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- May 31
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- The GOAT of Sekiro has already soloed Elden Ring Nightreign's final boss as its katana-parrying samurai guy
- It's not just you: Elden Ring Nightreign's matchmaking is taking forever if it works at all, and there doesn't seem to be a fix—aside from queueing with a full group
- You got Nightreigned: Elden Ring's spinoff is the most aggravating, player-hostile FromSoft game I've played, but I keep staying up past 3 AM for 'one more run'
- All the The Elder Scrolls games are up to 75% off in Bethesda's weekend sale, with 20% off Oblivion Remastered
- Planet Coaster 2's latest update introduces crime and punishment to your theme park, adding pickpockets, vandals, and security guards to stop them
- This game about being trapped on a spaceship overgrown with a jungle that wants to eat you is basically Project Zomboid in space, and it looks absolutely terrifying
- One of the best puzzle games on Steam just got its first update in 11 years and is also verified for Steam Deck: 'We couldn't resist including some visual, aural, and input adjustments'
- Today's Wordle answer for Saturday, May 31
- May 30
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- If you want to play Elden Ring Nightreign in a duo, the Seamless Co-op mod is already out, dead simple to use, and it won't mess up your vanilla save
- Ubisoft marks 10 years of trolling Splinter Cell fans with a new tease and I can't believe I'm saying this but they used the wrong picture of Sam Fisher
- Path of Exile 2 director says GGG is learning from its mistakes while supporting 2 games at once: 'If you want to lock the date, you can't lock the features'
- Yooka-Laylee developer Playtonic confirms layoffs: 'The landscape is shifting, and with it, so must we'
- If you're playing Elden Ring Nightreign solo, every merchant carries a revive item, you can carry two at once, and there are more solo QoL changes coming next week
- ZeniMax QA union reaches a tentative contract agreement with Microsoft including 'substantial across-the-board wage increases,' worker protections, and more
- Honoring its Pride Month tradition, Tell Me Why is free to keep until the end of June for the fifth year in a row
- More than 2 million people have played/been brutalized by Elden Ring Nightreign in its first 24 hours
- The Witcher 3 is getting 'one more patch' that will add cross-platform mod support
- Elden Ring Nightreign Equilibrious Beast boss guide: How to beat Libra
- This underwater city builder had me more emotionally invested in my corals than SimCity does in my human citizens, and you can try it at the next Steam Next Fest
- SteelSeries Rival 3 Gen 2 Wireless review
- The Kingmakers system requirements show that the hardest part of running the game may be finding 80 GB free for the install
- FromSoftware's clunky UI and coy descriptions are keeping me from truly loving Elden Ring Nightreign
- Update: The Elden Ring Nightreign Duos mod from the creator of Seamless Co-op is already available to download and play
- Civilization 7's senior historian once deleted Civ 6's massive Civilopedia, replacing every entry with a single warmongering emperor: 'The entire folder just went, and I looked, and it was just my one little entry'
- REPO 'literally saved semiwork as a studio' according to a new video published by developers
- ASRock acknowledges AMD is not at fault for recent CPU failures and recommends updating the BIOS now, though we still don't know if problems have actually been fixed
- A graphical history of id Tech: Three decades of cutting-edge graphics and game engine technologies
- Elden Ring Nightreign Fissure in the Fog boss guide: How to beat Caligo
- REPO has published yet another video promising more content in its long-awaited first update: 'We are in the homestretch now'
- After 11 gruelling days and the death of Super Earth's president, Helldivers 2 players have succeeded in turning the Illuminate to calamari and protecting democracy
- How to emote in Elden Ring Nightreign
- Elden Ring Nightreign's best feature is its extra mobility—but it's not even that good, and Sekiro does it better
- Elden Ring Nightreign is immediately FromSoft's worst-reviewed game on Steam: 'This is not the Elden Ring you are looking for'
- Phanteks Eclipse G400A review
- Hot off making the biggest city in any Elder Scrolls game, Tamriel Rebuilt is already eyeing one 'Twice the size'
- Nvidia's Jen-Hsun Huang says Chinese competitors are 'quite formidable' just days after the announcement of a Chinese RTX 4060-level GPU powering up
- A game claiming the backing of Russia's military just popped up on Steam: 'I understand Ukrainian players don't like us'
- Despite 'mixed' user reviews, Elden Ring Nightreign explodes onto Steam, with 300,000-150,000 players presumably getting wrecked by a big dog
- Today's Wordle answer for Friday, May 30
- Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 didn’t invent Final Frenchtasy or the J'RPG: the newly dubbed subgenre has a long and complicated history
- Rematch: All the key details on the 5v5 football game from the masterminds behind Sifu
- May 29
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- Elden Ring Nightreign guide: all our advice for surviving the night in one place
- The Drifter is a grimy point 'n' click adventure mixing bleak sci-fi with low-budget Aussie schlock, and there's a demo out now
- Dune: Awakening's player guilds will be able to pass some pretty OP server-wide laws—including one that means you'll lose everything when defeated in deep desert PvP
- A Concord commemorative wall plaque is being auctioned by Goodwill and bidding is already over $3,000
- How to change outfit in Elden Ring Nightreign
- Best rune farm route in Elden Ring Nightreign
- 12 Elden Ring Nightreign tips to get a head start hunting Nightlords
- Elden Ring Nightreign Duchess build, tips, and best weapons guide
- Elden Ring Nightreign tier list: Who's the best character to pick?
- How to get legendary weapons in Elden Ring Nightreign
- How to get Smithing Stones in Elden Ring Nightreign and upgrade weapons
- How to stop the locusts stealing your runes in Elden Ring Nightreign
- Where to find the whetstone in Elden Ring Nightreign
- How to complete the Shifting Earth: The Crater event in Elden Ring Nightreign
- How to unlock Revenant in Elden Ring Nightreign
- Elden Ring Nightreign bosses: Every Nightlord you'll face in Limveld
- Elden Ring Nightreign best relics and relic rites explained
- Elden Ring Nightreign Wylder build, tips, and best weapons
- Elden Ring Nightreign Raider build, tips, and best weapons
- PSA: Having trouble with Elden Ring Nightreign? Try Ironeye
- How to get memory fragments in Elden Ring Nightreign
- Elden Ring Nightreign Executor build, tips, and best weapons
- Elden Ring Nightreign Ironeye build, tips, and best weapons
- Elden Ring Nightreign Guardian build, tips, and best weapons
- Elden Ring Nightreign Recluse build, tips, and best weapons
- Elden Ring Nightreign Revenant build, tips, and best weapons
- PSA: Every weapon you carry grants you its passive buff in Elden Ring Nightreign
- Best Elden Ring Nightreign team compositions for every Nightlord
- How to play Elden Ring Nightreign multiplayer
- Where to find merchants in Elden Ring Nightreign
- How to unlock Duchess in Elden Ring Nightreign
- Elden Ring Nightreign Tricephalos boss guide: How to beat Gladius
- Elden Ring Nightreign Gaping Jaw boss guide: How to beat Adel
- How to unlock Dark Souls outfits in Elden Ring Nightreign
- How to defeat the Guardian Golem in Elden Ring Nightreign
- How to get and use Stonesword Keys in Elden Ring Nightreign
- Helldivers 2 Chinese community valiantly holds the line to save 'Super China,' then flogs Arrowhead with negative Steam reviews for capping liberty at 99.9783%
- This Brazilian roguelike is a 'brutal test against history's oppressors' where you can battle the perpetrators of a 19th century atrocity with AoE knife magic
- The Game Informer archive just got upgraded with its entire backlog, so go experience the eye-melting world of '90s game advertising
- 4 years after being delisted, Lost Planet 2 finally got a Steam update to remove Games for Windows Live—but it also removed online multiplayer and blew up everyone's saves
- After a year and a half of updates, WoW Classic's Season of Discovery is finally winding down in favor of something new: 'We need to get in the proverbial kitchen and cook'
- Mount & Blade 2: Bannerlord's big naval expansion is delayed: 'After taking a hard look at where things stand, it became clear we won’t be ready'
- All quests, ranks, and rewards for the Mamool Ja Allied Society in Final Fantasy 14
- Warhammer's latest shiny CG trailer somehow makes space marine shoulder pads even bigger
- Manor Lords meets Total War in web3 strategy game BLOCKLORDS
- Is it a chair? Is it a PC? Actually, this stealth PC build is both—and probably very toasty
- Elden Ring Nightreign's first patch warns of possible PC performance problems on some setups
- If you're getting a blank screen on reboot with an RTX 50-series GPU, use this Nvidia firmware updater
- All Fantasy Life i: The Girl Who Steals Time gift codes
- 'According to Steam, I have around 10,000 hours logged,' says the modder who's spent a decade turning GTA 5 into a photo realistic wonderland
- Yes a US court has blocked Trump's tariffs but PC hardware isn't out of the water just yet
- Game of Thrones creator and Elden Ring loremaster George R.R. Martin has utterly had it with folks hounding him for his next book: 'I care about them all. More than you can ever imagine'
- Deltarune: Everything we know about Toby Fox's next adventure
- Morrowind's new city from Tamriel Rebuilt is 'Bigger than any playable Elder Scrolls city in general,' and a single hero made its exterior
- Final Fantasy 14's Occult Crescent makes the game feel like an MMO again
- 'You've seen the number of releases from AAA publishers dwindle and dwindle and dwindle': Clair Obscur's runaway success was helped by staying smaller scale in a world of inflated budgets
- GeForce Now finally gets a native app for the Steam Deck, solving what was our biggest complaint with the streaming service on Valve's plucky handheld
- The RX 9070 XT might not be the truly mid-range graphics card I'm still dreaming of but it turned my latest sci-fi PC build into a frame rate menace
- Nvidia's Hopper GPUs are now dead to the Chinese market after export controls that made the company take a 'multibillion-dollar write-off'
- Texas Senate to vote on bill that restricts social media access for children, while parental consent for app downloads will be required from next year
- Elden Ring Nightreign launch times and release date
- Razer releases AI plugin for game engines to assist with logging bugs and Quality Assurance testing in games
- A mod that lets you play Half-Life 2 multiplayer as the mercs from Team Fortress 2 is coming to Steam
- Forget saving thousands for the newest iPhone. One hacker has turned his NES Zapper gun from Duck Hunt into a laser driven wireless phone
- Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Empire City is a TMNT parkour-action game for VR
- Corsair's new One i600 mini PC packs an RTX 5080 into a stunning understated wood panel case
- Top-down modded Morrowind lets you experience Vvardenfell like it's Baldur's Gate
- Today's Wordle answer for Thursday, May 29
- This narrative thriller takes place in a fictional '80s OS, and the devs obsessed over keeping just the right amount of old school jank: 'We did retain the dial-up modem'
- FromSoft leans into the nu-metal vibes and goes full Evanescence with the Elden Ring Nightreign launch trailer
- May 28
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- 'The absolute sincere truth is that I don't want anyone to pay any more than they should or are comfortable with': Randy Pitchford's latest post on the Borderlands pricing controversy is a whole dang essay
- If you're 'scared of PvP', don't worry: Dune: Awakening's endgame deep desert area has a PvE zone, too
- MindsEye co-CEO claims there's a 'concerted effort' to trash the game ahead of its release: 'I do KNOW that there are bot farms posting negative comments and dislikes'
- To A T review
- 'Nightreign is a weird one': Elden Ring Nightreign promises to be a divisive spinoff as reviewers say it's both 'deeply satisfying' and a 'frustrating slog'
- Electronic Arts cancels Black Panther game and closes the studio making it
- Someone found Skyrim's most relatable NPC: A dude with no possessions who just sleeps all day, every day
- Cyberpunk 2, which is now officially called Cyberpunk 2, has entered pre-production, but don't expect it out before 2030
