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May 27
- Battlefront 2's huge Steam resurgence isn't a mystery when you realize it's just really good
- Elden Ring Nightreign director says FromSoft will be fine-tuning game balance right up until launch: 'We really try to tweak things until the last minute'
- More than 60% of Capcom's digital game sales last year were on PC
- OlliOlli World and Rollerdrome are back on Steam after being delisted 4 months ago when 2K sold off Private Division
- The CIA operated a network of gaming sites and even a Star Wars fanpage that were part of one of its worst-ever intelligence catastrophes
- Pump noise, what pump noise? Asetek's new liquid cooler pump is so quiet 'it's on a level where you can't hear it'
- Assassin's Creed Shadows has Dead By Daylight content in it now for reasons fathomless to man
- Valve buys fan favourite Counter-Strike map from creator: 'They reached out to buy it on day 1, a great honor and I don't want anyone to think we hesitated for one moment'
- 'Brevity should be more of a virtue': Clair Obscur: Expedition 33's devs are happy they made an 'intense and short' 30-60 hours of RPG
- Aureole – Wings of Hope is a high-speed, nifty platformer where you wrangle a supersonic, physics-based ring to eventually thwart a jacked devil
- Dulcet-voiced Sony tech god Mark Cerny is better than you at Balatro, s the 0.1% of players to platinum the whole game
- Cities: Skylines 2 can't catch a break, as the long-awaited Bridges and Ports expansion is delayed again
- CDPR didn't put harsh themes in Cyberpunk 2077 or The Witcher 3 'for the sake of edginess', but because 'you're probably not making art' if the devs are never challenged
- Dragon Age creator says EA execs thought BioWare fans would eat whatever slop they were given since 'the nerds in the cave would always show up for an RPG, because it was an RPG'
- A fabric-covered PC case was not on my Computex 2025 bingo card but I'm surprisingly into it
- I've seen every PC case that Computex has to offer and this new Havn chassis is my top pick thanks to its abnormally large fans, front grille and airflow optimisation
- After 4 years, Final Fantasy 14 finally has a new exploration zone in the Occult Crescent—and even if I'd have liked one sooner, I can't wait to get stuck in
- Zoom's Eric Yuan becomes second CEO to use AI avatar on important investment call, ahead of the platform's new custom avatar addon release
- MSI shows off new weirdly flat PinSafe Design motherboards at Computex, possibly saving lives
- Moza releases replica Essenza SCV12 wheel, giving us poors a chance at going hands on with a Lamborghini
- Today's Wordle answer for Tuesday, May 27
May 26
- Byond game engine suffers a weeks-long DDoS attack, apparently because a wanna-be Bond villain is trying to force it to go open source: 'Attacks on Byond servers are a symptom of your obstinance'
- Pick up the Left 4 Dead games for cheaper than a pack of gum in the new Steam sale that's all about zombies, and also vampires
- A month after Electronic Arts mashed the brakes, WRC rally racing games are coming back with a 'complete reboot' under a new publisher
- Gabe Newell co-founded a neuroscience company in 2019 and its first brain chip is expected to ship later this year
- NetherRealm says it's done releasing major updates for Mortal Kombat 1: 'Our team … needs to shift focus to the next project'
- Morrowind with every texture deleted is a beautiful magenta fever dream
- Tim Cain talks about the challenges facing a Fallout remaster: 'How much are we now changing the original Fallout? Is this a quality of life thing or are you making a new game?'
- Oblivion Remastered player gets flung in jail for 20 million days just for some petty crime
- It turns out the gigantic rats you have to kill in so many RPG quests are totally real, and now I need to apologise to RPG designers
- Escape from Duckov is coming back with a new demo
- Today's Wordle answer for Monday, May 26
- Total War: Warhammer 3 DLC Tides of Torment promises to add a treacherous mutant and finally give Warhammer's smartest troll his due
- 'They're very determined, suddenly, to see your game fail': Former Dragon Age writer calls out 'anti-fans' who bet on games failing before launch
- A Roblox farming game made by a teenager 'in like three days' had 8.9 million players online at the same time—Steam peaked at 11.5 million across all games on the same day
May 25
- Desktop Survivors 98 is an action roguelike that moves at the speed of your mouse, which is to say pretty fast
- Warhammer 40,000 games Darktide and Rogue Trader enjoyed a sales bump due to the popularity of Space Marine 2
- 'Majority of gamers are still playing at 1080p': AMD chief claims there's still a place for 8GB GPUs, and he's got a point
- Even with The Elder Scrolls 6 just a twinkle in Todd Howard's eye, it's boom times for Elder Scrolls fans: The project to remake Morrowind in Skyrim just put out a 20-minute trailer and progress update
- After its pre-rendered trailer caused a stir last year, this Dark Messiah-inspired RPG now has a gameplay teaser—but the internet is debating if it's real or not
- Helldivers 2 player embraces their inner Lisan al-Gaib, discovering a way to surf on the back of the game's giant floating Leviathans: 'I spent longer than I would like to it setting this up'
- Double Fine dev embarks on a quest to discover Full Throttle's true release date: 'Perhaps the best 30th birthday present I could give Full Throttle was a real birthday'
- Move over, Daggerfall Unity—now there's a project to make the oldest, least accessible Elder Scrolls game actually playable
- CD Projekt Red reflects on its hubris following The Witcher 3's success, and how that led to Cyberpunk 2077's problems: 'I think that was the beginning of a bit of magical thinking for the company'
- Today's Wordle answer for Sunday, May 25
- Open world, first-person RPG Tainted Grail: The Fall of Avalon is out now with a nice helping of dark fantasy to explore
May 24
- Indie Fallout wiki s forces with the Unofficial Elder Scrolls Pages, ensuring a bright future for looking up RPG lore uninterrupted by half-page video ads
- 'Son, you did a good job:' Doom grandaddy John Romero streamed hit indie FPS Dusk and absolutely loved it
- The Finals' latest update adds a limited-time mode that's mostly just hitting each other with hammers
- A24 is making a movie based on The Backrooms, the 2019 creepypasta that now forms the basis for every other game on Steam
- Mech farming sim Lightyear Frontier is getting a complete overhaul, adding a bigger map, massive tornados, and an interplanetary delivery cannon: 'It's been clear that we were not living up to the fantasy'
- Microsoft's take on Civilization is getting an expansion that lets you play through the Bronze Age collapse, the Mongol invasion, and something inexplicably called 'Spider World'
- Today's Wordle answer for Saturday, May 24
May 23
- Paradox is bringing back White Wolf for tabletop RPGs and at least one videogame
- Most players 'know next to nothing about how games are made': New Blood devs sound off on gamedev misconceptions
- Konami re-recorded the Snake Eater theme for Metal Gear Solid Delta, but don't worry—it's still the same excellent vocalist belting "Snaaaaaaaaake Eaaaterrrrrrrrr"
- 'We're gonna do right by you': Splitgate 2 CEO apologizes for server meltdown after the open beta goes live
- Larian insists it did not accidentally leak Divinity: Original Sin 3, it was just a glitch on X
- Brian Eno, creator of the Windows 95 startup sound, calls on Microsoft to sever ties with Israel: 'If you knowingly build systems that can enable war crimes, you inevitably become complicit in those crimes'
- This XCOM-style strategy game dares to ask: What if Napoleon Bonaparte was a woman who had an army of battlemechs?
