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- October 27
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- Rockstar will hold union vote right on top of Grand Theft Auto 6 release
- Messages in certain large public Discord servers will be searchable on the web after December
- Mass Effect composer Sam Hulick is working on a 're-scored' version of the leaked Mass Effect 5 trailer for N7 Day
- Former Halo boss is now in charge of Wizards of the Coast and Hasbro Digital Games
- Warhammer 40,000: Boltgun studio announces major layoffs, then quickly deletes the announcement
- Nvidia and AMD invest billions into Meta as companies egg each other on to bet even more on AI
- Dungeons & Dragons: World of Warcraft's class designer 'crammed as much' of the MMO into it so that even veteran tabletop players can experience something new
- Square Enix vets say devs of the future will need to 'master the use of AI', but the human touch will still be vital
- Edge magazine went to Rockstar to see GTA 6, and will tell you all about it in lavish detail this Thursday, October 29
- Nvidia may not have discontinued the RTX 5090, but one AIB partner says it can't get hold of the parts required to make the card
- You just can't win—despite Ghost of Yōtei selling millions of copies, 24 people are reportedly being let go from Sucker Punch
- Call of Duty passes $40 billion in lifetime revenue, making it one of the most lucrative videogame franchises ever
- Peter Molyneux speaks candidly about AI: 'We, as the industry, are pretending we're not using AI, but the reality is, it's almost impossible to code now without using AI'
- Dark Messiah's new edition adds co-op, cut content and console-exclusive maps to the 20-year-old orc-kicking extravaganza, and it's coming to Steam this year
- Kingdom Come, Lord of the Rings studio Warhorse 'hit by a cyberattack'
- Bassist plays Halloween gig wearing a Steam Frame: 'Interestingly, only one guy asked me about the Frame'
- Half-Life: Alyx patch adds foveated rendering support a mere 6 years after the game's release
- The 50 most-played Steam Next Fest demos include 7 incremental games, 4 AI disclosures, and only one instance of haystack slop
- October 26
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- World of Warcraft: Forever's last-minute patch transforms its bovines into racecars capable of zooming 60% faster than everyone else
- One day before launch, ARPG Emberville gets delayed until 2027
- A free 'micro' horror game from the maker of The Mortuary Assistant is basically if PT was an episode of Law and Order
- The developer of one of my favorite 2020s RPGs does it because of BioWare: 'Baldur's Gate 1 is the first game I truly loved'
- Veteran game composer in talks to score Mass Effect 5 shares 20 minutes of music he wrote for the project: 'To even dream in your sandbox was a privilege'
- The best haunted card game since Inscryption is back with a new mystery only solitaire freaks can solve
- Walter Koenig, Star Trek's Pavel Chekhov, has died
- The Regreening is a post-apocalyptic farm sim where you grow animal habitats instead of cash crops
- Mass Effect fan group buys billboard in Times Square promoting petition to save series
- CD Projekt marks the 19th anniversary of its first Witcher RPG with a tribute to BioWare: 'Their support helped turn our vision into Geralt’s first interactive adventure'
- Over 25% of Microsoft's workforce is reportedly eligible to apply for a 'voluntary exit offer'
- New Windows 11 Insider Experimental build adds the ability to check your internet speed without a browser
- A whole host of Steam PC games can now run locally on a jailbroken PlayStation 5, including Portal, Left 4 Dead 2, and many more
