The curious case of Wonder Boy in Monster Land's dubious PC debut https://www.pcgamer.com/gaming-industry/steam-week-in-review-the-curious-case-of-wonder-boy-in-monster-lands-dubious-pc-debut/
Some games get stuck in what the industry calls "development hell," and while titles like Duke Nukem Forever, Metroid Dread, and Skull & Bones eventually shipped, others were canceled when studio heads or publishers decided the investment was no longer worth it. Five games remain in development for more than 10 years without a release, though some are finally near the horizon.
Polygon rounds up eight games like Cyberpunk 2077 for players looking for alternatives. CD Projekt Red did not invent dystopian neon, and these titles either go full cyberpunk or share a similar feel, with some closer to Night City than others.
UBERMOSH:OMEGA has reached 174,886 concurrent players on Steam for the first time (83.79% rating) https://steamdb.info/app/1181000/charts/?peak=174886&utm_source=Twitter
The live-action Resident Evil adaptation reached an estimated $320.2 million worldwide, surpassing Weapons to become director Zach Cregger's highest-grossing film. Its fourth weekend brought in $62.65 million, including $40.6 million from its China premiere, returning it to the global number one spot. Aaron Sorkin's The Social Network sequel The Social Reckoning opened in seventh place with just $9 million, a certified bomb.
Star Wars: Galactic Racer was prototyped in the most unexpected way: as a board game covered in Post-It notes https://bit.ly/4ytz5A5
One of Counter-Strike's greatest entertainers 🔥
It's October 12 in Japan. 25 years ago today, Phoenix Wright: Ace Attorney launched for Game Boy Advance.
He Kaiming's team proposed VISTA, a visual-native harness that lets existing multimodal models observe environments, store raw frames, and revisit, zoom in on, and inspect details at inference time without retraining. With VISTA, Claude Opus 5.0 completed all 25 public games in ARC-AGI-3 with a perfect 100 on relative human action efficiency, using 57.4% fewer game actions than the human first-play baseline, while GPT-5.6 Sol also cleared all games with a score of 99. The team further tested the method on GameWorld, AI GameStore, and BabyVision, and listed embodied tasks as future research.
This AI-powered driving instruction sim costs $1,000 per month just to keep its demo running https://www.pcgamer.com/games/sim/the-developer-of-an-ai-powered-driving-instruction-simulator-is-spending-usd1-000-per-month-just-to-keep-its-demo-running/
This VR chat podcast discusses the Evangelion VR game being worth looking forward to, and notes that Sony transferring XR patents doesn't mean PlayStation is abandoning VR, though PS VR2 was "abandoned" from day one. Steam Frame remains hot at home and abroad and updated to SteamOS v0.4, while PICO Space Pro's pricing sparked controversy and XREAL Aura announced its pricing. Inspired by Steam Frame, Pimax introduced the Pimax Crystal Pro.
Rock Paper Shotgun's Sunday Papers column frames its weekly roundup of games media and industry writing as a speeder race against Biddy Blas in Star Wars: Galactic Racer. It cites Eurogamer on Respec, Unwinnable on the American Top 40 and monoculture, and Lewis Howse's Cultaholic piece on the death of wrestler Benjamin Satterley.
Be careful when playing Hellraiser: Revival... you might get hooked
The upcoming D&D interpretation of World of Warcraft sounds great, but don't expect it to work like the MMO does. https://bit.ly/3W73HcO
Games Workshop has tapped Mike Flanagan to direct the upcoming Warhammer 40,000 live-action adaptation for Prime Video starring Henry Cavill. Flanagan's new adaptation of Stephen King's Carrie is currently topping streaming charts. United Artists is also involved in the project.
No tricks, all treats!
Lawd have mercy 🥘🥵
Metal Gear Solid: Feline Operations products up for order at Konami Shop https://buff.ly/cOgUcPM
Two months until @TheGameAwards
We need to talk about the Steam Deck 2 #pcgaming #pcgamer #steamdeck #valve
Since the series began on the NES in 1987, Square Enix has made more than 100 Final Fantasy games, including 16 mainline entries plus numerous sequels and spinoffs. Even series superfans likely haven't played most of them.
