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September 27
- Samsung's AI fridges have broken
- The next retro games coming to Steam are a pair of extremely 1990s run-and-gunners where Spanish Goku fights mutants
- Between 70 and 80% of Blood Bowl 3 games were solo
September 26
- Former Elder Scrolls designer Kurt Kuhlmann on Fallout: New Vegas diehards: 'I don't know that Todd wanted to create that situation again for The Elder Scrolls'
- Microsoft CEO says Xbox's 'streamlining' process is 'great to see' following its most recent round of layoffs
- It took CD Projekt two years to design Phantom Liberty's Chimera Tank boss fight: 'We were iterating over and over'
- Former Starfield designer says Bethesda's sci-fi RPG probably won't get a sequel, because the original wasn't 'anywhere near successful enough'
- Drop everything and grab the popcorn: Majuular's 4.5-hour documentary on Ultima Online is here to devour your weekend
September 25
- My favorite $6 RPG on Steam just got a beastmode free 'Enhanced Edition' update
- Guess who patented a new system for in-game ads
- The eyes of Valve's creepy portrait are glowing again
- 'I sit in terror looking at the 750,000 wishlists': A nervous dev brings a classic Flash game to Steam
- This 78-year-old grandmother has an insatiable lust for violence (in Fortnite)
- World of Warcraft: Forever dev has 'no sympathy' for players kicked from the beta for offensive names: 'If you're genuinely confused, remember that it's our database, we can see every character you've created'
- What insiders say Halo Studios was up to before losing Halo: 'The next Halo game was years away'
- I feel like I'm running a corner store in Dredd or Cyberpunk 2077
- 'Everything is hard. But it turns out that’s not society’s problem, that’s my problem,' says Jensen Huang about AI development
- A pro CS2 player told me he ditched his Superstrike gaming mouse for the older Superlight 2 because it was 'inconsistent'
- I've worked at PC Gamer for 18 years. These are the 13 games on my Steam Wishlist
- It's time to decide the worst graphical effect in games: film grain vs bloom
- Speaking to pro Counter-Strike players convinced me to finally increase my mouse's polling rate, but not all the way to 8K
- The PC Gaming Show: Most Wanted returns December 3 with 20 of The Council's most hotly anticipated games
- Arc Raiders is finally giving players the chance to build their home Topside and I'm seriously hyped
- I am now certain The Blood of Dawnwalker's time limit should've just been a setting, after hearing about Rebel Wolves' attempts to thread the needle
- I found a use of AI that doesn't make me cringe and shudder, and it's in the mic everyone's waited over a decade for
- Tim Cain: 'Among other things that Steve Jackson Games didn't like about Fallout was Vault Boy'
- It's tough to stand out in today's games industry, but 'sorta like Helldivers 2 except dog people' worked on me
September 24
- Experimental RPG developer Summer Eternal: 'We're giving away 5% of our studio to you, the Players' in order to 'mend the trust broken in this industry a thousand times over'
- Call of Duty 'cosmetic toggle' will cleanse Warzone of its Party City aesthetic
- Arc Raiders is finally testing a PvE-only mode: 'We can’t ignore what the data is telling us'
- Control Resonant embarrasses me, specifically, with a launch day hotfix negating my main review complaint
- 'We all thought we were bringing extraction to the masses, and we didn't'
- Oh, the places you'll game: Aerospace engineers use Steam Deck to steer Mars rover prototype
- Minecraft beat Minecraft after 2 billion years
- Apple, Nvidia, Google, Microsoft...pretty much all the big US players in the chip business are reportedly evaluating Intel's new 14A node
- It's time to decide the worst graphical effect in games: motion blur vs lens flare
- Discord takes a second swing at age verification, but don't worry, this time it'll guess how old you are with 90% accuracy
- Rogue Trader is coming to an end with miracles, madness and 'tears of blood'
- $14,000 for a PC with titanium-alloy flowers that unfurl as your system temps get toasty? Well, okay then...
- I applied DLSS 5 to my Miku Hatsune game of choice, and I have some regrets
- Bethesda says that Obsidian's 'creative identity' will be preserved, just months after multiple projects were cancelled and it was told to make a Fallout game
- Alienware is working on a fix for the one thing that stops its new 39-inch 5K2K OLED gaming monitor from being perfect
- Meta's new VR headset isn't really a headset and doesn't look like it's meant for gamers
September 23
- Quake Champions takes a shower, shedding all its 2017 live-service grime and becoming a $10 game
- Microsoft's approach to age verification in Australia is further proof that Valve is taking the everloving piss
- World of Warcraft: Forever's first patch will bring back the number one thing seasoned players missed from the MMO's past: storms
- Free puzzle game 20 More Somehow Even Smaller Mazes follows the original 20 Small Mazes with an additional 20 (somehow even smaller) mazes
- Steam game disables mods after facing its second Workshop malware outbreak this year
- World of Warcraft: Forever dev addresses the debate over who it's made for: 'I did not spend the last year of my life relearning and mastering how to do things like we did it 20+ years ago for retail players'
- You can't have everything in Arc Raiders' reworked skill tree: 'We believe that creates more interesting choices and supports more playstyles'
- The Arc Raiders Frozen Trail update is bigger than anyone expected: new ARC, gun upgrades, a map, and personal outposts you can decorate
- The producer behind Cregger's Resident Evil film is working on an unnamed Silent Hill project and players are asking for just one thing
- I thought from Logitech's new Pro products I'd be most excited about the Superstrike, but after using them it's actually the keyboard and mouse pad that have me grinning
- 'We hacked the FBI' says previous Rockstar-breaching hacking group: 'We hold data on all FBI employees and applicants'
- I don't care what you lot say, the side buttons on a mouse are for copy and paste (on desktop)
- A Bretonnia rework is on Creative Assembly's 'to-do list' for Total War: Warhammer: 'It's not quite the finest of wines now'
- Total War: Warhammer's biggest ever campaign is now $9, but what do actually you get for that?
