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Former Disco Elysium developers have unveiled Red Rooster, a physics-driven RPG from @summer_eternal_ - Psychological role-playing with immersive sim mechanics - Investigate suspicious fires linked to your brother’s fire station - Explore a fictional city inspired by the 1980s Yugoslavian riviera and Eastern Bloc - Move, manipulate and burn objects in a physics-powered sandbox - Navigate political intrigue and your protagonist’s troubled inner world - Team up with an opiate-dependent mathematician and a nunchaku-wielding bus driver The studio also has an official manifesto condemning corporate greed, disposable-worker culture and AI-generated substitutes for human art. Its stated priority: artistic integrity over profit margins.

Samsung says the memory shortage gets worse in 2027, not better. From its record Q3 2026 results today: - DRAM average selling price up about 20% vs last quarter - NAND prices up by a high-teens percentage - AI-driven demand in 2027 expected to "far exceed" industry supply - Tight supply expected to continue into 2028 Samsung also plans to keep its supply focused on AI products: HBM, server DRAM and SSDs. Not a great sign for RAM and SSD prices next year.

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Xbox hardware revenue fell 14% year over year in Microsoft's July to September quarter. From Microsoft's FY27 Q1 results: - Total Xbox revenue: $5.38B, down 2% (from $5.51B) - Content and services: down 2% (1% in constant currency), driven by declines in third-party content and Game Pass, partly offset by first-party growth - Hardware: down 14% Xbox CEO Asha Sharma said PC platform revenue grew by double digits this quarter, and that console sales remain "constrained by supply, with more demand than consoles available." Microsoft's outlook for October to December: content and services up mid to high single digits, hardware down again year over year. Microsoft still hasn't shared an updated Game Pass subscriber number. The last official figure was 34 million.

GTA VI's map is nearly as large as GTA IV, GTA V and Red Dead Redemption 2 combined, according to Rockstar. New details from Edge's GTA VI cover story (Edge 430, on sale today): - Leonida is roughly twice the size of GTA V's map - "An order of magnitude more interiors" than Rockstar's previous games, per co-studio head Aaron Garbut - Around 600,000 NPC animations, with pedestrians assigned personality traits - Fully working bus and train systems that run on timed routes - Police use K-9 units and stinger strips, and a new heat system tracks your description, clothes, weapon and whether CCTV caught you - Weather moves independently, so you can see a storm forming in the distance and drive into it - A Criminal Profile from "Professional" to "Irredeemable" affects how Jason and Lucia's story unfolds - The day-night cycle is substantially longer than GTA V's, and roads were narrowed to a "more believable size" GTA VI launches November 19 on PS5 and Xbox Series X|S. No PC release date has been announced.

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Ah, yes, rain in racing games. It's the oldest trick in the book, but damn it looks good. A 12 year old game

RTX 5080 launched at "$999". Right. Under quote marks because VideoCardz checked US retail today. Verified cards you can actually buy start around $1,980. Best Buy's online option is $1,999. Roughly $800 higher than two months ago. So a 5080 now costs what a 5090 cost at launch. I'm tired, boss. I don't know what MSRP means anymore. PC gaming shouldn't feel like you need a second income just to stay current.

Resident Evil's main story now has a planned ending, and it could arrive within the next 10 years. Capcom executive producer Jun Takeuchi told Yahoo Japan: - The series' story wasn't mapped out from the start; it expanded with each game - A 10-year branding plan was drawn up while RE2 Remake was in development, and the order of the remakes was deliberate - With Resident Evil Requiem this year, he says that first 10-year cycle has closed - "There won't be just one. There will be multiple titles" before the conclusion Next on the schedule: Resident Evil Veronica, Capcom's remake of Code: Veronica, set for 2027 on PC, PS5, Xbox Series X|S and Switch 2.

Nintendo's Indie World Showcase airs today. 🕒 15:00 CET / 14:00 GMT / 7:00 PT ⏱ About 15 minutes 🎮 Upcoming indie games for Switch 2 and Switch The last Indie World in March ran about 18 minutes. Its highlights included Denshattack!, Mixtape, inKONBINI, Grave Seasons, Outbound, Ratatan and Blue Prince. All seven have Steam pages, and six are already out on PC, with Grave Seasons listed for March 9, 2027.

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Baldur's Gate 3 has sold an estimated 23.2 million copies and generated over $1.2 billion in revenue, according to Alinea Analytics. Where those copies were sold: - Steam: 18.7M (80.6%) - PS5: 2.9M (12.7%) - Xbox: 1.6M (6.8%) More from the estimate: - ~1.3M Steam players bought it during Early Access - Monthly active players have never dropped below 2M, with 2.2M last month - 280K to 400K people still play it every day - ~1% of Steam players (just under 200K people) have passed 500 hours Context: the PS5 version launched about a month after PC 1.0, and Xbox about four months later. These are third-party estimates, not official Larian figures.

