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My insatiable lust for windmill flirtation will have to stay contained until next year, as Building Relationships is delayed

It’s inching closer to last thing UK time on a Friday, so my job is to bring you the single most devastating and depressing bit of news I can to get the weekend started right. Building Relationships, the funky little game in which you play a house in search of a romantic connection with another building, has had its full release delayed to early 2026.

See, I told you it’d be devastating. A few months’ extra wait until you can engage in more vaguely flirty banter with a windmill. I knew I should have insisted we develop some embeddable tissues which could be inserted into articles.

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Water is wet, the sky is blue, and Call of Duty Black Ops 7’s beta has cheaters

Lo, when we perform the great ritual to open the Call of Duty Black Ops 7 beta, the cheaters will come. That’s what Activision said a few days ago, more or less. Hark, friends and foes enveloped in tactical gear and the occasional goofy crossover skin, it’s now a few days later and the cheatening is upon us. It arrived with the beta going live, just as prophesised.

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Peak co-devs Aggro Crab unleash co-op forklifty mayhem with Crashout Crew, which’ll have a demo soon

Ok, so if you’re one of those high-vis types who can be driven up the wall by health and safety code violations, you might want to look away. Crashout Crew, a co-op chaos-generator all about forklifts, has been revealed by Peak co-developers Aggro Crab, with sights set on a 2026 release preceded by a Steam demo this month.

I told you to look away, high-vis types! Why are you already running to management with a written demand that all heavy machinery can’t be drifted around at top speed and slammed into boxes?

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Baldur’s Gate 3 custom campaign mod Path to Menzoberranzan breaks silence with update on development re-think and character reveal tease

The modders behind a Baldur’s Gate 3 custom campaign dubbed Path to Menzoberranzan have put out their first progress update in a few months, having gone silent just after getting their first build working around June. The reason for that quiet spell, according to the group, has been a “wild” summer in which they’ve had to revamp their development pipeline to better fit the scale they’re aiming for with the mod.

They’ve also teased full reveals of three characters who’ll be playing roles in what the Path to Menzoberranzan team have thus far pitched as a custom adventure through some returning locations from previous games in the series to the Drow city that serves as the mod’s namesake.

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Borderlands 4’s first major balancing patch is out now, delivering beefy vault hunter buffage across the board

Borderlands 4‘s first round of vault hunter balancing tweaks has arrived, with Gearbox having waited until they’d had a chance to try getting some of the looter shooter‘s technical gremlins under control and observed the state of play balance-wise before whipping out the ol’ nerf/buff cannon.

That approach has meant some arguably overpowered early builds haven’t been coded out of existence as quickly as players might have imagined, with the developers seeming keen to avoid knee-jerk reactions when it comes to vault hunter changes in particular. I assume the fact they’ve had a DLC robo-cowboy to help keep post-happy exec Randy Pitchford occupied has probably helped maintain that lack of sudden and potentially ill-fated moves.

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Disco Elysium devs at ZA/UM form the UK industry’s “first recognised videogame union”

Videogame developers at Disco Elysium studio ZA/UM have founded what they’re calling “the first recognised workplace union in the UK games industry”, operating as part of the Independent Works Union of Great Britain. It’s yet another twist in the tale of a once-feted development studio who are now heavily associated with toxic layoffs, alleged fraud and diasporic feuding.

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Nearly a third of all gaming PCs are still running Windows 10, even as Microsoft prepare to kill it

It must have been a stressful few days for Microsoft. Game Pass changes nobody likes, admitting the first Xbox-branded handheld costs a thousand bucks, having to tell the Israeli military that they need to see other people. Yeesh. No wonder they’re so intent on blowing off steam by taking a scythe to Windows 10 security updates this month, a move that will effectively end official support for the operating system.

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Fortnite devs Epic modifying Peacemaker emote after establishing Warner didn’t mean it to look like a Nazi swastika

Fortnite developers Epic Games have confirmed they’ll be redeploying the ‘Peaceful Hips’ emote added to the battle royale as part of a crossover with superhero show Peacemaker, but with some modifications. This follows the dance being pulled from the game earlier this week, due to Epic’s concerns about “creative intentions” in the aftermath of a big plot twist in the TV show.

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World of Warcraft player housing hits early access this December, but only for Midnight expansion pre-orderers

Customisable player houses are finally set to arrive in World of Warcraft via early access this December, though that early access will be limited to folks who’ve pre-purchased the MMO’s upcoming Midnight expansion. There can never not be a bit of a catch with moving into new digs it seems, even if you’re a virtual orc.

The forthcoming addition of home ownership to WOW was first announced by Blizzard all the way back in November last year at a Warcraft 30th anniversary direct, with the studio finally acting on player cries to inject their adventures with a bit more rearranging of clutter around a place in which you sleep. Let us be paralysed by the mundane terror of picking the right interior decor, they screamed. K, said Blizzard.

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