Ten years ago we began this incredible journey through the stars, laying the foundation for everything that has come to pass. 10 years, 5 million copies, Hundreds of updates, and a half million workshop mods and creations later, Space Engineers is still thriving!

In celebration of this incredible moment, we have prepared a surprise update for you to commemorate 10 years of engineering, planning, grinding, welding, battles, and exploration!

To every Space Engineer out in the vastness of space, those of you that have been with us from the beginning, to those that became a Space Engineers only now, thank you for being a part of this journey. Your creativity and passion for Space Engineers inspires us to our very best.

Ubisoft, which has been dogged by game cancellations and delays, reiterated its forecast of a full-year non-IFRS operating income around 400 million euros, without releasing the other large game it had initially planned to launch during the last quarter of the current fiscal year.

For the third quarter, the company expects net bookings of around 610 million euros.

• Gord (Windows). "Gord is a single-player adventure strategy. To survive, you must build, but to prevail, you must conquer the darkness beyond the gates. In this dark fantasy world, you must complete quests while managing a populace whose personal stories and well-being decide the fate of your tribe."
• Hauntii (Windows). "A beguiling adventure in which you uncover the secrets of an expansive and mysterious world - haunting both the environment and its denizens to craft ingenious solutions to the many challenges that await."
• Leximan (Windows). "Do you like silly hats? Were you that one kid in class who broke reality? Are you eating nutritional slime right now? Embark on a brilliant adventure, using words and incompetence to solve bizarre problems. There are also hat goblins."

RocketBrush Studio and Team17 Digital have today launched action RPG The Unliving out of Steam Early Access and into version 1.0 on Steam. Combining rogue-lite and real-time strategy gameplay with a dark fantasy setting, The Unliving follows a vengeful Necromancer sweeping relentlessly across the land, smiting his enemies and reanimating fallen foes in pursuit of an antidote to restore his broken soul.

Since its launch into Steam Early Access in November last year, The Unliving has received a series of updates and quality of life improvements, including a new game mode, requested quality of life features that streamline gameplay, and optimisation of the Horde mechanics.

Gameparic released NecroCity on Steam, and after several months of development, Studio decided to release the game in the Full Version. The game is a mix of city-building, strategy, and tower defense games. Players have to defend their undead outposts from the persistent forces of the so-called “good”.

Also as a free update to the game, Gameparic decided to add a new mode - Endless Mode. This exciting game mode will allow players to face a constant wave of enemies and overcome any challenges they can imagine in the Undead World.

• Save 60% on Manifold Garden on Steam.
• Marvel's Spider-man Franchise Sale on Steam.
• Snail Publisher Sale 2023 on Steam.
• Save 30% on Endgame of Devil on Steam.

• Microsoft reorgs its Xbox and marketing teams to prepare for an AI and gaming future.

• Cities: Skylines II - Patch Notes for 1.0.11f1.
• Star Wars: The Old Republic - 7.4 Content is now available on the Public Test Server.

• Assassin’s Creed, Rainbow 6, Far Cry- Untold Stories of the Game Developers - Ubisoft.
• Call of Duty Celebrates 20 Years.
• CitizenCon 2953: Destination Adventure.
• For Honor - Content Of The Week - 26 October.

↑ Official trailers. ↓ Content creator videos.

• The Smartest Video Games Bosses. Thanks Ant.

• Apex Legends: Ignite Launches October 31 and Features New Legend - Conduit, an Overhauled Storm Point, Cross Progression, and more.

• Call of Duty Celebrates its 20th Anniversary.

• Sony is expecting ‘one of its strongest seasons ever’ in terms of console sales.

• X usage plummets in Musk's first year as owner. Thanks Matthew.
• Threads is adding polls and GIFs as it continues to chase X.

• Intel Q3 2023 Earnings- Carnage Averted on Strong Performance.
• Artists Allege Meta’s AI Data Deletion Request Process Is a ‘Fake PR Stunt’ (may require registration or subscription).
• Death Of ATSC 3.0- What's A Local TV Station To Do Now? Thanks Ant.

