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October 2025 Archive

    1. Wreckreation melds Burnout's anarchy with GTA Online's airborne marble runs, but it needs a lot more polish
    2. Best Battlefield: RedSec Loadouts
    3. How to get Custom Weapon Loadouts in Battlefield: RedSec
    4. The Outer Worlds 2's faction writing falls short of Fallout: New Vegas, and how it handles the powerful is key
    5. 99 Nights In The Forest beginner's guide: 11 tips and tricks for surviving the woods
    6. Europa Universalis 5 review
    7. Master Of Command is a gunpowdery Total War alternative that narrows the focus to armies and real-time battles
    8. Speedrunner event Games Done Queer kicks off today, raising funds for LGBTQ+ legal aid by lighting Diddy Kong's butt on fire
    9. Fortnite's adding pets, and changing your invincible banana dog's colour will require buying another invincible banana dog
    10. The hardest part of making Arc Raiders was creating a "meaningful" item meta so that your loot doesn't just feel like "cash"
    11. Paradox apologise for Vampire: The Masquerade - Bloodlines 2's new Halloween gear initially only being a treat for fresh saves
    12. NYT Connections hint (Fri, 31 Oct)
    13. Wordle hint and answer #1595 (October 31 2025)
    1. The Outer Worlds 2: Best Traits
    2. Former Suikoden and Romancing Saga devs release fairytale RPG Stray Children, with a plea to never spoil the ending
    3. Best guns in Battlefield: RedSec
    4. Best class in Battlefield: RedSec
    5. If only more games ended like Hardspace: Shipbreaker
    6. The Outer Worlds 2: Best Skills
    7. Let us indulge in some kneejerk reactions to Apex Legends Season 27’s biggest updates
    8. Mount & Blade II: Bannerlord's War Sails naval warfare expansion takes to the high seas in late November
    9. Arc Raiders is out now, and the best thing about it so far is bumsliding through a buried desert city
    10. Resident Evil HD Remaster and Resident Evil 0 join GOG's preservation program, tell 16 other new arrivals to budge up
    11. Amazon have reportedly cancelled their Lord Of The Rings MMO, again
    12. Morrowind in Elden Ring mod shows off questing and criminal scumming, and there's only one thing its creator is worried about
    13. VVVVVV and Super Hexagon's Terry Cavanagh is back with a joyfully cracked platformer about eggs
    14. Wordle hint and answer #1594 (October 30 2025)
    15. NYT Connections hint (Thu, 30 Oct)
    1. We could have lived in a world where Hideo Kojima made a Matrix game, if only someone had told him he was offered to make one
    2. The Florist sounds like a lovely, cosy game right up until its a survival horror about killer plants
    3. CEO of GTA 6 publisher Take-Two is surprisingly hesitant about AI usage for entirely unsurprising reasons
    4. Descent of Lunaris is a sci-fi dungeon crawler RPG for sickos, with Wizardry and Shin Megami Tensei roots
    5. Helldivers 2, Minecraft and Sea Of Thieves hit by connectivity issues following big Microsoft services outage
    6. All Pets in The Outer Worlds 2
    7. 13 years on, TimeSplitters Rewind will finally launch this November, smooshing all three Free Radical games together
    8. Floorboards creak, spooks spook and I harass a man with a bell in detective puzzler The Séance of Blake Manor