- Lords of the End Times is 'not the end' for Total War: Warhammer: 'You can't get rid of us that easily'
- It's time to decide the worst graphical effect in games: chromatic aberration vs blood/dirt
- I crammed 20 anime figures inside my gaming PC to see how it affects thermal performance. Yes, you can call me a scientist now
- AMD starts the ball rolling for GDDR7 in next-gen GPUs with small code adjustment in its Linux drivers
- Halo Studios cinematic director promoted, then laid off in the same week
- Valve shadow dropped chicken pets into CS2
September 22
- Do you want the good news or the bad news about State of Decay 3?
- Vindicated: after speaking to some pro Counter-Strike players I'm sure I was right when I said 360 Hz is the sweet spot for competitive FPS
- Diablo 5 will 'take a somewhat different approach' to Diablo 4's monster level scaling so your character feels noticeably stronger as you progress
- World of Warcraft: Forever players find rule-breaking new items that defy 22 years of experience with the classic MMO
- The mythology of Gabe Newell now includes Mongolian throat singing
- Before I started making church candles from dead bodies, vs after
- Zeverland merges deep survival systems with cosy game aesthetics to create a refreshingly optimistic take on the zombie apocalypse
- I set out to prove polling rate affects my aim and instead found my favourite DPI setting
- Xbox lays off 268 more employees, merges Obsidian into Bethesda, and puts Activision in charge of Halo
- Tragedy: Crusader Kings 3's pope DLC will not let you use blood boys to prolong your life, and yes I did ask the devs
- Zach Cregger explains which two movies inspired his Resident Evil film: 'Like if those movies loved each other very much'
- AMD's market cap just blasted through the $1 trillion barrier
- If Apple's new M6 SoC is anything to go by, next-gen 2nm PC chips are going to be awesome
- Woah, here's a tech CEO saying the memory crisis won't be as bad as everyone expects
- It's time to decide the worst graphical effect in games: depth of field vs vignette
- I've been doing roleplay for 15+ years, and I don't think WoW: Forever needs a ruleset for it
- Intel reportedly collaborating with AUO on microLED panels, which could help make the ultimate display tech more mainstream
- This guy just sold me on his game with the health bar alone
- Gigabyte admits an oopsie with Gigabyte Control Center software leaving kernel exposed to attackers
- Should action games let us skip the action?
September 21
- Blizzard warns World of Warcraft: Forever players it will 'very aggressively' punish anyone who buys gold with real money
- Rockstar asks modders to please take its games very seriously
- World of Warcraft: Forever players competing over enemies is 'extremely important' to the experience, Blizzard says: 'This is one of those things that we simply must hold the line on'
- Bungie un-cancels Destiny: Vaulted content is coming back as new leadership promises 'Destiny is foundational to our future'
- Oh good, the pervert's back
- Touch grass? Not when AMD has whittled down ray tracing memory usage by 98% for these hardware-sapping bushes and trees
- WoW: Forever has rendered me a min-maxing hypocrite, and here's how you can join me
- I'm taking Insomniac's Wolverine patch as a sign: This is as bad as it's going to get
- Who the hell is buying their server memory from Amazon?! Also, can I interest you in a $101,000 kit?
- Kojima says his Sony split was amicable and they both still love us very much
- Thing, is that you? Watch this disembodied AI robot hand 'walk' like a terrible spider from the depths of my nightmares
- I remember when Jensen Huang used to sell me GPUs, now he's out there having to deny that AI will cause 'the end of the world'
- Steam Frame's odd charging behaviour gets patched: cuts recharge times in half in some instances
- The brave adventurers of WoW: Forever are all called things like Take Meds and Skonch Prime
- I tried to make a jpg bigger than mathematically possible out of an entire year's worth of PC Gamer magazine pages
- WoW devs surprised to find pure liquid nostalgia is popular
September 20
- First 5-day Tokyo Game Show in 30 years cuts back to 4 in face of Typhoon Dujuan
- Elden Ring Nightreign is dead, but modders are dabbing on its corpse, with one porting an entire Dark Souls 2 DLC zone as a playable map
- Everything announced at the PC Gaming Show Tokyo Direct 2026
- Take to the skies and shoot your mates in the face with a shotgun in Fish & Ships
- Feel like a kid again when toy car game Obstacle Overdrive launches October 2
- I lost hours to this roguelike card-based city builder even though I had no idea how all of those words could fit together
- Solarpunk MMO Loftia is launching into early access November 3
- Unlock your inner Superman with a new demo from Undefeated: Genesis
- Marked For Mayhem is a 4-player dungeon crawler that wants you to try to win as a team while also beating all your teammates as a player—good luck
- Robots versus fungi FPS Mycopunk is leaving early access next month
- Virtue and a Sledgehammer announces October 27 release date with another banger of a trailer
- The new game from Lorn's Lure's developer is also set in the creepy world, and this one's a horror flight sim
- Defend your farm from a gaze of raccoons in this charming tower defense roguelite, out tomorrow
- We just saw a big chunk of Thief Remastered gameplay, and I'm more desperate than ever to play
- Core Keeper's Riders of the Underground update drops tomorrow, and you can get a sneak peek of it right here
- Cairn's delayed On the Trail: Deep Water DLC gets a new release date, and you don't have long to wait
- Paper co-op deckbuilder Hellcard 2 has a new demo that you can play right now
- Dust till Dawn is a horror-themed clean-'em-up with music from Silent Hill's composer
- Young Suns is an optimistic life sim for an unoptimistic time coming in November, and I'm already forming intense opinions about its cast of NPCs
- Escape From Playtime is a co-op survival horror where you play itsy-bitsy toy animals, and its playtest is taking signups now
- Beautiful Freaks of the Desert is a speedrunning FPS flipping the middle finger at all things data center
- Memory is the map in Wane, a roguelike where each biome is a corner of an archaeologist's fading mind
- Lemonade Apocalypse has 3 simple tasks for you: Become a lemonade billionaire, 'fuel climate change,' and 'manipulate voters'
- Command a legion of robots in factory builder Brave New Wonders, launching tomorrow
- Hello Sunshine's latest trailer has me even more excited for the giant robot game
- 'AI could never make Tenebris Somnia,' the 2D retro survival horror with live-action cutscenes and practical effects
- Vaewolf's new story trailer takes us down a brutal path of revenge, and shows off the frenetic vampire and werewolf combat
- It's just you and your van in this upcoming open-world scavenging game
- Neon Abyss 2 has a new final boss, a release date, and at least 1 massive fish worth many, many points
- Pirate poker battler Piroker has a playtest you can sign up for now
