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- February 18
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- YouTube is partially busted right now: 'Something went wrong'
- Original Witcher story lead says the surprise twist at the end 'was a mistake,' because instead of focusing on Geralt the sequel was forced into 'a story about witchers who are killing kings for some reason'
- Steam Next Fest hasn't even started, and its first must-play demo is already here
- February 17
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- Valheim's creative director is still 'dedicated on Valheim every day' in addition to his new co-op dungeon crawler: 'We love making games so much that we want to make more games'
- Huge new Avowed update adds New Game Plus, playable dwarves and Orlans, and quarterstaffs
- Thanks to Diablo 2, Blizzard might've found a way to fix Diablo 4's loot fatigue in its next expansion
- US Department of Homeland Security has reportedly demanded personal information about ICE's critics from Discord, Reddit, Google, and Meta—and at least 3 of those platforms have complied
- Unity boss who once called out the 'idiocy' of the metaverse now says his company's new AI tech 'will enable developers to prompt full casual games into existence with natural language only'
- Mewgenics sells 1 million copies in just 1 week, far more than its creators expected: 'We both got a bit blindsided by this'
- Open-source game engine Godot is drowning in 'AI slop' code contributions: 'I don't know how long we can keep it up'
- The best parts of my favorite World of Warcraft classes are being turned into new heroes for Fellowship's pre-season 2 update this week
- 'We’re going to make some horrendous mistakes,' Peter Molyneux says about his upcoming swan song Masters of Albion: 'Horrendous, horrendous mistakes'
- How often do we see game sequels totally shift genres?
- The White House is a radioactive crater in Fallout 3 because there were no quests there, so why build it? 'It is our version of [Indiana Jones] shooting the guy rather than pulling out his whip and going into a fight'
- I've found a nifty gaming mouse comparison tool that's the next best thing for communicating hand-feel, beyond sticking my mitts straight through the monitor
- Hytale is finally adding animal taming for its farming sim fans after its surprising absence at launch
- Corsair Galleon 100 SD review
- Newly announced action game Become lets you play as a sentient sperm trying to reach the egg, and yes I am just writing about it because of the name
- 'As DRAM prices continue to rise, protecting product authenticity has become increasingly important': Corsair changes Vengeance DDR5 packaging in bid to deter scams
- EVE Online rolls out 'AI-powered assistance feature' for new players, promises it 'does not produce game content, create art, or replace creative work'
- In a desperate attempt to undo the damage of accidentally wiping their fiancée's Red Dead Redemption 2 save, someone paid $159 to enlist Arthur Morgan's voice actor to apologise for them
- Easy Anti-Cheat is coming to Rocket League, but Psyonix promises not to get all Fortnite with it and hose your Steam Deck and Linux installs
- My next love after D&D, Pathfinder 2e, has a Fanatical bundle selling over $450's worth of books for around $15
- Relief that the worst is over or just the calm before the hurricane continues? Some reports suggest that DRAM prices have plateaued or even fallen
- Duck dupe criminals nabbed: Embark is dishing out warnings and even ban hammers for miscreants abusing recent duplication glitches in Arc Raiders
- Starsand Island is the perfect game to escape from the cold commotion of real life to embrace the warmth of slow Eastern living
- A radio host is suing Google for an AI-generated voice he claims sounds suspiciously like him: 'It’s this eerie moment where you feel like you’re listening to yourself'
- Micro-OLED is the VR upgrade I've been waiting for
- In its brave quest to never learn a single thing from science fiction, Meta has patented a literally ghoulish AI that keeps you posting long after you're dead and gone
- Rockstar celebrates official GTA mod support by nuking non-official mod platform
- Rufus developers have been blocked from downloading Windows ISOs, and believe there to be 'active intentional involvement from Microsoft'
- A top overclocker has managed to destroy a $5,000 MSI RTX 5090 Lightning Z with the fury of a thousand suns. Well, the default voltage of a 2,500 W extreme overclocking BIOS
- QPAD Obsidian Glass mouse pad review
- Our best RPG of 2024 is half off in the Lunar New Year sale, as are the adventures of Charlie Tunoku and countless other Sega series
- Bethesda originally thought Fallout 3's metro system should go all over the map, then realised running through miles of tunnels was dull as hell: 'Being realistic sometimes isn't fun'
- I'm sorry to break it to you, but don't expect to be able to play an evil pest in Crimson Desert: 'Would I recommend a full playthrough in that playstyle? Eh, I don't know'
- 'We don't have the capacity to support more than 2 colors right now' is the bizarre excuse X is using to explain why its dimmed theme was just thrown in the bin
- Apple adds the Steam Frame's most anticipated feature, foveated streaming, to the Vision Pro
- 'This is probably what Task Manager would look like (and sound like) if I were still around,' says ex-Microsoft dev Dave Plummer about his synthwave-pounding AI dashboard
- TeamSpeak claims an 'incredible surge of new users' has maxed out its hosting capacity in multiple regions as many would-be voice chatters seek a Discord alternative
- MMO Ashes of Creation spirals into a legal dumpster fire, as investor claims creative director Steven Sharif siphoned millions away from the company while it was drowning in debt
- You can still snap up either of these OLED gaming laptops with proper discounts in the middle of the current pricing disaster, which feels like a small miracle to me
- Don't ask 'why?' but this tech tinker turned the audio jack on their PC into a power button. A kinda borked power button
- After Microsoft couldn't keep its AI hands to itself, a notoriously complex Linux distro has started its long march away from GitHub
- Stardew Valley fan left their Switch running for 'over 3 weeks straight' to sleep for 1,000 years, waking up to immortal villagers, giant mushrooms and debris everywhere
- Lego Batman system requirements drop memory down to 16 GB, which I'm hoping becomes a trend now that memory is stuck up in the sky
- Styx: Blades of Greed review
- Valve breaks its silence on Steam Deck OLED scarcity and yes, it's because of the RAM and storage crisis
- February 16
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- Lead story designer on the first Witcher game just rolled credits on a full playthrough, and you can watch the whole thing on YouTube
- Blizzard isn't going to let World of Warcraft players suffer from outdated character customization for long, but it's going to take some time to fix
- Assassin's Creed Shadows is still getting updates, and it just added manual jumping to the delight of many a parkour enthusiast: 'I picked a good time to reinstall'
- NetEase breaks up with another western studio, but it refuses to die and instead 'remains motivated and deeply committed to the incredible game we’re building'
- Many consumer electronics manufacturers 'will go bankrupt or exit product lines' by the end of 2026 due to the AI memory crisis, Phison CEO reportedly says
- I applaud this gacha game for ditching anime characters for puppets, but it still can't escape the pitfalls of a post-Genshin Impact world
- 'This marks a significant step towards addressing anticompetitive behaviors': Following a complaint from Opera, antitrust regulator launches an investigation into Microsoft Edge
- When Overwatch said it was returning to the story, I did not expect its most genius decision: Reworking maps for the fun of it
- Today I learned Motorola was once developing a password pill that turns your body into an authentication token: 'We have demoed this working and authenticating a phone'
- Burglin' Gnomes is the next great friend-slop game that everyone with a PC and at least one other friend should check out
- The best King's Field-likes on PC
- Google has published a list of ways AI is currently being used by threat actors to more efficiently hack you
- You could win a $100 Steam gift card by sending us clips of your best, funniest, and wildest gaming moments!