    9. Yes, after 13 years it really does look like retrofuture survival horror Routine has a release date
    10. Dark Souls meets Ocarina of Time in Mouseward, a back-to-basics "soulslike collectathon" with sweet N64 visuals
    11. Following FBC: Firebreak flopping, Remedy have a "sense of urgency" and are banking on hits from their established series
    12. Arc Raiders doesn't AI-generate guns from Youtube videos, Embark clarifies: "that's a research project, and not something that we're using in the game now"
    13. Life is Strange and Lost Records devs Don't Nod are working on a new Netflix-backed narrative game
    14. The Outer Worlds 2: All 5 Mural locations
    15. The Outer Worlds 2 global release times
    16. New World won't be getting any more new additions following mass layoffs at Amazon
    17. The Outer Worlds 2 pre-launch hotfix makes you less likely to fall through the world or have to fight a closet
    18. Wordle hint and answer #1593 (October 29 2025)
    19. NYT Connections hint (Wed, 29 Oct)
    1. The Pathologic devs are making Darkwood 2 with Acid Wizard's blessing in a frankly outrageous piece of horror synergy
    2. So, it turns out The Outer Worlds 2 spent 95% of its runtime mocking me for a purchase I didn't make
    3. Battlefield 6's battle royale mode REDSEC is out now and surprise surprise, there's a new Gauntlet mode attached
    4. In Escape From Duckov, I roll great clutter Katamari of avian avarice and agony
    5. The Outer Worlds 2: A Healthy Improvement quest walkthrough
    6. Ron Gilbert's new Death by Scrolling RPG about "never-ending grind" and "the absurdity of social media" is out now
    7. EA's big AI push is reportedly leading to staff concerns about "flawed code" and setting up your own layoff
    8. Doors codes
    9. US immigration enforcers use Halo art to promote mass detention, while the White House and Gamestop swap Master Trump memes
    10. Hollow Knight: Silksong devs Team Cherry try drafting in fans to sort translation woes with patch 4 beta update
    11. Bully Online sees modders have another go at schoolyard multiplayer mayhem, arrives in paid early access this year
    12. Civilization 7 will bring back the ability to play as one civ for the whole game, bypassing the divisive Age system
    13. Wordle hint and answer #1592 (October 28 2025)
    14. NYT Connections hint (Tue, 28 Oct)
    1. Jump Space's first big update adds daft yet lovable deflect-o-parrying
    2. Battlefield's battle royale mode is a free-to-play experience called REDSEC
    3. Dear diary, this Baldur's Gate 3 mod lets you write in-game journals documenting your characters' adventures
    4. I shouldn't feel this at home in the nightmare office world of Pager
    5. Euro Truck Simulator 2 is motoring off to Ireland with an expansion being worked on alongside a UK revamp
    6. The Outer Worlds 2 modders have already unleashed all of the words and delivered a boon to cowards
    7. Bloodlines 2 is losing a drinking buddy as spinoff Vampire: The Masquerade – Bloodhunt plans server shutdown
    8. This week in PC games: Outer Worlds 2, Arc Raiders, occult detectives and some chunky strategy games
    9. Nearly half the 1.48 million Stop Destroying Videogames signatures have been okayed, as campaigners seek "expert" backing