- Valve adds CD-ROM support to Steam Frame kernel less than ten minutes after saying it would look into it
- 'I no longer think we’re going to be able to patch all bugs' says AI Pandora's box opener Sam Altman: 'We're going to have to completely switch the defense model'
- Call of Duty's director explains that his film will be all about the 'consequence of war' and not just a shoot-'em-up
- Steam is broken: It's still up but some users can't log in
- I have jumped in WoW: Forever's beta 7738 times, roughly 135 jumps an hour, and if you'd like to find out if you beat me there's a stat tracker
- I've never felt worse for doing well in a videogame than in this intensely '90s citybuilder
- Phantom Blade Zero devs say the game needs 300 GB of free space for the pre-load process, alongside updated system requirements
- The Golden Joystick Awards Ultimate Game of the Year voting is a-go, with games like Crimson Desert, The Blood of Dawnwalker, and Big Walk all on the docket
- Leaked video shows hundreds, possibly thousands of brand-new RTX 5090s being dismantled for AI server usage in Chinese factory
- Korean police arrest cyberhacking gang reportedly led by self-taught hacker, who allegedly used AI to breach 60 firms and received a mere $210 in ransom
- October 25
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- Commander Shepard actors Jennifer Hale & Mark Meer mourn BioWare: 'It was in the hands of ownership that may not have understood what BioWare fully is''
- Indies and non-sequels have exploded in the last year, and it's not all friendslop
- 'Save Mass Effect' petition hits over 180,000 signatures within days of BioWare's closure
- The creator of our running RPG of the year weighs in on BioWare's closure: 'They were fundamental to the genre'
- Overwatch devs took one look at Jetpack Cat and Bastion's combo and went 'oh, that's a little scary'
- 'This is the bit where the comet hits the earth and the dinosaurs die:' Tim Sweeney revisits scathing 26-year-old eulogy for beloved studio Looking Glass
- This third-person mod for Deus Ex turns the classic immersive sim into Max Payne, introducing dual-wielding and shoot-dodging
- Civilization 7's game changing update was 'personally challenging' for its creative director, as being able to play as a single faction 'wasn't part of the original vision'
- Mass Effect 5 would have let players generate alternate timelines based on their choices in previous games, according to the series' technical director
- October 24
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- Top Xbox exec promoted in brand 'reset' leaves after 3 months in role
- The mouse P.I. for hire from Mouse: P.I. For Hire joins the meat boy from Super Meat Boy 3D in gaming's latest indie crossover
- Japan Actors Union pushes for heavy restrictions on AI copying dead actors
- 'I drank from the chalice of blood': indie dev scrubs his game of AI-generated voice lines, having previously described the technology as 'anti-human and anti-art'
- Award-winning sci-fi author NK Jemisin joins BioWare's mourners and scorns a broken industry for killing geese that 'laid the golden eggs'
- After 14 years of development, Factorio's final major update is out now
- Star Wars Galaxies' Restoration project just received another massive update, including a huge visual upgrade and an overhaul to the Wookiees' home planet
- October 23
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- Mass Effect 5 was set in a 'galactic Cold War,' new leak claims, and all 3 endings were wrapped into 1
- Based on player data, Capcom's pretty happy with the difficulty level of Onimusha: Way of the Sword: 'We think it's hit the right spot'
- Time could be running out for Arkane
- It's our new daily game fixation and we all stink at it: Can you guess how much used cars cost?