- Former BioWare lead writer says the best level in Vampire: The Masquerade – Bloodlines gave him 'ammunition' to argue that story can be just as engaging as combat
- AMD's exciting new mainstream RX 9060 XT GPU spotted in online benchmarks as June 5 launch day fast approaches
- Turtle Beach Stealth 700 Gen 3 review
- Grub's up: The hungry, hungry Necrophage faction is coming to Endless Legend 2
- Listening to Google's CEO talking about what about the future of AI holds just reinforces the fact that nobody can know what the future of AI holds
- Yuri Lowenthal spills the beans on a Persona 4 remake by announcing that Atlus doesn't want him in it: 'Maybe I even begged, but they don’t want me to come back'
- Rejoice, hammer users—Monster Hunter Wild's new patch just buffed the bonk squad, alongside a huge quality-of-life feature for hoarders and optimisation improvements on PC
- Computex 2025 showed that innovation in PC hardware often involves sticking a screen on something but don't let that distract you from the genuine improvements underneath
- Windows pack-in classic Space Cadet Pinball has been unofficially ported to Android devices—and it's free
- Massive Morrowind mod Tamriel Rebuilt couldn't be less worried about Bethesda going for an Oblivion-style remaster: 'Modernising Morrowind would just ruin the game entirely'
- Elden Ring Nightreign PC performance analysis: A bare-bones console port with glitches a-plenty
- Elden Ring Nightreign review
- Samsung's new Peltier cooling tech is more efficient and less wasteful and could be a great for keeping a power-hungry CPU chilly
- China has held the world's first robot martial arts tournament and I can't think of a single thing that could possibly go wrong
- World of Warcraft Classic returns to Mists of Pandaria this July—marking a chance to return to the beloved expansion without the gulp frog melodrama
- Discord asks users to ponder its Orbs, an earnable currency you can use to buy Nitro
- The latest Fantasy Life sold over half a million copies only three days after launch, so maybe they finally made a good one
- Ex-Dragon Age lead hopes Vampire: The Masquerade – Bloodlines 2 pulls an 'Expedition 33 or Baldur's Gate 3' by leaning into the combat-light, roleplaying-heavy gameplay of the tabletop version
- As US tariff uncertainty continues, Nvidia's RTX 5090 dips under MSRP in the UK and EU
- Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 sells 3.3 million copies in 33 days, in case you needed any more evidence we're living in a simulation
- A new farming sim has entered the ring, except you're a cowboy on a ranch and you have shootouts with bandits and rob trains
- Honkai: Star Rail Archer materials and kit
- ASRock acknowledges and explains dying AMD 9000-series chips in its motherboards, rolls out a BIOS fix
- The 'most powerful creature in the game' is about to be unleashed into Lethal Company as part of its first update in months
- Today's Wordle answer for Wednesday, May 28
- May 27
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- Physics-based survival city-builder All Will Fall is having an open beta test in June
- Sorry, nightfarers: Elden Ring Nightreign does not have crossplay
- Battlefront 2's huge Steam resurgence isn't a mystery when you realize it's just really good
- Persona 5: The Phantom X is a solid RPG, but even adding gacha can't hide the fact that Persona 5's been stretched awfully thin over the last 9 years
- Elden Ring Nightreign director says FromSoft will be fine-tuning game balance right up until launch: 'We really try to tweak things until the last minute'
- More than 60% of Capcom's digital game sales last year were on PC
- Dead by Daylight update schedule: The Year 10 roadmap adds The Walking Dead Survivors and 'Asian horror folklore' chapter
- OlliOlli World and Rollerdrome are back on Steam after being delisted 4 months ago when 2K sold off Private Division
- The CIA operated a network of gaming sites and even a Star Wars fanpage that were part of one of its worst-ever intelligence catastrophes
- Pump noise, what pump noise? Asetek's new liquid cooler pump is so quiet 'it's on a level where you can't hear it'
- Assassin's Creed Shadows has Dead By Daylight content in it now for reasons fathomless to man
- Valve buys fan favourite Counter-Strike map from creator: 'They reached out to buy it on day 1, a great honor and I don't want anyone to think we hesitated for one moment'
- 'Brevity should be more of a virtue': Clair Obscur: Expedition 33's devs are happy they made an 'intense and short' 30-60 hours of RPG
- Aureole – Wings of Hope is a high-speed, nifty platformer where you wrangle a supersonic, physics-based ring to eventually thwart a jacked devil
- Dulcet-voiced Sony tech god Mark Cerny is better than you at Balatro, joins the 0.1% of players to platinum the whole game
- F1 25 review
- Cities: Skylines 2 can't catch a break, as the long-awaited Bridges and Ports expansion is delayed again
- CDPR didn't put harsh themes in Cyberpunk 2077 or The Witcher 3 'for the sake of edginess', but because 'you're probably not making art' if the devs are never challenged
- Dragon Age creator says EA execs thought BioWare fans would eat whatever slop they were given since 'the nerds in the cave would always show up for an RPG, because it was an RPG'
- A fabric-covered PC case was not on my Computex 2025 bingo card but I'm surprisingly into it
- Computex 2025 made me realise I have no time for extravagant PC parts, just give me a simple, solid design and function
- I've seen every PC case that Computex has to offer and this new Havn chassis is my top pick thanks to its abnormally large fans, front grille and airflow optimisation
- After 4 years, Final Fantasy 14 finally has a new exploration zone in the Occult Crescent—and even if I'd have liked one sooner, I can't wait to get stuck in
- Honkai: Star Rail Saber materials and kit
- Honkai: Star Rail Phainon materials and kit
- Zoom's Eric Yuan becomes second CEO to use AI avatar on important investment call, ahead of the platform's new custom avatar addon release
- MSI shows off new weirdly flat PinSafe Design motherboards at Computex, possibly saving lives
- Moza releases replica Revuelto wheel, giving us poors a chance at going hands on with a Lamborghini
- Today's Wordle answer for Tuesday, May 27
- May 26
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- Byond game engine suffers a weeks-long DDoS attack, apparently because a wanna-be Bond villain is trying to force it to go open source: 'Attacks on Byond servers are a symptom of your obstinance'
- Pick up the Left 4 Dead games for cheaper than a pack of gum in the new Steam sale that's all about zombies, and also vampires
- A month after Electronic Arts mashed the brakes, WRC rally racing games are coming back with a 'complete reboot' under a new publisher
- Gabe Newell co-founded a neuroscience company in 2019 and its first brain chip is expected to ship later this year
- NetherRealm says it's done releasing major updates for Mortal Kombat 1: 'Our team … needs to shift focus to the next project'
- Morrowind with every texture deleted is a beautiful magenta fever dream
- The best videogame RPGs are really tabletop RPGs in disguise—and that might just be their secret sauce
- Tim Cain talks about the challenges facing a Fallout remaster: 'How much are we now changing the original Fallout? Is this a quality of life thing or are you making a new game?'
- Oblivion Remastered player gets flung in jail for 20 million days just for some petty crime
- Parries and timed blocks are the future of action games—and they've got a place in turn-based RPGs like Clair Obscur: Expedition 33, too
- Oblivion Remastered is great and all, but Morrowind remains the Bethesda RPG that I could play forever
- It turns out the gigantic rats you have to kill in so many RPG quests are totally real, and now I need to apologise to RPG designers
- Escape from Duckov is coming back with a new demo
- Today's Wordle answer for Monday, May 26
- Total War: Warhammer 3 DLC Tides of Torment promises to add a treacherous mutant and finally give Warhammer's smartest troll his due
- Five new Steam games you probably missed (May 26, 2025)
- 'They're very determined, suddenly, to see your game fail': Former Dragon Age writer calls out 'anti-fans' who bet on games failing before launch
- A Roblox farming game made by a teenager 'in like three days' had 8.9 million players online at the same time—Steam peaked at 11.5 million across all games on the same day
- May 25
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- Desktop Survivors 98 is an action roguelike that moves at the speed of your mouse, which is to say pretty fast
- Warhammer 40,000 games Darktide and Rogue Trader enjoyed a sales bump due to the popularity of Space Marine 2
- 'Majority of gamers are still playing at 1080p': AMD chief claims there's still a place for 8GB GPUs, and he's got a point
- Even with The Elder Scrolls 6 just a twinkle in Todd Howard's eye, it's boom times for Elder Scrolls fans: The project to remake Morrowind in Skyrim just put out a 20-minute trailer and progress update
- After its pre-rendered trailer caused a stir last year, this Dark Messiah-inspired RPG now has a gameplay teaser—but the internet is debating if it's real or not
- Helldivers 2 player embraces their inner Lisan al-Gaib, discovering a way to surf on the back of the game's giant floating Leviathans: 'I spent longer than I would like to admit setting this up'
- Double Fine dev embarks on a quest to discover Full Throttle's true release date: 'Perhaps the best 30th birthday present I could give Full Throttle was a real birthday'
- Move over, Daggerfall Unity—now there's a project to make the oldest, least accessible Elder Scrolls game actually playable
- CD Projekt Red reflects on its hubris following The Witcher 3's success, and how that led to Cyberpunk 2077's problems: 'I think that was the beginning of a bit of magical thinking for the company'
- Today's Wordle answer for Sunday, May 25
- Open world, first-person RPG Tainted Grail: The Fall of Avalon is out now with a nice helping of dark fantasy to explore
- May 24
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- Great moments in PC gaming: Getting so badly stuck on an adventure game puzzle I called the developer for a hint
- Indie Fallout wiki joins forces with the Unofficial Elder Scrolls Pages, ensuring a bright future for looking up RPG lore uninterrupted by half-page video ads
- 'Son, you did a good job:' Doom grandaddy John Romero streamed hit indie FPS Dusk and absolutely loved it
- The Finals' latest update adds a limited-time mode that's mostly just hitting each other with hammers
- A24 is making a movie based on The Backrooms, the 2019 creepypasta that now forms the basis for every other game on Steam
- One of the worst games of all time got a Steam release, but is it even that bad compared to our current hell of asset-flips and Steam shovelware?
- Mech farming sim Lightyear Frontier is getting a complete overhaul, adding a bigger map, massive tornados, and an interplanetary delivery cannon: 'It's been clear that we were not living up to the fantasy'
- Microsoft's take on Civilization is getting an expansion that lets you play through the Bronze Age collapse, the Mongol invasion, and something inexplicably called 'Spider World'
- Today's Wordle answer for Saturday, May 24
- All active Dandy's World codes in March 2026 and how to redeem them in Roblox
- May 23
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- Stop messing with team deathmatch
- Remembering Leif Johnson, the gaming industry's one and only cowboy poet
- Paradox is bringing back White Wolf for tabletop RPGs and at least one videogame
- Most players 'know next to nothing about how games are made': New Blood devs sound off on gamedev misconceptions
- Konami re-recorded the Snake Eater theme for Metal Gear Solid Delta, but don't worry—it's still the same excellent vocalist belting "Snaaaaaaaaake Eaaaterrrrrrrrr"
- 'We're gonna do right by you': Splitgate 2 CEO apologizes for server meltdown after the open beta goes live
- Larian insists it did not accidentally leak Divinity: Original Sin 3, it was just a glitch on X
- Brian Eno, creator of the Windows 95 startup sound, calls on Microsoft to sever ties with Israel: 'If you knowingly build systems that can enable war crimes, you inevitably become complicit in those crimes'
- Nubby's Number Factory is like Balatro if it were a plinko roguelike and instead of Jokers had items like Squirmy, Pedro, and A Ton of Feathers
- This XCOM-style strategy game dares to ask: What if Napoleon Bonaparte was a woman who had an army of battlemechs?