    10. Bluepoint's cancelled God Of War game revealed by alleged leaked screenshots
    11. Wordle hint and answer #1591 (October 27 2025)
    12. NYT Connections hint (Mon, 27 Oct)
    1. The Sunday Papers
    2. Wordle hint and answer #1590 (October 26 2025)
    3. NYT Connections hint (Sun, 26 Oct)
    1. Break open a dead MMO and find what goofs and horrors await in Gorgon's Garden
    2. Old School RuneScape is getting its first new skill since it launched, and so the XP grind begins anew
    3. Nivalis catches yet another delay, this time into 2026, but it sounds like it's for fair reasons
    4. The Paranormal Activity games gets a slightly new name and a scarily underwhelming first gameplay trailer
    5. After EA's buyout and creator exodus, The Sims team wants you to know their "values and commitment remain the same"
    6. What are we all playing this weekend?
    7. Wordle hint and answer #1589 (October 25 2025)
    8. NYT Connections hint (Sat, 25 Oct)
    1. The Outer Worlds 2: Beginner's Guide
    2. Best Perks in The Outer Worlds 2
    3. Please let me bow before The Protectorate's gold-trimmed porcelain thrones, The Outer Worlds 2
    4. Either Battlefield 6's battle royale mode will release next week or they're adding granite, or something called granite
    5. Hello, Pacific Drive DLC, Boltgun 2 trailer, Denshattack release window and Solasta II early access update
    6. Cthulhu: The Cosmic Abyss gropingly squeezes its gelatinous green immensity onto PC in April 2026
    7. Garden Tower Defense codes
    8. Have Fallout 4 and New Vegas again, say Bethesda, and also a release date for Fallout 76's Burning Springs
    9. Spec Ops: The Line director's new insomnia horror game Sleep Awake will release in December
    10. Battlefield 6 drops bots from verified mode playlist as EA continues fight against those dastardly XP farmers
    11. Hades 2 post-launch patch 1 revamps Melinoë's "true ending", and is out now in Steam preview form
    12. NYT Connections hint (Fri, 24 Oct)
    13. Wordle hint and answer #1588 (October 24 2025)
    1. Bojack-style band management sim Rockbeasts gets a fresh trailer which asks existential questions I was afraid to
    2. Twin Peaks-inspired spooky private eye puzzler Silver Pines is set to deliver missing musician mystery next year
    3. Oneway.exe is the tale of an abandoned game that really, really wants your skin(s)
    4. Medieval city builder Farthest Frontier says good knight to early access with its 1.0 release today
    5. Microsoft pushing for profits "well above the industry average" is reportedly behind Xbox's layoff and cancellation misery
    6. The Outer Worlds 2 review
    7. Valve casually gut Counter-Strike's billion dollar skins market with a "small update"
    8. Ubisoft want to trim down The Division developers and are pivoting Trials creators Redlynx to mobile
    9. Helldivers 2's huge Into the Unjust: 4.1.0 update fires out over 200 bug fixes, plus some weapon balancing
    10. Vampire: The Masquerade - Bloodlines 2 devs provide workarounds for "high priority" bugs, including Seattle's populace disappearing
    11. NYT Connections hint (Thu, 23 Oct)
    12. Wordle hint and answer #1587 (October 23 2025)
    1. RV There Yet? is a dad-core co-op game about doing a very bad job driving home from your campervan vacation
    2. Arrowhead need just a smidge more time for that next Helldivers 2 patch, promises a healthy suite of optimisations
    3. No More Robot’s new cruise ship management sim is hella bleak, despite the input of former Overcooked 2 devs
    4. Palworld dev Pocketpair, famous for making wholly original games, won't publish your game if it uses generative AI
    5. Telltale and The Boys make mostly beautiful love in Dispatch, a slick and surprisingly tactical superhero comedy
    6. No Man's Sky adds ship wreck salvaging for new bits to stick on your own craft with the Breach update
    7. The Lord of the Rings: Return to Moria's first expansion launches next month, even if gameplay is currently MIA
    8. Scarface PC re-release "unintentionally pushed live" early on Epic with Steam to follow, but I may smell a rat
    9. PowerWash Simulator 2 review
    10. Stellar Reach is a thoughtful "real-scale" space 4X strategy game from a former Creative Assembly developer
    11. Vampire: The Masquerade - Bloodlines 2 mods are flowing, offering quicker movement, more blood, and a manicure
    12. Steam is getting a new eight-week, daily refreshed calendar for recommendations and wishlisted games
