That's too bad. I don't know what is Capcom afraid of, people making a naked mod of Frank?

And thanks for keeping us up to date with the Humble Choice games.

NVIDIA’s Discrete GPU Market Share Swells To 94%, AMD Drops To 6% In Q2 2025, 27% Increase In AIB Shipments

https://wccftech.com/nvidia-gpu-market-share-swells-to-94-percent-amd-drops-to-6-in-q2-2025/

Insane but I suppose it makes sense. While Radeon did really good with RDNA 4's launch, we seen from Nvidia's financial that so did Blackwell. And with little to no presence in laptops/prebuilts while handhelds likely counting as iGPUs and not dGPUs, it makes sense as even in the DIY space, Nvidia has the mindshare. Hell they even discounted Blackwell according to past articles which doesn't happen very often with Nvidia gpus. And with Supers rumoured to increase the vram of 5070 to 18GB as well as the 5080... GG

But least AMD still has Ryzen while Intel is still losing in both cpu and gpu space.

Intel launches Arc Pro B50 graphics card at $349

https://videocardz.com/newz/intel-launches-arc-pro-b50-graphics-card-at-349

Acer shows Swift 16 AI, the first laptop with Intel Panther Lake

https://videocardz.com/newz/acer-shows-swift-16-ai-the-first-laptop-with-intel-panther-lake

Dolby Vision 2 announced with Authentic Motion feature

https://videocardz.com/pixel/dolby-vision-2-announced-with-authentic-motion-feature

The Wednesday gaming news:

SALES/PLAYER COUNTS & DEALS

You can pick up literally 382 games for $8 on Itch right now, with proceeds going 'directly to Palestine aid and relief'
https://www.pcgamer.com/games/you-can-pick-up-literally-382-games-for-usd8-on-itch-right-now-with-proceeds-going-directly-to-palestine-aid-and-relief/
If you're anything like me, your myriad social media feeds have become a rolling timeline of atrocities to which you feel compelled, uselessly, to bear witness. But here's an opportunity to do something, however small:
Itch.io is currently hosting Play for Peace – Games for Palestine 2025 Charity Bundle, an enormous 382-game pack that you can pick up for a tiny $8, with proceeds going "directly to Palestine aid and relief."
The games are, well, literally too many to list here, but would regularly retail for $1,177 altogether. A lot of them are small indie projects you might never have heard of (which isn't to say they don't look cool), but there are a few heavy hitters in there.

Steam has three new deals and also three new sales/events:

• Above Snakes will be 75% off until the 9th of September: https://store.steampowered.com/app/1589120/Above_Snakes
• Warhammer 40,000: Mechanicus gets an 80% discount until September 9: https://store.steampowered.com/app/673880/Warhammer_40000_Mechanicus
• Drug Dealer Simulator , that has a demo, is going to be 90% off until the same 9th: https://store.steampowered.com/app/682990/Drug_Dealer_Simulator
• These are the sales/events:
  • Clemmy's Best Indie Games Fall Showcase has lots and lots of upcoming games and a select few deals. The showcase will last until the 9th of September, the deals are another story: https://store.steampowered.com/curator/26397247/sale/BIGFallShowcase2025
  • Publisher/Developer aNCHOR Inc. Presents The Muv-Luv Memories Sale, with up to 60% discounts until the 17th of September: https://store.steampowered.com/curator/36850264/sale/Muv-LuvMemoriesSale
  • The Aichi Game Castle 2 Indie Expo is here… in an odd way. The page states that it will run between the 6th and the 21st of September, and of all the games listed, only one is on sale, but for only 24 hours: https://store.steampowered.com/curator/45345412/sale/AichiGameCastle2

Humble Store presents the The Crew Spotlight Sale, with up to 75% discounts during 4 days. All the keys are for UbiConnect: https://www.humblebundle.com/store/promo/the-crew-spotlight-sale.

Fanatical has the Aspyr Publisher Sale, with games up to 95% off during the next 7 days: https://www.fanatical.com/en/publishers/aspyr.

