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- August 7
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- Sam Neill will reportedly star in the forthcoming The Legend of Zelda film
- How to craft an engagement ring in Fields of Mistria
- Following its excellent Lord of the Rings cards, Magic: The Gathering's new Hobbit set is a bit of a second breakfast
- Trent Reznor on Doom: 'In some ways I felt a parallel with what I was trying to do with music'
- August 6
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- 30 years after it 'ruined id Software,' Quake gets another big update while the studio once again grapples with adversity
- Devolver Digital wants to get off the stock market, because 'the ongoing challenge of delivering growth in line with market expectations' just isn't worth the headaches
- Diablo 4's newest class barely made a splash with Lord of Hatred, but it's shaping up to be king of the next season
- Capcom says it wants Monster Hunter Wilds to outsell World 'over the medium to long term,' but it'll need to muster a lot of sales momentum to get there
- Couple's dispute over playing Slay the Spire 2 in bed gets a ruling from comedian John Hodgman: 'Pick an arbitrary battle and stick with it'
- John Romero says id Software once sold empty Doom boxes to Taiwanese pirates so fans there could have legit copies: 'For us, it was distribution'
- You deserve a travel power adapter you actually like for your next trip
- Ghost Recon marks 25 years with a major update and free new missions for Wildlands, and a Ghost Recon: Future Soldier giveaway
- New Kingdom Come trademark filings mention 'online' virtual worlds—but we shouldn't assume Warhorse is making a multiplayer game just yet
- It is genuinely cheaper for me to fly to QuakeCon and buy a RTX 5090 at the Nvidia booth than pick up the GPU absolutely anywhere else
- Larian gets briefly kicked off YouTube, TikTok for demonic smut reasons in Baldur's Gate 3
- The first GTA 6 gameplay reveal will debut on Netflix later this month, as the streaming service tries yet again to get a piece of that videogame pie
- 'Slightly ugly, and insanely functional': Check out this custom Steam Machine faceplate that doubles as a charging stand
- Valve explains clever shortcut for the Steam Controller's Grip Sense, and I'm starting to think it's a killer feature
- Rules of Engagement: The Grey State's new gameplay trailer gives us a glimpse into the Horrorverse - and it’s genuinely terrifying
- Onimusha: Way of the Sword's incredible sword-fighting secret sauce explained: 'We really wanted to focus on creating this very realistic, grounded sword action'
- Microsoft quietly deletes 32 GB RAM recommendation, which I'm sure has nothing to do with it bringing back 8 GB laptops
- Grab shopkeeper-dungeoncrawler Moonlighter free on Steam for a limited time
- Can you play Big Walk alone or with randoms?
- Former Bethesda lead artist is looking forward to Fallout 3's remaster because the game they released was '100% not what we intended, and it was very, very constrained'
- August 5
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- What happens after GTA 6?
- Kingdom Come: Deliverance star is opening a real 'medieval-inspired bar' in Prague
- The guy in charge of EA Sports is now in charge of EA everything
- Path of Exile devs are planning 'an extreme shakeup' in the next major update to address concerns over its stale endgame and lack of exciting loot drops
- Destiny 2 players are learning how to crack into its infamous content vault by tinkering with old game builds
- You should really get Ace Combat 7 while it's 80% off on Steam, because AC8 might be one of the year's best games
- Fields of Mistria officially becomes the best farm sim since Stardew Valley with its 1.0 update today
- Black Library veteran Toby Longworth gives us his tips for voicing the perfect Space Marine
- Something big is coming to Helldivers 2 next week: Squid is back on the menu
- 'Sorry about this!' Big Walk is already fixing its biggest complaint
- Grand Theft Auto 6 publisher is holding an investors call at a very unusual time this week
- Marvel Rivals is gearing up for season 9.5 with major Vanguard adjustments alongside a teaser for its next hero, The Hood
- Chinese memory maker CXMT mops up even more market share away from the likes of Samsung, SK hynix, and Micron, giving me hope that competition is the way out of the memory crisis
- Assassin's Creed Valhalla director comes back to Ubisoft to be game director for the entire brand
- Fields of Mistria 1.0 changes: What's new in the full release version?
