This week in PC games: Star Wars: Galactic Racer, Hellraiser: Revival, and a throwback tycoon game about turning utopias into carparks
Happy this week, all! I regret to inform you that the videogame developers have been at it again. Sometimes, I find that the promising new releases distribute themselves evenly throughout the week, like butter perfectly spread over just the right amount of toast. And sometimes, as with this week's haul, they congregate weirdly on Thursday and Friday. It's as though they were trying to get away from me, like rats ambushed in the pantry, pawing frantically against the weekend's closed and bolted d
📅 05/10/2026
Some of the best spooky Linux games to get in the Steam Autumn Sale 2026
The Steam Autumn Sale 2026 is here, and we're getting in the spooky-season spirit going over some of the best rated horror-like Native Linux games. Read the full article here: https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2026/10/some-of-the-best-spooky-linux-games-to-get-in-the-steam-autumn-sale-2026/
📅 05/10/2026
Kingdom Come: Deliverance 2 lead is "bored and tired" of "repetitive" RPGs and "games for teenagers"
There are some well-worn tropes in RPGs. The protagonist is often some form of destined saviour, on a quest to defeat a cartoonishly evil villain, with a selection of side-characters along the way. Warhorse Studios actively rejects all of that when it comes to Kingdom Come: Deliverance, because in the studio's mind, they sell the genre short. In an interview with PC Gamer, Martin Klíma, co-founder of Warhorse Studios and executive producer on Kingdom Come: Deliverance 2 and its predecessor, pro
📅 05/10/2026
Best Buy’s Techtober Sale Challenges Prime Day with Major Video Game Deals and No Membership Fees
Best Buy's Techtober sale is now live, rivalling Amazon Prime Day with savings on new PS5 game releases, Xbox hardware bundles, and plenty more.
📅 05/10/2026
Kingdom Hearts Collection [I-III] (PS5) Review
On one hand, I need to give Square Enix props for going with a simple name like Kingdom Hearts Collection [I-III] for their latest compilation project. Still, on the other hand, the simplistic name feels like a disservice to the number of games prospective players can look forward to enjoying. Kingdom Hearts Collection [I-III] is the latest effort from Square Enix in bringing together the vast majority of legacy Kingdom Hearts titles together. Additional games include everything that was on the
📅 05/10/2026
I got my start writing for a PlayStation 2 magazine: These are my 12 PS2-pilled recommendations from the Steam Autumn Sale
What's great about the PS2 back catalogue is that it's too vast to have an encyclopedic knowledge of everything in there. The defining 20 or so games on the platform—God of War, Gran Turismo 3, Final Fantasy 10 and so forth—are very well known, and maybe Millennial players can recall a weirdo game or two like Mr Mosquito or Global Defence Force. One look at the games in the Japan-only Simple 2000 series, however, shows you just how deep the library goes. When's Demolition Girl getting a HD remas
📅 05/10/2026
Ace Combat 8 is far and away the series' biggest launch on Steam
Ace Combat 8: Wings of Theve has joined the ranks of September-October releases that have done very well commercially. The sequel, which officially launched on 2nd October following three days of early access, has been very popular on Steam. Read more
📅 05/10/2026
Final Fantasy Resonance feels so good to play because Square Enix 'experimented' with combining the best bits of FF5 and FF6
Final Fantasy Resonance, a game made from the ashes of closed-down mobile game Final Fantasy Brave Exvius, is good. Very good, in fact, as I learned at Gamescom 2026. It's basically a pixel-first FF RPG that takes old-school turn-based combat and modernises it. It feels like Octopath Traveler, but with all the classic Final Fantasy stuff in there, supported by some stunning HD-2D sprite work that looks simply divine. Read more
📅 05/10/2026
Valve give game developers more Steam Deck Framerate data
Valve have expanded their feedback for developers whose games are Steam Deck Verified to provide more performance data. Read the full article here: https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2026/10/valve-give-game-developers-more-steam-deck-framerate-data/
📅 05/10/2026
Raspberry Pi 4 and Raspberry Pi 5 2GB get price increases due to RAM demand
The RAM crisis continues to deepen thanks to the mass hardware buying from data centres, with Raspberry Pi yet again raising some prices. Read the full article here: https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2026/10/raspberry-pi-4-and-raspberry-pi-5-2gb-get-price-increases-due-to-ram-demand/
📅 05/10/2026
Gears of War: E-Day : deux réglages d’interface à activer pour rendre la Horde Siege plus agréable
Gears of War: E-Day propose une campagne, un mode Versus et Horde Siege, une nouvelle déclinaison coopérative de la Horde. Ce dernier réunit plusieurs escouades sur les grandes cartes de Kalona, avec des objectifs qui évoluent au fil des missions.... L’article Gears of War: E-Day : deux réglages d’interface à activer pour rendre la Horde Siege plus agréable est apparu en premier sur Xboxygen.
📅 05/10/2026
Galactic Network Maintenance
Galactic Network Maintenance will occur on Tuesday, October 6th @ 8:00 UTC. Any Helldivers remaining in-atmosphere during the blackout may be lost along with any rewards. Backend maintenance will last 2 hours. Follow Super Earth communication channels for updates.
