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- October 7
- October 6
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- Co-op dino survival horror game Deathground prepares to launch with one final reminder that, no, 'you won't be able to play as a dinosaur'
- Activision extends the Black Ops 7 beta to wrap up just 24 hours before Battlefield 6 launches
- Silksong player smacks one of its toughest bosses until they turn off, flawlessly defeating them in just 35 seconds
- Unreal mastermind Cliff Bleszinski really likes this fan-made Redux remaster: 'Time for a new generation to learn that Unreal isn't just an engine'
- Bungie shows Marathon proof of life with the announcement of another closed playtest
- Madman modder takes one of Silksong's worst bosses and makes them even harder: 'This is seriously mucked up'
- After making Closed Weapons almost invisible in the Battlefield 6 beta, DICE says Open Weapons is 'the right path forward' because it was more popular
- Ubisoft reveals the surprise free Assassin's Creed Mirage DLC, which just coincidentally happens to be set in a region the Saudi government wants to turn into an 'economic powerhouse'
- This 'brutally honest' city builder features greedy landlords, cutthroat corporations, and a newspaper that gives you 'a constant reminder that your citizens' bad luck is perhaps your fault'
- Metal: Hellsinger studio The Outsiders is closing as part of Funcom's post-Dune: Awakening layoffs
- Activision says 'Arc Raiders' censorship in Call of Duty: Black Ops 7 lobbies was unintentional and will be fixed
- The RTX 5080 MSI Vector 16 has dropped by $200, so it's time for me to tap the 'it's a really good gaming laptop' sign once more
- Intel's morale is reportedly 'in the toilet' as the chip maker strives to be 'really lean, fast moving'
- Don't look up: That's not a shooting star, it's another Starlink satellite burning up
- This 2025 shooter made in a decades-old Doom engine is gorgeous, fun, and tough as nails
- Monster Hunter Wilds' Steam reviews absolutely tank as players lose patience with its technical woes: 'Every time the game gets updated my performance decreases'
- 'I will die on this hill': Battlefield 6 players want DICE to edit the 'Resident Evil quickturn' or remove it entirely, but some aren't so sure
- AMD seals multi-year megadeal with OpenAI involving 6 gigawatts' worth of AI GPUs and a possible 10% stake in AMD
- As if doing a low honour run in Red Dead Redemption 2 didn't make you feel guilty enough in comes a mod that gives NPCs memories for you to watch before murdering them
- Activision claims 97% of cheaters it catches in Call of Duty: Black Ops 7 are banned within 30 minutes, thanks to secure boot and Ricochet
- You should read these 54 World of Darkness books for $25 to catch up on the lore ahead of Vampire: The Masquerade – Bloodlines 2
- Skipping all Baby Steps' cutscenes unlocks a secret, 28-minute punishment cutscene
- Minecraft's next drop might be the thing that finally convinces me to explore underwater
- After telling Borderlands 4 player to 'game that sh*t', Randy Pitchford finds out that you cannot, in fact, game that sh*t—says 'well, sh*t', confirms it's a bug and that it'll be fixed 'within the next two weeks'
- Decade-long SSD and RAM 'pricing apocalypse' predicted as AI data centers gobble up hardware on an epic scale
- Today's Wordle clues, hints and answer for October 6 (#1570)
- With a final update, Paradox announces support for its Civ competitor Millennia has come to an end
- October 5
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- 'Nintendo has not had any contact with the Japanese government about generative AI': Nintendo denies anti-AI lobbying rumors
- First US videogame champion, legendary programmer, and Interplay co-founder Rebecca Heineman is fundraising to deal with the costs of an aggressive cancer diagnosis
- 'Enjoy Cronos on Steam, wherever you are!': Bloober Team announces native Linux build for Cronos: The New Dawn
- Valve yoinked a new Counter-Strike 2 map out of the game after just 2 days, either for potential Disney copyright infringement, a 'gamer word' hidden in its data, or both
- OpenAI hastily retreats from gung-ho copyright policy after embarrassing Sora video output like AI Sam Altman surrounded by Pokémon saying 'I hope Nintendo doesn't sue us'
- Titan Quest 2's second chapter transports you to The Northern Beaches, where you'll find 9 new dungeons and 3 more bosses to batter
- Rust developer is fed up with survivors cowering in their homes, so it's reworking progression to 'get players back out of their bases'