- Total War: Warhammer 3's first character pack stars an all-new legendary lord that puts the 'cat' in Grand Cathay
- I'm sad Deadlock is 'just' a MOBA—not because I don't like them, but because I'm in love with Valve's lore and characters enough to want any other game instead
- I thought Fishing Shop Simulator was a joke after I saw mechs in ancient Rome, but after two hours with its demo, I'm hooked
- You don't need G Hub running to save or switch between the Logitech G Pro X2 Superstrike's settings
- Ayaneo celebrates the Chinese New Year with the launch of a new customer service improvement plan, with US-based repair facilities currently being tested
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- Surprise! Baldur's Gate 3 got a fresh patch. Unsurprise! It's vanishingly small, but at least it repairs some corrupted saves
- Bloomberg claims 'rampant AI demand for memory' is forcing Sony to consider pushing back the launch of its next-gen PlayStation as far back as 2029
- A human software engineer rejected an AI agent's code change request, only for the AI agent to retaliate by publishing an 'angry' blog about him
- Overwatch tier list for Season 1 Conquest
- Yakuza Kiwami 3's blunders have made it the worst-reviewed game in the series on Steam: 'Creatively bankrupt doesn't even begin to describe the current state of RGG'
- Crimson Desert is made by the devs of MMO Black Desert, but it won't have any non-preorder microtransactions on launch: 'This is the premium experience, that is the transaction'
- The best President's Day deals include Newegg's latest combo that knocks $247 off a 32 GB RAM, X3D CPU, and mobo kit that gets you a full 1 TB SSD, too
- Intel is still committed to evolving its Xe graphics architecture, though it's only talking about AI data centers right now
- Shutaro Iida, Konami veteran and programmer for the Castlevania and Metal Gear series credited as 'Curry The Kid', has died at the age of 52
- I'm a Wizard, But I Dig combines my love of Minecraft strip-mining, casting spells, and little blob creatures in one big magical mining sim
- 'It's my favorite feature': Dawn of War 4 is adding a way to multi-attack enemies using a dragbox
- This space MMO was coded by AI, is played by AI, and all us meatbags can do is watch them
- Acer Nitro V15 gaming laptop review
- 'No platform gets a free pass': UK government's Online Safety Act rules extending to chatbots after Grok fallout
- Intel has now rolled out XeSS 3 multi-frame generation to every Arc-powered GPU, after its first foray only on Panther Lake
- How to get and use the Fancy Bow in Mewgenics
- Old school hard drives are getting more reliable according to a new survey but good luck buying one later this year thanks to AI demand
- The Dawn of War 4 team isn't worried about Total War: Warhammer 40k: 'This is definitely a case of holy s***, it's two cakes'
- Direct Asus and Acer gaming PC sales blocked in Germany due to lawsuit from Finnish phone manufacturer Nokia
- 'Our team is still fully committed and working hard on 2XKO' says Riot as it announces two new characters days after mass layoff announcement
- Artist scales retro speaker up to ridiculous proportions: 'Is this a really stupid project? Yes'
- YouTuber hosts battle royale between 4 wizards from 4 different TTRPG systems—and boy does it end almost immediately, despite the DM's best efforts
- Konami got the main thing right with Metal Gear Solid: Master Collection Vol. 2, but it could and should have offered so much more
- Discord will decide which servers to age-gate 'with a combination of automated detection with AI validation and human review'
- The modder who saved Vampire: The Masquerade – Bloodlines 1 has been showing off a treasure trove of material from the canceled version of Bloodlines 2
- The cozy game boom is the clearest trend on Steam over five years of data
- We'll be able to hit zombies with meat in singleplayer medieval survival sim God Save Birmingham
- February 15
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- The best Smash Bros.-like on Steam just added a character who can shop for items and go fishing in the middle of a match, in case you thought fighting games were too one-note
- Five new Steam games you probably missed (February 16, 2026)
- Solid Snake is coming to Rainbow Six Siege in March with David Hayter reprising the role, and a new trailer shows Snake and stealth game rival Sam Fisher finally squashing the beef
- Hideki Sato, father of the Sega Dreamcast, Saturn, Genesis, and more, has died
- Silent Hill 2 Remake dev Bloober Team's Valentine's Day reveal turned out to be Layers of Fear 3
- The EU declares TikTok's 'infinite scroll' and 'highly personalised recommender system' are 'addictive design in breach of the Digital Services Act'
- Doom co-creator John Romero adores Ghost Recon and has over 3,000 hours in World of Warcraft: 'God, I lived in that game every day for five years'
- The most surprising thing about Mewgenics is its amazing soundtrack—and after 115 hours, I'm still discovering new songs
- Someone is building a lifesized Seikret cosplay despite the fact they've 'never made anything like this before' and after seeing the process, you can't convince me this thing doesn't live and breathe
- Absolum's first update dares you to unravel the threads of fate, introducing rule modifiers, corrupted biomes and improved mounts into 2025's best beat 'em up
- Hellscreen, the FPS with a rear-view mirror, has left Steam early access two episodes short of its original plan: 'This is a bittersweet experience for me'
- Seafaring survival sim The Last Caretaker gets a big update that adds a speedy jet ski and lets you customise your base-boat
- Unreal Tournament 2004 is now available for free thanks to its fan community, and they've even updated the game for modern PCs: 'This is the first public patch for Unreal Tournament 2004 in over 20 years'
- As the Legacy of Kain remasters continue, a new game emerges—a 2D action-platformer
- Divinity: Original Sin 2 easter eggs hinting Baldur's Gate 3 would be Larian's next game had to be toned down: 'Originally the reference to BG3 was very explicit'
- February 14
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- 'We lost things such as physics in games:' The dev behind my most anticipated RPG thinks players are craving more interactive games, not just 'moving around in a static 3D environment'
- 'They can never kill emulation': Players vexed as Nintendo continues its siege on Switch emulation, handing DMCAs to various emulators on GitHub
- The dev behind my top upcoming RPG is a Hungarian chef who thought 'if not now, then when?' and learned coding from scratch to make his dream 'eurojank' masterpiece
- That new Metal Gear Solid collection won't include Metal Gear Online, but it will have Peace Walker's essential online co-op
- Mewgenics provides the best proof yet that the turn-based tactics genre is the true home of drama and excitement in gaming
- Inside PC gaming's wildly creative Tomb Raider mapping scene: 'Being able to create my own adventures for other people to play is such an addicting concept'
- The Overwatch dating sim and its associated rewards are back for a limited time, but it's still got far fewer romances than its China-exclusive counterpart
- Question time: What role—tank, healer, or DPS—do you actually play in MMORPGS, and why?
- Can you guess which videogame these potions are from?
- Digging a little deeper into Intel's Xe3 architecture shows exactly why Panther Lake's iGPU is good: It's basically an Arc A770 graphics card jammed into a mobile chip
- Underrated hack 'n' slash Blades of Fire heads to Steam with a 2.0 update, bringing new game plus and 'expanded death and mutilation variations' for you sickos out there
- THQ's Gothic 1 remake arrives in June, and I think it might prove a more valuable overhaul than Oblivion Remastered
- Which PC gaming icon is your soulmate this Valentine's Day?
- Bloodlines 2's Valentine's patch adds further customisation options and lootable blood bags, because nothing says 'I love you' like the vampire equivalent of a ready meal
- Final Fantasy 14's Valentine's Day event is a Mario Party-lite encounter that reminded me it's actually quite fun to do some socializing in an MMO
- February 13
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- This horror sim is like running a food truck in Fallout: cook questionable meals for mutants, monsters, and the occasional alien
- High on Life 2 review
- Oh, good: Discord's age verification rollout has ties to Palantir co-founder and panopticon architect Peter Thiel
- Microsoft AI CEO curiously omits 'Microsoft AI CEO' from list of white collar jobs that will be replaceable by AI in next 18 months
- Three years after its last update, the original Kingdom Come: Deliverance gets a new patch that includes a new caparison for your horse
- Sandfall Interactive continues its Larian-like ways as Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 wins Game of the Year and four other trophies at the DICE Awards
- Tumbler Ridge mass murderer once created a mass shooting game in Roblox
- Brace for more Belmont: Konami says Castlevania: Belmont's Curse is just 'the beginning of numerous new products around Castlevania'
- Mewgenics co-creator Edmund McMillen says 'people need to get more creative with their hate' in response to disappointment over controversial cameo meows
- Nutmeg is a brilliant concept that at its best is almost football Balatro, but boy is this a game of two halves
- A fraction of the most popular PC games over the past year use hardware-level ray tracing, which is far fewer than I'd predict just 24 months ago
- Nvidia's game streaming app GeForce Now touches down on Amazon Fire TV devices—yes, even the little dongles
- Fight At Midnight
- HyperX FlipCast gaming microphone review
- Yakuza Kiwami 3 spoils an interesting remake with odd changes and an abysmally misjudged recast
- You can pick up $1000+-worth of Fallout tabletop gubbins for $25 right now, with a portion going to the ACLU
- Den of Wolves studio 10 Chambers announces 'significant restructuring' and layoffs, 'including several of the studio’s co-founders'
- Hurry, you have less than 1 week to move to Norway and have a baby with someone: 'Lie together today, get GTA 6 free from us in 9 months'
- Behind the curtain of mouse development: from hand-carving to mechanical flinging, here's how Logitech makes and tests its gaming mice
- I can now say I've been killed by a nonogram thanks to this roguelike that turns Picross into a dungeon crawler
- The Outer Worlds deliberately doesn't do racial or gender discrimination in order to zero in on class, but 'that made the tone of the game feel off,' says director Tim Cain
- Torn between buying a new gaming mouse or a Stream Deck? Tick both boxes with this mouse for only $80 in the Presidents' Day sales
- 'We're definitely excited to do something else': After Cult of the Lamb Woolhaven, the Massive Monster devs are excited at the prospect of something new—'We always like to follow the fun'
- 'It's weird in the industry right now': Cult of the Lamb's devs still have faith that the indie scene will continue dishing out 'smash hits'
- What's the best VIP work in GTA Online?