    13. Wordle hint and answer #1586 (October 22 2025)
    14. NYT Connections hint (Wed, 22 Oct)
    1. The Sinking City 2 delayed to 2026, as Frogwares battle "ongoing challenges related to the war in Ukraine"
    2. Vampire: The Masquerade - Bloodlines 2 cannot possibly be on sale now
    3. Come Nerevar, Morrowind mod Tamriel Rebuilt's next expansion will finally let you join House Indoril
    4. Bug-hunting RTS Starship Troopers: Terran Command gets a free Territory Mode update that has you defending three planets at once
    5. Arc Raiders boss boasts of being able to AI generate guns from Youtube videos, but says it'll never replace "the human aspect"
    6. Former Battlefield 6 developer slams EA for leaving himself and other Ridgeline staff out of the credits
    7. $1,000 for a ROG Xbox Ally X? Oh yeah, that was Asus' idea, says Microsoft exec
    8. Hold your horses, 13th century Mongolian courier sim The Legend of Khiimori's early access release is delayed
    9. Wordle hint and answer #1585 (October 21 2025)
    10. NYT Connections hint (Tue, 21 Oct)
    1. Birdcage is a stylish, tough, frenetic bullet hell "sword action shooting game" inspired by anime and '90s arcade classics
    2. One of the few Nintendo DS horror games is making its seasonally appropriate debut on PC later this month
    3. Marathon's playtest wasn't great for Bungie, but Arc Raiders' design director says it was a "great A/B test" for them
    4. Escape From Duckov off to flying start on Steam amid modest outbreak of save file bugs, AI problems and duck dicks
    5. Legendary Final Fantasy composer Nobuo Uematsu retains said status by explaining why AI music doesn't work
    6. Dead Cells 2 doesn't exist because its devs would rather make what they want than listen to external pressures
    7. Rumoured Resident Evil 0 Remake looks like it could star the voice of an indeterminate number of FarCry 5 NPCs
    8. Punch Wall codes
    9. MindsEye director Leslie Benzies' micro-management led to bugs being dubbed "Leslies" or "Leslie tickets", former devs claim
    10. Vampire: The Masquerade - Bloodlines 2 review
    11. The Simpsons: Hit & Run modders have made their own Futurama total conversion, with future and ramas
    12. This week in PC games: Jurassic Ninja Vampire Powerwash Plant vs Katamari Double Dragon Edition
    13. "There's really no winning": Fallout 2 Remake mod lead talks "walking the thin line" of reimagining a classic
    14. Roblox, Fortnite and other online games nuked by massive Amazon web outage
    15. In Among Us-style romp Frankenstein's Monster, four Frankensteins fight over body parts for their creations
    16. Wordle hint and answer #1584 (October 20 2025)
    17. NYT Connections hint (Mon, 20 Oct)
    1. The Sunday Papers
    2. Today's NYT Crossword answers and hints (Sun, October 19)
    3. Wordle hint and answer #1583 (October 19 2025)
    4. NYT Connections hint (Sun, 19 Oct)
    1. Even more Blizzard workers have voted to unionise, this time around 100 devs who work on Hearthstone
    2. Hell Maiden makes a compelling case for mixing Hades, Vampire Survivors, anime and, uh, Dante's Divine Comedy
    3. FIFA finds its way back to video games through a "multi-year partnership" with Football Manager
    4. Modern classic momentum platformer N++ gets a 10th anniversary update as its devs tease what's next for them
    5. Cult of the Lamb buys into the cult of farming sims with a new trailer for its next expansion Woolhaven
    6. The NYT Crossword answers and hints (Sat, October 18)
    7. What are we all playing this weekend?
    8. NYT Connections hint (Sat, 18 Oct)
    9. Wordle hint and answer #1582 (October 18 2025)
    1. Bone-twisting sadism and immersive simulation go together unpleasantly well in Brush Burial: Gutter World
    2. The ROG Xbox Ally’s Project Killswitch is nice, but spotlights handheld PCs' chronic case neglect
    3. The final free Arc Raiders open playtest is rolling out now, showing off quests, progression and crafting
    4. Marvel Rivals gets its first ever PVE mode when the zombies arrive on October 23rd
    5. The indie-heavy Galaxies Showcase is back next week, here’s how to watch it and what to expect
    6. Assetto Corsa Rally aims to fill a Colin McRae-shaped void, and it's out in early access next month
    7. New Total War fantasy and historical project announcements are coming this December, alongside Warhammer's Tides of Torment DLC
