PC Gaming
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Luanti 5.10.0 released
blog.minetest.net Luanti 5.10.0 released!Luanti (formerly Minetest) 5.10.0 has been released! Highlights include a content browser redesign, support for the modern glTF model format, gettext translation support, new visual effects, an API for per-player objects, usability improvements, and more.
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AMD Ryzen 7 9800X3D vs. Intel Core Ultra 9 285K, 45 Game Benchmark
inv.nadeko.net AMD Ryzen 7 9800X3D vs. Intel Core Ultra 9 285K, 45 Game BenchmarkSee MSI GeForce RTX™ 4070 Ti SUPER 16G GAMING SLIM STALKER 2 EDITION Graphics Card: https://msi.gm/RTXStalkerEdition See MSI GeForce RTX 40 Series Graphics Cards: https://msi.gm/GeForceSLIMSeries #MSI #RTXOn #GeForce Support us on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/hardwareunboxed YT Membership: https...
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Miniatures - Step into four hand-drawn memories and discover the mysteries lurking inside the box!
inv.nadeko.net Miniatures - Step into four hand-drawn memories and discover the mysteries lurking inside the box!Purchase on itch.io https://othertales.itch.io/miniatures?ac=qfCyYFQF-yt Inside an old wooden box lies four curious items: a toy lizard, a captured moth, a screwdriver and a seashell. Each one has its own story to tell… Step into four hand-drawn memories and discover the mysteries lurking beneath t...
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Save 100% on Half-Life 2 on Steam
store.steampowered.com Save 100% on Half-Life 2 on Steam1998. HALF-LIFE sends a shock through the game industry with its combination of pounding action and continuous, immersive storytelling. Valve's debut title wins more than 50 game-of-the-year awards on its way to being named "Best PC Game Ever" by PC Gamer, and launches a franchise with mor...
- www.pcgamer.com 'My personal failure was being stumped': Gabe Newell says finishing Half-Life 2: Episode 3 just to conclude the story would've been 'copping out of [Valve's] obligation to gamers'
Half-Life 3: Episode 3 never happened because Newell "couldn't figure out why doing Episode 3 was pushing anything forward."
- www.gamesradar.com CEO behind GTA Trilogy calls out Rockstar's "d*ck move" for removing his studio's name, claiming that "hundreds of fixes" had "stayed out of players' hands for years"
Grove Street Games was removed from the GTA Trilogy collection's splash screen in the latest update
- www.pcgamer.com A Forbes 30-under-30-er involved in at least 2 Disco Elysium successor studios has sued the lead dev at a third, blocking him from working on a new game
There will never be another "normal" Disco Elysium news story.
- www.tomshardware.com Intel doesn't plan to bring 3D V-Cache-like tech to consumer CPUs for now — next-gen Clearwater Forest Xeon CPUs will feature "Local Cache" in the base tile akin to AMD's 3D V-Cache
If only Intel would bring this to the mainstream market.
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Industry Giant 4.0 released on Steam
store.steampowered.com Save 20% on Industry Giant 4.0 on SteamBuild an industrial empire from scratch in Industry Giant 4.0. Produce goods, build up your industries, construct transportation networks, plan production, manage finances, and navigate global events. Become the next business tycoon and write history!
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Diggles: The Myth of Fenris free on GoG
www.gog.com Diggles: The Myth of Fenris“COMPARED TO THE WIGGLES THE SETTLERS SEEM TO BE SLEEPYHEADS” 89/100 – PC Games �
- www.pcgamer.com Unreal Gold and Unreal Tournament are now free on the Internet Archive, and Epic says that's A-okay
Finally, a win for game preservation.
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Xenotilt: Hostile Pinball Action review
www.pcgamer.com Xenotilt: Hostile Pinball Action reviewXenotilt reinvents pinball as a laser-guided cyberpunk shmup with dinosaurs.
- www.pcgamer.com Secret Level's producer can't fathom why Concord ended up failing: 'There was no nicer, more invested group of developers than the team on Concord'
Unfortunately, nice doesn't shift product.
- www.tomshardware.com Diamond-cooled GPUs are coming soon — startup claims 20C temp reduction, 25% more overclocking headroom as it seeks US govt funding for diamond-encrusted chip cooling solutions
CHIPS Act helps with $18.2 million in direct funding and $50 million in federal and state tax credits.
