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October 31
- Dusk update brings console features to the PC version
- Age of Empires 4 had almost 74,000 concurrent players on Steam for its opening weekend
- Cyberpunk action-RPG The Ascent gets a photo mode
- Here's a bit about Haunted Chocolatier's combat
- Looks like Fortnite China is shutting down
- This Week in PC Gaming: Call of Duty Vanguard, Unpacking, and Let's Build a Zoo
- Romance an eldritch horror in this kiss-a-Cthulhu dating sim from DreadXP
- Yep, Skyrim has spider grenades
- Id Software is hiring, maybe for a new Quake?
- Payday 2 adds Halloween cosmetics, joins skeleton army
October 30
- New World is not 'client authoritative,' says Amazon
- This visual novel is also a puzzle about getting the characters out alive
- Roblox has been down for nearly two days
- That controversial gamer skincare line is no more
October 29
- Ubisoft workers demand swifter action from leadership after Activision concedes to employee demands
- Amazon deploys fix for New World exploit that let players crash the game using chat
- PUBG's parent company now owns Subnautica studio Unknown Worlds
- The Witcher showrunner promises deeper relationships and more bard hits in season 2
- Skyrim Anniversary Edition includes new quests based on Morrowind and Oblivion
- League of Legends gets a new music video featuring Imagine Dragons for its upcoming TV series
- Former Uncharted creative director Amy Hennig is working on a Marvel game
- AMD's next-gen flagship GPU is said to have made one big step towards launch
- Destiny 2 players held Xur hostage for two days to snag god-tier weapons
- Cyberpunk 2077 fixes and free DLC have all been delayed until 2022
- The Witcher goes to war in season 2's full trailer
- Sable's Stranger Update unleashes a ghastly new bike and plenty of bug fixes
- Netflix's Tomb Raider anime wants to 'unify the timelines' between the original series and the reboots
October 28
- Call of Duty: Warzone's overpowered Kali Sticks must be stopped
- EA reveals three of Battlefield 2042's big new maps
- Oculus Quest VR headsets to eliminate mandatory Facebook account log-in requirement
- Hearthstone's 'Deadmines' mini-set lands on November 2, brings multiple parrots with it
- Facebook is now called Meta
- Call of Duty: Warzone's Pacific map and new anti-cheat are coming in December
- Prince of Persia: The Sands of Time Remake is still happening, but might not be out until 2023
- Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas is coming to VR
- The Steam Halloween Sale 2021 is live
- The next Magic: The Gathering set is all about a vampire wedding
- The next Vampire: The Masquerade game may spring from November's Vampire Jam
- Sony forms 'PlayStation PC,' strengthening its relationship with PC gaming
- Arkane co-founder's new game Weird West will be out in January
- Apex Legends fans are naming Ash's nameless rat sidekick in her stead
- You can't get an RTX 3080 but at least you can sign up for a virtual one today
- Activision CEO Bobby Kotick takes a significant pay cut amid the publisher's ongoing lawsuits
- Final Fantasy 14 is fine with erotic role-playing—just do it in private, please
- Vicarious Visions will reportedly merge fully with Blizzard, dropping its old name
- Pathfinder: Wrath of the Righteous gets first big patch
- Dr. Dre is making new music for Grand Theft Auto
October 27
- Riot backs new studio founded by former WoW designer who was 'unhappy with the state of the game'
- NFT developers petition Valve to unban blockchain games from Steam
- Aliens: Fireteam Elite Year 1 promises changes that will 'add more enjoyment' to the struggling shooter
- Isle of Bigsnax adds a whole new world to Bugsnax
- New World vigilantes trap a notorious hemp hogging bot with well-placed tents
- Chivalry 2 DLSS update promises 4K 60 fps dismemberment action on any Geforce RTX GPU
- Once upon a time, Dune star Timothée Chalamet was a YouTuber who modded Xbox controllers
