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November 12
- New 4-minute Fable gameplay trailer shows a game that doesn't look much like Fable
- Palworld developer Pocketpair gives employees time off for 'a 5-day business trip in Vice City when GTA 6 launches'
- Doom studio id Software confirms it's working on a new game
- Paradox Interactive is getting a new boss as Fredrik Wester steps down for the second time
- South Korean game rating board almost blocked GTA 6's release, fearing its 'out-of-context genital nudity' would 'disrupt social order'
- Xbox CEO looks to the future as Microsoft's console turns 25: 'A single person will soon be able to wield capabilities that once required entire nations'
- Everyone is Franklin in GTA 5 now
- Now Jensen's gone, Intel’s trouble finding a steady CEO should serve as cautionary tale to Nvidia’s board
- Darktide's getting a Sisters of Battle class on December 7
- After Jensen Huang's resignation from Nvidia, it's all praise or political finger-wagging about the ex-CEO, with little in between
- Nvidia stocks jump back up after ex-CEO Jensen Huang's ousting
- Next Nvidia CEO has to have national security as a 'top priority' says chairman of US Gov committee on China – claims Huang departure 'could have been avoided'
- 'I'm a big Zach Cregger fan': Angela Sant'Albano gushes about the Resident Evil movie and likens Bryan to her own Grace Ashcroft
- Who is Colette Kress, Nvidia's new interim CEO?
- Trump says the only man who should replace ex-Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang is Tim Cook of Apple fame
- Every nominee for the PC Gaming Show: Most Wanted's top 20 upcoming games
- Award-winning presenter Frankie Ward returns to bring you this year's PC Gaming Show: Most Wanted
- Fear not, Nvidians, the man who wrote the book on Nvidia says the company's success doesn't rely on Jensen Huang
- Jensen Huang leaving Nvidia is not a good thing for PC gaming, and I’ll tell you why
- Conor McGregor picked up and flipped a Call of Duty dev during the making of Infinite Warfare: 'I wanted him to do something really physical, to demonstrate how capable he is'
- WoW: Forever's new Riverglades zone feels more like The Burning Crusade+ than Classic+, and you know what, I'm absolutely okay with that
- How Nvidia got into this mess: timeline of Jensen Huang scandal and geopolitics leading up to it
- Jensen Huang resigns, CFO Colette Kress appointed interim CEO at Nvidia
- Marvel Rivals draws a line in the sand when it comes to using mods and configs 'to get an unfair combat advantage' but that doesn't help players looking for a stutter fix
- The resignation of Jensen Huang from Nvidia and everything that has followed
- Humble Bundle's new redesign inexplicably removes 2-factor authentication, dramatically weakening account security
- If Jensen Huang goes, who could replace him? Here’s who the board might pick if the Nvidia CEO is ousted in the wake of affair scandals
- Nvidia stock price plunges amid second Jensen Huang affair allegation — the AI company could be set to lose hundreds of billions in value
- 'This would be an Apple firing Steve Jobs level of idiocy' says Tim Sweeney at the idea of ousting Jensen Huang - while Elon Musk says 'it would be an honor' to hire the Nvidia chief
- CD Projekt used AI to modify the voice of Geralt's Polish actor after a stroke left it significantly changed: 'This was a special case'
November 11
- After cracking down on 'cheat' mods in Helldivers 2 and taking another Steam review beating, Arrowhead plans hotfix that should allow harmless cosmetics
- Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang allegedly had a second affair with another Nvidia exec
- Giana Sisters developer Black Forest Games buys itself out of Embracer: 'Some of the best games of the last decade came from teams of fifty, not five hundred'
- This solo dev is building 'the most violent cozy farming game ever made' and lumberjacking has never looked cooler
- Crimson Desert wins 'PC Game of the Year' at the 2026 Golden Joystick Awards
- Bethesda shoots down Elder Scrolls 6: Sentinel announcement rumor on Skyrim's 15th anniversary
- Former id Software developers form their own employee-owned shooter studio in the wake of Microsoft's mass layoffs
- Exterminauts looks like another Helldivers 2, but it's really the Deep Rock Galactic sickos who should take notice
- I have converted GTA 5 from crime sim to train sim
- Marvel Rivals' creative director addresses hate speech controversy and promises 'we've ramped up our disciplinary measures'
- Got a Synology NAS? Time to check your updates, as two high-level vulnerabilities let ne’er-do-wells read and write files and conduct DDOS attacks
- Ex-Tekken director savages Xbox Series S in front of senior Xbox staff: ‘feels like having to do extra work for a slightly weaker child’
