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- October 31
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- The Python Software Foundation has turned down a $1.5 million US government grant amid ethical concerns
- The US government announces strategic 'prosperity deals' with Japan and South Korea to 'drive breakthroughs' in AI, quantum computing, and more
- Today's Wordle clues, hints and answer for October 31 (#1595)
- Arc Raiders' use of AI highlights the tension and confusion over where machine learning ends and generative AI begins
- Bloodlines 2 update adds more customization options, and the developer is considering 'the ability to play only Phyre's side of the story on your second playthrough' for a future patch
- October 30
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- If you're a fan of Blue Prince and the Golden Idol games, this spooky detective mystery has arrived just in time for Halloween
- Patrick Soderlund, who was vice president at EA when Titanfall 2 got crushed between Battlefield and Call of Duty, talks about doing it again with Arc Raiders: 'People may look at that and say, what the hell are they doing?'
- If you want to change the appearance of Fortnite's new Sidekick pets you have to buy them again each time
- Roblox, which is being sued by 2 US states for endangering children, earns praise from the US Attorney General Alliance for 'promoting safe, more positive digital experiences'
- There's a sneaky way to cheat Arc Raiders' tutorial to keep your starting pistol and all the loot you find
- Dev who accidentally listed his game on Japanese Steam as 'Sh***y Dungeon' sees skyrocketing wishlists and sales: 'Everyone was laughing and, honestly, I was laughing like crazy too!'
- While players are still adjusting to its most controversial changes, World of Warcraft: Midnight is already jumping straight to beta after only a month of alpha testing
- The creator of your dad's favorite TV show is writing the Call of Duty movie
- You can now twerk enemies to death in Repo thanks to the big new Monster Update—and it's free to play this weekend to celebrate
- Less than 2 weeks before the launch of its next game, Hyper Light studio Heart Machine reportedly lays off even more employees
- Arc Raiders wants to tell a story you'll actually care about in 10 years: 'We will introduce new locations and start new story arcs'
- Instead of selling its new Halloween skins, Fellowship's devs are giving them away for free after its 'rocky' launch
- Meta claims that thousands of pirated adult videos it was accused of using for AI training may have been downloaded by 'disparate individuals' for 'personal use'
- Epic is trying to entice Resident Evil Requiem fans to pre-order from the EGS over Steam by offering an exclusive Grace Ashcroft skin in Fortnite
- Arc Raiders technically doesn't have item trading, but there's a way to cheat the system and get missions done with the power of friendship
- Mount & Blade 2: Bannerlord's nautical-themed War Sails expansion gets a gameplay showcase and spills the release date, and folks, I think we're onto a winner here
- A bizarre bug in the latest Windows 11 update allows endless copies of Task Manager to run in the background and can even impact system performance
- Monster Hunter Wilds is barely clinging onto Capcom's top-sellers this year, getting beat out by the likes of Monster Hunter Rise and… Devil May Cry 5, for some reason
- Grokipedia claims to be 'a massive improvement over Wikipedia' but sure loves to copy its homework
- Don't sleep on Assorted Seeds in Arc Raiders—they're one of the most valuable items you can grab
- Promising new nanoscale OLED tech makes 1 mm 1080p panels possible, which could usher in an era of ultra-realistic VR, dual-4K AR glasses, tiny projectors and much more
- FF7 Rebirth director knows a whole heap of people hate yellow paint on ledges, but reckons 'there is definitely a need for that kind of thing'
- A YouTuber claims they've had two Windows 11 local account and hardware bypass videos taken down because of supposedly 'harmful or dangerous content'
- Only 3% of Stop Killing Games' EU initiative signees have failed verification so far—which is a great sign it'll progress to the European Commission
