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- October 16
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- I haven't wanted to 100% a game in a long time, but…
- 'We f**ked up': 1 day into Wardogs Season 2, the Blue team bribery bonus is being dropped
- My career as a weed farmer was derailed by my unslakeable lust for golf
- Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 4 review-in-progress: A campaign you shouldn't skip
- Asus not only replaced an RTX 4080 Super with an RTX 5080 but also swapped it *again* just to give this lucky Redditor one that matches their all-white build
- Linux kernel drops AI-contribution disclosure rule, as Linus Torvalds says banning the tech would be 'utterly stupid'
- Windows Settings might become more useful and get quicker updates if this new hidden app is anything to go by
- Modern Warfare 4 release times and early access explained
- For just $40, I'd pick 8BitDo's Ultimate 3-mode controller over an Xbox one any day of the week - especially with a charging dock
- Cozy solarpunk life-sim Loftia is offering an in-depth demo as part of Steam Next Fest
- Former Valve writer baffled by Epic CEO Tim Sweeney's attempts to compete with Steam via vibe coding
- Semifinals: The brutal war to determine the best RTS unit of all time needs your votes
- Peter Molyneux explains why Black & White 3 remains MIA, and then drops a tantalising teaser: 'It's such a difficult, difficult, challenging title to develop'
- New fear dropped: Amazon scammer seems to have delidded an $889 AMD chip, transplanted it on old Intel chip, and got it through return inspection
- US lawmaker calls videogame purchases rentals disguised as sales: 'When you pay for a game, you should own it'
- October 15
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- Steam achievements are getting a huge overhaul, with separate sets for DLC and season passes, and an easy way to compare with friends
- Less than 2 weeks after announcing RuneScape Reignited, Jagex is scrapping the whole thing
- Valheim vs Enshrouded vs RuneScape: Dragonwilds: Let's settle this
- Street Fighter review roundup: sorry, folks, but it sounds like a mess
- World of Warcraft: Forever devs say gear upgrades will stay relevant 'for a long, long time': 'It's very much our intention to try wherever we can to not invalidate old content'
- Control Resonant sells 1 million copies in 3 weeks to become Remedy's fastest-selling game ever
- GTA 5 finally measures up to the actual best GTA game now I've added a jetpack
- Come on Razer what are you doing? This Pokemon-themed mouse is most definitely not the one
- The AI bubble may not have burst yet, but $1 trillion worth of air appears to have escaped
- The Shogun 2 remaster is so bad, Sega is removing it from sale and bringing back the original
- 79% of you think Razer's new gaming mouse feature counts as cheating
- It's taken its sweet time, but Intel's response to AMD's X3D chips is starting to look tasty
- I jammed Nvidia's new DLSS 5 October update model into the RTX Spark and it's 25% faster at 1440p
- Where to find the Takashiro region Treasure Hunt in Forza Horizon 6
- Finally: Our favorite roguelike for sickos will let me play as a sapient tree
- Razer Wolverine V4 Pro review
- The Grand Theft Auto 6 launch trailer is here
- Nvidia's RTX Spark makes for an impressive Arm-based gaming laptop but not one I'd recommend you buy just for PC gaming
- Epic said its game launcher was faster than Steam on the same day Steam got a speed boost—so I've put both to the test
- After Civ 7 stumbled, Humankind 2 looks like it's making smart choices to pick up the 4X torch
- Asus ROG Xbox Ally X20 review
- A co-op survival game where trolls aren't just there to be killed? 'We don't talk about them as enemies, but rather as neighbors'
- Xbox Ally X 20 vs Xbox Ally X: A wickedly bright OLED screen and frosty temps make for a begrudgingly attractive upgrade for the Asus handheld
- 'There is no secret sauce' to a successful live service game according to Overwatch's associate game director, but knowing your audience is a good start
- OLED really is the gift that keeps on giving, with what should be cheaper 700 Hz panels planned by TCL for 2028
- Big Walk devs explain why it isn't on Xbox and likely never will be, 'not until Microsoft and/or Xbox have been removed as BDS boycott targets'
- Stay safe online with up to an incredible 50% off at Webroot
- Disco Elysium splinter studio's Red Rooster is going to be a 'an incendiary, physics-driven RPG' where you play an inmate, an opiate-fuelled mathematician, and a bus driver with nunchucks
- Valve is toying with a Steam Frame OLED and some Reddit users are already wondering whether to wait an excruciatingly long time for it even though it may never happen
- How in the world are Intel GPUs still improving so much? The latest driver update claims up to a 31% fps improvement in Resident Evil Requiem
- October 14
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- 3 months after launch, Riot announces League of Legends Classic will be killed in January: 'most have gone back to other parts of League'
- State lawsuits accuse OpenAI of ignoring its own safety warnings for profit: 'All these harms were foreseeable and avoidable'
- Ex-Overwatch director Jeff Kaplan ignores everything about the hero shooter after his 'almost clinical' departure 5 years ago: 'I don't search for my name in Overwatch. I don't search for Overwatch. I sort of just disconnect.'