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MODS, EMULATORS & FAN PROJECTS

San Francisco Rush 2049 Gets Arcade-Perfect Fan Port on PC
https://www.dsogaming.com/news/san-francisco-rush-2049-gets-arcade-perfect-fan-port-on-pc
San Francisco Rush 2049 is an arcade racing game that never came out on PC. And while MAME can emulate it, it’s not the best way to experience it on PC. That’s because a team has released an unofficial native PC port of both San Francisco Rush 2049 and San Francisco Rush: The Rock.
Titled Project R, this is an unofficial, native port of the arcade games San Francisco Rush: The Rock and San Francisco Rush 2049 to Windows, macOS, and Linux.
To play Project R, you’ll need its ROM file. In other words, Project R does not include any of the game’s assets. So, this project is similar to the unofficial PC ports of Super Mario 64, Crash Team Racing, Sonic Unleashed, The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time, Majora’s Mask, Perfect Dark, and Jak & Daxter.
To run it, you’ll need a dedicated or integrated GPU supporting Vulkan 1.2. You’ll also need a CPU supporting the x86-64-v2 microarchitecture level. As said, Project R will work on Windows, Mac and Linux. The game supports both gamepads and wheel with pedal setups. However, it does not support the keyboard and mouse.
Its latest version, V0.7.1, came out a couple of months. This version brings a lot of improvements and optimizations. For instance, it improves the world object render system to reduce the number of descriptor sets required. All texture conversion functions are at least 4x faster now due to its latest updates. Moreover, the models that make up the player’s car will now always be set to the highest level of detail (LOD) in SF2049.
>> There is a 10 minute video in the article.

The Crew is set to spring back to life as fan-made server emulator project prepares to launch later this month
https://www.pcgamer.com/games/racing/the-crew-is-set-to-spring-back-to-life-as-fan-made-server-emulator-project-prepares-to-launch-later-this-month/
The Crew, the Ubisoft street racing game that met an unfortunate end in 2024, may live again. The Crew Unlimited, a fan-made effort to revive the game through a "custom server emulator," says the work is just about complete and will be ready to launch on September 15.
The server emulator is now "feature complete," according to a message on the newly launched Crew Unlimited website (via RPS) states. "All that is left to do is to thoroughly test and validate the software, then prepare the release."
"A lot of our time and effort has been put into the project, and it's finally coming to fruition," project lead whammy4 wrote. "We are as excited as you are. Thank you all for your patience, understanding and support."
The project is a reaction to Ubisoft's 2024 decision to close The Crew's servers, rendering the game unplayable as of April 1, 2024. Making matters worse, Ubisoft began revoking game licenses shortly after the servers went offline, a big step beyond simply delisting a game that seemed intended to make double-extra-sure that nobody would be able to play the game again in the future. The Crew Unlimited project member ChemicalFlood said at the time that the team was "deeply saddened by Ubisoft's choice to start revoking licences to this game when people have paid hard-earned cash for it," but added that the project would be able to bypass that restriction without having to modify any game files, "so the project is still on track."
The Crew Unlimited will be available for download from the TCU website, but The Crew itself will not: You'll need to own the game if you want to play, although the dev team noted in an FAQ that "as long as you manage to run the game files, we have absolutely no way to tell a legit copy from a non-legit one, so we just have to let you in."
The emulator will currently only work with PC versions of the game, but the TCU team says it might be possible to implement console support in the future. Mod support will be wide open in offline modes, but only cosmetic mods will be allowed when playing online.
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GAMING NEWS

Here are the PC requirements for Dying Light: The Beast
https://www.dsogaming.com/news/here-are-the-pc-requirements-for-dying-light-the-beast
Techland has released the official PC system requirements for Dying Light: The Beast. Dying Light: The Beast will be a standalone new game set in the Dying Light universe. So, let’s see what PC you’ll need in order to run it.

Watch 12 Minutes of Gameplay from Human Head Studios’ Canceled Prey 2
https://www.dsogaming.com/videotrailer-news/watch-12-minutes-of-gameplay-from-human-head-studios-canceled-prey-2
It looks like David Halsted, a former developer at Human Head Studios, has shared some videos from the canceled version of Prey 2. The first three videos are just early prototypes and don’t show much. But the other two are the ones that will really interest Prey fans.