- Amazon says New World's economy is just fine, thanks
- Rust will legit let you build your own Frankenstein's monster for Halloween
- Alienware announces Alder Lake-powered Aurora R13 desktops are available immediately
- Twitch streamer Pokimane sorta co-owns the biggest fighting game tournament in the world now
- Intel finally confirmed its new GPU's specs, and it looks like a beast
- The Division 2's next big content update is set for February
- Intel Alder Lake is coming November 4—gaming CPUs from $264 to $589
- Intel's Alder Lake could actually be a better overclocker than prior CPU generations
- Intel is making RAM overclocking easier and smarter with Alder Lake
- Intel claims the Core i9 12900K is the 'world's best gaming processor' but has to retest Ryzen
- Persona composer leaves Atlus to develop indie games
- Nvidia has jammed GeForce Now into a British red telephone box because we're insatiable
- Call of Duty: Vanguard won't be as storage-hungry as previous entries
- Google Stadia is testing out time-limited demos
- PSA: Alt-tabbing out of Destiny 2 could result in a PvP timeout thanks to a major exploit
- Crusader Kings 3's first big expansion won't be out until 2022
- Far Cry 6's Anton Castillo is so disappointed I haven't killed him yet he's emailing me about it
October 26
- GeForce Now works on Xbox, further blurring the lines between consoles and PC
- Microsoft is installing the Windows 11 compatibility checker on your PC whether you want it or not
- Deep motorbike sim RIMS Racing is free to try for a few days
- From Moe's Tavern to Krusty Burger, this Viking is recreating The Simpsons locations in Valheim
- Faze Clan is going public in a deal valued at $1B
- BlizzCon on 'pause' as Blizzard aims for a more 'welcoming and inclusive' event
- Shadow Warrior 3 pushed into 2022 with an 'official delay trailer'
- Blaseball returns next week with a 'low stakes' mini-series of experimental seasons
- This PCIe Q-Release button for Asus Alder Lake motherboards is a godsend
- A Quiet Place game is coming next year
- GTA Trilogy removes reference to Confederate flag
- Pimax's next-gen VR headset boasts 12K PC VR and the Quest 2's portable power
- Final Fantasy's creator is addicted to Final Fantasy 14
- Deep Rock Galactic adds robo baddies and a big data heist as it launches a free Season Pass
- Step into a hand-painted watercolour village in this stunning indie adventure
October 25
- Battlefield 2042 introduces non-binary character, a first for the series
- Valve confirms Steam sale dates for the rest of 2021
- A Wu-Tang Clan action-RPG is rumored to be in development
- God of War PC port isn't being developed by Sony
- Looks like Steam is getting a QR code login option
- Phasmophobia's Nightmare update delivers four new ghosts and a haunted campground
- 'The Merge' to end cryptocurrency mining on gaming GPUs won't come until 2022
- Activision Blizzard's attempt to halt lawsuit rejected
- Welcome to Storm Point, Apex Legends' sun-soaked new map
- Here's our first look at Halo Infinite's open world campaign in over a year
- Sir Trevor McDonald will be the new GamesMaster
- Suspected Russian state-sponsored hackers behind multiple attacks on the global supply chain
- Konami delays eFootball patch to 'ensure the experience is improved' for everyone
- AI voice-acting tool xVASynth gets even better at recreating videogame voices
- Rumored Smash-style crossover game to star WB characters like Shaggy, Batman, and Gandalf
October 24
- Jagex to publish Runescape-inspired idle game Melvor Idle
- One early idea for Mass Effect 3's ending involved a reaper god instead of the Star Child
- Indie dev finds that Linux users generate more, better bug reports
- Caves of Qud update has relaxed story mode and a coral-encrusted arcology
- This Week in PC Gaming: Age of Empires 4, Marvel's Guardians of the Galaxy, and some scary games
- There's an official D&D supplement about the heroes and villains of Baldur's Gate 1 and 2