    8. The Crew 2's offline mode is live, so you don't have to worry as much about Ubisoft ramming it off the road
    9. Battlefield 6 is getting updates to speed up XP progression and unlocks, as EA tackle plague of bot-farmers
    10. Ex-Assassin's Creed lead says leaving Ubisoft wasn't his choice, instead down to restructure musical chairs
    11. Let the Right Ones in and sell them eldritch chips in Hellmart, a jobbing horror game with far too much smiling
    12. The NYT Crossword answers and hints (Fri, October 17)
    13. NYT Connections hint (Fri, 17 Oct)
    14. Wordle hint and answer #1581 (October 17 2025)
    1. You aren't finishing your Battlefield 6 Conquest matches fast enough, so EA have made them shorter
    2. The self-defeating silliness of refusing to finish a game
    3. iRacing Arcade is zippy bumper cars from the folks behind the simmiest racing sim ever to sim racing simishly
    4. From Detroit to Deadlock: Quantic Dream are making a MOBA
    5. Unionised EA workers slam billion dollar buyout for risking layoffs to "pad investor pockets", while senators worry about Saudi Arabia rewriting US history
    6. Sony fire arrows alleging "nonsense" and deliberate corporate water muddying at Tencent, as Horizon lawsuit rumbles on
    7. Crisol is a baroque Spanish horror shooter with blood bullets that sometimes feels too wooden for comfort
    8. Around 400 Blizzard platform & technology staff are the latest Microsoft workers who've voted to unionise
    9. Doom modders fall into civil war as devs launch new engine in protest at GZDoom creator's leadership and use of ChatGPT
    10. Hollow Knight: Silksong patch 4 is live in Steam beta, and problems persist with its new Simplified Chinese translation
    11. The NYT Crossword answers and hints (Thu, October 16)
    12. NYT Connections hint (Thu, 16 Oct)
    13. Wordle hint and answer #1580 (October 16 2025)
    1. Cry Havoc for this open world cyberpunk dog-fighter inspired by G-Police
    2. Stardewy warlock schooler Witchbrook delayed to 2026, but its devs have magicked up an interactive map
    3. How a nod to Nietzsche in Soma got me thinking twice about that suffocating buzzword, immersion
    4. Humans birth geese who birth mutants to pay for elaborate sky mating in Tingus Goose's Steam Next Fest demo
    5. Asus ROG Xbox Ally X review: Falling short of Xboctations
    6. Splinter Cell: Pandora Tomorrow is now on Steam, but you'll have to deal with some Ubisoft faffage
    7. Project Shadowglass channels Thief, Deus Ex and System Shock while dunking on generative AI
    8. Battlefield 6 gets a hotfix targeting bugged hit damage and EA are busy inspecting bouncy ladders
    9. GOG say their preservation program has been "harder than we thought", thanks to DRM and elusive creators
    10. The earliest major inspiration for Shadow Of The Colossus was... Battlefield 1942: "I felt immense potential in the experience"
    11. The NYT Crossword answers and hints (Wed, October 15)
    12. NYT Connections hint (Wed, 15 Oct)
    13. Wordle hint and answer #1579 (October 15 2025)
    1. Skate Story now has a release date and a Steam Next Fest demo, leaving no excuse not to munch on its moons
    2. March 2026 would be a "fitting" Skyblivion release window, says former dev who called making 2025 "unachievable"
    3. Helldivers 2 director confirms Arrowhead are biting the addition delay bullet while working on performance fixes
    4. Battlefield 6 backend tweaks tune down some sniper rifles and shotguns, as EA keep fiddling with little knobs
    5. New Witcher 3 mod adds an in-depth standalone monster hunting mode set in a fresh region the size of Toussaint
    6. Pathologic 3's full release is set for early 2026, and there's a fresh Steam Next Fest demo to examine
    7. The NYT Crossword answers and hints (Tue, October 14)
    8. NYT Connections hint (Tue, 14 Oct)
    9. Wordle hint and answer #1578 (October 14 2025)
    1. Modded Skyrim gets a hair closer to a merging with reality, thanks to dynamic NPC trim changes which won't ruin canonical baldies
    2. Best weapons in Battlefield 6
    3. RoadCraft sibling Docked's Steam Next Fest demo is aimed at folks who're deeply moved by container movement
    4. Best Battlefield 6 L110 loadout and build guide
    5. Best Battlefield 6 AK-205 loadout and build guide
    6. Best Battlefield 6 M87A1 loadout and build guide
    7. Best Battlefield 6 B36A4 loadout and build guide
    8. No, commuters of Bus Bound's Steam Next Fest demo, I will not stop publicly transporting you to the scene of accidents
