AMD says FSR 4 will reach APUs, gaming laptops, and handhelds by the end of 2026. Jack Huynh, who runs the company's computing and graphics group, told Korean press, including The Elec, that the machine-learning upscaler is moving off discrete cards and onto the rest of the lineup.

The plan is two tracks. Existing APUs get a lighter model built for integrated graphics. New APUs, still not named, are meant to run FSR 4 natively. Huynh said the light model is aimed at image quality and low latency on chips that cannot carry the desktop version.

FSR 4 launched on RDNA 4 desktop cards. RDNA 3 desktop cards picked it up later. Official support for RDNA 2 desktop cards, the same generation as the Steam Deck, was already set for 2027, and this briefing did not say that date moved. Valve has talked about FSR 4 on the Steam Machine. It has not committed the Steam Deck.

Source: The Verge

Cloud Imperium Games put Squadron 42 on Steam on 10 October. Wishlists are open. The page lists a planned release of Q2 2027, and no price. Chris Roberts moved the target out of late 2026 so the single-player game would not land in the same window as Grand Theft Auto VI.

It is a standalone story in the Star Citizen setting, year 2945, on StarEngine. You enlist as a rookie in the UEE Navy, live on a capital ship, and the brief is space combat, fighting on foot, stealth, and time with the crew. The cast, on performance capture, includes Mark Hamill, Gary Oldman, Gillian Anderson, Henry Cavill, Ben Mendelsohn, and Andy Serkis. The game has been in development for more than a decade.

The Steam minimum is Windows 11, a quad-core back to an Intel Sandy Bridge i7 or an AMD Bulldozer, 16 GB of RAM, a DirectX 11.1 card with 8 GB of VRAM, and 150 GB of disk. The recommended column only says a 64-bit processor and operating system.

Source: Steam and Eurogamer

Richard Garriott says the Ultima copyrights return to him in 2027. He sold Origin Systems, and the series with it, to Electronic Arts in 1992. The last mainline game was Ultima IX in 1999.

US copyright law lets an author terminate a transfer 35 years later. No money changes hands. The author has to give a year's notice. Garriott says he wrote to EA in April and told them he was taking the copyrights back. They wrote back that they know the law and will act accordingly. He says the two sides are now in active talks about whether there is anything to do together before the date.

What he says he could do, once the copyrights are his, is re-release the earlier Ultimas or make a sequel. Neither is a project yet. He has most of a year to decide what the return actually means.

Source: VGC

Photo: Richard Garriott at the 2018 Game Developers Conference, by Game Developers Conference, CC BY 2.5, resized. Wikimedia Commons.

A full playable build of Grand Theft Auto VI is not public. The person or group posting as Cyberleek says that can change.

On 10 October they posted an offer. If a memecoin tied to the name hits a $30 million market cap, "the build goes out - full story mode, played to the end, credits and all." Take-Two can stop it, the post says, with physical discs and a public apology. No outlet has the file, and Rockstar and Take-Two have not answered this one.

Footage under the same name has been out since 18 August. Rockstar called those clips heartbreaking on 26 August and kept the 19 November release. This week the account was credited with about 25 minutes more, including first-person driving and mission scenes. Rockstar has not said that newer cut is theirs.

The disc demand is aimed at a decision Rockstar already made. Boxed copies ship with a download code, not a disc. Strauss Zelnick has compared discs for a game this size to vinyl. Standard is $80, Ultimate is $100, on PlayStation 5 and Xbox Series X|S. Preload starts 12 November.

Take-Two subpoenaed Microsoft, Discord, Google, and X in August while it looked for who had the footage.

Source: Forbes and GamesIndustry.biz

k1llsen won Estoty Duel Tournament #221 on 9 October, beating baSe 3-2 in the grand final. 18 players, online. The $100 pool paid $40 to k1llsen, $25 to baSe, $15 to Keltz, $10 to maxter, and $5 each to St0n3 and Thri11er.

