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- October 6
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- Wait, who's writing Sebulba?
- My most-played album of 2026? Sorry, Mitski—it's Final Fantasy 10: House Grooves, a real thing that exists
- 'Please give Novus one more chance': An 11-year-old early access survival game just got its first update since 2018
- The PC Gamer Mysteries, Case #1: "A Slice of Death": Why is there a dead golfer hidden in Golden Tee '99?
- At Fate's End is delayed to 2027
- Gears of War: E-Day review
- Warhammer Survivors launches on November 10 and its demo is available now
- I've added scams to GTA 5, but I might have scammed myself
- Warhorse co-founder believes 'AI is not a get out of jail free card' and that execs have a 'simplified mental model' of what it means for games
- You can zip around WoW: Forever in this nifty map viewer
- Warhammer Survivors is more than just a Vampire Survivors spin-off
- Gundam Rogue Orbit gave me a sick whip sword, but held back the one thing I want most in a mech game
- Deadlock isn't a MOBA or a third-person shooter anymore—City Never Sleeps has turned it into a horror game
- Exclusive – Warhammer 40,000: Dark Heresy will let you be a crooked cop, pinning crimes on the innocent, or follow in good boy Gregor Eisenhorn's footsteps
- Despite the tragic death of its lead writer, one of the scariest games I have ever played will finally come out later this month
- October 5
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- Steam sale deep cut alert: this ARPG originally developed for Nokia N-Gage is brilliant on Deck
- Industry layoff watch: Supermassive, Ninja Theory, The Coalition, and a warning from Warhorse
- Despite calling Grand Theft Auto 'a videogame franchise built around criminal activity,' Miami-Dade sheriff isn't mad about the NBA's 'Vice City' transformation
- Got myself a Pip-Boy... sorry, I mean a 'Rad-Lad'
- I am cavorting with a gazelle's grace in Grand Theft Auto 5
- The final showdown: Motion blur vs chromatic aberration
- Developer gets a little too silly, recommends deadly psychoactive ingredient in its bad boy-themed cocktail
- RuneScape dev apologises after RuneFest debut of an AI-generated six-fingered character: 'That's pretty hard to explain away'
- Arc Raiders is looking for 'more ways to integrate real human performances' starting with Celeste's visual overhaul for Frozen Trail
- Dungeons & Dragons: World of Warcraft is already a slam dunk, but it's how it captures the spirit of the MMO that makes it stand out
- Capcom's remake machine is ticking away, only problem is that means revisiting Resident Evil 5 and 6
- I got my start writing for a PlayStation 2 magazine: These are my 12 PS2-pilled recommendations from the Steam Autumn Sale
- Warhammer: Blood Bowl is Blood Bowl 3.5 rather than a whole new game, but based on the beta it's definitely an upgrade
- It's easy to forget now, but the first Elder Scrolls game had a rough launch back in the day: 'It was a disaster in a lot of ways and somehow built a billion-dollar franchise'
- October 4
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- Garry Newman responds to s&box criticism in lengthy YouTube comment: 'I don't like giving up on things, I am stubborn'
- Kingdom Come: Deliverance studio co-founder says a lot of RPGs are 'still games for teenagers,' and that he's 'tired of all the RPGs where you are this chosen one'
- Brigador devs: 'The '90s PC classics often taught really special things, but not because the story said, Wow, violence is bad!'
- Oh crap Dark Souls turned 15
- What does your dream videogame concert look like?