- Call of Duty marketing finds a new level of tastelessness
- PSA: You can grab a free Overwatch battletag change until November 5th
- Resident Evil's Chris Redfield and Jill Valentine join Fortnite in latest crossover
October 23
- Payday 3 goes to New York and the plots are going digital
- GTA Trilogy system requirements are here
October 22
- Valkyrae faces backlash over new line of gamer-focused skincare products
- Activision Blizzard employees skeptical that executive who denied sexism problems can solve them
- Meet holo-ghouls, galactic Yeti, and a psychic octopus in surreal adventure Growbot
- Overwatch's McCree has a new name: Cole Cassidy
- Darkest Dungeon 2's launch trailer is here to get you hyped about dying miserably
- The Flame in the Flood studio joins CD Projekt to work on an 'ambitious' new game
- Valheim teases Mistlands biome and new caverns in the mountains
- Halo 3's been moddable for a week, so here's Dust2
- Hey guys, please don't buy Apple's $19 microfiber cloth
- Government downs Notorious REvil hackers' payment portal and data leak blog
- Raspberry Pi increases in price for the first time ever. Thanks, chip shortage
- Intel's next-gen Alder Lake CPU launch is so close it's leaking everywhere
- Grasshopper Manufacture acquired by NetEase, promises three games over next decade
- Here's Grand Theft Auto: The Trilogy – The Definitive Edition in action, out November
- Facebook unlocks Oculus Go VR headset for developers, tinkerers, and modders
- DDR5 RAM could cost 50–60% more than DDR4 at launch
- Skyrim's Anniversary update brings fishy frolics for all Dragonborn
- Intel CEO says it is 'closing the gap' on rivals 'even more rapidly' than expected
- eBay AU is flogging heaps of Dell stuff for cheap, including a AU$600 360Hz monitor
October 21
- Call of Duty: Warzone's Halloween mode is fun except for this fake blue screen
- Tiny Tina's Wonderlands info drop includes a place called Butt Stallion's Castle
- How hackers are hijacking YouTube accounts to run ads for cryptocurrency scams
- Sony patents technology that enables stream viewers to kick players from games
- Stardew Valley creator's next game is an adorable chocolate shop sim
- The fixes for the Windows 11 bugs that were hurting AMD Ryzen performance are now live
- Amazon will ban New World players exploiting gold duplication bug
- Farming Simulator 22 announces beekeeping with a new animal-filled trailer
- Razer teams up with the makers of 3DMark to set the standard for eco-gaming
- Resident Evil 4 VR cuts out the sleaziness around Ashley
- Razer unleashes new PC components in bid to beat Corsair to your gaming PC
- New Dwarf Fortress video is all about murdering goblins in a 'hallway of doom'
- Halo Infinite will let you use your PC to host cross-platform LAN parties
- This Halo Infinite themed RX 6900 XT GPU is so limited edition you can't actually buy one
- Fortnite's first PvE tournament announced
- Doom Eternal's horde mode will finally arrive next week
- Apex Legends' next map embarks on an unseasonable summer holiday
- DICE affirms that Battlefield 2042's specialists are here to stay
- Here are the other 5 Battlefield 2042 specialists coming at launch
- New Uncharted trailer shows it recreating some of the series' greatest spectacles
- Every PlayStation 3 game ever released now boots up on PC, thanks to emulation
- Austin Powers in Mass Effect is yeah, baby, yeah!
- Call of Duty: Vanguard shows what happens when game devs make a music video
- Nvidia claims its virtual RTX 3080 service will outperform a local Xbox Series X on all counts
- The next Chivalry 2 update will add a ridiculous Brawl mode, a new sword, but most importantly: headbutting
- Twitch is trialling a feature that lets you rewind livestreams
- Star Citizen players are running around giving each other drug overdoses
- Nvidia releases firmware update to let you get into your BIOS again
October 20
- Bloodsucker Anti-Terror Squad is a sidescroller that asks 'What if G.I. Joe were vampires?'
