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October 31
- CD Projekt Red's share price fell 25% in the last two months
- Fight an alien invasion in grand strategy Terra Invicta, coming in 2021
- Shadowlands pre-sales highest of any World of Warcraft expansion
- Action-roguelike Curse of the Dead Gods has a whole armory of new weapons
- House of Ashes is the next Dark Pictures Anthology game, here's the trailer
- Intel is bringing its discrete Iris Xe Max graphics card to thin-and-light laptops and 'value desktops'
- Ruined King, the first singleplayer League of Legends game, will be out in early 2021
- Ellen Page is going to be in a comedy about an all-women esports team
- FromSoftware acknowledges Elden Ring still exists
October 30
- Halo 4 beta test extended to November 6, now includes crossplay for Halo: Reach
- Genshin Impact is getting even more improvements to its contentious Resin system
- Subnautica: Below Zero update video showcases a 'complete and fully voiced story'
- Lab Zero founder Mike Zaimont removed from Guilty Gear GGPO patch project
- The voice of Watch Dogs 2's Marcus wasn't asked to return in Legion
- Mayor Bones wants to test your pumpkin carving prowess
- Cyberpunk 2077 bullies Everspace 2 into January
- K/DA has conquered League of Legends, K-pop, and now gaming chairs
- Genshin Impact's new trailer teases four new characters and the climactic end of its first chapter
- Apex Legends' new vehicles can be turned into gassy, gun-toting monsters
- Call of Duty Cold War is even bigger than Modern Warfare in 4K 'Ultra RTX' mode
- Teardown's demolition experts are creating works of art
- Intel's bringing overclocking to its budget boards with Rocket Lake
- Speed up your home network with this fast Wi-Fi 6 router that is on sale for $150
- It's your last chance to vote in the Golden Joystick Awards 2020
- This Nvidia GPU driver will get your PC ready for the RTX 3070 and Watch Dogs Legion
- Call of Duty: Black Ops – Cold War integrates with Warzone in December
- Half-Life remake Black Mesa now has a Definitive Edition in open beta
- Lovecraftian turn-based tactics game Stirring Abyss is out now
October 29
- Call of Duty: Warzone has been downloaded 80 million times—that's 20 billion GB
- New Epic Games Store freebies are all about Halloween scares
- 16 years later, World of Warcraft players finally found Mankrik's wife—in hell
- Destiny 2 director finally gives fashion fans the news they needed
- Roller Champions is expected to be out early next year
- Electronic Arts faces €10 million fine over FIFA loot boxes in the Netherlands
- Call of Duty: Black Ops - Cold War gets new system requirements that are slightly less demanding
- The Steam Halloween Sale 2020 is live
- Corsair buys app that can turn your iPhone into a PC-compatible webcam
- Asus ROG goes big on AMD Big Navi with a water-cooled Radeon RX 6800 XT
- Far Cry 6 and Rainbow Six Quarantine are delayed, but still expected in 2021
- World of Warcraft Shadowlands launches on November 23
- CD Projekt boss apologizes for saying Cyberpunk 2077 crunch is 'not that bad'
- New Warhammer VR game casts you as a storm wizard in the land of the dead
- The Destiny 2: Beyond Light launch trailer showcases snowy fun on Europa
- Intel's 11th Gen Rocket Lake CPUs rock a double digit IPC boost to take on AMD Ryzen
- There was a Half-Life easter egg in Titanfall 2 all this time
- Watch Dogs: Legion glitches see jeeps soar over London and NPCs with no skin
- Where to buy an Nvidia RTX 3070 - live updates
- HP's Reverb G2 VR headset will be available at retail stores soon
- Xbox creator reveals why Microsoft never made a Windows console
- RTX 3070 stock is greater than previous 30-series launches but Newegg says it's still not enough
- Watch Dogs Legion's first hotfix is already live on console, PC players will have to wait
- The Witcher's wrinkly testicle armor is being smoothed out for season two
October 28
- Red Bull is hosting a 'simplified' League of Legends World Championship stream for newcomers
- Cyberpunk 2077 is now delaying other games, too
- Cyberpunk 2077 is 'ready for the PC,' but current-gen console versions still need work
- This Xbox Series X refrigerator is a 'prize' that you can 'win'
- A new Anthem update teases major Javelin design changes
- Get free Genshin Impact Mora and Primogems by inviting your friends to play
- AMD claims the RX 6000-series can beat both the Nvidia RTX 3080 and RTX 3090
