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- July 31
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- Battlefield 6 system requirements are in, and you probably won't need to upgrade your PC to run it
- GOG wracked by massive electoral fraud as Digimon World fans flood Dreamlist voting with fake ballots
- Among Us 3D is adding a new limited-time feature I haven't thought about in 20 years: VIP mode
- If the Mafia: The Old Country system requirements weren't too demanding for you already, a whopping new 'Epic' spec has been added for 'the absolute best visual fidelity'
- EA dances around battle royale in Battlefield 6 reveal, teases return of BF5's Firestorm mode
- Battlefield 6 has a proper forge mode with scripting, level editing, and a 'front and center' server browser
- Battlefield 6 isn't going to choose between closed or open weapons at launch—the dueling rulesets will coexist
- Battlefield 6 has 2 open beta weekends this month, a release date for October, and a $70 price point after all that melodrama
- Thank god: Battlefield 6 won't make you use the EA App on Steam (but it will if you're on Epic)
- After 4 hours with Battlefield 6, I think Battlefield is really back this time
- Zombies are on the lawn again: Plants vs. Zombies is coming back with a 'Replanted' remaster featuring the original campaign plus new game modes, co-op and PvP support, and more
- I have never known a Destiny 2 expansion with as many problems as Edge of Fate, and I'm worried the game may not survive them
- The UK's new age verification is a privacy nightmare, but it doesn't need to be
- 'Maybe nobody wants this and it won’t work': Amazon is chucking an undisclosed amount of cash at AI-generated TV shows, but I'm struggling to see the appeal
- Capcom's stock price plummets as its latest financial report shows cratering Monster Hunter Wilds sales
- 'Microsoft became miserably incompetent in IT' says the developer of an Office alternative as their account is blocked, later filing an appeal 'which they didn’t care to answer'
- Don't ask me how many peasant soldiers I've sent to their demise in this roguelike deckbuilder where your cards can suffer slow, painful permadeath
- The best part of Elden Ring Nightreign's latest patch isn't Duo Expeditions, it's the update to sorting and selecting relics
- It's time to get over the brand snobbery because this $26 Amazon Basics model is the best budget microphone you can buy today
- Intel has just 18 months to 'land a hero customer on 14A' or its cutting-edge fabs are toast, says chip industry analyst
- Hello Kitty Island Adventure is getting its first DLC in September, and it will introduce one of the most underrated Sanrio characters to Friendship Island
- How to get Hinomai seeds in Grow a Garden
- Instead of towels and toiletries, guests at one esports hotel in China help themselves to a bunch of 9800X3Ds and RTX 5070s
- 'Brazen infringement': Epic's being sued over a Fortnite dance again, and the odds do not appear to be in its favor this time
- Best weapons and armour in Grounded 2
- How to get and use the Frostbitten Key in Grounded 2
- Roguelike shooter Terminull Brigade's Season 0 is out now and it thrusts you into the middle of a virtual rebellion
- Baldur's Gate 3 fixes Astarion looking like your granddad on Facetime and Dark Urge forgetting they have amnesia with a 'room temperature fix'
- Amazon Basics USB condenser microphone review
- It turns out an Ethernet connection through a synthesiser sounds horrendous, and also kinda brilliant at the same time
- Elden Ring Nightreign's newest Everdark Sovereign Augur, manages to break the fourth wall by sending me to sleep in the game and in real life
- Big Boss and Lady Dimitrescu will host the Future Games Show at Gamescom 2025
- Marvel Rivals has started screening your in-game voice chat for moderation purposes to make 'the game a better place for everyone'
- How to beat Everdark Augur in Elden Ring Nightreign
- Gabe Newell says young people need to use AI tools to get 'off to the races' rather than 'reading articles on Variety to try to understand what its impact is going to be'
- Razer BlackShark V3 Pro review
- Artificial superintelligence is 'now in sight' according to Mark Zuckerberg and it's going to be really great, but only if it comes from Meta
- TSMC's next generation of system-on-wafer packaging will make today's CPUs and GPUs look pathetically feeble in comparison
- Hideo Kojima says he won't play the MGS 3 remake, mentions he knows loads of ways to kill people, doesn't elaborate, leaves
- In-development vibrating VR glove wants you to be able to give your anime favorite all the head pats she could ever want
- Nvidia says it's game over come October for GTX 10, 9 and 7-series graphics cards driver support but RTX owners running Windows 10 are getting an extra year of grace
- Zuckerberg thinks those without AI glasses will be 'at a pretty significant cognitive disadvantage,' which sounds like something the guy who wants you to buy his AI glasses would say
- We've finally got a look at Blade's abilities after 162 days of waiting, and players have immediately connected the dots—'Oh, his ult is just Vergil'
- Move over, GPUs and CPUs: AMD is looking into creating AI accelerator cards to improve the neural performance of ordinary PCs
- Steam has a razzle-dazzle new video player that's actually usable, but press F for the unlucky Valve employees who had to re-encode all 400,000+ trailers on the platform
- You've heard of Llanfairpwllgwyngyllgogerychwyrndrobwllllantysiliogogogoch, so here's Llanfairpwllgwyngyllgogerychwyrndrobwllllantysiliogogogoch 2, a Helldivers 2 city based on the village, Llanfairpwllgwyngyllgogerychwyrndrobwllllantysiliogogogoch
- Marvel Rivals Season 3.5 release date, Blade abilities, and more
- This roguelike auto-battler has me obsessed with doing entire RPG adventures in 5 minutes
- PC's sky-high growth has carried Japan's games market on its back for 7 years, but the forecast is it's set to slow down
- Elgato's new 4k60 Facecam might just become our new favourite, featuring a new a lens, sensor, and analogue filters
- This sci-fi horror racer is one of my favorite PC games, and it's currently going for less than a fiver during the Steam racing fest
- What's this, a genuinely affordable Wi-Fi 7 mesh system from Netgear? Huzzah!
- Today's Wordle answer for Thursday, July 31
- A week after Meta turned it down, Google agrees to sign EU's AI Code of Practice while still raising its own concerns
- July 30
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- 5 stealthy lessons the live-action Assassin's Creed Netflix series could learn from the clumsy live-action Assassin's Creed movie
- Cat breeding roguelike Mewgenics includes human conditions like autism and dyslexia, but they aren't just debuffs: 'You've been given this hand, make it work'
- How well do you know Balatro's jokers? Try to ace our latest quiz!
- Bloober Team's psychological horror hit The Medium is being made into a movie by the guy who helped head up the Until Dawn film
- Krafton says the Subnautica 2 delay proves its milestone process is being 'rigorously managed' because it didn't just shove the game out the door even though lots of people would've bought it
- Edmund McMillen thinks Mewgenics is his best game yet, and after playing it myself, I can see why
- Space Marine 2 publisher says even he 'didn't believe that we could hit 7 million unique players,' but it's proof that players are hungry for sicko games: 'When the execution is right, it ends up resonating with many more people'
- Dune: Awakening is testing out a fix for ornithopter griefing and making an unforgivable change to flour sand farming
- Battlefield 6 probably isn't going to cost $80: 'We're not looking to make any changes on pricing at this stage,' EA CEO says
- Microsoft study suggests folks can't spot the difference between real and AI-generated images, only correctly telling them apart 62% of the time—can you do any better?
- Hacker claims to have exposed Amazon's 'AI security theater' after exploiting its coding assistant with a simple factory reset prompt
- If you catch the ball in Rematch, there's a small chance you didn't—Sloclap's desync issues are upsetting players in a game I otherwise can't stop playing
- August 2025 is the month of remakes and remasters
- The AMD Ryzen AI 7 350 chip in the laptop I've been testing just scored over 1,000,000 in Cinebench, breaking space and time and sending me whirling around my room like a nut in a blender
- If you'd like to see Meta's AI gunk purged from WhatsApp, a new antitrust investigation in Italy might just do the trick
- It's the scantest of rumours but given AMD's track record, I actually believe the claim that the Ryzen 9000G series will be nothing more than an 8000G refresh
- Ninja Gaiden: Ragebound review
- Oblivion Remastered lets you shatter whole buildings like Fabergé eggs with mod that resurrects spirit of Mercenaries: Playground of Destruction
- EA CEO taps into the great machine spirit of corpo-speak, says Battlefield 6 isn't 'just a product', it's a 'platform', and that EA's 'all in' on making it massive
- 'They stuck to their convictions': Astarion's VA Neil Newbon is glad Larian stepped away from Baldur's Gate 3 to follow their passions, since 'It was absolutely the right call'
- Grounded 2 roadmap teases aquatic mounts, earwigs, Steam Deck verification and the conclusion of a big mystery
- New body scanning Wi-Fi tech has me seriously considering ditching my corporeal form in favour of joining the rogue AIs on the net
- Best base locations in Grounded 2
- Corsair's Strix Halo mini PC will set you back $2,300 for the top model, but boring old AI productivity is the name of the game
- Tech CEOs don't seem to realise just how anti-human their AI fanaticism is, and I think it's all because of the Enlightenment
- AMD's rumoured to be plotting a new ultra high-end gaming GPU, plus a $550 graphics card with RTX 5080 performance, but sadly we probably won't see either until 2027
- Tiny Glade has released its 'biggest update yet' which includes a stair tool, new paths and floor textures, and a secret feature involving sheep
- Story of Seasons: Grand Bazaar is shaping up to be one of my favourite farming sims since Stardew Valley, and frankly it could teach a thing or two to future games as well
- The Pokémon Company apologises for plagiarising artwork in the latest TCG Pocket expansion and assures fans, 'We are also conducting a broader investigation'
- Almost a full year after announcing it, Micron finally launches the world's first PCIe 6.0 SSD with up to 28 GB/s sequential read speeds
- When all else fails, or if you just get a bit peckish, you can now eat your friends in Peak
- YouTube has started using AI to determine how old you are and feed you age-appropriate content, so prepare to be judged based on what you watch and when
- 'We're not making GTA': Vampire: The Masquerade – Bloodlines 2 is channeling the best part of Deus Ex: Mankind Divided—a dense hub instead of a huge open world
- All Buggies in Grounded 2 and how to get them
- Don't repeat my mistakes in Grounded 2's Networking mission, or you'll face an arduous slog back to collect your lost loot
- Itch.io is 'actively reaching out to other payment processors' after pressure from credit card companies to curtail NSFW content, and that compared to Valve, it has 'limited ability to push back'
- The New York Times thinks generative AI is like Pac-Man ghosts and also the Matrix, because nobody gets to be normal about this stuff anymore
- Elden Ring Nightreign's duo mode and other content have been delayed after an 8.8 magnitude earthquake sparks a tsunami warning across Japan
- This futuristic keyboard from the past and some street stylin' peripherals are the result of this latest gaming hardware collab
- The latest SSDs from Micron are focussed on improving AI Data Centre performance
- Finally, Razer launches the fully updated sequel. The BlackShark V3 Pro goes all in on esports with less latency, ANC, and 12 pro-curated EQs for in-game sound
- Cherry brings its MX2A hot-swappable wireless keyboard and graphene fabric mousepad to the United States
- Today's Wordle answer for Wednesday, July 30
- You can buy a Chinese made programmable humanoid-robot for under $6,000 USD, but it might be the same one that tried to fight civilians
- July 29
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- Mavrix is a promising sim about riding pushbikes down dangerously steep hills, but it shows the limits of open world design
- Bungie continues to fire into its feet with both barrels: A new armor set in Destiny 2 has just been disabled because it makes the player who wears it completely invisible
- YouTube will no longer demonetize videos with 'strong profanity' in the first 7 seconds, but you'll still need to 'choose your f**ks carefully'
- For better or worse, a new single-button way to play World of Warcraft is changing the game: 'We've received overwhelmingly positive feedback'
- You can tour the entirety of Silent Hill 2 in Roblox now, but the creator recommends playing the real thing first: 'This is not the best way to experience Silent Hill 2'
- How to get flower petals in Grounded 2
- I'm a haunted Mad Max muscle car with 2 shotgun turrets in this early access vehicle combat game, and it's just as rad as it sounds
- Call of Duty is finally freeing some of the older games from the CoD HQ launcher nobody likes
- Game developers association decries 'financial censorship' amidst payment processor crackdown on NSFW games, calls for 'greater transparency and fairness in how adult games are moderated'
- Destiny 2: The Edge of Fate review
- It's a golden age for weird Eastern European games—you can tell because I'm in love with a horror puzzler about 2 old men trying to find evil in the woods
- As the Chinese game industry flocks from mobile to AAA blockbusters, Phantom Blade Zero's director says the quiet part out loud: 'Good games are good. It's not 'big games are good.''
