Larian Studios has approved the Cheater's Menu mod for Baldur's Gate 3 on console, created by For_Kiramay. The mod adds a spell to the in-game hotbar that opens an on-screen cheat menu with ten tabs and over 300 options, ranging from healing your party and respeccing for free to spawning any item or making every dice roll go your way.
Dungeons & Dragons: World of Warcraft is a crossover toolbox rather than a linear pre-written campaign, letting DMs fill their D&D games with curated World of Warcraft locations, character options, magic items, and monsters. The book includes iconic dungeons such as the Deadmines and Shadowfang Keep for levels 1-4, Blackfathom Deeps for levels 5-10, Dire Maul for levels 11-16, and Azjol-Nerub for levels 17-20, plus unique stats for Jaina Proudmoore, Sylvanas Windrunner, and the Lich King Arthas. Tool proficiencies are repurposed to match World of Warcraft professions, and more than 20 factions can be raised through D&D's existing Renown system.
Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 4 launches on October 23, with the DMZ extraction mode arriving alongside Campaign and Multiplayer. The official rundown covers Forward Operating Base stations such as Operators, Orders, Stash and Firing Range, plus unlockable facilities like the 3D Printer, Gunsmith, Vendor and Bounty Leaderboard. Players can deploy via Story Missions, Dynamic Operations or Free Roam, and earn DMZ XP through objectives, boss hunts, looting and a higher After Action Report rating.
Why this: The official breakdown covers the FOB, deployment options, and XP routes in DMZ, helping readers judge whether the extraction mode suits them.
The Walking Dead: Streets of Survival is available now on Xbox Series X|S and PC with XPA support and shared saves for $19.99. Rick, Daryl and Michonne each have a signature weapon, separate animations and their own skill tree, and after the credits players can replay levels with any character including unlockable Negan. Higher difficulties are not damage multipliers but turn chaotic encounters into tactical puzzles where positioning keeps you alive.
Embark Studios is working with Chernin Entertainment to adapt Arc Raiders and The Finals into films and TV shows. Variety reports several companies competed for the rights, with Chernin winning after its Backrooms horror film became a box office hit this year. Embark CEO Patrick Söderlund said the studio is working closely with Chernin to extend both properties into new formats, and no directors, writers, or cast have been announced yet.
The Coalition tapped into the Xbox Series S SSD to boost performance in Gears of War: E-Day when the console ran out of memory, studio technical director Kate Raynor told Digital Foundry. The Series S has only 10GB of RAM versus 16GB on the Series X, so the team offloaded data not used in a frame or over a run of frames to the SSD while keeping constantly needed data in RAM, and also dropped Lumen reflections. Gears of War: E-Day launched into early access last week.
Chernin Entertainment has secured adaptation rights from Nexon-owned Embark Studios for both Arc Raiders and The Finals, with plans to produce TV series and movies based on the games. Embark Studios founder and CEO Patrick Söderlund said the studio will work closely with Chernin to extend both properties' creativity into new formats. Chernin, founded in 2009, has co-produced the Planet of the Apes series, Fear Street, and Backrooms, and is currently co-producing a Mega Man adaptation with Capcom for Netflix.
Ace Combat 8 is far and away the series' biggest launch on Steam.
The Team Zero Escape Bundle packs five mind-bending mysteries together at a deep discount on Steam. The listing is summed up as feeling like Sigma without breaking the bank.
ARC Raiders has launched the biggest update in the game's history and is free to play for four days. The source does not detail the update's contents or the exact end of the free period.
Hideo Kojima said on his KOJI10 podcast that he has mixed feelings about NVIDIA's DLSS 5, which he noted can make CG characters near the uncanny valley look like real people. He argued AI cannot understand creators' intentions, warning that 4K film remasters and audio remasters of classic albums could overwrite the original artists' creative intent. Official DLSS 5 support for Death Stranding 2 has not been announced.
Hideo Kojima said on his radio show Koji10 that he is deliberately holding back teasers for his horror project OD so players get a proper shock when they play it. OD was announced in 2023 as an experiment about overdosing on fear, with Xbox supporting development and Hunter Schafer and Sophia Lillis among its cast.
A Newzoo report says free-to-play is not dying, with its share of playtime falling 2.9 percentage points to 29.3% between 2021 and 2025 while absolute hours remained broadly flat. Annual F2P live-service launches on PC and console fell 31%, from an average of 21.3 titles in 2020-2022 to 14.7 in 2023-2025. Gacha has become the main area of F2P growth on PC, with 17 major gacha titles in 2025 versus three in 2021 and PC gacha playtime up 92%.
PlayStation shared new details on Modern Warfare 4's DMZ mode, including the Forward Operating Base, progression, and bosses. The mode launches on October 23.
Asphodel Cybernetics has revealed Noematica: Digital Dollhouse, a neighbourhood life sim built around an "n-dimensional vector space" of fantasies and memories, with customizable Noems and town-management tools for rezoning and redeveloping the neighbourhood. The developers promise the game will NEVER charge for DLC, instead releasing a single complete game at full price with backported engine changes and interoperable assets for modders. It's out in 2027.
Halloween: The Game's first post-release DLC is set to launch soon, featuring two Michael Myers skins and various character customization options. With Halloween approaching, horror movie fans have already started celebrating the spooky season.
After CD Projekt Red recently released a remastered version of The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt, many players reported performance issues, particularly on PlayStation 5. On Reddit, players cited dropped frames, screen tearing, audio issues, crashes, and environmental flickering. CD Projekt has promised fixes.
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The Dungeons & Dragons: World of Warcraft book releases 17th November, a 256-page volume bringing 16 playable species, new subclasses, 60 new spells and the whole continent of Azeroth to the tabletop. Principal designer James Wyatt said it is a "paraphrase" of WoW rather than a translation, so there are no raids, with iconic encounters like Onyxia's Lair scaled to groups of four or five instead of 20 or 40. The Horde versus Alliance divide is left to the Dungeon Master.