- If there was one non-AI Computex trend this year it's that everything needs a damned screen in or on it
- REPO will feature 'moon phases' as part of the new update, ramping up the difficulty every 5 levels
- Computex has made me finally care about PC cases and it's not just because of rig envy
- Helldivers 2 and Palworld devs wish players understood that 'easy' additions and updates are sometimes really hard: 'That's half a year's work. That takes six months'
- I've swapped Windows for the latest SteamOS build on my Legion Go S and I'm not going back
- 'They listened! They listened!': Stalker restores Soviet monument after angry fans tanked its Steam reviews, and they couldn't be happier
- Bugtopia is my next insect idle game obsession and I promise I'm not mad about the grind at the beginning which makes you sell your own bugs
- Anthropic says its Claude AI will resort to blackmail in '84% of rollouts' while an independent AI safety researcher also notes it 'engages in strategic deception more than any other frontier model that we have previously studied'
- Noctua finally cracks the case market with a fan-equipped chassis that 'can substantially reduce noise' and now I want an all-Noctua rig
- 'We'll call you back': BioWare's first impression of The Witcher 1 was a bad demo, followed by CDPR declaring that they wanted to 'create the best RPG game ever'
- This hacking sim is like if Uplink was more of a puzzle game, and if you live for snooping through other people's emails you're going to be well-served
- The voice actor for FF14's Alphinaud finally reaches Heavensward, sees his own work after 10 years in all its 'jumpscare' glory
- If you never played the original The Witcher RPG then here's a heads-up—the censorship-free Enhanced Edition is now dirt cheap
- PNY and Palit have stolen my heart at Computex with their clean and shiny RTX 50-series graphics cards
- FTC drops 2-year case against Microsoft's $68.7 billion acquisition of Activision Blizzard
- HTC Vive makes impending tariffs a sales event, giving US consumers one last chance to jump into VR before the price hikes
- Valve certifies the Lenovo Legion Go S for SteamOS, improves AMD compatibility, controller support, and officially brings 80% limiting to SteamOS in 3.7.8 update
- Three Warhammer games are free to keep as part of this year's Warhammer Skulls event
- Light No Fire: Everything we know about Hello Games' planet-sized survival game
- Today's Wordle answer for Friday, May 23
- Warhammer 40,000's space dwarfs will make their videogame debut in turn-based tactics sequel Mechanicus 2 this year
- May 22
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- A live-action Elden Ring movie from A24 and Alex Garland is in the works
- 'We hear you': RoadCraft dev will address early negative feedback with hotfixes, free new vehicles, and a 'Hard Mode' with systems like fuel management
- Elden Ring Nightreign director says the game was built for squads of three and 'doesn't collapse if it's a solo player,' but admits that duos have gone 'kind of overlooked'
- Super People, the 'PUBG with superpowers' battle royale that closed in 2023, is somehow back from the dead and doing a closed beta test in June
- The original Space Marine is getting a re-release with 4K and crossplay, and the orks wear all black now for some reason
- MindsEye: All the key details on the new action game from one of the minds behind Grand Theft Auto
- Google CEO pitches dystopia where no one communicates with their friends anymore because AI's writing our emails, claims this makes you 'a better friend'
- This 'stealthvania' is like if Prince of Persia never gave up on 2D and narrated your every move
- 'It's the definition of insanity here': The Battlefield subreddit's good vibes nosedive into outrage after DICE announces there'll be no class weapon restrictions in Battlefield 6
- GeoGuessr withdraws from Esports World Cup following furious blowback from the community over Saudi Arabia's human rights record
- It's a day ending in 'y' so you know what that means: Embracer Group is doing more restructuring
- Epic CEO Tim Sweeney takes his victory lap as Fortnite returns to the app store after nearly 5 years: 'Thanks to all of the folks who initially sided with Apple then later came around to the winning side'
- The next Warhammer 40K RPG from Rogue Trader's devs sounds killer: An Imperial inquisitor detective RPG where you can intimidate your enemies until they're 'scared as f**k' and surrender
- Dawn of War, the undisputed king of Warhammer 40k RTS games, is getting a remaster, but Relic isn't changing too much: 'We don't want to fix something that isn't broken'
- A 'gruesome' free Warhammer 40,000 typing game on Steam heralds the announcement of Boltgun 2, coming in 2026
- In this new medieval city builder that launched on Steam today, build a sprawling town with the help of companions who level up and train their own apprentices
- IO Interactive's upcoming MindsEye system requirements recommend an RTX 4070 or above, which makes my new rig want to cry
- Remedy director says that FBC: Firebreak 'respects player time' instead of relying on FOMO, which has 'infected modern games'
- Tryx's new AIO cooler features two LCD screens and a display shelf, because it's Computex
- Celebrating 10 years of posting that one image of Geralt in a bathtub
- This ginormous caricature of a CPU cooler screen just about sums up Computex 2025, I think
- CDPR boss says Witcher author Sapkowski's grumpiness is a 'persona,' he's actually lovely and the studio's 'updating everything' to make sure they respect his lore
- There's a new Warhammer 40,000 version of our favorite Secretlab desk on the way but please don't paint your minis on it
- NZXT H3 Flow case review
- 'That magic is back': Peter Molyneux really wants you to know he's not hyping Masters of Albion, while name-dropping Dungeon Keeper, Black and White, and Fable
- If the endless stream of AIOs with big screens coming out of Computex is making your air cooler jealous, Tryx has you covered
- 'Just stick to your guns': Neil Druckmann isn't fazed by all the hate Intergalactic got, 'There's stuff happening with media right now that you just have to ignore'
- This retro PC case has a big red button and a turnkey and it hits me square in the chest with nostalgia
- This incredible Monster Hunter Wilds PC custom build has something your rig definitely doesn't: an RTX 5070 Ti GPU sword
- Hisense C2 Ultra projector review
- Monster Hunter Wilds has announced a collaboration with Street Fighter 6, letting you dress up as Akuma and embark on a new side mission
- Fear not, RTX 50-series owners, because ASRock's new PSUs have extra thermal sensors to shut off overheating GPU power cables
- Next and current banners in Wuthering Waves
- Jason Momoa's videogame movie streak won't end here, he's already in talks to star in Street Fighter alongside 3 other big names
- The Last of Us showrunner confirms it'll take 4 seasons to wrap things up: "there's no way to complete this narrative in a 3rd season"
- PC Gamer magazine's new issue is on sale now: The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt – 10th anniversary
- A writer used AI to generate this widely circulated summer reading list which includes fake books, and is published in the Chicago Sun-Times
- This $6,000 professional grade direct transfer printer comes with plenty of viruses for no extra cost, unless it also steals your crypto
- This origami-powered shape-shifting device could provide VR gamers with unique tactile feedback
- Today's Wordle answer for Thursday, May 22
- In an uncontroversial move that will bother no one, Lies of P is getting an easy mode
- Final Fantasy 15's longest boss fight is coming to Magic: The Gathering, hopefully it won't take 30 days to defeat
- Mafia: The Old Country: all the key details on the gritty gangster prequel
- World of Warcraft game director details which combat add-ons are safe and which will be eliminated in the coming purge
- May 21
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- A delayed review, a GOTY controversy, and a Big Geralt: Our strange 10-year relationship with The Witcher 3
- The Battlefield subreddit is an endless feed of leaked Battlefield 6 gameplay, and it might be the best marketing campaign of 2025
- A Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 dev has formed an anime rivalry with the godlike buildcrafters who only needed 'like, one week' to beat his record of dealing 3.4 billion damage with one attack
- Former Dragon Age writer says Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 and Baldur's Gate 3 prove 'what's possible when a game is given time to cook'
- Gearbox boss Randy Pitchford wades back into the Borderlands 4 pricing controversy: 'Game budgets are increasing ... it's getting gnarly out there'
- The Witcher 3's development took CDPR from 'How do we escape annihilation?' to having Sony on speed-dial
- Live service games are 'innovating' all the way back around to what worked 20 years ago, except way worse
- 'It doesn't feel like Blade Runner': Cyberpunk's creator teases one of the Cyberpunk 2077 sequel's new locations, saying that 'it feels more like Chicago gone wrong'
- 'We can't just have Geralt for every single game': The Witcher's Doug Cockle tells the Ciri-haters to 'read the damn books, you won't think it's so woke anymore'
- Looks like the latest Nvidia driver has given some RTX 5080 and 5090 laptops a little performance boost
- Ducky's year of the snake keyboard is my favourite shown off at Computex so far, and it's limited to just 2025 units
- Cherry proclaims a 'new era' for keyboard switches: induction is 'half the cost of a regular mechanical switch', more reliable, and less power hungry than analog alternatives
- Nvidia's CEO says attempts to control chip exports to China are a failure: 'If they don’t have enough Nvidia, they will use their own.'
- JDM: Japanese Drift Master review
- Logitech G522 LIGHTSPEED Wireless Gaming Headset: gaming just got louder
- Havn's Doom special edition PC case offers not one, but two sets of hollowed eye sockets to judge you while you game
- Monster Train 2 review
- All hail the biggest PC case to ever grace my eyes, a true monument to Prometheus and other gods of unfathomable technology
- Hate RGB software but still want all the pretty LEDs on your AIO cooler? Lian Li might just have the very thing for you
- Lian Li's new Rotation PSU has a power connector that swivels and I too have been asking, why?
- 'AH can we please keep them': Helldivers 2 players have fully imprinted onto the game's new SEAF troops like they're a bunch of kittens up for adoption
- 'It's not just a gimmick': Noctua is working with Pulsar on a gaming mouse that has a fan in it to cool your sweaty palm
- Noctua aims to release its first liquid CPU cooler in 2026, working with Asetek to make the quietest water pump around, though it's not the thermosiphon project
- Turns out asking AI chatbots for answers in a specific way can be like leaving them with the key to Trippy McHigh's magic mushroom farm
- InWin unveils all-singing, all-dancing 'trophy-inspired' case that also looks a little bit like my morning brew
- Doug Cockle wasn't the 'obvious' choice for Geralt in The Witcher—but he kept winning out because he was 'the best at being normal'
- If you ever wanted to stick a screen inside your PC case Lian Li's just shown off something surprisingly affordable for you
- 'That's it, pre-order cancelled': GTA 6 investigators have managed to find the one slip-up in the second trailer, and it's pretty illuminating
- Marvel Rivals' new Chrono Shield Cards item has divided players and reminded me that some people should just stay in Bronze
- 'We want to be as aggressive as possible, right?' says AMD GPU boss of the Nvidia-baiting pricing of the RX 9060 XT, calling it 'a tremendous value proposition to all our fellow gamers'
- Overwatch players freak out over supposed Widowmaker butt nerf, proving that Marvel Rivals gooner skins have wound back the clock 10 years
- Wooting is adding knobs to its gaming keyboards and the good news is existing Wooting owners can knob themselves too
- Next and current banners in Honkai: Star Rail
- Lian Li's new water cooler with a curved and motorised screen is basically pointless but you're still going to want one
- The Scuf Envision Pro and non-Pro will finally get Hall effect from May 29, and if you already own a non-HE one you'll get a free calibration buff
- How to kill a leviathan in Helldivers 2
- Asus and Noctua team up once more, this time creating a hulking three-fan, four-slot RTX 5080 chonk of a graphics card
- Cherry debuts new mechanical, magnetic, and inductive switches with a whole new naming scheme to match
- AMD just gave us our first glimpse of FSR 4's 'Redstone' update, with a host of machine learning-based improvements