- www.pcgamer.com Phil Spencer says Microsoft's PC-heavy lineup this year is 'historical' and an 'anomaly', so don't get used to it
"We want our games playable across as many screens as possible."
- invidious.nerdvpn.de Dead Game News: Ubisoft is getting sued over The Crew
Ubisoft is getting sued in a class action lawsuit over The Crew in California. I'm named in the court papers! https://stopkillinggames.com https://accursedfarms.com
- www.pcgamer.com Former Borderlands 3 creative director is working on a 'secret' multiplayer shooter at a new studio founded by developers tired of 'huge budgets and recycled mechanics'
Ruckus Games is a new studio being headed up by Paul Sage.
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RISC-V motherboard for Framework 13 laptops and mini-PCs starts at $199 – quad-core RISC-V CPU and 8GB of RAM included
www.tomshardware.com RISC-V motherboard for Framework 13 laptops and mini-PCs starts at $199 – quad-core RISC-V CPU and 8GB of RAM includedIt won’t be fast, but it’ll exist, and that might be enough for now.
- www.pcgamer.com Here are the nominees for PC Gaming Show: Most Wanted
The list is tallied. The Council is convened once more.
Nominations:
>Path of Exile 2
>Deltarune
>Vampire: the Masquerade - Bloodlines 2
>Kingdom Come: Deliverance 2
>DOOM: The Dark Ages
>Metal Gear Solid Δ: Snake Eater
>Project 007 (working title)
>ARK 2
>The Thing: Remastered
>Citizen Sleeper 2
>Big Walk
>PVKK
>Wolverine
>Blade
>Wonder Woman
>Tenjutsu
>Kingmakers
>Crescent County
>Marvel 1943: Rise of Hydra
>Menace
>s&box
>Nivalis
>Monaco 2
>Killing Floor 3
>Little Nightmares 3
>Arma 4
>D.O.R.F. Real-Time Strategic Conflict
>Judas
>Sumerian Six
>Avowed
>Clair Obscur: Expedition 33
>Titan Quest 2
>Mariachi Legends
>Atomfall
>Witchbrook
>Den of Wolves
>Light No Fire
>Streets of Fortuna
>Beautiful Light
>Borderlands 4
>Dying Light: The Beast
>Mafia: The Old Country
>Haunted Chocolatier
>Grand Theft Auto 6
>Slay the Spire 2
>Death Stranding 2: On The Beach
>Monster Hunter Wilds
>Skate
>Hollow Knight: Silksong
>Perfect Dark
>Dune: Awakening
>Sid Meier's Civilization VII
>Masters of Albion
>Goat Simulator Remastered
>darkwebSTREAMER
>Marathon
>Wrekless
>State of Decay 3
>Blight: Survival
>2XKO
>Among the Wild
>Generation Exile
>Gears of War: E-Day
>ARC Raiders
>Sand
>Fable
>Battle Aces
>Exodus
>Eclipsium
>Dungeonborne
>Gothic 1 Remake
>Eternal Strands
>Quartermaster
>Fairgame$
>Exoborne
>Dread Dawn
>Marvel Rivals
>Project C
>Cairn
>Wanderstop
>Project DOSA
>Hyper Light Breaker
>Usual June
>Nightmare Operator
>Twisted Tower
>Kiborg
>Miegakure
>Canyons
>The Sinking City 2
>The Looter
>Skin Deep
>Mixtape
>Cruel
>Paperhead
>Subnautica 2
>Wreckfest 2
>Splitgate 2
>Aquametsis
>Descenders Next
>All Systems Dance
>The Outer Worlds 2
>South of Midnight
>FUMES
>Truckful
>Super Fantasy Kingdom
>Heart of the Machine
>God Save Birmingham
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Little Big Adventure – Twinsen’s Quest released on Steam
store.steampowered.com Little Big Adventure – Twinsen’s Quest on SteamStep into Twinsun's fantastical world in this action-adventure remake! Little Big Adventure - Twinsen's Quest brings brand new visuals, new music by the original composer, and smoother gameplay to the iconic classic released back in 1994.
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Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Splintered Fate review
www.pcgamer.com Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Splintered Fate reviewA charmingly energetic mutation of the action roguelike formula.