- Blizzard boss draws heat for raid boosting, which many players hate
- This Tomb Raider survival horror prototype almost became the 2013 reboot
- Ubisoft fixes Might and Magic 10 DRM mess, it's back on sale with bonus DLC
- Starfield's new trailer reveals the 'Settled Systems' and its factions
- Intel's Alder Lake chips can hit 330W when overclocked, just like their Comet Lake daddies
- Bungie says next year's Destiny 2 dungeons won't be included in the season pass, and some players aren't happy
- The Witcher 3's free next-gen upgrade has been delayed until 2022
- God of War is coming to PC in January
- 30,000 FIFA cheaters whacked with retrospective red cards
- Blizzard renames WoW character based on musician who made homophobic remarks
- NZXT's new BLD Kits are like Hello Fresh for gaming PC construction
- Intel teases distant gaming GPU codename, reaffirming long-term gaming plans
- No Man's Sky's latest expedition lets you ride the worm, become the worm
- New World update brings server transfers and stops housepets teleporting into storage chests
- Riders Republic is getting one final free week before launch
- Guardians of the Galaxy is somehow now 80GB instead of 150GB
- Gigabyte's 5G gaming PC looks like an extremely online Roomba
- Facebook is reportedly getting a rebrand
- Dell's got RTX 30-series gaming laptops cheaper than productivity notebooks right now
- Activision Blizzard has shed at least 20 staff as a result of harassment investigations
- Activision Blizzard wants California lawsuit paused due to alleged ethics violation
October 19
- Sea of Thieves celebrates 25 million players by tossing money around
- A new Splinter Cell rumor points to a 'mainline' game in development
- Yarrr! Get a free Pirate King Garrosh skin in Hearthstone for logging in
- Fortnite's Dune crossover features the goofiest looking sandworm ever
- If last week's surprise Fallout 3 update broke your mods, here's a fix
- Microsoft is 'definitely not done' acquiring studios
- Halo, Disintegration veteran Marcus Lehto is starting a new studio under EA
- Microsoft Flight Simulator is getting DirectX 12 support and its first official military jet
- This Week in PC Gaming: Resident Evil 4 VR, Inscryption, and RazonCON 2021
- Minecraft Platypus mod is my new favourite egg-laying mammal
- Valve quietly updates Half-Life 2 with increased FOV, ultrawide support and ancient bug fixes
- Voting is open for the Golden Joystick awards 2021
- Fortnite's Halloween event has massive monsters and Ariana Grande in a spacesuit
- Apple claims its new M1 Max chip is a match for Nvidia's RTX 3080, but should we believe it?
- Blue Box Game Studios says it's getting death threats over Kojima conspiracy
- Dead by Daylight models are being sold as NFTs, no one is pleased
October 18
- This horror game set in an abandoned toy factory isn't playing around
- Valve is reviewing Steam's whole library for Steam Deck compatibility
- New World invulnerability trick is hilariously easy to pull off (Updated)
- Twitch had a 'do not ban' list to keep big-time streamers from being suspended for 'something dumb'
- Outriders confirmed for Xbox Game Pass for PC
- Give Epic your email address and you'll get a $10 coupon
- Vladimir Putin congratulates Russian Dota 2 team for world championship win
- Valorant cheating 'at an all-time low'
- Overclocker doubles Raspberry Pi's clock speed to an incredible 3GHz
- Apex Legends' next hero is another Titanfall 2 throwback
- Namco pixel artist Hiroshi Ono dies at 64
- Elden Ring has been delayed into February
- Microsoft teases a big Fable reveal, swiftly un-teases it
- China's illegal bitcoin miners go off-grid as the country records a 0% share of global hash rate
- Fez and Portal are perfect partners in this short free mashup
- FIFA says it never liked EA anyway, will see other publishers now
- Noctua fan mod turns an unusable RX 5700 XT GPU into a beast
- Guardians of the Galaxy system requirements demand 150GB of disk space (Update: now it's 80GB)
October 17
- 27 seconds of Elden Ring gameplay footage has leaked
- Lina gets a bit heated in the trailer for Dota: Dragon's Blood season 2
- Looks like Rainbow Six Extraction will be out January 20
- Team Spirit wins $18M Dota 2 championship in close finals
- Suicide Squad: Kill the Justice League trailer has a bunch of callbacks to the Arkham games
October 16
- Gotham Knights trailer introduces the villainous Court of Owls
- Dota 2's newest hero is Marci, the silent sidekick from the anime
- Minecraft's new mob is a dancing, gift-giving spirit
- Minecraft is coming to Xbox Game Pass for PC