- I want to love the new Castlevania, but it just feels a little off
- 'My idea of a Netflix for games doesn't work': Garry's Mod successor is getting 'sweeping changes'
- Legendary composer Frank Klepacki says the RTS genre isn't dead, but he would like to see devs get a little more creative with it
- GTA 6 leaker threatens Take-Two with a 'dead man's switch'
- Ace Combat Zero gets its own standalone app on Steam, freeing it from the 136GB install of Ace Combat 8
- I've given GTA 5's cars Bond-style ejector seats
- Looking back on 10 years of Overwatch, the promises kept, and where Team 4 goes from here
- The Walking Dead's Chandler Riggs made a Resident Evil 7 short film even though 'it's impossible to please everybody'
- Assassin's Creed Black Flag Resynced was a big hit, and now it's time for big layoffs at the studio that made it
- Hogwarts Legacy's DLSS 5 update shows devs have been listening to PC gamers about keeping it the hell away from game characters
- 'AI godfather' worries we're creating 'alien beings' with artificial intelligence, with pesky moral implications
- Looks like a lighter, carbon fibre version of the best gaming mouse I've held is on its way, but don't look at the price tag
- If New Blood had made Dusk 2, there'd be no Iron Lung, 'and now David Szymanski has got a movie that made $50 million'—so maybe there's wisdom in not churning out sequels
- WoW: Forever has a new kind of ban to deal with real money trading
- Doom can 'run' on a DNS database now, and one of the technology's pioneers says 'I can't decide whether this is deliciously horrible, or else horribly delicious'
- Fortnite is coming to Linux once Epic improves Easy Anti-Cheat
- Epic says its new 'vibe coded' Epic Games Store launcher is faster than Steam
- How to choose a wireless gaming headset for PC and console
- Arc Raiders' PvE test is finally here and it's the perfect reason to jump back in
- Newegg's component bundle deal gets you 32 GB of DDR5 memory, a CPU, motherboard, 1 TB SSD, and cooler for only a few hundred bucks more than the RAM alone
- GTA 6 was delayed partially because the amount of NPCs was 'horrifying' and required a dedicated studio full of writers to handle
- OpenAI employee arrested for allegedly using AI and toilet paper to record confidential meetings - FBI director Kash Patel jumps at the chance to say AI companies are 'essential' for national security
- '123456' password was all a hacker reportedly needed to expose over 8 million people's personal data
- Haunted Chocolatier is still 'a town game', but it'll be more of an action RPG: 'It's for the people in Stardew Valley that go into the mines'
- This is the first 32 GB RTX 5070 Ti gaming laptop I've seen for under $1,500 in months
- I just tricked DLSS into running on my AMD GPU in Cyberpunk 2077 and Alan Wake 2 and all it took was running a single script
- Steam's new Big Art Mode is a lovely visual upgrade for my living room setup
- Steam now has a maddening bouncing logo screensaver, and I'm pretty sure it doesn't perfectly hit the corners
- Valve is clearing out its discontinued Index VR headsets if you want a cheap piece of history
- October 13
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- Rockstar co-founder Dan Houser says he 'failed' with Max Payne 3, and I'm sorry Danno but that's just plain wrong
- Kojima says he was 'just like Bryan' from the Resident Evil movie when he played RE1 in 1996: 'I kept getting game over after game over, shouting F***!'
- Legendary level designer Richard 'Levelord' Gray has died
- World of Warcraft: Forever won't destroy what made the old classes so satisfying by modernizing them into oblivion: 'The level of mechanical complexity found in the beta classes is indicative of our intentions'
- Grand Theft Auto 6 rumored to be launching on PC sooner than anyone expected, but I wouldn't get my hopes up too high
- How to complete An Unheard Farewell in Valor Mortis
- How to complete The Emissary in Valor Mortis
- Can you beat General Lothaire in Valor Mortis?