Double elimination: best of three up top, best of one in the lower bracket, best of five in the final. The map pool was Awoken, Blood Covenant, Blood Run, Corrupted Keep, Ruins of Sarnath, The Molten Falls and Vale of Pnath.

k1llsen beat 1eroy 2-0. His winners-bracket match against baSe is scored -1:0. From the lower bracket he beat PepCo 1-0, Artemka 1-0, St0n3 1-0 and maxter 1-0, then beat Keltz 2-1 in the lower final.

baSe reached the final without a series loss, including a 2-1 over maxter and a 2-0 over Keltz, and started the grand final a map ahead. k1llsen won three of the four maps played and took the series 3-2. It is his fifth Estoty title. baSe still leads that list with 70. Keltz finished third, maxter fourth.

Strongsage came in as the top seed, rated 2441, and finished 13th. His matches against Coffee by Tomo and PepCo are both scored -1.

Source: Toornament

Keltz won NAQCL Duel Tournament #76 on 10 October, beating maxter 3-0 in the grand final. 12 players, online, ping uncapped. The $100 pool paid $50 to Keltz, $30 to maxter and $20 to dramiS.

Double elimination: best of three, best of one in the lower bracket, best of five in the final.

klyb's winners-bracket opener is scored 0:-1. Keltz then beat Yup 2-1 and dramiS 2-0, and closed the final in three maps.

maxter beat Rohm 2-0 and lost the winners semi 0-2 to dramiS. His lower-bracket matches against Thri11er and Yup are both scored -1. He beat dramiS 2-1 in the lower final and lost the rematch 0-3. dramiS finished third. Yup was fourth. St0n3 and Thri11er were joint fifth.

The title is Keltz's 14th, and his fourth win in the last five. He won #72, #73 and #74. Strongsage ended that run at #75 on 3 October, 3-0 in the final. dramiS still leads the series with 32 titles. Strongsage has 11, and was absent from the #76 field.

Source: Church of Quake

AGENT won EGB Cup #71 on 10 October, beating ash 3-1 in the grand final. 12 players, online. The pool paid $55: $44 to AGENT, $11 to ash.

Double elimination. Upper-bracket matches were best of three, lower-bracket matches best of one. The final went to four maps.

AGENT did not drop a series. He beat rell 2-0, k1llsen 2-0 and cYpheR 2-0, then took the final 3-1.

ash beat pavel 2-0 and lost the winners semi 0-2 to cYpheR. From the lower bracket he beat cherepoff 1-0 and k1llsen 1-0, then beat cYpheR 2-0 in the lower final. cYpheR finished third, k1llsen fourth. cherepoff and dazator were joint fifth. pavel and rell were joint seventh.

The map pool was Aerowalk, Battleforged, Bloodrun, Delirium, Furious Heights, House of Decay, Silence, Sinister and Toxicity.

This is AGENT's second cup in a row, and his fifth win in the last six regular Quake Live duel cups. He won #65, #66, #67 and #70. cYpheR won #68. Cup #69 was TDM 2v2, won by pavel and Nitrino.

Source: EGB

Fog won 250 FPS Season 6 Qualifier 3 on 11 October, beating dazator 3-0 in the grand final. The prize is a Division 1 slot, the third of four.

17 players, online. Double elimination: best of one in the lower bracket, best of three in the upper bracket, best of five in the final. The map pool was Aerowalk, Battleforged, Bloodrun, Cure, Delirium, Furious Heights, Hektik, Lost World, Silence, Sinister and Toxicity.

Fog did not drop a map. He beat BLR_BY 2-0, Radist_dk 2-0, fire_bot 2-0 and dazator 2-0, then closed the final 3-0.

dazator beat STING 2-0, St0n3 2-0 and rell 2-1, lost the winners final, and beat fire_bot 2-1 in the lower final. The rematch was over in three maps. fire_bot finished third. rell was fourth: 2-1 down to dazator in the winners semi, then 0-1 to fire_bot on the way back.

Fog missed the Season 5 top eight. He went out 9th-12th in qualifier 1 on 27 September and finished third in qualifier 2 on 4 October, where ARSENY beat him 2-1 in the winners final.

Eleven of the twelve Division 1 places are filled. Fog joins H3LLDOWN, ARSENY and the eight invites: AGENT, cYpheR, k1llsen, cherepoff, pavel, ash, baksteen and Spart1e. Qualifier 4 is on 18 October.

