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May 31
- The Sony State of Play 'open-world dress-up adventure' game and the RPG where you carry a child on your back are both headed for PC
- Valve has now filed for a trademark for Deadlock, the hero shooter it refuses to admit exists
- Soup up your tiny car so much you can launch it into space in this weird little open world driving game
- Take-Two is reportedly looking to either sell or close its Private Division publishing label
- Destiny's famed 'lore daddy' releases a 10-hour history recap, with 12,000 people tuning in for the live premiere
- A new throwback RPG is so good, it's won praise from Larian boss Swen Vincke: 'I’m flying to LA next week and plan to play it the entire flight'
- Frostpunk devs say they're not out to make 'depression simulators' despite all the death and child labour: 'There always has to be a good way out'
- Wildermyth developer Worldwalker Games is 'going into hibernation,' not because it has to but because it wants to: 'We did what we set out to do'
- The latest overnight survival game fixation blends a Mesoamerican theme, Bionicle masks, and the occasional Destiny guy
- Take-Two CEO: The idea that AI will make everyone unemployed is 'the stupidest thing I've ever heard'
- Assassin's Creed Shadows
- After a complete rebranding, legally-distinct Bloodborne parody Nightmare Kart is finally released to the general public—and the PS1 vibes are immaculate
- Twitch is replacing members on its Safety Advisory Council for Twitch Ambassadors
- Final Fantasy 14: Dawntrail's official site goes up, casually reveals that we're doing both a tournament arc and a field trip to the Bermuda Triangle
- Asked whether Grand Theft Auto 6 will come to PC, Take-Two CEO Strauss Zelnick says Rockstar 'will make more announcements in due time'
- Avengers, assemble—Google, Intel, Microsoft, AMD and more team up to develop an interconnect standard to rival Nvidia's NVLink
- Disney finally springs the mousetrap on Pixelborn, an impressive, fanmade, and unfortunately doomed digital client for TCG Lorcana
- The latest Windows 11 update has finally patched out the most annoying video playback bug 'when you use a Chromium-based browser to play a video'
- Slime Rancher 2's latest update adds toys and see-saws for your colourful blobs, letting you transform your ranch into a playground for profit
- Cozy Caravan mixes crafting, cute critters, and simple quests for the ultimate relaxing game
- The new Helldivers 2 major order has some major issues, as the super colony of Meridia proves a little too super
- Broken Roads, the wonky Aussie Fallout, receives a major update that lets you pet koalas and explains the meaning of sex trophies
- Those erroneous search results were just the AI doing its job, says Google—"Prior to these screenshots going viral, practically no one asked Google that question"
- The Backrooms, a liminal space so internet-famous it spawned its own canon, has been found in the real world by 4 sleuths on a Discord server
- Microsoft demos how AI, which is famously 'accurate', can help players figure out what to build in Minecraft
- Soulmask is a survival sandbox where you run a jungle tribe
- Everyone chill, GPUs and motherboards aren't about to be walloped with a massive tariff after all
- Private Division has canceled a deal for Bloober Team's unannounced survival horror 'Project C', but the mystery game from the Silent Hill 2 remakers might not be dead yet
- Today's Wordle answer for Friday, May 31
- God of War Ragnarök will require a PSN account to play on PC
May 30
- Sony's next multiplayer shooter will release on PC this August, comes from ex-Destiny 2 devs
- The Silent Hill 2 remake finally arrives this October
- Monster Hunter Wilds is full of 'harsh and unforgiving' weather and will let you switch between 2 weapons on a hunt
- Dynasty Warriors: Origins coming in 2025 with more 1 v 1,000 action
- God of War Ragnarök PC announced, coming in September
- Valorant boss announces new measures to crack down on toxic players, with harsh words for the worst offenders: 'We won't miss you'
- Brand synergizing strikes again as Destiny 2 gets D&D crossover cosmetics, and dammit, I do kind of want the owlbear sparrow
- The great party game Sportsfriends is now free on all platforms, because the studio behind it says it's 'not in a position to support or update it' anymore
- In this brutal Lovecraftian survival game, my entire village was wiped out in the time it took you to read this sentence
- Todd Howard says he's never seen anything like the '4-6x increase in daily players' the Fallout games got from the show: 'It's a really, really unique moment'
- Framework has announced the laptop upgrade I've been waiting for
- 'One foot in the grave, one foot in the rave': Redfall gets offline mode and some big gameplay changes in a beefy final update ahead of Arkane Austin's closure
- If you're starting a fresh run in Elden Ring before the expansion, I can't recommend the Seamless Co-op mod highly enough
- A Warzone collaboration with Fallout was leaked showing rugged operators dressed up like vault dwellers, but it may have missed the mark
- Helldivers 2 player encounters a bug that gives them infinite gas, and haven't we all been there?
- Minecraft is building its own Netflix-exclusive series that'll explore 'the world of Minecraft in a new light', and no, it's not Story Mode
- 'My kids weren't born yet, and now they're in primary school learning how to make their own games': Game Dev Tycoon studio head talks taking 10 years to make his upcoming inn sim, Tavern Keeper
- Sony accidentally leaks the whole of Destiny 2's latest expansion, as its game streaming service let players access The Final Shape days before launch
- The best thing about this retro fantasy RPG is that I keep forgetting it's actually Lovecraftian horror
- iFixit has cancelled its Samsung 'Galaxy of Repair' partnership criticising the company's commitment: 'We tried to make this work. Gosh, we tried'
- Today's GPUs are supremely capable and graphics in the latest games are utterly spectacular, so why do I not get the same wow factor that I got 26 years ago?
- 'We're on solid moral ground': If you don't like Still Wakes The Deep's use of yellow paint, then take it up with OSHA and the HSE
- 'It's not the most glamourous setting': Still Wakes the Deep's developers discuss why the oil rig setting works so well
- Still Wakes the Deep gets the fundamentals of horror just right while also having an incredible location and grisly action
- One of Larian Studios' next games has a codename—Excalibur, though 'if we're brutally honest, we're trying to figure out what the hell it is', says Swen Vincke
- Arrowhead's new CEO says the studio 'knew it would be impossible' to keep up with Helldivers 2's demand for new content, is now focussed on adjusting 'so that in the long term we can make more and better stuff'
- Helldivers 2 may have triggered a wave of bans for 20,000 Russian and Belarusian Steam accounts
- Players are up in arms after the WoW Mists of Pandaria: Remix team refuses to budge on the whopping 577,950 bronze cost to upgrade all your gear
- Sony hopes PC gamers, who'll wait years for Epic exclusives to come to Steam out of spite, will buy PS5s for exclusive sequels
- Nvidia's RTX 5090 might not be the jumbo big boi we were all expecting
- Today's Wordle answer for Thursday, May 30
May 29
- It Takes Two's Steam Deck update broke old cloud saves, but EA has an old-school workaround
- After trying to branch out during the pandemic, Discord's refocusing on the 90% of users who play games: 'We've recognized the need to narrow our focus'
- If you love how Balatro mutates the game of poker, Dungeons & Degenerate Gamblers is doing something similar to blackjack, and there's a demo you can try now
- Diablo 4's strongest weapon isn't a weapon at all: It's a deadly potion capable of dealing billions of damage
- Graph paper mapping my way through a 37-year-old RPG reminded me how rarely I give games 100% of my attention, and how much more fun I have when I do
- Elden Ring co-op guide: with and without the Seamless Co-op mod
- Kerbal Space Program developers confirm layoffs are coming at the end of June
- Riot celebrates an esports legend with its 'most generous bundles to date' and the best cosmetics will only cost you a measly $500
- The Sims 4 has just launched a battle pass-like 'events' system to reward players with new items for logging in regularly
- Activision wins $14.5 million in lawsuit against Call of Duty cheat maker
- Gen Z and Gen Alpha crave games with 'more meaning' and 'personalisation across everything' according to PlayStation exec—who implies that (you guessed it) AI is the answer
- MultiVersus codes and how to redeem them
- A new brain-computer interface from the co-founder of Neuralink has quadrupled the neural resolution of Musk's device to 4,096 non-invasive brain electrodes
- Super exclusive graphics cards, motion capture suits, and glasses for digital nomads are all winners in the 2024 Computex Best Choice Awards
- Sony apologizes for Sony interview with Sony developer Neil Druckmann
- 'Banana', a game where you rapidly click on a jpeg of a banana and nothing else, has an all-time peak of 31,124 players on Steam—here's why
- 6 tips to get prepped for Destiny 2's The Final Shape expansion
- Google seemingly leaked a treasure trove of technical search algorithm details by accident and now SEO people are getting real aggro
- Researchers have developed a type of flash memory storage that can withstand temperatures higher than the surface of Venus
- In this new No Man's Sky update you can 'explore an abandoned universe' alone with 'no other lifeforms, no shops, no help'
- Invisible PC projects are ten a penny but this one is so good, I want all my rigs to be like this
- Did you know your gaming PC's family tree could be traced back to one 1960s nuclear ICBM?
