Xbox Game Pass will lose eight games 31 at the end of October | Gaming
Evgen Kovalov GAMES October 18 2026 Views: 979 Microsoft has announced a second wave of games that will leave its subscription services. Xbox Game Pass and PC Game Pass in…
Read more8 Alan Moore Comics That Prove Watchmen Isn’t His Only Magnum Opus | News World
Watchmen is widely regarded as one of the greatest works in comic book history. Alan Moore’s groundbreaking 1986 deconstruction of the superhero genre fundamentally changed the medium, setting a new…
Read moreDark Souls 2 dataminer shows off massive prototype coliseum level from early development | Gaming
At a glance The rough prototype looks to have been binned early in development, and it’s largely avoided discussion before Doneda’s work. Some portions appear to have been part of…
Read moreXbox Officially Adds Support For A ‘Modern, Powerful And Production Ready Game Engine’ | Gaming
Here’s a cool little story we came across during the week! Xbox officially now supports another game engine in the form of something called Defold, which is a totally free…
Read moreUbisoft reportedly look to cut 100 more jobs by proposing voluntary redundancies at studios including lead Anno devs Ubisoft Mainz | Gaming
Ubisoft have initiated talks over voluntary redundancies at three German studios under their banner, reportedly seeking to cut around 100 workers via the move. Ubisoft Dusseldorf, Ubisoft Berlin and Ubisoft…
Read more“I lost the concept of home, until my grandmother took me into these forests” – Trollheim: Gnomes is a survival game from ex-DICE and Paradox devs that channels childhood fairytales | Gaming
Swedish studio Off-leash Interactive and Denshattack publishers Fireshine Games have announced Trollheim: Gnomes, a survival-crafting fairytale in which you, a three-inch-high gnome, explore a procedurally generated forest derived from…
Read more5 Things Users Wish They Knew Before Buying An Xbox Series X | Gaming
Sotiomake/Shutterstock The Xbox Series X may stand out for its hardware, among the most powerful of the current generation of consoles, but it…
Read moreMore DC Comics Watchmen 40th Anniversary Variant Covers | News World
Posted in: Comics | Tagged: Alan Moore, chris bachalo, Dan Hipp, dan mora, Dan Mora and Clay Mann, Dave Gibbons, frank quitely, Gerald Parel, Jorge Fornés, mahmud asrar, Mikel Janin,…
Read moreClive Barker says he’s ‘genuinely astonished’ by Hellraiser: Revival: ‘I’m proud as f**k at the end result’ | Gaming
Hellraiser: Revival’s commitment to being both gnarly and horny has already been thoroughly documented, with PC Gamer’s Wes Fenlon describing it as “nasty nasty” in his preview . This uncompromising…
Read moreSega and Creative Assembly remove Total War: Shogun 2 remaster from sale as it “falls short of both your expectations and our own standards” | Gaming
Sega and Creative Assembly have temporarily withdrawn Total War: Shogun 2 – Complete Edition from sale in response to concerns about AI upscaling and other performance issues. Since its October…
Read moreIn the age of AI, one man spent years squeezing an entire museum onto a Game Boy – Why? For the most human of reasons | Gaming
“Let me be honest from the start: nobody was waiting for this. The world has many needs, and a Game Boy cartridge with no game inside it was not high…
Read moreXbox is hiring a “Physical Games Supply Strategist” — will the next-gen Xbox Helix snub PlayStation and support discs? | Gaming
Microsoft might be planning to take a sharp left turn on the whole digital games argument, with this new Xbox job vacancy. The summer has been quite fractious for the…
Read moreThe rumoured Steam Frame OLED would fix one of the Frame’s minor weaknesses and do nothing for its major ones | Gaming
Good catch by SteamFrameHub here: snippets of the recently released Steam Frame kernel source code contain references to a possible variant of Valve’s new VR headset with upgraded OLED lenses….
