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Orange-and-black GTA Online Halloween Thrills artwork featuring a masked killer holding a machete, shadowy figures, bats, gravestones and a grotesque creature.

GTA Online Weekly Grind: $2 Million at Stake, Zombies on Overtime

GTA Online's best money routes for Oct 22–28: $500K Short Trips, $150K Survival challenge, 6X GTA+ payouts and a $2M Halloween bonus at stake.

1 day ago6 min read

Collage-style villain-games poster showing a masked crime boss in a black suit at the center, surrounded by angled panels featuring a scam call center, a chaotic supervillain squad, a skeletal fantasy antihero, blocky cartoon villains, a giant shark attack, a mischievous goose causing havoc, a red lab monster, a bald mastermind in a war room, and an alien hunter in a dark jungle.

The 10 Best Villain Games to Play Right Now (October 2026)

Scam call centres, murderous sharks and a goose with absolutely no moral compass. Meet the 10 best villain games to play right now (October 2026).

5 days ago10 min read

Collage of iconic heist and crime video game characters, including Michael, Trevor and Franklin from GTA V, Agent 47 from Hitman, and the PAYDAY gang, alongside stacks of cash, weapons, helicopters and getaway vehicles, illustrating the best heist games to play in 2026.

The 10 Best Crime Games to Play Right Now (October 2026)

GTA Online refuses to retire, Schedule I builds a drug empire, and Scam With Your Friends turns fraud into office work. See the 10 crime games dominating Steam in October 2026.

Aug 38 min read

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Cinematic illustration of a crowded luxury reception, with a surveillance reticle highlighting a man in a white jacket beneath tall windows and golden sunset light.

HITMAN Freelancer Hardcore Showdowns: Find the Leader Before You Murder the Wrong Bastard

Find the real Syndicate Leader in HITMAN Freelancer Hardcore using suspect clues, objective tricks and lookout tactics. One wrong bastard could cost your campaign.

1 day ago7 min read

Illustrated Fallout 76 Halloween scene featuring a smiling Vault Boy dressed as the Grim Reaper, carrying a scythe and candy bucket, with an armed power-armored figure behind him beneath a blood-red moon.

Fallout 76's Rare Halloween Plans Are Hiding on Corpses, Not in Treat Bags

Hunting Fallout 76's Ghillie Suit and Slasher poster plans? Find out which masked Scorched drop them and why opening Treat Bags won't help.

1 day ago4 min read

Vintage sepia engraving of a shadowy businessman in a fedora seated behind a desk with an open ledger, stacks of papers and a banker's lamp, framed by an ornate border and city skyline.

Confidence Man Lets You Run a Ponzi Scheme and Escape Before Everyone Realises They're Broke

Confidence Man turns a 1920s Ponzi scheme into a roguelike deckbuilder. Recruit investors, promise absurd returns and escape before the money runs out.

2 days ago3 min read

Fallout 76-style Halloween artwork showing a decayed figure in an orange superhero costume surrounded by costumed ghouls, including a pumpkin-headed figure, a skeleton and a mummy, in a ruined wasteland settlement.

Fallout 76's Pint-Sized Slashers Are Killing the Halloween Enemies Players Actually Want to Farm

Fallout 76 Slashers are reportedly killing Spooky Scorched before players can farm them. Can you still loot the bodies? Here's what players have discovered. Copy

2 days ago5 min read

Psychedelic horror illustration of Davy screaming with a glowing green eye, black cap and bandaged cheek, surrounded by monstrous creatures, distorted faces and explosive neon paint splashes.

Stupid Never Dies Lets You Eat Monsters and Steal Their Powers. Apparently, Zombies Need Upgrades Now.

Stupid Never Dies lets you eat monsters and steal their powers. Find out how Style Eat works, who can play early and why being a zombie isn't enough.

3 days ago3 min read

A grinning, red-eyed cultist reaches toward the viewer while holding a plate of butchered meat. Behind them, another cultist crouches beside a bloodied victim amid candles and a glowing ritual circle.

Grilluminati Lets You Sacrifice Customers, Serve Their Remains and Run a Steakhouse From Hell

Grilluminati's free demo lets you sacrifice customers and cook the remains. We played solo, survived the first rituals and discovered hospitality is hell.

3 days ago5 min read

Dark green sci-fi illustration of a snarling Xenomorph facing a masked Predator with glowing eyes and wrist blades, surrounded by swirling mist and ruined structures.

Aliens vs. Predator (2010) Review: 16 Years Later, Being the Monster Still Beats Being the Poor Bastard It Hunts

Is Aliens vs. Predator still worth playing in 2026? Three campaigns, dated combat and glorious monster mayhem. The humans, naturally, get the worst deal.

4 days ago11 min read

The 10 Best Villain Games to Play Right Now (October 2026)

Scam call centres, murderous sharks and a goose with absolutely no moral compass. Meet the 10 best villain games to play right now (October 2026).

5 days ago10 min read

Fallout 76 Burning Springs artwork featuring The Ghoul aiming a revolver at the viewer against a fiery red wasteland, with raiders, wrecked cars and a mutated boar below.