- Manor Lords gets its first update since January, and its creator says he is 'rethinking what went wrong to ensure it won't happen again'
- The creator of Voxel Doom has spent the last three years making Voxel Duke Nukem 3D, and it's almost ready to rock
- Five-year-old survival/crafting game Arctico just got Steam Deck and controller support from out of nowhere
- Today's Wordle clues, hints and answer for October 5 (#1569)
- It took 14 years for a streamer to walk to the Far Lands in Minecraft, but his long journey is finally over
- October 4
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- The Bloodlines 2 voice cast features actors from Cyberpunk 2077, Hitman, Vermintide, and Game of Thrones
- Microsoft reportedly estimated that Game Pass led to $300 million in lost sales of Black Ops 6, with 82% of copies sold being on the Game Pass-less PlayStation 5
- Fallout Shelter, Pentiment, and other Unity games have been delisted on Steam thanks to Unity's security vulnerability
- Call of Duty may have finally blinked on SBMM as the Black Ops 7 beta adds a playlist with 'drastically reduced' skill consideration
- The solo dev behind RPG Sword Hero is promising a 'seamless open world' with amazing combat, intricate simulation, and systemic dismemberment—the demo on Steam makes me think they can pull it off
- 'A threat to creative expression and social progress': Advocacy groups respond to Roblox's new 'sensitive issues' label
- 'Xbox Game Pass Ultimate is still $19.99 with us': GameStop somehow openly brushes off Game Pass price hike
- One of the worst case scenarios for ID age verification is already here, with a Discord breach compromising some users' data
- The most underrated GTA of all time meets Hotline Miami? This ultra-violent crime sim coming soon to Steam has shot straight to the top of my hit list
- After a decade in development, this massive Skyrim mod adds a whole new region, 50 new dungeons and 'the biggest main quest you've ever played in Skyrim'
- Chill city-builder Bulwark: Falconeer Chronicles just got a massive update that adds an 'OP AF' new airship, as the developer urges players to check out his game: 'Any review helps, even the critical ones'
- Fight like a Witcher in Elden Ring thanks to this ingenious moveset mod
- Civilization 7's latest update brings improved map generation, a better UI, and a 'full rework of Napoleon', but it hasn't moved the needle on its divided Steam rating
- Today's Wordle clues, hints and answer for October 4 (#1568)
- October 3
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- Fabulous news everyone: Market analyst says the AI bubble is 17X bigger than the dotcom goldrush, and 4X larger than the subprime bubble that caused the 2008 crash
- As Microsoft lays off thousands and jacks up Game Pass prices, former FTC chair says I told you so: The Activision-Blizzard buyout is 'harming both gamers and developers'
- 5869 days after releasing the greatest rock opera about Mega Man ever recorded, The Protomen's follow-up Act 3 is, unbelievably, finally here*
- Dying Light: The Beast players have killed enough zombies in two weeks to equal a quarter of the world's population
- As Game Pass prices get laughably high, Microsoft is reportedly spinning up a free version of Xbox Cloud Gaming—but of course you'll have to sit through ads
- All-women Counter-Strike 2 pro league ESL Impact will halt operations at the end up its upcoming finals
- Kingmakers, the game about bringing modern weapons to medieval battlefields, gets delayed just 5 days ahead of launch, and there's no new release date
- As the videogame industry continues to be hammered by layoffs, Netflix is offering up to $840,000 per year for a new Director of Generative AI for Games
- Helldivers 2 dev explains why the PC version takes a million years to update and has 3X the filesize of the console versions: old, undemocratic hard drives
- Meta's latest bid to get you into the metaverse is the Horizon Engine, promising 'infinite connected spaces, more realistic physics, and higher player counts'
- AMD and Intel are in 'early-stage talks' about signing a foundry commitment, a win that the struggling chip giant and US government would both love
- Critical Role: Campaign 4's first 13-player ensemble episode is chaotic, messy, and gripping D&D—and I feel like I've just seen a magician pull a fully-formed rabbit out of a hat
- Emperor of overpromising Peter Molyneux says he's done with games after Masters of Albion, which is also his 'redemption title'
