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October 31
- Starbound beta "not very far off", will have three testing stages
- Hawken releases Predator mech into the wild, adds co-op mode in new beta patch
- Arma 3 trailer escorts the release of the first free DLC campaign
October 30
- Payday 2 director: open communication helps foster "a real connection" with players
- Deadly Premonition PC port locked at 720p, but there's a fix
- Telltale founder interested in creating Star Wars game, other games in the works
- CD Projekt RED CEO: The Witcher 3 will have no DRM, "zero, zip, nada"
- KerbalEdu brings Kerbal Space Program to more classrooms
- Indie platformer Aaru's Awakening releases demo, Dusk-focused trailer
- Clockwork Empires first video released, dev team explains key systems
- Typing of the Dead: Overkill taps its way to a Steam release
- Team Fortress 2 update kicks off their fifth Halloween event, adds spells, ghosts, and Helltower
October 29
- Steam Halloween Sale is a vicious slasher of prices
- Urban survival MMO Nether is now in beta on Steam Early Access
- The Walking Dead: Season Two will star Clementine, premieres this year
- EA cancels Command & Conquer, devs admit to "not making the game you want to play"
- Volume voice actors announced, retells the legend of Robin Hood
- New publisher Rebel Machine wants to help "push our medium forward"
- Upcoming MMO InSomnia wakes players up on a derelict space station
- Joe Danger 2: Undead Movie Pack will bring its terrifying stunts later today
- Rise of the Triad's 1.2 update brings quicksaves and mod tools
- Battlefield 4 multiplayer trailer contains all the loud noises and explosions that a growing shooter needs
- RIFT now available through Steam, developers detail the road to 3.0
- Assassin's Creed 4: Black Flag trailer shows fancy PC-only effects
- Desktop Dungeons release date set for November 7th, will be available on Steam
- Battlefield 4 China Rising release date is early December for Premium members
- Call of Duty: Ghosts trailer prepares you for Extinction
- Team Fortress 2's next Halloween update on the way, in the meantime, here's a comic
October 28
- Play as robots working to reboot a dead city in sci-fi puzzler Reset
- Nvidia Shield update adds official PC streaming, console mode, more Android support
- Blizzard adds more connected realms to World of Warcraft
- Star Citizen raises $25 million, wider alpha testing now on the horizon
- Confederate Express hits Kickstarter to fund a 2D-sprite animated RPG
- Probably Archery is definitely archery, but with apple-people, QWOP-style controls
- The Escapists: a prison break sim from the creator of Spud's Quest
- Call of Duty: Ghosts teaser point to new extra-terrestrial mode, leaked images suggest "Extinction"
October 26
- Raindrop: a survival horror puzzle FPS, and one that looks pretty damned exciting
- Diablo 3: Reaper of Souls - your auction house replacement is the Mystic
- The Stanley Parable creator removing controversial scene after complaints
- Cipher Prime Studios Humble Sale debuts retro arcade shooter Intake
October 25
- Terraria offers new treats, no tricks, in Halloween update
- Star Wars: The Old Republic set to wipe long-abandoned character names
- Indie roguelike Catacomb Kids heads to IGF 2014 with twitch combat and inevitable death
- Ultra Street Fighter 4 reveals two new battle systems
- Amazon publishes a release date for The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt
- Gone Home started as an Amnesia mod, and you can try it
- Bioshock Infinite: Burial at Sea episode one release date announced
- Watch the 2013 Golden Joystick Awards live. UPDATE: winners announced!