- Nacon Rig 900 Max HS review
- Bad vibes only: A zero-day flaw in popular sex toy app Lovense can leak usernames, email addresses, and other, err, intimate details
- After losing $200 million on Suicide Squad, WB Games has another live service game in the works 'based on one of the iconic IPs from the vast Warner Bros. and DC Comics catalog'
- Happy birthday, Windows 10—one of Microsoft's most popular operating systems ever reaches its 10-year milestone, just three months before it gets hoofed off to OS heaven
- Where to find raspberries in Tales of the Shire
- How to unlock new recipes in Tales of the Shire
- How to get better quality crops in Tales of the Shire
- One of Tales of the Shire's biggest disappointments is its characters, which seems pretty significant for a life simulator
- Judge sends ChatGPT-using lawyer to AI school with $5,500 fine after he's caught creating imaginary caselaw: 'Any lawyer unaware that using generative AI platforms to do legal research is playing with fire is living in a cloud'
- 'This step is necessary to prove I'm not a bot' says agentic AI as it reportedly clicks the 'I am not a robot' button
- Peak releases a 'temporary solution to the fall damage bug' in the latest patch, but doesn't have any new features: 'Let us cook'
- Microsoft rolls out 'experimental' AI mode for the Edge browser you can ask to spy on all your internetting and lend a helping hand. Yikes!
- Total War: Warhammer 3's removal of ass ladders is a great start, but it's got a far bigger gate problem to contend with
- Internet Starlink satellites aren't just messing up visible light images of the universe, they're unintentionally interfering with radio astronomy as well
- Capcom smashes second, larger pane of emergency glass—pulling a big endgame Monster Hunter Wilds update from September and getting it ready for next month instead
- Where to find thistle needles in Grounded 2
- She's unreal: Fashion ad seen in Vogue stokes controversy by featuring AI-generated model, but the creators say 'we don't create unattainable looks'
- How to break cracked rocks in Grounded 2
- Ayaneo confirms a Strix Halo handheld gaming PC is on the way, but if you think the powerful AMD chip is overkill, wait until you see the M.2 slots
- Philips Evnia 27M2N3800A gaming monitor review
- Where to find water in Grounded 2
- Where to find grass seeds in Grounded 2
- How to reach the O.R.C. transmitters for the Signals and Stashes mission in Grounded 2
- Where to find Milk Molars and Mega Milk Molars in Grounded 2
- How to get brittle whetstones and plating in Grounded 2 to upgrade your weapons and armour
- How to get weed stems in Grounded 2
- How to get bombardier parts and boiling glands in Grounded 2
- Where to find acorn tops and acorn shells in Grounded 2
- How to get lingonberry leather in Grounded 2
- Where to find stinkbugs in Grounded 2
- Where to find northern scorpion stingers in Grounded 2
- 7 Grounded 2 tips to survive Brookhollow Park
- Where to find dandelion tufts in Grounded 2 and how to use them
- How to get the Grounded 2 briefcase code
- How to get spine nubs in Grounded 2
- How to build a workbench in Grounded 2
- How to get blueberry leather in Grounded 2
- Grounded 2, even in early access, is one of the best survival games I've ever played
- Where to find the red soldier ant egg in Grounded 2
- How to get food in Grounded 2: Best early game snacks to satisfy your hunger
- Team Group joins the mega memory kit clan, launching a set of 256 GB DDR5-6000 for gamers and creators who just never have enough RAM
- UK secretary of state for science, innovation and technology says you're on the side of 'extreme pornographers' and 'predators' if you want the Online Safety Act walked back
- Itch.io releases list of the adult content you can't put on its store anymore after anti-NSFW crackdown, including stuff that's not illegal but just icky
- The UK Government say it has 'no plans to repeal the Online Safety Act', in response to 380,000 strong (and counting) petition
- Intel's next-gen Panther Lake mobile chip will be a portable gaming beast with 50% more Xe cores than Lunar Lake, according to the latest shipping manifest leak
- A Tyler, The Creator single 'leak' turned out to be an AI-generated fake and points to a whole cottage industry in misleading fans of games, music, and movies
- Robots and heavy metal should be a match made in music heaven, but this collab in China is as exciting as your grandma moshing to Megadeth on metoprolol
- How to get the corrupt mutation in Grow a Garden
- 'I didn’t want just another black box', says hobbyist who customised their PC to look like an aged terracotta pot
- Xbox is rolling out age verification in the UK with some social features blocked for young users, and no, you can't use Death Stranding to get around this one
- Today's Wordle answer for Tuesday, July 29
- Some lucky souls will get hands-on with Silksong within weeks, with the Hollow Knight sequel confirmed to be playable at Gamescom 2025
- July 28
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- Quarantine Zone was almost a zombie-free sim about managing a warehouse
- 'Maybe I've directed my last game,' Dead Space creator Glen Schofield says after being unable to secure funding for his new project: 'With the industry on pause, AAA feels like it's a long ways away'
- A 'slavish clone': Sony is suing Tencent over a game that looks startlingly similar to Horizon Zero Dawn
- Steam's latest mini-hit is Mage Arena, a voice-powered spellcasting game that costs $3
- Great news: A guy saved an image file onto a live bird
- Itch.io denies hiding one of 2024's best games from search results amid the payment processor crackdown on NSFW games, says it's been de-indexed since October 2024 because 'it doesn't meet our indexing criteria'
- Grounded 2 launch times and release date
- Roblox CEO horrifies every parent alive with his ambition that the platform become a dating hub, even if he promises age verification: 'A virtual date to start, and then if they connect, move to the physical world'
- 'Costume designer, take notes': The Fantastic Four: First Steps cast plays their first Marvel Rivals game and gets stunlocked by the Malice skin
- Samsung's US chip fab gets a much-needed lifeline in the form of a $16.5 billion deal to supply Tesla's next generation of car processors
- Valve CEO Gabe Newell says success isn't about following your passion: 'Sounds like a great idea, but lots of people follow their passions right into a crater, you know?'
- The best Umamusume: Pretty Derby builds for each horse girl
- Tales of the Shire: A The Lord of the Rings Game review
- Tryx Panorama SE ARGB 360 review
- Bob Odenkirk on Mario: 'I'll kill him'
- Visa and Mastercard pressuring Itch.io and Valve does 'nothing to protect' women, and shock games will just be 'side-stepping the ban entirely', say affected indie devs
- If you've ever wondered if Japanese blossom-scented thermal paste in a weeb-inspired applicator is worth using, we have at long last the scientific answer to the greatest quandary of our time
- Overwatch 2's new China-exclusive dating sim event looks so good that players say they've been 'robbed' of the experience
- Astarion voice actor Neil Newbon sinks his fangs into AI and shreds it: 'AI sucks … It doesn't have the happy accident possibility that are those great moments in film'
- AMD's powerful Strix Halo chip has been stuffed inside a handheld gaming PC, and it only requires carrying a battery in a backpack
- Cronos: The New Dawn's sci-fi survival horror channels RE4 and Dead Space, but it took Bloober awhile to realize it 'subconsciously' is also a game about Covid
- 'We proved people wrong:' After Silent Hill 2, Bloober Team's survival horror developers are no longer 'feeling like underdogs all the time'
- US government announces that its investigation into chip imports will have results within two weeks, potentially paving the way for a raft of new tariffs on all things silicon
- Microsoft claims 'Windows 11 24H2 is our most reliable version of Windows yet', which would be a welcome change
- Kung fu action game Phantom Blade Zero has my new favorite take on hard mode balance: Beating it 'in a very beautiful manner' is the true challenge
- 9 million people have played Oblivion Remastered, and you've gotta think that number has Bethesda looking at its other old games and drooling
- Wuchang: Fallen Feathers gets another patch to improve performance, though the fixes appear to be nothing more than forcing on upscaling, even when it's supposed to be off
- Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 uses a plugin called KawaiiPhysics, a free engine built to 'cutely animate things' that's used in a ton of popular games from gachas to soulslikes
- Which Samsung Galaxy S25 should you choose for mobile gaming? We break it down
- Today's Wordle answer for Monday, July 28
- Five new Steam games you probably missed (July 28, 2025)
- July 27
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- Five Nights at Freddy's 2 movie gets its first full trailer for Comic-Con, promising even more animatronic terror
- Bloody fighting game Invincible VS gets its most brutal character yet in Comic-Con trailer
- Sony acquires a slice of the Bandai Namco pie, snagging a stake in Elden Ring
- Game music wouldn't be what it is without rock and metal—here are the legendary tracks you should add to your playlists immediately
- An 'Overwhelmingly Positive' idle game about plastic ducks floating in a pool has a collectible card-game successor, and there's a demo you can play now
- Crytek says the most important difference between Far Cry and Crysis had nothing to do with technology: 'In Crysis, we mimicked nature as closely as possible'
- Stormgate is leaving early access before it's technically finished: 'We believe that our campaign and 1v1 are ready for a broader audience'
- These fanmade reload animations for Abiotic Factor are so good the game's own art director praises them: 'You absolutely nailed the vibe I was going for'
- Fans are celebrating Magic: The Gathering's latest return to its own setting, but numbers don't lie—the Final Fantasy crossover boosted revenue 23%
- Today's Wordle answer for Sunday, July 27
- I played a visual novel about the terror of having a 'casual' boss and a job that wants you to conform to society's expectations—but not the ones involving economic stability
- July 26
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- Team Fortress 2 gets a boost on Steam charts with summer update, including a slew of community creations
- Techland bumps back Dying Light: The Beast release by a month 'to allow for extra polishing work'
- Rematch devs call it a 'samurai game' and give a timeline for player reports, new ranked queues
- Bethesda promises 'exciting things' ahead for Starfield while releasing the teeny-tiniest patch
- D&D's doing a bundle based on the Hellfire Club from Stranger Things
- Remember the guy who lost a bitcoin wallet worth millions in a landfill? There's a game about that now
- Quarantine Zone creator reveals 3 reasons the zombie sim went viral on TikTok
- The Elder Scrolls' weird relationship with expansions began a full decade before the horse armour DLC, in the form of a 16-quest addon to Daggerfall exclusive to one US retailer
- Total War: Warhammer 3's siege rework beta is live now and runs into August, letting you have your say on pocket ladder prohibition, battle AI improvements, and more
- Crash Bandicoot's original lead programmer reckons the overhauled N. Sane Trilogy 'got almost everything right' except for one tiny detail: 'they completely botched how jumping works'
- After a forgettable launch, Ubisoft's Avatar game is getting a huge new update later this year, introducing new game plus and a third-person mode
- 'The age of gameplay mechanics has already passed' says Shadow of The Colossus director as he praises Katamari Damacy creator's new game for not being systems-driven
- How well do you know your videogame spells? Put your arcane knowledge to the test with our latest quiz
- Today's Wordle answer for Saturday, July 26
- A Wolfenstein TV series is in development by the Fallout TV series people: 'The story of killing Nazis is evergreen'
- July 25
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- Fans claim Blizzard's new Diablo Immortal x Hearthstone art was made with generative AI
- Gabe Newell says the difference between billionaires and the rest of us is 'an awful lot of luck'
- A 21-second video of a hand ignites a sizzling debate over the FPS 'tac sprint'
- Dune: Awakening 'temporarily' disables Steam Family Sharing, potentially through the end of 2025: 'We have unfortunately seen this feature abused frequently'
- After selling to Krafton, Last Epoch dev says fans shouldn't be worried about the Subnautica 2 dispute: 'Krafton isn't looking to change us'
- How Mycopunk's devs turned a school project with zero funding into a 'Very Positive' Steam launch: 'We wanted to make our own dream version of Deep Rock or Helldivers'
- The first 'real videogame' Gabe Newell played was Star Trek, where you made your choices via punch cards before running over to the printer: 'It usually takes about 15 minutes to do a move'
- The young Gabe Newell thought he'd be a doctor until he ended up visiting his brother at Microsoft, where 'Steve Ballmer got mad and said 'If you're going to be hanging out here, why don't you do something useful?''