- Hunt ghosts to become ghosts in Sea Of Thieves' Fate Of The Damned update
- Halo Infinite studio director Chris Lee has left the project
- Radeon RX 6800 will launch for $579 and go toe-to-toe with Nvidia's RTX 3070
- Age Of Empires 2's Anniversary Update brings battle royale to the historical RTS
- AMD announces $999 RX 6900 XT GPU: cheaper, smaller, and sometimes faster than an RTX 3090
- AMD announces Radeon RX 6800 XT graphics card, available for $649
- Apex Legends blasts off to sunny Olympus in Season 7 launch trailer
- This prebuilt PC with a GeForce RTX 3080 and 8-core Intel CPU is on sale for $1,800
- No Man's Sky spruces up its visuals in the Next Generation update
- These Capcom-themed pocket synthesizers are cool as hell
- League of Legends K-pop group K/DA's brand new track is a real banger
- Home cinema systems are choking at 4K120 with new Nvidia GPUs or Xbox series X
- Cyberpunk 2077 devs are getting death threats over the delay
- Hearthstone designer Dave Kosak leaves Blizzard
- Microsoft releases a Windows tool to permanently remove Adobe Flash from your PC
- Researchers have bypassed the Oculus Quest 2's forced Facebook login
- Watch the AMD RX 6000 Big Navi announcement live here today
- A 10-year-old Halloween event is returning to Warhammer Online
October 27
- Baldur's Gate 3 update reveals the 'most romanced' NPC
- Riot rolls back 'nightmare' Valorant update, will try again later this week
- Cloudpunk finally gets a cockpit view, and it looks fantastic
- Former Blizzard legend Chris Metzen launches a tabletop gaming company
- Atlas Reactor is returning as a co-op PvE strategy roguelite called Atlas Rogues
- Godzilla is coming to Fall Guys
- Resident Evil Netflix series will be canon
- Cyberpunk 2077 has been delayed until December
- Extreme Meatpunks Forever: Bound By Ash is out now on itch.io
- Destiny 2: Beyond Light trailer reveals Season of the Hunt, Bungie promises to reduce FOMO
- Phil Spencer confirms all first-party Xbox Series X games are 'coming to PC'
- Netflix is making a live-action Assassin's Creed series
- Elite Dangerous: Horizons is now free if you own the base game
- Killer koi and nightmare spiders in next Grounded update
- Nvidia RTX 3080 and RTX 3070 GPUs may be leaking into Comet Lake laptops
- Assassin's Creed: Valhalla cosplayer resurrects ancient meme
- AMD's Ryzen 9 3900XT is on sale for $455 and comes with Far Cry 6
- Microsoft will soon force Internet Explorer users to open Edge for some websites
- Nvidia may be planning two Ti variants in the RTX 30-series to combat AMD's RX 6000 GPUs
- AMD to acquire custom chip manufacturer Xilinx in deal worth $35bn
- Wasteland 3 was almost banned in Australia due to 'Rocky Mountain Moosegrass'
October 26
- GOG kicks off a week-long Halloween sale
- Seven CS:GO pros suspended for a year for betting on matches
- Warhammer: Vermintide 2 is free on Steam for a week
- Fortnite calls the Ghostbusters in for several new skins
- Apex Legends' new character is a time-traveling mom with a grudge
- Baby Yoda is coming to Star Wars: Squadrons
- Here's the Call of Duty: Black Ops - Cold War launch trailer
- This 3D house tour is basically an environmental horror game
- Fortnite's Nexus War season is the start of 'many years' of planned Marvel tie-ins
- Facebook gets into the cloud gaming race
- 1980s USA goes to war against alternate reality USA in a new Zachtronics game
- Due Process is brutal, gorgeous and hitting Early Access this week
- This unfeasibly tiny 3D printed Star Trek ship can move under its own power
- No-one can agree if AMD's RX 6800 XT can really beat the RTX 3080, but it's going to be close
- Cyberpunk 2077 dev defends decisions to remove features
- Amazon’s top selling AMD Ryzen motherboard is on sale for $160 today
- PUBG gets a whole website dedicated to lore
- A 10,000 PPI screen from Samsung and Stanford may be perfect for VR
- Oculus confirms you will not be banned for logging into multiple VR headsets with a single Facebook account
- Acclaimed psychological horror Visage leaves Early Access this week
- Vermintide 2 devs reveal Bardin's getting a new career, Victor a new gun
October 25
- There's a bug in FIFA 21 making players bounce into the air
- Crashed submariners fight cosmic horrors when Stirring Abyss releases this week
- Co-op horror shooter GTFO now has matchmaking
- King Pins is a micro-RTS inspired by Age of Empires
- Turnip Boy Commits Tax Evasion is an upcoming adventure game about just that