- The next game in a huge Chinese action RPG series has plenty of action, but I hope it hasn't totally abandoned the RPG
- We asked the voice of Eisenhorn, Gaunt, and Garro in Warhammer 40k who his favorite character to play is
- Pulsar to study how we all use our gaming mice to make them better, offering prizes to those who help them build the mouse of the future
- The actors behind Leon Kennedy and Grace Ashcroft will take to the stage for the Future Games Show at Gamescom this month
- 'AI PCs will become more important': AMD's Lisa Su remains optimistic about the market despite runaway pricing caused by *checks notes* the AI industry
- Saudi-acquired EA is reportedly planning to make massive cuts after taking $18 billion of debt, and we all know what that means
- EA has fixed a niche Battlefield 6 issue where some Nvidia GPUs were crashing while changing attachments or 'playing on maps with large bodies of water'
- Sovereign Tower looks like a cosy management game, but it's ruthless, full of murder and impossible choices, and features one of the best time travel systems I've ever encountered
- AMD made over 8 times as much revenue on data centers as it did gaming last quarter
- Razer's BlackShark V3 is the best gaming headset right now and with almost $50 off, it's the only one I'd recommend
- WoW will let some WeakAura-style mods function in its next major patch, as the war on combat AddOns turns into more of a truce
- A special weapon was forged to create Onimusha: Way of the Sword's brutal blade sound effects: 'We wanted that very raw, kind of rough feel'
- AI worms? In your Copilot PC? According to this AI researcher, it's more likely than you think
- Chinese RAM is reportedly landing in laptops from HP, Asus and Acer but it won't change the memory crisis overnight
- Steam's Cyberpunk Fest means big savings on games about high-tech lowlifes
- August is the calm before the storm for this year's new game releases
- Warhammer 40,000: Dark Heresy will let us recruit a space elf pirate and one of the holy psychics whose lives are nasty, brutish, and short
- August 4
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- Director Eli Roth seems to think the Borderlands movie sucked too: 'You got something that belonged to nobody'
- Embrace the great Tech Pause
- The deal is done: Electronic Arts is now officially owned by Saudi Arabia
- 'I was this close': Teenage dev's $200 joke game made nearly $1.4 million on Steam before the refunds came flooding in
- Deadlock's new ranked mode is driving players mad as they try to escape the casual modes and climb back to where they were
- Juniper romance walkthrough: The full Juniper gifts list, heart events, and marriage details for the arrogant witch in Fields of Mistria
- Sometimes you have to take a break from work to pay respects to the PC flight stick that ruled the '90s
- One of Big Walk's puzzles is simple to solve but still gave us an existential crisis
- March romance walkthrough: The full March gifts list, heart events, and marriage details for the grumpy blacksmith in Fields of Mistria
- Statistically, your PC probably doesn't come close to the recommended RAM requirement for this third-person shooter's upcoming playtest
- Rockstar's great Midnight Club racing series was killed off for one simple reason, and you can probably guess what it was
- Larian drops new Baldur's Gate 3 stats and you're all monsters: More non-Durge players killed Alfira than Durge and, worst of all, 9,000 people played on portrait monitors
- Okay, this time it seems like Valve has *actually* fixed Steam's local game transfer problem
- I desperately need this TTRPG to become a videogame—it's one of the coolest things I've ever seen
- Endless Legend 2 is escaping early access in September and adding new major, minor and rogue factions
- Noctua NL-LC1 review
- NAND and HBM have been merged into a dorky megazord for datacenters by Sandisk and SK hynix
- SpaceXAI pats itself on the back for removing temporary turbines in Memphis under agreed order over the next year: "We care deeply about being good neighbors"
- Resident Evil Veronica hits 2 million wishlists to absolutely no one's surprise—come on, it's got the RE2 and RE4 remake team working on it
- It's time to ditch that dull gaming mouse and pick up a scorching-hot squeaker for less, with one of these nine options starting at just $22
- OpenAI calls out Apple's 'careless, aggressive and oddly personal lawsuit' in latest blog post
- Our long Caribbean nightmare is over: You can hide the blow pipe in Assassin's Creed Black Flag Resynced now
- Looking for a combined games and study laptop? 3 reasons to buy the Alienware 15
- Gamers report a BIOS update is bricking their Legion Go handhelds, and Lenovo is quoting over $250 to fix the issue outside of warranty
- Stellar Blade boss completely misses the point of why people are upset with Blood Rain's AI slop video: 'The AI is not creating [Evie] from scratch'
- Gigabyte is launching B550 AM4 motherboards and recommending four-year-old CPUs because the memory crisis is really that bad
- Onimusha: Way of the Sword's bad guy has 'an edge of eroticism', confirms Capcom dev—he's 'very alluring in the way that he moves'
- Arctic announces price rollback thanks to a US gov tariff refund, which will continue until 'every single dollar Arctic received… has been paid back to our customers'
- I tried the 'stress test your GPU hopes you never run' and it made my main gaming rig look like a chump
- If you hate parrying, projectiles in Beast of Reincarnation are ridiculously overpowered if you focus on leveling them up
- Beast of Reincarnation review
- August 3
