Well, it IS October, you know, and what says that more than pumpkin spice and the arrival of in-game Halloween celebrations? The PlayerUnknown's Battlegrounds team has sent out a new video to showcase the holiday-themed skins that players will be able to trot out to "haunt" the battlefield over the coming days.

World War 3 entered early access last Friday with the game's server infrastructure falling first victim. While EA began on Friday, players reported an inability to connect to servers that day, though many were able to on Saturday after a flurry of patches stabilized servers somewhat, though still leaving many out of combat. The Farm 51 has only stated that there are "connectivity issues" but that it is working to squash bugs and get things stabilized for the majority of players.

Bethesda has been ramping up information about Fallout 76 over the past week or two as the B.E.T.A. is getting ready to kick off. In a pair of Twitter posts on the game's account, fans are reminded about a pair of old "friends" that will also be present in FO76: The Enclave and The Brotherhood of Steel. Also introduced is a group of Appalachian doomsday "preppers", they are called the Free States and the Responders, a group made up of fire, police & medical personnel.

Things are moving fast these days with the World of Warcraft team. It has been confirmed that Brian Holinka has returned to the WoW team as the new Lead Combat Designer. Eagle eyed users saw a post on Holinka's LinkedIn page and he later confirmed via Twitter that he has indeed returned to WoW. You may recall that Holinka was the Lead PvP Developer from 2012 to 2017. For the past year, he has been at work "on an unannounced project".

The day has finally come: The Intel i9-9900K is here. The new "world's best gaming processor" brings the i9 line to mainstream consumers for the first time and packs a full 8 cores and 16 threads of performance, boosts 5GHz out of the box, and marks the return of a soldered heat spreader to keep it cool. Let's see how it held up!

When the EVE Online Winter Update launches in the near future, it will be headlined by the "new and improved Abyssal Deadspace 2.0". This means that players will be able to travel to Abyssal Deadspace, that is considered a"dangerous and isolated" corner of New Eden. In addition, players will be able to get hold of new ships, new navigation structures and will find the newly-added Activity Tracker to keep tabs on everything that's going on.

One of the bigger complaints that World of Warcraft players have about Battle for Azeroth is the acquisition of Azerite armor pieces, particularly by running Mythic+ dungeons. That will be changing, however, with 8.1, when a new as-yet-unnamed currency is introduced that players can earn in their weekly Mythic+ chests or by scrapping Azerite armor pieces. Once enough currency is earned, players will be able to visit Thaumaturge Vashreen who will sell two different types of items.