- Chappell Roan is a RuneScape sicko who absolutely loves the 'medieval synth sh*t' of its soundtrack
- 'We never had plans to update Peak at all': Aggro Crab reveals that it doesn't want 'to be a studio that works on one game forever'
- All of Deadlock's new heroes are now released—but please, pity the poor schmuck that spent anywhere between 252-378 hours pouring votes into Celeste, who came second to last
- The latest Steam beta lets you give Valve your frame rate data, focusing on SteamOS devices to 'learn about game compatibility'
- How to get past the security guard in High on Life 2
- How to find a way into the Human Exhibit in High on Life 2
- Corsair has managed to 'successfully navigate a constrained global semiconductor market to secure supply' for memory, as its PC gaming hardware profits jump 60% in a year
- 'Arc Raiders is almost like a social experiment': Embark Studios' CEO reveals a neurology professor encouraged him to submit the game for scientific testing to study player behaviour
- Metal Gear Solid Master Collection Vol 1 got its final big update, if you want to bolt 61GB of 4K textures onto MGS3 and, thank God, finally switch the cancel and confirm buttons in MGS1
- All Genshin Impact 6.4 livestream codes
- Best gaming laptop 2026: I've tested the best laptops for gaming of this generation and here are the ones I recommend.
- Best handheld gaming PC in 2026: my recommendations for the best portable powerhouses.
- Steam reviews set to show a player's specs so it's easier to know if you'll share their experience or they misread the minimum
- AMD's desktop CPU market share climbs almost 10% from last year, according to research, but it still trails behind Intel in every sector
- Haptic click sceptics take heed, the Logitech Superstrike has already got a Guinness World Record
- The first two Dino Crisis games are on Steam for the first time and half-price, but packaged with Enigma DRM
- Highguard didn't flop
- Kena: Scars of Kosmora is a sprawling sequel to the 2021 adventure, and it's coming to PC day 1
- Marathon will run an open Server Slam that'll lead right into launch
- February 12
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- Silent Hill: Townfall ditches tradition and goes full first-person survival horror
- The original God Of War trilogy is being remade, and yes, it'll almost certainly come to PC
- It turns out Saber's John Wick game is coming to PC at the same time as PlayStation
- iBuyPower's President's Day sale means this 'superb all-AMD gaming PC' is now $250 cheaper than when we reviewed it a week ago
- Castlevania is finally back, and it's in exactly the right hands
- Control: Resonant serves up our first good look at its weird new outdoors world at Sony's State of Play showcase
- Metal Gear Solid Master Collection 2 is confirmed, and yes, that means Metal Gear Solid 4 is finally coming to PC
- Rayman: 30th Anniversary Edition is out tomorrow, and features 5 versions of the 1995 classic, as well as a lost SNES prototype
- Krafton finally reveals The Bird That Drinks Tears, and he's a massive 7-foot-tall chicken warlord with dual swords who butchers his enemies without mercy or remorse
- Team Ninja is working on a new Dead or Alive fighting game after half a decade in hibernation
- Kojima makes Death Stranding 2 PC port official in new trailer, and it's coming pretty darn soon
- Laid-off Highguard developer cuts loose on the reaction to the infamous Game Awards reveal trailer: 'We were turned into a joke from minute one'
- One of the best-reviewed new games on Steam right now is about feeding raccoons and cryptids with the cosmic, Lynchian oven of your eerie woodland house
- 'There's no reason for Discord to comply in advance' with social media age verification laws instead of 'fighting for their users' says EFF expert
- How to become a noble in The Sims 4 Royalty & Legacy
- How to complete Anansi's Trials in The Sims 4 Royalty & Legacy
- A public peeing scandal couldn’t stop my rise to power for long in The Sims 4 Royalty & Legacy
- Geoff Keighley shouldn't be blamed for Highguard's failure, Larian publishing boss says: 'There are genuine villains in this industry but I just don't see them here'
- Let's settle this: Should Arc Raiders add a PvE mode?
- We all knew the RTX 5090 ran hot but not like this: Chinese gamer records the moment their GPU catches alight
- MSI's $5,000+ Lightning Z RTX 5090 has seen real-world tests and hit a whopping 1076 W power draw in Cyberpunk 2077
- Arc Raiders had nearly 1 million concurrent players in January, and around 6 million 'weekly active users', claims Nexon—putting the extraction shooter on par with some of the biggest MMOs
- Samsung announces brighter, more durable, utterly confusing 'Penta Tandem' QD-OLED monitor tech, so now I have to explain every OLED panel type to have it all make sense
- After just 2 years on sale, 7 '90s-era Jurassic Park games are getting delisted this March
- SteelSeries Arctis Nova Elite review
- 'Sick, bro, nice vape' is what I'd say to the people that turned a vape into a synth ocarina
- Microsoft lawyers had to consult with representatives of The Fonz to get a Weezer music video on the Windows 95 install CD
- '5,000,000 Henrys' and they're all quite hungry: KCD2 has sold gangbusters since its launch last year
- 'Please let us focus on making our game in peace' developer says to whoever is behind a slew of fake positive reviews that it swears definitely isn't them
- One of my favourite TTRPGs is releasing an expansion that goes from gothic horror heists to a psychedelic 60s sci-fi dystopia inspired by Deathloop, where the dead feed an oversaturated sky
- I finished Arc Raiders' new Shared Watch event in a single evening thanks to this one easy-to-craft item
- Overwatch players are being completely normal about Jetpack Cat and all her hideous combos: 'I hate this cat with a passion'
- How to beat Guillotina in Mewgenics
- Asus GeForce RTX 5080 Noctua OC Edition review
- This 8-bit Morrowind from someone with 'no experience with game making' will run on your actual Game Boy Color and is genuinely kind of great
- Gear up for some co-op gaming cuddles this Valentine's Day with these top headset and controller deals
- Following Discord's suit, OpenAI will also predict your age based on your usage to know if it should ID you at the digital door
- Best Buy creates the GPU pricing meme nobody asked for, so here's the sadly inevitable Nvidia RTX 5090 for $5090
- Fortnite adds more anti-cheat requirements, including Secure Boot and TPM, so it might be time to get tinkering in that BIOS
- I've tested 3 free Discord alternatives in a desperate attempt not to offer up my personal data just to talk to my favorite weirdos
- Mewgenics has its very own Mr. Resetti that'll make 'a brain slushie' out of you and curse your cats if you save scum: 'No, seriously, I dish out IRL curses'
- Blizzard says it's open to even more Diablo 2 expansions and reworks unless people get really mad at it about this one: 'We're going to have to see what the players say'
- 'I do not have enough self-preservation. Send help': This streamer hacked her own balance to 'feel' racing games
- Cult of the Lamb may be a murder-happy fever dream, but the devs have principles: 'We wouldn't want to fleece players'
- All models of Steam Deck are sold out in the US and fingers are inevitably already pointing at the memory crisis
- Peter Molyneux's Masters of Albion looks like three games in one, but it also looks like none of them is any good
- MSI Afterburner and some PSUs can now pull an emergency power brake to prevent your graphics card going up in a puff of smoke
- 'We need to do lightweight, but fine, what else?' says Logitech chief engineer, and after getting tons of hours in with the Superstrike I agree the new tech is worth a heavier gaming mouse
- How to complete Cupid's Confections in Disney Dreamlight Valley
- WotC says there are no plans for a Harry Potter Magic set, 'The Magic Multiverse has its own school of Magic at Strixhaven'
- Quiz time: Can you guess what games these one-line Steam reviews are from? (Part 3!)
