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- October 31
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- CD Projekt wants the Cyberpunk series to experience 'a similar evolution' to The Witcher games
- A wildly popular beta has skyrocketed The Finals into the top-wishlisted game on Steam, priming it to be the FPS to watch in 2024
- Remedy's Max Payne remakes and Control spinoff are now in 'production readiness' but the success of Alan Wake 2 might mean they're still a long way off
- Alt-history multiplayer FPS '83 is back from the dead under a new studio, and they're looking for testers
- Tim Schafer and Double Fine celebrate 25 years of Grim Fandango and thank fans for their memories: 'I'll keep them next to where my heart used to be!'
- One of the creators of Baldur's Gate and Dragon Age: Origins has finally statted up D&D Satan (and all his mates)
- Ubisoft is taking another bunch of old games out behind the woodshed
- The Baldur's Gate 3 soundtrack is hitting the concert hall
- Vampire: The Masquerade - Bloodlines 2 will have a voiced main character: 'it draws the player in that much more', says the game's ex-Bioware narrative quality designer
- Morrowind's most impossibly ambitious mod just added a whole new region for its 7th expansion in 22 years
- Qualcomm's new PC chip delivers gaming performance on par with AMD's best integrated graphics
- You can build your own Starfield space stations thanks to this modder who found the code 'already in the game'
- Deltarune Chapter 3 is 'pretty much content complete' and will be releasing alongside Chapter 4, says creator Toby Fox
- This FF14 animation mod turns the ninja into a high-tech John Wick, and it's the coolest thing I can't recommend
- Western Digital is planning to split its SSD memory and hard drive operations into two new businesses
- Wordle today: Hint and answer #864 for Tuesday, October 31
- October 30
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- US President Joe Biden signs executive order 'to protect Americans from the potential risks of AI systems'
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- Call of Duty's new stupid launcher is a data management nightmare, and it may get worse with Modern Warfare 3
- For those who love optimizing PC games as much as playing them, Modern Warfare 3 promises more than 500 settings to fiddle with
- 'This is only the beginning': Metal Gear Solid fans lose their minds as David Hayter returns to voice Solid Snake in a new teaser
- Bungie lays off employees as Destiny 2: The Final Shape is reportedly delayed to June
- Dead Space 3 producer says he'd 'throw away and rewrite' the entire main story if he could
- War MMO players battle against impossible odds for 48 real hours, build a religion around a corpse pile, then crash the server
- The Finals uses AI text-to-speech because it can produce lines 'in just a matter of hours rather than months', baffles actual voice actors
- You might have missed it but 3DMark was 25 years old last week
- Baldur's Gate 3 fans are carving Halloween pumpkins and these are some of my favorites
- Windows 11 has been shrunk to a 3.3GB install size but even the developer believes you should think twice before installing it
- In Call of Duty's most infamous mission, Infinity Ward was 'basically just trying to think of the most atrocious things that could happen'
- If Cities: Skylines 2 didn't float your boat, Anno 1800 is free for a week
- New leak suggests AMD's Zen 4 APUs are close to release but won't deliver the gaming performance we were hoping for
- D&D's latest physical book has been delayed due to bad luck of the draw: 'The defect rate is too high. I cannot in good conscience ship this stock'
- Confirmed RTX 4080 Super GPU means at best you're getting just 5.3% more Ada for the money
- Asus' Dual RTX 4060 Ti with an integrated M.2 SSD slot answers a question few thought to ask
- Wordle today: Hint and answer #863 for Monday, October 30
- October 29
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- Your new co-op survival horror obsession is about being underpaid and overworked space scavengers
- Here's a cute, free economic real-time strategy about colonizing and defending a solar system
- Enter an abandoned amusement park to solve a horror mystery in this upcoming bit of indie psychological horror
- Wordle today: Hint and answer #862 for Sunday, October 29
- October 28
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- Cities: Skylines 2 has 8 packs of regional buildings on the way, for free
- Fly hard, fly fast, drop nukes in this accessible near-future flight combat sim
- Cyberpunk 2077's 2.0 overhaul was inspired by the 'old school design' of Diablo 2's skill trees and Doom's 'relentless' combat
- Wordle today: Hint and answer #861 for Saturday, October 28
- South Park makes Baldur's Gate 3 joke, Larian quickly corrects it
- October 27
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- One of Alan Wake 2's expansions sounds like it's going to take us back to Control
- Our favorite horror game of 2022 is on sale for Steam's horror sale and just fixed our biggest issue
- The Steam Halloween Sale is live
- One of the most-played games on Steam right now is a highly-destructible FPS in open beta
- If you're not playing Alan Wake 2 this weekend, one of the best survival horror games of the last decade is currently free to keep
- My favorite survival game of 2023 just cooked up a new way to destroy me: with an army of killer robots
- Itch.io's new Games for Gaza bundle is raising funds for medical care for Palestinians
- Counter-Strike 2 doesn't have Arms Race and others yet, but Valve says relax: 'those modes haven't been forgotten!'
