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- February 7
- 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 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
- How to find and beat the Bloodedge Demon 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