- Deus Ex: Human Revolution Director's Cut out now, available as cheap upgrade for HR owners
- Enslaved: Odyssey to the West hits PC, with a stick
- Candy Box 2 promises a brave new ASCII world to explore
October 24
- Now playing: abolishing crime and banning booze in Democracy 3
- F1 2013 releases classic cars and tracks as DLC
- Space Engineers now available via Steam early access
- Call of Duty: Ghosts system requirements released officially, 64 bit OS required
- Night in the Woods Kickstarter charms instantly
- Latest Assassin's Creed IV: Black Flag video catches you up on the other videos
October 23
- Creative Assembly gives away new Total War: Rome II DLC for a week
- Saints Row 4 Enter the Dominatrix DLC out today, sexy velociraptors in tow
- DayZ standalone appears in Steam database as Early Access
- Ken Levine to receive Lifetime Achievement award at this week's Golden Joysticks
- Batman: Arkham Origins launch trailer interrupts the Dark Knight's Christmas plans
- Path of Exile leaves beta today, adds new class and challenge leagues
- XCOM: Enemy Within hands-on - encountering new enemies in Operation Devil's Giant
- Titanfall release date set for March
- Star Citizen trailer introduces Anvil Aerospace, $24 million stretch goal achieved
- Minecraft 1.7 gets pre-released, will change the world on Friday
October 22
- The Stanley Parable sells over 100k copies since releasing last week
- Crusader Kings II: Sons of Abraham announced
- XCOM: Enemy Within dev blog reveals new info on mission types and Exalt faction
- Guild Wars 2 building a Tower of Nightmares, readies for grand opening next week
- Assassin's Creed 4 launch trailer arrives a month early, brings warning of pirate adventure
- Cube World still in development, next update "coming along nicely"
- Octodad: Dadliest Catch trailer proves that tentacles and tuxedos don't mix
- Monaco update brings new mini-campaign, zombie mode, Linux support
- Battlefield 4 trailer shows destruction, surprise jet attacks [Update: story trailer also released, shows a dog being punched]
- Call of Duty: Ghosts launch trailer explodes into this week, game still a fortnight away
- Alien: Isolation trademarked, might be about Ripley's daughter
- Dark Matter apparently incomplete, GOG offers refunds and revises game description
- Lone Survivor: Director's Cut out October 31, free if you own it already
October 21
- Sir, You Are Being Hunted October update adds new biome, two new enemies
- Google to teach quantum mechanics through Minecraft
- Dota 2 update brings a host of changes to hero abilities and item perks
- Magic: the Gathering - Tactics shuts down on March 28, 2014
- Mojang isn't ruling out a free-to-play-structure for Scrolls
- Capcom looking into options to handle Games for Windows Live shutdown
- SWTOR's Galactic Starfighter expansion to remain PvP only for foreseeable future
- Batman: Arkham Origins video walkthrough shows 17 minutes of punching and growling
- Warface now live in Europe and North America, launch trailer mostly about Chess
- Endless Space: Disharmony to get first free add-on next month
- Wasteland 2 update explores exploration, scouts early beta release info
- X Rebirth trailer shows space combat, space explosions, and other space things
October 20
- Bonkers space sim Space Rangers HD: A War Apart sees the light of day
- Oculus VR on Rift: Motion sickness solution and 4K resolution "not far away"
October 19
- Sniper Elite: Nazi Zombie Army 2 announced, will release on Halloween
- Total War: Rome 2 patch adds new faction, Steam Workshop support
- Battlefield 4 reward system shows changes for veteran players, objective game types
- This Halloween, there's No More Room in Hell—as a free standalone game on Steam
October 18
- CCP combines EVE Online and Vegas for Best Weekend Ever
- Myst developer Cyan Worlds announces Obduction, a new first-person adventure game
- Grand Theft Auto's creator remaking original game in Game Maker
- Possible Deus Ex casting call seeks new members for the Illuminati
- Nvidia unveils GeForce GTX 780 Ti
- Nvidia's GeForce Experience to record gameplay, offer one-click streaming via Twitch
- Goodbye, V-sync! Nvidia G-Sync synchronizes monitor refresh rates with GPU render rates
- Elite: Dangerous' alpha and beta plans detailed in new dev diary
- The Lord of the Rings Online giving players double XP in advance of Helm's Deep launch
- Sidescrolling sci-fi survival horror Dark Matter hits Steam and GOG.com
- Jack King-Spooner's next game is Beeswing: an Earthbound-inspired RPG set in rural Scotland
- The Elder Scrolls Online trailer details character creation, is marked improvement over Skyrim