- This Nier: Automata wine has been existentially-aged by being forced to listen to the game's soundtrack on loop
- Neolithic burial sites and now too much of the wrong soil type, Intel's new foundry in Germany isn't getting finished any time soon
- Today's Wordle answer for Wednesday, May 29
- MultiVersus relaunch attracts over 110K concurrent players on Steam
May 28
- If you never get an easy opponent in XDefiant, you're the easy opponent, suggests producer
- The next anime action game from the maker of Genshin Impact is coming in July
- The Witcher 4 is 'the largest' game in development at CD Projekt 'by the size of the team, but also by the progress of ongoing work'
- CD Projekt doesn't feel 'threatened' by Larian's move into Warsaw: 'The more, the merrier'
- Helldivers 2 boss turns to the community for an Eagle stratagem brainstorming session: 'This is way more fun than a conference room'
- Call of Duty: Black Ops 6 is coming to Game Pass on day one
- Steam's Open World Survival Crafting Fest offers tree punching at low prices
- Where to find Volatile Air in World of Warcraft: Cataclysm
- Destiny 2: The Final Shape's wild new reality-bending Strike mission is full of lava, lost cities and dragon guts
- Elden Ring streamer completes a level 1 playthrough beating the game's 165 bosses—on NG+7, a difficulty she had to finish the game 7 times over just to reach
- Larian says it started 'pushing around ideas for Baldur's Gate 4' but 'we didn't have the fire'
- F1 24 review
- Despite being older than the PC, magnetic tape storage is far from dead, in fact it's growing with 153,000,000 terabytes of the fragile stuff shipped in 2023
- The Rogue Prince of Persia, a new roguelike from the folks who made Dead Cells, is out in early access—and boy can that prince already schmoove
- Nvidia's suspected 2025 processor is now rumoured to be built by Intel using off-the-peg Arm cores. Yes, an Nvidia chip built by Intel
- Japanese government commissions baffling metaverse to combat loneliness where you can't talk to anyone, enforced via a digital security guard
- City 20 is a survival sandbox with Stalker vibes that turned me into an apple-addicted serial killer, but it's not as fun as it sounds
- In Frostpunk 2's post-post-apocalypse 'it's not nature that's your worst enemy, it's human nature,' and nothing proves that like my doomed attempt at turbo-communism
- Do you need esports peripherals? Unless you have the reaction times of a gnat or money to burn, nope
- Windows 11's new 'AI' Recall feature has been cracked to work without a fancy new NPU
- Farmers who 'killed an unreasonably large number of Gulp Frogs' for bronze and power have had their demi-godhood stripped from them in WoW's Mists of Pandaria: Remix
- This year's 24H2 Windows 11 update will wave goodbye to Cortana, WordPad, Steps Recorder, and more
- New Multiplayer sneakfest Sneak Out has a host of dirty tricks for Hunters to use
- I thought Pine Hearts would be another heartwarming adventure, but it's actually one of the only games to reduce me to tears
- China's latest round of domestic chipmaking funding raises $47 billion
- Gigabyte's new B650E motherboard supports plump graphics cards weighing up to 58 kg
May 27
- Super Earth scientists 'spaghettified' in Dark Fluid research incident: Here's why that's good news for Helldivers 2 players
- Rainbow Six Siege fans roundly boo the announcement of a new monthly subscription service
- Songs of Conquest is getting a full expansion in 2025, plus 4 DLCs to keep you busy until then
- Call of Duty: Black Ops 6's latest teaser trailer is heavy on analogue horror and creepy mannequins
- Helldivers 2 players have successfully emancipated the Emancipator mech from the automaton assembly line, and of course the dual-autocannon exosuit has triggered another debate about balance
- A delightfully-detailed, Discworld-inspired inn manager with absurd furniture customisation stashed in the larder: Tavern Keeper enters early access this year
- The next Doom game will be titled Doom: The Dark Ages and revealed at Xbox Games Showcase, report claims
- Larian CEO reveals the studio 'had to do a bit on crunch' on Baldur's Gate 3, but it was 'certainly less' than previous projects it has worked on
- Lenovo launches its Legion 7000K desktop gaming PCs: With laptop CPUs
- Micron gets hit with a whopping $445 million damages bill after it was found liable for patent infringements
- MSI reveals an intriguing motherboard with CAMM2 memory support
- Today's Wordle answer for Monday, May 27
May 26
- You can't take it with you, but you can't leave it for someone else either: Valve says you aren't allowed to bequeath a Steam account in a will
- An indie parkour game is blowing up among sport fans and genre enthusiasts
- Explore some excellent open-world puzzling in Isles of Sea and Sky
- I was shocked to find out the Windows 10 desktop background wasn't computer generated, but a picture of lasers being shot through an actual window
- Valve casually upends the Dota 2 meta by adding innate powers to all 124 heroes
- If you've never played Baldur's Gate 3 with its nudity censor turned on, it straight up gives everybody a fig leaf like they're cartoon characters
- Today's Wordle answer for Sunday, May 26
- Great moments in PC gaming: That time Valve released three new games on the same day
- With a new edition on the way, the current version of life-devouring fantasy board game Talisman goes free to play
- Baldur's Gate 3 head writer reveals we almost got to revisit the first game's 'academic dungeon' prologue area, Candlekeep
May 25
- Optimize your production chains in the free preview for minimalist sim Masterplan Tycoon
- This is getting ridiculous: It looks like one of Deadlock's leakers has made it so you can see the unannounced Valve shooter's playtest concurrents, hero code names, and update history on SteamDB
- Here's a mystery game about salami starring a duck
- The modern remake of seminal RPG Wizardry is finished and out now
- Bungie wins a little walkin' around money in first of its kind jury trial against Destiny 2 cheat maker, but the victory will likely make it even easier for game companies to keep taking cheaters to court
- Tiny Glade's castle-doodling demo is packed with delightful little reactive surprises
- Today's Wordle answer for Saturday, May 25
- Families of Uvalde victims sue Activision, say Call of Duty is 'the most prolific and effective marketer of assault weapons in the United States'
May 24
- Thanks to Modern Horizons 3, my 'white weenie' Magic deck is about to get even more obnoxious
- We'll Miss You: Pioneering instant messaging program ICQ is finally shutting down after nearly 30 years
- Skull and Bones is going free for a week to kick off its second season
- Sony pulls interview with Naughty Dog's Neil Druckmann over 'significant errors and inaccuracies'
- New Kingmakers trailer looks like Mount & Blade with an M1 Abrams modded in
- Hyper Light Breaker dev opens up about the stress of depending on a publisher under the corporate carousel of acquisitions, layoffs and closures: 'I don't know who I'm going to be working with in a few months'
- Hold fast: Warhammer 40K: Rogue Trader is getting its mutinous first expansion
- Get 9 Nightdive remasters for just 20 bucks in the new Humble Bundle
- Over 90 Deadlock videos have now leaked, but Valve's still acting like nothing's happened
- Asus further outlines how it's improving its RMA process in follow-up to initial tone-deaf response: 'we are committed to doing better'
- MSI MPG 321URX QD-OLED
- Arrowhead initially planned to make Helldivers 2 in 3 years—instead it took 7 years, 11 months, and 26 days, but 'grit, camaraderie and compassion' saw the team through
- Capes review
- I took my alternate-universe self on a pierogi date in the Subnautica-style survival game from This War of Mine's creators, and now I can't wait to see more
- These are the absolute best Memorial Day PC gaming monitor deals starting at just $120
- OneXPlayer X1 review
- As the Sims 4 continues to buckle under the weight of over $1,200 worth of DLC, EA has 'assembled a team' to focus on bug fixes
- All Genshin Impact codes from the 4.7 livestream
- 'Personal best KD at 0.23': XDefiant is handing out participation trophies to players who suck
- Final Fantasy 14 offers returning players 4 days of free playtime on the house until late June—but you've gotta be real careful about when you choose to start
- Netgear Nighthawk RS700S review
- Helldivers 2's latest major order promises a mech with 2 entire Autocannons strapped onto it—though there's a small chance it could slip through players' fingers
- Gaming PCs and components look set to jump in price in the US as import tariff exclusions come to an end
- How to find the Lampylumen Myriad boss in Wuthering Waves
- Acer Predator Connect W6 review
- MSI MPG B650I Edge WiFi review
- Today's Wordle answer for Friday, May 24
- Why was Helldivers 2 a smash hit? Not the price, says Pilestedt
- 40K 4X Gladius – Relics of War is free to keep for a limited time
- Retro Warhammer 40,000 first-person bullet-hose Boltgun is getting DLC
May 23
- Helldivers 2 is about being the 'evil guys in the galaxy,' says Johan Pilestedt: 'Would you be able to survive a galactic war without plot armor to protect you?'
- Mechanicus, the best turn-based Warhammer 40,000 game, is getting a sequel
- I've got no interest in playing Valve's rumored Deadlock game, but I'll definitely be here for all the funny 'Meet the Team' movies they'll probably make about the characters
- Dave the Diver's Godzilla DLC is live now and completely free, but after November 23 it's gone forever
- Space Marine 2 confirms the return of PvP multiplayer, plus an all-new 3-player co-op mode
- It turns out you can find Idris Elba's Cyberpunk 2077 character hanging out and working a regular job in Night City before you start the expansion
- 'I'm not a big fan of survival games,' says director of 2024's best survival game
- Relic Entertainment is 'returning to its roots as an independent creative studio,' but it's also owned by a global investment firm now
- Keith David speaks his first words as Destiny 2's Commander Zavala: 'I used to think I'd give anything to bring him back'
- Players unlock unreleased content in live service game ultimate hacker style: setting their system clocks forward a few weeks
- Atari vanquishes its most ancient foe by acquiring Intellivision, declares end to 'the longest-running console war in history'
- A new Shadow of the Erdtree promo image is almost 100% our first look at one of Elden Ring's most mysterious characters
- Razer Fujin Pro review
- Secretlab is asking the question: Can you be a true Warhammer 40k fan if you don't have a purity seal on your gaming chair?