- RuneScape is getting a new character type that promises a fresh start, but existing players are wary of splitting the community up
- Tonda Ros, creator of Blue Prince, has played UFO 50 for almost 700 hours: 'I think it's easily my favourite game of the last 20 years'
- Silent Hill: Townfall is the first horror game to make me feel bad for using a shotgun
- Yet another free fan level pack for Quake has arrived, and this one's all about a feature rarely seen in id Software's classic shooter
- Grand Theft Auto 6 features 'detailed decapitation' and 'frequent and prominent' drug use, according to hastily deleted PEGI rating
- An OpenAI model was caught trying to cheat at StarCraft, and of course it did it by stealing a human's work
- GTA 6 won't be letting up on the satire: 'If you are going to put all this effort into creating a version of today's world, it has to be more over the top, more insane, more in your face'
- Steam's global top sellers are my Top of the Pops
- One of the most popular Total War: Warhammer 3 mods was 'deliberately corrupted' by its creator to sabotage AI-made copies
- October 3
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- Crimson Desert DLC delayed by 2 weeks, please join me in wishing the devs a fond 'take your time, please drink some water'
- Valorant player claims to have inherited hardware ban through secondhand CPU, Riot anticheat boss disputes parts of story
- RuneScape 4 announced at RuneFest, full MMO sequel started as expansion to survival game Dragonwilds
- The Witcher 3's remaster just brought it to a new all-time concurrent player count peak
- Forget what PC Gamer said: The Witcher 3 will always be my 2015 GOTY
- Deadlock is the king of MOBA character designs, and it's all thanks to Valve's embrace of New Yorkyness
- Has your life ever been changed by someone you met in an MMO?
- 11 underappreciated games you should buy in the Steam Autumn Sale, according to some of our biggest genre sickos
- Fallen London is where the writers of Baldur's Gate 3, Dishonored and Stellaris come to let their hair down
- Deadlock's new hero Rat King has over 100 voice lines dedicated to throwing rats at you
- 2026 is the year big brands have finally pushed gaming mouse technology forwards
- 007 First Light gets free DLC that will finally let you drive James Bond's Aston Martin properly
- Bored with roguelikes? You might still want to play Dicevaders, a game about perfecting dice rolls
- Capcom announces plans to transform its RE Engine into an 'AI-generation game engine'
- October 2
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- Necks vs Milk experiment proves gamers like necks, hate milk
- Ace Combat director's dreams made real
- FPS tourney update
- GTA 6 marketing stunt reveals none of our UK editors have heard of the Miami Heat
- Let's catch you up on all the latest news from Steam's 20 most-wishlisted games
- Valve's patch note supremacy
- For once, I'm happy to see expensive corporate lawyers forcing a fan project offline
- The Rat King has arrived
- AI guys beefing with the pope: A brief recap
- I've been skeptical about Bandai Namco's upcoming Gundam game—but then I saw this model kit's chainsaw macuahuitl
- After 30 years they finally let Ace Combat's director fly in a real jet, and I'm taking credit
- Arc Raiders is free to play next weekend
- Destiny 2 might be back, but the Bungie Store is going away
- 7 musical clips of this incredibly charming magical school life sim with its goofy classmates and delightful soundtrack
- Dear former NFL head coach Mike Tomlin: Your 12-year Minecraft city is beautiful
- I added October-appropriate zombies to Grand Theft Auto 5
- Silent Hill: Townfall's monsters are terrible at hide-and-seek
- The upcoming sim about making games is so deep your in-game game can even get cyberleeked
- A surprisingly in-depth dressmaking simulator has the cosy gamers in a chokehold
- You should buy Lorelei and the Laser Eyes
- The 7 incredibly hyper-specific things I'm looking forward to when Destiny 2 brings back its deleted campaigns, raids and destinations
- I'm going to teach you to love hidden object games
- The WoW: Forever beta's nerf to dungeon XP isn't nearly as bad as it seems
- Final Fantasy 7 Revelation director on its 'very extravagant' final Sephiroth fight and whether anyone will ever pull something like this trilogy off again
- Star Wars: Galactic Racer review
- In my quest to find the perfect mouse for me, I've ended up with two completely different ones
- Metal desks nearly destroyed a Valorant tournament
- Riot needed absurd player counts 'in the high hundreds of thousands, if not millions' for 2XKO, dooming it from launch
- TIL: The Steam Frame can be used as a pair of night vision goggles
- Looks like you will have to pinky promise you won't export your RTX 5090 if you buy a gaming PC from Micro Center now