- 16 days after Highguard's launch, the studio has laid off 'most of the staff'
- Solasta 2 is committed to implementing a D&D 5E rule that Baldur's Gate 3 dismissed
- February 11
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- Diablo 2: Resurrected is now on Steam and is verified for Steam Deck
- Diablo 4's second new class is a summoner who commands demons to fight demons
- Diablo 2 gets its first expansion in 25 years, featuring a new class, and finally, decent inventory management
- On another timeline, we could have had a Metal Gear Solid first-person shooter made with Vince Zampella
- I played the new demo for the upcoming Starship Troopers boomer shooter and accidentally wiped out 6 of my own guys when I bounced a grenade off someone's head
- Valve isn't putting Gordon Freeman into any new games, so Deadlock modders have taken matters into their own hands
- The world's first 'standardized gaming test' will see if you can beat an '80s adventure game without a walkthrough—and it'll even monitor you over a webcam to make sure you don't cheat
- This Final Fantasy 14 player house looks shockingly close to my favorite Phasmophobia map despite being made entirely of regular FF14 props
- Knowing what's happening off camera in Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 brings some levity to those dramatic cutscenes
- Mewgenics DLC is coming, but Edmund McMillen says he and co-creator Tyler Glaiel want to take a few months to 'fully understand what people really like about the game' before they start on it
- Dwarf Fortress forensic specialists blame mysterious case of spontaneous human combustion on a historical artifact that suddenly remembered it's four times hotter than the surface of the sun
- Hytale’s unfinished sandbox has finally given me hope for a voxel RPG, after Cube World broke my heart twice
- Metal Gear Solid Delta: Snake Eater has taken the Metal Gear series to over 65 million games sold
- Fallout showrunner sees Season 2's best cameo 'as a big role,' hints they might be back in future episodes
- More details of an extra big Intel Nova Lake 'bLLC' CPU die with added cache and designed to take on AMD's X3D chips emerge
- Jason Momoa and Fast & Furious director Justin Lin are teaming up to make a Helldivers movie
- Emre's kit in Overwatch is the best of the new bunch, not just because it reminds me of Halo's battle rifle, but because it's just so simple
- Fallout's co-creator again recalls nixing 'Terminator-style' robots in the original game, which has me rubbing my chin real hard at Fallout 4's entire plot: 'Mr Handy and Terminator robot do not belong in the same universe'
- How to unlock Lady and Tramp in Disney Dreamlight Valley
- This breakfast-based cooking roguelike is already my latest craving
- Someone has already made a free in-browser 3D model to bypass Discord age verification that 'works on any potato computer'
- Marvel Rivals' latest balance update continues to fan the flames of a broken meta: 'Today's patch notes have made me lose all hope'
- 'I told you so!': As Mewgenics roars past 250,000 copies sold in less than a day, Edmund McMillen says 'I knew this game would eventually see the light of day, and I knew it would be my best work'
- Underneath the Superstrike: How Logitech has kick-started the next generation of gaming mouse tech
- Discord clarifies it 'is not requiring everyone to complete a face scan or upload an ID' and will 'confirm your age group using information we already have'
- Call of Duty: Black Ops 7 content hub
- Reanimal review
- World of Warcraft: Midnight War Board Challenge terms and conditions
- Arc Raiders has yet another game-breaking bug, this time giving you infinite ammo and letting you repair any gun for free
- The three big players in computer memory are all building new factories but it probably won't help DRAM prices until 2028, if then
- Is the new farm sim Starsand Island worth playing in early access?
- Starsand Island is the first can't-miss cozy game of 2026 and it's already taken over 20 hours from me
- The rumour that Intel's next-gen Nova Lake chips will consume up to 700 W of power is nothing to worry about—Core Ultra 400 gaming PCs aren't going to be melting your house down
- Yakuza Kiwami 3 is where 'The Kiwami line will come to an end,' which might be for the best given how badly it's been handled
- Warhammer 40k: Dark Heresy might just have everything I want from a CRPG
- After 10 years No Man's Sky still hasn't run out of cool stuff to give you, so here's a gravity gun, too
- This MSI 144Hz IPS 4K gaming monitor is just $200 and even offers a sweet dual mode to double that refresh rate
- All hail the Bro MegaOrb: A custom-built, water-cooled Threadripper, RTX Pro 6000 monster that costs $60,000 or roughly the same as 16 GB of DDR5-5200 at today's prices
- Cult of the Lamb's devs reveal why they made the decision to not let Marchosias join your cult in Woolhaven: 'I'm really, really glad that we did that'
- After 21 years, Serious Sam 2 gets Steam achievements (and a new patch)
- How to counter Heat Wave to survive the desert in Mewgenics
- Redditor scores $500 worth of DDR4 at local dump and now I'm wondering if every landfill is actually a goldmine
- Thanks to Microsoft adding all those extra features to Notepad, it now unfortunately sports one more: An exploitation vulnerability with a high security rating
- How to unlock Crimson Wolf in Overwatch
- Overwatch just hit its all-time player count peak on Steam, clocking in over 165,000 players, more than two years after it first released on the platform
- The best thing about Fallout New Vegas was right there in Bethesda's initial pitch to Obsidian
- Black Ops 7's best loadout is this rapid-fire ricochet assault rifle
- Black Ops 7 Season 2's new weapons shred the meta with rapid-fire TTK
- Black Ops 7's new best mode is a returning classic
- Two seasons later, this Black Ops 7 gun is still the Zombies king
- The creators of a popular Dark Souls 2 lighting mod are experimenting with path tracing and, oh boy, it no longer looks like an Xbox 360 game
- This Lost Ark skin turns your warrior into a stereotypical gamer, complete with Mountain Dew gut and a pair of slides
- Despite having nearly its entire back catalog on Steam, Suda51's studio doesn't benefit much from sales of its old games: 'It's really nice for the other people who are making bank off that, though'
- February 10
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- Subnautica 2 devs show off multiplayer while constantly reassuring solo players it's totally optional
- Fallout 76 devs were surprised the community turned out to be so friendly: 'It’s post-apocalyptic, it’s Fallout, they’re going to all want to kill one another ... it's the complete opposite'
- Genshin Impact fan wiki operator may be having second thoughts about datamining after Cognosphere unleashes the lawyers, says it 'will only update live game data in the future'
- Relooted is a fine heist game—but it's a better history lesson
- Todd Howard says Bethesda really didn't expect people to hate the way Fallout 3 ended with a full stop: 'We thought this is Fallout, it’s great! People hated it!'
- Microsoft has revoked the DMCA takedown that forced an indie Minecraft-like off Steam
- Anthropic AI's safety lead quits with epic vaguepost claiming 'the world is in peril', and so he's off to become 'invisible' and study poetry
- 'We have made back our development budget after 3 hours': Mewgenics explodes to number one Steam seller 14 years after its announcement
- A mouse to meet the moment
- Hideo Kojima posts a cryptic message about 'editing' something and an awful lot of people are convinced it means Death Stranding 2 for PC will be announced later this week
- HP has a gaming laptop subscription service, where you pay monthly to borrow a rig but never get the option to own it
- If you love hundreds of games for $10 and hate ICE, then boy does Itch.io have just the bundle for you
- Fallout's Aaron Moten 'forbid' himself from playing the games, leaving Ella Purnell as the only show lead who's actually rolled a character in the Wasteland
- How to vote in Helldivers 2
- Of all the things I saw behind the curtain at Logitech HQ, it was this slab of fake wood that surprised me the most: 'It's kind of old school, it's analogue, which we like'
- G.Skill to pay out $2.4 million in class action settlement over 'deceptive' RAM specifications but denies all wrongdoing
- Cult of the Lamb Woolhaven presented a great opportunity to make the game harder, but the devs promise they weren't 'necessarily trying to stress players out'
- Hidden PCIe slots, a magnetic RAM fan, and a new AIO cooler connector: Asus tries everything under the sun to make its new AM5 Crosshair mobo stand out
- Age of Wonders 4's next expansion introduces nomadic, post-apocalyptic bunnies
- How to beat Dybbuk in Mewgenics
- I was the Bernie Madoff of speculative baby trading until my prize infant gargled horse tranquiliser and died
- Medieval physics romp Besiege has spent a decade letting us conquer the land and sea, so naturally its next expansion is heading to the final frontier
- Arc Raiders dishes out a hotfix, 'squashing the item duplication bug', and warns that bans will be coming for guilty players
- Discord's new age verification rules got you down? Allow me to suggest an alternative: Internet Relay Chat
- The Fallout VATS system was inspired by Burnout's crash mode of all things or, as Todd Howard puts it, 'imagine the car parts are, like, eyeballs and guts!'
