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October 2015 Archive

Oct. 31, 2015
1. Assassin's Creed Syndicate time-lapse: world in motion
2. Watch: Should games be made about 9/11?
3. Rich Stanton on: From Billions to Bedrooms
Oct. 30, 2015
1. SXSW considers harassment conference after pulling game panels over threats of violence
2. PlayStation Plus November free games revealed
3. Watch: Fallout 4's Pip-Boy edition - what's it like?
4. Eagle-eyed Steam users rewarded for reading small print
5. Civilization Revolution 2 Plus hits PS Vita this December
6. Uncharted, VR and what was absent from Sony's show: The Jim Ryan interview
7. Tribes back catalogue now available for free
8. Steam Halloween Sale is a monster, has Slender for ?1.50
9. Now Fallout gets officially licensed Nuka-Cola Quantum
10. Moshi Monsters not above strict UK watchdog the ASA
11. Konami shifts 5m copies of Metal Gear Solid 5
12. Respawn announces new Titanfall game
13. Halo 5: Guardians review
14. Mirror's Edge Catalyst release date delayed until May 2016
Oct. 29, 2015
1. Hitman trailer shows off sunny new Sapienza location
2. Paradox buys World of Darkness franchise from CCP
3. Outlast 2 confirmed for autumn 2016
4. Watch: Brutal survival horror game Noct in action
5. Nier's sequel will have all the weirdness of the original, plus a little more polish
6. Psychological thriller The Town of Light gets February release date
7. Come and work for Gamer Network!
8. Watch: 'Liberating' a base in Just Cause 3
9. Batman: Arkham Knight PC still broken, players say
10. The Rise and Fall of Sega Enterprises
11. Massive PS4 sales continue
12. The new My Nintendo reward program will let you earn points as you play
13. Nintendo reveals Miitomo, its first smartphone game
14. The Park review
Oct. 28, 2015
1. Xbox Games with Gold November titles named
2. Destiny raid boss Crota defeated solo using Rock Band drum kit
3. Rocket League match mutators to arrive in free November update
4. DriveClub's impressive debut on PlayStation VR
5. Zelda fans have a bone to pick with Nintendo over doge meme
6. UK tabloids point the finger at Call of Duty, GTA in coverage of 15-year-old TalkTalk hacker
7. Gran Turismo Sport is not Gran Turismo 7
8. A Beginner's Guide to the world of Fallout
9. Animal Crossing: Happy Home Designer sells 2m copies
10. Uncharted 4's multiplayer will be 60fps
11. Escape From New York IP-holder wanted to sue Metal Gear Solid
Oct. 27, 2015
1. Michel Ancel reveals PlayStation 4-exclusive Wild gameplay
2. Quantic Dream reveals sci-fi game Detroit
3. Crytek's upcoming VR adventure Robinson: The Journey confirmed for PS4
4. Boundless to merge Minecraft with Rick and Morty on PS4 and PC
5. Gravity Rush 2 gameplay revealed
6. PlayStation Paris Games Week 2015 conference live report
7. Watch: 15 minutes of new Battleborn co-op and multiplayer gameplay
8. Dhalsim wears a beard in Street Fighter 5
9. Until Dawn: Rush of Blood announced for PlayStation VR
10. Overwatch beta now live in Europe and America
11. Sony mentions new PlayStation 4 Gran Turismo title
12. Watch: What you actually do in Media Molecule's new game Dreams
13. Looks like Driveclub Bikes for PS4 is a thing
14. Naughty Dog debuts Uncharted 4 multiplayer footage
15. Housemarque announces new game Matterfall
16. Horizon: Zero Dawn gameplay footage shoots down a robot dinosaur
17. No Man's Sky release date set for June 2016
18. Watch The Emperor do Force Lightning in Star Wars Battlefront
19. Face-Off: Assassin's Creed Syndicate
20. Watch: What we expect from today's PlayStation conference
21. Fallout 4's Trophy and Achievement list analysis and speculation
22. Super Mario Maker update to add mid-level checkpoints, new levels
