The “Summer Pack” introduces a new environment to the high-speed anti-gravity racer: the Caribbean Dam. This fresh environment introduces four new tracks (three base tracks and a boss track), all of which are reversible, plus 29 new career events and 30 new items such as liveries, colors and cosmetic pieces. In multiplayer lobbies, the new tracks will be accessible by all players in a party as long as one player in that party has purchased the DLC!

Redout 2 also received a new patch today on PlayStation®5, Xbox Series X|S, PlayStation®4, Xbox One, and PC, unlocking a variety of new quality-of-life features along with general UI improvements and game fixes. The patch will be available on Nintendo Switch at a later date. You can find the complete list of patch notes here.

Warhammer 40,000: Shootas, Blood & Teef is a hand-drawn 2D action adventure taking you on a wild ride of dakka, gore and explosions! Krump your way through the hive city of Luteus Prime; battle Humans, Orks and Genestealer cultists; and ultimately retrieve your luscious hair squig from the hands of the Warboss Gutrekka!

The Pegasus Expedition is a story-driven sci-fi grand strategy game set in a key moment for humankind’s survival. Facing an overwhelming threat at home, humanity sends an expedition to the Pegasus Galaxy in a desperate attempt to find a refuge for the population of Earth, only to find themselves in the middle of an interstellar war they inadvertently started.

As you lead one of these fleets, your mission soon transitions from exploration to governance, conquest, and eventually a fight for survival. Players will experience a challenging story where nothing is self-evident and every decision will have its consequences.

Avril never thought she’d have to step up and be a hero but after a mysterious and devastating event, her world was flipped upside down. With her homeworld on the brink of destruction, Avril has been gifted extraordinary powers and will have to journey across the universe to uncover ancient secrets and reckon with a series of life-changing decisions.

Throughout Batora: Lost Haven®, you will explore a range of unique alien planets and discover a galaxy in which morals are blurred and the line between right and wrong is mercilessly thin. As you explore, you’ll need to harness Avril’s unique abilities to perfect different combat styles and defeat deadly foes, solve intricate puzzles, and take on quests from curious alien inhabitants. Every choice you make will shape your journey and forge the way you carry out your final mission... Restoring your Lost Haven.

Throne of the Herald takes players on an exhilarating new journey through the world of Melvor as they seek answers about the mysterious Herald. Players will encounter a huge amount of new content as they progress through the game, now up to level 120, including new dungeons, new slayer areas, new monsters and a final boss fight to really put their new skills to the test. To help there’s also new items and gear, prayers, spells, curses, auroras and plenty more to be discovered.

Additionally, as part of a free update to the game players will be able to enjoy increased mod support, quality-of-life improvements and access to the highly anticipated Township skill. The Township skill brings a management simulator aspect to the game, requiring players to help with resource management in a town. This is a passive skill that can be trained alongside other skills, and there will be a second expansion to the skill in a future update that will bring combat into the fray.

• Diablo 4 endgame beta asked testers not to leak it, so they leaked it immediately.

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• Call of Duty Exec Is Speedrunning Her Way To Being Hated.
• Amazon workers fail to reach strike threshold in historic UK ballot.
• Turtle Beach Corporation to Report Third Quarter 2022 Financial Results on Thursday, November 3, 2022.

• Hearthstone — 24.4.3 Patch Notes.
• Ikonei Island- An Earthlock Adventure - Early Access First Major Update Release.

• Overwatch 2 Players Find New, Inaccessible Areas in Old Maps.

• Floodland – Gameplay Trailer.
• For Honor: Content of the Week - 20 October.

↑ Official trailers. ↓ Content creator videos.

• How a Man With No Hands Plays Video Games.

• Frostbite Engine Getting Some "Much-Needed Upgrades," Battlefield Dev Says.

• Overwatch 2 players share a vital overlooked tip for newcomers.

• Call of Duty: Modern Warfare II – Everything you need to know for launch.
• Take the Next Step this Season in Football Manager 2023, Available November 8.
• Resident Evil 4 Remake Hands-On Preview - GameSpot.

• Elon Musk reportedly wants to lay off most of Twitter's employees.
• Anti-vaccine groups avoid Facebook bans by using emojis. Society's reversion continues with hieroglyphics.
• Microsoft Admits Cloud Gaming Is Sloppy For Now.

• Oracle VM VirtualBox version 7.0.2. Thanks Ant.

• Former hacker Kevin Mitnick: Tips to protect your personal info online.
• Battle with Bots Prompts Mass Purge of Amazon, Apple Employee Accounts on LinkedIn.

• Amazon faces $1 billion lawsuit over claims it 'tricks' UK customers into paying more.
• Google fined $161.9 million in India over 'anti-competitive' Android policies.
• Hans Niemann sues Magnus Carlsen, others for $100 million over chess cheating claims. You win one game and everyone crawls up your ass! Thanks Matthew.