- The 43rd Golden Joystick Awards shortlist is out, and just looking at the indie list alone, I can tell it's going to be a tough year
- Unity has found a security vulnerability that has sat dormant for almost a decade: 'Take immediate action to protect your games & apps'
- Worried about melty graphics cards? This seriously capable gizmo keeps power in check for more peace of mind
- Dial up is dead—at least as far as AOL is concerned, as the company is pulling the plug after 34 years
- New MIT research opens the door to faster-charging and longer-lasting batteries, and it could be implemented right away
- Amazon's giving away one great Fallout game and one bad one this October
- Vampire Survivors-like Megabonk makes megabucks, selling a million copies in 2 weeks, and currently has more daily players than Borderlands 4 on Steam: 'I'll be eating spaghetti with EXTRA sauce tonight'
- Today's Wordle clues, hints and answer for October 3 (#1567)
- 'The industry isn't dying, it's splitting into two different models': What experts are saying about the EA buyout
- October 2
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- If you missed Master Chief having sex on Paramount+ now you can see Master Chief having sex on Netflix
- The new Humble Bundle is a wild mix of Warhammer games for just $12
- One of my most anticipated shooters, which looks like Demon's Souls in the Doom engine, finally has a release date right around the corner
- Holy cow, the Epic Games Store supports preloading now
- The guy who says 'Toasty!' in Mortal Kombat has left NetherRealm after more than 30 years with the team
- Meta Vibes is an officially sanctioned feed of endless AI garbage, and The Daily Show nails it in one: 'You're a fat little pig for internet video slop, and we here at Meta want to watch you eat yourself to death'
- The new Swery/Suda collab's greatest sin is trying too hard
- Disco Elysium studio ZA/UM unionizes in the UK: 'We like being here. We want to continue being here. So let's try and get a seat at the table in the big management meetings'
- One of my favorite survival city builders is leaving early access this month, so here's your chance to buy it before the price goes up
- Amnesia creator Frictional Games teases its next game, and it may be something new but it sure feels like SOMA
- With Xbox hiking prices and a newly private, $20-billion-in-the-hole EA looking ready to gut Baldur's Gate series creator BioWare, Larian boss Swen Vincke points out that 'making games faster and cheaper while charging more has never worked before'
- After getting dumped by EA, FIFA's finally back with its own football game starring… animal mascots?
- 'Now you've got no excuses': Palworld is teaming up with Core Keeper for a Steam Autumn sale bundle because the folks over at Pocketpair are 'just big fans'
- Horrible news: exploit found in Humanoid robots capable of 'creating a robot botnet that spreads without user intervention' over Bluetooth
- Capcom legend tackles Palworld-Nintendo battle and manages to annoy almost everyone: 'It's a game that transcends the boundaries of war'
- Starbreeze lays off a bunch more people as it cancels its co-op D&D game and shifts focus to building Payday 3 into a 'modern live-engagement game'
- Nonprofit turned investment magnet OpenAI is now valued at $500 billion
- Hero 100% beats Silksong using a saxophone as a gamepad, says it's not even the hardest game he's sax'd
- One of the coolest rhythm games I've ever played—with distraction mechanics straight out of those fake mobile ads—is finally coming out of early access
- A TikToker flew all the way to Scotland to harass and yell at Rockstar developers about a non-existent GTA 6 delay: 'I'm sick and tired of waiting for the answers'
- Job losses might be likely due to AI but Nvidia's CEO says the booming billion-dollar industry will always need more plumbers and electricians
- World of Warcraft: Midnight's design director wasn't sure players would enjoy Delve bosses jumping you, but 'it turns out people really like that', so now we're getting Prey
- Amazon breaks glass marked 'AI-powered Snoop Dogg game where he's a judge' to get you to pay attention to its wilting Luna streaming service
- Fortnite insists it wasn't stitched up by Warner Bros. and the Peacemaker emote, but is modifying it anyway 'to avoid any confusion'
- There's a new king of lightweight gaming mice and I'll 1v1 anyone who disses the ultralight market
- Intel's quietly buffed its GPU drivers to fix gaming frame rate issues with some older processors