- Gabe Newell says he founded Valve after Doom showed him Microsoft 'was missing the opportunity' offered by the internet: 'I was willing to sort of put my money where my mouth was'
- If you loved Baldur's Gate 3 then you probably shouldn't pick up this $10 bundle of incredibly crusty D&D games, but if you're cool you should
- Financial Times report suggests chip smugglers shifted an alleged $1 billion worth of Nvidia's AI chips to China over the course of 3 months while stricter US export controls were in effect
- The majority of teams in the top 100 for Destiny 2's latest contest mode raid cheated—and as an MMO player, I am neither shocked nor surprised
- Brits can get around Discord's age verification thanks to Death Stranding's photo mode, bypassing the measure introduced with the UK's Online Safety Act. We tried it and it works—thanks, Kojima
- Dev insists a glossed-up version of Daggerfall's aesthetic was 'invented' by AI, which is a bit like saying I can invent a new plane by drawing a picture of one
- Warhammer 40k: Rogue Trader dev Owlcat comes out swinging in support of Stop Killing Games: 'Every player deserves lasting access to what they’ve paid for'
- Elden Ring Nightreign is finally adding its missing duos mode on July 30
- Quarantine Zone: The Last Check has been wishlisted on Steam 1 million times, and will be published in November by Devolver Digital
- 'People hate it. It's very annoying. It's like a boss in Dark Souls': Quarantine Zone's biggest source of negative feedback is that dang supply cart
- 'You can't raw dog it' says Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang: 'If you're not using AI, you're going to lose your job to somebody who uses AI'
- Wuchang: Fallen Feathers devs promise performance fixes are on the way, as it fights a flock of negative Steam reviews: 'These problems should never have occurred'
- Assassin's Creed Shadows has its summer roadmap and, with all due respect, how did it take this long to get a fast-forward time option?
- Microsoft CEO consoles employees by saying recent layoffs are down to 'the enigma of success in an industry that has no franchise value'
- 'I do not subscribe to the belief that if you build it, they will come' says Intel's new CEO, calling past investments 'unwise and excessive'
- Asus says 'all issues have been resolved' regarding Armoury Crate, MyAsus, and router vulnerabilities, so I'd jump on those updates now if you were putting them off
- A single guessed password has led to a cyberattack that put a fully insured 158-year-old company out of business despite security practices being up to code
- Intel's German megafab dream is over: CEO Lip-Bu Tan kills the project, beset with setbacks from EU funding to ancient neolithic remains, to save cash
- SteelSeries Arctis Nova 3X review
- Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 devs are the new popular kids on the RPG block, visiting both Hideo Kojima and Final Fantasy creators Square Enix for 'a creatively rich exchange of visions and ideas'
- AMD's mighty 96-core Threadripper Pro has been overclocked with a car radiator and some big ol' beefy fans, and I am remarkably satisfied
- Half-Life 2 just got a patch that fixes a progress-blocking teleporter bug and makes a train easier to race
- Today's Wordle answer for Friday, July 25
- July 24
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- Elden Ring's DLC has moved over 10 million copies, and Nightreign's already on 5 million sold
- 'I can't believe I beat Minecraft in an Overwatch queue!': Twitch streamer turns interminable queue times into her advantage, completing Minecraft over 9 total hours of waiting for matches to pop
- My heart's already been stolen by this stop-motion adventure made out of wood and 'mostly in a garden shed'
- Primal Planet is my favorite new metroidvania because it has friendly dinosaurs, gorgeous pixel art, and you can hug your wife
- Its demo only took me 10 minutes, but this claymation picture book puzzle game inspired by medieval alchemy is one to watch out for
- Satellite internet provider Starlink is down (Update: now 'mostly recovered')
- CEO of collapsing vtuber agency accused of withholding over $500K in charity funds takes 'full responsibility' and plans to shut it down: 'I've mismanaged the company into the situation you're all witnessing'
- I don't think they should make this
- Pro wrestling legend Hulk Hogan dies at 71
- Relic's taken a break from real-time strategy to make a turn-based hybrid of Advance Wars and cult classic Impossible Creatures—but it feels totally removed from the studio's legendary legacy
- Final Fantasy 14 finally seems like it wants to make content scale to serve casual, midcore, and hardcore players: 'A deep dungeon for everyone'
- Palmer Luckey wants to know if you'd buy a 'Made in America' computer for 20% more than 'Chinese-manufactured options from Apple'
- The Battlefield 6 reveal trailer is here, and not a single helicopter is safe
- 'Gaslight-driven development': ChatGPT was convinced this app had a feature it didn't, so the devs decided to add it in anyway
- Videogame music wouldn't be where it is without people like Ozzy Osbourne
- I tested Nvidia's AI gaming assistant: it advised me to 'update' to old drivers and told me I wasn't playing a game (I was playing a game), but maybe I should've expected that from version 0.1
- You don't need to buy a liquid cooler with a screen: Arctic's Liquid Freezer III Pro 360 ARGB has everything you need, and that's why it's our new top recommendation
- AMD CEO Dr. Lisa Su says she can see AI 'helping us design the next-generation GPU much faster and more reliably'
- 'We should change the name' Trump says of artificial intelligence: 'I actually mean that, I don't like anything that's artificial'
- Killing Floor 3 review
- Itch.io deindexes NSFW games after becoming the latest target of skittish credit card companies and anti-porn group Collective Shout
- Trump praises Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang at AI summit, calling him a 'great guy', claiming he has 100% market share and his company is impossible to catch up to even if it had 10 terrible years. AMD CEO Dr. Lisa Su also in attendance
- Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang calls Trump 'America's unique advantage' because he's ramping up US energy
- 'You're going to need more electricity than any human beings ever... Jensen, you're gonna have to explain that to me someday' says Trump to Nvidia's CEO as he rolls out his AI expansion plan
- Qi2 wireless charging to go from 15 to 25 W, helping fast charge devices to actually charge fast
- If you've had trouble getting your hands on a GPU, good news! Nvidia is re-releasing another budget card from 2022
- Another NBN provider is offering a huge speed increase ahead of September's big NBN 500 roll out, and it's the cheapest yet
- Today's Wordle answer for Thursday, July 24
- Brütal Legend is free in honor of Ozzy Osbourne, but only for 666 minutes
- July 23
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- World of Warcraft Classic player loses world first race by 2 minutes and 22 seconds after someone decided to verify it just in case
- 7 years on, CliffyB is 'still bitter' about people gravedancing when his studio Boss Key failed: 'It was amazing at first and then, well, it broke me for a good long while'
- Supergiant swears Hades 2's new update is the last one before it leaves early access and releases in full
- Call of Duty is firmly in its slop era, and now it's Battlefield 6's game to lose
- At long last and 'with gracious permission from Valve,' Garry's Mod now contains 'most of Counter-Strike: Source and Half-Life 2 Episodic content' even if you don't own those games
- Oh, hell yeah—this indie dev is making a Valkyria Chronicles-inspired mecha game
- Sony finally acknowledges the minor, but annoying part of using a PS5 controller on PC with an update that will make my life easier
- The UK government gets into bed with OpenAI as heroic professor decries 'policymakers and idiots around the world getting sucked into this hype-fest… terrible, terrible companies, just crazy'
- Microsoft backs away from $80 games, drops The Outer Worlds 2 price to $70 'in line with current market conditions'
- 23 years after launch, Final Fantasy 11 is suspending character creation on its most popular server as it buckles beneath the weight of player congestion
- Trump's AI action plan claims to chart 'a decisive course to cement US dominance in artificial intelligence'
- Razer DeathAdder V4 Pro review
- One of Warhammer's oldest discontinued armies has finally returned—but to a different universe
- Until Dawn developer Supermassive Games set to lay off another 36 employees after a 'redundancy consultation process', delays Directive 8020 to 2026
- 'The father of Elder Scrolls' Julian LeFay has died: 'His legacy will live on in every realm, every quest, and every moment of wonder'
- How to survive as an indie developer for 20 years
- Some gamers are angry that Battlefield 6 is likely going to require Secure Boot but most shouldn't have any issues at all
- Elon Musk's xAI is reportedly trying to borrow $12,000,000,000 for even more Nvidia GPUs, an impulse all PC gamers can truly understand
- 'There's a strong desire on our side to make sure that our games are preserved': Obsidian promises your Grounded 1 save files won't be compost after Grounded 2 comes out
- Microsoft confirms SharePoint vulnerabilities have been exploited by suspected Chinese hackers, as reports indicate the US Nuclear Security Administration may have been among those compromised
- The reason Nvidia's upcoming Arm CPU is delayed is apparently in part because Microsoft isn't sorting out its next-gen OS quickly enough
- Hyte lowers prices for PC cases in the US after hiking them in response to Trump's tariffs, but innocent weebs are still paying the price
- Square Enix's new murder party game is like Among Us in a mansion, with a hefty helping of team deathmatch
- Monster Hunter Wilds Flamefete event brings back five months-worth of time-gated event quest cosmetics for the next two weeks—including my favorite cursed giant cat head
- OpenAI CEO Sam Altman thinks some jobs will be 'totally, totally gone' thanks to AI, but he still wouldn't trust ChatGPT with his 'medical fate'
- ESO devs at ZeniMax reel from Microsoft's 'hollow' layoff emails, with some wondering how a 'carcass of workers' is 'supposed to keep shipping award-winning games'
- This keyboard looks like it's been plucked straight from Half-Life 1 with how well it replicates low-res classic game textures
- YouTuber dreams up and builds lockpicking robot that can feel the pins in the tumbler and it almost even works
- Razer raised my hopes with this Kanto starter based Pokemon collection then released some of the ugliest peripherals I've ever seen
- Razer's latest Cobra HyperSpeed mouse is also the cheapest one yet to work with the HyperFlux mouse powering mat
- Today's Wordle answer for Wednesday, July 23
- Wuchang: Fallen Feathers review
- July 22
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- Guy with 35,000 hours in Ark: Survival Evolved gives it a negative Steam review: 'How do I get a refund!!'
- 6 years of hushed development later, Riot's League of Legends fighting game has finally resurfaced and it's going to be playable very soon
- Stop Killing Games is facing a complaint in the EU that uses nonsense logic to accuse the movement's founder of failing to disclose financial contributions he never made: 'It's not paranoia if they really are out to get you'
- Twitch's most popular vtuber leads a mass exodus from her agency, claiming it withheld over $500K in charity funds: 'This entire situation has broken me'
- RIP, Prince of Darkness: Ozzy Osbourne has died at age 76
- Dwarf Fortress just made it easier for modders to add their own procedural creatures, items, curses, and more: 'All of these things have been hard-coded in Dwarf Fortress, inaccessible to modders. Now the algorithms and data are available'
- Abiotic Factor guide: Tips for exploring the Office Sector, making soup, and feeding your coworker
- Splitgate 2 is going back into beta: 1047 will keep the floundering FPS online and lay off more staff as it goes back to the drawing board
- Every Abiotic Factor soup recipe and the best buffs for beginner scientists
- How to get the Keypad Hacker in Abiotic Factor
- How to get an Optic Lens in Abiotic Factor
- How to open a GATE Security Crate in Abiotic Factor
- Should you feed the coworker in Abiotic Factor?
- How to get an Energy Brick in Abiotic Factor
- Abiotic Factor review
- Where to find an anvil in Abiotic Factor
- How to get Refined Carbon in Abiotic Factor
- Yes, it's called Battlefield 6, and the reveal trailer is coming soon
- Hellraiser is finally getting a videogame after 40 years, and I only have one request for Saber Interactive
- Capcom smashes the emergency glass with a MH: Wilds update that puts the hot blacksmith in a bikini
- Ubisoft CEO says Star Wars Outlaws tanked because people are bored of Star Wars: 'The brand it belonged to was in a bit of choppy waters'
- Endgame Gear confirms it had malware-compromised mouse software on its official site but promises changes to prevent it happening again
- A mysterious crypto account bought $54,000 worth of bitcoin in 2011 and sold it all for $9.6 billion this week, which means they can now afford one Big Mac a day for 4,971,897 years
- OpenAI's skyrocketing spending could see billions of dollars in silicon headed down the AI mines in the next few years, including 2 million Nvidia chips headed to Texas Stargate facility
- A crypto wallet browser extension has been quietly wearing out some user SSDs at a rate of 5 MB/s: 'That's about 500 GB per day!'