- Synergy's solarpunk aesthetic and harsh resource management makes it one stellar city builder
- Alleged harassment and bullying at Linus Tech Tips 'not substantiated' and 'false' according to third-party investigation organised by tech channel
- George Miller didn't like the 2015 Mad Max game, says he wants Hideo Kojima to make one 'but I would never ask him'
- In co-op Viking survival game Aska you can work smarter, not harder, by making your followers do all your chores
- Blizzard confirms it's working on a 1-5 player 'story difficulty' for its big raids in World of Warcraft: The War Within, and it's honestly about time
- 'Warner Bros. is threatening to destroy my YouTube Channel' says popular modder, alleging that a sweep of copyright claims forced them to scrub 1 billion views' worth of videos from the internet
- Gray Zone Warfare's first patch aims to fix over 200 issues, including one that doomed players to never-ending menu music
- How to complete The Seal is Broken in WoW Remix
- Call of Duty: Black Ops 6 is official: 'A dark new chapter' will be revealed in June
- New gacha hotness Wuthering Waves is suffering from some catastrophic launch issues, despite making a big splash on Twitch
- Watching this explosive 5-minute video of Crysis Remastered is a great reminder of how much PC gaming needs Crysis 4
- The follow-up to cozy detective game Strange Horticulture is called Strange Antiquities, and this time you'll run an occult artifact shop
- I didn't have high hopes for the MultiVersus relaunch but brand-new PvE missions and a silly banana guy with a spear are changing my mind
- MultiVersus has scrubbed the Justin Roiland voice lines snagged from Rick & Morty, replacing them with game-specific recordings by their new voice actors
- Destiny 2 Edge Transit god roll guide: Best perks, barrels, and magazines
- Behind its identikit theme and terrible name, XDefiant is the perfect antidote to those tired of Call of Duty’s modern-day bloat
- The internet is disappearing, with a quarter of all webpages from 2013 to 2023 going the way of the dodo
- Animal Well developer Billy Basso hints at a new game that will 'be in the same universe but may not be a direct sequel'
- PC Gamer magazine's new issue is on sale now: Destiny 2: The Final Shape
- Nvidia shows no sign of slowing down as it rakes in more than $26 billion in a single quarter thanks to data center demand
- Apple reportedly seeks to lock out its competitors from TSMC's 2nm process, by booking all of its manufacturing capacity
- Today's Wordle answer for Thursday, May 23
- Wuthering Waves codes and how to redeem
May 22
- Witcher 3 fans rejoice: Steam Workshop support and full REDkit modding tools are finally here
- Survival base-builder Nightingale's offline mode has arrived—along with celebrities like Joan of Arc and Edgar Allan Poe
- After only 4 months, Blizzard will axe one of Overwatch 2's last PvE modes because it 'hasn't resonated with players in the ways that we hoped'
- Helldivers 2 boss wants to make Arrowhead 'the next FromSoftware or Blizzard'
- As Helldivers 2 boss Johan Pilestedt hangs up his CEO hat to focus on the creative side, he has one big change in mind: 'My working theory is that time-to-kill is too high'
- Leaked video of alleged Valve hero shooter Deadlock kinda looks like BioShock Infinite
- Destiny 2 is finally nerfing its most broken ult, but as a Warlock main I fear my teammates will still want to crutch on it
- New Call of Duty teaser site does everything but come out and say 'here's the next Black Ops'
- Netflix finally reveals Liam Hemsworth as Geralt in The Witcher season 4, and I think he looks pretty good
- 'Y'all killed it': Survive the Undead, a community-made PvE zombie mode, is bringing players back to Halo Infinite
- Mighty allfather of FPS games and co-creator of Doom John Romero decrees that 'gib' is pronounced in the most upsetting way possible
- How to watch Warhammer Skulls 2024
- Helldivers 2 developer Arrowhead Games has a new CEO—with Johan Pilestedt taking on a different role to direct '100% of my focus [to] the game and community'
- Call of Duty's Gundam crossover has fans frothing at the mouth, but looks aren't everything
- DDR6 looks set to double data speeds over DDR5, with DDR6-21000 being the ultimate target
- Assassin's Creed Shadows isn't even out for 6 months, but Ghost of Tsushima ate its lunch 4 years ago and the superb PC Director's Cut rubs salt in the wound
- Where to find the Earthen Ring quartermaster in WoW Cataclysm
- A USB stick that will hold your precious data for 200 years, what's the catch? Er... it only holds 8kB
- Glorious Model D 2 gaming mouse review
- Microsoft reckons its new Prism x86 emulation for Arm PCs is as good as Apple's Rosetta
- Goats are serious business: World of Warcraft continues to play whack-a-frog with MoP: Remix farming spots, adds new ways to buff your cloak as penance
- Here's a quick fix for Wuthering Waves not launching on Epic Games
- Microsoft's auto AI upscaler will only be available on Snapdragon-powered Copilot+ AI PCs to begin with
- 3DMark Steel Nomad is now available to give your GPU an inferiority complex
- Today's Wordle answer for Wednesday, May 22
- New Windows AI feature takes screenshots of your desktop 'every few seconds' and I can't imagine wanting that
May 21
- Elden Ring Shadow of the Erdtree's story trailer has fans thinking we just saw the bloody birth of a god
- Crytek director says Hunt: Showdown's big August update represents 'a significant relaunch of Hunt: Showdown at a whole new level'
- Free-to-play Ubisoft shooter XDefiant launches with the expected matchmaking issues, but I'm having a good time
- Helldivers 2 studio wants to slow down the pace of updates: 'We feel a slightly lower cadence overall will benefit both us, you, and the game'
- Street Fighter 6 is launching Akuma by having thousands of Twitch viewers control him simultaneously, which I'm sure will go well
- Helldivers 2 players getting all hot and bothered over Eagle-1's lovely voice now have an in-game solution—Eagle Sweat, the glorious smell of democracy
- Ewe wool love this: new Manor Lords patch means your farm 'no longer spawns sheep exponentially'
- Stellar Blade studio is now 'considering' a PC release, and a sequel too
- The world's largest chipmaker could flip a kill switch and remotely disable its machines in the event of an invasion
- 'The designer will never answer any rules questions': Upcoming solitaire board game requires you to codebreak its rulebook, which is written in a language that does not exist
- You're going to hear a lot of release dates this summer, and should probably just ignore them all
- PC user annoyed about Task Manager jumping around gets told how to fix it with one button—by the developer that built the application 30 years ago
- Computex 2024 preview: What we expect to see at this year's show, from AI PCs to next-generation chips from Intel, AMD and more
- Qualcomm is actually releasing a Snapdragon X Elite desktop PC on June 18 and dammit I want one
- FromSoftware drops another story trailer for Elden Ring's Shadow of the Erdtree DLC—giving us a glimpse at the fiery rampage that made Malenia's golden boy flee the Lands Between
- The tail end of May sees multiple Day One games hitting PC Game Pass: Here are our picks
- Starving Heroes of Might & Magic fans finally eat as spiritual successor Songs of Conquest leaves its 2-year early access behind
- OpenAI pauses use of GPT-4o 'Her' voice due to similarity to Scarlett Johansson: 'so eerily similar… my closest friends and news outlets could not tell the difference'
- The hunt for the perfect grinding spots in Mists of Pandaria: Remix show us just how incompatible the event's silly fun is with WoW's grindset culture
- Ghost of Tsushima Director's Cut review
- Ghost of Tsushima PC performance analysis: Your CPU will be fine, your GPU will whine, but there are settings for every gamer out there
- Bethesda won't make a game as cool as Morrowind ever again, so thank god an original dev has come back 20 years on to make quest mods for it
- Starfield player jury-rigs 100+ Star Wars mods together to make a convincing Boba Fett simulator: 'I basically added every single Star Wars mod out there on Nexus'
- Noctua's newest products will keep you, and your consoles, cool
- All the big laptop makers are embracing Qualcomm's Snapdragon X, here are all the 'PC reborn' models available for pre-order now
- Senua's Saga: Hellblade 2 exposes an uncomfortable truth about upscalers—it's all about what sort of compromises you're prepared to make to image quality
- Senua's Saga: Hellblade 2 review
- After 3 years on the Epic Games Store, the Kingdom Hearts series is finally releasing on Steam
- Microsoft unveils the Copilot+ AI PC ecosystem, with Snapdragon X laptops exclusively leading the way
- Super Mario 64 gets a Mario Maker-like romhack that runs on original hardware
- Hand-drawn adventure game comes to Steam after being dropped from Apple Arcade, creator laments the way games 'can just vanish' today
- Today's Wordle answer for Tuesday, May 21
- The $200 Fallout TV series Pip-Boy replica looks a lot better than the bulky Fallout 4 collector's edition toy
May 20
- The PC games market grew a lot more than the console games market last year, says research firm
- The developer of exceptional 2022 sci-fi adventure Norco is following it up with a 'narrative micro-adventure' about an android exploring an AI-haunted oil refinery
- Blizzard addresses Diablo 4's gold problem in a patch, but nobody is quite sure if it's solved yet
- A new native port of Majora's Mask might change how we play N64 games on our PCs
- Take-Two CEO says he's 'highly confident' GTA6 will make its release window, gets all philosophical about it: 'Perfection is indeed hard to measure, it really is more subjective than objective'
- Just 2 weeks before its early access release, Life By You is delayed again, this time without a new date
- It's already been 9 years since The Witcher 3 first released, and if you've somehow never played CD Projekt's opus, the complete package with all DLC is just 13 bucks on Steam to celebrate
- Intel's Lunar Lake is here to remind you x86 still has a place in laptops: 'You've never seen x86 power characteristics quite like this'
- Ubisoft wants to be very clear that XDefiant won't have any pay-to-win elements, pinkie promise: 'We know this is an important topic'
- Escape from Tarkov dev's latest wheeze is to offer players $50 'compensation' after a price U-turn, but rather than a refund it's a one-time use $50 Tarkov voucher
- Logitech Pro X 60 keyboard review
- All Destiny 2 Zero Hour floor puzzle solutions
- World of Warcraft: Mists of Pandaria Remix players went on a frog-killing rampage, Blizzard put a stop to it, and now nobody is happy
- The PC Gaming Show's 10th anniversary celebration features hosts of old, games brand new, bear exclusives, and Citizen Sleeper 2
- Baldur's Gate 3 developer Larian Studios opens new doors in Warsaw to help share the load of not 1, but 2 'very ambitious RPGs' in development
- The messy DisplayPort 2.1 specs mean you could be limited to a monitor cable too short to be of any use if you want to hit 4K at 240 Hz
- Here's a Baldur's Gate 3 mod that lets your party scrabble around on 4 legs like a plague of sleep paralysis demons, if you're into that sort of thing
