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- October 6
- October 5
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- Survival hit The Planet Crafter terraforms a whole new world in its first DLC
- Here's a charity bundle with a ton of World of Darkness tabletop RPG books
- Welcome to shooter bizarro world: First Fortnite goes FPS, now Halo Infinite's adding a third person mode
- The team that made Minecraft console edition is now making their own blocky builder
- One Tekken 8 modder has crowbarred all of Baldur's Gate 3's origin characters into the fighting game
- Today's Wordle answer for Saturday, October 5
- The Big Catch: Tacklebox is the hardest 3D platformer I've ever played, 8+ hours long, and a free to play 'prologue' to a bigger, better game on the way
- October 4
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- Diablo 4's once extraordinarily rare 'uber' uniques will be easier to get next season, but with a small catch
- I just squeezed more eggs in one hour than you have in your entire life
- Every Civilization 7 leader we know about so far
- Horizon Zero Dawn Remastered will require a PSN account, and you can't buy the originals on PC anymore
- David Hayter is cranking up Metal Gear Solid fans again, teasing 'a role I've not played since...'
- Warhammer 40K: Rogue Trader and its new expansion are on sale for 40% off
- Larian says 40% of all current Baldur's Gate 3 players are now 'embracing utter chaos with mods'
- This pixel art road trip RPG's reveal trailer is the only thing that's ever made me nostalgic for my crappy first car
- My Time at Evershine has passed $1.7M in crowdfunding and its developer wants it to become 'a must play series in the cozy/simulation RPG space'
- Games Done Quick is quickly putting together a speedrunning marathon in support of Hurricane Helene relief
- Steam Game Recording gets 4K and ultrawide monitor support in the latest beta update
- Earth Defense Force 6 drops controversial Epic account requirement for players on Steam
- BioWare announces that Dragon Age: The Veilguard has gone gold and is on track for its Halloween release
- Fortnite is coming for the FPS
- Blox Fruits codes and how to redeem them
- Anime Defenders codes and how to redeem them
- As Ubisoft struggles and shareholders sweat, Tencent and the Guillemot family are reportedly looking at a buyout
- Starfield: Shattered Space review
- Govee Cob Strip Light Pro review
- Public-facing Valve dev shows why most Valve devs don't have much to do with the public: 'I'm just the only one dumb enough to be on Twitter'
- Anime fans rejoice! World's first holo fan allows you to rep your best girls in style
- Samsung T9 4 TB external SSD review
- Overwatch 2 is introducing new rewards to incentivise Competitive play, but be warned, only 'the most dedicated players will reach the highest prestige'
- Sony INZONE M10S review
- The making of Fallout Tactics: 'I sound like I'm down on it now, but I still love what we made'
- This redditor's PC was overrun with '50 to 100' baby spiders and now my day is ruined
- Diablo 4: Vessel of Hatred review
- Copycat is an emotional adventure about a cat facing its greatest adversary: an extremely forgetful old woman
- Voting is now open for the 42nd Golden Joystick Awards, so you can help crown the PC Game of the Year
- Dygma Defy review
- Forcing users to periodically change their passwords should go the way of the dodo according to the US government
- As the cheapest RTX 4070 Ti Super gaming PC this is an excellent example of why you should wait for a discount before buying Alienware
- Avatar: The Last Airbender may finally get the respect it deserves as Saber Interactive helms a new RPG based on the animated series
- Gaming is a good thing for the workplace, apparently—so if you'll excuse me, I'm off to 'do some extensive training'
- Harvard students make utterly dystopic smart glasses that can instantly dox anyone they see
- This cursed Skyrim mod flips the entire game horizontally like Mario Kart's mirror mode and it's weirdly very upsetting
- Not only is this RX 7700 XT a wicked GPU deal at $349 but it includes a free code for Space Marine 2
- Civilization 7's system requirements are here and they look downright breezy, plus you'll only need 20 GB of storage space
- 'Game development doesn't proceed at a constant pace': Metal Gear Solid Delta: Snake Eater's devs explain why there are 2 difficulty settings but won't say a word about a possible release date
- This ortholinear Mobius strip keeb is twisting my melon, man
- Today's Wordle answer for Friday, October 4
