Thief: The Dark Project's remaster is up for pre-order, PlayStation's Black Friday sale starts this week, and Steam's cut deep into Borderlands 3. GOG had a busy day of its own, and GameTrailers' Top Hat Fall Showcase kept the trailer feed full.
Deals and sales
PlayStation Store's Black Friday deals start this week
PlayStation's Black Friday sale on the PlayStation Store starts Wednesday 4 November and runs through to Monday 30 November, with discounts of up to 75% off across PS5, PS4 and PS VR2 games, expansions and DLC. The exact titles and prices land when the sale goes live, and PlayStation says the lineup refreshes partway through, with some discounts ending 20 November before new ones take over.
Source: PlayStation Blog
On sale on Steam
Borderlands 3: 90% off, A$8.99 (was A$89.95), until Tuesday 17 November. It's the looter-shooter where you play one of four Vault Hunters trying to stop the Calypso Twins.
007 First Light: 40% off, A$67.17 (was A$111.95), until Tuesday 10 November. It's an origin story for a young James Bond working through MI6 training.
The Farmer Was Replaced: 30% off, A$10.15 (was A$14.50), until Tuesday 17 November. You program a drone in a simple Python-like language to automate the farm work.
Source: Steam
News
Thief: The Dark Project Remastered is up for pre-order
Thief: The Dark Project Remastered, the 1998 stealth game from Looking Glass Studios, is now up for pre-order on GOG. The developers call it a "first-person sneaker," built around sneaking past trouble instead of fighting through it. It's listed at A$41.95 ahead of release.
Source: GOG
'90s-style sci-fi horror Derelikt launches November 13 on PS5
Derelikt is a sci-fi horror game built to look and play like a late-90s PlayStation title, from solo developer Philipp Jensen's studio Visuwyg and publisher Hyperstrange. It's set aboard the Von Neumann Outpost, a derelict asteroid near Saturn, where players investigate a missing excavation team while fending off hostile aliens. It launches on PS5 on 13 November, with a 10% pre-order discount on the PlayStation Store.
Source: PlayStation Blog
A fighter's guide to Godzilla: Destroy All Monsters Melee Remastered
Godzilla: Destroy All Monsters Melee Remastered, the kaiju fighting game from Pipeworks Studios and Atari, released on PS5 on 3 November. PlayStation Blog put out a guide to all 12 playable kaiju, pointing newcomers toward Heisei Godzilla as a balanced starter, King Ghidorah for zoning and Rodan as the fastest fighter on the roster.
Source: PlayStation Blog
Nintendo digs into the look of the Ocarina of Time remake
Nintendo published chapter 2 of its "Ask the Developer" series on The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time remake for Nintendo Switch 2. Director HokWai Ng and art director Aya Shida talk through rebuilding the visuals around the idea that "the visuals may change, but the experience does not," aiming for what Shida calls a "puppet-show feel." The team also kept the original's separate area maps rather than making the world fully seamless, to hold on to how it felt exploring new regions the first time.
Source: Nintendo UK
Helldivers 2 adds a poisonous new Terminid strain
Helldivers 2 has added the Noxious strain of Terminids: the fast, fragile Noxious Scavenger and the heavily armoured, web-slinging Noxious Spewer, both of which poison players on a bite. Light poisoning blurs vision and drains health, and heavy poisoning stops sprinting until a stim clears it. Bug caves are also turning up in a lot more biomes than before, including deserts and frozen tundras, rather than the handful of worlds they were limited to.
Source: PlayStation Blog
World of Warcraft: Forever adds alpha controller support
World of Warcraft: Forever, which revisits the classic 2004-era game with new stories and areas like Zephras Isle, launches on PC on 4 November with alpha controller support included for existing subscribers at no extra cost. The system maps combat and UI actions, including bags and quests, to a controller, though Xbox Wire notes a keyboard or voice chat is still the easier option for talking to other players.
Source: Xbox Wire
Frostpunk 2: The Surge is coming soon to GOG
The Surge is a new scenario expansion for Frostpunk 2, sending players into an unexplored valley where a newly found resource starts factions fighting among themselves. GOG lists it as coming soon, with no release date yet, but it can be wishlisted now.
