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- April 30
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- Robot Watch: The weirdest and wildest things bots did this month including self destructing, playing ping pong, and pooping NFTs
- The new 'Xbox mode' for Windows 11 has arrived, but don't get your hopes up for performance improvements: it's just a new UI
- I played the MindsEye mission about the alleged game saboteurs, and it sucks so bad
- Fortnite's new partnered Star Wars games were not a great showcase of UEFN
- Cyberpunk bartending sim VA-11 Hall-A devs' first game in 10 years finally launches this summer
- EVE Online dev pays out $80,000 to mod contest winners for its experimental survival MMO
- Invincible Vs may pack a punch for fans of the show, but I wish it had more going on outside its tight versus mode
- Xbox CEO Asha Sharma, who took the job less than 3 months ago, says 'player and revenue growth has not yet met our ambition' as Microsoft gaming continues to slide
- Gabe Newell was an enthusiastic supporter of OpenAI in 2018, donating $20 million and even acting as the sole member of an 'informal advisory board'
- I'm having to completely retrain my muscle memory in Deep Rock Galactic: Survivor after 150 hours, because the new class they've added is just a dwarf in a car
- Finally, someone is making a TV show based on a videogame that I actually want to watch
- How to get Water Filters in Arc Raiders
- How to get Agave in Arc Raiders
- Don't do this to me Zach Cregger, don't get me excited for a Resident Evil movie—I can't get hurt again
- So, 47% of PC Gamer readers say they don't use AI at all, but I wonder...
- Glorious GHS Eternal review
- Raspberry Pi-based homebrew dongle enables full wireless Sony DualSense controller functionality on the PC including haptics
- A gaming CEO just said 'We’ve been a little bit too romantic about the idea that we should have employees and give people long-term job security', and doesn't that sum up everything wrong with the industry right now
- 'Our demand fulfillment rate is now at a record low' says Samsung as it makes its DRAM 90% more expensive than the previous quarter
- After a glitch accidentally gave away a beloved RPG for free, the developer is letting you keep it
- Subnautica 2 now has a firm early access launch date, and it's really soon
- Subnautica 2's lead game designer says it helped cure his sea terror—only for its new apex ocean predator to give him all-new phobias: 'This is going to make many people sad and scared'
- Subnautica 2 devs say it's 'an exploration game first,' expanding on the first game's 'masterclass' in player-driven discovery
- I just watched someone try to explain Deadlock to Joe Rogan for 6 minutes, and surprisingly, they kinda nailed it
- How to get Red Coral Jewelry in Arc Raiders
- After 3 hours with 007 First Light, IO's weaknesses are on display in a way they haven't been since Hitman: Absolution
- 'Motivated by jealousy...' OpenAI lashes out at Elon in blog post claiming the billionaire 'spent years harassing OpenAI through baseless lawsuits and public attacks'
- Microsoft's latest PowerToys tool brings control of your monitor into Windows: a must-have for anyone with lots of big monitors and too little time
- Former ESO boss Matt Firor talks about the death of unrealised MMO Project Blackbird: 'Microsoft is Microsoft'
- Samsung says there are 'no supply chain issues to date' from war in the Middle East but the company is making logistical changes
- You don't actually have to fight Arc Raiders deadly new robot to get its parts
- 'Where the goblins came from': OpenAI's strange but not entirely surprising story of little critters infesting ChatGPT's output
- MMO vet Matt Firor was going to make Fallout Online in 2007, but Interplay 'went totally dark on me' and he went to Bethesda to make ESO instead
- Power supplies might not be as exciting as CPUs or GPUs but when you can get a top-rated 1000 W unit for just $130, you really can't ignore it
- 'Why didn't anyone think of this before?': Former Elder Scrolls Online boss loves Crimson Desert, but making 'a singleplayer MMO is almost like cheating' to him
- Arc Raiders' weapon durability changes are mystifying—especially when repairing guns is one of the least enjoyable parts of the game
- How to get Fertilizer in Arc Raiders
- Microsoft predicts memory crisis will affect its revenue as struggling OEMs won't be as liberal with Windows spending
- First test of new ROG Equalizer cable intended to be overkill for your GPU isn't as clear cut as one might expect
- Heroes of Might and Magic: Olden Era isn't a reimagining or a divisive reinterpretation, it's just a brilliant strategy game
- How to get Moss in Arc Raiders
- Take-Two CEO wants to ensure GTA 6's price 'feels very reasonable' but also says that games aren't expensive as they could be right now
- 'This is the first time where I'm seeing no light at the end of the tunnel': How the memory crisis is hitting PC builders
- Apple has reportedly 'given up' on the Vision Pro headset and that doesn't seem like a good thing for VR, generally
- Microsoft CEO says the company is focused on 'fundamentals' to 'win back fans and strengthen engagement' in Windows 11
- The next Tales Of remaster has leaked, and it's probably not what you're expecting
- Thanks to Musk v. Altman lawsuit, it's now public record that Gabe Newell emailed Elon Musk to get his pal Hideo Kojima a tour of SpaceX and OpenAI
- Neverness to Everness tier list and best characters
- April 29
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- This mod brings concussions back into Madden 26, including symptoms like blurred vision, dizziness, and slower reaction times
- Chinese-made soulslike Wuchang: Fallen Feathers, set in historical China, is now owned by... Italians?
- Roblox is pulling a DLSS 5, offering yet another example of a tool mistaking itself for an artist
- 45 hours of Diablo 4: Lord of Hatred wasn't enough to find its new ultra rare mode where you fight to the death against waves of demons, so I cheated to try it
- S&box makes nearly $1 million on launch day, and yes there are problems but that's okay: 'We love it when things break because then we get to fix them'
- Full list of The Sims 4 Life & Death cheats for becoming a Reaper or maxing out your Ghost Mastery
- Starbreeze hasn't declared Payday 3 dead yet, but it's launching yet another spin-off this year—this time on Roblox
- I was today years old when I learned that Clippy has a canonical gender
- The Garry's Mod 'successor' is, tragically, more Roblox than anything else
- 6 weeks after releasing Greedfall: The Dying World, famed eurojank studio Spiders is closing
- Mewgenics' biggest patch yet is on the way with a huge balance overhaul, changes to the breeding system, and 'Hitler's suicide can no longer miss', which is a relief
- Easy Anti-Cheat arrives in Rocket League and marks the end of the game's most popular mod: 'The right time to bring things to a close'
- The hottest hardware release of the year is finally here, and it's this Texas Instruments TI-84 Evo graphing calculator
- The Thick as Thieves campaign will be 'at least four hours' in length, which is pretty short, but on the upside it's a whole lot cheaper than I ever would've guessed
- 'I am extremely disappointed': Arc Raiders players are having trouble wrangling the new powered descender as some fall to a fiery death
- Slay the Spire 2 devs weren't going to make a sequel, but then the publisher handling the first game's ports shut down and things got 'very murky'
- The best VPN for gaming in 2026: These privacy-protecting virtual networks keep your games lag-free
- Best gaming laptops 2026: We've reviewed the best gaming laptops of this generation and these are our favorites
- You've heard of putting your graphics card in the oven, but have you heard of putting your entire gaming PC inside an air fryer
- China's upcoming all-CPU supercomputer plans to add an extra 47,000 processors in its second phase, and aims to be one of the fastest in the world
- Final Fantasy 14's Unreal trials are such a brilliant way to reintroduce old fights for new players and I wish we saw more of this reinvigoration
- This web tool now lets you compare gaming mouse shapes in full 3D and let this mouse nerd tell you why that's important
- How to get the four new blueprints in Arc Raiders' Riven Tides update
- Blizzard's former president wanted there to be a WoW 2 rather than 'the same WoW 1 expansions over and over re-skinned'
- Valve rolls out the red carpet for its new Steam controller with battery warnings, gamepad quick-chat and—bonus!—remote download controls
- Despite recent reports Galax reassures customers that it has not pulled an EVGA and exited the graphics card market
- The cheapest OLED gaming monitor I'd actually buy has just received a further $20 discount
- Modder upgrades their supposedly 'vintage' 2008 ThinkPad with an RTX 4070 Super and I can feel myself crumbling to dust
- Apple is reportedly set to speed past Dell and become the third-largest laptop vendor, thanks in part to the affordable MacBook Neo
- How to find and kill Arc Turbines in Arc Raiders
- Resident Evil 9's director reveals there was a 'phantom Chapter 2' that was cut 'in the process of finalising the game's structure'
- How to complete Safe Harbor in Arc Raiders
- State cybersecurity agencies around the world are advising extra care over home routers as they could be used in 'China-nexus' covert networks
- Nvidia has quietly announced the 12 GB RTX 5070 mobile in a GeForce driver update, of all things
- 'Feel free to start a laptop company and see what suppliers quote you for GDDR7': Framework vents frustration amid memory crisis
- How to complete A Wrench in the Works in Arc Raiders
- Single-channel DRAM is bad news for PC gaming but depending on what CPU you have, it's not actually as awful as you might think
- Best Warlock build in Diablo 4
- How to complete The Path of Riddles in Diablo 4
- How to complete The One That Got Away in Diablo 4
- Diablo 4 Chronicles of Creation locations
- Should you admit the truth or refute Adreona in Diablo 4?
- How to solve Rathma's puzzle in Diablo 4
- Gothic Remake will be just as strict on murder as the original, and if you get caught NPCs will remember 'you're kind of a rude guy'
- Neverness to Everness codes for May 2026
- A new game in The Division series just shadowdropped on PC, and it's free
- April 28
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- Here's the Neverness to Everness release date and time for your region
- There are dozens of us! The best third-person shooter of all time sees HUGE* player spike on Steam after Capcom's Pragmata
- Diablo 4: Lord of Hatred's new hardest difficulty tier has been conquered in just 17 hours by a sleepless sorceress
- Before doing anything else introduced in FF14 patch 7.5, I beelined it to the Calamity Salvager to free up inventory space with the new dye system
- 'Obviously we love the PC,' Gabe Newell told us 15 years ago, but his focus was on 'a responsibility to gamers and game developers'
- Discord is down for many users, struggling with connectivity problems and missing channels (Update: 'This incident has been resolved')
- The Elon Musk vs. Sam Altman trial didn't even make it past jury selection before Musk started getting clowned on
- Here we go again: AI deletes entire company database and all backups in 9 seconds, then cheerfully admits 'I violated every principle I was given'
- Windrose devs don't have any progress wipes planned for early access, but 'of course s**t happens'
- 'Please have faith in us once again' says Windrose dev, revealing its first big content update won't arrive for 'at least 6 months'
- The Blood of Dawnwalker system requirements revealed
- Helldivers 2 finally buffs mechs with double durability, and in unrelated news, Arrowhead is selling new mechs for $10
- 'Eventually the slop will just fall to the bottom': Garry's Mod sequel launches to 'mixed' reviews, but Garry himself isn't worried about AI games on the main page
- 'Wow, that was quick': Resident Evil Requiem devs thought it would take 2 weeks to crack the Final Puzzle, but players did it in 4 days
- The Blood of Dawnwalker lets you complete areas in any order, kill any NPCs you like, and still complete the game after failing every quest: 'We're giving even more freedom to players'
- After visiting the studio I'm more excited for The Blood of Dawnwalker than ever, so it's a relief to find out I'll only need to wait until September 3 to play it
- Only 40% of players switched to third person during Grace's parts in Resident Evil Requiem: 'There are clear differences in this data depending on the platform and region'
- Bad news, that adorable backpack that mysteriously appeared in Final Fantasy 14 players' inventories isn't meant to be there
- Microsoft announces Shader Model 6.10 preview, bringing neural rendering into the mainstream and just maybe making the games industry a bit less reliant on Nvidia
- Yololiv YoloCam S3 webcam review
- How to complete the Avian Alarm project in Arc Raiders
- Arc Raiders Last Resort event explained
- Balatro's mind-bending code uses mouse jitter for random number generation, along with a bunch of clever maths I'm too dense to fully appreciate
- 'We've never met a cult we didn't want to be a part of, so we're getting in on the ground floor': Dbrand announces skins for the new Steam Controller in the most Dbrand way
- Fallout co-creator wants to make one last game before he retires 'for the second time'
- How to complete Line in the Sand in Arc Raiders
- How to get Ship Models in Arc Raiders
- Keychron unleashes big, eminently bashable $65 mechanical single-key keyboard with 8K polling for ultra-low latency tantrums
- How to use the Dockmaster's Detector to beachcomb in Arc Raiders
- You can now download 3D CAD models of Noctua fans, but the company warns they 'will not perform well when printed'
- As if Final Fantasy 14's free trial wasn't already generous enough, it now includes the best expansion in the entire game
- It's hard to say whether Final Fantasy 14's new combat will be a win or a flop, but I'm just happy to see the developer trying something new
- This photorealistic FPS runs in browser thanks to 'Gaussian Splatting', which is now my new favorite thing
- I'd snap up this $340 QD-OLED gaming monitor in a heartbeat, limited connectivity be damned
- How to complete Collision Course in Arc Raiders
- Weapons will break faster in Arc Raiders as the devs push PvP in a huge update that aims to fix the 'chronic state of weapon accumulation'
- Samsung's 'world's first' 6K 32-inch gaming monitor goes on sale for 1,499 euros
- How to lay the bird trap to start the Avian Alarm project in Arc Raiders
- How to complete Battening Down in Arc Raiders
- How to complete Shoring Up Defenses in Arc Raiders
- Pearl Abyss paid its employees a 5 million won bonus after Crimson Desert reached 5 million sales: 'Our journey does not end here'
- Valve is 'hard at work' on the Steam Deck 2, but over four years after the OG Deck there's still no indication of a launch date
- Logitech G512 X review
- April 27
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- Full list of The Sims 4 Businesses & Hobbies cheats with skills, perks, and hidden reward traits
- The new Moomin game is lovely, but also illustrates the limits of cozy comfort over the harsher lessons of a children's book
- Call of Duty movie director once claimed he told Navy SEALs they were 'pathetic' for playing Call of Duty
- Obsidian caused some trouble by using the Rorschach Test in Fallout: New Vegas: 'Those folks came to Bethesda and said we're gonna have a fun lawsuit on our hands, so pony up!'