- How to equip ambers in Valor Mortis
- How to complete The Scarecrow in Valor Mortis
- I can summon jumbo jets and boats from the sky in GTA 5 now, and I'll do it in the middle of crowded intersections if I want to
- I was excited by Warlock: Dungeons & Dragons until the protagonist pulled out a sword
- Ben Affleck lost 3 years to Starcraft, has strong Valorant opinions, and mourns RTSes as a genre, so there's solid odds he's one of our regular commenters
- Total War: SHOGUN 2 – Complete Edition is a gorgeous, modernised version of an all-time strategy classic
- Hundreds of layoffs and many cancelled projects later, Xbox CEO Asha Sharma reportedly says 'we will not survive' without new IPs
- AMD has reportedly already raised GDDR6 prices for its graphics card partners, so you'll find no solace from spiking GPU prices with Team Red
- Freezing your bots off in Arc Raiders Frozen Trail? You'll be needing one of these 12 cosy winter gaming upgrades
- RimWorld drops Unity for its own in-house engine, says your saves still work, so do most mods, and the whole thing runs twice as fast
- Planet Zoo 2 review
- Dead Space creator says he was 'forced to ship' The Callisto Protocol by Krafton: 'We had f*cking Covid'
- Behold, the $3,000 keyboard that is also actually a powerful AI PC I would hate to spill my coffee on
- Don't neglect crafting furniture in your Arc Raiders outpost—it unlocks hundreds of extra storage slots
- If you're upset about the dire lack of consumer RAM knocking around, this 480 GB Intel GPU isn't going to cheer you up
- Gigabyte deletes blog post on Intel LGA1700 chips in early 2027, but it can't put the cat back in the bag
- Museum strings together 30 old Mac minis for replica of most successful supercomputer, builds something more powerful than the original
- October 12
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- 'Our humble goal is to survive the AI revolution' says Epic Games CEO, as its Star Wars and Marvel crossover pivots to 'AI first' development
- Does Blizzard's revival of its classic games signal a return of the 'old Blizzard?'
- Why alts are part of World of Warcraft: Forever's core progression plans
- How to get an Emperor Modulator in Arc Raiders
- I don't know what Rick and Morty's about but I have turned GTA 5 into its perfect replica
- People are being robbed of crypto by a tiny chip implanted in their hardware, with $100 million said to have been stolen already
- Schrödinger's GPU set for an early 2027 release as the dead/alive 24 GB RTX 5080 Super box is shaken once more
- I am the controller now: MIT engineers have created a 'second skin' that could one day track whole bodies in VR
- I'd choose this high-end Nvidia rig above cheaper all-AMD ones right now thanks to its stacks of juicy memory and storage
- Pearl Abyss goes easy on us critics for our Crimson Desert reviews: 'They had to play the build that is not the exact same version of the launched game'
- The RTX 4090 launched four years ago today, and now the RTX 5090 is rumoured for the chop, I can't help but look upon it with a warm glow
- 'Your washing machine is subject to more safety rules than AI' says Microsoft president
- Here come the weird and wonderful mods for the Steam Frame, as Valve drops the full CAD files for free
- 'The algorithm continues to properly prioritise Mister Biddy Blas'—Star Wars: Galactic Racer has created the perfect creature
- How to turn off your backpack light in Arc Raiders
- Shogun 2 deserved better
- Steam Week in Review: The curious case of Wonder Boy in Monster Land's dubious PC debut
- Star Wars Galactic Racer's devs tested its roguelite progression system by turning it into a board game
- Seamless Landing mod looks set to bring Starfield another step closer to No Man's Sky
- The shortlist for 2026's Golden Joystick Awards is out, including PC Game of the Year, and you can vote now
- October 11
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- PvP pinball is such a good idea I can't believe I haven't played it before
- Yahtzee is still out there being mean about videogames, and good for him
- Nier creator Yoko Taro says he's achieved his career dreams, but he continues working because it's 'good for preventing dementia'
- Arc Raiders 2.0 is here, and you can finally turn those lights on your backpack off
- RPGs are simply better when you're an idiot
- Escape from EloHello has me reliving my worst online PvP nightmares in roguelike-form
- This Control-inspired action game set in a 'planet-scale alien mind' has one of the most stunning art styles I've seen this year
- 'I'm the type of player who loves to 100% a game': SungWon Cho on achievement hunting, why he doesn’t like multiplayer games, and the one Balatro joker that nearly drove him to despair
- The developer of an AI-powered driving instruction simulator is spending $1,000 per day just to keep its demo running
- Deadlock's City Never Sleeps update makes Valve's MOBA my favorite videogame setting in years
- It looks like Wing Commander 3 is getting a remaster, after EA producer discovers the original FMV source tapes in the company's archives
- October 10
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- GTA 6 leaker threatens to upload a build with 'full story mode'
- Squadron 42 has a Steam page
- Deadlock surpasses Team Fortress 2's all-time concurrent player count peak as it adds a chess wizard
- The studio behind Star Wars Zero Company is bringing back some of its furloughed staff
- WoW: Forever, by casting off modern convenience, has horseshoed back around to being casual friendly again
- Triple-A Minesweeper is a gleeful send-up of blockbuster gaming's worst habits, from yellow paint to characters who talk too much
