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- August 31
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- Meta implements new rules for its AI after disturbing child safety report: 'We’re adding more guardrails as an extra precaution'
- A Call of Duty movie is in Paramount's crosshairs, but it might be a tough sell
- Larian sends fan new limited edition Baldur's Gate 3 vinyl after melting mishap
- Vampire Survivors' free-roaming online mode is available to play in beta now, and there's an official board game coming too
- After nearly three years, Terraria's 1.4.5 update is totally, definitely, indisputably almost finished: 'We are in the endgame now'
- How well do you know your MMORPGs? Test your memory for talents, spells, and classes with our new quiz
- Story of Seasons: Grand Bazaar is a good farming simulator, but it's made great by its sense of community and willingness to get you involved
- Metaphor: ReFantazio's distinct musical blend of traditional JRPG vibes and contemporary flow continues to live in my head rent-free nearly a year later
- FBC: Firebreak's latest patch lets you turn off enemy health bars, which should be mandatory for all first-person shooters
- 'That was my first experience with PvP,' Naoki Yoshida's love for game design all started with a tragic Mario Brothers bait and switch
- Today's Wordle clues, hints and answer for August 31 (#1534)
- Bless him, Eric Barone cannot stop updating Stardew Valley, has announced version 1.7 is coming
- 'These works are vital for the morale of our people,' co-owner of Ukrainian publishing house declares after Games Workshop ends deal to translate Warhammer novels
- August 30
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- Mortal Kombat 2 got pushed back to May 2026, but not for the reason you probably think
- Report shows 90% of European gaming revenue in 2024 was digital purchases, but only 15% was on PC
- 'I would like to make a different game using this IP': Dave the Diver dev hints at possible spin-off or sequel
- Astroneer is getting an expansion that'll let you build huge megastructures
- Chill simulation strategy game Plan B: Terraform has hit 1.0
- The PC game releases we're most excited about in September
- I tried to save the USSR in 1985 with a hip Gen Z leader and all I got for my trouble was a drunk population and total national bankruptcy
- A Star Trek: Voyager survival strategy game (yes, Voyager) is coming that lets you 'what if?' the series
- Atomfall's second story DLC will see you hunted by an absolutely furious robot among some War of the Worlds-style red weed
- No More Room in Hell 2 delays its 1.0 launch into 2026, confirms that 'child zombies will not be present in the final product' just in case you were wondering
- One of the best RPGs of all time is getting its 'first ever unofficial DLC' that adds a whole new region and restores cut content
- Darkest Dungeon 2's latest update adds bloodsucking bug-people to its grand campaign mode, and you can try the sequel for free this weekend
- Today's Wordle clues, hints and answer for August 30 (#1533)
- Auto-run is enough to get me to reinstall Dune: Awakening, but customization do-overs and trainer fashion sweeten the deal
- August 29
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- 8 months after moving on from Helldivers 2, Johan Pilestedt returns to thank everyone for welcoming Xbox divers into the fold: 'All the stories I read make my heart sing'
- Hollow Knight: Silksong for just $20? In this economy? It sounds too good to be true, but GameStop says it's so
- To help speed up unlocking those Battlefield 6 items, Battlefield 2042 is turning on the double XP hose every weekend until the new game launches
- NetEase closes studio founded by Ultima Online and Star Wars Galaxies veteran before it can release a single game
- Borderlands 4's new endgame mode will let you skip the campaign so you're ready for the next year of seasonal events and bosses
- Hollow Knight's creators didn't want to be constrained by the 'metroidvania' label, but they accidentally set a standard that every game since—even Silksong—has to reckon with
- The vibes are bad because 'vibe hacking' is real: AI company Anthropic says agentic AI has been 'weaponized' and is now being used to do major international crime
- Path of Exile 2 players prepare for 'the coming war' between pets as the devs add an infamous singing goblin troupe and a bird made to kill them
- EA tells Battlefield Labs testers not to leak Battlefield 6's new big map, so of course they leaked it immediately
- Elijah Wood reveals his favorite videogames and the chill indies he's playing now on Steam Deck
- Under Microsoft, Double Fine has made its weirdest game yet—and this is only the beginning: 'We can take more risks'
- Steam users in the UK who want 'mature game content' must now register a credit card on their accounts to prove they're old enough
- Supermassive Games is adding a new tool to its next horror game Directive 8020 that'll give players a 'second chance' to save their favourite characters
- Highly intricate water blocks like this one may become the norm as server CPU power consumption soars, and could even trickle down into gaming PCs
- The US government could get even more Intel stock if the company ends up losing control of its chip manufacturing business
- Silent Hill f is actually really fun when there's not a little worm in your ear telling you to compare every scene against Silent Hill 2
- Battlefield 6 may have removed its iconic 'Doritos,' but it's not escaping a decade-old complaint: Spotting is once again too strong
- 'There's no such thing as a laser-resistant weed' says company employing dozens of Nvidia GPUs to fry weeds with lasers from above
- HoYoverse has revealed its next game and I think this is just auto-battler Pokémon
- Haunted Chocolatier: all the key details on the followup to Stardew Valley
- Armed with AMD's latest SDK, DLSS Swapper, and one renamed file, you can apparently just drop FSR 4 into games that run FSR 3
- Claimed Sony PS6 handheld console specs promise a miracle of next-gen, cutting-edge processor architectures at a price that's barely enough for today's hardware
- This ROG Strix G16 with an RTX 5070 Ti is on sale for less than some RTX 5070 gaming laptops in the Labor Day sales
- Shure SM4 Studio Kit microphone review
- All Genshin Impact 6.0 livestream codes
- Battlefield 6 Ultra system requirements have finally been revealed and you will need at least an RTX 4080 for this shooter to look its explosive best
- Total War: Warhammer 3 finally playable now someone's modded in an entire crab empire faction with its own mechanics, lore, and enormous crustacean units
- Microsoft adds full stereo Bluetooth LE Audio for gaming to Windows 11 because mono with mics is so last century
- All active Destiny: Rising codes and how to redeem them
- RPG throws the ring of monetization into Mount Doom, drops gacha mechanics right before launch to avoid 'pay-to-win mechanics and forced spending as much as possible'
- Dinolords blends action RPG combat and RTS battles in a medieval England overrun with dinosaurs, and surprisingly it's even cooler than that sounds
- New Logitech leak points to an MX Master 4 with haptic feedback and I think it could actually be useful
- Today's Wordle clues, hints and answer for August 29 (#1532)
- Space Marine 2 unveils a roadmap for its second year of updates including a new playable class, bosses, weapons, and more
- Crossword lovers in mourning as the New York Times commits its latest unspeakable act: Paywalling the Mini puzzle
- August 28
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- All active Anime Eternal codes and how to redeem them
- The combined fury of angry Overwatch players forced Blizzard to reverse a change it made less than 72 hours ago: 'We’re grateful to everyone who tried it out and shared feedback'
- The Witcher 4 and Cyberpunk 2 development teams continue to grow as CD Projekt's headcount expands to nearly 800
- We're still feeling aftershocks from Microsoft's destructive July layoffs and cancellations
- Fed up with 'living in fear' of mass layoffs, Diablo developers take action against Microsoft: 'We are ready to begin fighting for real change'
- In a major win for playing Battlefield 6 however the heck you want, EA just confirmed Portal servers are actually persistent: 'It's always listed in the browser for easy access'
- You don't need to wait for SteamOS to ditch Windows: I've been running Linux for the past 2 months and the revolution is already here
- Gemini's 'Nano Banana' AI image editor can't crop a picture, but its penchant for deepfakes 'while keeping you, you' makes me want to wear a brown paper bag on my head forever more
- Elden Ring: Nightreign is getting a new 'high difficulty mode' in September, including an 'endless battle for those seeking even greater thrills'
- 'No more James Sunderland': After a successful Silent Hill 2 remake, Bloober Team is ready to move on and 'treat ourselves'
- Borderlands has been too hot, too cold, and will now be just right, says Randy Pitchford: 'We can see those times we've gone too far'
- The radiance of a thousand suns: Overclockers set a new world record of 9.1 GHz with a P-core only 14900K
- We're still waiting for the first 2nm chips but TSMC is accelerating its plans for 1.4nm silicon manufacturing, starting in 2027
- Biblically accurate USB tester just dropped: This neat tool has 12 different connectors 'to test almost any cable'
- Alienware 16 Area-51 review
- Roblox had more concurrent players than the entirety of Steam over the weekend as it reeled in over 45 million users
- Almost 1,700 days—or 4.6 years—of daily Silksong news later, its brave watchman is finally ready to 'play Silksong in peace, however I want' and rest
- I used my 967 hours in Borderlands to predict Borderlands 4's most busted builds
- My inner Morrowind sicko is howling over the new game from the Dread Delusion devs, a turn-based RPG where you play a theatre troupe fighting demons
- We almost got a third-person horror Call of Duty set in Vietnam with 'stuff you've never seen before', but instead we just got more Modern Warfare
- 'Man, I wish we didn't have to turn on Secure Boot': Battlefield 6 technical director knows the anti-cheat measure is a pain, but believes 'the trade off was worth it'
- EA wants Battlefield 6 to run great without relying on DLSS: 'Our goal is for everything to be performant without a lot of extra stuff'
- EA knows Battlefield 6's settings menu was a mess in beta, and 'it's probably still going to be a little clunky when we launch'
- AMD scales back its CPU cooler bundles, with some older Ryzen models dropping it altogether
- Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang advises AI customers to 'pace themselves' after GPU clusters sell out, but the company says it's going to continue to scale up
- 'We have become experts at putting Poland into games': Cronos: The New Dawn is set in a district of Kraków simply because Bloober wanted to 'show our crib to the audience'
- The RTX 50-series has delivered a record-breaking $4.28B in gaming revenue for Nvidia... no matter what you think about VRAM levels, launch pricing, and availability
- Bethesda remembers it made Starfield, promises new 'space gameplay' in back half of random video that doesn't even mention Starfield in the title
- The MMO granddaddy you've never heard of is celebrating its 35th anniversary, and it still pulls in 'a few thousand active players' and needs a staff of over 40 to run: 'We want to be able to survive for another 35 years'
- After 4,500 hours of testing, SSD controller specialist Phison rules out allegations that a Windows 11 update is bricking drives
- Epic's CEO Tim Sweeney wades in on the UE performance debate: 'The primary reason Unreal Engine 5-based games don't run smoothly on certain PCs or GPUs is the development process'
- In the wake of shutting down a highly popular mod, Final Fantasy 14 director Yoshi-P shares deeply earnest blog about 'mods, their use, and the culture surrounding them'
- Kevin Spacey got 'a little weird' on the set of Call of Duty: Advanced Warfare: 'We all had to fake laugh'
- Final Fantasy 14 director does his best to assuage dooming around the next expansion's release date with another hint of shaking up its usually rigid timeline: 'You won't have to wait long'
- A PR storm has erupted around Razer's gaming laptops with reports of faulty trackpads and keyboards, glitchy software, performance issues and poor customer support
- Nvidia makes almost 10 times more from AI than gaming but 'margins are already eroding as rivals push into the space'
- Sandisk is back at it again, launching a speedy WD 1 TB SSD that will only set you back $80 straight out of the gate
- Forget trying to cram in Hollow Knight before Silksong launches—it's too good to rush
- All Grow a Garden codes and how to redeem them
- Today's Wordle clues, hints and answer for August 28 (#1531)
- August 27
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- The new John Carpenter game will absolutely stuff your screen with zombies
- Roblox makes unrated games inaccessible starting next month, has a plan for old favorites 'to ensure these cherished classics are not lost'
- Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 director adds another DLC teaser to the pile: 'We may be cooking'
- Herdling review
- Judas must be getting closer, because Ken Levine just rolled out its first-ever dev log and some new art
- OpenAI sued by parents of teen who died by suicide after ChatGPT allegedly encouraged him and provided instructions
- Blizzard promises to add 'speed, power, and fun' back to WoW Legion Remix after disappointing players with a time-gated grind
- How well do you know the most-played games on Steam? Take our timed quiz and put your knowledge to the test
- Here's every game that Silksong's surprise release has delayed as indies scramble to escape its powerful aura
- Metal Gear Solid Delta: Snake Eater weapon locations
- How to defeat The Sorrow in Metal Gear Solid Delta: Snake Eater
- How to escape prison in Metal Gear Solid Delta: Snake Eater
- All Gako locations in Metal Gear Solid Delta: Snake Eater
- All Kerotan locations in Metal Gear Solid Delta: Snake Eater
- Final Fantasy 14's incoming choose-your-own difficulty will be 'the general direction' going forward, but Yoshi-P suggests they might need to trim future patches to compensate
- Hideo Kojima questionably visits Saudi Arabia to drop the news that he knows just what Death Stranding 3 should be but he wants someone else to make it
- Oh goody, the 'first known AI-powered ransomware' has been discovered and it 'may exfiltrate data, encrypt it, or potentially destroy it'
- Microsoft locks down HQ as anti-Israel protesters live stream themselves storming the company president's office
- Where to buy farm animals in Story of Seasons: Grand Bazaar
- How to catch bugs in Story of Seasons: Grand Bazaar
- Windows 95, arguably the first PC gaming OS, is still being used... to sort eggs in Germany
- Story of Seasons: Grand Bazaar nature sprites explained
- How to unlock new recipes in Story of Seasons: Grand Bazaar
- Further details of Nvidia's GB10 'superchip' shine light on the complex collaboration with MediaTek
- Where to buy pets in Story of Seasons: Grand Bazaar
- Where to find iron in Story of Seasons: Grand Bazaar
- How to train your dog in Story of Seasons: Grand Bazaar
- Hinako Shimizu's arc in Silent Hill f is shaped by the Japanese women's rights movement of the 1960s and depicts 'how she musters the courage to combat' repression she encounters