Detective Sebastian Castellanos has lost it all...but when given a chance to save his daughter, Sebastian must descend once more into the nightmarish world of STEM in The Evil Within 2. Horrifying threats emerge from every corner as the world twists and warps around him. Tackle adversity head on with upgradeable weapons, cleverly deployed traps and even stealthily avoiding harm's way in this nailbiting survival horror sequel from the talented team at Tango Gameworks. Return to the nightmare to win back your life and loved ones as you plunge into the twisted world of The Evil Within 2.

Tandem : A Tale of Shadows redefines the puzzle platformer genre with a unique gameplay and exceptional aesthetics. Help Emma and the teddy bear Fenton solve the mystery of the disappearance of the famous magician Thomas Kane.

Full ray tracing, also known as path tracing, accurately simulates light throughout an entire scene. It is used by visual effects artists to create film and TV graphics that are indistinguishable from reality, but until the arrival of GeForce RTX GPUs with RT Cores, and the AI-powered acceleration of NVIDIA DLSS, full ray tracing in real-time video games was impossible. Throughout Alan Wake 2 you’ll witness spectacular scenes and jaw-dropping set pieces that leverage the power of GeForce RTX 40 Series GPUs and NVIDIA DLSS 3.5 to deliver the definitive experience.

Alan Wake 2 includes the complete suite of DLSS technologies, maximizing frame rates and image quality using the power of AI. DLSS Super Resolution enables all GeForce RTX gamers to significantly accelerate frame rates. DLSS Frame Generation multiplies performance on GeForce RTX 40 Series graphics cards, desktops and laptops by up to 4.5X. Reflex reduces system latency, making gameplay even more responsive. And our newest groundbreaking feature, DLSS Ray Reconstruction, replaces several hand-tuned ray tracing denoisers with a new unified AI model, elevating the image quality of ray-traced effects and full ray tracing to new heights.

• Alan Wake 2 - PlayStation 5 DF Tech Review - Remedy Raises The Bar Yet Again - Digital Foundry (video).
• Alan Wake 2 on PC is an embarrassment of riches - Digital Trends.
• Alan Wake 2 Review - Back To Reality - Game Informer.
• Alan Wake 2 Review - GameRant.
• Alan Wake 2 Review - A Miracle Illuminated - GameSpot.
• Alan Wake 2 review- -An imaginative and truly ambitious sequel- - GamesRadar+.
• Alan Wake 2 review — A page worth turning — GAMINGTREND.
• Alan Wake 2 review – a confidently strange horror thriller - Games - The Guardian.
• Alan Wake II Review - IGN.
• Alan Wake 2 review – a spine-tingling horror masterclass - The Loadout.
• Alan Wake 2 Review – Writing a Survival Horror Masterpiece - MP1ST.
• Alan Wake 2 review – a new horror game classic - PCGamesN.
• Alan Wake 2 review- a modern survival horror masterpiece - Polygon.
• Alan Wake 2 is a slow-burn thriller, but so far it's sunk its hooks in deep and good - Rock Paper Shotgun.
• Alan Wake 2 review- Flexibly frightful fiction - Shacknews.
• Alan Wake 2 review - a once-in-a-generation scarefest - TechRadar.
• Alan Wake 2 Review - Beware The Horrors That Await In The Dark Place - TheGamer.
• Alan Wake 2 review - VG247.
• Review- Alan Wake 2 is a confident, ground-breaking thriller - VGC.
• Alan Wake II Review - It Truly Was an Ocean - Wccftech.

Bethesda Game Studios, the award-winning creators of Skyrim and Fallout 4, welcome you to Fallout 76. Twenty-five years after the bombs fell, you and your fellow Vault Dwellers—chosen from the nation’s best and brightest – emerge into post-nuclear America on Reclamation Day, 2102. Play solo or join together as you explore, quest, build, and triumph against the wasteland’s greatest threats. Explore a vast wasteland, devastated by nuclear war, in this open-world multiplayer addition to the Fallout story. Experience the largest, most dynamic world ever created in the legendary Fallout universe.

Set one year after the events of the original Ghostrunner, the high-octane sequel follows cyber ninja Jack as he fights a violent AI cult. Wield a razor-sharp katana once more, and slice through the relentless onslaught of frenzied cultists, cybernetic warlords, and terrifying AI entities both in and, for the first time, outside of Dharma Tower.