Read moreThe Sunday Papers | Rock Paper Shotgun | Gaming
The Sunday Papers is our weekly roundup of great writing about (mostly) videogames from across the web. Sundays are for firing up Twine again and thinking you know what, if…
Read moreNew Job Listing Suggests Xbox Plans To Continue Supporting Physical Games | Gaming
2 A new job listing for the position of Games Supply Strategist suggests that Xbox may continue supporting physical games in the future. Microsoft recently posted the full-time position on its…
Read moreExploring the life and career of artist Tony Abruzzo | News World
By David Barsalou MFA From 1961 to 1997, Roy Lichtenstein copied the imagery of DC Romance Comics artist Tony Abruzzo over forty times. This included Lichtenstein’s paintings, drawings, prints, and sculpture. On 11th October…
Read moreQualcomm wins $2 legal decision against fellow tech giant Arm, and that’s not a typo | Gaming
At a glance: Qualcomm gets $2 from Arm in the Delaware jury’s decision, part of a yearslong licensing dispute between the two. Yahoo Finance puts their market caps at $210…
Read moreThe pleasures of Double Fine’s Thank You Bus Driver are not in the destination, nor the journey, but in slapping my disobedient passengers | Gaming
Showing some gratitude is the least these scribbly wretches can do. The passengers in Thank You Bus Driver – Double Fine’s new comedy public transport sim – are almost invariably…
Read moreEnthusiasts have launched a PlayStation 5 emulator on the original Xbox One console. | Gaming
Maxim Boldson HARDWARE October 18 2026 Views: 2035 An enthusiast nicknamed “maccosmo” demonstrated a working PlayStation 5 emulator running on the original Xbox One. The experiment attracted the attention of…
Read moreOh dear, half a year after launching Samson, Swedish developer Liquid Swords have filed for bankruptcy | Gaming
Earlier this year, Swedish developer Liquid Swords released Samson, a GTA-ish, open world beat ’em up about dealing with debt, driving sturdy but battered cars, and saving your sister….
Read moreFishlabs announces layoffs due to “changing project requirements,” development and support teams affected | Gaming
German developer Fishlabs has announced workforce reductions impacting its development and support teams. The studio has not specified the number of affected employees, stating the decision was driven by “changing…
Read moreSega pulls Total War: Shogun 2 – Complete Edition from sale amid AI accusations, admitting it has “fallen short” | Gaming
Sega and Creative Assembly are temporarily removing Total War: Shogun 2 – Complete Edition from sale just days after release. In a statement shared on Twitter/X, the companies said they…
Read moreXBOX Doubles Down On Physical Media, Per New Opening | Gaming
The ownership of games and the digital transition in gaming have been heated topics. With Sony announcing their upcoming departure from physical media, XBOX has been learning from its competitors’…
Read moreRimWorld meets Moebius-esque roguelite colony sim Trailblazers: Into The March welcomes you aboard its hulking landships with a chonky-sounding demo | Gaming
With the devs behind RimWorld gearing up for their next game with a recent engine switch, it’d be entirely fair if you were hankering for something new (if still…
Read more10 Vampires in Marvel Comics Who Threatened Existence Long Before Midnight X-Men | News World
Midnight X-Men just turned mutants like Storm and Gambit into bloodsucking vampires, but Marvel Comics has had the undead biting gods, beheading heroes, and blocking out the sun for decades…
Read moreXbox Highlights Six Latin American Games as Game Camp Comes to Mexico City | Gaming
Xbox is spotlighting Latin American game creators with six upcoming titles and its first Xbox Game Camp in Mexico City. The event takes place on October 17 alongside Xbox FanFest,…
Read moreMetal band Genitorturers allegedly claims a Vampire: The Masquerade – Bloodlines remake is coming, getting a dozen crusty nerds way too worked up | Gaming
This one is thin, man, but it has to do with one of my favorite games of all time, while the circumstances of the rumor are just kind of neat…
Read moreRain98 is a blue-hued, pre-Y2K, Serial Experiments Lain inspired visual novel about time travelling to the past to end the world | Gaming
Picture this. You’re me, and you boot up the demo for Rain98, an incredibly blue-looking, rainy visual novel set in Tokyo, 1998, about a woman who refers to herself…
Read moreGame Republic New Horizons 2026 attendance grew 78% to over 461 visitors | Gaming
Attendance at Game Republic New Horizons 2026 rose by 78% year-over-year, from 259 to 461 visitors. Held at Riverside Stadium in Middlesbrough from October 14 to 16, the event drew…
Read moreVampire: The Masquerade – Bloodlines remaster rumoured, with leaker insisting it’s not a remake | Gaming
A remaster of cult 2004 RPG Vampire: The Masquerade – Bloodlines may be in the works. In a post on the r/GamingLeaksAndRumours subreddit, a user wrote: “I can confirm that…
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