- Riot leaked its next 2XKO fighter in the silliest way possible before throwing its hands up and saying 'oopsy daisy' with an announcement post
- Overwatch 2 players are waking up to mountains of loot boxes and silver coins as part of Season 18's Progression 2.0 update
- Two more heroes have been leaked for Marvel Rivals, but unless NetEase plans to turn Deadpool into a healer, I don't want either in Season 4
- Paradox is 'making adjustments' to Bloodlines 2's Toreador and Lasombra DLC after the entirely predictable backlash
- Sean Murray says the Earth-sized planet in Light No Fire will have 'real oceans' that players will need 'large boats and crews' to cross
- No Man's Sky adds buildable custom spaceships big enough to fit all your friends on board
- The Outer Worlds 2 feels like a much more ambitious RPG than its predecessor: I played its prologue three times with different builds, and each run felt unique
- Fresh rumours claim that AMD is planning a 16 GB version of its RX 9070 GRE graphics card, though there are still no signs of a global release yet
- The latest AMD RDNA 5 rumours are complicated but it looks like there really is going to be a high-end next-gen GPU to take on Nvidia's best graphics card
- Zoomable magazine archive lets you plunge eyeball-first into personal computing's first baby steps through the 70s and beyond
- SK Hynix's 'world first' 321-layer QLC flash memory chips, boasting 100% faster transfer speeds and up to 56% greater write performance, will be in gaming PCs next year
- Final Fantasy 14's Fan Fest dates have players crunching the numbers, and it's left them more nervous than excited
- FF14 director Yoshi-P is 'kind of glad and relieved' that Dawntrail's story is over, because players will have 'the fate of the world on their shoulders' again—but that was never the expansion's problem
- WoW devs want to 'step back' from the 'world-ending' stakes where you get called a pitiful mortal lots, and back to quests like 'oats for Blanchy'—presumably without sending the horse to hell afterwards
- Metal Gear Solid Delta devs would love Kojima to see how 'respectful' their remake is, but the big man himself has already said he's not touching it
- The many-chambered PC cases at Gamescom really showed up my old banger of a chassis
- Atari now owns the rights to five Ubisoft games: Cold Fear, I Am Alive, Child of Eden, Grow Home, and Grow Up
- Today's Wordle clues, hints and answer for August 27 (#1530)
- Vermintide 2 just got another annual event with its own level and rewards
- Haunted Chocolatier has fishing, books, and a new screenshot so pretty I want to live in it
- August 26
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- The Rogue Prince of Persia review
- Protestors occupy Microsoft president's office as opposition to the company's dealings with the Israeli military continue to escalate
- Chris Roberts hopes Star Citizen's Squadron 42 launch will be 'almost as big an event' as Grand Theft Auto 6, still targeting 2026 for release
- EA's Skate reboot will finally launch into early access in September
- You can accidentally doom your Elden Ring Nightreign team by attacking its newest enhanced boss at the wrong time
- Is Steam down again? It may just be the regular Tuesday maintenance
- Elden Ring movie director spun up a 160-page script to convince the devs he should be the one to make it
- It's kind of weird that Helldivers 2 isn't in Steam's big third-person shooter sale, but there are plenty of other great deals so I don't really miss it
- Activision finally acknowledges Call of Duty skins problem, decides cosmetics won't carry forward in Black Ops 7: 'Some of you have said we’ve drifted from what made Call of Duty unique in the first place. That feedback hits home'
- Corsair Xeneon Edge review
- AMD just revealed that its current RDNA 4 GPUs have a clever 'modular' architecture—here's hoping it signals a broader range of next-gen graphics cards
- After running an OLED monitor for 533 days, seven hours, and 22 minutes straight, MSI claims the effects of burn-in on its displays are 'basically none'
- Gears of War: Reloaded PC performance: The updated graphics are easy work for any desktop GPU from the past six years but they're still enough to give handhelds grief
- Framework's promise of an upgradeable gaming laptop has finally been made real as Nvidia steps into the void left by AMD
- Glorious is bringing an actually customisable gaming keyboard to the 'boring entry-level market'
- Oh great, readers preferred AI-written short stories over one by my favorite author in a blind test
- Intel warns its deal with the US government may be bad for business, while reports claim it won't prevent the fabs being sold off and the whole thing might not be legal, anyway
- A recent Windows 11 update broke a popular streaming method on OBS but a temporary fix is now here
- I got my hands on Nvidia GeForce Now's new RTX 5080 upgrade and I couldn't tell the games weren't running locally, but 4K with frame gen was a little laggy
- ‘A succulent Silent Hill meal’: Silent Hill f devs admit ‘we’re going a little different’ but assure longtime fans that it stays true to the series they know and love
- Helldivers 2's upcoming patch will see you diving deep into Terminid nests where your stratagems won't save you—also, the bugs have dragons now
- Crusader Kings 3's new DLC has a release date and even more opportunities to be murdered spectacularly by your vassals
- This September, the battle for the belt begins in The PC Gamer Streamer Showdown
- This RTX 5070 Ti gaming laptop keeps getting cheaper and it's making all those $2,000+ machines look like terrible deals
- AMD blames toasted AM5 sockets on motherboard makers pushing their luck with CPU settings
- Upcoming tactical FPS MMO Cinder City has maps that are so detailed you can tour Seoul and visit NCsoft's office full of 'Zombie workers with name tags'
- It's downright nuts how good this fan remake of Fallout 1 in Doom looks, and I'm begging Bethesda to take note
- Elon Musk claims to be making Microsoft competitor named Macrohard and despite the 'tongue-in-cheek name', the project is unfortunately 'very real'
- Borderlands 3 'sometimes felt like parody' of itself, say writers, but 4 aims to fix that: 'If I tried to put a meme in the game, he would come to my house with a baseball bat'
- Metal Gear Solid Delta: Snake Eater launch times, release date, and early access
- Forget OLED, it was a 610 Hz TN gaming monitor that stole my heart over Gamescom week
- KTC H27T22C-3 gaming monitor review
- Today's Wordle clues, hints and answer for August 26 (#1529)
- August 25
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- The best way to wait for Battlefield 6 is to finally play Battlefield 5, an underappreciated gem
- Are you prepared to peer into the soul of Claptrap? Borderlands 4 features an 'emotional' Claptrap moment that 'really hits hard,' says Gearbox
- Inside the Chinese PC gaming industry as it gets ready to dominate the next decade: 'We have to work harder, we have to make the games even better'
- World of Warcraft's player housing won't lock out casual players: 'We're not gonna put a beautiful bookcase behind killing a raid boss'
- Schedule 1's Rival Cartel update solves its biggest problem, and the patch is live now
- Elon Musk's xAI sues Apple and OpenAI over ChatGPT exclusivity on iOS devices, accuses them of 'thwarting competition and innovation in the generative AI chatbot market'
- Everyone can try Path of Exile 2 for free when its gigantic new update drops later this week
- Exactly 20 years after it was released exclusively in Japan, the Cowboy Bebop PS2 game is now playable in English
- 'Rental granny' service deploys 75-and-up anime vtuber grandmas to 'resolve issues of young people'
- 'It takes Anthem's spot': Former Dragon Age producer Mark Darrah thinks the original version of Dragon Age 4 would have released in February 2019—a 'compromised' game, but likely better received than Veilguard
- Tactical RPG Demonschool flees to November as Silksong claims another victim: 'We would not be doing Demonschool any favors by wading into waters we can clearly see are blood red'
- You're not getting the Splinter Cell you wanted in October, but maybe this'll do?
- Larian publishing chief says mainstream game industry has a 'perverse attachment' to indie studios, because indies still know how to follow their gut
- Six years after launch, The Division 2 is getting an 'updated take' on extraction shooting
- After cancelling 8 of the 12 live service games Sony promised to release by 2025, PlayStation studios boss says the number doesn't really matter: 'What is important to me is having a diverse set of player experiences'
- Ubisoft CEO summoned to appear before French court in relation to harassment trial, as the publisher says it will 'continue to cooperate with the justice system in this matter'
- Silent Hill f's director insists that its dodge and counterattack systems don't make it a soulslike: 'I think it's a label that's a little bit disingenuous'
- Today's Wordle clues, hints and answer for August 25 (#1528)
- Five new Steam games you probably missed (August 25, 2025)
- August 24
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- Former Dragon Age producer Mark Darrah agrees that Mages were the most 'complete' class in Origins, says it came from D&D rules and the fact that Warriors and Rogues weren't allowed to 'violate physics' yet
- Disgruntled coder who admitted to deploying a malware 'kill switch' to get back at his bosses sentenced to 4 years in prison
- Deadlock's latest character basically gets a portal gun, and his ult teleports enemies to a void hotel where they have to do a platforming challenge
- It's shaping up to be a crazy month for new games, with Indiana Jones' beefy-looking story DLC finally arriving on September 4
- 'I'm working on other stuff': Double Fine chief Tim Schafer squashes hopes for Psychonauts 3 any time soon
- Even in a year packed with great RPGs, you don't want to miss Disco Elysium-style time loop noir Rue Valley, which has a new trailer and a release date in November
- The Mass Effect vibes are overwhelming in the latest showcase for Owlcat's The Expanse game—and yes, it has a loyalty system
- One of the best detective games of the decade is free to keep on Epic this week
- Two Point Museum's next free update will dive into the digital realm, letting you build a retro arcade among your exhibitions
- The new game from Painkiller and Bulletstorm's creators is a tropical survival shooter that looks a teensy bit like Far Cry, and it's out in early access next month
- Today's Wordle clues, hints and answer for August 24 (#1527)
- The new Lego Batman game will have more of Gotham City in it than Arkham Knight did
- August 23
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- Microsoft launches Copilot AI function in Excel, but warns not to use it in 'any task requiring accuracy or reproducibility'
- We just got a free expansion pack out of nowhere for one of the most underrated FPSes on Steam, and it adds a second open world to the one we already had
- Chicago man sues Home Depot, alleging it's secretly using AI facial recognition at self-checkout
- Two years after launch, Assassin's Creed Mirage is getting surprise free DLC adding a second city to the game
- 'The dumbest thing I've ever heard': Amazon Web Services CEO lambasts replacing junior employees with AI, but he still loves AI
- All MMO quest journals are a massive waste of potential, except for FF14's, which was good for exactly one storyline
- Speculatively plotting GTA 6's map is a painstaking, exhausting, and heroic effort: 'We had 10 people search every street in StreetView, this took weeks—and failed'
- This deckbuilding card battler where you bargain with the devil looks like Inscryption mixed with Battle Chess
- Survival climber Cairn is getting a free-solo mode, letting you channel your inner Alex Honnold when it launches in November
- History goes cheap in the Age of Empires franchise sale, with up to 75% off the classic RTS series
- How well do you know your hacking minigames? Put your wits to the test with our latest quiz
- Pre-Fortress 2, a mod that bridges the gap between Team Fortress Classic and TF2, is coming to Steam with a whole lotta grenades
- Today's Wordle clues, hints and answer for August 23 (#1526)
- Bluesky goes dark in Mississippi over 'likely unconstitutional' age verification law
- August 22
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- By surrendering to an 'open weapons' default, Battlefield 6 is giving up the most special thing about Battlefield
- Marvel Rivals dev's transparent, 18-minute breakdown of how ranked isn't rigged fails to placate players who hate losing
- After stretching the definition of 'beta' for 8 years, Escape From Tarkov is finally hitting 1.0
- Even more games are moving out of Silksong's way: 'I feel like a little krill trying not to get eaten by a blue whale'
- Enshrouded's next big update is bringing way more water to the survival RPG than I expected
- 'I think the United States should be given 10% of Intel': US president Trump wants a piece of the action, says CEO Lip Bu Tan has already forked over $10 billion because he wants to 'keep his job'
- Metal Gear Solid Delta still lets you wait two weeks for a boss to die of old age—or mess with your system clock to cheat him out of his final fight
- I bought GTA+ so you don't have to—and I don't think it's worth the subscription even for GTA Online diehards
- Dawn of War 4 developer King Art knows what you all really want: 'Overwhelmingly, it's singleplayer content and the campaign'
- I've played Vampire: The Masquerade – Bloodlines 2's DLC clans, Lasombra and Toreador, and they absolutely should have been in the base game
- Amid sweeping changes, it's refreshing to see that the Battlefield 6 beta was an actual playtest, and not a glorified demo
- A free Chrome VPN with over 100,000 installations has been accused of snapping unauthorised screenshots of websites and spying on its users location data
- Everyone's heading back to Hollow Knight for one last go before Silksong comes out—the game's all-time Steam peak is rising as I write this headline
- AMD's FSR 4 open source whoopsie-daisy may be harder to take back than initially thought, thanks to the inclusion of a difficult-to-revoke MIT license
- 'Silksong lol': CloverPit devs delay the slot machine Balatro-like by 23 days to escape the blast radius of Silksong's launch
- Microsoft's DirectX Advanced Shader Delivery tech might be the eventual answer to stuttering and shader compilation woes, but it's limited to the ROG Ally X for now
- After months of back and forth, Nvidia has reportedly paused making its H20 chip due to security concerns, this time from China
- The first reported case of an AMD RX 9070 XT melting a 16-pin power connector is here, but I'm not sure we should prepare ourselves for another 'meltgate' just yet
- You've got approximately 12 months left to enjoy Overwatch 2 because it just got the Persona 5 collaboration kiss of death
- Microsoft's CEO of artificial intelligence believes advocating for 'rights, model welfare and even AI citizenship' will become 'a dangerous turn in AI progress'
- 'They’re just hiding the critical information': Google says its Gemini AI sips a mere 'five drops' of water per text prompt, but experts disagree with its findings
- Best Hall effect keyboards in 2025: the fastest, most customizable keyboards for competitive gaming
- Critical Role's next D&D campaign will have 13 players and 3 parties—and I have no idea where Brennan is getting this energy from
- Photography puzzler Opus: Prism Peak might be the rare game to actually pull its Studio Ghibli vibes off
