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October 2015
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- October 31
- October 30
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- New Overwatch character is a StarCraft 2 pro
- Hard West is delayed a bit, so here's a new trailer
- Big changes are coming in the Star Citizen Alpha 2.0 release
- Sword Coast Legends getting free DLC to make up for "polarizing" launch
- Spetsnaz go loud in new Rainbow Six Siege trailer
- The Technomancer trailer features electro-combat, companions, more
- The Escapists channels Bond, James Bond for its latest DLC
- Steam now sells software tutorial videos
- Dawn of War 2's Ridiculously Bloody Blood Pack makes game ridiculously bloody
- How To Survive 2 heads to Louisiana, and Early Access
- Hi-Rez makes previous Tribes games free
- XCOM 2's "Dark Events" will change the game in unpredictable ways
- October 29
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- 144Hz monitors and Nvidia GPUs draw surprising amounts of power
- Pathologic Classic HD launches with weirdest trailer ever
- Team Dignitas sells League of Legends EU squad to Follow eSports
- Mirror's Edge: Catalyst is delayed
- Atlas Reactor trailer demonstrates the magic of simultaneous turns
- Ominous new teaser announces Outlast 2 officially
- GTA Online players to be hunted by The Slasher as part of Halloween Surprise
- Ark: Survival Evolved adds skelesaurs and zombie dodos for its Halloween event
- Paradox buys White Wolf, World of Darkness, Vampire: The Masquerade from CCP
- The Town of Light gets February 2016 release date
- Anno 2205's modular buildings detailed
- Prominence: atmospheric first-person sci-fi adventure out November 6
- Hitman welcomes you to Sapienza, Italy
- October 28
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- Batman: Arkham Knight is back on Steam... but still not fully fixed
- The Divinity: Original Sin Enhanced Edition EULA contains a surprise
- Outlast studio teasing "something" new for tomorrow
- League of Legends pro squad Team Impulse is for sale
- Take a pre-release peek at the Fallout 4 art book
- Dungeons 2's free Halloween DLC adds killer penguins, murderous pumpkins
- Viscera Cleanup Detail exits Steam Early Access
- Rocket League is getting mutators, including hockey
- GOG has a halloween sale too - save on The Witcher 3, Stasis, Amnesia
- Oort Online is now Boundless, will offer cross-play with PS4
- The Old Republic - Knights of the Fallen Empire released
- Origin Halloween sale discounts Dragon Age: Inquisition, BF Hardline, more
- October 27
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- Quake Live is no longer free-to-play
- Street Fighter 5 has a release date and a new fighter
- Latest Star Wars Battlefront trailer showcases Leia, Han, and Boba Fett
- Blizzard warns against fake Overwatch beta keys
- Fallout 4 trophies tell us a (tiny) bit about the game
- Larian unveils the Divinity: Original Sin "Enhanced Changelist"
- Overwatch system requirements revealed
- No Man's Sky gameplay trailer reveals June 2016 launch
- Catlateral Damage Halloween update introduces the 'Furightful Lab'
- GOG adds D&D: Ravenloft, Dark Sun and Krynn
- Minecraft: Story Mode Episode 2 out today
- PixelJunk Shooter Ultimate out, brings sequel to PC for the first time
- Cave's bullet hell shmup Mushihimesama hitting PC next week
- Alone in the Dark creator reveals stealth horror game 2Dark
- Tangiers studio is "in a bad position" as funding falls through
- October 26
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- Vertiginous Golf, the mini-putt game in the sky, is free for the day
- Fallout 4 will be preloadable
- Dirty Bomb's "Containment War" update goes live this week
- DX12 benchmark shows AMD and Nvidia cards performing in harmony
- First RollerCoaster Tycoon World beta weekend begins October 30
- Final Fantasy XIV: Heavensward video highlights big changes in next patch
- Battlefield 4 Community Operations and Fall Update roll out tomorrow
- Cobalt delayed until February 2016
- The Last Door: Season 2 hits Early Access
- Spintires update adds trucks, mod tools coming soon
- Maia update 0.51 improves chickens, adds scenario missions
- Overwatch closed beta begins tomorrow - in Europe too
- Unreleased, forgotten Dizzy game released for free after 22 years
- The Legend of Zelda Maker is available as an alpha, but is likely to change
- October 25
- October 24
- October 23
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- Warhammer: Vermintide developer promises DLC but no microtransactions
- Star Wars Battlefront shows off Slave 1 and the fastest hunk of junk in the galaxy
- Heroes of the Storm offers bonus XP and new bundles for Halloween
- Fallout Beer is a thing