23. Telltale surprise launches Minecraft: Story Mode episode two
24. The deceptively harmless Kingdom coming to Xbox One
25. Here's the Halo Master Chief Swarovski Helmet
26. Incredible Hulk Grand Theft Auto 5 mod released
27. Maia just got standalone scenario missions
28. Project Zero: Maiden of Black Water review
29. Ninja Theory revisits Hellblade heroine Senua's face
30. European Rock Band 4 PS4 players want answers over unreleased DLC
31. Warhammer: The End Times - Vermintide review
32. Hats off to Destiny for its mask-filled Halloween event
33. Xbox One backwards compatibility dated for November
Oct. 26, 2015
1. Don Bluth launches Dragon's Lair movie Kickstarter
2. Alone in the Dark creator announces stealth horror game 2Dark
3. Watch this real life Daredevil complete Ocarina of Time blindfolded
4. Digital Foundry vs console texture filtering
5. Burnout Paradise confirmed for Xbox One backwards compatibility
6. Battlefield 4 map community helped DICE make is out tomorrow
7. Watch: Chris, Ian and Johnny play Vermintide live!
8. Mojang-published Cobalt delayed to February 2016
9. Watch: How big is Just Cause 3?
10. Halo 5's campaign goes back to basics - and it's all the better for it
11. Developer of canned Darth Maul game plots EA revival pitch
12. What works and what doesn't in Halo 5: Guardians
13. Assassin's Creed: Syndicate has a cool secret Ubisoft hasn't told anyone about
14. Watch: Yes, you can drift horse carriages in Assassin's Creed: Syndicate
15. Assassin's Creed Syndicate review
16. Performance Analysis: Assassin's Creed Syndicate
17. For better or worse, From Russia With Love was vintage Bond
18. Assassin's Creed: Syndicate is the UK's number one game
19. Tales from the Borderlands Season One review
20. PC version of Batman: Arkham Knight back on sale this week
Oct. 25, 2015
1. Watch: Six Fallout quests that are weird even for Fallout
2. The carry: The strange career of a League of Legends star
Oct. 24, 2015
1. Oliver Twins release Dizzy game thought lost for 22 years
2. The Vita is dead - or is it?
3. Watch: When should we review games?
Oct. 23, 2015
1. Day of the Tentacle Remastered debuts in-game screenshots
2. Fallout gets its own officially licensed beer
3. Sonic Team apologises for scandalous in-game typo
4. Pillars of Eternity sells 500k copies
5. GAME manager accidentally orders company's entire stock of gift cards
6. The Legend of Zelda: Tri Force Heroes review
7. Guitar Hero Live review
8. Square Enix explains why Final Fantasy 15's main characters all wear black
9. Sony reaffirms lack of triple-A PlayStation Vita development
10. Gameplay of canned Star Wars Battlefront 3 shows impressive ground-to-space tech
11. Life is Strange review
Oct. 22, 2015
1. Dota 2 to receive Fallout 4's Mister Handy Announcer Pack
2. Space combat roguelike Everspace confirmed for Xbox One and Windows 10
3. Harmonix admits to employees posting positive Rock Band 4 Amazon reviews
4. Watch: Doom multiplayer gameplay rekindles memories of id Software's best
5. Goat Simulator and I Am Bread team up for GoatBread DLC
6. Volume: Coda expansion headed first to PlayStation VR
7. You can play as Chaos in Total War: Warhammer
8. Activision announces eSports division
9. Digital Foundry: Hands-on with Dark Souls 3
10. Cult horror Pathologic being HD remastered for PC
11. Witcher 3 patch 1.11 tackles Skellige's Most Wanted quest at long last
12. There's a real-life Pokémon Gym in Japan
13. What you need to know about importing Rock Band 3 songs to RB4
14. Last-gen Tony Hawk's Pro Skater 5 delayed
15. YouTube confirms paid subscription service
16. Downwell review
Oct. 21, 2015
1. Resident Evil HD Remaster's original voice acting mod is complete