    9. Everwild screenshots leak after Microsoft cancellation, and you'd seemingly have been a walking garden centre
    10. This week in PC games: Next Fest demo excess and Double Fine's sentient lighthouse
    11. Borderlands 4's first bounty pack DLC releases next month, followed by a free mutant tree fight
    12. The NYT Crossword answers and hints (Mon, October 13)
    13. NYT Connections hint (Mon, 13 Oct)
    14. Wordle hint and answer #1577 (October 13 2025)
    1. The Sunday Papers
    2. The NYT Crossword answers and hints (Sun, October 12)
    3. NYT Connections hint (Sun, 12 Oct)
    4. Wordle hint and answer #1576 (October 12 2025)
    1. Battlefield 6 weapons list
    2. The NYT Crossword answers and hints (Sat, October 11)
    3. What are we all playing this weekend?
    4. NYT Connections hint (Sat, 11 Oct)
    5. Wordle hint and answer #1575 (October 11 2025)
    1. MindsEye devs accuse studio execs of "disastrously" mishandling redundancies and enforcing "unbearable" crunch
    2. The evil ghost lorry in Truckful's demo nearly ate me and the lady who did a headstand in my bed
    3. Best Battlefield 6 M433 loadout and build guide
    4. Best Battlefield 6 SGX loadout and build guide
    5. Best Battlefield 6 M4A1 loadout and build guide
    6. How to unlock all Battlefield 6 weapons
    7. Arc Raiders won't force you to give up all of your progression via mandatory wipes, at least for now
    8. Ex-Zenimax devs say their Sackbird was drawn by a human, but bits of their website are AI-generated
    9. Potential BIOS dive aside, Battlefield 6 goes surprisingly easy on PC hardware
    10. Bribe pigeons into criminal acts with infinite bread in The Bench later this month
    11. Borderlands 4 director warns next patch will target overpowered builds relying on "unintended interactions"
    12. The NYT Crossword answers and hints (Fri, October 10)
    13. NYT Connections hint (Fri, 10 Oct)
    14. Wordle hint and answer #1574 (October 10 2025)
    1. Battlefield 6's launch day patch notes are here and nearly 2800 words, so whip out your reading specs private
    2. Battlefield 6 review
    3. Hyper Light Breaker's development is ending, and devs Heart Machine are laying off staff
    4. Cyberpunk 2077 can now serve daily word puzzles thanks to a mod called Gonkle, and the answer's probably choom
    5. When is the Battlefield 6 release time for your region?
    6. Following Microsoft's mass layoffs, former Elder Scrolls Online and Blackbird devs form worker-owned studio
    7. An Elder Scrolls 6 memorial character moulded by Tamriel's finest internet lorekeepers is now set in stone
    8. Little Nightmares 3 review
    9. Ubisoft reportedly cancelled an Assassin’s Creed set in post-Civil War America due to US politics and Yasuke backlash
    10. The NYT Crossword answers and hints (Thu, October 9)
    11. Wordle hint and answer #1573 (October 9 2025)
    12. NYT Connections hint (Thu, 9 Oct)
    1. In survival strategy game Dark Moon, you can't stop moving lest the sun turn you into a burnt roast dinner
    2. Pico Park: Classic Edition is accidentally free forever, and a great lesson in double checking Steam's weird rules
    3. Afantasia, not aphantasia, asks you to delve into memories and help a boy figure out his identity in a moody pixel art town
    4. Vampire Survivors gets online co-op this autumn, even if its devs know "no one plays together anyway"
    5. Here's a proper look at Starseeker: Astroneer Expeditions and its spacey, co-operative gameplay
    6. Soul Injector Commando is a fever dream's fever dream about a dead guy firing humanity into billionaires
    7. Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 is getting a whoole free update with a new location, boss battles and threads
    8. The largest ever Crusader Kings 3 expansion takes us to China, Japan and Southeast Asia this October