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Half-Life 2 RTX TBA on Steam
store.steampowered.com Half-Life 2 RTX on SteamRe-live the groundbreaking, critically acclaimed Half-Life 2 like never before, reimagined with RTX Remix. Featuring full ray tracing, remastered assets, and DLSS 3.5 with Ray Reconstruction in this free DLC for Half-Life 2 owners.
- www.pcgamer.com Hundreds of ZeniMax workers go on strike to protest Microsoft 'dragging their feet' on negotiations over job security and remote work
Employees have walked out at ZeniMax locations in Maryland and Texas.
- www.pcgamer.com The First Descendant announces 'important news': it's getting official 'jiggle physics,' which it somehow didn't already have
The "much-requested" feature will be added in a future update.
- www.tomshardware.com Intel takes down AMD in our integrated graphics battle royale — still nowhere near dedicated GPU levels, but uses much less power
Intel, perhaps for the first time ever, can legitimately claim to have the fastest Windows iGPU.
- www.tomshardware.com Phison intros 'world's fastest' high-capacity 128TB SSD — Pascari D205V hits 3 million IOPS and 14,600 MB/s with PCIe 5.0
Pascari D205V datacenter SSD to ship in Q2 2025.
- www.pcgamer.com Fresh from a layoff bloodbath that cost over 2,500 jobs, Microsoft is already thinking about dropping the big bucks on more acquisitions
The business world stops for no one, I suppose.
- www.tomshardware.com Microsoft releases official Windows 11 ISO for Arm devices — Extending support for Qualcomm's Snapdragon X Elite processors
Now you can finally install Windows 11 on your Arm PC without any hassle.
- kotaku.com Online Gaming Store GOG Launches New Scheme To Save Games From Disappearing
The CD Projekt site pledges an initial long-term commitment to 100 games
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AMD lays off 4% of its workforce
techcrunch.com AMD lays off 4% of its workforce | TechCrunchAMD has confirmed that it's laying off 4% of its workforce to focus on 'large growth opportunities.'
- www.gamesindustry.biz ZeniMax QA workers to strike over concerns about return to office mandate and outsourcing
Hundreds of employees from ZeniMax Studios are striking today in response to its remote work policy and outsourcing of …
- www.pcgamer.com Nvidia's first Arm APU is said to offer Strix Halo and RTX 4070 mobile performance, with Alienware already onboard to create an all-Nvidia gaming laptop
Could 2025 be the year of AMD x86 chips vs Nvidia Arm chips?
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Atomfall - Release Date Trailer
yewtu.be Atomfall - Release Date Trailer | Xbox Game Pass, Xbox Series X|S, Xbox One, PC, PS5 & PS4Atomfall will launch on March 27, 2025 and is now available to pre-order. Atomfall is coming day one to Game Pass, Xbox Series X/S, Xbox One, Windows PC and PC via Steam and Epic Games Store. Atomfall will also release on PlayStation 5 and PlayStation 4. Pre-Order Atomfall here: http://reb.to/YTPre...
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Five things I always tell people before they buy their first graphics card
www.pcgamer.com Five things I always tell people before they buy their first graphics cardI've been professionally prodding graphics cards for the past two decades, and this is what I've learned about buying GPUs.
- www.pcgamer.com Farming Simulator 25 is available right now with a new lush Asian farm and a fantastic PC-exclusive Collector's Edition
The Collector's Edition includes a Mega Drive-inspired version of the game and a USB ignition lock
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The new OneXPlayer F1 Pro takes on the Steam Deck by using the latest AMD Ryzen Strix Point chips, and these benchmarks look amazing.
www.pcgamesn.com This gaming handheld just stomped on the Asus ROG Ally X, thanks to new AMD GPUThe new OneXPlayer F1 Pro takes on the Steam Deck by using the latest AMD Ryzen Strix Point chips, and these benchmarks look amazing.
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Steam Client Update, November 5th
steamcommunity.com Steam :: Steam News :: Steam Client Update, November 5thA new Steam client has been released and will be automatically downloaded
- kotaku.com Overwatch Players, Y’all Lived Like This In 2016?
The Overwatch Classic event is a fun gimmick, but it’s made me appreciate how good we have it right now
- arstechnica.com How Valve made Half-Life 2 and set a new standard for future games
From physics to greyboxing, Half-Life 2 broke a lot of new ground.