- Batman: Arkham Asylum & City ditch Games for Windows Live, slash 75% off for this weekend
October 17
- Watch Dogs producer: sci-fi surveillance tech of the game "exists in the present"
- Blizzard MOBA renamed Heroes of the Storm
- 2K Marin hit with significant layoffs
- Space Marine creator: Captain Titus would have "gone rogue" if the series had continued
- Battlefield 4 beta feedback: what's changing before launch
- Assassin's Creed 4 dev says a game with "multiple worlds" unlikely, even for 900 people
- Daedalic's Dark Eye-set RPG Blackguards delayed to January 2014
- Monaco getting Linux version on Monday, along with "a ton of free/new content"
- Paper Sorcerer: a sketchy first-person RPG set inside the pages of a book
- Talisman Digital Edition hits Steam Early Access, has four-player local multiplayer (for now)
- Steam Greenlight approves 37 more titles, including Ikaruga, TowerClimb, Steam Marines
- Roundabout: a crazier Crazy Taxi driven by the world's first "revolving chauffeur"
October 16
- Eidos ditches new XP system for Thief reboot
- Democracy 3 out now, political arguments with friends and family to follow
- Splinter Cell: Blacklist and Rayman Legends miss sales targets
- State of Decay getting mouse and keyboard support, possibly by the end of the week
- Kerbal Space Program .22 out today, adds career mode
- Spelunky Death Roulette lets you bet on how livestreamers will inevitably die
- Former Valve employees' augmented reality projector castAR Kickstarted after two days
- Extraction's - formerly Dirty Bomb's - closed beta now open for business
- Britain's most read paper reckons Deus Ex: Human Revolution cybernetic eyeball is real
- Borderlands 2 Halloween-themed DLC invites you to fight a giant pumpkin-thing next week
- DayZ Origins mod update 1.7.7: adds new I Am Legend-inspired area and, er, ghosts
- Avadon 2 release date announced, will be out just in time for Halloween
- SimCity: Cities of Tomorrow trailer shows new megatowers
- Civilization V to get two new map packs, Scrambled Continents out now
- Metro: Last Light single-player DLC now live, adds three extra missions and a bike shotgun
October 15
- Magicka: Wizard Wars enters early access; founders rewards include Crusader Kings II
- Spacebase DF-9 alpha released by Double Fine to Steam Early Access
- Watch Dogs delayed until Spring 2014 [Update: The Crew delayed too]
- Stardock announces Galactic Civilizations III on its 20th anniversary, releases trailer
- Mass Effect 4 may not relate to Shepard's story "whatsoever"
- Warface goes liveface next Monday
- Pay what you want for expansive space action shooter RPG Ring Runner
- Steam beta update adds In-Home Streaming support, sort of
- Lego Marvel Super Heroes demo now available to download
October 14
- Cross-platform play between PC and Xbox One "makes a lot of sense," says Microsoft exec
- Hawken to add leaderboards, part of plan to boost competitive play
- Final Fantasy XIV offers up free world transfers this week
- Dragon Age: Inquisition developer wants romance scenes to be "mature and tasteful"
- The Curious Expedition, an exploration roguelike where Charles Darwin searches for Atlantis
- Waves: Arena Tactics announced, adds online multiplayer to the gorgeous twin-stick shooter
- Spice Road: an alternate history trading strategy game, now with demo
- League of Legends prototype card game unearthed by hacker
- Samorost 3 details revealed - will have three planets, each with their own distinct soundtracks
- The Amazing Spider-Man 2 announced, a film tie-in that features a morality system
- Natural Selection 2 World Championship on the cards...if fans can raise $30,000
- Frozen Endzone dev diary: Exposition
October 13
- Halloween has a survival horror fangame, and it's bloody, brilliant
- The Long Dark survives its Kickstarter campaign, with three days left on the clock
October 12
- Nuclear Throne - the artist formerly known as Wasteland Kings - hits Steam Early Access
- Rhythm avoid-'em-up Soundodger now on Steam, with a plus on the end
- Star Citizen community ship design contest puts more than $30,000 up for grabs
October 11
- Teleglitch DLC brings music and new weapons to the survival horror shooter
- Capcom celebrates 30th anniversary with Steam sale
- Valve invites game devs to discuss and test Steam products
- Russian government producing games to teach "patriotic" lessons
- Humble Weekly Sale focuses on Focus Home Interactive
- The Long Dark: interview with Raphael van Lierop
- Crytek explains sexualized female soldiers in Warface
- Steam Controller video demonstration shows Portal 2, Civilization V, CS:GO
- Win a hand-painted Dragon Commander statue!
