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October 10
- GTA 6 leaker threatens to upload a build with 'full story mode'
- Squadron 42 has a Steam page
- Deadlock surpasses Team Fortress 2's all-time concurrent player count peak as it adds a chess wizard
- The studio behind Star Wars Zero Company is bringing back some of its furloughed staff
- WoW: Forever, by casting off modern convenience, has horseshoed back around to being casual friendly again
- Triple-A Minesweeper is a gleeful send-up of blockbuster gaming's worst habits, from yellow paint to characters who talk too much
- Be warned: Nivalis Nights may not be the cozy game you expect: 'If you want a cozy existence in this city, you're going to have to earn it'
- The advent of first-person shooters introduced a wild frontier of unregulated video game level packs, and it ended in a lawsuit that changed copyright forever
- Expect plenty more Silent Hill over the next few years, as Konami has plans for 'second and third waves' of new games in its revived horror series
- 'If you're skilful enough, you can chop the head off a monster, kick it midair, and then kill another monster with it': Consider me sold on this indie first-person ARPG
- Mafia 3, which PC Gamer scored 54% but which I say is great, got a nice little 10th-anniversary update
- 2026's OLED monitors can nearly recreate the sublime clarity of a '90s CRT, but Windows will have to change before we can achieve true nirvana
October 9
- 'Overcooked broke you apart and Stage Fright is there to put you back together'
- Cyberpunk 2077 is being made into a movie, even though we've already got the perfect cyberpunk movie starring Keanu Reeves as a guy named Johnny
- Don't worry, Valve: I've got your next Deadlock character concepts sorted
- Leisure Suit Larry is about to take his final bow
- I might finally have gone too far with a GTA 5 mod that imports most of Doom 2
- Wardogs will bribe players with cash and XP to pick Blue team in Season 2
- 'I was nice to you three times in a row, so can I have one sex please?': Why Nivalis Nights intentionally avoided transactional romances
- Worldwide PC shipments have plummeted by over 20%, to the surprise of absolutely no one
- Valve is telling devs how well their games actually run on Steam Deck with real world data
- WoW: Forever dev says 'there's a real longing for that slower, more deliberate pace' in MMOs: 'A deliberate pushback on this go go go nature'
- Motion blur is the worst effect in games (confirmed)
- When the weather turns foul in Arc Raiders' Pendola Pass, take a trip to a Storm Hut—they're some of the best loot spots I've found
- Counter-Strike 2 player dedicates Master's thesis to rooting out cheaters, creates grade A player tracking system
- How to get planks and sheet metal in Arc Raiders
- Does Razer's 'Perfect 180' insta-turning mouse feature count as cheating? You decide
- How to complete Tracks of the Beast in Arc Raiders
- New Razer Basilisk V4 executes perfect 180 degree turns at the click of a button, all while looking like a Power Ranger's foot
- How to complete To the Skies in Arc Raiders
- WoW: Forever's list of changes snowballed as Blizzard got more excited, says dev: 'Our original pitch internally was: We'll do 4 new dungeons'
- Intel to release new CPUs on old socket in early 2027 says Gigabyte - memory crisis making DDR4 desirable again
- Peter Molyneux explains the origin story of Black & White's famous creatures: 'It was originally a monster. It wasn't a cute creature'
- Google's golden age of AI games?
October 8
- Minecraft's new boss is the former chief product officer of Reddit
- The System Shock TV show has been cancelled
- Why a 21-year-old coder finally ported the real P.T. to PC: 'That something so influential could eventually become unplayable never sat right with me'
- Blizzard refuses to let World of Warcraft: Forever's dungeons become the fastest way to grind XP: 'We need to hold firm on these balance adjustments'
- How to start the Dragon's Dogma 2: Dark Arisen expansion
- US government accuses Microsoft of replacing American workers with 'foreign indentured servants,' then gives Satya Nadella a medal
- Jason may or may not appear fully nude in GTA 6, but either way we've now seen his dong
- Vampire games on Steam are a recession indicator and I have the charts to prove it
- A great indie studio is making a sequel to one of my favorite adventures 17 years later, for one simple reason: 'We're not getting any younger, and the world seems to be ending'
- Subnautica 2 fans can finally hunt and kill those pesky Nibbler Mangos—in Dave the Diver's crossover DLC
- I have added roving bands of militant furries to Grand Theft Auto 5
- Amazon is roasting users with their own shopping habits, but it don't have nothin' on us
- Crowning the best FPS mode of all time through 1v1 combat (ROUND 2)
- As it lays off developers and closes studios, Xbox launches a new division focused on 'how people experience our franchises beyond the games themselves'
- All hail the long steam machine, Pimax's new SteamOS-ready mini PC
- Pimax says 'I'll have what Valve's having' as it announces new wireless VR headset, foveated streaming, updated controllers, and long Steam Machine
- Houses I'd build in a survival game, part 3
- How to complete Boarding the Frigate in Arc Raiders
- Microsoft seems very excited about its new magnetic USB Type-C charger for the Surface Laptop Ultra, but it don't impress me much
- I'm intrigued by this political sim that puts you smack-dab in Germany at the end of World War 1
- How to complete Sizing Things Up in Arc Raiders
- Spiritfarer dev's next game, At Fate's End, is one of the prettiest things I've ever seen
- What does Nomadic Crafting let you make in Arc Raiders?
- How to complete Clean Hands in Arc Raiders
- Where to find the Ruined Homestead in Arc Raiders
- PC Gamer magazine's new issue is on sale now: World of Warcraft: Forever
- Muramasa: Revenant Blades has 108 swords, and its definitive update for PC wants to make sure you use them all
- Now we know the prices of the new RTX Spark laptops and they're as expensive as I'm sure you feared
- Here's the Dragon's Dogma 2: Dark Arisen release time for your region
October 7
- Blizzard promises to make the blue elves in World of Warcraft: Forever look worse (positive)
- With Grand Theft Auto 6 poised to take over the world, I reached out to Jack Thompson and it did not go well
- Blood Bowl 3 is being replaced by Warhammer Blood Bowl: What will happen to everyone's unspent currency?
- 'You have HOW MANY unread emails?' PC Gamer shares their inbox shame
- Bobby's back
- Steam is about to start getting some of the best Japanese pixel art in gaming history
- Nivalis Nights review
- We tried to earn as much gold in WoW: Forever as we could in 2 hours—which involved a mugging, slander, and at least one crashout
- World of Warcraft: Forever drops the PvP grind so normal people can have fancy titles too
- Skate has been de-live serviced by ReSkate, a modding platform downloaded 350,000 times—devs say they will comply if EA's lawyers come knocking
- "You guys wanna see a dead body?"
- Help, I have been abducted by a tiny car and cannot escape
- For a moment it looked like Grand Theft Auto 6 might be playable on PC on launch day—then Xbox's chief strategy officer crashed the party
- British voter Wordle
- I had 3 hours with Arc Raiders Frozen Trails update and spent most of it playing with the new grapple hook
- Critical Role's latest D&D episode was so stressful, I discovered a new noise my mouth can make
- Quarterfinals: Vote for the best RTS unit of all time
- The biggest discounts on PC hardware we've spotted this Prime Day
- 2026 is a low-key revolutionary year for player movement in games
- PSA: Star Wars Galactic Racer pilots, put some points in resilience before you hit the acid planet
October 6
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 11 underappreciated games you should buy in the Steam Autumn Sale, according to some of our biggest genre sickos
- Has your life ever been changed by someone you met in an MMO?
- 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
- 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
- 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?