- This week in PC gaming: Watch Dogs Legion releases, Valorant gets a new healer
- Among Us developers are trying to prevent a hack from disrupting games
- The Dungeon Experience is a fantasy theme park run by a mudcrab
October 24
- A PC version of G.I. Joe: Operation Blackout is in development, says GameMill Entertainment
- Mortal Shell's free update has pumpkin hats and black metal by Rotting Christ
- Deleting or deactivating your Facebook does the same to your Oculus account
- Sekiro's free game of the year update drops this week
- Valorant skin pricing: 'The type of content that we make isn't meant to be cheap'
October 23
- The Humble Store is having a Halloween Sale
- This Call of Duty: Black Ops - Cold War Zombies mode is PlayStation exclusive for a year
- Someone made Among Us in VR and it actually kind of works
- Genshin Impact changes its troublesome Resin system, but not everyone is happy about it
- The fan-made Mario 64 PC port is getting ray tracing
- Apex Legends comes to Steam with the start of season 7 on November 4
- Disc Room designer on its granular difficulty options: 'accessibility helps everyone'
- The Brotherhood Of Steel is coming to Fallout 76
- Intel's supposedly RTX 3070-level GPU, the Xe DG2, is running in its labs right now
- Blade Runner: Enhanced Edition's launch has been complicated by the missing source code
- AMD may have a plan for leftover first-gen RDNA graphics cards: cryptocurrency mining
- This year's October update for Windows 10 is far less buggy than the last
- This slim gaming laptop weighs less than 4 pounds and packs AMD's flagship mobile CPU
- Teardown will let you tear down your own custom structures
- Locomotive roguelike Monster Train adds mod support
- Intel still can't say if it's going to manufacture all its own 7nm CPUs
- Love – A Puzzle Box Filled with Stories is a wistful tower block diorama
October 22
- Mountaintop and Falling Guillotine nerfs coming in Destiny 2's next sandbox update
- Costume Quest 2 and Layers of Fear 2 are free for the week on the Epic Store
- Zelter is a survival game that looks like Stardew Valley meets The Walking Dead
- Rogue, the original Roguelike from 1980, is now available on Steam
- The Epic Store Halloween Sale is live
- Loot box lawsuit claims Electronic Arts ran an 'unlicensed, illegal gaming system'
- Surviving the Aftermath sheds its Epic exclusivity and launches on Steam
- Hearthstone is heading to the Darkmoon Faire in its next expansion
- Hearthstone's new mode is an Arena-style deckbuilder called Duels that is out today
- Watch Mortal Kombat 11's Rambo get first blood
- Oculus Quest 2 is selling "beyond what we expected" says Facebook
- Microsoft has been attacking a major malware botnet and is winning
- EVGA releases a beta BIOS to raise the power limit for its RTX 3090 FTW3 Ultra
- Kojima Productions is hiring for a new game
- Nvidia reportedly cancels RTX 3080 20GB and RTX 3070 16GB, two cards that may never have existed
- The prize for this Fight Crab tournament is a real crab
- Here's 15 minutes of Scorn, the grotesque Giger horror coming to PC next year
- Atari's flagship hotel looks like a 1980s fever dream
October 21
- Vermintide 2 in-game event celebrates five years of rat-slaying
- Minecraft Java Edition will require a Microsoft account from next year
- Darkest Dungeon board game Kickstarter blows past $1 million in one day
- World of Warcraft players won't stop making fun of its new cash shop fairy armor
- Bethesda intentionally sabotaged Rune 2 to protect The Elder Scrolls, lawsuit update claims
- Ubisoft Connect brings crossplay and saves to upcoming games, starting with Watch Dogs Legion
- Darkest Dungeon 2 is coming to the Epic Games Store next year
- Humankind, Amplitude's historical 4X, now has a playable demo
- ScourgeBringer leaves Early Access, decides to crank up the brutality
- Devolver Digital acquires Serious Sam developer Croteam
- Over 400,000 people tuned in to watch Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez play Among Us yesterday
- Romeo and Juliet sounds better with Warcraft Orcs, thanks to this WoW Edition Mic
- Play Baldur's Gate 3 as a hobgoblin, minotaur, or mind flayer
- Someone found Leatherface's house in Warzone
- This sightless Sea Of Thieves captain sails with the help of callouts and hurdy-gurdies
- This new Micro ATX case is perfect for your small form factor Cyberpunk 2077 PC build
- Cheaper PCIe 4.0 SSDs could be on the way thanks to Silicon Motion's new controllers
