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ByteDance's AI Cultivation Game Buwen Fanchen Hits Steam Early Access: Why Praise Doesn't Equal Sales

Buwen Fanchen, an AI cultivation game developed by ByteDance's Jiangnan Studio and published by Nuverse, launched in Steam Early Access at a discounted China price of 19.89 yuan. As of September 28 it peaked at 7,206 concurrent players with an 88% positive rating but only around 700 reviews, a gap the article attributes to thin content, inconsistent NPC relationship states and limited AI dialogue quotas.

Chuapp Talk: The Tailor Knows Too Much

Chuapp Talk discusses Dressmaker, a recently popular indie game in which the player runs a clothing shop as a tailor newly moved to a small town, making dresses to customer orders through measuring, designing, choosing fabric, cutting, sewing and decorating. The game recreates real details such as fabric grain direction and sewing machine handling, and the official description lists 150 clothing parts, over 450 fabrics and over 350 accessories. Its shortcomings include only dresses being available, unclear tutorials, and finished clothes never being worn by customers.

Minecraft Dungeons II Review - Built Better Than Before

Game Informer's review says Minecraft Dungeons II improves on its 2020 predecessor with a new jump mechanic, clearer menus, and more enemy and weapon variety. But its item-driven progression feels linear and aimless, and the reviewer finished the game in under 10 hours and felt done after about 15, with an endgame limited to side quests and destroying Storm Generators for randomized loot. The game introduces a new dimension called the Sift, which is coming to Minecraft proper in 2027.

Anker Space Station High-Refresh Desktop Docking Station Solves Gamers' "Last Meter"

Anker has launched the "Anker Space Station" high-refresh desktop docking station, along with a VALORANT limited edition, targeting gaming laptop users who connect to external monitors. It supports high resolution, HDR, 144Hz to 240Hz+ refresh rates and multi-display output, and features an industry-first smart screen interface with smart detection, customization and OTA upgrades. The VALORANT edition includes a Jett rice-ball-cutting Pomodoro clock UI easter egg, priced under 1,000 yuan.

Witcher 3 Remastered: Should you use Enemy Upscaling?

Enemy Upscaling in The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt Remastered keeps every encounter challenging, so even with the best sword you won't one-shot weaker foes in early areas. Turning it on makes lower-level quests less boring but means spending more time fighting weak enemies, and whether to enable it comes down to personal preference.

A Love Letter to the Guitar Hero X-Plorer Controller

A player reflects on his RedOctane X-Plorer controller for Guitar Hero, which came bundled with Guitar Hero 2 and is about to turn 20 years old, noting that it still works and remains his favorite guitar controller. He owns several other guitar controllers, but says the X-Plorer's fret buttons feel the best and it works plug-and-play on PC, unlike the 2015 Guitar Hero Live guitars that require remapping software. The only issue he has had in twenty years is a broken whammy bar, which he fixed with an elastic band.

Embark should've added a PvE mode to Arc Raiders a long time ago

Embark is finally testing a PvE mode for Arc Raiders, a change the author believes should have come much sooner. He recalls the fun of early co-op fights against high-value arcs, but says PvP lobbies later filled with liars, assholes, and cheaters. Embark has admitted a large chunk of the playerbase is PvE orientated, though there's no guarantee the test leads to a permanent addition.

I have broken GTA 5 by installing so many mods that the game only launches in windowed mode now

After installing the Dynamic Traffic Colours mod, my GTA 5 installation now only launches in windowed mode, and trying to go fullscreen before it loads leaves you stuck on a black screen. The mod is meant to mix up the hues of Los Santos' cars, but most vehicles still show the same humdrum colours, with only the occasional garish one.

Original Messy FF7 Localization vs. Vastly Improved Fan Translation: A Line-by-Line Comparison

A spreadsheet compares every line of dialogue in Final Fantasy 7's official PC release, the Japanese original, and fan translator TurquoiseHammer's new text. That retranslation is part of the Shinra Archaeology Cut mod, released two years ago and available through the fan launcher 7th Heaven, with an optional "Cultural Heritage Mode" that restores odd lines and infamous typos from the original English script. Square Enix's 2013 update to modern platforms fixed some grammatical mistakes but left the rest of the script largely untouched.

How to get the Ursine armor in The Witcher 3

The Ursine armor diagrams are found in The Skellige Isles and require level 20 to equip, with sirens, wraiths, gargoyles, and a rabid rock troll standing in the way. The basic diagrams sit in the ruined castle on Urialla Isle, and the upgrade diagram locations come from buying Ibrahim Savi's maps from the Kaer Trolde armorer.