    9. Amid Steam and Itch adult game forced censorship concerns, UK Government have "no plans to intervene" with payment processors
    10. The original System Shock 2 will be delisted from Steam soon, then lumped in with the more expensive remaster
    11. Baby Steps has a multiplayer mod and it looks like the ultimate breeding ground for bumbling betrayals
    12. The NYT Crossword answers and hints (Wed, October 8)
    13. Medieval dinostrategic warfare will soon be unleashed, as a Dinolords closed alpha roars into life this month
    14. Wordle hint and answer #1572 (October 8 2025)
    15. NYT Connections hint (Wed, 8 Oct)
    1. PowerWash Simulator 2 will release October 23, and here's a trailer to mock you for enjoying cleaning games
    2. If you can’t wait for the RTX 50 Supers, Amazon US have $50 off the RTX 5060 Ti 16GB right now
    3. Best Borderlands 4 Vex builds
    4. Amid the purple haze of Fallout: London I rage, mocked by the violet vistas of my own stupidity
    5. Total War: Warhammer 3's developers are fighting to fix "a catastrophic failure in many of our AI systems"
    6. Here’s a deal post about the Logitech G515 Lightspeed TKL being £45 / $40 off, typed on my Logitech G515 Lightspeed TKL
    7. The fastest gaming SSD on the market is up to 38% off for Prime Big Deal Days
    8. House Of Necrosis is a Resident Evil Mystery Dungeon RPG in which you can accidentally level up the zombies
    9. Call of Duty: Black Ops 7's beta chat turning Arc Raiders into *** ******* was a text filter goof, Activision say
    10. Lead or destroy the revolution in Mars Tactics, an XCOM-like strategy game from Hooded Horse featuring throwable ammo and UBI
    11. Juice your Steam Deck, and many other things besides, with up to 30% off our top-rated power bank
    12. Baldur's Gate 3 needed a "cowboy wizard extraordinaire" and its latest custom companion mod delivers
    13. Let the dirt-cheapness of Logitech’s G305 Lightspeed mouse dull the pain of yet another Amazon Prime sale
    14. Battlefield 6's hefty launch day patch will bring "over 200 changes", and EA know folks pine for the sea
    15. The NYT Crossword answers and hints (Tue, October 7)
    16. Wordle hint and answer #1571 (October 7 2025)
    17. NYT Connections hint (Tue, 7 Oct)
    1. Mina the Hollower catches a delay nebulously beyond its previously seasonally appropriate release date
    2. Marathon shows signs of life with a closed network test scheduled for later this month
    3. Don't Stop, Girlypop! is a glittery, Y2K heart attack of a boomer shooter, with a great demo you can try now
    4. Hollow Knight Silksong walkthrough: Part 38 (Act 3 Wishes)
    5. Massive Skyrim mod Lordbound soft launches, with lots of choice-heavy questing in a war-torn valley bigger than Solstheim
    6. Metal: Hellsinger studio The Outsiders has been shut down as part of Funcom's recent layoffs
    7. Assassin's Creed Mirage's allegedly Saudi-backed DLC, Valley of Memory, releases November 18
    8. Clair Obscur: Expedition 33's lead writer had apparently never played a video game before writing it
    9. Game Pass Ultimate subs don't get DLC discounts any more, Microsoft confess, amid reports about Call of Duty sales cannibalisation
    10. Enginefall’s Snowpiercer-meets-DayZ promise is put at risk by mechanical troubles
    11. Alien: Isolation is too long because the Alien is too clever, says former Creative Assembly writer
    12. Smart but flawed 4X strategy Civ-like Millennia gets final update as Paradox declare "the end of an age"
    13. Elden Ring Nightreign gets a dedicated and customisable boss arena mode thanks to a modder
    14. Pentiment among games temporarily pulled from Steam as Unity security vulnerability forces rapid updates
    15. This week in PC games: Battlefield 6 fends off an onslaught of cool indie RPGs, strategy games, horror games and piss simulators
    16. 97% of Call of Duty Black Ops 7 beta's early cheaters were caught within 30 minutes of sign in, Activision say