- Arc Raiders has outperformed its beta high as it crosses 200,000 concurrent Steam players, after breaking 100,000 in just 30 minutes
- Legion Remix characters from 'Quality Assurance' guild breach containment, enter WoW proper with their godlike power intact—forcing Blizzard to quarantine Remix for the time being
- NZXT's controversial PC rental scheme hit by class action lawsuit claiming the company 'defrauded consumers through gross misrepresentations and illegal business practices'
- The latest Steam beta adds 'a suspicious chat warning' when you receive a potentially malicious message, something it probably should have done years ago
- 'I have no mouth, and I must clean': Just in time for Halloween, this $20,000 robot allows a human operator to look through its eyes for training purposes
- Please upgrade your weapons in Arc Raiders, or it'll forever feel like you're shooting blanks
- Battlefield 6 locks the best radio station behind a $25 Pro battle pass paywall
- 'We did it all for you': New World's final expansion contains a hidden goodbye from the developers
- Today's Wordle clues, hints and answer for October 30 (#1594)
- RuneScape players are being asked to vote on whether the game's microtransaction layer should be removed, and you can probably guess what the response is
- October 29
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- YouTube updates its policy on violent videogame clips with rules that seem aimed at the incoming flood of GTA 6 videos
- A former Intel CEO is all-in on faith-based AI that will 'hasten the coming of Christ's return' and knows his #1 target: 'I want Zuck to care'
- US Department of Homeland Security says it won't stop using videogame memes to stoke anti-immigrant sentiment: 'We aren't slowing down'
- Battlefield 6 reviews drop to 'Mixed' on Steam as players rail against pop-up ads, small maps, and feeling left behind by battle royale
- As Amazon's game business crumbles, the public is surprised to discover that it was trying to compete with Steam all this time
- Microsoft's Azure gets knocked out a week after the big AWS outage, and once again it looks like a bug is to blame
- Hideo Kojima just found out that Konami turned down the chance to make a Matrix game 26 years ago: 'If someone had told me, maybe there could’ve been a way to make it work'
- When Irrational picked a new writer for BioShock Infinite, it didn't realise he was in the next room, already working at the studio
- Senator Bernie Sanders thinks OpenAI should be broken up, and worries about the onslaught of AI: 'It's like a meteor coming to this planet. We gotta be prepared to deal with it in all of its complexity'
- Nvidia is the world's first $5 trillion company, but CEO Jensen Huang's nifty narrative about accelerated computing and the remarkable foresight that led to today's AI revolution doesn't quite add up
- The OneXFly Apex has an optional external liquid cooling tower to help keep things chill, which kinda defeats the point of a handheld gaming PC if you ask me
- Arc Raiders' preload isn't working on the Epic Games store due to 'an unforeseen issue'
- A UK retailer has honoured a redditor's £20 Fractal Design PC case purchase: 'You made it go viral. So we did what we believe is right—we owned it.'
- Nvidia's new six-trillion transistor Vera Rubin 'superchip' for AI makes the 92-billion transistor RTX 5090 gaming GPU look positively puny
- New World's purchase option on Steam was removed 'unintentionally,' Amazon says, and now it's back
- A fake livestream featuring an AI-generated, crypto-promoting Jensen Huang was broadcast at the same time as the Nvidia GTC keynote, gaining 5x more live views than the real thing
- Not content with dominating the market for AI GPUs, Nvidia is turning its attention to QPUs for quantum computing
- Don't just shoot downed enemies in Battlefield Redsec, make them work for you by interrogating them and revealing their allies instead
- One of the most shocking moments in Critical Role's 4th D&D campaign was planned from the jump—yet with enough left to chance that Alexander Ward 'did leave the table thinking I'd really f*cked up'