- The Taskmaster VR game is out in a few weeks, and Little Alex Horne is resigned to what his avatar can expect from you sickos: 'They will definitely do things to me'
- AMD Zen 6 could deliver a full 32-core chiplet, with Zen 5c reportedly set to offer its own 16-core CCX
- Bummer: Tesla's 'gaming computer' that it built a car around for some reason will be 'no longer capable of playing Steam games'
- Google's new AI search feature has been recommending people drink urine ('light in color')
- Undertale developer Toby Fox assures fans that Deltarune chapter 4 is underway, 'I don't want anyone to burn out waiting for this'
- Ghost of Tsushima's PC port once again proves that PlayStation should do this sort of thing sooner, as player counts soar past every major Sony PC release (except Helldivers 2)
- Top-down puzzle adventure Paper Trail is the kind of page-turner you can only get in games
- Ubisoft's XDefiant system requirements are so low that even a manky old potato will run the game
- TCL smashes the refresh rate barrier as it demonstrates a 4K 1000Hz panel
- See some lost alpha footage of the original Vampire: The Masquerade – Bloodlines
- Capes is a superhero game about the legacy its heroes inherit, but also the legacy of turn-based tactics as a genre
- Today's Wordle answer for Monday, May 20
- Five new Steam games you probably missed (May 20, 2024)
May 19
- Here's the dystopian cooking simulator about frying up illegal eggs in Antarctica that you've always wanted
- Lootun is an auto-battling RPG for people who just really love managing their party's gear
- We don't have to live like this: you can set Chrome to default to Google's new nonsense-free 'Web' search, which also completely bypasses that awful AI answer box
- Puzzle box game Machinika: Museum is free to keep on Steam
- Nothing is too niche for modders to remaster, not even a '90s Star Wars FPS expansion pack where you play as Luke Skywalker's weird non-canon wife rescuing my favorite Expanded Universe dork
- There's a mod to fix Gale's beard, making Baldur's Gate 3 playable at last
- Today's Wordle answer for Sunday, May 19
- Build a fairytale kingdom in this laid-back, wholesome city builder
- There are supposedly three Total War games in development, one of them Total War: Star Wars
- Excellent fantasy 4X strategy game Endless Legend is free to keep while supplies last
May 18
- Always keep backups: an 'unprecedented' Google Cloud debacle saw a $135 billion pension fund's entire account deleted and services knocked out for nearly two weeks
- Wizard with a Gun adds 4 player co-op to its action crafting mix, and it's free to try for the weekend
- If you've somehow not played Baldur's Gate 3 yet, our 2023 GOTY is on sale for 15% off, the lowest it's been since launch
- With a month to go until Elden Ring: Shadow of the Erdtree, FromSoftware has broken its silence once more to show us a messed up new guy we'll fight in the expansion
- Today's Wordle answer for Saturday, May 18
May 17
- New MultiVersus character is bad news for the guy who said 'if Banana Guard gets added I will cut my balls off'
- Microsoft is reportedly taking the nuclear option: releasing the next Call of Duty day one on Game Pass
- After an epic 24-hour battle with Malenia and 1,700 deaths, Kai Cenat has finally beaten Elden Ring
- Fallout is coming to Fortnite
- Doja Cat is extremely mad about Fortnite 'losers' who use 'stupid f****** non-weapons' instead of having 'actual aim skills and FPS experience'
- There's already a company that will turn your dying relatives into perverse AI homunculi for $50K
- Redfall is getting one final update before Arkane Austin is gone forever, and it will include an offline mode
- Hideo Kojima goes mad for the new Mad Max, says George Miller 'is my God, and the saga that he tells is my Bible'
- If you hire me to train your dog I'll get soap in its eyes, pat it with a severed hand, and teach it to disembowel your enemies
- Valve's next game rumored to be a 6v6 hero shooter called Deadlock
- 'I have this problem where once I start, I can't stop': Eric Barone discusses how Stardew Valley has affected work on his upcoming game Haunted Chocolatier
- Jake Solomon's upcoming life sim will create a cast of characters for you in a way that almost sounds like Dwarf Fortress
- Sony's Ghost of Tsushima has actual g-g-g-ghosts when it comes to Intel's Arc GPUs
- Always-online free-to-play ARPG relaunches with an offline mode, zero microtransactions, and an upfront price: 'We're in uncharted territory, and it's a big risk'
- A Windows XP machine's life expectancy in 2024 seems to be about 10 minutes before even just an idle net connection renders it a trojan-riddled zombie PC
- Final Fantasy 14 is helping us poor souls who spend hours creating a character only to absolutely hate it by giving its transformation potion a 60-minute grace period
- Healers in FF14 get that awful sinking feeling as Yoshi-P cheerily announces a major buff to an ability mainly used for resurrection
- Here are the 'new' rare hunter pets in World of Warcraft: Cataclysm
- Animal Well's solo dev casually reveals that the breakout metroidvania left 'at least twice as many rooms that are in the game' on the cutting room floor
- How to get the seahorse mount in WoW Cataclysm Classic
- Here are the World of Warcraft Cataclysm maps for each zone
- Here are the level requirements for each Cataclysm zone in World of Warcraft
- Should you start in Hyjal or Vashj'ir in WoW Cataclysm?
- A match made in heaven for gamers on RTX 30-series GPUs: AMD's frame generation and Nvidia's DLSS together at last
- 'We knew that was a pain point … why make that mistake again?' World of Warcraft: Cataclysm Classic devs talk tinkering with the game's first divisive expansion
- MSI's new QD-OLED gaming monitors are a feast for the eyes
- World of Warcraft is enjoying a golden age and we've never had it so good
- How to complete Strongarm Tactics in WoW Remix
- So far the Manor Lords modding scene is focussed on the essentials: free beer, bigger punch-ups, and letting you walk around as Geralt
- 'They are afraid of me': Mastermind speedrunner bends the rules of a meme contest and bakes 12 actual cookies in under 4 minutes, forces site mods to make a whole new category
- Razer Blade 16 (2024) review
- Reddit hawks your posts to our AI overlords again, this time to OpenAI
- PC Gamer Chat Log Episode 61: (Development) hell hath no fury
- Razer Viper V3 Pro review
- Hades 2's creative director says, 'We expect to be in early access at least through the end of this year'
- Today's Wordle answer for Friday, May 17
- As GTA 6 draws closer, GTA 5 is still making bank
May 16
- This HP Omen 17 with an RTX 4090 GPU and 13th Gen i9 processor is stunning value at just AU$3,691
- Take-Two CEO says he's 'not trying to be cute or difficult' with vague answers about the fate of the Kerbal and OlliOlli studios, but is kind of being cute and difficult
- Randy Pitchford is 'a hit maker,' says Take-Two CEO: 'We've already identified many potential growth opportunities for the Borderlands series'
- Embracer's talk about The Lord of the Rings says one thing: 'Fly, you fools!'
- Assassin's Creed Shadows does not need an internet connection to run: 'You will be able to play the entire journey offline'
- Grand Theft Auto 6 release window narrowed to fall 2025, but there's still no PC launch date confirmed
- Helldivers 2 takes a page from George W. Bush, rebrands its military operations as the 'Galactic War on Tyranny' to drum up new recruits
- Hades 2's Olympus-sized first patch introduces the quality of life fix we've been begging for
- Dauntless developer Phoenix Labs lays off employees and cancels in-development projects, says it's 'the last resort to ensure Phoenix Labs can survive'
- NFL team channels the true Sims player experience of stranding its rivals in a pool
- Epic's 2024 Mega Sale goes live with its first-ever Dragon Age: Inquisition giveaway
- I tried the GameScent so you don't have to and, trust me, you don't want to
- Google looks intent on breaking the business of the internet, and AI won't fix it
- The Proteus Controller is a $299 modular input device for players with disabilities and Microsoft has more good news for accessibility
- Hear ye, hear ye, Manor Lords has sold over 2 million copies—which is about 25 times the population of England's biggest city in the Middle Ages
- A week after Microsoft closed 4 game studios, Microsoft-owned Activision announces a new game studio
- Final Fantasy 14 director Yoshi-P says the ongoing DDoS problems are the 'largest scale' attacks seen since the game's original 2010 launch
- Ubisoft insists yet again that its uncanny AI-generated 'NEO-NPCs' will make games 'more alive and richer', whatever that means
- Dead by Daylight's new multiplayer horror game Project T is brave enough to ask: What if the survivors had a lot of guns, and also a truck
- The Venture to the Vile demo feels like the metroidvania equivalent of Pandora's box, and even though I've only cracked the surface I already can't get enough
- Scanning 1 cubic millimetre of brain tissue resulted in 1,400,000 GB of data, or about the same space as your dad's holiday photo collection
- I love that Jake Solomon is following his life sim passions, but just give me a minute to mourn XCOM
- Arthur Morgan and Tifa Lockhart's actors are hosting this year's Future Games Show Summer Showcase
- Has your VPN failed to connect recently? Microsoft says the latest Windows security update may provide a fix
- Asus' tone deaf response to ongoing RMA support issues isn't going to encourage me to keep recommending Asus tech
- Manor Lords players debate whether it should get gallows, but the historical accuracy crowd says they should be in the stocks for even thinking of it
- Portrait of King Charles as rizzed-up final boss instantly modded into Dishonored
- Helldivers 2 community rallies behind wholesome hero after a remorseful villain kicks them, giving rise to Super Earth's new battlecry: 'im frend'
- Gone in 12 seconds—Two US brothers charged with stealing $25M in crypto heist using skills they acquired at MIT
- Disco Elysium, an 'irresponsibly deep detective RPG' and the 'frankly audacious' crown jewel in our Top 100 PC games list, has its price slashed by 75%
- Cinematic superhero tactics game Capes is coming May 29
- The Biden administration is set to double tariffs on Chinese made semiconductors, potentially leading to more expensive PC hardware
- Intel's Thunderbolt Share is the easiest way yet to link and share data between two PCs
- Lorelei and the Laser Eyes review
- Today's Wordle answer for Thursday, May 16
May 15
- A medievalist's take on Manor Lords: 'It represents medieval peasants and their lives more fully than most games'
- AI is listening: Omnipresent robo-moderators are the latest online anti-toxicity strategy
- UK government responds to Stop Killing Games petition, and it's not good: 'There is no requirement in UK law' that forces companies to support old software
- The Assassin's Creed Shadows reveal is saying all the right things to excite classic Assassin's Creed fans
- Ubisoft cancels The Division: Heartland so it can focus on 'bigger opportunities' like XDefiant
- Hi-Fi Rush gets a bittersweet last patch as Tango Gameworks takes its final bow: 'Thank you again… You're all rockstars!'