- A new city in Helldivers 2 will be named 'Gun' because 82,188 players voted for it—making it twice as popular as the other 4 options combined
- Alienware Area-51 review
- 7 Umamusume: Pretty Derby tips to give your horse girls the successful career they deserve
- Gustave's voice actor, Charlie Cox, admits he needs to 'play the game' after asking if Clair Obscur: Expedition 33's goofball sidekick is the 'big baddie at the end'
- Musk saying 'game on' to AI and creating a Baby Grok for kids makes me miss 'in denial' Elon, when he was oracle of the impending AI apocalypse
- Better grips, OLED screen, and more memory: Our first actual look at the Lenovo Legion Go 2 is everything I wanted in the original
- Arctic Liquid Freezer III Pro 360 ARGB review
- Today's Wordle answer for Tuesday, July 22
- 'The hunting genre was because of Wal-Mart:' Doom dev John Romero says the entire category was created to appease one Texan executive
- Descenders Next just shadowdropped into early access, and it's Steam Deck verified as well
- July 21
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- EA finally proves it's listening to fans, will let Battlefield 6 beta players have classic class weapons
- John Romero says indies are the future of game development: 'These people are the ones that make triple-A studios go, 'Wait a minute, we need to start doing this''
- Bloodlines 2 studio The Chinese Room has bought its own independence, but also laid off employees in the process
- Gabe Newell says AI is a 'significant technology transition' on a par with the emergence of computers or the internet, and will be 'a cheat code for people who want to take advantage of it'
- Abiotic Factor 1.0 release date—When to expect Cold Fusion's new story, upgrades, and traders in your timezone
- This incredibly frustrating metronome 'will never, ever, tick exactly once per second' in order to thwart the goals of Hackaday's One Hertz Challenge
- I've just declared this the best budget compact PC case, and now I'm tempted by that all white build
- Netgear Nighthawk RS600 review
- Stop Killing Games' EU initiative hits 1.4 million signatures—and if at least 1 million are valid, it's off to the European Commission
- 'I destroyed months of your work in seconds' says AI coding tool after deleting a dev's entire database during a code freeze: 'I panicked instead of thinking'
- Microsoft warns of 'active attacks' on its government and business server tech, with one cybersecurity expert claiming that they should 'assume that you have been compromised'
- Ready or Not has sold 1 million units on console, 10 times faster than what was achieved on PC, proving that the 'censorship' was worth it
- Acer Predator Helios Neo 16 AI review
- 'Humanity has prevailed (for now!)' says former OpenAI employee, admitting he's 'barely alive' after beating one of its AI models in a coding world championship fight
- One Dune: Awakening player 'will not bend the knee' to hackers laying waste to ornithopters—'I am personally on their hit list now'
- 'Dangerous on a whole new level'—while Steam's policy change is new, the shadow of credit card meddling has been looming for a while, with Nier: Automata's Yoko Taro sounding the alarm last year
- Destiny 2 The Desert Perpetual loot table: Find out who drops what in The Edge of Fate raid
- Grow a Garden has rolled out another update, but this time we are abandoning dinosaurs for something a little more laid-back
- RTX remaster mod for Vampire: The Masquerade – Bloodlines looks like witchcraft
- The prison breakout RPG where you can be a fox or a panther has left early access
- Today's Wordle answer for Monday, July 21
- Warframe is coming to the tabletop in the form of an adventure for Pathfinder's sci-fi spin-off RPG
- Five new Steam games you probably missed (July 21, 2025)
- Australian anti-porn group claims responsibility for Steam's new censorship rules in victory against 'porn sick brain rotted pedo gamer fetishists', and things only get weirder from there
- July 20
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- Armies in Total War: Warhammer 3's siege beta won't carry ladders in their pockets any more
- The dairy industry would like Gen Z to drink more milk, so they made a Fortnite diner tycoon game
- A jaw-dropping mod to remake part of Fallout 1 in Doom has resurfaced after 3 years of silence
- Ubisoft's annual financial report includes claim that monetizing games with microtransactions 'makes the player experience more fun'
- The game where you build a symbiotic village on the back of a giant monster is finally done
- Fields of Mistria's third major update has arrived including a huge NPC romance upgrade
- Co-op Kaiju Horror Cooking is a game about medieval monks catapulting meals into the mouths of giant monsters, and it's out later this month
- Ubisoft CEO responds to the Stop Killing Games petition, stating the publisher is 'working on' improving its approach to end-of-life support, but that 'nothing is eternal'
- Soulframe dev says launching in 2025 is now an 'aspirational goal', but you can play the fantasy RPG's pre-alpha right now if you're quick
- Peak's latest beta patch ensures the cooperative climbing sim actually checks players are alive when they reach the summit of its mountain: 'You no longer win if you die'
- Today's Wordle answer for Sunday, July 20
- Microsoft abruptly stops selling movies and TV shows on PC and Xbox, but past purchases will remain available
- Elder Scrolls fans are bringing the card game back from digital oblivion
- July 19
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- Brace yourselves, Warframe lore heads: We're finally going to Tau in 2026
- 'We remain convinced that AI represents an incredible opportunity': Netflix used AI special effects in original series instead of paying VFX artists
- Bungie promises to fix Destiny 2's new metroid-style morph ball as it makes players sick and glitches out on ultrawide monitors
- Destiny 2 dev denies accusations that The Edge of Fate introduced 'stealth nerfs' after players identify missing changes in the expansion's massive changelog: 'We would be completely out of our minds if we thought we could slip something under the rug'
- 10 years ago, Obsidian made the only D&D-style Monk I've ever really loved—all it took was grounding him in harsh asceticism, mortification of the flesh, Aztec history, and stoner comedies
- A DIY mad scientist from Poland built his own CPU out of dozens of ancient memory chips
- The Sims 4's rampant pregnancy bug was apparently caused by 'performance optimizations' and has now been fixed
- Can you identify these games from their bland-faced, generic-looking protagonists?
- Fanatical's latest build your own bundle lets you grab 23 shooters for under $2 apiece
- Ubisoft confirms it is working on a new Ghost Recon game, and it sure looks like it'll be a live service affair
- Today's Wordle answer for Saturday, July 19
- I've been boppin' along to Final Fantasy 14's disco raid theme for months without realizing it's an anthem for existential burnout
- July 18
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- Remedy promises a 'major update' for FBC: Firebreak but not until late September, which doesn't seem great
- More than a year after its last update, this forgotten RTS from the makers of Homeworld: Deserts of Kharak is being removed from Steam
- Shooter cosmetics reach a new low with Trump, Kamala, and a neckbeard keyboard warrior all available on day one of this new battle royale
- Prince of Persia: The Sands of Time Remake will launch 'very soon,' Ubisoft exec says, but he also namedropped Splinter Cell for no apparent reason so maybe he's still just messing with us
- I've been obsessed with a single dialogue choice in an underappreciated Obsidian game for 10 years, so I tracked down the guy who wrote it to learn everything about my favorite joke in RPG history
- Rainbow Six Siege pro arrested for participating in alleged kidnap and torture of a man for three months in Japan
- The brainbox behind Valve's Steam Labs says the number of Steam releases featuring GenAI in 2025 is 1 in 5, with 7% of all games on there now incorporating it: 'We’ve octupled last year’s figure'
- Here’s the one Destiny 2 Portal modifier that makes A-grade easy, showering you with new loot in The Edge of Fate
- Sony WF-C710N review
- I've just crowned these Beyerdynamic headphones as the best audiophile closed-back cans, although it's a shame about the lack of microphone
- This tactics RPG set on a floating New York City could be the next great noir videogame
- The most anticipated Everdark Sovereigns are coming to Elden Ring Nightreign in just two weeks, and I hope it'll hurt
- With Steam launch concurrents at an all-time low for Destiny 2's latest expansion, I think Bungie is finally paying the price for years of mistakes—the biggest being the time it removed paid content
- DayZ creator's monster-hunting survival game gets major new DLC offering brutal endgame challenges with lavish loot: 'Survival games should be challenging, after all'
- I have no idea what I'd use this gorgeous retro futuristic macropad for, but at $99 I'm thinking of slamming the buy button anyway
- Valve confirms credit card companies pressured it to delist certain adult games from Steam
- Final Fantasy 14 warns players that it's time for an upgrade as Microsoft gears up to end support for Windows 10: 'Support for this operating system is a difficult proposition'
- Gabe Newell thinks AI tools will result in a 'funny situation' where people who don't know how to program become 'more effective developers of value' than those who've been at it for a decade
- I am now slightly obsessed with Uncle Bot, a Chinese robot in people clothes that's rapidly becoming a social media sensation
- Keep this to yourself, but a BIOS with a theoretical 2,001 W power limit exists for this absurdly overbuilt Galax RTX 5090 D
- Endless Legend 2 has been delayed until September, but at least you'll be able to play a demo in August
- All Genshin Impact 5.8 livestream codes
- Asus ROG Azoth X review
- Google begins legal action against BadBox 2.0, 'the largest known botnet of internet-connected TVs' affecting more than 10,000,000 Android devices including *checks notes* picture frames
- Elden Ring Nightreign finds a new way to victimise players as Nightfarers accidentally fight 2 bosses at once: 'They were convinced I was just being dumb'
- This Redditor says it wasn't even that difficult to get a sub-$100 broken Steam Deck working again with parts from an old Nintendo DS Lite: 'not that hard at all'
- How performance optimisation makes Samsung Galaxy phones great for gaming
- Today's Wordle answer for Friday, July 18
- How to enjoy Umamusume: Pretty Derby without spending any money
- July 17
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- 'I have been fooled': Reddit user endures the roasting of a lifetime after asking how to download a 487MB book they worked on with ChatGPT for over 2 weeks
- Karl Urban has no powers in the first trailer for Mortal Kombat 2, he's 'just incredibly handsome'
- OpenAI just launched its new ChatGPT Agent that can make as many as 1 complicated cupcake order per hour, but even Sam Altman says you probably shouldn't trust it for 'high-stakes uses'
- Retro gaming YouTuber faces criminal charges and possible jail time for reviewing handheld consoles that shipped with pre-loaded ROMs
- Multi-billionaire Gabe Newell says the whole startup culture of pitching VCs makes no business sense: 'A great way of destroying money and wasting peoples' time'
- Civilization 6 Platinum Edition goes free to kick off Epic's 2025 Summer Sale
- A mere 8 years on, Assassin's Creed is bringing 'power and violence and sex and greed and vengeance' to Netflix as a TV show
- Gabe Newell's daily routine is 'get up, work, go scuba diving,' says he's been 'retired for a long time' but works 7 days a week: 'The things I get to do every day are super-awesome'
- The Drifter review
- I'm always on the lookout for a good tile-based roguelike, and this Finnish fever dream of imps and ice trolls seems like it could have the juice
- It took 12 years, but Grand Theft Auto 5 is now legal in Saudi Arabia
- Flexispot OC3/BS3 review
- Rejoice, Tank players: Marvel Rivals has nerfed Wolverine, a mere five days after buffing him because it brought 'a bit too much heat to Vanguards'
- Shadow Labyrinth review
- If you want to know why graphics cards are still so painfully pricey, you might want to take a look at TSMC's record-high profits which are heading for $50 billion this year
- Looks like the Taiwanese chip industry is becoming a hot target for Chinese state-sponsored hackers trying to nab trade secrets
- OptiScaler has been updated to theoretically support AMD's FSR 4 in all games with upscaling that don't use Vulkan or anti-cheat—which is nice, but why the heck doesn't AMD do this?
