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🗓️ Upcoming Events
Twitchcon 2025
TwitchCon is October 17-19, 2025 in San Diego, with activities like Artist Alley, panels, shows, and community events. Friday has a Drag Showcase. Get your tickets here.
Event Date: October 17-19, 2025
Location: San Diego, CA
Steam Next Fest October 2025
Steam Next Fest, a multi-day celebration of upcoming games. Explore and play hundreds of game demos, watch developer livestreams, and chat with teams about their games in progress, coming soon to Steam. Register here.
Event Date: October 13-20 2025
Location: Online
🚀 AAA News
The latest game and device releases
Dying Light: The Beast releases 11-week roadmap: The game celebrates its release 4 weeks ago and unveils its plan for the next 11 weeks. This includes New Game+, a bunch of QoL updates and much more!
AMD and Sony’s PS6 chipset aims to rethink the current graphics pipeline: Project Amethyst focuses on efficient machine learning and new compression techniques.
DOOM: The Dark Ages gets a significant performance upgrade for handhelds - now Steam Deck Verified: id Software just released a major performance update for DOOM: The Dark Ages, making it run a whole lot better on handhelds like the Steam Deck. Thanks to the update, it's also now Steam Deck Verified.
Borderlands 4 Is On Sale After A Month, As It Trails Borderlands 3: Borderlands 4 is underperforming compared to its predecessor, Borderlands 3. Just one month after its September 12, 2025 release, the game has already gone on sale (reportedly 20% off) because its sales are significantly trailing Borderlands 3's launch numbers.
🦄 Indie News
Croc Legend of the Gobbos remaster is coming to Steam with more upgrades: It originally launched as an exclusive to GOG, but that's not going to last with a newer edition announced and a Steam release.
Bye Sweet Carole released this month: Bye Sweet Carole is a narrative-horror adventure game completely hand-drawn in the style of classic animated films. Follow the trail of missing Carole Simmons and uncover the dark secrets hidden behind her disappearance from Bunny Hall orphanage.
CUFFBUST released this week: Escape prison with your friends by equipping tools, evading guards, and executing your breakout plan. Destructible environments, proximity chat, a multitude of escape routes, 10 player lobbies, and a full custom map editor!
🔥 Streamer News
The1v2 is supporting 'Space Youth Project', a charity that helps LGBT+ young gay, lesbian, bisexual, trans during October.
SamanthaTeapot will be fundraising for the Blue Cross. A charity that provides nationwide support for the most vulnerable pets in the UK.
ExtraEmily is fundraising for the Zoological Society of San Diego and is being taught by Maya about animals and the ecological space
🌍 Opportunities
TFT APAC Community Lead at Riot Games (Singapore)
Community Developer at Ubisoft (Hybrid, Canada)
Community Content Manager at PlayStation (Canada)
Community Manager at Wargaming.net (On-Site, Japan)
Social Media Manager at Figma (Remote, USA)
Video Editing Intern at Ubisoft (Hybrid, Singapore)
Video Team Director at CD Projekt Red (On-Site, Poland)
Product Coordinator Creator Platform at Rockstar (Hybrid, UK)
🔑 Gaming keys
Thank you so much for reading, and have a great week of gaming!