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Avatar: Frontiers of Pandora will add a free third-person mode and New Game+
Massive Entertainment’s 2023 open-world FPS gains on-the-fly third-person switching and a New Game+ mode in a free December 5 update.
War Thunder update 2.49.0.73 fixes turret roof armor calculation, radar and replay bugs
Small hotfix from Gaijin corrects composite armor handling on Merkava Mk.4 and Strv 122, plus several interface and replay issues.
Arc Raiders play test: an extraction game that actually clicked
Arc Raiders heads to PC, PS5 and Xbox on October 30, following a Server Slam play test that drew almost 190,000 Steam players; third-person extraction meets base-building in a $40...
Embark calls ARC Raiders a 10-year game and won’t publish a public roadmap before launch
Design director Virgil Watkins says Embark is planning long-term live support and is avoiding a roadmap to prevent broken promises; ARC Raiders launches Oct 31 on PC, PS5 and Xbox...
Stalcraft: X teases Encaged session mode with grim underground teaser
A Steam news post and trailer hint that Stalcraft: X will get an Encaged session mode focused on underground mazes
Escape From Duckov sells 500,000 Steam copies in its first three days
Top-down, duck-themed extraction shooter Escape From Duckov reaches a half million Steam sales and peaks at about 182,000 concurrent players
The Division 2 Halloween Event returns on October 21 with Houndsman hunt and Quickstep pistol
Event runs October 21 - November 11 on PC, PlayStation and Xbox, adding Mini Warhounds, Houndsman Bounties, a Project Chain and Twitch Drops
Starfield PS5 port said to wait until 2026
An insider on X says the announcement for a PlayStation 5 release of Starfield is unlikely before 2026, after earlier chatter suggested a 2025 update.
Darktide Hotfix #80 (1.9.4) rolls out with class tweaks, captain health cuts and crash fixes
Hotfix 1.9.4 adjusts class nodes, reduces some enemy boss health values, and fixes several crashes and cosmetic bugs on PC and consoles.
Nvidia CEO says the company is “100% out of China” and warns US policy could backfire
Jensen Huang told the Citadel Securities conference Nvidia has lost its Chinese market share and urged caution as export rules and market pauses keep H20 AI GPUs off Chinese shores.