Engage in vehicular combat, weaving through obstacles and knocking down enemies on a high-speed motorcycle. On foot, Jack embraces his iconic parkour and Gap Jammer move set from the original game, improved and expanded upon for quick traversal across varying surfaces in both neon-lit urban environments and a sand-blasted wasteland. Stylishly slide, dash, and evade deadly attacks from a range of new adversaries.

Ghostrunner 2 ups the ante with new abilities and a revamped progression system. Explore new combat options and find the right approach to dodge, parry, and destroy foes capable of killing Jack with one strike. Defeat bosses with increased freedom, learning how to overcome with their devious new tricks.

Respawn into a new dinosaur survival experience beyond your wildest dreams… as ARK is reimagined from the ground-up into the next-generation of videogame technology with Unreal Engine 5! You awake on a mysterious island, your senses overwhelmed by the blinding sunlight and brilliant colors bouncing off every surface around you, the azure waters of a verdant Island lapping at your bare feet. A deep roar echoes from the misty jungle, jolting you into action, and you stand up – not afraid, but intrigued. Are you ready to form a tribe, tame and breed hundreds of species of dinosaurs and other primeval creatures, explore, craft, build, and fight your way to the top of the food-chain? Your new world awaits… step through the looking-glass and join it!

Risk of Rain Returns will release on Steam and Nintendo Switch on November 8th 2023 - the exact 10 year anniversary of the release of the original Risk of Rain!

The suggested retail price of Risk of Rain Returns will be $14.99 however for a short period at launch there will be a -15% discount down to just $12.75

All of us at Hopoo Games want to take this opportunity to say a huge thank you for both following along during the development of Risk of Rain Returns and all the support you’ve given us over the last ten years. It’s been a wild ride and we have plenty of plans for the future…

In Berzerk: Recharged, players will fight through a deadly maze filled with menacing, vocal robots that have one thing on their processor-driven minds: your doom. Fans remember the original Berzerk as one of the first arcade games to use speech synthesis, and Berzerk: Recharged keeps the dialog going. The robots chasing you have a sinister, snarky monologue running through their OS, so you will have to endure “kill the humanoid” and the taunting barb, “Chicken, fight like a robot!” as you fight to survive.

Dive into the de-fin-itive home aquarium simulator handcrafted by fish enthusiasts for fish enthusiasts, while remaining accessible to all sim fans. Get your feet wet right away with an intuitive tank creation interface to create and populate simple fish tanks, intricate aquascapes, and everything in between.

Sculpt substrate to form sandy peaks and valleys, place an array of plant life, and drop in hardscape materials such as rocks, driftwood, and statues to design dreamlike aquariums. Beyond building, you must also balance and maintain your growing collection of life and the–perhaps-unexpectedly–complex relationships therein.

• Unity's controversial Runtime Fee policy was "rushed out", says report. It's a ready, fire, aim world.

• Embracer-owned Digic to lay off 35 employees.
• Street Fighter 6 drives record H1 results for Capcom's games division.
• Welcome to the Club: A Look Into the First 24 Days of EA SPORTS FC 24.
• Lords of the Fallen was CI Games' most expensive project at $66m.

• Vampire: The Masquerade Invades The World of Dying Light 2.

• Cities: Skylines II - Patch Notes for 1.0.11f1 hotfix.
• Counter-Strike 2 - Release Notes for 10/25/2023.
• Cyberpunk 2077 Patch 2.02.
• FOR HONOR Patch Notes 2.47.1.
• Lords of the Fallen -- Patch v.1.1.243.
• World of Warcraft Hotfixes- October 25, 2023.

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

• Fortnite: Turtle vs Turtle Island by Torus Games/Starbreeze Entertainment.

• Arizona Sunshine II launches December 7 for PS VR2, SteamVR, and Quest.
• X8 Grand Release and Founder's Pack Announcement.
• Ziggy's Cosmic Adventures - Release Date Announcement.

• Overwatch 2 matches are plagued by bots leaving game “unplayable.”

