skeletons and smashing pumpkin heads
- Ni no Kuni 2 reveals 'The Lair of the Lost Lord' DLC, due in 2018
- Scum's adding heart attacks to deal with a player who won't stop eating
- A new Yooka-Laylee update will make it look more like a Nintendo 64 game
October 25
- The Room 3 is finally headed to Steam
- Layers of Fear 2 revealed, set to come out next year
- Swords and Soldiers 2 Shawarmageddon multiplayer beta is live and open to everyone
- US government deems it legal to circumvent DRM to repair electronic devices
- Alan Wake is back on Steam and GOG, and it's on sale too
- Metro 2033 is free on Steam for 24 hours (Update: time's up)
- Hellgate: London is coming back, again
- Where to find all 10 of Fortnite's flaming hoops
- Corsair’s new mechanical keyboards use low profile keys to prevent finger fatigue
- This nifty 90-degree cable adapter should be included with all power supplies
- The best deals in Fanatical's Scream Sale
- Fallout 76 system requirements announced by Bethesda
- Stellaris reveals 'economy-focused' MegaCorp expansion
- This EVGA RTX 2070 is $60 off right now
- Everything on eBay is 10% off right now
- Former Torchlight devs have teamed up for a new co-op game
- Dark Souls 3 'Enemy Onslaught' mod duplicates all enemies, including bosses
- Black Ops 4 Blackout player creates neat interactive battle royale map
- Burn Skyrim to the ground with this stunning, hyper-realistic fire mod
- PUBG's 'One Gun Warrior' event mode removes weapon spawns from Erangel
- Ion Maiden publisher 3D Realms is working on a new Quake engine game (Updated)
- Someone has ported Wolfenstein 3D for the Pico-8 fantasy console
- PC Perspective founder Ryan Shrout joining Intel as chief performance strategist
- Microsoft plans to bring Xbox Game Pass to PC
October 24
- Battlefield 5 dev gets banned from Black Ops 4, makes video asking Treyarch to let him back in
- Super Meat Boy is getting a new multiplayer race mode this week
- Arma 4 isn't in development, but Arma 3 won't be the end of the series
- Clash and Maestro nerfed in latest Rainbow Six Siege update
- CS:GO pro who cheated gets five-year ban
- Trine 4: The Nightmare Prince is coming next year
- Rockstar boss 'thankful' not to be releasing GTA 6 during Trump's presidency
- These BIOS updates raise the power ceiling on Gigabyte’s RTX 2080 Ti and 2080 cards
- Researchers developed a device that could boost broadband speeds 100-fold
- Battlefield 5's battle royale mode won't be live until spring 2019
- PUBG confirms new Halloween-themed 'Survival Squad of Horrors' skins
- Fortnite's Halloween event is live, cube monsters added
- Battle Princess Madelyn, the game co-created by a 7-year-old, gets launch window
- GTA 5 NaturalVision Remastered graphics overhaul mod now live
- Fear the Wolves update improves maps, makes wolves more ferocious
- Fallout: New California mod launches beta after almost 7 years in development
October 23
- Blizzard is finally letting viewers control the camera while watching Overwatch esports
- Here's what's coming in DayZ 1.0, due this year
- Disgaea 5 on Steam lacks online functionality due to 'irreconcilable platform differences'
- Rockstar developers speak out on 'death march' crunch
- Get Batman, Mad Max, Shadow of Mordor and more in the new Humble Bundle
- Origin's Halloween Sale has Battlefield 1 and the season pass for $5
- Buy a GeForce GTX 1070 Ti, 1070, or 1060 and get Monster Hunter: World for free
- Rumor: Destiny 3 is in the works, will be more 'hardcore' than Destiny 2
- Dell considers expanding Alienware into motherboards and other PC components
- GOG pulls insensitive tweet, says it 'should focus on games'
- Linus Torvalds returns to Linux with an 'email filter' to quell his abusive language
- No Man's Sky teases The Abyss, a spooky update coming next week
- Fortnite's Halloween event begins tomorrow
- Epic is enabling glider re-deploys in all Fortnite game modes
