Former Disco Elysium developers have unveiled Red Rooster, a physics-driven RPG from @summer_eternal_ - Psychological role-playing with immersive sim mechanics - Investigate suspicious fires linked to your brother’s fire station - Explore a fictional city inspired by the 1980s Yugoslavian riviera and Eastern Bloc - Move, manipulate and burn objects in a physics-powered sandbox - Navigate political intrigue and your protagonist’s troubled inner world - Team up with an opiate-dependent mathematician and a nunchaku-wielding bus driver The studio also has an official manifesto condemning corporate greed, disposable-worker culture and AI-generated substitutes for human art. Its stated priority: artistic integrity over profit margins.

Don't Nod, the studio behind Life is Strange, is fighting to stay afloat. - Up to 85 jobs in France at risk under a restructuring plan announced on September 1 - French operations to be refocused around a single production line - A Paris court opened safeguard proceedings on October 19, with a 6-month observation period and pre-ruling debts frozen - H1 2026 revenue: €6.1M, down 14% - Cash: €9.9M at the end of June, down from €15.5M at the end of 2025 - Aphelion's sales came in below expectations - The company flags "material uncertainty" about continuing operations beyond January 31, 2027 Safeguard is not bankruptcy. The studio keeps operating while it looks for financing, and its Montreal team is not affected. Don't Nod's PC catalogue includes Life is Strange 1 & 2, Vampyr, Tell Me Why, Banishers: Ghosts of New Eden, Jusant, Lost Records: Bloom & Rage and Aphelion.

Call of Duty has passed $40 billion in lifetime franchise revenue. Xbox CEO Asha Sharma shared the milestone on X on October 26, three days after Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 4 launched. "One of the most celebrated Call of Duty games in its 24-year history, and now $40B in lifetime franchise revenue. An incredible milestone." What the number covers The figure is the franchise's lifetime total since its 2003 debut. No breakdown was given by game, platform or year, or for how much came from Modern Warfare 4. The numbers around it - $40B over 23 years - About $4.76M per day on average, by PC Gamer's calculation - Black Ops III: 43M+ copies sold, the series' best-seller - Modern Warfare (2019): 41M+ copies - Modern Warfare II (2022): $1B in sell-through in 10 days, the fastest in franchise history How it compares PC Gamer places Call of Duty behind only Mario and Pokémon among the most lucrative video game franchises. What built it - A new release almost every year, from Infinity Ward, Treyarch, Sledgehammer Games and Raven Software - Expansion into mobile and free-to-play battle royale with Warzone - A return to Steam in 2022: Modern Warfare II was the first Call of Duty there since WWII in 2017, and it reached Steam's top 10 by concurrent players Timeline - 2003: Call of Duty debuts - 2012: Black Ops II reaches $1B in 15 days - 2015: Black Ops III, later the best-selling entry - 2017: WWII, the last Call of Duty on Steam for five years - 2019: Modern Warfare, 41M+ copies - 2022: Modern Warfare II hits $1B in 10 days and brings the series back to Steam - 2026: Modern Warfare 4 launches on October 23; the franchise passes $40B

Library of Ruina now holds the Guinness World Record for the longest videogame campaign: 113 hours, main story only. That's 12 hours more than Persona 5 Royal, measured as of June 2026. Developed by Project Moon, the game sits at around 94% positive from roughly 46K reviews on Steam.

A 2026 VR headset just got CD-ROM support so one Steam Frame owner can play NFS Carbon off the original disc. You read that right. That's the most PC gaming sentence I've read all year. Asked Oct 18. Valve replied Oct 19 and enabled it in the kernel about 10 minutes later.

Indie dev: $560K gross on Steam, $73K take-home after 5 years. Refunds: $134K Steam's 30%: $127K Publisher: ~$115K Taxes: ~$36K Co-founder split: 50/50 Steam's cut wasn't even the biggest bite. But sure, let's "vibe code a Steam alternative in a week."

Capcom just dropped their sales split for Apr–Sep 2026, and PC beats everyone else combined. Unit share by platform: PC: 57.1% (21.03M units) Console digital: 35.3% Physical: 7.6% That's PC at 57.1% vs everything else at 42.9%. And look at what's been selling (lifetime units): • Monster Hunter: World – 30.83M • Resident Evil 2 – 20.38M • Resident Evil 7 – 18.87M • Resident Evil 4 – 17.15M • Resident Evil Village – 16.27M • Resident Evil 3 – 14.93M • Devil May Cry 5 – 14.78M • Resident Evil Requiem – 8.51M • Pragmata – 2.73M • Onimusha: Way of the Sword – 1.78M

Golden Joysticks dropped the 12 Ultimate GOTY nominees. Voting closes Oct 30. - 007 First Light - Big Walk - Control Resonant - Crimson Desert - Dispatch - Forza Horizon 6 - Phantom Blade Zero - Pokémon Pokopia - Pragmata - Resident Evil Requiem - Star Wars: Galactic Racer - The Blood of Dawnwalker

The Witcher turned 19 today. Clunky combat, alchemy you needed a wiki for, BioWare-engine jank... and still one of the best RPG stories PC ever got.

So is Steam still down? Imagine it gets back online with a huge, orange H-L 3 logo. Nope. Probably not. *injects hopium*

Phantom Blade Zero: 88 on Metacritic, 91 on OpenCritic, 100% of OpenCritic's critics recommend it. Eurogamer: 3/5. Somehow the 3/5 is the review everyone's talking about.

Steam is down for a lot of players right now. The client is stuck on "Loading User Data" and libraries won't open, but the Store and Community pages still load. No word from Valve yet

Everyone: "turn-based is dead" Final Fantasy Resonance: 42,885 concurrent players on Steam, the biggest peak ever for a single-player Final Fantasy.

Phantom Blade Zero wants 300GB free just to preload

Who's like that rn

This looks insane

This game deserves GOTY

SCUM's developers have been hit by layoffs, eight months after Splash Damage acquired the Croatian studio. Forbes Croatia reports around 30 developers lost their jobs, or roughly 60% of Gamepires' developers. The company hasn't confirmed the number. When Splash Damage bought the studio, it said bringing the teams together around SCUM would help protect jobs. Now, it cites "challenging market conditions". SCUM development reportedly will continue, with more updates and content planned.

Baldur's Gate 3 has generated more than $1.2 BILLION from 23.2 million copies sold, according to Alinea Analytics

Capcom got hacked. Capcom says a hacker got data stolen from more than 11 million Capcom ID accounts. What was accessed: email addresses plus login metadata (account creation date, last login, login count, last login IP). For 43 accounts, also date of birth, gender, region and nickname. What wasn't, per Capcom: passwords and credit card details. The attacker did change the passwords on 196 accounts. Capcom has reset those, and affected users will be notified. Everyone else can keep using their Capcom ID as normal. If you've got one (Street Fighter 6 players, that's likely you), expect phishing emails pretending to be Capcom and don't click anything you didn't ask for.

Sony is killing PlayStation discs. Apparently, nobody told Resident Evil Requiem. According to Alinea Analytics, its physical PS5 copies alone generated 1.8 TIMES the revenue of ALL Xbox versions combined: physical, digital and Xbox PC. An estimated 1.3 million PS5 discs sold. Over $92 million generated. Sony will stop producing discs for new PlayStation games in January 2028. Quite the retirement package for a supposedly dying format.