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This week in PC games: Battlefield 6 fends off an onslaught of cool indie RPGs, strategy games, horror games and piss simulators
Last Monday I spent three paragraphs crying havoc over a shortage of tasty new releases to feed the Maw, our resident headline-guzzling cosmic kaiju. The week didn’t go so terribly in the end. True, the Maw did swallow the colour purple on Friday, but Mark managed to distract everybody with a bulky Baldur’s Gate 3 mod while I administered the emetic.
This week, several monkey paw fingers have curled, and there is an embarrassment of groovy material that spans the whole spectrum of budgets, brand recognisability and pricepointage. So let’s get right to the listing.
Arc Raiders was delayed so much because of a surprisingly simple reason: not even its devs thought it was fun
Remember how the upcoming extraction shooter Arc Raiders was meant to launch in 2022? Good times! And quite different times, because back then the game was PvE, seeing you and a few friends take on some nasty bots. Three years on, the game has shifted into a PvPvE experience, and the reason for 1. such a lengthy delay, and 2. a complete change in what players actually do is a simple one: the game was “not fun.”
Demeo x Dungeons & Dragons: Battlemarked rolls the dice on a release date and lands on this November
I could probably quite safely bet some money that many of you are still happily ticking away at Baldur’s Gate 3, but for those of you that would like newer pastures to get your TTRPG fix in video game form, there’s some good news. The board game-esque tactical RPG Demeo x Dungeons & Dragons: Battlemarked at long last has a release date!
Anachronistic medieval shooter Kingmakers catches an indefinite delay days before it was supposed to launch
There’s a strong chance a good few of you out there saw that initial Kingmakers trailer from last year and thought “I’ll take a piece of that pie.” You came pretty close to getting your slice too, as it was due out next week on October 8th… except the devs have announced that it’s been delayed. Indefinitely.
Roleplay as Geralt in this nicely done Witcher 3 combat mod for Elden Ring
Elden Ring has been out for – hang on, let me just check my calendar… crikey, that long? – four years now, and despite being a behemoth of a game that I could never imagine seeing absolutely all of, I imagine there are some of you out there that have and crave new ways to go about that. So how about a mod! One which doesn’t exactly turn you into Geralt of Rivia, but does at least let you fight like everybody’s favourite witcher.
Is Nine Sols currently hiding an entirely new game within itself? Yes, but I don’t know why yet
Remember last month when Nine Sols developer Red Candle Games started teasing… something… related to the Metroidvania? That something leaned much more into the studio’s horror origins, and as it turns out has developed into a whole entire ARG. I won’t dive into every last detail of said ARG, you can go down that rabbit hole yourself. However it has led to something interesting: Red Candle Games have hidden an entirely new game within Nine Sols.
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.
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.
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?