- On NFTs, Valve says it's only interested in 'things our players care about'
- We ask Valve if Counter-Strike 2 will introduce new weapons: 'Yes'
- On National Black Cat Day, a game about a black cat who is also a grizzled 1950s detective is free on GOG
- Cities: Skylines 2 developer: 'Yes, our characters have teeth. No, the characters' teeth are not affecting performance'
- Fallout co-creator settles over two decades of fan debate about who nuked who with a single off-hand comment
- Disney Dreamlight Valley ditches free-to-play plan at the last minute, will launch in December as a premium game
- SK Hynix throws a spanner into Western Digital's plan to merge with Kioxia, but it might not be game over just yet
- D&D livestream Critical Role announces its next charity one-shot, where donors vote on its classes and story to mess with celebrity guests
- Diablo 4's running a free weekend, giving you a shot at all its content until Monday
- New anti-AI tool 'poisons' generative models to protect artwork from unauthorized robo-Rembrandts
- This Fallout 4 no-hit 100% permadeath run took more than 2 years, 415 attempts and over 2,000 hours: 'this is by far the most challenging Fallout 4 run that will ever be completed'
- Unity's disastrously unpopular fees were 'rushed out', according to anonymous sources: 'we were not told a date. And then before we knew it, it was out there'
- Microsoft Edge now wants to know why you're leaving, temptation to say 'it's not you it's me' increases
- If you're playing the Metal Gear Solid 1 Master Collection edition, please for the love of god make sure you don't pick the PAL version
- Intel's earnings on the up as CEO dismisses Arm CPU threat as 'pretty insignificant'
- Iron Lung's new 'Markiplier mode' surrounds you with the YouTuber's meme faces while you explore the depths of the blood ocean
- Wordle today: Hint and answer for #860 Friday, October 27
- October 26
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- Heroes of the Storm fans are excited: More than a year after Blizzard ended development, a new patch has appeared on the PTR
- CD Projekt never considered a Cyberpunk expansion set after the main game's endings: 'No need to water them down. Sometimes less is more'
- After 3 years of 'hands-off' management, Microsoft is making Bethesda and ZeniMax report directly to an Xbox bigwig
- The new demo for this cozy vampire farm sim gives you one week to decorate your spooky property
- I can't believe I'm saying this again, again, but Skull and Bones is delayed again
- Remedy reassures PC gamers worried about Alan Wake 2 system requirements: 'We played real safe on those PC settings'
- The new Metal Gear Solid 3 remake trailer played me like a fiddle
- Cities: Skylines 2's first performance patch is live on Steam
- Unionisation still necessary despite improvements, say CDPR devs, after the 'tremendous amount of stress and insecurity' caused by recent layoffs
- Cyberpunk's new patch means the game will no longer strike you down like a fickle god right before the ending
- Final Fantasy 14's bizarre Fall Guys event drops later this month, and I'm scared my trips into the bean dimension will be a good way to make gil
- After Payday 3's disastrous launch, Starbreeze partners up with an Australian studio to lend its 'expertise in release management' to a Fortnite Island
- Timb-err: Old School Runescape's new forestry update gets panned for being 'too convoluted for its own good'
- A GPU datacentre company agreed to buy a cannabis business last month in what could be described as a new joint venture
- Microsoft Word hits the big Four-O and if you can remember the first version, you're officially ancient
- Dell is selling a five year old graphics card for a bewildering £13,800. Umm, any takers? Anyone? Bueller?
- Victoria 3 conjures up yet another DLC type as it braces for its 'grandest update to military, economy, and diplomacy' yet
- Former 'king of crypto' FTX boss to take stand in fraud trial that, so far, seems to be going very badly for him
- After a month in beta Valve has released SteamVR 2.0 for the headset-wearing masses
- Elden Ring fans discover 'cut' sword behind frenzied speculation has, in fact, been hiding in plain sight the whole time
- Thermaltake steps into the monitor market with a pair of gaming focused monitors
- Wordle today: Hint and answer for #859 Thursday, October 26
- Diablo 4 Rogue uses a pair of pants to one-shot its hardest bosses: 'Uber Lilith was absolutely child's play'
- October 25
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- Baldur's Gate 3 player stacks so much movement, their character can walk 800 feet in under 10 seconds
- Valve is dropping local currency support for Turkey and Argentina amid 'exchange rate volatility,' moving to 'regionalized USD pricing' for 25 countries
- Starbreeze explains ongoing Payday 3 patch delay: 'There was a significant risk to player progression being wiped' by update errors
- Five Nights at Freddy's movie mauled by critics as 'not scary,' 'bloodless,' and 'puzzling'
- Still Wakes the Deep's debut gameplay trailer asks, 'What if Dear Esther was set on an oil rig, and also something was trying to eat you?'
- Like a Dragon: Infinite Wealth goes full Animal Crossing, will let you manage an island paradise 'with a cozy DIY lifestyle'
- 6 years after Ark: Survival Evolved left early access, Ark: Survival Evolved's remaster enters early access
- 2023's most slept-on horror game is getting an absolutely sadistic new mode where nearly everything's randomized and you have to spend precious fuel just to save
- Steam's most wishlisted city builder, Manor Lords, announces 2024 early access launch date
- Starfield's inevitable community patch has arrived on the scene
- Cities: Skylines 2 studio promises performance issues can and will be fixed: 'We want to assure you that the issues are not deeply rooted in the game’s foundation'
- Skyrim's former design lead tips his hat to Baldur's Gate 3: 'Very few of the decisions in a Bethesda game feel highly meaningful, you get maybe three or four'
- Skyrim's retired lead designer says anything other than the 'Bethesda usual' has to be approved by Todd Howard: 'He doesn't believe it's true, but unfortunately it's true'
- Your current cooler may be ready for Intel's next-gen CPUs if this manual is to be believed
- This graphics mod for Dark Souls is so comprehensive it breaks a boss fight, letting you bomb the Capra Demon from on-high
- Qualcomm wants to convert your PC from x86 to Arm with its killer new 12-core chip
- There is a way to lower Core i9 14900K temps but it involves performing the PC equivalent of open-heart surgery
- Excel no longer messes things up for scientists trying to store genetic codes in a spreadsheet
- Dataminers find evidence Konami will free Metal Gear Solid 4 from PS3 purgatory, but it's hard to be excited about it
- Ex-Bethesda dev says Starfield could've focused on 'two dozen solar systems', but 'people love our big games … so let's go ahead and let 'em have it'
- Wordle today: Hint and answer #858 for Wednesday, October 25
- It took a modder just hours to add 4K support to the Metal Gear Solid collection
- October 24
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- Star Wars: Dark Forces Remaster comes to Steam in February
- Grand Theft Auto fans were convinced that a big reveal was coming today, but now they're starting to wonder if Rockstar is just messing with them
- Skyrim lead designer says Todd Howard only revealed The Elder Scrolls 6 because the fans had 'pitchforks and torches' out