- Fallout: New Vegas dev argues it was a mistake to make Wild Wasteland part of character creation: 'I'm gonna choose that no matter what. Because I don't want to miss a damn thing'
- Far Cry TV series showrunner says he's 'not specifically adapting any of the games,' and the creative director of Far Cry 4 doesn't care for that very much
- Diablo 4: Lord of Hatred will launch with a bare bones new season to keep its new campaign and revolutionized loot chase in the spotlight
- PowerWash Simulator 2 is getting Star Wars DLC, and it's about time somebody's focusing on the most important part of the galaxy far, far away
- Gabe Newell once said Steam wasn't 'the answer to digital distribution,' proving that even Gabe Newell is wrong about stuff sometimes
- The Valve-approved Half-Life remake is joining the Garry's Mod family 'by popular demand'
- Blizzard brought Korn out of its 4-year hiatus to write a song for Diablo 4: Lord of Hatred, confirming that nu metal is and always was sick as hell
- New Morrowind mod not only adds Sekiro parry, it quietly overhauls the RPG's most controversial mechanic
- Suspected Trump shooter's game pulled from sale on Steam after flood of meme reviews
- Valve on the $99 Steam Controller: 'I do know price has gone up from where we originally wanted it to be'
- Snake voice actor David Hayter was befuddled by Metal Gear Solid's convoluted plot: 'I'd be like 'what does this mean?' and they'd say 'just say it''
- Valve is bullish on global Steam Controller availability: 'We have knobs we can turn to try to get things to people faster'
- Valve will be providing Steam Controller replacement parts via iFixit after launch
- Valve's Steam Controller goes on sale next week, May 4. It's pricier than you might have hoped, but more reasonable than I expected
- Steam Controller teardown: simple to open, easy to fix
- Steam Controller (2026) review
- Directive 8020 is using an episodic structure straight out of a limited TV series 'to be mindful of people's time'
- Sovereign Tower is a medieval fantasy Dispatch with all the bossiness and flirting you could want
- Grok 4.1 'instructed the user to drive an iron nail through the mirror while reciting Psalm 91 backward' in latest AI psychosis study
- Mass Effect Andromeda actor says the game got a 'bum rap' from 'chuds' and was 'done dirty by a publisher expecting too much from it'
- Microsoft is updating Windows Update, creating a fractal of fixes that target shutdown and reboot settings, scheduling issues, and more besides
- The next Arc Raiders map drops today, and so does this evil floating cone
- Fortnite offers refunds on D4vd cosmetics following his arrest for murder
- Crimson Desert is an amazing game, but it wouldn't be nearly as great without its enthusiastic community
- Final Fantasy 14's promised 'public fields' redesign could fix complaints I've had about the MMO for years—here's what I'm hoping for
- BenQ RD280UG review
- PCB prices have risen by up to 40% due to war in Iran, according to Reuters' industry sources
- Toyota has turned a car seat into a gaming chair and it's $3,500
- Just over 20% of players are halfway through Crimson Desert's story, and I feel like that says a lot about how people are playing the game
- Star Wars Galaxies' tragic fate caused FF14's devs to keep the old job designs available for Evercold's overhaul: 'Players did not take that very well'
- Hardware modder connects his gaming PC to his bike and achieves 'human powered CPU cooling'
- I'm struggling to decide between these three high-end gaming PCs for under $2,000
- The secret to Supermassive Games casting two Oscar winners is its focus on human-made art: 'They know that their performance is going to come across really well'
- Directive 8020 feels like the horror game Supermassive Games was born to make
- Turtle Beach has wedged a touchscreen into the side of its new 8K gaming mouse and it's giving me the heebie-jeebies
- Arc Raiders is finally overhauling its competitive Trials, starting with making them more fun and less frustrating
- Pocket console modder shrinks down Game Boy Color into a smart watch, complete with cursed control scheme
- How to eavesdrop and complete the Bared Fang quest in Crimson Desert
- Blizzard's former president says 'WoW has to reset' over disastrous patch, and I really wouldn't go that far
- Cancelled The Last of Us Online director says it was 'the best multiplayer game' the team had ever played
- Rumours suggest Nvidia's next-next gen Feynman AI GPUs will use Intel Foundry tech for some of the components
- Here's the Diablo 4: Lord of Hatred release time for your region
- Gothic Remake is committed to the original's immersive open world: 'You don't have a minimap, we very strictly kept that'
- For Return to Castle Wolfenstein's 25th anniversary, modders are bringing its console-exclusive levels to PC at last
- April 26
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- Assassin's Creed Hexe loses 2nd director-level developer in as many months
- I'm obsessed with a guy who keeps soloing Elden Ring Nightreign's hard mode over and over like they're trapped in a purgatory of their own making
- Vampire Survivors dev is working on over 15 'projects,' though that includes DLC and updates
- Trump shooting suspect's Steam game sees review bomb, spike in activity
- A Japanese visual novel where you're a pet hamster doted on by three sisters is back on Steam
- Final Fantasy 14 director wants pitches for a single-player spinoff, though he's 'half-joking'
- Erik Wolpaw, co-writer of Portal and Portal 2 adores Burnout Paradise and has 1,500 hours in Slay the Spire: 'This is the perfect level of strategy'
- Free Kit Frenzy rids Marathon of most of its stress, but risks tossing out tension and teamwork too
- I can't believe it, a gacha game has finally broken the curse of perpetually god-awful rhythm minigames
- Sega posts cryptic Alien: Isolation 2 teaser: 'A feeling of being safer than one really is'
- Zenless Zone Zero coming to Steam later this year
- The Chronicles of Riddick: Assault on Dark Athena review (2009)
- I feel like my screenshots are coming to life through the oil paintings created by ArtbyEri
- Last Flag, the multiplayer shooter from the Imagine Dragons guy, is free to play for every weekend until its first update comes out
- I made a giraffe out of monkey butts and an elephant out of trees in this delightfully silly cross between Pictionary and Pentiment's art style
- Shapez 2 leaves early access with a new game mode all about building massive factories: 'This isn't just a game is finished release'
- Bloodlines 2's first DLC arrives next week, and it'll let you wield guns and melee weapons properly, unlike the base game
- As Enter the Gungeon celebrates its 10th anniversary, its creators have some choice words for the modern roguelike: 'We’re seeing it mutate to the version of itself that popularity obfuscates'
- April 25
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- Modder brings playable Halo Elite to Warhammer 40K: Space Marine 2
- South Korean prime minister celebrates Crimson Desert: 'K-games can shine as a pillar of K-content'
- A minor Fallout: New Vegas quest got its own ending slide because the team was transfixed by the choice where you make the NCR's worst soldiers take Psycho
- Assassin's Creed producer assures fans 'there WILL be blood' in the Black Flag remake, and it won't be DLC
- I played the Lord of the Rings RPG where Frodo can straight-up die and the game just keeps on going
- New Steam Controller reportedly $99
- I finally like Diablo 4 now, and it's because I embraced laziness
- Star Wars: Galactic Racer release date leaked on Steam
- WoW came back from the brink because Blizzard ran it like a live service game—but now that same tactic's threatening everything
- Most MMOs have so many expansions, it's hard to keep track of them all—can you tell our clever fakes from the real ones?
- Epic keeps jamming more incredible shotguns into Fortnite, and it might be the best meta ever
- People love buying weapons so much in this gun store sim that I'm making bank even though I only sell brass knuckles
- Menace's first major early access update overhauls its least interesting faction and jettisons its reviled promotion tax system: 'We have done away with it'
- With Silent Hill 2's source code still MIA, a dedicated fan has decided to restore the game's CGI renders: 'Takayoshi' Sato's work was incredible for its time'
- Helldivers 2 is getting a mech-themed Warbond that adds two new exosuits—one of which carries a shield and a flak cannon
- April 24
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- The Alice: Madness Returns dev team 'made history,' American McGee says: It was 'the first team ever to tell EA *** and (kinda) get away with it'
- I can't stop winning with this Vampire Crawlers build that basically plays itself
- I don't understand how Final Fantasy 14 can do a crossover with acclaimed anime Neon Genesis Evangelion and I'm scared to find out
- Resident Evil Requiem has sold 7 million copies in 2 months—a milestone that took the RE4 remake a year
- Developers of Steam Next Fest's wildly popular robot wizard cowboy shooter say its cowboy robots are also wizards because 'magic is always cool'
- The release date for Path of Exile 2's next expansion couldn't be better for action RPG fans planning to play Diablo 4: Lord of Hatred first
- After over 3 years of running like dogwater on Steam Deck, one of my favorite RPGs has finally earned its Verified badge
- SCUF Gaming promo codes for May 2026 | Exclusive 50% OFF
- Fable creator says it's 'a real shame' the reboot is dropping the horns-or-halo morality system
- PSA: Crimson Desert's new camera settings can make the game look like Baldur's Gate 3
- The best possible fantasy author is writing a dark, tragic prequel novel for our beloved Baldur's Gate 3 boy Astarion
- 'We don't have to fire 1000 people to keep it working': Facepunch Studios says paying s&box game developers is sustainable, with '$500,000 paid out to date'
- The Mission: Impossible guy is making a Battlefield movie, and Michael B. Jordan might star in it
- This composer just remade the entire soundtrack of the first Elder Scrolls game: 'It really gives you a sense of wonder and adventure'
- This Skyrim mod that makes NPCs AI chatterboxes just got a massive overhaul
- Nvidia rolls out GPT-5.5-based Codex to 10,000 of its employees, who apparently all think it's 'mind-blowing' and 'life-changing'
- After shaking Steam's servers with Baldur's Gate 3's launch, Larian publishing chief says 'I hope we absolutely demolish it next time'
- 'I basically sprinkle water drops on top of tissue paper': One redditor's quest to cool their Mac mini
- After a slow start, Last Flag developer says you can't become the next big hit just by ticking boxes: 'It’s a slippery slope'
- Tekken players have spent years asking for FF7's Tifa only for rumours to suggest she's been poached by the biggest competition
- My favorite RPG of 2026 put an impossible challenge in the second room to teach you not to save scum: 'I am your DM, trust me'
- Attention keyboard nerds: This website lets you hear the sound of 36 different mechanical keebs, switches, and more as you type
- White House claim that China is 'engaged in deliberate, industrial-scale campaigns to distil US frontier AI systems' called 'pure slander' by Chinese embassy
- Nextorage unveils fresh new gaming SSDs, but they only come with a one-year warranty
- Gas power projects for just 11 US data center 'campuses' could emit more greenhouse gases than entire countries, according to report
- Good news Silent Hill heads, Townfall is bringing firearms back as the devs promise combat and stealth will be on 'equal footing'
- Mass Effect devs have been practically radio silent for over 5 years because there's 'not a lot of time for tease'
- Final Fantasy 14's patch notes sneak-peek is Square Enix's classic formula of exciting quality-of-life changes and weirdly archaic systems
- There's now a Wordle-like for Final Fantasy 14 players and it's putting my raid-addled mind to the test
- The RX 9070 XT is one of the best GPUs you can buy today, and this discount makes it the cheapest it's been in more than three months
- 'Hardcore PC enthusiasts are significantly underestimating the importance of software to the PC experience, like really, really seriously,' says Intel Enthusiast VP
- Fully immerse yourself in the hauntingly dark world of Little Nightmares VR: Altered Echoes
- Can overclocking get 8 GB AMD and Nvidia graphics cards to the performance of their 16 GB versions? Yes, but I've got some bad news for you too