The 3i Plan Season 4 online showcase announced multiple new titles, with Gears of War: E-Day, Ace Combat 8: Wings of Theve, and Star Wars: Galactic Racer among those launching to positive reception. Grasshopper Manufacture and NetEase have parted ways amicably, with the studio returning to independence, while Falcom raised its full-year earnings forecast again. Dusk Golem leaked news of a major DLC for Resident Evil 9: Requiem.
Magic's next Marvel set has revealed a card that serves as a replacement for The One Ring and can destroy the whole table. The One Ring's mix of protection and escalating card advantage made it one of Magic's strongest cards across multiple formats, leading to bans in Modern and Historic and a Game Changer flag in Commander.
The advent of first-person shooters introduced a wild frontier of unregulated level packs https://www.pcgamer.com/games/fps/the-advent-of-first-person-shooters-introduced-a-wild-frontier-of-unregulated-video-game-level-packs-and-it-ended-in-a-lawsuit-that-changed-copyright-forever/
Polygon has launched Wishlister, a free weekly newsletter that rounds up six promising upcoming PC games with direct links to their Steam pages. Subscribers can add each game to their Steam wishlist without buying or committing to anything. SteamDB data suggests an average of 70 new games hit Steam every day, making discoverability a growing challenge.
These 30+ PS5 Games Are Coming Out Next Week (12th-18th October) https://www.pushsquare.com/guides/these-30plus-ps5-games-are-coming-out-next-week-12th-18th-october
Halo is officially returning in two weeks with a new release. Since Halo: Combat Evolved launched on Xbox in 2001, the franchise has spawned more than 30 novels.
Today, we are introducing team briefs to HLTV 🔎
GPASS's members-only show Recording Pen has reached VOL.800, titled "One Fewer Dogwood Branch... Not Quite Nuclear City 1." The roughly ten-minute episodes consist of short records from the Gcores office's daily life and work, with participants and content varying each time.
The third and final chapter of History Simulator: Chongzhen has been released. The episode features using surrendered generals to break enemy camps and allying with England to revive the Ming dynasty.
Writer and programmer Mike Lacher has created a fully playable browser parody called Triple-A Minesweeper, which dresses up regular Minesweeper with pretentious title cards for Unreal Engine, Nvidia, Bink Video, and Wwise. The main character, "Sweeper," repeats lines like "I gotta sweep these mines" while receiving calls from characters including Nora, The Don, and DJ Dan, drawing inspiration from Grand Theft Auto 5, Metal Gear Solid, and Cyberpunk 2077. The game can be completed and triggers a twist ending.
Deadlock has reached 262,145 concurrent players on Steam for the first time https://steamdb.info/app/1422450/charts/?peak=262145&utm_source=Twitter
Fortnite has few truly unique skins, such as Sinister Glare, whose head-hand snaps its fingers after a kill, and the Five Nights at Freddy's animatronics skins, which show persistent visual damage during a match. Beavis and Butt-head skins chuckle at each other's kills, while the Moncler collaboration changes color with elevation, from black at lower elevations to white at higher ones. Ayida, from a Chapter 3 Season 4 level-up pack, is the only skin styled like a monochromatic manga.
This week the Official PlayStation Podcast features a special interview with the Star Wars: Galactic Racer devs.
You might be an adventure gamer if you...
Start your next journey on Nintendo Switch 2.
Golden Joystick Awards: PC Game of the Year 2026 – Who gets your vote? 👀
Leisure Suit Larry is about to take his final bow https://www.pcgamer.com/games/adventure/leisure-suit-larry-is-about-to-take-his-final-bow/
Hope you brought your Lancer.
I'll probably develop strong feelings on head-canons about its characters and spend hours tooling for new angles in its photo mode long past rinsing the simulation game this world is hiding in.