2. PixelJunk Shooter Ultimate is out now on Steam
3. Scribblenauts dev announces F2P action-RPG Anchors in the Drift
4. Watch: Rainbow Six Siege is really fun in single player
5. Game of Thrones' finale dated for November
6. Does Metal Gear Solid 5's Eva costume DLC really have a "tactical advantage?"
7. Intel Skylake: Core i7 6700K review
8. Kingdom review
9. Mushroom 11 review
10. Ten days of Subterfuge
11. Sniper Elite developer buys Woolfe: The Red Hood Diaries
12. Intel Skylake: Core i5 6600K review
13. Watch: Hard West is much more than a wild west XCOM
14. It's Back to the Future Day! Here's an iconic scene recreated in GTA5
15. All signs point to a PS4 price cut in the UK today
16. Broforce review
Oct. 20, 2015
1. African-inspired point-and-click The Journey Down launches Kickstarter
2. Project Zero: Maiden of Black Water removes skimpy costumes
3. Sherlock Holmes: The Devil's Daughter announced for spring 2016
4. Han Solo, Leia and Palpatine detailed in Star Wars: Battlefront
5. Xbox One gets its own limited edition Fallout 4 controller
6. Report sheds light on Destiny's troubled development
7. Guitar Hero's decadent reboot breathes new life into the series
8. Hideo Kojima left Konami earlier this month - report
9. Halo 5's day one multiplayer update is 9GB
10. Rebel Galaxy review
11. Watch: What you missed in the Dark Souls 3 network stress test
12. The Stanley Parable designer teases new game
13. New Super Mario Bros. speedrun world record has been set
14. Skullgirls dev explains why Indivisible costs $3.5m to make
Oct. 19, 2015
1. Turn-based zombie western Hard West gets a November release date
2. Galak-Z launches on Steam next week
3. Watch: Aoife forces Johnny to play Final Fantasy X
4. How Life is Strange flips the script on video game romance
5. Watch: Cor blimey, Ian's streaming Assassin's Creed Syndicate!
6. Korean StarCraft rocked by another match-fixing scandal
7. WRC 5 review
Oct. 18, 2015
1. Nvidia GeForce GTX 960 review
2. Nvidia GeForce GTX 960 2GB vs 4GB review
3. Watch: Deus Ex: Mankind Divided looks meaner, uncannier
4. Jon Blyth on: Pubs vs video games
5. Nvidia GeForce GTX 970 review
6. Nvidia GeForce GTX 980 review
7. Apple iPad Air 2 review
8. MSI GT72 2QE Dominator Pro with GTX 980M review
9. Hands-on with PlayStation TV Remote Play
10. PlayStation TV review
11. Linx 8 review - exploring the sub-?100 Windows tablet experience
12. Alienware Alpha review
13. Windows on a stick: the Hannspree Micro PC review
14. New Nintendo 3DS review
15. Nvidia GeForce GTX 970 Revisited
16. The making of Uncharted: the Nathan Drake Collection
17. Nvidia GeForce GTX Titan X review
18. Google Nexus 6 review
19. Radeon R9 390X 8GB review
20. MSI Titan GT80 Titan SLI review
21. MSI GS30 Shadow with Gaming Dock review
22. Nvidia GeForce GTX 980 Ti review
23. AMD Radeon R9 Fury X review
24. AMD Radeon R9 390 8GB review
25. AMD Radeon R9 Fury review
26. AMD Radeon R9 Nano review
27. Radeon R9 380 2GB vs 4GB review
28. G-Sync on a laptop: the Asus G751JY review
29. When Halo went back to its RTS roots
Oct. 17, 2015
1. Nintendo now handing out NX console developer kits - report
2. Face-Off: Transformers: Devastation
Oct. 16, 2015
1. Duke Nukem 3D finally gets a Sega Mega Drive release
2. Sunless Sea is getting story DLC with Zubmariner expansion
3. Watch the first mission from StarCraft 2: Legacy of the Void
4. Watch: Hands-on with the Steam controller
5. Remaining Batman Arkham Knight Season Pass content revealed
6. EGX Rezzed 2016 tickets on sale now
7. Why Warhammer 40K: Deathwatch is ?19 on Steam but ?2.29 on mobile
8. Preparing your PC for Star Wars: Battlefront
9. Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic 2 gets a surprise, huge patch