- Making room for GTA 6? Save up to $335 on PS5-optimized Corsair SSDs
- Dark Souls 2 and 3 multiplayer is back: We still don't know what went wrong but at least it didn't take almost a year to fix it
- Antec C6 Curve Air review
- This is a Lenovo Legion Go S SteamOS edition handheld on sale with 32 GB RAM. You hear that Sam Altman? 32 GB of the stuff
- Kioxia has chained together 640 SSDs to create a 157 *petabyte* storage solution, because AI data centers get all the cool toys
- Final Fantasy 14 players are gathering in virtual vigils to honour the passing of the game's most prestigious bass player
- No more need to slap 'reddit' on the end of your Google searches as Reddit Reviews is here to amalgamate everyone's thoughts
- Sudokoo SK700V review
- Overwatch is adding 6v6 role queue to its Competitive play: 'We've realised that there doesn't have to be a winner between 5v5 and 6v6'
- Glorious GMMK Eternal review
- AMD's Zen 6 gaming CPUs might be absolute monsters by the looks of the server chips—and there's a 3D V-Cache variant to keep an eye on
- Apparently now we *won’t* see a 24 GB RTX 5080, which is probably actually good for our wallets
- The best mid-range gaming headset looks pretty in purple, and it's at its best ever price right now
- Microsoft’s own upscaler and alternative to FSR just landed on Xbox Ally X handhelds - actually uses an NPU for something useful
- WoW: Forever to add extra gold to high-level quests, since it turns out you don't get extra cash at 60
- 'We're kind of friendslop': CEO of Jackbox Games sees the link between party games and this new trend but doesn't think it's necessarily 'a negative moniker'
- Steam's age verification in Australia now takes your account's age into consideration
- One Elder Scrolls fan is reviving and upgrading (with AI) a lost spin-off for the Nokia N-Gage and porting it to PC
November 10
- Sony cancels another live service game ahead of release, but at least there won't be any layoffs this time
- Capcom quietly updates the Monster Hunter Wilds beta listing on Steam, indicating a possible expansion playtest
- Bungie drops gameplay trailer for Marathon's 'co-op PvE roguelite' mode and swanky new social space
- 2 years after Unknown 9: Awakening bombed, Bandai Namco is closing the studio that made it
- PlayStation Plus PC app is being shut down in December because less than 0.4% of eligible subscribers are using it
- I installed a GTA 5 mod that makes it rain human beings, and no I don't know why either
- Grand Theft Auto 6 is 'the most pre-ordered' game of all time on both Xbox and PlayStation
- Note to self: If playing Call of Duty in an airport, don't say words like 'bomb' lest you want to evacuate an entire plane
- MS has messily patched a Microsoft Paint security vulnerability, but the update still isn’t showing up for some
- Acer Predator Atlas 8 (G3 Extreme) review
- Educational game dev program cancelled because students were submitting games made entirely with AI
- ‘AMDLSS5’ gets Nvidia’s neural rendering running on AMD graphics cards and claims 64% better performance than other mods
- Alienware AW3226Q review
- I fought Queens and Knights, but somehow my hardest opponents in Stack Order, the next great deckbuilder, were 2 birds
- I feel better than ever waiting for GTA 6 on PC now Rockstar confirms it's targeting 30 fps on PlayStation and Xbox
- Our favorite ultralight gaming mouse has dropped to its lowest ever price on Amazon
- GTA 6 console preloads begin today, so I've found the extra controllers and storage you PS5 and Xbox owners will need while I cry into my just-a-PC-gamer soup
- How Silent Hill: Townfall's developer created a fictional town that's still real—'It exists. It's there'
- Big Walk developer reveals it used generative AI 'sparingly', estimates 'well under 0.1%' was actually coded using LLMs
- Trump calls his pal Jensen Huang an ‘honourable guy’ and says he ‘probably has an excuse’ for Nvidia CEO’s affair with alleged spy
- Fallout and Elder Scrolls actor Stephen Russell returns as Garrett in Thief: The Tarnished Mirror: 'Great to be back with the old guy'
- Steam now lets you see exactly what frame rate you should get in games using a Steam Deck
- AMD's next-gen GPU architecture has appeared in new Linux kernel patches as GFX13 updates roll out
- Redditor runs PC cooling loop outside of their house to keep it cool in one of the bravest yet unnecessary mods I’ve ever seen
- Law firms lining up for a chance to bop Nvidia’s nose on behalf of its own shareholders; president Trump says FBI are sniffing around the AI company's case
- Rockstar is putting on a last-minute live music festival featuring Travis Scott and Cardi B to celebrate GTA 6's launch