- AMD announces the long-awaited RX 9060 XT starting at $299, says it's 6% faster than the RTX 5060 Ti at 1440p in 40 games
- Today's Wordle answer for Wednesday, May 21
- AMD unleashes up to 96 cores of Zen 5 with its new Threadripper 9000 Series chips
- One of tech's best leakers drops the GPU specs for the RTX 5080 Super, likely confirming that 24GB VRAM update
- 1741 days after being kicked off iPhones, Fortnite is back on the US App Store
- May 20
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- The original Polish Witcher comics are available in English if you can get past the way Geralt's fringe looks like the mustache of a cartoon walrus who is also a circus ringleader
- Which version of Nicolas Cage will we get in the Madden movie? Boy, I hope it's the unhinged one
- Microsoft's Build conference interrupted by renewed protests over its ties with the Israeli military
- Onimusha 2: Samurai's Destiny review
- Subnautica 2: All the key details on the survival-crafting sequel's dive into the abyss
- Gearbox CEO Randy Pitchford tells anyone worried about an $80 Borderlands 4 pricetag that 'if you're a real fan, you'll make it happen,' reminding us all of the value in choosing not to tweet
- Avowed director Carrie Patel leaves Obsidian after 12 years to join the Netflix studio behind Oxenfree
- 'This has been heartbreaking news for our entire team': Lego nukes Bionicle fangame from orbit after ignoring it for 8 years
- THQ Nordic studio that was set to be closed in 2023 somehow escaped the Embracer death spiral and is now working on a new RPG
- Fooled by a false story about Steam account hacks? Have I Been Pwned 2.0 will now shower you with confetti when you have not, in fact, been pwned
- Oblivion Remastered trainer locations—NPCs for every combat, magic, and stealth skill
- The 'new era' of Rainbow Six Siege means you're going to need some newer hardware if you want to play
- The glorious juxtaposition of DOOM: The Dark Ages and Colorful's furry-friend-themed Meow range of PC goodies is one reason why we love Computex
- Corsair's new MMO mouse has a neat function that can entirely replace your Stream Deck
- Stalker remaster reviews crater to 'Mostly Negative' as players lament deleted Soviet monuments, yanked Russian language, and blurry graphics that I didn't notice in 23 hours playing
- A titanium-shrouded RTX 5090, outrageous cases, big-screen CPU coolers and more: MSI's Computex 2025 lineup is a cavalcade of exotic hardware and unusual delights
- Former Valve writer Marc Laidlaw says he 'retired too hard', but there's no way he's coming back for Half-Life 3: 'We need new stuff, [not] me going 'Well the G-Man wouldn't do that in my day'
- The 14 most underappreciated games of the last year that you shouldn't have ignored
- For this year's Computex, Cooler Master showcases two new PC cases: a fresh look for the legendary Cosmos and a weird-but-cool goldfish bowl 360 Panoramic
- Razer's new super-skinny Blade 14 gaming laptop is a serious threat to my wallet, but I want a GPU with more than 8 GB VRAM for $2,700
- 'You guys are not Bethesda': During development, The Witcher 3 devs were told by a Walmart rep 'I like you guys, but it's just not gonna happen'
- Blades of Fire review
- I accidentally forgot to start the Soviet Union in this excellent free game about the Russian Revolution
- Corsair's Frame series of PC cases is testing a modular DAC/amp accessory prototype, and I'll be the first in line to buy one if it makes it to production
- TeamGroup's new portable SSD features a physical kill-switch for spies and definitely not for people who can't stop fiddling with buttons
- In my first hour with Helldivers 2's new city maps, I've caused millions in property damage, been to several Illuminate raves, and committed treason in the fog of war
- The new SteelSeries Rival 3 Gen 2 is the perfect reminder of the benefits of removable batteries in gaming mice
- On The Witcher 3's 10th birthday, join us in celebrating one of the most enduringly brilliant open world RPGs ever made
- After 13 playthroughs, one Elden Ring player is still haunted by a mysterious item, only to be let down by the burden of knowledge
- ASRock outs new 400 Hz 1440p gaming monitor and we're hopeful the price is going to be punchy
- Raidou Remastered is more of a remake, with a hugely overhauled combat system and no more random encounters
- Phison launches the first ever SSD controller to have built-in AI processing, along with some monstrous random data performance figures
- NZXT H9 Flow RGB+ case review
- Zotac's trippy, fractal-like PC case has been making me think about life, the universe, and the meaning of PC gaming
- Will 2025 be the year that CAMM2 memory finally makes a proper entrance? Rambus and Team Group believe it is
- Cooler Master's new liquid cooler has modular tops, which have been used to show off a crying face on a screen and now I'm sad
- Hyte's ludicrous liquid cooler will soon be able to show entire system monitoring charts on its screen
- Hyte's latest case is a bold and colorful break from today's obsession with angular and understated
- Corsair introduces do-it-yourself gaming keyboard MAKR 75, and says 'hello' to a new era of web-based peripheral customization
- Corsair made a see-through PSU because everything looks better when you can see its innards... welp, that came out weird
- These Godzilla and Mechagodzilla custom keycaps stopped me dead in my tracks, like a nuclear lizard caught in a headlock from an oversized monkey
- The Corsair Air 5400 offers such a clever and unique approach to CPU cooling, I'm surprised no one did it sooner
- Hints of an exciting new gaming GPU from Intel were just a social media miscommunication and now I'm totally deflated
- Helldivers 2's new update Heart of Democracy finally adds urban city maps, SEAF redshirts to make you look cool, giant Illuminate sky worms, and civilians to protect from friendly fire
- This teeny-tiny RTX 5060 is about the size of the wrap I had for lunch and lives in danger of being stolen by a team of mice
- Gigabyte unveils its second generation of X3D Turbo Mode, for squeezing up to 15% more performance from Ryzen X3D CPUs
- Samsung OLED TVs are finally getting Nvidia G-Sync support, should you ever want to hook your rig up to a 60+ inch screen
- Don't worry, they're not just adapting blockbusters: this trippy Japanese walking simulator you can get for $4 on Steam has been made into a movie, too
- Today's Wordle answer for Tuesday, May 20
- This new arcade controller from 8BitDo could be your next tournament travel buddy
- Borderlands series briefly review bombed on Steam for extremely flimsy reasons
- May 19
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- A week after launch, my new favorite grungy, Condemned-style horror-brawler has its first patch and the promise of yokai-punching spiked knuckles on the way
- This hardcore driving sim about rebuilding towns after natural disasters is, surprisingly, a super-chill hangout game for up to 4 friends
- Remembering The Witcher 3's toughest choices (and the objectively correct answers)
- An MVP of ultrawide patches for triple-A games just had their entire library nuked from GitHub, and nobody seems to know why
- Only a fool would pass on The Witcher 3 for 90% off during Steam's CD Projekt Red Sale
- SAG-AFTRA files unfair labor practice complaint against Epic over Fortnite's AI-powered Darth Vader: 'We must protect our right to bargain terms and conditions around uses of voice that replace the work of our members'
- Diablo 4 player sits back as their 20 large lycanthrope sons tear through one of the hardest dungeons for them
- Why we're still playing The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt 10 years later
- Haunted looking art director livestreams apology for Marathon theft scandal, but chat is merciless: 'Would write an original comment, but I don't see any good ones to plagarize'
- The legend who made Oblivion's Dark Brotherhood infinite has made its Thieves' Guild go on forever as well
- Microsoft wants everyone to use an open-source technology to create an 'agentic web' where AI agents interact with other AI agents
- As the follow-up to one of the greatest city builders, Anno 117: Pax Romana has a big toga to fill, and I think it might deliver the goods
- Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang says 'PC gaming is now 30 years old,' and I'm here to say 'um, actually'
- Kojima says his next espionage game will keep us waiting another '5 or 6 years', but then he might finally get around to directing a movie: 'I’m getting older, and I would prefer to do it while still young'
- Oblivion player breaks the bank to keep paranoid elf alive throughout his murderous rampage: 'I have created Super Saiyan Glarthir'
- Here's how US tariffs have affected PC gaming hardware, from paused shipments to new investments
- The PC Gaming Show returns June 8 with great hosts, amazing games, and a live on-air PC build and giveaway
- Doom: The Dark Ages City of Ry'uul secrets and collectibles (Chapter 15)
- Infinity Nikki devs have published a notice regarding the abysmal 1.5 update: "To all stylists, we offer our deepest apologies"
- Thanks to the Computex, we now know that there's an RTX 5070-like GPU inside Nvidia's 'supercomputer at home' DGX Spark
- Asus has announced the world's first 610 Hz gaming monitor, and a 'Super TN' panel is the price you pay for that speed
- Take-Two CEO stresses that GTA 6's delay is necessary to 'make the best thing anyone's ever seen' even though he doesn't 'play videogames at all'
- WoW's latest patch fumbled the landing, but it looks like it'll get its future player housing feature exactly right—with complete kitbashing freedom
- Asus just solved the biggest issue with its BTF graphics cards on most motherboards and in the process found a way to supercharge its GPUs over 600 W
- Red Dead Redemption 2 is reportedly coming to Nintendo Switch 2 as early as this year, and a 'next-gen update' for other consoles could mean good news for PC players, too
- Nvidia's Jen-Hsun Huang boasts that one spine of its new NVLink Fusion tech can 'move more traffic than the entire Internet'
- Nvidia RTX 5060 review live: looks like the 8 GB of VRAM isn't the biggest issue the new card has to face
- There are only 666 of this ROG Astral RTX 5080 Doom Edition being made and I'd go to Hell and back to get one if it wasn't $2,000
- Intel claims its next-gen 'Panther Lake' mobile chips will combine the power efficiency of Lunar Lake mobile with the performance of Arrow Lake-H desktop
- Asus is bringing two great features to ergonomic keyboards with its upcoming ROG Falcata
- 'We are doing our best to resolve most of it': Stellar Blade's PC release will be restricted in 130 countries as the devs fight to have it lifted
- Intel's next batch of CPUs might still be called Core Ultra 200S, possibly because the Arrow Lake refresh won't be much of a boost
- Wizkids offers full refunds for nightmarish Baldur's Gate 3 miniatures, as they 'did not meet our expectations or that of our Wizards of the Coast partner'
- I'm actually jealous of the workstation that gets to use this Maxsun graphics card containing two Intel Arc GPUs and 48 GB of VRAM
- Cozy castle builder literally hits next level as Tiny Glade announces stairs, its 'biggest and most complicated change' yet
- Jensen says 'even Crysis' can run on Nvidia's RTX Pro Server enterprise platform and now I kinda want one just for funsies
- Is it a bird, is it a plane? No, it's Nvidia's new Taiwanese office
- Today's Wordle answer for Monday, May 19
- Five new Steam games you probably missed (May 19, 2025)
- In its latest update, Enshrouded's terrifying monsters have players asking 'are we the baddies?'
- There's a unique game over in Baldur's Gate 3 you can only get by rolling 20 on a bunch of Constitution saving throws, then being an absolute dunderhead
- May 18
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- Sure, why not, the next Dead by Daylight crossover is with Assassin's Creed Shadows
- 'More darts, more farts': Rust dev makes 'fart darts' for hack week, and you can probably guess what they do
- One of our most anticipated survival horror stealth games shows off more of its monster juice power-up system, which looks like an unholy cross between Hitman and Mario Odyssey
- This aggressively vaporwave offroad driving game by a car mechanic turned solo dev just got a Steam demo
- 'They don't really make life decisions without asking ChatGPT': OpenAI boss Sam Altman thinks young people turning to chatbots for life advice is 'cool'
- Baldur's Gate 3 has an ultra-rare Act 3 scenario where zombie versions of the tiefling refugees show up in their usual spots acting like everything's normal
- Wait, there's a Lord of the Rings movie about Gollum coming in 2027?