• Flashback 2 – Dev Diary- The Genesis of Flashback 2 – Paul Cuisset & Microids Lyon/Paris.
• Ikonei Island: An Earthlock Adventure: Creature care - Dev Commentary.
• Pixel Cafe Date Reveal Trailer.

• Die Gute Fabrik and the necessity to tackle climate inaction - GamesIndustry.biz.

• Trackmania - JOIN THE LASERHAWK COMPETITIONS TO WIN SPECIAL REWARDS. Thanks Frans.

• Torchlight: Infinite - [Hunters' Odyssey] SS3 Preseason will officially start on October 26th.
• Deceit 2 - A Spooktacular Halloween Awaits in Deceit 2.

• Alan Wake 2: The Dark Place Is An Entirely New Experiment for Remedy.

• The Xbox October Update is Rolling Out- Keyboard Mapping for Controllers and More.
• The new PS5’s optional disc drive requires an internet connection to connect. Thanks Slashdot via Ant.
• New Marvel's Spider-Man 2 Update Fixes Incorrect Flag And White Cube Model Issue.
• How Star Ocean: The Second Story R modernizes a classic PlayStation adventure 25 years later.
• Free Play Days – Fallout 76, Meet Your Maker, Deep Rock Galactic, and MLB The Show 23 - Xbox Wire.

• Qualcomm Snapdragon 8 Gen 3 Benchmarks: Redefining Mobile Technology Excellence.
• Google Maps is getting new AI-powered search updates, an enhanced navigation interface and more.

• Google’s search deal with Apple Safari is reportedly $18 billion a year.
• Tor Project Browser version 13.0.1. Thanks Console General.

• Alan Wake 2 does not have Denuvo and it will NOT prevent you from running it on older-unsupported GPUs.
• NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4080 SUPER Graphics Card Possibly Spotted With AD103 GPU.
• Dell is selling a five year old graphics card for a bewildering £13,800. Umm, any takers- Anyone? Bueller?
• Apple iTunes version 12.13.09.
• StreamFab v6.1.4.7.

• Cybercrims leak patient pics in low blow bid to win ransom. Thanks DSLReports via Ant.
• Quishing is the new phishing: What you need to know.

• The UK’s Controversial Online Safety Act Is Now Law (may require registration or subscription).
• 13-year Google privacy settlement pays litigants the equivalent of a Big Mac meal. Thanks DSLReports via Ant.

• Alan Wake 2 - DLSS 3.5, Ray Tracing & Path Tracing Benchmarks - DSOGaming.
• Alan Wake 2- FSR 2.2 vs. DLSS 3.5 Comparison Review - TechPowerUp.
• Alan Wake 2 Performance Benchmark Review - 18 GB VRAM Used - TechPowerUp.
• Skull Island: Rise of Kong review - PC Gamer.

• Case: be quiet! Dark Base Pro 901 Full-Tower Case - TweakTown.
• CPU/GPU/AIO Cooler: be quiet! Dark Rock Pro 5 - Guru3D.
• Game Controller: Thrustmaster Ferrari 488 GT3 wheel add-on review - PCGamesN.
• Graphics Card: INNO3D GeForce RTX 4070 TWIN X2 OC White Stealth - TweakTown.
• RAM: Corsair Dominator Titanium First Edition DDR5 7200 MHz 2 x 16 GB review.

Runny Round-up
Thanks Ant and Neutronbeam.

Science

• Testing A Time-Jumping, Multiverse-Killing, Consciousness-Spawning Theory Of Reality.
• Link between fruits, veggies & microbiome confirmed for the first time. Thanks Max.

Image

• US Space Force reveals painting of space plane intercepting a satellite. Pilot used to bullseye womp rats in a T-16 back home. Thanks A.C.M.

Media

• 0-100 in less than a second. And I'm driving. Thanks RedEye9.

Creature Features
Nature fights back edition.

• Dog Breaks Through Front Door and Chases Delivery Guy. If we had that door, Hudson the wonder dog would have done the same thing. Thanks RedEye9.
• Video captures moment wingfoiler is body-slammed by whale at Sydney beach. Thanks Boing Boing.

Follow-up

• Colorado judge chides company that tried to pay $23,500 settlement in coins. Thanks Boing Boing.