- Creative Assembly exec pins the blame for the Shogun 2 remaster mess on someone else: 'This was not a Creative Assembly developed game'
- 'Every single week it's going to feel like the sky is falling': Cloudflare CEO says strap in for 'a couple years' of AI-powered internet security mayhem
- 'I'm forever grateful to BioWare': 16 game developers share the moment a BioWare game inspired them to join the industry
- Upcoming Mass Effect-like Exodus himbo-fies protagonist after fans complain about his face
- AMD says the re-release of the Ryzen 7 5800X3D was 'like a final gift to our loyal [AM4] users' and it was CEO Dr. Lisa Su who first came up with the idea
- AMD says its working on FSR's frame pacing issues, but there's still conspicuously no mention of Multi Frame Generation
- In a rare instance of good news, Philips has announced the world's first 36-inch, 260 Hz gaming monitor. So that's nice
- Graphics card wholesale prices are on the rise once again in China, so it's time to brace yourself for even more GPU pricing pain
- All Genshin Impact 7.2 livestream codes
- Stolen RTX 5090 from Brazilian airport forklift heist reportedly turns up on second hand market for $6,400, but the rest remain AWOL
- A public outing of severe and unfixed Linux kernel vulnerabilities should have you thinking of updating your SteamOS or other distros to beta branches
- October 22
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- A new Fallout 4 mod adds an entire town, but more importantly, it lets you join a gang
- Epic announces game jam where you have to use AI, then walks back the requirement
- Canadian politician calls on government to help BioWare employees buy the studio and run it themselves
- Half-Life 3 re-re-re-confirmed: A Valve dev just said 'HLX' out loud
- Future Capcom games will have Onimusha to thank for RE Engine's gnarly dismemberments
- 'No other studio in the world did it better' than BioWare at its peak, says former Dragon Age lead writer David Gaider
- Splash Damage acquired this studio just 3 months after laying off a bunch of people—now it's laying them off, too
- Someone leaked a Mass Effect 5 trailer and now I feel even worse, because it looks really good
- 'We probably sold millions of boards because of that game, and it was magnificent': 3dfx cofounder gives Quake a 'great deal of credit for our overall success'
- Ex-BioWare boss and Mass Effect director Casey Hudson says he'll 'forever be grateful' for his time at the studio: 'Its legacy will live on'
- EA has reportedly put DICE and Respawn to work on a new Star Wars: Battlefront game
- Capcom confirms a data breach has affected over 11 million people, with emails, IP addresses, and birthdays caught up in the mix
- Only $70 separates RTX 5050, RTX 5060, and RTX 5060 Ti AND the RTX 5060 Ti 16 GB is now the same price as the RTX 5070 in what I can only describe as pure carnage
- Game industry legend Warren Spector blows up over BioWare's closure: 'it's utter bulls**t'
- No more waiting on shaders to compile as Nvidia's latest driver adds advanced shader delivery: users report lower RAM usage in Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 4 and Gears of War: E-Day
- 'What we were cooking was really cool': An award-winning science fiction author was working on Mass Effect 5's story
- Over '30 million rounds of PvE were played' over the last week in Arc Raiders but Embark still needs 'a bit of time to understand what the data is telling us'
- Redditor's mother-in-law finds missing Steam Deck on train, returns it to its rightful owner in a soap box nine months later
- As Final Fantasy 14's doors remain closed, surviving players are stepping in to keep everyone's crops alive
- The iconic Windows fish screensaver was inspired by a dentist's office, which makes a lot of sense when you think about it
- Mass Effect's Amazon series is reportedly continuing after BioWare shutdown, which'll make an uncomfortable gravestone for the studio's work
- Star Wars: The Old Republic lead writer calls out BioWare for snubbing the MMO
- The next Mass Effect would have had 'a level of autonomy and choice that no other game has been able to match', according to BioWare veteran
- Holy crap, they're making Serious Sam: The Third Encounter
- October 21
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- Machinarium AI tribute cops a flogging from studio: 'This looks disgusting and has nothing to do with us or our craft'
- CD Projekt boss pays tribute to BioWare for helping bring The Witcher to life 20 years ago: 'BioWare has been a massive part of CDPR history'
- Modern Warfare 4 players declare 'broken' on DMZ perk that lets you self-revive after full death
- It gives me great nerdly joy that the Next Fest demo on Steam's 100 most-played games list is a shopkeeping sim
- Everyone gets a free ticket to World of Warcraft: Forever today as Blizzard stress tests the servers ahead of launch day
- With BioWare dead, EA lays out its 'next chapter,' and it's pretty much as predicted: Guns and football are fine, and everything else is under the microscope
- RIP BioWare: EA has shut down the legendary RPG developer
- Nearly $1 million worth of PSA-graded Pokémon and other trading cards have been stolen right outside PSA's headquarters
- GOG taken offline for maintenance in wake of PHP security emergency
- US government leaks the best GTA 6 promo yet: Pißwasser is real
- Don't get hit with the BIOS update hammer for COD MW4 like my colleagues—here's how to ensure you can play multiplayer and DMZ
- AMD has shipped FSR 4.1 early for RX 6000 graphics cards, and it's coming to Ryzen APUs, Vulkan, and Xbox too
- 'You've taken us free cash flow negative as a company, so congratulations': Amazon has plenty of Nvidia GPUs, but not enough energy to power its AI boom
- 80% of Samsung's data center memory is already sold for 2027, meaning yet another double-digit price increase for RAM expected and more likely to come
- 110 million votes later Nurse Harrow has finally made it into Deadlock, with special thanks to a particularly dedicated player who 'cast exactly 1,000 votes for her'
- 'We expect mass attacks to start within 15 minutes of the release': Web admins braced for emergency PHP updates to plug leaked high-severity holes
- Chinese repair centre has received 7 melted 12+4-pin Nvidia GPUs in just the past two days alone
- Here's another gizmo to prevent your graphics card from melting - wouldn't it be nice if 12+4-pin connectors weren't a cause for concern at all?