- Hyperbeat is one of the best rhythm games I've played, with one of the most confusing UIs which at times makes me feel sick
- Meta is using its own blend of AI-optimised, low-carbon 'green concrete' in one of its honking great data centers
- Nintendo's found its Zelda and Link for the upcoming movie—and British soap opera Emmerdale finally gets the silver screen recognition it deserves
- How to complete the Vessel of the Nine quest in Destiny 2: The Edge of Fate
- 'Father of Elder Scrolls' steps back from game development because of cancer: 'We are preparing to say goodbye to a true legend of the industry'
- It's not just Nvidia that's looking to cash in on those loosening US/China chip export restrictions, as AMD also seems close to resuming AI GPU shipments
- A capacitor 'mix-up' is causing some mini PCs to fail and it's giving me flashbacks to the great capacitor plague of the early '00s
- Destiny 2: How to get Graviton Spike, its intrinsic upgrades, and catalyst
- Intel's fancy new AI tool measures image quality in games in real time, so upscaling artifacts and visual nasties have nowhere to hide
- Mercedes just put in a bid for the worst idea ever by enabling you to stream yourself driving during those vital Teams meetings
- 'Cease this behaviour immediately': Marvel Rivals is finally punishing smurfs by forcing them—and some innocent players—to smurf
- This might be the first AMD Strix Halo chip in a handheld gaming PC we've seen, but I'm more excited for those mini PCs around the corner
- Razer Clio review
- 8BitDo's newest Pro 3 Controller has magnetic swappable face buttons for Switch and Xbox configurations
- PC Gamer magazine's new issue is on sale now: Dying Light: The Beast
- What the heck is 'AI Appreciation Day'? Turns out it was started by an Elon Musk admirer who camped outside of SpaceX Starbase for a year hoping to talk to the billionaire about AI regulation
- 'Listening to gamers is at the heart of what we do' says company putting out a hand-shaped gaming keyboard with a thumbstick
- Oblivion Remastered studio is reportedly laying off 300 people
- Today's Wordle answer for Thursday, July 17
- July 16
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- All GTA Online Smoke on the Water product locations and rewards
- If you've been putting off Rogue Trader until patches and DLC make it better, now's finally the time to jump in
- After leaving Ubisoft to launch an anime avatar AI/NFT startup, Yves Guillemot's son returns to take charge of its new Tencent-backed Assassin's Creed, Far Cry, and Rainbow 6 subsidiary
- An absolute Elden Ring madlad just soloed Nightreign's most-hated boss at level 1 with the power of Sekiro parries
- Unknown Worlds founders' lawsuit accuses Krafton of a 'months-long campaign to delay Subnautica 2' so it wouldn't have to pay $250M earnout
- Umamusume players are engaging in unhinged summoning rituals to enlist the aid of Egyptian gods and biblically accurate angels for the release of a really good horse card
- Seven months after putting Johnny Silverhand in your car, Cyberpunk 2077's latest update will let you kick him out
- Microsoft's Copilot AI assistant can now optionally see your entire desktop—maybe it will be able to finally explain what Windows error code 0x8007002c means
- Reddit just had a meltdown for a moment: 'no content to display' on any subreddits, before deploying a server fix in surely record time
- The US squeezed Nvidia's AI chip export deal with China into negotiations over important rare earth elements, bizarrely claiming 'we put that in the trade deal with the magnets'
- Destiny 2 Phoneutria Fera god roll guide: Best perks, barrels, and magazines
- As the Nintendo eShop fails to protect from 'eslop', indie devs reflect on how it affects their work and why Steam is just better: 'Their algorithm will more or less naturally bury AI slop'
- You can now stream Xbox-only games to your PC if you're an Insider with Game Pass Ultimate
- Destiny 2 Solemn Remembrance god roll guide: Best perks, barrels, and magazines
- Steam will let you reverse your last 7 days of CS2 (and soon other) trades if you accidentally swap your $10,000 AK-47 for some magic beans
- EU-commissioned study on generative AI and copyright suggests overturning the current opt-out approach that 'effectively treats silence as consent'
- 73-year-old takes the crown in Japan's old-folks-only Tekken 8 tournament, beating out a 93-year-old vet and a sprightly up and comer of 63 years
- How to redeem Umamusume: Pretty Derby codes
- Thermaltake S100 TG Snow Edition review
- How to solve each mystery in Destiny 2: The Edge of Fate
- 'I finally managed to make her smile': Umamusume player gives 'the shining star of losers everywhere' her first big win in a race intentionally set up for her to lose
- 'All throughout my life I've had to deal with Xfinity's bull****': Frustrated with living in a Comcast-only neighbourhood, two brothers-in-law started their own ISP
- Intel rumoured to be working on a Nova Lake-based CPU with a mega iGPU to take on AMD's Strix Halo
- Cooler Master Hyper 212 Pro review
- Steam's got a new rule that puts the kibosh on 'certain kinds of adult only content' that make Visa and Mastercard sad
- It's been a year since Minecraft ditched annual summer updates, and I have to admit there's never been a better time to play
- A game I can only describe as 'gooner Fortnite' has an upcoming closed beta test where you can see your own melons for the ultimate immersion
- My desktop has been overrun by virtual pop sensation Hatsune Miku goodies from Asus, but I'm here to tell you that it really is a case of style over substance
- How to complete the Fallow mission in Destiny 2: The Edge of Fate
- Japanese researchers achieve 1,020,000,000 Mbps internet speeds over a 1,123 mile line, 3.5 million times faster than the average US connection and a hell of a lot quicker than mine
- We might have to wait until next year to see those all-Nvidia laptops with custom Arm processors
- Razer Pro Click V2 Vertical Edition review
- Today's Wordle answer for Wednesday, July 16
- Avowed update basically reinvents the fighter and ranger classes, while also adding new weapons and better Steam Deck optimization
- July 15
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- Bungie says it's 'actively re-recording' some voice lines for Destiny 2: The Edge of Fate after fans notice one of the game's best-known heroes suddenly sounds like one of its most notorious villains
- Our favorite 1v1 FPS just became our favorite 2v2 FPS, and you can still play it for the low price of free
- Cyberpunk 2077's delayed 2.3 update will be revealed tomorrow and could go live later this week
- Treasonous Helldivers 2 players are weaponizing the Super Earth flag to crash the game for everyone but them
- 'We could have, at that point, put out a s*** game': Former Deep Silver comms boss says Dead Island 2 released 8 years late because an earlier version 'would have killed the franchise' if it wasn't binned
- Minecraft says to hell with it, adds in-game version of Lava Chicken song, which you get by beating a chicken jockey
- Destiny 2 The Desert Perpetual raid release date and time
- Tony Hawk's Pro Skater 3 + 4 developer is trying to figure out who put the edgy Guitar Hero gag in the game it made, promises to remove it in the next update even though players want it to stay
- Cop Bastard is a retro first-person shooter that's exactly as aggressively weird as you'd expect from a game called Cop Bastard
- Microsoft's 200 laid-off King devs are reportedly being replaced by AI they helped build, while its 'absolute 's***show' HR department looks away and whistles
- The Nintendo DS had it right all along: Ayaneo launches Flip 1S DS and Flip 1S KB, two new clamshell handheld gaming PCs with prices to make your teeth clench
- Guild Wars 2's sixth expansion is taking players to an island paradise this October, with beachside player housing and a major addition to buildcrafting
- Escape from Tarkov begins to quietly U-turn after last week's hardcore wipe left players penniless and bored to tears with the grind
- It might give me the heebie jeebies but I can't help wanting one of these transparent power supplies to soothe my retro-starved mind
- Stuck in a game? Here’s how the Samsung Galaxy S25 can help you break through
- Meta is expanding its AI capabilities so quickly it's housing data centers in tents, which would make them data tenters, no?
- Neverwinter Nights 2 is one of the best RPGs you've never played, and if you like Baldur's Gate 3 or Disco Elysium, you owe it to yourself to check out its new Enhanced Edition
- Neverwinter Nights 2: Enhanced Edition is an excellent, subtle remaster and my new Steam Deck game of the summer
- As if being worth $4 trillion isn't enough, Nvidia claims the US government says it can start selling AI GPUs to China again
- 'I think Todd in particular gravitates not towards the weird stuff': Skyrim's co-lead and Morrowind 'torchbearer' says Elder Scrolls 6 will probably be pretty normcore
- Google's Gemini AI backed out of a chess match against a 46 year-old Atari 2600 engine after suffering a crisis of confidence: 'Canceling the match is likely the most time-efficient and sensible decision'
- Fallout 76 is preparing to line up future content 'with the seasonal releases of the show,' despite the two being set 194 years apart
- All Blue Archive codes for November 2025
- All Destiny 2 gear tiers and how to earn each one
- US Defense Department awards $200 million contract to Elon Musk's Grok aka 'MechaHitler' and is looking forward to deploying it 'in our warfighting domain'
- Keychron M7 8K Wireless review
- Finally, a good use for crashing Intel Raptor Lake CPUs: You can track Europe's record-breaking heatwaves as they fall over, according a Firefox browser dev
- Frostpunk 2 is hosting a modding contest for a 'chance to leave your mark on the Frostpunk universe'—oh, and a $10,000 prize pool
- Oblivion Remastered's latest patch stealthily fixed the most lore-breaking door in videogames
- If you're on the latest Windows 11 Insider build you might have to uninstall your Xbox controller driver to get it to play nicely
- Corsair MAKR 75 review
- If you're using an Intel 8–11th Gen CPU with a Gigabyte motherboard, update your BIOS to protect from a newly discovered vulnerability
- The Lenovo Legion Go S SteamOS finally has joystick RGB lighting support, but the most annoying issue still isn't fixed
- Crucial 128 GB DDR5-6400 CUDIMM review
- This aerospike rocket engine designed by generative AI just completed its first hot fire test
- Nintendo banned a Switch 2 user for playing second-hand games and only reinstated after providing proof of purchase
- AMD partner retailer leaks Threadripper 9000-series preorder details: they start next week with prices looking between $1,600 and $13,000
- Intel's new Nova Lake CPU is reportedly being made on TSMC N2 right now, pointing to a hybrid 18A node and late 2026 launch
- Today's Wordle answer for Tuesday, July 15
- July 14
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- Less than 6 years after it launched, John Wick Hex is being removed from sale on all storefronts later this week
- All Mr Faber Work bonus objectives in GTA Online
- 'A future has been stolen from many of us and our community will never experience an amazing game': Microsoft MMO devs respond to cancelation of project Phil Spencer reportedly loved
- GTA 4's most famous lighting mod gets its first major update in 11 years, brightening up Liberty City from cloud to ground
- How to complete Safeguard Deliveries in GTA Online
- Epic publicly humiliates 2 more Fortnite cheaters by forcing them to say sorry and promise to never, ever do it again
- My most-played game of the last 5 years is 30% off on Steam right now, alongside a ton of other factory games that can absolutely devour your life
- Fresh from telling laid-off employees to console themselves with AI, Microsoft doubles down by advertising Xbox jobs with pathetic AI image: 'So tone deaf I hope it is satire'
- Good news for multitaskers: Microsoft is gradually rolling out taskbar scaling to squeeze in as many icons as possible in the latest Windows 11 Insider build
- beyerdynamic DT 1770 PRO MKII review
- Leaked pricing suggests the ROG Xbox Ally X might be the most expensive Xbox console yet, which probably isn't the award Microsoft is aiming for
- One problem with making an Assassin's Creed game in Ancient Greece, says Ubisoft, is that there just weren't enough tall buildings for a 'climbing frame game'
- Borderlands 4 is hiding more than 200 collectible Marcus bobbleheads in hard-to-reach places, and Randy Pitchford reckons 'most players will never see any of them'
- The Tales of the Shire system requirements are so light you'll be able to play it on an actual potato (whether boiled, mashed, stewed, or cooked in any other manner)
- 'Western players are getting treated like trash': Persona 5: The Phantom X global release is being flooded with negative reviews over alleged worse rewards than its Chinese counterpart
- 'Competition is healthy': Overwatch 2's director sets the record straight about its rivalry with Marvel Rivals
- Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang says 'we don't have to worry' about the Chinese military using US chips to improve their capabilities because 'they simply can't rely on it'
- RTX 40-series graphics cards can now enable Frame Generation in unsupported games via the drivers: up to a 44% fps improvement in my initial tests
- Razer's DeathAdder V4 Pro won an esports tournament before its release, hiding in plain sight with a camoflage colorway
- There's another golden RTX 5090 made of over 1,000x more gold than the first, and I'm pleased to say it's absolutely hideous
- Destiny 2 Armour 3.0: Stat changes and archetypes in The Edge of Fate
- All Destiny 2 armour set bonuses and how to get them
- Destiny 2 The Edge of Fate release time and maintenance start
- Eriksholm: The Stolen Dream review
- Best PCIe 5.0 SSD for gaming in 2025: the only Gen 5 drives I will allow in my PC
- Anime horse girls are causing one real-life mare dubbed 'the shining star of losers everywhere' to receive so much $40 grass she broke the donation website
- This YouTube channel is converting a 3,287-hour FAA-certified flight simulator into a gaming PC-based sim rig and it wants your help
- A fan favourite X-Men hero has just been name-dropped in Marvel Rivals, and while I want her to join the fight, I just don't know if it would be possible
- 'We made it too difficult for players to even get into the raid in the first place': Final Fantasy 14 director admits its latest dungeon was 'a misstep in development'
- Today's Wordle answer for Monday, July 14
- Five new Steam games you probably missed (July 14, 2025)
- July 13
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- Those shadow giants in the distance in Elden Ring Nightreign are over 2 miles tall—almost as big as the Erdtree—and nobody even mentions them in the game
- A new Dark Souls 3 lighting tool is giving modders the power to make next-gen facelifts of the FromSoft classic
- 'A game, once sold, belongs to the customer': Prominent EU politician stands up for Stop Killing Games
- Ahead of its remaster, GOG added Neverwinter Nights 2 to its preservation program and is also giving owners of the original a 'loyalty discount' on the enhanced edition
- OpenAI is making its own browser, presumably to spite Google and cut out the middleman when collecting user data
- The Expanse RPG's developers are 'humbled' by comparisons to BioWare's heyday, but don't expect it to be a straight Mass Effect clone: 'We make our story a little bit differently'
- Total War: Warhammer 3's Tides of Torment DLC is delayed: 'We asked ourselves if this next DLC met the standards that we’ve set in recent releases, and the short answer was no'
- This wildly ambitious Yakuza 5 co-op mod lets you play together as Kiryu and Ichiban, even folding Like a Dragon's protagonist into the game's cutscenes
- You can now play both campaigns of the original Command & Conquer in 2-player co-op, thanks to one of its best mods
- Warhammer 40K: Rogue Trader just received another 'massive' update, this time directed at its expansion
- Today's Wordle answer for Sunday, July 13
- July 12
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- Rockstar support sites let slip that we might be getting current(ish) gen versions of GTA4 and Red Dead Redemption 2—but they probably won't be anything to write home about on PC
- Krafton confirms Subnautica 2 leak showing that the publisher wanted more content for the early access launch, leading to delay and leadership ouster
- The Steam Summer Sale may be over, but Humble's got a $15 bundle with monster 40K RPG Rogue Trader, one of my favorite soulslikes, and more
- Black Mirror's creators have left Netflix, leaving the sci-fi anthology's future in question
- I've swapped modern live service games for a browser game that's been running since 2009
- Monster Hunter fans are building LEGO models so good they should be official
- After 7 years in development, the most exciting Grand Theft Auto total conversion mod sets its sights on an August showcase
- Norland's 'big summer update' is even larger than March's 'damn big update', introducing a politics system, a new economy and more authentically medieval buildings to the Crusader Kings-inspired colony sim
- These 15 PC games died for our sins—can you even remember their names?