- I'm so glad I'm not using a questing addon in World of Warcraft: Forever
- Phasmophobia raises over $200,000 for charity in the annual Ghost Hunts for Hearts collaboration with the American Heart Association
- Warhammer Survivors review
- I have converted GTA 5 to its final form: A GTA 6 countdown app
- 'The experiences on console and PC tend to be roughly the same,' says Take-Two CEO in response to question about GTA roleplaying
November 9
- A month after Paramount acquired Warner Bros. Discovery, its merged game division is laying people off
- Take-Two expects to make as much as $3.5 billion during the GTA 6 launch period
- A week after expanding its publishing division, Killing Floor studio Tripwire Interactive lays off 36 people
- AMD users are reporting a misfiring utility is eating SSD health by 1% a month. AMD says a fix is on the way for its GPU drivers
- Warhammer 40K: Rogue Trader follow-up Dark Heresy will launch at the end of January
- Cheaper OLEDs may be here even quicker than we thought as TCL CSOT says its new inkjet printing facility could be up and running as soon as this time next year
- Jensen Huang’s affair with alleged Chinese spy highlights how the GPU company’s dealings are now everyone’s business
- The AMD Ryzen 7 7800X3D is at the lowest price I've ever seen it, and it's still one of the absolute best processors for gaming
- Move quickly, this is a rare chance to bag a current-gen graphics card actually under its MSRP
- 'Floppy disks are out, 21st century tech is in': The FAA is finally ditching 55-year-old storage
- The Golden Joystick Awards return this Wednesday—here's how to watch them
- The pillars of AI are shaking beneath our feet
- Great news! Nier: Automata's install size is no longer 7x bigger than it should be (it was 366 GB)
- Skyrim lead designer gives the most succinct summary of Bethesda's design I've ever heard: 'You're not playing my game, I'm making your game'
- Consider this blackened plug your weekly reminder to check your RTX 50-series GPU cables
- MSI MEG Maestro 900R review
- World of Warcraft: Forever bumps dungeon XP from monsters by 50% after some community feedback I will diplomatically call passionate
- EVE Online's new expansion looks to make it simpler than ever to get into a huge space battle: 'Every 10 weeks or so, you're gonna know: I can roll up with whatever I have and go shoot some structures and have a big fight'
- 'I think we'd accidentally created the most hardcore extraction game of all time:' EVE Vanguard is taking hard-won playtest lessons into a '24/7 Alpha'
- Lead designer Bruce Nesmith says Skyrim was a hit because it was built on institutional knowledge from Oblivion
- Warhammer Blood Bowl has been delayed into early 2027
November 8
- Jackbox Games isn't interested in AI development: 'All that is done by people, and we have no intention of changing that'
- Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang admits to affair with alleged Chinese spy as company board launches investigation
- Skyrim lead designer Bruce Nesmith loved that Baldur's Gate 3 closed off story paths based on your decisions, but defends Bethesda's approach: 'They were both fun, they're just fun in different ways'
- My apologies Deadlock, I wasn't familiar with your (musical) game
- Ichorous is the bloody platformer I've been waiting for ever since I finished Blasphemous 2
- Dominic Armato, voice of Guybrush Threepwood, has always loved LucasArts' adventure games, but there's one he still can't get into: 'I get 10 minutes in and I'm like, oh, this is tedious, man'
- Inspired by Dark Messiah and Thief, this stealth game sees you sneak through a medieval megastructure prowled by undead guards
- WoW: Forever is more than just a millennial retirement home
- This massive mod essentially turns Skyrim into a persistent MMO 'where player actions create lasting consequences'
- As Wardogs Season 3 looms, Bulkhead claims to have built 'one of the world's most sophisticated anti-cheat systems', assisted by 'machine learning and AI'
- Path of Exile 2's game director thinks a death recap will finally allow us players to complain about the right things
- A BioWare documentary was already in the works when the shutdown was announced: 'With the studio's recent closure, the film is now a profound valediction'
- Chess is immediately more fun if you jettison most of the rules and replace them with weapons-grade Game Boy Advance
November 7
- One of the buggiest D&D games ever released, Pool of Radiance: Ruins of Myth Drannor, is back and actually playable again
- AMD CEO Lisa Su: 'We are a data center-first company'
- After seeing them myself, I'm convinced WoW: Forever's RP servers don't need to be this separate, and I say that as a decorated veteran of MMO roleplay
- What's the toughest choice you've made in an RPG?
