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- May 24
- May 23
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- 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
- Secretlab's Memorial Day sale means the best gaming chair is cheaper than Black Friday
- 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
- Audeze's Summer B-Stock sale might come with some 'minor cosmetic blemishes' but the astounding Maxwell headset will still sound incredible
- 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
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- 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
- Intel's Core Ultra 265KF is down to $279 this Memorial Day and you get a free 1 TB SSD plus two games to enjoy with this deal
- 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
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- 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'
- It's been on sale for 3 years, but the HyperX Cloud Alpha is still the best wireless headset and its got itself a Memorial Day discount
- '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
- I'm all-in for this all-AMD gaming PC, sporting the best gaming U of last generation, the mighty RX 9070 XT, and a $400 price cut
- Hate RGB software but still want all the pretty LEDs on your AIO cooler? Lian Li might just have the very thing for you
- Surprisingly, this Turtle Beach wireless gaming headset deal is the only one I'd pick right now
- 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
- AMD unleashes up to 96 cores of Zen 5 with its new Threadripper 9000 Series chips
- Today's Wordle answer for Wednesday, May 21
- 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
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- 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
- The original Lenovo Legion Go is $100 off at Best Buy and Amazon right now and I'm here to tell you why it's underappreciated
- 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
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- A week after launch, my new favorite gungy, 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
- I can't recommend Nvidia when this AMD RX 9070 XT gaming PC is $300 off right now
- 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
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- 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
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- 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
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- 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
- This SteelSeries microphone is more than most gamers would need, but it's hard to say no at its best price
- 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
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- 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
- Rip and tear into Doom: The Dark Ages with $300 off this easily upgradeable RTX 5070 gaming PC
- 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
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- 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
- One of our favourite budget gaming earbuds are now 33% off, and just a smidge below $60
- 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
- I may have to pull the trigger now that you can get a 32-inch 4K OLED gaming monitor for barely more than $700
- 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
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- 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
- More players. More choices. Unlocking HDMI gaming features
- 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'
- This MSI machine is the cheapest way to get a great RTX 5080 gaming laptop right now and it's stonkingly quick for the cash
- '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
- Philips opens official library of 3D printable components to public
- '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
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- 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'
- I've picked out the parts to get you a full gaming PC setup for under $1,100, peripherals and all
- 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
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- 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
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- 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
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- 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
- 32 GB of DDR5 RAM for $83 will see you ready to shield bash your way through Doom: The Dark Ages
- 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
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- 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
- May 7
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- 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
- The best budget 4K gaming monitor has practically halved in price to just $330
- 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
- This is the first big discount I've found on RTX 50-series gaming laptops, and it's a version of one I've enjoyed testing myself
- 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
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- 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
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- '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
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- '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
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- 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
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- 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
- Got a full SSD and an ever-growing backlog of games? I've got not one but TWO 4 TB SSD deals under $250 for you
- 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
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- 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
- This Acer RTX 4050 notebook is just $600 and, with a cheap RAM upgrade, you'll have a brilliant budget gaming laptop
- '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