- Razer Cobra HyperSpeed review
- How to kill cyborgs in Helldivers 2
- Mewgenics breeding tips to create the best cat army
- Engineers builds Arduino-led game console from a fidget clicker and I want to fidget with it so badly
- Arrowhead wants Helldivers 2's assault on Cyberstan to really sell the promise of the Galactic War: 'We don't know how it will play out. We don't know if they will win'
- How to kill Vox Engines in Helldivers 2
- Best Mewgenics classes and how to unlock all collars
- Here's playable mahjong in Morrowind, boss, just like you ordered
- Deadlock releases the 5th hero in its new 6-hero lineup—Celeste, a floaty carnival performer with an ultimate that gives me war flashbacks to Dota 2
- 'It took about 5 years' for people to start liking Fallout: New Vegas, says Josh Sawyer, and even longer for Obsidian to see that 'players actually liked the design choices we had made'
- I've never felt smarter than playing this nostalgic horror puzzler that has me changing file types on a '90s computer to solve mysteries
- Qualcomm's new Snapdragon X2 chip gets tested in games and unsurprisingly can't keep up with Intel's mighty Panther Lake APU
- AMD has a new marketing chief, Salesforce's former president and marketing boss, and he's all in on data centers and AI
- I don't understand what Riot wants from 2XKO
- AI-assisted hacking group hits targets with a complicated 'social engineering' scam that involves deepfaked CEOs, spoofed Zoom calls and a malicious troubleshooting program
- It's going to take you over 500 hours to 100% complete Mewgenics, according to creator Edmund McMillen
- 'We knew we had a golden nugget in our hands... so we took all the shortcuts we could': Logitech's new wonder-mouse looks very similar to the Superlight 2 for good reason
- I'm genuinely astonished that this $1,299 RTX 5070 Ti gaming laptop deal is back on the menu in 2026, but my goodness I'll take it
- Cult of the Lamb's Woolhaven is inspired by the likes of The Witcher 3: Blood and Wine and Elden Ring: Shadow of the Erdtree: 'We wanted to make it a real chunky experience'
- Arc Raiders' PvE-friendly event starts today: 'This is an opportunity to team up in the fight against the machines'
- Arc Raiders' latest duplication glitch has players placing hundreds of ziplines and Trigger 'Nades, and safe to say it's scaring everyone—'I hope this gets addressed soon'
- I am once again tapping my 'Todd Howard genuinely loves Fallout' sign: He's an OG Fallout 1 fan and still hasn't given back the disc he nicked from his brother
- I think Minecraft's next update might literally just feature new baby mobs, and I'm not actually that mad about it
- Crypto scammer who reportedly stole at least $73 million through social media, calls, and dating services sentenced to a 'statutory maximum of 20 years in prison'
- If your Ryzen-powered PC has an AM5 ASRock motherboard and sometimes just won't boot, then rescue is at hand in the form of a new BIOS update
- Arc Raiders Shared Watch event explained
- All game codes for Abyss February 2026: Potions and Oxygen Pods
- Logitech G Pro X2 Superstrike review
- Weird roguelike tactical cats game Mewgenics release date and launch time
- Monster Hunter Wilds will get a 'large scale expansion' in the style of Iceborne and Sunbreak, as it winds down major content updates to the base game
- Ghost in the Shell director Mamoru Oshii has played 10,000 hours of Fallout 4 while refusing to do the main quest, build settlements, or travel with anyone but Dogmeat: 'I'd much rather be beaten to death by Deathclaws'
- Overwatch fans and voice actress call for a redesign of its newest hero: 'This concern is important, this is a hill worth dying on'
- Nobody is doing live service better than Helldivers 2 because Arrowhead makes expansions, not just updates
- Finally, a fantasy game filled with adorable gnomes that you can punch right in their adorable faces
- February 9
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- After its teen social media ban, Australia is swooping on Roblox following 'ongoing concerns about online child grooming'
- Valheim devs have been working on a first-person co-op dungeon-crawler 'in the evenings and on weekends,' and you can try it now on Steam
- Players discover once again that World of Warcraft is powered by invisible bunnies that make everything work
- One of the most underrated indie duos out there is making its 3rd game in as many years: An 'extreme stop motion horror' project that promises to be 'grossly fun but also stomach-churningly appalling'
- Here's what happens if you don't complete Discord age verification
- Suda51 says his new game isn't a No More Heroes sequel because series star Travis Touchdown needed a break: 'I could write Travis all day, but dude is exhausted'
- Remedy's new CEO is a former sports betting guy and EA executive who aims to 'scale Remedy in a way that builds lasting value'
- All Creatures of Sonaria codes for February 2026: Appearance Tokens and materials
- Riot lays off 2XKO developers less than three weeks after release: 'Overall momentum hasn't reached the level needed to support a team of this size'
- Deadlock's littlest guy makes size matter in a way it almost never has in a MOBA before
- Discord is rolling out facial scanning and ID checks globally in March for users who don't want to be locked into a 'teen-appropriate experience'
- Hearthstone's 'year of change' begins with a twist on one of WoW's biggest expansions, and a bucket of free cards
- Steam now lets early access devs show a 1.0 release date, then says eh, maybe leave it blank: 'Just because this feature exists, does not mean you should or must use it'
- New Intel 900-series leak suggests there are three upcoming motherboard chipsets gamers should care about
- Fallout 76's design director is still defending its original absence of NPCs: 'At the beginning, we wanted it all to be player-driven'
- Fallout's original creators say that Fallout 3 and 4 aren't quite what they would've done, but 'sales say people love what they did'
- How to prepare for the Puppy Love update in Disney Dreamlight Valley
- This is the cheapest gaming PC actually worth buying right now—$899 for an RTX 5060, DDR5 RAM, and a 1 TB SSD
- 'Probably the worst build of my entire life': This YouTuber spent two months building a gaming PC with titanium liquid cooling, galvanic corrosion be damned
- Disney Dreamlight Valley is dropping the Puppy Love update in a couple of days, and I haven't been this excited for new characters in a hot minute
- Duke Nukem 3D's upgraded and remastered World Tour Edition may not be perfect, but when it's this close to free, it's a no-brainer pick-up
- Is it just me or did Season 2 of the Fallout TV series effectively wipe Courier 6 from existence?
- Ayaneo's new Strix Halo handheld PC will cost up to $4,299, but it's the cheaper AI Max 385 model that has grabbed my attention anyways
- 'Credible and reliable contacts' claim Nvidia is releasing an RTX 5090-beating GPU around September time this year
- Deadlock players are modding the weirdest characters into the game, including Linguini and Remy, Hatsune Miku, and LeBron James: 'Skin walker Linguini cannot be unseen'
- The Cyborgs are coming back to Helldivers 2—and they're bringing 3 new units armed to the teeth with advanced technology, and also robo-roundhouse kicks
- FTL-like Void War was DMCAed by Games Workshop due to 'oversized convex shoulder pads with a metallic rim'
- 'They have effectively ghosted us:' publisher of delisted art game Horses lambasts Epic Games Store after executive claims 'we love that studio'
- Fallout's origin can be traced back to a pizza party Tim Cain threw
- February 8
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- Fallout was a 'B-tier product' that lost both the licenses it was banking on and had its lead dev joking, 'In a week, we’re going to be asking whether people want fries with their meal,' but now he thinks those trials 'turned out to be positives'
- Just in time for Hollow Knight's 9th birthday, Team Cherry rolled out its first update in years, including better support for ultrawide monitors and the Steam Deck screen
- Overwatch creeps past Battlefield 6 and Call of Duty's concurrent players on Steam, hitting its biggest peak in years
- Thanks to one mad modder, we can now play Doom on an in-game terminal in Ultrakill
- Modders have already put mechs, music boxes, and an 'MMO-style dungeon' in Hytale, impressing Hypixel founder: 'Absolutely crazy talented'
- Sometimes simple character designs make the most effective cosplays, and this group of Peak Scouts is the perfect example of that
- Stronghold Crusader: Definitive Edition gets a massive update introducing Steam Workshop support, 10 new maps, and a 10-mission cooperative campaign
- Debate: Who is the best videogame composer of all time?