With Fallout 3: Game of the Year Edition, experience the most acclaimed game of 2008 like never before. Create a character of your choosing and descend into an awe-inspiring, post-apocalyptic world where every minute is a fight for survival. Fallout 3: Game of the Year Edition includes all five of the Fallout 3 Game Add-on Packs.

Evoland Legendary Edition brings you two great and unique RPGs, with their graphic style and gameplay changing as you progress through the game!

• Gotham Knights struggles to live up to Batman's gaming legacy - AV Club.
• Gotham Knights: Batman Will Be Turning in His Grave - CNET.
• Gotham Knights has major performance-optimization issues on PC - DSOGaming.
• Gotham Knights is a poor effort with a range of technical issues - Eurogamer.net.
• Gotham Knights review - Batman minus Batman is scrappy but riddled with charm - Eurogamer.net.
• Gotham Knights Review - Knightfall - GameSpot.
• Gotham Knights PC Review - GameWatcher.
• Gotham Knights, the video game that kills off Batman - Games - The Guardian.
• Gotham Knights Review - IGN.
• Gotham Knights' Performance On PS5, Xbox & PC Raises Questions - Kotaku.
• Review: 'Gotham Knights' kills off Batman but can't escape his shadow - NPR.
• Gotham Knights review - PC Gamer.
• Gotham Knights review: forgettable action, compelling Batfamily beats - Polygon.
• Gotham Knights review – a bloated RPG with a Batman Arkham story - PCGamesN.
• Gotham Knights review: an action-RPG dictated by dull numbers and tired combat - Rock Paper Shotgun.
• Gotham Knights' Batkids fake it but never make it - VentureBeat.
• Gotham Knights review: beautiful world undermined by sluggish fighting - The Verge.
• Gotham Knights answers the question “Would Batman games be as good without Batman?” with: “No” - VG247.
• Gotham Knights Review - Batfamily's Competent, But No Batman - Wccftech.

AMD executives will share details on the new high-performance, energy-efficient AMD RDNA 3 architecture that will deliver new levels of performance, efficiency and functionality to gamers and content creators.

• Intel Core i9-13900K and i5-13600K Review- Raptor Lake Brings More Bite - AnandTech.
• Intel i9-13900K and i5-13600K review: Beating AMD at its own game - Ars Technica.
• Intel Core i9 13900K and Core i5 13600K review- an effective redoubt against AMD's Ryzen 7000 advances - Eurogamer.net.
• 300W Intel Core i9-13900K CPU Review & Benchmarks- Power, Gaming, Production - Gamers Nexus (video).
• Intel Core i5 13600K review - PC Gamer.
• Intel Core i5-13600K review- a repeat performance, for better or worse - Rock Paper Shotgun.
• Intel Core i5-13600K Review - Best Gaming CPU - TechPowerUp.
• Intel Core i9-13900K Review - Power-Hungry Beast - TechPowerUp.
• Intel Core i9-13900K and Core i5-13600K Review- Raptor Lake Beats Ryzen 7000 - Tom's Hardware.
• Intel Core i5-13600K "Raptor Lake" CPU Review - TweakTown.
• Intel Core i9-13900K "Raptor Lake" CPU Review - TweakTown.
• Intel Core i9-13900K review- an AMD Zen 4 beater - The Verge.

In order to become the World Boss, players will need to delete their enemies, unlock powerful perks and weapons and use their wits and skills to rise to the top – and stay there.

Alongside the launch, PlaySide Studios has announced details for World Boss’ Early Access Battle Pass and the new ‘Fresh’ Founder’s Pack.

The inaugural Early Access Season will feature 90 tiers of content, including dozens of free tiers, and bespoke items like character skins, weapon skins, character banner customization options, titles, stat trackers, Boss Bucks, Battle Pass XP boosts and more. The Premium Battle Pass can be purchased in the in-game store for 750 Boss Bucks.

Pick your party of unique champions and embark on a journey through three ever-changing worlds full of challenging encounters, rewarding events, and hidden secrets before you face formidable bosses at the end of each expedition. Every champion has their own distinct set of cards and passive abilities that will alter your playstyle with each run. Take advantage of useful treasures, powerful relics, and valuable boons to boost your Champions’ abilities and lead them to victory!

• Bungie reportedly developing new Marathon project. Reviving a 25 year-old project would prove IP development is not a sprint.
• Insomniac's Wolverine Is Launching In 2023, Or At Least Microsoft Thinks It Is.

• EA Motive boss: "Cancellations in video game development shouldn't be a taboo thing."
• Final Fantasy 16 development has ‘entered the home stretch’, producer says.
• Bossa Studios Dev Claims 'Many' Studios Are Requesting Mandatory Xbox Series S Compatibility To Be Dropped.