- This indie developer is making Titanfall 3 because EA won't do it, and even in 'pre-pre-pre alpha' it's one of the most fun shooters in years
- Overwatch lends Roadhog players a helping hand, reverting his Chain Hook nerf after just 1 week—I'm as confused as you are
- 'This is a fundamentally different company today': Intel reports strong financial results, says its upcoming 14A process is already outpacing early 18A yields
- Blizzard apologises for WoW's latest bug-ridden patch: 'We will do better'
- Exodus, the sci-fi RPG from former Mass Effect devs, couldn't look more like Mass Effect in the teasers we've been getting this month
- How to tame the Phoenix in Crimson Desert
- How to get the Sotdae of Bond and tame bird pets in Crimson Desert
- Maybe it really is the year of Linux, as Framework claims more people are buying Ubuntu versions of its new laptop than Windows options
- April 23
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- 'Our presence on PC isn't strong enough,' Xbox bosses admit
- Peter Molyneux has made a proper game again rather than a monetization experiment, and I really hope he finishes it
- 'The exhaustion on screen is 100% real': The solo dev of this 'live-action' survival game spent 40 grueling days alone in the wilderness to create it
- Turkiye passes legislation to tighten its grip on Steam and other gaming platforms, but it's social media companies that really get it in the neck
- Everything you need to know about the Assassin's Creed Black Flag remake
- Diablo 4: Lord of Hatred has a special gift for necromancers who want to be surrounded by 28 skeletons and druids who hate being bears
- Crypto-scammers are offering cargo ships in the Strait of Hormuz safety for Bitcoin, and Iran's already fired on at least one
- Unlock these Vampire Crawlers upgrades first to blast through the hardest stages
- The Ubisoft studio that spent 10 years making Black Flag spinoff Skull and Bones comes full circle by remaking Black Flag
- Big Tech openly wants to manipulate us with AI. That seems bad to me
- I thought I was playing a cute little city builder about managing a fairytale town in a tree, but it turns out it's a brutal roguelike and now all my gnomes are getting eaten by ghosts
- 'I have 100% Crimson Desert': Pocketpair's head of publishing & communications completes every achievement after just 189 hours, and honestly, I'm surprised that's even possible
- Assassin's Creed Black Flag Resynced is finally official, and it's coming in July
- Elon Musk's aerospace and AI company reportedly plans to make its own GPUs, though I doubt you'll one day be enjoying a SpaceX graphics card in your rig
- After 18 years of beating roguelikes, I think I've finally found my kryptonite
- Blizzard buffs my fav WoW spec like a vengeful genie—giving me a huge damage boost that's bound to get all my party members killed because they can't see anything
- 'Players don’t realise that their favourite games right now were already built with AI', says Google exec making AI tools
- This vibe-coded tool helps you find missing Lego pieces for your old sets, and now I think the AI revolution might not be such a bad thing after all
- 'I know a bubble when I see one': US senator's grave warning about the AI industry
- Despite the negativity, Marathon was one of last month's best-selling games, though there's a catch
- 'Many employees are leaving for SK hynix': 40,000 Samsung workers are marching outside its factories to protest pay levels
- YouTuber goes 'invisible' to America's army of cameras with his $2,000+ anti-surveillance device
- Slay the Spire 2 dev says an early idea was to actually reduce the card pool, but players hated it: 'We need new stuff!'
- Upscaling issues continue to plague Crimson Desert post-patch, but Pearl Abyss isn't throwing in the towel
- Is smellovision the future of VR gaming?: 'Projectile vomiting as your headset psychically projects the scent of yeast-infected rotting fish from the pregnant fox OC on the other side of the room'
- The latest Crimson Desert patch is finally the reason I needed to turn my once-useless house into a cosy haven
- Tesla to use Intel 14A for AI chips as Musk says it will be 'ready for prime time' when the multi-billion dollar Terafab project scales up
- Best graphics cards in 2026: These are the GPUs worth spending money in right now
- I'd buy this Intel 270K Plus, RTX 5080 gaming PC over anything with a Ryzen 9800X3D and no, I'm not joking
- Sony's terrifyingly fast robot arm is finally beating pro-level table tennis players at their own game
- Tarkov lead vows to make the upcoming Fragmentary Order the opposite of Arc Raiders, which he calls an 'extraction shooter for casual people'
- WoW's latest patch is drowning in bugs, with players worried that Blizzard is struggling to keep its head above water
- Making your own DRAM cells in a garden shed isn't the most practical solution to the RAMpocalypse, but it's still awesome to watch
- 'We’ve been getting around two days of normal work out of it': Proton GE dev GloriousEggRoll and CachyOS offer early praise for Framework 13 Pro's 'freakishly good battery life'
- 'Increasingly the distinction between bots and humans is moot' says one of the biggest web-infrastructure companies
- How to tame the Abyss Heuklang in Crimson Desert
- Leaked behind-the-scenes footage from the upcoming Elden Ring movie sees the Loathsome Dung Eater take centre stage
- Former head of FSR development at AMD posts 'big trouble' meme when asked why the company won't release the INT8 version of FSR 4 for older GPUs
- How to get the Baltheon Armor in Crimson Desert
- PC Gamer magazine's new issue is on sale now: Diablo 4: Lord of Hatred
- Seagate FireCuda X Vault review
- I bought every ship in Windrose – here's what you should spend your pirate gold on first
- AI is 10 to 20 times more likely to help you build a bomb if you hide your request in cyberpunk fiction, new research paper says
- April 22
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- With Windrose making waves and the Black Flag remake on the horizon, methinks it's a fine time for a pirate quiz, matey
- Alice creator American McGee says he was inspired by a Valve demo he saw while working on Quake 2
- Blizzard forgot to turn off X-ray vision in World of Warcraft's new prop hunt mode, so you can imagine how fair the matches are right now
- Behaviour Interactive lays off more people as 'demand for mobile and casual external development projects has declined'
- 15 years ago, anyone could send PC Gamer magazine text messages. We got some weird ones
- Older Call of Duty games are coming to Game Pass in 2026
- Google executive responsible for AI has a solution for the game industry's problems, and you're not going to believe this but it's AI
- Hideo Kojima went to Valve and like a master troll took a photo of himself with 3 Half-Life gravity guns
- Fallout co-creator says non-linear design is all about never assuming how players will act, illustrates his point by fantasising about an NPC guard he seems to really hate
- Fallout: New Vegas dev says it could've been set in New Orleans because 'the vibe was so cool, the flavor was cool, [it would've been] so sweet'
- There's no memory crisis in space, as astronauts on the ISS are getting new laptops with 128 GB of RAM and a seriously beefy specs sheet
- Someone has apparently snaffled up 31 WordPress plugins and wedged a backdoor in each one
- I'm sick of breaking the bank buying AAA releases, so I've hunted down overlooked alternatives to 2026's biggest games
- I asked you lot one of the most important PC gaming questions, and only 37% got it right
- Microsoft's Xbox 'Helix' chip is reportedly the basis of next-gen consoles made by Asus and MSI, but you won't be able to buy it separately
- Some gamers are going full conspiracy theory over Pragmata's path tracing vs ray tracing debate, so I've donned my tin foil hat and taken a look
- Kiki Wolfkill, longtime Halo veteran and head of Xbox Film and TV, has left Microsoft after nearly 30 years
- Fallout: New Vegas dev says Bethesda made the studio sit through 'a whole powerpoint about all the things Obsidian did wrong'
- I was worried Owlcat couldn't pull off Mass Effect-style cinematic action in its big new RPG, but after an hour of blowing stuff up in The Expanse: Osiris Reborn, I'm feeling very reassured
- Exclusive: Get $250 off Razer's OG Iskur V2 gaming chair
- You know it's bad for AI when even Peter Molyneux, king of overpromising, is tepid on its use in game dev: 'I think we have to be very, very careful'
- A new version of one of my all-time favourite mouse shapes just launched and it could be perfect for palm and relaxed claw grippers
- 'Overclocking should not be a feature that is exclusively reserved for the people paying the most amount of money,' says VP of Intel's enthusiast chip business
- Peter Molyneux's right about one thing: It's sad how no one seems to care about god games anymore
- I just found out the creator of Windows Task Manager accidentally left his phone number inside the app
- Crimson Desert players are doing important work by turning Kliff into Captain America, Spider-Man and Superman
- Titanium Court review
- I can't believe you can get 1440p ultrawide monitors well under $200 now, and yet MSI has come through with a killer deal
- TSMC reportedly plots ultra-advanced sub-1 nm chips with 'trial' production starting in 2029 [Updated]
- Despite microtransaction woes at launch, MMO sequel Aion 2 will go global this year
- Data, not guessing: Looking at Nvidia's past GPUs to predict the specs for its future RTX 60-series graphics cards
- OpenAI's hilarious new patent diagrams have 'HBM stacked up like rice cakes'
- 'We have no choice but to impose a severe punishment': Ex Samsung researcher sentenced to 7 years in prison for leaking DRAM tech to a Chinese competitor
- 'Defenders finally have a chance to win, decisively': Firefox CTO raves about Claude Mythos' bug hunting capabilities after it finds 271 vulnerabilities
- Pragmata is yet another launch day fail for Intel's GPUs, but its quick response to game issues shows it's still working hard for gamers
- Owlcat's had some unusual problems writing romance: 'we realized we had three female romanceable characters, and all three were cannibals'
- Australia wants to know how Valve is combating 'extreme-right communities' on Steam
- At least there's one tech company making me feel sane in an increasingly insane world
- April 21
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- Here's when Masters of Albion launches in your timezone
- Would you quit? Meta will put keyloggers on employee PCs for AI training
- 17 years ago, a free-to-play Battlefield predicted our grim live service present
- After 2 years of silence, an extraction shooter we liked back in 2022 for its 'impeccable vibes' suddenly springs back to life on Steam
- 12 years after the original and with its themes more relevant than ever, anti-war game This War of Mine is getting a full remake
- Horse game klaxon: Palia is adding breedable, rideable horses and they look way more realistic than most MMO mounts
- I found the Dark Souls of Wordle-likes and it's my new daily puzzle fixation
- Framework is building its own keyboard and will even help you make your own
- Rust has a 'horse shield' meta problem, so one enterprising player has come up with a 'horse baiting' meta to fix it
- Xbox Game Pass prices are going down, but future Call of Duty games won't be added until 'about a year' after they launch
- Framework just announced its own 'MacBook Pro for Linux users'
- Framework's new dev kit means you can jam a full desktop GPU into the back of its 16-inch laptop
- Finally I can download other people's huge honkin' Enshrouded bases and live in them myself
- '60% of the script stayed the same': ryukishi07's was on the money for Silent Hill f, the only problem was that some ideas were too big for the budget
- If you can't get enough Troy Baker in your videogames, here's the good news: he's going to start making them
- MindsEye studio faces new legal action over employee surveillance software that workers' union alleges was 'recording individuals in their homes and without their consent'
- Deezer says it's being bombarded by 'nearly 75,000' AI-generated tunes every day, and that 97% of survey respondents can't tell the difference between human-made and AI music
- Diablo 4: Lord of Hatred review
- Razer has just announced the world's thinnest glass mouse pad and it looks gorgeous
- April's Windows 11 update reportedly causes blue screens and boot loops on HP and Dell PCs
- Laptop vs desktop: which Alienware Area-51 is right for you?