- Linux on the desktop marches on as GOG announces its Galaxy client is getting a revamp headed to Windows, macOS, and your distro of choice
- Mass Effect composer Sam Hulick releases his 're-scored' trailer for N7 Day, 'my way of saying goodbye… at least for now'
- Todd Howard's game design power is knowing when to make things 'simple and digestible' according to Skyrim's lead designer
- After furloughing its developers and then hiring some of them back, Star Wars Zero Company developer has laid off an unspecified number of staff
- Nier: Automata developer is 'currently investigating' a bizarre update bug that drastically inflated the game's file size from 50GB to 366GB
November 6
- Here's what's in Path of Exile 2’s huge 1.0 release, coming in December
- Rockstar's having a sale on old GTA games on the only platform Grand Theft Auto 6 isn't coming to (ours)
- The AI posting war is heating up: 'Please, leave me behind,' says artist who got into it with Epic CEO Tim Sweeney on X
- Path of Exile 2 announces a second new class, the Shadow, for its December 1.0 release
- Underkeep is my favorite old-school dungeon crawler since Legend of Grimrock, and yes that includes Queen's Domain
- 'It came out of nowhere. I was shocked and sad': He was the face of Hunt: Showdown for years, then Crytek laid him off
- It's hard to meet women when I keep teleporting all the time
- All that stands between a hacker and admin privileges on some Linux distros is a 257-character long string of literally anything
- Live from this very minute, Newegg has a 200 Hz, 1440p gaming monitor going for just $129 in its early Black Friday goodie box
- A public petition to save BioWare has drawn enough signatures that the Canadian government will at least have to think about it: 'This is absolutely possible,' MP says
- Epomaker HE75 V2 TMR review
- David Gaider has been working on Owlcat's Expanse RPG: 'The Expanse has long been one of my favourite series, and so obviously I jumped at the opportunity to be involved'
- WoW: Forever takes 250,000 GB of memory to run, and I can't even joke about Sam Altman being jealous because that's almost nothing compared to the monolithic demands of AI
- Skyrim's lead designer has 2 big asks of The Elder Scrolls 6: Sentinel, and only one of them is something most players have ever thought about
- Adding PvE to Arc Raiders 'isn't a difficult thing to do' but the question still stands how Embark can 'cater to the specific needs of the players'
- Discord is cutting memory usage and speeding up boot times - joins Xbox, Epic, Steam, and more for similar upgrades just this year
- Zelda: Ocarina of Time remake reportedly running at 60 fps on PC just hours after game's official Nintendo Switch 2 release
- Zelnick doesn't regret GTA 6's delay because shipping an unfinished game rarely ends well: 'There was a very high profile release that fell into this category'
- WoW: Forever is working on its server tech to make cities less empty, say devs
- Saudi Arabia owns EA, and according to a Reuters report, Unity is next
- Richard Garriott on the state of the games industry: 'The bells and whistles are no longer what's important'
November 5
- Xbox enters the 'faster PC launcher' arms race, its app loads faster now too
- Warren Spector sounds even angrier about BioWare's closure as he recounts the massive salaries of EA execs: 'Is there ANY accountability left in this world?'