- Anchors in the Drift is a free-to-play RPG from the makers of Scribblenauts
- Play the original StarCraft and Brood War in Starcraft 2
- Guild Wars 2: Heart of Thorns expansion is out now
- Just Cause 3 has gone gold
- Goatbread DLC is coming for Goat Simulator and I Am Bread
- There's "plenty of chance" Halo 5 could come to PC, says 343 rep
- Noct, the creepy top-down survival horror game, is now on Early Access
- The Witcher 3 patch rebalances DLC boss battles and more
- October 22
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- Fallout 4 will require a Steam download, even if you buy it on disc
- Descent: Underground is now on Early Access
- Unreal Tournament gets spooky Halloween update
- inXile files Autoduel trademark
- Cloud9 player fined €500 for flipping the bird at LoL World Championships
- Windows 10 Fall Update reportedly coming in November
- Blizzard is making a Battle.net Voice Chat system
- Bethesda unleashes Doom alpha gameplay video
- Warhammer: Vermintide launch trailer features Skaven gone wild
- Duelyst, the 1v1 online tactical combat game, enters free open beta
- Planet Coaster wants you to scare money out of park visitors
- Deus Ex: Mankind Divided trailer showcases new and improved Jensen
- Anno 2205 multi-session play detailed
- Assassin's Creed Syndicate's Jacob gets his own launch trailer
- Total War: Warhammer release date set, first DLC adds Chaos Warriors
- Rainbow Six Siege trailer shows breach-and-clear drama
- Elite: Dangerous surface recon vehicles detailed in lengthy video
- Toxikk Early Access beta gets new sci-fi themed map
- Mighty No. 9 definitely won't be delayed again, Inafune pledges
- October 21
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- New Divinity: Original Sin video explains Enhanced Edition changes
- Metal Gear Solid 5 cosplay with actual wolves is ridiculously good
- Telltale's Game of Thrones concludes next month with "The Ice Dragon"
- Subscription-based YouTube Red offers ad-free viewing and exclusive content
- Payday 2 studio steps back—very slightly—from microtransactions
- Western Digital acquires SanDisk for $19 billion
- Rebellion acquires Woolfe: The Red Hood Diaries, promises to honor backer rewards
- Fallout 4's SPECIAL video series wraps up with Luck
- MSI calls GS40 Phantom the thinnest gaming laptop in the world
- Take a sightless journey through a strange land in Pulse
- Space Biker simulator Rebel Galaxy released on Steam
- Wireless Xbox One controllers out for Windows 10 only
- Resident Evil 4 and Remember Me added to Humble Capcom Bundle
- October 20
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- DOOM multiplayer closed alpha is starting this weekend
- Resident Evil mod restores the rubbish 1996 voice acting to the HD remaster
- Ridiculously accurate Back to the Future tribute created in Rockstar Editor
- Warhammer Vermintide trailer shines a light on the Bright Wizard
- One Life is a multiplayer FPS that locks you out forever when you die
- Konami denies report of Kojima's official departure
- Three new Star Wars Battlefront Heroes revealed
- Sherlock Holmes: The Devil's Daughter announced for Spring 2016
- There might be another Valkyria Chronicles game
- Gragas removed from League of Legends mid-tournament
- Folkenstal Armory has made an actual Elder Scroll
- VR medieval combat in Valiant looks ace
- Lightning Returns: Final Fantasy XIII is coming 'around December'
- October 19
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- Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic 2 gets another official update
- Swashbuckling RPG Raven's Cry is being re-named and re-released
- The Ubisoft Club, Ubi's new online rewards program, opens its doors
- Amiga 1200 fans are bringing back the classic PC with new case molds
- "Long awaited" Witcher 3 Modkit update enables new texture additions
- More Star Wars Battlefront details revealed through data mining
- Hard West launch date announced
- GTA Lowriders is out tomorrow, trailer features cars doing cool things
- Vermintide video brutalises hundreds of rat men
- Watch the Life is Strange season finale trailer
- Starcraft 2 match fixers arrested, banned for life
- Stanley Parable dev teases new game, releases first screenshots
- Adr1ft video offers nine minutes of disorienting space horror
- October 18
- October 17
- October 16
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- Valve admits Steam customer support is awful (again), but says it's working on it
- Divinity: Original Sin Enhanced Edition trailer showcases controller-based UI
- GTA Online "Lowriders" update adds new shop, missions, and sweet hydraulics
- Telltale trailer teases Tales From the Borderlands finale
- Hearthstone Americas Champion: “I’m technically a better player than everyone”