The second part of the gaming news:

Capcom president says PS5 prices are why Monster Hunter Wilds' sales aren't doing so hot, and we're trying not to take that personally here at PC Gamer
https://www.pcgamer.com/games/rpg/capcom-president-says-ps5-prices-are-why-monster-hunter-wilds-sales-arent-doing-so-hot-and-were-trying-not-to-take-that-personally-here-at-pc-gamer/
Monster Hunter Wilds is going through the wringer at the moment—and while it's addressing some issues, namely its initially thin endgame content loop, it's still clunking along through some major performance woes in PC. Woes which, at the time of writing, won't be fully addressed to the end of the year.
But the major obstacle's totally the PS5 prices, says Capcom president Haruhiro Tsujimoto in an interview with Nikkei (thanks, VGC). Here's an excerpt, brought to you with machine translation—and all the caveats about intent and tone that come with such wondrous technology.

Left 4 Dead lead Mike Booth is making a new 'four-player co-op shooter built on the foundations of what made L4D special'
https://www.pcgamer.com/games/left-4-dead-lead-mike-booth-is-making-a-new-four-player-co-op-shooter-built-on-the-foundations-of-what-made-l4d-special/
Left 4 Dead project lead Mike Booth is working on something new, and if you're hoping it's something like L4D but different in some undefined, hopefully additive way, I have good news: It sure sounds like it.

Final Fantasy Tactics remaster devs built a replacement for its lost source code from fansite downloads, director says: 'I do want to thank all of the fans for all of their help in keeping that information archived'
https://www.pcgamer.com/games/final-fantasy/final-fantasy-tactics-remaster-devs-built-a-replacement-for-its-lost-source-code-from-fansite-downloads-director-says-i-do-want-to-thank-all-of-the-fans-for-all-of-their-help-in-keeping-that-information-archived/
Back in June, Final Fantasy Tactics: The Ivalice Chronicles director Kazutoyo Maehiro offered something of an explanation for why it's been more than a decade since FF Tactics has been playable on current platforms: Square Enix had lost the game's original source code.
At a recent PAX West 2025 panel on August 30, Maehiro offered additional details on how the devs of the Ivalice Chronicles remaster stitched together a replacement for the original FF tactics source code, and how we should all thank fan archivists for their contributions to that effort.

How to watch the 30-minute 007 First Light gameplay 'deep dive' at Sony's State of Play
https://www.pcgamer.com/games/action/how-to-watch-the-30-minute-007-first-light-gameplay-deep-dive-at-sonys-state-of-play/
Sony is about to unveil a little something for your eyes only. Well, to be fair, it's for your eyes and everyone else's eyes (but all those eyes only). At State of Play this week, Sony will show off 30 minutes of 007 First Light gameplay, and you can watch it on September 3 at 11:00 am PT / 2:00 pm ET / 8:00 pm CEST.

Borderlands 1's artstyle overhaul filled Gearbox CEO Randy Pitchford with dread because he thought he'd 'Have to go in and look at what they did' and 'shoot it in the head'
https://www.pcgamer.com/games/rpg/borderlands-1s-artstyle-overhaul-filled-gearbox-ceo-randy-pitchford-with-dread-because-he-thought-hed-have-to-go-in-and-look-at-what-they-did-and-shoot-it-in-the-head/
I'd be hard-pressed to come up with a series that 'plays it safe' more than Borderlands—and this isn't an insult. Every game I've played in the series has taken the same formula and added another nice crunchy little layer on top of it, and as a result, I've enjoyed basically every one I've touched. It's my ol' faithful, my pal, my homeboy, my rotten soldier, my sweet cheese, my good-time boy. What I'm saying is I like them a lot.
But there was a time when looter-shooters weren't ubiquitous. Not only was Borderlands doing something new back in (oh man) 2009, it also pulled off one hell of a Hail Mary—a complete top-to-bottom revamp of its artstyle that saw most of the game remade.

Big updates are coming to player housing in Guild Wars 2's next expansion
https://www.pcgamer.com/games/mmo/big-updates-are-coming-to-player-housing-in-guild-wars-2s-next-expansion/
Guild Wars 2's player housing is getting a big update next month, with the launch of the Visions of Eternity expansion. Players will have the chance to up sticks, trading the rustic homeliness of the existing Janthir plot for an island paradise instead. But more than just a prime piece of real estate, the most interesting part of the update is the ability to save and share your builds.

This RPG lets you enable (or disable) the Oxford comma, despite there being just 15 of them in the entire game: 'He added the setting when nobody was looking'
https://www.pcgamer.com/games/rpg/this-rpg-lets-you-enable-or-disable-the-oxford-comma-despite-there-being-just-15-of-them-in-the-entire-game-he-added-the-setting-when-nobody-was-looking/
I think we've got a new contender for The Most Specific UI Option award 2025, which I must emphasise, is an entirely real award that I definitely did not make up alongside my Most Specific Bug Fix 2025 award. Quartet, a lovely little turn-based RPG by a four-person team, lets you toggle the Oxford comma off and on again.