- Sam Altman is annoyed his DRAM comment was 'taken out of context'
- Nvidia, Micron, and other AI stocks take a dive after elections
- EA's releasing a truckload of classic games on Steam, and 7 of them are remasters
- I have added parkour to GTA 5, and also accidentally turned on like 20 mods I forgot I'd installed
- Rockstar drops a pile of new GTA 6 launch screenshots featuring dancers, combat dogs, and so many pores
- Phantom Blade Zero review
- PC Gamer magazine's new issue is on sale now: Metro 2039
- 45% of PC Gamer readers cleaned out their rig in the last six months and now I feel like a right grubchild for not remembering the last time I dusted mine
- Take-Two boss Strauss Zelnick isn't too concerned about piracy ahead of GTA 6 even if he is 'worried about everything all the time'
- After all the queuing drama in beta, WoW: Forever's launch was buttery smooth
- Experimental project beats Intel in bringing 'real Intel XeSS super resolution' to SteamOS and Proton games on Linux
- FSR 4.1.2 now on Xbox and Xbox handhelds, just in time for a certain big GTA 6-shaped game
- Switch 2 sales dropped 37% this summer, mostly before the price hike hit; Nintendo now expects sales to slump 16.9% in console's second year
- How to complete The Great Outdoors in WoW: Forever
- Oh hell yes: Pillars of Eternity 1 and 2 are getting full-fat gamepad support and you can try it right now
- Critical Role's upcoming series with Hololive gave Matt Mercer 'a deeper understanding and appreciation' for vtubers
- The Elder Scrolls 6 is reportedly more than two years away, and some fans are not coping well
November 4
- No GTA 6 November: Here's what you can play on PC instead
- Data centers were some of the biggest losers in last night's US midterm elections
- French game union accuses Microsoft of 'sabotaging' Blade and then using the fallout to justify closing Arkane
- Former Halo composer Marty O'Donnell loses election, then gets absolutely bodied by his opponent: 'The fight is finished'
- I am back modding GTA 5 and being chased by a billion furious, armed cougars
- New Blood CEO would rather shut down the boomer shooter studio than sell out: 'In 20 years, we're done. I'm gonna say goodbye, shut it down'
- Nexus Mods takes the Valve approach to AI-generated content: No outright bans but mandatory disclosures
- 'How can prices fall when there's nothing left?' TeamGroup CEO reckons supply-demand memory equilibrium may not happen until late 2028 at the earliest
- I'm watching YouTube videos in glorious stereoscopic 3D on my Steam Frame with just a free plugin and a long-forgotten dream of a new Nintendo 3DS
- Dead by Daylight apologises to fans after gifting DLC to TheBurntPeanut and has since 'removed the content that was granted'
- Formula V Line Air Power G10 review
- The best mini-LED 1440p gaming monitor we've ever tried has dropped down to $250, which is almost normal 1440p prices
- AMD says it's going to beat Intel in total revenue for the very first time by the end of 2026
- WoW: Forever's massive pre-launch balance patch breaks from the chains Classic power, increasing 'the health of higher level creatures to compensate'
- Dodgy download and spoofed job ad led to $6.3 billion Binance hack: attacker offered fake software and fake job to infiltrate company wallets and steal billions
- Bethesda's associate art director really did try to fit 7,000 actual steps into Skyrim's 7,000 Steps: 'I take no responsibility for the Frost Troll'
November 3
- Valve admits it's 'running behind' on approving Steam games because it has to keep re-reviewing them, which surely has nothing to do with AI
- Google criticized by NYC mayor Zohran Mamdani following AI policy change: 'Google is trying to use its monopoly power to force AI into our public schools'
- Ubisoft reportedly wants to buy Arkane from Xbox
- Control Resonant is Remedy's fastest-selling game to date, tripling the studio's quarterly revenue
- Crowning the greatest FPS mode of all time through 1v1 combat—SEMIFINALS!