- Star Wars Outlaws' hectic speeder wipeouts won't happen as often with its major new update
- October 3
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- This bowhunting game created by a Bethesda veteran plays like if you made a whole game out of Skyrim's stealth archer playstyle
- Magic: The Gathering followed its fuzzy animal set with one based on slasher movies and horror novels, a juxtaposition that was 'both a coincidence and deliberate'
- 6 exciting city builders coming out before the end of 2024 (plus a few more to look forward to next year)
- Paradox scrupulously avoids saying 'Nazis' in the new Hearts of Iron 4 expansion announcement, which is all about Nazis
- Counter-Strike 2 gives the people what they want: tiny sausages hanging from their guns
- The Sims 4's Life and Death expansion is indeed adding that Grim Reaper career everyone wanted
- Just as I'd made peace with my conveyor belt spaghetti, this Satisfactory player started building cathedrals
- I'm terrified for my free time after a few hours with the Dead Cells developer's new frantic co-op roguelike out this month
- 'None of this makes any sense': Amazon's latest MMO import is a localization disaster
- Kvark is a Sovietcore boomer shooter that looks like Half Life if it happened in early '80s Czechoslovakia, and it's somehow become my favorite FPS of the month
- Solo dev says he's bucking against the survival 'formula' that makes them stale, and if you want to actually make an axe from scratch does he have the game for you
- Thrustmaster AVA F/A-18 Super Hornet flight stick review
- Disney Dreamlight Valley's next free update, Jungle Getaway, will introduce two new characters
- Gaming keyboards are becoming more like enthusiast keyboards and I can't wait to have my clicky clacky cake and eat it
- Despite the looming Nintendo lawsuit, PUBG publisher Krafton is bringing Palworld to mobile devices
- Shhhhh, Noctua confirms its first ever decibel-dampening power supply will launch this year
- Asus has now made it clear if a product sent for repair will be fixed under warranty or if it'll cost ya
- A deep South Fallout sequel with a 'guerilla warfare' vibe was planned, but then Interplay bit the dust
- Fear the Spotlight's demo is a great way to kick off the spooky season even if it did make me face one of my irrational fears
- 'Subconsciously, we were all ready to die': Stalker 2 developers secretly prepared for Russia's invasion
- Unreal Engine 5.5’s MegaLights allows devs to use "orders of magnitude more" light sources—even on older hardware
- Samsung debated selling off its manufacturing arm as 3 nm yields remain low and the chip giant's stock price drops
- Bethesda honcho says Starfield is 'the best game we've ever made' in massive bout of amnesia
- Not all Space Marines are created equal: Space Marine 2 dev asks players to be nice on the off chance you come across Henry Cavill
- Grab a pre-Prime Day deal with this fast 27-inch 1440p gaming monitor for just $160
- I spent 14 hours flying 6,230 miles to watch MSI make me a new motherboard in just 40 minutes
- Today's Wordle answer for Thursday, October 3
- The big Deadlock hero tier list: Who is dominating Valve's new MOBA in the early days
- October 2
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- A Valve engineer used ChatGPT to find a new matchmaking algorithm for Deadlock, and now it's in the game
- The portals to hell have legs and health bars in Diablo 4: Vessel of Hatred's Season of Hatred Rising
- 6 years after successfully crowdfunding a game about orphans in a cyberpunk warzone, the studio making it has closed: 'We've been so close to a release, several times, and there's a lot to regret after all the work done'
- Tiny Glade won't stop delighting me with new discoveries
- Larian boss Swen Vincke cruelly hints at a 2029 release for the studio's next game, only to yoink it away: 'It was just a joke'
- 'Apple and Google have a totally broken vision for the world': Epic CEO Tim Sweeney vows to 'keep fighting on until there's an ultimate victory'
- Windows 11 24H2 is finally here and Microsoft's calling it a 'full OS swap', it's just a shame the new Windows update still has Recall
- Fortnite isn't the future, it's an anomaly, and Tim Sweeney is just another CEO wrongly predicting the death of big singleplayer games
- The lead on one of Fallout's least-loved entries says over-enthusiasm led to its hated hairy deathclaws: 'At the time, I know it was sacrilege'
- Google's AI generated a 'podcast' from one of my articles and it's incredibly convincing at mimicking humans talking
- CRKD Atom controller review
- One of our favourite 4K gaming monitors is a whopping $200 off right now