- Magical Randy Pitchford summons the ghost of games discourse past, says games 'Haven't even had our Citizen Kane yet'
- Microsoft might be silent, but Halo's co-creator and Halo 2's design lead have called the US government's 'Destroy the Flood' analogy comparing immigrants to parasites 'absolutely abhorrent'
- Minecraft has announced a handful of new mobs coming in the Mounts of Mayhem drop, and horses will finally be able to swim (which is huge)
- Today's Wordle clues, hints and answer for October 29 (#1593)
- Twitch heard you wanted more vtubers so it signed a deal with the most popular vtuber agency in the world
- October 28
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- The best way to innovate in gaming 'is to have good margins,' says Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella, so I guess he'll be reinvesting his $96.5 million payday back into Xbox any second now
- New World is dead: Amazon ends new content updates following massive layoffs, says 'servers will be live through 2026'
- The Vampire Survivors online co-op update just arrived with a bonus Balatro collab expansion
- Amazon Games is making major layoffs as it shifts focus away from MMOs to its Luna cloud gaming platform: 'We have made the difficult decision to halt a significant amount of our first-party AAA game development'
- The programmer of legendary emulator ZSNES just resurfaced after 24 years to give his first-ever interview and spill the secrets of its magical netplay, snowy UI and unbelievable speed on 1997 PCs
- 13 years after TimeSplitters Rewind was revealed to the world as a 'TimeSplitters CryEngine mod,' it's finally set to release in November
- Don't sleep on these tiny satchels in Battlefield Redsec: They're your fast pass to higher-tier guns
- Heavy breathing intensifies as Battlefield 6 players find flyable scout helicopters in Portal
- You can get every single one of Telltale's The Walking Dead seasons for $5—which is around $1 per 10 hours of game
- One of the best top-down survival horror games of all time is getting a surprise sequel
- New research into human vision proves high-res PC monitors right up to 16K are worth it and comes with a handy calculator to help you choose your next screen
- That multiplayer God of War game Sony axed in its live-service purge might've taken us back to Greece, as reportedly leaked screenshots emerge
- 'This generation of AI is...enabling companies to innovate much faster than ever before,' says Amazon, as it confirms that 14,000 corporate roles will be laid off
- LastPass warns of a new phishing campaign involving death certificates and a nefarious email that demands you reply to it if you're not dead
- Arc Raiders punishes players who fail to extract in time by simply dropping a meteor on their heads, but there is one way to survive the blast
- The Melt Mouse isn't some Dali-esque nightmare, but rather a touchpad and haptic-equipped squeaker with serious Apple vibes
- The Fortnite Simpsons crossover is coming this weekend, with drooling aliens Kang and Kodos beaming players away to another island
- Capcom doubles down on its decision to go pay-per-view during the Street Fighter League despite the fact that nobody really likes it
- Global PC shipments are up 8% overall compared to last year, due to Microsoft killing off Windows 10 and 'strategic inventory adjustments related to certain US import tariffs'
- This 'shunt modded' Asus RTX 4090 laptop beats the latest RTX 5090 portables but you'd be very brave to do this to your own machine
- Fanatical is offering $209 worth of perilous, atmospheric The Witcher comics for just $12 as it continues to expand its offering of book bundles
- Google claims the 'security breach impacting millions of users' is simply 'inaccurate reports stemming from a misunderstanding'
- Redsec battle royale is our first hint that we're getting boats in Battlefield 6, so my dream of large maps with naval combat might come true at last
- Yes, Battlefield 6 and Redsec have shared progression, so here's exactly what's transferred between them
- 'Humans who create things can beat technology': Touhou Project creator criticises generative AI despite using generative AI in his own videogame
