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October 17
- Metal band Genitorturers allegedly 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- '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
- 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
- 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
- '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
- 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
- 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
- '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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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