- Firefox maker fears it will be collateral damage in antitrust lawsuit against Google
- Windows 10 now lets you change your monitor's refresh rate within system settings
- Fortnite just cut its install size by over 60GB
- AMD is schooling retailers to avoid Nvidia's RTX 30-series launch errors, according to leaked doc
- Halo 4 begins closed testing on PC
- Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez is streaming Among Us on Twitch
October 20
- StarCraft 2 veterans team up for 'the next great PC real-time strategy game'
- Among Us makes for a surprisingly decent esport
- Fallout 76 celebrates global nuclear annihilation with a free week for everyone
- US Department of Justice files antitrust lawsuit against Google
- Microsoft Flight Simulator modders are replacing Bing with Google Maps data
- Cliff Bleszinski says he's feeling the urge to make 'a little game'
- Assassin's Creed Valhalla will add Druids, the French, and the Discovery Tour in post-launch DLC
- Red Dead Online's Halloween event has shades of Undead Nightmare
- Phasmophobia updates will make ghosts smarter and less predictable
- Fallout 4: New Vegas looks great in this bloodthirsty trailer
- The Sims 4 Snowy Escape expansion will take you skiing and rock-climbing next month
- Destiny 2 Beyond Light story trailer shows old foes with new powers
- AMD's latest GPU driver arrives just in time for Doom Eternal: The Ancient Gods
- LG's finally rolling out the world's first rollable OLED TV. For $87,000
- Explore BioShock's Rapture in this Half-Life: Alyx mod
- Pumpkin Jack and Ghostrunner will launch with ray tracing and Nvidia DLSS support
- Never worry about USB port connectivity again with this dual connector thumb drive
- Psychonauts 2 features a spinning tunnel of teeth, unfortunately
- Urban Strife sounds like Jagged Alliance 2, but it's infested with zombies
- Intel sells off its SSD and memory business to SK Hynix in drawn-out $9bn deal
- This Yakuza-themed ramen is worth AU$400
- Bloodlines 2 senior narrative designer Cara Ellison has left the project
October 19
- Stare into the horrible eyes of these Rocket League Stay Puft wheels
- Space race sim Mars Horizon comes out on November 17
- Blaseball developer is bringing a 'slice of life' puzzle game to PC next year
- This cool Microsoft Flight Simulator plugin lets you earn a living as a bush pilot
- Leatherface and that guy from Saw are in Call of Duty: Warzone now
- Keanu Reeves asks why you want to visit Night City in new Cyberpunk 2077 ad
- Valve aims to combat Dota 2 toxicity with a CS:GO-style 'Overwatch' system
- Disco Elysium is weirdly great as a Game Boy RPG
- Sony's latest 4K monitor brings Nintendo 3DS-like panel tech to PC
- Facebook VP of VR recommends checking your account is in 'good standing' before buying a Quest 2
- This Gundam-themed PC hardware is so gorgeous we demand it gets released outside of China and Japan
- AMD's next-gen laptop CPUs could be a confusing mix of architectures
- The Call of Duty: Black Ops – Cold War beta already has some cheaters
- Gabe Newell wants to talk to New Zealand Prime Minister about developers relocating there
- Frog Fractions DLC gets a big pile of secrets and achievements
October 18
- New Assassin's Creed Valhalla screenshots
- Morrowind Rebirth update brings 'another massive amount of changes'
- Looks like Rainbow Six Siege is coming to Xbox Game Pass
- Experimental conversation game Don't Make Love is now free
- The 32,000-unit strategy game Drone Swarm releases this week
- Test out some space feudalism in the Star Dynasties demo
- This week in PC gaming: Amnesia: Rebirth, Doom Eternal expansion, Steam Digital Tabletop Fest
- Destiny 2 cheat-seller shut down by Bungie
- Here's Doom running on some Minecraft sheep, sort of
- Larian explains how a quality assurance bot helps test Baldur's Gate 3
- A new trailer for the XIII remake shows off weapons and tools
October 17
- Three LucasArts classics are coming to Xbox Game Pass
- Spelunky 2's first area has been patched so it's easier
- Months after studio closure, The Lord of the Rings: Adventure Card Game gets an update
- Stardew Valley's next big update has split-screen co-op
October 16
- Steam is holding a Digital Tabletop Fest and sale next week
- Cube Escape dodges the end of the Flash era with a new collection on Steam
- League of Legends supergroup K/DA drops their debut EP on November 6
- Xbox could recoup $7.5 billion Bethesda purchase without putting games on PlayStation, says Phil Spencer