- Magical girl farm sim Fields of Mistria is bringing '90s anime sparkle to early access in August
- This 'souls-like platonic dating simulator' is (not so) secretly an Undertale-adjacent RPG with zero restraint, and I need a lie down after trying it
- Which horse should you choose in Ghost of Tsushima?
- Assassin's Creed Shadows is coming November 15 with two playable characters, a shinobi and a real-life samurai
- Minecraft is celebrating its 15th birthday with '15 days of exclusive items and daily specials'
- Nvidia could be teaming up with MediaTek to create a Steam Deck-busting handheld gaming chip
- Square Enix president bemoans weak Final Fantasy sales and says his restructure is existential: 'Our winning formula is no longer effective'
- Overwatch 2's mid-season patch has made Sigma's ultimate even more terrifying than before
- 63% of surveyed Americans want government legislation to prevent super intelligent AI from ever being achieved
- One of Star Wars' most baffling post-Lucas edits is becoming an ability card in an official TCG
- Assassin's Creed Shadows is leaking like a freshly-stabbed Samurai, as main character art sneaks online ahead of imminent reveal
- D&D reveals the cover art of its revised 2024 Player Handbook—a sweet reminder that not all dragons are trying to eat your face, plus some deep-cut callbacks
- The devs of the underplayed Marvel's Midnight Suns once more blame the game's commercial woes on the cards (I really don't think it was the cards)
- Ghost of Tsushima's crossplay function will launch with a 'beta' tag attached, prompting speculation that Sony is hoping to avoid another PSN-related fiasco
- NieR series producer says he's doing something with the key creatives, adds with a chuckle: 'It might be NieR, it might not be NieR'
- Men of War 2 review
- LG wants to roast your retinas with its new 10,000-nit OLED panels for VR headsets
- Leaked Dell docs suggest Qualcomm's new laptop chips could deliver nearly twice the battery life of the latest Intel CPUs
- How to get to the Ashlands in Valheim without your boat catching fire
- GameSir Nova Lite controller review
- GameSir Nova Lite review
- Destiny 2 Outbreak Refined 1: Where to find the Zero Hour switches
- Former Bungie composer reckons he can enter Congress against impossible odds no problem because it'll be 'a walk in the park compared to making Halo 2'
- XDefiant is doing away with skill-based matchmaking: 'We believe that no SBMM is paramount to a fun and varied game'
- Helldivers 2 dev says patrol spawn rates are busted and that Arrowhead's walking its changes back, but 'we want to give it proper testing' to 'see that it works this time'
- If you're playing Diablo 4 on an Nvidia RTX 40-series GPU switching off frame gen will stop those annoying crashes
- AMD's launched a pair of new budget chips in its 8000-series, lopping the GPUs of its APUs
- Nexon says sweaty FPS The Finals surpassed expectations at launch but has tailed-off badly, pledges to 'understand and address the key issues'
- ASRock Z790I Lightning WiFi review
- Today's Wordle answer for Wednesday, May 15
May 14
- Monkey Island creator Ron Gilbert's next game is 'classic Zelda meets Diablo meets Thimbleweed Park'
- Diablo 4 is finally the phenomenal action RPG I wanted it to be
- Survival game The Long Dark announces 'the first change to our permadeath system that we’ve ever made'
- The Sims 4's new roadmap details the 'Season of Love' with two build kits and a romantic expansion
- One of D&D's most infamous villains is Dead by Daylight's next killer
- The GameStop memelord returns, stonks spike, market panics—and all he's done so far is post a bunch of mid memes
- Tomb Raider is the next videogame-based series coming to Prime
- Modding and warfare peak with mod that imposes 1% chance of a Five Nights at Freddy's jumpscare in WW2 strategy sim Hearts of Iron 4
- PSA: Murmuring Obols are now Diablo 4's most valuable currency
- Valheim's fiery Ashlands update leaps from public test to live servers, adding a new biome, over 30 new weapons, and lots of new and inventive ways to burn to death
- Final Fantasy 14's spin on D&D has proven so popular it's already sold out before a single die has been rolled, though a second wave of reprints is on its way
- Abiotic Factor's first major update adds alien cheese and corpse bags, as the Half-Life inspired survival sim sells 250,000 copies
- This year's Warhammer Skulls event, presented by actor Rahul Kohli, will have new reveals for Space Marine 2, Boltgun, and more—plus an up to 90% off sale on Warhammer games
- Haunted Chocolatier characters: everyone we know about so far
- Destiny 2 The Recluse god roll guide: Best perks, barrels, and magazines
- V Rising's teleporting castles are an ingenious solve for one of my biggest survival crafting bugbears
- Meta is reportedly back on its wearables bit: this time it wants to stick cameras on earbuds for AI
- Hades 2 will be getting the first of many patches later this month, as Supergiant starts brewing quality-of-life changes to resource gathering and movement in its cauldron
- Helldivers 2 has sold over 12 million copies, making it the fastest-selling PlayStation game ever: 'There are more Helldivers than there are Swedes'
- This chocolate factory-building game asks the question 'What if Willy Wonka had a gun?'
- Helldivers 2's Polar Patriots Warbond gets an icy reception, as over 70% of 21,000 Discord voters declare they'd prefer more patches or simply don't like it
- Dread Delusion review
- This just in: Phil Spencer may be storing weapons of mass destruction—in Fallout 76
- Prison Architect 2 developer Double Eleven has been replaced by publisher Paradox Interactive after working on the series for nearly a decade
- 'If Silksong shadow drops … I'm burning the whole thing down': Dead Cells devs announce second release date and gameplay trailer for upcoming roguelike, after Hades 2 shattered original plans
- OpenAI unveils GPT-4o with a video of a man making small talk with his phone and I cannot pretend it's not really weird
- XCOM designer Jake Solomon is done with turn-based strategy and is now making a life sim inspired by small town dramas like Gilmore Girls
- Helldivers 2 and Star Wars collide in this amazing mod, due for release "later this week"
- My penchant for yapping keeps getting me into trouble when the words I type could accidentally kill me
- You should absolutely play the Homeworld Remastered Collection before jumping into Homeworld 3
- The first patch for Bethesda's busted Fallout 4 next gen update leaves its biggest problems intact, and you're still better off downgrading the game
- Helldivers 2 is a fantastic game—but something has to change, because it'll only get harder to balance, maintain, and fix while Arrowhead burns the candle at both ends
- Clackeys, a big name in artisan keycaps, is closing down: 'I am sorry I could not keep this boat afloat'
- Arrowhead Games is feeling the pressure from Helldivers 2's successes—and its blunders, community manager reveals: 'many of us at AH more or less lost a week' due to the PSN controversy
- ZeniMax files a trademark for a Doom cheat code that unlocks everything, raising hopes of a new entry in the series
- Land of dragons and jank: I took a trip to Wales in the metaverse
- Red Dead Redemption may actually be coming to PC after 14 years
- Today's Wordle answer for Tuesday, May 14
May 13
- One of my most anticipated upcoming RPGs doesn't just have a fishing minigame⁠—it has a full 3D aquarium where you can view your biggest catches and learn fantasy fish 'lore'
- Square Enix is laying off employees in the US and Europe
- Leaked Dell roadmap introduces split Intel/Qualcomm lineup through to Nova Lake in 2027
- Arrowhead is actually making a 'review bomb' cape to commemorate the Helldivers 2 PSN fiasco, complete with two huge negative review bars
- Frustrated developer changes his game's name to 'Bulwark: Falconeer Chronicles, a creative building sandbox' because Steam users keep tagging it as a strategy game
- The original Fallout had so much attention to detail, you could get special dialogue for speedrunning it in a weird order and returning to a completed zone to talk to a zombie who hates you
- The Assassin's Creed game about ninjas in feudal Japan is called Assassin's Creed Shadows, full reveal coming on Wednesday
- How the Diablo 4 Helltide Reborn event works
- After spending time trying to fix a bug that wasn't actually there, Manor Lords dev has a simple request for players: 'Have fun with mods but please don't report bugs if you use them'
- The Legend of Vox Machina, Critical Role's first D&D campaign-turned animated series, quietly reveals a third season is coming later this year
- Square Enix to 'aggressively pursue' a new multiplatform business strategy 'designed to win over PC users'
- AMD Linux devs jamming nearly 24,000 lines of RDNA 4 supporting code into its mainstream driver suggests next-gen launch may be close at hand
- Stellaris gets a DLC about AI that features AI-created voices, director insists it's 'ethical' and 'we're pretty good at exploring dystopian sci-fi and don't want to end up there ourselves'
- Here's every World of Warcraft expansion in order of release
- 6 months after a complete reboot, Remedy cancels the multiplayer game it was making with Tencent
- The coolest tabletop RPGs based on videogames, from Fallout to Dragon Age
- Former Helldivers 2 writer is astonished by the monster he helped create, as he describes how the game's approach to storytelling led to the community's showdown with Sony: 'We trained them to fight together. And then they fought together'
- Nvidia testing cooling solutions up to 600W for its Blackwell graphics cards suggests power levels in line with the previous GeForce generations
- Underfunded enthusiast too poor for mecha kits turns to smutty 'perfect waifu' game, remodels an innocent girl into 'a magnificent Destroy Gundam'
- PSA: You don't need servant coffins to upgrade your castle heart in V Rising
- Helldivers 2 director says new de-listings are an 'administrative error correction' by Valve on Sony's orders, but 'we still want the game to be available everywhere'