- If there was one non-AI Computex trend this year it's that everything needs a damned screen in or on it
- REPO will feature 'moon phases' as part of the new update, ramping up the difficulty every 5 levels
- Helldivers 2 and Palworld devs wish players understood that 'easy' additions and updates are sometimes really hard: 'That's half a year's work. That takes six months'
- 'They listened! They listened!': Stalker restores Soviet monument after angry fans tanked its Steam reviews, and they couldn't be happier
- The SteelSeries Arctis Nova Pro Wireless headset is now at the best price I've seen at only $229
- Anthropic says its Claude AI will resort to blackmail in '84% of rollouts' while an independent AI safety researcher also notes it 'engages in strategic deception more than any other frontier model that we have previously studied'
- Noctua finally cracks the case market with a fan-equipped chassis that 'can substantially reduce noise' and now I want an all-Noctua rig
- 'We'll call you back': BioWare's first impression of The Witcher 1 was a bad demo, followed by CDPR declaring that they wanted to 'create the best RPG game ever'
- This hacking sim is like if Uplink was more of a puzzle game, and if you live for snooping through other people's emails you're going to be well-served
- The voice actor for FF14's Alphinaud finally reaches Heavensward, sees his own work after 10 years in all its 'jumpscare' glory
- If you never played the original The Witcher RPG then here's a heads-up—the censorship-free Enhanced Edition is now dirt cheap
- PNY and Palit have stolen my heart at Computex with their clean and shiny RTX 50-series graphics cards
- FTC drops 2-year case against Microsoft's $68.7 billion acquisition of Activision Blizzard
- HTC Vive makes impending tariffs a sales event, giving US consumers one last chance to jump into VR before the price hikes
- Valve certifies the Lenovo Legion Go S for SteamOS, improves AMD compatibility, controller , and officially brings 80% limiting to SteamOS in 3.7.8 update
- Three Warhammer games are free to keep as part of this year's Warhammer Skulls event
- Today's Wordle answer for Friday, May 23
- Warhammer 40,000's space dwarfs will make their videogame debut in turn-based tactics sequel Mechanicus 2 this year
May 22
- A live-action Elden Ring movie from A24 and Alex Garland is in the works
- 'We hear you': RoadCraft dev will address early negative with hotfixes, free new vehicles, and a 'Hard Mode' with systems like fuel management
- Elden Ring Nightreign director says the game was built for squads of three and 'doesn't collapse if it's a solo player,' but its that duos have gone 'kind of overlooked'
- Super People, the 'PUBG with superpowers' battle royale that closed in 2023, is somehow back from the dead and doing a closed beta test in June
- The original Space Marine is getting a re-release with 4K and crossplay, and the orks wear all black now for some reason
- Google CEO pitches dystopia where no one communicates with their friends anymore because AI's writing our emails, claims this makes you 'a better friend'
- This 'stealthvania' is like if Prince of Persia never gave up on 2D and narrated your every move
- 'It's the definition of insanity here': The Battlefield subreddit's good vibes nosedive into outrage after DICE announces there'll be no class weapon restrictions in Battlefield 6
- GeoGuessr withdraws from Esports World Cup following furious blowback from the community over Saudi Arabia's human rights record
- It's a day ending in 'y' so you know what that means: Embracer Group is doing more restructuring
- Epic CEO Tim Sweeney takes his victory lap as Fortnite returns to the app store after nearly 5 years: 'Thanks to all of the folks who initially sided with Apple then later came around to the winning side'
- Dawn of War, the undisputed king of Warhammer 40k RTS games, is getting a remaster, but Relic isn't changing too much: 'We don't want to fix something that isn't broken'
- A 'gruesome' free Warhammer 40,000 typing game on Steam heralds the announcement of Boltgun 2, coming in 2026
- In this new medieval city builder that launched on Steam today, build a sprawling town with the help of companions who level up and train their own apprentices
- IO Interactive's MindsEye system requirements recommend an RTX 4070 or above, which makes my new rig want to cry
- Remedy director says that FBC: Firebreak 'respects player time' instead of relying on FOMO, which has 'infected modern games'
- Tryx's new AIO cooler features two LCD screens and a display shelf, because it's Computex
- This ginormous caricature of a U cooler screen just about sums up Computex 2025, I think
- CDPR boss says Witcher author Sapkowski's grumpiness is a 'persona,' he's actually lovely and the studio's 'updating everything' to make sure they respect his lore
- There's a new Warhammer 40,000 version of our favorite Secretlab desk on the way but please don't paint your minis on it
- 'That magic is back': Peter Molyneux really wants you to know he's not hyping Masters of Albion, while name-dropping Dungeon Keeper, Black and White, and Fable
- If the endless stream of AIOs with big screens coming out of Computex is making your air cooler jealous, Tryx has you covered
- 'Just stick to your guns': Neil Druckmann isn't fazed by all the hate Intergalactic got, 'There's stuff happening with media right now that you just have to ignore'
- This retro PC case has a big red button and a turnkey and it hits me square in the chest with nostalgia
- This incredible Monster Hunter Wilds PC custom build has something your rig definitely doesn't: an RTX 5070 Ti GPU sword
- Monster Hunter Wilds has announced a collaboration with Street Fighter 6, letting you dress up as Akuma and embark on a new side mission
- Fear not, RTX 50-series owners, because ASRock's new PSUs have extra thermal sensors to shut off overheating GPU power cables
- Jason Momoa's videogame movie streak won't end here, he's already in talks to star in Street Fighter alongside 3 other big names
- The Last of Us showrunner confirms it'll take 4 seasons to wrap things up: "there's no way to complete this narrative in a 3rd season"
- PC Gamer magazine's new issue is on sale now: The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt – 10th anniversary
- A writer used AI to generate this widely circulated summer reading list which includes fake books, and is published in the Chicago Sun-Times
- This $6,000 professional grade direct transfer printer comes with plenty of viruses for no extra cost, unless it also steals your crypto
- This origami-powered shape-shifting device could provide VR gamers with unique tactile
- Today's Wordle answer for Thursday, May 22
- In an uncontroversial move that will bother no one, Lies of P is getting an easy mode
- Final Fantasy 15's longest boss fight is coming to Magic: The Gathering, hopefully it won't take 30 days to defeat
May 21
- The Battlefield subreddit is an endless feed of leaked Battlefield 6 gameplay, and it might be the best marketing campaign of 2025
- A Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 dev has formed an anime rivalry with the godlike buildcrafters who only needed 'like, one week' to beat his record of dealing 3.4 billion damage with one attack
- Former Dragon Age writer says Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 and Baldur's Gate 3 prove 'what's possible when a game is given time to cook'
- Gearbox boss Randy Pitchford wades back into the Borderlands 4 pricing controversy: 'Game budgets are increasing ... it's getting gnarly out there'
- 'It doesn't feel like Blade Runner': Cyberpunk's creator teases one of the Cyberpunk 2077 sequel's new locations, saying that 'it feels more like Chicago gone wrong'
- 'We can't just have Geralt for every single game': The Witcher's Doug Cockle tells the Ciri-haters to 'read the damn books, you won't think it's so woke anymore'
- Looks like the latest Nvidia driver has given some RTX 5080 and 5090 laptops a little performance boost
- Ducky's year of the snake keyboard is my favourite shown off at Computex so far, and it's limited to just 2025 units
- Cherry proclaims a 'new era' for keyboard switches: induction is 'half the cost of a regular mechanical switch', more reliable, and less power hungry than analog alternatives
- Nvidia's CEO says attempts to control chip exports to China are a failure: 'If they don’t have enough Nvidia, they will use their own.'
- Havn's Doom special edition PC case offers not one, but two sets of hollowed eye sockets to judge you while you game
- All hail the biggest PC case to ever grace my eyes, a true monument to Prometheus and other gods of unfathomable technology
- Hate RGB software but still want all the pretty LEDs on your AIO cooler? Lian Li might just have the very thing for you
- Lian Li's new Rotation PSU has a power connector that swivels and I too have been asking, why?
