And here’s part three:

It's happened again—WoW Legion: Remix players have had their demi-godhood taken away after grinding elites for several hours, and at least I don't have to talk about gulp frogs this time
https://www.pcgamer.com/games/world-of-warcraft/its-happened-again-wow-legion-remix-players-have-had-their-demi-godhood-taken-away-after-grinding-elites-for-several-hours-and-at-least-i-dont-have-to-talk-about-gulp-frogs-this-time/
In WoW: Mists of Pandaria Remix, players discovered ways to turbocharge their progression through its theoretically infinitely-scaling power system by killing lots and lots of gulp frogs, then had their ill-gotten gains nerfed. Now, in WoW: Legion Remix, players have discovered ways to turbocharge their progression through its—you get the point.

The all-powerful 3rd-person-camera lobby convinced Obsidian to stick a Bethesda-style view mode in The Outer Worlds 2
https://www.pcgamer.com/games/rpg/the-all-powerful-3rd-person-camera-lobby-convinced-obsidian-to-stick-a-bethesda-style-view-mode-in-the-outer-worlds-2/
A thing about me is: whenever I've tapped over into third-person mode in a Bethesda game, it's been a horrible mistake. It simply feels like the wrong way to play those games, like one of those mods that crowbars VR-support into games designed to be played on a flat screen—a novelty, but not something I'd ever use for a full playthrough.
Well, imagine how scandalised I was when I learnt that not only do people prefer to play these sorts of games that way, but that contingent is sizeable enough to alter Obsidian's thinking when it comes to The Outer Worlds 2. Chatting to Game Informer, game director Brandon Adler says a desire from fans made the studio revise its plans to stay strictly first-person.

Despite past posting, Randy Pitchford is actually 'happy to live in that world' where Borderlands 4 complaints aren't about 'how we f*cked up the story', after all
https://www.pcgamer.com/games/rpg/despite-past-posting-randy-pitchford-is-actually-happy-to-live-in-that-world-where-borderlands-4-complaints-arent-about-how-we-f-cked-up-the-story-after-all/
Borderlands 4 has had some time to brew in the public consciousness, and the general consensus—one I agree with—is that the story is just… fine. If anything, it's a little too middle-of-the-road, but given my key enjoyment of the game has a lot to do with the shooting and very little to do with the dialogue, I was happy to let inoffensive text warble in the background.
Given what we've had before in Borderlands 3, it was still a big improvement, and I even found myself charmed by one or two character moments. Not a terrible swerve from the outdated-on-launch memes, all told.
The folks at Gearbox are happy with the feedback, too—Sam Winkler, the game's narrative lead, comments at a dev panel in Pax Australia 2025 (thanks, GamesRadar+): "It's been great! It's been really good—I'll be honest, I'm really happy with it." And hey, you know what, Winkler isn't wrong to feel that way.

Capcom execs were bewildered that people might want to play original Resident Evil when GOG approached them about it: 'We have all of those remakes. It’s already the superior experience'
https://www.pcgamer.com/games/resident-evil/capcom-execs-were-bewildered-that-people-might-want-to-play-original-resident-evil-when-gog-approached-them-about-it-we-have-all-of-those-remakes-its-already-the-superior-experience/
I tend to share my colleague Ted Litchfield's philosophy when it comes to remakes. Do what you want (though I prefer reinvention to a one-to-one remake), just don't kill access to the original. It doesn't seem like too much to ask for: the kids get to play a version of a classic, I get to keep playing my old favourite like 2005 never ended. Everyone's happy.
Everyone but Capcom, anyway, which apparently took some real arm-twisting to get the original Resident Evil 1, 2, and 3 PC releases on GOG last year. It seems GOG had to make a few persuasion rolls to get Capcom to agree to it. Not necessarily because the company had business concerns about the move, but more because its execs literally couldn't conceive of why anyone would want to play the originals when their shiny remakes exist.

Well, with MSoft and Qualcomm trying to counter Apple's laptops with their ARM chips and OS, plus Google (somewhat) merging Android and Chrome OS, this is something Valve needs to keep in mind. Plus more options to gamers to game with or without Windows.

When it's not one thing it's another, but it feels like there is always a way to make computer hardware more expensive than it should be, and not jus for PC gamers (that smaller drive on the PS5 has likely happened for this reason).