Don't Nod, the studio behind Life is Strange, is fighting to stay afloat. - Up to 85 jobs in France at risk under a restructuring plan announced on September 1 - French operations to be refocused around a single production line - A Paris court opened safeguard proceedings on October 19, with a 6-month observation period and pre-ruling debts frozen - H1 2026 revenue: €6.1M, down 14% - Cash: €9.9M at the end of June, down from €15.5M at the end of 2025 - Aphelion's sales came in below expectations - The company flags "material uncertainty" about continuing operations beyond January 31, 2027 Safeguard is not bankruptcy. The studio keeps operating while it looks for financing, and its Montreal team is not affected. Don't Nod's PC catalogue includes Life is Strange 1 & 2, Vampyr, Tell Me Why, Banishers: Ghosts of New Eden, Jusant, Lost Records: Bloom & Rage and Aphelion.

Call of Duty has passed $40 billion in lifetime franchise revenue. Xbox CEO Asha Sharma shared the milestone on X on October 26, three days after Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 4 launched. "One of the most celebrated Call of Duty games in its 24-year history, and now $40B in lifetime franchise revenue. An incredible milestone." What the number covers The figure is the franchise's lifetime total since its 2003 debut. No breakdown was given by game, platform or year, or for how much came from Modern Warfare 4. The numbers around it - $40B over 23 years - About $4.76M per day on average, by PC Gamer's calculation - Black Ops III: 43M+ copies sold, the series' best-seller - Modern Warfare (2019): 41M+ copies - Modern Warfare II (2022): $1B in sell-through in 10 days, the fastest in franchise history How it compares PC Gamer places Call of Duty behind only Mario and Pokémon among the most lucrative video game franchises. What built it - A new release almost every year, from Infinity Ward, Treyarch, Sledgehammer Games and Raven Software - Expansion into mobile and free-to-play battle royale with Warzone - A return to Steam in 2022: Modern Warfare II was the first Call of Duty there since WWII in 2017, and it reached Steam's top 10 by concurrent players Timeline - 2003: Call of Duty debuts - 2012: Black Ops II reaches $1B in 15 days - 2015: Black Ops III, later the best-selling entry - 2017: WWII, the last Call of Duty on Steam for five years - 2019: Modern Warfare, 41M+ copies - 2022: Modern Warfare II hits $1B in 10 days and brings the series back to Steam - 2026: Modern Warfare 4 launches on October 23; the franchise passes $40B

Library of Ruina now holds the Guinness World Record for the longest videogame campaign: 113 hours, main story only. That's 12 hours more than Persona 5 Royal, measured as of June 2026. Developed by Project Moon, the game sits at around 94% positive from roughly 46K reviews on Steam.

A 2026 VR headset just got CD-ROM support so one Steam Frame owner can play NFS Carbon off the original disc. You read that right. That's the most PC gaming sentence I've read all year. Asked Oct 18. Valve replied Oct 19 and enabled it in the kernel about 10 minutes later.

Indie dev: $560K gross on Steam, $73K take-home after 5 years. Refunds: $134K Steam's 30%: $127K Publisher: ~$115K Taxes: ~$36K Co-founder split: 50/50 Steam's cut wasn't even the biggest bite. But sure, let's "vibe code a Steam alternative in a week."

Capcom just dropped their sales split for Apr–Sep 2026, and PC beats everyone else combined. Unit share by platform: PC: 57.1% (21.03M units) Console digital: 35.3% Physical: 7.6% That's PC at 57.1% vs everything else at 42.9%. And look at what's been selling (lifetime units): • Monster Hunter: World – 30.83M • Resident Evil 2 – 20.38M • Resident Evil 7 – 18.87M • Resident Evil 4 – 17.15M • Resident Evil Village – 16.27M • Resident Evil 3 – 14.93M • Devil May Cry 5 – 14.78M • Resident Evil Requiem – 8.51M • Pragmata – 2.73M • Onimusha: Way of the Sword – 1.78M

Golden Joysticks dropped the 12 Ultimate GOTY nominees. Voting closes Oct 30. - 007 First Light - Big Walk - Control Resonant - Crimson Desert - Dispatch - Forza Horizon 6 - Phantom Blade Zero - Pokémon Pokopia - Pragmata - Resident Evil Requiem - Star Wars: Galactic Racer - The Blood of Dawnwalker

The Witcher turned 19 today. Clunky combat, alchemy you needed a wiki for, BioWare-engine jank... and still one of the best RPG stories PC ever got.

So is Steam still down? Imagine it gets back online with a huge, orange H-L 3 logo. Nope. Probably not. *injects hopium*