- 'AH can we please keep them': Helldivers 2 players have fully imprinted onto the game's new SEAF troops like they're a bunch of kittens up for adoption
- 'It's not just a gimmick': Noctua is working with Pulsar on a gaming mouse that has a fan in it to cool your sweaty palm
- Noctua aims to release its first liquid U cooler in 2026, working with Asetek to make the quietest water pump around, though it's not the thermosiphon project
- Turns out asking AI chatbots for answers in a specific way can be like leaving them with the key to Trippy McHigh's magic mushroom farm
- InWin unveils all-singing, all-dancing 'trophy-inspired' case that also looks a little bit like my morning brew
- Doug Cockle wasn't the 'obvious' choice for Geralt in The Witcher—but he kept winning out because he was 'the best at being normal'
- If you ever wanted to stick a screen inside your PC case Lian Li's just shown off something surprisingly affordable for you
- 'That's it, pre-order cancelled': GTA 6 investigators have managed to find the one slip-up in the second trailer, and it's pretty illuminating
- 'We want to be as aggressive as possible, right?' says AMD GPU boss of the Nvidia-baiting pricing of the RX 9060 XT, calling it 'a tremendous value proposition to all our fellow gamers'
- Overwatch players freak out over supposed Widowmaker butt nerf, proving that Marvel Rivals gooner skins have wound back the clock 10 years
- Wooting is adding knobs to its gaming keyboards and the good news is existing Wooting owners can knob themselves too
- Lian Li's new water cooler with a curved and motorised screen is basically pointless but you're still going to want one
- The Scuf Envision Pro and non-Pro will finally get Hall effect from May 29, and if you already own a non-HE one you'll get a free calibration buff
- Asus and Noctua team up once more, this time creating a hulking three-fan, four-slot RTX 5080 chonk of a graphics card
- Cherry debuts new mechanical, magnetic, and inductive switches with a whole new naming scheme to match
- AMD just gave us our first glimpse of FSR 4's 'Redstone' update, with a host of machine learning-based improvements
- AMD announces the long-awaited RX 9060 XT starting at $299, says it's 6% faster than the RTX 5060 Ti at 1440p in 40 games
- Today's Wordle answer for Wednesday, May 21
- AMD unleashes up to 96 cores of Zen 5 with its new Threadripper 9000 Series chips
- One of tech's best leakers drops the GPU specs for the RTX 5080 Super, likely confirming that 24GB VRAM update
- 1741 days after being kicked off iPhones, Fortnite is back on the US App Store
May 20
- Microsoft's Build conference interrupted by renewed protests over its ties with the Israeli military
- Gearbox CEO Randy Pitchford tells anyone worried about an $80 Borderlands 4 pricetag that 'if you're a real fan, you'll make it happen,' reminding us all of the value in choosing not to tweet
- Avowed director Carrie Patel leaves Obsidian after 12 years to the Netflix studio behind Oxenfree
- 'This has been heartbreaking news for our entire team': Lego nukes Bionicle fangame from orbit after ignoring it for 8 years
- THQ Nordic studio that was set to be closed in 2023 somehow escaped the Embracer death spiral and is now working on a new RPG
- Fooled by a false story about Steam hacks? Have I Been Pwned 2.0 will now shower you with confetti when you have not, in fact, been pwned
- The 'new era' of Rainbow Six Siege means you're going to need some newer hardware if you want to play
- The glorious juxtaposition of DOOM: The Dark Ages and Colorful's furry-friend-themed Meow range of PC goodies is one reason why we love Computex
- Corsair's new MMO mouse has a neat function that can entirely replace your Stream Deck
- Stalker remaster reviews crater to 'Mostly Negative' as players lament deleted Soviet monuments, yanked Russian language, and blurry graphics that I didn't notice in 23 hours playing
- A titanium-shrouded RTX 5090, outrageous cases, big-screen U coolers and more: MSI's Computex 2025 lineup is a cavalcade of exotic hardware and unusual delights
- Former Valve writer Marc Laidlaw says he 'retired too hard', but there's no way he's coming back for Half-Life 3: 'We need new stuff, [not] me going 'Well the G-Man wouldn't do that in my day'
- For this year's Computex, Cooler Master showcases two new PC cases: a fresh look for the legendary Cosmos and a weird-but-cool goldfish bowl 360 Panoramic
- Razer's new super-skinny Blade 14 gaming laptop is a serious threat to my wallet, but I want a GPU with more than 8 GB VRAM for $2,700
- 'You guys are not Bethesda': During development, The Witcher 3 devs were told by a Walmart rep 'I like you guys, but it's just not gonna happen'
- I accidentally forgot to start the Soviet Union in this excellent free game about the Russian Revolution
- Corsair's Frame series of PC cases is testing a modular DAC/amp accessory prototype, and I'll be the first in line to buy one if it makes it to production
- TeamGroup's new portable SSD features a physical kill-switch for spies and definitely not for people who can't stop fiddling with buttons
- The new SteelSeries Rival 3 Gen 2 is the perfect reminder of the benefits of removable batteries in gaming mice
- After 13 playthroughs, one Elden Ring player is still haunted by a mysterious item, only to be let down by the burden of knowledge
- ASRock outs new 400 Hz 1440p gaming monitor and we're hopeful the price is going to be punchy
- Phison launches the first ever SSD controller to have built-in AI processing, along with some monstrous random data performance figures
- Zotac's trippy, fractal-like PC case has been making me think about life, the universe, and the meaning of PC gaming
- Will 2025 be the year that CAMM2 memory finally makes a proper entrance? Rambus and Team Group believe it is
- Cooler Master's new liquid cooler has modular tops, which have been used to show off a crying face on a screen and now I'm sad
- Hyte's ludicrous liquid cooler will soon be able to show entire system monitoring charts on its screen
- Hyte's latest case is a bold and colorful break from today's obsession with angular and understated
- Corsair introduces do-it-yourself gaming keyboard MAKR 75, and says 'hello' to a new era of web-based peripheral customization
- Corsair made a see-through PSU because everything looks better when you can see its innards... welp, that came out weird
- These Godzilla and Mechagodzilla custom keycaps stopped me dead in my tracks, like a nuclear lizard caught in a headlock from an oversized monkey
- The Corsair Air 5400 offers such a clever and unique approach to U cooling, I'm surprised no one did it sooner
- Hints of an exciting new gaming GPU from Intel were just a social media miscommunication and now I'm totally deflated
- Helldivers 2's new update Heart of Democracy finally adds urban city maps, SEAF redshirts to make you look cool, giant Illuminate sky worms, and civilians to protect from friendly fire
- This teeny-tiny RTX 5060 is about the size of the wrap I had for lunch and lives in danger of being stolen by a team of mice
- Gigabyte unveils its second generation of X3D Turbo Mode, for squeezing up to 15% more performance from Ryzen X3D Us
- Samsung OLED TVs are finally getting Nvidia G-Sync , should you ever want to hook your rig up to a 60+ inch screen
- Don't worry, they're not just adapting blockbusters: this trippy Japanese walking simulator you can get for $4 on Steam has been made into a movie, too
- Today's Wordle answer for Tuesday, May 20
- This new arcade controller from 8BitDo could be your next tournament travel buddy
- Borderlands series briefly review bombed on Steam for extremely flimsy reasons
May 19
- A week after launch, my new favorite grungy, Condemned-style horror-brawler has its first patch and the promise of yokai-punching spiked knuckles on the way
- An MVP of ultrawide patches for triple-A games just had their entire library nuked from GitHub, and nobody seems to know why
- Only a fool would on The Witcher 3 for 90% off during Steam's CD Projekt Red Sale
- SAG-AFTRA files unfair labor practice complaint against Epic over Fortnite's AI-powered Darth Vader: 'We must protect our right to bargain and conditions around uses of voice that replace the work of our '
- Diablo 4 player sits back as their 20 large lycanthrope sons tear through one of the hardest dungeons for them
- Haunted looking art director livestreams apology for Marathon theft scandal, but chat is merciless: 'Would write an original comment, but I don't see any good ones to plagarize'
- The legend who made Oblivion's Dark Brotherhood infinite has made its Thieves' Guild go on forever as well
- Microsoft wants everyone to use an open-source technology to create an 'agentic web' where AI agents interact with other AI agents
- Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang says 'PC gaming is now 30 years old,' and I'm here to say 'um, actually'
- Kojima says his next espionage game will keep us waiting another '5 or 6 years', but then he might finally get around to directing a movie: 'I’m getting older, and I would prefer to do it while still young'
- Oblivion player breaks the bank to keep paranoid elf alive throughout his murderous rampage: 'I have created Super Saiyan Glarthir'
- The PC Gaming Show returns June 8 with great hosts, amazing games, and a live on-air PC build and giveaway
- Infinity Nikki devs have published a notice regarding the abysmal 1.5 update: "To all stylists, we offer our deepest apologies"
- Thanks to the Computex, we now know that there's an RTX 5070-like GPU inside Nvidia's 'supercomputer at home' DGX Spark
- Asus has announced the world's first 610 Hz gaming monitor, and a 'Super TN' is the price you pay for that speed
- Take-Two CEO stresses that GTA 6's delay is necessary to 'make the best thing anyone's ever seen' even though he doesn't 'play videogames at all'
- WoW's latest patch fumbled the landing, but it looks like it'll get its future player housing feature exactly right—with complete kitbashing freedom
- Asus just solved the biggest issue with its BTF graphics cards on most motherboards and in the process found a way to supercharge its GPUs over 600 W
- Red Dead Redemption 2 is reportedly coming to Nintendo Switch 2 as early as this year, and a 'next-gen update' for other consoles could mean good news for PC players, too
- Nvidia's Jen-Hsun Huang boasts that one spine of its new NVLink Fusion tech can 'move more traffic than the entire Internet'
- Nvidia RTX 5060 review live: looks like the 8 GB of VRAM isn't the biggest issue the new card has to face
- There are only 666 of this ROG Astral RTX 5080 Doom Edition being made and I'd go to Hell and back to get one if it wasn't $2,000
- Intel claims its next-gen 'Panther Lake' mobile chips will combine the power efficiency of Lunar Lake mobile with the performance of Arrow Lake-H desktop
- Asus is bringing two great features to ergonomic keyboards with its ROG Falcata
- 'We are doing our best to resolve most of it': Stellar Blade's PC release will be restricted in 130 countries as the devs fight to have it lifted
- Intel's next batch of Us might still be called Core Ultra 200S, possibly because the Arrow Lake refresh won't be much of a boost
- Wizkids offers full refunds for nightmarish Baldur's Gate 3 miniatures, as they 'did not meet our expectations or that of our Wizards of the Coast partner'
- I'm actually jealous of the workstation that gets to use this Maxsun graphics card containing two Intel Arc GPUs and 48 GB of VRAM
- Cozy castle builder literally hits next level as Tiny Glade announces stairs, its 'biggest and most complicated change' yet
- Jensen says 'even Crysis' can run on Nvidia's RTX Pro Server enterprise platform and now I kinda want one just for funsies
- Is it a bird, is it a plane? No, it's Nvidia's new Taiwanese office
- Today's Wordle answer for Monday, May 19
- In its latest update, Enshrouded's terrifying monsters have players asking 'are we the baddies?'