- The Elder Scrolls 6 is still a long way off, Bethesda warns: 'It'll be some time before we're ready to share more'
- Bethesda's first full-time QA tester got the job by being an extremely chill hang
- 'Just deleted a couple terabytes of AI slop': Itch.io pushes back against the flood of AI on its storefront
- The latest version of Metal Gear's must-have visual mod slices load times, adds raw mouse input, and restores Mel Gibson
- World of Warcraft's D&D crossover is neat, but inconsistent—novel on one page, then shrugging and pointing to the PHB you already own on the next
- The Elder Scrolls 6: Sentinel is finally made official
- The top 100 PC games
- Morrowind's gravity is no longer '0.01% off' in the new release of its fan-made engine, finally making it playable
- Here's the WoW: Forever release time for your region
- 2 of my favorite studios are teaming up for their first-ever showcase this week, and have a Steam sale going right now
- Mike Flanagan thinks 'Warhammer is a fascinating world' but can't tell us anything else about the upcoming Warhammer 40,000 project because 'Henry Cavill would be furious'
- Modders bring Steam Frame build of SteamOS and all of its translation layer goodness to Mac
- The Overwatch devs hear your complaints about skin distribution but concede that some cosmetics need to 'support the actual bottom-line business'
- Upcoming Final Fantasy 14 update should massively cut down on dungeon queue times
- Users pull $3.6 bn from Binance as it reopens following $6.3 billion mega-hack - FBI says North Korean hacking group 'TraderTraitor' to blame, North Korea says nuh-uh
November 2
- Queen's Domain might be the best game like Metroid Prime since Metroid Prime
- Enshrouded 1.0 review
- Xbox COO who left after just 3 months shoots down claims she was 'fired for a policy violation,' says her story is about 'core values'
- 'There was some really fair criticism': Arc Raiders' devs understand why players were so upset about its AI use but say that it was 'too impractical to record' every voice line
- Thief Remastered's new expansion is being made by the legendary Black Parade mod team, and it's out next month
- The 28 cozy game launches in November technically include 3 horse games, which is actually a lot for the eternally underserved horse gamers
- It's definitely coming up to Black Friday because I've already spotted a RTX 5080 gaming PC cheaper than any I've seen for a while
- Yakuza creator's studio, and the game it was working on, are now officially gone
- Turtle Beach Command Series MC7 review
- Nightdive is reviving the iconic trapezoid big box for Thief: Remastered's special edition… but only on console
- After 500 hours in Monster Train 2, its final faction of bondage angels is teaching me new ways to win
- Ray tracing memory usage could be reduced by up to 90% thanks to 'most significant' DirectX update
- Arc Raiders devs used a music sample 'from a piano in Chernobyl' that someone had discovered in the Forbidden Zone
- Valve's Steam Frame has taken a spot in the top ten most popular VR headsets on Steam
- Final Fantasy 14: Evercold's story will have a faster tempo, with worldbuilding in side quests, says Yoshi-P—but I'm not sure that was the problem with Dawntrail
- The HeroQuest board game is coming to Steam with a quest editor and multiplayer
- Footage of what sure looks like a Persona 1 remake has leaked
- Obsidian's Josh Sawyer on RPG cities: 'Compared to a dungeon, generally speaking, a town is 4x the expense per square foot'
- Here's one bit of good news for Mass Effect: modders are bringing the multiplayer mode to Mass Effect Legendary Edition
November 1
- Jagex partnered with a RuneScape-inspired idle game to turn the sequel into an official spinoff
- Grand Theft Auto 6 teased a handful of its upcoming radio stations and its music curation is as strong as ever
- GOG wants to bring back physical games, but it's 'a very, very complicated thing'
- Valve's long-lost prototype Portal prequel appears online after nearly 20 years
- Composer and designer Lena Raine explains how Pigstep altered Minecraft's approach to music: 'The prompt I keep hearing is "Oh, Pigstep was such a banger that they want more bangers"'
- 'An absolute behemoth': Wildly ambitious FPS Selaco is getting a massive update that doubles its size and adds 'a heavy machinegun that fires literal explosions'
- Chronicles: Medieval developer faces imminent closure after losing funding: 'What makes it hurt is how close we are. Early access is in reach'
- It's not just Steam: New game pages created per day on Itch.io have doubled in the last two months, with AI slop the likely culprit
- I'm glad that WoW: Forever'll have a slower, lo-fi update schedule, because I'm not playing this thing to be in a rush
- Forza co-creator Dan Greenawalt is reportedly leaving Microsoft
- After almost a decade of work, Alien: Isolation mod tools hit 1.0 with support for 'full custom maps, missions, modes, characters, weapons, animations, sounds, models, textures, and more'