How to get the Griffin armor in The Witcher 3

The Griffin armor diagrams are found in Dragonslayer's Grotto in east Velen and require level 11, with wraiths, endrega, an ekimmara, and a wyvern in the way. The set has four armor pieces and two swords but no crossbow, and can be forged at Crow's Perch, Novigrad, or Kaer Trolde. Enhanced, superior, and mastercrafted upgrades come from Edwin Greloff's maps, the last bought from Éibhear Hattori after completing Of Swords and Dumplings.

How to get the Wolven armor in The Witcher 3

The Wolven armor diagrams in The Witcher 3 are found at the old signal tower just south of Kaer Morhen keep, with a level 14 requirement and plenty of wraiths to fight along the way. Activate the teleportation crystals with Aard to open a portal and loot the diagrams from a corpse in the cave. Enhanced, superior, and mastercrafted upgrade diagrams are unlocked by buying notes from Éibhear Hattori in Novigrad, Lindenvale's armorer, and Kaer Trolde's armorer.

How to get the Feline armor in The Witcher 3

The Feline armor diagrams are found in a cave on Temple Isle in Novigrad and require level 17, with drowners, wraiths, a golem, and a witcher standing in the way. The light set includes four armor pieces, two swords, and a crossbow, boosting attack power at the cost of damage resistance. Enhanced, superior, and mastercrafted upgrade diagrams come from buying Adalbert Kermith's maps at the Blackbough merchant, Crow's Perch quartermaster, and Lindenvale's armorer.

How to unlock transmog in The Witcher 3 Remastered

The Witcher 3 Remastered lets you transmog armor and swords, but only at two master smiths: Yoana at Crow's Perch for armor after the Master Armorers quest, and Hattori in Novigrad for swords after Of Swords and Dumplings. Each reskin costs 100-200 coin, and any armor or sword placed in Geralt's inventory unlocks as a skin. The system isn't retrospective for existing saves, and Lazare Lafargue in the Blood and Wine DLC can't transmog armor.

How to Get Unlocked Multi Frame Gen Working on an RTX 40-Series Graphics Card

PC Gamer outlines an unofficial method to enable 4x Multi Frame Generation (MFG) on RTX 40-series graphics cards. Users download the ReShade HDR Installer, install the unofficial RTX 40 MFG and OptiScaler mods for a supported game, then set Frame Generation to Dynamic and Frame Count to Up to 4x via Nvidia Profile Overrides. The method is not officially supported and can introduce smeary frames, latency issues, and possible anti-cheat detection.

Stop trying to make a console war out of which WoW is better, you're all exhausting

The World of Warcraft: Forever beta has recaptured the essence of oldschool MMOs for the author, but he rejects turning Retail, Classic, and Forever into warring factions. He argues Retail WoW's design isn't inherently bad, just different, and that Forever itself shows the versions can learn from each other. Building an identity out of which version you play and attacking others over it is exhausting and unhealthy.

SteelSeries Rival Pro gaming mouse review

SteelSeries has released the Rival Pro, a 53 g competitive gaming mouse with a TrueMove 42K Pro sensor, ultra-wideband (UWB) wireless connectivity, and up to 8K polling, priced at $179.99 / £169.99 / €199.99. It ships with two hot-swappable batteries rated for 60 hours each and has no USB-C port, making it fully wireless. The review calls its palm-grip comfort excellent, though the lack of a cable for firmware updates leaves long-term reliability uncertain.

SteelSeries' New Rival Pro and Sensei Pro Mice Drop USB Entirely, Going UWB Wireless Only

SteelSeries has unveiled the Rival Pro and Sensei Pro gaming mice, which have no USB connectivity at all and rely solely on UWB wireless, priced at $179.99 / £169.99 / €199.99. Both weigh 53 g and share a TrueMove 42K Pro sensor, optical switches, and a hot-swappable battery, differing only in grip shape. After weeks of use, the reviewer found them excellent in weight, build, and feel, though long-term UWB reliability remains unproven.

Minecraft Dungeons 2 Review: A Cozier Co-op ARPG Built for Parents and Kids

Minecraft Dungeons 2 launched on September 29, and after playing it with his almost-12-year-old, the author says it keeps the original's kid-friendly co-op ARPG design while splitting armor into helmet, chest, leggings and boots and adding the explorable Brave Haven map plus rifts to the new dimension The Sift. In the pre-release Xbox build he hit bugs including unselectable inventory slots and characters vanishing when switching between online and offline play. The Sift is due to be added to Minecraft at some point in 2027.