- How to get all the berry plants in Grow a Garden
- I modded guns into Baldur’s Gate 3—and now I’m an unstoppable angel of death
- Metal Gear Solid Delta: Snake Eater review
- The creators of Deadly Premonition and No More Heroes are releasing a typically over-the-top roguelite 'fever dream' next month
- Today's Wordle clues, hints and answer for August 22 (#1525)
- 'Legal inquiry' shuts down one of Final Fantasy 14's most popular mods, adding yet another blurry line in the sand from Square Enix
- August 21
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- Nightdive's System Shock 2 remaster now supports 26 years of mods and fan missions
- I wouldn't have thought I'd be playing Starfield again in 2025, but this Star Wars total conversion mod is a real blast(er)
- 'I hope all your cars break down': Destiny players bid good riddance to departing Bungie CEO Pete Parsons in a rare moment of unity
- Diablo 4's next season acknowledges its greatest weakness as an action RPG and offers a solution on how to fix it
- Bungie CEO Pete Parsons retires: With Destiny 2 sentiment at an all-time low and pressure from Sony growing, Parsons has decided it's time to 'pass the torch' and head for an exit
- AliExpress is discounting a huge trove of tech just in time for the new school year
- Cheese Rolling is the best free Steam game about the age-old English tradition of hurling yourself down a hillside in pursuit of tumbling dairy
- One of Elden Ring's upcoming new starter classes is a freakishly strong jock with an intelligence score so low, they probably can't read, but the hardcore PvP kiddies are going ga-ga for them
- To the dismay of sweaty 'movement kids,' Battlefield 6 is nerfing Call of Duty sliding and jumping to maintain a 'traditional Battlefield experience'
- Eric Barone says he doesn't get paid for Stardew Valley collabs, and that's the way he likes it: 'I wouldn't want to make money from a collaboration'
- Bloodlines 2 developers try to justify the game's DLC clans, but it's not very convincing: 'We have been expanding it from where we originally planned to land'
- EA just confirmed the most popular class in the Battlefield 6 beta, and it shines a spotlight on a major balance problem
- Elgato 4K S review
- 'This works better than expected': Doom on a charging station looks surprisingly playable but may have the most awkward controls ever
- 'One of the most powerful DDoS botnets to ever exist' has been taken down by the DoJ with help from Amazon Web Services, Google, Cloudflare and others
- Why did Team Cherry's devs stay so quiet about Hollow Knight: Silksong? 'All we could really say is, we're still working on it', so they stopped doing that
- Splitgate fans, rejoice: Peer-to-peer multiplayer is coming next week, so you can keep on playing after the servers shut down
- Overwatch 2 dips its toes into the horny pool with swimsuit skins and a shirtless new healer for its next season
- I got a look at the first AMD Ryzen Z2 Extreme handheld, and no, that's not an ROG Ally you're looking at, it's the MSI Claw A8
- It's taken a long time to get here but you can now buy a non-Founders Edition GeForce RTX 5090 at Nvidia's MSRP
- Sony has bumped up the US prices of the PlayStation 5 range by roughly $50 a piece, citing 'a challenging economic environment'
- Silksong finally has a release date, officially, from Team Cherry and everything—putting an end to over half a decade of Silksanity
- 'Will it be the same? No': Snake actor David Hayter says there's no way to copy Kojima's 'exact genius' in a future brand-new Metal Gear, but it could still be great in a nu-Batman way
- Whisper of the House takes the cosy isometric decorating of Unpacking and unleashes it upon an entire town like an ultra-relaxing endless mode
- MSI Stealth 18 HX AI review
- WoW's player housing feature will have an import function, letting you save and share houses—and potentially furnishings—with each other
- Despite Grok's claims to the contrary, over 370,000 xAI conversations have reportedly been openly listed on search engines, with responses said to include 'a detailed plan for the assassination of Elon Musk'
- Caribbean commie city builder Tropico is getting a new game featuring a 'reworked military system' and a new council of whiny citizens
- I hope everyone is ready to thirst over Resident Evil characters again because Jill Valentine is being immortalised in a gooner gacha
- Vampire Survivors developer Poncle has just shadow-dropped its latest publishing effort, where you murder sentient bricks with your living bullets
- We have a Kickstarter for an entirely different game to thank for Dawn of War 4
- How to beat Everdark Gladius in Elden Ring Nightreign
- Stardew Valley is making an incredibly rare collaboration appearance in a cosy gacha game of all places
- How to complete the Storm's A-Brewin'! quest in Disney Dreamlight Valley
- AMD accidentally released the source code for FSR 4 before swapping back to the normal SDK, and a glimpse at the libraries suggests it might support older graphics cards in the near future
- After 20 hours with the Battlefield 6 beta, I believe EA has a ticking time bomb on its hands, though it's not too late to defuse it
- How to complete the Capture the Sun quest in Disney Dreamlight Valley
- 18 protesters arrested: Microsoft claims 'vandalism and property damage,' protesters claim 'genocide powered by Microsoft technology'
- Today's Wordle clues, hints and answer for August 21 (#1524)
- The ROG Xbox Ally borrows a heck of a lot from the Steam Deck, proving that the old gated console concept is a thing of the past
- 'This is the Ally 2, 100%': Asus says the ROG Xbox Ally is a bona fide successor to the first two handhelds, but the originals will still get new Xbox features
- August 20
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- The roguelike Prince of Persia platformer is now out of early access and feature complete, though it may get more content if it 'gets popular'
- A boundless excitement for Battlefield 6 loomed large over Call of Duty's deflating Black Ops 7 reveal
- Goodbye Jason Voorhees, hello Michael Myers: Friday the 13th developer and publisher return with a new multiplayer survival horror game based on Halloween
- Randy Pitchford says Borderlands 4 is worth $200, but he wishes 'they'd give it away'
- The Subnautica legal dispute takes a surprise twist as Unknown Worlds—not Krafton—sues its former bosses for stealing confidential material on their way out the door
- 'Let's fix every problem anyone has': Path of Exile 2 director says its massive next patch should pull the game out of its Dawn of the Hunt depression era
- Path of Exile 2's next major update lands next week, adding a new campaign act, a massive list of buffs, and—yes, finally—a way to trade while the other player is offline
- Mount and Blade 2's massive War Sails expansion delivers viking death metal in this new trailer—and don't worry, it's not delayed again
- Resident Evil Requiem's protagonist is 'an introverted and fearful character,' but to be fair there's a giant monster chasing her
- If EA won't make another Battlefield Vietnam, Hell Let Loose: Vietnam is here to pick up the slack
- Hyper Light Breaker has shadow dropped a new update with floating islands, difficulty modifiers, a beefy new tank character, and a challenging duo boss that's 'technically 4 bosses' depending on what order you beat them in
- Bloodlines fans rage as Paradox locks 2 playable clans behind $30 DLC: 'Is Paradox smoking crack?'
- I just got my hands on the ROG Xbox Ally and can confirm the sheer comfort is worth that peculiar grip design
- Announcing The PC Gamer Streamer Showdown, broadcasting Sept 9-12
- MSI MPG CoreLiquid P13 360 review
- Asus heard you like screens, so it put a curved '3D effect' OLED screen on your CPU water cooler
- We just crowned this the best looking Hall effect keyboard, and it's currently 50% off and its lowest price ever by a huge margin
- Asus announces the Raikiri II controller with anti-drift TMR joysticks and 1000 Hz wireless polling, which should make the Razer Wolverine V3 Pro look up from its breakfast
- Can you guess the PC game based only on its reticle?
- Valve's rumoured 'Fremont' SteamOS console spotted on Geekbench... running Windows 11
- How to unlock Sadness in Disney Dreamlight Valley
- Playstack, not content with obliterating my free time via Balatro, is publishing another roguelike about coin pusher machines
- If you've ever craved the perfect combination of vibes from Puyo Puyo Tetris and Rhythm Heaven, do I have the game for you
- How to unlock Joy in Disney Dreamlight Valley
- MSI is celebrating 10 years of Godlike extravagance with a gold-trimmed AMD motherboard—to go with your golden graphics card and RAM, naturally
- 'No AI is being used': Sekiro anime studio Qzil.la lands in the hotseat after suspected past AI usage raises eyebrows—reassures fans that it's not the case this time
- Samsung says you'll soon be able to see Stellar Blade in, err, all its glory on its glasses-free 3D monitor, which I'm sure absolutely no-one will be weird about
- 'To put it bluntly, it was copying others': Former Dragon Quest producer says he left Square Enix because the developer was too focused on making 'safe' games
- This open-world action RPG brings you into the world of a globally popular anime
- A free chicken nugget hack helped uncover multiple McDonald's cybersecurity fails: 'All I had to do was change login to register in the URL' to access 'highly confidential and proprietary information'
- Looks like AI could be the new Metaverse as CEO Mark Zuckerberg will reportedly 'downsize' Meta Superintelligence Labs and buy in third-party AI models
- The Sims 4 has finally added the ability to disable your hundreds of DLC packs which feels like both a good and bad thing
- Take-Two lawyers give Mafia nude mods the cement shoes treatment, DMCA projects that had the Don's daughter parading in the buff
- World of Warcraft: Midnight will introduce a 'Prey' system, and by jove, I think Blizzard might be close to fixing the MMO's open-world difficulty problem
- Even if you're as tired of parrying in action games as I am, pay attention to Onimusha
- After nailing a quirky PS2 throwback with Kunitsu-gami, Capcom's Pragmata has the charming energy of an Xbox 360-era shooter like The Darkness or Syndicate
- I hope you like Black Ops 7, because it's upping the grind (again) so you'll be playing it forever
- You can now buy a trip to space on Jeff Bezos' unfortunately-shaped rocket with Bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies, bringing the finest human endeavours full circle
- The US government wants a 10% stake in Intel in return for that CHIPS act cash
- Final Fantasy 14's Monster Hunter collab has two very easy steps: buy the game, spend 500 hours beating the game
- After 30 minutes with Hollow Knight: Silksong, I'm desperate to play another 100 hours of its refined, needle-sharp action
- Asus ROG Falcata
- Cult of the Lamb has revealed a huge DLC coming next year, finally letting us explore the towering mountain from the back of the map which has been bugging me since launch
- Apple's upcoming Pro Mac Mini might just be a tiny gaming powerhouse, if rumours around the M5 chip are true
- Get your Master Balls ready folks, the Gengar Razer Kitty Kraken V2 headset is finally availble outside of Asia
- Sony has launched a line of pro peripherals aimed at PC gamers with big budgets
- I've played a few hours of Dawn of War 4, and it might just be the true sequel to the original game that we've been waiting for
- Today's Wordle clues, hints and answer for August 20 (#1523)
- The teams behind two of Dawn of War's big overhaul mods are working to update them for the Definitive Edition
- Over a decade later, a beloved, lost instalment in the Tales Of JRPG series is coming to PC
- August 19
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- Asus just grabbed the fastest OLED crown with this 540/720 Hz dual mode beast of a monitor
- Asus' new monitor brings tandem OLED into the fray and promises brighter panels with a whopping 60% increased lifespan
- Protesters return to Microsoft campus, resume demands for an end to dealings with Israeli military: 'Corporate abatement of genocide won't end by waiting complacently'
- Outlaws is a quirky '90s wild west FPS you probably never played, so naturally it's getting the Nightdive remaster treatment later this year
- Call of Duty: Black Ops 7 braces for tidal wave of Beavis and Butthead as Activision announces Black Ops 6 skins will carry forward into the new game
- The new game from the makers of Delta Force looks like Hunt: Showdown moved to Silent Hill
- As Battlefield 6 commits to 'keeping it grounded' with skins, Call of Duty director makes an unconvincing promise to 'calibrate' cosmetics in Black Ops 7
- Meet your snarky, sexy companions in The Outer Worlds 2: 'And no, you can't sleep with them'
- Resident Evil Requiem video reveals the mom murder that kicks off this latest round of unpleasantness
- World of Warcraft: Midnight's new intro cinematic is overflowing with elves and their abnormally long eyebrows
- Black Myth: Zhong Kui, the follow-up to Black Myth: Wukong, just got a surprise Gamescom reveal
- Wargaming is making a new World of Tanks for the Overwatch generation: A tank-y hero shooter with 'heroic tank gameplay'
- Important binge news: Fallout Season 2 will air one episode per week, instead of all at once
- Silent Hill F dials down the action just a bit for a new story-focused trailer
- Vampire: The Masquerade – Bloodlines 2 is finally launching on October 21, and yes you'll technically be able to play as a Malkavian vampire
- Studio ZA/UM's Disco Elysium follow-up drops a reveal trailer at Gamescom, and boy it sure looks like Disco Elysium
- Final Fantasy 14 and Monster Hunter get together again for a crossover event swapping Omega and Arkveld
- 'It started here, with one man': Fallout Season 2 teaser takes us to Vegas to meet Mr. House, gives us a glimpse of Caesar's Legion and a Deathclaw
- There's a Sekiro anime coming to Crunchyroll so I can relive my shame of getting brutalized by Guardian Ape
- Activision just dropped a 17-minute Call of Duty: Black Ops 7 direct, here's what's in it
- Dawn of War 4 is returning to Kronus with 4 playable factions, 4 campaigns, more than 70 missions and lots of base building
- Lords of the Fallen's creative leads were let go just months before the Lords of the Fallen 2 reveal: 'Like Mournstead, no kingdom lasts forever'
- Geoff Keighley provides Hollow Knight: Silksong proof-of-life with brief gameplay video, says it's '100% actually launching this year'
- Call of Duty: Black Ops 7 release date set for November
- For the first time ever, a new game in one of China's most popular videogame series will be released simultaneously in the West
- Ghostrunner creators are back with a horror-infused alternate history of the Napoleonic wars—and the studio says it plays like a first-person soulslike
- Denshattack is a game where you do Tony Hawk stunts with Japanese trains whose developers would not confirm whether I can make a train do a Christ Air
- BioShock 4 studio lays off staff as former Diablo boss Rod Fergusson returns to get things back on track
- Call of Duty: Black Ops 7 beta test is set for October
- All the Gamescom Opening Night Live 2025 announcements in one place
- Why we're still playing Metal Gear Solid after nearly 30 years
- This adjustable Allen key tool is one small project for a YouTube channel, one giant leap for PC building kind
- Team Cherry will be making a 'Special Announcement' about Silksong on Thursday, and—wait, is it finally over? Can we all go home?