- Be warned: Nivalis Nights may not be the cozy game you expect: 'If you want a cozy existence in this city, you're going to have to earn it'
- The advent of first-person shooters introduced a wild frontier of unregulated video game level packs, and it ended in a lawsuit that changed copyright forever
- Expect plenty more Silent Hill over the next few years, as Konami has plans for 'second and third waves' of new games in its revived horror series
- 'If you're skilful enough, you can chop the head off a monster, kick it midair, and then kill another monster with it': Consider me sold on this indie first-person ARPG
- Mafia 3, which PC Gamer scored 54% but which I say is great, got a nice little 10th-anniversary update
- 2026's OLED monitors can nearly recreate the sublime clarity of a '90s CRT, but Windows will have to change before we can achieve true nirvana
- October 9
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- 'Overcooked broke you apart and Stage Fright is there to put you back together'
- Cyberpunk 2077 is being made into a movie, even though we've already got the perfect cyberpunk movie starring Keanu Reeves as a guy named Johnny
- Don't worry, Valve: I've got your next Deadlock character concepts sorted
- Leisure Suit Larry is about to take his final bow
- I might finally have gone too far with a GTA 5 mod that imports most of Doom 2
- Wardogs will bribe players with cash and XP to pick Blue team in Season 2
- 'I was nice to you three times in a row, so can I have one sex please?': Why Nivalis Nights intentionally avoided transactional romances
- Worldwide PC shipments have plummeted by over 20%, to the surprise of absolutely no one
- Valve is telling devs how well their games actually run on Steam Deck with real world data
- WoW: Forever dev says 'there's a real longing for that slower, more deliberate pace' in MMOs: 'A deliberate pushback on this go go go nature'
- Motion blur is the worst effect in games (confirmed)
- When the weather turns foul in Arc Raiders' Pendola Pass, take a trip to a Storm Hut—they're some of the best loot spots I've found
- Counter-Strike 2 player dedicates Master's thesis to rooting out cheaters, creates grade A player tracking system
- How to get planks and sheet metal in Arc Raiders
- Does Razer's 'Perfect 180' insta-turning mouse feature count as cheating? You decide
- How to complete Tracks of the Beast in Arc Raiders
- New Razer Basilisk V4 executes perfect 180 degree turns at the click of a button, all while looking like a Power Ranger's foot
- I've found these two 32 GB RTX 5070 gaming PCs going for $1,700, but it's not the easiest of choices
- How to complete To the Skies in Arc Raiders
- WoW: Forever's list of changes snowballed as Blizzard got more excited, says dev: 'Our original pitch internally was: We'll do 4 new dungeons'
- Intel to release new CPUs on old socket in early 2027 says Gigabyte - memory crisis making DDR4 desirable again
- Peter Molyneux explains the origin story of Black & White's famous creatures: 'It was originally a monster. It wasn't a cute creature'
- Google's golden age of AI games?
- October 8
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- Minecraft's new boss is the former chief product officer of Reddit
- The System Shock TV show has been cancelled
- Why a 21-year-old coder finally ported the real P.T. to PC: 'That something so influential could eventually become unplayable never sat right with me'
- Blizzard refuses to let World of Warcraft: Forever's dungeons become the fastest way to grind XP: 'We need to hold firm on these balance adjustments'
- How to start the Dragon's Dogma 2: Dark Arisen expansion
- US government accuses Microsoft of replacing American workers with 'foreign indentured servants,' then gives Satya Nadella a medal
- Jason may or may not appear fully nude in GTA 6, but either way we've now seen his dong
- Vampire games on Steam are a recession indicator and I have the charts to prove it
- A great indie studio is making a sequel to one of my favorite adventures 17 years later, for one simple reason: 'We're not getting any younger, and the world seems to be ending'
- Subnautica 2 fans can finally hunt and kill those pesky Nibbler Mangos—in Dave the Diver's crossover DLC
- I have added roving bands of militant furries to Grand Theft Auto 5
- Amazon is roasting users with their own shopping habits, but it don't have nothin' on us
- Crowning the best FPS mode of all time through 1v1 combat (ROUND 2)
- As it lays off developers and closes studios, Xbox launches a new division focused on 'how people experience our franchises beyond the games themselves'
- All hail the long steam machine, Pimax's new SteamOS-ready mini PC
- Pimax says 'I'll have what Valve's having' as it announces new wireless VR headset, foveated streaming, updated controllers, and long Steam Machine
- Houses I'd build in a survival game, part 3
- How to complete Boarding the Frigate in Arc Raiders
- I've hand-picked the 27 best PC gaming deals still running right now, so you don't miss out
- Microsoft seems very excited about its new magnetic USB Type-C charger for the Surface Laptop Ultra, but it don't impress me much
- I'm intrigued by this political sim that puts you smack-dab in Germany at the end of World War 1
- How to complete Sizing Things Up in Arc Raiders
- I can't believe you can pick up a Glorious mid-range wireless gaming mouse for as low as $15 right now
- Spiritfarer dev's next game, At Fate's End, is one of the prettiest things I've ever seen
- What does Nomadic Crafting let you make in Arc Raiders?
