October 2013 Archive



RimWorld Kickstarter enters its final hours31 October 2013
Counter Strike: Global Offensive chickens are less bwark, more boo31 October 2013
Rome 2 DLC spills gallons of blood and severs a legion of heads for Halloween 31 October 2013
Nazi Zombie Army 2 now stumbling about Steam31 October 2013
Fjord focus: Ragnar Tørnquist is making a first-person survival horror game31 October 2013
Steam passes 65 million users. That's when the problems began31 October 2013
Oculus Rift coupled with multiple motion capture suits to bring us one step closer to a holodeck30 October 2013
Prison Architect Halloween Egg is thrilling30 October 2013
Typing of the Dead: Overkill PC review30 October 2013
Sniper Elite: Nazi Zombie Army 2 is out tomorrow, reliably pulpy30 October 2013
The Mandate footage shows tsarist starships start sparring among the stars29 October 2013
Valve Greenlight 100 more games, including GoD Factory and Luminesca29 October 2013
Steam Halloween sale sees prices slashed to ribbons29 October 2013
Warcraft RTS: Alliance and Horde mod hits 1.0; "I prefer to call it WAH"29 October 2013
Reset footage shows robots solving puzzles in the rain28 October 2013
Samorost 3 teaser makes the wait till 2015 even harder to bear27 October 2013
Path of Shadows is a stealth game which lets you teleport between shadows to stab guards in the neck27 October 2013
Paradise Lost: First Contact has a plant for a protagonist. An alien plant that eats people. Stealthily27 October 2013
Internet Archive brings historic games to your browser27 October 2013
Spotlight on Greenlight: Out of the Park Baseball 1427 October 2013
Age of Empires II HD: The Forgotten brings new empires this November26 October 2013
Alienware accepting trade-ins of old consoles for a new PC25 October 2013
Night in the Woods has a cat with a bat. Fancy that, a cat with a bat.25 October 2013
Super Roman Conquest asks you to command Rome in the face of destruction25 October 2013
Dead Rising 3 trailer gives hope game may be silly after all25 October 2013
Terraria Halloween update gives you invincible mice. And a Pumpkin Moon.25 October 2013
SimCity: Cities of Tomorrow comes with more maps for everyone25 October 2013
DayZ mods: how to play on modded maps, including Lingor, Takistan, Fallujah and Utes. 25 October 2013
Good Old Games promoting entire Interplay Catalogue in pay what you want deal25 October 2013
Omerta: City of Gangsters - hands on with the gangster mob sim25 October 2013
The best DLC for Total War: Shogun 2: what's worth spending your cash on? 25 October 2013
Project Spark Beta Begins November, Requires Windows 8.125 October 2013
Enslaved is now monkeying around on Steam25 October 2013
Counter Strike: Global Offensive patch looks out for your eyes25 October 2013
The Girl and the Robot offers protective detail in Ico-inspired world24 October 2013
Ex Firaxis and Microsoft staff create new studio and 64-bit engine24 October 2013
Star Wars The Old Republic characters could lose their names next month24 October 2013
Candy Box has 1,430,350 unique saves to date, sequel code is free to use by anyone24 October 2013
DayZ Early Access appears in Steam directory. Dean Hall amazed “how quickly the internet picks up on things”23 October 2013
Alone is a horror game within a horror game within an Oculus Rift23 October 2013
Candy Box 2 launches tomorrow. World scheduled to down tools by tea time23 October 2013
InSomnia is a diesel-punk MMO but you wouldn’t know it from this trailer23 October 2013
Batman Arkham Origins trailer introduces the crook who stole Christmas (from Bruce Wayne)23 October 2013
Total War: Rome II reinforced by three (temporarily) free new playable factions23 October 2013
Total War: Rome 2 to be embiggened by free post-launch updates23 October 2013
Red Baron returns as creator Damon Slye Kickstarts legendary WWI dogfighter22 October 2013
Assassin’s Creed IV: Black Flag launch trailer has broody pirates not yo ho ho pirates22 October 2013
The 10 coolest new features in Windows 8.122 October 2013
Circle of strife: Elder Scrolls Online PvP campaigns bring "a great sense of persistence"22 October 2013
Wasteland 2 beta soon to be “distributed through Steam”21 October 2013
Jesse Schell: Releasing a demo harms your game sales21 October 2013
StarCraft II balances see Terran explosives made less explodey21 October 2013
Diablo III: Reaper of Souls to be demoed on PC at BlizzCon 201321 October 2013
Sniper Elite: Nazi Zombie Army 2 rising from the grave this Halloween20 October 2013
Oculus Rift retail could be a self-contained Android device20 October 2013
Nvidia announces Gamestream, play PC games on TV via Wi-Fi and Shield20 October 2013
John Carmack on SteamOS “if it were some other random company I would be pseudo-scornful”19 October 2013
John Carmack: “any API, even if you magically made all the API overhead vanish, it doesn’t make that much of a difference”19 October 2013
Explore Reddit in virtual reality with Oculus Rift18 October 2013
Square Enix assembles Final Fantasy Quality Assurance Committee18 October 2013
Rome 2: Total War patch brings new faction, a fix list as long as your spear and Steam Workshop support18 October 2013