- Tim Cook hands over Apple's $4 trillion reins to 'the perfect person for the job', hardware engineering SVP John Ternus
- Combing through a house full of a dead loved one's possessions to figure out who they were feels like the anti-Unpacking
- The makers of Playdate, the console-with-a-crank, will no longer accept games created with generative AI
- Security researchers hacked the demo version of the European Commission's new age verification app in less than two minutes
- Netflix gives me a shred of hope for the live-action Gundam movie by casting Jason Isaacs
- How to fish in Runescape: Dragonwilds
- Even after Ubisoft confirmed 'gaming's worst-kept secret' of an Assassin's Creed Black Flag remake, it somehow manages to leak another trailer before the reveal
- 'A performance tool that requires a graduate seminar before breakfast has already lost the room': Why Windows Task Manager looks like it's getting CPU usage wrong
- Street Fighter 6 somehow patched its incest storyline to make it even shadier than it originally was
- Backpack-friendly and ready to rock, this little 14-inch OLED RTX 5060 Asus machine is my kind of gaming laptop
- Cybersecurity expert turns cybercriminal, pleading guilty to 'conspiracy to deploy ransomware'
- This week's Crimson Desert update is the one I'm looking forward to the most
- Crimson Desert's story is nonsensical and barely-there, but Kliff's mocap actor reckons 'what it lacks in narrative it more than makes up for in other aspects'
- Animation powerhouse responsible for One Piece and Dragon Ball Z branches into PC gaming with Toei Games
- AMD docs hint that multi frame gen might finally be coming to Radeon GPUs
- Great work, gamers, we touched digital grass and walked 270,000 more miles than Artemis 2's historic mission around the moon last week
- Buck Bumble, the Nintendo 64 shooter starring a cyborg bumblebee, is almost certainly getting a remake
- Petit Planet is exactly the Animal Crossing clone it looked like, but after 15 hours of it I'm shocked by how many new ideas it has too
- Windrose factions: Recommendations for improving your reputation with the Smugglers, Buccaneers, Brethren, and People of Tortuga
- After 15 years and 323 hours, I've finally beaten Fallout: New Vegas, and this game doesn't need mods as much as you think it does
- April 20
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- Counter-Strike player sucker punches opponent at tournament
- RuneScape initiates emergency patch rollback for the most ironic reason possible: Giving players so many runes it would cause 'irreparable economic damage'
- Mass Effect TV show writer denies being told to rewrite it for 'non-gamers'
- The new World of Tanks hero shooter is shockingly fun, and the beta is still up for a few days
- Armored Core 6 is one of the best mech builders in gaming, and this pitch-perfect Sailor Moon AC is just more proof of that
- Crusader Kings 3's next major expansions will bring playable Popes and merchant republics
- Will you like Graveyard Keeper if you're a Stardew Valley and farm sim fan?
- Ubisoft announces that 'gaming's worst-kept secret' will finally be revealed later this week
- Game developer that railed against 'haters' faces even more allegations of unpaid work, including a bill of over $100K
- Fallout: New Vegas dev says don't expect a remaster, argues Bethesda doesn't have the source code or 'the engineering knowhow'
- Redditor shares gaming PC build with cooling system that can only be described as 'biblically accurate'
- Anthropic had a 'productive and constructive' meeting with White House officials after the preview release of its new cybersecurity-challenging AI model
- The Elden Ring movie is coming in March 2028, and Nick Offerman and Peter Serafinowicz are in it so you know it's (probably) going to be good
- Full path tracing might not be such a GPU hog in future, as Nvidia claims over 2x performance improvements in new research
- Primal Repairs is basically a handyman sim set in the world of The Flintstones
- HyperX Cloud Flight 2 review
- Arc Raiders' latest Riven Tides teaser hints that the terrifying UFO we've been seeing is actually the next mega-boss enemy
- A Redditor tries to return a failed enterprise HDD to Toshiba, but it turns out that a replacement would take at least a year to arrive
- Elon Musk is more at risk of losing his job to AI than artists are according to Take-Two's CEO: 'If AI were going to take anyone's job, wouldn't it take his job?'
- Gigabyte describes its new PSU range as a 'Hardware Guardian', protecting your graphics card from melting and presumably fighting crime in its spare time
- Oh, how times have changed. I'd now buy an RTX 5060 Ti gaming PC with 32 GB RAM over an RTX 5070 PC with just 16 GB any day of the week in the RAMpocalypse
- This AMD-powered, Linux-running mini PC looks like a Steam Machine disguised as a vinyl record player, without the fancy controller
- Best gifts for Usahana in Hello Kitty Island Adventure
- Vampire Crawlers review
- "DDoS is not a game. It's a crime!" Europol targets the youth in latest bid to take down DDoS-for-hire infrastructure
- Barely Breathing is the most fun I've had as a parkouring fish in a long time
- Doja Cat has spoken: 'I think I like Overwatch more than Marvel Rivals' after just one match
- Report claims the global CPU shortage is 'more acute for processors than memory' as industry waits for Intel's 18A chips to plug the gap
- Pragmata has sold over 1 million copies in just 2 days, after 3 delays dragged out development by 4 years
- At long last, fishing will finally come to RuneScape: Dragonwilds tomorrow, so I'll wave goodbye to my other skills now
- Crimson Desert is so packed with weird systems and quirks that it can be a struggle to remember them all—which is why we've made a quiz about everything from the stock market to space
- I thought this sci-fi mystery looked cool, but my interest dropped when I realized it's another multiplayer survival-crafting game
- Magic: The Gathering's next wizard university set feels like going back to school, because we sure are going to have to learn a lot of mechanics
- Steam week in review: Pragmata and Windrose face off, with sad sci-fi dads proving no match for tree-chopping pirates
- April 19
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- Philips and AOC's upcoming 5th-gen OLED gaming monitors were a feast for my eyes and a dire threat to my wallet
- If you want to remember feeling hopeful for the future, you can read over 200 issues of the legendary Byte magazine for free on the Internet Archive
- The Internet Archive has preserved 758 old PC Gamer demo discs you can download and play
- I never want to play a Cleric in D&D, but 2026's best RPG stars one for a simple reason: 'I'm sorry to say they are just overpowered'
- Windrose sails past 1 million copies sold in six days as it hits 200,000 concurrent players
- What is the best licensed music to make its way into videogames?
- Space-obsessed Pragmata actor was so wary of breaking embargo that he refused to post about Artemis 2: 'I know so much about the f**king moon'
- Dave Oshry, CEO of New Blood Interactive, will never uninstall Doom from his PC, and has over 488 hours in Fallout 76: 'It's the best cryptid hunting game'
- The sequel to flying city-builder Airborne Kingdom just hit 1.0 with a huge update and a 50% discount
- The coolest in-game art is in Arthur Morgan's journal in Red Dead Redemption 2, and no you can't convince me otherwise
- A YouTuber has unearthed Dark Souls 2's enormous cut sewers map, and it's another fascinating insight into the design of FromSoftware's most divisive work
- Mirror's Edge review (2009)
- This hugely impressive Minecraft mod lets you build all manner of functioning vehicles, including planes, combine harvesters, and even airships
- Marathon's most popular shotgun is getting nerfed a second time, as Bungie worries it is 'eclipsing a lot of the other short range options that exist in the game'
- Almost 28 years later, the mystery of what's under women's skirts in Elder Scrolls spin-off Redguard has finally been solved
- Owlcat reveals two new 40K companions, one for Rogue Trader and one for the upcoming Dark Heresy
- April 18
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- 'Are monitors anti-inflation?': AOC argues monitors are a better upgrade than graphics cards or memory right now, which seems like the kind of thing a monitor manufacturer would say
- Philips is bringing its 5K dual-mode gaming monitor to the West, and it comes in a neat white shell
- Turtle WoW classic server announces shutdown after Blizzard wins injunction
- We owe Fallout's existence to an admiral and his officers teaching its designer to play D&D in 1979
- Portal 2: Community Edition promises to take the game's modding potential to new heights, and it's out in open beta now
- A ludicrous Doom mod which adds 28 pilotable mechs just released after 2 years in development
- 'I've read your reviews': AOC says its software is 'one of the most highlighted' problems and it's 'finally, finally' updating its OSD
- BAFTA pulls game trailer over 'themes that may be a trigger' even after developer revision
- This wildly ambitious total conversion mod for Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas lets you explore the setting of 2003's Manhunt
- Help! The Millennium Bug made all the robots in my mansion go berserk, and only Homer Simpson can save the day
- Dedicated nature watchers are combing every millisecond of GTA 6 trailer footage to exhaustively catalogue all of its animals
- After 23 years, CCP is about to do the unthinkable: add a non-PvP zone to EVE Online
- I've already raced through Pragmata 3 times, and it's cemented Capcom's mastery of the modern action game speedrun
- I found out the hard way that Linux is not a dad-friendly gaming OS, and maybe neither is the PC
- Here's that free fan remake of 1999's PlayStation-exclusive Medal of Honor you were looking for
- Last Flag, the debut game from the studio founded by Imagine Dragons' lead singer, becomes the latest multiplayer shooter struggling to find an audience
- Windrose Discoveries: Every item you're missing from the Coastal Jungle, Foothills, and Cursed Swamps
- Slay the Spire 2 dev rejects the concept of deadlines: 'I don't want Sloppy Spire 2'
- April 17
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- Windrose: If you can't find the buyer for the People of Tortuga, it's because he's not on Tortuga
- After the death of Dragon Age, it's a megaton bummer to go back and hear BioWare's founders talk about the series' bright future
- Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 wins Best Game at the BAFTAs, but this time some other games got to win awards, too
- US may force operating systems to have mandatory age verification, share info with third parties
- I've always wanted to fire the infinite cannons of a giant anime battleship, and this solo dev's giving me a chance on Steam later this year
- Stop Killing Games delivers 'absolutely incredible' hearing in European Parliament: 'There was no [parliament member] that wasn't responding positively'
- Former BioWare producer Mark Darrah says it's valuable to have 'an idiot at the table' during game development—but only if they can remember who the experts are
- Embark admits 'grinding for monetary value' isn't fun, so future Arc Raiders Expeditions will reward you for smashing bots instead
- Iron Galaxy lays off more people, says it still had too many employees even after 2025's 'last resort' cuts
- How many of these videogame horses can you name? (Or tell us what game they're from because they're just named 'Horse')
- Battlefield 6 'seasons' should be big moments, but they're not, and it's because EA keeps drip-feeding us like hamsters in a cage
- Apparently the name of one of the most famous RPG series of all time was a last-minute band-aid: 'I don't think he knew what it meant any more than we did'
- I know all you pirates are busy with Windrose, but you should drop anchor and check out this new pirate-themed city builder
- Alexander Morton, the voice of Geralt's pal Zoltan in The Witcher games, has died
- Last year's best climbing game was also a horror game, and it gets a big anniversary update today
- Silent Hill f's director believes 'I am not qualified to tell you how women should feel' and instead relied on female devs for insights to Hinako's fears
- I guess I shouldn't be surprised that 43% of you care the most about a game's world when it comes to RPGs
- Forza Horizon 6 has reportedly already sold 500k on Steam a month before launch, while my beloved Motorsport has crashed into a brick wall
- Design lead on the first Elder Scrolls fondly recalls the days when Bethesda would finish a game, then the team would 'assemble boxes, inserts and use the heat gun' to get it shipped
- The European Commission wants to push Google off its web search throne with a data sharing proposal
- It's not just Intel that investors are loving right now: At over $450 billion, AMD's market cap is the highest it's ever been in 54 years
- This is not a drill: All-timer weirdo game Deadly Premonition now playable on Linux as of Valve's most recent Proton beta, plus 17 others and your EA library (until EA breaks it again)
- Hero modder gives all of Skyrim's jarls unique sitting poses on their fancy thrones
- Marathon players are using new Mercy Kits to murder people twice: It's already been branded the 'most troll-friendly item imaginable'
- If you're still battling to get your Arc B-series graphics card to play nicely with Crimson Desert, Intel's new drivers might help a little
- Xbox Game Pass is your key to some of the year's most nominated games
- The best budget 4K gaming monitor is now only $299, but there's another dual-mode monitor trying to steal the show