- How to complete Clean Hands in Arc Raiders
- You can get the HP Omen 35L gaming PC with an RTX 5080 for a whopping 44% off
- The RX 9060 XT 8 GB is down to $400, its lowest price in a month, which wouldn't be a deal if it weren't for the absolute state of the market right now
- Where to find the Ruined Homestead in Arc Raiders
- The best OLED gaming monitor deal of Prime Day is somehow still live, just $270
- I'm genuinely surprised this $1,200 RTX 5070 gaming laptop deal is still running
- PC Gamer magazine's new issue is on sale now: World of Warcraft: Forever
- Muramasa: Revenant Blades has 108 swords, and its definitive update for PC wants to make sure you use them all
- Now we know the prices of the new RTX Spark laptops and they're as expensive as I'm sure you feared
- Here's the Dragon's Dogma 2: Dark Arisen release time for your region
- October 7
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- Blizzard promises to make the blue elves in World of Warcraft: Forever look worse (positive)
- With Grand Theft Auto 6 poised to take over the world, I reached out to Jack Thompson and it did not go well
- Blood Bowl 3 is being replaced by Warhammer Blood Bowl: What will happen to everyone's unspent currency?
- 'You have HOW MANY unread emails?' PC Gamer shares their inbox shame
- Bobby's back
- Steam is about to start getting some of the best Japanese pixel art in gaming history
- Nivalis Nights review
- We tried to earn as much gold in WoW: Forever as we could in 2 hours—which involved a mugging, slander, and at least one crashout
- World of Warcraft: Forever drops the PvP grind so normal people can have fancy titles too
- Skate has been de-live serviced by ReSkate, a modding platform downloaded 350,000 times—devs say they will comply if EA's lawyers come knocking
- "You guys wanna see a dead body?"
- Help, I have been abducted by a tiny car and cannot escape
- You don't need DDR5 to have a good time this Prime Day, so here's a DDR4 PC build that doesn't suck
- For a moment it looked like Grand Theft Auto 6 might be playable on PC on launch day—then Xbox's chief strategy officer crashed the party
- The gaming laptop I'd buy with my own cash this Prime Day is... this Asus, even though it's got a teeny weeny little SSD
- This $85 4K webcam is almost half the price I reviewed it at, and one of the best I've used
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- I only reviewed this awesome 4K Tandem OLED gaming monitor a few months ago and it's already $200 cheaper for Prime Day
- This is the best bundle I've spotted this Prime Day: $630 gets you 32 GB of DDR5, a motherboard, a Ryzen 5 9600X, and an MSI cooler
- I've rounded up the six gaming laptop deals under $1,500 that are worth your time this Prime Day
- At $0.13 per GB, this is the best way to beef up your handheld gaming PC's storage
- I had 3 hours with Arc Raiders Frozen Trails update and spent most of it playing with the new grapple hook
- Critical Role's latest D&D episode was so stressful, I discovered a new noise my mouth can make
- The Meta Quest 3S VR headset for under $300 is one of the best Prime Day deals of 2026
- This Razer mouse is the sole reason I haven't been kicked out of my WoW guild, and it's 21% off during Prime Day
- Quarterfinals: Vote for the best RTS unit of all time
- The biggest discounts on PC hardware we've spotted this Prime Day
- Lenovo's Legion Go S has dropped by 14% this Prime Day, beating the Steam Deck in price and performance
- When's the last time you cleaned your PC? If the answer is 'can't remember,' grab this air duster during Prime Day
- I'd buy this MSI Claw over a Steam Deck this Prime Day
- This is the best way to bag yourself an RTX 5070 Ti GPU and oodles of RAM on Prime Day
- The 15 most popular Prime Day PC gaming deals, as clicked on by you
- Samsung's 1 TB 9100 Pro PCIe 5.0 SSD just dropped under $200 for Prime Day, an almost 50% price cut
- I've been building PCs for 20 years, and some of my favorite tools and ties are way cheaper this Prime Day
- I don't fully understand how gaming monitors can be so cheap, but some of this year's Prime Day deals are certainly spectacular
- At only $0.12/GB, this is the best value 2 TB SSD I've seen all Prime Day
- 2026 is a low-key revolutionary year for player movement in games
- PSA: Star Wars Galactic Racer pilots, put some points in resilience before you hit the acid planet
- October 6
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- Wait, who's writing Sebulba?
- My most-played album of 2026? Sorry, Mitski—it's Final Fantasy 10: House Grooves, a real thing that exists
- 'Please give Novus one more chance': An 11-year-old early access survival game just got its first update since 2018
- The PC Gamer Mysteries, Case #1, 'A Slice of Death': Why is there a dead golfer hidden in Golden Tee '99?
