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- August 2
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- New report alleges Microsoft Recall is still screenshotting credit card numbers and passwords
- 'Chat do I go to the office on Saturday to fix this:' The clock is ticking on Peak accidentally hitting players with a map that's impossible to beat
- It sounds like all the pieces are in place for one of the most underrated RPG greats—from the creators of Fallout, no less—to get the remaster it deserves, but good luck getting someone to make it happen
- I embarked on a mission to answer the most important question in PC gaming: How tall is Garrett from Thief?
- I fought a bear with an umbrella in this new soulslike MMO that plays like Genshin Impact with way better combat
- Test your tabletop gaming knowledge with our diabolical Dungeons & Dragons quiz
- Today's Wordle clues, hints and answer for August 2 (#1505)
- The PC game releases we're most excited about in August
- August 1
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- Death Stranding 2's vtuber cameo is only the beginning of more anime girls appearing in your favorite games, Hololive CEO says
- Setting up trade routes is gaming catnip to me, so I'm pouncing on this beautiful city builder on Steam that has some strong Catan vibes
- It's a bad day for BioShock fans: BioShock 4 studio heads have been removed as development struggles, while a BioShock remake in development has been cancelled
- The Elder Scrolls Online 'isn't going anywhere,' new ZeniMax boss says: 'The studio is continuing to work hard on new features, adventures, and improvements'
- Reddit's pausing its paid subreddit plans and focusing on 'making Reddit the go-to place for search,' presumably because we're all adding 'reddit' to everything we Google anyway
- Pathfinder's space opera spin-off is getting its own videogame, an RPG called Starfinder: Afterlight
- OpenAI just raised another $8.3 billon in a funding round that values it at an unbelievable $300B, surpassing AMD, Coca-Cola, and General Electric
- Mastercard deflects blame for NSFW games being taken down, but Valve says payment processors 'specifically cited' a Mastercard rule about damaging the brand
- Titan Quest 2 is a chill Greek holiday compared to the live service complexity of ARPGs like Diablo 4 and Path of Exile 2
- The Battlefield 6 multiplayer reveal exploded roughly 1.476 helicopters per minute
- 'It has to be grounded': Battlefield 6 devs say cosmetics won't be as goofy as Call of Duty, but that sounds almost too good to be true
- One of Elden Ring Nightreign's returning Dark Souls bosses launches into the stratosphere halfway through the fight to hide that he gets replaced by a second, smaller guy
- Epic's win against Google is upheld, and the Sweenster is loving it: 'Total victory'
- We just got our first proper look at GPD's battery-optional Strix Halo handheld gaming PC and I'm still unconvinced
- How to get and use the Sizzling Key in Grounded 2
- Razer BlackShark V3 review
- Microsoft made $27.2 billion in 3 months and still chose to lay 9,000 people off, in case you thought there was simply no other way
- Nearly two-thirds of Brits surveyed about the UK's new age verification laws think the changes aren't effective, but even more support them being made in the first place
- 'It's not player friendly': EA boss says making The Sims 5 is 'not a good idea for our community' because players have over 10 years of spiritual, mental, and financial investment
- Tank mains are eating well in the Marvel Rivals 3.5 patch notes, except for Thor, God of Short Circuits
- Microsoft has fixed the only Windows bug I've ever liked: the Vista startup sound 'unexpectedly' playing on Win 11 machines
- The first gaming benchmarks for AMD's Ryzen Z2 Extreme show memory bandwidth is hobbling the full potential the new handheld chip
- Battlefield 6: All the key details on EA's 'most ambitious' Battlefield yet
- Gabe Newell acquires yacht company building the $400 million ocean-fortress he'll pick up later this year, because he 'respects the sea'
- New Steam update adds new 'customise' tab your games—letting you finally organise things by release date, or just look at Big Naturals Withers every time you open Baldur's Gate 3
- Semiconductors left in Trump's trade purgatory as new US tariffs on Taiwan set at 20%
- The latest version of Intel's XeSS 2 now lets other GPUs run its AI-based frame generation system, throwing RTX 30-series owners a Team Blue-shaped bone
- How to kill snails in Grounded 2
- All Grounded 2 Omni-Tool upgrades and when you can expect Tier 3 tools
- D&D is 'here to earn your trust, not ask for it', starting with making Beyond's maps software free, brushing up the SRD, and sharing 'third-party creations across our official channels'
- Assassin's Creed 4: Black Flag actor says Ubisoft threatened to sue him for blabbing about the remake that everyone and their grandma knows is coming
- The best superhero TTRPG to ever do it is getting a second edition, with a quickstart launching in 2026
- A trio of Alienware gaming monitors are going for all-time low Aussie prices right now, including a new QD-OLED model for under AU$900
- Today's Wordle clues, hints and answer for August 1 (#1504)
- Free adult NSFW content returns to itch.io, as one of the platform's major payment processors expresses hope to 'support adult content in the future'