- Counter-Strike 2 is banning players for moving their mouse too fast
- Call of Duty: Modern Warfare is when Infinity Ward 'finally gave up on the idea that we were making a better version of Counter-Strike'
- European authorities and the FBI bust ransomware group that launched $11 million attack on Capcom
- Ubisoft celebrates Rocksmith 2014's 10th anniversary by removing it from sale on all storefronts
- Cities: Skylines 2 devs designed the game to target 30 fps because 'there's no real benefit to aim for higher'
- Players blast Metal Gear Solid Master Collection for missing options, vanished Steam pages, and muddy textures: 'absolutely poor and not worth its asking price'
- Blizzard's latest stunt asks Diablo 4 players to donate 666 quarts of blood, then goes full demon by offering a PC 'infused' with real human blood
- American McGee says the Alice series is dead, finished, kaput, and people need to stop 'continually asking me questions to which I do not have answers'
- Starfield player's anti-grav salad spinner soothed my soul, right up until I saw its lettuce-obsessed creator's other dark designs
- Age of Empires 2 modder remakes Skyrim as an RTS, and you can play it soon
- TikTok owner says it's still committed to VR after rumours swell of it ditching Pico headsets
- One man's years-long quest to train an 'unbeatable' Trackmania AI may have finally crossed the line
- This free Frasier JRPG is a better return to the show than the new series
- FF14's director Naoki Yoshida gets griefed by the series' creator live on stage during a bossfight: 'This tank is big trouble'
- Our favourite QD-OLED gaming monitor is getting some siblings and they may be the answer to your screen-size prayers
- AMD and Nvidia to join Qualcomm in the Windows Arm(s) race
- WD and Kioxia merger on the cards to overtake Samsung as the world's main source of SSD storage
- Small form factor fans could soon have an intriguing new option after pictures of a single slot RTX 4060 Ti emerge
- Wordle today: Hint and answer #857 for Tuesday, October 24
- October 23
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- All of the Fallout games are on sale to celebrate the world ending in exactly 54 years
- Konami says to expect slowdown in some Metal Gear Solid cutscenes, but a patch is coming post-launch
- After slaying 666 cows, Diablo 4 player makes major breakthrough in the hunt for the secret cow level
- The official Bloodlines 2 theme song is giving me a minor existential crisis over how old the first game is, and how much older I am now
- There's secret dialogue supporting Baldur's Gate 3 fans' favorite forbidden romance locked behind an impossible nap—but someone managed to find it anyway
- Lords of the Fallen has already sold 1 million copies
- Worlds Collide, Brands Collab: Marvel is coming to Magic: The Gathering
- Amazon's Fallout TV series begins streaming in April 2024
- Blizzard halts Diablo 4 trading again, warns that players who take advantage of a new duplication exploit will be 'actioned'
- Remnant 2's latest dev talk puts crosshairs on the game's most busted ring, confirms loadouts with a 'Yep', and gets into the armour nitty-gritty
- Forget Karlach and Shadowheart, my new favourite Baldur's Gate 3 pairing is this delusional fan romance with zero supporting evidence
- Baldur's Gate 3 mod lets un-partied characters participate in conversations
- UK government has been using AI for all sorts and it's going as well as you might expect
- Controversial game designer Peter Molyneux wants to prove that not 'everything I say is a promise that's going to be broken'
- You have just one week to vote on the Ultimate Game of the Year for the 2023 Golden Joystick awards
- Skyrim player gathers all the food in every city, eats it all and instantly dies thanks to one killer snack
- Lords of the Fallen will tone down infamous gank squads and restore checkpoints to New Game+ in its second week of patches
- Alan Wake 2's PC requirements may leave AMD RX 5000-series and Nvidia GTX 10-series users high and dry
- Baldur's Gate 3 player uses 'barrelmancy' to explosively murder an Act 3 boss and avenge Karlach
- Samsung talks up its fast and power-efficient GDDR7 memory
- 'Squadron 42 is now feature-complete and has entered its polish phase', says Chris Roberts
- Wordle today: Hint and answer for #856 Monday, October 23
- Websites stole and monetized a free browser game, so the designer replaced it with Goatse
- This crafting game is like a quirky fusion of Forager and Minecraft
- October 22
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- Jon Stewart's show on Apple TV+ was reportedly canceled after a disagreement over coverage of AI and China
- There's a bunch of secret dialogue in Cyberpunk 2077's main quest if you beat Phantom Liberty first, and some of it feels like groundwork for future Cyberpunk stories
- My favorite indie Elder Scrolls-alike has finally added its take on the series' best spell
- Check out the playtest of magic school simulator Mind Over Magic
- Overwatch harnesses the dread power of K-Pop
- Final Fantasy 14's director really wants to do a crossover with Diablo
- Final Fantasy 14's director promises to make an ultra-challenging achievement for the player who earned every single one, if they want
- Wordle today: Hint and answer for #855 Sunday, October 22
- Terrifyingly fun roguelike World of Horror launches with an absolute banger of a trailer
- Inkle's scripting language, Ink, has Unreal integration thanks to Bloodlines 2 developers The Chinese Room
- This combo of Surviving Mars with factory building has you automate and expand a lunar colony in the wake of disaster
- October 21
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- Another Warhammer game's license runs out as Warhammer Quest announces its delisting on Steam
- Baldur's Gate 3's most prolific speedrunner managed to Olympic broad jump their way into a romance scene in under two minutes
- Final Fantasy's original creator admits to playing Final Fantasy 14 'for 12 hours' a day, and he's even cleared some of the hardest raids in the game
- I knew the promise of an entire BioWare game remade inside another, older BioWare game was too good to be true, but what I found was even weirder than I imagined
- We might not have Final Fantasy 16 on PC yet, but we can sort of experience it through Final Fantasy 14's new crossover event
- The Viper is Final Fantasy 14's newest class, with tons of flair and dual swords that can be fused together
- Wordle today: Hint and answer for #854 Saturday, October 21
- Battlefield 2042 is finally having a little moment thanks to 2 years of updates and a big discount
- October 20
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- Everybody's either mad or sad about the Alan Wake 2 system requirements
- In case you're wondering how weird Valorant has gotten, the newest agent creates a pocket dimension where enemies are forced to 1v1 you to the death
- Diablo 4's new seasonal event drops so much legendary loot it feels like an exploit, but Blizzard says it's intentional
- Dino shooter Second Extinction pulled from sale before even making it out of early access: 'It regrettably did not achieve the success we hoped it would'
- Dogmeat is coming to Magic: The Gathering in Fallout-themed Commander decks launching next year
- Black Friday is still a month away but there are plenty of sweet 1440p gaming monitor deals right now
- Vampire Survivors skips Halloween and goes straight to a goodie-filled 1.7.0 Christmas update, because 'if big name stores can do it, why can't we?'