- The Outer Worlds 2's senior narrative designer is 'really happy' if you miss out on major characters with 'thousands of lines of dialogue'
- DDR4 RAM prices continue to surge ahead of DDR5, now averaging $25 per DDR4-3200 module
- Researchers discover that dehydrated mushrooms can function like biological RAM after they've been zapped with electricity
- A high school in Japan used P.T. to teach an English class, and now I'm jealous that my teachers never let me do that
- Despite mass layoffs and a previous pay cut, Microsoft's CEO is taking home nearly $100 million this year
- 'This isn't a one-time effort': The Sims patch set to fix over 150 of the community's most reported bugs, from making kids look more like their parents and ensuring nude Sims no longer wear hats
- Arc Raiders devs stop players spiralling about unfair 'gear score' matchmaking by confirming that they 'focus on maintaining the split between solos and squads'
- Out with the old, in with the old: AMD's still selling Zen 2 and Zen 3+ processors, now under the guise of the Ryzen 10/100 series
- OG Doom legend John Carmack says his Nvidia DGX Spark box has thermal throttling issues, raising doubts over the viability of Nvidia's AI APU for laptop PCs
- You can snag around $200's worth of Critical Role's comic adaptations of its many D&D campaigns for $18, thanks to yet another value-stacked Humble Bundle
- Today's Wordle clues, hints and answer for October 28 (#1592)
- Civilization 7 will get 'one of the most requested features' since launch: The option to play as one civ from start to finish
- October 27
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- Kratos voice actor Christopher Judge says he hopes the next God of War is set in Egypt while making a hypothetical sequel sound pretty unhypothetical: 'I have no doubt that no matter what pantheon it is, it will be great'
- US government uses Halo images in a call to 'destroy' immigration, Microsoft declines to comment
- Vampire: The Masquerade - Bloodhunt is the only battle royale I ever loved, so naturally it's going offline for good in April
- 'Valve does not get anywhere near enough criticism': DayZ creator Dean Hall says the 'gambling mechanics' of Valve's monetization strategy 'have absolutely no place' in videogames
- The fourth Steam Scream Fest is here, and there's a lot more on sale than just horror games
- Psychopomp is one of the best games you can get for under $10 on Steam, and its newly-revealed sequel looks even better
- EA employees are reportedly frustrated by a mandate to use AI, mocking the policy in Slack and suspecting it's being used as justification for layoffs
- Here's an RTX 5090 that you can water cool, without worry about breaking a $2000 graphics card
- Multiple police cars showed up to a school after surveillance system monitored by AI flagged a bag of Doritos as a gun: 'AI is not the best'
- 'I would stay as far away from the Founders Edition 5090 as I possibly can,' says one experienced repair tech, as a key internal connector can't be sourced for replacement
- After OG dev blasted the Halo remake, the 'father of Master Chief' says he thinks it looks just swell, actually: 'Gorgeous in a way I wish we could have built it'
- The Outer Worlds 2 dunks on you with a 'Consumerism' flaw that secretly makes you stupid if you bought its $100 version for early access: 'Promotions and sales have riddled your brain'
- A brainrot-themed Roblox game is taking a brainrot-themed Fortnite game to court for being 'a copy'
- EA confirms free-to-play Battlefield 6 battle royale is coming out tomorrow
- Thermaltake's new Borg-like AIO cooler might look ridiculous with four LCD screens, but its other cool features are far more noteworthy
- It's opposite day in CS2: Accounts full of previously run-of-the-mill reds are now worth upwards of $90,000, while one of the most sought-after knives drops $10,000 in value
- Modders have already patched fast travel into Vampire: The Masquerade – Bloodlines 2, and they might even be able to make its linear detective segments skippable for replays
- A Polish LARP event will let you live out Frostpunk in real life for a few hundred euros: 'Drag injured teammates through volcanic fumes… comfort the dying while your own fingers go numb'