- Czech mayor gifts $200 Kingdom Come: Deliverance 2 collector's edition to country's Prime Minister, elevating the game alongside the Witcher 2 in the company of CRPG state gifts
- Netflix is going to make its ad breaks even more annoying with AI-generated garbage
- 'The vibes have never been worse' Bungie's morale is reportedly in 'free fall' following its art theft fiasco
- Netflix's long-awaited Gears of War movie might actually have a director, and it's the guy who helmed Bullet Train and codirected John Wick
- MSI's clever new 500 Hz QD-OLED gaming monitor can detect when you leave the screen and turn itself off to begin its anti-burn-in cycle
- After raising over $800 million from its community, Star Citizen's developer delays the release of a new ship upgrade as players baulk at having to pay for it
- Today's Wordle answer for Sunday, May 18
- Mud-and-blood medieval horror game Blight: Survival gets even muddier in the Marshlands biome
- May 17
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- Baldur's Gate 3 has a secret like Diablo's Cow Level I never saw after 460 hours: A magical sheep companion named 'Harvard Willoughby' you summon by killing a comedian and ringing two bells
- House Flipper 2 is having a free weekend, and just got co-op
- You've got to play my dark horse GOTY candidate if you too are a sicko for one of the ultimate RPG gimmicks: a trash level 1 sword that can be forged into a god slayer
- If the original Grand Theft Auto came out today, we’d call it a roguelike
- The Skyblivion and Oblivion Remastered romance continues to blossom, as Bethesda invites the modders to its studio for tea and sweetrolls
- Take-Two CEO reckons Civilization 7's mixed reception is just history repeating itself: 'Every time we've come out with a new platform iteration of Civilization, there's been some consternation on the part of consumers'
- REPO developer teases the game's 'most powerful weapon' yet, a mountable cannon that will 'turn your cart into a battle tank'
- Two Warhammer 40,000 games will be delisted from Steam on Monday, and one of them is currently on a 90% discount
- Today's Wordle answer for Saturday, May 17
- May 16
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- You cannot beat the final boss of No Rest for the Wicked's latest saga
- Another Sony live service shooter may be in trouble as Jade Raymond exits the studio making PvP heist sandbox Fairgames
- Finally, some good news: The world's only Warhammer academic conference is returning in September to present more talks like 'The ethical implications of the Imperium’s war with chaos and the inverted meaning of order'
- World of Warcraft game director on the woeful patch 11.1.5: 'It's not the experience our players are expecting or deserve'
- Clair Obscur's director has an old YouTube channel full of masterful no-hit Devil May Cry videos because of course he does
- I did Liberation Day tariffs in Victoria 3, and it all went well until the famine in Colorado, the 2 lost wars with Canada, and the president beating a man to death with a stick
- The Xbox 360 reveal was 20 years ago and is a time capsule from a world where Elijah Wood roamed free, MTV was still cool, and giant tech companies paid Pimp My Ride to make hideous custom consoles
- Veteran indie dev says success on Steam these days is impossible to predict: 'Why did Balatro take off? You could write a million f***ing essays and none of them will be definitely right'
- The first ever third-party game to come to Steam probably doesn't get the respect it deserves—mostly because no one remembers it
- After Oblivion subreddit bans 'low effort' sexy flame Atronach posts, users respond with high effort sexy flame Atronach posts—'deleting this would be a travesty'
- Someone flipped a switch on Elon Musk's Grok AI so it wouldn't stop banging on about 'white genocide' and South African politics, xAI blames 'an unauthorized modification' but doesn't say who did it
- Fortnite added an AI-powered Darth Vader and—surprise—players immediately tricked him into saying slurs
- Soundcore Liberty 5 earbuds review
- Amassing over $10,000 worth of retro GPUs over 14 years, this avid collector says they were astounded it started with a $28 purchase
- The new Acer Nitro PG1 is the first portable monitor I actually want thanks to 4K resolution and up to 144 Hz refresh
- The wacky Pokémon exhibition that puts Poké-fossils alongside real fossils is coming to the United States
- Doom: The Dark Ages Spire of Nerathul secrets and collectibles (Chapter 14)
- MSl's new PortalX website 'eliminates the need for software' to control your gear's RGB lighting and I'm happy to ditch the PC apps
- Antec heard you like screens so it stuck a 5-inch screen on a water cooler just where you didn't need one
- Kojima has a mind tomb: a USB stick filled with ideas for his staff to use after he dies 'kind of like a will'
- Take-Two CEO gets all philosophical yet again about GTA 6, says its delay is to support his team's 'search for perfection'
- Tim Sweeney is recommending a 'fake adware version of Fortnite' to iOS users that's been 'approved by Apple', unlike the real Fortnite
- After Helldivers 2, Arrowhead's next game will be '100% funded by ourselves', though CEO Shams Jorjani says there's no hard feelings over Sony's boneheaded PSN shenanigans
- Doom: The Dark Ages Sentinel Command Station secrets and collectibles (Chapter 12)
- How to complete the Jungle Bungles duty in Disney Dreamlight Valley
- Rumours of an Arm-based CPU from AMD just won't go away as analysts reckon Arm is eating into the PC processor market
- The Stellar Blade PC system requirements are here and even an entry-level graphics card from 2016 can run it
- Welp, Fortnite's iOS version is 'offline worldwide' after Apple continues to shuffle its feet around bringing the game back to the US App Store
- Oblivion guru found a way to save the Emperor and his bodyguard in the original game, getting the drop on his assassin like the fantasy secret service
- This new armor for Oblivion Remastered has upgraded my elven rogue perfectly
- Where to find Valerian in Kingdom: Come Deliverance 2
- Today's Wordle answer for Friday, May 16
- Steam's monthly top-seller list is automated now, and goes all the way back to 2004 when it's just Half-Life 2
- Here's the Summer Game Fest 2025 schedule, including where to watch each showcase
- May 15
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- Civil war breaks out in Helldivers 2 as players spawn infinite mechs to crash each other's games
- Hideo Kojima says most Death Stranding playtesters told him 'it was a terrible game,' and he's a little bummed Death Stranding 2 is testing way better
- Avowed lets you replace spiders with orbs in the first of its major updates coming this year
- Bungie confirms it stole art once again, will undertake a 'thorough review' of Marathon assets
- The king of Elder Scrolls meme videos wishes Bethesda still made NPCs like Oblivion's: 'I am a big fan of the Radiant AI system and honestly a bit sad to see how much it was toned down'
- Dune: Awakening beta players extracted nearly 9 million liters of blood last weekend, enough to fill 3 Olympic-size, extremely gross swimming pools
- Stellar Blade comes to PC next month with new armor to cover up Eve's woefully exposed ears
- A year after Bandai Namco killed its anime MMO, Blue Protocol is getting a second, different anime MMO in the same universe
- Today's Wordle is the 5th toughest ever, ending streaks for 50% of players
- YouTube's top brains crack making its ads even worse: Using AI to insert commercials at moments you're 'most engaged' with its videos
- With its 1.6 update, Star Wars Outlaws has finally fixed its janky as hell speeder combat
- The Asus tool PC gamers use to update drivers, fix bugs, and improve security, turns out to have a bit of a security issue itself
- With hardware prices in cloud cuckoo land, now's the time to love the rig you're with. And here's how to make that PC love last
- Incredible news: Stalker 2 fixes corpse-eating and sausage blood in big ol' patch which also gives enemies less of a death wish
- US senator introduces online porn ban proposal to 'safeguard American families', making a tired old 'won't somebody think of the children' argument familiar in videogames
- Nvidia might launch a GeForce RTX 5080 Super/Ti with 24 GB of VRAM sooner than we thought
- GTA 5 Enhanced may have 'Mixed' reviews on Steam, but the update has opened new doors for modders pushing the boundaries of reality in a sandbox now over 10 years old: 'We have an amazing opportunity to take things further'
- Turns out, Super Mario 64 can trap you in a menu for 2.25 years—as long as you wait that long beforehand: 'This is a fair punishment'
- Critical Role's Matt Mercer and Laura Bailey are hosting this year's Future Games Show summer event
- While we're in the GTA 6 waiting room, the Epic Games Mega Sale has the next best one on discount
- Kingdom Come 2's first expansion feels like the base game's best parts distilled, but don't expect a game-changer
- For the first time since launch you'll finally be able to craft saddles in Minecraft
- There's a rug in Oblivion that's just a real life rug you can get
- The best-looking GTA 5 visual overhaul mod of all time lands today—these exclusive screens are so lifelike they'll make you question what is real
- Keychron M5 review
- Blight: Survival—everything we know about the medieval co-op horror game
- Don't tease me like that, Intel: Commenters on X are told to 'stay tuned' for Arc B770 news under a post about Computex
- Bad news for General Grievous fans: Fortnite's big mid-season patch has been delayed, leaving us another 24 hours without the bonus Star Wars battle pass track
- Ancient ThinkPad laptops, beloved by a certain kind of hardcore hardware fan, can be resurrected with a bespoke Meteor Lake mainboard, bringing the 2000s machine right up to date
- The Assassin's Creed Shadows delay worked out so well for Ubisoft its CEO decided, hey, let's do a couple more for the road—and save 100 million more euros while we're at it
- All Doom: The Dark Ages missions and how long it takes to beat
- AMD all but confirms the RX 9060 XT will be announced on May 21
- The Baldur's Gate 3 cast got a new set of pre-painted minis and—oh, oh no, oh no no no
- All free Monopoly Go Dice Links for March 2026
- All Doom: The Dark Ages Twitch Drops and how to get them
- This is the ugliest GPU I've seen in a long, long time and weirdly I think I want one
- It sounds like a six-word horror story, but 'Ransomware running directly from your CPU' is now a real thing
- VPN cancels lifetime subscriptions, having previously been unaware it was selling them
- Hideo Kojima is heading to Sydney Film Festival for a live discussion with Mad Max creator George Miller
- YouTube suspends major AI movie trailer accounts with over 2 million total subscribers from revenue-earning partner program
- Today's Wordle answer for Thursday, May 15
- Doom: The Dark Ages secrets and collectible locations
- Where to find the purple secret key in Siege Part 1 in Doom: The Dark Ages
- Best Sentinel Shrine upgrades to get first in Doom: The Dark Ages
- Best Doom: The Dark Ages weapons and how to unlock each
- Doom: The Dark Ages artillery cannon locations in Siege Part 1
- Doom: The Dark Ages The Forsaken Plains secrets and collectibles (Chapter 10)
- Doom: The Dark Ages Hebeth secrets and collectibles (Chapter 2)
- Doom: The Dark Ages Siege Part 2 secrets and collectibles (Chapter 7)
- Doom: The Dark Ages Village of Khalim secrets and collectibles (Chapter 1)
- Doom: The Dark Ages Hellbreaker secret and collectible (Chapter 11)
- Doom: The Dark Ages Ancestral Forge secrets and collectibles (Chapter 9)
- Doom: The Dark Ages Siege Part 1 secrets and collectibles (Chapter 6)
- Doom: The Dark Ages Holy City of Aratum secrets and collectibles (Chapter 5)
- Doom: The Dark Ages Abyssal Forest secrets and collectibles (Chapter 8)
- Doom: The Dark Ages Sentinel Barracks secrets and collectibles (Chapter 4)
- How to open the fire door in Doom: The Dark Ages' Hebeth mission
- Doom: The Dark Ages secret dragon landing zones in The Holy City of Aratum
- May 14
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- These 5 upcoming roguelike deckbuilders caught my eye because they have big twists on the usual formula
- Oblivion Remastered has reminded me how lucky we are to have an independent Elder Scrolls wiki in the hallowed UESP
- False alarm: Valve confirms that nobody hacked into over 89M Steam accounts and that your passwords are safe
- Lucasfilm declares creative bankruptcy with an AI-generated Star Wars film that's just 2 minutes of mostly normal animals jumbled together
- Helldivers 2 has still got it
- A new Marvel Rivals item lets you skip losses in ranked and players worry the climb has become meaningless
- Baldur's Gate 3's latest hotfix quietly removes artifacts of a cut storyline never meant to be heard
- Oblivion Remastered hero returns to the game's golden age by spending 7 hours arranging books just to topple them like dominoes
- Ubisoft's extreme sports game is being turned into a movie… and honestly, I'd watch 90 minutes of people doing snowboard stunts and wingsuit flights in the Alps
- Co-op shooter FBC: Firebreak is so deadly that even the objectives are trying to kill you
- Superstar modders have decompiled Mario Party 4, meaning native PC ports for GameCube games may one day be a reality
- I don't want a Morrowind remaster, I want Bethesda to write a fat cheque for the OpenMW team
- MSI Raider 18 HX AI A2XW review
- Hideo Kojima has an idea for a game where you age and die, 'but no-one would buy it', then immediately suggests one where you eventually forget how to move
- Stonking Half-Life remake Black Mesa is the cheapest it's ever been on Steam, offering Barney Calhoun in glorious 4K for a mere 2 bucks
- If you're into ambient rainfall sounds, why not use headphones with 'two half-gallon basins' and plenty of real water sloshing around everywhere
- This looks fungi: a first-person roguelike 'double deckbuilder' where you use a separate deck for exploring, smash locked doors open with your head, and feast on the corpses of mushroom monsters
- Apparently a new 'advanced' Zotac Zone will be announced at Computex and it looks like it might use a bespoke Linux OS
- I was starting to get bored of decorating in cozy games, but the demo of Twinkleby has reminded me that nothing needs to be picture perfect as long as you're having fun
- Morrowind modders continue to astound, add object physics with 'pure lua' to a 23-year old game
- Intel has announced a load of new bugs afflicting its chips and this time it's not just CPUs but also GPUs that are involved, hooray!