- Frostpunk dev's quietly very cool survival game where you manage relationships with your alt-universe selves gets delayed to next year
- My 6 favorite creepy cozy games with autumn vibes
- Nvidia's RTX 4060 is THE dominant GPU, boosting its desktop market share by 34% in a single month on Steam's Hardware Survey
- Modder puts desktop-grade RTX 4090 card into custom laptop. Machine weighs as much as small dog
- Minecraft Pale Garden biome: everything we know about the upcoming update
- GameSir Kaleid Flux review
- Final Fantasy 14 suspends housing demolition on North American servers after Hurricane Helene causes devastating damage across multiple states
- Starfield's Shattered Space expansion hasn't been a smashing success on Steam: 'Less content than any Skyrim DLC'
- The Rocky Horror Show is getting its own videogame for Halloween, and it's a retro 2D platformer for some reason
- Starfield: Shattered Space performance analysis—New DLC, new patch, same old frame rates
- AMD Fluid Motion Frames 2 is out now and hands Radeon gamers a new AI-optimised frame generation option in most games
- Leaked screenshots claiming to be from the next Sims game Project Rene have surfaced and fans are in shambles over them
- Devolver has a new label dedicated to making games based on comics, films, TV shows and 'cult heroes'
- Today's Wordle answer for Wednesday, October 2
- Level up your gaming content with Wondershare Filmora 14 introduces new video editing tools
- October 1
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- Smite developer Hi-Rez Studios lays off employees to ensure 'long-term success'
- The PC game releases we're most excited about in October
- Switch emulator Ryujinx goes offline after creator gets an offer from Nintendo they can't refuse
- Destiny 2 is adding new maps and factions to the superb Onslaught mode next week, but Bungie confirms no new 'shiny' weapons
- 'Dungeon crawler' enters the Merriam-Webster dictionary alongside 'touch grass' and 200 other new words and phrases
- Vtuber Ironmouse breaks Twitch subscriber record, surpassing 320,000 paying viewers
- The games industry is undergoing a 'generational change,' says Epic CEO Tim Sweeney: 'A lot of games are released with high budgets, and they're not selling'
- After years of silence, the legendary life sim Spore has crawled back to life like a 3-eyed amphibian emerging from a primordial alien sea
- Steam's Turn-based RPG Fest is offering lots of discounts on leveling up your guys
- Tim Sweeney says Epic Games is now 'financially sound' after last year's layoffs and Bandcamp fumble
- Grab more D&D 5e adventures than you'll ever have time to play for just $18 in Humble Bundle's latest absurd offering
- Cyberpunk 2077 engine lead says some of its legendary launch bugs happened because the alternative was even worse: 'Either you show a T-pose, or you hard crash… we prefer not to hard crash'
- Now might be the time to switch from GeForce Experience to the Nvidia App as it finally allows for easy driver rollback
- I've been learning what Deadlock's items actually do, thanks to this player-made build calculator that I can keep open in my tabs
- Despite being one of the biggest selling points of Apple Intelligence, Apple will not be investing in OpenAI
- Dragon Age: The Veilguard devs talk redesigning the game after BioWare bailed on the whole live service thing in 2021: 'I never personally saw it as a reboot'
- WoTC forced to take over popular Magic: The Gathering competitive format after community tantrum over card bans involves 'credible threats of physical assault'
- The really simple solution to AMD's collapsing gaming GPU market share is lower prices from launch
- Microsoft's latest Windows 11 update is reportedly a borkfest that breaks mouse, keyboard, WSL 2 and Wi-Fi functionality
- Bethesda says it took cues from the best game in its history for Shattered Space, but it's not winning fans over to 'an already catatonic game'
- This compact gaming keyboard scored 93% in review and is down to $50 with a variety of switches and colors
- AI bots are using a 'YOLO' model to beat Captchas in just another way computers are better than you
- 'They are tearing each other apart like pulled pork': Minecraft players are shipping two of the creepiest mobs around after Minecraft Live
- AMD's new RDNA 4 gaming-GPU-for-the-masses said to be delayed but will probably still be available before the Nvidia competition
- Monster Hunter will get its own Fender guitar in 2025, joining the hallowed company of Kurt Cobain, Jimi Hendrix and Yngwie Malmsteen
- Today's Wordle answer for Tuesday, October 1