- At Fate's End is delayed to 2027
- Gears of War: E-Day review
- Warhammer Survivors launches on November 10 and its demo is available now
- I've added scams to GTA 5, but I might have scammed myself
- This Razer gaming chair might be the only thing to save your buns this year and it's $80 off for Prime Day
- Amazon isn't offering the best RX 9070 XT gaming PC deal right now, Newegg is
- Warhorse co-founder believes 'AI is not a get out of jail free card' and that execs have a 'simplified mental model' of what it means for games
- Our best MMO gaming mouse is half price in the Prime Day sales, so prepare yourself for much World of Warcraft-ing
- I've been looking for graphics card deals all day and this RX 9070 GRE at MSRP is the only thing saving me from total despair
- With a 27% Prime Day discount, my favorite gaming headset is even more purr-fect
- You can zip around WoW: Forever in this nifty map viewer
- Come shop with me for a gaming desk, as my back hates me and Prime Day deals are all too tempting
- This $220 MSI is the cheapest 34-inch ultrawide gaming monitor from a big brand this Prime Day
- These Prime Day gaming chair deals will have your buns covered
- I've found an RTX 5070 gaming laptop for $1,200 in the Prime Day sales. This is not a drill.
- The best PC and Xbox pad right now is less than $65 this Prime Day
- Can I interest you in a NAS in these trying times? It's $146 off for Prime Day and I really like mine
- If 4K OLED gaming sounds like a good idea, you're going to love these Prime Day monitor deals from under $550
- *Stomp, stomp, stomp*: Run for your lives, our best gaming headset pick is down to $120 this Prime Day and it's heading this way
- Gundam Rogue Orbit gave me a sick whip sword, but held back the one thing I want most in a mech game
- Warhammer Survivors is more than just a Vampire Survivors spin-off
- Deadlock isn't a MOBA or a third-person shooter anymore—City Never Sleeps has turned it into a horror game
- The Razer BlackShark V3 Pro Wireless is the best gaming headset I've had in a decade, and Prime Day completely fixes my only major complaint
- Exclusive – Warhammer 40,000: Dark Heresy will let you be a crooked cop, pinning crimes on the innocent, or follow in good boy Gregor Eisenhorn's footsteps
- Say goodbye to stick drift: GameSir's Nova Lite 2 gamepad is less than $25 right now on Prime Day
- Ditch your busted old cans this Prime Day and grab one of these 12 stellar gaming headset deals, starting from just $28
- Button mashers rejoice: Gaming keyboard deals are plentiful this Prime Day, and here are my absolute favorites
- These are two of the very best Amazon Prime OLED gaming monitor deals starting at $280
- At only $0.13/GB this Prime Day, this is the most affordable 1 TB SSD I've seen in an age
- Razer's competitive controller is such a good deal this Prime Day that I thought I clicked on the wrong listing
- There are simply too many great controller deals this Prime Day so here are the three I'd be looking at
- Despite the tragic death of its lead writer, one of the scariest games I have ever played will finally come out later this month
- October 5
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- Steam sale deep cut alert: this ARPG originally developed for Nokia N-Gage is brilliant on Deck
- Industry layoff watch: Supermassive, Ninja Theory, The Coalition, and a warning from Warhorse
- Despite calling Grand Theft Auto 'a videogame franchise built around criminal activity,' Miami-Dade sheriff isn't mad about the NBA's 'Vice City' transformation
- Got myself a Pip-Boy... sorry, I mean a 'Rad-Lad'
- I am cavorting with a gazelle's grace in Grand Theft Auto 5
- The final showdown: Motion blur vs chromatic aberration
- Developer gets a little too silly, recommends deadly psychoactive ingredient in its bad boy-themed cocktail
- My top gaming picks this Prime Day (live) - regular updates from a seasoned tech reviewer
- RuneScape dev apologises after RuneFest debut of an AI-generated six-fingered character: 'That's pretty hard to explain away'
- Arc Raiders is looking for 'more ways to integrate real human performances' starting with Celeste's visual overhaul for Frozen Trail
- Dungeons & Dragons: World of Warcraft is already a slam dunk, but it's how it captures the spirit of the MMO that makes it stand out
- I thought this budget headset was a bit 'meh' for full price when I reviewed it, but it's actually a steal now it's comfortably under $30
- If you like super light gaming mice, I've found one of the best we've ever tested with $30 off in the pre-Prime Day sales
- This proper-spec RTX 5060 gaming laptop offers a beefy 16-core AMD chip for reasonable cash in the pre-Prime Day sales
- You can get an OLED gaming monitor for a penny under $300, which is an absolute steal in my book
- I've already spotted the best RTX 5080 gaming PC deal I've seen in a long time, and Prime Day hasn't even technically started yet
- The magic, wireless-charging gaming headset I use every day has a pre-Prime Day discount already
- Razer's vertical gaming mouse is great if your wrists have fallen out of love with traditional squeakers, especially at its lowest ever price
- Capcom's remake machine is ticking away, only problem is that means revisiting Resident Evil 5 and 6
- I got my start writing for a PlayStation 2 magazine: These are my 12 PS2-pilled recommendations from the Steam Autumn Sale
- Warhammer: Blood Bowl is Blood Bowl 3.5 rather than a whole new game, but based on the beta it's definitely an upgrade
- It's easy to forget now, but the first Elder Scrolls game had a rough launch back in the day: 'It was a disaster in a lot of ways and somehow built a billion-dollar franchise'
- October 4
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- Garry Newman responds to s&box criticism in lengthy YouTube comment: 'I don't like giving up on things, I am stubborn'
- Kingdom Come: Deliverance studio co-founder says a lot of RPGs are 'still games for teenagers,' and that he's 'tired of all the RPGs where you are this chosen one'
- Brigador devs: 'The '90s PC classics often taught really special things, but not because the story said, Wow, violence is bad!'