- Three great Warhammer tabletop RPGs for under $20 is a deal worthy of the Emperor himself
- Starfield player turns shotgun into a carpet-bombing artillery nightmare that should probably violate interstellar law
- New D&D-inspired drip is predictably pricey—though it can apparently take a beating: 'We want you to be able to run around in the woods with your friends'
- Stellaris' next DLC is gonna take you to another dimension
- AMD brings chiplets to Radeon Mobile at last with the new RX 7900M
- Tokyo resident arrested after using FF14 to allegedly stalk a woman in grim reminder of how a blacklist overhaul is long overdue
- RTX 4090 prices in US tick upwards as China ban approaches
- TSMC taunts Intel, claims superior chip tech for years to come
- Wordle today: Hint and answer for #853 Friday, October 20
- Serpens is a stealth sim that's carrying a torch for Thief: The Dark Project, then quickly extinguishing it with a water arrow
- Age of Sigmar RTS Realms of Ruin reveals its final faction
- October 19
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- If you try to sneakily undercut one of Cyberpunk 2077: Phantom Liberty's most emotional scenes, CD Projekt counters with hidden dialogue followed by instant death
- Warhammer 40,000: Rogue Trader has an alignment system, sort of
- There's cool stuff happening in every big FPS right now, and I can't decide where to start
- Mortal Kombat 1 players discover that crash logs are eating up massive amounts of drive space: More than 1GB per crash in some cases
- For the first time ever, The Evil Within games are going free on The Epic Games Store
- Josh Sawyer would like to make Pillars of Eternity 3, but only if he got a Baldur's Gate 3-sized budget
- Tony Hawk's Pro Skater 1+2 finally gets an offline mode, but only for the Steam Deck
- Elden Ring has launched an official luxury streetwear collab, and for the low price of $1,700 you can own your own faux fur coat lined with The Lands Between
- AI in big budget games is inevitable, say dev vets from Assassin's Creed and Everquest 2: 'Developers hate it … the money is still going to drive absolutely everybody to do it'
- Discord is moving away from permanent bans for violations that aren't 'extremely harmful'
- The upcoming Assassin's Creed VR game looks genuinely cool if you can keep yourself from throwing up
- Blizzard just casually gave players the key to one of WoW's classic dungeons—the original four-wing Scarlet Monastery—in a Halloween event
- The first Intel Meteor Lake handheld gaming PC breaks cover as does the most Nintendo DS PC you will ever see
- You can get $400 of Vampire: The Masquerade books for ridiculously cheap on Humble Bundle right now
- AMD brings Threadripper back to the desktop with a new non-Pro range of monster chips... that I'm going to now call Wallet-ripper
- Before you judge me for drooling over these gorgeous 3D CT scans of USB cables I implore you to check them out yourself
- Slay the Spire dev releases an awesome and free deck-building dance game that nails the beat
- Embracer reportedly guts another studio in the wake of its dead-in-the-water $2 billion deal
- This Baldur's Gate 3 NPC has brutal, tailor-made taunts to wreck the psyche of every companion character
- Habbo abandons Web3 'jargon' but remains all-in on the blockchain
- Wordle today: Hint and answer for #852 Thursday, October 19
- Zotac’s new Mini PC will hopefully usher in a new era of device cooling
- October 18
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- Diablo 4 has ditched the lifeless grind and entered a new loot-filled era in season 2
- Why is the internet ripping a new King Kong game to shreds?
- A dog named Peanut Butter is going to speedrun a Nintendo platformer at AGDQ 2024
- Phil Spencer confirms that Activision Blizzard games won't come to Game Pass this year: 'Now that the deal is closed, we're starting that work, but there is work'
- Stay frosty: Call of Duty Warzone's Halloween event has jump scares that will take you back to 2006 YouTube
- Lords of the Fallen's latest patch promises 'substantial performance improvements' for struggling GPUs
- Elon Musk unveils his latest galaxy brain plan to save Twitter: Charging new users $1 per year to tweet
- The next Planetary Annihilation game is half Factorio, half RTS, all 'Tsar Bomba level annihilation'
- Drop's new customizable keyboard has quick-swap magnetic cases
- 'Ruin his life'—Old School Runescape player gets such unhinged advice from community, showing it to their cousin is all it takes to get a 96 million gold wand back
- Xbox boss Phil Spencer is open to breaking the seal on some forgotten games: 'If teams want to go back and revisit some [games] … I'm gonna be all in'
- Microsoft is making its Series 2 pad like a mini Adaptive Controller with a new wave of PC gaming accessibility updates
- GeForce RTX 20-series owners can now enjoy a spot of deep learning enhanced video playback
- AMD kicks its new Anti-Lag+ feature out of its latest drivers, stripping support and the potential for player bans from games
- Asus breaks the overclocking world record with 9.044GHz Intel 14900KF CPU
- Baldur's Gate 3 player thinks they've fooled a god with a first level spell, right until they realise they've stumbled into Act 2's new worst ending
- Watching her girlfriend bed Lae'zel on a Baldur's Gate 3 stream completely stuns Shadowheart's voice actor: 'I don't know what to say'
- No more Nvidia RTX 4090 GPUs for China after new US export ban
- Wordle today: Hint and answer #851 for Wednesday, October 18
- AMD's newly announced RX 6750 GRE cards are strong RTX 4060 competitors, though you won't find them on shelves in the west
- Gwent's official development ends, leaving future balance patches in the hands of the community
- October 17
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- These were the 10 most-played demos on Steam this month
- Harebrained Schemes is independent again: Paradox parts ways with the studio less than a week after confirming major layoffs earlier this year
- Post Malone is coming to Apex Legends for 'two weeks of mayhem,' may God help us all
- Elite Dangerous studio Frontier Developments announces layoffs 'following a period of disappointing financial performance'
- Dev says CD Projekt morale 'took a significant hit' after Cyberpunk's launch, but it won't repeat mistakes with the next Witcher
- Fortnite now has a playable 'reimagining' of Alan Wake so you can get caught up on events before Alan Wake 2 arrives
- You know SSDs are super cheap at the moment, right? These are the good times, but as production gets cut chip prices will rise
- Valve doesn't sell ad space on Steam so it can make room for surprise hits: 'We don't think Steam should be pay-to-win'
- Final Fantasy 14 players interviewed over 80 of their fellow adventurers to craft a heartwarming first-timer's guide to roleplaying with anxiety
- How one gun company partnered with Call of Duty to attract 'young potential shooters'