- Nvidia's Game Ready Drivers will soon be locked behind GeForce Experience
- Adobe Flash Player updated to combat "critical" security vulnerability
- Payday 2 gets microtransactions, despite devs saying it wouldn't
- Cute RTS/RPG Little King's Story coming to PC
- Na'Vi's Dota 2 squad disbands
- Warhammer 40,000: Deathwatch is out now
- Grey Goo free to try this weekend on Steam
- Ashes of the Singularity hitting Early Access next week
- Valve isn't interested in advertising on Steam, rep assures
- Dying Light expansion is releasing early next year, according to new trailer
- October 15
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- CD Projekt says The Witcher 3 proves people want bigger games
- EA wants to make "gigantic action games" like Ubisoft and Take Two
- Valve wants gamers to improve the Steam Controller design
- New live action Fallout 4 trailer goes on a wander through the wasteland
- CS:GO map transforms Counter-Strike into Quake
- Square Enix wants you to make Just Cause 3's launch trailer
- Sunless Sea plunging underwater for its Zubmariner DLC
- Vertical gunboot shooter Downwell is out now
- Ark: Survival Evolved update adds dino babies and breeding
- Roman Empire-inspired cRPG Age of Decadence out now
- The Witcher 3: Hearts of Stone sends the Taxman after naughty players
- Hearthstone designer responds to criticism of Warsong Commander nerf in video
- October 14
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- Star Citizen is now fully open to all backers
- Darkest Dungeon is coming in January
- Star Wars Battlefront's Walker Assault mode to be changed because it's "too tough"
- Doom multiplayer alpha signups are now being taken
- Microsoft details Surface Book's Skylake CPUs, but keeps Nvidia GPU a mystery
- Overwatch closed beta launching October 27
- Latest Fallout 4 SPECIAL video focuses on Agility
- Rise of Incarnates shutting down after just a few months
- Styx sequel Shards of Darkness announced, out next year
- Cave Story dev's Kero Blaster hitting Steam with Zangyou upgrade
- Humble Capcom Bundle nets you Strider for $1
- The Park out October 27, includes tie-in content for The Secret World
- Counter-Strike: Global Offensive now has its own clothing line
- Secret Ponchos leaves Early Access today
- October 13
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- SteelSeries updates Rival gaming mouse with $40 Rival 100
- Underworld Ascendant "prototype trailer" shows off some stealth
- New trailer introduces the historical figures of Assassin's Creed: Syndicate
- Star Wars Battlefront will not support in-game voice chat
- Summer Camp officially becomes Friday the 13th: The Videogame
- Hearthstone’s Warsong Commander getting a long overdue nerf
- Steam sneaks in a Stealth Sale
- Latest Windows 10 beta build improves activation with older Windows keys
- Minecraft: Story Mode launch trailer: "Don't think about it. Just play it."
- Wasteland 2's Director's Cut releases today
- Deus Ex: Revision hits Steam later today
- Warhammer: Vermintide's Dwarf Ranger lives up to all the stereotypes
- Civilization: Beyond Earth - Rising Tide diplomacy fix hits
- Call of Duty: Black Ops 3 Zombies mode does film noir
- Homeworld: Shipbreakers footage unearthed at Unite 2015
- DICE details three new Star Wars: Battlefront game modes
- October 12
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- H1Z1 update brings female zombies, a new hospital and more
- Rainbow Six Siege trailer showcases the relaxed dress code of GSG9
- Call of Duty: Black Ops 3 will launch with all campaign content unlocked
- Star Wars Battlefront season pass priced at $50
- Ubisoft offers apology, refunds for Might and Magic Heroes VII CE
- EK Water Blocks brings watercooling to SSDs
- Rocket League adds Back to the Future's DeLorean on October 21
- Firewatch release date announced, will be out in early 2016
- Allison Road Kickstarter cancelled, Team17 will publish it instead
- Overlord: Fellowship of Evil is out next week; here's a trailer
- Enigmatic medieval sidescroller Kingdom releases this month
- The Park trailer delves deeper into Funcom's horror story
- Swatter sentenced to one year in jail
- World of Goo dev's Human Resource Machine out this week
- Sir, You Are Being Hunted by other players in new multiplayer mode
- Elite: Dangerous video shows brief, raw footage of planetary exploration
- October 11
- October 10
- October 9
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- The Asus ROG watercooled laptop is surprisingly thin (and surprisingly heavy)
- The Force can't stop Luke Skywalker getting pubstomped into paste
- Obsidian's Armored Warfare is now in open beta
- EA is adding more Star Wars Battlefront servers to cope with the load
- What's a file named 'hl3.txt' doing in Dota 2's latest update?