• Gamers Front Scary Halloween Sale.
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• GTFO - ALT---Rundown 1.0 is out – GTFO will only grow from here.
• Neverwinter version NW.270.20221004C.5 patch notes.
• No Man's Sky Waypoint 4.0.3.
• Tiny Tina's Wonderlands Notes- Version 1.0.6.0c. A week late, as usual.
• World of Warcraft — Hotfixes- October 19, 2022.

↑ Official patches. ↓ Unofficial games, patches, and mods.

• Quake Reignited v1.1 is now live.

• Overwatch 2 Junkertown Disabled and ETA for restoral.

• Kainga: Seeds of Civilization - Beautiful World.
• Kukoos: Lost Pets - Multiplayer Trailer.

• Neverwinter – Northdark Reaches November 8th. Developed in collaboration with RA Salvatore.

• Xbox’s October update lets users control TV volume and mute start-up sounds. Thanks Console General.
• Alan Wake Remastered for Switch now available.

• Google Messages gets replies and stars on Android, as the RCS fight comes to iPhones.
• Uber will soon show you ads during rides, inside its app, and in many other places.
• 'Always Sunny' Actor's Tesla Stuck for Days in Key Fob Fiasco. To be fair, it sounds like he went full Charlie. Thanks RedEye9.

• Mozilla Firefox 106.0.1, See All New Features, Updates and Fixes. Thanks Frans.

• Intel Core i9-13900KF Raptor Lake CPU Easily Overclocks To 6.2 GHz On An AIO Cooler.
• ASML: Demand for Chip Tools Hits Record, Backlog Exceeds $38 Billion. Thanks Neutronbeam.
• Xbox Insider Release Notes - Xbox App for Windows [2211.1000.41.0].
• Releasing Windows 11 Build 22621.754 to the Release Preview Channel.
• Announcing Windows 11 Insider Preview Build 25227.
• Want to ditch Windows? Windowsfx may be the ideal Linux distribution for you.
• Cherry’s latest mechanical keyboard switch is inspired by the community.
• New research suggests our brains use quantum computation. I'm cracking passwords. WITH MY MIND! Thanks Max.

• US smart devices to get standard cyber security labelling.
• Millennials, Gen Z blamed for poor company security. Thanks Max.
• These are the top passwords hackers use against remote access. Time to change yours?
• FBI warning: Beware of student loan forgiveness scammers. Other scammers are fine.

• Amazon could pay UK shoppers £900m compensation.

• Ghostbusters: Spirits Unleashed review - PC Gamer.
• New Tales From The Borderlands Review - Good Stories - GameSpot.
• New Tales from the Borderlands Review - IGN.
• New Tales From the Borderlands review- Charming characters, no room to breathe - Polygon.
• New Tales From The Borderlands review- thanks, I hate it - Rock Paper Shotgun.
• A Plague Tale Requiem Benchmark Test & Performance Analysis Review - TechPowerUp.
• Scorn - Zero Punctuation (NSFW video).

• Case Fan: Cooler Master Mobius 120 and 120P ARGB - OCinside.
• CPU Cooler: ID-Cooling SE-224-XTS Black & SE-224-XTS Basic Review - TechPowerUp.
• Graphics Card: GeForce 522.25 Driver Performance Analysis - BabelTechReviews.
• Graphics Card: Nvidia GeForce RTX 4090 review- PNY accelerates into the lead - Dexerto.
• Mini PC: Dell OptiPlex 7000 Intel Alder Lake TinyMiniMicro PC Review - STH.
• Monitor: HyperX Armada 27 Review - IGN.
• Motherboard: MSI MAG Z790 Tomahawk WiFi DDR4 Review - TechPowerUp.

• Take Flight and Go Full Maverick With Turtle Beach’s All-New Designed for Xbox Velocityone Flightstick…

Chill Round-up
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Breakfast Link

• Goodbye Planes, Trains and Automobiles. Hello, Luxury Bus (may require registration or subscription)?

Stories

• Liz Truss resigns as UK prime minister. Any talk of a Breturn yet?
• Marijuana coming to Circle K gas stations in Florida. Or specifically, coming out of the parking lot.
• The power of swearing: how obscene words influence your mind, body and relationships. Thanks Max.

Science
Thanks Acleacius.

• Humans are 8% virus – how the ancient viral DNA in your genome plays a role in human disease and development. Ask Agent Smith.
• A new type of material called a mechanical neural network can learn and change its physical properties to create adaptable, strong structures. Sci-fi killer robots explained.
• Female dogs can judge human competence better than males, study finds. Thanks Max.

Image

• NASA’s Webb Takes Star-Filled Portrait of Pillars of Creation.

Media

• The Crown - Season 5 Official Trailer.
• What Happens if a Supervolcano Blows Up? Thanks VideoSift.

Follow-up

• Warming waters 'key culprit' in Alaska crab mass die-off. Thanks Acleacius.

The Funnies

• Baby VS Intimacy - The Oatmeal. Thanks RedEye9.