10. The Witcher 3: Hearts of Stone review
11. There's another rally game coming early next year
12. Destiny: The Taken King raid hard mode unlocks next week
13. Where can Metal Gear go from here?
Oct. 15, 2015
1. Watch the Ratchet & Clank movie's first full length trailer
2. Dragon Quest Heroes review
3. Assassin's Creed: Syndicate in-game footage flies through Victorian London
4. Lego super sleuths are working out the next Lego Dimensions characters
5. Fallout 4's fancy pants live-action trailer
6. Watch: How many of his voices can Nolan North do in 60 seconds?
7. 1000 The Crew Wild Run closed beta keys up for grabs
8. Treyarch: why Call of Duty Zombies isn't its own game
9. Witcher 3 Hearts of Stone adds Taxman to sting money exploiters
10. Mario & Luigi: Paper Jam Bros. unfurls December release date
11. DieselStormers forced to change name after Diesel wins trademark dispute
12. The marvellously malicious Darkest Dungeon gets a release date
13. Sublevel Zero review
14. Watch: Star Wars Battlefront is a bit shallow (and that's alright)
Oct. 14, 2015
1. Konami apologises for Metal Gear Online's poor launch stability
2. Doom multiplayer closed alpha sign-ups now available
3. How a single tweak takes down Hearthstone's most powerful deck
4. Overwatch closed beta begins this month (in the Americas)
5. Zelda: Symphony of the Goddesses 2016 concert tour dates announced
6. Yes, the Rebels had it tough in the Star Wars Battlefront beta
7. 3DS game returns to eShop after homebrew exploit fixed
8. Looks like Nintendo's developing Zelda: Twilight Princess HD
9. Kick Off reboot shoots for PS4 and Vita
10. Space Hulk ported to… PS3
11. Rise of Incarnates shutting down only months after launch
12. St gets a sequel
13. Placebo response can alter your experience of games, scientists say
14. The wolf in Snake's clothing: Metal Gear's twisted hero
15. Hide your purse, Steam is having a stealth-game sale
16. Star Wars Battlefront won't have dedicated voice chat
17. Bloodborne Game of the Year Edition launches this November
Oct. 13, 2015
1. Funcom's single-player horror game The Park gets a release date
2. New Spelunky world record set at $3,404,400
3. Allison Road picked up by Team 17, Kickstarter cancelled
4. Deus Ex Revision spruces up an old classic
5. The Witcher 3 patch 1.10 gives PS4 the boost it's been waiting for
6. From today, you can do the Carlton dance in Destiny
7. 80 Days review
8. Stray dog sim Home Free is coming to PS4
9. Watch: Ian play Bedlam, a game based on a book. How novel.
10. More than 9 million played the Star Wars Battlefront beta
11. Batman: Arkham Knight's combat challenges get character select today
12. Telltale's cookie-cutter mechanics make Minecraft: Story Mode familiar fun
13. New Homeworld resurfaces with brief gameplay footage
14. Star Wars Battlefront beta extended until Tuesday
15. Gabe Newell Simulator looks like an actual game that's coming out on Steam today
16. Star Wars Battlefront has a ?40 Season Pass
17. Civilization: Beyond Earth - Rising Tide is generous, imaginative, and currently a bit broken
18. Civ: Rising Tide's alliance bug has been fixed, Firaxis says
19. Rocket League gets Back to the Future DLC
Oct. 12, 2015
1. Firewatch signals a February release date
2. You can skip straight to the end of Call of Duty: Black Ops 3's campaign
3. "I don't want you to get a second-rate experience…"