- There's a unique game over in Baldur's Gate 3 you can only get by rolling 20 on a bunch of Constitution saving throws, then being an absolute dunderhead
May 18
- Sure, why not, the next Dead by Daylight crossover is with Assassin's Creed Shadows
- 'More darts, more farts': Rust dev makes 'fart darts' for hack week, and you can probably guess what they do
- One of our most anticipated survival horror stealth games shows off more of its monster juice power-up system, which looks like an unholy cross between Hitman and Mario Odyssey
- This aggressively vaporwave offroad driving game by a car mechanic turned solo dev just got a Steam demo
- 'They don't really make life decisions without asking ChatGPT': OpenAI boss Sam Altman thinks young people turning to chatbots for life advice is 'cool'
- Baldur's Gate 3 has an ultra-rare Act 3 scenario where zombie versions of the tiefling refugees show up in their usual spots acting like everything's normal
- Wait, there's a Lord of the Rings movie about Gollum coming in 2027?
- Czech mayor gifts $200 Kingdom Come: Deliverance 2 collector's edition to country's Prime Minister, elevating the game alongside the Witcher 2 in the company of CRPG state gifts
- Netflix is going to make its ad breaks even more annoying with AI-generated garbage
- 'The vibes have never been worse' Bungie's morale is reportedly in 'free fall' following its art theft fiasco
- Netflix's long-awaited Gears of War movie might actually have a director, and it's the guy who helmed Bullet Train and codirected John Wick
- MSI's clever new 500 Hz QD-OLED gaming monitor can detect when you leave the screen and turn itself off to begin its anti-burn-in cycle
- After raising over $800 million from its community, Star Citizen's developer delays the release of a new ship upgrade as players baulk at having to pay for it
- Today's Wordle answer for Sunday, May 18
- Mud-and-blood medieval horror game Blight: Survival gets even muddier in the Marshlands biome
May 17
- Baldur's Gate 3 has a secret like Diablo's Cow Level I never saw after 460 hours: A magical sheep companion named 'Harvard Willoughby' you summon by killing a comedian and ringing two bells
- House Flipper 2 is having a free weekend, and just got co-op
- You've got to play my dark horse GOTY candidate if you too are a sicko for one of the ultimate RPG gimmicks: a trash level 1 sword that can be forged into a god slayer
- The Skyblivion and Oblivion Remastered romance continues to blossom, as Bethesda invites the modders to its studio for tea and sweetrolls
- Take-Two CEO reckons Civilization 7's mixed reception is just history repeating itself: 'Every time we've come out with a new platform iteration of Civilization, there's been some consternation on the part of consumers'
- REPO developer teases the game's 'most powerful weapon' yet, a mountable cannon that will 'turn your cart into a battle tank'
- Two Warhammer 40,000 games will be delisted from Steam on Monday, and one of them is currently on a 90% discount
- Today's Wordle answer for Saturday, May 17
May 16
- Another Sony live service shooter may be in trouble as Jade Raymond exits the studio making PvP heist sandbox Fairgames
- Finally, some good news: The world's only Warhammer academic conference is returning in September to present more talks like 'The ethical implications of the Imperium’s war with chaos and the inverted meaning of order'
- World of Warcraft game director on the woeful patch 11.1.5: 'It's not the experience our players are expecting or deserve'
- Clair Obscur's director has an old YouTube channel full of masterful no-hit Devil May Cry videos because of course he does
- The Xbox 360 reveal was 20 years ago and is a time capsule from a world where Elijah Wood roamed free, MTV was still cool, and giant tech companies paid Pimp My Ride to make hideous custom consoles
- Veteran indie dev says success on Steam these days is impossible to predict: 'Why did Balatro take off? You could write a million f***ing essays and none of them will be definitely right'
- The first ever third-party game to come to Steam probably doesn't get the respect it deserves—mostly because no one re it
- After Oblivion subreddit bans 'low effort' sexy flame Atronach posts, s respond with high effort sexy flame Atronach posts—'deleting this would be a travesty'
- Someone flipped a switch on Elon Musk's Grok AI so it wouldn't stop banging on about 'white genocide' and South African politics, xAI blames 'an unauthorized modification' but doesn't say who did it
- Fortnite added an AI-powered Darth Vader and—surprise—players immediately tricked him into saying slurs
- Amassing over $10,000 worth of retro GPUs over 14 years, this avid collector says they were astounded it started with a $28 purchase
- The new Acer Nitro PG1 is the first portable monitor I actually want thanks to 4K resolution and up to 144 Hz refresh
- The wacky Pokémon exhibition that puts Poké-fossils alongside real fossils is coming to the United States
- MSl's new PortalX website 'eliminates the need for software' to control your gear's RGB lighting and I'm happy to ditch the PC apps
- Antec heard you like screens so it stuck a 5-inch screen on a water cooler just where you didn't need one
- Kojima has a mind tomb: a USB stick filled with ideas for his staff to use after he dies 'kind of like a will'
- Take-Two CEO gets all philosophical yet again about GTA 6, says its delay is to his team's 'search for perfection'
- Tim Sweeney is recommending a 'fake adware version of Fortnite' to iOS s that's been 'approved by Apple', unlike the real Fortnite
- After Helldivers 2, Arrowhead's next game will be '100% funded by ourselves', though CEO Shams Jorjani says there's no hard feelings over Sony's boneheaded PSN shenanigans
- Rumours of an Arm-based U from AMD just won't go away as analysts reckon Arm is eating into the PC processor market
- The Stellar Blade PC system requirements are here and even an entry-level graphics card from 2016 can run it
- Welp, Fortnite's iOS version is 'offline worldwide' after Apple continues to shuffle its feet around bringing the game back to the US App Store
- Oblivion guru found a way to save the Emperor and his bodyguard in the original game, getting the drop on his assassin like the fantasy secret service
- This new armor for Oblivion Remastered has upgraded my elven rogue perfectly
- Today's Wordle answer for Friday, May 16
- Steam's monthly top-seller list is automated now, and goes all the way back to 2004 when it's just Half-Life 2
May 15
- Civil war breaks out in Helldivers 2 as players spawn infinite mechs to crash each other's games
- Hideo Kojima says most Death Stranding playtesters told him 'it was a terrible game,' and he's a little bummed Death Stranding 2 is testing way better
- Avowed lets you replace spiders with orbs in the first of its major updates coming this year
- Bungie confirms it stole art once again, will undertake a 'thorough review' of Marathon assets
- Dune: Awakening beta players extracted nearly 9 million liters of blood last weekend, enough to fill 3 Olympic-size, extremely gross swimming pools
- Stellar Blade comes to PC next month with new armor to cover up Eve's woefully exposed ears
- A year after Bandai Namco killed its anime MMO, Blue Protocol is getting a second, different anime MMO in the same universe
- Today's Wordle is the 5th toughest ever, ending streaks for 50% of players
- YouTube's top brains crack making its ads even worse: Using AI to insert commercials at moments you're 'most engaged' with its videos
- With its 1.6 update, Star Wars Outlaws has finally fixed its janky as hell speeder combat
- The Asus tool PC gamers use to update drivers, fix bugs, and improve security, turns out to have a bit of a security issue itself
- Incredible news: Stalker 2 fixes corpse-eating and sausage blood in big ol' patch which also gives enemies less of a death wish
- US senator introduces online porn ban proposal to 'safeguard American families', making a tired old 'won't somebody think of the children' argument familiar in videogames
- Nvidia might launch a GeForce RTX 5080 Super/Ti with 24 GB of VRAM sooner than we thought
- GTA 5 Enhanced may have 'Mixed' reviews on Steam, but the update has opened new doors for modders pushing the boundaries of reality in a sandbox now over 10 years old: 'We have an amazing opportunity to take things further'
- Turns out, Super Mario 64 can trap you in a menu for 2.25 years—as long as you wait that long beforehand: 'This is a fair punishment'
- Critical Role's Matt Mercer and Laura Bailey are hosting this year's Future Games Show summer event
- While we're in the GTA 6 waiting room, the Epic Games Mega Sale has the next best one on discount
- For the first time since launch you'll finally be able to craft saddles in Minecraft
- There's a rug in Oblivion that's just a real life rug you can get
- The best-looking GTA 5 visual overhaul mod of all time lands today—these exclusive screens are so lifelike they'll make you question what is real
- Don't tease me like that, Intel: Commenters on X are told to 'stay tuned' for Arc B770 news under a post about Computex
- Bad news for General Grievous fans: Fortnite's big mid-season patch has been delayed, leaving us another 24 hours without the bonus Star Wars battle track
- Ancient ThinkPad laptops, beloved by a certain kind of hardcore hardware fan, can be resurrected with a bespoke Meteor Lake mainboard, bringing the 2000s machine right up to date
- The Assassin's Creed Shadows delay worked out so well for Ubisoft its CEO decided, hey, let's do a couple more for the road—and save 100 million more euros while we're at it
- AMD all but confirms the RX 9060 XT will be announced on May 21
- The Baldur's Gate 3 cast got a new set of pre-painted minis and—oh, oh no, oh no no no
- This is the ugliest GPU I've seen in a long, long time and weirdly I think I want one
- It sounds like a six-word horror story, but 'Ransomware running directly from your U' is now a real thing
- VPN cancels lifetime subscriptions, having previously been unaware it was selling them
- Hideo Kojima is heading to Sydney Film Festival for a live discussion with Mad Max creator George Miller
- YouTube suspends major AI movie trailer s with over 2 million total subscribers from revenue-earning partner program
- Today's Wordle answer for Thursday, May 15
May 14
- False alarm: Valve confirms that nobody hacked into over 89M Steam s and that your s are safe
- Lucasfilm declares creative bankruptcy with an AI-generated Star Wars film that's just 2 minutes of mostly normal animals jumbled together
- A new Marvel Rivals item lets you skip losses in ranked and players worry the climb has become meaningless
- Baldur's Gate 3's latest hotfix quietly removes artifacts of a cut storyline never meant to be heard
- Oblivion Remastered hero returns to the game's golden age by spending 7 hours arranging books just to topple them like dominoes
- Ubisoft's extreme sports game is being turned into a movie… and honestly, I'd watch 90 minutes of people doing snowboard stunts and wingsuit flights in the Alps
- Superstar modders have decompiled Mario Party 4, meaning native PC ports for GameCube games may one day be a reality
- Hideo Kojima has an idea for a game where you age and die, 'but no-one would buy it', then immediately suggests one where you eventually forget how to move
- Stonking Half-Life remake Black Mesa is the cheapest it's ever been on Steam, offering Barney Calhoun in glorious 4K for a mere 2 bucks
- If you're into ambient rainfall sounds, why not use headphones with 'two half-gallon basins' and plenty of real water sloshing around everywhere
- This looks fungi: a first-person roguelike 'double deckbuilder' where you use a separate deck for exploring, smash locked doors open with your head, and feast on the corpses of mushroom monsters
- Apparently a new 'advanced' Zotac Zone will be announced at Computex and it looks like it might use a bespoke Linux OS
- Morrowind modders continue to astound, add object physics with 'pure lua' to a 23-year old game
- Intel has announced a load of new bugs afflicting its chips and this time it's not just Us but also GPUs that are involved, hooray!
