The Binding of Isaac is a randomly generated action RPG shooter with heavy Rogue-like elements. Following Isaac on his journey players will find bizarre treasures that change Isaac’s form giving him super human abilities and enabling him to fight off droves of mysterious creatures, discover secrets and fight his way to safety.

The Binding of Isaac: Afterbirth is the massively updated expansion to 2014's roguelike of the year, The Binding of Isaac: Rebirth. Following Isaac one more time on his journey players will find bizarre treasures that change Isaac’s form giving him super human abilities and enabling him to fight off droves of mysterious creatures, discover secrets and fight his way to safety.

However, early user impressions for Sword Coast Legends have been polarizing. While many players love it, it is clear that for many, Sword Coast Legends did not meet their expectations. For those who have expressed disappointment in the game, I have just one thing to say: "We hear you." We are a very small, independent development team, and we would not have made it this far without you. We thank you for your continued support. In D&D, the party is everything, and you are the best party to have, by far.

As much and as long as we've labored to launch SCL, this is really just step one, a foundation for an even greater experience we have always intended to improve and expand. Our goal has always been to put Sword Coast Legends into the hands of would-be adventurers and to work with them to improve that experience. We have an aggressive list of content and updates planned for the near-term... one that will be delivered to you at no additional charge, starting TODAY!

Halloween Update: "The Pumpkin Patch": October 30th

• New "Liars' Night" themed area and placeables in the spirit of Halloween
• Cemetery DM location with over 35 new placeable objects and new player gear
• Screen nudge with mouse (toggled option)
• Players will now be able to move the camera by nudging the edges of the screen. The WASD keys and the middle mouse button will still work the way
• they currently do.
• Auto-heal at Adventurer's Camp
• When entering the adventurer's camp, the party will heal any damage previously taken.
• DM collect quests will display "x of x found" on the HUD
• Hotkey added to re-center camera on player
• Doubled the max length for DM quest conversation text
• Added the option to lock your cursor to the window
• Bug fixes

DOTA 2 includes an experimental feature that allows you to enable vsync with minimal latency. Normally enabling vsync adds another frame of latency causing some inputs to feel delayed. With this new feature the engine will attempt to schedule simulation and rendering to coincide with the start of the new frame on your monitor. It is experimental currently and only available as a console variable. We will add it to the main UI if it is successful for enough users. It requires a PC that can maintain a framerate higher than your refresh rate (usually 60 frames per second or higher).

To try it, enable VSync in the video options panel. Then open the console and set this variable:

r_experimental_lag_limiter 1

You can toggle it on & off to see how it improves your latency.

To turn it back off use the setting:
r_experimental_lag_limiter 0

Please only post feedback about this feature in this thread.

Try Grimoire: Manastorm for FREE starting now through Sunday at 1 PM Pacific Time. During this time Grimoire will also be available for 25% off!

Grimoire: Manastorm is a fast paced multiplayer shooter featuring magical tactical combat and six unique classes. In Grimoire ammo and cover systems have been replaced by genre-blending mechanics that reward clever play as much as reaction time. As a powerful wizard summon immovable objects and unstoppable forces- then watch them collide in spectacular arcane explosions. Travel instantaneously or turn your skin to impenetrable stone when enemies call down storms of meteors, summon deadly blizzards, and rip apart the fabric of space and time itself to destroy you. Use every trick at your disposal to lure opponents into deadly traps and your own devastating sorcery.

Players will be able to experience the entire game using their VR devices; every track and game mode will have full support on both the console and the PC. Give the campaign a go and test your skills on over 200 beautiful, massive tracks.

Trackmania Turbo is currently being showcased with the Oculus Rift as part of the Electronic Sports World Cup (running from October 28 through November 1) at Paris Games Week. This marks Trackmania’s ninth consecutive year as part of the tournament, but it is the first time the tournament will include virtual reality.

Game Tycoon is back and just as the games industry has evolved, so has Game Tycoon.

Choose one of the three developers and develop the video game hits of tomorrow for PC, console, handhelds, smartphones and other platforms.

As an indie game developer, you find yourself mixing it with the big boys. To survive, as an indie in this cutthroat business, you will need to be creative and nimble. Spot the niche, back your hunches and go for it!

Experience the thrill and fascination of game development through the eyes of a development studio. Uses technologies and follow industry trends from 1980 right up until 2030. All of which are in even more detailed than before.

Prepare for the bar to be raised on deep-space 2D dog-fighting! GALAK-Z is a modern, A.I. and physics-driven open-world action game, viewed through the lens of the classic 16-bit space shooter. Powered by the next-generation Cyntient AI platform, GALAK-Z puts players in control of anime-inspired spacecraft inhabiting procedurally generated worlds.

In GALAK-Z both stealth and skill are required to defeat truly intelligent enemies. You will be forced to outsmart enemies that think, react and cooperate like seasoned pilots! Master your ship’s sublimely-honed controls as you blast enemies, unleash missile salvos, and even toss your opponents, mech-style, to their explosive demise.