After a tease drove fans mad, Cyberpunk 2077 sheepishly warns that tomorrow's news will be quite boring, actually
https://www.pcgamer.com/games/rpg/after-a-tease-drove-fans-mad-cyberpunk-2077-sheepishly-warns-that-tomorrows-news-will-be-quite-boring-actually/
Cyberpunk 2077 sure had our attention the other day, when it posted a vague tease on its myriad social media accounts indicating that something—frustratingly undefined—would be happening on September 4.
(...)
Well, no. The official Cyberpunk 2077 X account intervened yesterday to assure everyone that, don't worry, the announcement is actually going to be boring.

What annoys me the most is that it's happening now, when AMD has launched very competitive cards that are actually well priced (for a change) and with good drivers, while Nvidia has been the opposite, with one of their worst generation uplifts is many years, with the expected prices and awful drivers. And yet, people still go for them, to the point of making the 5070 with its 12GB of VRAM the best new card on the Steam hardware survey.

At this point, there's nothing AMD can do to beat Nvidia. It's like the market assumes Nvidia is the brand to go, just like Playstation has that image for consoles.

Yea it's pretty much a "it is what it is" moment. Nvidia will need to pull an Intel for multiple generations at this point if Radeon wants to gain market share. I think Radeon will just continue to carve out a niche segment in the pc space in handhelds and DIY while Nvidia continues to dominate. Least Radeon will always have playstation to fall back to. If they can win Nintendo, that would give them another source of revenue since xbox seems to be on their way out. May god help us when rtx 6000 series comes out tho. I don't wanna even think about the prices then.

I have noticed in other forums, people are still of the belief that nVidia's drivers are better than AMD's.
Perception makes a helluva difference.

I was hoping AMD would claw back some marketshare, but nVidia's brand power is just impenetrable at the moment...

The 9060XT 16GB has actually impressed me as a GPU with how well it holds itself, it's definitely the best value buy in the mid-range segment.
I understand why the 9070 series has floundered with it's high inflated pricing, nVidia ironically is the better value in that segment IMHO.

nVidia doesn't screw up though. Well. Not really.

nVidia screwed up with NV1 when they pushed quadratics over polygons... And again with the Geforce FX with garbage SM2 performance... But even when they refused to adopt DX11 for a few generations (Tesla architecture), they still had a very compelling product from a performance/price perspective.

But since, they haven't made a colossal screw up like Intel with it's Netburst or re-badging 14nm for a decade... And any screw ups get quickly rectified within a year anyway due to their multiple GPU development teams constantly leap-frogging each other.

nVidia just has hardware execution down to a fine art... Something AMD has struggled to do over the past 15 years, with tons of rebadged GCN parts and abandoning flagship products for a generation here and there...

On the bright side, AMD doesn't actually need consoles anymore, Ryzen is bringing in cash and marketshare... And that is having a flow-on effect to integrated graphics with notebooks and handhelds which is justifying the existence of the Radeon team.

JPMorgan’s Big NVIDIA Update: All 6 Next-Gen Vera Rubin AI Chips Enter Final Pre-Production Stages At TSMC Amidst Extremely High AI Demand!

https://wccftech.com/jpmorgans-big-nvidia-update-all-6-next-gen-vera-rubin-ai-chips-enter-final-pre-production-stages-at-tsmc-amidst-extremely-high-ai-demand/

Samsung Reportedly ‘Desperate’ To Join NVIDIA’s Supply Chain, Willing To Sacrifice Profit Margins on Next-Gen HBM4

https://wccftech.com/samsung-reportedly-desperate-to-join-nvidia-hbm-supply-chain/

China Reportedly Advances to 5nm AI Chips as Domestic Firms Tape Out Two New Solutions For Model Training & AI PC Workloads

https://wccftech.com/china-advances-towards-5nm-ai-chips-as-domestic-firms-tape-out-two-new-solutions/

AMD RDNA 5 “Radeon” GPUs Are Codenamed After Transformers: Alpha Trion, Ultra Magnus & Orion Pax

https://wccftech.com/amd-rdna-5-radeon-gpus-codenamed-after-transformers-alpha-trion-ultra-magnus-orion-pax/

