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October 2021

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October 31
- Five new Steam games you probably missed (November 1, 2021)
- Kick ass for the Lord in retro shooter Forgive Me Father
- Unearthing a shareware disc from 1995
October 30
- Which PlayStation-exclusive do you want on PC next?
- A Dune multiplayer survival game is on the way, and here's how we think it should work
- This game about gardening bunnies is raising a lot of questions for me
October 29
- The metaverse is bullshit
- How many chapters are there in Guardians of the Galaxy?
- The best builds for Xinyan in Genshin Impact
- MMO endgames don't have to be crap at launch
- The best LAPA loadouts for Warzone
- War Mongrels is a darker, more historical take on Commandos
October 28
- Bungie, I am once again begging you for more Destiny 2 Vault space
- Forget Ash: The real star of Apex Legends' next season is a Scottish mother with a grudge
- Apex Legends' tropical getaway is a much-needed course correction
- GPU restock tips: how to buy a graphics card in 2021
- Darkest Dungeon 2: Can I sell my Trinkets and other items?
- 8% of New World players are level 60: What achievement stats tell us about Amazon's MMO
- Diablo 2 runewords: What they are and the best to get
- Guardians of the Galaxy: should you sell Groot or Rocket?
- The constantly ticking death clock in anime metroidvania Unsighted may be stressful, but I learned to love it
October 27
- Nintendo's botched N64 emulation proves just how amazing fan emulators are
- Where to find all the Bounty Board locations in Fortnite
- Intel 12th gen Alder Lake CPUs: What are they, when will they launch, and how fast will they be?
- Guardians of the Galaxy: Where to find all the outfits
- Keep your GTA Trilogy remaster, I just want Chinatown Wars on PC
October 26
- 9 things I wish I knew before starting Darkest Dungeon 2
- Help, I've been playing cozy fishing game Moonglow Bay for 7 straight hours
- Darkest Dungeons 2 character guide
- Satisfactory is a model train simulator now, including the wrecks
- How to fast travel in New World
- Turbo Overkill is boomer shooter bliss with outlandish twists
- How to start the legendary weapon quest in New World
- How to get the Cube Queen in Fortnite
October 25
- How to refer a friend in Fortnite
- How to find void ore in New World
- All my Darkest Dungeon 2 characters hate each other and I'm having a great time
- 15 years on, Final Fantasy 12's combat system is still the best
October 24
- Five new Steam games you probably missed (October 25, 2021)
- Crapshoot: The Hobbit, the text adventure that let try to you kill Gandalf
October 23
- The best and worst in-game Halloween events we're playing this year
October 22
- The best and worst Dune games on PC
- The GTA Trilogy remaster's goofy art style is good, actually
- How to unlock the Labyrinth Warriors event in Genshin Impact
October 21
- Hurtle through the hellmouth in this occult retro FPS
- The best builds for Hoffman in Back 4 Blood
- I can't stomach time loop games after a year of lockdowns
- How to change servers in New World
- ARPG Souls-like Sands of Aura sails into Steam Early Access
October 20
- Grand Theft Auto's greatest controversies
- God of War PC means the platform wars are over, boy
- What are the 5 best games to introduce someone to PC gaming?
- How to complete the Warzone: The Haunting challenge and get the LAPA SMG
October 19
- Where to collect a record and place in a turntable in Fortnite
- Where to reveal the command symbol in Fortnite
- Jackbox Party Pack 8's best game is a genius twist on Family Feud
- Where to exterminate Mini-Pufts in Fortnite
- Where to deploy seismographs in Misty Meadows and Catty Corner in Fortnite
- Where to find candy in Fortnite
- Five reasons why you must play Crysis Remastered Trilogy
- The best Diablo 2: Resurrected mods
- Our first look at Total War: Warhammer 3's Cathay army in action is spectacular
- Everything we know about Warzone's The Haunting event
- The best Back 4 Blood builds
- I should hate Assassin's Creed Valhalla, so why have I played it for 120 hours?
October 18
- Where to spot the UFO in GTA Online
October 17
- Five new Steam games you probably missed (October 18, 2021)
October 16
- In survival RTS Age of Darkness, thousands of enemies aren't the only threat
- When's the last time you looked up a walkthrough?
