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Valve trade-up change halves Counter-Strike skin market value
Counter-Strike 2’s skin economy lurched into freefall after Valve’s October 23 update. A single change to the Trade Up Contract system, allowing five Covert skins to be traded up into...
Battlefield 6 Season 1 trailer reveals new maps, modes, and weapons
Battlefield 6 Season 1, titled Rogue Ops, is arriving on October 28, and the new trailer lays out what players can expect: a fresh map, a round-based competitive mode, new...
EA removes Call of Duty-themed maps from Battlefield 6 Portal
Battlefield 6’s Portal mode is losing some of the community’s most recognizable recreations after EA flagged at least one Call of Duty-themed map as an unwelcome third-party reference. The takedown...
Rogue Trader 1.5 nerfs broken archetypes and trims a daemon playthrough
Owlcat has pushed out Rogue Trader update 1.5, and it reaches deep into some of the game's more extreme builds. The patch reworks archetypes and abilities that could trivialize combat,...
OpenAI launches ChatGPT Atlas browser – Mac users get first access
ChatGPT Atlas arrives on MacOS on October 21 with a right-side AI taskbar, Agent Mode, and Plus/Pro gated functionality while Windows and mobile builds are coming soon
Black Ops 7 to remove ‘Dexterity’ crutch after beta – Treyarch lays out gameplay changes
Treyarch has published a short developer update responding to playtest feedback from the Call of Duty: Black Ops 7 beta, which lists several concrete gameplay changes coming before launch. The...
War Within 11.2.5 hotfixes add new memento sources and buff DPS and healers
World of Warcraft’s War Within received a small but impactful hotfix on October 21 that touches Legion Remix, Timeworn Keystone rewards, and how Fragmented Mementos are earned. The update adds...
New PS5 firmware 25.07-12.20.00 is available now and adds serial number view and DualSense Edge stability fixes
Sony has pushed a new PlayStation 5 system update, version 25.07-12.20.00, and yes, it arrives as a relatively modest 1.319GB download. There are no dramatic feature overhauls here, but there...
League of Legends Patch 25.21 – what changed and how it affects solo queue
Patch 25.21 is live with targeted champion buffs, nerfs, and item tweaks that should shift solo queue priorities while Worlds remains on 25.20.
The Sinking City 2 delayed to 2026 as Frogwares cites war and survival-horror design demands
Frogwares says the Ukrainian studio pushed The Sinking City 2 from 2025 into 2026 after power outages and drone attacks slowed work, and because shifting to survival horror required new...