- In this age of pervasive slop maybe we should be grateful for Shrek 2 Remastered
- October 20
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- EA Sports FC 27 gets a PEGI 16 rating in Europe because of loot boxes
- 'If you can’t show your game to the world without fearing it’ll be cloned, something’s broken' says Moonlighter studio on its canceled demo
- My favorite indie roguelike action RPG is tempting me to come back with a transformative new update inspired by Diablo seasons
- The studio behind Life is Strange, Jusant, and Lost Records: Bloom & Rage is desperately struggling to stay afloat
- After talking to Capcom, I'm a lot more optimistic about Onimusha 3 getting a remaster
- Founder of bankrupt Samson studio mulls how to use AI for his next attempt: 'Cutting corners in game development has a habit of coming back to bite you in the ass'
- Helldivers 2 studio warns mods may break as it switches to new anti-cheat, and the negative reviews are dropping on Steam like Hellbombs
- Overwatch's director discusses why King's Row is so iconic, but admits that 'every single map in the game gets a vote'
- DLSS Swapper now lets you update all your upscalers in multiple games at once, adds Nvidia's new Frame Generation Preset C
- I have neither the budget nor the inclination for a crystal encrusted RTX 5090, but Galax is releasing one anyway
- Of course a new Edgerunners series means a new Cyberpunk 2077 patch
- Microsoft won't like this open source project to get Game Pass working on SteamOS and Linux, but I think it's pretty neat
- I'm not sure if the Steam Frame hits any corners in this bouncing screensaver, but maybe if I watch long enough the headset will come down in price
- Amnesia: The Dark Descent's co-founder explained the 'the dynamic of Steam' to Red Barrels after Outlast's sales slowed down
- This sound library catalogues 100 different keyboard switches, is dangerous for my wallet, and also has… live service game mechanics?
- Subnautica 2 is heading for 'Early access 2.0,' which brings 'one of our scariest regions we've ever done'
- TP-Link says it will start making Wi-Fi 8 routers in the US, dodging government soft ban in one easy step
- Intel bringing faster upscaler to Valve's Proton - XMX accelerated XeSS could come to SteamOS in boost to future Intel-powered handheld gaming PCs
- New Steam Deck plugin means you can customise your Steam Achievement pop-ups to match Xbox, PlayStation, Nintendo, or anything your heart desires
- October 19
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- Moonlighter studio won't host a public playtest of its next game due to rampant AI-led cloning: 'We know we're not the only developers feeling this way'
- Star Wars Zero Company adds new difficulty options that can bring it closer to XCOM
- Lucasfilm wants to do more Star Wars games like Zero Company and Galactic Racer: 'We’ve tried to be more flexible about who we’re willing to take pitches from'
- Xbox biz guy deletes his X account less than 24 hours after saying game devs who don't embrace AI 'should not be in the business of being a business'
- You can make this DIY controller in six hours and for less than 12 bucks—but would you want to?