- Call that ideal GPU physique? Nah, the 800 W 30th anniversary Asus ROG Matrix RTX 5090 is ideal GPU physique
- Fallout creator Tim Cain does the impossible, makes me shift my opinion on respecs just a little bit, because fine, I guess it does sometimes turn bad design 'into a player problem'
- Asus has announced even more Hatsune Miku-themed gaming gear, further leading me towards financial ruin
- The gaming laptop deal I've been waiting for is finally here, as the RTX 5070 version of the OLED-equipped Asus G16 has dropped down to a reasonable sum
- 87% of game developers are already using AI agents and over a third use AI for creative elements like level design and dialogue according to a new Google survey
- Marvel Rivals devs have been given the go-ahead to make their own characters for the game, and I have literally no idea why they'd do that
- Well, skibidi is in the dictionary now
- Deadlock is drip-feeding 6 new heroes over the next couple of weeks, and is letting players decide which ones drop first
- NCSoft's making a new MMO shooter that, snazzy graphics aside, feels like it's already 15 years old—and that might just match your freak
- 'Leaks are poison to all creation': Infinity Nikki developer asks very nicely to stop spilling all its upcoming outfits by gifting everyone a vaguely threatening hammer
- I'm genuinely excited to check out Beyerdynamic's first 2.4 GHz wireless gaming headsets, but they'll only be available in Canada and the EU for now
- A new report claims Windows 11 update is breaking SSDs and HDDs, but this could just be routine hardware failures
- Alienware 18 Area-51 (2025) review
- Disney Dreamlight Valley is making some significant changes to Star Paths ahead of its next update to make it more engaging for 'those who play week over week'
- Dune Awakening promises an endgame overhaul and says communication has been bad because developers had 'state mandated' vacations
- How to prepare for the Emotional Rescue update in Disney Dreamlight Valley
- Is the Samsung Galaxy S25 a good choice for gaming? Your FAQs answered
- Capcom runs out of emergency glass to break with Monster Hunter Wilds, but it's going to 'implement a multifaceted plan' to improve PC performance 'this winter'
- Softbank announces it's buying a $2 billion stake in Intel as the Trump administration reportedly considers a 10% slice of the bright blue chipmaking pie
- LG Ultragear 45GX950A gaming monitor review
- Today's Wordle clues, hints and answer for August 19 (#1522)
- 15 attempts in, I actually love that Elden Ring Nightreign's Everdark Libra is the first FromSoftware boss who's harder to beat in co-op than solo
- Not content with making three WW1 first-person shooters already, the creators of Verdun and Isonzo are now making a Gallipoli FPS
- August 18
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- Analyst says EA plans to milk Battlefield for everything it's worth: 'Their goal is three studios making Battlefield on a 3-year basis, so they can get to Battlefield annually'
- Roblox changes policies on 'romantic and sexual content' and promises better moderation on the way as Louisiana AG repeats assertion that the platform 'is a breeding ground for sex predators'
- Dataminer casually shares alleged images of Battlefield 6's unreleased 'large' maps to reveal how big they really are
- Steam launches 'language-specific' review scores, because 'customers in different regions of the world may have vastly different experiences from each other for the same game'
- DICE lead responds to criticism that Battlefield 6 beta maps were 'not how Battlefield should be,' urges everyone to 'go play some smaller/medium maps in BF3 and BF4 to get a good example of the intensity curve'
- Nvidia's RTX Hair feature looks set to give the cast of Indiana Jones and the Great Circle some fabulously luscious locks
- Nvidia announces the official release of Smooth Motion for RTX 40-series GPUs, enabling Frame Generation in unsupported games
- Nvidia DLSS Override is getting a global toggle, allowing you to easily force Multi Frame Gen and transformer upscaling across all regular FG and DLSS games
- Nvidia announces the 'biggest launch in GeForce Now RTX history': RTX 5080 performance, local-style installs, better game streaming quality, and more
- Game publisher caught using AI-generated influencers in ads says they were submitted by TikTok users, will investigate 'irregularities' with the social media app
- The new Fallout Season 2 images tease more pre-war flashbacks—which was honestly the best part of Fallout Season 1
- Phasmophobia dev says there are 'plans for 1.0' and doesn't rule out a sequel: 'It would be a fun challenge to see if we could do another one'
- Shenmue 3 is getting a dolled-up edition that makes John Shenmue more beautiful than ever before
- Can't afford the $7,000 gold-plated Asus RTX 5090? How about the downright reasonable $2,589 RTX 5080 Core version?
- Legendary rapper Ice Cube is currently sitting at a PC denying Minecraft compensation claims
- Colorful's cat-themed B650 motherboard now has an optional kitty-based BIOS, a combination of words I really didn't think I'd be writing today
- You can already earn 24 exclusive items for Battlefield 6's launch, but I'm afraid you'll have to play Battlefield 2042 to get them
- How well do you know videogame NPCs? Put your memory to the test with our latest quiz
- If you're having a bad day, here's a pick-me-up: A bunch of Riot higher-ups had to talk about 'what the word goon meant' at a leadership meeting
- Sword of the Sea review
- China has reportedly told its data center operators to source more than 50% of their chips from domestic manufacturers in an effort to break away from US tech
- Mafia: The Old Country is getting an open-world mode, which is weird because it already has one
- We can't keep making videogame stories for players who aren't paying attention to them
- I've been humbled by a surprisingly robust roguelite action RPG where you control two characters at once
- 'Someone is going to lose a phenomenal amount of money' says OpenAI CEO Sam Altman about unwise AI investment. 'When bubbles happen, smart people get overexcited about a kernel of truth'
- Here's how to watch all the announcements and world premieres at the Future Games Show at Gamescom 2025
- 'You will definitely see some companies go make Japanese anime sex bots,' says OpenAI's Sam Altman about AI relationships. 'You will not see us do that'
- Peak devs admit they've been speaking through Bing Bong, but not anymore: 'Anyone claiming that the devs are joining them through Bing Bong, or any other way, they are full of sh*t'
- EA's new Skate game will have live service seasons, and I'm trying not to let that Fortnite-type dread get to me
- Disney Dreamlight Valley's newest update includes an Inside Out-themed realm, 2 characters, and a retro Star Path
- 4 hidden features that turn your Samsung Galaxy S25 into the dream gaming sidekick
- The deeply simulated roguelike strangeness of Caves of Qud won this year's Hugo Award for Best Game or Interactive Work
- Today's Wordle clues, hints and answer for August 18 (#1521)
- Sketch crew Aunty Donna's latest improv piece turned their set into a giant side-scrolling videogame and it's great
- Five new Steam games you probably missed (August 18, 2025)
- There's already a rollback mod so you can once again kill the bosses in Wuchang: Fallen Feathers who were rendered unkillable in a patch
- My favorite new desktop buddy on Steam is a cat that goes fishing
- August 17
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- 'I always knew it was going to go away eventually:' Anthem producer Mark Darrah gives his take on Stop Killing Games ahead of his own project shutting down forever
- Actor Terence Stamp, who played General Zod in Superman and Mankar Camoran in The Elder Scrolls 4: Oblivion, has died
- Cars have had real-life DLC for a while, but now Volkswagen’s gone full pay to win, locking a car's max horsepower behind a subscription
- One of the devs behind System Shock and Thief wants to see more games catering to 'a new generation of folks discovering the game that demands more from them'
- Rainbow Six Siege X is going absolutely bananas with laser tripwires next season
- Fighting games continue to hold the title for coolest videogame soundtracks of all time
- Homeworld 3 developer acquires the rights to its superior previous game about salvaging spaceships, with 'multiple' new projects in the works
- 1930s media mogul sim News Tower leaves early access in November, letting you build your journalism empire on the shoulders of the Mafia
- SnowRunner dev's latest vehicle sim lets you channel your inner Frank Sobotka by managing a struggling port
- Starship Troopers: Extermination implements a 'total overhaul' to its spawning system, adding a Left 4 Dead style AI director: 'We realized that our original spawning system, while functional, was starting to show its limit'
- The First Descendant is using AI ads with weird digital clones of actual streamers
- Today's Wordle clues, hints and answer for August 17 (#1520)
- Dawn of War: Definitive Edition sold 150,000 copies in its first day
- August 16
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- Former BioWare producer Mark Darrah thinks the studio failed to 'prepare' fans for how different Dragon Age 2 was: 'People look at it and they're like, well this sure isn't Dragon Age: Origins 2, which it isn't'
- I played this free, 15-minute claymation horror game about examining an ancient idol in the morning while the birds were chirping, and it still scared me more than anything I've played in years
- Clockwork Revolution dev InXile worked on a Wasteland VR survival game with DayZ's former director—until Xbox cancelled it
- A roguelike RPG companion betrayed me so badly that I manipulated cloud saves across two PCs to cheat death and throw him down a well
- Sea of Thieves' latest update slips The Smugglers' League in through the back door, offering high-risk, high-reward voyages for the most daring pirates
- Get $170 worth of RPG books for $15 with the Witcher's TTRPG bundle
- The sequel to Half-Life modding classic Pirates, Vikings & Knights quietly hit 1.0 after nearly 18 years of development: 'It's been over 6,500 days since PVK2 was unleashed'
- As the legal debate between Subnautica 2's publisher and former studio execs rages, the original game and its spinoff quietly receive small patches and big discounts
- Today's Wordle clues, hints and answer for August 16 (#1519)
- On his 75th birthday, Apple legend Steve Wozniak pops up in a comment thread about his 'bad decision' to sell his stock in the '80s with a devastatingly zen reply: 'I gave all my Apple wealth away because wealth and power are not what I live for'
- Upcoming shooter Reaper Actual throws up some big red flags, but its creators are MMO and FPS heavyweights who can't easily be dismissed
- August 15
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- Capcom's Monster Hunter Wilds updates have backed it into a corner
- Partying with Hololive vtubers is finally possible with an app that is basically VRChat for fans of anime girl streamers
- 'The Day Before 2?': Everyone is skeptical about this survival game promising a map five times the size of DayZ and 5,000 players per server
- Robocop: Rogue City, which I admit I was completely wrong about, is just $5 in the Humble Store Summer Sale
- 'It is straight up junk': Fan favorite mode Rush is going down like a lead balloon in the Battlefield 6 beta
- Louisiana sues Roblox over child safety concerns: 'It's basically open season for sex predators on this platform'
- How crossplay works (or rather, doesn't) in GTA 5 Enhanced
- Battlefield 6 and Valorant's invasive anti-cheats are locked in a turf war
- GTA 5 impound lot guide: How to get your impounded car back
- I had low expectations for this upcoming FMV 'interactive horror' game, but its hour-long demo turned out to be one of the most entertaining things I've played all year
- Bongo Cat, still one of the biggest games on Steam, gets even bigger with multiplayer: You can now have up to 100 cats on your screen at once, all of them happily bapping away as their owners type
- Battlefield 6's 'Netflix UI' has already been rejected and redesigned by players, and I'm on board
- 'Veilguard is 4 games stitched together', says ex-BioWare lead Mark Darrah, and it might've been better to 'shut the project down completely' around 2017
- Overwatch 2's Wuyang is a DPS in disguise, and that could quickly become a problem
- If you were ever worried about a machine uprising, check out the World Humanoid Robot Games and have a giggle with me
- Wuchang: Fallen Feathers patch messes the game's story all up, renders bosses technically unkillable, and it's all the Qing Dynasty's fault, apparently
- WoW players are losing their minds over a 19-quest long chain about bees, and while it is a bit much, I remember far worse
- Borderlands 4 has 'more passive perks than all the previous Borderlands combined'—uh, is that a good thing?