- 'We will be looking at everything': Call of Duty: Black Ops 7 devs will be paying close attention to community feedback during the upcoming beta
- EA could sell off studios after Saudi and Kushner-funded $55 billion acquisition, says former Dragon Age producer: 'It's hard to imagine that you'd have BioWare pivot from having very progressive messaging to having the reverse'
- Private collector's GPU horde tours through 30 years of Nvidia and AMD hardware history
- Fortnite's collaboration with K-Pop Demon Hunters is the most excited I've been since Epic gave Hatsune Miku an AK-47
- A bunch of Steam players just made the switch to Windows 11 as Windows 10's death date is now less than two weeks away
- The first hotfix for Hades 2 nerfs one jerk miniboss in particular
- Today's Wordle clues, hints and answer for October 2 (#1566)
- October 1
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- Blizzard will break WoW's most popular combat mods sooner than expected, kickstarting a new era for the MMO's boss design in the next major patch
- Henry Cavill bares rippling chest, powerful triceps, and deep-cut Planescape: Torment knowledge in new photo that inspires one PC Gamer editor to declare, 'He just like me fr'
- World of Warcraft: Midnight's collector's edition lets you own the Dark Heart, but please don't use this void relic to resurrect an all-devouring shadow god
- Game Pass gets major price hike 'to offer more flexibility, choice, and value,' Microsoft says with a completely straight face
- Final Fantasy Tactics - The Ivalice Chronicles director is a big PC gamer, and says he was 'very particular' about making sure they got the new UI just right
- YouTube rolls over and pays $24.5 million to settle Trump lawsuit after suspending his account in the wake of the Capitol riots, president calls himself a 'shadowbanned patriot'
- Teenager pleads guilty to sending Epic staff death threats: 'I intended for the messages to be viewed as a threat'
- Swery/Suda51 collab Hotel Barcelona sheepishly apologises for AI content, promises 'We are opposed to any professional GenAI use' that kills the planet, steals jobs, or is otherwise 'Unethical'
- As World of Warcraft winds down its combat AddOn support, director Ion Hazzikostas is all composure about rule-breakers because 'Frankly, this is far from the first time'
- World of Warcraft: Midnight deep dive reveals a continent-hopping questline as part of its main campaign, a cosy 'Arcantina' hub, and the release date of player housing's early access
- Dune Awakening was 'the biggest release' in Funcom's 32-year history, so you can probably guess what comes next in this rotten world: layoffs
- Asus is finally bringing RTX 5080 card themed around everyone's favourite Vocaloid songstress to the US—but there's a steep Miku tax
- One of the coolest games of 2025 is a Marvel superheroes beat-'em-up—and you can play a demo for yourself right now
- 'We want to keep experimenting': Silent Hill f won't become the new norm as Konami wants each new Silent Hill game to stand out and have 'its own distinct flavour'
- Fallout: London's first big DLC is here with 80 NPCs, 30 new quests, a bunch of other stuff and, most important, 'Thousands of bug fixes and improvements'
- Ubisoft's new Tencent-backed company is called Vantage Studios, a 'creative house' that will take over development of Assassin's Creed, Far Cry, and Rainbow Six
- Apparently the most popular clip on OpenAI's new AI video app Sora depicts Sam Altman stealing graphics cards
- Fallout 76's Burning Springs update draws its 'main influences from Fallout 3 and Fallout: New Vegas' as players venture to a whole new state, Ohio
- 'There are rainbows coming out of my heart': Walton Goggins' The Ghoul is finally coming to Fallout 76 as part of Burning Springs, and get this, he'll pay you to off people
- One of last year's best Metroidvanias, Nine Sols, currently has an entirely different first-person horror game tucked inside its Steam betas
- OpenAI's new video generation tool Sora 2 is here, but don't worry, Sam Altman says it will avoid the 'degenerate case of AI video generation that ends up with us all being sucked into an RL-optimized slop feed'
- Borderlands 4's Thursday patch will buff the game's cast, but UI improvements are coming later
- BioWare's just waiting for the axe to fall after EA's $55 billion buyout, say anonymous staff
- Today's Wordle clues, hints and answer for October 1 (#1565)
- CoD: Black Ops 7's wallhack killstreak is receiving a frenzy of criticism, but isn't the point of killstreaks that they're unfair?