- Former Sony boss says the industry's obsession with the 'mirage' of live service games is futile: 'The highway is littered with people wanting to take on Fortnite'
- Battlefield 6 dataminers claim mysterious 'granite' files related to this week's patch could be a shadowdrop for its battle royale mode
- Today's Wordle clues, hints and answer for October 27 (#1591)
- The GOAT of Elden Ring weapon mods made it so we can actually use the sick golden ghost weapons Margit killed us with so many times
- October 26
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- Emergency dispatch simulator 911 Operator is free on Steam for a limited time
- Europa Universalis lead says design documents stifle creativity: 'You end up with a bunch of idea guys who write all the documents and the rest are there to follow'
- Silent Hill f's lead actor streamed the game and had a language-transcending horror experience that's gotten over 1.6 million views
- Boltgun 2 will let you play a Sister of Battle
- Escape From Duckov quacks past 300,000 concurrent players only 10 days after release
- Europa Universalis 2's launch was a desperate gambit for Paradox's survival: 'It needs to be done so it's sold in the US market before Christmas, because we need the money else we cannot pay people'
- It's Helldivers 2's Liberty Day, so break out your shovels and play Arrowhead's patriotic new Whack-a-Terminid browser game before it's gone
- Before Paradox became king of grand strategy, it made a Baldur's Gate-inspired RPG doomed by 'bugs, many and diverse, some more interesting than the gameplay'
- The Outer Worlds 2's weirdest weapon is a flashing rainbow sword that turns combat into a rhythm game I'm terrible at
- Today's Wordle clues, hints and answer for October 26 (#1590)
- October 25
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- Darktide's narrative will be expanded as part of future updates: 'We are definitely going to be adding to the story of the game'
- A game jam game about pudgy chainsmoking dads seems to be Steam's latest co-op hit, hitting 100,000 concurrent players on its first weekend
- The multi-billion dollar, 15-hour AWS outage that brought the internet to its knees last week was apparently caused by a single software bug
- Europa Universalis lead Johan Andersson says Paradox's DLC model has been 'pretty f***ing great': 'You decide what's going in, you decide the scope, you decide exactly when you can release'
- Twitch CEO Dan Clancy apologizes for TwitchCon assault of Emiru and his interview comments on the incident: 'We failed, both in allowing it to occur, and in our response following'
- Somehow, Heroes of Newerth returned: One of the first standalone MOBAs is back, but fans are mixed on its new look and bizarre launcher
- The Outer Worlds 2 has a helmet that makes it look like an arcade game, including an 'insert coins to continue' option
- One original Halo designer blasts the new remake, wonders if the point was just 'Occupying an enormous art team while you figure out what to do'
- Today's Wordle clues, hints and answer for October 25 (#1589)
- Vermintide's developers only realized they were wading into a cursed subgenre after they started making a first-person melee game: 'I was so scared'
- Don't expect Vermintide 3 any time soon, as Fatshark plans to keep supporting the existing game: 'Vermintide will keep on going'
- October 24
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- As The Sims content creators depart over EA's $55 billion Saudi-backed buyout, the dev team promises the game 'will always be a space where you can express your authentic self'
- Electronic Arts signs a deal with Stability AI: 'We’re evolving how we work so that AI becomes a trusted ally'
- Xbox fully surrenders the console wars: 'Halo is on PlayStation going forward,' a fact that just doesn't seem real
- Tech investor declares 'AI games are going to be amazing,' posts an AI-generated 'demo' of a god-awful shooter as proof
- Cheating accusations and worse are tearing the chess world apart in the aftermath of a 29 year-old grandmaster's death—What is happening in the game of kings?