- Biwin has announced a teeny-tiny new type of SSD with shock and water resistance built-in, but it might be a while before you see one in your next mobile device
- Valve says Steam's performance monitor should now report GPU utilisation more accurately than Task Manager in the latest beta, and as a nerd, this pleases me in ways I can't describe
- Synth YouTuber releases twin-stick shooter with interactive soundtrack using moddable synthesizer weapon based on real kit
- Razer's esports keyboard goes low-profile with its latest Blackwidow V4
- After more than a year of waiting, Jurassic Park: Survival gives us a tiny gameplay tease in a fluffy behind-the-scenes video
- Samsung cuts back on traditional foundry costs as it leans into HBM for AI computing
- Intel engineer reassures gamers the company is 'still 100% vested in APO and in growing the capabilities of the technology' though not on older chips
- Emeet Pixy review
- PCIe 5.0 SSDs can still be pricey—but I've found one with a $40 discount that may justify the upgrade for my rig
- I think I've found the actual best gun in the Battlefield 6 beta, and it's not the M87A1
- Talks are reportedly underway for the US Gov. to take a stake in Intel, and its share price has already jumped 7% in response
- AMD made major gains on Intel in the desktop CPU market over the last year, but still lags significantly behind in mobile, according to a Mercury Research report
- Medion Erazer Deputy 15 P1 review
- Today's Wordle clues, hints and answer for August 15 (#1518)
- Subscription services like Xbox Game Pass turn developers into 'wage slaves', says former PlayStation boss
- August 14
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- My new bedtime Steam Deck go-to is a cozy bookshop sim where everyone loves hearing my opinion
- New report suggests that there are 3 million fewer PC gamers in Japan than 10 years ago, despite the market having at least tripled in size
- Steam store pages just got thicker than Emma Frost's thighs
- Someone at Blizzard might've accidentally revealed Diablo 4's new class, which fans have been begging for since release
- After adding yet another tiny map, Battlefield 6 players are rightfully clowning on its definition of 'all-out warfare'
- Roblox explains crackdown on 'vigilantes' after ban of a popular YouTuber sparks furor: 'They are acting in ways that could be harmful to others, both on and off our platform'
- A game was unintentionally listed as 'Sh***y Dungeon' on Steam in Japan thanks to goofed-up machine translation
- Meta's AI rules permitted 'sensual' chats with kids until a journalist got ahold of the document and asked what was up with that
- Gamescom 2025 preview: The 6 games we're most excited to see
- Rematch's latest update aims to fix 'major netcode releases' including missed tackles and false goals, crossplay will 'hopefully' go live by the end of August
- Viva Las Vegas! We're getting a Fallout Season 2 teaser at Gamescom
- The new HyperX SoloCast 2 looks like a return to gaming microphone simplicity, whereas its bigger brother is covered in all the bells and whistles you could think of
- Marvel Rivals director says its 'gooner game' reputation really just reflects a commitment to authenticity: 'These all come from classic comic designs'
- HyperX just updated one of our favorite wireless gaming headsets with a new RGB base station... and slightly worse battery life
- Dawn of War: Definitive Edition may be a sparing remaster, but it's still the best way to revisit one of the greatest RTS series ever created
- HP announces an updated set of Omen Max 45L RTX 5090 rigs with Ryzen CPUs, but no word on price yet leaves me worried
- Samsung has announced the world's first 500 Hz OLED monitor, but it's the new 5K2K panel that's got my wallet twitching
- Randy Pitchford says Borderlands 4's story is inspired by the sale of Gearbox, then glazes over and says it's about where we as individuals want to be on the spectrum of anarchy to fascism
- This is not an Xbox 360, it's a gaming PC in disguise
- I hope you've been sharing your Battlefield 6 clips to social media, because we're only 8% of the way through the $1 trillion destruction challenge and the clock's ticking
- We're joining Frosthaven's party to give you a chance at winning a gaming laptop, a game key, and some swag to boot
- White House says it's still working on the 'legality' of 15% China tax for Nvidia and AMD GPU sales as it threatens similar deals with other companies
- Save $850 on this RTX 5070 Ti gaming PC and get all the power, memory, and storage you'll need for years to come
- Konami fumbles the ball ahead of MGS Delta's release, says the Fox Hunt multiplayer mode won't have crossplay with zero explanation
- Razer claims optical gaming keyboards are more precise than Hall effect ones because magnets are 'hard to control'
- Borderlands 4 has, like, so many guns, 30 billion guns, so many they had to put 'em on a 'wall of guns' like the Matrix, say devs
- How to beat Everdark Libra in Elden Ring Nightreign
- Autonomous SmartDesk 5 review
- A 'massive and unpredictable presence of jellyfish' has partially shut down one of Europe's biggest nuclear power plants with four out of six of its reactors taken offline
- The MMOs we grew up with are gone, and it's all our fault because we loved them to death
- Microsoft's vision for the next version of Windows is an all-seeing, voice-controlled chatbot that gives you productivity 'superpowers'
- WoW's Legion Remix won't make you choose between transmogs and gear—adds harder world content, Mythic+ style dungeons, and enough cool stuff to make me almost forget about Mage Tower
- He once said playing Metal Gear Solid 5 would be '60 hours of humiliation,' but Snake actor David Hayter finally played the game: 'All is forgiven'
- 'Just a tap water, please': Starbucks Korea asks customers to stop bringing desktop PCs, printers, and pop-up dividers into its coffee shops for a cheeky work session
- The Battlefield 6 beta probably is running worse for you this time around: 'We'll follow up with additional updates as soon as possible'
- OneXPlayer is releasing an ROG Flow Z13 competitor with its own massive gaming tablet powered by an AMD Ryzen AI Max+ 395
- Dreaming of an Nvidia Steam Deck? This modder converted an RTX 4090 laptop GPU into 4K 'portable' handheld gaming PC
- The pro AI UK government has advised citizens to 'Delete old emails and pictures as data centres require vast amounts of water to cool their systems' to help reduce water consumption during national drought
- Windows on Arm gamers will be able to download Xbox app games locally but cloud gaming might still be a better option
- PC Gamer magazine's new issue is on sale now: Metal Gear Solid Delta: Snake Eater, with Top 100 mini mag + A1 poster
- Today's Wordle clues, hints and answer for August 14 (#1517)
- Steam and GOG are having an isometric games sale with discounts on enough CRPGs to fill your entire inventory
- August 13
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- This game about channel surfing surreal alien broadcasts used to be exclusive to a 1-bit console with a crank—but now it's coming to Steam
- Alien: Earth is the best thing to happen to the Alien universe since Isolation
- Pity poor Capcom: Monster Hunter Wilds' latest patch introduced a new crash bug, developers are working on it and 'will provide further updates when we have them'
- In what was likely a karmic inevitability, Palworld now has its own shameless imitator on the Switch
- If this beta is any indication, Battlefield 6 isn't all that serious about supporting closed weapons
- I think Dungeons and Dragons peaked in 1982 and that's why I can't wait to play this 'hand-drawn black and white dungeon crawler' coming next year
- 'This year seems shakier than ever,' BioWare veteran Mark Darrah says, and live service games are a big part of the reason—but Grand Theft Auto 6 might force the industry to change
- Steam payment headaches grow as PayPal is no longer usable for much of the world: Valve hopes to bring it back in the future, 'but the timeline is uncertain'
- My most anticipated fantasy tabletop RPG of 2025 is available now, and it's got a free demo in the form of a gorgeous interactive comic
- Team Fortress 2 player cooks themselves by destroying a Golden Frying Pan worth $6,800—for the second time
- Stalker 2 says to hell with it, let's just update our entire Unreal Engine implementation in new roadmap for the rest of the year
- Cyberpower begins selling desktop PCs with carbon nanotube CPU cooling, possibly spelling the end of thermal paste catastrophes
- Former DayZ lead thinks survival games should let players tinker with every variable: 'Here's the keys. Have fun'
- Baldur's Gate 3's Neil Newbon wants to reprise his role, but when people say 'this character's just like Astarion, would you like to play them?' he's 'like not really, no'
- The Esports World Cup has marked one of Tekken's fiercest rivalries with a weirdly sticky poster
- I've been on a quest to find a gaming keyboard media key replacement, and like an incredibly nerdy anti-Goldilocks, I've found none of them are just right
- 'You've got basically one AI playing in the mind of another AI': Google DeepMind CEO Demis Hassabis explains how AI is coming full circle back to gaming
- Things I have (sort of) learned: Audio fades are one of the most CPU-intensive tasks you can possibly do, and my maths is too awful to properly explain why
- Final Fantasy 14 wins my personal award for the Most Specific Bug Fix in a MMO 2025, and I'm astonished anyone even found it in the first place
- Crimson Desert is being 'unavoidably delayed' for a second time, now set to release in early 2026
- I'm as surprised as you are that the cheapest curved ultrawide gaming monitor I'd actually buy right now is a Samsung Odyssey
- Controversial AI outfit Perplexity puts in speculative $34.5 billion bid for the Chrome browser, but Google never said it was selling
- Why it’s time to stop underestimating the Samsung Galaxy S25 for gaming
- Monster Hunter Wilds director wants to reduce the game's strain on your CPU, but is worried about its impact on overall performance: 'We plan to proceed with caution'
- Between pained cries, the YouTuber who made this 'neuromuscular aim assist' that shocks his muscles for fast Counter-Strike 2 reactions insists it's 'not cheats'
- Gamescom 2025 schedule: All the showcases and events you can watch this year
- The Battlefield 6 beta returns with yet another close-quarters map and two iconic modes for a four-day Weekend 2 trial, so I know what I'll be playing
- Elden Ring Nightreign's next Everdark Sovereign is the GOAT. No, literally.