- DayZ creator says Unity is accusing his studio of violating its software license based on the email addresses of two people who never worked there: 'This raises some serious questions about how Unity is scraping this data'
- After saying negative reviews 'might just cause our death' and 'we've got a few months left in the oven', No Rest for the Wicked CEO claims he never said they were in 'immediate financial danger', actually
- Oblivion Remastered mod makes its best part last forever: A Dark Brotherhood freelancer mode with infinite contracts and a gacha-style reward system
- RuneScape: Dragonwilds creative director says survival crafting has more in common with MMOs than you might think: 'It's almost like the genre was born from MMOs'
- The latest Nvidia driver lets you run ancient CPUs in Windows again without crashing
- Windows 10 version of Microsoft 365 apps will be supported until 2028—but this isn't the Microsoft u-turn you may think it is
- All 3 original Stalker games get 'fully remastered and optimized' versions next week, free for OG owners, and I can't wait to get shredded by an anomaly from the comfort of my sofa
- Tales of the Shire: everything we know about the cozy hobbit life sim
- 'I missed it, I missed it all': the guy behind the Metal Gear song that goes with everything was 'two years' late to the meme because nobody told him about it
- Tony Hawk's Pro Skater 3 + 4 skater list: everyone confirmed so far
- Don't swap out your pants just yet, Helldivers 2 might be getting another update next week to coincide with the battle for Super Earth
- Intel admits it doesn't have any 'significant' commitments from customers to make advanced chips in its fabs
- Expert criticizes Gigabyte's alleged use of 'viscous paste with questionable long-term performance' instead of tried and tested GPU cooling solution
- Grab 900 of your closest internet strangers and hit the road, online
- UK House of Lords backs amendment to AI bill thanks to peer vote that forces companies to reveal copyrighted material used in training AI models
- Xbox and Audeze have teamed up to give our favourite wireless gaming headset for audiophiles a gorgeous floral trim and I am in love with this unusual take on gamer chic
- Today's Wordle answer for Wednesday, May 14
- Microsoft's upcoming OneDrive update bypasses security protocols between business and personal files
- May 13
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- Doom: The Dark Ages feels like a console game first and PC game second
- Diablo 4 players discover forbidden power combo that melts everything—including the servers
- 10 million Monster Hunter Wilds sales helped Capcom post its 8th consecutive year of record profits
- Marvel Rivals is breaking its original battle pass out of the vault for a limited time
- Even 19 years later, Oblivion's Whodunit quest is RPG chaos at its best
- A Minecraft Movie is out on digital so now your kid can throw popcorn around the living room instead of the theater when the chicken jockey shows up
- Nintendo's lawsuit isn't slowing Palworld down as it prepares for a summer collab with Terraria
- This Factorio-ish sim is threatening to devour hours of my time, and I haven't even gotten to the part where I make my own starships yet
- Microsoft is firing 3% of its staff, totalling just under 7,000 employees
- Google's logo has changed, and if the past's any indication, this might be the most expensive gaussian blur in history
- I don't care what you say, there's still no place in my life for modular hardware to slot into
- Charting the GTA 6 map: Vice City, Ambrosia, and everything in between
- Nintendo Switch 2 mouse controls shown off in latest clip makes me wonder why anyone would use it on the home screen
- Silver Palace may look like your ordinary anime game, but it's hiding a deliciously violent combat system underneath all those waifus
- Now it's AMD's Ryzen 9000-series processors alleged to be suffering from terminal voltage spikes and we're not sure if any CPUs are totally safe
- Stellaris 4.0 added babies to the galaxy, along with a bug that implies they are edible
- OG Infinity Ward dev says Call of Duty's gone the way of The Simpsons: 'It kind of feels like they've run out of ideas at times'
- Forget the Tarrasque—tabletop's biggest bad is now the biblically accurate Bristle Boar, a horrifying Pathfinder 2e monster that only exists because of a typo
- The new Pope picked his name for 'the defense of human dignity' amidst the AI revolution
- A Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 trailer from 5 years ago resurfaced, and it's a delightfully bare-bones look at the primordial soup that spawned the full game
- RTX 5060 retail listings spotted at Best Buy but I hope they're a placeholder as only one is at MSRP
- OpenAI CEO whines to Congress about pesky regulations, once more insists the tech's impact will be 'as big as the internet, maybe bigger'
- Labyrinth of the Demon King review
- WD Black SN8100 2 TB NVMe SSD review
- 'We cannot take any more Sexy Flame Atronach posts': The Oblivion community is hornyposting so hard about the remaster's Atronachs that the game's subreddit had to ban it
- Final Fantasy 14 vocalist says he's 'so thankful' that composer Masayoshi Soken is 'still here and still with us' after battling cancer
- 'Multiple crises' in Nvidia's supply chain may see 'prices increase across the board' for its GPU partners, making your chances of ever getting an MSRP card pretty damned low
- Jump scare! The Sinking City Remastered has surprise launched on Steam, and it's free to anyone who owns the original game
- Super Earth is under attack, and Helldivers 2's trouser-browning update is finally here—with weapon customisation, new Illuminate troops, and an inevitable battle on democracy's home turf
- Samsung's world-first 500 Hz OLED is the ultimate no-compromise esports monitor but it's painfully pricey at nearly $1,500
- 5,000 pixels per inch, beyond 8K and 15,000 nits: Samsung's new OLED for VR headsets sounds completely bananas
- AI experts are calling for safety calculations akin to Compton's A-bomb tests before releasing Artificial Super Intelligences upon humanity
- This $24 Lucky Miner USB stick is a 210.7 trillion-to-one lottery ticket where the prize is a single BTC
- Celebrate 100 years of quantum mechanics by learning about quantum computing
- Fallout season 2 teaser trailer confirms a December release, and drives the point home that we're going to New Vegas
- Today's Wordle answer for Tuesday, May 13
- 'Too many games let their players succeed' says developer of notoriously tough survival RPG Kenshi, and 'that's mind-numbingly boring to me'
- May 12
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- The SteamOS era is imminent: Valve adds a new compatibility rating for games that’ll run on ‘any device that’s not a Steam Deck’
- Dune: Awakening's stabby stunlock PvP exploit is being fixed, says Funcom: 'We've got this covered'
- Oblivion Remastered has an unleveled, legendary sword you can grab right after leaving the starting sewers—just bring a lot of arrows or magicka potions
- US senator announces a bill requiring geotracking in high-end GPUs to prevent the Chinese government from wielding the ruinous power of your Nvidia RTX 4090
- Clair Obscur player tanks their way through the entire game without dodging or parrying to prove a point: You can finish it without 'gamer reflexes'
- Sean Murray pours one out for No Man's Sky permadeath player who stranded himself in bittersweet space purgatory: 'All I can do is sit in my ship, watch the lightning storms, and wait for my oxygen to run out'
- You're not imagining things: Oblivion Remastered's standard difficulty is way too easy, a single step up is insanely frustrating, and one modder has the math to prove it
- Nintendo look away: Palworld and other creature collecting games are cheap on Steam right now
- I wish Ubisoft had ever made the game it promised with Assassin's Creed 1, but instead the series just spiralled into a weird identity crisis
- All Elden Ring Nightreign classes and abilities
- Elden Ring Nightreign's story is told in part through playable memories, so FromSoftware really is delivering lore through whacking things
- ThunderX3 Flex Pro Ergonomic Office Chair review
- Lenovo Legion Pro 7i Gen 10 review
- AceZone A-Blaze wireless gaming headset review
- Fallout show actor says they know its 'endpoint' and it's sometime in season 5 or 6, which means we've still got loads of time to scream at each other about New Vegas
- Clair Obscur: Expedition 33's director got on the RPG train early, playing FF8 'when my brother and I could barely read'
- Pimax's fancy-looking Dream Air SE Micro-OLED VR headset weighs under 150 grams and is much more affordable than the standard model
- Iron Galaxy has explained why Tony Hawk's Pro Skater 3 + 4 won't feature the career mode: 'Our goal here is to make the ultimate package'
- Musk's Colossus data center for Grok is at the centre of an environmental row over air quality in South Memphis
- Gearbox CEO Randy Pitchford spiels about how wonderful Borderlands 4 is going to be, then gets all coy about the price but jokes 'maybe we'll sell you that minimap that you guys want'
- Arctic Freezer 36 review
- Cooler Master Hyper 612 Apex review
- WoW's Leeroy Jenkins, one of the internet's oldest memes, turns 20 years old—and after looking back on what we wrote in 2005, I feel like we've failed Leeroys everywhere
- Cash Cleaner Simulator is the next legally obscure sim to take the internet by storm
- The FBI says that elderly Cisco Linksys router you've been meaning to replace may be under serious threat from cyber criminals
- Even in early access, Blacksmith Master is a well forged ingot of cozy management and metalwork
- One day the silicon in this $7000 Asus RTX 5090 will be worthless, but you'll still have a whole 6 grams of solid gold to make up for it
- Oblivion Remastered has a new texture error, and this one mucks up a gag from the original game
- Trump administration reportedly fires the head of the US Copyright Office as it tries to tackle AI's use of copyrighted materials
- Bam Margera is officially returning to Tony Hawk's Pro Skater 3 + 4 as a Secret Skater
- US and China talk it out at Geneva, agreeing to suspend ultra-high tariffs for 90 days, but PC parts don't seem to be part of the deal
- Ouch—Warner Bros throws Suicide Squad: Kill the Justice League under the bus in the most corporate way possible, side-eyes it for closed studios and cancelled games
- Doom: The Dark Ages is unplayable on handheld gaming PCs at the moment but it's not because the hardware isn't good enough
- Doom: The Dark Ages launch times, release date, and advanced access period
- The Gothic 1 Remake demo has been updated based on fan feedback
- The tower defense comeback continues with Rift Riff, a 'remarkably forgiving' game about interdimensional juice raids
- Killing Floor 3's new release date is late July
- Today's Wordle answer for Monday, May 12
- Five new Steam games you probably missed (May 12, 2025)
- REPO devs are making that new Overcharge mechanic kick in later on—alongside other difficulty scaling
- May 11
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- A unique horror strategy game about drilling for oil released on Steam last week
- There's another Risk of Rain 2 expansion on the way
- Can't wait for Dune: Awakening? Play the Dune TTRPG while you wait for just $1 with this Imperium RPG bundle
- FTC delays enforcing 'click to cancel' rule that would finally bring the hammer down on companies that make it as annoying as possible to cancel subscriptions
- This Half-Life mod remakes Valve's classic shooter to be both longer and wider, and it has radically altered my perception of the original
- 14 years later, the best way to play Dark Souls is with the new Seamless co-op mod
- Black Mirror's interactive episode Bandersnatch is being removed from Netflix, as 'the technology has served its purpose'
- The best FPS of 2024 simply cannot stop adding new maps, introducing 37 new arenas, 4 new weapons, and a 'Horrible Smelly Head' in its latest update
- MechWarrior 5's beefy story expansion is out, and it has the most videogame title I've ever had the pleasure to read
- Timberborn's latest update adds ziplines and tubeways for rapid beaver deployment and stops your rodent residents from throwing down in sudden fits of breakdancing
- The Final Fantasy Magic set will have 15 different Cids, and you can have them all in your deck at once
- Today's Wordle answer for Sunday, May 11
- After conflict between the staff of gaming site Giant Bomb and owner Fandom, 'Giant Bomb is now owned by the people who make Giant Bomb'
- Characters from The Witcher and Five Nights at Freddy's are joining Dead by Daylight, with a hint of The Walking Dead to follow
- May 10
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- PC gaming remains undefeated: Nintendo now says it has the right to brick your Switch if it thinks you're pirating games or modifying the console
- One of the most visually stunning roguelikes just overhauled its graphics to look even gnarlier, but you can still toggle back to the OG art style at will
- Elden Ring's upcoming update will add two new starting classes, one of them equipped with a top-tier DLC weapon it used to take dozens of hours to grab
- Finally, this Kingdom Come Deliverance 2 camping mod means I'll never have to scour Bohemia for a place to sleep again
- Even Starfield's community patch modders are growing 'disenchanted' with the sci-fi RPG, as volunteers depart in droves: 'If nobody comes forward, we may have to retire the project'
- After a decade of development, Roboquest's developer is calling time on its roguelite shooter: 'There's no way we can continue to provide content for players with over 1,000 hours of gameplay'
- Celebrate Star Wars being good again with up to 85% off EA's Jedi and Battlefront games until May 15
- Today's Wordle answer for Saturday, May 10
- May 9
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- How World of Warcraft's add-on changes will affect the most popular mods
- Randy Pitchford asks fans to 'play the game first' before judging Borderlands 4's new minimap-free HUD
- Nearly 200 Overwatch developers at Blizzard form a new union: The Overwatch Gamemakers Guild
- Death Stranding 2 sounds like everything I hoped it'd be
- 'We heard your feedback': Funcom just reversed course and opened up the Dune: Awakening beta weekend to anyone who preorders the survival MMO
- The voice of Disco Elysium's Ancient Reptilian Brain performed the game's famous karaoke scene live and in costume
- Fallout Season 2 filming just wrapped, so now's a good time to check in on any New Vegas sickos you know and make sure they're not getting too worked up
- As Fortnite gears up for an App Store relaunch, Epic is cranking up its Rewards program to encourage people to use its payment system instead of Apple's
- Co-founder of crypto platform Celsius, which went bust with a billion-dollar hole in its finances, sentenced to 12 years in federal prison for 'orchestrating one of the biggest frauds in the crypto industry'
- Publisher who resurrected lost pirate game Captain Blood says it's 'a 3 or 4' by today's standards, but that's half the fun: 'All its charms, all its flaws, all the vibes are from that era'