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- Henry Cavill confirms he'll star in the live action Warhammer 40K series written by Mike Flanagan, but his character 'shall remain a secret for now'
- Dave Bautista reportedly 'in talks' to take over the role of Kratos in Amazon's God of War series
- The original ethernet cable was canonically '1968 Corvette yellow' to distinguish it from a power cable—because you literally had to drill into it to install it
- Big Walk ignores 'friendslop' trends, and is better for it
- 'Wait for me, my Czech friend': Japanese dev adds Czech localization just for the one Steam user who wishlisted his game in the Czech Republic
- 'I would die': Obsession star Inde Navarrette would love a role in Resident Evil
- Microsoft is planning to bring Xbox 360 games to PC, according to leaked documents
- MacBook Neo outperforms Dell XPS 13 in Cyberpunk 2077 benchmark—though I wouldn't recommend gaming on either notebook
- Razer Blade 16 (2026) review
- MSI unveils its first 4K OLED monitor using a promising inkjet-printed panel, and it's not made by Samsung or LG
- Help shape the future of PC Gamer and enter for a chance to win $200
- A round of applause please for the 250KF Plus making this RTX 5080 gaming PC deal actually reasonable
- Dragon's Dogma 2 will be getting an endgame hard mode difficulty in the future 'for seasoned players'
- Valve may be putting the finishing touches to the Steam Frame software stack, because Lepton and FEX are now on Steam
- Communication is the biggest puzzle piece in chill co-op game Big Walk, so don't take any shortcuts by using Discord
- Noctua shows off 'custom-built torture-test rigs' for testing fans, and now I'm afraid of ever setting foot in the Noctua factory
- 'Deck de France' is a new free software that can turn your bike trainer into a controller for your Steam Deck
- Microsoft raises prices of Xbox by 25% to 30% in Europe with the Series S now costing more than the Series X at launch
- FF7 Remake director had to tell his team to 'be reasonable' because they got too excited about the FF14 crossover: 'That would be putting the cart before the horse'
- OEM Steam Deck LCD batteries are back in stock on iFixIt, but now cost $130 for just the part
- Steam Week in Review: Once positioned as mainstream-friendly PC gaming solutions, can Valve's hardware survive the memory crisis?
- Company that said it could scan and destroy books for AI data-harvesting has deleted that part of its website: 'no such service was ever brought to life'
- August 2
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- Owlcat co-founder says the studio won't turn its back on hardcore RPGs as it hits 600 employees and preps its own Mass Effect killer
- One day Owlcat will make an RPG that's perfect out of the box, but 3 years after launch, it's time to get disgustingly into Warhammer 40K: Rogue Trader
- American Truck Simulator is headed to North Dakota in its latest DLC
- Champion modder ports the OG 'Father' Nier back into the PC remaster, original voiceovers and all
- Stellar Blade: Blood Rain's AI slop music video is terrible for us all
- Baldur's Gate 3 is the cheapest it's ever been to celebrate its third anniversary
- One of Kerbal Space Program's biggest inspirations was a promotional Flash game for Top Gear: 'That was the most similar game to KSP that I could find back then'
- Perennial early access game Project Zomboid hit a new concurrent player record after a huge map update added reworked towns, a spooky orphanage and '400 procedural basements'
- Space Marine 2's latest updates add Terminator Sorcerers and Steam Workshop support, so you can now play co-op with 9 other players if you want
- I enjoyed this video of Oblivion Remastered actor Wes Johnson goofing around in a sound booth dressed as Sheogorath, but a patch for the PC version would be nice too, Bethesda
- The maker of the Baldur's Gate 3 over-the-shoulder camera mod has gone to great lengths to demonstrate it's not like other third-person viewpoint solutions
- August 1
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- Developer of 'Spanking Exorcist' game held up by Steam content moderation releases free 'apology game' where you spank him as punishment: 'We would be delighted if you enjoy it'
- 10 expansions that were better than the actual game
- Dead Cells studio thanks Guillermo del Toro for playing its game, gently suggests he try the easy mode
- The voice of Shinji in Evangelion says AI voice cloning is 'heartbreaking,' calls for Japanese government to intervene
- Former Sony exec Shuhei Yoshida is 'a huge fan' of Bloodborne, says it's 'a complete mystery' why it was never put on PC
- OpenAI CEO suggests parents make AI-generated podcasts to remember their children's lives for them
- My new favourite Tolkien game is free, has over 40 years of history, and would run on a toaster
- The great RPG debate: Do RPGs really need romanceable companions?
- Crimson Desert adds 133 new trading posts and overhauls the in-game economy with supply and demand
- Question time: What makes a 'good' grind in an MMO?
- The games industry's 'fear of risk is currently the largest risk it faces' according to Nuclear Throne's producer
- Dragon Age's former producer had envisioned a 'Champions Edition' equivalent to Mass Effect's Legendary Edition, but he doesn't think it will happen anymore: 'There are basically no companies that could help you'
- We haven't needed motion blur in games for a long time, so I wish it would stop being the default
- I was excited for this Quake port of Half-Life until I discovered the creator's wild AI conspiracy theories
- Palworld 1.0 review
- In happier times, Sony was courting PC gamers with lavish magazine ads for its 'most popular CD-ROM titles'