- Deus Ex: Human Revolution - Director's Cut pricing announced, is cheaper if you already own the game
- SOMA trailer shows first game footage, Frictional's sci-fi horror due 2015
- Viscera Cleanup Detail: Shadow Warrior lets you clean up your own mess
- The Stanley Parable demo now available, ahead of full release next week
- GOG.com giving away The Witcher with any other purchase
- Enslaved: Odyssey to the West confirmed for PC after Australian classification
- Blood Bowl 2 screenshots introduce humanity's Reikland Reavers
- Divinity: Dragon Commander trailer rounds up players' political decisions
October 10
- Gabriel Knight: Sins of the Fathers is being remade, published by Activision
- Valve says commercial Steam Machines will support AMD, Intel, and Nvidia graphics hardware
- Thief interview -- mission structure, complexity, lessons from Deus Ex: Human Revolution
- Saints Row 4 to Enter The Dominatrix in new DLC, out October 23rd
- Bionic Dues out now, merges robots, roguelikes and corridor roaming
- Farming Simulator 2013: Titanium trailer has a brand new combine harvester (in America)
- Battlefield 4 beta expands and explodes with new Obliteration game mode
- Contagion Kickstarter funded, a "spiritual successor" to Half-Life 2 mod
October 9
- Universum: War Front mixes RTS and FPS gameplay, made by a solo developer
- Square Enix announces Collective, offers older Eidos IP to indie dev pitches
- Assassin's Creed 4 season pass announced, includes new single-player story
- The Wolf Among Us trailer cries wolf ahead of Friday's launch
- Guild Wars 2 update dispenses with treats, focuses on Blood & Madness
- XCOM: Enemy Within trailer introduces the Exalt, hints at base defence missions
- Thief trailer shows first in-game footage of Garrett sneaking, stealing and escaping
- Star Citizen has raised $21 million, unlocking the 'salvage' career path
- Drive composer Cliff Martinez says he's working on Far Cry 4
- The Dark Mod gets standalone release; Thief inspired FPS now playable without Doom 3
October 8
- Star Wars: The Old Republic adds PvP space battles in free expansion
- City of Titans fully funded, hits first Kickstarter stretch goal
- Battlefield 4 creative director on single-player: "Players want to feel smart"
- Wargame: Red Dragon's first screenshots are intercepted
- Warlock 2: The Exiled trailer promises war, magic and werewolves wearing hats
- Spy Party trailer highlights an improved art style
- Chris Taylor: "you can use your imagination" with regards to a new Total Annihilation
- Watch Dogs system requirements announced, specify 64-bit OS and minimum 6 GB of RAM
- Quadrilateral Cowboy trailer teases cute robots, stealth hacking and ramen
- Skyjacker lets you play space pirate in customized, destructible ships
- Space Hulk's latest free update includes new campaign to show fan appreciation
- TowerFall setting its sights on a January launch for PC
- Call of Duty: Ghosts system requirements posted by Nvidia
October 7
- Indie dev shares thoughts on Steam Controller after getting hands-on
- "Basic functions" of PlayStation 4 controller will work by default on Windows
- Asylum Jam to focus on horror without stigmatizing illness
- Injustice: Gods Among Us Ultimate Edition coming to PC
- Sleeping Dogs successor announced, dubbed Triad Wars
- The Third Annual Saxxy Awards are coming in November
- Borderlands 2 announces community sweepstakes with $100,000 in prizes
- Frictional's SOMA gets a second freaky teaser trailer