GeForce ShadowPlay offers console DVR on PC18 October 2013
Nvidia G-Sync monitors to banish screen tearing18 October 2013
Batman: Arkham Asylum and City unshackled from GFWL - but you'll lose your saves18 October 2013
Batman: Arkham City players finished the game without fully understanding the combat system18 October 2013
Bioshock 2 and The Bureau studio 2K Marin suffering major layoffs17 October 2013
Dragon's Prophet: Everything We Know17 October 2013
Sci-fi running/building indie Eden Star now available to back on Kickstarter17 October 2013
Oculus Rift powered Private Eye is basically Rear Window: The Game17 October 2013
Total War: Rome II is patched for a fourth time, starts to look like a lecturer’s jacket17 October 2013
A reminder: Windows 8.1 rolls out today17 October 2013
Hearthstone, then: what do you make of it?17 October 2013
The Mandate puts you in command of a ship, a crew, and an isometric view16 October 2013
Extraction goes into closed beta. I’m semantically confused16 October 2013
Demonstration of power: Lego Marvel Super Heroes demo graces PC16 October 2013
DICE aren't "cocky" about Star Wars: Battlefront; "You can only screw up, right?"16 October 2013
Galactic Civilizations III announced by way of a birthday present15 October 2013
The secret dice rolls of XCOM: Enemy Within. How Firaxis fudge the numbers15 October 2013
Steam in-home streaming trappings added in beta15 October 2013
Assassin's Creed IV: Black Flag trailer makes the case for its boozy new protagonist15 October 2013
Strider trailer shows ninjas doing what ninjas do best: fight robots14 October 2013
Black Gold Online beta on course for early 2014. Fly steampunk airships and shoot your friends14 October 2013
Waves: Arena Tactics promises more twin-stick shootery for the masses14 October 2013
Raindrop is Stalker, Dear Esther, and despair rolled into one13 October 2013
Activision Blizzard become independent as they complete $8.2bn buyback13 October 2013
DICE “strongly want to get into Linux”13 October 2013
Teleglitch Guns and Tunes DLC provides more guns to fight off the evil12 October 2013
Steam Controller video shows how it can manage Civilization V easily12 October 2013
Towerfall release slips to 2014 but now coming with level editor12 October 2013
Why do publishers delay the PC version of their games?10 October 2013
Farming Simulator 2013: Titanium launch trailer lens flares a sheep9 October 2013
Enslaved: Odyssey to the West looks to be coming to PC9 October 2013
XCOM: Enemy Within trailer shows off smartly dressed terrorists getting all up in XCOM’s nethers9 October 2013
Vote in the Golden Joysticks and get a free PC game courtesy of Green Man Gaming9 October 2013
Creative Assembly "confident" that Total War: Rome II SteamOS port is possible9 October 2013
Hands on with XCOM: Enemy Within, an expansion with nice trousers9 October 2013
Spy Party video shows new art style. Shoot sims with a sniper rifle8 October 2013
Dungeon Defenders II no longer a MOBA. You’ll be defending dungeons instead8 October 2013
Square Enix Collective is a cross between Steam Greenlight and Indiegogo8 October 2013
Assassin’s Creed 4: Black Flag: Freedom Cry DLC trailered before game’s been released8 October 2013
Tamriel-time strategy: Elder Scrolls Online PvP mysteries unravelled8 October 2013
Quadrilateral Cowboy trailer has more multilinear subspace coprocessors than you can shake a stick at7 October 2013
SimCity Central Train Station is a "proof-of-concept" mod designed to herald a wave of custom buildings7 October 2013
We cocked up: the Half-Life 3 trademark was a hoax7 October 2013
BioShock 2 leaps from burning GFWL to safety on Steam, gains Big Picture mode support4 October 2013
Assassin's Creed: Heritage Collection is all of them in one place4 October 2013
Baldur’s Gate II: Enhanced Edition emerging from the dungeon November 15th3 October 2013
Middle of Nowhere wants to take you to a nostalgic place via Kickstarter3 October 2013
PlayStation want to poach PC indies for PS4 development3 October 2013
City of Titans kickstarter hopes to build successor to City of Heroes2 October 2013
Double Fine entered its very own “dark ages” after Brutal Legend sequel was cancelled2 October 2013
Ace of Spades update adds map editor and Steam Workshop integration2 October 2013
Tom Clancy passes away at age 66. Ubisoft “humbled by the opportunity to carry on part of his legacy”2 October 2013
ARTS and StarCrafts: Universum: War Front does strategy from the ground up2 October 2013
Battlefield 4 PC beta scuppered by freezes and crashes for some2 October 2013
Warcraft movie dated for a Christmas in the not too distant future2 October 2013
Cosmic Star Heroine Kickstarter is a go. Get your finely crated 16-bit RPG here1 October 2013
Half-Life 3 trademarked by Valve1 October 2013
Hearthstone’s first major patch revamps crafting and gold rewards have gone right up1 October 2013
Total War: Rome II patch 3 improves the business of conquest in 140 small ways1 October 2013
Mighty Tactical Shooter is a turn-based shmup1 October 2013
Maxis want to talk SimCity mods; "It's difficult to determine what mods cross the line"1 October 2013