- AMD yeets its latest GPU driver in response to Anti-Lag+ causing bans in Counter-Strike 2
- Arcane is officially canon, and from now on League of Legends lore is going to stop contradicting itself all over the place, says Riot
- After saying 'We've been spending way more money than we earn', Epic turns on the money hose to lure game devs into releasing their golden oldies on the Epic Games Store
- Power-hungry Baldur's Gate 3 player stacks Karlach with enlargement magic until she's a 20ft tall, 5-ton giantess who could kill a dragon by jumping on it
- GTA Online's Halloween event makes a fan rumour real and gives one of its protagonists a last goodbye
- Asus adds new DDR5 overclocking option to Z790 ROG motherboards for hunting down more fps and better stability
- Wordle today: Hint and answer #850 for Tuesday, October 17
- October 16
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- Whoops: Blizzard leaked the name of the next Hearthstone expansion on a t-shirt
- Cities: Skylines 2 won't use Steam Workshop for mod sharing
- Starfield lead quest designer leaves Bethesda to work on the open-world RPG Wyrdsong
- World of Warcraft: Dragonflight’s next update adds an ancient realm players have wanted to explore for years
- Payday 3's long-awaited first patch is delayed again: 'Please bear with us'
- League of Legends has a boy band now, 'a group of dynamic daredevils dedicated to unapologetic individuality and creative expression'
- Cities: Skylines 2 devs warn players of performance problems: 'we have not achieved the benchmark we targeted'
- Pete Hines, Bethesda's number-one PR guy for nearly 25 years, is leaving the company
- Minecraft is the first videogame ever to sell more than 300 million copies
- Omni-Man's Mortal Kombat 1 trailer is a splatter-filled gauntlet of Invincible's most harrowing scenes
- Intel's new 14th Gen chips are almost a carbon copy of its 13th Gen, fortunately including the price
- Graphics card modder shows AIB vendors you really can have a dual slot RTX 4080
- Van Gogh Museum forced to stop distributing special Pikachu cards after scalpers storm the gates: '[we] take the safety and security of visitors and staff very seriously'
- Climate activists land devastating blow against big oil by disrupting minor Tekken tournament
- Blizzard pulls Diablo Season 2 trailer that got almost everything wrong, its fumbled sums stunlocking this streamer with laughter
- Nvidia's hiking its GeForce Now membership fees by up to 40%
- AMD's Fluid Motion Frames tech now works in any DX11 and DX12 game with any RX 7000 and RX 6000-series graphics card
- Problem with Nvidia GeForce RTX 4090 Founders Edition turns out to be a literal bug trapped inside
- Here's a remarkably open-ended sci-fi RPG inspired by the classics
- Wordle today: Hint and answer for #849 Monday, October 16
- Manage your inventory to PvP glory in the demo of autobattler Backpack Battles
- October 15
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- With the necromancer, Vermintide 2 is getting a pet class at last
- Battlefield 2042 rode a free weekend and recent improvements to have a near-launch day player population on Steam
- Baldur's Gate 3's voice actors can't get enough of their characters either, and have started making them playlists for our enjoyment
- Build a big tower, get punished by God, in incremental clicker Microcivilization
- Baldur's Gate 3 players surprised to discover that, due to elf shenanigans, Shadowheart is actually over 40 years old
- Warhammer: The Old World will be out next year
- Monster Train dev cuts all the monetization from its tactical battler, Inkbound
- I'm kinda liking this badly translated action roguelike where you can wield an extra gun with your butt
- Wordle today: Hint and answer for #848 Sunday, October 15
- If you scream while playing Don't Scream you have to restart the game
- Sam Lake says Alan Wake 2 will get free DLC that is 'pretty significant'
- Next city-builder from the creator of The Settlers is looking pretty good in a new demo
- October 14
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- There's finally a Baldur's Gate 3 mod that will let you play as a stinky little Goblin
- Rocket League trading site founder will never 'build a product based on the decisions of another company' again after one decision from Epic puts him out of a job
- Wordle today: Hint and answer for #847 Saturday, October 14
- October 13
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- A group of Elden Ring's most devoted players have slain the same Souls bosses nearly 800 times while waiting for the DLC to release
- The Lollipop Chainsaw remake is now just a Lollipop Chainsaw remaster, but that's apparently what the fans demanded
- I tried to start a fistfight with Conan the Barbarian in this 'AI chat game,' but he chopped me in half before I could land a single punch
- Lords of the Fallen gets an early Steam reviews thrashing over performance, but don't write it off yet
- Valve warns Counter-Strike 2 players: use AMD's Anti-Lag feature, get banned
- Red Dead Online players get a trick but no treat, with the same DLC pass returning for the third Halloween in a row
- Microsoft mashes up Modern Warfare, Halo, Diablo, Starfield, and more in a genuinely weird trailer celebrating its Activision Blizzard takeover: 'This is home now'
- Out of everything at Steam Next Fest, you shouldn't miss this haunting demo about tracking down a lost expedition
- WoW Classic Hardcore squad clutches a world-first clear of Naxxramas—after the heroic sacrifice of their guild leader
- Even Counter-Strike's devs called this wonder-bug the 'Smooth Criminal' before they had to beat it
- Starfield players uncover some of the best XP farms in the game through obliterating cosmic wildlife: 'even in a video game this feels wrong'
- Diablo 4 will be Steam Deck ready when it leaves its Battle.net exclusivity next week, confirms community director
- Cyberpunk 2077: Phantom Liberty used AI to reproduce late Polish voice actor's performance as Viktor Vektor, with the family's blessing
- The Steam Deck only now dropping off Valve's Top 10 chart after a year and a half shows the staying power of the wee handheld gaming PC
- OLED monitor sales forecast for explosive 300% growth this year but that's still way less than 1 percent of the market
- Bobby Kotick to remain Activision CEO 'through the end of 2023' as Microsoft quickly closes acquisition following UK approval
- Microsoft will pay you up to $15,000 to bait AI-powered Bing
- Unusable Starfield mod morphs every ship's reactor into Thomas the Tank Engine, trapping them inside a horrific cocoon—creator says 'Life isn't always fair'
- PC Gamer UK December issue on sale now: Cities Skylines II
- Another Radeon Golden Rabbit Edition GPU is on its way but this time it's not an RDNA 3 card
- Heroes of Might and Magic 3 is having a crossover with World of Warships for some reason
- Starfield's unofficial radio stations have made me want to keep playing