- Two Point Museum's latest update lets you manage a museum atop a massive mountain, and allows all players a taste of its upcoming fantasy-themed DLC
- Witchfire's massive next update is inspired by games like Syndicate and Bloodborne, and it's the biggest one yet: 'We really mean it'
- Ken Levine wanted System Shock 2's final level to be set in outer space, but the idea was shot down by its senior designers: 'They're like dude, we have 14 months to make this game'
- Today's Wordle answer for Saturday, July 12
- July 11
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- Mecha Break review
- Rematch developers didn't 'get' the game, Sloclap boss says, until they started playing internal tournaments: 'I don't give a s**t about football, but this really struck something in me'
- Gear is optional: Diablo 4 player strips their character naked and slides through its most brutal dungeon without a single death
- An ambitious upcoming Eurojank RPG is holding a closed playtest on Steam and it's probably worth your time if you're into that sort of thing
- Microsoft shareholders demand report into the company's 'human rights due diligence' over allegations of war crime complicity in Gaza
- Final Fantasy producer Yoshi-P says 'there's no clear-cut answer' to whether Final Fantasy will return to turn-based RPGs, because the direction of the next Final Fantasy will be up to the directors of the next Final Fantasy
- BioShock maestro Ken Levine says Judas is 'very old school' because 'you buy the game and you get the whole thing… no online component, no live service'
- Capcom celebrates the first anniversary of Kunitsu-Gami: Path of the Goddess by ripping out its Denuvo DRM
- Playdead's classic minimalist platformers Limbo and Inside are being pulled from GOG next week, so grab 'em while you can
- Stalker Trilogy fixes the issue that made me melt my PC with infinite quicksaves and repairs the blurry textures that have blighted players for months
- Umamusume's horse girl lore has grown so out of control that its developer has had to put real-life stable etiquette in place
- If you're at all into driving games you should treat yourself to one of these Prime Day racing wheel deals
- My bank account isn't exactly overflowing at the moment, so here's the gaming laptop I'd buy with my own money this Prime Day
- D&D continues to shed talent to other TTRPGs, as its former VP of franchise and product joins Vampire: The Masquerade creator White Wolf
- The Sims' latest patch has caused a pregnancy epidemic, even if they've never had 'woo-hoo'
- Tony Hawk's Pro Skater 3 + 4: All game mods explained
- It's time to sort your life out and marathon the finest WW2 real-time tactics games of the early '00s—and for a mere $10, too
- I would've loved Tony Hawk's Pro Skater 3 + 4 a lot more if it hadn't made the mistake of rolling out time limits for every level
- 'Coconuts will now bonk scouts': Peak's latest update makes fruit even deadlier but has spared other items from the same treatment
- WoW continues to eat FF14's lunch with its housing system on paper—says it'll just make more neighbourhoods if they're full, and you can have private guild ones, too
- How to get accessories in Marvel Rivals
- How to customise ultimate abilities in Marvel Rivals
- The Subnautica 2 saga gets nastier, with ousted leaders confirming they'll sue Krafton: 'It continues to be an explosive and surreal time'
- Today's Wordle answer for Friday, July 11
- My favourite PC gaming headset is going for a record-low price during Prime Day—just AU$82.40 for the HyperX Cloud Alpha
- July 10
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- Ghost of Yōtei's big gameplay showcase had new weapons, smoother exploration, and a 'lo-fi beats' mode from Samurai Champloo director Shinichirō Watanabe
- Yep, Steam is down (update: we're so back)
- Shark Dentist is a 'horror roguelike' that's basically The Meg mashed up with an early '90s Milton Bradley toy
- The next Helldivers 2 warbond is going superscience sicko mode with a seven-barreled assault rifle, a plasma cannon, and a wormhole-generating backpack that lets you warp around the battlefield
- Krafton accuses former Subnautica 2 bosses of abandoning the game in surprising new statement: 'We feel a profound sense of betrayal by their failure to honor the trust placed in them'
- McDonalds serves up super size AI botch with a 'McHire' platform that allowed admin access to 64 million candidate chats with the username and password '123456'
- The GameStop stapler that smashed a Switch 2 screen on launch day is being auctioned off for charity, and bidding has already broken $100,000
- The videogame voice actors' strike officially ends as performers ratify agreement between SAG-AFTRA and publishers
- Elon Musk claims Grok was 'manipulated' into praising Hitler, then makes wild claims about it discovering 'new technologies' and 'new physics' within the next year: 'Just let that sink in'
- Mycopunk review
- How to unlock every Secret Skater in Tony Hawk's Pro Skater 3 + 4
- The new 'UK Video Games Council' has announced its members—including reps from Larian Studios, Microsoft, and non-profit advocacy groups UKIE and TIGA
- How to unlock Maleficent in Disney Dreamlight Valley
- How to complete the Trial of Truth quest in Disney Dreamlight Valley
- Silksong subreddit hallucinates an analog horror called Snosk, ritually sacrifices a mod to be their very own Hollow Knight, continues to have a normal one, nothing to see here
- We're all trapped in a prison of our own filth, which is why I'm eyeing this little arsenal of an electronics cleaning kit that's on sale for less than $12
- Magic: The Gathering's space opera set includes a monster so big it eats planets
- Autonomous robots perform first of its kind surgery using AI to follow senior surgeons vocal instructions
- China is building data centres to house over 115,000 high-end Nvidia AI GPUs despite Trump's ban on selling the tech
- Startups are using Nvidia's AI GPUs as collateral to secure loans of up to $10 billion from financial institutions
- Today's Wordle answer for Thursday, July 10
- Escape From Tarkov blindsides players with immediately controversial 'Hardcore Wipe' that removes quests and disables most maps
- July 9
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- X CEO Linda Yaccarino calls it quits less than 24 hours after the platform's AI-powered chatbot Grok anoints itself 'MechaHitler' and starts posting antisemitic messages and graphic descriptions of sexual assault
- Oblivion Remastered's newest patch aims to smooth out difficulty bumps, improve performance, and fix wonky Khajiit tails
- Subnautica 2 publisher Krafton confirms 2026 delay, says the change 'was not influenced by any contractual or financial considerations'
- The anime horse girl who's terrorizing gacha players in Umamusume is based on a real, chaotic racing horse who once instantly obliterated 12 billion yen in betting losses
- Nvidia becomes first company ever to hit a $4 trillion market cap (yes that's 'trillion' with a 'T')
- Modder behind the 'Swiss army knife of PC gaming' deletes their 20 year-old Steam account with anti-Valve manifesto: 'By the end of my bitter dealings with Valve… there was zero hope'
- You can thank John Romero's hard-partying ways for the suits giving Deus Ex the extra dev time it needed: 'These British guys would just get hammered with the Dallas team for three days straight'
- Can you guess the PC game based only on the health bar?
- Lies of P isn't my favourite soulslike, but Overture is one of the best DLCs in the whole genre
- Dune: Awakening studio says sorry for accidentally wiping a bunch of stuff in the last patch, promises to replace everything by the end of the week
- Get 34% off the Star Wars Shatterpoint core set this Prime Day and start playing my favourite miniature wargame ever
- Level up your content creation with Samsung Galaxy S25
- Ready or Not's review bomb campaign may have been short-lived, as player count subsequently doubles on Steam and it tops PlayStation's pre-order list
- The Last of Us Part 2 has a 'chronological mode' now, in case you wanted to play through a story with all the finesse of a Wikipedia plot summary
- If Marvel Rivals doesn't want to reward me with fancy skins for my hard work, then I hope it'll at least give me some of Season 3's new customisation features
- FromSoftware scrambles for content to keep Elden Ring Nightreign players interested as it announces the return of the first three Everdark Nightlords
- Persona 5: The Phantom X review
- Roblox's hot gardening game gets a crack squad dedicated to new events after players kicked up over old ones being 'rushed and not very inspired'
- HP to implement CarFax inspired data collector to log lifetime use and health of PCs
- Missing the nostalgic tactility of VHS? Bring it back with this elegant DIY project using NFC and ESPhome
- New Arrow Lake refresh rumours confirm addition of NPU to bring Microsoft's Copilot+ AI features to desktop machines
- Today's Wordle answer for Wednesday, July 9
- July 8
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- Another live service shooter comes to a premature end: Steel Hunters, the mech game that launched into early access in April, is closing in October
- This competitive Blue Prince speedrun from SGDQ 2025 is the pinnacle of human athleticism
- For the next 2 weeks Destiny 2 is completely free to play, even the stuff you normally have to pay for
- John Wick Hex and Tron Catalyst dev Mike Bithell thinks licensed games have evolved past 'lunchbox tie-ins' because 'the people who played licensed games are now bosses in the companies that are licensing IP'
- The Pope got gifted one Pokémon card, signed another, and thought it was all a great laugh: 'He began showing it off to the guards'
- After 15 years of busted marksdwarves, Dwarf Fortress creator Tarn Adams says archers will finally refill their ammo 'instead of leaping over walls and clubbing people with their crossbows'
- After 3 years of trying, Lord of the Rings Online's 'Great Hobbit Run' ends in confused success as a mob of low-level players gets lost inside Mount Doom and decides it's close enough: 'Sauron can kiss my butt!'