- Minecraft's next big release is called The Wild update, out 2022
- Frogs are coming to Minecraft
- How Battlefield 2042 beta players felt about 'the next generation of warfare'
October 15
- A Squid Game videogame could happen, Netflix says
- Windows 11 Insider patch fixes major AMD Ryzen bug
- Cheat makers already have Call of Duty's new anti-cheat driver, but Activision isn't bothered
- Steam bans all games with NFTs or cryptocurrency
- Netflix boss claims violent videogames prove Dave Chappelle's latest standup special is harmless
- Deathloop's first major update fixes framerate stuttering, adds DLSS
- Twitch says passwords were not exposed in last week's massive security breach
- This Lego inspired DDR5 RAM kit is totally stacked
- Total War: Warhammer 3 introduces the chaotic mastermind of manipulation, Tzeentch
- Trim the fat from your Windows 11 install with NTLite
- Windows 11's first update is being rolled out to unsupported PCs after all
- What's going on in New World: gank squads, sweary wicker baskets, and a war on gold farmers
- Annoyed with New World's lack of minimap, two players built their own
October 14
- The Invincible's first trailer teases an analog adventure on a strange alien world
- Finish the fight in style with these Halo-themed diamond necklaces
- Forget the potatoes and pregnancy test: Doom runs on Twitter now
- 'Legacy code' in Diablo 2: Resurrected is causing widespread connection headaches
- EA will remove disgraced NFL coach from Madden 22
- Call of Duty: Vanguard shows off its Zombies
- Host the best BBQ ever by building your own superbright 4K watercooled gaming TV using recycled parts
- Bloodlines 2 came close to being cancelled completely
- Kingston announces its first blisteringly fast 7000MB/s NVMe SSD
- You can now take your Corsair CPU cooler with you to Intel Alder Lake
- The Master Chief Collection's latest update fixes Halo 2's broken PC port
- Man builds an IRL Minecraft pig called Hamborghini that hits top speed of 20mph
- Battlefield 2042 Hazard Zone is a PvPvE mode that takes cues from Hunt: Showdown, Tarkov
- Data breach sees millions of Acer customers' data being sold by hackers
- Genshin Impact sets bizarre Elon Musk challenge, then deletes it
- Final Fantasy 14 is the most profitable Final Fantasy ever, says director
- Rocket League goes all-in on Batman for Halloween
- Latest Nvidia drivers cull support for Kepler and Windows 7/8
- Google AI department sued for using the health data of 1.6 million NHS patients
- Minecraft once more asks fans to decide the game's next mob
- Build an adorable micro solar system for a hungry sun in Heliopedia
- GeForce Now officially launches in Australia next week
- Elden Ring rated in Australia, proving that it still exists
- How AMD Advantage™ laptops provide a better gaming experience
October 13
- In space, no one can hear you honk with this horrifying Destiny 2 goose mask
- Call of Duty: Warzone players are too fed up with cheaters to protest kernel level anti-cheat
- William Shatner boldly goes where not too many other people have gone before
- Check out these giant 40K machines made of old cars and scrap metal
- F1 2021 adds long absent Imola circuit
- Rainbow Six Siege caster Michael 'KiXSTAr' Stockley dies at 24
- Electronic Arts may be dropping the FIFA license for one simple reason: it costs too much
- System Shock is being made into a live-action series
- Solar Ash, the follow-up to Hyper Light Drifter, delayed to December
- Ghost Recon Frontline beta test delayed one day before it was set to start
- Far Cry 6 mod lets you change FOV while driving and horsing around
- Call of Duty is getting kernel level anti-cheat
- The first Windows 11 update doesn't address AMD Ryzen bugs; fixes coming soon
- Samsung shows the PS5 some love by slapping a heatsink on the 980 Pro SSD
- State of Decay studio founder wants to build a safe and inclusive new studio with Possibility Space
- The next battle royale game is an interactive live-action movie
- Nvidia appears to be considering every GPU and memory config imaginable for the 30-series
- Microsoft has crushed the worst DDoS attack its Azure servers have ever encountered
- Final Fantasy 14's game director doesn't like the drama surrounding World of Warcraft's player exodus
- Final Fantasy 14 director explains how housing lottery system will work
- Fortnite backtracks and teases an Among Us crossover
- Get over here and see how Scorpion's iconic spear-throw was created
- Skyrim's Anniversary Edition update may be more disruptive to mods than expected