- DayZ creator says Unity is accusing his studio of violating its software license based on the email addresses of two people who never worked there: 'This raises some serious questions about how Unity is scraping this data'
- After saying negative reviews 'might just cause our death' and 'we've got a few months left in the oven', No Rest for the Wicked CEO claims he never said they were in 'immediate financial danger', actually
- Oblivion Remastered mod makes its best part last forever: A Dark Brotherhood freelancer mode with infinite contracts and a gacha-style reward system
- RuneScape: Dragonwilds creative director says survival crafting has more in common with MMOs than you might think: 'It's almost like the genre was born from MMOs'
- The latest Nvidia driver lets you run ancient Us in Windows again without crashing
- Windows 10 version of Microsoft 365 apps will be ed until 2028—but this isn't the Microsoft u-turn you may think it is
- All 3 original Stalker games get 'fully remastered and optimized' versions next week, free for OG owners, and I can't wait to get shredded by an anomaly from the comfort of my sofa
- 'I missed it, I missed it all': the guy behind the Metal Gear song that goes with everything was 'two years' late to the meme because nobody told him about it
- Don't swap out your pants just yet, Helldivers 2 might be getting another update next week to coincide with the battle for Super Earth
- Intel its it doesn't have any 'significant' commitments from customers to make advanced chips in its fabs
- Expert criticizes Gigabyte's alleged use of 'viscous paste with questionable long-term performance' instead of tried and tested GPU cooling solution
- Grab 900 of your closest internet strangers and hit the road, online
- UK House of Lords backs amendment to AI bill thanks to peer vote that forces companies to reveal copyrighted material used in training AI models
- Xbox and Audeze have teamed up to give our favourite wireless gaming headset for audiophiles a gorgeous floral trim and I am in love with this unusual take on gamer chic
- Today's Wordle answer for Wednesday, May 14
- Microsoft's OneDrive update byes security protocols between business and personal files
May 13
- Diablo 4 players discover forbidden power combo that melts everything—including the servers
- 10 million Monster Hunter Wilds sales helped Capcom post its 8th consecutive year of record profits
- Marvel Rivals is breaking its original battle out of the vault for a limited time
- A Minecraft Movie is out on digital so now your kid can throw popcorn around the living room instead of the theater when the chicken jockey shows up
- Nintendo's lawsuit isn't slowing Palworld down as it prepares for a summer collab with Terraria
- This Factorio-ish sim is threatening to devour hours of my time, and I haven't even gotten to the part where I make my own starships yet
- Microsoft is firing 3% of its staff, totalling just under 7,000 employees
- Google's logo has changed, and if the past's any indication, this might be the most expensive gaussian blur in history
- Nintendo Switch 2 mouse controls shown off in latest clip makes me wonder why anyone would use it on the home screen
- Silver Palace may look like your ordinary anime game, but it's hiding a deliciously violent combat system underneath all those waifus
- Now it's AMD's Ryzen 9000-series processors alleged to be suffering from terminal voltage spikes and we're not sure if any Us are totally safe
- Stellaris 4.0 added babies to the galaxy, along with a bug that implies they are edible
- OG Infinity Ward dev says Call of Duty's gone the way of The Simpsons: 'It kind of feels like they've run out of ideas at times'
- Forget the Tarrasque—tabletop's biggest bad is now the biblically accurate Bristle Boar, a horrifying Pathfinder 2e monster that only exists because of a typo
- The new Pope picked his name for 'the defense of human dignity' amidst the AI revolution
- A Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 trailer from 5 years ago resurfaced, and it's a delightfully bare-bones look at the primordial soup that spawned the full game
- RTX 5060 retail listings spotted at Best Buy but I hope they're a placeholder as only one is at MSRP
- OpenAI CEO whines to Congress about pesky regulations, once more insists the tech's impact will be 'as big as the internet, maybe bigger'
- 'We cannot take any more Sexy Flame Atronach posts': The Oblivion community is hornyposting so hard about the remaster's Atronachs that the game's subreddit had to ban it
- Final Fantasy 14 vocalist says he's 'so thankful' that composer Masayoshi Soken is 'still here and still with us' after battling cancer
- 'Multiple crises' in Nvidia's supply chain may see 'prices increase across the board' for its GPU partners, making your chances of ever getting an MSRP card pretty damned low
- Jump scare! The Sinking City Remastered has surprise launched on Steam, and it's free to anyone who owns the original game
- Super Earth is under attack, and Helldivers 2's tro-browning update is finally here—with weapon customisation, new Illuminate troops, and an inevitable battle on democracy's home turf
- Samsung's world-first 500 Hz OLED is the ultimate no-compromise esports monitor but it's painfully pricey at nearly $1,500
- 5,000 pixels per inch, beyond 8K and 15,000 nits: Samsung's new OLED for VR headsets sounds completely bananas
- AI experts are calling for safety calculations akin to Compton's A-bomb tests before releasing Artificial Super Intelligences upon humanity
- This $24 Lucky Miner USB stick is a 210.7 trillion-to-one lottery ticket where the prize is a single BTC
- Celebrate 100 years of quantum mechanics by learning about quantum computing
- Fallout season 2 teaser trailer confirms a December release, and drives the point home that we're going to New Vegas
- Today's Wordle answer for Tuesday, May 13
- 'Too many games let their players succeed' says developer of notoriously tough survival RPG Kenshi, and 'that's mind-numbingly boring to me'
May 12
- The SteamOS era is imminent: Valve adds a new compatibility rating for games that’ll run on ‘any device that’s not a Steam Deck’
- Dune: Awakening's stabby stunlock PvP exploit is being fixed, says Funcom: 'We've got this covered'
- Oblivion Remastered has an unleveled, legendary sword you can grab right after leaving the starting sewers⁠—just bring a lot of arrows or magicka potions
- US senator announces a bill requiring geotracking in high-end GPUs to prevent the Chinese government from wielding the ruinous power of your Nvidia RTX 4090
- Clair Obscur player tanks their way through the entire game without dodging or parrying to prove a point: You can finish it without 'gamer reflexes'
- Sean Murray pours one out for No Man's Sky permadeath player who stranded himself in bittersweet space purgatory: 'All I can do is sit in my ship, watch the lightning storms, and wait for my oxygen to run out'
- You're not imagining things: Oblivion Remastered's standard difficulty is way too easy, a single step up is insanely frustrating, and one modder has the math to prove it
- Nintendo look away: Palworld and other creature collecting games are cheap on Steam right now
- Elden Ring Nightreign's story is told in part through playable memories, so FromSoftware really is delivering lore through whacking things
- Fallout show actor says they know its 'endpoint' and it's sometime in season 5 or 6, which means we've still got loads of time to scream at each other about New Vegas
- Clair Obscur: Expedition 33's director got on the RPG train early, playing FF8 'when my brother and I could barely read'
- Pimax's fancy-looking Dream Air SE Micro-OLED VR headset weighs under 150 grams and is much more affordable than the standard model
- Iron Galaxy has explained why Tony Hawk's Pro Skater 3 + 4 won't feature the career mode: 'Our goal here is to make the ultimate package'
- Musk's Colossus data center for Grok is at the centre of an environmental row over air quality in South Memphis
- Gearbox CEO Randy Pitchford spiels about how wonderful Borderlands 4 is going to be, then gets all coy about the price but jokes 'maybe we'll sell you that minimap that you guys want'
- WoW's Leeroy Jenkins, one of the internet's oldest memes, turns 20 years old—and after looking back on what we wrote in 2005, I feel like we've failed Leeroys everywhere
- Cash Cleaner Simulator is the next legally obscure sim to take the internet by storm
- The FBI says that elderly Cisco Linksys router you've been meaning to replace may be under serious threat from cyber criminals