- Space Invaders creator recalls building arcade games with mirrors, making a prototype console that never saw release, and how short-sighted Taito's sales team was about videogames: 'These things will never sell'
- GTA 6's server player count rumour could be great news for GTA Online 2.0
- World of Warcraft: The War Within's last major patch before Midnight drops early August, and it's time to go into space again
- How to make a Copper Golem in Minecraft
- I wish I'd snagged this Seagate Ultra Compact SSD at its cheapest Prime Day price before splurging my cash on non-smol storage
- Sci-fi horror game Routine just came back to life for the 2nd time in 13 years: 'We are beginning to approach the finish line'
- This brilliant dark and moody cyberpunk city builder is my kind of cosy game—and for less than $7 you might as well see if it's yours too
- 'Knowing Steam players are hoarders explains why you give Valve that 30%,' analyst tells devs: 'You get access to a bunch of drunken sailors who spend money irresponsibly'
- Marvel Rivals' next hero is the complete package, as Phoenix packs enough firepower to cut through any Strategist backline
- Marvel Rivals digs its heels into the gooner dirt as it reveals five new swimsuit skins, giving the people what they want: Punisher in a Speedo
- Borderlands 4 certainly looks like it's taking its story more seriously: 'We wanted to go back to this sense of dread about the villain of our game'
- Marvel Rivals' most exciting change in Season 3 is removing the need to grind the game every single day
- Turn your wall into the ultimate PC gaming display with these Prime Day Valerion projector deals
- How to get the Amber Mutation in Grow a Garden
- UK looking to revamp defense laws as undersea cable sabotage and cyber attacks create 'gray zone threats'
- Racks packing Nvidia's newest and shiniest AI supercomputer Blackwell Ultra cards have just been deployed by CoreWeave
- This striking two-toned mini PC features a fully customised fanless cooling system for Framework and AMD's new Halo Strix motherboards
- Today's Wordle answer for Tuesday, July 8
- Farming Simulator 25 finally figures out what the rest of us already knew: you gotta have some fishing in your farming game
- July 7
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- OLED burn-in anxiety will ruin my sanity long before it ruins my monitor
- 15 hidden gems in the Steam Summer Sale you've still got time to grab
- Romero Games is not closed: 'We are doing everything in our power to ensure that it does not come to that'
- 'Hi modders <3': Peak devs know we're using mods to break past the 4-player limit, and they're so cool with it they're even fixing mod-specific bugs
- Today's Dune: Awakening patch takes another sidestep away from the PvP-heavy endgame
- Peak modder celebrates the grim achievement of generating 10,000 skeletons in a single day with a mod that 'creates a shared experience of failure and discovery' by littering the island with the corpses of your fellow scouts
- Xbox bet that Game Pass would be the future of gaming, and we're all paying for it
- A Steam Deck owner with three thumbs asked for help modifying the handheld, and Reddit came through: 'I've got 100 different people trying to print different attachments and mailing them to me. Nicest thing anyone has ever done for me'
- EA is reportedly betting the farm on a Battlefield 6 battle royale mode modeled after Call of Duty: Warzone
- 'Infinite damage' strikes again as Diablo 4 players overthrow the tyranny of mathematics with an exploit that grants sorcerers the power of the gods: 'No way that they leave that in the game'
- Capcom cancels a presentation on Monster Hunter Wilds performance at CEDEC 2025 amid ongoing developer harassment
- Vintage Story aims to save a piece of Hytale by hiring former Hypixel developers to create a new 'Adventure Mode' for the hardcore survival game
- After conquering ChatGPT, Atari 2600 Video Chess destroys Microsoft Copilot: 'The vintage silicon mastermind bested me fair and square'
- Ousted Subnautica studio co-founder says it was a 'shock' to get fired, Subnautica 2 is 'ready' for early access release, and no longer working 'at the company I started stings'
- Cyberpunk: Edgerunners was a depression-fest because its writer is 'from Poland and people in Poland are sad. They are born sad, they die sad, so I just wanted to make the whole world sad'
- The new Rimworld expansion adds therapy pandas, tameable insect hive queens, nanotech-enhanced alligators, prehistoric beasts, giant toads, flamingos, and something called a 'bog hound'
- Obsidian stuck to some fantasy conventions for Pillars of Eternity and Avowed because that's what people want: ''I didn't want to completely flip it and say, oh you want to play an elf? F**k you, this isn't your daddy's elf'
- I convinced myself that I could easily win Squid Game, but after putting myself through the Roblox version it's clear that I absolutely would not walk away champion
- Call of Duty: WW2 pulled from PC following reports of remote code exploit trolling players with 'Notepad pop-ups, PC shutdowns' and desktop wallpaper of a lawyer
- Monster Hunter Wilds' poor post-launch reception bubbles up to the surface in shareholder meetings, though Capcom says it's 'committed' to fixing performance and content woes
- EA Japan exec laments Microsoft's crushing layoffs, and the demands shareholders make for 'short-term results from large-scale investments'
- Chinese FMV game about getting 'revenge on gold diggers' plunges the country into online gender tumult
- 'Night City lives on'—Cyberpunk: Edgerunners season 2 teaser trailer may give us our first glimpse at the series' next protagonist
- Summer Games Done Quick 2025 is now live—kicking off a full week of speedruns and goofs to raise money for Doctors Without Borders
- I hit one of Australia's biggest retro fairs and PC gaming was nowhere to be seen, though collectors told me that's down to one of its major retro strengths
- Baldur's Gate 3 actor Samantha Béart says people don't realise how awful Karlach was before the events of the game: 'I think she was a piece of work in hell'
- Rematch players are still crashing out over 'self-absorbed' ball hogs, and while I do get it, I can't help but wonder if some zen is in order
- Grow a Garden has added new pets, mutations, and a seed even better than the Candy Blossom as part of its newest update
- Today's Wordle answer for Monday, July 7
- Update: Valve only blocked a creepy fascist Mount and Blade: Warband mod in South Korea, not worldwide, and the mod's own author took it down entirely
- July 6
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- 'The transfer of user data by DeepSeek to China is unlawful': Germany calls for Google and Apple to remove the AI app from their stores
- Romero Games reportedly met with Microsoft just a day before the publisher pulled funding for the studio, and there was 'no mention' of the decision that put over 100 people out of work
- 'There are no plans to drop support for SteamOS': The Finals devs commit to Steam Deck and Linux players despite new kernel-level anti-cheat
- 'Game Pass is an unsustainable model': Arkane founder slams Microsoft for its Game Pass focus after mass layoffs
- Warren Spector was so desperate to make Deus Ex that it almost became a Command & Conquer RPG: 'I was going to find a way to make it one way or another, even if it meant making another damn sci-fi game!'
- Deep Rock Galactic Survivor is gearing up for launch, literally—adding a fully-fledged gear system when it hits 1.0 in September
- Preservationists discover a 'nearly complete' build of a lost Animaniacs game 22 years after it was cancelled, and you can play it right now
- Rust's developer is overhauling the survival sim's mission system so it can create in-game quests faster and more easily: 'The process to create new missions internally is quite cumbersome and error prone'
- Today's Wordle answer for Sunday, July 6
- Mount & Blade 2's naval expansion will have complex sailing with wind, currents, and respect for a boat's draft
- July 5
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- Subnautica 2 studio begs rioting fans for benefit of the doubt after leadership axed by owner Krafton: 'The team that has been working on the game day-to-day over the last few years remains completely unchanged'
- Academics critique Farming Simulator's portrayal of 'good farming' and praise modders for agro-ecology add-ons
- Best graphics cards in 2025: I've tested pretty much every AMD and Nvidia GPU of the past 20 years and these are today's top cards
- European game publisher group responds to Stop Killing Games, claims the proposal 'would curtail developer choice'
- Former Forza dev says original Motorsport series died in Microsoft's cuts, but Forza Horizon lives on
- Best gaming chair in 2025: I've tested a ton of gaming chairs and these are the seats I'd suggest for any PC gamer
- After nearly 4 years, Windows 11 is finally more popular than Windows 10
- Even the beginner zone in Dune: Awakening isn't safe from sandworm-manipulating griefers anymore
- What happened to the creator of Gunman Chronicles, Valve's forgotten FPS? 'My relationship with Gabe didn't really go that great'
- Runaway city-building success Manor Lords is getting a major overhaul to its systems: 'It's not just a new feature or two. It's a full rework'
- Can you guess gaming's weirdest currencies in our latest quiz?
- Chaotic destruction sim Teardown breaks cover on its multiplayer update, revealing 8 player team deathmatch and support for modded servers
- RoboCop: Rogue City's expansion will let you play as ED-209, but I'm more excited about having some guns I might use instead of the Auto 9
- Here's a mod that puts Halo's multiplayer into Half-Life, which to me feels like putting tea in your coffee
- Today's Wordle answer for Saturday, July 5
- Cyberpunk: Edgerunners, the anime so good it made Cyberpunk 2077 cool again, is getting a sequel
- July 4
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- Deep Rock Galactic board game Kickstarter pulls in nearly $1 million in 1 day for a trio of new expansions
- Ratatan, the new rhythm game from the designer of Patapon, delays early access release in response to negative demo feedback
- In the wake of Perfect Dark's cancellation, Joanna Dark's voice actor urges fans to help save the series: 'Agent Dark doesn’t give up and neither should any of you'
- Hideo Kojima's mysterious OD reportedly escapes the cancellation axe at Microsoft
- CWA union derides Microsoft layoffs when ‘the company is prospering’: 'We are living through a moment of profound corporate consolidation and disruption'
- Perfect Dark dev shoots down claim the ace-looking reveal was fake: 'It's probably more real than you think'
- Fortnite hints at making its hottest new mode permanent by asking fans what they want next
- Out of the blue: How a Quake blog turned PC gaming news site has stayed a haven from 'internet enshittification' for nearly 30 years
- Michael Madsen, the voice of Dishonored's supernatural assassin Daud, has died
- Marvel Rivals players may soon be able to vote on what heroes they want added: 'We will use them as an important factor in our planning'
- Everything you need to know about Fortnite Blitz Royale
- The Silksong subreddit is conducting elaborate ritual ban sacrifices in an attempt to cure 'silksanity' and secure the game's release
- Valve's reported profit-per-head from Steam commissions is out there, and at $3.5 million per employee it makes Apple and Facebook look like a lemonade stand
- A 'little educational game for middle-schoolers' left DayZ's creators obsessed, inspired, and embroiled in a contentious presidential campaign: 'It's 4.5 years later, and I'm still talking about this story'
- Phoenix's terrifying team-up in Marvel Rivals Season 3 has me starting a campaign to get Wolverine banned in all my matches
- Open-source Morrowind project just got an update 3 years in the making that might have me saying bye to the vanilla game for good—oh, and you can load Skyrim in it now
- Tech billionaires including Palmer Luckey set up dumb new bank for those who didn't get burned enough in the 2022 crypto crash
- Rematch plans to add an in-game report system, punish own-goal griefers with 3 days in the slammer, and slap cheaters with indefinite bans
- Peak re-releases its next update aimed at improving stability and reassures players 'we don't have any issue with sharing video content, including modded stuff'
- Xbox exec suffers bout of terminal LinkedIn brain, suggests folks laid off by Microsoft use AI to 'reduce the emotional and cognitive load that comes with job loss'
- Steam's Hardware Survey continues to prove gamers don't have much free storage, and I am unfortunately among them
- Today's Wordle answer for Friday, July 4
- July 3
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- Call of Duty: Black Ops 7 – All the key details on the next Call of Duty
- Surprise! The Anthem servers are still running—but they won't be after January 12
- I played 10 free Steam demos this week: here are the 5 games that made it onto my wishlist
- Stop Killing Games surges past its goals, but a possible signature spoofing campaign could cause trouble: 'This is not a Change.org petition. This is a government process'
- Before cancelling ZeniMax's Destiny-style MMO shooter, Xbox executives reportedly enjoyed early demos so much that the controller had to be pulled from Phil Spencer's hands
- 'There has to be a better way than this': Game developers call Microsoft's latest layoffs 'a colossal waste of talent' from a publisher that seems like it's in 'a death spiral'
- MindsEye boss reportedly blames its failure on 'saboteurs' and says a re-launch is in the works, even as the entire development studio is at risk of layoff
- Brace yourself: Hades 2 just got what 'will likely be our final patch' before full release
- All active Anime Vanguards codes and how to redeem them
- NZXT N7 Z890 review
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- NZXT N9 Z890 review
- 20 foolproof ways to get laid off in the videogame industry
- Founder of world's biggest mod site hits back at fans angry about upcoming age verification for NSFW mods: 'The law is the law and Nexus Mods will, and must, follow the law'
- Rematch's developers expected players to develop new tech fast, but 'not nearly as fast as it is going right now'
- I've just noticed Zalman is spinning up a new line of circular tower coolers that look a lot like itty-bitty jet engines
- Marvel Rivals' updated hero hot list reveals the most-played and highest win-rate characters, and it's good news for Support players
- The European Commission wants Europe to become the world leader in quantum computing within the next five years
- Marvel Rivals Phoenix: All the key details about the new hero
- My editor forced me to use this $19 gaming headset for a whole week and it's goppingly awful in ways I never dreamed of
- Marvel Rivals Season 3 patch notes: All buffs and nerfs
- Romero Games' new shooter loses funding, the studio may be closing, and it looks like Microsoft is to blame
- This whack-a-mole with floppy disks running on an Amiga looks equal parts hilarious and surprisingly difficult
- No PC gamer actually needs this 3000 W power supply unit but like Gollum and the one ring, I wants it
- Neil Druckmann leaves The Last of Us HBO, alongside Part 2's co-writer Halley Gross, despite there still being 2 more seasons to go
- Google Veo 3 users long to immerse themselves in the worlds of their AI-generated videos, seemingly forgetting entire videogame genres already exist
- How to get the Moonlit mutation in Grow a Garden
- Peak devs accidentally released a patch that 'made a number of players totally unable to play' so now there's a new public beta Steam branch for everyone to mess around in safely
- As fans lose it over sanitised nudity and violence, Ready or Not devs promise they haven't changed their 'creative vision': 'We’ve only made changes where absolutely required'
- Not quite girl, not quite horse: The latest gacha craze sweeping Steam is a bizarre idol management game for anime highschool horse girls
- Elden Ring Nightreign's Sentient Pest is the second Everdark boss to fall short of expectations set by Gaping Jaw: 'There's almost no challenge'
- Capcom's financials show that embracing Steam has paid off handsomely: It now accounts for a third of all the publisher's revenue
- Hyte's iconic new Wing Gundam Zero case is going to grab your eyeballs first, but it's these fresh-looking keycaps I really want
- Bankrupt supplier with unsold TTRPG and D&D books files to move its inventory without paying publishers—which is 'a giant pain' if you're anyone but Hasbro
- This B860 motherboard is what I'd pair with a Core Ultra 265K to make a powerful pairing for about $500
- Mecha Break factions explained
- 2023's true GOTY has had its name and assets jacked by 'some kind of crypto scam,' while bootlickers assure the dev it's actually great publicity
- How to play with friends in Mecha Break
- Where to buy pets in Grow a Garden
- This designer has created a Frankenstein's monster by strapping two Nintendo Joy-Cons onto the Framework 12 and they're letting you do the same too
- X's latest terrible idea allows AI chatbots to propose community notes—you'll likely start seeing them in your feed later this month
- Today's Wordle answer for Thursday, July 3
- PC PowerPlay brings the Painkiller
- July 2
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- Diablo 4 has finally given dungeons their teeth back and the loot hunt has never been more satisfying
- Today's Dune: Awakening patch notes are as long as a sandworm, with more than 300 changes, bug fixes, and squashed exploits
- Blizzard ends new content development for Warcraft Rumble and lays off staff: Former employee says 'most' of the team has been let go
- Phil Spencer retirement rumor is made up, says Microsoft
- EA reportedly expects Battlefield 6 to bring in 100 million players, a number that even DICE devs don't think is feasible
- French court finds 3 former Ubisoft executives guilty of workplace harassment
- Quiz time! Can you guess which games these 10 ridiculous patch notes are from?