- When CEO Lisa Su is finished making AMD the default choice for GPUs, she wants to use AI to help fix the 'travesty' that is modern healthcare
- Corsair's budget-friendly chassis is back down to $105 with three ARGB fans included in the box
- Assassin's Creed devs say they'll be getting around to the whole Assassins vs Templars and modern setting stuff 'at some point, in some fashion'
- Scrubby is a top robot. Scrubby scrubs whiteboards. Scrubby un-scrubs whiteboards. Scrubby sleeps to scrub again
- GameSir's G7 Pro has removable faceplates, TMR sticks, and 1000 Hz polling rate for under $80
- Today's Wordle clues, hints and answer for August 13 (#1516)
- The sequel to the best high-end Hall effect controller just dropped with Razer's esports focussed Wolverine V3 Pro 8k PC
- This retro-styled programmable high-polling wireless mouse comes with a charging dock for under $60 USD
- August 12
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- Battlefield 6 players are crying out for a 'real' server browser, and it's about time we demanded the basic FPS feature that Call of Duty killed
- PlayerUnknown's new survival game makes building a simple campfire feel like a real accomplishment, and that's something a lot of survival games are lacking
- Elon Musk and Sam Altman deploy each other's chatbots as proxies in public slapfight
- Take-Two boss is really very confident that Grand Theft Auto 6 won't be delayed again: 'My level of conviction is very, very high'
- Arkane employees demand Microsoft sever ties with Israeli military: 'We don’t want to be part of this sinister project for Gaza'
- Battlefield 6 lead producer says 'large maps exist,' confirming the full game will offer bigger battles than the beta's cramped, chaotic firefights
- Krafton fires back at Unknown Worlds lawsuit, says Subnautica 2 was at risk of causing 'irreversible harm to the entire franchise' like Kerbal Space Program 2
- Remedy is 'unsatisfied' by poor sales of FBC: Firebreak and a tiny PC playerbase, but says 'despite the rocky launch, we believe we have a solid game to build on'
- Fae Farm announces the looming end of online play on Steam, and disappears entirely from Epic, but Phoenix Labs is still around
- If you felt way too killable in the first Battlefield 6 beta weekend, you might not have imagined it: BF6 devs are investigating reports of instakill 'super bullets'
- 'Eager to move on from failure': Ex-producer Mark Darrah thinks BioWare suffered spinning plates for EA, starving itself for talent as it ate itself alive: 'We weren't getting the people'
- Samsung's new Micro RGB tech is confusingly still an LCD panel with a backlight, but it could have the most precise local dimming yet
- Marvel Rivals' bloated DPS roster won't be solved 'overnight', creative director says: 'The heroes we are currently deciding on are for a release slot next year'
- Still using WinRAR? It might be time for an update, as a zero-day vulnerability is being 'exploited in the wild in the guise of job application documents'
- How to unlock the Ultimate Badge in Peak
- Mafia: The Old Country review
- Former Google exec says AI's going to lead to a 'short-term dystopia' because the idea it will create new jobs for the ones it's replacing is '100% crap'
- The first RX 9060 benchmarks show the non-XT AMD GPU going toe to toe with the RTX 5060
- How to unlock the Astronomy Badge in Peak
- I had no idea it was possible to create a working floppy disk from scratch, and neither did this YouTuber until they broke out their engineering chops
- League of Legends is getting its first major control scheme change in 16 years: the option to use WASD to 'get new players to the fun parts of League faster and with less friction'
- OpenAI's performance charts in the GPT-5 launch video are such a mess you have to think GPT-5 itself probably made them, and the company's attempted fixes raise even more questions
- Former BioWare exec Mark Darrah says the team working on the new Mass Effect game should 'scapegoat Veilguard as much as they need to to get what they need'
- Overwatch 2 Wuyang: All the key details about the new hero
- Overwatch 2 Season 18 release date, mythic skin, and roadmap so far
- How to unlock the Needlepoint Badge in Peak
- How to unlock the Megaentomology Badge in Peak
- Helldivers 2's newest trailer basically confirms a Halo 3: ODST crossover with a melancholy saxophone
- Trump says Nvidia's 'super-duper advanced' Blackwell AI chips might be part of future China deals as long as they're 'somewhat enhanced, in a negative way'
- 'I don't know what it means to have a Manhattan Project for AI': Nuclear war experts remind us of the frightening risks of our artificial intelligence controlling our nukes
- OpenAI CEO Sam Altman says some folk are using AI in 'self-destructive ways' so it's on us as a society to work out how 'to make it a big net positive'
- Hmm, Fortnite's new season looks familiar, says Arrowhead: 'It's giving we have Helldivers at home'
- Dragon Age wasn't meant to be a series, says former BioWare executive producer, and that's why Origins was full of storylines that 'had to be abandoned'
- Arctic Xtender PC case review
- Ex-Intel CEO calls current Intel CEO's plans for chip factory investment a 'joke' and wants Nvidia, Apple and Google to stump up the cash to save the fabs
- This undetectable AI-powered aimbot physically moves the mouse pad to cheat in Valorant, an invention so unholy I demand it be cast down to the depths of hell where it belongs
- Marvel Rivals reminds players it doesn't use 'EOMM', matchmaking designed to make you feel better about your terrible W/L ratio
- Roblox's top experience Grow a Garden is shifting into a 'new era' and promises deeper farming after a series of disappointing updates: 'I hope the community can see this change as a positive attempt to keep the game fresh and enjoyable for everyone'
- After saying he should resign 'immediately', President Trump changes his mind about Intel CEO Lip-Bu Tan and calls his 'success and rise' an 'amazing story', looks forward to fixes for Intel's foundry
- My best friend recently taught me an important lesson about AI pessimism: Don't remain silent and accept no substitutes
- After all these years, Heretic plays better than it ever has—and thanks to Nightdive, even Hexen sucks far less
- Today's Wordle clues, hints and answer for August 12 (#1515)
- In 15 years of interviewing AAA game developers, I think this is the first time one's straight up told me 'Many people make games for money, but we make money for games'
- AI chatbot once again transforms from super genius into stupid tool the moment it goes off-script: 'Grok doesn't actually know why it was suspended'
- August 11
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- Nexon teases its next big thing: A singleplayer action-adventure about a 'Mage of the Way' who battles injustice and corruption in ancient Korea
- Daemon X Machina: Titanic Scion's explosive anime mech battles are surprisingly improved by an open world with nothing in it but odd jobs and vibes
- Google's Gemini AI tells a Redditor it's 'cautiously optimistic' about fixing a coding bug, fails repeatedly, calls itself an embarrassment to 'all possible and impossible universes' before repeating 'I am a disgrace' 86 times in succession
- A veteran Final Fantasy programmer hates how indie games deliberately recreate PS1 visual bugs he made 'many futile efforts' to fix: 'I just don’t get what’s so interesting about trying to replicate that'
- Ubisoft announces a live-action Far Cry TV series then immediately pretends it didn't announce a live-action Far Cry TV series
- The internet is about to get a little worse as Reddit moves to block the Internet Archive so AI companies can't scrape its content
- I'm hooting and hollering for this upcoming RPG about staging heists in the underworld from the publishers of Dwarf Fortress and the designers of one of the best narrative games of all time
- Former BioWare producer Mark Darrah thinks Dragon Age remasters are the series' best hope for a future, but I doubt EA and BioWare even have it in them anymore
- Take-Two boss says Civilization 7 projections 'are very consistent with our initial expectations' despite its rough start: 'The key thing is that Civ has always been a slow burn'
- Corsair's Platform:4 has got a real deep discount on the best-looking, compact gaming desk you can buy
- Wikipedia challenged the UK's new Online Safety Act and lost, but may have set a new precedent for fighting the rules all the same
- 'We're genuinely psyched that there are more options out there': 2XKO head says he's jazzed to see more studios jumping in to help revive the humble tag fighter
- Oh cool, we've got screens on SSD coolers now. For reals. I wonder what they'll slap one on next
- Let's take a moment to appreciate the true GOAT of the Battlefield 6 open beta: the drag revive
- Corsair Platform:4 gaming desk review
- The Steam performance overlay will finally show CPU temps but it will require kernel access to do so
- The biggest thing that needs balancing in Battlefield 6 isn't the weapons—it's the attachments
- Take Endless Legend 2 for a spin ahead of its early access launch—you've got a week to conquer an alien world in the new demo, starting today
- Gigabyte's Back to School sale has the lowest price RTX 5060 and RTX 5070 gaming laptops I've seen
- 'Everyone's little monkey brains like shelter and food': Subnautica 2 designer says primal instinct is the reason we're so drawn to smashing blocks of wood into weapons
- More than 2 million people grabbed co-op roguelike Guntouchables when it was free for 24 hours
- Mortal Kombat 1 has cemented itself as the best-selling fighting game of this generation despite ending support after just 20 months: 'We're still committed to refining MK1 to be our most balanced game'
- Intel CEO set to meet with President Trump and probably discuss company's woes, domestic chip manufacturing, and that awkward moment Trump called for his resignation last week
- Nvidia and AMD will reportedly pay 15% of their Chinese revenue to the US government so they can sell AI-capable chips there, despite warnings from security experts
- Today's Wordle clues, hints and answer for August 11 (#1514)
- Much anticipated Persona-like RPG Demonschool finally has a release date
- A man gave himself an ailment rarely seen in the last hundred years after consulting ChatGPT on how to cut down on salt in his diet
- Five new Steam games you probably missed (August 11, 2025)
- This asynchronous autobattler is like Backpack Battles meets FTL
- August 10
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- D&D's new Forgotten Realms books come with Astarion-themed digital DLC
- id Software co-founder John Romero was apparently one week removed from co-founding a completely different icon of PC gaming, but he'd already made plans
- New study shows that Gen Z is spending way less money on videogames than older gamers
- A guy in California is suing Microsoft for discontinuing Windows 10, demanding free extended support
- It almost feels like AMD hoped no one would notice the quiet launch of its ultra-budget RX 7400 GPU
- One of the first ever American videogame magazines is now available online for free
- Doom: The Dark Ages latest update adds a 'Ripatorium' that lets you build your own wave shooter from its demonic menagerie
- 'The prejudice against turn-based RPGs isn’t completely gone': despite Clair Obscur: Expedition 33's massive success, its director reckons real-time action games still have an easier time
- Valve's superfans are back to break the player concurrent record for Portal, but the challenge may be steeper than anyone has realised
- 'You'll now be at the mercy of what loot you can find': Rust's latest update brings back hardcore mode tougher than ever, removing the ability to craft guns entirely
- D&D is quintessentially American and Warhammer is quintessentially British
- Today's Wordle clues, hints and answer for August 10 (#1513)
- The US Air Force wants to test blowing up Cybertrucks because 'it is likely the type of vehicles used by the enemy may transition to Tesla Cyber trucks'
- August 9
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- The Battlefield 6 beta has broken Call of Duty's Steam player count record, surging past half a million concurrents
- Steam has a sale celebrating small developers, and you can get my favorite post-Balatro deckbuilder for just $2
- 'Let's just kill everyone on the station:' The videogame audio log was apparently invented to avoid 'awkward' RPG dialogue trees
- AOL discontinues its dial-up internet, and we're just surprised they even offered it in 2025
- Steam for Chromebooks is getting axed in 2026 instead of exiting its 4-year beta
- Absurd Japan-themed delivery sim Promise Mascot Agency just added a whole bunch of grinding, but don't worry, it's the good, Tony Hawk kind of grinding
- As the bots take over Verdansk, Warzone and Stalker are beginning to meld in my brain
- I finally played Duke Nukem Forever's unfinished 2001 build, and while it probably would have been better than Gearbox's fiasco, it still wouldn't hold up today
- I don't want to hear a another peep about the 'AI future' until they make multi monitor support not suck
- The follow-up to one of the decade's best detective games will have you selling cursed antiques to Victorian weirdos next month
- How much do you know about the universe of Warhammer 40,000? Put your faith in the Emperor to the test with our latest quiz
- The iconic look of BioShock's Big Daddy has its roots in System Shock 2's low polygon counts: 'If you embraced your designing limitations on that stuff, you'd end up with a better model'
- Portal sicko beats the game with 'switched' wall textures so no surface is where it's meant to be, creating a whole new puzzling challenge in the process
- Why is logging into anything such a pain in the ass?