- Marvel's Avengers Kate Bishop DLC delayed, but players are getting some free stuff
- Fall Guys sorts out some Season 2 problems and adds a slime-filled playlist
- Cyberpunk 2077: Big City Dreams is a digital comic exclusive to GOG
- You can reach the end of Baldur's Gate 3 Early Access in 7 minutes
- EVGA gifts 'extreme overclockers' a 450W beta BIOS for the RTX 3080 FTW3 Ultra
- Corsair's latest headset dances on your dome with haptic feedback
- AMD Ryzen 5000 CPUs may run best with faster DDR4-4000 memory
- A Total War Saga: Troy is getting a photo mode next week
- A decade after launch, StarCraft 2 development is winding down
- Having conquered AdventureQuest 3D, Korn is now visiting World of Tanks Blitz
October 15
- Tales of Vesperia and Age of Empires III are among 5 new titles on Xbox Game Pass for PC
- Cris Tales, the time-bending homage to JRPGs, is delayed to 2021
- Bungie announces date for next raid and departure of Deej
- A murderous Red Chocobo is wrecking Final Fantasy 14 players
- Nerfs coming next week to Hearthstone's Evocation and Solarian Prime
- Fall Guys meets Dark Souls in this perfectly disturbing fan-made video
- Hearthstone's 'Fall Reveal' teases a trip to Darkmoon Faire (plus some free packs)
- Amnesia: A Machine for Pigs and Kingdom New Lands are now free on the Epic Store
- Modders are making a 'direct sequel' to Dark Souls with a whole new map
- Cyberpunk 2077 launches on Stadia on November 19
- Burn out your retinas with a glaring look at Cyberpunk 2077 fashion
- Getting too scared in Amnesia: Rebirth will have story consequences
- Keanu Reeves' motorcycle company has a special bike in Cyberpunk 2077
- Legends of Aria studio is working on a Viking-inspired 'dark fantasy survival game'
- Watch Cyberpunk 2077's next Night City Wire stream here
- Borderlands 3 is getting another season pass in November
- The Golden Axed designers don't have fond memories of making Sega's prototype
- Asus doubles down on X470 and B450 motherboards supporting Zen 3
- Facebook account issues are rendering some Oculus Quest 2 headsets unusable
- Someone built a PC gaming handheld with a 3D printer, Raspberry Pi Zero, and some old controllers
- Dr Disrespect designed Rogue Company's new map
- Intel Alder Lake CPU spotted with new layout for massive LGA 1700 socket
October 14
- Corsair's low profile K70 mechanical keyboard is on sale for the lowest we've seen
- The Walking Dead characters are in Brawlhalla now
- Epic offers refunds on NFL skins after removing Washington's old team name from Fortnite
- Sega celebrates its 60th anniversary with some free stuff on Steam
- After seven years, Arma 3 hits v2.0
- Get into the Call of Duty: Black Ops - Cold War beta early by watching streamers on Twitch
- You can still grab these sub-$99 Prime Day PC gaming deals now
- Assassin's Creed Valhalla reveals PC system requirements and a 'deep dive' video
- The Mass Effect remaster is looking real after receiving a rating in South Korea
- The Monster Hunter movie trailer shows off 5 familiar monsters
- PUBG's Paramo map is tiny, deadly and changes between matches
- Yes, you can pet the hefty Viking cats in Assassin's Creed Valhalla
- Assassin's Creed Valhalla has medieval insult rap battles
- Grab this ambidextrous Prime Day gaming mouse from Corsair for $28
- The best portable SSDs are a steal on Amazon Prime Day 2020
- The flight sticks still in stock over Prime Day
- Ghost Story Games, formerly Irrational Games, is in the later stages of production on its immersive sim
- This Prime Day gaming headset deal brings Corsair 7.1 surround sound for just $55
- Get yourself a Prime Day gaming PC with one of our favorite AMD CPUs and a GTX 1660 for just $550
- Assassin's Creed Valhalla's Animus decides which version of Eivor is canon
- Sony's excellent Prime Day TV deals make it a great time to upgrade to OLED for gaming
- Unions representing Blizzard workers have called for a strike
- Leisure Suit Larry: Wet Dreams Dry Twice delayed to October 23
- WoW: Shadowlands' pre-patch is now live, adding revamped leveling and tons more
October 13
- Spelunky 2's first area might get patched so it's easier
- Baldur's Gate 3's first full patch is fixed and live
- Microsoft Flight Simulator modder creates skyscraper-sized Xbox Series X, PS5
- The latest Horizon Zero Dawn patch teaches Aloy how to walk straight
- Hearthstone Battlegrounds nerfs big and Lil' Rag in the next update
- This city builder takes place on the back of a huge, wandering creature