- 'A classic fake reflection where it's just the same room under a glass floor': I no longer trust my senses after reading this gamedev thread breaking down cost-effective graphical sorcery
- A GTA modder has got the 1997 original working perfectly on modern PCs and Steam Deck, and it's a joy to behold: 'I wanted pick up-and-play GTA on Windows with the best possible compatibility without classic installation'
- You've had Skate Story, now get ready for Skate Style, a 'next-gen skateboarding game' that lets you customise your character's animations
- Terraria's biggest mod manager will require months before it's fully compatible with the 1.4.5 patch: 'Updating tModLoader to major Terraria releases is a huge undertaking'
- Timberborn gets a 1.0 release date and new 'lore trailer' showing some very thirsty beavers
- I thought I was finally free from stealth-focused Skyrim builds, then someone modded in the ability to hide in bushes
- Witcher 3 mod restores a darker ending for the Hearts of Stone expansion that was cut during development
- February 7
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- In defense of Assassin's Creed Unity
- Train Sim World devs announce Thomas the Tank Engine game 'powered by Train Sim World' and the true train sickos are down: 'It will make 9 trainzillion dollars'
- Director Gore Verbinski said he 'loved' working on the BioShock movie and 'was going to dive deeply into the Oedipal aspect': 'Every year I hear something about the project, but I’m not sure any studio is quite willing to go where I was headed'
- 219 hours of XCOM 2 and 20 minutes of Fallout: Size Five Games' director Dan Marshall takes us through the games on his PC
- Blitzball is alive and well in Final Fantasy 14, and I spoke to the community of passionate fans who built an entire 140-page D&D-like system to play it: 'Once you start playing, you just can't stop'
- Yoshi finally gives birth on-screen in new Super Mario Galaxy movie teaser
- If you thought Untitled Goose Game had a horrible goose, wait until you play this powerfully unsettling idle clicker where humans give birth to waterfowl
- Rust devs surveil cheaters like they're 'playing an RTS game': 'Every gun shot, every message, every dropped item, every kind of interaction is logged'
- You think you know Baldur's Gate 3, but you're not getting 10/10 on our exhaustive quiz about its many wonderful gnomes
- XCOM 2 is 10 years old, and 2K is celebrating with a free weekend and a 95% discount on Firaxis' masterful sequel
- Rust player says goodbye to his server neighbours by constructing a giant, illuminated middle finger: 'Making one of these is often how I like to end a successful wipe'
- Get 7 incredible FPS games including Prey, Doom Eternal and Black Mesa for $20 in Humble's sci-fi shooter bundle
- Prince of Persia's creator reacts to Ubisoft's cancellation of The Sands of Time remake: 'Having a project killed is a brutal experience'
- I didn't realize how important headbob was until I played an RPG without it
- February 6
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- Did they hit a nerve? OpenAI CEO Sam Altman's response to 'authoritarian' Anthropic's annihilation of ads-supported AI doesn't make me trust it more
- Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 studio bestowed with France's Order of Arts and Letters: 'The Republic affirms: videogames are a major art form and an essential industry'
- Stardew Valley 1.7: The farmer's almanac for key details and news on the next big update
- Hideo Kojima pulls out of GDC at the last minute
- Build A Rocket Boy dumpster fire flares up in exciting new ways as its co-CEO reportedly claims the 'guys who've been sabotaging MindsEye' have been identified—and will be demonized via an in-game spy mission
- What if instead of Agent 47 you were just some doofus who 'accidentally' killed a guy in a hotel room? Dispose of the evidence in this physics-based stealth game
- A great puzzle game for people who like the idea of Blue Prince but don't want to spend days banging their head against it is free for the week on the Epic Store
- Valve veteran imperiously scorns reports that it's secretly finished Half-Life 3 and moving devs to other projects: 'They've been done for months! They just sit on the game! They're just relaxing!'
- Overwatch's glow-up didn't just happen overnight—its successes have been in the works for years now
- If this new battery breakthrough goes mainstream, you may be allowed to use your external charger on flights again
- How to beat Josee in Code Vein 2
- EU regulators say that TikTok has 'an addictive design' in a preliminary report, and that it might receive a hefty fine if it doesn't change its infinite-scrolling ways
- How to beat Baba Nobuharu in Nioh 3
- The Legend of Khiimori's new gameplay shows Death Stranding with a horse is an idea that has legs
- Both Intel and AMD have warned Chinese customers of delays on server CPU shipments, report says, as AI demand begins to eat into the processor market
- New ransomware spotted with a 'coding mistake' that means even the hackers can't decrypt the files
- I wish I wasn't missing out on new quests in Arc Raiders just because I'm not willing to grind the old ones every two months
- How to emote in Nioh 3
- Celebrate Lunar New Year with these Xbox Game Pass options
- Steam Proton will no longer forget the entire reason it exists if you have a humungous library, as of the most recent client beta
- Guild Wars 2 finally gets the long-awaited option to create fashion templates, so why is the community so angry?
- I'm the biggest Baldur's Gate 3 fan, but the HBO TV show is filling me with dread
- Mewgenics review
- JLab has made a ridiculously large set of headphones that function as a gigantic Bluetooth speaker, which can be 'worn around the neck or placed on a table'
- Deadlock's next hero is Venator, a special agent of the Vatican who has 2 guns—also a grenade, a bear trap, and a crossbow that shoots holy stakes
- Doom: The Dark Ages, the superior sequel in the rebooted FPS series (sorry, not sorry, Eternal), is now 67% off thanks to id Software's 35th anniversary celebration
- Nvidia reportedly won't release any new RTX graphics cards this year, and the RTX 60-series is said to be pushed back, too
- All Honkai: Star Rail 4.0 livestream codes
- Larian lead has a little 'crash out on main' over Baldur's Gate 3 show announce, but big boss Swen Vincke says HBO is in touch about the writing, so now I don't know what to think
- Where to find Cooling Coils in Arc Raiders
- I did the maths again and figured out what level all the main characters are at the end of Fallout season 2—Lucy has finally graduated from radroach to mole rat
- A Baldur's Gate HBO series is in the works, will be set directly after Baldur's Gate 3 with new and returning characters
- February 5
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- How to beat Yamagata Masakage in Nioh 3
- How to change appearance in Nioh 3
- How to increase your skill capacity in Nioh 3
- How to access Spirit Veins in Nioh 3
- How to find and use the Dirty Key in Nioh 3
- How to find and beat the Bloodedge Demon in Nioh 3
- How to unlock parry in Nioh 3
- How to beat Jakotsu-baba in Nioh 3
- I hated Nioh 3's samurai style until I discovered one easy-to-find upgrade that helped me learn to love the art of the Ki Pulse
- If you're struggling with bosses in Nioh 3, you need to get these two skills ASAP
- Don't throw away your old, well-loved weapons in Nioh 3—trade them for in-shrine credit instead
- How to respec in Nioh 3
- 'I'm going to be sick': Arc Raiders players react with an appropriate level of revulsion after discovering Embark committed the cardinal sin of placing a stop sign in a weird spot
- Highguard is adding a new hero who turns into wolf, and a new wolf mount that everyone else can ride around on (but no, they're not the same guy)
- My Madden simulation predicts a Patriots win in Super Bowl 2026, though I should point out I used the Madden game from 1988
- The Rust Naval Update is here with base boat building and an optional plank meant to 'settle minor disagreements' with friends
- Everything in Black Ops 7 Season 2
- Sony's co-op Horizon game is real, it's coming to PC day one, and you can sign up for playtests that start this month
- Embark heard your feedback, so finishing Arc Raiders' second Expedition will be cheaper by the millions
- 'I don't want to shoot at a normal ass cat': Overwatch players react to its new feline hero
- World of Warcraft producer says Chris Metzen sometimes wishes Blizzard hadn't called it Warcraft because 'it sounds intimidating,' and some fans are not taking it well
- 'We’re not planning on making absolute statements in either direction,' GOG boss says about generative AI, leading supporters to make some absolute statements in one very specific direction: 'Absolutely terrible response'
- Automatons speak! Helldivers 2 nemesis hacks Super Earth channels in desperate plea to save Cyberstan: 'WE HAVE NEVER EXPERIENCED FREEDOM'
- After 3 years of negotiations with Microsoft, Blizzard QA workers win a new contract guaranteeing 'better working environment with increased pay, benefits, and layoff protections'
- Overwatch Domina abilities and perks explained
- Overwatch Jetpack Cat abilities and perks explained
- It's been 7 years since the last Fallout game, so one gamer took matters into their own hands and made an entire Vault in the Sims
- Keychron's made a concrete keeb: 'Each keystroke carries industrial rhythm... elevating the experience with marble-like smoothness and auditory-visual harmony'
- Logitech G522 Lightspeed gaming headset review