- With over 10,500 posts and 3 years of research, this GTA 6 map thread is a hivemind of hot speculation, educated guesses and meticulous analysis on the potential size and scale of Vice City
- Today's Wordle clues, hints and answer for August 9 (#1512)
- New report lays out Israeli military use of Microsoft services that prompted employee protests and a boycott of Xbox and Game Pass
- August 8
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- Battlefield 6's anti-cheat has already stopped 330,000 'attempts to cheat' in the open beta, but players are still calling out wallhackers who slip through the net
- The most honest survival game I've ever played is this unemployment simulator
- The Tencent survival game being sued by Sony quietly purges most Horizon-like content from its Steam page, bumps release date to late 2027
- Peak players have dust devils and deadly cacti to fear in its Mesa Update coming next week
- The best Battlefield 6 maps so far
- Diablo boss Rod Fergusson is leaving Blizzard for a 'new adventure'
- After flying around the world to play my most anticipated action RPG, I'm convinced Black Myth Wukong was just an opening salvo for big budget Chinese games
- 2-time Arima Kinen champion Grass Wonder dies at 30
- Wildgate review
- Less than 2 months after releasing Tron: Catalyst, developer Bithell Games lays off the majority of full-time staff
- My new laptop chip has an 'AI' processor in it, and it's a complete waste of space
- Former Blizzard president predicts Battlefield 6 is going to 'boot stomp' Black Ops 7 because Call of Duty has become 'lazy'
- It's 2025 and saving in absolutely every game still sucks
- Sekiro-likes are in a golden age, Batman games are in a drought, which makes the ground fertile for the Dark Knight soulslike I've always dreamed about
- Noctua unveils RTX 5080 that looks like one of its lovely fans, and it promises 'exceptional performance with impressively low noise levels'
- Overclocked memory speed records usually don't mean squat to me but this one does because of the sheer amount of RAM involved
- Don't worry, Battlefield 6 is only putting bots in your matches while the training wheels are on in your 'Training Grounds' playlists
- Keeping us waiting, huh: Konami says the Metal Gear Solid Delta: Snake Eater multiplayer mode won't launch until fall
- At less than six cents per gigabyte, this budget SSD makes me sorely tempted to jump back into Baldur's Gate 3 and dip a toe into its thriving modding scene
- It's 2025 and we still can't decide on a universal input for crouching
- The ROG Xbox Ally will reportedly launch in October, but I'm still not convinced there's a good enough reason to buy it yet
- Meta shows off two next-gen VR headsets: One with so many pixels it demands DLSS 3 upscaling, the other with a horizontal FOV twice that of the Quest 3
- It's PC Gamer's Gripes Week and you know what Windows 11 is… mostly fine. But it sure ain't perfect
- Clair Obscur: Expedition 33's director had 2 scrapped scenes from the game's ending, gives props to mocap actors who 'saved' it at the last minute
- Every game is a roguelike deckbuilder now, but I've finally found a few that have stopped me being a hater
- All Brainrot Evolution codes and how to redeem them
- AMD's tiny FSR 3 update aims to improve upscaling quality but also lays the foundation for adding Redstone AI tech to games
- GTA publisher boss says he's 'running scared' despite billions in the bank and a GTA 6-sized financial nuke on the horizon: 'We are looking over our shoulders'
- Battlefield 6 requires Secure Boot to run and it's coming to more games soon, including Call of Duty Black Ops 7: here's what it is, why Linux gamers are mad about it, and how to enable it
- Modders are trying their hardest to add an NVMe SSD to the Switch 2, which is both impressive and something I'm not going to do
- In a twisty tale of corporate espionage, TSMC employees allegedly shared 400 photos of the company's cutting-edge 2 nm process node with a Japanese rival
- We might actually have a tenuous Silksong release date, absolutely nobody on my team believes me, and I think I can hear Hornet in my walls
- Total War: Shogun started out as 'a quick and cheerful B-grade RTS' to help Creative Assembly raise funds for its dream game—an RPG based on Monkey: Journey to the West
- Today's Wordle clues, hints and answer for August 8 (#1511)
- August 7
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- Battlefield 6 is making an excellent case to skip Call of Duty this year
- Somebody spilled some Minecraft in this hardcore first-person RPG, and I love the result way more than I ever thought possible
- 'Consumers are not okay with okay': Take-Two boss says BioShock 4 is taking so long because the company's goal is 'to make the best entertainment, not necessarily the most entertainment'
- Ninja Gaiden 4 plays more like a Platinum action game than classic Ninja Gaiden, and I'm really not sure how to feel about it
- Just 2 weeks after its release, this Diablo-style roguelike has already reworked its entire campaign to please action RPG fans looking for a challenge
- Finally, I can get a straight flush with cabbages: Our favorite idle farming sim just got a Balatro crossover
- Id Software kicks off QuakeCon with a surprise release of Heretic + Hexen, an 'enhanced' bundle with cross-platform multiplayer, mod support, and more
- I cannot believe one of the best indie games of all time just got new DLC 17 years later
- Deliberately giving AI 'a dose of evil' may make it less evil overall, reads headline on ragged newspaper in the rubble of the robot apocalypse
- I'm sick of the survival crafting 'Cube' and calling the gamer HOA on all of you
- It looks like Microsoft's cuts got another one: Avalanche has stopped work on its 1970s smuggling sim Contraband to 'evaluate the project's future'
- I'm so tired of being advertised at, man
- Embracer brings original Guitar Hero publisher RedOctane back from the dead for 'the next evolution in rhythm gaming'
- Marathon will be out before March 2026, says Sony CFO—but 'this is not a commitment'
- Acer Predator GM9000 2 TB NVMe SSD review
- As tag fighters face a resurgence, Tekken's director says it won't be joining in on the fun: 'There's just so much more knowledge that's necessary to enjoy the game'
- A creator spent multiple days streaming themself unfolding a Samsung Fold 200,000 times and at one point, 'an unknown black liquid came out of the hinge, but it has not appeared again'
- Biwin Black Opal NV7400 SSD review
- Purported Amazon GPU sales figures suggest that a lot of PC shoppers are buying some truly ancient graphics cards
- Nintendo scores a masterful own-goal by forcing its games out of a 9-year old charity speedrunning event, tells organisers those 9 years 'constituted unauthorized use' for good measure
- Trump Media and Perplexity team up for 'Truth Search AI,' a new tool in the fight against 'Big Tech's assault on free speech'
- Fractal Design Scape review
- Sony has seen enough: 3 years after acquiring Bungie, Sony says the days of independence are 'getting lighter' and its future 'is to become part of PlayStation Studios'
- Framework Desktop PC review
- Battlefield 6's 'Very Aggressive Listening' audio mode sounded like a joke until I turned it on, and now I can't go back
- Microsoft's beta Gaming Copilot AI is now available for Xbox Insiders, to 'help you get to gameplay faster, sharpen your skills, and be there when you need it and out of the way when you don’t'
- The Fortnitification of every videogame is really starting to grate on me
- The dialogue wheel was the worst thing to happen to RPGs, it's robbed us all for years, and I'm glad it's dying out
- This $130 250 Hz MSI gaming monitor proves that you don't have to sacrifice speed when you're shopping on a tight budget
- This bundle of award-winning tabletop RPGs brings together superheroes, Lord of the Rings, Lovecraftian horror, Dragon Age, and more for just $25
- Habbo Hotel survives years of 4chan raids to declare it's still alive for a 25th-anniversary jamboree
- This new 4-player co-op 'doomsday shooter' is free to own forever during its first 24 hours on Steam
- Out and About is exactly what I want from a foraging game and has convinced me that I could easily make a meal out of what I find in my back garden
- Trump says Intel CEO 'must resign immediately' as US senator questions Lip Bu Tan's China ties
- Acer's net income is up 110% in the past few months despite the Trump administration's tariffs and of course it's promising more 'AI solutions' to come
- Battlefield 6's open beta is already the most popular Battlefield of all time on Steam, and the platform's 44th most-played game ever
- 2 years later, starved Starfield players find morsel of hope in the files that hints at interstellar travel, possibly, maybe
- Save Intel's fabs before 'the rust of time makes them worthless': Four former Intel board members want a joint venture between Nvidia, Qualcomm, Google, Amazon, Apple, Broadcom and others to create an 'American Foundry'
- 'We simply can't do subpar': Behind the scenes with GTA 1991, the ambitious San Andreas prequel whose creators are on the cusp of something special
- I love a cosy game, but I don't love the fact every second game is branded as one just because it's trendy right now
- Alleged 3-person smuggling operation accused of shifting tens of millions of dollars’ worth of AI chips to China potentially faces up to 20-year prison sentence
- Sony CFO admits live service shift is 'not entirely going smoothly' in the wake of Marathon and Concord, takes a big hit of cope, says it's not all bad because Helldivers 2 and Destiny 2 exist
- How to beat Everdark Caligo in Elden Ring Nightreign
- Computer chips made outside the US to receive 100% tariff likely spiking tech prices, but 'there's no charge' for companies currently building on American soil
- OpenAI's new open-weight reasoning model can be run locally on an RTX card but you still need a pretty beefy rig to run it
- If you're doubting whether Battlefield 6 will be a hit, I was stuck in a 140,000 player queue at 9 am on a random Thursday to join a closed beta, twice
- Remote IT worker scam involving 90 laptops and stolen identities generated $17 million in illicit revenue allegedly bound for North Korea's nuclear weapons program
- Bing's latest 'just doing Bing things': Searching for certain AI models in Microsoft's Edge browser earns you a plea to use Copilot
- Fortnite Chapter 6 Season 4 Shock 'n Awesome live launch coverage: all new weapons, locations and mechanics in Battle Royale
- Bastion of sober videogame realism Microsoft Flight Simulator is about to get dinosaurs thanks to a Jurassic World crossover
- Today's Wordle clues, hints and answer for August 7 (#1510)
- God game Fata Deum will bring back those sweet Black & White vibes when it arrives in early access next month
- Will someone please sit with me when I play this super creepy game about examining dozens of old photos for evidence of g-g-ghosts?
- The Tekken board game reached its crowdfunding goal in 35 minutes and also, by the way, there is a Tekken board game for some reason
- August 6
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- I hate boss fights and you'll never convince me they're good (because they're not)
- Anthem's former executive producer says BioWare was so good at telling stories that its original Anthem pitch convinced EA to greenlight a game it couldn't deliver: 'Maybe there wasn't anything behind the very evocative statement'
- Battlefield 6 producer insists the game's 'cool' and 'relatable' PMC villain and its quest to destroy the US has no deeper meaning: 'We needed two factions'
- Elden Ring Nightreign dataminers have uncovered plans for a new endless mode with Armored Core 6's rank system and skill-based matchmaking
- Games that try to sneak bots into multiplayer matches are automatically trash
- Humble Bundle's new Warner Bros. collection has 15 really good games, plus Suicide Squad, for just $12
- Think you can guess the PC game just from its crates? Try to smash our latest quiz!
- Finally, a game that makes Marvel superheroes exciting again
- I'm sick to death of PC gaming's endless launchers
- I build a PC every month: these are my 5 worst PC building gripes
- The next Everdark Sovereign for Elden Ring Nightreign has been announced, and players are already placing bets on what its third phase will be
- Razer is the latest gaming brand to jump on the 'AI gaming' bandwagon as it opens up the 'first of three global AI hubs'
- Up to 700% faster than any interface in your gaming PC: PCI-SIG announces the specification goals for PCIe 8.0
- Audeze MM-100 headphone review
- You probably have like $100 in Steam trading cards on all those games you've never played, and you can get it without ever actually launching them
- OpenAI now says ChatGPT 'shouldn't give you an answer' when asked: 'Should I break up with my boyfriend?'