- Overwatch Halloween Terror returns for 2020 with new challenges and rewards
- Sid Meier's Pirates comes to Sid Meier's Civilization 6 in a free update next week
- Fortnite v14.30 update: combat shotgun buffed, Daredevil Cup offers up free Marvel skin
- King Arthur: Knight's Tale is a tactical RPG where you have to kill the king
- Here's Doom running on 100 pounds of moldy potatoes
- Make a TV show in Two Point Hospital's Culture Shock DLC
- This Fall Guys Sonic costume is deeply disrespectful
- Terraria's actual final update is out today
- Crackdown 2 developer Ruffian Games is now part of Rockstar
- Blue launches new Yeti X mic that both looks and sounds like it's from the World of Warcraft universe
October 12
- Next Call of Duty: Modern Warfare update will let you make the game smaller
- Chinese action RPG Xuan-Yuan Sword 7 hits October 29th with a demo available now
- The Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles are in Smite now, which raises a lot of questions
- Milla Jovovich and the Meowscular Chef will be buddies in the Monster Hunter movie
- Fata Deum is a god game with Black & White vibes, coming in 2021
- PUBG is getting a volcanic, dynamic map next week
- This Stardew Valley mod gives each villager an RPG class and lets you recruit them into your party
- Blaseball's latest season ended with a goddamn JRPG boss fight
- Watch Dogs Legion now recommends an RTX 3080 for its ultra settings
- Indie ghost hunter Phasmophobia is a Steam top seller
- Apple has been ordered to leave Unreal Engine and Epic subsidiaries alone
- A Razer Edition motherboard is the cherry on top of your RGB battlestation
- Intel sneaks out a sub-$100 quad-core Comet Lake CPU to take on AMD Ryzen
- Nvidia puts a hold on RTX 3080 and RTX 3090 Founders Edition sales from its webstore
October 11
- Overwatch's Halloween event begins October 13
- Infinity Ward say Warzone's infinite stim exploit has been fixed
- Magic school RPG Ikenfell is out now
- Grossing over $100m, Genshin Impact recoups development costs in two weeks
- American McGee almost put a 300 foot zombie in Quake
- Star Citizen, Squadron 42 8th anniversary updates in new letter and hour long video
- This week in PC gaming: Runescape hits Steam, Torchlight 3 releases, Amazon Prime Day sales begin
- Torchlight 3's new trailer highlights classes, relics, pets, forts
- Sega is having a 60th birthday Steam sale, and changing the cover art of games
- The Outer Worlds will be available on Steam from October 23
- Wasteland 3 load times reduced by 'up to 60%', inXile say
October 10
- The infamous A Game of Thrones board game is finally digital
- Here's your first look at Dwarf Fortress on Steam's actual Dwarves
- John Romero says Doom Guy's name is Doom Guy
- On the first day of Christmas, Min-Liang Tan gave to me: A Razer Christmas tree
- Razer's new Sneki Snek plushie doesn't come with RGB LEDs, because he's an environmentalist
- Razer's new pill-shaped Seiren Mini microphone is only $50
- Razer unveils its first gaming chair, the Razer Iskur
- Razer announces new Blade Stealth 13 gaming laptop with Intel Xe and Nvidia GTX graphics
- Amazon is giving up on Crucible, offering full refunds
October 9
- Sonic the Hedgehog 2 is free to keep on Steam
- Hades now offers a test branch with early access to updates and fixes
- Outriders, the co-op shooter from Bulletstorm studio People Can Fly, delayed to early 2021
- Genshin Impact is getting 2 updates in 2020, including a new zone and a ton of improvements
- Baldur's Gate 3's most-picked character editor options created the most generic dude possible
- Star Wars: Squadrons studio Motive is working on 'several' new games
- Valorant Act 3 brings a new battle pass, map, and skins next week
- Fall Guys Gauntlet Showdown is a limited time races-only playlist
- EKWB announces RGB cable tidies to fix a problem I didn't know I had
- The Medium gets a release date and a spooky tune
- Take a tour of Amnesia: Rebirth's haunting desert
- A live-action Kingdom Come: Deliverance adaptation is in development
- For only the second time, security researches found UEFI malware in the wild
- Halo 4 public testing is expected to begin this month
- On paper WD's first PCIe 4.0 SSD takes the speed crown from Samsung's 980 Pro
- Marvel's Avengers has shed lots of players, but Crystal Dynamics is confident they'll return
- Bug-eating adventure Bugsnax will be out November 12
- Microsoft sides with Epic in its fight with Apple, promises a more open MS Store