- Wordle today: Hint and answer for #846 Friday, October 13
- You can still play CS:GO, at least if you consider bizarre custom servers where you fight Final Fantasy summons 'playing CS:GO'
- October 12
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- Electronic Arts celebrates the Modern Warfare 3 beta by making Battlefield 2042 free to play this weekend
- Arma 3 footage is being used as disinformation in the wake of Israel-Hamas war: 'It’s disheartening for us to see the game we all love being used in this way,' says developer
- Overwatch 2's Hanzo was temporarily removed for turning his bow into a machine gun
- Dead Island 2 trades zombie fiction for the everyday reality of Silicon Valley by adding a 'billionaire's secret techno-death cult' in its first expansion
- House Flipper 2's sandbox mode basically looks like The Sims build mode in first person
- At long last Intel gives Arc owners some Starfield loving, delivering up to 149% higher frame rates and fixing texture corruption
- Starfield pioneer murders the same elite enemy 100 times to reach a damning scientific verdict: The loot is bad
- Diablo 4's poor Sorcerers spot a glimmer of hope for the Hydra to the tune of a 400% damage bump—turns out it's likely just to compensate for a bug fix
- Trackmania changes its subs model after belatedly realising it was too generous, dev says it has 'to be realistic'
- This new indie game mashes up Diablo with Escape From Tarkov in a 'PvPvE fantasy extraction RPG'
- Battle Royale, but make it WarioWare—this silly demo from Steam's Next Fest lets you rap battle your foes to death as a pigeon (in sunglasses)
- Bayonetta creator Hideki Kamiya peels out of Platinum in a Lamborghini after 17 years to start a YouTube channel: 'I'm out of a job. Please subscribe'
- One of the biggest twists in Baldur's Gate 3 is blatantly foreshadowed by a humble bit of cutlery and some song lyrics
- Team Fortress 2 community loses it, decides to 'meme a character into existence through the power of mass gaslighting' while Valve focuses on Counter-Strike
- The NUC is in good hands with Asus as it outlines its future plans
- Wordle today: Hint and answer for #845 Thursday, October 12
- California's right to repair bill is now law, so don't toss that 'old' device just yet
- The wealthiest player in Old School Runescape, with more than 1 trillion (yes, trillion) gold, has been banned
- October 11
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- Overwatch fans unite to hate on $40 Diablo skins in its latest season
- Valve adds new security check after attackers compromise Steam accounts of multiple game devs and update their games with malware
- Bungie is giving Destiny 2 players $45 of in-game currency to say sorry for accidentally banning them from the game
- Ark: Survival Evolved studio settles legal dispute over alleged code theft, and in a surprise twist they're now helping to 're-release' the game they said ripped them off
- Paradox says The Lamplighters League sales were 'a big disappointment,' confirms recent layoffs at developer Harebrained Schemes
- 2023's biggest sleeper hit Dave the Diver just got a hefty content update featuring auto farming, new missions, and the electrifying concept of a 'lobster party'
- At Activision's internal meeting—inexplicably hosted by James Corden—Bobby Kotick promises a 'new dimension of emotional connection' powered by AI
- Geralt of Rivia, Clive Rosfield, and Mr. Hands walk into a tavern: a new Dungeons & Dragons web series is in the works
- Starfield NPCs have the fear of space god put into them by player picking up a mop
- Your favourite Baldur's Gate 2 companions were 'a bunch of cardboard cutouts' until the game's director played Final Fantasy 7 and felt the heat of competition
- Games Workshop is reprinting the original version of Warhammer 40,000
- Wordle today: Hint and answer #844 for Wednesday, October 11
- October 10
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- Diablo 4's strongest builds are being nerfed in the name of increasing build variety: 'Our goal is not to make you weaker'
- RIP Rocket League economy: player-to-player item trading is being removed in December
- Stardew Valley's beloved soundtrack is going on an international concert tour in the 'Festival of Seasons'
- Call of Duty's best new item is a drone that can kill enemies around corners
- The cozy MMO I've waited 4 years to play on PC finally has a Steam demo
- Minecraft players go full propaganda mode as petition demanding the end of the 'mob vote' draws 300,000 signatures in just a few days
- Valheim player crushes 'hard mode' speedrun competition in under 8 hours, still finds time to appreciate the mountain's solemn beauty
- Valve draws a stark line in the sand with Counter-Strike 2, says bye-bye to Mac players and 32-bit systems
- Counter-Strike 2 fixes hitbox issues with crouchers, and more importantly makes knife spinning feel a bit faster
- Activision reminds fans they'll need to get their wallets out for Modern Warfare 3, says its games won't hit Game Pass until next year at the earliest
- Ubisoft's XDefiant was supposed to launch this month, but is delayed (again)
- RuneScape fans chalk up 'a small victory for the players' as developer chucks new and hated battle pass in the trash
- Intel's Arc A580 is a new $179 budget graphics card that looks mostly D.O.A
- Starfield becomes literally more expansive than ever with the introduction of its promised FOV slider
- Wordle today: Hint and answer #843 for Tuesday, October 10
- October 9
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- Build some sick castles in the demo for fantasy survival game Enshrouded
- Unity CEO Riccitiello steps down, effective immediately
- Daedalic's bizarre Gollum apology was apparently written by ChatGPT and the studio didn't even get approval on it
- Check out mindbending puzzles in The Talos Principle 2's specially made demo
- Indie dev behind beloved boomerang shooter shuts down because 'we are out of money'
- Portal player achieves fastest-ever test subject death thanks to a speed-boosting cup
- AMD adds System Lag monitoring to its Adrenalin overlay for games that support Anti-Lag+
- AMD responds to public demand: Radeon RX 6000 owners can now enjoy Fluid Motion Frames too
- Leak suggests Nvidia is aiming to release a faster RTX 4080 in early 2024, but that's not going to fix the mess that is the Ada GPU line-up
- This crab soulslike allows you to whip out a pistol and one shot the boss once you've had enough
- WoW Classic hardcore duel goes horribly wrong when player is ganked by a Horde guard in the ultimate act of betrayal
- Now is your last chance to claim D&D's intro adventure Lost Mine of Phandelver for free
- Wordle today: Hint and answer for #842 Monday, October 9
- Interactive series Silent Hill: Ascension begins Oct 31, 'if people are afraid of weird F2P monetization, it's not a game'
- October 8
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- Issue 300 of PC PowerPlay is onsale now!