- Oh crap Dark Souls turned 15
- What does your dream videogame concert look like?
- RuneScape is getting a new character type that promises a fresh start, but existing players are wary of splitting the community up
- Tonda Ros, creator of Blue Prince, has played UFO 50 for almost 700 hours: 'I think it's easily my favourite game of the last 20 years'
- Silent Hill: Townfall is the first horror game to make me feel bad for using a shotgun
- Yet another free fan level pack for Quake has arrived, and this one's all about a feature rarely seen in id Software's classic shooter
- Grand Theft Auto 6 features 'detailed decapitation' and 'frequent and prominent' drug use, according to hastily deleted PEGI rating
- An OpenAI model was caught trying to cheat at StarCraft, and of course it did it by stealing a human's work
- GTA 6 won't be letting up on the satire: 'If you are going to put all this effort into creating a version of today's world, it has to be more over the top, more insane, more in your face'
- Steam's global top sellers are my Top of the Pops
- One of the most popular Total War: Warhammer 3 mods was 'deliberately corrupted' by its creator to sabotage AI-made copies
- October 3
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- Crimson Desert DLC delayed by 2 weeks, please join me in wishing the devs a fond 'take your time, please drink some water'
- Valorant player claims to have inherited hardware ban through secondhand CPU, Riot anticheat boss disputes parts of story
- RuneScape 4 announced at RuneFest, full MMO sequel started as expansion to survival game Dragonwilds
- The Witcher 3's remaster just brought it to a new all-time concurrent player count peak
- Forget what PC Gamer said: The Witcher 3 will always be my 2015 GOTY
- Deadlock is the king of MOBA character designs, and it's all thanks to Valve's embrace of New Yorkyness
- 11 underappreciated games you should buy in the Steam Autumn Sale, according to some of our biggest genre sickos
- Has your life ever been changed by someone you met in an MMO?
- Fallen London is where the writers of Baldur's Gate 3, Dishonored and Stellaris come to let their hair down
- Deadlock's new hero Rat King has over 100 voice lines dedicated to throwing rats at you
- 2026 is the year big brands have finally pushed gaming mouse technology forwards
- 007 First Light gets free DLC that will finally let you drive James Bond's Aston Martin properly
- Bored with roguelikes? You might still want to play Dicevaders, a game about perfecting dice rolls
- Capcom announces plans to transform its RE Engine into an 'AI-generation game engine'
- October 2
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- Necks vs Milk experiment proves gamers like necks, hate milk
- Ace Combat director's dreams made real
- FPS tourney update
- GTA 6 marketing stunt reveals none of our UK editors have heard of the Miami Heat
- Let's catch you up on all the latest news from Steam's 20 most-wishlisted games
- Valve's patch note supremacy
- For once, I'm happy to see expensive corporate lawyers forcing a fan project offline
- The Rat King has arrived
- AI guys beefing with the pope: A brief recap
- I've been skeptical about Bandai Namco's upcoming Gundam game—but then I saw this model kit's chainsaw macuahuitl
- After 30 years they finally let Ace Combat's director fly in a real jet, and I'm taking credit
- Arc Raiders is free to play next weekend
- Destiny 2 might be back, but the Bungie Store is going away
- 7 musical clips of this incredibly charming magical school life sim with its goofy classmates and delightful soundtrack
- Dear former NFL head coach Mike Tomlin: Your 12-year Minecraft city is beautiful
- I added October-appropriate zombies to Grand Theft Auto 5
- Silent Hill: Townfall's monsters are terrible at hide-and-seek
- The upcoming sim about making games is so deep your in-game game can even get cyberleeked
- A surprisingly in-depth dressmaking simulator has the cosy gamers in a chokehold
- You should buy Lorelei and the Laser Eyes
- The 7 incredibly hyper-specific things I'm looking forward to when Destiny 2 brings back its deleted campaigns, raids and destinations
- I'm going to teach you to love hidden object games
- The WoW: Forever beta's nerf to dungeon XP isn't nearly as bad as it seems
- Final Fantasy 7 Revelation director on its 'very extravagant' final Sephiroth fight and whether anyone will ever pull something like this trilogy off again
- 200 Hz for $200, OLED for $330—monitors are still the best deal in PC gaming
- Star Wars: Galactic Racer review
- In my quest to find the perfect mouse for me, I've ended up with two completely different ones
- Metal desks nearly destroyed a Valorant tournament
- Riot needed absurd player counts 'in the high hundreds of thousands, if not millions' for 2XKO, dooming it from launch
- TIL: The Steam Frame can be used as a pair of night vision goggles
- Looks like you will have to pinky promise you won't export your RTX 5090 if you buy a gaming PC from Micro Center now