The Witcher 3 Remastered review: a generous free upgrade that doesn't change the game

Eurogamer's Robert Purchese reviewed The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt Remastered, calling it a free upgrade to an 11-year-old game with improved visuals, lighting, reworked skill trees and new combat animations. He said it does not fundamentally change the game and does not overhaul combat, though it adds transmogrification, cross-platform mod support and new accessibility options. He described it as preparation for the Songs of the Past expansion.

An Ode to the Loveable, Horrible, Wonderful Counter-Strike Community and My First Tournament Experience

At Logitech G Play 2026 in Warsaw, Poland, a Counter-Strike 2 tournament with a $100,000 prize pool pitted Canadian team Luminosity Gaming against French team 3DMax. Sitting in the bleachers rather than the VIP and press area, the author felt a sense of belonging despite not understanding the Polish commentary. The second game went into two overtimes, and Afro's AWP clutch became an unforgettable moment.

Fire Emblem: Fortune's Weave's Early Game Is So Filled With Non-Major Battles It Puts Me to Sleep

Two weeks into Fire Emblem: Fortune's Weave, the game's first part feels poorly paced, with hours of training and dungeon delving between story missions that can put players to sleep. Developing all four lords equally could mean 15-30 hours of this slog before things get more action-focused in part two. The clash and dungeon-crawling mechanic is the main culprit: clashes are mindless turn-based fights with paper-thin enemies that can be handled via auto-attack, though a few narrative clashes like Dietrich's bounties show their potential.

How Every Major Character in Crime and Punishment Would Fare in Halo 1

PC Gamer speculates how the main characters of Crime and Punishment would survive the plot of Halo 1. Raskolnikov would be traumatized by the Flood's first appearance in 343 Guilty Spark, Razumikhin's empathy would become a liability in Assault on the Control Room, and Sofya might join the Covenant due to her religious faith. Dunya would solo the campaign, while Marmeladov is crushed by a Warthog and Svidrigailov is banned from voice chat.

Fright Train is the best Call of Duty Zombies alternative I've played in ages, despite starring a dog

Fright Train is a singleplayer B-movie survival shooter starring a dog soldier named Doug Barker, and it's the best Call of Duty Zombies alternative the author has played in ages. Players scavenge vidyacoins, manage 15 tactical pockets and manually load bullets while fighting zombies, lockdowns and a pursuing giant iceworm aboard a train hurtling through the Antarctic. It's available on Steam, and the author's praise is based on two hours of play on normal difficulty covering the first two acts.

My GTA 5 install has a death wish but I have soothed it with flossing

While continuing to mod GTA 5 in a quest to turn it into a PC version of GTA 6, the author added a mod called Fortnite Floss Dance [OIV] that makes Franklin floss. The mod offers a smooth looping Floss dance at the same speed as Fortnite, plays music automatically when you start flossing, and has a volume slider, with its entire UI in Arabic. The game already only launches properly in windowed mode and drops the player into an empty void.

GTA 6 Will Include Over 170 Animal Species and Hurricanes, With Wind Blowing Ripples Across Water

A 14-page Game Informer preview published on September 29 revealed that Rockstar has confirmed GTA 6 will simulate hurricanes and tropical storms, with a re-engineered weather system that makes conditions more localized and persistent. The map will feature over 170 animal species, including more than 60 types of birds and 30-plus land mammals, plus sharks, reptiles and fish, and Red Dead Redemption 2's animal rarity system and Legendary creatures will return. GTA 6 launches on November 19 on PS5, Xbox and PC.

Toem 2 review: A sweet sequel that's a tad too easy to be memorable

Toem 2 launched on September 29, 2026 for $17 / £13.59, developed by Something We Made and published by popagenda, with Steam Deck Verified status on Steam. Players use a multi-attachment camera to complete photo quests and collect stamps across four towns, but each area's clear pairing of a camera attachment with a local in need makes the puzzles too obvious. It's a quick and sweet sequel, yet the easy objectives make it feel less inventive than the original.

15 Things The Legend Of Zelda: Ocarina Of Time Remake Is Changing From The Original On N64

Why So Many Steam Games Have Weirdly Similar (and Forgettable) Names

Failbetter communications director and games marketing consultant Hannah Flynn says too many developers copy other games' naming styles, producing interchangeable titles on a crowded Steam. She flags filler words like "fall of" (11,527 Steam results), "echoes of" (2,750) and "shadow of" (8,243), arguing a good name should reflect the game itself. GameDiscoverCo founder Simon Carless counters that names mainly need to be short, clear and not easily confused with another game, since most people buy based on footage or recommendations.