- Russia seeks to stop access to unfiltered information by attempting to ban VPNs
- This Pathfinder RPG's weakest class is a poisoner in a game where nearly everyone is immune to poison, but after two years it's about get a lifesaving overhaul
- Your whole life is secretly a deadly reality show in American Arcadia
- Upcoming RTS-RPG fusion dares to ask big questions like 'What if the Vikings were riding dinosaurs?'
- Arkane shows it hasn't given up on Redfall with a substantial new update, but it's hard to imagine a Cyberpunk-style turnaround is in the cards
- Weirdo indie RPG Knuckle Sandwich will finally release in November
- Wordle today: Hint and answer for #841 Sunday, October 8
- Following layoffs at CD Projekt Red, staff have formed a union for Polish game developers
- Dave the Diver gets crabs and lobsters this month, among other new stuff, in its first content update
- October 7
- October 6
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- Hail Dracula, Netflix's new Castlevania series has already been renewed for season 2
- A heroic Starfield modder just straight-up deleted those repetitive temple 'puzzles' from the game
- One of Baldur's Gate 3's sound designers studied blacksmithing and made a pair of metal shoes just to record armor clanking noises for the game
- It sure looks like edgy Pinocchio retelling Lies of P is getting some kind of DLC
- Ghostwire: Tokyo is free for Amazon Prime subscribers
- This company will build you a 15-foot mech for a trifling $3 million
- Save a busy village from the apocalypse in this 'merciless' survival city builder
- Stardew Valley creator reveals a new and very important addition coming in the 1.6 update: 'Hats on cats (and dogs)'
- Cozy fishing horror Dredge gets some chilling DLC next month
- The most bizarre Final Fantasy 14 bug to date is giving everyone random buffs and making them go Super Saiyan
- Mark Zuckerberg's first interview entirely in the Metaverse is slightly robotic but that's not all down to the tech
- SilverStone has taken the 'all' in all-in-one cooling way too literally with its stackable system
- Baldur's Gate 3's new hotfix is here and I used its main addition to turn a hireling into a woman named Darryl
- Deep Rock Galactic is going rogue with an all-new spinoff game coming next year
- Upcoming indie RPG says forget about looting treasure chests—now you are one
- AMD gives Intel short shrift when asked if its competitor's foundry expansion can succeed: 'Of course not'
- More people are playing Arkane's Prey than Redfall on Steam right now
- Watch the powerful firebender Azula kick the crap out of Stimpy in the final Nickelodeon All-Star Brawl 2 character reveal
- Intel's betting on a big 'Windows refresh' in 2024 to boost revenue client CPU revenue, seemingly confirming Windows 12 release date rumours
- I was obsessed with real-time ray tracing in Cyberpunk 2077, until playing it on an older laptop delivered a sorely needed slap to the face
- History unfortunately repeats itself as Telltale Games lays off 'most' of its staff
- CD Projekt pops the cork on Cyberpunk's big numbers as it revels in the post-expansion victory lap
- Twitter sleuths suggest a new Steam Deck is on its way, but any updates are likely to be for Valve's benefit not ours
- Rtings latest OLED monitor burn-in tests are not good news for Samsung
- Wordle today: Hint and answer for #839 Friday, October 6
- AMD APUs are set to make their AM5 debut after support was added to AMD's latest BIOS microcode
- October 5
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- The Modern Warfare 3 multiplayer reveal was a glimpse into the sweatiest possible future for Call of Duty
- Final Fantasy 14 players study a pair of legs for clues about a new playable race in its next expansion
- Payday 3's first update is delayed to mid-October 'to ensure its stability,' more server maintenance is coming this weekend
- Cyberpunk 2077 sequel is officially in early development, CD Projekt says
- In 12 days, your Diablo 4 season 1 characters will be retired and sent back to the Eternal Realm
- Armored Core 6 players meme their way through the stages of grief as new patch buffs nearly every weapon but nerfs beloved shotgun and grenade cannon
- A Cyberpunk 2077 'live-action project' is on the way
- Valve level designer returns to Twitter after lengthy absence to reveal he used a pot to add handles to an electrical box in Counter-Strike
- 18 years later, one of my favourite WW2 strategy series is getting a brand new game
- Valve bans then unbans Counter-Strike skin trader with a $1.5 million inventory and the highest Steam level in the world
- Suddenly Microsoft Paint rules: the new background removal tool is an impressive free alternative to Photoshop's premium version
- Your new gaming monitor is so smart it just won a Nobel Prize
- WWE wrestler Randy Orton reportedly forked over a thousand bucks to get someone to level his Elden Ring character for him
- Phantom Liberty has three original Idris Elba tracks as well as a full DJ set
- Ubisoft wins daftest PR stunt of the year by jamming the latest Assassin's Creed game into some poor bird's beak
- Cyberpunk 2077 patch fixes the game's most frustrating bug and Idris Elba's fashion faux pas
- Nvidia's reportedly prepping an even more rubbish RTX 3050 GPU
- Battle.net back online after login issues kept players out of Diablo 4 for hours
- New Intel Arc GPU driver boosts frame rates in 20 DX11 and DX12 games by up to 119%
- Cabal of 'gay furry hackers' claims over 3,000 files stolen in NATO website breach
- An Intel Lunar Lake prototype pops up in the SiSoft Sandra database, throws down an early gauntlet, and leaves in a cloud of mystery
- The voice of Baldur's Gate 3's Astarion was asked to tone down the horny for his final romance scene: 'ONLY SLIGHTLY, NEIL'
- Wordle today: Hint and answer for #838 Thursday, October 5
- The Intel Arc A580 graphics card has finally broken cover
- October 4
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- Here's when Forza Motorsport unlocks in your time zone
- Nothing will go wrong with all these new vampire powers in Diablo 4 season 2
- Cyberpunk 2077 developer defends Bethesda's work on Starfield: 'They are just doing something different with their time and that's cool'
- Magic: The Gathering's Doctor Who set understands what the show is about
- Laid-off BioWare employees sue over severance pay: 'We are struggling to understand why BioWare is shortchanging us'
- Diablo 4's Season of Blood is really the Season of Horse with all of its massive buffs to mounts
- Diablo 4's season 2 patch fixes almost every problem I've had with it since launch
- Starfield mod lets you loot corpses down to their undies just like Skyrim and Fallout 4
- Well that didn't take long: Diablo 4 is coming to Steam
- Cyberpunk 2077 mod means you never have to choose between bullet time and hacking again
- Five former Ubisoft employees arrested following investigation into sexual misconduct complaints at the company
- Chess grandmaster denies using anal beads to cheat against world champion: 'categorically no, of course not'
- Red Cross issues rules of engagement to war-focused hacker groups, who say 'why should I listen to the Red Cross?'