- One day the silicon in this $7000 Asus RTX 5090 will be worthless, but you'll still have a whole 6 grams of solid gold to make up for it
- Oblivion Remastered has a new texture error, and this one mucks up a gag from the original game
- Trump istration reportedly fires the head of the US Copyright Office as it tries to tackle AI's use of copyrighted materials
- Bam Margera is officially returning to Tony Hawk's Pro Skater 3 + 4 as a Secret Skater
- US and China talk it out at Geneva, agreeing to suspend ultra-high tariffs for 90 days, but PC parts don't seem to be part of the deal
- Ouch—Warner Bros throws Suicide Squad: Kill the Justice League under the bus in the most corporate way possible, side-eyes it for closed studios and cancelled games
- The Gothic 1 Remake demo has been updated based on fan
- The tower defense comeback continues with Rift Riff, a 'remarkably forgiving' game about interdimensional juice raids
- Killing Floor 3's new release date is late July
- Today's Wordle answer for Monday, May 12
- REPO devs are making that new Overcharge mechanic kick in later on—alongside other difficulty scaling
May 11
- A unique horror strategy game about drilling for oil released on Steam last week
- There's another Risk of Rain 2 expansion on the way
- Can't wait for Dune: Awakening? Play the Dune TTRPG while you wait for just $1 with this Imperium RPG bundle
- FTC delays enforcing 'click to cancel' rule that would finally bring the hammer down on companies that make it as annoying as possible to cancel subscriptions
- Black Mirror's interactive episode Bandersnatch is being removed from Netflix, as 'the technology has served its purpose'
- The best FPS of 2024 simply cannot stop adding new maps, introducing 37 new arenas, 4 new weapons, and a 'Horrible Smelly Head' in its latest update
- MechWarrior 5's beefy story expansion is out, and it has the most videogame title I've ever had the pleasure to read
- Timberborn's latest update adds ziplines and tubeways for rapid beaver deployment and stops your rodent residents from throwing down in sudden fits of breakdancing
- The Final Fantasy Magic set will have 15 different Cids, and you can have them all in your deck at once
- Today's Wordle answer for Sunday, May 11
- After conflict between the staff of gaming site Giant Bomb and owner Fandom, 'Giant Bomb is now owned by the people who make Giant Bomb'
- Characters from The Witcher and Five Nights at Freddy's are ing Dead by Daylight, with a hint of The Walking Dead to follow
May 10
- PC gaming remains undefeated: Nintendo now says it has the right to brick your Switch if it thinks you're pirating games or modifying the console
- One of the most visually stunning roguelikes just overhauled its graphics to look even gnarlier, but you can still toggle back to the OG art style at will
- Elden Ring's update will add two new starting classes, one of them equipped with a top-tier DLC weapon it used to take dozens of hours to grab
- Finally, this Kingdom Come Deliverance 2 camping mod means I'll never have to scour Bohemia for a place to sleep again
- Even Starfield's community patch modders are growing 'disenchanted' with the sci-fi RPG, as volunteers depart in droves: 'If nobody comes forward, we may have to retire the project'
- After a decade of development, Roboquest's developer is calling time on its roguelite shooter: 'There's no way we can continue to provide content for players with over 1,000 hours of gameplay'
- Celebrate Star Wars being good again with up to 85% off EA's Jedi and Battlefront games until May 15
- Today's Wordle answer for Saturday, May 10
May 9
- Randy Pitchford asks fans to 'play the game first' before judging Borderlands 4's new minimap-free HUD
- Nearly 200 Overwatch developers at Blizzard form a new union: The Overwatch Gamemakers Guild
- 'We heard your ': Funcom just reversed course and opened up the Dune: Awakening beta weekend to anyone who preorders the survival MMO
- The voice of Disco Elysium's Ancient Reptilian Brain performed the game's famous karaoke scene live and in costume
- Fallout Season 2 filming just wrapped, so now's a good time to check in on any New Vegas sickos you know and make sure they're not getting too worked up
- As Fortnite gears up for an App Store relaunch, Epic is cranking up its Rewards program to encourage people to use its payment system instead of Apple's
- Co-founder of crypto platform Celsius, which went bust with a billion-dollar hole in its finances, sentenced to 12 years in federal prison for 'orchestrating one of the biggest frauds in the crypto industry'
- Europa Universalis 5's unusual, year-long reveal was a lesson Paradox learned from Imperator's mixed reception: 'I wanted to do it a little bit earlier, but marketing people tend to get panicky when you start talking'
- Quake finally makes it into the World Videogame Hall of Fame
- Sure, man: The $200 deluxe edition of the Gex Trilogy remaster includes a 3-foot inflatable Gex and box art from legendary illustrator Yoshitaka Amano
- Rockstar says GTA 6's second trailer is now the biggest video launch of all time, whatever that means
- Mafia: The Old Country system requirements have been revealed, and Unreal Engine 5 continues to be the thorn in your budget build's side
- 'First we do Wordle': Pope Leo XIV plays games like Wordle and Words With Friends with his brother, and did so before the Conclave
- A year later and over six months since the last patch, Intel is STILL releadates to fix instability problems with its 13th and 14th Gen Raptor Lake Us
- 'It was eye-opening': How a WoW documentary inspired Muscular Dystrophy UK's Liam Quinn to raise money and build community in the haven of videogames
- I watched one video of Oblivion Remastered on a CRT and now I'm lightly obsessed with the TikTok that did it
- Overwatch 2 re it can collab with videogames outside the Blizzard catalogue, bringing Street Fighter 6 to the battlefield
- AMD's RX 9060 XT GPU listed on Amazon for a depressing $449 for the 8 GB version and $529 for the 16 GB option
- We just got our first look at one of Elden Ring: Nightreign's new bosses, Libra Creature of Night
- MIT researchers debunk one of the greatest misconceptions in science: Eggs are stronger at the sides after all
- All Honkai: Star Rail 3.3 livestream codes
- Oblivion Remastered mod makes being a stealthy murder king easy, boosting your sneak attack damage modifiers from good to Grim Reaper
- Clair Obscur: Expedition 33's first patch reveals the sword that was part of a 2 billion nuke build was doubling all damage by mistake
- Trucker takes their gaming rig on the road inside their big rig 'and yes, [I] occasionally play Truck Simulator'
- This aluminium keyboard feels like it fell straight out of one of my abandoned sci-fi drafts—but thanks to its onboard word counter, I might just finish it now
- Legions of Helldivers 2 players are currently banging their head against a terminal, as Arrowhead plays coy with a new reveal
- A software engineer taught AI to hunt bugs by interfacing an LLM with debugging tools and has released the open source code: 'It's like going from hunting with a stone spear to using a guided missile'
- Valve is using Steam Deck's beta build to test 80% battery limit
- Razer's newest gaming headset goes on your chair instead of your head
- Razer announces travel-sized Basilisk Mobile mouse with dedicated AI prompt key alongside ultra-low-profile portable Joro keyboard
- Today's Wordle answer for Friday, May 9
- D&D's artificers are getting revised for the 2024 rules update in a book that will also let you play a guy who has a magic GPS and knows where everyone is at all times
- A Chrono Trigger revival seems inevitable at this point, with its creator itting 'I want to do something' after recent mistranslation incident
May 8
- Alien: Rogue Incursion will escape its VR shackles and become a normal bug-hunt shooter later this year
- Outer Wilds studio finally confirms it's working on a new game but says it will be 'years' before it's ready to share details
- Titan Quest 2 early access delayed due to 'a lot of noise' from ARPG competitors, but the developers say closed playtest results have been 'incredibly motivating'
- The Dune: Awakening team is confident servers won't implode at launch: 'This is not our first rodeo'
- Eric Barone says he 'might eventually make a Stardew Valley 2,' but not because it'd make a zillion dollars: 'I honestly don't care about money that much'