I perished in the flesh pipes of Darktide's Depths of the Damned update, and you will too

Warhammer 40,000: Darktide has released the Depths of the Damned update, whose centerpiece is a new mission called Spillway set in Tertium's water treatment facility; the author calls it the biggest addition since the Skitarii arrived. Having played it once, the author says it still alternates fierce wave combat with quieter traversal but runs longer than Rolling Steel and No Man's Land, includes a graffiti memory puzzle, and can throw a traitor Captain at you. The update also adds two new weapons, the Thugshot and the Cruncher, which the author finds hard-hitting but slow.

Wardogs early access review

Deadlock's big update adds 800 more pre-match conversations and over 10,000 new voice lines

Valve's Deadlock update increased pre-match conversations between new and existing heroes from over 700 to 1500, and added a voice line viewer to the game. The update also brings over 10,000 non-ping voice lines, five new heroes, and new environments.

The Witcher 3 Remastered on Switch 2 Can Be Unlocked Free With Any Switch Physical Copy

Players have found that any physical Switch cartridge of The Witcher 3 can be used an unlimited number of times to unlock a digital copy of The Witcher 3 Remastered on Switch 2, including borrowed or rented copies, and the cartridge is not needed after unlocking. The upgrade stems from CD Projekt's promise that Remastered upgrades are free on all platforms, physical copies included. The remaster adds combat, traversal and mount improvements, monster behavior and skill tree changes, armor transmog, an expanded photo mode, cross-platform mod support and ray-tracing improvements, ahead of the paid third expansion Songs of the Past due next year.

Witcher 3 Remastered: How Loot Merge works and should you use it?

The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt Remastered adds a Loot Merge mechanic that makes the first corpse you loot after a battle include items from nearby corpses. It does not apply to chests, containers, or corpses that were already dead before you arrive. Loot Merge is handy and does not break the game's flow, so it is worth enabling.

Shuhei Yoshida says Sony and Nintendo should 'keep the current generation as long as possible' as Xbox goes next-gen

Former PlayStation executive Shuhei Yoshida told The Verge that Sony and Nintendo should keep the current hardware generation going as long as possible, since players are happy with PS5 and Switch 2 and rising component prices make them reluctant to replace their systems. He said Xbox faces a different situation, as the Xbox Series X/S trails the PS5 and the company is pushing ahead with its next-gen Project Helix console.

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GTA 6 will simulate hurricanes, rainbows and persistent dynamic clouds, plus 170 animal species

Rockstar vice president of art for lighting and rendering Owen Shepherd told Game Informer that GTA 6 uses a re-engineered, more localized and persistent weather system ranging from rainbows to full hurricanes, with fully dynamic cloudscapes, localized rain showers, puddles and wet ground. He described storms bringing heavy clouds, strong winds, dense atmospherics and rain that leaves everything dripping, with thunder and lightning lighting up the clouds. The game also features 170 animal species, including around 60 kinds of bird and over 30 land mammals such as manatees, flamingos, pelicans, sharks, rays, turtles and jellyfish.

Preview: PS5 Remake Danganronpa 2x2 Revives the Cult Series with a Shocking New Mode

A Push Square preview says the PS5 remake Danganronpa 2x2 launches on 14th January and includes a full beat-by-beat remake of Goodbye Despair plus an alternative storyline called Slayhem Mode. The author played a PC build at Tokyo Game Show, trying a portion of Slayhem Mode and a courtroom battle from the original, and confirmed the new mode adds a character named Sakutaro Higashi voiced by Natsuki Hanae in Japanese and Griffin Burns in English. The new scenario is written by Yoichiro Koizumi based on a concept by original series creator Kazutaka Kodaka and Danganronpa Kirigiri author Takekuni Kitayama.

Veteran Solo Dev Sparks Debate: "The Game Itself Is Now Secondary"

A developer who moved from AAA studios to solo projects posted in an overseas community that "the game itself is almost secondary," saying publishers want trailers, screenshots and key art validated and wishlists built before real production begins. Hundreds of replies split between those who call this the standard path to publisher funding over the past 10 years and those who insist the game itself still comes first. One commenter's breakdown of 7,000 wishlists leading to about $10,000 net showed that good data does not guarantee players stay.

First-time dev Yinengjie's Character House demo peaks near 30,000 concurrent players on Steam with almost 98% positive reviews

Yinengjie, a Chinese indie team from the OC fan community, released a free demo of Character House: Desktop Companion on Steam, peaking at nearly 30,000 concurrent players with almost 98% positive reviews across 258 user reviews. The game centers on creating original characters and having them live on the desktop, but the demo has limited customization assets and no custom drawing import yet. Players reported memory usage, rendering glitches and concerns over a typing-count feature, while the team said friend visits, asset import and Steam Workshop support may come in later updates.