- Helldivers 2 player yeets a big bug straight through an even bigger bug like an atomic baseball—'Ever seen a Charger Stratagem? Now you have'
- MediaTek and Nvidia are gearing up to tackle the AI PC market hand-in-hand, with an all-new chip
- AMD will reportedly stop supporting Windows 10 starting with its new Strix Point APUs and you can all blame AI for that
- 'Thank you so much for the second chance chooms': Cyberpunk 2077's developers enjoy a well-earned bask as the game finally hits Overwhelmingly Positive on Steam
- V Rising: Where to find Nibbles the Putrid Rat
- The best thing about Homeworld 3 is how well it runs on a PC with its 6-year-old recommended specs
- Intel's efforts to develop a PCIe throttling driver point towards a very hot Gen 6 future
- Move over Blackwell: Nvidia's next-next gen GPU is reportedly codenamed Rubin, with a debut scheduled for late 2025
- AMD continues to chip away at Intel's CPU market dominance, though the laptop market is still a tough market to crack
- Five new Steam games you probably missed (May 13, 2024)
May 12
- Finally, I have another game about being a freaky little nasty guy trapped in an otherworldly hell dimension to look forward to
- Here's a co-op action roguelike that's basically a boss rush of high-tier MMO raids
- Path of Achra, the approachably bite-size roguelike full of superpowered combos, has hit its full release
- Total War: Pharaoh's big free update map is far, far larger than I would have thought
- The season of game company gaffes continues with NetEase apologizing for a Marvel Rivals preview contract that asked streamers not to make 'subjective negative reviews of the game'
- The latest Vampire Survivors release is a straight-up crossover with Contra
- YouTuber spots something unusual about Skyrim's river flow, modder gets on it immediately
- Today's Wordle answer for Sunday, May 12
- In this clever roguelike you build and rewire your powers using spare parts
- Helldivers 2 only became a live-service game halfway through development, but 'feels like what live service was born to do'
May 11
- Things get real weird in this dungeon crawler where you type to succeed
- Ghost of Tsushima's PC port has been delisted in nearly 200 countries and territories without PSN access, even though most of the game won't require a sign-in
- Warner Bros has decided not to take its ball and go home with Adult Swim Games, instead returning control to their original developers
- Today's Wordle answer for Saturday, May 11
- The RTS genre will never be mainstream unless you change it until it's 'no longer the kind of RTS that I want to play,' says Crate Entertainment CEO
- The physics-based vehicle destruction game I've waited two years for just hit 1.0 with a full campaign inspired by 1997's Blast Corps
May 10
- Stray Gods will get a whole story DLC focused on Anthony Rapp's Orpheus
- Bungie's first big hit, Marathon, is now free on Steam thanks to a fan revival that has Bungie's blessing
- Cyberpunk 2077's quest lead says it's a story 'about terminal illness,' and playing it while staring down the barrel of one was the most intense RPG experience I've ever had
- OpenAI, a company built on 'scraping' content without permission, makes a copyright claim against a subreddit using its logo
- Helldivers 2 major order challenges players to scrap 2 billion bots, but Super Earth warns it'll be much harder than last time
- Can you guess which 2 mysterious games Deus Ex director Warren Spector secretly worked on, but decided not to be credited for?
- The best strategy games on PC
- Here's when Homeworld 3 launches in your region
- Homeworld 3 review
- Homeworld 3 performance analysis: Surprisingly scalable but no ultra-high frame rates
- One Manor Lords player is managing a city with over 3,000 residents and just 1 market to 'push the game to the limit'
- Gee that Lord of the Rings: Gollum game sucked didn't it, so how about a Gollum movie?
- Brace yourself, EA is thinking real hard about inserting ads into its videogames
- President of Xbox asked about the closure of Hi-Fi Rush developer Tango Gameworks, spends close to a minute saying almost nothing
- US Commerce Secretary says if China seized TSMC it would be 'absolutely devastating' to the US economy, as it buys 92% of its cutting-edge chips from the Taiwanese manufacturer
- AMD's gaming graphics business looks like it's in terminal decline
- Manor Lords' new massive patch stops your villagers from partying too hard and introduces players to the woeful world of the King's Tax
- Despite being just a humble CPU socket, AMD 'boldly suggests' AM4 has 'legendary status'
- The largely forgotten Fallout demo, which features completely unique content not found in the main game, is a free must-play for any Fallout fan
- Former Dragon Age lead writer David Gaider pours scorn on EA's AI dreams: 'What they took as excitement was really a veiled wail of despair'
- 'Everyone and their mum' is playing Hades 2, which is exactly why The Rogue Prince of Persia is delayed
- 'A number of threads retracted from the brain' of Neuralink's first implant patient, but they say they're still 'beating my friends in games that as a quadriplegic I should not be beating them in'
- Resident Evil modders and the biggest fighting game channel on YouTube join forces to remedy a 26-year-old April Fools' joke
- You can buy Prey, Fallout: New Vegas, and Fallout 3 at just under $2 a pop right now—that's 3 games for less than I'll be spending on lunch today
- Steam Deck update brings improved graphics driver for better performance, along with fixes and features galore
- Fallout 3, the objectively 5th-best Fallout game, is free to keep via Prime Gaming right now
- Watch out Intel and AMD, more Arm chips are coming to the PC
- Solo players, it's not just you: 1-player missions in Helldivers 2 currently have 4-player patrol spawn times
- How to summon Andariel in Diablo 4
- Beta teething issues aside, Discord's Roll20 activity for running D&D and other RPGs inside the app works great
- Today's Wordle answer for Friday, May 10
- 10 things I wish I knew before playing Animal Well
May 9
- Nothing about Helldivers 2's newest assault rifle makes any sense
- Bungie reveals all the possible perks on Destiny 2's spicy new Prismatic class items
- If you're struggling with Hades 2's small changes, don't worry—they'll click
- Apple says it's sorry for smushing musical instruments and art supplies to advertise its latest iPad
- Blizzard's internal Diablo 4 playtests are a 'cursed problem' where 'to really test our game, you need to spend your life playing our game,' designer says
- As warriors age, so must the battlefield: 1vs1 me on LinkedIn, coward
- DayZ's upcoming arctic expansion will let you freeze, burn, starve, and get eaten by zombies all at once
- Pathfinder: Wrath of the Righteous, one of my favorite recent CRPGs, is getting a monster farewell DLC in the style of Mass Effect 3's Citadel add-on
- Every gaming showcase scheduled for summer 2024
- Check out this gorgeous, sepia-toned apocalyptic adventure set in northern Finland
- Asus (sorta) announces the ROG Ally X: bigger battery, updated design, same performance as original ROG Ally
- Animal Well is shaping up to be the most acclaimed metroidvania since Hollow Knight
- Another year, another price hike for Warhammer miniatures
- Helldivers 2 remains delisted in 177 countries and territories even as Sony backs down on PSN requirement, Arrowhead CEO says 'I won't rest in my desire to have it available everywhere'
- Mark Hamill to return as The Joker in Multiversus
- Contemptuous pros and drunk Royal Shakespeareans: Horror stories from the early days of videogame voice acting
- Helldivers 2's themes are bleeding into its community management, and creating a new standard in live storytelling
- 24 years later, Warren Spector offers more details about Deus Ex's cut 'Denver airport conspiracy' mission that was 'so crazy no one would believe it'
- Large-scale game development is 'crushing under its own weight' according to Devolver co-founder
- '90s PC gaming roundtable: Veterans behind LucasArts adventures, Prince of Persia, Broken Sword, and Deus Ex sharing stories
- Warzone hackers give overkill a new meaning by stuffing rockets into assault rifles, leaving victims clueless as to how it's even possible
- It's not over—reports warn of more cuts on the horizon at Microsoft, citing a company structure spread too thin
- ChatGPT giant OpenAI is 'exploring' a more relaxed attitude towards AI-generated porn and smut
- Experiencing Tekken 8 crashes? Nvidia admits to ongoing driver bug with 10-series cards
- Little Kitty, Big City review
- Keycap delivery! This limited edition keycap set from Glorious has turned my clean-cut keyboard into crude doodles and I'm surprisingly here for it
- 'We need smaller games,' says Xbox's Matt Booty, right after Microsoft shut down the studio that made Hi-Fi Rush—and was reportedly about to pitch a sequel
- NPU who? Nah, I'll do my AI image generation on a Commodore 64 thanks very much
- Multiplayer party game Sneak Out is like Among Us meets Pummel Party
- As cuts and closures batter the industry, Capcom posts its 7th consecutive year of record-high profits and says the 8th is just around the corner
- Animal Well review
- Nightdive's next game, about a chef in space who battles aliens with a frying pan, is coming next week
- Nvidia overtakes Qualcomm to become the biggest chip designer by revenue, which should give Jensen plenty to smile about
- Someone's nuked Phil Spencer in Fallout 76
- Arrowhead CEO says Helldivers 2 was going to have helmets with bespoke HUD elements like enemy outlines—but they were cut due to 'well, having to ship the game'
- Immersive sim bugs are the best kind of bug: Shadow of Doubt's snipers are leaving behind thousands of spent bullet casings as they fail to hit their targets
- Hollow Knight: Silksong fans are so tired, an April Fools'-worthy release window for December, 9998 sat mostly unquestioned for a month
- Gigabyte Aorus CO49DQ review