- Quarantine Zone is getting a free expansion with a whole new location, and it's time to 'Experiment with drugs'
- Ball x Pit just revealed a whole new expansion: Risen Ballbylon
- Yet another Pokémon-inspired game is popping off on Steam, with over 160,000 concurrent players for Aniimo
- Stronghold 4 boasts castles aplenty and a rogue's gallery of weirdos to pit them against
- Co-op puzzle game We Were Here Tomorrow is out next month, so you've got time to practise your communication skills
- Night Plane is a horror game designed to scare me, specifically, because I hate flying—and deer demons
- Videogame development sim Let's Build a Dungeon launches into early access February 11
- Lead your legions to glory in asynchronous autobattler Fool King, launching later this year
- Iconic RPG Lufia is finally coming to PC, with the first two games in the series due next year
- Chaotic multiplayer Really Illegal Golf debuts at the PC Gaming Show Tokyo Direct
- A 27-year-old tech forum with over 100,000 Warcraft 3 modding threads is closing its doors
- Hideo Kojima says he was 'shocked' after Sony cut ties with Physint over a Zoom call: 'Nothing could’ve prepared me for their decision to step away from the project'
- I urge you to check out this hidden object game where you play as the world's most helpful sniper
- Tokyo Walled City looks set to fill the Deus Ex-shaped hole in my life
- Over 10 years later, Gabe Newell's advice to devs still holds up
September 19
- Evidence of canceled Grand Theft Auto 5 Liberty City and 'Agent Trevor' DLC, plus early version of GTA6's map surface online
- An ambitious fanmade expansion for Baldur's Gate 3 is out after almost two years in development
- Japanese devs aren't facing the same layoff crisis because their executives are paid an order of magnitude less, 'they didn’t get swept up in the live-service trend,' and their teams are smaller, says industry expert
- 'The largest theft of labor in human history:' Court docs reveal Microsoft exec predicted AI 'doom loops' could hollow out the internet
- It rules that a 27-year-old RPG, one of the greatest of all time, is still getting patches
- This unofficial engine patch for Thief: The Dark Project adds a huge new feature that won't be in Nightdive's upcoming remaster
- CD Projekt says abandoning its in-house engine for The Witcher 4 had nothing to do with Cyberpunk 2077's technical woes: 'The dream of the company was actually never to make technology'
- Dune Awakening now has a solo mode for players put off by its MMO leanings, while Funcom has adjusted progression so 'you don't have to lose things anymore'
September 18
- Dueling industry surveys show Japanese game devs are embracing AI, while North American ones are still skeptical
- The Last of Us game director apologizes for God of War Laufey criticism, points finger at industry leaders for triple-A stagnation
- Final Fantasy 7 Revelation is apparently a super heavyweight 200GB installation: 'We need to overcome the hardware to a certain extent'
- Industry vets behind Dishonored, Ultima Online, Her Story and more agree the games industry crisis goes beyond games: 'Ultimately, to fix what’s broken in the videogame industry, we might have to fix reality'
- 'Players got better than we expected': Monster Hunter Wilds DLC director says Capcom is retuning its difficulty standards for the expansion's endgame
- Reacher star Alan Ritchson is in talks to replace Jason Momoa on the Helldivers movie
- 'The PC platform is becoming more and more important,' Take-Two chief says, as we continue to wonder when we're going to get GTA 6
- I just learned there's a camera that proves its photos are taken by a human, and Noctua makes the fan inside it
- Unbiased Monster Hunter producer predicts one weapon will climb the popularity rankings in Ascendance, has no agenda: 'Hammer should definitely go up a place or two'
- Gears of War: E-Day system requirements require ray tracing-capable graphics card to play, alongside 115 GB of free space on an SSD
- Over 35,000 people say they signed up for a Steam Frame, and less than half have one reserved
- World of Warcraft: Forever's devs have fixed EU players suffering major lag, though if you're still having trouble, there is a workaround
- Ahead of The Witcher 3 Remastered, it's time to stop putting off reading the books
- Total War: Warhammer 40,000, Alien: Isolation 2, Modern Warfare 4, and more will be playable ahead of release at PAX Australia next month
- GTA 6 has turned October into a new release bloodbath, but AA first-person soulslike Valor Mortis is hellbent on entering the fray
September 17
- Magic: The Gathering's next big crossover is with itself
- If you can't get enough of record-breaking Emmy winner Matthew Rhys, his newest TV series is based on an '80s Sega game, and is out now
- Hideo Kojima announces Bill Skarsgård will star in stealth-action Physint, legendary designer Yoji Shinkawa also confirmed for character design
- The Blood of Dawnwalker sequel may not have the divisive time mechanic that so many players dislike: 'We will not force it,' game director says
- World of Warcraft: Forever players are reliving 2004 with hour-long queue times to get into the highly-anticipated beta
- Denuvo is on the hunt for DRM cracker 'voices38' as the company attempts to take one of its biggest foes to court
- Zero Parades: Director's Cut will challenge you to drive a stolen truck through a busy roundabout while stoned out of your mind
- Diablo 4's anniversary event brings back the game's most iconic location, and boy that music is sending me
- Twitch CEO says GTA 6 multiplayer will launch in 2027
- Valheim devs finally get around to reading 5 years of player feedback, let you remap dodge key
- Epic boss Tim Sweeney says the EU's social media ban for under-13s 'would be terrible for the next generation of humanity'
- Backrooms director and Portal superfan Kane Parsons spotted visiting Valve for the second time this year
- Industry vet who worked on Ultima Online says the next big thing needs to have 'sh*tty graphics' to escape the doom of rising development costs
- The lead developer of the PS5 Linux project has abandoned ship: 'It is just a bunch of noobs using LLMs and writing hacks they don't even understand'
- Dishonored's Harvey Smith named his new studio Black Pony Immersive so people would stop asking him to work on other genres: 'Specialising on what you love is not a bad path'
- FF14's new roguelike mode's leaderboards were accidentally encouraging players to min-max all the fun out of it, so it'll be 'postponing the start of Crucible Rankings'
- AMD presents new method of handing indirect lighting off to an image generation model: 'frame-by-frame' solution could be part of AMD's answer to DLSS 5 someday
- WoW Forever dataminers have dug up set bonuses, which are interesting even on low-level gear
- The leakers disagree, but we might just get one AMD-shaped mid-range GPU through all of 2027
September 16
- Get a good look at Control Resonant's otherworldly bosses in a PC Gaming Show exclusive extended interview