- Crapshoot: Rockstar, the game that turned sex, drugs, and rock & roll into a management sim
October 15
- Why is Quake so damn fast? John Romero explains
- Tales of Arise fishing guide
- The best songs on Genshin Impact's Windsong Lyre
- Where to find lodestone in New World
- Genshin Impact map: What's changed in Inazuma
- New World feels like an MMO designed for mounts, even if it doesn't have any
- This is the chillest golf game you'll play all year
October 14
- Path of Exile's Scourge expansion pits you against an invading army of demons
- I'm loving the chaotic potential of Baldur's Gate 3's new sorcerer class
- The best formations to use in FIFA 22 Ultimate Team
- All the guns in Battlefield 2042 we know so far
- How to get the Peculiar Pinion in Genshin Impact
- Destiny 2: How to complete the Masked Rider Triumph
- The best young players in FIFA 22
- The best settings for Back 4 Blood
October 13
- Mass Effect Legendary Edition made me appreciate Mass Effect's most ridiculous NPC
- How the card system works in Back 4 Blood
- Back 4 Blood PvP guide: How to play Versus mode
- Which character to choose in Back 4 Blood
- How to get to Tsurumi Island in Genshin Impact
- Nickelodeon All-Stars Brawl's PC version is a shoddy piece of work
- The best builds for Aloy in Genshin Impact
- Destiny 2: How to enter the Haunted Sectors and get the Jurassic Green pulse rifle
- How to get started in Destiny 2's Festival of the Lost
- Meet Trent Oster, the bloke who launched Neverwinter Nights twice
- Optimize Windows 11 for gaming
- Brooding survival RTS Age of Darkness swarms into Early Access
October 12
- Why Hearthstone's new Mercenaries mode is like mac 'n' cheese
- FIFA 22 web app guide
- Tweak these settings in Back 4 Blood to turn it into a smooth, 4K-friendly gore fest
- Destiny 2: Festival of the Lost unlock times
- 11 tips to help you survive Back 4 Blood
- The best sniper rifles in Warzone
- Boomerang X brings gamepad control closer to mouse-aim more than ever
October 11
- Bittersweet Birthday is a bullet hell adventure about a boy and his bird brother
- The first things we want to do in the GTA remasters
- The best builds for Childe in Genshin Impact
- Here's everything you need to know about Roblox, the gaming megaplatform making its own rules
- Minecraft enchantments guide
- Apex Legends: Where to find all the white ravens
- Forza Horizon 5 is Forza Horizon 4 with cacti instead of hedgerows
- In Dying Light 2 the choices you make can change an entire city
October 10
- Five new Steam games you probably missed (October 11, 2021)
October 9
- What games have you bought more than once, and why?
- Crapshoot: Virtual Springfield is a reminder of when The Simpsons was good
- 9 hours in, Back 4 Blood is bloody brilliant
October 8
- Hot Wheels Unleashed is too fast in the right kind of way
- How the 20-year-old developer behind Choo-Choo Charles is handling the attention
- Far Cry 6's best vehicle is whatever the heck this thing is
- Snap Layouts are Windows 11's best new feature
- All Far Cry 6 Criptograma chest locations
- The best .410 Ironhide loadout for Warzone
- Far Cry 6: How to open the Yaran contraband in Fort Quito
- All Far Cry 6 legendary animal locations
- The best Grav loadout for Warzone
- All Far Cry 6 endings explained
- Far Cry 6's reception makes it clear the series needs its own revolution
October 7
- All Far Cry 6 unique weapon locations
- How to easily bypass Windows 11's TPM 2.0 requirements
- Where to find the new Warzone Season 6 bunkers
- How to turn off automatic updates in Windows 10
- Play as a rogue AI surviving off gig work and dice rolls in Citizen Sleeper
- The rise, fall, and redemption of Mafia developer Illusion Softworks
- Windows 11 has a memory leak bug and here's how to fix it
- Here's what we know about New World's endgame
October 6
- What you need to know about the Fortnite DreamHack tournament
- What item did you grind or farm for the longest?
- How to get into the Battlefield 2042 open beta
- How to restore full context menus in Windows 11
- How to change your Twitch password and set up two-factor authentication
- New World's huge PvP wars risk alienating anyone not in a big company
- How long is Far Cry 6?
- How to move Windows 11 taskbar icons to the left
- Windows 11 launch day bugs to look out for
- Which weapons to choose in New World
- How long is New World's AFK timer?
- For hundreds of days, Brian Hicks battled to finish DayZ and didn’t quite get there
- The Battlefield 2042 beta reminded me why I love Battlefield
October 5
- My wild weekend sieging New World forts made me love its PVP
- The psychological horror of In Sound Mind feels years out of date
- The dearly departed features Microsoft has officially killed off for Windows 11
- Oxenfree 2: Lost Signals lets you chinwag with ghostly walkie-talkie voices and hop through time
- I bought a house in New World and I hate it
- Fortnitemares 2021: When it starts, classic monster skins, and what else we know
- New World PvP guide
- Windows 11 is out now: here's what you need to know before you upgrade
- How to install Windows 11
- When can I download Windows 11?
October 4
- UnMetal is a surprisingly fun (and funny) parody of classic Metal Gear
- Five new Steam games you probably missed (October 4, 2021)
- I can't believe Windows 11 still hasn't gotten rid of these old-ass menus
- 6 multiplayer games we’d love to play (but literally can’t)
- All the Minecraft potion recipes you need to survive
- 12 tips to help you get started in Genshin Impact
- Alan Wake Remastered struggles to justify its own existence
October 2
- What game are you tempted to replay whenever it's mentioned?
- Crapshoot: Shoot the 'Marketing Missile' in Forbes Corporate Warrior
October 1
- With hundreds of demos at Steam Next Fest, here are 12 of our favorites
- I'm completely hooked on New World's fishing and crafting
- After years of failure, Amazon has a hit videogame
- Tavern Master's like a good night out without the hangover
- FIFA 22 Ones to Watch guide
- Amazon reflects on New World launch: 'the numbers grew so quickly and so close to launch it caught us by surprise'
- Which New World faction should you choose?
- Where to find Petal Caps in New World
- New World leveling guide
- The best settings for New World
- Mythology-spanning RPG Mythic Heroes is coming to phones soon
- BioShock 2 is one of the boldest sequels ever made
- Get on the Squid Game train if you haven't already