- Fallout 76 unveils 19 new screenshots ahead of console beta
- Shadowhand dev unveils turn-based card battler Ancient Enemy
- GTA Online's free money bonus rolls over, Smuggler's Run gets twin perks
- Dragon Age-ish RPG The Waylanders has hit Kickstarter
- Overwatch Lego sets leaked by retailer
- AI-produced painting to be sold at prestigious London auction house
- Play Battlefield 5 during its first week and get two free in-game items
- Sky Tracers is a multiplayer successor to parkour platformer Super Cloudbuilt
- This Assassin's Creed Odyssey Kassandra cosplay is absolutely stunning
October 22
- Mosh Pit Simulator is a weird VR physics sandbox starring boneless humanoids
- Trion Worlds lays off staff following buyout
- Check out some 'launch version' Gwent gameplay in a flashy new trailer
- Bethesda warns Fallout 76 fans to expect 'spectacular' bugs and issues
- Nvidia adds GDDR5X to its popular GTX 1060 line
- Oculus says new Rift hardware still in development as co-founder leaves Facebook
- Fallout 76's Hunter/Hunted mode works a lot like battle royale
- Jade Raymond leaves Electronic Arts
- Our favorite gaming mouse is on sale for $37
- Silverstone found a better way to implement RGB lighting into this compact case
- Black Ops 4 players unhappy with 20hz tickrate, Treyarch says improvements are coming
- Samsung upgraded its mixed reality headset to make you less prone to barfing
- Intel refutes reports that it's ending work on 10nm, say it's making 'good progress'
- Atomic Heart, the offbeat Soviet-era shooter, gives us its weirdest teaser video yet
- Fortnite Save the World will not go free-to-play in 2018
- Devil May Cry 5 Ultra Limited Edition comes with Dante's coat, costs $8000
- Last chance to help PC games triumph at the Golden Joystick Awards 2018
- GTA 5's best visual overhaul mod is back for its final stunning update
- Metal Gear Survive adds Silent Hill 2's Pyramid Head in limited-time event
- Agony Unrated officially confirmed, will be cheap for existing owners
October 21
- Fortnite's floating island is summoning something in the sky (updated)
- Tropico 5, Opus Magnum and six others coming to Origin Access this month
- The Enclave are one of Fallout 76's factions, Bethesda confirms
- World War 3's Early Access launch marred by technical difficulties
- Epic trails Fortnite Halloween event with cryptic rhymes
- Shadow of the Tomb Raider review bombed because of 34% discount
- Battletech's first expansion due November 27, two more on horizon
October 20
- Dreadnought developer lays off third of workforce days after game's release
- Spellbreak is a battle royale with elemental magic and huge explosions
- Artifact's beta appears to have been delayed until November 19
- After five and a half years of development, Rimworld 1.0 is now live
- Wargroove pushed back to early 2019
- Splash Damage ends development of its team-based shooter Dirty Bomb
- 50 percent of all wars in EVE Online are started by just 5 groups
October 19
- Battle Brothers is getting some scary-ass monsters in its first DLC
- Skybound Games aims to finish The Walking Dead entirely with former Telltale staff
- EVE Online's spin-off FPS is entering closed alpha in November
- Warframe's Fortuna expansion will arrive on PC in November
- CS:GO team disbanded after player is caught cheating
- Discord's TOS update forbids lawsuits against it, but you can opt out
- Almost every Comcast Xfinity subscriber now has access to gigabit internet service
- Watch a professional overclocker delid and sand down an Intel Core i9-9900K
- EA recorded a rocket-powered death-sled for Battlefield 5's V1 engine sound
- Night in the Woods' OST gets awesome limited edition vinyl
- Get 12 indie games for just $5 with Fanatical's Origins Bundle
- Stardew Valley hard mode mod cranks enemy damage up 200 percent
- Hitman Halloween pack free to all today, lets you dress up as a scarecrow
- PUBG's new Platoon event mode cancelled following 'critical error'