- Fallout 3 finally freed from Games For Windows Live scourge
October 12
- Total War: Warhammer's unloved sieges are being reworked in the third game
- Avowed, Obsidian's Skyrim-style RPG, will feature two-handed combat and 'multiple class playstyles'
- Call of Duty cheaters get an ominous warning from Activision: 'See you tomorrow'
- 'It's hard to be a woman in this company': More details of sexual harassment at Paradox Interactive emerge
- Riot is disabling cross-team chat in League of Legends
- Google countersues Epic using Apple's core arguments
- AMD's AM5 platform will support DDR5 and PCIe 5 at launch in 2022
- AMD confirms Ryzen CPU refresh with 3D V-Cache early in 2022
- Spelunky world-record speedrun exposed as a fraud after 8 years
- Undying is a zombie survival game where you've already been bitten
- Fourth largest RAM manufacturer warns of impending price correction
- This Week in PC Gaming: Back 4 Blood, DC Fandome, and The Riftbreaker
- Nvidia DLSS comes to Baldur's Gate 3, Tomb Raider and Back 4 Blood
- Fortnite is holding a 'Grand Royale' in November with over $5 million in prizes
- Raw Fury signs deal to bring Sable, Night Call and Mosaic to film and TV
- Intel confirms it won't limit cryptocurrency mining on its new Alchemist graphics cards
- Fall Guys dev once thought about Red Light, Green Light—after Squid Game, may 'have another crack'
- Alienware's ultra-black egg chair is like your own personal wormhole
- Explore the haunted fan server of long-dead MMO HitFlesh
- Here's a substantial peek at Saints Row's open world
October 11
- Monster Hunter Rise won't support cross-save or crossplay with Nintendo Switch
- Jenga and WarioWare collide in this free game
- Vast Deus Ex mod restores the original game's vision for a female protagonist
- This Crusader Kings 3 mod adds a crucial feature: fishing minigames
- RIP FIFA: EA trademarks EA Sports FC
- Calm down, HP has not leaked AMD's Ryzen 7000-series
- Finally, a great reason for RGB lighting: helping deaf gamers stay in the fight
- Epic is reportedly considering a Fortnite movie
- Updated burning tool makes it easy to ignore Windows 11 system requirements
- Rider's Republic is free to try for 24 hours starting tomorrow
- Intel's next-gen i5 may lack Alder Lake's boldest feature but is still more than a match for AMD
- Activision-Blizzard lawsuits in chaos as federal agency accuses California's DFEH of ethics violations
- New PCIe 5.0 GPU power connector could deliver an absurd 600W from a single cable
- Teardown mod turns the physics sandbox into a terrifying survival horror gauntlet
- Doom Fighters lets you bareknuckle brawl your way out of hell
- Star Wars: The Old Republic is testing a 'combat style' revamp
October 10
- Make silly robots in programming puzzler Manufactoria 2022
- Retrogame engine ScummVM turns 20 years old, gets an update
- Are New World players getting each other banned to win wars?
- EEK3 2021 was another treasure trove of indie horror games
- Watch Metroid Dread running on PC thanks to emulators
October 9
- Apple has also appealed the Epic v Apple verdict
- GOG says they 'shouldn't have released' Hitman on their store, removes it
- New World server transfers delayed due to 'edge cases,' no transfers between regions
October 8
- Quake remaster gets big update expanding bot and mod support
- Marvel's Avengers gets paid XP boosters and not everyone is happy about it
- US Navy claims it was 'hacked' after someone streams Age of Empires on USS Kidd's Facebook page
- Developers finally get Linux running on an Apple M1-powered Mac
- New World players are already scamming each other out of huge sums of gold
- Nvidia GPU mining limiter 100% dodged by mining two cryptocurrencies at once
- Hack a better taskbar back into Windows 11
- Battlefield 2042 players have figured out how to bunnyhop across the beta
- Grand Theft Auto: The Trilogy coming later this year with 'modern gameplay enhancements'
- UK thieves jailed after stealing £180K of cars with a 'Game Boy'
- Halo Infinite leak shows a Forge with full scripting features
- 'Kids should not be spending in FIFA full stop,' says EA
- Microsoft promises to look into right to repair for Xbox and Surface devices
- NASA to relive most Kerbal Mun landings by throwing spaceship at rock
- Dota 2 fans aren't cheering The International's awkward fake applause
- Apacer's new SSDs with 'cutting-edge specs' aren't actually its fastest
- PAX Australia online is live
- Two of the Yakuza series' masterminds have left Sega
- To get big Twitch payouts, you have to be among the top 0.01% of streamers