4. Watch: Is Wild Run the reason to return to The Crew?
5. Laserlife review
6. Transformers: Devastation review
7. People are already posting Halo 5: Guardians ending spoilers
8. Nvidia GeForce GTX 950 review
9. Rock Band 4 squeaks into the UK top 10
10. Face-Off: Uncharted 2: Among Thieves on PS4
11. Star Citizen hires heavyweight Hollywood cast for Squadron 42
12. Lego Marvel's Avengers covers six Marvel films
13. The Martian: Bring Him Home is a licensed mobile game done right
Oct. 11, 2015
1. Watch: Just Cause 3's rocket mines are our new favourite toy
2. The truth about cats and dogs (playing video games)
3. Seagate 2TB Game Drive for Xbox review
4. Shattered Horizon: the FPS that got lost in space
Oct. 10, 2015
1. Face-Off: Uncharted 3: Drake's Deception on PS4
2. Uncharted: Remastered, revisited, reassessed
3. Performance Analysis: Star Wars Battlefront beta on PS4
4. Performance Analysis: Star Wars: Battlefront beta on Xbox One
5. Alexis Kennedy on: Building the frontier
Oct. 9, 2015
1. All Transformers games, comics and toys will be unified across one story
2. Apple is removing games from people's purchase history
3. Watch: Ian play Transformers Devastation, live at 5pm
4. Everybody's Gone to the Rapture studio co-head departs, pens frank blog post why
5. Spencer: Xbox One team focused on regaining fan trust, not beating PS4
6. Pool Nation FX launches on Steam, is improved over Xbox One
7. Dovetail Games Fishing gets a new name and release date
8. Charming 'work it out yourself' game Kingdom gets a release date
9. Please games, let me be stumped
10. Why I hope we never see Master Chief's face
11. PlayStation Now launches in UK, priced ?12.99 a month
12. League of Legends developer Riot takes on key selling website G2A
13. EA adding more Star Wars Battlefront PC servers and it seems to be working
14. Destiny is nerfing shotguns, again
15. Street Fighter 5's Laura announced - officially, this time
16. Fallout 4 28-35GB on console, PC system specs revealed
17. Is Hardware: Rivals the new Rocket League?
18. Shovel Knight's retail release delayed two weeks
Oct. 8, 2015
1. Battlefield Hardline headed to EA Access Vault next week
2. Wadjet Eye reveals post-apocalyptic adventure Shardlight
3. Broforce lets freedom ring next week with an official launch
4. Star Wars: Battlefront beta data-mined, Leia, Han Solo and Emperor found
5. Witcher 3 patch 1.10 is a monster, full notes revealed
6. Telltale dates Tales from the Borderlands finale
7. Just Cause 3 lets you hang upside down from a helicopter and blow up a petrol station
8. Chaos Reborn leaves Early Access at the end of the month
9. Watch: Lumo is nostalgic and lovely
10. Storytelling in Mankind Divided: Choice, consequence and cynicism
11. BBC Three to livestream League of Legends World Championships
12. Bungie finally unlocks one of Destiny's most elusive guns
13. High-profile FIFA YouTubers hacked, scream about it
14. Metal Gear Online needs major work
15. Watch a Crisis in Torment: Tides of Numenera
16. Bethesda has "concerns" about Battlecry
17. How Rise of the Tomb Raider's microtransactions work
18. Halo 5's campaign lasts 8-12 hours - if played on normal
19. Second Street Fighter 5 beta detailed
20. Rediscovering Lego Dimensions through the eyes of a child
21. Voice actors strike has been authorised
Oct. 7, 2015
1. Metal Gear Solid 5 will have horse armour DLC
2. Watch five minutes of Resident Evil: Umbrella Corps gameplay
3. Apotheon dev's new sci-fi action roguelike Cryptark enters Early Access
4. Watch: We've played five hours of Anno 2205
5. Watch: How do you soundtrack a video game?
6. Loads of Sky Broadband customers can't play Rocket League on PS4
7. Capcom pulls Ghost Trick from iOS App Store purchase history
8. Adam Jensen voice actor portraying Far Cry Primal's lead character
9. Looks like Super Meat Boy is headed to Wii U
10. Halo 5's new Forge mode looks much improved
11. Minecraft will change forever with addition of flying cape
12. Is Headlander Double Fine's most whimsical game since Psychonauts?