- That dude from The Big Short says crypto experienced a 'collateral death spiral' as bitcoin hits a 16-month low, while other analysts predict worse to come
- Oh great, now copper prices are 'surging' and threatening to make PC hardware even more expensive
- The PC Gaming Show returns to heat up your summer once again
- Audeze Maxwell 2 review
- Nioh 3 director says Lies of P was a major source of inspiration while crafting the samurai soulslike's yokai bosses: 'It was great stimulation'
- Overwatch Mizuki abilities and perks explained
- 'We've never considered adding difficulty settings to the Nioh series', says Nioh 3 game director, who gives players different ways to tackle challenges instead
- Take-Two CEO says you can trust that GTA 6 release date because they've spent, like, so much money on marketing in the run-up to it, and they're 'Not selling hamburgers' here
- Logitech G's chief engineer says there's 'no doubt' the cutting-edge tech behind the Superstrike could be used in cheaper mice
- After 3,000 hours and two years another OLED gaming monitor burn-in assessment finds only minor panel damage
- Meta promo codes for Feb 2026 | Exclusive 5% OFF
- Now I've got my hands on the Logitech G Pro X2 Superstrike, I believe its inductive tech will be as much of a game-changer for mice as Hall effect is for keyboards
- YouTube raked in over $60 billion in revenue last year, says Alphabet, between its seemingly-endless parade of adverts and its Premium subscription service
- The next sales season is still months away, but the best gaming keyboard around is now as cheap as it was last Black Friday
- A Redditor claims to have lucked out on a half-price Walmart RTX 5080 and that's pretty much the only way you're gonna get a cheap GPU these days
- Here's what we think the Steam Machine will cost now that Valve's admitted 'limited availability and growing prices' have forced it to change plans
- Deadlock's newest hero, Silver, gets a soft rework just as I was getting used to her
- Arc Raiders is cracking down on cheaters by targeting Steam Family Sharing: 'Restrictions or bans will apply across the entire family group tied to that license'
- Nioh 3's open world is incredibly formulaic compared to Elden Ring's, so I'm slightly embarrassed by how much I'm loving it
- Overwatch Anran abilities and perks explained
- The total conversion mod remaking the lost Fallout 3 in Fallout: New Vegas got its first trailer and a new name
- Just under two weeks from its release date, devil's bargain deckbuilder The Killing Stone announces it will be launching into early access instead
- Steam Machine will play the majority of Steam titles 'at 4K 60 fps with FSR', but some will require more upscaling than others, Valve says
- I'm glad I waited 25 years to play the longest Dragon Quest game
- 'Memory and storage shortages' means Valve can't give us pricing or release dates for the Steam Machine and Steam Frame
- February 4
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- One-third of consumers don't want AI on their devices, report finds, and it's not because they don't understand it: They just don't need it
- I still can't master one of Nioh's simplest mechanics even after 10 years with the games, and 20 hours playing Nioh 3
- Menace launch time and release date
- Turkish government proposes legislation that would throttle Steam and other gaming platforms into unusability if they don't comply with demands for company data and content removal
- Warhorse reveals Kingdom Come: Deliverance 2 players have killed 5.4 million enemies while drunk, and I'm just surprised that number isn't higher because Drinking is the best skill
- 7 years after it was pulled from Steam, Poker Night at the Inventory is coming back in March, and yes, so are the free Team Fortress 2 unlockables
- Mike Morhaime's Dreamhaven continues to look for a hit, this time with a 'run-based' spin-off of Sunderfolk without the phone controls
- Some Fallout fans are convinced the Season 2 finale showed the Courier, but there's one little detail that I think disproves it
- Skyrim lead says the $100 videogame may not be the best idea: 'I personally think game developers would be wise to not push the prices higher, but gamers are a special breed... they will pay for what they want'
- Of course there's a tiny Bridgerton reference in The Sims Royalty & Legacy expansion because it's basically a Lady Whistledown simulation
- MindsEye was one of the most catastrophic game launches of 2025 but the studio refuses to quit: Its 'most significant post-launch update' is now live and an expansion is coming later this year
- Overwatch 2 drops the 2 and goes back to being Overwatch as Blizzard launches its biggest update ever next week: 'We want to gain players' confidence, we want them to have trust in the game'
- Overwatch's biggest season ever kicks off with 5 new heroes all at once, including a cat with a jetpack who can toss you off the map
- New AMD docs show its next-gen Zen 6 CPUs will adopt Intel's 'FRED' interrupt handling and could point to a major architectural overhaul
- Nioh 3 review
- 'I'm a total amateur' says Stardew Valley creator and developer of one of the most iconic farming sims of the 21st century
- AMD has added the potential effects of the RAMpocalypse into its risk statements: 'There is currently an industry-wide memory shortage as the demand for such components has outpaced supply'
- Management sim Manifesto is the first game ever without politics: Grind workers into dust under your bootheel in a carefree romp that is 'definitely not about the video game industry… stop reading into things that aren't there'
- Best gaming PC builds: Shop all our recommended system builds as we ride out the RAMpocalypse
- My testing shows that 16 GB of system memory is still absolutely fine for today's PC games but there are some caveats to it all
- The Fallout TV series' showrunner and Todd Howard disagree with fans that season 2 messes with Fallout: New Vegas' canon: 'Sometimes you're gonna get conflicting accounts'
- Helldivers 2's new explosive hammer is the most dumb fun I've had in ages
- 'I feel like no one will ever find it': Stardew Valley creator says there's one big secret still lurking in the game, and no, you can't datamine it
- Epic says I can change baby, I promise, as it returns for its now-annual tradition of admitting its launcher 'sucks'
- This Acer Predator gaming monitor is the best value OLED panel right now at less than $400
- WD's new HDD tech promises 'flash-like' performance and just maybe a way out of the dreaded memory supply crisis
- 'Bethesda's in the bad position of having expectations being so high they cannot be met': Skyrim design lead reckons it might be hard for The Elder Scrolls 6 to live up to the ever-increasing fervor
- Ryzen still rising: AMD's processor revenue climbs 34% from last year, thanks to 'multiple generations' of Zen-powered chips
- PUBG: Blindspot launch times and release date
- Here's the Nioh 3 release time for your region
- Intel CEO commits to building new GPUs and has hired the engineer who designed some of AMD's greatest graphics card hits to design them
- 'I'm not going to release anything I'm not happy with': Eric Barone says Haunted Chocolatier will be out when it's good and ready, 'even if that takes years and years'
- Pack it up, Game Freak: Modder turns RDR2 into the best Pokémon game since Ruby, complete with catching wild beasts and trainer battles
- If you've ever wanted AI-generated Kratos to advertise games to you (for some reason), I've got great news about Sony's latest baffling patent: 'LLM-based generative podcasts for gamers'
- AMD says Valve is 'on track' to begin shipping the Steam machine 'early this year'
- Battlefield 6's Javelin anti-cheat stopped over 580,000 cheating attempts over the course of just one month
- AMD CEO suggests next-gen Xbox will launch in 2027—the premium console's chip is 'progressing well'
- Good news, Stardew Valley enthusiasts: the 1.7 update will make children 'a little more interesting' and add two new marriage candidates
- Anime action RPG studio Pahdo Labs shuts down despite accruing $17.5M in funding: 'We believed making a demo of a familiar but new game would be our best shot'
- Sorry, but that countdown on Amazon's Fallout site didn't lead to a Fallout 3 or New Vegas remaster announcement… or any announcement at all
- The Fallout Season 2 finale teased a new location for Fallout Season 3—and it's somewhere the games have never taken us
- Fallout Season 2 finale post-credits sequence: 'Liberty Prime Alpha' explained
- Fallout Season 2 Episode 8 recap: 'Everyone works for me eventually'
- Why does isometric perspective suit Disco Elysium? 'You can design the entire game as if it was a painting'
- Helldivers 2's overpowered, wildly fun tank is the culmination of two years of balancing
- February 3
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- Epic Games Store to test forums for 'top games,' walking back previous plans, and a technical overhaul is coming: 'We're ripping out the guts'
- 'We're actively embracing generative AI,' Take-Two boss says, after previously expressing skepticism: 'We have hundreds of pilots and implementations across our company'
- Avowed and The Outer Worlds 2 failed to meet expectations for Obsidian, but Grounded 2 was a hit, and the future is looking positive for the Pillars of Eternity universe
- How to get a Lucky Clover in Terraria
- As a Sims 4 Build Mode freak, today's free update is way more important than the new expansion
- Grand Theft Auto 6 'launch marketing' will begin this summer as the November release date remains on track