- Europa Universalis 5's unusual, year-long reveal was a lesson Paradox learned from Imperator's mixed reception: 'I wanted to do it a little bit earlier, but marketing people tend to get panicky when you start talking'
- Quake finally makes it into the World Videogame Hall of Fame
- Sure, man: The $200 deluxe edition of the Gex Trilogy remaster includes a 3-foot inflatable Gex and box art from legendary illustrator Yoshitaka Amano
- Rockstar says GTA 6's second trailer is now the biggest video launch of all time, whatever that means
- Mafia: The Old Country system requirements have been revealed, and Unreal Engine 5 continues to be the thorn in your budget build's side
- 'First we do Wordle': Pope Leo XIV plays games like Wordle and Words With Friends with his brother, and did so before the Conclave
- A year later and over six months since the last patch, Intel is STILL releasing updates to fix instability problems with its 13th and 14th Gen Raptor Lake CPUs
- 'It was eye-opening': How a WoW documentary inspired Muscular Dystrophy UK's Liam Quinn to raise money and build community in the haven of videogames
- I watched one video of Oblivion Remastered on a CRT and now I'm lightly obsessed with the TikTok account that did it
- Overwatch 2 remembers it can collab with videogames outside the Blizzard catalogue, bringing Street Fighter 6 to the battlefield
- How to play Dune: Awakening multiplayer
- AMD's upcoming RX 9060 XT GPU listed on Amazon for a depressing $449 for the 8 GB version and $529 for the 16 GB option
- We just got our first look at one of Elden Ring: Nightreign's new bosses, Libra Creature of Night
- Doom: The Dark Ages PC performance analysis: Always-on ray tracing isn't a problem and even a cheap gaming laptop copes just fine
- Doom: The Dark Ages review
- HP Omen Max 16 review
- MIT researchers debunk one of the greatest misconceptions in science: Eggs are stronger at the sides after all
- All Honkai: Star Rail 3.3 livestream codes
- Oblivion Remastered mod makes being a stealthy murder king easy, boosting your sneak attack damage modifiers from good to Grim Reaper
- Clair Obscur: Expedition 33's first patch reveals the sword that was part of a 2 billion nuke build was doubling all damage by mistake
- Trucker takes their gaming rig on the road inside their big rig 'and yes, [I] occasionally play Truck Simulator'
- This aluminium keyboard feels like it fell straight out of one of my abandoned sci-fi drafts—but thanks to its onboard word counter, I might just finish it now
- Legions of Helldivers 2 players are currently banging their head against a password terminal, as Arrowhead plays coy with a new reveal
- A software engineer taught AI to hunt bugs by interfacing an LLM with debugging tools and has released the open source code: 'It's like going from hunting with a stone spear to using a guided missile'
- Valve is using Steam Deck's beta build to test 80% battery limit
- Razer's newest gaming headset goes on your chair instead of your head
- Razer announces travel-sized Basilisk Mobile mouse with dedicated AI prompt key alongside ultra-low-profile portable Joro keyboard
- Today's Wordle answer for Friday, May 9
- D&D's artificers are getting revised for the 2024 rules update in a book that will also let you play a guy who has a magic GPS and knows where everyone is at all times
- A Chrono Trigger revival seems inevitable at this point, with its creator admitting 'I want to do something' after recent mistranslation incident
- May 8
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- Bodega cats, trash pandas, and a great white shark: the real stars of the GTA 6 reveal are all the animals hiding in plain sight
- I couldn't have played Clair Obscur without its accessibility settings, and now it might be my GOTY
- Alien: Rogue Incursion will escape its VR shackles and become a normal bug-hunt shooter later this year
- How do you get fresh blood in a 22-year-old, infamously impenetrable MMO? EVE Online hopes it's a 'player-created gig economy' that has veterans making missions for newbies: 'We're 100% sure that you will do a better job'
- Outer Wilds studio finally confirms it's working on a new game but says it will be 'years' before it's ready to share details
- Titan Quest 2 early access delayed due to 'a lot of noise' from ARPG competitors, but the developers say closed playtest results have been 'incredibly motivating'
- The Dune: Awakening team is confident servers won't implode at launch: 'This is not our first rodeo'
- Eric Barone says he 'might eventually make a Stardew Valley 2,' but not because it'd make a zillion dollars: 'I honestly don't care about money that much'
- Schedule 1's latest update adds a jukebox, because drugs without music is just kind of a drag, man
- Dune: Awakening beta weekend release date and times
- EB Games is coming back to Canada, 'with community, nostalgia, and innovation at its heart'
- Bill Gates says Elon Musk's DOGE cutbacks are directly responsible for kids dying: 'The picture of the world's richest man killing the world's poorest children is not a pretty one'
- Death Stranding was all about connection, but after Covid-era metaverse hype, Kojima says that 'maybe it's not such a good thing to connect so much'
- Palworld devs 'disappointed' as they patch out a game mechanic to appease Nintendo, but 'the alternative would have led to an even greater deterioration'
- Europa Universalis 5 feels like the ultimate grand strategy game, drawing on Paradox's entire history—and it makes me feel like an idiot
- The mod that aimed to recreate Counter-Strike 1.6 in CS:GO is now officially cancelled following 'abrupt actions by Valve that prevent us from releasing' the project
- Clair Obscur: Expedition 33's soundtrack tops Billboard's Classical Album Chart with 18 million streams since launch
- Hideo Kojima says Death Stranding 2 has so much tactical espionage action that even his own staff 'worried it was getting a little Metal Gear-ish'
- Lae'zel's voice actor was recording Baldur's Gate 3 lines a mere 2 days before giving birth: 'I'm gonna be here right up until the due date, just you watch'
- I never thought I'd say this about Alienware but its new Aurora laptops show we're truly in the sleek and smart era
- Mojang has just killed support for Minecraft VR, an underrated but very flawed VR experience
- This transparent HDD from Buffalo is both beautiful and woefully impractical—just how I like my tech
- Frostpunk 2's first major content update introduces 'several long-requested community features' like a massive new map and an easier survival experience
- Mafia: The Old Country gets an August release date, and don't worry, I won't be cracking a joke about making an offer you can't refuse
- Here's how long it would take 12 RTX 5090 GPUs to crack your password… and a reminder that just adding more characters still works
- Helldivers 2 is finally adding a sword, and while I'm not soiling my breeches over it as Arrowhead's CEO decreed, it does look very cool
- What is a fairly fancy appetizer in Disney Dreamlight Valley?
- Diablo 4 players aren't happy with the latest $150 Berserk collaboration, accusing it of being boring and overpriced
- Sennheiser and the company that now makes its audiophile headphones have just been fined €6 million over price fixing
- Peak Sekiro-like Nine Sols gets a 40% price cut ahead of its 1-year anniversary, and if you've ever liked parrying in a videogame, you need to play this thing
- How to unlock the uncrafting station in Disney Dreamlight Valley
- With the GPU market a hellscape right now, here are the PC gaming upgrades you actually CAN do
- How to complete the Clean Your Room duty in Disney Dreamlight Valley
- Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 devs to issue its first nerf to an ability that does 2 billion damage: 'We gave it a big damage boost—and clearly overdid it'
- One US politician wants to add trackers to Nvidia's GPUs so they can be bricked if they go to China
- Synergy's full release has more challenges like tricky soil, illness, and death, which will all slowly tear down your paradise
- The new GTA 6 trailer draws on base PS5 footage
- Today's Wordle answer for Thursday, May 8
- Oblivion's gloriously exploitable magic is even more busted in the remaster, letting one player turn into a high-speed leap wizard who can cross Cyrodiil in seconds
- Upcoming NBN price increases are another great reason to change providers—I switched last week, doubling my speed and saving AU$15 a month
- Calling all cozy mystery fans: the follow-up to 2022's best puzzle game gives you even more ways to play detective
- May 7
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- Spanish TV news uses Dark Souls 3 boss fight to illustrate, with 100% accuracy, how the conclave will elect a new Pope
- EA thinks it got Battlefield right this time, projecting confidence to investors in advance of a summer reveal: 'When we get it right, Battlefield is a giant franchise and often the biggest shooter in the year'
- FTC loses bid to block Microsoft's acquisition of Activision Blizzard, which already happened in 2023
- Confusion reigns as report of an A24 Elden Ring movie emerges, disappears, and emerges again
- Oblivion Remastered guide: Everything you need to return to Cyrodiil
- Props for the honesty: Tim Sweeney says the reason 'people characterize the Epic Games launcher as clunky' is—wait for it—'because the Epic Games launcher is clunky'
- The latest GTA 6 trailer confirmed its most exciting feature: A bunch of logos for pretend companies
- Oblivion Remastered mod finally fixes the loot levelling, so no longer do you need to complete quests then wait forever to hand them in
- Electronic Arts CEO feels 'very good' about the next Battlefield's launch now that Grand Theft Auto 6 is out of the way
- I pride myself on keeping up with Steam's under-the-radar gems, but April was packed with enough new games to keep me busy for the rest of 2025
- Just months after reportedly cancelling two live service games in development, Sony announces a new PlayStation studio with a live service game in development
- Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 players find a way to do 2,177,438,000 damage, which is enough to kill the hardest endgame superboss over 45.8 times
- As support for Windows 10 counts down, End of 10 asks 'why not Linux?'
- Hazelight's Split Fiction sells over 4 million copies in 2 months
- Intel slashes the price of its Core Ultra 265K CPU from $399 to $299, making it a killer deal for gamers despite all the early issues
- Check out this brilliant video breaking open a bricked Nintendo Switch 2 chip to see what makes it tick, and why we're looking at around Steam Deck GPU performance from the new console
- On the prospect of an $80-$90 GTA 6, former PlayStation boss says 'it's an impossible equation' for big-budget studios to keep their prices down
- How to complete the Calmer of Chaos Dreamlight Duty in Disney Dreamlight Valley
- Fallout 76's spring limited-time event, The Big Bloom, has begun, which means pollen, allergies, and flower crowns
- Leaked pics of a supposed Asus ROG Ally 2 show an Xbox-branded handheld gaming PC that is very peculiar to behold
- GPUs and monitors from MSI: Collaborate to dominate at 4K and 240Hz
- The BioWare we loved is mostly gone, but '2017 is when EA finished digesting' it, says Dragon Age studio veteran
- How to complete the It's All Nonsense quest in Disney Dreamlight Valley
- AMD says it's set to lose out on $1.5B worth of AI GPU sales due to export restrictions, but Dr. Su hails its latest Ryzen chips as 'the CPU of choice for gamers' after huge rise in sales revenue
- How to complete the Furniture Fluster quest in Disney Dreamlight Valley
- Gigabyte's thermal gel 'is crawling out' of place on some RTX 50-series cards
- 'We didn't have a serious plan': The hardest part of creating Go Wayback, according to Brendan Greene, was just figuring out if it could actually work
- How to get New Land Beyond in Destiny 2
- Nvidia and MediaTek rumoured to announce new Windows on Arm laptop chips at Computex 2025
- Grand Theft Auto 6 dropped a whopping 84 brand-new screenshots and illustrations, and here's every single one
- Forget megabucks Nvidia GPUs, apparently all you need to run an LLM is a Pentium II CPU from 1997
- The US DOJ recommends Google break up its ad-tech platform in light of illegal monopoly claims. Google disagrees, unsurprisingly
- The Art of Warhammer Video Games is a 208-page book covering 30 years of Warhammer games
- A dead Chinese Borderlands MMO is being revived
- Today's Wordle answer for Wednesday, May 7
- May 6
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- I really don't want to cosplay as Darth Vader in Destiny 2, so I'm even more queasy about the announcement of a whole Star Wars-themed expansion
- The GTA 6 trailer shows Jason and Lucia working out: is Rockstar bringing back some of San Andreas' RPG-lite features?
- Well that didn't pan out: Former Rockstar boss said in 2018 that he was glad not to be releasing GTA 6 in the Trump era, but here we are with GTA 6 releasing in the Trump era
- The new GTA 6 trailer opens with a self-referential gag that reminded me of how wild the 2022 hack was
- The GTA 6 map will include a 'lush' national park in the mountains featuring 'hillbilly mystics and paranoid radicals'
- Starfield gets a new beta update on Steam with bug fixes, a 'Very Low' display setting, and no new content
- The details and takeaways you might've missed in the new GTA 6 trailer
- Starbreeze reclaims Payday 3 publishing rights from Plaion, says it will 'significantly accelerate our content development roadmap'
- Bungie announces the next four Destiny 2 expansions, and yes, the second one is literally just Star Wars
- Microsoft unleashes an AI agent on your unsuspecting Windows settings, but initially only if you have a Snapdragon X-powered PC
- I'm already totally enamored with Grand Theft Auto 6's Jason and Lucia, and I've had them for less than 5 minutes
- The new GTA 6 trailer just dropped and the thing I'm impressed with most are its beer bottles
- How to access the open beta for the new REPO update
- GTA 6's preposterously gorgeous second trailer has me thinking 'no-one does it like Rockstar' isn't just a compliment, but an omen
- Apple Mac Studio M4 Max review
- Tales of Seikyu is coming to early access this month, meaning I can finally continue my journey into its enchanting world of dateable yokai
- Rockstar just dropped a ton of new GTA 6 details
- Deadlock goes full second breakfast by having another, secret playtest tucked inside the first one—with all-new heroes and a redesign of everyone's favourite gargoyle gal
- GTA 6's second trailer is here to help numb the pain of it being delayed
- Intel Arc Celestial discrete GPUs have hit pre-silicon validation and that makes me a little more hopeful for their eventual launch
- Overwatch 2 is preparing to answer the internet's current obsession: Who would win, 1 gorilla or 100 men, and it's all going to be livestreamed
- Tales of the Shire wants to make sure 'every detail is just right' when starting your hobbit life, but the character creator still looks incredibly disappointing
- Nvidia announces RTX 5060 release date of May 19 for both the $299 desktop GPU and $1,099 gaming laptops
- LG's new OLED technology literally stretches the boundaries of display tech and promises to turn almost any surface into a screen—or should that be the other way round?