13. The Beginner's Guide review
Oct. 6, 2015
1. Sonic Lost World is coming to PC in November
2. MGS fan is remaking the first Metal Gear in Unreal Engine 4
3. HoloLens dev kits to launch in Q1 2016 for $3k
4. Digital Foundry: Hands-on with Rainbow Six: Siege
5. Digital Foundry: Hands-on with Star Wars: Battlefront
6. Stone Age-set Far Cry Primal launches in February
7. Star Wars: Battlefront beta already being live-streamed
8. Battlefront's styling is pure Star Wars, but it's a Battlefield game at heart
9. Telltale pulls iOS versions of The Walking Dead, Wolf Among Us, more
10. Armikrog review
11. Super Mario Advance 4's rare e-Reader levels recreated in Mario Maker
12. Darksiders 2 Deathinitive Edition out 27th October
13. Mad Catz apologises for Rock Band 4 Xbox One shortages
14. Star Wars Battlefront PC specs confirmed
15. Metal Gear Solid 5 just got one of the craziest microtransactions yet
16. Ubisoft buys The Crew developer Ivory Tower
17. Soma and the art of internal consequence
18. Destiny will soon get microtransactions
19. Guitar Hero Live developer explains its track DLC model yet again
20. All GAME stores will soon get a dedicated Steam section
21. Skullgirls dev launches Indiegogo campaign for action-RPG Indivisible
22. Watch No Man's Sky wow Stephen Colbert
Oct. 5, 2015
1. Far Cry Primal is an ice age spin-off - report
2. Introducing Home Free: a stray dog sim
3. Ex-Metroid Prime devs announce twin-stick shooter Dead Star
4. Star Wars Battlefront won't have microtransactions
5. "I could do with a bit more money!": Yu Suzuki on the return of Shenmue
6. The Elder Scrolls Online's next expansion takes you to the Orc capital
7. Rock Band 4 review
8. Watch a Destiny fireteam take apart the game's hardest challenge
9. Face-Off: Tony Hawk's Pro Skater 5
10. Lego Dimensions review
11. Microsoft readies raft of Xbox One bundles for crucial Christmas 2015
12. Tony Hawk's Pro Skater 5 fails to make impression in UK chart
13. Pokémon lawyers pursue party-planning Pokéfan for $4k payout
14. Console Divinity: Original Sin gets a release date
15. Rock Band 4 alert: you can now re-download previously bought Rock Band DLC
16. Xbox One controller remapping coming for all pads soon
Oct. 4, 2015
1. Watch: Xbox One indie games you might fall in love with
2. The monstrous evolution of Amnesia: The Dark Descent
Oct. 3, 2015
1. Watch: Should some franchises stay in the past?
Oct. 2, 2015
1. Jeremy Irons and Brendan Gleeson added to Assassin's Creed cast
2. Watch: Uncharted - The Nathan Drake Collection live at 5pm
3. We've got 330 free Steam copies of The Escapists for you
4. MirrorMoon EP review
5. The next Sonic is mobile game Sonic Dash 2
6. Wheels of Aurelia: a game about driving?
7. PS1 at 20: Fluid's symphony of drugs, dolphins and drum'n'bass
8. Activision promises to address Tony Hawk's Pro Skater 5 issues
9. Cities Skylines: After Dark review
10. Criterion founders tease Burnout spiritual successor
11. Face-Off: Uncharted: Drake's Fortune on PS4
12. Free DLC pack hits Battlefield 4 this autumn
13. The original WipEout design document revealed
14. PC version of Batman: Arkham Knight goes back on sale at the end of October
15. Laura is a brand new character for Street Fighter 5
16. Destiny's two big PVP modes return soon - and they're a bit different
17. Tony Hawks Pro Skater 5 review
Oct. 1, 2015
1. Trackmania Turbo delayed until early 2016
2. Blood Bowl 2 review
3. Soma has sold 92k copies in a week
4. Watch: Ian try not to cry while playing Tony Hawk's Pro Skater 5
5. Nomad sky: Worlds Adrift is an unusual game
6. Zangief returns for Street Fighter 5
7. Square Enix cans convoluted Deus Ex: Mankind Divided pre-order program
8. PS1 at 20: Destruction Derby and the art of being an idiot
9. Bravo, UK games industry, which helps GamesAid raise ?564,000 in a year
10. Clandestine is a thrilling spy-'em-up, but you'll need a friend
11. Ubisoft made a J-pop song about a Chihuahua and it's barking mad
12. Dirt Rally's latest update introduces the sport's spiritual home