- Halo: Campaign Evolved, the second remake of Halo 1, is coming out next year
- EA is making Battlefield 6 challenges less horrendous, but due to 'the scale of challenges,' it'll take a while
- Last Halloween's 'spooky' Discord notifications confused so many people that it added a pop-up explaining them this year
- Escape From Duckov is the latest breakout Steam hit to owe its success to China
- Battlefield 6 update coming next week tackles weapon bloom, movement, and the blinding sun
- Amidst allegations of AI art and complaints about the music, Plants vs. Zombies fans are not happy with the remaster
- Quantum computing might get a morsel of the financial love the Trump administration gave Intel, as the US government reportedly considers becoming a shareholder in several companies
- Turns out, that horny Borderlands 4 shield wasn't actually supposed to be so horny—or at least, not so horny so often: 'Voice lines now trigger at the intended frequency'
- Trump credits a call from Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang and others as to why he cancelled plans to 'surge' San Francisco with federal law enforcement this weekend
- Microsoft resurrects Clippy in Copilot, presumably because it's intrusive, doesn't understand context, and is god damn annoying
- New Borderlands 4 patch stumbles by making the nerfed crit knife an actual DPS loss on some builds, plus a Halloween event that's 'like getting a dead rat in a box for Christmas'
- Pumped up kicks: Nike's prototype powered footwear system aims to be 'a second set of calf muscles' to give everyday athletes a real-life sprint mode
- Thinktank recommends the EU hit China where it hurts if it restricts access to rare earths: limit the country's access to older chipmaking machines
- Critical Role's 4-episode overture had me clenching my cheeks through some of the most intense D&D I've ever seen, and I'm not convinced I'll be surviving Campaign 4
- If gamer looks aren't your thing when it comes to furnishing your PC's den, then just grab a great office chair instead, like the ThunderX3 Flex Pro
- 'Everything is on the table': Trump administration reportedly considering curbs on exports made using US software to China
- I've been humbled by a browser game that challenges you to craft as many items in Minecraft as you can in ten seconds
- Danny Trejo becomes Bethesda reply guy, pops up amid the studio's Fallout anniversary fest to demand a New Vegas remaster
- This video on USB Type-C made by European Parliament goes harder than it has any right to
- Today's Wordle clues, hints and answer for October 24 (#1588)
- Xbox boss Phil Spencer says 'nurturing and protecting creative teams that want to go take risks' is the priority, admits 'we don't always succeed at that'
- October 23
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- The secret hero of Battlefield 6's next update is a jeep that doesn't suck
- Latest CS2 patch has skin collectors in meltdown over a supposed $2bn in losses, with others saying 'this is the best update ever', but maybe Valve is just doing some course-correction and doesn't care
- Fatshark celebrates 10 years of 'Tide, reveals Darktide is getting another new class and Vermintide 2 a new map
- Hades 2's first post-launch update attempts to fix the 'true ending' that nobody really liked
- Florida launches criminal investigation into Roblox, claims the gaming platform 'enabled our kids to be abused'
- We'll never get Mindhunter Season 3, but Netflix is working on multiple 'scripted and unscripted' projects based on the Catan board game, so there's that
- The bouncing DVD logo screensaver is a Balatro now
- Path of Exile 2 director says he would be 'beyond shocked' if it didn't come out in 2026: 'We never intended to be in early access this long'
- AI is 'a combination of metadata with a parlor trick,' Take-Two boss says: 'A great thing' for business, but it's not creative and never will be
- After 12 years of avoiding it, Path of Exile is taking another swing at an old mechanic for its new expansion: 'This one just kinda felt right'
- After making 1 million sales, Escape From Duckov makes eating poop less nutritious
- Fallout 4 is getting the Skyrim treatment with a 10th anniversary edition that includes all the expansions and a mountain of Creation content
- Microsoft executives have been expecting the Xbox division to achieve 30% profit margins—almost double the industry average—since 2023
- 'Something needs to be done about this': Battlefield 6 players are fed up with 'absolutely disgusting' Call of Duty-like mobility
- 'I'll even eat dog poop if it means winning': This job posting for an AI ad company is so unhinged, I'm still trying to decide if it's satire or not
- Krafton is now an 'AI-first company,' will spend $70 million on a GPU cluster to 'serve as the foundation for accelerating the implementation of agentic AI'