- ChatGPT's hallucination problem is getting worse according to OpenAI's own tests and nobody understands why
- Analyst claims Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 is selling twice as fast as any other recent JRPG has on Steam—and it's got me wondering what the secret sauce is
- Revenge of the Savage Planet review
- 'He's very good at finding really cool people': Clair Obscur: Expedition 33's director found its composer on Soundcloud and lead writer on Reddit
- The Month of Meh event is underway in Hello Kitty Island Adventure, finally letting you take photos with a strange man dressed as an egg
- One redditor scored an Nvidia RTX Pro 6000 Blackwell GPU with 3x the memory of a RTX 5090 for only twice the MSRP
- 8BitDo announces new Ultimate 2 wireless controller with TMR joysticks and Hall Effect switchable triggers
- How to watch the Destiny 2 Edge of Fate livestream
- Cryptocurrency investors are being targeted for ransom, kidnappings, and mutilations across France, with abductors demanding between $6M and $10M in crytpo funds
- Acer Predator SpatialLabs View 27 3D gaming monitor review
- Today's Wordle answer for Tuesday, May 6
- Squid Game Season 3 teaser respawns Player 456 in the lobby for one more round
- May 5
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- 'It is very touching and very stupid': Katamari Damacy creator can't wait for us to experience the final scene of his new game
- Everyone is a boat in this 'MOBA meets Vampire Survivors' game inspired by a Warcraft 3 mod
- 'Henry is worse than the Black Plague': Kingdom Come: Deliverance 2 studio marks 3 million copies sold with some sobering statistics
- Skype dead at 22
- An 8,500-hour countdown clock is ticking down to an Ecco the Dolphin remaster and sequel reveal
- V Rising is doing big numbers on Steam after its recent update, plus it's 50% off
- 'I am about to cry my eyes out': 2000s toys-to-life phenom Webkinz, which I may or may not still have a shelf full of plushes from, is somehow back 5 years after the death of Flash
- Oblivion Remastered is already the third-best-selling game of 2025 in the US, industry analyst says
- There's now a free 'shareware' version of horde-battling RTS Diplomacy is Not an Option
- This dreary low-poly delivery game pairs Animal Crossing villagers with soul-crushing gig work and I can't wait to play it
- After 2 decades of snacking, a new World of Warcraft spell renders vendor food partly obsolete
- Space Marine 2's Astartes Overhaul mod brings Terminators to the campaign, NPC Dreadnoughts to operations, and 12-player lobbies
- The Gears of War remaster that's been rumored for years is coming to Steam in August
- The first big REPO update is available to test
- Stellaris' new Biogenesis expansion lets you be a sapient planet or home-grow your own cosmic leviathan
- Daemon X Machina: Titanic Scion's power-suits will let you beat giant monsters to death with their own body parts
- This game has 100 endings, and it's pushing the creators to the brink of bankruptcy
- How to complete the Paranoia quest in Oblivion
- This Doom themed Harley Davidson is the most metal game collab I've seen since The Dark Ages
- In The Shadow Syndicate you're a dog detective who shoots people in bullet-time and wears a cursed ring
- Today's Wordle answer for Monday, May 5
- 75,000 people are playing a fantasy football game where you guess the new pope: 'You have to choose 11 cardinals, the ones you think are the most papal'
- Five new Steam games you probably missed (May 5, 2025)
- May 4
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- 'You can't escape us': Devolver plots to release a game on GTA 6's release date, no matter when that is
- Tales of the Shire embraces a 'clutter-core experience' with grid-free decorating for your hobbit house
- May the 4th brings free and discounted Star Wars games from Prime Gaming, Steam, and more
- Inspired by Dwarf Fortress and Oxygen Not Included, adorable side-scrolling city-builder Ratopia burrows out of early access
- Star-trekking sandbox roguelike Approaching Infinity launches after more than 12 years in development
- Doom mod Blitz: Race Against Time only gives you half a minute per map, so it's a good thing Doomguy runs at 50 mph
- Today's Wordle answer for Sunday, May 4
- Bungie's attempt to dismiss the Destiny 2 copyright case using YouTube videos describing 'vaulted' elements of the game has been shut down by a judge who is not going to sit through a 10-hour lore explainer
- Fallout 1 and 2's source code isn't lost after all, thanks to one hero programmer: 'I made it a quest to snapshot everything'
- May 3
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- EVE Online studio CCP is making a medieval-style tome of epic poetry inked with the blood of players to commemorate the game: 'It turns out, to store information, a really good way is to take blood and write on calfskin'
- Valve only wants to make new Half-Life games if they push the medium forward, but what could it push forward next?
- Blizzard accidentally left a placeholder item in Diablo 4 and a couple of lucky players went god mode with it
- Once hidden in a Friday Night Funkin' fangame, surreal free exploration sandbox Garn47 gets a major makeover with the 'Glorgle update'
- Sea Of Stars' 8-hour epilogue expansion won't cost you a penny when the circus comes to town on May 20th
- Oblivion isn't enough? Morrowind just got a whole lot bigger, as community mega-mod Tamriel Rebuilt adds the sprawling metropolis of Narsis
- Today's Wordle answer for Saturday, May 3
- May 2
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- Kingdom Come: Deliverance 2 actor celebrates the Grand Theft Auto 6 delay: 'WE'RE IN WITH A SHOT! GOTY!'
- This 'narrative simulator' about a delivery driver in deeply rural Russia is giving me serious Mudrunner meets Disco Elysium vibes
- Lead Diablo artists say the best way to design endless spiky armor sets is to go look at anything that isn't Diablo: 'You can come back with a fresh mind and create new things'
- Elden Ring Nightreign's overview trailer lays it all out for the quirky co-op spinoff
- Following its huge win over Apple, Epic says it will take even less money from developers who use its store
- Grand Theft Auto 6's delay makes me think we won't be playing this thing on PC until 2027, or god forbid even 2028
- The Breach update for No Rest for the Wicked is an overhaul so massive that old save files just won't cut it
- Nvidia denies 'tall tales' that chips are being smuggled in fake baby bumps and alongside live lobsters
- I feel like I can finally say we're at a point where buying new PC gaming gear doesn't mean settling for less
- AMD has released the slightly underwhelming official specs of the RX 9070 GRE, y'know, the card you probably can't buy anyway
- Fanatical's running a $3-a-pop Bethesda bundle, so it's time to finally put down Oblivion Remastered and play Morrowind, the actual best TES game
- Parts for that high-performance Intel Battlemage gaming GPU have been spotted again and I still want it to teach Nvidia's RTX 5070 a $400 pricing lesson
- If you HAVE to upgrade your GPU today, these are the five graphics cards I think are worth looking at
- 'I'd say chances are good': While the Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 team is still figuring out where to go next, DLC is likely
- Microsoft says it wants to completely ditch passwords as it makes passwordless login the default for all new accounts
- Marvel Rivals Season 2.5 release date, Ultron abilities, and more
- Mod adds Dark Souls-style player messages to Oblivion Remastered so you can write 'Try finger but hole' in front of Patrick Stewart
- There's another Pathfinder 2e bundle on Humble with nearly $700 of books for $57, including an adventure that'll let you go full Mortal Kombat with your friends
- Take-Two shares tank after GTA 6's delay, CEO Strauss Zelnick assures panicky investors it'll still make more money than god and it's 'steadfast in our commitment to excellence'
- US federal judge on Meta's AI copyright fair use argument: 'You are dramatically changing, you might even say obliterating, the market for that person's work'
- How to join the Mages Guild in Oblivion
- Grand Theft Auto 6 delayed until May 2026: 'We need this extra time to deliver at the level of quality you expect and deserve'
- Meta's AI app wants to 'get to know you' and can warn you if you should be 'worried about bears'
- Intel's all-important Panther Lake mobile chip rumoured to launch later this year with just one model and it won't be getting the exciting graphics option
- Clair Obscur: Expedition 33's publisher says Oblivion Remastered 'didn't seem to harm us at all', in fact, it may have helped: 'Everybody was thinking and talking about the genre'
- Oblivion's one-room waterfront shack is the perfect player home
- Today's Wordle answer for Friday, May 2
- The best Oblivion Remastered mods
- May 1
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- The PC game releases we're most excited about in May
- DrLupo admits to cheating in $100,000 online chess tournament, faces brutal backlash from Reddit: 'Dude went from 'what's a horsey?' to 'I can see 15 moves ahead' in 2 minutes'
- Stadium's roadmap for Overwatch 2 is planned out for the next three seasons, with more heroes, maps, and custom games on the horizon
- 'Stadium is Overwatch 2's most-played mode': Blizzard confirms Stadium's success with 7.8 million hours played across 2.3 million matches in the launch week alone
- Oblivion is a lot better now that I can read
- French President Emmanuel Macron gives a shout-out to Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 on Instagram: 'You are a shining example of French audacity and creativity'
- Gaming website Polygon lays off union staff, editor-in-chief departs following sale to Game Rant owner Valnet
- Bethesda gives full-throated shout-out to Skyblivion fan remake after giving the whole dev team free Oblivion Remastered keys: 'I think what they're doing is very special'
- Original Oblivion developers gather to watch the 2006 documentary on the making of the game, and Todd Howard sums up the feeling: 'This is going to be really f**king awkward, watching this'
- At 34 seconds, Jack Black's chicken song from A Minecraft Movie just became the shortest ever to crack the Billboard Hot 100
- Borderlands 4 looks like more of the same yet again—and in 2025, that's not enough
- Amid tariff woes, 8BitDo stops shipping product from China-based warehouse to US customers
- League of Legends world champion Shushei dies at 36: 'One of the first greats of our game'
- Skyrim lead designer makes it sound like there's gonna be loading screens in Bethesda games for years to come yet, bucko: 'We just didn’t have a choice, really'
- Silksong got a release date for an Australian museum exhibit before anything else, and I wish I was kidding
- The RX 9060 XT rumour mill flip-flops again: we shall have an 8 GB version of AMD's card after all
- Foundry VTT creator does what Hasbro won't with D&D, trashes the idea of AI in tabletop roleplaying game industry as a 'betrayal'
- Gigabyte MO34WQC2 OLED gaming monitor review
- Turtle Beach Recon 70 review
- WoW's idea to clamp down on combat add-ons is misguided, especially since it could keep improving its base experience without, uh, doing that
- Modding turf war erupts as 'notoriously controversial' dev puts out an Unofficial Oblivion Remastered Patch one week after the game came out [Update: Modder responds]
- LG's new 'Hybrid Tandem' tech apparently solves the blue light problem which could mean near-flawless OLED gaming monitors
- This colour E-ink monitor is very pretty but the price means you may be better off strapping 7 Kindle Colorsofts together
- How to get black soul gems in Oblivion Remastered
- Oblivion Remastered contains an incredibly neat easter egg to one of the nerdiest viral videos of the early 2010s
- 'We as the developers do not feel like we are being robbed by anyone': Drug Dealer Simulator developer says it 'would not pursue any legal actions against Schedule 1 in any shape or form' if it had its way
- Nobody told me you could cheese the hell out of Oblivion Remastered's lockpicking minigame and I've only broken 3 lockpicks since discovering it
- Turns out that the earliest versions of Windows 7 took longer to load depending on your choice of desktop wallpaper
- Assassin's Creed Shadows announces more difficulties, more immersion options, more Jesuits, and a bo staff in its year 1 roadmap
- PC gaming can't stop getting Ws, as Microsoft shares it's being weighed down by console and hardware revenue woes
- 'China is right behind us': Jensen Huang says we need to 'accelerate the diffusion of American AI technology around the world'
- How to complete the A Taste of Home quest in Disney Dreamlight Valley
- I spent the day using GameSir's new GameHub app, potentially corrupting my phone and gaming PC, so you don't have to
- More Intellimouse than eXtreme gamer, Cherry's new wireless gaming mice give understated office chic in the best possible way
- Today's Wordle answer for Thursday, May 1
- US court slams Apple for 'obvious cover-up' in major Epic victory that could see Fortnite return to iOS soon