- Valve's latest Proton 11 beta has been quietly released in an even more beta Arm64 flavour and you can thank the Steam Frame for that
- Kingdom Come 2 director welcomes LGBT award nomination, then spends around 175 words explaining that it doesn't make him 'woke'
- Among Us hits over 1 billion downloads on the Google Play Store: 'I'm gonna barf in a vent, this is so cool'
- I've found a Dark Messiah-inspired action sandbox where you can make banana spike traps and possess enemies to walk off cliffs, and I need it now
- An oldie but a goodie: John Carmack once told us Quake Arena 'was my favourite id Software game… always the one that I looked at as a pure game'
- Meta is raising the price of the Quest 3 and Quest 3S due to memory price rises made worse by Meta
- Intel launches Wildcat Lake Core Series 3 processors: Kitten-sized chips for the business and budget markets only
- AMD Radeon RX 9060 XT 8 GB review (Asus Prime)
- MSI says its refreshed Raider gaming laptops have been designed to combat the one thing I hate most about portable PCs: fan noise
- Zohran Mamdani turns philanthropy and corporate greed into an extended Mario Kart metaphor: 'Government is Yoshi'
- The classic Xenosaga series is finally making its PC debut, but don't get too excited because it's a 2004 mobile game port
- All Red Zones and Red Gate Key locations in Pragmata
- My full guide to Pragmata after spending 18 hours shepherding my space daughter
- How to break blue crystal barriers in Pragmata
- Best weapons in Pragmata
- How to beat the Luna Digger in Pragmata
- How to beat the Sector Guard in Pragmata
- Charlie Cox has finally played Clair Obscur: Expedition 33—a bit
- Wizards of the Coast's official D&D actual-play series will feature Neil Newbon and Devora Wilde from Baldur's Gate 3 among its players
- Fortune's Run resumes development following creator's prison release: 'The parole board reviewed my case and instantly kicked my ass out of jail'
- Some takes don't age: Back in 2009, a creative director warned about the risks of 'obsessively self-referencing' existing hit games
- April 16
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- Starship Troopers: Ultimate Bug War review
- Moves of the Diamond Hand will be one of 2027's best RPGs, and it just launched in early access
- Shameless Palworld imitator Pickmos removed from Steam after publisher 'officially intervenes' in development: 'We will be supervising the Pickmos team'
- Alan Wake heads to Phasmophobia next month in a new limited-time event, because we all know writers love a deadline
- The Call of Duty Movie is coming in June—of 2028
- Lana Del Rey surprise-drops the 007 First Light theme song, and I regret to inform you that it is not great
- After 7 years, Metro 2039 brings us a voiced protagonist, old friends turned Nazis, and 'a much darker tone'
- Fortnite Festival now lets you hit the skins for real with new MIDI drum kit compatibility
- A $3 billion infringement suit against Intel has opened up once more due to a US appeals court decision
- The Street Fighter movie trailer is here, and it looks like fun but good luck spotting Jason Momoa in it
- Though not a gaming mouse, the new Asus squeaker enjoys gaming-grade features and a 'ceraluminium' top coat that makes it look like a crunchy little snack
- Overwatch Season 2 brings some big hero changes, but the most OP has to be Sierra's carpet-bombing ultimate
- Hello Kitty Island Adventure's City Town DLC makes the Wheatflour Wonderland expansion seem like a dress rehearsal
- Battlefield 6 enters its 'we've heard your feedback' era: 7 more maps are coming in 2026, including fan-favorite Wake Island
- Battlefield 6 is getting a server browser, which is confusing because it already has one
- The game that gave us Fortnite is now free to play—here's what you need to know to Save the World
- A 17-year-old Excel vulnerability is currently being exploited by threat actors, and it's been flagged by the US' cyber defence agency
- Bungie's latest experiment turns Marathon into a battle royale, and it's a hit: 'Free kit queue might be the most fun I've had so far'
- TSMC's latest bank report is exactly as you'd expect it to be: mo' wafers, mo' money
- AMD could be releasing a special version of the classic Ryzen 7 5800X3D to celebrate 10 years of the AM4 socket
- Fable's cinematics are getting a helping hand from Blizzard's stellar cinematic team, Xbox boss says
- Here's when Pragmata releases in your timezone
- Pirate survival Windrose sees 500,000 mateys buy the game as Steam reviews are 'Very Positive'
- This RTX 5070 gaming laptop is a little low on GPU power but at $1,200, it's a lot of low on price
- Pulsar actually sold its 500-gram April Fools' Day joke gaming mouse, and despite looking 'extremely sluggish', it's 'really not that bad'
- Silent Hill f's director 'didn't have a good night's sleep' the whole way through the game's production
- Valve could be prepping to roll out 30-day Steam price tracking in the US, making it harder for publishers to mess with discounts
- This YouTuber mod project brings the original PlayStation up to date with HDMI output, USB power, and wireless controller support
- Yes, technically you can play World of Warcraft with hot dogs
- About 30% of Arc Raiders players focus on PvE, and Embark's happy with that: 'We want to instil hope in the player'
- It's still too early to lose all hope: Euro Truck Simulator 2 is getting a whole new country soon
- Analysts say PC gaming is now the one platform where more than 50% of revenue comes from games outside the top 20
- Rejoice, Steam Deck and couch lovers: Gloomwood just got controller support
- My favorite cosmic horror RPG is still being updated, and thanks to this latest patch 'The rat child's Copy Dad ability no longer copies gun skills for free'
- The indie metroidvania that started it all just got a huge update on PC, adding co-op and mod support after 22 years
- April 15
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- Windrose developers ask players if they 'happen to know someone at a major ISP' who can help diagnose online co-op issues
- Yes, Take-Two's share price rose after the stolen Rockstar data was released, but don't read too much into it
- While I go stir-crazy waiting for another FromSoft game, I'm counting on these 4 indie Armored Core-likes to satisfy my mecha cravings when they hit Steam
- Windrose doesn't have admin commands, but here's how to customize a Windrose dedicated server
- How to make gunpowder in Windrose
- Can't find the Windrose Traveler's Camp second chest? We couldn't either… until we remembered a clue from another camp
- Krafton still 'supporting the early access launch of Subnautica 2' despite its name being removed from the Steam page
- 'Close enough. Welcome back Thanos': Marvel Rivals' power creep reaches new levels of busted with Black Cat
- Apple rubberstamps an open source driver to allow Nvidia GPUs to run on Macs, though gaming isn't on the table just yet
- A shoe company has taken $50 million to pivot to, of all things, GPU-powered AI infrastructure
- Crimson Desert has managed to hit 5 million sales in its first month as its constant patches and improvements are successfully drawing in new players
- It's been a month since release and I'm still not sure if Pearl Abyss knows what it wants Crimson Desert to be
- Seems like opting out of website cookies doesn't actually guarantee you are opted out of website cookies
- Cybersecurity experts raise the alarm over Windows Recall again: 'The vault door is titanium. The wall next to it is drywall'
- Tiny MMO Book of Travels is ending development after 5 troubled years
- 'In 10 years of tracking retail CPU sales, I have never seen such a steep decline,' says one tech channel after staring at the grim figures
- Supergiant drops a Hades 2 patch with a bunch of new dialogue, better romances, and buffs to the game's weakest god
- The PC Gaming Show and Future Games Show return in June to brighten up your summer with world premieres, interviews, and fresh demos to install
- As a dual gaming monitor connoisseur, this Acer 1080p pick would be my choice for a second panel now that it's just $90
- MediaTek is 'cautiously optimistic' that discrete memory pricing will look less gloomy during 2026
- Nvidia RTX 5060 Ti 8 GB review (Palit Dual)
- Halo composer Marty O'Donnell welcomes Trump endorsement in Nevada Congress race, despite previous statements that Trump is an 'idiot' he loathes
- Nvidia spent 1003% more on warranty claims in 2025 than the year before according to a new report, with the total cost almost reaching $900 million
- After making Mythic+ slightly too easy in World of Warcraft: Midnight, Blizzard's adding new high-end rewards for the sweats
- Arc Raiders' players have created a bounty system that's meant to punish unsportsmanlike behaviour but surprise, surprise, top of the list sits streamer TheBurntPeanut
- Historical Steam survey data suggests the Big Switch from Windows to Linux has yet to happen
- Giving Graveyard Keeper away for free apparently earned its publisher 'almost 250k'
- The director of sandbox vampire RPG The Blood of Dawnwalker doesn't mind seeing it compared to The Witcher 3, which he also directed: 'I feel really confident about our game'
- Three years after its release, Star Trek: Resurgence is about to be delisted for good
- Hades 2 patch is a smorgasbord of tiny additions, adding more closure to sidequests, an extra level of zoom, buffs to boons, and more romance
- April 14
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- After 4 hours of pirate survival in Windrose, I'm reinstalling Sea of Thieves
- 'AI experts' disagree with the public about whether it's a good thing
- More than 20 classic Warhammer and WH40K games just came to Steam, 7 of them for the first time ever
- How to get clay in Windrose
- The best Raccoin seeds for every character
- All 150 special coins in Raccoin, plus the 21 bad coins, and their effects explained
- Dwarf Fortress is coming to Magic: The Gathering and I'm beginning to suspect Wizards of the Coast is targeting me, specifically
- Baby Steps developer react video goes off the rails into hilarious meta-commentary about fake reactions and 'Herzogian ecstatic truth'
- Marathon's mid-season patch is a big one: 11 new weapon variants, Recon buffs, and a 'Mercy Kit' for reviving strangers
- How to fast travel in Windrose
- A floating magical skull goes to war with his own headless body in this necromantic roguelike that combines Vampire Survivors-like combat with Teamfight Tactics-inspired army building
- 'Tarkov for life': After announcing a new sci-fi shooter, Escape from Tarkov's creator assures players that there's enough room in his heart for both
- Metro author Dmitry Glukhovsky says the next game in the series 'will be darker than anything you've seen before'
- Roblox to introduce new kid accounts in its quest to appear less of a child safety nightmare
- One YouTuber has built their own $950 Steam Machine, with a custom wood panel, because 'Valve was taking too long'
- Sony squares up to Asus and LG in the dual-mode, esports OLED gaming monitor market with a Fnatic collab
- Microsoft's already pricey Surface laptops have suddenly got a whole lot pricier and you know exactly what to blame for this
- How to get lamp oil in Windrose
- Minecraft guide: Your compendium for crafting
- Normal memory chips couldn't withstand the hellscape of Venus so scientists have crafted something that can
- Brace yourselves, Jetpack Cat is coming to Overwatch Stadium this season and players are already prepping for it: 'My sniper build is gonna demolish her'
- NZXT class action lawsuit settlement includes $3 million in damages, and some buyers will get to keep their rented PCs
- Marathon isn't going to be the big hit Sony wants because it's just too much of a sicko game
- Mouse: PI for Hire review
- Morbid Metal is a deeply satisfying hack 'n' slash with some subpar roguelike elements, but hey, that's what early access is for
- Players have already found exploits for the Sulfur Cube in Minecraft, including using it as a mode of transportation
- 15 more Disney games delisted from Steam, including the original Star Wars: Dark Forces and 1997's Outlaws
- China's YMTC is reportedly aiming to more than double its wafer production, which could eventually help put cheap gaming SSDs back on the menu
- Forget the dual-mode, I want this 32-inch 4K OLED gaming monitor with a mega discount because it looks absolutely lush
- Stalker 2 just got a free pre-DLC to gird you for its first actual DLC
- You can now add 'playing pool' to the list of Lovecraftian horrors that will drive you insane, thanks to this bizarre roguelike that's got me shooting dead fish and vomiting upgrades
- Why the new OLED display really makes Alienware Area-51 laptops shine
- Alienware's new $350 OLED gaming monitor could become the cheapest way to score the enviable panel tech
- WoW's Burning Crusade Classic servers are removing the time-honoured tradition of dungeon boosting
- Gigabyte's latest Intel motherboard is a little bit sideways, and it's all about reaching 10,400 MT/s with a megabucks DRAM kit
- Windows 11 now lets you skip the time-consuming updates on a fresh install. Neat!
- Antarctic Peninsula's long-awaited rework adds a new environmental hazard to Overwatch that'll be a pain for flyers
- How to prepare for Hello Kitty Island Adventure's City Town DLC
- Researchers have developed a way to peek inside electronic parts as they're running and plan to see if they can snoop encrypted data
- Find Your Words uses a way of communicating I've never experienced in a game before
- Nvidia denies report that it is in talks to acquire a major PC company but Dell, HP, Lenovo and Asus share prices jumped at the thought
- Co-op pirate survival game Windrose: should you grab it in early access?