GPD Win 5 “Strix Halo” gaming handheld to feature Ryzen AI MAX 385/395 APU, 32GB, 64GB and possibly 128GB RAM options

https://videocardz.com/newz/gpd-win-5-strix-halo-gaming-handheld-to-feature-ryzen-ai-max-385-395-apu-32gb-64gb-and-possibly-128gb-ram-options

Noctua to now set to launch its liquid coolers in Q2 2026

https://videocardz.com/newz/noctua-to-now-set-to-launch-its-liquid-coolers-in-q2-2026

Radeon RX 9070 on Intel X99 motherboards: boot failures traced to BIOS, not hardware

https://videocardz.com/newz/radeon-rx-9070-on-intel-x99-motherboards-boot-failures-traced-to-bios-not-hardware#disqus_thread

The Thursday gaming news:

SALES/PLAYER COUNTS & DEALS

This week, the Epic Store gives away two games only one game: Monument Valley: https://store.epicgames.com/en-US/p/monument-valley-1d99d3.
Next week, the free games will be Monument Valley 2, Ghostrunner 2 and The Battle of Polytopia (that should have been one of the free games for this week).

Steam has new deals and sales/events:

• Jotunnslayer: Hordes of Hel is going to be 20% off until the 17th of September: https://store.steampowered.com/app/2820820/Jotunnslayer_Hordes_of_Hel
• Starless Abyss gets a 30% discount until September 17: https://store.steampowered.com/app/3167970/Starless_Abyss
• Astronimo will be 74% off until the 17th: https://store.steampowered.com/app/1808640/Astronimo
• Afterimage will have an 80% discount until September, the 17th: https://store.steampowered.com/app/1701520/Afterimage
• Source of Madness is going to be 94% off until… you may have guessed it, the 17th: https://store.steampowered.com/app/1315610/Source_of_Madness
• And these are the sales/events:
  • World of Tanks has launched its 2,0 update with some gifts and up to 20% discounts on some DLCs until the 10th of September: https://store.steampowered.com/curator/32977250/sale/wot_2_0_released
  • The Coma franchise Sale has its games up to 92% off until the 11th: https://store.steampowered.com/curator/32941522/sale/the-coma-franchise-sale
  • And Dota 2. The International is here and has a page for those interested: https://store.steampowered.com/sale/TheInternational2025

Humble Bundle has two new bundles for us:

• Indie Likes and Lites has up to 9 games to get during 20 days: https://www.humblebundle.com/games/indie-likes-and-lites
• LEGO Worlds Collide 2025 features up to up to 17 games to get during 20 days: https://www.humblebundle.com/games/lego-worlds-collide-2025

And Fanatical has these deals:

• Star Deal is The Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion Remastered, 33% off during 48 hours or until they run out of keys: https://www.fanatical.com/en/game/the-elder-scrolls-iv-oblivion-remastered
• Team17 Digital Ltd. puts its games on sal with up to 91% discounts during 7 days: https://www.fanatical.com/en/publishers/team17-digital-ltd
• The Platinum Collection - Build your own Bundle (September 2025) has 17 games to choose for your 3+, 5+ or 7+ game bundles during 27 days: https://www.fanatical.com/en/pick-and-mix/platinum-collection-build-your-own-bundle

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Ex-Skyblivion dev says it 'was never in the state that the videos would show off' as they claim it's crunching on a 'pointless and unachievable' 2025 release goal—but remaining devs seem optimistic
https://www.pcgamer.com/games/the-elder-scrolls/ex-skyblivion-dev-says-it-was-never-in-the-state-that-the-videos-would-show-off-as-they-claim-its-crunching-on-a-pointless-and-unachievable-2025-release-goal-but-remaining-devs-seem-optimistic/
Mega-mod Skyblivion—the one that remakes The Elder Scrolls 4: Oblivion in the swish new Skyrim: Special Edition engine—is set to release in a matter of months after over a decade of work. The news around this has been, on the whole, quite positive. The trailers look good, its dungeons are meant to be better, and Bethesda even gave the whole team keys for the official Oblivion Remaster back when that released.
But at least one team member, or former team member, isn't happy. Dee Keyes—listed as a world designer on Skyblivion's team page, though they have confirmed to RPS that they're no longer on the project—has taken to X to criticise the project over alleged mismanagement and for "crunching" to pursue "a pointless and unachievable release date."

