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Burn With Me Is A Hand-Drawn Demon Card Game Featuring The Artist's Own Hand - And Also, A Refreshingly Finite Alternative To Yer Balatro-Likes

Burn With Me is a hand-drawn game in which the most prominent non-hand-drawn bit is artist Eva Manuilovich's own right hand . Excellent, no notes. Manuilovich's hand appears on the right throughout each match ritual, dealing cards with a flick of the index finger; when you beat the target score, it gives you a thumbs-up, then reaches languidly towards the card you've won.

Valve Have Released The Steam Frame's CAD Files, But There’s Already A Cottage Industry Of DIY Wrist Straps And Lifesize Skull Stands

Last week, Valve chose their absolute most favourite announcement time – Friday evening, after we all go home – to release the Steam Frame ’s CAD files to the world. In short, this lets anyone with a 3D printer or a lathe or an injection moulder (etcetera) take the VR headset’s official blueprints and use them to make cool stuff for it. Non-commercially, of course. Even before this great declassifying, though, it seems some lucky first-wave Frame recipients were already putting their own...

GamesIndustry.bizOct 12, 2026

Nvidia Reportedly Ends GeForce RTX 5090 Graphics Card Production

Nvidia has reportedly stopped manufacturing the GeForce RTX 5090, including the D variants made for the Chinese market.

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Nvidia Are Abandoning Their RTX 5090 Graphics Cards In Order To Focus On AI Dev Friendly RTX Pro Ones, Leaker Claims

Nvidia, AI-obsessives to the point of yassifying basketballers , are shifting production away from their top of the range RTX 5090 consumer graphics cards in favour of RTX Pro ones. That's according to a leaker with a solid track record when it comes to the company. If accurate, the move's the latest instance of a gaming tech firm turning away from regular PC owners to chase the more plentiful cash offered by hawking gear to GenAI developers and datacenters .

GamesIndustry.bizOct 12, 2026

Aream & Co: Games Industry M&A Generates $57.8 Bn In Q3, Including EA's $55bn Leveraged Buyout

The number of games industry mergers and acquisitions stayed steady in the third quarter with 54 transactions totalling $57.8 billion, according to investment bank Aream & Co.

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GameSpotOct 12, 2026

Sorry, Street Fighter Movie, But Mondo Just Won The Poster Fight

The new Street Fighter movie hits theaters in just a few days, and if you're a fan of the Capcom series, you might be tempted to celebrate with some new poster art on your wall. While the official poster for that movie is fine , Mondo's new Street Fighter 2 poster is much better, striking, and it doesn't feature a gallery of floating heads--just one, in fact, being punched off the beefy shoulders of a Shadaloo enforcer. If you're wondering what that piece of fine art looks like, GameSpot can exclusively reveal it...

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People Are Being Robbed Of Crypto By A Tiny Chip Implanted In Their Hardware, With $100 Million Said To Have Been Stolen Already

Investigation of the "draining incident of Oct 9th" is ongoing.

GamesIndustry.bizOct 12, 2026

Game Developer Veteran Chris Kerr Launches Vertical Slice, A Games Publication "Giving Workers A Voice And Holding Power To Account"

Chris Kerr, former Senior Editor of GDC sibling Game Developer (formerly Gamasutra) has launched a new subscription-funded publication to deliver "incisive, bold reporting for video game industry professionals" that "scrutinises with intensity and integrity without having to worry about conflicting commercial interests."

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Schrödinger's GPU Set For An Early 2027 Release As The Dead/alive 24 GB RTX 5080 Super Box Is Shaken Once More

"Hey, you still in there?"

I Am The Controller Now: MIT Engineers Have Created A 'second Skin' That Could One Day Track Whole Bodies In VR

Riding the wave(guide).

Steam Officially Sets New Player Record

Steam broke its own record this weekend, with over 43 million concurrent users on the platform.

One Of The Year’s Best Games Is Officially Out On Phones. God Help Us All

Vampire Crawlers is out now on iPhone and iPad, and it's going to be a problem for me personally.

You Need Not Hunger For That Zelda Ocarina Of Time Remake When We Already Have Indigo, A Colossal N64 Romhack Featuring Mushroom Forests And Bearded...

The Legend of Zelda series is fond of stories about the inexorable and obliviating passage of time. Somebody should make one about growing so old, stupid and exhausted that you can't distinguish original Zelda games from romhacks of those games. Romhacks like Indigo, a "full game replacement" for The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time, set 15 years after the events of Majora's Mask. It's got a couple of public demos, and is playable on PC via static recompilation - the mechanical translation of the console code into...