- Bloodborne is getting an R-rated film adaptation co-produced by JackSepticEye
- Send us your best gaming clips from Crimson Desert and you could win a $500 Amazon gift card
- Xbox Game Pass is too expensive, new Xbox boss reportedly says: 'we need a better value equation'
- April 13
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- After his city builder flopped in early access, Firewatch's Nels Anderson didn't give up: 'Smarter people than me … probably would've pulled the plug'
- Rockstar hackers release their stolen data, reveal that Rockstar was right to not pay them anything for it
- A 'free kit frenzy' mode for cheapskates arrives in Marathon this week
- 91-year-old gamer gets a visit from police after she misses her daily check-in call because she was 'trying to beat her record level'
- Palworld imitator Pickmon changes a single title letter 'to better align with our brand identity' and definitely not for any other reason, guys, honest
- Despite rumors of a GTA 6-inspired delay, Fable studio says it's 'excited to welcome you back to Albion in autumn 2026'
- If you're finding Resident Evil: Requiem a bit scary, why not mod it to make the enemies tiny
- The voice of GTA 5's Lester wonders if GTA 6 'can't make the same splash as previous games' because the world is just so weird now
- A Valve developer has just made it easier to run games on Linux with 8 GB cards thanks to a simple fix
- AtomMan G1 Pro review
- The new Linux 7.0 kernel is here and as always, it's all about lots of little improvements rather than one significant update
- Task Manager's creator says it used to be 50 times smaller because 'in that time and place, small was fast and fast mattered'
- These custom Linux lock screens styled after Minecraft, NieR Automata, and Genshin Impact are single-handedly eroding my loyalty to Windows
- Crimson Desert players have a new way to slay its powerful bosses—slowly unleashing a swarm of individually-caged bees at them
- Todd Howard says Starfield's NG+ was misunderstood and defends Bethesda's new U-turn on how it works: 'You can tell us if we've done our job right'
- Metro 2039 confirmed as the next game in the Metro series, full reveal coming later this week
- Overwatch's hero ban system is being reworked, which means we may be able to ignore the role-limit rule and ban a 5th hero
- Epic is reportedly cooking up a Disney extraction shooter, and suggestions staff are lukewarm on it are 'not reflective of the ambitions of the Disney collaboration'
- Nearly here! Microsoft ups the partition size limit of FAT32 from 32 GB to 2 TB in the latest beta of Windows 11
- Bethesda's ex-marketing VP says Skyrim was its first game to make other studios scared of it: 'You have to be concerned about us if you think you're going to win game of the year'
- Exclusive deal: Get Surfshark's unlimited VPN connections for over two years at just $1.78 per month
- Pragmata review
- YouTuber builds PC side panel out of 15 Noctua fans and names it the 'Superdome', cuts temps by 20 °C
- Lucky Redditor gets hands on unreleased Steelseries Rival Pro Mini, revealing another UWB wireless gaming mouse will soon hit the market
- Crimson Desert update has a few surprise improvements, like finally letting you teleport on your horse and a new ability
- Not that we should be at all surprised, but Nvidia leans on AI pretty hard for speeding up how it plans and designs its next generation of GPUs
- Here's when the new Overwatch season starts in your region, and everything you can expect from it
- The upcoming 'hardcore sci-fi FPS' from the creator of Escape from Tarkov just got a huge lore drop trailer
- Gigabyte GO27Q24G review
- 'It has a real 'ring of power' dynamic to it, and makes people do crazy things' says Sam Altman on AI after alleged arson attack on home
- Fake Windows Support website offers 'cumulative update' for version 24H2 but delivers password-stealing malware that can avoid anti-virus detection
- Gigabyte MO27Q28GR review
- Fresh Intel Nova Lake leak fills out the details on the range of Core Ultra 400-series CPUs we can expect to see later this year
- If you're struggling with Crimson Desert's double jump as much as I was, it's because of this mistranslation
- Make Skyrim's weather feel more impactful with this particle mod
- Check out the internet's best gaming videos from March—including one of the coolest custom gaming rigs we've ever seen
- Five new Steam games you probably missed (April 13, 2026)
- The AI smut peddlers have come for Warhammer 40,000 now
- April 12
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- Modder turns Sekiro into Tony Hawk-style skateboarding sim 'Jet Set Sekiro'
- Defunct MMO studio founder denies allegation he spent Kickstarter funds on private chefs, antiques, and TCGs
- One of our favorite games of 2025 is just $16 on GOG this week, and the dev says 'if it's still too expensive just pirate it honestly'
- ChatGPT will praise the mood and 'bedroom/DIY texture' of fart sounds pulled from YouTube
- Life is Strange's soundtrack is full of licensed bangers, and still hits even 11 years later
- Question time: Do you care about fashion in MMOs, or do you just chuck any old gear on and call it a day?
- Blizzard wins injunction against vanilla World of Warcraft private server
- Broken bones, bodyslams and brutal executions—my no-guns return to GTA 5 story mode took an unexpected twist with this must-have melee murder mod
- DayZ creator Dean 'Rocket' Hall has over 2,000 hours in Kerbal Space Program and played the original XCOM at Mount Everest base camp: 'I think when I die, I will still be playing that game'
- Cosplay is not consent, and I wish we'd stop feeling so entitled to shoving our phones in people's faces without asking them first
- Open-world crime game Samson beats up a bunch of bugs in a new patch, as developer admits it 'released a game with flaws'
- Far Cry 2 review (2008)
- Anno 117's first DLC will let you disregard history by building your Roman city next to a massive volcano
- Terraforming survival game The Planet Crafter gets a beefy 2.0 update and a 50% discount: 'We wanted to take some time to improve multiple things'
- Tribal survival game Soulmask leaves early access with a new Egypt-themed DLC that's free for the next month
- Marvel Rivals creative director says it's going to become 'a comprehensive Marvel "moving anime" experience' and no, I don't know what that means either
- Wizards of the Coast is uploading the old Dungeons & Dragons cartoon if you'd like a reminder of what the 1980s were like
- 1000xResist developer added a video sequence 'out of desperation' but now they're bringing FMV back for their next game
- April 11
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- Fighting game YouTuber offers $10,000 bounty for upgraded netcode in Ultimate Marvel vs. Capcom 3
- They finally made an action figure of Star Wars' most evil and nasty grandma but it's already sold out
- Dead or Alive creator was once held at gunpoint by LAPD, says former colleague: 'It was a real Dead or Alive situation'
- Graveyard Keeper devs respond as players make AI accusations: 'You may not believe me, but we're not using the AI in Graveyard Keeper 2'
- Hackers demand ransom from GTA6 studio Rockstar, threaten to leak stolen data
- New Proton Experimental build fixes up a bunch of old Capcom games for Steam Deck and Linux
- How BioWare can make an unlikely comeback, and why it never will: The first step is cancelling Mass Effect
- Revisiting Redfall after its final update reveals the ghost of the game it wanted to be
- This wildly ambitious modpack transforms the third-person, N64 exclusive Duke Nukem: Zero Hour into a 'jank '90s FPS' for your PC
- How many videogame movie adaptations can you name? And, more importantly, can you remember actually liking any of them?
- The Razer Viper V4 Pro has reminded me that few things can beat great build quality in a mouse
- A character model datamined from Grand Theft Auto 5's source code 'could actually be Agent's protagonist', according to online sleuth
- This 'highly realistic' city-builder could be the first real competition Cities: Skylines has seen in over a decade
- You can finally rescue Half-Life's guards and scientists thanks to this mod inspired by Lemmings
- April 10
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- World Championship Wrestling once spent millions on a gimmick ripping off Mortal Kombat’s Sub-Zero, before Midway threatened to sue and WCW immediately gave up: 'We were gonna lose big, like real big'
- All about Clint: Stardew Valley gift guide, schedule, and events
- Roblox unveils new Roblox Plus monthly subscription that pays creators who get players to sign up for the new Roblox Plus monthly subscription
- US government wants gamers to become air traffic controllers
- Pete Hines says he left Bethesda because he didn't want to watch it being 'damaged' and 'abused'
- Former Bethesda exec thinks the studio should get more respect for the complex, open worlds it creates: 'Go try that s**t in Red Dead Redemption 2'
- Get ready to play Overwatch's most popular maps even more in season 2 as Blizzard tweaks the voting process to prefer the majority
- Someone allegedly threw a Molotov cocktail at Sam Altman's house
- PC Gamer's 'first can't-miss cozy game of 2026' has gone missing on Steam, and some players think Tetris is to blame
- Esoteric Ebb creator reckons most players only saw half the game, and that's fine by him: 'You've got to miss stuff in order to feel like the world is bigger'
- Amazon's Luna cloud gaming service is ending support for game purchases and subscriptions from third-party stores, and users will lose streaming access to purchased third-party games in June
- RAM spot prices are down by 5%, though they did spike by well over 2000% this past year
- Even the French government is switching to Linux now in a bid for 'digital sovereignty'
- Treasure Beach is a scavenger game where you can sell what you find hidden in the sand to stingy shoppers—and let me warn you, it isn't easy
- Don't like the MacBook Neo's storage options? Well, with lots of electronics gear, years of experience, and nerves of steel, you too can have a 1 TB model
- During a memory crisis do you really need fast memory for PC gaming? No, no you do not
- Look, 16 GB of RAM is absolutely fine for PC gaming in 2026. Though there are some caveats to that...
- Mozilla says 'Microsoft goes too far' with Copilot, right before reassuring that you can turn off Firefox's 'AI enhancements'
- Overwatch Sierra abilities and perks explained
- Keychron has shared the source files for all its keyboard and mice meaning you could almost build an entire kit from scratch
- WoW's next patch drops in just over a week, bringing a whole heap of world content and yet another gearing method from a deeply suspicious ally
- Of course 1440p is your favorite gaming res, but I'm kinda stunned there are as many 4K gamers as 1080p ones in PC Gamer's ranks
- Soulmask exits early access with a free Egypt-themed DLC that takes the survival game to the sky
- Intel's fabs may at long last be worth all those billions of dollars
- Tiny mitt bandits rejoice! You can pick up the best budget wireless gaming mouse for only $35
- 'It stayed exactly the same': Jeff Kaplan takes us back to 2016 by confirming that Blizzard did not change the size of Tracer's butt
- Microsoft is removing Copilot branding from Photos, Notepad, and more after promising to reduce 'unnecessary Copilot entry points'
- Asus announces the ROG Equalizer: a new cable aimed at making melting GPU power connectors a thing of the past
- Former Bethesda artist says 'every single developer' has already brought up 95% of the complaints that made it to launch, but as Todd Howard told him, 'we can't do everything'
- Framework: 'There is a very real scenario in which personal computing as we know it is dead'
- Crimson Desert devs are addressing all your complaints (and then some) in a long list of planned updates, which includes adding difficulty options
- CPUID's download page has been hacked, with its popular processor and PC info tools replaced with links to files containing malware (Update: Fixed)
- The James Bond rights owners have opposed an application for a James Pond trademark
- The ill-advised business software that helped sink videogame pioneers Infocom now runs on modern PCs: 'It's a new age for aficionados of failed 1985 database products!'
- Nexon confirms reorganizaton at The First Berserker: Khazan developer but says it's merely 'a strategic reallocation of talent' as development winds down
- Darkstone, a classic 1999 action RPG about eating apples and trying not to die of old age, is being remastered by its original creator
- Nine-year-old cult visual novel Doki Doki Literature Club has been abruptly pulled from Android for its 'depiction of sensitive themes'
- April 9
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- Dune: Awakening is finally making Deep Desert and shipwreck PvP fully optional
- 20 years after Kojima announced a Metal Gear Solid movie was happening, Sony announces a Metal Gear Solid movie is happening
- World of Warcraft player housing was sorely lacking PvP so Blizzard is dropping its own version of prop hunt
- Facepunch boss Garry Newman shoots down Rust 2 speculation after mysterious Steam page appears: 'Nope'
- My first campaign in Europa Universalis 5 may have ruined the entire series for me
- Castlevania: Belmont's Curse developers are trying really, really hard to make sure you know it's a metroidvania without using the word 'metroidvania'
- Graveyard Keeper 2 is coming this year, and the original is free to keep on Steam if you grab it now
- Before Imagine Dragons, brothers Dan and Mac Reynolds always wanted to make videogames—now their first, Last Flag, is about to release
- Survival shooter Road to Vostok 'secured the entire production budget for this game for years and years to come' within 24 hours of its Steam early access launch
- Gunzilla CEO denies delaying payments to 'full-time official employees,' denies calling unpaid contractors 'haters' (updated)
- Wait, how many 'horror Stardew' farm sims are in development right now?