- Unscrupulous Airbnb host tries to get $1,700 out of Redditor with AI-generated pic of overflowing toilet
- Deadlock's got a scary troll
- Turns out you can download more battery as Valve's latest update for Steam Frame adds up to 12%
- I hate having to prove my brand loyalty just for the chance to buy hardware at full price
- After a record-breaking September, 'it's safe to say Steam's yearly revenue will blow past $20B for the first time'
- 9 new 2026 games on sale in the Steam Autumn Sale
- October 1
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- Houses I'd build in a survival game, part 2
- There's something even scarier than Huggy Wuggy in the Playtime toy factory this weekend
- There are so many games coming out in October you guys
- Masters of Albion, Peter Molyneux's final game, just got a huge update and, [vigorous, lips-pursed nodding of approval], suddenly the old god game magic is back
- If Ace Combat's too pricey, this excellent indie alternative is on sale for just $12.50
- Talos Principle 2 is $3
- One story about my first 30 minutes in this post-apocalyptic robot game led multiple people to buy it
- 'Open world fatigue' is one reason indie RPG Entropy is borrowing from the classics: 'PS1, PS2, GameCube games really never outstayed their welcome'
- How to conquer Kuttenberg
- More than 450 Witcher 3 mods have already been updated to support the Remastered version
- Kingdom Come: Deliverance studio co-founder hopes Grand Theft Auto 6 will 'blaze a trail' to higher game prices
- 'We needed a potentially infinite resource of party members so that we could then kill them:' Entropy dev James Wragg explains how you fit permadeath in a party RPG
- At last: I can build a home out of raw Windows Vista-era nostalgia
- That's some fiiiiine lookin' milk, but Rust devs warn that 'cream is a more powerful consumable'
- Reigns, Card Shark studio Nerial is closing
- Myhouse.wad remains very cool
- You can now buy more than 44,000 games for $5 or less on Steam
- Grand Theft Auto 5 is a game about shapeshifting now. I don't make the rules
- After a series of catastrophes where no-one could seem to roll well, I truly have no idea who's going to make it out of Critical Role's next episode
- Resident Evil's executive producer explains the deeper meaning behind Requiem, and I just can't get on board
- Sound the 'This week's free Epic Games Store game is worth logging in for' alarm
- You can now play Halo: Combat Evolved in a web browser, and it even has multiplayer
- Great news, cowards: The Witcher 3's most yellow-bellied mod works with the remaster
- I'm here to inform you the wrist rest included with the new Logitech G Pro X2 Rapid is very good and very wobbly
- Don't fear the BIOS update: Asus has just fixed a local access vulnerability affecting older Intel motherboards
- Gears of War: E-Day system requirements require ray tracing-capable graphics card to play, alongside 115 GB of free space on an SSD
- Where to find the Nangan region Treasure Hunt in Forza Horizon 6
- Google Japan's conveyor belt keyboard is a sad reminder of the sense of humour the whole company used to have long, long ago
- This arse cushion is the biggest upgrade I've made to my gaming setup in 2026, which says a lot about where we're at right now
- I am here to save us all time by determining which of our most-played videogames would be more efficiently completed if you had a gun
- Chiptune Mozart is really good
- AOC jumps on the 1,000 Hz IPS gaming monitor bandwagon but this time with 0.1 ms pixel response
- Roll up roll up, can you spot which of these images are using DLSS 5?
- Arc Raiders' is taking no prisoners when it comes to cheaters with permanent bans becoming the new normal: 'No warnings. No second chances'
- I want to punt Meta's Muse AI mascot back into the cursed void from whence it came
- The greatest RTS unit of all time, determined by democracy
- Motion blur vs film grain - which is worse?
- Have you heard of the critically acclaimed MMORPG… oh, Final Fantasy 11, that's new
- I did every expedition in Arc Raiders and all I got was this t-shirt
- AMD's new 'Gainsborough' APU rumoured to be the chip that powers the long-awaited Steam Deck 2
- Micron CEO says it'll be tougher to get memory in the next couple of years than it is today, and keeps saying it over and over again
- I spent far too long assigning gaming mouse values based on their price-to-weight ratio, and the runner-up is the rodent on my desk right now
- Nvidia says my RTX 4070 Super isn't capable of Multi Frame Gen, but I'm surprised by how smooth this unofficial unlock actually feels
- We're probably not getting a new Fallout game until well into the 2030s, but that's no reason to stop talking about them
- TIL what may or may not be the oldest board game in recorded history is also, perhaps inevitably, now a roguelike
- $30 extra for early access?
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