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Story 01 Extraction shooters ARC Raiders official news

ARC Raiders Goes Free for Four Days on October 8, the Day Frozen Trail Lands

Embark Studios confirmed on October 2 that ARC Raiders will be free to play on Steam, PlayStation 5, and Xbox Series X|S from October 8 at 09:00 UTC until October 12 at 08:00 UTC. It is the game's first free window, timed to its first anniversary. Free players get the full game, including the Frozen Trail update that ships the same day with the Pendola Pass snow map, the ARC Frigate, Weapon Amplification, and a reworked skill tree.

Read full story Source: ARC Raiders official news (arcraiders.com)
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Story 02 FPS Kotaku

A Used Ryzen CPU Came With Its Last Owner's Valorant Hardware Ban

A German player bought a second-hand Ryzen 7 5800X3D on Kleinanzeigen in late September and got blocked from Valorant on first launch. Riot support reportedly said the chip's ID had been on Vanguard's hardware ban list since August 12, when the previous owner was caught cheating, and that nothing could be done. Kotaku and Tom's Hardware reported it on October 3; hardware bans reportedly expire after up to four months, so the chip should clear around mid-December.

Read full story Source: Kotaku (kotaku.com)
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Story 03 FPS Apex Legends Steam news (patch)

Apex Cuts Axle's Slide Control in Half and Bans a Player Who Crashed Lobbies With Ballistic

Respawn's October 1 patch nerfs Axle's passive slide lateral control by 50 percent, disables aim assist for anyone boosted by her Nitro Gate, and cuts her Kickstart drone chase from 10 to 8 seconds. The same day, the anti-cheat team said a player used a modified client to duplicate optics through Ballistic's Sling passive, overloading servers until matches crashed, then rejoined to farm disconnected squads. That account is permanently banned and the exploit is patched.

Read full story Source: Apex Legends Steam news (patch) (steamstore-a.akamaihd.net)
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Story 04 FPS Battlefield 6 Steam news

Battlefield 6 Says About 3 Percent of Matches Had a Cheater in August

EA's October 2 anti-cheat report for Battlefield 6 tracks Match Infection Rate, the share of matches touched by at least one suspected cheater. It started August at 4.64 percent, fell as low as 2.89 percent on August 25, then rose to 3.24 percent by August 31. EA Javelin, the in-house anti-cheat, blocked 327,756 cheat or tamper attempts that month, and EA says 105 of the 110 cheat sellers it tracks reported detections or downtime.

Read full story Source: Battlefield 6 Steam news (steamstore-a.akamaihd.net)
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Story 05 FPS Far Far West Steam news

Far Far West Drops Its Halloween Skin Vault After Admitting It Was FOMO

Evil Raptor's October devlog for Far Far West, the 1 to 4 player co-op western shooter, details a Halloween event across three maps (Far West, Area 41, and the new Redwood map) with rituals, event currency, and an exclusive boss. The studio reversed its earlier plan to lock event skins away until next year: they will return to the shop for gold at a higher price after the event. Redwood was cut by almost 40 percent after a bad playtest.

Read full story Source: Far Far West Steam news (steamstore-a.akamaihd.net)
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Story 06 FPS Rust Steam news

Rust's Livestock Update Lets You Breed Cows and Sheep and Burn Spoiled Meat for Power

Facepunch's October 1 Rust update adds cows and sheep that players can capture, fence in, breed for better genes, and sell at a new stable vendor. Cows give milk that can be refrigerated and skimmed into stronger cream, sheep give wool worth up to 400 per trade-in, and a hand-stirred Biofuel Generator turns raw or spoiled meat into power. The new navmesh also lets NPCs walk into player bases and respect doors.

Read full story Source: Rust Steam news (steamstore-a.akamaihd.net)
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Story 07 Free to try s&box Steam news

s&box Is Free on Steam Until October 5 With 400 Game Jam Games to Try

Facepunch's Source 2 sandbox s&box is free to play on Steam from October 2 at 6pm BST until October 5 at 10am PT, a play window and not a free-to-keep claim. The free weekend celebrates the third Game Jam, which drew over 400 games built in three weeks around the theme "One More Round". The finalists were GAMMA TEAM, a Chernobyl co-op salvage run, and RUN IT AGAIN, a speed-focused FPS, fighting for a 20,000 pound first prize.

Read full story Source: s&box Steam news (steamstore-a.akamaihd.net)
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Story 08 Just released GamingOnLinux

Minecraft Dungeons II Now Runs on Steam Deck After a Broken Launch

Minecraft Dungeons II launched September 29 unplayable on Steam Deck and SteamOS, despite pre-release promises of Deck support that were quietly removed. A patch reported by GamingOnLinux on October 2 makes it playable, though the on-screen keyboard may still fail, and the developers say full Deck Verified status comes later. The same update raises the emerald currency cap from 9,999 to 99,999 on every platform.