- In the demo for Succubus you eat a fetus for hit points
- This psychedelic 3D platformer about a cool duck costs a single dollar
- Shenmue anime finally gets a trailer
October 7
- A lot of Battlefield 2042 beta players want the old generic soldiers back
- Back 4 Blood streamers will have to turn off licensed music to avoid copyright strikes
- Get off the bench and play Super Mega Baseball 3 for free this weekend
- Destiny 2 is removing another destination and an entire campaign next year
- Genshin Impact developer reveals new game, beta sign-ups start this week
- A 17-year-old coder found a way to unlink your Facebook account from your Oculus Quest 2 headset
- How to stop Far Cry 6 from opening a Twitch browser tab when you quit playing
- Vanguard guns appear in Call of Duty: Warzone, then disappear
- Resident Evil: Welcome to Raccoon City trailer is so bad, it might be good
- Diablo 4 gets a new game director
- Apex Legends unleashes the Monsters Within for this year's Halloween event
- Eidos Montreal shifts to a four-day working week
- Halo: The Master Chief Collection goes medieval for its final season next week
- Twitch in crisis as it blames server error for massive data breach
- War Thunder fan leaks classified military documents to win an argument about tanks—again
- FIFA might not be FIFA next year, says EA
- Kingston's 16GB and 32GB DDR5 memory kits receive Intel's stamp of approval
- Randy Pitchford is leaving Gearbox games to focus on Gearbox movies, is still head of Gearbox overall
- Intel's new anti-Apple ad is just cringe
- World of Warships gets spooky in time for Halloween
- Deathloop has at least one undiscovered secret left, says level designer
- Next Baldur's Gate 3 patch is its biggest yet, adds 'equippable salami'
October 6
- This year's Team Fortress 2 Halloween event features a real cursed Scout cosmetic
- Watch The Witcher 3 running on a Steam Deck
- Security experts aghast at the scale of Twitch hack: 'This is as bad as it could possibly be'
- This Fortnite skin combines Cuddle Team Leader and Tomato Head into an unholy abomination
- Massive Hunt: Showdown update to add a powerful revolver, rifle variants, and a new way to heal
- AMD reports that Windows 11 may be causing a performance dip of up to 15% on Ryzen CPUs
- 'Evolved Apes' NFT creator Evil Ape disappears with $2.7M
- After 8 years, Rust is getting a mission system
- Valve shows how to take apart the Steam Deck, but it really doesn't want you to
- Twitch streamers aren't particularly bothered about their pay leaking
- New World remains offline as 'technical difficulties' force extended downtime
- Old School Runescape's first new mode in years is a hardcore co-op odyssey
- Twitch confirms massive data breach has happened, is still figuring out why
- Teardown's free 'Part 2' update goes full Garry's Mod
- Twitch megaleak reveals secret Steam competitor codenamed Vapour
- Amazon says 'New World is safe to play' despite anecdotal reports of bricked GPUs
- TSMC claims some companies in the tech supply chain are stockpiling its chips
- Geekbench now blocks benchmark scores from unreleased hardware
- Microsoft reveals how to bypass its own system requirements for Windows 11
- Massive Twitch data breach sees hackers release source code, contributor payouts, and unannounced software
- Valve, AMD, and Qualcomm team up to bring wired gaming speed to Wi-Fi in Windows 11
- New World's success has Amazon CEO convinced games could be the company's largest entertainment sector
- Rockstar finally puts Agent to rest
- New World's first post-launch update doesn't include character transfer, but plenty of bug fixes
- Back 4 Blood is among October's Xbox Game Pass for PC additions
October 5
- Super Mario Sunshine mod adds new worlds, story, and an enemy cut from the original
- The original Ghost Recon and DLC for its sequels are free to keep
- Microsoft is celebrating Windows 11's launch with a freaking NFT
- Resident Evil Village demake turns Castle Dimitrescu into Castlevania
- If only this Rocket League trailer were for a new game instead of a new car
- Rockstar Launcher update points another finger at a remastered Grand Theft Auto trilogy
- Far Cry 6 secret trailer teases something involving armored tigers
- PC Gamer readers choose to wait on installing Windows 11 and we don't blame them
- Ghost Recon Frontline is a free-to-play class-based battle royale FPS
- Smack up adorable claymation critters in an alien burger factory with Bonky
- Breathe through facehuggers and nom on glowing worms in this new sci-fi survival sim