Disney Officially Reveals Percy Jackson Season 3 Release Schedule

Percy Jackson season 3 is getting a release shake-up from Disney with newly revealed schedule and episode titles

Movie Retailer Zavvi Warns Customers To Stop Buying From Its Site As It Enters Administration

Movie retailer Zavvi has entered administration, a legal concept similar to bankruptcy, and has warned customers not to place new orders.

Stardew Valley Creator's Next Game Shows New Signs Of Life

Stardew Valley creator ConcernedApe says his next game, Haunted Chocolatier, will play differently than his first cozy farming sim.

Gears Of War: E-Day DDoS Attacks Are To Blame For "Intermittent Disconnects" And "Login Issues", The Coalition Confirm

DDoS attacks suffered by Gears of War: E-Day over the weekend were to blame for players being suddenly disconnected from servers and having trouble logging in, according to devs The Coalition. The chunkily-armoured shooter's online services were targeted, it would seem in a deliberate effort to grind the Gears to a halt.

GameSpotOct 12, 2026

Nintendo Says It Has No Plans To Ditch Physical Games Yet

Unlike Sony, which has decided to move toward a digital-only game marketplace starting in 2028, Nintendo is sticking to an "agnostic" approach for the Switch 2 console. In a new interview , Nintendo's VP and general manager for Latin America, Bill van Zyll, said the company will still offer both physical and digital versions of games to meet consumer demand. "Historically, we’ve been very agnostic," van Zyll said to YouTuber Coelho no Japão. "We go off what the consumer prefers, and take that into account very...

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I Tested Over A Dozen Gaming Earbuds, These Are The Best Ones

Start gaming without a bulky headset and get yourself a pair of earbuds that sound just as good.

EurogamerOct 12, 2026

Arc Raiders Player-Numbers Rebound With The Launch Of Frozen Trail And The Game's 2.0 Release, But They Might Be Deceptively High

Arc Raiders has clearly managed to entice back lapsed players with its latest update, Frozen Trail, which upgrades the game to version 2.0. Many players see it as a re-launch of the popular extraction shooter, and the numbers back that up.

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Riftbound: Radiance Rarest Cards - Riot Games Music Crossovers Dominate The Set

Riftbound's fifth set, Radiance, features rare showcase cards inspired by Riot Games Music acts: Heartsteel, True Damage, and K/DA. Check out all of the Overnumbered cards in the set along with the rarest card in the entirety of the TCG.

Nintendo Exec Officially Comments On Future Physical Game Support

A Nintendo executive confirmed that the company will continue to support physical game releases.

Amazon’s Life Is Strange Series Officially Passes A Major Milestone

Amazon's live-action adaptation of Square Enix's Life Is Strange announces has wrapped shooting

Haven News DeskOct 12, 2026

14 Years Later, One Of Gaming’s Scariest Ghost Stories Is Still Worth Playing

Polygon has highlighted the 2012 visual novel The House in Fata Morgana as an enduring standout in horror gaming. Combining rich narrative design with atmospheric artwork and music, the title explores how human flaws drive tragedy. Unlike many lengthy visual novels, its focused structure delivers a deeply chilling experience centered around a mysterious, cursed mansion.

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No Man’s Sky Is Getting An ‘Impossible’ Port, Thanks To Light No Fire

No Man's Sky is coming to iPhone and iPad this month, a feat made possible in part thanks to Hello Games' work on its next game, Light No Fire.

Pearl Abyss Goes Easy On Us Critics For Our Crimson Desert Reviews: 'they Had To Play The Build That Is Not The Exact Same Version Of The Launched...

"I don't think critics had a fair chance to explore."

Haven News DeskOct 12, 2026

'empathetic Prototypes' Quest Walkthrough In Arc Raiders

Players navigating the Empathetic Prototypes quest in Arc Raiders must finish four total objectives during a single run on Spaceport. Polygon outlines how to locate the Trench Towers, open the target cargo container using either a specific key or precise movement equipment, extract the Project Pathos Empathy Core, and hand it over to Lance for valuable equipment and experience points.

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He-Man And The Masters Of The Universe: Dragon Pearl Of Destruction Release Date Confirmed

He-Man and the Masters of the Universe: Dragon Pearl of Destruction has a release date: February 4, 2027.

You Don't Just Paint The Map Your Colour In New WW2 RTS Battleplan, You Redraw The Frontline With A Pencil And Hope Your Troops Do The Rest

You may have heard that the pen is mightier than the sword, but did you know that the pencil is mightier than the 7th Panzer Division? Here is Battleplan to educate us on the subject. In this WW2 real-time strategy game , you issue orders by drawing on a big pseudo-paper map based on geographical survey data. Then you sit back and watch as thousands of troops, tanks, planes and artillery wotsits strive to transform your arbitrary doodles into actual conquered territory.