- Hyper Light studio Heart Machine lays off 'nearly everyone' after publishing deal for unannounced game falls through
- Marathon creative director shoots down rumored merge with Destiny 2: 'Please don't believe everything you read online'
- 'The best videogame movie' ever? The first reviews of Zach Cregger's Resident Evil adaptation are absolutely glowing
- MindsEye developer Build a Rocket Boy may finally be closing
- Balatro developer LocalThunk turns up on Discord to talk about the 1.1 update and life after burnout: 'I truly am having the best time making the game now'
- Ex-MS engineer reveals the story behind the infamous 'FCKGW' Windows XP key: 'Pirates started baking the key into images or just writing it on the CD with a Sharpie'
- Microsoft hasn't marched Fable to the guillotine because it's 'vital to the DNA' of Xbox, says the game's director
- How to watch the PC Gaming Show Tokyo Direct 2026
- Bad news for shaman tank hopefuls—World of Warcraft: Forever won't have Season of Discovery's zany class design just yet: 'But never say never, y'know'
- The Witcher 3 producer says it's scary to work with another studio on the game's expansion: 'I also think twice about leaving my baby with someone'
- 'We can't stuff AI back in a box' says former US president Barack Obama, confirming he's 'not a doomer' while still calling for more government AI regulation
- Relic thought Company of Heroes 3's ambitious dynamic campaign would eventually come together, but it didn't: 'We bit off more than we could chew'
- Looks like SK hynix wants to make memory chips on US soil and it could work with Intel to do it
- Full body tracking could come to Steam Frame courtesy of this supercharged Base Station-like device that doesn't require headset support
- Warlock: Dungeons & Dragons won't have waypoints, so that players can figure things out without 'blindly trusting' a UI
- Where have all the RTX 5090s gone? Stock of the high-end GPU is disappearing from US online retailers
- Trails in the Sky 2nd Chapter has one of the creepiest JRPG monsters I've encountered
- Heads up: One of Australia's most respected NBN providers is offering a rare AU$120 introductory discount, but is it worth it?
September 15
- Blizzard is aware Overwatch fans are tired of seeing its fanciest skins go to the same heroes and it's 'the number one' thing it's working to fix next
- As Skyblivion's launch approaches, the team is looking for help to get the word out
- Wardogs CEO says he won't hire devs who aren't down with crunch: 'If you care about what you're making, this is the place to work' (Updated)
- Steam reverses porn game rating it mistakenly gave to an indie vampire RPG, and despite the stress it was a 'net positive' overall as wishlists on Steam 'basically doubled overnight'
- Diablo 4 player discovers secret Diablo 2 easter egg in its new throwback season and now everyone is wondering what else Blizzard hid in there
- The Witcher 3 'is not untouchable,' story director says of the upcoming expansion and remaster: 'I still find some places that I think maybe nowadays, I would do it differently'
- If you need proof The Witcher 3's new expansion is in safe hands, its lead writer literally wrote her thesis on Hearts of Stone: 'To probably prove to some of my professors that games are worthy'
- No, AI, you are not human: Microsoft's code of practice for artificial intelligence actually gives me some hope for the industry
- Sega's ongoing effort to revive Crazy Taxi now appears to be taking the form of… a movie?
- The Witcher 3's story director says an ideal quest is 'constructed in such a way that the player puts the controller away, stands up, and starts walking'
- Serial numbers on RTX Founders Edition graphics cards, including PC Gamer's very own, are fading and apparently it's causing a problem with RMA requests
- The best Total War game is getting a remaster with 50 newly playable factions, modern visuals, and a full Japanese voiceover
- Toss a project at your printer: vibe coded tool allows developer to throw stuff at his 3D printer in VR to begin printing
- CDPR wants to make The Witcher 3 Remastered feel like any other game released today: 'It's so easy to get used to these new improvements that it's hard to go back'
- Blizzard finally told players where the big sword in WoW went after 8 years, and I'm just bummed out a reveal this cool was in an interview somewhere
- Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang tells Trump he agrees the AI doomsayers are perpetrating a hoax: 'you saw through all of that'
- Dishonored director Harvey Smith thinks there's still room for big-budget immersive sims: 'When it really comes together and it has the budget behind it and the team, you end up with Deus Ex or Dishonored'
- Admitting the OGL fiasco was a 'rug pull', D&D head says 'bluntly, we're recovering from a lot of missteps—very loud, very public missteps'
- The Steam Deck 2 has 'not really' been impacted by the memory supply crisis, with Valve still focused on a 'very delineated performance improvement' for its next handheld
- Steam Frame Australian price confirmed, and yes, there's a waitlist
September 14
- Arc Raiders Expeditions may not come back: 'Maybe we'll scrap the whole system'
- After nearly a year of silence following its last-minute delay, Kingmakers resurfaces with an extended gameplay video and new playtest
- Wardogs players are actively avoiding one team in particular: 'They are literally the dumbest people on the planet'
- Bungie delays next Marathon update and ends 'strict seasonal schedule' as it goes all-in on Destiny-like features
- Valve had next-gen VR 'headsets ready three, four years ago and they were big, bulky devices' but went back to the drawing board after actually putting them on
- Lies of P publisher files trademark for likely sequel 'Wonders of O'
- Valve targeted a lower price for the Steam Frame, then the memory crisis happened: 'I wish we could have shipped it at the price that we were at last year'
- Valve working on Steam Frame strap that adds Index-like speakers and hot-swappable batteries, 'coming soon'
- Steam Frame starts at $1,059 and you'll want to enter the stock lottery before September 17 for a higher chance of getting one this year
- Someone made a copper gaming PC Frankensteined out of an old blowtorch and other assorted parts and is 'just going to let it tarnish over time'
- YouTuber gets classic Tomb Raider running on a chip that sips a mere 1 W of power
- Redfall co-director Harvey Smith thinks Arkane 'never should have been working on a games-as-a-service game'
- That Last of Us 2 multiplayer mod everyone was looking forward to has been killed by Sony
- World of Warcraft: Forever will get a hardcore mode by winter, say devs—which'll be interesting, given all the new and undiscovered ways to die
- Talent calculators have already been assembled for World of Warcraft: Forever, and there's some real interesting stuff in here
- We tested the simple Windows 11 account bypass and it works. Just no-one tell Microsoft
- World of Warcraft: Forever devs say a direct sequel like Guild Wars 2 is unlikely: 'Why would you throw that away and start over?'