- New World ends its 2-year-long horseless era by adding mounts and leaps up the Steam charts, just below Counter-Strike 2
- Haunted Chocolatier teasers are still rolling even while development is paused for Stardew
- Titanfall community predicts the future, reckons Titanfall 3 is a dead cert based on patch note hints and a Red Hot Chili Peppers song from 1999
- Banish the tedium of setting up Windows with a built-in while-you-wait retro game, courtesy of Microsoft
- Payday 3 dev says it's making 'a bunch of changes' to the game's detested progression system 9 days after saying it had no plans to do so
- Two years after launch Windows 11 adoption is still waaaay behind Windows 10
- 96 core AMD Threadripper Pro 7000-series chips reportedly ready for launch on October 19
- Wordle today: Hint and answer #837 for Wednesday, October 4
- Windows Copilot is not playing well with AMD's Adrenalin software
- Get ready to meet your next favorite videogame crab in The Dungeon Experience
- October 3
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- Windows 11's RGB control features are finally available to the public
- Warhammer 40,000: Darktide class overhaul patch is live, and it sure seems like the massive update everyone was waiting for
- 5 years after it closed for good, Gearbox confirms that the hero shooter Gigantic is coming back for a 'limited time throwback event'
- Old School Runescape player goes on an emotional roller coaster after hackers strip his account of items worth 4.8 billion in gold
- Oops, Microsoft's AI chatbot is offering up malvertisements in responses
- Listen: This modder dealt 39 distinct farts to Skyrim along with hilarious reactions from those who smelt them
- This party game is like Jackbox, except you're causing or preventing humanity's extinction—you can probably guess which side I picked
- Minecraft's first mob vote candidate for this year is a handy little crab
- Naughty Dog reportedly lays off contract workers as troubled The Last of Us spinoff shooter faces an uncertain future
- Starfield truly beaten as player constructs faithful and ludicrously huge Star Destroyer after taking build limiters off: 'It's not practical at all but it was worth it'
- Epic says it's 'looking into' it after pigeon dating sim maker says she's not received royalties in 2 years
- Nvidia might have forgotten the venerable GTX 1060 but AMD's new Frame Generation tech proves there's life in the old GPU yet
- Minecraft wiki completes exit from Fandom, gets ready to fight its own zombified corpse
- Cast your votes now for the 2023 Golden Joystick Awards
- Elon Musk streams Diablo 4 as part of his latest doomed quest to turn X into a Twitch killer
- Baldur's Gate 3's new hotfix reverses history's most controversial feline glow-up and stops your companions acting 'like a toddler in a grocery store'
- The new Minecraft DLC is a fully voiced D&D adventure
- There's a new king of the GPUs in Steam's September hardware survey
- Wordle today: Hint and answer #836 for Tuesday, October 3
- Give your old PC the boot with Cooler Master's Sneaker X gaming PC
- October 2
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- As longtime hosts say thanks for the memories, the Overwatch League as we know it is dead—but Activision promises a 'revitalized esports program' is in the works
- This modder made such a great change to Starfield's food it's actually making me hungry
- Epic Games head of publishing strategy Sergiy Galyonkin has left the company: 'I am not a good fit for this new version of Epic'
- 3 of the 5 top wishlisted Steam games are city builders, and I want to play them all
- Baldur's Gate 3's last patch quietly clothed a formerly-nude cat, and some players are demanding their little naked man back
- You can finally have an entire Sea of Thieves server to yourself with the new Safer Seas game mode
- You can break Cyberpunk 2077's movement and become a flying V with this busted build
- After 3 years of silence, Kingpin Reloaded resurfaces with a new trailer and a December release date
- You can already hack Ray Reconstruction into Cyberpunk 2077 without the path tracing limitation, but Nvidia promises to open it up officially soon
- Payday 3 developer promises '200+ QoL improvements' this month following an atrocious launch
- I didn't know there were 'iconic' school bus designs until Bus Simulator licensed one
- Grand Theft Auto 6 fans have become so desperate for information they've convinced themselves that the moon is teasing an upcoming reveal
- The same modder who fixed Starfield's inventory has now sorted out the rest of the UI
- Paradox reveals Foundry, a procedurally-generated factory sim that looks like a mix of Factorio and Satisfactory, and you can play it next week
- 10 years after launch, one player has nabbed every one of Final Fantasy 14's 2,751 achievements
- The Drifter is a point-and-click adventure that's also a fast-paced thriller
- Wordle today: Hint and answer for #835 Monday, October 2
- Cyborg immersive sim Core Decay still has those System Shock, Deus Ex vibes in a brand new trailer
- October 1
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- Colony sim Ascent of Ashes, by a former RimWorld mod team, will hit in November
- Check out free retro-RPG Moonring, made by an industry vet and Fable designer in classic Ultima style
- Try to remain calm but Factorio is adding elevated trains
- Just five years after launch, FPS hit Dusk's free 'HD' remaster is going to touch up 'every texture, every model, every asset'
- Wordle today: Hint and answer for #834 Sunday, October 1
- Darktide's new talent trees let you throw an 'Ogryn-sized' grenade with a blast radius of 16 meters
- Get in the robot, kill some space angels, in this turn-based tactical mecha battler
