Valve counts down the following 10 bestselling games for last week on their Steam service:

1. Middle-earth: Shadow of Mordor
2. Valve Complete Pack
3. Borderlands: The Pre-Sequel
4. Life is Feudal
5. Counter-Strike: Global Offensive
6. Sid Meier's Civilization: Beyond Earth
7. Borderlands 2: Game of the Year Edition
8. DayZ
9. Starpoint Gemini 2
10. Payday 2 Hotline Miami DLC

• Firaxis opens its doors at the first Firaxicon.

• Sid Meier's cultural victory - Eurogamer.net.
• #GamerGate Dev Interview- My Dreams Are In The Hands Of Media That I Largely Disagree With - One Angry Gamer.

• Sprint Announces Layoffs for October Costing the Company $160 Million. Thanks HARDOCP.

• PewDiePie Might Leave Disney to Start His Own Network -- Report.
• Redbox Instant is shutting down October 7. Thanks Ant via Slashdot.
• 64-bit Firefox poised to launch in the near future. Thanks HARDOCP.
• Amid rapid expansion, Amazon to shutter Kansas warehouse. Thanks HARDOCP.
• There are now half a billion streaming devices in households around the world. Thanks HARDOCP.

• Google's Giant Modular TV Project. Thanks HARDOCP.
• NVIDIA GeForce GTX 980 Dominates With OpenCL On Linux.
• Epson heralds death of ink cartridge with EcoTank printers. Inkjet mafia discovers refills. Thanks HARDOCP.
• Hack-o-lantern. Thanks HARDOCP.

• The Internet Is Broken, and Shellshock Is Just the Start of Our Woes. Thanks Ant.

• Ancient Space on Hooked Gamers.
• Defense Grid 2 on Christ Centered Gamer.
• Middle-earth: Shadow of Mordor on Worth a Buy.

• GOTTA WYSIWYG Boost Portable Chargers on TweakTown.
• QNAP SilentNAS HS-251 NAS Server on TweakTown.

• List of ethical concerns in video games (partial) - Leigh Alexander. Thanks Boing Boing…
• Car Bomb Threat at Borderlands Developer Gearbox's Headquarters…
• Game Giveaway of the Day - Sky Taxi- Top Secret. Thanks Ant…
• Keep Your Shadow Of Mordor Combo Going Forever. For combos lasting more than four hours, call your doctor…

R.I.P.: Former WGN-AM Program Director Kevin Metheny Passes Away. One of my old VH-1 bosses. His public image already suffered after he was famously nicknamed "Pig Virus" by Howard Stern, but I've never seen such a negative obituary. Kevin was wild, but those were wild times, and I think I can speak for a lot of my former coworkers in saying we enjoyed working for him.

Links:	Thanks Ant and Acleacius.
Play:	Barons Gate 2. Birden.
Media:	DESTINY (Honest Game Trailers). Super Mario World Lyrics. Thanks nin. Martel: The Mercurotti. Thanks HuffPo.
Follow-up:	'In 1976 I discovered Ebola, now I fear an unimaginable tragedy'.
The Funnies:	Choose your difficulty « EXTRALIFE.