- See GTA 5's campaign up close with this neat first-person cutscenes mod
October 18
- Battlefleet Gothic: Armada 2 release date and beta tests announced
- Rocket League's 'RocketID' has been delayed into 2019
- Telltale's Minecraft: Story Mode originally had an edgier T-rated sense of humor
- Steam surpasses 30 million users in China
- Battlefield 5's German campaign mission is 'not a hero story'
- Discord Store DRM requires an internet connection, but offline mode is coming soon
- Valve is updating SteamVR to run VR games more smoothly on lower end GPUs
- Hard drive reliability report instills confidence in 8-12TB capacity HDDs
- Mutant Year Zero: Road to Eden trailer explains what 'Duck XCOM' is all about
- Latest Windows 10 preview makes it easier to remove preinstalled apps
- Rockstar employees speak about working hours after 100-hour week stir
- Games goes head to head at the Music Week Sync Awards 2018
- Watch Red Dead Redemption 2's launch trailer
- Bethesda responds to perceived Fallout 76 Brotherhood of Steel timeline discrepancy
- Rockstar gets search and seizure warrant for homes of alleged GTA 5 cheaters
- PUBG offers players limited-time free item and 20,000 BP after server issues
October 17
- Blizzard hoses down Diablo 4 reveal rumors, unlikely to appear at BlizzCon
- The next Rainbow Six Siege update will fix some annoying exploits
- Loot Crate launches an indie game subscription service
- Nvidia GeForce RTX 2070 price, deals, and where to buy
- Skin Deep is a stealth shooter that simulates sneezing and the dangers of bare feet
- Obsidian says it's 'very doubtful' that it will make another Fallout game
- This high-end 34-inch ultrawide gaming monitor is $120 off today
- Cooler Master's new ultra-limited edition case costs almost $1,000
- You can finally get this elusive The Stanley Parable achievement
- This RX 580 8GB is on sale for $220, and it comes with three free games
- Zotac trots out a pair of shortened GeForce RTX 2070 cards for compact PCs
- Ubisoft executive says politics in games is 'bad for business'
- AOC launches a trio of affordable and ‘frameless’ FreeSync monitors
- This gorgeous Witcher 3 hyper-realistic cloud mod will stop you in your tracks
- Hitman 2's first Elusive Target is Sean Bean
- New World, Amazon's MMO, shows off a big chunk of its map in gameplay footage
- Football Manager is an RPG 'with more NPCs than any other RPG on the planet'
- Fallout 4 Spooky Scary Radio mod adds over 150 Halloween-themed tracks
- You can now 100 percent Shadow of the Tomb Raider following latest PC patch
- PUBG teases Silent Hill-style nurses and Pennywise-like clowns for Halloween
- JulioNIB's Predator mod for GTA 5 is faithful to the films, even the super gross stuff
October 16
- Agony Unrated has mysteriously appeared on Steam
- Disgaea 5 Complete will finally arrive on Steam next week
- Winamp is coming back in 2019
- Blizzard says it put in-game Hearthstone tournaments on hold because players had a different vision
- This LG 27-inch IPS monitor with FreeSync is on sale for $148 today
- The Humble Store is having a Fallout sale
- Nvidia doubles down on DLSS performance claims for GeForce RTX
- Corsair’s new SSDs aim to deliver ultra-fast speeds at aggressive price points
- An upcoming Fortnite skin looks like the long lost bestie of Overwatch's Widowmaker
- The Discord game store is now open
- Shroud traps Ninja under a truck in Blackout, hilarity and game physics ensue
- GTA Online extends $500,000 free GTA money bonus, double RP on gunrunning
- Fallout 76 Platinum Edition costs $115, doesn't include Fallout 76
- Atomic Heart teases bloody massacre at soviet facility in latest footage
- Watch Battlefield 5's singleplayer campaign trailer
- Hollow Knight devs say axing Boneforest zone was 'totally the right thing to do'
- Fortnite developer Epic Games sues two YouTubers over alleged cheating
- Sakhalin is an ambitious Fallout 4 story mod inspired by New Vegas and Stalker