October 8
- Twitch employees allege a long history of sexism and racism at the company
- Larian asks Nvidia to please send them an RTX 3080
- Epic and Apple will go to trial in May 2021
- AMD's high-end Ryzen 5000 CPUs don't come with coolers because they're 'optimised for enthusiasts'
- AMD announces the first Big Navi benchmarks, blazing past 4K 60fps
- Rising Storm 2: Vietnam and Abzû are free for the week on the Epic Store
- AMD Ryzen 9 5900X is 28% faster than Zen 2 in Shadow of the Tomb Raider
- AMD says Zen 3 has a 19 percent IPC boost over Zen 2
- AMD announces Ryzen 5000 CPUs available November 5
- Fall Guys Season 2 is out now, with new rounds, costumes and playlists
- Rambo is coming to Mortal Kombat 11 next month
- AMD Ryzen 5000 BIOS updates are live now
- AMD Ryzen 5000 Zen 3 announcement - live updates
- Baldur's Gate 3's EULA contains a bardic quest
- AMD acknowledges a vulnerability in its GPU driver that could crash your PC
- EA has no plans to add more to Star Wars: Squadrons
- Watch the AMD Ryzen 5000 Zen 3 livestream here today
- The PlayStation 5 supports standard PC-sized NVMe M.2 SSDs
- Microsoft is testing a Windows 10 setup screen with 'gaming' as an option
- Call of Duty: Black Ops – Cold War beta will have three modes, new maps and a ping system
- Pumpkin Jack is a 3D platformer with strong Maximo vibes
October 7
- Ziggurat 2 brings more first-person roguelike dungeon crawling to Steam this month
- Riot Games to close Sydney office and dissolve Oceanic Pro League
- Rainbow Six Siege's big Tachanka rework arrives on a test server tomorrow
- Steam Game Festival: Autumn Edition features hundreds of demos and developer streams
- A library employee allegedly stole $1.3 million in printer toner
- The first Baldur's Gate 3 patch is live
- Steam's new chat filter lets you customise what words you see
- Watch this GTA Online prankster posing as a bloodthirsty valet to surprise players
- Destiny 2: Beyond Light exotics trailer features a gun that shoots bullets from an alternate timeline
- Star Trek Online: House Shattered continues the Year of Klingon
- Intel Rocket Lake CPUs confirmed to launch before March 31, 2021
- MSI responds to claims it was price hiking RTX 3080 cards on eBay
- Chilled-out city builder Before We Leave gets a free content update
- Upbeat tube station management sim Overcrowd has left Early Access
- Samsung's 4K triple laser projector looks amazing
- Razer's BlackWidow keyboard returns with tougher keycaps and brighter lights
- Frostpunk board game Kickstarter gets full funding in under an hour
- Phasmophobia, a terrifying online co-op ghost hunting game, is Twitch's latest surprise hit
- The Sims 4's October update marks the first steps towards better representation, but also breaks some stuff
- Genshin Impact's chat filter removes 'Taiwan' and 'Hong Kong,' but also 'Putin,' 'Hitler,' and 'words'
October 6
- Hyper Scape Season 2 is live now, with a new weapon and district
- To celebrate 5 years (and 9 million prisons built) Prison Architect is free to play until October 11
- Chris Metzen thinks Henry Cavill would make a 'dreamy' Arthas in a Warcraft film
- Call of Duty: Black Ops - Cold War beta system requirements and other details revealed
- Yakuza: Like a Dragon trailer shows off sad karaoke, sports trivia, and vocational school
- Kaya Scodelario, Hannah John-Kamen, and Neal McDonough lead the Resident Evil film reboot cast
- Blair Witch game headed to VR this Halloween
- Wrench from Watch Dogs 2 will be a playable character in Watch Dogs Legion's season pass
- The price of flight sticks is ridiculous right now, but 'Thrustmaster is in full production'
- EVGA's new virtual queue will auto-reserve you an Nvidia RTX 3080
- Apex Legends' crossplay beta update nerfs Wraith
- Score an ergonomic wireless keyboard and mouse combo for under $20
- Fall Guys devs reveal 'Thicc Bonkus' as the name of Season 2's spiked roller hazard
- Intel's next-gen 16-core/32-thread Alder Lake chip appears online
- Razer made a Visa card for gamers so naturally it has an LED
- DDR5-5600 RAM is ready and waiting for the first compatible CPUs
- Kentucky Route Zero's fictional musical duo release an EP
- Fight your friends as adorable puppies and kittens in the free demo of Party Animals, on Steam until October 13th
October 5
- Listen to some real Viking history in Ubisoft's Assassin's Creed Valhalla podcast series
- When does Baldur's Gate 3 Early Access release in my time zone?