GAMING NEWS

Watch 30 minutes of gameplay footage from IO Interactive’s 007 First Light
https://www.dsogaming.com/videotrailer-news/watch-30-minutes-of-pure-gameplay-footage-from-io-interactives-007-first-light
IO Interactive has released a new video, showcasing not 10, not 20, but 30 whole minutes of gameplay footage from 007 First Light. This video will give you a pretty good idea of what you can expect from this new 007 game. So, make sure to watch it.
>> IOI’s CEO asaid that they’ve gone with a young Bond for the gamers… whatever that means.

Nioh 3 gameplay video shows off the Takeda Shingen Boss Fight
https://www.dsogaming.com/videotrailer-news/nioh-3-gameplay-video-shows-off-the-takeda-shingen-boss-fight
IGN has shared a new gameplay video for Nioh 3, showcasing a boss battle featuring the Tiger of Kai, Takeda Shingen. So, if you are a Nioh fan, you should definitely check it out.

Thursday gaming news, part two:

Yes, Stardew Valley's newly announced update will probably slow down work on Haunted Chocolatier, 'but not as much as you might think'
https://www.pcgamer.com/games/life-sim/yes-stardew-valleys-newly-announced-update-will-probably-slow-down-work-on-haunted-chocolatier-but-not-as-much-as-you-might-think/
Stardew Valley creator Eric Barone, who said in April that he's "committed to not working on Stardew Valley until I'm done with Haunted Chocolatier," announced last week that he's working on Stardew Valley again. Well, hey, these things happen. But the good news (aside from more Stardew Valley) is that while Haunted Chocolatier might take a little longer to arrive as a result of the ongoing Stardew efforts, it probably (maybe) won't make a huge difference.

Obsidian promises 'No dictates' from its capitalist Microsoft overlords while making The Outer Worlds 2, but yes the devs appreciate the irony
https://www.pcgamer.com/games/rpg/obsidian-promises-no-dictates-from-its-capitalist-microsoft-overlords-while-making-the-outer-worlds-2-but-yes-the-devs-appreciate-the-irony/
The Outer Worlds, Obsidian's more-anti-corporate-than-anti-capitalist RPG, is set for a sequel. To hear our own Ted Litchfield tell it, that sequel might even be quite good. But there's an irony here, isn't there? The Outer Worlds 1 was conceived of in a whole other era, before Obsidian was snapped up by Microsoft (though it did eventually release after the studio was bought). The Outer Worlds 2, in all its anti-The-Man glory, is presented by Microsoft from root to stem.
Which is a bit incongruous. You don't get much more megacorp than Microsoft, with its multi-trillion-dollar market cap, brutal layoffs, and clamping down on protests on its own campus. But Obsidian is, at the very least, self-aware about it. "It'd be ridiculous to say that we don't notice that," game director Brandon Adler tells GamesRadar. "We obviously do. We think it's funny, and we kind of play into it."

Jetrunner is a great little 'Trackmania meets Titanfall' speedrunning platformer I had to peel myself away from to write this headline
https://www.pcgamer.com/games/action/jetrunner-is-a-great-little-trackmania-meets-titanfall-speedrunning-platformer-i-had-to-peel-myself-away-from-to-write-this-headline/
I have this uneasy feeling that, in a different life, I was a speedrunner. Not because I'm doing the videogame equivalent of 'I could paint that' at an art exhibit, but because whenever I sit down to play one of these games, I wind up glued to my screen for an hour in a self-perfecting trance.
Jetrunner is a nifty upcoming speedrunning game, described on its Steam page as "Trackmania meets Titanfall, that sees Nina White trying to be the very best that no-one ever was at zipping around dangerous construction sites. Also, Matthew Mercer's there and he's doing a somewhat-okay French accent.

007 First Light is the first time IO Interactive has taken on an outside project, but CEO Hakan Abrak isn't worried: 'We're able to stand on the shoulders of ourselves'
https://www.pcgamer.com/games/action/007-first-light-is-the-first-time-io-interactive-has-taken-on-an-outside-project-but-ceo-hakan-abrak-isnt-worried-were-able-to-stand-on-the-shoulders-of-ourselves/
It's been five long years since IO Interactive first announced that it would be taking on Project 007, now known as 007 First Light. It's a pairing that goes together seamlessly, as IO has been making Hitman games for almost 25 years now. But even with all that practice, it was still a huge undertaking.