I hope manufacturers can catch up quickly with the demand, but I feel bad for those trying to upgrade their PCs right now.

That's a lot of shoot'em'ups. Too bad.

It's also a shame that they aren't doing a sale as a last hurrah!

By the way, I'm so glad multi-quote is fixed.

So those two will be the kind of monsters that make AI companies go buying power plants for, right?

At least they won't need to pay for heating during the winter.

I really hope so! It would suck if AMD pulled a d'ck move that would prevent that from happening.

As the article say, they deny any involvement, but MSI doesn't say anything about cutting ties with the distributor who bought all those cards.

They're all too happy to take the money without dealing with the legal problems that come with it.

Oh, by the way, Steam has published the best releaes from September:

You can check the silver and bronze releases here: https://store.steampowered.com/charts/topnewreleases/september_2025

Yeah. It looks like zettascale computing is coming sooner than expected.

I remember back a few years ago an estimate that high-level machine intelligence would probably require 10³⁰ - 10³⁴ FLOPS training runs, which might start to become possible by the end of the decade if all these data centers come online.

We're running instead of walking, and that always ends in disaster.

The thing, tho, is what date will they use to train those high.level models? Because I've seen online how current models get dumber because most of the new data you can find online is made by AI bots, not humans, and that kind of data has no value and is full of errors.

IIRC, there's a few hundred trillion tokens worth of human-created data available in the internet, so in theory that should be enough until 2030 - 2032.

If transformers can't do a relatively general purpose tool after this timeframe, I'm not sure what these companies would do. Pivot to a new paradigm like neuromorphic computing seems more promissing than pay people to create more content or feed syntethic content back into these models.

China, by the way, is years ahead of everyone else in that field.

Yeah, quite exciting times. I'm on the cusp of ordering AYN Thor since I've seen how Gamehub on Android works and connects with Steam, so you can play on the go on something that's actual handheld, instead of these oversized portables in PC handheld market. Sure, I don't like gaming on handhelds, but it's necessity, since I'll be crunching for many more months, and sure, I'll be limited to less demanding or older games, but I'll take anything at this point.

Speaking of games, another Next Fest - I might be able to sneak in few hours on Sunday, and apart from Ash and Steel demo that I want to try, do you have anything to recommend?

“Our Competitor Is Also Our Very Good Customer,” TSMC CEO Says, Throwing Subtle Shade at the Attention Around Intel

https://wccftech.com/our-competitor-is-also-our-very-good-customer-tsmc-ceo-says-throwing-subtle-shade-at-intel/

ASUS ProArt 8K PA32KCX display launches this month – world’s first 8K HDR mini LED

https://videocardz.com/newz/asus-proart-8k-pa32kcx-display-launches-this-month-worlds-first-8k-hdr-mini-led

GeForce RTX 5070 price drops below $500 for the first time

https://videocardz.com/newz/geforce-rtx-5070-price-drops-below-500-for-the-first-time

Gigabyte launches GAMING A16/A18 laptops with rebranded Core 200 and Ryzen 200 CPU

https://videocardz.com/newz/gigabyte-launches-gaming-a16-a18-laptops-with-rebranded-core-200-and-ryzen-200-cpu

DDR5-13010 MT/s memory overclock world record is now official

https://videocardz.com/newz/ddr5-13010-mt-s-memory-overclock-world-record-is-now-official

Frore Systems introduces LiquidJet coldplates for 1400W NVIDIA Blackwell Ultra GPUs and beyond

https://videocardz.com/newz/frore-systems-introduces-liquidjet-coldplates-for-1400w-nvidia-blackwell-ultra-gpus-and-beyond

Samsung sets its next-gen memory milestones with HBM4e reaching 13 Gbps per stack

https://videocardz.com/newz/samsung-sets-its-next-gen-memory-milestones-with-hbm4e-reaching-13-gbps-per-stack

The Thursday gaming news:

SALES/PLAYER COUNTS & DEALS

The Epic Store gives away two games:

• Amnesia: The Bunker: https://store.epicgames.com/en-US/p/amnesia-the-bunker-9d5799
• Samorost 3: https://store.epicgames.com/en-US/p/samorost-3-0c4489

Next week, they’ll give away Fear the Spotlight.