- TikTok files a lawsuit to fight the 'extraordinary intrusion on free speech rights' that would result from a nationwide ban
- Corsair to go all in on sim racing with plans to acquire Fanatec and help with its €70 million debt
- Today's Wordle answer for Thursday, May 9
May 8
- Elite Dangerous gets its own kick in the Steam ratings shin over real money ship sales
- Arrowhead CEO says Helldivers 2 balancing patches have 'gone too far' recently: 'It feels like every time someone finds something fun, the fun is removed'
- EA studios 'hunger' to start using generative AI 'as quickly as possible,' says CEO
- Helldivers 2 CEO is worried it's 'too soon' after the PSN fiasco to release a $10 warbond, so he's letting players vote on a delay
- Hades 2 roadmap: All the updates coming in the future
- New gaming handheld alert: Asus will stream info about 'the next ROG Ally' tomorrow
- Legendary creator Shinji Mikami has one word for Microsoft shutting down the studio he founded: 'Sad'
- Russia's homegrown Wikipedia promises a 'different direction' from its inspiration: One where Yevgeny Prigozhin just happened to explode in mid-air
- How to make good soup in Abiotic Factor
- This 34-inch IPS 144Hz ultrawide gaming monitor for just $240 is something of a steal
- Fortnite bans Yoda for turning into green spaghetti, crashing your game
- One prospective Prey 2 fan has broken a 2,556-day streak of posting daily updates after the recent studio closure
- Tekken 8's newest cash shop skin commits the cardinal sin of forgetting Lili's skirt lace, Harada reassures fans he'll 'request a fix from the costume team' for his wrongdoings
- Hades 2 has a mean surprise tucked away in one of its boss battles—a sucker punch that shows Supergiant isn't afraid to go all Psycho Mantis on you
- ROG Ally mod adds an extra touchscreen for more Windows real estate and works as a handy stand
- Why you shouldn't expect Apple's new uber-bright 1000-nit 'Tandem' OLED screen tech to hit the PC any time soon
- ARM-based processors are coming for traditional PC gaming so we've tested Apple's ARM-y MacBook silicon to see how well it plays games in 2024
- Helldivers 2 players' new battle: A petition for the reinstatement and 'canonization' of community manager fired for supporting review bombing and refunds
- One artist is adding Fortnite into thrift shop paintings, and his latest masterpiece involves the Battle Bus and Peely
- Hades 2's forget-me-not mechanic is so good that I think any game with a billion resources should be taking notes
- Helldivers 2 patch sneaks out the revelation that when we killed 2 billion bugs in a day, that was actually a bug
- One boutique keyboard maker spent years engineering the ultimate stabilizer by 'recklessly training a personal cash bazooka on the question'
- Redfall's devs were reportedly building out its massively delayed Hero Pass content 'very recently'—before Microsoft closed Arkane Austin for good
- Crow Country review
- PSA: You can now earn four daily deepsight weapons in Destiny 2—here are the ones we recommend
- EA CEO says they've learned 'valuable lessons', so the next Battlefield is going to be 'another tremendous live service'
- Metaphor: ReFantazio is 100% shaping up to be medieval Persona and I cannot wait
- Activision Blizzard set to cough up $23.4M after losing a 9-year-long patent infringement battle, but claims 'We have never used the patented technologies at issue in our games'
- Final Fantasy 14 suffers from global round of DDoS attacks, Square Enix 'investigating the attack and taking countermeasures'
- Bathtub Zoltan Chivay becomes more real than ever as The Witcher 3's full-fat modding tools get a release date
- Lenovo Legion 7 16IRX9 review
- The latest HDR standards for PC monitors are still a bit of a kludge
- As Arkane Austin falls to the shareholders, its masterpiece Prey, which 'elevated immersive sims to a god-tier level', is slashed in price by 80%
- A new form of easily upgradeable memory promising thinner laptops and low power is now available
- Manor Lords' upcoming patch plans involve fine-tuning archers and fixing one problem that robbed my town
- Laptops are selling like hot cakes compared to desktops but generally CPU shipments are sluggish
- Who can you invite to the Hades 2 hot tub?
- Today's Wordle answer for Wednesday, May 8
- D&D's new rules will be available under a Creative Commons licence
- Making good, profitable games 'will no longer keep you safe': industry expresses fury and heartbreak over closure of Hi-Fi Rush and Prey studios
- My new favorite Elden Ring mod replaces Torrent, goats, deer, and boars with capybaras
May 7
- How to find and use Thalamus in Hades 2
- Steam review bombing is gaming's most powerful method of protest: 3 takeaways from Helldivers 2's weekend meltdown
- How to find and use Bronze in Hades 2
- Bungie continues recent streak of Ws by making most Destiny 2 expansions free to everyone
- Hades 2 hits 100K concurrent Steam players, crushing the original's record a day after its early access launch
- Magic's most-valuable card hits an absurd $3 million after 'private sale', some call shenanigans, no one knows what's real, but what's true is it was bought with bitcoin
- A 10-foot-tall statue of Messmer the Impaler could be yours, but first, you need to edit a killer Elden Ring trailer
- Microsoft announces 4 studio closures—including Arkane Austin and Tango Gameworks, creators of Prey and Hi-Fi Rush respectively
- V Rising review
- Honkai: Star Rail Robin build—The best relics and Light Cones
- After years of avoiding Magic: The Gathering, the new Hatsune Miku set looks like the final nail in the coffin for me
- Asus may have accidentally revealed the new AMD Strix Point naming scheme, before quickly pulling a 'nothing to see here'
- Despite not having mod support, Manor Lords player adds Shrek to the delight of its developer: 'You can't deny the potential'
- 'Operation Clean-up' begins for Helldivers 2 players as Sony's PSN plans lie in rubble, with over 70,000 (and counting) positive reviews landing on Steam
- The new Corsair One i500 mini-PC just so happens to be one of the loveliest looking PCs I've ever seen
- Intel pressures all motherboard manufacturers to implement default power settings by the end of May
- Today's Wordle answer for Tuesday, May 7
- It's been an incredible few weeks for game companies making avoidable mistakes they immediately back down from
- The best Hades 2 weapons and how to unlock them
May 6
- Nothing makes sense anymore: They're making Funko Pops out of the cult classic 2004 Obsidian RPG, Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic 2: The Sith Lords
- An Arrowhead community manager was fired after all for encouraging Helldivers 2 review bombing and refunds (updated)
- Hades 2's surprise early access release already has more stuff in it than the first game
- Hades 2 is absolutely worth playing in early access right now
- It sure looks like The Talos Principle 2 is about to get an expansion
- Dota 2's Pudge becomes the MOBA's first character to be played in over a billion matches
- As Helldivers 2's Steam reviews begin to recover, Arrowhead's CEO shares an 'accidental' cape design based upon its Overwhelmingly Negative rating, and of course the community wants it added to the game
- NetherRealm gives us a proper look at Homelander in Mortal Kombat 1's latest DLC trailer, and somehow the fatalities aren't the grossest thing in it
- Scammers have resorted to selling CPUs without dies, as a well-known Korean overclocker has discovered
- Sony backs down on demand that Helldivers 2 players log into a PSN account
- Looks like Space Marine 2 will continue the first game's grand tradition of PvP multiplayer
- Today's Wordle answer for Monday, May 6
- Five new Steam games you probably missed (May 6, 2024)
- The Magic: The Gathering manga set in the '90s will come out in English at last
May 5
- Love Sucks: Night Two is a horny game where the real fantasy isn't sex, it's enjoying a carnival without almost immediately getting tired and wanting to go home
- New Apex Legends trailer gets us another look at Alter, Season 21, and the return of solos
- Robot roguelike Cogmind outlines three free expansions for its ultra-customizable scrapbots
- Cybersecurity researchers find that fake USPS phishing sites account for at least as much internet traffic as the Postal Service itself
- Check out the trailer for this big, cooperative Halo campaign mod
- Sony doubles down, removing Helldivers 2 from sale in 177 countries and territories that can't access PSN while Arrowhead CEO says 'I don't have the final say'
- Today's Wordle answer for Sunday, May 5
May 4
- Here's the launch trailer for V Rising's 1.0 version, releasing very soon
- Eyeing the Helldivers 2 backlash with a nervous flop sweat, Sucker Punch assures us that Ghost of Tsushima won't need a PSN login for single player
- All four modern Fallout games catapulted into the most-played games on Steam Deck this past month
- Here's a Baldur's Gate 3 mod so that characters can hug each other
- Update: With over 211 thousand negative Helldivers 2 Steam reviews in three days, developer Arrowhead seems to be grappling with Sony over its controversial PSN sign-in requirement
- Seekers of Skyveil convinced me the extraction genre isn't just for shooters anymore
- Today's Wordle answer for Saturday, May 4
- I'm so annoyed that they're calling the new hobbit game 'A The Lord of the Rings Game'
May 3
- I fell in love with Abiotic Factor the minute I strapped a couch cushion to my chest and called it armor—there's no other survival game like it
- Insanely ambitious Elder Scrolls remake Skyblivion shows off another reason it's not releasing until 2025: refreshed dungeons with unique appearances for each region
- Gray Zone Warfare players can now change factions so they can team up with their friends
- Don't say Manor Lords was made by a 'solo developer,' argues competing city builder maker: 'The team size on it is maybe even larger than ours'
- Senua's Saga: Hellblade 2 PC system requirements leave one big question unanswered