- Diablo 5 will fully support multiplayer, but Blizzard won't say how similar to Diablo 4 it'll be
- Cyberpunk 2077 is coming to Battle.net for some reason, and Geralt will be in Diablo 4
- 10 big World of Warcraft Forever details from BlizzCon: No separate realms, optional transmog, and massively improved items
September 13
- Warcraft 3: Reforged adds always-online requirement, removes LAN mode
- World of Warcraft Forever hype dampened by $30 elves: New Skyborne race locked behind expansion-tier purchase
- StarCraft is a narrative-driven shooter with 'a definitive ending' and 'not a seasonal game'
- Fallout dev Tim Cain says the games industry's volatility is 'always gonna be around': 'What's happening now isn't novel, it isn't new'
- YouTuber runs onto the stage at Roblox Developers Conference shouting 'We deserve better,' gets tackled and ejected from show
- Inzoi's director says he is 'very much focused on our core goals' as he announces a multiplayer roleplaying mode designed to be like Ready Player One
- Upcoming vampire RPG Nighthawks has been removed from Steam search and delisted in certain countries as Valve classifies it Adults Only: 'It's very bad news for us'
- This remarkable mod transforms the most frightening horror game of the decade into Mirror's Edge
- Why is Blizzard still announcing games years ahead of release? 'We want to convey confidence in some of our biggest bets coming forward'
- Playing RTS with a controller? Total War: Warhammer 40,000 dev says it 'really does work' in their game: 'I think we've landed in a really solid spot'
September 12
- Diablo 5 gameplay details from BlizzCon: More classes than ever before, procedurally-generated dungeons, and Diablo 2-style loot
- No more Diablo 4 expansions are planned, but there's 'a lot of room' for more storytelling in the lead-up to Diablo 5
- The WoW 'Classic+' rumors were true: World of Warcraft: Forever promises to be another timeline's version of the MMO
- Overwatch's newest hero is a robo-vampire, and reworks are on the way for Roadhog and Sombra
- Blizzard just dropped a new Warcraft 3 campaign, the first in 23 years
- Hearthstone just got its first new class in four years: Warcraft's fire-breathing panda Monk
- Diablo 5 is coming in 2029
- Blizzard announces animated Diablo show coming to Netflix
- New StarCraft game is an open world shooter coming in 2030
- Heroes of the Storm gets first new hero after supposed death and 6 year wait
- Square Enix scrambles to fix Final Fantasy 14 bug where new beastmaster could crash entire servers
- BlizzCon 2026 Opening Ceremony recap and live blog—what's next for Warcraft, Diablo, and StarCraft
- CD Projekt wanted to put a chain weapon in The Witcher 3 years ago, but it's taken until Songs of the Past because it was 'impossible to do at the time'
- All Genshin Impact 7.1 livestream codes
- Wardogs sold over 1 million copies in its first 24 hours, making its launch a bright spot in an otherwise tough year for multiplayer shooters
- Polyarc, developer of the excellent VR platforming series Moss, is shutting down after 12 years: 'We are saying our farewells to each other'
September 11
- While still headquartered in the US, Saber exec Tim Willits says it has 'no real development in North America anymore'
- Modder adds 235 destructible Flock cameras to GTA 5 so you can 'do whatever the flock you want' to them
- Wolverine review roundup: Frankly, we're starting to feel a little better about the whole 'PlayStation 5 exclusive' thing
- OpenAI employee takes down ChatGPT-coded RuneScape clone following Jagex cease-and-desist
- Nightdive officially confirms Thief Remastered is coming with a new campaign, The Tarnished Mirror
- Roblox games are escaping Roblox: Creators will soon be able to export standalone apps for PC, console, and mobile
- 'We're not giving away pistols and cocaine to people': Miami Beach votes in favor of Grand Theft Auto 6 collab despite concerns
- If you use devcommands to cheat in Valheim but want your achievements anyway, you can get them by using the new devcommand 'yesiuseddevcommandsbutiwantmyachievementsanyway'
- Framework cancels custom low profile keyboard module for its laptops: 'We weren’t able to bring costs to a place where the product economics worked'
- Sony reportedly dropped Hideo Kojima's next game because it kept missing deadlines, was over budget, and would eventually come to other platforms
- 'No fuss, no greater meaning, only fans': Corsair shares 3D print files for its April Fools mini fan cube
- 'Defying common wisdom', people have been buying more high-end graphics cards despite rising prices, with 12.5 million shipped last quarter alone
- Zach Cregger had to dial down the jokes in his upcoming Resident Evil film because test screeners 'thought it was too funny'
- Final Fantasy 7 Revelation director defends its physical disk still needing a download: 'We didn't want to make any compromises for the game'
- PSA: Keep social media trends away from your laptops, unless you want broken hinges
September 10
- Star Wars Zero Company gets much-needed first patch so you won't miss shots with a 100% chance to hit any more
- Ubisoft is 'testing' making its games far less annoying to launch on Steam
- Dave the Diver has now sold more than 10 million copies, Mintrocket 'can't wait to share our future plans'
- Steam's latest beta brings 'Big Art' to Big Picture Mode and Steam Deck, and customizable screensavers too
- Electronic Arts admits to using AI voices in NHL 27: 'This process allows us to bring more variety to the game'
- Wardogs servers go down as over 300,000 people rush to play on launch day [Update: I think we're back]
- Saudi Arabia reportedly looking at merging Electronic Arts with Savvy Games Group
- Palworld publishing chief worries early access has 'lost its meaning' as the rise of 'hyper-casual' gaming culture means people often don't understand what they're getting into
- Thief designer thinks the graphics arms race should have ended with 2010's Alan Wake: 'The fidelity curve has become outrageous'
- 'The modern workplace runs on fear ... today we are fighting fear': Fired Grand Theft Auto 6 dev calls out Rockstar in impassioned pre-trial speech
- TSMC continues to rake it in from the 'multi-year AI megatrend,' making a record-breaking $16.35 billion in August alone