- Fortnite adds Quadcrasher and in-game tourneys, Disco Domination rolls over
- EVGA's GTX 1070 DT is just $290 right now
- Almost everyone who sent the FCC a unique comment last year favored net neutrality
- Microsoft co-founder Paul Allen has died
October 15
- Ninja livestreams Fortnite with Ellen
- Valve says $500 Artifact decks is 'just not going to happen'
- This EVGA GTX 1070 is just $360 right now
- A new Control dev diary reveals a surprise addition to the cast
- Gaze in awe at this absolute unit of a monitor
- Destiny 2: Forsaken will include previous expansions, starting tomorrow
- In-game tournaments are coming to Fortnite in the 6.1 update
- GPU-Z will now tell you if the Nvidia graphics card you bought is a fake
- Professional overclocker Der8auer cleans his components in the dishwasher
- Battlefield 5 recruits Hollywood actor Mark Strong as singleplayer narrator
- Hearthstone's Giggling Inventor, Mana Wyrm, and Aviana cards have been nerfed
- Elite Dangerous Beyond—Chapter Four kicks off this month
- Call of Duty: Black Ops 4's PC launch day sales are more than double from last year
- Origin PC designed its own unique case for its compact desktop line
- Dragon Quest 11's latest patch unlocks framerate, improves keyboard support
- Bowsette sets Breath of the Wild alight in this work-in-progress emulated mod
- Minecraft 'Cat Contest' wants to put your own pet feline in the game
- Skyrim super-realistic rainfall mod brings beautifully awful weather to Tamriel
- Watch some great videos and special features from the Telltale vault
October 14
- Star Citizen raises more than $1 million in four days following alpha 3.3 test release
- Future Paradox games will be easier to mod thanks to engine upgrade
- This mod turns Skyrim into a tropical rainforest
- Project Warlock is a frantic old-school shooter coming to GOG this month, other stores later
- Fortnite datamine reveals game modes coming to new 'tournaments' tab
- Get Kentucky Route Zero, War for the Overworld and four others for $10 in Humble Discovery Bundle
- EA confirm remasters of classic Command & Conquer games won't have microtransactions
- Watch a documentary about the new Leisure Suit Larry and see if it gets your hopes up
- Steam Link now allows streaming to multiple devices for local multiplayer
October 13
- Watch it all burn in For Honor's Marching Fire expansion
- Play RTS Halo Wars for free next weekend
- Crusader Kings 2's Holy Fury DLC release date announced
- Quake Champions adds Slipgate mode and a new champion, Athena
- Black Ops 4 emotes let you see around corners, Treyarch plans to tackle the problem
- Fortnite guided missiles temporarily removed after players report permanent invisibility glitch
- Bethesda reveals full Fallout 76 map
October 12
- The origin of Ctrl-Alt-Del, according to its creator
- PUBG hotfix helps correct matchmaking issues, full update coming next week
- SOS, the battle royale you can win with your voice, is closing in November
- John Carmack and ZeniMax settle their $22.5 million beef
- Ninja teaches Ellen to play Fortnite, it does not go well
- If this market report is right, we could see huge drops in RAM and SSD prices in 2019
- Save up to 65% on a range of cases during NZXT’s clearance sale
- Watch 37 minutes of Thronebreaker: The Witcher Tales gameplay
- AMD's latest GPU driver aims to boost performance in Black Ops 4
- Nvidia's newest GPU driver is optimized for Black Ops 4, Soulcalibur 6, and Grip
- Promising Star Wars: KOTOR fan-made reboot gets shuttered by Lucasfilm
- XCOM 2 and Civilization 6 are going real cheap at Fanatical this weekend
- Darksiders 3 reveals two DLC packs ahead of next month's launch
- PUBG will consider adding flare guns to main game in wake of this week's LTM
October 11
- West Virginia officially embraces the inevitable flood of Fallout 76 tourists
- This mod replaces Stardew Valley monsters with Dragon Quest foes