📅 05/10/2026
Halo: Combat Evolved devient jouable dans un navigateur grâce à une recréation non officielle
La version originale de Halo: Combat Evolved, parue sur la première Xbox, est désormais accessible directement depuis un navigateur. Cette initiative non officielle illustre une tendance qui pourrait prendre de l’ampleur avec les outils d’IA. Elle reste toutefois fragile face... L’article Halo: Combat Evolved devient jouable dans un navigateur grâce à une recréation non officielle est apparu en premier sur Xboxygen.
📅 05/10/2026
Merci patron !
Martin Klima, le cofondateur de Warhorse Studios à qui l’on doit Kingdom Come : Deliverance, a une petite prière à adresser aux cieux du jeu vidéo : par pitié, faites que GTA VI sorte à 80 dollars (et même plus, ne soyons pas timides !) Selon le patron tchèque, le secteur court droit dans le mur. Entre le coût de développement des AAA qui s'envole et un parterre d’acheteurs qui ne s’élargit plus, augmenter le prix unitaire reste, d'après lui, la seule issue pour survivre sans empiler les microtr
📅 05/10/2026
A chat with Awesome Games Studio about Yet Another Zombie Survivors
Awesome Games Studio recently did the big 1.0 release for Yet Another Zombie Survivors and it seems like quite an indie success - so here's a little chat. Read the full article here: https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2026/10/a-chat-with-awesome-games-studio-about-yet-another-zombie-survivors/
📅 05/10/2026
Disney+ : toutes les sorties de la semaine avec une nouvelle série évènement tiré d'une licence culte
Disney+ commence octobre 2026 avec un énorme documentaire très attendu, mais aussi et surtout une nouvelle série évènement, spin-off d'une série culte.
📅 05/10/2026
Assassin’s Creed HEXE : cette fuite lève le voile sur ses personnages et son intrigue
Assassin’s Creed : Codename HEXE serait encore loin de sortir, mais de nouvelles informations pourraient déjà préciser son intrigue et ses personnages. MP1st a repéré plusieurs descriptions issues d’appels de casting. Elles donnent un aperçu plus concret de l’univers sombre... L’article Assassin’s Creed HEXE : cette fuite lève le voile sur ses personnages et son intrigue est apparu en premier sur Xboxygen.
📅 05/10/2026
« Nous sommes vraiment fiers » Fable 4 promet un véritable retour aux sources et rassure les fans
Malgré les craintes du public, Playground Games continue de rassurer les joueurs sur les combats de Fable, qui promettent d’être aussi accessibles que dans les précédents.
📅 05/10/2026
Check out some of the most highly rated Steam Deck Verified games from September 2026
Here's some of the highest-rated Steam Deck Verified games released on Steam during September 2026. Helping you find something great to play on the go! Read the full article here: https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2026/10/check-out-some-of-the-most-highly-rated-steam-deck-verified-games-from-september-2026/
📅 05/10/2026
World of Warcraft Forever : pourquoi vous allez devoir payer pour réserver le nom de votre personnage ?
La sortie de World of Warcraft Forever approche à grands pas, avec parmi les grandes nouveautés, le fait de pouvoir choisir un nom composé. Seulement, pour choisir le nom que vous désirez, payer peut devenir obligatoire…
📅 05/10/2026
Arc Raiders is getting a free trial to celebrate its biggest update yet
Arc Raiders studio Embark is making the extraction shooter free to play for four days alongside the launch of the game's biggest update yet, Frozen Trail. The studio spent the last few days detailing all the new aspects of the update, and has now announced a way for players curious about the game to try it out. Read more
📅 05/10/2026
Warhammer: Blood Bowl is Blood Bowl 3.5 rather than a whole new game, but based on the beta it's definitely an upgrade
It's a small thing, but being able to save and quit when I'm playing against the AI is a definite improvement in Warhammer: Blood Bowl. Though matches didn't take a huge amount of time in Blood Bowl 3, there were still nights where I'd find myself with 40 minutes before I should really go to bed thinking I can squeeze another game in, and then realizing too late I absolutely cannot... Read more.
📅 05/10/2026
Modern Warfare 4 : ce nouveau trailer de DMZ donne le coup d’envoi d’une semaine de révélations
Activision vient de diffuser le DMZ Worldbuilder Trailer de Call of Duty : Modern Warfare 4. Cette nouvelle vidéo pose le décor de Hajin et donne un aperçu plus concret de l’histoire qui attend les joueurs dans ce mode d’extraction.... L’article Modern Warfare 4 : ce nouveau trailer de DMZ donne le coup d’envoi d’une semaine de révélations est apparu en premier sur Xboxygen.
📅 05/10/2026
System76 COSMIC projects will no longer accept LLM-generated content in code submissions
The AI machine continues to cause problems for some developers - with System76 now banning LLM-generated content in code Pull Requests for COSMIC. Read the full article here: https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2026/10/system76-cosmic-projects-will-no-longer-accept-llm-generated-content-in-code-submissions/
📅 05/10/2026