October 2025 PCG Article Discussion

[Pifanjr]

Vampire Survivors-like Megabonk makes megabucks, selling a million copies in 2 weeks, and currently has more daily players than Borderlands 4 on Steam: 'I'll be eating spaghetti with EXTRA sauce tonight'

Put some shades on a skateboarding skeleton, sell a million copies.

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My wife watched one of her friends play Megabonk the other day and it definitely looked like a lot of fun.

 

[dxchase]

The most underrated GTA of all time meets Hotline Miami? This ultra-violent crime sim coming soon to Steam has shot straight to the top of my hit list

Alex Von Bronx and DOSMan Gaming are cooking up a low-key compadre for GTA 6.

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GTA 2 meets Hotline Miami? Im there.

 

[Zloth]

https://www.pcgamer.com/games/rpg/the-original-system-shock-2-is-being-removed-from-sale-on-steam-later-this-week/

On Steam, the news has over 100 discussion posts and ZERO upvotes

I mean... who would be happy to see that? GOG's CEO, maybe?

 

[neogunhero]

https://www.pcgamer.com/games/rpg/the-original-system-shock-2-is-being-removed-from-sale-on-steam-later-this-week/

On Steam, the news has over 100 discussion posts and ZERO upvotes

I mean... who would be happy to see that? GOG's CEO, maybe?

They need to give owners of the original a permanent discount for the remaster then.

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After cheaters broke Steam's most popular roguelike's leaderboards, its dev issued a fix and a warning: 'Cheaters you better watch your ass or I'm clapping your cheeks back to the shadow realm where you belong'

Score-chasing is back on the menu.

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This dev better watch his words, some people may take that as a challenge than a threat.

 

[Zloth]

They need to give owners of the original a permanent discount for the remaster then.

?? Why? People that already have the original can still play it. It's just being de-listed so people can't buy it anymore. (On Steam. It's still on GOG.)

 

[neogunhero]

?? Why? People that already have the original can still play it. It's just being de-listed so people can't buy it anymore. (On Steam. It's still on GOG.)

Mainly just because I see a lot of other games do something similar. If you own the original, then you get a discount on the remaster, at least for a limited time. It's not necessary though it would be nice. I actually picked up the remaster when it was on a steeper discount before the Autumn sale but then refunded it because it's so similar to the original... so maybe I shouldn't be talking

 

[Pifanjr]

https://www.pcgamer.com/hardware/gaming-mice/apparently-optical-gaming-mice-can-spy-on-what-were-saying-and-video-games-are-an-ideal-target/

I wonder if it would be possible to also detect which keys on a keyboard are being pressed by analysing the mouse. Most keyboards are on the same surface as the mouse, so I would suspect the vibrations from pressing a key are much stronger than the vibrations of a voice.

Though even if you could distinguish between different key presses, you'd still have to figure out which letter corresponds to each key press and it would probably also require the mouse to stay still.

 

[Pifanjr]

https://www.pcgamer.com/hardware/gaming-keyboards/sick-of-clicky-clacky-keys-google-japan-offers-a-reminder-that-it-could-always-be-worse-unveiling-a-rotary-keyboard-concept/

I give it two weeks at most before someone uses it to speedrun games with.

 

[JCgames]

https://www.pcgamer.com/games/rpg/the-original-system-shock-2-is-being-removed-from-sale-on-steam-later-this-week/

On Steam, the news has over 100 discussion posts and ZERO upvotes

I mean... who would be happy to see that? GOG's CEO, maybe?

To be honest, im in the boat that, if you havent bought a game thats 25 years old and been gaming that long, it could not be a high enough priority to have wanted to play it in the first place, for me there are only a couple games that got delisted that id care to own, but only because i never heard of it. Marvel ultimate is.

si mush so im looking to buy a ps3 just to play that and a few others

That said, i have far mmore that never went digital, that i wish did, to me thatsthe real issue.

I suppose there are some new modern gamers with taste that appreciate old games from before they were born. But the simple fact games are getting delisted, its because those people are so rare. No one delists a game selling 100s or 1ks of copies a month 25 years later.. they do it because nothing is selling and its not worth supporting any more.



In the end though, gog is a far superior place to buy older games. there are games on steam that i directly tell people to skip the steam version because gogs is better,or in so e cases the steam version no longer even works, and im not talking about config to work, i mean completley broke that it needs a new exe.

Steam has absolutley horrible legacy support as well,or should i say non-existant. Its so bad in fact its nearly criminal. The simpke fact they can sell you a game that runs an OS, then remove that OS from support so you can no longer even play the game that you brought for said os, unless you make a frozen in time back up, but then you can even add another game from that era, with out updating, and then you'd just loose your access anyway. Hope you have a good back up plan and never want to get anything else for said machine.

Gog you just log into your account, dl a fresh copy or buy something new, save to a stick and install on your favorite DOS, 3.1, 85, 98, 2k, system and retro game on! They even update games with fixes so you dont have to spend hours hunting for config files too. Sometimes the even roll in essential fix packs or wide screen support.

 

[Colif]

https://www.pcgamer.com/hardware/gaming-keyboards/sick-of-clicky-clacky-keys-google-japan-offers-a-reminder-that-it-could-always-be-worse-unveiling-a-rotary-keyboard-concept/

I give it two weeks at most before someone uses it to speedrun games with.

they aren't even trying