- EA teases Command & Conquer remasters, wants to know what you think
- Fortnite is getting a new vehicle called the Quadcrasher
- The Lenovo Ideapad 720S is $130 off right now
- The next Cities: Skylines expansion puts the focus on Industries
- Return of the Obra Dinn, from the maker of Papers, Please, comes out next week
- Get this Intel Celeron G4920 for just $25
- Brazil calls for removal of 'embarrassing' political game on Steam
- Check out these deals on AMD's second generation Ryzen processors
- Conan Exiles update adds pets, plus other stuff that's not as cool as pets
- 'More than one and less than 12' games based on 2000 AD are in the works
- Cooler Master’s pressure-sensitive analog keypad aims to make you a better gamer
- Kingdom Come: Deliverance Amorous Adventures DLC out next week
- AOC launches a 31.5-inch 144Hz Freesync 2 HDR monitor for $550
- Atomic Heart, the strange Soviet-era shooter, teases horrifying Clown Trap
- Battlefield 5 dev explains advanced bullet penetration system
- Star Citizen flaunts another star-studded Squadron 42 trailer
- GTA 5's latest hyper-realistic visual overhaul mod is breathtaking
- Razer’s Blade 15 laptops now have a LAN port, dual storage, and cheaper price
- Here's two new Call of Duty: Black Ops 4 trailers ahead of this week's launch
October 10
- Ubisoft details Assassin's Creed 3 remaster improvements
- Elite: Dangerous Fuel Rats rescue goes horribly wrong because of a cat
- Get 10 Hearthstone card packs and WoW Classic demo access with BlizzCon Virtual Tickets
- Check out these cheap 4K and 1080P monitors
- The first Lego Overwatch model is Bastion
- Star Citizen alpha 3.3 will use your webcam to map facial expressions onto your character
- The Sims 4: Get Famous expansion will let your Sims become stars
- This MSI gaming laptop with a GTX 1050 is just $650 right now
- Save 75% on 3DMark Advanced Edition with new test for integrated graphics
- Microsoft thinks it fixed the file deletion bug in the October update for Windows 10
- Just Cause 4 story trailer teases the torment and triumphs of Rico Rodriguez
- Netflix's The Witcher TV series casts Yennefer of Vengerberg and Ciri
- Dark Souls 3 alpha cut content reveals weird and beautiful time of day system
- Fallout 76 mods are 'definitely coming' but may not arrive until late 2019
- XCOM 2 mod adds 929 voice lines from GTA San Andreas's CJ, is wonderful
- XCOM 2 Tactical Legacy DLC out now, free for a limited time for WotC owners
- Football Manager 2019 adds mid-season training camps, smarter contracts
- Dark Souls' most gruelling mod gets Remastered treatment, adds challenge run features (Updated)
- Fortnite adds Quad Rocket Launcher, Disco Domination LTM, Skull Squad gear
October 9
- Left Alive story trailer sets up a tale of warfare in the 22nd century
- Fallout 3 mod Washington's Malevolence is a 'DLC-sized quest' for pre-war riches
- Here comes the barrage of Z390 motherboards for Intel’s 9th gen CPUs
- MSI crams a GeForce RTX 2080 Ti into a slim and 'savage' gaming PC
- G.Skill’s ‘double capacity’ RAM modules stand tall to make room for more memory
- Overwatch Halloween Terror Event is live, Torbjorn rework is complete
- Rumor: Microsoft is close to buying Obsidian Entertainment
- Overwatch Halloween skins revealed
- Call of Duty: Black Ops 4 final system requirements revealed
- Fortnite Fall Skirmish Grand Finals will go down at TwitchCon
- This indie dev's misclick led to over 170,000 concurrent players overnight
- Amanita Design's next game is a sidescrolling platformer called Creaks
- Play GTA Online this week and get a minimum $800,000 of free GTA money
- Hunt: Showdown teases much-anticipated second map
- Skyrim mod lets you clone an army of yourself
- Onimusha: Warlords shows off HD combat trailer
- Stories Untold dev reveals sci-fi thriller Observation, due in 2019
- Fortnite teases Quad Launcher as next weapon
October 8