- Two entire pallets of RTX 5090s have 'gone missing' from a Brazilian airport—$495,000 worth of unobtanium graphics cards now presumably at large
- PS5-exclusive Demon's Souls Remake not only runs on PC now, it's running at twice the fps cap on an RTX 5070 with frame gen
- No publishers wanted Outlast because they'd 'rather invest $50,000 in 10 mobile games' so Red Barrels relied on public investment programs and their own savings instead
- RTX 5090 not dead, says Nvidia—but it's mysteriously vanished from the company's official marketplace
- Man moved to tears by RTX 5090 on his wedding day - $9000+ price tag brings a tear to my eye too
- October 18
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- 23 devs teamed up to make a free game of 'innovative yet questionable volume sliders,' and it feels like browser-based WarioWare
- Dark Souls 2 dataminer shows off massive prototype coliseum level from early development
- Leaked AI safety bill from Anthropic only requires government intervention if 50+ injuries or $1 billion are at risk
- The Outlast Trials' initial playtests went poorly: Designer says 6-year development took 'a f**king long time' and 'a s**t-ton of prototypes'
- Clive Barker says he's 'genuinely astonished' by Hellraiser: Revival: 'I'm proud as f**k at the end result'
- Outlast designer says that one playtester was so upset by the horror series they 'ran out of the studio to go cry outside' and didn't return
- Liquid Swords, developer of open-city crime sim Samson, has gone bankrupt following staff claims that they haven't been paid in two months
- October 17
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- Metal band Genitorturers claims a Vampire: The Masquerade - Bloodlines remake is coming, getting a dozen crusty nerds way too worked up
- Qualcomm wins $2 legal decision against fellow tech giant Arm, and that's not a typo
- 'I am overwhelmed and overstimulated': The actor behind Star Wars: Galactic Racer’s Biddy Blas is scribbing doon all your enthusiasm
- Surprising no-one, Wizards of the Coast 'doesn't intend to voluntarily recognize' union efforts for the second time this year
- Ghostwire: Tokyo joins GOG Preservation Program, which means you don't have to deal with Bethesda.NET anymore
- The Blood of Dawnwalker's first major update will add directional animal petting and a new story mode that's easier than the previous story mode
- Developer cancels public demo of its upcoming horror drinking game, fearing it will be instantly cloned by AI vibe coders: 'We sincerely apologise for the short notice'
- Funcom is laying off yet more developers as it pivots to supporting Dune: Awakening and Conan Exiles
- October 16
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- Tech founder criticized for vibe coding game about shooting 'zombies' in San Francisco's poorest neighborhood
- The Cyberpunk 2077 movie won't be 'a film adaptation of the game,' CD Projekt chief says
- I haven't wanted to 100% a game in a long time, but…
- 'We f**ked up': 1 day into Wardogs Season 2, the Blue team bribery bonus is being dropped
- Asus not only replaced an RTX 4080 Super with an RTX 5080 but also swapped it *again* just to give this lucky Redditor one that matches their all-white build
- Linux kernel drops AI-contribution disclosure rule, as Linus Torvalds says banning the tech would be 'utterly stupid'
- Windows Settings might become more useful and get quicker updates if this new hidden app is anything to go by
- Former Valve writer baffled by Epic CEO Tim Sweeney's attempts to compete with Steam via vibe coding
- Peter Molyneux explains why Black & White 3 remains MIA, and then drops a tantalising teaser: 'It's such a difficult, difficult, challenging title to develop'
- New fear dropped: Amazon scammer seems to have delidded an $889 AMD chip, transplanted it on old Intel chip, and got it through return inspection
- US lawmaker calls videogame purchases rentals disguised as sales: 'When you pay for a game, you should own it'
- October 15
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- Steam achievements are getting a huge overhaul, with separate sets for DLC and season passes, and an easy way to compare with friends
- Less than 2 weeks after announcing RuneScape Reignited, Jagex is scrapping the whole thing
- Street Fighter review roundup: sorry, folks, but it sounds like a mess
- World of Warcraft: Forever devs say gear upgrades will stay relevant 'for a long, long time': 'It's very much our intention to try wherever we can to not invalidate old content'
- Control Resonant sells 1 million copies in 3 weeks to become Remedy's fastest-selling game ever