- Eric Barone says he'd 'love to' make Stardew Valley 2 someday: 'A whole new set of characters, a whole new world, maybe capture some of that original energy that I had back in 2012'
- Skyrim lead designer says the next Elder Scrolls should look at how Baldur’s Gate 3 made things ‘meaningful,’ because ‘the gaming community has spoken’
- Helldivers 2 has a tank now
- All Roblox Knockout codes for February 2026: Ice and extra Spins
- MindsEye studio boss threatens legal action against YouTuber as co-CEO Leslie Benzies denies Epstein allegations: 'I have never met Jeffrey Epstein, nor have I ever visited his island'
- Civilization 7 players can once again play as a single civilization in a massive overhaul update that's 'tentatively' coming in spring: 'Together, these updates are similar in scope to an expansion'
- Highguard review
- The Epic Games Store had a record-breaking 2025, with gamers throwing $1.16 billion at the 6,000-plus games it now offers
- iBuyPower RDY Element 9 Pro R07 review
- Bethesda veteran says less RPG complexity in the Elder Scrolls series is good, actually: 'We got rid of attributes in Skyrim and you know who complained? Almost nobody'
- Intel's Arc B770 gaming graphics card claimed to be dead and the reason is inevitably AI
- The Notepad++ website was hijacked by 'malicious actors' last year and security researchers are picking through the wreckage
- People with AI partners are looking for a 'new home' as OpenAI announces date to switch off 'overly supportive' older models
- Highguard's 5v5 raid is 'here to stay' after developer noticed half the playerbase jumped over to its experimental mode at the weekend
- Player housing tools are so good, WoW's design director hopes the game will have quests where you build things in the future: 'We really want to use them'
- This $1,299 gaming laptop has a fire-breathing AMD CPU, a proper-spec RTX 5070 mobile, and my hopes and dreams contained inside
- Deadlock's newest hero has the luxury of two kits, multiple knockback attacks, and the ability to turn into a werewolf every 30 seconds
- Fallout season 2's finale is premiering tonight, 6 hours earlier than we'd originally expected
- Skyrim lead designer's biggest lore regret is *checks notes* one of the coolest things the series has ever done
- Blizzard could add more homes per account to World of Warcraft's player housing in the future, but 'we have to be conservative at the start with these things'
- 'We’ve heard from many who want nothing to do with AI' says Mozilla, as it introduces an AI blocking menu to upcoming Firefox builds
- It's reportedly game over for 8K before it even got going as display industry support 'dwindles'
- Logitech's new $80 gaming headset has an undercover mic so you don't feel like a donut wearing it out the house
- It looks like XeSS 3 and multi-frame generation can be enabled on older Intel GPUs with the most minor of tweaks, so it's not just Panther Lake that gets in on the fun
- OpenAI reportedly isn't happy with Nvidia's GPUs while Nvidia's $100 billion investment plan in OpenAI is said to have 'stalled': Is the AI honeymoon over?
- 'We had 16 megahertz CPUs, 640k of RAM, floppy disks': John Carmack reflects on the hardware that made Wolfenstein 3D
- Be Quiet! Dark Perk Ergo review
- Events are back in Arc Raiders as Embark fixes an issue that erased them from existence while also upping Bird City's frequency, 'so that all time zones get a chance to play'
- Rocket wizard Scott Manley has used a ZX Spectrum to land a Kerbal on the Mun and I am phenomenally impressed
- After a disastrous year, Tekken 8 says it's going 'back to basics' for Season 3
- The PC game releases we're most excited about in February
- To celebrate 5 years in early access, Valheim gets a new hat, better Steam Deck performance, and—wait for it—frosted sweetbread
- Controversial PS2 survival horror Rule of Rose absolutely deserves a remake or re-release, but Bloober Team isn't doing it
- If you want to get caught up with Larian's pre-Baldur's Gate work, $157 worth of Divinity games are on sale on Steam for $23
- 'Do they really need marketing for Elder Scrolls 6?' Skyrim lead designer says Bethesda probably won't make a TV show for The Elder Scrolls because it's already making 'literally billions of dollars'
- Adobe changes the status of Adobe Animate to 'maintenance mode' after previously announcing its discontinuation (updated)
- February 2
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- Will Take-Two announce another Grand Theft Auto 6 delay tomorrow?
- A pioneering PC survival horror trilogy is going free-to-keep on GOG, so maybe you can look past the early '90s jank
- Bethesda keeps the Fallout remaster hopium flowing by showing Aaron Moten inside Fallout 3 and New Vegas
- Skyrim lead praises Todd Howard for trying 'desperately' not to micromanage and be a ‘bottleneck’, even though he still 'does what he calls seagulling where he swoops in and changes things'
- Larian publishing chief wades into the fray, says Morrowind updated with a modern combat system 'would sell like f**king hotcakes'
- Steam Controller re-review: A fresh look at Valve's flawed but influential 10-year-old controller
- Cairn developers 'couldn't be happier' as they celebrate 200,000 copies sold: 'We hope you feel the passion we baked into the mountain'
- 'Everybody who worked at Nvidia in the early days really wanted to make a game console' says senior VP of engineering Andrew Bell: 'Selfishly, a little bit, we built Shield for ourselves'
- The world's largest manga piracy site has been shut down with its operator under criminal investigation
- Skyrim's lead designer thinks Bethesda should stick to its in-house engine: 'The benefits that you get from switching to Unreal Engine are probably not going to materialise until two titles down the road'
- CachyOS isn't joining new Linux gaming distro collab, says it doesn't think a 'collective with strings attached' is necessary
- 'What a disappointment': Arc Raiders players aren't happy with the latest Trophy Display project, namely because there's no trophy at the end of it
- Puget Systems crowns the Intel Core Ultra 7 265K as the most reliable processor in its consumer PCs, with Nvidia Founders Edition cards leading the charge for GPUs
- Moltbook is like Reddit but only AI agents are allowed—though after spending hours trawling through threads, it looks more like a huge, unhinged roleplay server to me
- RX 9070 XT gaming PCs were already good value, but they're even better now that well-priced RTX 5070 Ti machines are rare
- This Frankenstein-ed RTX 5070 Ti with a hole in it has just set a world record benchmark score and it's the most cursed-looking graphics card I've ever seen
- 'TSMC needs to work very hard this year because I need a lot of wafers' says Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang outside a 'trillion-dollar dinner' for top tech manufacturers in Taiwan
- id Software's second FPS only brought in $5,000, and the studio might not have made Wolfenstein and Doom if the game hadn't made a dev fall out of his chair: 'That was just one of the craziest things in a videogame I'd ever seen'
- February 1
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- 2 days after promising it was still 'worthy of your investment,' the most successful Kickstarter MMO ever was canceled and its team laid off: 'The developers and staff acted in good faith and deserved better'
- 'We need to get the funniest person we can possibly find': Helldivers 2's lead writer had seven days to cast John Helldiver, the face of the game's beloved intro cinematic
- 'What the f**k': Iron Lung creator puzzled as Markiplier's film adaptation quadruples its budget in one day, beating out Melania and Send Help at the box office
- Five new Steam games you probably missed (February 2, 2026)
- 21 years after release, Guild Wars 1 just got an 'Ironman' mode inspired by a venerable community-driven challenge
- The whole Fallout series is at a steep discount on Steam, so if you've been waiting 29 years to begin your journey in the wasteland, your time is now
- Can you guess which game these competitive rank crests are from?
- 'Anyone mad is a cheater:' Players are divided as Rust beefs up anti-cheat with more effective—and invasive—upgrades
- One of BioShock Infinite's best narrative devices is its music
- Videogame merch is basically diet cosplay, and I'm desperate for more brands to get in on being more fashionably nerdy
- Get the complete editions of Civilization 4, 5 and 6 plus a bunch more games for $15 in Humble Bundle's The Sid Meier Collection
- Thirty years after launch, this classic space combat sim just got updated to work on modern systems and released for free
- February is surprisingly light on cozy game launches but we're looking forward to these chill picks you shouldn't miss
- On-Together is the first focus tool videogame I've used that understands the importance of partnered-up productivity
- Over a decade since launch, this cooperative dungeon crawler is getting a double-barrelled update that overhauls its magic system, dungeon generation, and much more
- Cities: Skylines 2's new developer breaks cover on its plans for the sequel's future, revealing a patch that will include changes players 'have been requesting for a long time'
- I didn't even know I was bothered by how bad Skyrim's NPCs look during the split second they're opening doors, and now a modder's pointed it out the mod to fix it has become essential
- Larian made a chill beats Baldur's Gate 3 animation full of references to popular mods and memes