You can finally ride a horse in Disney Dreamlight Valley thanks to its new expansion coming this November
https://www.pcgamer.com/games/life-sim/you-can-finally-ride-a-horse-in-disney-dreamlight-valley-thanks-to-its-new-expansion-coming-this-november/
Disney Dreamlight Valley has revealed its next DLC, Wishblossom Ranch, and thanks to a premiere trailer shared to the official YouTube page we've already had the first look at what to expect from the new realm. Three new characters are being added, alongside an entirely new area to explore and a "game changing mechanic" which I know most players will be stoked about.

As bugs and bad performance spoil an otherwise excellent Helldivers 2 update, Arrowhead CEO says its 'technical debt is crippling'
https://www.pcgamer.com/games/third-person-shooter/as-bugs-and-bad-performance-spoil-an-otherwise-excellent-helldivers-2-update-arrowhead-ceo-says-its-technical-debt-is-crippling/
A major Helldivers 2 update is here, but somebody invited the wrong kind of bugs to the party. The Into the Unjust update takes the fight to Terminid strongholds, plunging Super Earth's finest into cave systems guarded by acid-spitting bug dragons.
That's all well and good, but a new wave of bugs (the software kind) is threatening to ruin the good times. Folks are reporting huge, inexplicable framerate drops before and during missions, others are crashing all over the place, and those new cave expeditions have introduced some annoying quirks, like a tendency to respawn on top of the level, where the only option is to fall to your death.
Helldivers 2's technical state is bad enough that Arrowhead CEO Shams Jorjani spent hours yesterday responding to complaints in the Helldivers Discord, taking responsibility for the instability and explaining how Helldivers 2 has built up "technical debt" over time.

Blizzard co-founder Mike Morhaime announces layoffs at his new company Dreamhaven
https://www.pcgamer.com/gaming-industry/blizzard-co-founder-mike-morhaime-announces-layoffs-at-his-new-company-dreamhaven/
Dreamhaven, the company launched in 2020 by Blizzard co-founder Mike Morhaime, is laying off an undisclosed number of employees, primarily from its publishing group.

On the eve of Silksong, ultrawide monitor support is confirmed, and the soundtrack looks to be double the size of the original
https://www.pcgamer.com/games/action/on-the-eve-of-silksong-ultrawide-monitor-support-is-confirmed-and-the-soundtrack-looks-to-be-double-the-size-of-the-original/
Silksong comes out in less than 10 hours. By the time you read this it'll be even less than that. Heck, if you read this tomorrow, the game will already be out. Notice how I sound like an idiot? It's because Silksong is upon us, and I'm excited. I'd rather be playing it right now than writing this.
Every new detail on Silksong is of utmost importance: even the fact that it has ultrawide support. Silksong marketing guy Matthew Griffin confirmed as much earlier today. "For PC players, screen ratios up to 21:9 are fully supported," he posted on X, along with some screenshots to prove it (see them below, but don't get too excited: they're screenshots you've seen before, only wider now).
>> The game is already out.

'It's been out for years!': 11 years in, people are still asking Bethesda when The Elder Scrolls Online is coming out
https://www.pcgamer.com/games/the-elder-scrolls/its-been-out-for-years-11-years-in-people-are-still-asking-bethesda-when-the-elder-scrolls-online-is-coming-out/
To hear my fellow Morrowboomers tell it, The Elder Scrolls Online might—secretly, quietly—be the true heir to the lore-heavy weirdness that made The Elder Scrolls 3 so beloved. Unfortunately, I have one principle and it's 'avoid human contact as much as possible,' so I'll never find out if that's true or not. But with how good the MMO apparently is (82% positive on Steam!) it's a wonder you don't hear more about it, right?

Hacker jacks into Nexon game, causes a 'Koyuki apocalypse' by copy-pasting their favourite anime girl everywhere, forces 6 hours of emergency maintenance
https://www.pcgamer.com/games/rts/hacker-jacks-into-nexon-game-causes-a-koyuki-apocalypse-by-copy-pasting-their-favourite-anime-girl-everywhere-forces-6-hours-of-emergency-maintenance/
I always enjoy it when someone with great power decides to use it for great mischief, rather than great responsibility. As is the case of the hacker that wreaked havoc in Nexon's online RTS, Blue Archive, late last week.