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- October 17
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- YouTuber LGR felt 'numbness at how powerless I was' as his one-of-a-kind retro PC collection took a direct hit from hurricane Helene, but seeing most of the trove survive now has him eager to share it with others
- Stalker's hardcore reputation didn't prepare me for how surprisingly basic Stalker 2: Heart of Chornobyl is
- New World: Aeternum isn't even the Amazon MMO's most dramatic update, let alone a new game, but it does make it better—slightly
- There's always one Steam Next Fest demo that inexplicably takes over my life, and this time it's this bizarre roguelike that mashes up Balatro with pachinko
- After DMing a bunch of D&D 5e, swapping over to Pathfinder 2e has felt like hanging out with a cool TTRPG uncle that lets you smoke weed
- Bungie is claiming that a bug with one of Destiny 2's exotic weapons is actually a feature, and I'm going to go into excruciating detail about why I think that's wrong
- October 16
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- No More Room in Hell 2 resurrects a legendary Source mod as a hardcore co-op zombie FPS
- Now that Silent Hill 2 is out, it's time for Konami to remake Silent Hill 4 next
- The 2025 game release calendar is going to tower over this year with constant major launches
- Overwatch 2's new Junkenstein event delivers on some PvE promises of old, but that doesn't mean the mode is flawless
- Streets of Rogue 2's Steam Next Fest demo is catnip for immersive sim and Dwarf Fortress sickos, and nothing proves that like my time as a Chef on a quest to kill the mayor
- This computer built inside Minecraft has 1,107,419 blocks, over 15 million views on TikTok, and all started 'for the fun of it'
- October 15
- October 14
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- Metaphor: ReFantazio's turn-based combat excels, but its brief action-based fights are what's made me fall in love with the JRPG grind all over again
- The 8 most heartbreaking cuts from this year's PC Gamer Top 100
- 9 games from the PC Gamer Top 100 given eternal life thanks to modders
- RPGs are king, and 6 other things the PC Gamer Top 100 tells us about the state of PC gaming
- The top 100 PC games
- PUBG: BATTLEGROUNDS has been out for 7 years, and it isn't slowing down
- Dark and Darker Mobile is bringing the gruelling dungeon crawl to the palm of your hand
- Five new Steam games you probably missed (October 14, 2024)
- October 13
- October 12
- October 11
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- Metaphor: ReFantazio tips: 10 things I wish I knew before starting this 100-hour RPG
- 'That's what we're trying to do, be a DM that enables any player's play style:' Check out the upcoming RPG that's trying to do Baldur's Gate 3 in miniature—in more ways than one
- Will GTA 6 keep its 2025 release date? 20 years of Rockstar delays say probably not
- Playing Echo Point Nova is like diving through someone's dreams after they've played too much Titanfall or Tribes
- The simple way to defeat Metaphor: ReFantazio's first real threat, Fire Dragon Mauna, and nab a great reward
- There's a future where you and your graphics card decide what a game looks like, not the developers
- October 10
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- The best FPS of 2024 so far is Echo Point Nova, a $25 hyper mobile co-op shooter I can't put down
- Don’t sleep on Deadlock’s active items
- The Dark Age of Paradox Interactive: What exactly happened to one of PC gaming's best publishers?
- Thunderbolt vs OCuLink external GPU interface-off or: Why I wouldn't touch Thunderbolt with a bargepole for gaming
- October 9
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- Bungie has doubled down on the most ridiculous-looking hat in Destiny
- Bonaparte: A Mechanized Revolution tosses mechs into the French Revolution, but doesn't toss out the history
- Karate Survivor is Vampire Survivors with karate, obviously—and you can try it for free now
- Nintendo is shedding its veneer of kindness and embracing a new reputation: Vigorous legal bully
- October 8
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- The coolest Prime Day board game deals, as picked by our tabletop gaming obsessives
- This farming sim lets you plant crops anywhere you want on a real-world map, so I patriotically grew corn and raised sheep under the Statue of Liberty
- Playing Infinity Nikki has convinced me that dress up games are about to go mainstream
- October 7
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- October 3
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- Magic: The Gathering followed its fuzzy animal set with one based on slasher movies and horror novels, a juxtaposition that was 'both a coincidence and deliberate'
- 6 exciting city builders coming out before the end of 2024 (plus a few more to look forward to next year)
- I'm terrified for my free time after a few hours with the Dead Cells developer's new frantic co-op roguelike out this month
- 'None of this makes any sense': Amazon's latest MMO import is a localization disaster
- Gaming keyboards are becoming more like enthusiast keyboards and I can't wait to have my clicky clacky cake and eat it
- Fear the Spotlight's demo is a great way to kick off the spooky season even if it did make me face one of my irrational fears
- I spent 14 hours flying 6,230 miles to watch MSI make me a new motherboard in just 40 minutes
- October 2
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- Tiny Glade won't stop delighting me with new discoveries
- Fortnite isn't the future, it's an anomaly, and Tim Sweeney is just another CEO wrongly predicting the death of big singleplayer games
- Google's AI generated a 'podcast' from one of my articles and it's incredibly convincing at mimicking humans talking
- My 6 favorite creepy cozy games with autumn vibes
- Starfield: Shattered Space performance analysis—New DLC, new patch, same old frame rates
- Level up your gaming content with Wondershare Filmora 14 introduces new video editing tools
- October 1