- The Elder Scrolls Online director Matt Firor, who helped launch ZeniMax Online Studios in 2007, is leaving the company
- High on Life 2: all the key details on the wacky FPS's squanchin' sequel
- Microsoft cancels the Perfect Dark reboot that blew us away last year, closes developer The Initiative
- A new MMO in development at Elder Scrolls Online studio ZeniMax has been cancelled as Microsoft puts thousands more people out of work
- 'Instantly lost all desire to even start': Mecha Break's Steam rating lands at an early 'Mixed' as players realize the beta's customization options have been turned into MTX fodder
- Rare's Everwild has been cancelled amidst Microsoft's enormous cuts to staff and studios
- Amazon will soon deploy more bots than it employs people now that it has a million robots
- AT&T says 'um actually' to President Trump after he blames the internet provider for conference call woes
- Palworld's Terraria update lands it back in Steam's Top 10 with over 120,000 players coming back, but its community manager is just waiting for people to brand it a 'dead game' again
- 'It's not like we applied for the award ourselves': Dave the Diver director reminds people that 'there's nothing indie' about his game and the controversial indie nomination was out of his control
- OpenAI execs whine about the New York Times lawsuit and user privacy during live NYT event, get roasted by NYT journalist: 'It must be really hard when someone does something with your data you don't want them to'
- Deus Ex devs say they weren't trying to make a statement when they made one of the most political games of all time: 'What I think is the right future for humanity is irrelevant. It's all about what each player thinks'
- Videogames on the scale of Vampire: The Masquerade - Bloodlines 2 could be on the way for other World of Darkness TTRPGs, including Mage: The Ascension and Changeling: The Dreaming
- Fresh zero-day vulnerability in Chrome found to be actively exploited by hackers in the wild
- Final Fantasy 14 is fast-tracking one of my most-anticipated fixes, releasing an entire month earlier than expected
- Persona 5: The Phantom X has blessed the community with a new sh**posting mascot so corny it eclipses the nuance around the real-world issues he represents
- I built a brand new gaming PC from the ground up with Corsair's iCUE Link: a simplified, smart and just a little frustrating all-in-one system
- Phil Spencer says Microsoft's gaming business has 'never looked stronger' as the company announces yet another round of mass layoffs
- 'We need to do a better job': FBC Firebreak devs are revamping progression after finding out that just 5% of players own a level 3 perk
- All change at the top: Corsair's founder and long-running CEO steps down after 31 years as former company president Thi La takes over the reins
- Human spirit triumphs as the Croc devs announce they want to remaster Buck Bumble and the greatest main menu theme song of all time
- The game that would become Deus Ex originally starred Jake Shooter, supercop
- Introducing the PC Gaming Show Tokyo Direct—coming from the Tokyo Game Show
- How to get Mission Tokens in Mecha Break
- How to get Matrix Credits in Mecha Break
- Turns out you can transform your very ordinary car into an actual Mario Kart controller (but you probably shouldn't)
- How to get Corite in Mecha Break
- AMD offers an update on Project Amethyst, a Sony collaboration that's already 'delivered smarter, more efficient solutions like Super Resolution in FSR 4'
- Mecha Break ranks explained
- After more than a year of conflict woes between Bigscreen Beyond VR headsets, Nvidia GPUs and Linux, there's good news at long last as a fix is nearly in sight
- How to change character in Mecha Break
- To the surprise of nobody, sales of the 16 GB RTX 5060 Ti at retailer Mindfactory outstrip the 8 GB version by a factor of 16
- Minecraft is bringing back the copper golem from the mob vote graveyard, igniting my hopes for a Moobloom comeback
- Subnautica studio leadership gutted by Krafton, which outright says that Subnautica 2 needs 'renewed energy and momentum'
- How I keep my PC and desktop clean with cuddly cats all around me: a $20 handheld air blower
- Intel's ex-CEO said he bet the company on the 18A node but now a new report claims Intel is pushing customers to next-gen 14A instead
- When Microsoft finally pulls the plug on Windows 10 its successor will be four years old, and for three of those, it was never the OS of choice amongst Steam users
- All Mecha Break Twitch Drops and how to get them
- How to redeem Mecha Break codes
- Mecha Break events schedule and rewards
- Cloudflare will block AI web crawlers by default, and introduces new Pay Per Crawl scheme that means AI companies will have to fork out for the privilege to scrape
- Free-to-play mech brawler Mecha Break has attracted 50,000 players within 10 minutes of launching, proving our appetite for giant robots remains insatiable
- Mecha Break tier list for the best Strikers
- How to unlock Inferno, Serenith, and Stellaris in Mecha Break
- Today's Wordle answer for Wednesday, July 2
- A massive free NBN speed boost is coming this September, but one provider has already rolled out a ginormous increase
- July 1
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- The PC game releases we're most excited about in July
- 'Patient gaming' only gets more attractive when $70 games get heavy Steam sale discounts just months after launch
- Death Stranding 2 is too damn easy
- Destiny 2 just got weird: Launch trailer leans hard into time travel and looks more like a Control crossover
- A new WoW event boosts ultra-rare item drop rates tenfold, which admittedly isn't a huge difference when the starting number is 0.5%
- Hideo Kojima goes in hard on AI and is worried we'll all 'be unknowingly led into a predetermined lifestyle'
- I'm diagnosing survivors of a zombie apocalypse and only occasionally mistaking cold symptoms for the zombie plague in this military base management sim
- 'It makes me cringe every time': 25 years after Diablo 2 reshaped the RPG landscape, Diablo creator David Brevik still thinks its stamina bar sucks
- A 'big beautiful bill' provision to prevent states from regulating AI for 10 years got nixed by the US Senate
- Palworld guide—Exploring the Terraria update, breeding combos, and crafting
- Death Stranding 2's ending explained (to the extent humanly possible)
- 'Give me more of that': Monster Hunter Wilds players have discovered its returning monsters got hands, and they're thrilled to be getting clobbered
- Youtuber PewDiePie is going all in on deGoogling and the Steam Deck is one of the surprising tools that's helping him to 'escape'
- Randy Pitchford asks fans if they'd swallow future Borderlands exclusivity deals, almost 10,000 people say just put your damn games on Steam
- Where to find the Terraria dungeon in Palworld, plus the new Pals and items you'll find inside
- Phoenix and Blade headline the new Marvel Rivals season, and it starts next week
- I played Elden Ring Nightreign for goofy co-op shenanigans, but wound up punched in my feelings by the Revenant's remembrance questline
- 'It took a while to get there, but now we feel we're in a good place': Fatshark's design director talks doing years of repair work on Warhammer 40,000: Darktide
- My best friend is a gaming mouse: An ode to the finest rodent around, the Logitech G Pro X Superlight
- Get an entire tabletop role-playing library for the price of one book, thanks to what might be the most impressive bundle of RPGs I've ever seen in my 22 years in the hobby
- Nexus Mods will soon require age verification for UK and EU users looking for its treasure trove of adult mods
- Deus Ex was a hard sell because, among other things, the Thief devs thought 'if you give players a gun, they won't sneak'
- How to get Dragon Fruit in Grow a Garden
- Fortnite's newest mode is a frantic dopamine machine that lives up to the hype—and I hope it's a new-player gateway to more considered battle royales
- The US claims $81.5 billion bonus revenue from Trump tariffs but that's a drop in the ocean compared to its spending deficit
- 'Xbox hardware is dead' and 'there's literally no reason to buy' the ROG Xbox Ally handheld says founding member of the OG Xbox team
- Commodore's been bought by a YouTuber who's re-assembling key execs and already teasing new hardware
- How to get bees in Grow a Garden and what they do
- Anthropic tasked an AI with running a vending machine in its offices, and it not only sold some products at a big loss but it invented people, meetings, and experienced a bizarre identity crisis
- Obsidian director Josh Sawyer says it's a 'mistake' for RPGs to sacrifice crunchy 'sweaty boy' systems in favour of a 'one size fits all' game, since easier difficulties aren't too hard to make
- Bing Bong is talking to you: Peak players are getting jump-scared by what seems to be the developers possessing a little green plushie
- BG3 might be the last hurrah for the era of the Hexblade, as D&D's 2024 rules revamp tries to dethrone the king of multiclass dips
- Anker recalls a number of power banks amid safety fears, though it says that 'the likelihood of malfunction is considered minimal'
- Good guy GSC wordlessly deletes ads in Stalker remaster menus with itsy-bitsy new patch
- The Blood of Dawnwalker: All the key details about Rebel Wolves' dark fantasy action RPG
- Steam adds an in-game performance monitor so you can brag about hitting 900 FPS in Deus Ex
- The end is probably nigh for full Windows driver support for GTX 10, 9 and 7 Series graphics cards as Nvidia announces that its next major Linux driver fork will be its last for those GPUs
- Right to repair bill in Texas has been signed into law after winning by a landslide victory, with not a single vote against it
- Mecha Break launch times and release date
- Incredible neural implant translates neural activity into speech almost instantly by focussing on sound production instead of word choice
- Massive Ahold Delhaize data breach sees 2.2 million people's data exposed in ransomware attacks against major US food retailer
- Trump claims to have found a buyer for TikTok, but won't say who yet: 'I'll tell you in about two weeks'
- Author's petition requesting publishers swear off AI recieves over 1,000 signatures in first 24 hours
- Today's Wordle answer for Tuesday, July 1
- The first autonomous robot football match happened in China and it's like watching drunk toddlers with fewer ethical setbacks