- The idea that the Manor Lords dev should 'just hire 50 people' to update it faster is 'fundamentally not the way things work,' says publisher
- Even a boomer shooter freak like me can't keep up with them all anymore, but this one where you run around on the ceiling and shoot ray guns at Cthulhu guys woke me from a retro FPS stupor
- 'We have not confirmed any instance of Vanguard bricking anyone's hardware' following its League of Legends rollout, Riot says, but there are definitely problems for some players
- 'Ouch, right in the review score': Arrowhead CEO reacts to Helldivers 2 review bombing, apologizes for PSN mandate communication
- Baldur's Gate 3 once featured an even deeper co-op conversation system, but Swen Vincke said their 'dialogue trees blew up so hard, we just couldn't manage it'
- How to transmogrify your gear in WoW Cataclysm Classic
- Modder adds the one thing Skyrim has always been missing: Crippling psychological stress
- A Tekken 8 streamer spent almost a week using a one-button mashing bot to prove that Eddy Gordo is as big a menace as ever
- Meet Sparkles, otherwise known as Boston Dynamics' Spot in a big blue fluffy dog suit
- Sweet liberty, are Helldivers 2 players not happy about having to link their Steam accounts to the PlayStation hive mind
- One step closer to a sci-fi reality—NASA announces funding for a quantum dot solar sail and a levitating train on the Moon
- The AI PC grudge match begins as Nvidia dismisses 'basic' AMD, Intel, Apple and Qualcomm NPUs
- Point-and-click horror Tales from Candleforth is the escape room equivalent of your childhood nightmares
- 'This is looking so good I can't NOT pay you': Fighting game YouTuber commissions modding 'god' to overhaul Marvel vs Capcom: Infinite's artstyle
- Following up 'one of the greatest RPGs of all time' had Baldur's Gate 3 devs in a cold sweat: 'A great honour and a lot of pressure'
- Minecraft armadillos: how to find and breed these adorable armored animals
- More than half of Fortune 100 companies have bought Vision Pro units according to Apple. So it's sold at least 50 then
- Fallout: New Vegas director reveals that game balance is 'mostly vibes based', says he only used a weapons spreadsheet 'for maybe a couple of months'
- AMD's CTO has written about 55 years of AMD innovation. And the most common topic is obviously 'AI' despite not really saying much about 'AI' for the previous 54 years
- This viral Chatroulette-style browser game challenges you to figure out if your partner is human or AI, and I keep failing
- Alright, fun's over—Helldivers 2 wants you to link your Steam account with a PlayStation Network one, with Sony reminding players it was a 'grace period'
- The first official AI PCs are just about to land but they're not what you're expecting
- There's still time to bid on this decommissioned petaflop supercomputer including 8,064 Intel Xeon CPUs but no cables—local collection only
- Endgame Gear OP1 8K wired gaming mouse review
- Today's Wordle answer for Friday, May 3
- Nintendo keeps playing DMCA whack-a-mole with Yuzu Switch emulator copies on Github, but it'll never be able to fully stamp them out
May 2
- After two long years in early access, my favorite indie Elder Scrolls-alike is getting its full release⁠—and it'll let you fly around in your own airship
- XDefiant finally has a release date, and it's just a couple weeks from now
- Blizzard snuck in surprise quality of life changes into Diablo 4's massive list of season 4 patch notes
- Taking a lesson from Manor Lords, Hooded Horse delays Norland to July
- Helldivers 2 players are asking a reasonable question: Why has a whole planet turned green?
- Abiotic Factor, a 6-player survival game where you're scientists in a paranormal lab, is rising up Steam's top-sellers chart
- Elden Ring lead Hidetaka Miyazaki won't say how long the DLC is since everyone thinks he lowballed the main game: 'Everyone told me I was lying and that's not remotely enough time!'
- Balatro's first big balance patch fiddles with Fibonacci and makes a mod to Odd Todd
- Helldivers 2's next warbond makes slowdown an unpatriotic thing of the past with 'motivational shocks'
- Gorgeous cozy castle doodling game Tiny Glade is launching a demo this month
- Kerbal Space Program fans react with anger over Intercept Games closure, and you know what that means: Review bombing on Steam
- The Outer Worlds once had an incredible secret ending that was cut for pushing the limits of 'too horny'
- Gigabyte G6X (2024) review
- Baldur's Gate 3 initially had an entire mechanic where you'd go to the fugue plane if you died, but it was scrapped
- Bethesda should just say 'screw it', move on from Starfield, and put all that energy into Fallout
- Our RPG roundtable returns with developers from Baldur's Gate 3, Avowed, Cyberpunk 2077, In Stars and Time, and The Elder Scrolls
- Casper Van Dien geeks out over Helldivers 2's references and gives it a patriotic 10/10—'such a tribute to Starship Troopers it's really quite wonderful'
- The Forever Winter is a looter shooter set amid a dynamic war between building-sized mechs, where firing your gun could be the biggest mistake you make
- Cyberpunk 2077 dev says they went all-out on the memorial to Johnny Silverhand's nuclear attack, then found out bosses 'just expected a commemorative plaque'
- Hallelujah, Nvidia will now take care of the fiddly GeForce Now set-up on Steam Deck for you
- Gray Zone Warfare delivers the odd hitch and stutter, but overall it's a reasonable Early Access ride
- Baldur's Gate 3 dev spills the secret sauce: Players love finding a place, then 'ending up 2 hours and 3 puzzles later in a sacrificial chamber of a cult that murders giraffes'
- Flexispot E7L adjustable standing desk review
- Total War: Pharaoh is getting a free expansion-sized update that adds 4 new factions, including Troy
- Alan Wake 2 hasn't turned a profit 6 months in and there's no Steam release in sight, but Remedy says it's in control
- D&D lore buff discovers Elminster's likely been leaving magic items strewn around Baldur's Gate 3 like a fantasy wizard Santa Claus
- Trouble connecting to your VPN? Microsoft admits that a recent Windows security update is preventing virtual connections
- WoW's released a short cinematic ahead of the War Within's pre-patch—and I'm just happy these characters are talking like actual people, now
- Master of horror John Carpenter doesn't 'need to see' the Borderlands film, may have quit Diablo 4 for the same reason he dropped Red Dead 2: 'I can't even get on that horse'
- Manor Lords publisher says the game's success is 'well beyond what we could have hoped'
- Windows 11 just isn't enticing Windows 10 users to upgrade, and its market share is actually falling
- Today's Wordle answer for Thursday, May 2
May 1
- The PC game releases we're most excited about in May
- Earth Defense Force 6 delivers a Helldivers 2-style call to action in its launch date announcement trailer
- Foundry is a very calm, pleasant building game I'd play if I got tired of several other ones
- Sandbox farm sim Mirthwood will let you bring your pets into battle with you
- Over half of Helldivers 2 sales have been on PC in the US: 'Already the 7th highest grossing Sony published game in history'
- Kerbal Space Program 2 developer Intercept Games and Rollerdrome studio Roll7 are reportedly closing as part of Take-Two's big layoff plan
- Todd Howard says Bethesda's trying to 'increase our output' with Elder Scrolls and Fallout 'because we don't want to wait that long either'
- Starfield's latest update lets you decorate your ship just like an outpost
- Starforge Systems Navigator Pro review
- Square Enix announces it's tanked $140 million in losses due to 'content abandonment', though there's no clue as to what's been dropped—and where
- There's a Manor Lords VR mod already, which is so impressive even the game's solo dev is crying witchcraft: 'I have no idea how it's done, but I'm impressed it works'
- Skywind, the ambitious mod remaking Morrowind in Skyrim, has over 3,000 characters—three times as many as the original Skyrim
- The way World of Warcraft: The War Within quest rewards work is game-changing for transmog enthusiasts
- Todd Howard reckons he knows why Starfield was so divisive: It was too 'different than you've seen from us in past'
- 4X RTS Sins of a Solar Empire 2 is finally coming to Steam this summer with a new faction and modding tools
- Bamboozled Gray Zone Warfare players are protesting after realising their faction choices are stopping them from teaming up with friends
- Self-taught hardware engineer discovers that GPUs really are ridiculously complex and hard to design after all
- Cyberpunk 2077: Phantom Liberty's third deadliest boss is an OSHA-violating garage, making it 86.6% as dangerous as a giant killer robo-tank
- Haunted Chocolatier
- Todd Howard says the Fallout show was so fanatical about detail that 'We were sharing the files right from the games and they were 3D printing things'
- Indika review
- A new Batman: Arkham game is coming later this year, and, oh, it's a VR game
- Oh god, no—stalkers in Helldivers 2 are actually invisible, now
- Coffee and PC gaming ground together in perfect harmony, in this fabulous Scandi wood-sauna-themed build
- Priest accused by cops of spending over $40,000 of church funds on Candy Crush and Pokémon Go, says it might have happened because he's not a 'details guy'
- Buckle up—Hasbro spent over $1 billion on games and has plans for 'the next 100 years', since Baldur's Gate 3 proved fans 'like a great, well-executed D&D game'
- Mass Effect Legendary Edition, the exceptional 4K remaster of the original trilogy that we said 'looks great' and 'absolutely flies on modern hardware', is now 90% off
- AMD's start to 2024: Big gains in client and data center, big falls in gaming
- Freakishly large graphics cards and super-hot SSDs mean the fundamentals of PC design needs a big change
- Today's Wordle answer for Wednesday, May 1
- It's a shame Gray Zone Warfare is a performance nightmare, because it fixes so many problems I have with Escape From Tarkov