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Story 09 Coming soon Gematsu

Jagex Reveals RS4 Half an Hour After Asking RuneScape Veterans to Start Over

At RuneFest on October 3, Jagex announced RS4, a working title for a new standalone RuneScape MMO in Unreal Engine, set in Ashenfall and still a few years away. About 30 minutes earlier it revealed RuneScape Reignited, a fresh-start version of RuneScape 3 launching December 2 with a new economy, new hiscores, no Treasure Hunter microtransactions, and free access for non-members through December 12. No test sign-ups exist for RS4 yet.

Read full story Source: Gematsu (gematsu.com)
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Story 10 Other VGC

GTA 6's Pulled PEGI Rating Describes Decapitation, Cocaine on Demand, and Sex Scenes

PEGI, Europe's age rating board, published and then removed a detailed PEGI 18 listing for Grand Theft Auto VI on October 3, VGC reported. Screenshots show it described realistic decapitation and dismemberment, "frequent and prominent" drug use including cocaine the player can snort at any time, nudity, and scenes of intercourse. Rockstar has not commented. The ESRB already rates the game M, and it launches November 19 on PS5 and Xbox Series X|S.

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Story 11 Other VGC

Kingdom Come's Warhorse Wants GTA 6 to Make $80 the New Normal

Warhorse Studios co-founder and COO Martin Klima told VGC on October 2 that he hopes GTA 6's $80 standard price gives other big studios cover to raise prices, calling a price rise "long overdue" and saying everybody is "scared to death" of it. GTA 6 costs $80, or $100 for the Ultimate edition, which Take-Two says is outselling the standard version in pre-orders. The same report cites a survey where 62 percent of engaged players no longer buy at full price.

Read full story Source: VGC (videogameschronicle.com)
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Story 12 Other Kotaku

Activision and Bethesda Shut Down AI-Built Modern Warfare 2 and Fallout Projects

Kotaku reported on October 3 that two Microsoft-owned publishers moved against AI-made fan projects in one week. Bethesda allegedly sent a cease and desist over Fallout: New York, a browser game with quests, dialogue trees, and a working Pip-Boy that its creator built with an AI model and pulled on October 1. Activision used copyright claims to take down footage and restrict code from an AI-assisted decompilation of the original Modern Warfare 2 PC source.

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Story 13 Console specifics Push Square

Another PSN Account Was Hijacked Through Sony Support, Even With 2FA On

Push Square reported on October 3 that community figure RealRadec lost control of their PlayStation Network account after attackers used social engineering on Sony's account recovery. With only a public PSN name, the linked email, and a transaction ID or purchase date, the attackers got the account email changed, even though two-factor authentication was enabled. It mirrors podcaster Colin Moriarty's May 2026 hijack, and Sony has not announced any fix to the recovery process.

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Story 14 Console specifics VGC

The Newest PS5 Slim Quietly Gets a Replaceable Clock Battery and New Cooling

A teardown of the Limited Edition Wolverine PS5 Slim by technician Modификator89, reported by VGC on October 2, found a revised EDM-051 motherboard. The clock battery is now a replaceable CR2032 coin cell instead of a soldered part, the HDMI retimer is cheaper, and the cooling uses a new heatsink with a liquid metal setup and better containment, similar to the PS5 Pro. Sony has not announced the revision.

Read full story Source: VGC (videogameschronicle.com)
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Story 15 Hardware VGC

Micron Says the Memory Shortage Gets Worse in 2027, With Much Higher Prices

Micron CEO Sanjay Mehrotra said this week that the company has already sold most of its 2027 memory output, that supply will be tighter in 2027 and 2028 than in 2026, and that customers face "much higher prices" next year, VGC reported on October 2. AI data centres are locking in long-term deals. New Micron factories come online in 2028, and Mehrotra said he has no line of sight to supply and demand balancing.

Read full story Source: VGC (videogameschronicle.com)
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Story 16 Hardware Kotaku

Micro Center Makes RTX 5090 Buyers Show ID and Sign a No-Export Pledge

A Reddit user reported that Micro Center in Tustin, California made them sign a one-page form and scan their driver's licence before buying an RTX 5090, Kotaku reported on October 3. The form asks buyers to state their intended use, give a home address, promise not to resell or give the card away, and keep it in the United States, stamped "NO EXPORT - NO EXCEPTIONS". Other buyers reported similar checks, which appear tied to US export limits on GPUs.

Read full story Source: Kotaku (kotaku.com)
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