- Come on Razer what are you doing? This Pokemon-themed mouse is most definitely not the one
- The AI bubble may not have burst yet, but $1 trillion worth of air appears to have escaped
- The Shogun 2 remaster is so bad, Sega is removing it from sale and bringing back the original
- It's taken its sweet time, but Intel's response to AMD's X3D chips is starting to look tasty
- I jammed Nvidia's new DLSS 5 October update model into the RTX Spark and it's 25% faster at 1440p
- Finally: Our favorite roguelike for sickos will let me play as a sapient tree
- The Grand Theft Auto 6 launch trailer is here
- Epic said its game launcher was faster than Steam on the same day Steam got a speed boost—so I've put both to the test
- A co-op survival game where trolls aren't just there to be killed? 'We don't talk about them as enemies, but rather as neighbors'
- Xbox Ally X 20 vs Xbox Ally X: A wickedly bright OLED screen and frosty temps make for a begrudgingly attractive upgrade for the Asus handheld
- 'There is no secret sauce' to a successful live service game according to Overwatch's associate game director, but knowing your audience is a good start
- OLED really is the gift that keeps on giving, with what should be cheaper 700 Hz panels planned by TCL for 2028
- Big Walk devs explain why it isn't on Xbox and likely never will be, 'not until Microsoft and/or Xbox have been removed as BDS boycott targets'
- Disco Elysium splinter studio's Red Rooster is going to be a 'an incendiary, physics-driven RPG' where you play an inmate, an opiate-fuelled mathematician, and a bus driver with nunchucks
- Valve is toying with a Steam Frame OLED and some Reddit users are already wondering whether to wait an excruciatingly long time for it even though it may never happen
- How in the world are Intel GPUs still improving so much? The latest driver update claims up to a 31% fps improvement in Resident Evil Requiem
- October 14
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- 3 months after launch, Riot announces League of Legends Classic will be killed in January: 'most have gone back to other parts of League'
- State lawsuits accuse OpenAI of ignoring its own safety warnings for profit: 'All these harms were foreseeable and avoidable'
- Ex-Overwatch director Jeff Kaplan ignores everything about the hero shooter after his 'almost clinical' departure 5 years ago: 'I don't search for my name in Overwatch. I don't search for Overwatch. I sort of just disconnect.'
- 'My idea of a Netflix for games doesn't work': Garry's Mod successor is getting 'sweeping changes'
- Legendary composer Frank Klepacki says the RTS genre isn't dead, but he would like to see devs get a little more creative with it
- GTA 6 leaker threatens Take-Two with a 'dead man's switch'
- Ace Combat Zero gets its own standalone app on Steam, freeing it from the 136GB install of Ace Combat 8
- The Walking Dead's Chandler Riggs made a Resident Evil 7 short film even though 'it's impossible to please everybody'
- Assassin's Creed Black Flag Resynced was a big hit, and now it's time for big layoffs at the studio that made it
- Hogwarts Legacy's DLSS 5 update shows devs have been listening to PC gamers about keeping it the hell away from game characters
- 'AI godfather' worries we're creating 'alien beings' with artificial intelligence, with pesky moral implications
- Looks like a lighter, carbon fibre version of the best gaming mouse I've held is on its way, but don't look at the price tag
- If New Blood had made Dusk 2, there'd be no Iron Lung, 'and now David Szymanski has got a movie that made $50 million'—so maybe there's wisdom in not churning out sequels
- WoW: Forever has a new kind of ban to deal with real money trading
- Doom can 'run' on a DNS database now, and one of the technology's pioneers says 'I can't decide whether this is deliciously horrible, or else horribly delicious'
- Fortnite is coming to Linux once Epic improves Easy Anti-Cheat
- Epic says its new 'vibe coded' Epic Games Store launcher is faster than Steam
- GTA 6 was delayed partially because the amount of NPCs was 'horrifying' and required a dedicated studio full of writers to handle
- OpenAI employee arrested for allegedly using AI and toilet paper to record confidential meetings - FBI director Kash Patel jumps at the chance to say AI companies are 'essential' for national security
- '123456' password was all a hacker reportedly needed to expose over 8 million people's personal data
- Haunted Chocolatier is still 'a town game', but it'll be more of an action RPG: 'It's for the people in Stardew Valley that go into the mines'