Hot springs are coming to FFVII Revelation and the first trailer shows three characters visiting one.
Dungeons & Dragons: World of Warcraft captures the spirit of the MMO and leaves behind the grind
Jagex apologises after AI-generated six-fingered character: 'That's pretty hard to explain away' https://www.pcgamer.com/games/mmo/runescape-dev-apologises-after-runefest-debut-of-an-ai-generated-six-fingered-character-thats-pretty-hard-to-explain-away/
The upcoming D&D interpretation of World of Warcraft sounds great, but don't expect it to work like the MMO does
Dungeons & Dragons: World of Warcraft is D&D's first Universes Beyond expansion and launches on November 17, covering all of Azeroth up to The War Within. It assigns rough level ranges to each zone, folds in major conflicts like Alliance vs. Horde and the Burning Crusade, and uses Chromie Time to explain out-of-order campaigns. Dungeons become non-linear exploration, with Deadmines, Scarlet Monastery, Dire Maul, and Onyxia's Lair among those revealed, alongside gathering and crafting professions and a Renown system that replaces grinding.
Nexon, parent company of developer Embark Studios, is teaming up with Chernin Entertainment to develop film and TV adaptations of Arc Raiders and The Finals. The teams are exploring all possible options, including TV shows and films, with no release dates or specifics announced yet. Embark Studios says it will work directly with Chernin Entertainment to ensure the games' worlds and lore are respected.
Jagex has taken down a new RuneScape 3 trailer and says it will "investigate urgently" after fans raised concerns it appeared to use generative AI. The trailer, which debuted during Runefest and revealed a new questline called Dragon Slayer 2, showed oddities such as a knight with six fingers. Jagex said the trailer was produced by a trusted external partner who had confirmed GenAI would not be used, marking the second such incident in quick succession.
Ace Combat 8 has officially launched, with over 52,000 concurrent players on Steam. It is the series' biggest launch on Steam.
Draga's Wake, a new action horror IP, received an official trailer and is coming to PS5, Xbox and PC. It is set aboard the Ormora, a nightmare colossal steamship in an alternate 1900s, where players control Draga, a smuggler and pirate whose last heist went wrong, and must find their crew after ritualistic cosmic horrors take over the ship. Combat includes melee, dodging and heavy brawler-style combos with ranged quick-fire attacks, plus scarce resource management; the skill tree depends on who you absorb and affects mutations and crewmate outcomes.
The new DF Direct Weekly is live, taking a closer look at Ghost of Yōtei QSSR, impressions on Star Wars Galactic Racer, Gears of War: E-Day PC and much, much more: https://youtu.be/rd4n4fJ6M0c
Embark has reworked Celeste in Arc Raiders' Frozen Trail update, using full motion capture for the first time and making voice actor Diana Gardner the character's face when the update releases on October 6. Chief creative officer Stefan Strandberg said future updates plan to bring more characters in line with their real-world actors and find more ways to integrate real human performances into every interaction.
Jagex has taken down its Dragon Slayer 2 trailer after its RuneFest debut showed a player character with six fingers, which social media users identified as generative AI. Alec 'Mod Sween' Sween said the trailer was made by a trusted external partner that had explicitly confirmed GenAI would not be used, and apologised while saying Jagex is overhauling its review process. It is the second generative AI controversy for Jagex in quick succession, following its clothing collaboration with 100 Thieves days earlier.
Gamesplanet's new weekly deals are now live, offering PC games at up to 92% off. Titles like Lords of the Fallen and The Alters are included in the sale, which runs until October 12.
The next major Dungeons & Dragons sourcebook, Dungeons & Dragons: World of Warcraft, adopts Magic: The Gathering's Universes Beyond licensing scheme. It targets players of the MMORPG since its 2004 release while offering D&D players a lore-heavy setting, and also serves as a way to experiment with D&D 5.5 Edition core rules.
DarioSamo, a member of the team behind Banjo: Recompiled, argues that claims generative AI speeds up PC ports of classic games are either "false" or misguided. He says getting a game running is only the first step, and that polish and a sustainable project are what actually take time. He points to the non-AI DK64 Rekongpiled port, whose developers' familiarity with Donkey Kong 64 let it progress well while an AI-based effort stalled.
NBA 2K25 is being delisted after just two years. Its single player story mode will become unplayable.
CD Projekt Red says it is working on five key fixes for The Witcher 3 Remastered, including further performance improvements (particularly on PS5), visual adjustments, My Rewards/Twitch Drops fixes, making Ukrainian localization available in other regions on PS5 and Xbox Series X/S, and console voiceover audio fixes. CDPR social media director Marcin Momot also says "some more" fixes are on the way, though there is no timeline yet for the next update.
The Dungeons & Dragons: World of Warcraft collaboration rulebook launches on November 12, and lead designer James Wyatt says it "paraphrases" the MMO within a tabletop framework instead of emulating its mechanics. Azeroth and its expansions up to Midnight are fair game, with dungeons like the Deadmines largely intact and options to sneak around or skip bosses. Iconic encounters including the Lich King, Illidan, and Jaina Proudmoore are included, with Jaina freezing a player and striking them with an ice lance unless they are thawed out.
Gears of War: E-Day studio The Coalition has revealed it used the Xbox Series S's internal SSD as makeshift RAM to get the game running smoothly on the 10 GB RAM console. Technical director Kate Rayner said a couple of gigabytes of SSD storage can add around a gigabyte of usable system memory, with only Lumens-based reflections removed to maintain 60 frames per second. Other game teams are already interested in replicating the technique.