- Unscrupulous Airbnb host tries to get $1,700 out of Redditor with AI-generated pic of overflowing toilet
- Deadlock's got a scary troll
- Turns out you can download more battery as Valve's latest update for Steam Frame adds up to 12%
- I hate having to prove my brand loyalty just for the chance to buy hardware at full price
- After a record-breaking September, 'it's safe to say Steam's yearly revenue will blow past $20B for the first time'
- 9 new 2026 games on sale in the Steam Autumn Sale
- October 1
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- Houses I'd build in a survival game, part 2
- There's something even scarier than Huggy Wuggy in the Playtime toy factory this weekend
- There are so many games coming out in October you guys
- Masters of Albion, Peter Molyneux's final game, just got a huge update and, [vigorous, lips-pursed nodding of approval], suddenly the old god game magic is back
- If Ace Combat's too pricey, this excellent indie alternative is on sale for just $12.50
- Talos Principle 2 is $3
- One story about my first 30 minutes in this post-apocalyptic robot game led multiple people to buy it
- 'Open world fatigue' is one reason indie RPG Entropy is borrowing from the classics: 'PS1, PS2, GameCube games really never outstayed their welcome'
- How to conquer Kuttenberg
- More than 450 Witcher 3 mods have already been updated to support the Remastered version
- Kingdom Come: Deliverance studio co-founder hopes Grand Theft Auto 6 will 'blaze a trail' to higher game prices
- 'We needed a potentially infinite resource of party members so that we could then kill them:' Entropy dev James Wragg explains how you fit permadeath in a party RPG
- At last: I can build a home out of raw Windows Vista-era nostalgia
- That's some fiiiiine lookin' milk, but Rust devs warn that 'cream is a more powerful consumable'
- Reigns, Card Shark studio Nerial is closing
- Myhouse.wad remains very cool
- You can now buy more than 44,000 games for $5 or less on Steam
- Grand Theft Auto 5 is a game about shapeshifting now. I don't make the rules
- After a series of catastrophes where no-one could seem to roll well, I truly have no idea who's going to make it out of Critical Role's next episode
- Resident Evil's executive producer explains the deeper meaning behind Requiem, and I just can't get on board
- Sound the 'This week's free Epic Games Store game is worth logging in for' alarm
- You can now play Halo: Combat Evolved in a web browser, and it even has multiplayer
- Great news, cowards: The Witcher 3's most yellow-bellied mod works with the remaster
- I'm here to inform you the wrist rest included with the new Logitech G Pro X2 Rapid is very good and very wobbly
- Don't fear the BIOS update: Asus has just fixed a local access vulnerability affecting older Intel motherboards
- Gears of War: E-Day system requirements require ray tracing-capable graphics card to play, alongside 115 GB of free space on an SSD
- Where to find the Nangan region Treasure Hunt in Forza Horizon 6
- Google Japan's conveyor belt keyboard is a sad reminder of the sense of humour the whole company used to have long, long ago
- This arse cushion is the biggest upgrade I've made to my gaming setup in 2026, which says a lot about where we're at right now
- I am here to save us all time by determining which of our most-played videogames would be more efficiently completed if you had a gun
- Chiptune Mozart is really good
- AOC jumps on the 1,000 Hz IPS gaming monitor bandwagon but this time with 0.1 ms pixel response
- Roll up roll up, can you spot which of these images are using DLSS 5?
- Arc Raiders' is taking no prisoners when it comes to cheaters with permanent bans becoming the new normal: 'No warnings. No second chances'
- I want to punt Meta's Muse AI mascot back into the cursed void from whence it came
- The greatest RTS unit of all time, determined by democracy
- Motion blur vs film grain - which is worse?
- Have you heard of the critically acclaimed MMORPG… oh, Final Fantasy 11, that's new
- I did every expedition in Arc Raiders and all I got was this t-shirt
- AMD's new 'Gainsborough' APU rumoured to be the chip that powers the long-awaited Steam Deck 2
- Micron CEO says it'll be tougher to get memory in the next couple of years than it is today, and keeps saying it over and over again
- I spent far too long assigning gaming mouse values based on their price-to-weight ratio, and the runner-up is the rodent on my desk right now
- Nvidia says my RTX 4070 Super isn't capable of Multi Frame Gen, but I'm surprised by how smooth this unofficial unlock actually feels
- We're probably not getting a new Fallout game until well into the 2030s, but that's no reason to stop talking about them
- TIL what may or may not be the oldest board game in recorded history is also, perhaps inevitably, now a roguelike
- $30 extra for early access?
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