In the video, you'll see Zachariah fighting and exploring throughout the markets and shanties of Noctis, one of the major cities in The Technomancer, where over a hundred years of separation from Earth, new cultures, clans, and super-powers formed throughout Mars, causing clashes and in-fighting across the red planet.

It's not all about the combat, though, with a deep, modular crafting system changing the visible and active qualities of clothing and weapons from scrap you find on Mars. Cut off from Earth for 120 years, Mars is a world in conflict, with many different cultures and communities - and the games weapons and clothing reflect this quality, with jury rigged and make-shift weapons and armor, designed for survival, or militaristic rule!

From melee combat skills to active and passive abilities, everything can be unlocked and upgraded in the ability tree, where you'll be able to improve the games' three combat styles, and also your technomancer abilities as you level up and gain XP.

There are up to five different ways to finish quests in The Technomancer, and your choices will affect the story ending. Romance your companions, craft, quest, kill, and explore Mars, coming 2016 to PlayStation 4, Xbox One, and PC.

• Otherland Patch for Halloween Event and 33% discount.

• BATTLETECH by Harebrained Schemes LLC — Kickstarter. PvP multiplayer, the last of their complicated stretch goals, somewhat in reach with three days remaining.
• War of Rights by Campfire Games — Kickstarter. Half funded with two weeks to go. They have also received their Steam Greenlight.
• Win Fallout 4 and a NZXT S340 PC Case designed by Razer.

• Cities XXL on Steam. Save 75%.
• Face Your Fears Sale on Green Man Gaming.
• Halloween Sale on Steam.
• SpeedRunners on Steam. Save 35%.

• The Occult, The Mythological And The Tactics Of Hard West. Thanks RPGWatch via Acleacius.

GamesIndustry.biz - Payday 2 shows how not to change a business model.
"Consider a counterfactual, if you will; a scenario where Overkill, instead of sneaking in a new business model under the cover of a misleadingly titled event, had engaged openly and honestly with their community (however small a sliver of the customer base that "community" may be) and worked through the reasoning and the plans for the introduction of new business aspects in the game. Consider a scenario where the company, in humble acknowledgement of its previous pledges (which would now be broken and should never have been made), figured out a way to make the new model work for existing players, so they felt benefits from it, not just an aggrieved sense of being gouged. It wouldn't have been smooth sailing - in-game purchase models raise some hackles regardless - but it would have been a much smoother transition than now, and the immense damage that's been done to the game's reputation and chances of future playerbase expansion could have been largely avoided."

• GTA Online Halloween Event Weekend: Play the Slasher Event Playlist, Unlock Exclusive In-Game T-Shirts & More.
• League of Legends Worlds 2015 finals preview- SK Telecom T1 vs. KOO Tigers. Thanks Tessier.
• League of Legends World Championship opener had 1m concurrent Twitch viewers.
• SXSW Announces Online Harassment Summit. Thanks GamePolitics.
• The Witcher 3 sweeps 2015 Golden Joysticks.

• Darksiders II Deathinitive Edition Is Now Available For Xbox One.
• Sierra Games Collection Is Now Available For Xbox One.
• Dragon Fin Soup Hits PS4, PS3 & PS Vita Tuesday, Free for PS Plus.
• PS Plus: Free Games for November 2015.

• Apple iOS 9.1 Problem Causes Serious Alarm. Thanks HARDOCP.
• Civilization Revolution 2 Plus Comes to PS Vita December 3rd.

• Ken M Is The Most Epic Troll On The Internet. Thanks nin.

• "Chikdos" Malware Abuses MySQL Servers for DDoS Attacks.
• Several Flaws Patched in Xen Hypervisor.
• 13 Million Passwords Leaked From Free Hosting Service.

• Jury: Cox Violated Antitrust Laws By Forcing Customers To Rent Set-Top Boxes. Thanks HARDOCP.
• Google Asked to Remove One Billion -Pirate- Search Results. Thanks HARDOCP.

Thought of the Day: Success is measure in blood; yours or your enemy’s.

Indulge your bloodlust as never before! With massively increased frequency and size of blood effects, the Bloodpack DLC brings combat in Warhammer® 40,000® Dawn of War® II: Retribution™ to a new level of brutality. Subtlety be damned!

WARNING! This content is EXTREMELYbloody which can affect battle visibility when in combat. This option can be turned off from the Steam library-> > Dawn of War II - Retribution > Properties > Ridiculous Bloody Blood Pack > tick box (checked = on, unchecked = off)

US servers will go live next month, bringing ARENA’s unique epic-scale battles to US players. To be among the first US players to join the Closed Beta, sign up here: https://playarena.totalwar.com/

In celebration of this, a US launch event will take place at the ESL Studios in Burbank, California, on Friday 13th of November 2015.

This event will bring 20 players from US and Europe to the famous ESL studios, to go head to head in Total War: ARENA`s fast-paced 10v10 battles on custom-made battlefield maps, where decisive strategies, combat tactics and teamwork will decide who is victorious.

