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- July 3
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- Epic reaches lawsuit settlement with former contractor who was also a notorious Fortnite leaker
- Mouthwashing's follow-up is self-described 'friendsweat' where 3 players struggle to operate a tank in a defiled city: 'We're definitely not quite at Peak, but we're not trying to make Arma either'
- Sand publisher celebrates 300,000 copies sold: 'We getting a half hour of air conditioning tonight!'
- One of the best sci-fi strategy games of 2004 is free in GOG's Summer Sale
- The latest Chinese PC gaming hit is an indie game that spent the last 8 years growing into something you've never played before
- Cyberpunk 2077 has now sold more than 40 million copies, 'a testament to what CD Projekt does best'
- EVE Online studio Fenris follows through on yearslong promise to make its in-house game engine fully open source
- New Sims 4 update cuts back on excessive notifications—you can finally silence your phone, and the grim reaper will try to recruit you less
- Another player has swiped a colossal discount on GTA 6, paying just $2 thanks to a forgotten Best Buy card
- Remember your Paradox account? No? Well you might want to look into that because it could be deleted next year
- Where to find the Festival Loop speed zone in Forza Horizon 6
- Razer Seiren V3 Pro microphone review
- 'Your code is physically yours, forever. Until you lose it, let's be real': Github, wagging its finger at Sony's own goal, is offering CD-ROMs of your code for a few days
- Google loses protracted antitrust fight and will have to pay record-breaking €4.1 billion fine equivalent to less than 3% of Alphabet's annual profit
- Intel quietly bumps the price up of the best CPUs it's made in years to 'reflect current market dynamics'
- Horror fans are being spoiled courtesy of these two unsettling yet enthralling upcoming games
- Valve's aim for a console-like experience with its Steam Machine lands a little too close for comfort as one of the first cases of 'Red Line of Death' comes to light
- Meta's solution to the global memory shortage is to use DDR4 in a DDR5 server, with a custom chip making the impossible possible
- The best gaming mouse is 'a superior squeaker in pretty much every respect' and its finally enjoying a $20 discount
- Suicide Squad: Kill the Justice League's development got so bad that it almost turned its devs away from the industry for good: 'I could feel myself coming apart at the seams'
- SK hynix to invest over $60 billion in chip plants in South Korea, but the memory crisis still seems a long way from being over
- Top scientists uncover way to make Kingdom Come: Deliverance more complicated—turn it into a board game
- Clair Obscur is flawed on purpose, says director: 'Games that try to be perfect, that try to fix all their flaws—they're usually just really boring'
- Nuclear reactor start-up targeting AI energy demands showcases its tech with an Nvidia DGX Spark, though the website demo needs its own power plant
- 'Something has gone completely wrong': Palantir CEO rants on live television about his problems with the AI business model: 'Why are they charging for tokens if it's so valuable?'
- Rumours suggest Intel may be planning to join the club of hardware manufacturers reviving old product lines, all the way back to Comet Lake
- How many of these games with pixel art styles can you identify?
- July 2
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- The internet is agog at Captain America's hog
- The new Company of Heroes is a wave-based defense game that throws prospective generals straight into the action
- Carcass Clad is less story-heavy than Mouthwashing, but 'a lot of thought' has gone into it: 'We haven't discovered how much we can push it'
- Lord of Hatred upgraded Diablo 4 into one of the best action RPGs out there, but its new season ignores everything that made it great
- Following the success of Mouthwashing, developer Wrong Organ wasn't ready to make a better 'story game,' so it's making a 'gameplay game' instead
- 'Fewer than 10' employees remain at Thick as Thieves studio following another round of layoffs
- Rust gets even more cutthroat by adding its own version of apartment rentals
- Amnesia studio delays its new game into 2027
- Former Call of Duty frontman launches new studio with a 'Stop Killing Games'-style mission statement: If the game bombs, it goes open source
- Relax, PC Gamers: We're not getting GTA 6 on November 19, but we've got, um... 'Phantom Vice Auto' launching the same day on Steam
- World of Warcraft's on the quality-of-life boost warpath, with fixes including an auto-loot setting that's been mildly inconveniencing alt-lovers for years
- Ubisoft hires former Take-Two and Amazon vet to head up its Tom Clancy games
- 'Meta will need to reduce or possibly stop AI investment in datacenters, as it already has excess capacity': The AI infrastructure bubble feels the heat
- Intel's mega-core Nova Lake desktop processors look all but confirmed to have sustained full boost power limits at least 220 W higher than Arrow Lake
