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    Vitality beat Aurora to reach EPL final

    Vitality came from behind to beat Aurora in the ESL Pro League 24 semi-final and advance to the grand final, where they will face the winner of Spirit vs. MOUZ. ZywOo posted a series-high 1.44 rating, including a career-best 2.36 rating on Cache. The three-time Major champions now have a chance to win their second trophy of the season before apEX temporarily steps down for PGL Masters Bucharest.

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    A Crimson Desert exec thinks critic review scores were lower because they didn't have enough time to play it, and boy oh boy I wonder whose fault that is

    Pearl Abyss European CEO Lybee Park says the gap between critic and user scores for Crimson Desert comes down to reviewers having limited time and a build that wasn't the exact launch version, so they mostly followed the main quest line instead of exploring the world's hidden details. The article's author pushes back, arguing the developer may be to blame for tight review timelines, and that a critic's job is to identify a game's friction points rather than play it like an average person.

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    Soft Gears of War: E-Day Sales Estimates Raise Questions Over Last-Minute PS5 Cancellation

    Push Square cites Alinea analyst Rhys Elliott's estimate that Gears of War: E-Day sold about 230k copies, split between 168k on Steam and 62k on Xbox Series X|S. The firm also estimates roughly 1.7 million people launched the game through Xbox Game Pass, with about 722k paying $30 for advanced access, and puts revenue at around $37 million. The piece notes Microsoft had already decided to drop an almost-finished PS5 version and return to console exclusives, and that Microsoft has not responded to the estimates while maintaining the game will stay an Xbox console exclusive.

  13. PC Gamer58

    Star Wars Zero Company studio Bit Reactor brings back some furloughed staff

    Bit Reactor, the developer of Star Wars Zero Company, said this week on Bluesky that it has begun undoing the furloughs that affected over 80% of its staff. CEO Greg Foertsch said the move was a response to unexpected business developments outside the studio's control and was necessary to eventually bring as many people back as possible. Game File cited an unnamed source familiar with the situation saying payroll is back above half its pre-furlough level.

  14. PC Gamer62

    Deadlock adds a chess wizard hero as its concurrent player count passes Team Fortress 2's all-time peak

    Valve's Deadlock reached 262,145 concurrent players after adding the latest of six new heroes, surpassing Team Fortress 2's all-time peak of 253,997 according to SteamDB. The figure excludes TF2's Xbox 360 and PS3 players from The Orange Box. The new hero is Solomon, a chess mage whose gun is a chessboard that players say recreates a different historic game state on each reload depending on bullets loaded.

  15. Polygon13

    7 Final Fantasy Games That Deserved Better

    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.

  19. IGN65

    GTA 6 leaker Cyberleek says it will release a build with the full story mode played to the end if its memecoin hits $30 million

    According to online reports, GTA 6 leaker Cyberleek warned on its website that if its memecoin reached a $30 million market cap, it would release a build of the game featuring the full story mode through the end credits. Cyberleek again framed the leaks as a protest against the lack of a physical disc version and called on Take-Two to release GTA 6 on-disc and apologize. At the time of publication the memecoin had a $3.8 million market cap, after spiking at $5.7 million earlier today, and Cyberleek also tied Lucia's clothing in future leaked gameplay to market cap goals such as $2 million and $4 million.

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    Skate studio Full Circle responds to ReSkate offline mod: not against creativity, but against bypassing paid cosmetics

    Full Circle issued a statement on the ReSkate mod, saying it does not oppose player creativity but draws the line at mods that bypass its systems to unlock paid cosmetics, release gated content, or profit from unauthorized assets. ReSkate drew over 350 thousand downloads in its first week and runs through Steam's Proton emulation, with its most popular feature being the ability to play the free-to-play game offline. Full Circle says it will add official secure access tools for broader community creation, while ReSkate's developers say they did not intend to undercut the studio and would not fight back if EA's legal team came knocking.

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    Resident Evil-inspired cannibal dungeon crawler Medium Rare builds its art style from stock photos

    Medium Rare, a Resident Evil-inspired dungeon crawler RPG about rescuing your wife from a human meat factory, uses real stock photos run through Photoshop and dithered into crunchy, pixel-art-adjacent assets. Combat places enemies on a three by three grid where distance affects damage, with dice rolls and weapon choice determining survival, plus tile-based inventory management and infected enemies hunting you down. A demo is available on Steam, with release set for 2027.

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    Dragon's Dogma 2: Dark Arisen — Hal's Treasure Hunt quest guide

    Dragon's Dogma 2's Dark Arisen expansion adds Hal's Treasure Hunt, which tasks players with finding four wooden posts across the Norgan Snowfield. Drawing lines between the East and West posts and the North and South posts marks where the treasure lies in the Snowslide Pass cave, where the Rusted Ring is found. Returning it to Hal yields the Frostbright Ring, which prevents freezing and blizzard stamina loss in Norgan, plus 20,000 gold.

Oct 10Sat
  2. IGN62

    Star Citizen single-player spinoff Squadron 42 gets a new trailer and Steam wishlists

    Cloud Imperium Games released a new cinematic trailer for Squadron 42, the single-player spinoff of Star Citizen, and opened Steam wishlists alongside a full cast reveal. The game has been in development for 12 years under Chris Roberts and features Mark Hamill, Gary Oldman, Gillian Anderson and Henry Cavill, with performance capture woven into gameplay. The trailer showed first-person sections, platforming and puzzles, ship customization, a hacking mini-game and narrative choices; CIG delayed the game to Q2 2027 in August to avoid GTA 6's attention.