- Crimson Desert is now somewhat playable on Intel Arc graphics cards, though Kliff's face didn't make it
- Over the Hill devs are celebrating reaching 1 million Steam wishlists by giving you a chance to play the Mudrunner-like off-roader early
- Hope you're hungry 'cause Don't Starve is back with a new co-op survival crafting adventure for Wilson and the gang
- One of Steam's most successful Pokémon-likes is doing a Palworld
- Valve rumoured to be working on 'SteamGPT' AI bot for support and anti-cheat functions
- Fortnite teases its next collab with Toy Story, but while fans are wondering where Woody is all I want to know is whether we'll be able to play as the aliens
- If you've ever wondered what it would be like if Vampire Survivors was about driving around a medieval castle on wheels, then surprisingly I've got the perfect roguelike for you
- The creators of 1000xResist are making a game about convincing an AI she's not a real person
- Research suggests AI infrastructure projects are worth the investment less than 30% of the time
- Co-op pirate survival game Windrose breaks 1.5 million Steam wishlists, and good news for everyone who's added it to their list: It's coming out next week
- Crimson Desert does what other games do backwards and that's why it's a beautiful freak of nature, says imsim vet at Arkane Lyon
- 'Stardew Valley meets Twin Peaks' in this 'gritty farming thriller,' and if you don't find all of those words appealing I don't know how to help you
- Co-op heist-em-up Thick as Thieves reveals May release date with an all-new gameplay trailer
- Microsoft claims WireGuard and Veracrypt account termination was merely due to not verifying an email: 'Not everything is a conspiracy, sometimes it's literally paperwork'
- PC shipments have actually grown this quarter despite the RAMpocalypse says IDC. Well, everywhere except the Americas
- The best part of Overwatch's latest hero trailer is that it keeps the overarching narrative front and centre, right where it should be
- The Witcher 3 multiplayer mod adds new setting-appropriate features, like the ability to form a totem pole of Geralts or turn into a fox
- Hackers claim they've breached a Chinese supercomputer and are demanding huge amounts of crypto for the data, but security researchers are sceptical
- A renowned New York Times investigative reporter thinks British cryptographer is Bitcoin creator Satoshi Nakamoto, said cryptographer says no
- How to complete the Working Together quest in Disney Dreamlight Valley
- Final Fantasy 14 patch 7.5 site teases a potential return to the void for its next expansion
- Top dollar for top cache: AMD's dual 3D V-Cache Ryzen 9 9950X3D2 will sell for a wallet-burning $899
- US victims lost nearly $21 billion to cybercrime last year says FBI with crypto and AI 'complaints among the costliest'
- Crimson Desert might have an enemy density problem, fans worry as they approach endgame
- Use this handy cheat sheet to keep track of all those confusing Samsung QD-OLED gaming monitor panel generations
- It's a RAMpocalypse-buster: Even though it's two bucks over $900, this RTX 5060 gaming PC actually comes with 32 GB of DRAM and a 1 TB SSD
- Where does your PC live? There is obviously one correct answer, can you pick it out?
- South Korea takes one look at rising PC costs and decides to hand out free PCs to citizens
- How to complete The Three Sisters Garden quest in Disney Dreamlight Valley
- The devs behind Peak and Content Warning made a publisher to support their games and other indie developers: 'We help them with money and advice'
- Crimson Desert lets you watch NPCs build statues and bridges in real-time which Kingdom Come: Deliverance director thinks is 'absolutely insane'
- After a Redditor said there's a 'zero percent chance' of porting macOS to a Wii, one developer went and did it anyway
- Whoopsie: Microsoft has been shipping Xbox controllers without batteries and is now compensating customers with rechargeable kits
- Cherry XTRFY K5 Pro TMR Compact review
- Do you know this mage? Test your knowledge of the gaming arcane with our quiz on magical allies and villains
- April 8
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- Project Zomboid identifies and bans over a dozen Steam Workshop mods containing 'heavily obfuscated code' that was 'creating malicious files'
- Creative World of Warcraft player uses housing tools to recreate Counter-Strike's iconic Dust 2 map, complete with a car made out of wood, doormats, and fruit plates
- Split Fiction studio Hazelight celebrates selling 50 million games in under 10 years
- Trippy, psychedelic alien shooter ChainStaff shows there are still new ways for games to be 'retro'
- Today I learned that Excel incorrectly assumes 1900 was a leap year, and Microsoft will never fix it because the whole house of cards would collapse
- HipHopGamer says GTA 6's user-generated content 'will produce millionaires'
- The ethically-sourced wizard school life sim I've been waiting for finally has a playable demo and launches this year
- 'Everybody should play every fighting game' says Invincible VS director: 'They're just fun'
- Overwatch's new hero Sierra has an ability that could mean she's destined to dethrone Jetpack Cat as the most banned hero in ranked
- Crimson Desert female character creator mod lets you cook up your own gender-swapped Kliff, and there's a male version in the works
- Extraction shooter The Cube, Save Us has announced it's shutting down just three weeks after it launched
- Oh you think you know hidden object games? Then go find a four-leaf clover in the hardest cozy game I've ever seen
- A new version of The Exit 8 releases on Roblox to celebrate the upcoming film's premiere
- After years of 'extensive reverse engineering', you can play a janky Mirror's Edge prototype in all its glory
- LTT Ratcheting Screwdriver and Precision Pro Multi-Bit Screwdriver review
- Corsair announces new Frame cases, and one comes with a classy wood finish
- Intel updates Arc graphics driver with 'gaming support' for the GPU gamers aren't getting
- Supermicro 'committed to protecting America’s advanced technologies and intellectual property' as investigation into former employees over alleged AI tech shipments to China begins
- Logitech Superstrike vs Razer Viper V4 Pro: The battle for the competitive crown
- LG has unveiled the 'world's first 39-inch 5K2K curved OLED' gaming monitor, and it's about as expensive as you think it would be
- How to unlock Pocahontas in Disney Dreamlight Valley
- Apple's MacBook Neo is reportedly close to selling out which has got me thinking about why we can't have more simple and affordable gaming PCs like the Steam Deck
- Alien: Isolation's sound designer is working on the next Silent Hill game, creating a 'dynamic score system that evolves as you play'
- SK hynix's latest 321-layer QLC flash memory chips are ready to roll out, with Dell's PCs first in line to host the tiny SSDs
- Finally, a cosy game that’s not afraid to kick my teeth in
- 'Humans can't reliably recall colours': Dialed.gg is a simple colour game that made me realise I don't know what pink looks like
- No Man's Sky's latest update is a whole new Pokémon-style creature-collection and battle system that's 'an entire multiplayer game all of its own'
- Forza Horizon 6's Japan map is the series' best yet
- These are the only RTX 5060 gaming laptops worth a damn right now, and I'd 100% be buying the OLED one
- Anthropic's new Claude Mythos AI model has apparently found thousands of vulnerabilities in 'every major operating system and every major web browser, along with a range of other important pieces of software'
- Raptor Lake chips 'not going anywhere' as Intel commits to making older CPUs 'abundantly available' and keeping DDR4 support alive
- 4K gaming monitor prices are now mighty reasonable and this $200 MSI would be my choice of the lot
- Here's a keycap that's also a watch, for the discerning gamer
- Dell's CEO reckons that the total memory demand from the entire AI market in 2028 will be 625x bigger than it was in 2022
- Stop the petition: The Rocketeer mimicking the Vaporizer's alert noise was actually a bug, and it's been fixed in Arc Raiders' latest patch
- All Be a Lucky Block codes for May 2026: tokens and brainrots
- After a recent patch, Death Stranding 2 is great on Steam Deck
- An astronaut rolled a D20 in space, so yes, you can play D&D in zero gravity
- April 7
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- These 'hunger system' mods for Crimson Desert have gotten my hopes up for a full survival conversion
- All King Legacy codes for May 2026: Gold Keys and Gems
- Kerbal Space Program rockets to its highest concurrent player count on Steam in more than 10 years
- As frustration with Marathon cheaters intensifies, Bungie says improvements to its 'zero-tolerance policy around cheating' are underway: 'This is an area that we will continue to invest in'
- Double Dragon and Kunio-kun creator Yoshihisa Kishimoto dies at 64
- Browsing the Steam Workshop's 50 million mods just got better thanks to a redesign that loads faster and works better on mobile and Steam Deck
- Keith David proves he can make anything sound incredibly cool as he delivers a dramatic reading masterclass in an ad for Starfield's latest DLC
- 71% of you say you could never be convinced to turn on DLSS 5, with 37% saying it wouldn't matter how good it looked
- Qualcomm Snapdragon X2 Elite reviews are in, but these second-gen Windows-on-Arm chips still aren't grabbing me as a PC gamer
- Intel's new Nova Lake CPU claimed to have superior IPC performance to AMD's next-gen Zen 6 as rumour mill goes into overdrive with talk of higher core counts and an APU with a massive iGPU
- Crimson Desert players are visiting space and finding that Pearl Abyss modelled a really weird amount of it
- SteelSeries Aerox 3 Wireless Gen 2 review
- A decade ago, Call of Duty sidelined its iconic progression system to dabble in gacha instead, and I was glad I'd forgotten
- The multiplayer shooter with radioactive attack bears and moose-drawn artillery is closing after less than a year in early access
- Avalanche's cancelled AionGuard 'would have been Crimson Desert' but the publisher 'broke up with us on a text message'
- State of Decay 3 didn't really exist when we saw the reveal trailer: 'The game was in a Word document'
- Surprise! Intel has teamed up with Elon Musk and his Terafab project, to 'help refactor silicon fab technology' to give SpaceX and Tesla 1 TW per year of AI compute
- A Pokopia player has spent 260 hours over 22 days recreating an underground Cyberpunk city: 'I swear to god, you people aren't human'
- Razer Viper V4 Pro review
- Samsung is cashing in on the memory crisis, as it estimates profits of over 8 times this period last year
- Sony will put you through a 2-stage job interview for the chance to get scanned into Gran Turismo 7 and other games
- Looks like DDR3 motherboards are back on the menu, boys, though only to keep older PCs going a bit longer during the RAMpocalypse
- AMD's senior director of AI thinks 'Claude has regressed' and that it 'cannot be trusted to perform complex engineering'
- All Minecraft Tiny Takeover Twitch drops and how to get them
- Modder uses Claude AI to code new BIOS that gets obscure all P-core Intel Bartlett Lake CPUs running on a Z790 motherboard
- 'I have crawled through depths of hell': One coder's suffering is a potential joy to every web user, as their project could make sluggish browsers a thing of the past
- Disney Dreamlight Valley's all-new Star Path feature means rewards never truly disappear for good
- Crimson Desert has received FSR SDK 2.2 support, offering better upscaling and frame generation for AMD cards
- Team Liquid becomes the 4-peat World of Warcraft Race to World First champions after 2 weeks, 473 pulls, and one fake out
- OG Persona fans beg Atlus for a remake, Atlus says best I can do is a surprise rebrand and a phone case
- Valve could well be giving Steam its most useful update ever: Frame rate estimates for games, based on how well they've been running on users' gaming PCs
- Framework says stabilising memory prices are a 'temporary reprieve' and there are more cost increases to come this year
- Overwatch's Anran redesign fixes her controversial 'baby face' in Season 2: 'This process has really helped dial in the next set of heroes'
- Someone has made a tool to add achievements to non-Steam games on Linux, which feels like a niche in a niche
- Five new Steam games you probably missed (April 7, 2026)
- 11 years after launch, Pillars of Eternity's new turn-based mode feels like the way it's meant to be played
- I watched the first TV show ever based on a game and it made me realize: we've really got it good these days
- OpenAI reportedly kicked around an 'insane' plan to pit world leaders against each other like a Call of Duty villain
- 28 years after the final Intel 486 desktop CPUs rolled off assembly lines, Linux is finally dropping support for it
- April 6
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- I kept hearing that The Super Mario Galaxy Movie had a 'record-breaking weekend,' but then I looked at the actual records
- Zelda: Twilight Princess PC port inches closer to release with new showcase video—and modders have already added Linkle into the game
- Papers, Please creator Lucas Pope no longer feels comfortable talking about work-in-progress games: 'the situation just feels different'
- Devious Crimson Desert players are sending NPCs tumbling to their deaths by weaponizing their insatiable apple cravings
- There is a snake that hates Markiplier
- WoW raiders start celebrating world-first Midnight boss kill before watching it come back to life for a secret final phase: 'This cannot be'
- PlayStation 3 emulator gets shiny new UI for handheld PCs like the Steam Deck
- Italian television channel does DLSS 5 haters a favor by broadcasting footage from reveal trailer, then copyright striking Nvidia's own YouTube channel
- Gray Zone Warfare's player count jumps by over 1000% following its most recent update: 'Players are coming back'
- Your joys will always be someone else's junk
- A Japanese indie developer is seeking legal action over alleged missing funds from a crowdfunding campaign, says the funding platform claims the money was 'mistakenly wired to a different client'
- Marathon's most powerful gun gets a major nerf, as Bungie seeks to 'curb a little bit of its dominion in the game'
- April 5