- I just tricked DLSS into running on my AMD GPU in Cyberpunk 2077 and Alan Wake 2 and all it took was running a single script
- Steam's new Big Art Mode is a lovely visual upgrade for my living room setup
- Steam now has a maddening bouncing logo screensaver, and I'm pretty sure it doesn't perfectly hit the corners
- Valve is clearing out its discontinued Index VR headsets if you want a cheap piece of history
- October 13
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- Rockstar co-founder Dan Houser says he 'failed' with Max Payne 3, and I'm sorry Danno but that's just plain wrong
- Kojima says he was 'just like Bryan' from the Resident Evil movie when he played RE1 in 1996: 'I kept getting game over after game over, shouting F***!'
- Legendary level designer Richard 'Levelord' Gray has died
- World of Warcraft: Forever won't destroy what made the old classes so satisfying by modernizing them into oblivion: 'The level of mechanical complexity found in the beta classes is indicative of our intentions'
- Grand Theft Auto 6 rumored to be launching on PC sooner than anyone expected, but I wouldn't get my hopes up too high
- Ben Affleck lost 3 years to Starcraft, has strong Valorant opinions, and mourns RTSes as a genre, so there's solid odds he's one of our regular commenters
- Hundreds of layoffs and many cancelled projects later, Xbox CEO Asha Sharma reportedly says 'we will not survive' without new IPs
- AMD has reportedly already raised GDDR6 prices for its graphics card partners, so you'll find no solace from spiking GPU prices with Team Red
- RimWorld drops Unity for its own in-house engine, says your saves still work, so do most mods, and the whole thing runs twice as fast
- Dead Space creator says he was 'forced to ship' The Callisto Protocol by Krafton: 'We had f*cking Covid'
- Behold, the $3,000 keyboard that is also actually a powerful AI PC I would hate to spill my coffee on
- Don't neglect crafting furniture in your Arc Raiders outpost—it unlocks hundreds of extra storage slots
- If you're upset about the dire lack of consumer RAM knocking around, this 480 GB Intel GPU isn't going to cheer you up
- Gigabyte deletes blog post on Intel LGA1700 chips in early 2027, but it can't put the cat back in the bag
- Museum strings together 30 old Mac minis for replica of most successful supercomputer, builds something more powerful than the original
- October 12
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- 'Our humble goal is to survive the AI revolution' says Epic Games CEO, as its Star Wars and Marvel crossover pivots to 'AI first' development
- Why alts are part of World of Warcraft: Forever's core progression plans
- People are being robbed of crypto by a tiny chip implanted in their hardware, with $100 million said to have been stolen already
- Schrödinger's GPU set for an early 2027 release as the dead/alive 24 GB RTX 5080 Super box is shaken once more
- I am the controller now: MIT engineers have created a 'second skin' that could one day track whole bodies in VR
- Pearl Abyss goes easy on us critics for our Crimson Desert reviews: 'They had to play the build that is not the exact same version of the launched game'
- 'Your washing machine is subject to more safety rules than AI' says Microsoft president
- Here come the weird and wonderful mods for the Steam Frame, as Valve drops the full CAD files for free
- 'The algorithm continues to properly prioritise Mister Biddy Blas'—Star Wars: Galactic Racer has created the perfect creature
- Star Wars Galactic Racer's devs tested its roguelite progression system by turning it into a board game
- Seamless Landing mod looks set to bring Starfield another step closer to No Man's Sky
- The shortlist for 2026's Golden Joystick Awards is out, including PC Game of the Year, and you can vote now
- October 11
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- PvP pinball is such a good idea I can't believe I haven't played it before
- Nier creator Yoko Taro says he's achieved his career dreams, but he continues working because it's 'good for preventing dementia'
- Arc Raiders 2.0 is here, and you can finally turn those lights on your backpack off
- This Control-inspired action game set in a 'planet-scale alien mind' has one of the most stunning art styles I've seen this year
- The developer of an AI-powered driving instruction simulator is spending $1,000 per day just to keep its demo running
- It looks like Wing Commander 3 is getting a remaster, after EA producer discovers the original FMV source tapes in the company's archives
- October 10