Fallout 76 Hideouts PTS: 4 Tiers, Bugs & Missing Drifter

Fallout 76 Hideouts PTS has four tiers, nine-Lead crafting and bugs that punish you for leaving. The Drifter? Apparently on paid leave. Here's how to survive.

Oct 165 min read

A hooded DayZ Badlands survivor carrying a curved blade marches through sandstorm-battered desert ruins beneath a dramatic golden sky, looking thoroughly prepared to steal someone's last bottle of water.

DayZ Badlands Is Out: 267 km² of Desert & Thirsty Bastards

DayZ Badlands unleashes 267 km² of desert, sandstorms and scarce water. Rebuild your home, then watch a thirsty bastard with a rifle apply for tenancy.

Oct 155 min read

Dead by Daylight Survivors flee through a foggy, moonlit forest as a monstrous masked Killer and his murderous colleagues loom behind them.

Dead by Daylight 10.2.1: Surrender Has a Bloody MMR Catch

Dead by Daylight 10.2.1 lets Killers end bot-only Trials, but the last human Survivor takes an MMR loss for surrendering. The Entity hired a bastard from HR.

Oct 155 min read

Fallout 76 Mischief Night at Rapidan Camp, with costumed wastelanders firing at a massive Vertibird beneath Halloween decorations and an eerie moonlit sky.

Fallout 76 Players Are Finding Free Legendary Loot After Mischief Night

Fallout 76's corpse-removal service sometimes leaves legendary guns in the grass. Check two Mischief Night loot spots. The undertaker has some explaining to do.

Oct 144 min read

Ghost Face chases a terrified Survivor across collapsing wooden planks in Dead by Daylight, apparently having disabled his attack sounds for maximum psychological terrorism.

Dead by Daylight Missing Killer Sounds After 10.2.0: What's Broken and Is There a Fix?

Dead by Daylight 10.2.0 has broken Killer attack sounds. Ghost Face is apparently offering silent stabbings now. Here's what's missing and whether there's a fix.

Oct 115 min read

Two masked killers, one wearing a grotesque deer mask with antlers and wielding an axe, the other sporting a bloodstained rabbit mask and knife, stalk through a moonlit forest in Gone Feral's illustrated slasher-horror artwork.

Gone Feral: Hitman Has Put On a Hockey Mask, and Apparently Murder Now Requires Planning

Gone Feral turns Hitman into an '80s slasher nightmare. Stalk victims, weaponize fear and murder campers. Jason Voorhees has entered middle management.

Oct 106 min read

Imperial officers stand around a glowing blue hologram table during a dark Star Wars briefing, looking like the galaxy’s most heavily armed middle-management meeting.

Star Wars Villain Games Are Better When Evil Becomes a 9-to-5

Star Wars gets far more interesting when evil stops being a red dialogue option and starts involving uniforms, briefings, contracts and apparently Imperial HR.

Oct 105 min read

Fallout 76 Halloween artwork featuring a grinning Vault Boy dressed as the Grim Reaper, heavily armed Power Armor, a blood-red moon and a sinister graveyard filled with skulls, candles and pumpkins.

Fallout 76 Phantom Maps: 37 Graves, 3% Odds, Absolute Misery

Are Fallout 76 Phantom Maps worth it? Dig 37 graves, chase a 3% weapon drop and discover why even the dead are better at keeping their loot.

Oct 105 min read

Glowing green spectral enemy haunts Fallout 76's Mischief Night Halloween event, surrounded by jack-o'-lanterns, toxic green flames and a crashed military aircraft beneath a sinister full moon.

Fallout 76 Uninvited Guest Not Spawning? You Don't Need It for the 3 Weapons

Fallout 76's Uninvited Guest has the attendance record of a deadbeat dad. Here's why he won't spawn and how to get his 3 weapons without the bastard.

Oct 95 min read

Car Park Capital's colourful isometric city features a sprawling parking empire, packed roads, a Ferris wheel and a giant burger. Apparently, even paradise needs another 400 parking spaces.

Car Park Capital Lets You Destroy Neighborhoods, Spread Propaganda and Call It Progress

Car Park Capital lets you bulldoze homes, brainwash residents and unleash riot police. All to build more parking. Satan's opened a property development firm.

Oct 96 min read

A monstrous red-eyed rat snarls above a vast swarm of glowing-eyed rats beneath a blood-red moon, with ruined gothic towers burning through the crimson haze.

I Am Plague First Look: I Became the Dark Lord of Rat Spreadsheets

I Am Plague promised a flesh-eating rat hivemind. An hour later, the rats were playing themselves while I checked my phone and contemplated doing laundry.

Oct 77 min read

Dark illustrated Dead by Daylight horror collage packed with masked killers, monsters and crossover villains emerging from a moonlit forest.

Dead by Daylight 10.2.0 Finally Lets Survivors Communicate Without Voice Chat

Dead by Daylight 10.2.0 adds Survivor Intent messages, new surrender rules and NieR cosmetics. Solo queue has finally discovered language.

Oct 75 min read