As a taste of what’s to come, see a player’s view of what it’s like on the battlefield in this trailer, filmed after the Alpha livestream event earlier this year: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lxNdBGRkGUA

The US launch event will be streamed live on the official Total War Twitch channel starting at 3pm PDT on the 13th of November. http://www.twitch.tv/totalwarofficial

Total War: ARENA is free to play. To join the Closed Beta, sign up at https://playarena.totalwar.com/. The game is currently open in Europe and Russia, with US servers coming in November.

Halloween: when the veil between our world and the 'other side' is at its weakest. Witches celebrate Samhain, a Celtic festival from the old religion, conjuring the dead and communing with the spirits. Nigel Danvers, ghost-hunter, knows all about the ghosts that dwell in the darkness, he has seen plenty to convince him there are dark forces at work. So, why is Halloween so different? Something is haunting the guest rooms above the local harbour-side pub, The Bear. Who or what hides in the shadowy corners of the old Inn? What is the presence at the end of the Harbour Wall? Dusting down his old ghost-hunting gadgets, Nigel gets to work. He has one night to find out, before the veil returns to full strength, and the Halloween Horror is gone, for another year.

This year, we felt the best way to mark the passage of October was to create a spooky, pumpkin-filled Custom Game. Haunted Colosseum is a new 5-on-5 battle for territorial control, complete with Capture Points, devilish traps, and warrior behemoths. It’s available now, you can learn more about it here, and then launch Dota 2 to try it for yourself.

We’ve revamped the Custom Games overview page with the goal of promoting discovery of great Custom Games, and getting people into lobbies and playing as quickly as possible. To do that, we’ve replaced the “Suggested Games” list with an “Open Lobby” list, and we’ve added a new panel which highlights an automatically-chosen Game of the Day.

This update also includes the second Tribute treasure for Fall Compendium owners: the Tribute of the Sharpened Feather.

There are a lot of additional changes and improvements in this update, such as a new section in your profile for showing off your tournament tickets, a way to see and manage your downloaded replays, support for offline solo play, a new matchmaking region in Tokyo with connectivity to Taiwan and Korea, a couple of balance changes with 6.85b, and more. Check out the complete notes for the full rundown.

• Natural Selection 2 update 277. Celebrate their anniversary with holiday-themed content. Thanks Ant.
• Team Fortress 2 update released.

• Team Fortress 2 EdgeGamer's Ultiduo Tournament.

• Halo 5: Live Show Video On Demand (VOD) – Full Show And Individual Segments.

• Siri refuses to answer question from people not subscribed to Apple Music. Thanks Slashdot via Ant.
• Study of self-driving cars shows other drivers are good at hitting them.
• Battle Mahjong of LunaticNight on Google Play and the App Store.

• Time Warner Cable Lost Just 7,000 TV Customers Last Quarter.
• Around 40% of PewDiePie’s audience uses AdBlock.
• Google Halloween - Global Candy Cup 2015.
• Twitch is currently streaming 200 hours of Bob Ross painting happy little trees.

• PC Perspective Podcast #373 - Samsung 950 Pro, ASUS ROG Swift PG279Q, Steam Link and more.

• FBI planes gathered days of video, electronic surveillance over Baltimore.
• Chinese hackers targeted an insurer to learn about US health care. Thanks Slashdot.
• Microsoft Security Bulletin MS15-106 - Critical.

• $600k Fine Over Data Center Death. Thanks Ant.

• Batman: Arkham Knight on PC Gamer.
• Fairy Fencer F on True PC Gaming.
• Kingdom on True PC Gaming.
• SOMA PC on True PC Gaming.
• Sound of Drop – fall into poison on Christ Centered Gamer.
• Warhammer: End Times – Vermintide on PC Gamer.

• ADATA Premier SP550 240GB Solid State Drive on ThinkComputers.org.
• Akasa MAX MT Fanless NUC Chassis on eTeknix.
• BIOSTAR Gaming Z170X Motherboard on Legit Reviews.
• Chieftec SFX 500GD-C 500w Power Supply on eTeknix.
• Corsair Strafe RGB Mechanical Gaming Keyboard on Legit Reviews.
• EKWB Predator 240 AIO on Hardware Canucks.
• Element Gaming Neon 300 PC Gaming Headset on eTeknix.
• Kingston 16GB DataTraveler microDuo USB 3.0 Flash Drive on Technogog.
• Maha Energy MH-C204U Compact USB AA-AAA Charger Power Bank on ModSynergy.com.
• MSI Z170A Krait Gaming Motherboard on pcGameware.
• Noctua NH-L9x65 Low-Profile CPU Cooler on Nikk Tech.
• NVIDIA GTX 950 SLI Graphics Card on eTeknix.
• Promise Pegasus2 R2+ Thunderbolt 2 RAID Storage Unit on TweakTown.
• Razer BlackWidow Ultimate 2016 Edition on Bjorn3D.
• Roku 4 on Ars Technica.
• SteelSeries Stratus XL - Windows & Android on Vortez.
• Thermaltake Toughpower Grand 1200W (Fully Modular) on HARDOCP.

• Good Game Spawn Point - Series 6 Episode 37. Thanks Ant…

R.I.P.: Famous skateboarding dog Tillman dies at age 10 in California. Thanks Ant.