- Finalmouse claims its mouse has the absolute fastest click, quicker than the Logitech Superstrike and Razer Viper V4 Pro
- You can now apply DLSS 5 to your entire desktop with a free app and it even works with RTX 30-series cards
- Onimusha: Way of the Sword is getting a free prequel webcomic which dives into the past of my two favourite characters
- Blizzard must now 'discuss, evaluate, and bargain' its AI usage with its developers
- Nvidia is reportedly being investigated by the DOJ over its biggest ever deal, a $20 billion non-exclusive agreement with Groq
- VR headset shipments are down 18% compared to this time last year, and that may not be great news for Valve
- After Google mapped an adult male fruit fly's brain, software engineers made it play Doom, Mario64, and Beat Saber
- Corsair's new de-gamefied gaming chair is actually much more affordable than I thought
- PlayStation tried to cancel Hideo Kojima's Physint, now Xbox is publishing it
- The next game by the creators of Steins;Gate is an entirely vibe-coded FPS slopfest
- Attendees will be able to check out a demo of The Witcher 3 DLC Songs of the Past behind closed doors at PAX Australia
September 9
- Steam now requires Australian users to have a credit card to purchase R18+ games, and no, a simple bank debit card won't work
- Ikea made a Skyrim mod starring Matt Berry as a sentient shelf named Kallax Storageborn
- 'We are no longer using that one red pipe asset we weren't supposed to use': The Blood of Dawnwalker hotfix clears up one of the game's more charming mistakes
- Call of Duty introduces a gun skin that you can only see on an Xbox console
- 'What if you could own a space station?' asks No Man's Sky's Sean Murray, as he lets you own a space station
- Microsoft's AI vulnerability detection results in record-breaking Patch Tuesday, addressing 974 security flaws
- Ex-Anthropic researcher argues AI progress 'could kill us all by the end of the decade' and 'progress is not slowing'
- Control Resonant should run well on mid-tier PCs, but you're going to have to clear out some serious SSD space
- Zach Cregger admits 'I was naive' and pre-apologises for his upcoming Resident Evil film, but I don't think he owes us anything
- 20 years later, veteran WoW director says players outsmarted him completely in Ahn'Qiraj: 'All that work, and there was still an instant tell'
- 'Where is Nvidia? Call Nvidia, guys': Meltgate be damned, modders discover RTX 5090 can use 8-pin connectors after all
- Turns out, a lot of Sega's biggest fans don't play its videogames: 'In some cases, their engagement is even higher than that of fans who actually play'
- That's just great: Graphics card prices in China are set to increase again as Nvidia shifts even more of production towards AI GPUs
- Marvel Rivals breaks its 17 month streak of adding 2 heroes per season, but its creative director reassures fans it's not 'the new normal'
- No more USB installation: Windows 11 Insiders now able to fully reset their system via cloud download even when the OS won't boot
- Good news for some: Framework swims against the tide of the RAMpocalypse by 'retroactively reducing' its LPCAMM2 prices
- 'No-one puts Double Fine out of business except me', says Tim Schafer on taking Double Fine independent: 'Asha's not going to shoot my dog'
- Switzerland trials ditching Microsoft and using free and open-source software, available for 'around 3,000 employees' from the end of 2027
- Steam may have leaked achievements for countless forthcoming PC games via a third party site, including Persona 6, Ace Combat 8, and even some unannounced games
- Wi-Fi 8 is upon us, so here are two routers we saw at Computex that should be hitting the shops soon
September 8
- Corporations want to kill physical media because it suits them, but Big Box PC game packaging just got a second chance
- Less than a week after launch, The Blood of Dawnwalker developer is already getting to work on the sequel
- Inspired by the success of games like Clair Obscur: Expedition 33, French president Emmanuel Macron declares 'videogames are part of our culture' and announces a new international gaming festival
- Breaking Benjamin frontman pauses concert to rant about Fallout 4 modding beef: 'There was a modder in the community that was really mean to me'
- Just days after The Tetris Company warned that 'we take copyright infringement very seriously,' the Tetris clone in the White House Arcade suddenly disappears
- Over 1,000 cut voice lines from Resident Evil 4 and Requiem reveal more about Leon Kennedy, the zombies he fights, and a lowkey bromance
- Our absolute favourite gaming keyboard, the Wooting 80HE, is getting a BIG KNOB, improved switches, and more
- I got my hands on Razer's new $50 mechanical mini keeb and it makes a damn good first impression
- Why does this sort of thing never happen to me? Redditor says they found $10,000 worth of RAM just sitting in their garage
- New RTX 5070 variant could help bolster GPU supply but it surely won't help prices
- Skyrim co-lead says Bethesda making Starfield instead of TES6 came out of nowhere: 'It was very much: Guess what, team? We're making this space game'
- Chinese memory makers have reportedly stocked up on enough western DUV machines for the next three years of expansion
- SteelSeries throws everything but the kitchen sink in the feature list of its Aeon Pro controller
- Sources say another 10% price increase for Intel CPUs is on the way, and it could be here as soon as October
- Don't Nod might not have enough cash to make it through January 2027, and even if it does, pulling up could 'involve the reduction of up to 90 positions'
- Arc Raiders' last live update until Frozen Trails releases today bringing players new rubber ducks and a reminder that you've one month to spend your expiring currency
- Big chipmakers are already committed to using ASML's next-generation production technology by as soon as 2028
- Valve appears to implementing a reservation system for the Steam Frame, suggesting it expects demand will outstrip supply at launch
- Persona 1 and 2 remakes are something Atlus will 'probably eventually do', which is great, but the PS2-era Shin Megami Tensei games are sitting right there