- Schedule 1's latest update adds a jukebox, because drugs without music is just kind of a drag, man
- EB Games is coming back to Canada, 'with community, nostalgia, and innovation at its heart'
- Bill Gates says Elon Musk's DOGE cutbacks are directly responsible for kids dying: 'The picture of the world's richest man killing the world's poorest children is not a pretty one'
- Death Stranding was all about connection, but after Covid-era metaverse hype, Kojima says that 'maybe it's not such a good thing to connect so much'
- Palworld devs 'disappointed' as they patch out a game mechanic to appease Nintendo, but 'the alternative would have led to an even greater deterioration'
- The mod that aimed to recreate Counter-Strike 1.6 in CS:GO is now officially cancelled following 'abrupt actions by Valve that prevent us from releasing' the project
- Clair Obscur: Expedition 33's soundtrack tops Billboard's Classical Album Chart with 18 million streams since launch
- Hideo Kojima says Death Stranding 2 has so much tactical espionage action that even his own staff 'worried it was getting a little Metal Gear-ish'
- Lae'zel's voice actor was recording Baldur's Gate 3 lines a mere 2 days before giving birth: 'I'm gonna be here right up until the due date, just you watch'
- I never thought I'd say this about Alienware but its new Aurora laptops show we're truly in the sleek and smart era
- Mojang has just killed for Minecraft VR, an underrated but very flawed VR experience
- This transparent HDD from Buffalo is both beautiful and woefully impractical—just how I like my tech
- Frostpunk 2's first major content update introduces 'several long-requested community features' like a massive new map and an easier survival experience
- Mafia: The Old Country gets an August release date, and don't worry, I won't be cracking a joke about making an offer you can't refuse
- Here's how long it would take 12 RTX 5090 GPUs to crack your … and a reminder that just adding more characters still works
- Helldivers 2 is finally adding a sword, and while I'm not soiling my breeches over it as Arrowhead's CEO decreed, it does look very cool
- Diablo 4 players aren't happy with the latest $150 Berserk collaboration, accusing it of being boring and overpriced
- Sennheiser and the company that now makes its audiophile headphones have just been fined €6 million over price fixing
- Peak Sekiro-like Nine Sols gets a 40% price cut ahead of its 1-year anniversary, and if you've ever liked parrying in a videogame, you need to play this thing
- Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 devs to issue its first nerf to an ability that does 2 billion damage: 'We gave it a big damage boost—and clearly overdid it'
- One US politician wants to add trackers to Nvidia's GPUs so they can be bricked if they go to China
- The new GTA 6 trailer draws on base PS5 footage
- Today's Wordle answer for Thursday, May 8
- Oblivion's gloriously exploitable magic is even more busted in the remaster, letting one player turn into a high-speed leap wizard who can cross Cyrodiil in seconds
- NBN price increases are another great reason to change providers—I switched last week, doubling my speed and saving AU$15 a month
May 7
- Spanish TV news uses Dark Souls 3 boss fight to illustrate, with 100% accuracy, how the conclave will elect a new Pope
- EA thinks it got Battlefield right this time, projecting confidence to investors in advance of a summer reveal: 'When we get it right, Battlefield is a giant franchise and often the biggest shooter in the year'
- FTC loses bid to block Microsoft's acquisition of Activision Blizzard, which already happened in 2023
- Confusion reigns as report of an A24 Elden Ring movie emerges, disappears, and emerges again
- Props for the honesty: Tim Sweeney says the reason 'people characterize the Epic Games launcher as clunky' is—wait for it—'because the Epic Games launcher is clunky'
- Oblivion Remastered mod finally fixes the loot levelling, so no longer do you need to complete quests then wait forever to hand them in
- Electronic Arts CEO feels 'very good' about the next Battlefield's launch now that Grand Theft Auto 6 is out of the way
- Just months after reportedly cancelling two live service games in development, Sony announces a new PlayStation studio with a live service game in development
- Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 players find a way to do 2,177,438,000 damage, which is enough to kill the hardest endgame superboss over 45.8 times
- As for Windows 10 counts down, End of 10 asks 'why not Linux?'
- Hazelight's Split Fiction sells over 4 million copies in 2 months
- Intel slashes the price of its Core Ultra 265K U from $399 to $299, making it a killer deal for gamers despite all the early issues
- Check out this brilliant video breaking open a bricked Nintendo Switch 2 chip to see what makes it tick, and why we're looking at around Steam Deck GPU performance from the new console
- On the prospect of an $80-$90 GTA 6, former PlayStation boss says 'it's an impossible equation' for big-budget studios to keep their prices down
- Fallout 76's spring limited-time event, The Big Bloom, has begun, which means pollen, allergies, and flower crowns
- Leaked pics of a supposed Asus ROG Ally 2 show an Xbox-branded handheld gaming PC that is very peculiar to behold
- The BioWare we loved is mostly gone, but '2017 is when EA finished digesting' it, says Dragon Age studio veteran
- AMD says it's set to lose out on $1.5B worth of AI GPU sales due to export restrictions, but Dr. Su hails its latest Ryzen chips as 'the U of choice for gamers' after huge rise in sales revenue
- Gigabyte's thermal gel 'is crawling out' of place on some RTX 50-series cards
- 'We didn't have a serious plan': The hardest part of creating Go Wayback, according to Brendan Greene, was just figuring out if it could actually work
- Nvidia and MediaTek rumoured to announce new Windows on Arm laptop chips at Computex 2025
- Forget megabucks Nvidia GPUs, apparently all you need to run an LLM is a Pentium II U from 1997
- The US DOJ recommends Google break up its ad-tech platform in light of illegal monopoly claims. Google disagrees, unsurprisingly
- The Art of Warhammer Video Games is a 208-page book covering 30 years of Warhammer games
- A dead Chinese Borderlands MMO is being revived
- Today's Wordle answer for Wednesday, May 7
May 6
- Well that didn't pan out: Former Rockstar boss said in 2018 that he was glad not to be releasing GTA 6 in the Trump era, but here we are with GTA 6 releasing in the Trump era
- The new GTA 6 trailer opens with a self-referential gag that reminded me of how wild the 2022 hack was
- The GTA 6 map will include a 'lush' national park in the mountains featuring 'hillbilly mystics and paranoid radicals'
- Starfield gets a new beta update on Steam with bug fixes, a 'Very Low' display setting, and no new content
- The details and takeaways you might've missed in the new GTA 6 trailer
- Starbreeze reclaims Payday 3 publishing rights from Plaion, says it will 'significantly accelerate our content development roap'
- Bungie announces the next four Destiny 2 expansions, and yes, the second one is literally just Star Wars
- Microsoft unleashes an AI agent on your unsuspecting Windows settings, but initially only if you have a Snapdragon X-powered PC
- The new GTA 6 trailer just dropped and the thing I'm impressed with most are its beer bottles
- Tales of Seikyu is coming to early access this month, meaning I can finally continue my journey into its enchanting world of dateable yokai
- Rockstar just dropped a ton of new GTA 6 details
- Deadlock goes full second breakfast by having another, secret playtest tucked inside the first one—with all-new heroes and a redesign of everyone's favourite gargoyle gal
- GTA 6's second trailer is here to help numb the pain of it being delayed
- Intel Arc Celestial discrete GPUs have hit pre-silicon validation and that makes me a little more hopeful for their eventual launch
- Overwatch 2 is preparing to answer the internet's current obsession: Who would win, 1 gorilla or 100 men, and it's all going to be livestreamed
- Tales of the Shire wants to make sure 'every detail is just right' when starting your hobbit life, but the character creator still looks incredibly disappointing
- Nvidia announces RTX 5060 release date of May 19 for both the $299 desktop GPU and $1,099 gaming laptops
- LG's new OLED technology literally stretches the boundaries of display tech and promises to turn almost any surface into a screen—or should that be the other way round?