- Mordheim: City of the Damned gets an "overview trailer"
- Minecraft streamer buys $4.5 million mansion
- G2A calls League of Legends sponsorship ban "an aggressive attack"
- Deus Ex: Mankind Divided won't have a 'multiple choice' ending
- Ark: Survival Evolved has sold two million copies
- Street Fighter 5 reveals the electric Laura
- Chaos Reborn leaves Early Access this month
- Just Cause 3 trailer contextualises destruction
- Star Citizen video shows spaceships exploding spectacularly
- October 8
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- Astroneer challenges you to get rich or die alone in the cold void of space
- Broforce's Ballad of Rambro is an anthem to unite all freedom-loving bros
- New Tomb Raider to offer 300 game-altering microtransactions
- Researchers carve channels into CPU for direct liquid cooling
- The Witcher 3 1.10 patch is out, and it's huge
- Worlds Adrift, the MMO with sky-high ambitions, will be pay-once-to-play
- Dell upgrades XPS 15 laptop with Skylake, gorgeous screen
- Tales from the Borderlands finale out this month
- Fallout 4 system requirements released
- Wadjet Eye announces post-apocalyptic adventure, Shardlight
- Umbrella Corps video shows man kill man in a zombie-infested world
- The Sims 4 Get Together delayed until December
- Bethesda has 'concerns' about Battlecry and is 'evaluating' it
- Massive Chalice lead Brad Muir is moving over to Valve
- October 7
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- This is what a Crisis looks like in Torment: Tides of Numenera
- Call of Duty: Black Ops 3 trailer showcases "Cybercore" abilties
- Street Fighter 5 beta hits the PC in two weeks
- New Fallout 4 SPECIAL video highlights the importance of having big old brains
- Lovely Planet's sequel will ditch the Y-axis and Sunshine Gun
- Pathologic Classic HD is coming later this fall
- Defuse bombs with friends in Keep Talking And Nobody Explodes
- Deus Ex celebrates 15th birthday with animated trailer
- Prison Architect escapes Early Access
- Team Fortress 2 Invasion update lands today
- Sonic Lost World coming to PC
- Minecraft's Adventure Mode is getting a flying cape
- This War of Mine gets revamped Scenario Editor, modding tools forthcoming
- October 6
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- Metal Gear Solid 5 update adds "FOB insurance" paid for with real money
- Cyberpunk 2077 will be even bigger than The Witcher 3
- Here's the Witcher 3: Wild Hunt "Hearts of Stone" launch trailer
- LoL teams asked to remove G2A logo at 2015 World Championship
- Microsoft's Surface Book 2-in-1 includes Skylake and an Nvidia GPU
- Microsoft unveils wearable holograms in Project X-Ray for HoloLens
- Far Cry Primal officially unveiled, coming in early 2016
- The Witcher 3's Gwent was invented in the bath
- Star Wars Battlefront system requirements released
- Team invites announced for the first Dota 2 Major
- Homeless dog sim Home Free hits Kickstarter goal
- Hello Games won't even tell Colbert when No Man's Sky is out
- October 5
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- Trackmania Turbo delayed to 2016
- Watch the Hearthstone misplay that cost a chance to go to BlizzCon
- Star Wars Battlefront will not use microtransactions
- Valve brings "Steam Sections" to GameStop, GAME UK, and EB Games
- Ubisoft's big announcement accidentally revealed as Far Cry Primal
- Ludicrous GTA 5 ramp truck will consume all in its rampy wake
- The Elder Scrolls Online opens the doors to Orsinium in November
- Battlefront is matchmaking-only to ensure "fair and even playground"
- Star Wars Battlefront PC graphics options
- Asylum Jam challenges mental health stereotypes
- Civilization: Beyond Earth Rising Tide trailer shows hybrid monsters
- World of Tanks 10.0 update will launch Rampage mode
- October 4
- October 3
- October 2
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- Master of Orion gameplay video released
- Ubisoft postpones World in Conflict server shutdown after outcry
- Soma sells 92,000 copies in first ten days
- AMD's Catalyst 15.9.1 beta driver update fixes memory leak issue
- Multiplayer runner SpeedRunners is free to play this weekend
- Free Battlefield 4 map Operation Outbreak coming this Fall
- Arkham Knight PC re-release window narrowed to end of October
- A House of Many Doors raises triple its Kickstarter goal
- Fallout Anthology available now, comes in a mini-nuke
- October 1
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- Humble Bundle launches monthly subscription program
- Minecraft genius is building a working Pokemon game
- Here are the six new FreeSync monitors released in the past month
- The Beginner's Guide trailer teases mystery, loneliness
- GamesAid raised £564,000 this year
- Deus Ex: Mankind Divided silly preorder scheme scrapped
- Armikrog is out, apparently broken
- Democracy 3 update adds new achievements, secret events
- Rainbow Six Siege beta extended for the weekend
- Call of Duty: Black Ops 3 story says "be careful what you wish for"
- Dirt Rally update brings new Finland stages and cars
