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A big wolf and a group of warriors waving various weapons plus some cute forest animals in key art for Soulframe.

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Warframe's fantasy-pilled sister Soulframe finally goes open to all this November, though Digital Extremes are "nervous" about certain changes

They're celebrating the end of closed alpha by poisoning the world

Oct. 30, 2026 Edwin Evans-Thirlwell

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A stark MS Paint-style illustration of a woman playing Tarot cards before a crowd, in World of Horror.

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Splendid Junji Ito-inspired RPG World of Horror is now 20% more horrible, thanks to a free PC update with extra gods, locations, and wounds

This hole was already made for me, but now it's a fair bit wider and deeper

Oct. 30, 2026 Edwin Evans-Thirlwell

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Some Automatons from Helldivers 2 with glowing red eyes and white skulls in stylised recruitment-poster style art for the game.

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Helldivers 2 boss can "absolutely see" making a game parody of generative AI, but it would need to be "quirky" rather than "doom-laden"

Also, it wouldn't be a Helldivers game

Oct. 30, 2026 Edwin Evans-Thirlwell

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Edward Kenway standing next to Blackbeard as the latter looks through a spyglass in Assassin's Creed Black Flag Resynced.

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There are no more Assassin's Creed remakes in development, because Ubisoft are focused on Hexe, Invictus and "projects you haven't heard about yet"

They're still updating Black Flag Resynced, however, and bringing NG+ to Valhalla

Oct. 30, 2026 Edwin Evans-Thirlwell

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A sword stuck in a plinth in a seaside temple in Queen's Domain.

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Queen's Domain is a brilliant King's Field-alike RPG that forces you to walk so you can learn to fly

I would also have accepted "Prince's Place" or "Baron's Turf"

Oct. 29, 2026 Edwin Evans-Thirlwell

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An aircraft swooping up towards tall flying islands in Atmosfar.

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Atmosfar is a giddy aerial exploration game after the heart of No Man's Sky, but I'm already trying to escape it

Taking flight in early access today

Oct. 29, 2026 Edwin Evans-Thirlwell

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A view of a store in Probably Stolen, with a guide to appraising cyborg hands on the left and a magnifying glass view of one such hand on the right. In the middle there's a customer, and your store inventory.

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Cyberpunk trading sim Probably Stolen is about running a kiosk in a space station full of gangs, megacorps, and secret rogue cyborgs

I will have you know this is an original Malorian Arms 3516

Oct. 28, 2026 Edwin Evans-Thirlwell

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Subnautica 2 dev thinks early access teams should worry less about adding features that are "very ugly, incomplete, or prototype"

But acknowledges that "early access" ain't what it was

Oct. 28, 2026 Edwin Evans-Thirlwell

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A game of arcade puzzler Hot Wax, showing coloured candle blocks falling from the top that must be kindled with carefully placed flames.

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Hot Wax sets fire to the Tetris playbook with slow-burn puzzle mechanics and a dollop of eldritch menace

Wicked

Oct. 28, 2026 Edwin Evans-Thirlwell

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Quarantine soldiers in protective gear burning trees and vegetation with flame throwers in Pathologic 3.

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"Creation without a creator": Pathologic 3's devs have refused to patch an invisible apple tree, and for a blissful moment, I thought they were lying to poison Google's AI

"Maybe this apple tree is trying to tell us something."

Oct. 28, 2026 Edwin Evans-Thirlwell

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A screenshot of Spelunky Classic, showing the first Mines world, with Spelunky guy jumping in the direction of a "damsel".

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The GameMaker engine series behind Undertale, Hotline Miami and Spelunky is going free for commercial use on PC

As of January 2027

Oct. 26, 2026 Edwin Evans-Thirlwell

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Liara in a Mass Effect: Legendary Edition screenshot.

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220,000-signatory petition to "save Mass Effect" doesn't mention BioWare, suggests giving Mass Effect 5 to somebody else

Expanse devs Owlcat join call for EA to let Mass Effect "flourish anew"

Oct. 26, 2026 Edwin Evans-Thirlwell

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An astronaut pushing a vacuum sweeper across the surface of the Moon, in Moon Sweepers.

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Clean a whole planet with a toothbrush in Moon Sweepers, the PowerWash genre's latest crime against perfectionists

Fine, you can use a hoover if you MUST

Oct. 26, 2026 Edwin Evans-Thirlwell

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A priest in a cassock and a guy in a red shirt with green pants standing in a belltower in ellipsoid horror game Ecstatica.

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32-year-old "ellipsoid" horror game Ecstatica gets a PC re-release today, showing us an alternative timeline in which polygonal 3D never became dominant

Eeek, where have all the corners gone?

Oct. 26, 2026 Edwin Evans-Thirlwell

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