- News on Rainbow Six Siege's Tachanka rework is coming this week
- Facebook accidentally banned a Fallout 76 militia roleplay group
- Of course there are already Among Us cheaters
- Minecraft Dungeons is getting new DLC and a season pass in December
- Nvidia CEO says RTX 3000 demand 'will outstrip all of our supply' through the end of the year
- Baldur's Gate 3 hard drive requirement more than doubles ahead of Early Access launch
- I'm terrified of the drawbridges in this Fall Guys season 2 level reveal
- The Witcher season 2 first images reveal a truly Big Geralt
- Need For Speed: Hot Pursuit Remastered drifts out next month
- Disc Room opens its razor-sharp doors this month
- Acer’s awesome Predator X34 gaming monitor is getting a big speed boost
- Leoric’s Castle mod turns Diablo 2 into a competitive boss rush
- Banish Bing and speed up Windows 10 search with this simple hack
- Godfall won't be a live-service game, but you'll have to be online
- You can install and run Crysis 3 on a GeForce RTX 3090's VRAM
October 4
- Season 3 of The Witcher on Netflix is definitely probably coming
- Hardware survey shows Steam's VR growth has stagnated
- Payday 3 is still in the works, will use Unreal Engine
- Here's the G-Man in a perfect recreation of Once in a Lifetime by Talking Heads
- This week in PC gaming: Baldur's Gate 3 hits Early Access, Fall Guys Season 2 begins
October 3
- Call of Duty: Modern Warfare no longer fits on a 250GB SSD
- Need for Speed is counting down to something, probably Hot Pursuit remastered
- Genshin Impact may be biggest-ever global launch of a Chinese game
- Rule for a thousand years with this Crusader Kings 3 to Europa Universalis 4 converter
- The new Monster Hunter movie trailer is as confusing as ever
- Votes are in, and the new Minecraft mob is a glowing squid
- The awesome Sim Settlements mod for Fallout 4 is getting a sequel
October 2
- Call of Duty: Warzone's newest sniper rifle is an overpowered death laser
- Chinatown Detective Agency gets a free 'Prologue' chapter on Steam
- 25 percent of Ubisoft employees have 'experienced or witnessed' workplace misconduct
- Amnesia: Rebirth trades 'sanity' for a strange illness inspired by Soma
- Pay a visit to Japan's towering death spikes in Microsoft Flight Simulator
- Fall Guys season 2 begins next week
- Here are all the classes and races for Baldur's Gate 3 Early Access
- Team Fortress 2 is the busiest it's ever been
- Silent Hill 4: The Room gets a digital resurrection on GOG
- Nvidia's hotfix GPU driver resolves a black screen G-Sync issue and Fortnite crashes
- Microsoft Flight Simulator is starting its VR beta very soon
- Cooler Master's new MM720 gaming mouse is crazy light at 49g
- EKWB's new vertical mount lets you give your liquid-cooled GPU the attention it deserves
- Nvidia delays the launch of the RTX 3070 to October 29 so you can actually buy one
- Tencent buys a 'major stake' in GTFO developer
- Silent Hill 4 might be Konami's next PC rerelease
October 1
- You can now play team-based PvP shooter Rogue Company for free
- Nexus Mods bans 'US political mods' until after the next president is inaugurated
- Destiny 2's Festival of the Lost gets a trailer, but more importantly double Nightfall loot is BACK!
- World of Warcraft: Shadowlands delayed to later this year
- Ubisoft admits Hyper Scape is too hard and kind of boring, promises big changes
- Amnesia: Rebirth shows off some scares in its first gameplay trailer
- Pikuniku, the adorable game of dystopia and revolution, is free on the Epic Store
- Mount & Blade 2: Bannerlord's first official modding tools are out now
- New Corsair gaming keyboards finally support all manner of weird and wonderful keycaps
- Apex Legends crossplay beta begins on October 6
- Take a look at Elite Dangerous: Odyssey's lively settlements
- ClockTuner for Ryzen is a free tool that unlocks your AMD CPU's full performance
- NZXT's excellent H500i PC case is a steal at $56 with free shipping
- Atari VCS consoles finally 'on the way' after significant delays
- GOG Galaxy is letting testers buy Epic exclusives directly from the app
- Dell is bringing Intel Xe graphics to its brand new thin-and-light XPS 13 laptops
- Gigabyte registers four Nvidia RTX 3060 Ti graphics cards
- Cyberpunk 2077 brings out Keanu Reeves for a new advert
- Windows 10 will monitor your NVMe SSD to prevent catastrophic failures
- Kenshi has sold a million copies
- Get into the game with a Samsung curved screen
- Spelunky 2 speedrun record is now under 3 minutes
- Co-op dungeon crawler Blightbound gets bots and a pirate
- Grounded now has ziplines