- Google DeepMind's new AI is nearly here, finally giving us an interactive world that runs at 720p, 24fps, and only remembers what you did for 1 minute
- Kiss goodbye to your keyboard and mouse, in Microsoft's vision for the Windows OS in 2030 they'll both 'feel as alien as it does for Gen Z to use DOS'
- PowerWash Simulator 2 doesn't seem like much of a sequel, but it does clean up nicely with more tools, maps, and level types
- RTS sequel Ashes of the Singularity 2 promises to let you gleefully watch hundreds of thousands of units blow each other up in 2026
- Where to find milkweed tufts and chunks in Grounded 2
- Sick of Nvidia? You can now get a beefy all Team Red PC with a Ryzen 7 9700X, RX 9060 XT, and 32 GB of RAM for just over $1,200
- 'There is no such thing as a good secret backdoor,' says Nvidia, reiterating that there are no kill switches, spyware, or secret ways to access its GPUs
- All Grounded 2 missing optical disk locations
- Demand has been 'very strong' and 'outpaced supply' for AMD's RX 9000-series cards according to CEO Dr. Lisa Su, as anyone who's tried to buy one can attest
- Microsoft's anniversary edition Windows XP-themed Crocs are definitely a look, but I'm not entirely sure I could carry them off
- UK politician unveils dead-eyed, Pixar-looking AI doppelganger, telling constituents to 'give AI Mark a try'—unsurprisingly, it's rubbish
- 'I won't show those illustrations to anyone as long as I live': Nintendo of America suggested giving Pikachu 'huge breasts' when Pokémon first came to the US, and no, it wasn't a mistranslation
- Security researcher quips maybe it's time to get 'a real job' after being paid meagre $1,000 bug bounty by Apple
- Ryzens and Radeons revitalise AMD's revenues but export restrictions delete data center profits, causing share prices to slip
- German phone repair and insurance firm goes bankrupt after paying €200,000 to ransomware hackers despite reported revenue of 70 million
- It's only taken six months but at long last, AMD's Adrenaline driver has FSR 4 support for Cyberpunk 2077
- The next videogame getting its own tabletop RPG is Diablo, an RPG that doesn't have any RP in it
- PSA: Persona 5 Royal is cheaper than it's ever been on PC right now, and you get 7 other games thrown in
- Today's Wordle clues, hints and answer for August 6 (#1509)
- August 5
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- I thought it was a cute and casual little mining sim right up until it devoured my entire morning
- One of the most infuriating little things about playing games in 2025: When the quality-of-life update fixes that one problem right after you finish a game
- My speakers automatically go into standby mode and it's driving me mad
- After 10 years, there's a functioning Metal Gear Solid 5 co-op mod so you and a friend can be played like a damn fiddle together
- Indie horror game rejected by Steam releases for free instead: 'This is our response to being censored, and our rejection of the idea that horror can be defined as acceptable or not'
- After next week's Grafton Farmhouse rework, Phasmophobia is getting what I can only describe as 'haunted Waffle House'
- 'Touch grass, read a book, throw a ball, get tackled once in a while': Epic Games art director and OG System Shock 2 artist says the best-looking videogames are designed by people who don't just look at videogames
- When we need it most, search sucks
- 'We didn't vote for ChatGPT': Prime Minister of Sweden admits he uses AI chatbots for 'second opinions' and an awful lot of people are not happy about it
- EA tosses a last-minute life preserver to fans who missed out on Battlefield 6 beta early access, offers one more chance to get in
- Thousands of people are so eager to blow stuff up in the Battlefield 6 beta they're idling in the main menu
- Kingmakers, the medieval combat sim with tanks and M16s, warns that guns don't always win knife fights: 'Not all of your bullets will have an easy time taking down all enemy types'
- No more deploy beacon clown cars for recon players in Battlefield 6—the assault class will get them instead: 'We're intentionally redefining it as a teamplay tool for frontline flanking'
- Intel's bad news year rolls on as new 18A chip manufacturing node is reportedly in trouble with 10% yields and doubts over profitability of the Panther Lake CPU
- TSMC fires several employees over the suspicion of stealing 2 nm process tech secrets, with Taiwan authorities investigating the matter due to national security fears
- Elden Ring Nightreign's Seamless co-op mod now allows up to 6 players, but won't add any more as 'the game just becomes comically easy'
- 'Btw, we recently found the Vine video archive' says Elon Musk after declaring Grok's video generation to be the AI equivalent
- DeepMind CEO makes big brain claims, saying AGI could be here within 'five to 10 years' and cause humanity to experience widespread change that's '10 times bigger than the Industrial Revolution, and maybe 10 times faster'
- Marvel Rivals 3.5 sneaks in one very minor change to appease those who hate the new end-of-match overview, and it works
- The official mod support of Baldur's Gate 3 is a heaving success with over 265 million downloads, 250,000 of which are Withers Big Naturals
- AMD's new AM6 socket has all the pins—2,100 of 'em—but don't worry, your old CPU cooler will apparently still fit just fine
- Silent Hill f's director is breaking tradition by adding 'more entertaining and thrilling action' to appeal to younger audiences
- Battlefield 6 devs have been 'closely tracking player behaviour' to perfect maps and change objective layouts ahead of launch
- Cloudflare calls out Perplexity for hiding 'crawling activity' as AI bot scrapes websites that explicitly disallow it, Perplexity responds by calling them 'more flair than cloud'
- These two RTX 50-series gaming laptop deals are back down to Prime Day prices because time has no meaning anymore and we're all living in a simulation
- League of Legends' Wild Rift China posts AI slop that looks like a fever dream you'd have after watching KPop Demon Hunters, executive producer says it 'frankly, did not hit the mark'
- Battlefield 6 will introduce classic maps 'based on fan or player requests', and I can already see where this is going: 'we want to choose the best possible one to bring back the good old days of playing Battlefield'
- Need to clone your boot drive for your next PC upgrade? I've discovered my new favorite tool
- Ex-Intel and AMD graphics chief Raja Koduri promises a RISC-V based IP that 'rearchitects the GPU from first principles' but with few details in the startup word-salad
- EVO's ultimate gamer crashout wasn't a panic attack or a moment that lost him the tournament—it was a 10-year-old joke finally coming full circle
- AMD rolls out Radeon RX 9060 non-XT with fewer cores, lower clocks and 8 GB of slower VRAM but you probably can't buy it direct
- AMD said it would be too expensive and of no real benefit to gaming, but if one rumour is to be believed, a dual 3D V-Cache Ryzen is actually in the pipeline
- Graphics card prices are totally ridiculous and it's creating a barrier to entry that makes me fear for the future of PC gaming
- Shadowheart has been respecced over 4,890,005 times in Baldur's Gate 3, and I know at least 2 reasons why
- Cutting-edge gaming with MSI
- Peak dev would rather you pirate Peak than play a 'microtransaction Roblox slop ripoff'
- Today's Wordle clues, hints and answer for August 5 (#1508)
- Larian says it's going to expand the Baldur's Gate 3 mod toolkit 'to give you even more freedom,' so there goes another 100 hours I've lost to modding
- August 4
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- People are flipping out over recoil in Battlefield 6 because of one gun specifically designed to have no recoil in real life
- Larian celebrated a 'probably this time really maybe' defeat of Baldur's Gate 3's Zoom grandpa portrait glitch too soon, with the beloved bug already rising from the dead like a slasher villain
- Battlefield 6 producer says Bad Company 2 was a 'huge inspiration' for the new game, and you can't argue with his logic: 'When you look for excellence in our legacy, that's where you find it'
- System Shock 2's alien 'sphincter doors' were made with photos from a dev's colonoscopy
- After 3 years of bargaining with Microsoft, the Raven QA workers have secured their first union contract: 'Ratifying this contract is a win for game workers everywhere'
- How to access the Battlefield 6 open beta, how to preload, and when it starts
- The 'Compiling Shaders' screen is the worst screen in gaming: here's how to make it suck less
- It's 2025 and my PC still has no idea what audio devices are connected to it
- McFarlane is making the Fallout: New Vegas NCR Ranger figure I wish I had 15 years ago
- Corsair Vengeance a7500 review
- Nvidia claims H20 chips do 'not have backdoors' after reportedly being summoned by 'Beijing authorities' for a quick word
- Intel's new Core Ultra 120 will be DOA if stores sell them at anything like these prices
- Silksong fan uses electrons to draw the 'world's smallest Hornet', which is 'about 1/5 the width of a strand of silk', '2 bacteria long', and '8,000 times smaller' than the actual insect
- A gaming benchmark face-off between AMD's Ryzen Z2 Extreme and Intel's Core Ultra 7 258V is surprisingly close, proving once more that Lunar Lake is the best chip Intel has made in years
- ChatGPT removes the ability for conversations to be displayed by search engines as 'nearly 4,500 conversations' indexed by Google
- 'I’d prefer working as a small team'—Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 devs think their studio is 'just the right size', with no real plans to expand it yet
- We deserve better than the boring carry capacity systems 90% of RPGs give us, but games like Death Stranding 2 and Kingdom Come: Deliverance 2 show the way forward
- Blade is Marvel Rivals' answer to an intentionally broken meta, though he may usher in a whole new issue
- Microsoft yanks the plug on Windows 11 SE, giving school and college IT techs a little over a year to find a suitable replacement
- Everything that grinds our gears about PC gaming in 2025
- I thought audio driver troubleshooting hell was a thing of the '90s until I tried using Bluetooth headphones with my laptop
- Linus Torvalds is still on the 'same old boring Radeon RX 580', which is a sign I probably don't need that upgrade I've been eying up
- Can a graphics card be 2.5x faster than an RTX 5090 in path tracing and use 80% less power? Bolt Graphics claims its Zeus GPU-powered models do just that
- Grow a Garden's newest update has introduced cooking, alongside a feature that players have been begging for
- Marvel Rivals is finally giving more competitive compensation to players struck down by rage-quitting teammates or friends with hamster-powered Wi-Fi
- Peak's latest patch fixes invisible chicken bodies crashing the game and lets you toggle off the ability to eat your friends: 'Now that you've all had your fun we're introducing some changes to cannibalism'
- Dimension 20's Brennan Lee Mulligan will DM Critical Role's next campaign, bravely sacrificing his budding American Girl Doll shoes career and presumably a lot of sleep
- Huge news for base organisers and decorators, Minecraft's next drop will add shelves
- Asus TUF A14 (2025) review
- Today's Wordle clues, hints and answer for August 4 (#1507)
- Five new Steam games you probably missed (August 4, 2025)
- Choose to be an upstanding burgher or a criminal mastermind as The Guild series of medieval life choice simulators returns
- August 3
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- FPS legend John Romero says Wolfenstein 3D was the first game id Software took its time with—a luxurious 4-month development instead of just 2
- Skyblivion's first major dev update since Oblivion Remastered makes its case as more of a full remake—including a mega dungeon based off a legendary bit of cut content
- Steam Hardware Survey shows AMD CPUs are more more popular than they've ever been in 17 years
- Over a million people have claimed free NSFW games from GOG's FreedomToBuy initiative
- Rhythm games use a lot of classical music, huh?
- Today's Wordle clues, hints and answer for August 3 (#1506)
- The flood of Silent Hill F previews highlight an emphasis on combat that seems like a bit much
- Please enjoy this short, cheap, upsetting psychological horror game about hacking a terrifying supertech machine from the developer of Buckshot Roulette
- August 2
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- Fatekeeper is an upcoming first-person RPG with heavy Dark Messiah vibes
- The next survival game from the developers of Green Hell plops you on an alien planet with atmospheric firestorms and a horde of giant spiders
- Low-Budget Repairs is like House Flipper but you're trying to cut every corner you can as the scummiest handyman in '90s Poland
- Bucking the trend of triple-digit installs, EA confirms Battlefield 6's file size can be as low as 55 gigs: 'You will be able to pick and choose which components of the game you install'
- Sorry haters, Elden Ring Nightreign's much maligned new Everdark boss is its best yet
- New report alleges Microsoft Recall is still screenshotting credit card numbers and passwords
- 'Chat do I go to the office on Saturday to fix this:' The clock is ticking on Peak accidentally hitting players with a map that's impossible to beat
- It sounds like all the pieces are in place for one of the most underrated RPG greats—from the creators of Fallout, no less—to get the remaster it deserves, but good luck getting someone to make it happen
- I embarked on a mission to answer the most important question in PC gaming: How tall is Garrett from Thief?
- I fought a bear with an umbrella in this new soulslike MMO that plays like Genshin Impact with way better combat
- Test your tabletop gaming knowledge with our diabolical Dungeons & Dragons quiz
- Today's Wordle clues, hints and answer for August 2 (#1505)
- The PC game releases we're most excited about in August
- August 1
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- Death Stranding 2's vtuber cameo is only the beginning of more anime girls appearing in your favorite games, Hololive CEO says
- Setting up trade routes is gaming catnip to me, so I'm pouncing on this beautiful city builder on Steam that has some strong Catan vibes
- It's a bad day for BioShock fans: BioShock 4 studio heads have been removed as development struggles, while a BioShock remake in development has been cancelled
- The Elder Scrolls Online 'isn't going anywhere,' new ZeniMax boss says: 'The studio is continuing to work hard on new features, adventures, and improvements'
- Reddit's pausing its paid subreddit plans and focusing on 'making Reddit the go-to place for search,' presumably because we're all adding 'reddit' to everything we Google anyway
- Pathfinder's space opera spin-off is getting its own videogame, an RPG called Starfinder: Afterlight
- OpenAI just raised another $8.3 billon in a funding round that values it at an unbelievable $300B, surpassing AMD, Coca-Cola, and General Electric
- Mastercard deflects blame for NSFW games being taken down, but Valve says payment processors 'specifically cited' a Mastercard rule about damaging the brand
- Titan Quest 2 is a chill Greek holiday compared to the live service complexity of ARPGs like Diablo 4 and Path of Exile 2
- The Battlefield 6 multiplayer reveal exploded roughly 1.476 helicopters per minute
- 'It has to be grounded': Battlefield 6 devs say cosmetics won't be as goofy as Call of Duty, but that sounds almost too good to be true
- One of Elden Ring Nightreign's returning Dark Souls bosses launches into the stratosphere halfway through the fight to hide that he gets replaced by a second, smaller guy
- Epic's win against Google is upheld, and the Sweenster is loving it: 'Total victory'
- We just got our first proper look at GPD's battery-optional Strix Halo handheld gaming PC and I'm still unconvinced
- How to get and use the Sizzling Key in Grounded 2
- Razer BlackShark V3 review
- Microsoft made $27.2 billion in 3 months and still chose to lay 9,000 people off, in case you thought there was simply no other way
- Nearly two-thirds of Brits surveyed about the UK's new age verification laws think the changes aren't effective, but even more support them being made in the first place
- 'It's not player friendly': EA boss says making The Sims 5 is 'not a good idea for our community' because players have over 10 years of spiritual, mental, and financial investment
- Tank mains are eating well in the Marvel Rivals 3.5 patch notes, except for Thor, God of Short Circuits
- Microsoft has fixed the only Windows bug I've ever liked: the Vista startup sound 'unexpectedly' playing on Win 11 machines
- What kind of gamer are you? There's a rig for that.
- The first gaming benchmarks for AMD's Ryzen Z2 Extreme show memory bandwidth is hobbling the full potential the new handheld chip
- Battlefield 6 guide: gear up with all our tips and tricks
- Gabe Newell acquires yacht company building the $400 million ocean-fortress he'll pick up later this year, because he 'respects the sea'
- New Steam update adds new 'customise' tab your games—letting you finally organise things by release date, or just look at Big Naturals Withers every time you open Baldur's Gate 3
- Semiconductors left in Trump's trade purgatory as new US tariffs on Taiwan set at 20%
- The latest version of Intel's XeSS 2 now lets other GPUs run its AI-based frame generation system, throwing RTX 30-series owners a Team Blue-shaped bone
- How to kill snails in Grounded 2
- All Grounded 2 Omni-Tool upgrades and when you can expect Tier 3 tools
- D&D is 'here to earn your trust, not ask for it', starting with making Beyond's maps software free, brushing up the SRD, and sharing 'third-party creations across our official channels'
- Assassin's Creed 4: Black Flag actor says Ubisoft threatened to sue him for blabbing about the remake that everyone and their grandma knows is coming
- The best superhero TTRPG to ever do it is getting a second edition, with a quickstart launching in 2026
- Today's Wordle clues, hints and answer for August 1 (#1504)
- Free adult NSFW content returns to itch.io, as one of the platform's major payment processors expresses hope to 'support adult content in the future'