Source: EGB

id Software will add a free Slaughter Mode to DOOM: The Dark Ages - Revelations in November. Game director Hugo Martin announced it on the 1 October Slayers Club Live. There is still no day inside the month. It is free for Revelations owners, and it is not in the base game.

A run is endless and single-player. Rounds escalate, and the demons, bosses, and arenas are randomized. The mode keeps a personal best by score and by round reached. id said it has no backend, so there is no global leaderboard.

Every ten rounds is a checkpoint, where you cash in skulls earned on the way there. Cosmetics unlock as you go, and weekly challenges add another score to chase. The stream pitched it as a place to keep using the Revelations combat, Chain Spear included, past a campaign replay or an Ultra Nightmare and Pandemonium run.

The base game already has the Ripatorium, the arena where you pick the demons yourself. Slaughter Mode deals the fight, and the run has no set end.

Source: Slayers Club Live (IGN)

ARSENY won 250 FPS Season 6 Qualifier 2 on 4 October, beating fire_bot 3-0 in the grand final.
15 players. The prize is a Division 1 slot.
He did not drop a series: 2-0 WPHK1991, 2-0 rell, 2-0 Radist_dk, then 2-1 Fog in the winners final.
fire_bot lost 0-2 to Fog and came back through the lower bracket.

Ten of the twelve Division 1 places are filled.
He joins H3LLDOWN and the eight invites: AGENT, cYpheR, k1llsen, cherepoff, pavel, ash, baksteen and Spart1e.
The last two qualifiers are 11 October and 18 October.

250 FPS put him 5th in the EGB ranking, with 3 wins in Season 5.

Source: 250 FPS

Germany won the QL European Nations Cup after the TDM leg on 4 October.
Three online Sundays: CTF on 20 September, duel on 27 September, TDM on 4 October.

Russia won TDM and beat Germany 2-0 in the grand final.
Germany were second, the UK third, Sweden #1 fourth.
Russia went 12-0 on maps.

Germany finish on 24 (CTF 7, duel 10, TDM 7).
Russia are second on 16 (1, 5, 10). The UK are third, also on 16 (10, 1, 5).
Sweden #1 are on 10.
Benelux 6, Slovenia 4, Denmark 3.
Poland, France, the Czech Republic and Sweden #2 are on 1.
Spain finished on 0.

A different nation won each leg: the UK in CTF, Germany in duel, Russia in TDM.

The community pool is 500 euro.
Germany take 250 (200 for the title, 50 for the duel).
Russia take 150 (100 for second, 50 for TDM).
The UK take 100 (50 for third, 50 for CTF).

Source: House of Quake

Astralis beat Nemiga 3-1 in the grand final of Stake Ranked Episode 4 on 4 October in Barcelona.
The pool is $100,000. First is $25,000. Nemiga take $17,500.
Mirage 13-6, Ancient 10-13, Nuke 13-5, Cache 13-7.

They lost the opener 1-2 to Alliance, then won five straight: FaZe 2-1, BIG 2-1, fnatic 2-0, Luminosity 2-1, Nemiga 3-1.

It is the first LAN title since the BLAST Pro Series Global Final in 2019 in Bahrain.
A different roster won Copenhagen Gaming Week in January 2024, a showmatch.

Staehr was 66-49 in the final (1.41), the series high, and 1.27 for the event.
jabbi posted 2.30 on Mirage.
Staehr was 2.02 on Nuke and took an ace clutch on Cache.

It feels nice to finally lift a trophy.

NEO, to HLTV. He took the coach job in the summer.

HLTV has Astralis back in the top 10 for the first time since June.

Source: HLTV

250 FPS will run a 10-player Division 2 next to Season 6 Division 1. The field is the best qualifier finishers who miss a Division 1 slot and can play. Round robin, five matches played each week, then the top six in a double-elimination playoff.

The playoff pays $300: $120 / $80 / $60 / $40. First and second also get a Division 1 invite for next season. Division 1 stays at 12: eight invited from Season 5, four from the qualifiers. H3LLDOWN took the first. The other qualifiers are 4, 11 and 18 October. No group-stage start date.

Source: 250 FPS