- Assassin's Creed Odyssey's peak concurrent playercount on Steam is 30% higher than 2017's Origins
- Cyberpunk 2077 brings on multiplayer specialist studio Digital Scapes
- Bethesda would like to remind you once again that singleplayer games aren't dead
- Warcraft 3’s Mal’Ganis the dreadlord is Heroes of the Storm’s next character
- The DCS series continues to quietly be one of the prettiest things on PC
- Intel says the i9-9900K is the ‘best gaming processor in the world’
- The Windows 10 October update is deleting files, according to complaints (Updated)
- Resident Evil 2 remake unveils reworked and downright terrifying Licker
- Elite Dangerous player suspended from Twitter for posting Thargoid poem
- Fortnite dev Epic Games buys anti-cheat firm Kamu
- Fallout 76 has Red Dead-style treasure maps
- Watch a nuke getting dropped on us in Fallout 76
- Here's 30 minutes of Fallout 76 gameplay
- Fallout 76's VATS is pretty disappointing, here it is in action
- Watch a speedrunner beat Into the Breach in less than 12 minutes
- Fallout 4 'Echo' mod turns the wasteland into a musical about employment
- Devil May Cry 5 footage shows Dante using his hat as a weapon
October 7
- Arena RTS The Maestros is all about mutating your troops to victory
- This Stardew Valley mod helps you manage the pesky museum and library
- Anime shooter Sword Art Online: Fatal Bullet Complete Edition coming January 2019
- Monster Hunter: World’s Autumn Harvest event comes to PC
- Space crash management sim RimWorld releases October 17th
- The Walking Dead: The Final Season will be finished by Skybound Games
- Vampire RPG Nighthawks has been funded
October 6
- Here's new alpha footage of that System Shock remake
- Capcom confirms a live-action Mega Man movie is on the way
- The Soulcalibur 6 community designed its own character and here's the monstrous result
- Here's what's coming up in Destiny 2's October updates
- No Man's Sky's latest update focuses on 'improving and extending' planetary exocraft
- Ubisoft resolves DDoS attack but connectivity issues persist for some Assassin's Creed Odyssey players
- Fortnite 'Support-A-Creator' program lets fans donate to Fortnite content creators
October 5
- Black Ops 4's battle royale mode will be capped at 120 fps at launch
- Baldur's Gate 3 is in the works, apparently
- Bungie discusses the creation of Last Wish and Destiny 2's colossal raid boss
- Scammers are targeting Fortnite cheaters with data-stealing malware
- HP's Omen 15t and 17t gaming laptops are $300 off
- This refurbished Acer gaming laptop with a GTX 1060 is just $850
- EVGA’s latest power supplies are so small they can fit in your hand
- Rust gets a big boat filled with toys in the Cargo Ship update
- Shadow of the Tomb Raider 'The Forge' DLC pits Lara against lava
- Space Hulk: Tactics trailer kills a planet
- The Architect: Paris asks you to redesign the City of Lights
- Mutant Year Zero gameplay video shows 20 minutes of XCOM-esque action
- EA is 'closely monitoring' rape allegations against FIFA 19 cover athlete Cristiano Ronaldo
October 4
- Big Bash Boom is an arcade cricket game by the creators of Ashes Cricket
- Get a 6GB GTX 1060 and a 600W power supply for $240
- More Telltale employees have reportedly been laid off
- Descent—formerly Descent: Underground—begins beta testing in November
- Surviving Mars: Space Race adds a competitive twist to life on the red planet
- Soldier of Fortune compatibility mod taken offline after alleged Activision request
- EA is making changes to Battlefield 5's divisive Attrition System
- Get this limited edition NZXT H440 case and PC Building Simulator for $50
- Intel stays on top of its GPU driver game with an update for the latest Windows 10 build
- Nvidia releases a ‘Game Ready’ GPU driver for the Windows 10 October update
- Task Manager bug in Windows 10 October update misreports CPU usage
- Dell’s thinnest Alienware laptop to date packs a 6-core CPU and GTX 1070 GPU