September 7
- GTA 6's Criminal Profile system sounds pretty interesting, includes a 'shattered' state for players who DGAF
- Capcom expresses continued interest in 're-activating IPs' as the first new Onimusha game in 20 years surpasses 1 million sales on launch day
- OpenAI publicly acknowledges the German 'wiki incident' weeks after first finding out about it
- Riot MMO's future is 'incredibly bright' despite co-founder likening its development to the grail: 'Many a brave knight are going to die'
- Jensen Huang says 100,000 Nvidia GPUs were used to train OpenAI's latest model, GPT-6 Astra, and there's already plans to bring quadruple that amount of hardware online
- Riot co-founder doesn't think 2XKO was 'a mistake' but perhaps a tough sell: 'You're not just competing against games, you're competing against everything'
- Square Enix wants Final Fantasy 7 to be an 'IP with an ever-evolving future', which is strange to say about a franchise that's already ever-evolving
- New DLSS 5 mod offloads Neural Rendering to a second card massively cutting the AI filter's performance hit
- Once again, it is genuinely cheaper for me to fly to PAX West and track down Nvidia's 'GeForce Evangelist' rather than buy the RTX 5090 anywhere else
September 6
- The Tetris Company confirms it had nothing to do with the White House's racist rip-off: 'we believe in the power of connection and bringing people together, not dividing them'
- A hobby dev built a free, 3D galaxy map for Warhammer 40K that loads like lightning in your browser
- 18 years after Metal Gear Solid 4 first launched, a modder has shown off its first custom map, MGS3's Groznyj Grad
- The Blood of Dawnwalker sold 1 million copies in just 3 days
- 'There is absolutely no generative AI in Space Marine 3' promises Saber Interactive executive
- Saber CCO Tim Willits is still bullish on AI, but concerned about its environmental impact: 'Elon wants to put servers in space. That could be the answer, right?'
- Do you ever listen to videogame music in your day-to-day life?
- GSC Game World says there's a reason it didn't give Stalker 2 more time in the oven: 'To make something better, you need to receive feedback, and this feedback should be fresh'
- The Halloween game has a sex minigame in it, except no it doesn't, because it was apparently removed
- Blending Deus Ex with Escape from Butcher Bay, Deficit is one of the best-feeling indie immersive sims I've played—even if the stealth system needs serious work
- Here's 10 more minutes of the most interesting game shown at this year's Opening Night Live
- Civilization 7 will finally enter the atomic age in 2027, via a free update Firaxis says will be 'even bigger in scope' than last year's Test of Time
- Ex-BioWare designer says doom and gloom about the next Mass Effect is overstated: 'I think that they can do it'
September 5
- Peak studio Aggro Crab is publishing a sick-looking platformer about a blue collar guy doing dirty work on an alien world
- Saber CCO says the studio isn't changing up its comms strategy after recent controversies: 'There's always some dust up'
- Dwarf Fortress co-creator Tarn Adams was amazed other devs had heard of his game the first time he went to a convention: 'I didn't know that anyone knew what we were doing'
- Go grandmaster becomes first human to win series against advanced AI engine in 3-hour match
- 8-year Old School RuneScape saga comes to a close with former dev sentenced for stealing $400K in gold and items from players
- Saber CCO Tim Willits blames layoffs on games industry overspecialization: 'Studios that have a couple hundred employees that work on one game are going to struggle'
- Kingdom Come: Deliverance director says DLSS 5 does right by KCD 2, 'people are crazy' for thinking it's AI slop
- This free lockpicking puzzler you can play in your browser is unexpectedly one of the most thrilling games I've encountered this year
- Grand Theft Auto 6's controversial refuelling action reportedly takes about 10 seconds to perform, which Rockstar's co-studio head says is 'pretty fast for a fill-up'
- Left 4 Dead 2 writer says Valve intentionally 'leaked' its cinematic trailer to get around ESRB rules: 'I think we can't get trouble for that now'
September 4
- As Wardogs blows past 200k Steam concurrents, its developers are prepared for the day 'hype dies down'
- Celebrate Labor Day by playing Civilization 7 for free
- 'Grand Theft Auto is a videogame franchise built around criminal activity': Miami-Dade County Sheriff comes out hard against a proposed GTA 6 collab with Rockstar
- After a massive 2021 office expansion, Bungie is now trying to sublease its 211,000 square foot headquarters
- The White House launches online 'arcade' with its own takes on Tetris and other popular games, and it's as rotten as you'd expect
- Me: You can now run DLSS 5 on AMD GPUs. My RX 9070 XT: Please stop, it hurts us
- A popular streamer turned down a 6-figure deal to play Arc Raiders because 'the game frustrated me so much'
- D&D is getting a Netflix series about Strahd, involving the director of The Prisoner of Azkaban, and I honestly think this could work great
- Great, now motherboard prices might be next to spike thanks to component costs increasing by up to 50%
- 'That criticism is justified': Gamescom apologizes for its callous response to developer hardware thefts
- Arc Raiders' executive producer admits its developers 'couldn't keep pace with the players' and their need for content, but promises Frozen Trail as the answer
- The Blood of Dawnwalker's mods immediately scrap the time pressure mechanic, which is apparently a dealbreaker for some people
- Nvidia puts its money where its mouth is on open weight AI, moving to buy Hugging Face for $13 billion
September 3
- It's really starting to look like a new StarCraft game will be revealed at BlizzCon
- Microsoft announces cap on Xbox Cloud Gaming hours for Game Pass subscribers, admits most aren't using it much anyway
- Owner of nearly decade-old Dell laptop reportedly wore through the wrist rest and is 'being stabbed by carbon fibers'
- A multi-month delay for Deus Ex turned into a huge payoff for one of its best characters, says designer Harvey Smith