    17. The NYT Crossword answers and hints (Mon, October 6)
    18. Wordle hint and answer #1570 (October 6 2025)
    19. NYT Connections hint (Mon, 6 Oct)
    1. The NYT Crossword answers and hints (Sun, October 5)
    2. The Sunday Papers
    3. Wordle hint and answer #1569 (October 5 2025)
    4. NYT Connections hint (Sun, 5 Oct)
    1. Arc Raiders was delayed so much because of a surprisingly simple reason: not even its devs thought it was fun
    2. Demeo x Dungeons & Dragons: Battlemarked rolls the dice on a release date and lands on this November
    3. Anachronistic medieval shooter Kingmakers catches an indefinite delay days before it was supposed to launch
    4. Roleplay as Geralt in this nicely done Witcher 3 combat mod for Elden Ring
    5. Is Nine Sols currently hiding an entirely new game within itself? Yes, but I don't know why yet
    6. The NYT Crossword answers and hints (Sat, October 4)
    7. What are we all playing this weekend?
    8. Wordle hint and answer #1568 (October 4 2025)
    9. NYT Connections hint (Sat, 4 Oct)
    1. MTG Arena codes
    2. My insatiable lust for windmill flirtation will have to stay contained until next year, as Building Relationships is delayed
    3. All working Borderlands 3 SHiFT Codes
    4. Hollow Knight Silksong walkthrough: Part 34 (Starting Act 3)
    5. Water is wet, the sky is blue, and Call of Duty Black Ops 7's beta has cheaters
    6. Peak co-devs Aggro Crab unleash co-op forklifty mayhem with Crashout Crew, which'll have a demo soon
    7. Baldur's Gate 3 custom campaign mod Path to Menzoberranzan breaks silence with update on development re-think and character reveal tease
    8. Why does Helldivers 2 have such a bloated install size on PC? Old hard drives, says dev
    9. The NYT Crossword answers and hints (Fri, October 3)
    10. Borderlands 4's first major balancing patch is out now, delivering beefy vault hunter buffage across the board
    11. Wordle hint and answer #1567 (October 3 2025)
    12. NYT Connections hint (Fri, 3 Oct)
    1. Hollow Knight Silksong walkthrough: Part 37 (Verdania)
    2. Disco Elysium devs at ZA/UM form the UK industry's "first recognised videogame workplace union"
    3. Nearly a third of all gaming PCs are still running Windows 10, even as Microsoft prepare to kill it
    4. Explore a puppetmaker's fear of "dark or fruitless" digital conditioning in Éalú, a deceptively cute stop-motion maze game
    5. How to unlock all Megabonk characters
    6. Build A Boat For Treasure codes
    7. Payday devs Starbreeze cancel their mystery Dungeons & Dragons game and announce plans to lay off around 44 staff
    8. Megabonk tier list: All 20 characters ranked
    9. Fortnite devs Epic modifying Peacemaker emote after establishing Warner didn't mean it to look like a Nazi swastika
    10. World of Warcraft player housing hits early access this December, but only for Midnight expansion pre-orderers
    11. Motorslice's demo is a promising and challenging taste of its chainsaw parkour
    12. Former Dragon Age exec thinks EA's new owners might sell BioWare and use other studios for Saudi Arabian PR
    13. I am a huge impatient baby but ReWire is still good
    14. The NYT Crossword answers and hints (Thu, October 2)
    15. Fallout: London modders still have no plans to port it to next-gen Fallout 4, unless a console version becomes possible
    16. Wordle hint and answer #1566 (October 2 2025)
    17. NYT Connections hint (Thu, 2 Oct)
    1. Chess meets roguelike dungeon crawler Below the Crown gets an early access launch date and a demo that's smarter than me
    2. Hollow Knight Silksong walkthrough: Part 36 (The Old Hearts)
    3. Ananta producer says every character could have their own game and perhaps unwisely compares it to the Avengers
    4. Moonlighter 2: The Endless Vault isn't closing up shop, but it has received a small delay out of a busy October
    5. As good as Silent Hill f might be, don't expect it to be the norm for the series, says its series producer
    6. Malys, the devil exorcising deckbuilder from the studio co-founded by Dragon Age's writer, gets a 1.0 release date
    7. Dune Awakening developers Funcom are laying off an unspecified number of staff
    8. No, Deus Ex Remastered, I simply do not believe you need an RTX 2080 to run at recommended settings
    9. Microsoft reveal massive Game Pass Ultimate and PC Pass price hike, concede that price hikes are "never fun"
    10. Hades 2's latest hotfix rectifies narrative hiccups and stops Olympus runs ending in the most frustrating way I can imagine
    11. Enlisting Walton Goggins for a Fallout 76 expansion in "total tonal tandem" with season 2 came "organically", devs say, despite previous hint at "very limited" crossover
    12. Fallout 76’s next expansion goes all-in on Fallout TV show season 2, bringing Walton Goggins and "New Vegas feel" to Ohio
    13. You would not believe the very special swords people are making in blacksmith RPG Bladesong
    14. Prototype remaster speculation kicks into super gear after a surprise Steam update adds to its credits
    15. Battlefield 6's first post-launch season of updates will add two new modes, then get very cold
    16. Amid Call of Duty's war on cheating, Black Ops 7 says ehh whatever, here's a wallhack-esque killstreak
    17. The NYT Crossword answers and hints (Wed, October 1)
    18. Soma devs Frictional release video of "something new", aka their nice hotel game in which nothing awful will happen
    19. Wordle hint and answer #1565 (October 1 2025)
    20. NYT Connections hint (Wed, 1 Oct)