The Witcher 4 has been voted Most Wanted Game at the Golden Joystick Awards 2026, beating the likes of Fable and Resident Evil Veronica. CD Projekt Red production director Małgorzata Mitręga accepted the award near the end of the November 11 show, just before Resident Evil Requiem was crowned the night's big winner. It's a step up from last year, when The Witcher 4 came in a close second in the same category with 16.68% of the vote against GTA 6's 18.03%. GTA 6, which launches on November 19, wasn't on this year's ballot. Here's what Mitręga said on stage:

This is a huge, huge honor for us, but it's also a great responsibility. We all know it. We are working hard, giving heart and soul there, all the skills we have, passion we have, and moments like that are such a boost for us, for the stamina, to (keep) it going, to deliver (for) you when the time is right.

Welcome to November and we kick off this month with a somewhat slow start, as even this week's major release is technically a re-release of a game that's over 20 years old. The rest of this week's new releases includes a lot of early access games and kicks off with a pack of hounds in space, followed by a family friendly, multiplayer life/farming sim and an open world MMORPG. This is followed by an extended medieval city builder and we end the week with a haystack and you get to guess what you have to find in it. Don't forget to check out this week's other releases as well.

World of Warcraft: Forever / This week's major release / Wednesday 4 November
WoW: Forever is an invitation to take your first steps in a legendary world of untamed frontiers, warring factions, untold perils, and unseen mysteries. Experience an Azeroth that grows from the roots of WoW's first age, continually evolving through regular content patches and updates that promise never-ending adventure.

Boutique publisher SNEG, in collaboration with Wizards of the Coast, a subsidiary of Hasbro, Inc., are proud to announce the restoration of heritage Dungeons & Dragons title Pool of Radiance: Ruins of Myth Drannor will be available for the first time digitally on November 6th. You won't have to wait that long to play it, however, as a demo is available today through October 26th for Steam Next Fest - and your progress will transfer over into the full game!

Originally released in 2001 by Ubisoft and developed by Stormfront Studios, Pool of Radiance: Ruins of Myth Drannor is a turn-based party RPG set in the Forgotten Realms. It returns to the legendary Pool of Radiance, one of the most storied legacies in CRPG history - now updated to run smoothly on modern systems!

An elevation of computer memory prices—throughout late 2025 and early 2026—has prompted revisits of older generation hardware. After all, cheaper DDR4 memory offers an alternative route in the current climate. Prime examples turned up last week, when Gigabyte unveiled and launched four new AM4 socket-based motherboard models. At the end of December, ASUS was reportedly engaged in a bolstering of its AM4 motherboard production lines. Pleasingly, AMD seems to considering similar steps with its compatible Ryzen desktop processor families. Tom's Hardware gathered relevant information during a pre-CES 2026 round-table discussion.

During an interview session, David McAfee—Team Red's VP and GM of client channel business—reportedly dropped a hint about potential revivals of AM4 CPU products. In the recent past, AMD has continued to roll out (sort of) new chips based on "Zen 3" architecture. Conversely, supplies of popular SKUs—like the gaming-centric Ryzen 7 5700X3D model—have dried up. When asked about a possible older generation re-release strategy, McAfee stated that the Red Team: "(is) certainly looking at everything that (it) can do to bring more supply and kind of reintroduce products back into the (AM4) ecosystem to satisfy the demands of gamers that maybe want that significant upgrade in their AM4 platform, without having to rebuild their entire system." Elaborating a tad more, he said: "(it is) definitely something (AMD is) very actively working on." According to the TechPowerUp news archive and GPU database, Team Red's most recent new "Zen 3" desktop releases include the Ryzen 5 5600F (last September) and Ryzen 5 5500X3D (mid-2025) SKUs.

The launch of Splitgate 2 has been a bit of a mess, with the game initially launching to criticism from fans of the franchise earlier this year. In response to the negative reception, 1047 Games, the studio behind the fast-paced FPS pulled the game from Steam Early Access, where it was available at the time and announced that it would be going back to the drawing board and re-releasing Splitgate 2 in December this year. Now, 1047 Games has delivered on that promise, shipping Splitgate: Arena Reloaded as the full-fledged 1.0 release of Splitgate 2. The game studio has published a long list of changes that have been implemented for the full release, but the gist of it is that Splitgate: Arena Reloaded aims to keep the identity and some of the unique gameplay that made the original Splitgate special while also modernizing the game, "add the features people consider standard today," and tighten the gameplay loop to focus on the arena shooter mechanics more than the original Splitgate 2.

Much like the original game in the franchise, Splitgate: Arena Reloaded is a free-to-play arena shooter that spices up the gunplay with portals for sneaky tactical moves and increased mobility. It claims much of the same vertical mobility and fast-paced gunplay as the previous Splitgate game, and it features 20 arenas, 18 primary weapons, 9 secondary weapons, and almost dizzying number of game modes for multiplayer PvP and co-op gameplay. The biggest changes to Splitgate: Arena Reloaded appear to be the removal of factions and abilities to focus on the portal mechanics and gunplay and clean up the gameplay loop. Players can also now deploy both the entry and exit portals on a wall to block other players from using it, and the Arena Reloaded also features EMP grenades to deactivate portals from an area and control the space. The developer also says that the game has seen performance optimizations, specifically focusing on frame rate consistency on low-end PCs and last-gen consoles. At the same time, Spligate: Arena Reloaded has received a visual, UI, and audio overhaul to make the game feel more like a classic arena shooter.