- Guild Wars 3 is a lot smaller scale than Guild Wars 2 because of the new approach to combat and movement: 'You would probably see about 20 players in a large combat scenario'
- Zach Cregger doesn't want to get bogged down in 'the wild aspects' of Resident Evil's lore: 'I'm not going to have a gigantic jacked dude in a trench coat'
- Stalker 2 studio is raffling keychains made from a shot-down Russian helicopter to raise funds for mine removal in the real-world Chornobyl Exclusion Zone
- Both Microsoft and Sony say they're under no obligation to pass tariff refunds on to customers
- Crimson Desert's upcoming DLC decides it's The Sims now, I guess
- Final Fantasy 7 Revelation gets a release date and a proper look at its airship overworld, which is cool, if in danger of inducing open world fatigue
- Onimusha: Way of the Sword has a hard mode, but it isn't unlocked from the start
- Acer's bizarre hybrid handheld/laptop concept is way more interesting than what is actually getting released this year
- New Final Fantasy 14 site update stabs the final pin into my conspiracy board, leaving me 99.9% sure I know what the new physical ranged job is
- Dave Bautista is reaching unprecedented levels of buff for his role as Kratos: '2 more months to get to where I need to be'
- CD Projekt Red isn't 'planning to rely on AI making complete games', and will still be 'predominantly using people' for The Witcher 4 and beyond
September 2
- CD Projekt mystery games update: Yes, they're still happening, and no, not any time soon
- CD Projekt says it never considered charging Witcher 3 owners for the remastered edition: 'It was never a question we asked ourselves'
- 'Can I cry?': Stalker 2 devs say its 2.0 update's engine overhaul was a nightmare—but worth the effort
- 30,000 people line up 24 hours early to play the final Wardogs closed beta, developer responds: 'YOU PEOPLE ARE CRAZY'
- Double Fine's famous game jam returns with 26 new ideas and a promise to make Brutal Legend 2, if its Kickstarter stretch goal is met
- Dwarf Fortress co-creator says his life as a millionaire is 'basically like reattaining what my parents could do with regular jobs'
- Monster Hunter Wilds: Ascendance's new combat gimmick is putting some Devil May Cry stink on hitting dinosaurs with hammers
- Doug Cockle believes Dandelion is Geralt's real soulmate in The Witcher 3, but 'in a very platonic way'
- OpenAI head Sam Altman says 'people hate data centers,' but the company still plans to invest $50 billion more in AI infrastructure this year alone
- Total War: Warhammer 40,000's Space Marines will have to keep the Imperium happy and avoid looking too heretical
- SteamDB changes hands to Nexus Mods, which means it 'needs to make money' now—but there won't be ads or paywalls
- Award-winning presenter Frankie Ward is hosting the PC Gaming Show Tokyo Direct, showing off over 35 games and a bunch of world premieres
- Zach Cregger is going to bring the 'resource management aspect of the games' to his Resident Evil movie
- Was Geralt's voice actor inspired by Henry Cavill's take on him in The Witcher series? 'No, because we were first'
- Resident Evil 2's director believes Capcom has become 'completely numb to how scary' recent games have been and wants a 'non-horror mode'
- 30,000 games are either Steam Deck verified or at least 'playable' on Valve's handheld
- Alienware aims at 'more price points people can actually reach,' announces a tandem OLED gaming monitor at a much lower price than our current top pick
- Former id Software producer says the team faced the 'worst crunch' in the series' history on Doom: The Dark Ages – Revelations: 'There were days where I didn't see my son'
September 1
- Good reviews are a 'great relief,' says Blood of Dawnwalker director, as former CD Projekt coworkers line up to offer congratulations
- That Grand Theft Auto 6 exclusive reveal worked out pretty well for Netflix: It was the platform's biggest show last week
- The future of GTA roleplaying remains in GTA 5 for now, as Rockstar touts new invite-only Nopixel V RP server
- Sick: Ace Combat 8 has online airbase lobbies where you can bum around as your own bespoke pilotsona
- Ken and Ryu work things out in a new trailer for Street Fighter
- GTA 6's story is too important for Rockstar to let you swap between Lucia and Jason whenever you want
- No Rest for the Wicked, which was slated to hit 1.0 a month before Grand Theft Auto 6, is delayed into 2027
- Dwarf Fortress creator says we can learn something from simply walling up dwarf nobles to maintain an equal society—but notes you have to abolish the dwarf cops, too: 'Another lesson to be had there'
- Despite horrendous layoffs, obscene hardware prices, and everything else, Saber Interactive exec says 'this is a great time to be in the industry'
- Windows keeps telling people it has turned off anti-virus even though it hasn't
- Total War: Warhammer 40,000 is a sandbox that Creative Assembly will keep adding to rather than making sequels: 'The true experience is the sandbox'
- This video of a power supply blowing up shows why you should never cheap out on your PSU
- Oops, looks like the Logitech X3 Superstrike has leaked on Amazon and the rapid trigger gaming mouse will have +50% battery life
- Dwarf Fortress creator says we have a natural lean towards human-made stories, 'but we're all going to be very sorely tested in the coming years' by AI
- No Half-Life 3 for the Steam Frame, so it looks like this six-year-old game might be the key launch offering instead
- The Witcher 3 Remastered should run just fine on the Steam Deck, say devs
- DLSS 5 comes with a massive 50-60% performance hit, so I hope you like lower frame rates with your dose of AI image enhancement
- Linux manages to avoid the age verification apocalypse, but SteamOS isn't in the clear yet
- Persona 4 Revival won't finally realize Yosuke's gay romance because Atlus thinks it'd have to let you kiss every other guy, too
- Dwarf Fortress creator says the industry's in shambles over AI and layoff-happy CEOs: 'Everyone I know, their bosses are slowly getting psychosis'
- Fable system requirements seem reasonable but with a 30 fps target, it's hard to say for sure just yet
- The studio behind Star Wars Zero Company, which is currently a Steam bestseller, has reportedly furloughed the majority of its staff