GOG has three new sales/promos::

• Post-apocalyptic Games Promo features up to 90% discounts during the next 7 days: https://www.gog.com/en/promo/20251016_postapo_promo
• Atari Publisher Sale has games up to 85% off during 10 days: https://www.gog.com/en/promo/20251016_atari_publisher_sale
• Renowned Series Promo will have games with up to 95% discounts during 7 or 10 days (the site says both): https://www.gog.com/en/promo/20251016_renowned_series_promo

Steam has three new deals (I think there’s an extra one but it’s NSFW and it doesn’t appear without login in) and one new event:

• Rift Riff is going to be 30% off until the 22nd of October: https://store.steampowered.com/app/2800900/Rift_Riff
• Breakout Invaders gets a 50% discount until October, the 29th: https://store.steampowered.com/app/366700/Breakout_Invaders
• The Expanse: A Telltale Series will be 60% off until the 29th: https://store.steampowered.com/app/1708010/The_Expanse_A_Telltale_Series
• And this one is the event:
  • Gamscom Asia is live with upcoming titles, demos and some games on sale. I’ve games with up to 80% discounts, and the deals will end (at least) between the 19th and the 28th: https://store.steampowered.com/sale/gamescomasiaxthailandgameshow2025

Fanatical new BYO Story Rich Bundle comes with 17 titles to choose from for your 3+, 5+ or 7+ game bundles during 34 days: https://www.fanatical.com/en/pick-and-mix/build-your-own-story-rich-bundle

SOFTWARE & DRIVERS

Steam has hit a new all-time record with over 41 million CCUs
https://www.dsogaming.com/news/steam-has-hit-a-new-all-time-record-with-over-41-million-ccus
A couple of days ago, Steam hit a new all-time record with over 41 million concurrent users. This comes seven months after the previous record of 41 million concurrent users.
A lot of people may assume that this was due to the Steam Next Fest event. However, I believe that BF6 was mainly the game that pushed Steam to hit this new record.
>> I decided to not alter the article and leave the little mistake in it.

MODS, EMULATORS & FAN PROJECTS

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GAMING NEWS

Rules of Engagement: The Grey State is a new horror free to play PvPvE extraction shooter
https://www.dsogaming.com/news/rules-of-engagement-the-grey-state-is-a-new-horror-free-to-play-pvpve-extraction-shooter
Grey State Studio has just announced a new horror tactical free to play PvPvE shooter, called Rules of Engagement: The Grey State. To celebrate this announcement, the team shared a cinematic and gameplay trailer.

New EXODUS Screenshots Tease a Mass Effect-Style Sci-Fi Adventure from Ex-BioWare Devs
https://www.dsogaming.com/screenshot-news/new-exodus-screenshots-tease-a-mass-effect-style-sci-fi-adventure-from-ex-bioware-devs
Archetype Entertainment has released some new screenshots from its upcoming Mass Effect-like sci-fi action adventure game, EXODUS. This is a game most Mass Effect fans should keep an eye on. So, if you are one of them, you should check out these new screenshots.

Open-World MMO Sword of Justice Releases on November 7th, PC Demo Available for Download
https://www.dsogaming.com/news/open-world-mmo-sword-of-justice-releases-on-november-7th-pc-demo-available-for-download
NetEase Games has announced that its open-world MMO, Sword of Justice, will be released on November 7th. To celebrate this announcement, the team shared a new trailer, as well as a PC demo.

Where Winds Meet Gets Official Open-World Gameplay Trailer
https://www.dsogaming.com/videotrailer-news/where-winds-meet-gets-official-open-world-gameplay-trailer
IGN has released a new trailer for Where Winds Meet, showing off its beautiful open world. Players will explore many different places inspired by 10th-century China. So, you’ll get to explore green forests and busy markets, to peaceful palaces and more.

Doom: The Dark Ages Update 2.2 Released – Full Patch Notes
https://www.dsogaming.com/patches/doom-the-dark-ages-update-2-2-released-full-patch-notes
id Software has released Title Update 2.2 for Doom: The Dark Ages and shared its full patch notes. So, let’s see what this new update brings to the table.