- Where to find Fortnite's corrupted areas for easy battle stars
- Where to find Fortnite's Shadow Stones
- Shadow Warrior 2 is free on GOG for the next 48 hours
- Total War: Warhammer 2 is getting pirate-y DLC featuring giant enemy crabs next month
- Latest Windows 10 Update stops future updates interrupting your game
- Footage of Amazon’s MMO New World leaks online
- New Darksiders 3 trailer shows Fury unleashing the Force
- Northgard’s apocalyptic expansion Ragnarok is free to download now
- An official VR Twin Peaks game is in development
October 3
- NHL team bans video games on the road
- Mike Morhaime steps down as Blizzard president
- You can get Black Desert Online for free, but only if you can reach level 56 in one week
- 13 million PUBG accounts have been banned since mid-2017
- Save 20% on most Corsair products this week
- Doomfist is now Doomfish
- Custom GeForce RTX NVLink bridges have started popping up
- Warner Bros. will distribute Cyberpunk 2077 in North America
- Dungeons & Dragons Online gets its 40th update, players get a free Ranger's Cloak
- 802.11ac is now called ‘Wi-Fi 5’ in effort to simplify wireless nomenclature
- Live-action hybrid adventure The Quiet Man ghosts onto PC this November
- Listen to Ben Brode's 'obvious' tips for good game development
- Rainbow Six Siege players want forgiveness for teamkilling
- Morrowind-to-Skyrim total conversion Skywind gets a new trailer
- Fortnite 6.01 patch adds new 'Chiller' weapon, custom playground options
- Overcooked 2 gets tropical in new DLC
- Ubisoft says it's 'fighting for resources' for new Splinter Cell
- Indiana Jones and the Infernal Machine gets first digital release in 19 years
- Razer wants a slice of the router market, launches its first model aimed at gamers
October 2
- Windows 10 update for October brings DirectX Raytracing to everyone
- Alexander Ovechkin is becoming a World of Warships commander
- Killing Floor 2's Halloween update features a new map and a Road Redemption crossover
- This RX Vega 64 graphics card with three free games is $470 right now
- Get SOMA, Opus Magnum, Nuclear Throne, and more in a cheap bundle
- Cooler Master's latest case aims to let you build a PC your way, for a hefty price
- Overwatch Lego sets are on the way soon
- NZXT is having a case sale on Phantom and Manta models, save up to $60
- SteelSeries launches a fast-charging wireless mouse with dual sensors
- Footage of Harry Potter RPG leaks online
- Seattle police launch opt-in registry system to help prevent swatting
- Google unveils game streaming project, tests start soon with Assassin’s Creed Odyssey
- CD Projekt calls demand for payment by Witcher creator Andrzej Sapkowski 'groundless'
- Inside and Limbo dev is reportedly working on a science fiction project
October 1
- Hour-long documentary looks at the history of Divinity's Larian Studios
- XCOM designer Jake Solomon hints at 'something special' for the sixth anniversary
- Intel Core i9-9900K packaging looks like a Destiny engram
- Gearbox CEO Randy Pitchford allegedly scammed out of nearly $3 million by former personal assistant
- Leather laptops are a thing now, apparently
- Intel says 10nm Cannon Lake shipments still on track as it deals with 14nm CPU shortage
- Watch Adam Driver play a bad Fortnite dad on Saturday Night Live
- California passes net neutrality law, is promptly sued by the Department of Justice
- Kursk, the first-person adventure about the Russian sub disaster, pushed into November
- Blizzard gets cryptic with year’s Overwatch Halloween Terror Event
- X4: Foundations gets release date and new trailer
- Devolver announces marijuana tycoon simulator Weedcraft Inc
- New Everquest expansion The Burning Lands announced
- Amazon MMO New World delivers yet more environment images, requests alpha testers
- DaggerHell does Devil Daggers in Doom
- Over 170 more games have been removed from Steam in recent weeks
- Minecraft is getting pandas, crossbows, and more