October 2025

In a new interview with Polygon, fantasy (and sci-fi, and videogame) writer R.A. Salvatore dished on some of the unique challenges of writing stories that have to stay consistent with an ever evolving tabletop ruleset and world state. Salvatore has notably contributed to the Star Wars Expanded Universe (RIP), but is most famous for his…

It may not hit for infinite damage, but this new necromancer build in Diablo 4 has infinite bullets, and that’s close enough. The whole build involves pressing a single button to fire off bone splinters in every direction. No enemy is safe from the barrage of projectiles that cover the entire screen and hit for…

Members of the Gearbox team came to PAX Australia so Randy Pitchford could do some magic tricks we’ll gloss over, and to reveal more about the post-launch plans for Borderlands 4. First up is a Halloween-themed “seasonal mini-event” called Horrors of Kairos that will run from October 23 to November 6, adding “blood rain” to…

MiHoYo’s version of Roblox was inevitable⁠—Genshin Impact is huge, but it’s not Roblox huge. In pursuit of greater horizons to conquer, the anime action game is going to get its own mode where user-created stuff is king. It’s called Miliastra Wonderland and it’s such a blatant copy of Roblox that it’s funny to listen to…

PowerWash simulator isn’t just a meditative cleaning game with more pop culture crossovers than you can shake a stick at; it’s a virtual stress ball second only to non-virtual sex and it’s the best Far Cry game PC Gamer news writer Joshua Wolens has ever played. It’s accrued over 35,000 user reviews on Steam, where…

Polite society buried a lot of platformer mascots as we exited the 90s, but something Bubsy had over contemporaries like Gex and Croc (it’s a crock of something, alright!) is that his games were astoundingly, memorably dreadful. Bubsy is the best evidence we have that all publicity is good publicity, because he’s still getting games…

As reported by Eurogamer, EA has not only resolved the glitches with its first party app that were keeping players out of Battlefield 6 on launch day, the publisher is also offering free season passes and other goodies to affected players as a mea culpa. “Today, we experienced an outage on the EA app that…