Source: GOG
ALL LIGHT IS GONE heads to GOG
ALL LIGHT IS GONE is a first-person, found-footage psychological horror game built around a decades-spanning corporate conspiracy and a building that defies the laws of physics. GOG has it listed as coming soon, with no release date confirmed.
Source: GOG
WoW Forever's launch update finishes off controller support
PCGamesN reports World of Warcraft: Forever launches 4 November at 3pm PST, after a beta that saw more than eight million characters created. The launch update brings controller support to a "complete functional state" covering movement, spells and UI navigation, alongside balance changes for every class and race and a batch of bug fixes, in what the outlet counts as around 100 changes total.
Source: PCGamesN
Thief Remastered's new expansion comes from the Black Parade mod team
PC Gamer reports Thief: The Dark Project Remastered is getting a new expansion made by the Black Parade mod team, out next month.
Source: PC Gamer
PC Gamer counts 28 cozy games landing this November
PC Gamer counted 28 cozy game launches across November, including three horse games among them.
Source: PC Gamer
Thief Remastered's special edition brings back the big box, but only on console
PC Gamer reports Nightdive is bringing back Thief's old trapezoid-shaped box for a special edition of Thief: Remastered, though it's only coming to console, not PC.
Source: PC Gamer
Modern Warfare 4's DMZ payouts just doubled
Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 4's DMZ mode has bumped up its payouts: Dynamic Ops rewards go from $5k-$10k up to $10k-$20k, Side Ops jump from $500 to $2,000, and each completed mission step now pays $500 instead of $300. The changes land ahead of DMZ's new X01 map, arriving Friday 6 November with the game's Season One update.
Source: PCGamesN
ATOM RPG's Plague Island DLC is out now
Plague Island is a new story DLC for ATOM RPG, out now on GOG, adding new locations, characters and storylines. It takes players from a small airfield to a new island where a Gwon-Jo-controlled settlement is dealing with a disease outbreak.
Source: GOG
Trailers
Spooky Tales gets a trailer from the Top Hat Fall Showcase
Spooky Tales is an anthology horror game drawing on Tales from the Crypt, Goosebumps and Are You Afraid of the Dark, mixing narrative exploration with minigames across settings from 1920s pulp horror to found footage and classic slashers. The new trailer, shown at the Top Hat Fall Showcase 2026, comes with its own creepy original song.
Source: GameTrailers
Riftbound gets a second trailer for its Radiance set, featuring Heartsteel
Riftbound: League of Legends TCG's fifth set, Radiance, is out now, and its new trailer brings in the virtual band Heartsteel alongside champions Sett, K'Sante, Ezreal, Yone, Kayn and Aphelios.
Source: GameTrailers
Fortnite's One Piece crossover gets a Treasure Hunters trailer
Fortnite's Treasure Hunters season brings in a One Piece crossover, shown off in a new hybrid trailer built around the hunt for fortune.
Source: Xbox (YouTube), also reported by PlayStation (YouTube)
Prima Materia gets an announcement trailer
Prima Materia is a dark visual novel from Radi Art, the studio behind Synergia, set in a wasteland ruled by Angels who harvest consciousness. Players take on Mana, a mind-eating "Mind Digger" taking one last job: fixing a demi-angel worth keeping whole.
Source: GameTrailers
The Backworld shows more of its combat in a new trailer
The Backworld is an upcoming RPG about slipping through cracks in reality into a world-bending setting, where players have to decide when to fight and when to flee. It's coming to PC via Steam in Q2 2027.
Source: GameTrailers
Frostpunk 2: The Surge gets a reveal trailer
The Surge expansion for Frostpunk 2 takes players beyond the frozen remnants of the USA into a mysterious valley, as shown in a new reveal trailer for PS5.
Source: PlayStation (YouTube), also reported by GameTrailers
PowerWash Simulator 2's Barbie Pack gets a release date trailer
PowerWash Simulator 2's Barbie Pack arrives 3 December on PlayStation 5, taking Barbie on a cleaning adventure of her own.
Source: PlayStation (YouTube), also reported by GameTrailers
Way of the Hunter 2 explains its hunting mechanics in a new trailer
Way of the Hunter 2 takes players through New Laurentia and the Kilimaya Reserve, tracking animals across changing weather with hunting mechanics and herd management, in a new explanation trailer for PS5.
Source: PlayStation (YouTube), also reported by GameTrailers
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