- The Long Dark trailer gives an early glimpse of winter survival
- PixelJunk Shooter warms up on Steam next month
- Bioshock Infinite: Burial at Sea trailer picks out Rapture's fact from myth
- Titanfall video shows EB Games Expo presentation, includes new footage
October 6
- Indie platformer Shovel Knight given jaunty new trailer, Winter release window
- Half-Life 3 trademark removed, everyone go back about your business
October 5
- Path of Exile gets October 23 release date, new Scion prestige class
- Survarium trailer offers a bird's-eye view of PvP
- Exploring Valve's masterplan: on SteamOS, Steam Machines and the future of the PC
- Nordic Games shares THQ spoils in Humble Weekly Sale
October 4
- Assassin's Creed Heritage Collection bundles all previous Assassin's Creed games
- Saints Row 4 mod adds first-person view
- The Wolf Among Us opens up for pre-orders, Episode One arrives later this month
- Steam Machine prototype specs revealed
- Uber Entertainment has used the Steam Controller and likes it
- League of Legends players immortalised through anime, ahead of World Championship final
- SimCity: Maxis "exploring the possibility" of offline mode, confirm city size won't increase
- Ikaruga looking for Steam release, now listed on Greenlight
- Baldur's Gate 2: Enhanced Edition release date set for mid-November
- Bioshock 2 moves to Steamworks, Minerva's Den DLC on Steam and free for existing owners
- City of Heroes successor City of Titans leaps onto Kickstarter
October 3
- Dark Souls mod makes enemy monsters obsessively aggressive
- Terraria 2 announced, creator wants to include "infinite worlds"
- Not On Steam sale highlights games that aren't on Steam
- Battlefield: Bad Company series will return, after a "very long vacation"
- Hyper Light Drifter, Eldritch and Race The Sun among latest batch of Greenlit games
- Valve's internal database accessed, suggests Half-Life 3 and Left 4 Dead 3 teams
- Warface's "Sneak Peek" phase adds new game modes and female soldiers
October 2
- Batman: Arkham Origins season pass draws controversy
- Bethesda opens publishing office in Sydney, Australia
- Mighty No. 9 Kickstarter raises $4 million in funds to meet all stretch goals
- Audiosurf 2 to hit Steam Early Access later today
- Deus Ex: Universe announced, is an "expanding and connected game world" that includes a new PC game
- Prison Architect alpha 14 released, adds fast dogs and faster frame rates
- EverQuest 2 now lets you buy level 85 heroes, runs free offer for the next two weeks
- Space Engineers trailer shows its destructive side, Steam Early Access launch date announced
- Sniper Elite 3 trailer confirms that snipers are still jerks
- Total War: Rome 2: Patch 3 now live, brings more optimisation and improvement
- Terraria 1.2 update released, tweaks almost every part of the game
- Half-Life 3 trademark filed by Valve
October 1
- MLG unveils 2014 Dota 2 league schedule, finale set for Anaheim Spring Championship
- Frictional's next game teased, involves a big freaky machine somehow
- War of the Vikings hits Steam Early Access, yours to plunder right now
- Defense Technica announced, a tower defence game that looks a lot like a tower defence game
- Assassin's Creed 4's 'Rate This Mission' system gathers feedback while you play
- Battlefield 4 beta now live for some, live for all this coming Friday
- Dark Souls 2 beta footage shows new inventory, nicer animation, jolly co-operation