- Sony's PlayStation 6 is now estimated to cost over $900 in materials alone, signalling a launch price tag double that of the PS5
- Where to find the Sotoyama region Treasure Hunt in Forza Horizon 6
- Hideo Kojima's upcoming horror game OD is said to survive Microsoft's culling for the second time now
- WoW's bug-filled April patch was actually from trying to fix too much too fast, says director Ion Hazzikostas—like an elevator from 13 years ago that blew up housing
- AMD is reportedly bumping the price of its GPU and VRAM bundles to graphics card makers and you can expect to feel the sting soon
- I'm learning to love autobattlers and it's because this Steam demo let me build a gnarly squad of combat freaks out of weird meat and goblin blood
- Great gaming monitor deals are like buses: You get none for ages, then three turn up at once
- 'A wild testament to the obscene bloat and waste of GenAI': Google's electricity consumption is exponentially increasing
- Data centers reportedly targeted by cargo thieves, with over $1 million worth of copper and equipment found in two trucks in Chicago
- Even Hideo Kojima is afraid that 'digital data will no longer be owned by individuals' and that access to art that we love 'may suddenly be cut off'
- Rockstar UK employees say the GTA 6 developer's still plagued by gender pay gaps, crunch, and vague bonuses which make them 'as pliable as possible to their boss's whims'
- 'Meh': Ex-PlayStation president Shuhei Yoshida weighs in on Valve's Steam Machine after a few hours with it
- Onimusha: Way of the Sword is releasing 21 days earlier than expected, possibly cramping The Blood of Dawnwalker's style
- Blood Bowl's videogame rights have been acquired by Slitherine and at this point I'll take any change as a good sign
- Valheim will get a 50% price hike when it hits 1.0, and no changes to the ocean biome
- July 1
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- July is a little light on the big new game releases, but your co-op horror Discord gang will be feastin'
- 'They refuse to offer a meaningful alternative': Game preservation leader agrees that piracy is the only preservation option for a discless future
- Consoles continue their trend of just becoming worse PCs
- Windrose might get wind
- 'There’s something we’ve been dying to tell you': The best city builder of 2023 is getting a survival game set in the same world
- Reinstated Subnautica 2 studio CEO immediately peaces out after Krafton agrees to pay the developer bonuses it went to court to avoid
- Former Unreal Engine director retires after 15 years at Epic
- Netflix has finally figured out how to get viewers off their phones with its newest horror game, but it doesn't quite stick the landing
- Dragon Age setting creator says AI push is a delusion of the executive class that's a 'virulent plague' on games
- French retailer briefly offers the 'Stim Machine,' a Steam Machine competitor made of standard PC components for less than a grand
- "You are the endgame": Total War: Warhammer's new nightmarish Chaos invasion finally gives Archaon the apocalyptic event he's been waiting 10 years for
- Xbox reportedly wants to put a stake in Blade and sell off Arkane, even though Todd Howard says development is going well
- The cozy game launches of July are absolutely stacked with cats, even more than usual
- How to push 007: First Light to the max with Nvidia GeForce GPUs
- The maker calls it the 'world's worst USB drive' but to my eyes, it's far more impressive than any external SSD you can buy right now
- In the wake of Prime Day, this RTX 5070 Ti laptop is looking mighty alluring next to all those lesser RTX 5070 machines
- The ESA quietly starts walking back baffling statements about private servers being 'illegal', though it's still tutting and wagging its finger
- Google kills yet another API, shutting out all non-Google platforms from favoured gif database
- Battlefield 6 is an FPS where 'the guy obsessed with metas is having the least fun', and it's free-to-play for a week
- 'No bloat, no telemetry, no nonsense.' Former Microsoft coding wizard makes an OG Notepad clone that's just 2,686 bytes in size
- EA accidentally made the right decision twice in one month and reverted it both times, inflicting psychic damage on Battlefield 6 players
- Security researchers have leveraged bad maths to get around AI safety guardrails, naming the attack method after one of 2007's best PC games
- 'I cannot do my job when Microsoft refuses to do theirs', say Xbox union workers as destructive reset looms from a company that spent over $80 billion on AI last year
- With 32 GB as a minimum and 64 GB as the recommended amount, Cinder City's RAM requirements are all kinds of wrong in today's AI-mangled memory market (update: phew, it's a mistake)
- Sure would be great if Oblivion Remastered got patched on PC to coincide with the Switch 2 release
- Total War: Warhammer 3 is getting new endgames, individual victory conditions, a Vampire Counts rework, and Nurgle's three grossest champions
- Based on Meccha Chameleon's incredibly short 2-month dev cycle, its creators have already earned $1 million per day of work
