Five new Steam games you probably missed (October 23, 2023)

WoW: Midnight’s hardcore raiders are on a gold treadmill, with a first-time clear of Mythic Midnight Falls costing around 87,750 gold in repairs alone

World of Warcraft: Midnight seems inclined, like its past couple of expansions, to be less demanding of entry-level requirements for Mythic+ and high-end raiding—there’s more ways to gear up a character solo than ever via activities like Prey, and there’s no mandatory Torghast-esque chores to tick off or borrowed power item to grind out points…

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I played Baldur’s Gate 3 by flipping a coin whenever violence was an option, and it’s my new favourite way to play The Dark Urge

While prepping for my interview with Baldur’s Gate 3‘s Amelia Tyler, I finally started my Dark Urge run. She’d mentioned that it’d be a great example of how she’d adjusted her narration, and my Dark Urge playthrough was long overdue, anyway. This presented a problem, though. See, The Dark Urge is a funny little beast….

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After telling Borderlands 4 player to ‘game that sh*t’, Randy Pitchford finds out that you cannot, in fact, game that sh*t—says ‘well, sh*t’, confirms it’s a bug and that it’ll be fixed ‘within the next two weeks’

Randy Pitchford is sometimes known for posting through it—most recently, trying to justify massive performance problems in Borderlands 4, a game I otherwise really like. He’s since quietened down considerably, though he did hop in briefly to play CEO tech support, ran face-first into a bug and—to his credit—didn’t try to tell anybody it’s a…

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