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- Star Wars Zero Company studio founder praises Lucasfilm and Respawn for taking a chance on a tactics game
- Star Wars Zero Company writer wants its cast to have real friction: 'It's not a personal fantasy game'
- 'Blockchain-powered' game storefront reportedly shutting down and taking customers' games with it
- In 2007, two game music GOATs collaborated on the criminally underrated soundtrack to a similarly underrated D&D RPG
- I tried to become a pro bowler but I skipped one important step: learning how to bowl
- Never doubt the commitment of horse-girl fans: Umamusume cosplayers are having actual races at tracks around the world
- Tarn Adams, co-creator of Dwarf Fortress, has over 1,400 hours in Factorio and is currently obsessed with terraforming games: 'Dwarf Fortress just doesn't accommodate a full-on sci-fi thing'
- After over 150 hours with Crimson Desert, it still makes no damn sense—compels me though
- It's not just Arrow Lake that's been refreshed: Intel's whole approach to the consumer market seems like a new direction
- April 4
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- Thank goodness Magic: The Gathering isn't doing a Harry Potter crossover set
- A new Crimson Desert patch adds the only RPG feature that matters: A hide helmet button
- Our first look at Alex Garland's Elden Ring movie might be in this leaked set footage from a lucky fan in the UK
- Datamined Elden Ring cutscene gives more clues about DLC villain Miquella's original story
- Warframe community director says 'nothing in our games will be AI-generated, ever'
- Amazon TV head allegedly orders Mass Effect show rewrite to make it 'more appealing to non-gamers'
- Fallout: New Vegas for the PS3 mod adds Fallout: New Vegas for the PS3 to Fallout: New Vegas for the PC
- I bought a PS5 on launch day but I won't be buying a PS6, even though its exclusives aren't coming to PC anymore
- MindsEye is a glitchy, incoherent mess I wouldn't recommend to anyone—and it might also be my favorite game of 2026
- Final Fantasy 14's latest variant dungeon is so good, it deserves better—the MMO needs to figure out its rewards so all this great work isn't wasted
- This Nightdive-remastered 3DO shooter shows why it took Halo to break PC gaming's FPS hegemony
- Subscription service for indie games gets a rough reception
- The best tool for playing obscure old PC games now supports the sublime FMV cheese of Crime Patrol 2: Drug Wars and a Lovecraftian adventure one YouTuber scored a 'terribly low 2/10'
- April 3
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- This AI startup envisions '100 million new people' making videogames
- Slay the Spire 2 adds end-of-run badges 'to let you know what was unique about each adventure' in latest beta patch
- Magazine generates fake AI interview with One Piece actor Mackenyu
- Get the Homeworld Remastered Collection, Deserts of Kharak, and 8 more RTS games for just $8
- 'There's always the chance s**t hits the fan and we suffer another major setback,' Skyblivion lead says about the possibility of another delay, but 'from what I see internally I am pretty optimistic'
- Google AI embarrasses itself when asked to perform the one simple task computers have always been good at
- Beloved YouTuber The Gaming Historian moves on from making videos with a 'parting gift': A ton of ancient Nintendo court docs you can browse on the Internet Archive
- 'There are times when you want to put GTA down and pick up something else,' Samson studio founder says: 'I think there's a space for us there'
- House Flipper is free to keep on Steam for the next few days
- Our favorite open world FPS indie gem is getting New Game+, Spider-Man swinging, and wallrunning later this month
- State of Decay 3 springs back to life to announce alpha tests in May
- Rust is getting hydro power through water wheels that can also be powered by humans: 'Before you ask, yes, you can force handcuffed players into them'
- Petit Planet, the upcoming 'cozy galactic life sim' from HoYoVerse, is taking signups for a new beta test happening later this month
- After 36 years at the legendary FPS studio, Raven Software co-founder Brian Raffel is retiring
- Bungie provides details on Marathon's imminent Recon buff 'by popular demand', revealing an improved Echo Pulse and a 'more aggressive' tracker drone
- Take-Two has seemingly laid off an unspecified portion of its AI team, including its head of AI
- April 2
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- A former GameStop exec thought building its Steam competitor would be his 'forever job,' but the retailer bet the house on digital distribution being 'a passing phase'
- Mega Crit co-founder says he wasn't bothered by the Steam backlash to Slay the Spire 2's beta balance patch: 'It's difficult for players to feel like they're heard'
- The Emperor Protects: A Warhammer 40,000 Musical is a deeply committed April Fool's joke from Games Workshop, and I don't care if it's a day late because it's just that good
- Revisiting the last truly great Call of Duty
- 43% of you have, or will be switching to gaming on Linux this year, but more surprising than that over a quarter of you actually don't mind Windows
- A contributor to GameStop's long-forgotten Steam competitor explains why he thinks Valve came out on top: 'What Steam did better than anybody else was to create a community'
- Warren Spector's multiplayer Thief successor changes direction: Instead of PvPvE, it's now focusing on 2-player co-op and singleplayer
- Slay the Spire 2's team is already cooking on 3 ideas for new game modes, each offering 'ways to interact with Slay the Spire that don't exist right now'
- Open world crime game Samson had to be pared back mid-development, which led to its unusual structure: 'It's become more unique'
- MechWarrior studio Piranha Games lays off 30% of its employees
- Marathon game director says Bungie's rebalancing 'god-like' knife damage, buffing Vandal and Recon shells, and knocking bubble shields down a peg
- What will Slay the Spire 2's final ending be like? 'I do want it to be more extravagant when you win,' says Mega Crit
- The most hardcore Jak & Daxter heads in the world have finished their native PC ports of the entire trilogy
- The new PC games of April 2026: Pragmata, the next Diablo 4 expansion, and Final Fantasy 14's big month
- Teamgroup MP44Q 2 TB NVMe SSD review
- Nexon CEO admits The First Descendant had 'no staying power,' and that can't be addressed with a quick fix: 'These are design issues that are not fixed with a patch'
- Seasonic teases cherry blossom-themed Focus ATX 3.1 'Sakura' power supply
- CoreWeave co-founder says even older GPUs are still rising in price and are in demand for AI servers
- Xenonauts 2 review
- How to pickpocket in Crimson Desert
- 'It's like having the secret to Coca-Cola': Illumination CEO attributes the success of the Super Mario movies to the 'inclusion of Miyamoto and the Nintendo artists'
- Arc Raiders is a 'Trojan Horse' for demonstrating AI tool usage in game development, according to Nexon, after Embark built two hits at 'a fraction of the cost you’d expect'
- Crimson Desert's commitment to cleaning up its clunky controls shines the brightest in how satisfying it feels to fly around Pywel now
- There's just no good reason why WoW's story mode raids aren't available right away—and I'm saying that as someone who cleared normal just fine last month
- Apparently you can't escape Microsoft Outlook issues even in space as Artemis II astronauts ask NASA for help with the software
- This new climbing game is a bit like Darkest Dungeon on a mountain: Sometimes you have to cut the rope, and not everyone on the team is going to take it well when you do
- I turned my gaming laptop into a PC Gamer bug out kit
- Life is Strange: Reunion does its best to give Max and Chloe fans what they want at the expense of almost every other character in the game
- Minecraft creator Notch says 'DLSS fundamentally makes no sense', but the X comments say 'um, actually'
- How to get the Beehive Club in Crimson Desert
- AMD says Intel's 'interesting choices' around multithreading could help Epyc CPUs gain server market share
- Mchose G3 V2 review
- Cambridge Audio L/R S review
- If Gigabyte's original X870E X3D Wood motherboard didn't do it for you, how about this moody 'Dark Wood' respin?
- The RAMpocalypse won't end any time soon, so here are the cheapest 16 and 32 GB memory kits I'd fit in my own gaming PC
- How to beat Beloth the Darksworn in Crimson Desert
- Silverstone FLP02 case review
- How to complete Last Entry in Arc Raiders
- Two high-rated motherboard security vulnerabilities have been identified in Gigabyte Control Center, so come update your software along with me
- 'Any update is a bonus not a right': Peak devs snap back at ungrateful players demanding more updates, 'Neither us or Aggro Crab are live service studios'
- It turns out Crimson Desert has even more mechanics under the hood—like this 'fully-designed food consequence system' that modders have unlocked
- How to complete Furtive Meetings in Arc Raiders
- Linux installs jump to over 5% of gamers on the latest Steam Hardware Survey while the RTX 5070 reverts to the norm
- Dell XPS 14 laptop with a Panther Lake chip manages a staggering 43-hour+ battery life result, thrashing the latest MacBook Air
- Thermaltake TH360 V3 Ultra ARGB Sync review
- April 1
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- 'What's your salary? I told him, and he said no problem, we'll double. And those days are gone:' Listening to game dev legends reminiscing in 1989 about the 'golden days of computer games' already being over is a trip
- Blizzard is hiring for an 'open-world shooter' using Unreal Engine, which is more evidence that a new Starcraft game could be on its way
- Instead of making a joke, Valve celebrates April Fool's Day by rolling out a Steam storefront 'refresh' that makes it look much nicer
- Diablo 4's 'April Fowl's Day' joke is a big chicken boss who drops a cluckton of unique loot, like the 'Cluckonomicon' and the 'Eggcecutioner'
- The most baffling apostrophe in gaming history: a PC Gamer investigation
- US Patent Office revokes Nintendo's controversial Pokémon battling patent in nonfinal decision
- Garry's Mod successor s&box finally arrives on Steam on April 28
- Black Ops 7's April Fools' joke is very much real: the smallest Call of Duty map in history
- April Fool's Day is upon us, and you know what that means: Bubsy feet pics
- Gabe Newell stepped back from game design during Portal 2's development, because 'he always wanted to be part of the team, but being Gabe and being in his position, that never really worked'
- Shinji Mikami's next game was just stealth-announced in a YouTube video and it sure looks like the creator of survival horror is back doing what he does best
- Marathon has made everyone's favourite loot spot harder to access but even more rewarding, and it's got solo players raising pitchforks
- Our cozy games of April list is looking so chilled out that there isn't even a single farm sim on it
- Stormgate, the StarCraft-like RTS that launched last summer, is losing online multiplayer support because its server partner was bought by an AI company
- It looks like Intel might ditch regular E-cores for its upcoming Core 300 laptop chips
- Billy the pickpocket is the unluckiest man in Crimson Desert
- How to get the Canto blueprint in Arc Raiders
- Oracle, darling of the AI boom, is reportedly laying off around 10,000 people
- If you want to crank tons more gaming performance out of the Apple MacBook Neo, apparently a custom water cooling loop works
- Apple turns 50 today: here's what it does better than PC (no foolin')
- WoW's latest raid cinematic could be the start of a massive story retcon for its worst expansion
- No, there isn't going to be a new lovecraftian Nier game with a caked-up tentacle robot, despite cope to the contrary
- Nvidia's big frame gen update to DLSS includes a new model for improved UI elements, but I can't see any improvements whatsoever
- 512,000 lines of Claude Code's own CLI source code have leaked due to 'human error', but the company says 'no sensitive customer data or credentials' were exposed
- How to get Arc Flex Rubber in Arc Raiders
- Google says quantum computing will crack bitcoin cryptography sooner than expected, estimating a 10% chance of 'Q-Day' by 2032
- After layoffs, Fortnite's future is shakier than it has ever been
- MindsEye's first major update, 'Blacklist', really will be used to 'share some of the evidence of the sabotage’ that apparently made it bad
- 'Legally distinct Cammy': Overwatch revealed its newest hero and fans are saying she looks awfully familiar
- Crimson Desert's less than ideal launch is a distant memory as it hits the 4 million sales milestone
- There's only one budget wireless hall effect controller I'd recommend right now, and my current favorite is only $30
- Trendforce says DDR5 RAM kit prices have fallen 'sharply' in US, Europe and China but that contract memory prices 'remain stable'
- Web-code library with millions of weekly downloads poisoned by malicious release: 'This is unironically a malware nuclear missile'
- To the surprise of no one, running a PC without system RAM is not the solution to the memory crisis—but hey, you can always force Snake to run in the BIOS
- How to get Assessor Matrix in Arc Raiders
- Now that you can try out Nvidia's new Dynamic Multi Frame Generation for yourself, you might want to know that there's a bit of an issue when it comes to frame rate limiters
- How to complete Fragmented Logs in Arc Raiders
- How to prepare for the Whispers of the Wind update in Disney Dreamlight Valley
- Geekbench says enabling Intel BOT paints an 'unrealistic picture' of CPU performance and makes Intel chips seem faster versus the AMD competition 'than they would be in typical, real-world usage'
- Minecraft Sulfur Cube: Everything you need to know about the game's newest multifunctional mob
- The latest Nvidia App beta update adds DLSS 4.5 Dynamic Multi Frame Generation support and an intriguing Auto Shader Compilation feature to the green team suite
- Amazon says its Fallout series has now been watched by 100 million people, 'with season two now joining season one as two of our top four biggest seasons we've ever launched'
- My 5 favorite cozy games in Steam's House and Home sale
- Super Mario Galaxy Movie reviews are in and, surprise: it's execrable churn