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- 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
- 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'
- 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
- October 9
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- '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
- Leisure Suit Larry is about to take his final bow
- 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
- Does Razer's 'Perfect 180' insta-turning mouse feature count as cheating? You decide
- New Razer Basilisk V4 executes perfect 180 degree turns at the click of a button, all while looking like a Power Ranger's foot
- 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'
- October 8
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- 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'
- 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
- 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
- Amazon is roasting users with their own shopping habits, but it don't have nothin' on us
- 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
- 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
- Spiritfarer dev's next game, At Fate's End, is one of the prettiest things I've ever seen
- Now we know the prices of the new RTX Spark laptops and they're as expensive as I'm sure you feared
- October 7
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- Blizzard promises to make the blue elves in World of Warcraft: Forever look worse (positive)
- Blood Bowl 3 is being replaced by Warhammer Blood Bowl: What will happen to everyone's unspent currency?
- Bobby's back
- Steam is about to start getting some of the best Japanese pixel art in gaming history
- 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
- 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
- Critical Role's latest D&D episode was so stressful, I discovered a new noise my mouth can make
- The biggest discounts on PC hardware we've spotted this Prime Day
- PSA: Star Wars Galactic Racer pilots, put some points in resilience before you hit the acid planet
- October 6
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- 'Please give Novus one more chance': An 11-year-old early access survival game just got its first update since 2018
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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!'
- RuneScape is getting a new character type that promises a fresh start, but existing players are wary of splitting the community up
- 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'
- 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
- Deadlock's new hero Rat King has over 100 voice lines dedicated to throwing rats at you
- 007 First Light gets free DLC that will finally let you drive James Bond's Aston Martin properly
- Capcom announces plans to transform its RE Engine into an 'AI-generation game engine'
- October 2
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- Let's catch you up on all the latest news from Steam's 20 most-wishlisted games
- For once, I'm happy to see expensive corporate lawyers forcing a fan project offline
- 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
- Destiny 2 might be back, but the Bungie Store is going away
- Dear former NFL head coach Mike Tomlin: Your 12-year Minecraft city is beautiful
- The WoW: Forever beta's nerf to dungeon XP isn't nearly as bad as it seems
- 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
- 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
- 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'
- October 1
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- 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
- 'Open world fatigue' is one reason indie RPG Entropy is borrowing from the classics: 'PS1, PS2, GameCube games really never outstayed their welcome'
- 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'
- You can now buy more than 44,000 games for $5 or less on Steam
- 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
- 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
- Google Japan's conveyor belt keyboard is a sad reminder of the sense of humour the whole company used to have long, long ago
- 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
- Motion blur vs film grain - which is worse?
- Have you heard of the critically acclaimed MMORPG… oh, Final Fantasy 11, that's new
- 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
- TIL what may or may not be the oldest board game in recorded history is also, perhaps inevitably, now a roguelike
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