- Intel CEO says AMD's CPU dominance is 'over with Alder Lake'
- Alan Wake's 4K remaster is out now
- AMD's new GPU driver promises big gains in Far Cry 6
- Here's when Far Cry 6 unlocks in your time zone
- Mikael Nermark, former Starbreeze CEO, dies aged 50
- AMD's RX 6000-series GPUs finally flex in Steam’s hardware survey
- Windows 11 demands TPM 2.0 and here's what that means for you
- Windows 11 Killer networking bug may slow connection speeds in some games
- New World bots flood fishing spots, so players bring boars to kill them
- Retro horror spookfest EEK3 returns this Friday
- Windows 11 is out now and ready for you to download
- Facebook went down for hours today, affecting Oculus headsets
October 4
- Popular Warcraft 3 mod Legion TD returns after 12 years with a standalone sequel
- Mechwarrior Online studio reverses decision to rename 'trans rights' competitive teams
- Deep Rock Galactic board game coming to Kickstarter next year
- Hackers drain cryptocurrency accounts of thousands of Coinbase users
- The Asus and Noctua Edition RTX 3070 seems like it's going to be as quiet as it is brown
- South Korean ISP sues Netflix because Squid Game is just too damn popular
- Elden Ring producer says game now in final stages, has 'no errand quests' and 'unusual map'
- Genshin Impact gets its own Paimon-covered Razer gear
- A memory leak in Windows 11's File Explorer is holding users' RAM hostage
- Amazon takes aim at New World AFK abusers
- Clint Hocking says Far Cry 2's villain was Far Cry 1's hero
- The Epic Games Store finally gets achievements next week
- Valheim patch tweaks weapons and food, adds festive Jack-o'-turnip
- Amazon's New World keeps up the momentum, peaking at over 913,000 players
- Grand Theft Auto modders that tried to get around a DMCA claim get walloped with Take-Two lawsuit
- This super-realistic Minecraft grass will probably set your PC on fire
- Storage study finds SSDs might not be much more reliable than HDDs after all
- Half-Life: Alyx No VR mod is coming along, now you can draw with pens
- Harley Quinn's beach uniform in The Suicide Squad was inspired by her Injustice 2 outfit
- Action game Wanted: Dead is being made by ex-Ninja Gaiden and Dead or Alive devs
October 3
- Marvel's Guardians of the Galaxy shows off ray-tracing, DLSS, and other PC specifics
- Friday the 13th developer IllFonic is working on a Ghostbusters game
- Crafting JRPG Atelier Sophie 2 will release on Steam in 2022
- Build castles to survive the Mongols in a free wave defense RTS
- Valve refunds tickets for Dota 2 International just days before event
- This Week in PC Gaming: Far Cry 6, Super Monkey Ball Banana Mana, and Jett: The Far Shore
- The creator of Ethereum got into crypto because Blizzard nerfed his character
October 2
- Full New World servers will no longer allow character creation
- Elder Scrolls Online's infernal Deadlands expansion hits in November
- Here's a game about a gruesome spider-legged train named Charles
October 1
- Discord is getting rid of Stage Discovery, and it's easy to see why
- Capcom wants PC to be its main platform for games in the future
- Google says the most searched word on Bing is, wait for it, 'Google'
- Big changes coming to Chrome may kill ad blockers
- The director of the best Final Fantasys is putting out his first new game in 15 years
- Jeff Bezos heralds New World's success 'after many failures and setbacks in gaming'
- This footage from Ride 4 looks so realistic it fooled the internet
- Rumor: Konami working on new Metal Gear, Castlevania, and Silent Hill games
- GeForce Now adds EA games with Dragon Age: Inquisition and Battlefield 1 leading the charge
- Paradox abandons multiple unannounced projects to focus on 'proven game niches'
- Does eFootball deserve to be the worst reviewed game on Steam?
- Fresh reports suggest New World is again helping brick expensive Nvidia GPUs
- Windows 11 will hobble gaming performance by default on some prebuilt PCs
- Dutch legend has been running his campsite since 1986 using an Atari ST
- Bloober Team is teasing a new Layers of Fear
- Pandemic or not, IDC says gaming PC and monitor sales will 'remain strong' for years to come
- Intel's new brain chip uses its first 7nm silicon
- Stranger of Paradise: Final Fantasy Origin manages an entire trailer without my dude once saying Chaos
- Phison's new PCIe 5.0 chip ushers in the new age of super fast SSD storage
- Please look at this bee that didn't make it into Spelunky 2
- Best Buy GPU restock for Nvidia RTX 30-series happening today, October 1
- Five Nights at Freddy's movie loses its director