- ChatGPT's hallucination problem is getting worse according to OpenAI's own tests and nobody understands why
- Analyst claims Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 is selling twice as fast as any other recent JRPG has on Steam—and it's got me wondering what the secret sauce is
- 'He's very good at finding really cool people': Clair Obscur: Expedition 33's director found its composer on Soundcloud and lead writer on Reddit
- The Month of Meh event is underway in Hello Kitty Island Adventure, finally letting you take photos with a strange man dressed as an egg
- One redditor scored an Nvidia RTX Pro 6000 Blackwell GPU with 3x the memory of a RTX 5090 for only twice the MSRP
- 8BitDo announces new Ultimate 2 wireless controller with TMR joysticks and Hall Effect switchable triggers
- Cryptocurrency investors are being targeted for ransom, kidnappings, and mutilations across , with abductors demanding between $6M and $10M in crytpo funds
- Today's Wordle answer for Tuesday, May 6
- Squid Game Season 3 teaser respawns Player 456 in the lobby for one more round
May 5
- 'It is very touching and very stupid': Katamari Damacy creator can't wait for us to experience the final scene of his new game
- Everyone is a boat in this 'MOBA meets Vampire Survivors' game inspired by a Warcraft 3 mod
- 'Henry is worse than the Black Plague': Kingdom Come: Deliverance 2 studio marks 3 million copies sold with some sobering statistics
- Skype dead at 22
- An 8,500-hour countdown clock is ticking down to an Ecco the Dolphin remaster and sequel reveal
- V Rising is doing big numbers on Steam after its recent update, plus it's 50% off
- 'I am about to cry my eyes out': 2000s toys-to-life phenom Webkinz, which I may or may not still have a shelf full of plushes from, is somehow back 5 years after the death of Flash
- Oblivion Remastered is already the third-best-selling game of 2025 in the US, industry analyst says
- There's now a free 'shareware' version of horde-battling RTS Diplomacy is Not an Option
- This dreary low-poly delivery game pairs Animal Crossing villagers with soul-crushing gig work and I can't wait to play it
- After 2 decades of snacking, a new World of Warcraft spell renders vendor food partly obsolete
- Space Marine 2's Astartes Overhaul mod brings Terminators to the campaign, NPC Dreadnoughts to operations, and 12-player lobbies
- The Gears of War remaster that's been rumored for years is coming to Steam in August
- The first big REPO update is available to test
- Stellaris' new Biogenesis expansion lets you be a sapient planet or home-grow your own cosmic leviathan
- Daemon X Machina: Titanic Scion's power-suits will let you beat giant monsters to death with their own body parts
- This game has 100 endings, and it's pushing the creators to the brink of bankruptcy
- This Doom themed Harley Davidson is the most metal game collab I've seen since The Dark Ages
- In The Shadow Syndicate you're a dog detective who shoots people in bullet-time and wears a cursed ring
- Today's Wordle answer for Monday, May 5
- 75,000 people are playing a fantasy football game where you guess the new pope: 'You have to choose 11 cardinals, the ones you think are the most papal'
May 4
- 'You can't escape us': Devolver plots to release a game on GTA 6's release date, no matter when that is
- Tales of the Shire embraces a 'clutter-core experience' with grid-free decorating for your hobbit house
- May the 4th brings free and discounted Star Wars games from Prime Gaming, Steam, and more
- Inspired by Dwarf Fortress and Oxygen Not Included, adorable side-scrolling city-builder Ratopia burrows out of early access
- Star-trekking sandbox roguelike Approaching Infinity launches after more than 12 years in development
- Doom mod Blitz: Race Against Time only gives you half a minute per map, so it's a good thing Doomguy runs at 50 mph
- Today's Wordle answer for Sunday, May 4
- Bungie's attempt to dismiss the Destiny 2 copyright case using YouTube videos describing 'vaulted' elements of the game has been shut down by a judge who is not going to sit through a 10-hour lore explainer
- Fallout 1 and 2's source code isn't lost after all, thanks to one hero programmer: 'I made it a quest to snapshot everything'
May 3
- EVE Online studio C is making a medieval-style tome of epic poetry inked with the blood of players to commemorate the game: 'It turns out, to store information, a really good way is to take blood and write on calfskin'
- Blizzard accidentally left a placeholder item in Diablo 4 and a couple of lucky players went god mode with it
- Once hidden in a Friday Night Funkin' fangame, surreal free exploration sandbox Garn47 gets a major makeover with the 'Glorgle update'
- Sea Of Stars' 8-hour epilogue expansion won't cost you a penny when the circus comes to town on May 20th
- Oblivion isn't enough? Morrowind just got a whole lot bigger, as community mega-mod Tamriel Rebuilt adds the sprawling metropolis of Narsis
- Today's Wordle answer for Saturday, May 3
May 2
- Kingdom Come: Deliverance 2 actor celebrates the Grand Theft Auto 6 delay: 'WE'RE IN WITH A SHOT! GOTY!'
- This 'narrative simulator' about a delivery driver in deeply rural Russia is giving me serious Mudrunner meets Disco Elysium vibes
- Lead Diablo artists say the best way to design endless spiky armor sets is to go look at anything that isn't Diablo: 'You can come back with a fresh mind and create new things'
- Elden Ring Nightreign's overview trailer lays it all out for the quirky co-op spinoff
- Following its huge win over Apple, Epic says it will take even less money from developers who use its store
- The Breach update for No Rest for the Wicked is an overhaul so massive that old save files just won't cut it
- Nvidia denies 'tall tales' that chips are being smuggled in fake baby bumps and alongside live lobsters
- AMD has released the slightly underwhelming official specs of the RX 9070 GRE, y'know, the card you probably can't buy anyway
- Fanatical's running a $3-a-pop Bethesda bundle, so it's time to finally put down Oblivion Remastered and play Morrowind, the actual best TES game
- Parts for that high-performance Intel Battlemage gaming GPU have been spotted again and I still want it to teach Nvidia's RTX 5070 a $400 pricing lesson
- 'I'd say chances are good': While the Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 team is still figuring out where to go next, DLC is likely
- Microsoft says it wants to completely ditch s as it makes less the default for all new s
- Mod adds Dark Souls-style player messages to Oblivion Remastered so you can write 'Try finger but hole' in front of Patrick Stewart
- There's another Pathfinder 2e bundle on Humble with nearly $700 of books for $57, including an adventure that'll let you go full Mortal Kombat with your friends
- Take-Two shares tank after GTA 6's delay, CEO Strauss Zelnick assures panicky investors it'll still make more money than god and it's 'steadfast in our commitment to excellence'
- US federal judge on Meta's AI copyright fair use argument: 'You are dramatically changing, you might even say obliterating, the market for that person's work'
- Grand Theft Auto 6 delayed until May 2026: 'We need this extra time to deliver at the level of quality you expect and deserve'
- Meta's AI app wants to 'get to know you' and can warn you if you should be 'worried about bears'
- Intel's all-important Panther Lake mobile chip rumoured to launch later this year with just one model and it won't be getting the exciting graphics option
- Clair Obscur: Expedition 33's publisher says Oblivion Remastered 'didn't seem to harm us at all', in fact, it may have helped: 'Everybody was thinking and talking about the genre'
- Today's Wordle answer for Friday, May 2
May 1
- DrLupo its to cheating in $100,000 online chess tournament, faces brutal backlash from Reddit: 'Dude went from 'what's a horsey?' to 'I can see 15 moves ahead' in 2 minutes'
- Stadium's roap for Overwatch 2 is planned out for the next three seasons, with more heroes, maps, and custom games on the horizon
- 'Stadium is Overwatch 2's most-played mode': Blizzard confirms Stadium's success with 7.8 million hours played across 2.3 million matches in the launch week alone
- French President Emmanuel Macron gives a shout-out to Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 on Instagram: 'You are a shining example of French audacity and creativity'
- Gaming website Polygon lays off union staff, editor-in-chief departs following sale to Game Rant owner Valnet
- Bethesda gives full-throated shout-out to Skyblivion fan remake after giving the whole dev team free Oblivion Remastered keys: 'I think what they're doing is very special'
- Original Oblivion developers gather to watch the 2006 documentary on the making of the game, and Todd Howard sums up the feeling: 'This is going to be really f**king awkward, watching this'
- At 34 seconds, Jack Black's chicken song from A Minecraft Movie just became the shortest ever to crack the Billboard Hot 100
- Amid tariff woes, 8BitDo stops shipping product from China-based warehouse to US customers
- League of Legends world champion Shushei dies at 36: 'One of the first greats of our game'
- Skyrim lead designer makes it sound like there's gonna be loading screens in Bethesda games for years to come yet, bucko: 'We just didn’t have a choice, really'
- Silksong got a release date for an Australian museum exhibit before anything else, and I wish I was kidding
- The RX 9060 XT rumour mill flip-flops again: we shall have an 8 GB version of AMD's card after all
- Foundry VTT creator does what Hasbro won't with D&D, trashes the idea of AI in tabletop roleplaying game industry as a 'betrayal'
- Modding turf war erupts as 'notoriously controversial' dev puts out an Unofficial Oblivion Remastered Patch one week after the game came out [Update: Modder responds]
- LG's new 'Hybrid Tandem' tech apparently solves the blue light problem which could mean near-flawless OLED gaming monitors
- This colour E-ink monitor is very pretty but the price means you may be better off strapping 7 Kindle Colorsofts together
- Oblivion Remastered contains an incredibly neat easter egg to one of the nerdiest viral videos of the early 2010s
- 'We as the developers do not feel like we are being robbed by anyone': Drug Dealer Simulator developer says it 'would not pursue any legal actions against Schedule 1 in any shape or form' if it had its way
- Nobody told me you could cheese the hell out of Oblivion Remastered's lockpicking minigame and I've only broken 3 lockpicks since discovering it
- Turns out that the earliest versions of Windows 7 took longer to load depending on your choice of desktop wallpaper
- Assassin's Creed Shadows announces more difficulties, more immersion options, more Jesuits, and a bo staff in its year 1 roap
- PC gaming can't stop getting Ws, as Microsoft shares it's being weighed down by console and hardware revenue woes
- 'China is right behind us': Jensen Huang says we need to 'accelerate the diffusion of American AI technology around the world'
- I spent the day using GameSir's new GameHub app, potentially corrupting my phone and gaming PC, so you don't have to
- More Intellimouse than eXtreme gamer, Cherry's new wireless gaming mice give understated office chic in the best possible way
- Today's Wordle answer for Thursday, May 1
- US court slams Apple for 'obvious cover-up' in major Epic victory that could see Fortnite return to iOS soon