- Borderlands 4 smashes sales in the US, says analyst—it was the top dog in September, the fastest-selling entry in the series, and is already the 3rd most-bought game this year
- Razer thoughtlessly alienates half its audience with ad showing a man blocking out a woman's 'yapping' with its latest headset
- Power? Contact. Fuel? Check. Ignition? Go! This, ladies and germs, is the way to boot up your desktop PC
- Some of The Sims 4's biggest content creators have just stepped down from EA's creator network in the wake of the $55B Saudi-backed buyout: 'This situation is a nightmare for our community'
- Project Tal follows in the footsteps of Black Myth: Wukong, but this action-RPG will explore Korean mythology
- Warner Bros. Discovery goes up for sale, if you've got a spare $45 billion
- Amazon's prototype AI smart glasses provide delivery drivers with a Pip-Boy-style HUD, also serving as further proof we live in the most dystopian timeline
- Razer is finally giving a PlayStation-style controller the full competitive treatment and it's called the Raiju V3 Pro
- In case we needed a visceral reminder just how screwed memory prices are thanks to AI, Samsung and SK hynix are apparently raising prices by up to 30%
- As FBC: Firebreak fails to recover from its disastrous launch and profit warnings are issued to shareholders, the CEO of Remedy Entertainment is stepping down
- Critical Role's Whitney Moore says she's 'made the mistake of thinking that I could out-troll' prank extraordinaire Sam Riegel at the table
- OK, the Xe3 GPU in Intel's Panther Lake chip officially isn't Celestial, it's really just Xe2 'Plus Plus,' but even Intel itself doesn't yet understand how it all relates to its shock new deal with Nvidia
- The new Painkiller is out now and it's not great, but that's okay because the old Painkiller still is and there's a fantastic new mod that makes it look like a brand-new game
- Steam Next Fest gave one indie game a 51,500% increase in players—'1 week ago we had 3 players… thank you all so much'
- Google claims it has made a 'major breakthrough' in quantum computing with an algorithm 13,000X faster than a traditional equivalent, although not everyone is convinced
- There's a guy in Old School RuneScape trying to eat over 500,000 trout, everyone keeps giving him more, and he might actually be a master market manipulator
- Steamboat-Willy-with-a-machine-gun FPS Mouse PI delayed to 2026
- With over 13,000 new games on Steam this year so far, over a third of them haven't even made enough to break even on Valve's submission fee
- So much for Xbox full screen experience, it looks like the ROG Xbox Ally X might get much better performance on Linux with faux-SteamOS operating system Bazzite
- Rainbow Six Siege X creative director talks PvE and cheating: 'we need to be faster' to combat cheat makers, but they'll never be eliminated entirely
- Today's Wordle clues, hints and answer for October 23 (#1587)
- October 22
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- 'I will not revive anyone wearing this skin': Battlefield 6 players blast an upcoming blue camo skin they believe already breaks DICE's 'grounded' cosmetics promise
- Cards Against Humanity settles $15 million lawsuit against SpaceX, but Elon Musk 'did the legal equivalent of throwing dust in our eyes and kicking us in the balls' so backers are getting a card set about Musk instead of money
- Steam's latest 'experiment' is a new way of discovering games that's actually really convenient and useful
- No Man's Sky embraces the 'thrill of space-walking' with new space wrecks to explore and salvage
- Ubisoft has come up with a new way to avoid saying the word 'layoffs,' with a 'voluntary career transition program' offer that some employees won't be able to refuse
- Samsung has launched an $1,800 XR headset and if you listen very carefully, you can hear the pained wailings of the Apple Vision Pro
- Windows 10 might be a goner but there are still some ancient icon relics inside Windows 11 that date all the way back to Windows 95
- Looks like the AI boom has made DDR4 RAM no better value than DDR5 as storage and memory prices continue to rise
- Surprise! The PC Gaming Show: Most Wanted returns with fantastic announcements and reveals December 4
- TCL's new OLED megafactory is purpose-built to make 'high-end' screens for monitors, laptops and tablets cheaper thanks to a low-cost inkjet manufacturing process
- Xbox president says the next-gen console will be 'very premium' and 'very high-end' which is totally treading on PC gaming's turf
- 'Pacifist Battlefield completed': A Battlefield 6 player has already managed to hit a 1 million score with just 8 kills and 5,077 revives
- Former Riot exec and WoW vet side-eyes the 'gigantic investments' and flubs of major studios as his MMO scrambles for funding: 'Please indulge me in feeling salty for a moment'
- One thing most of us seem to agree on, from Sir Stephen Fry to Steve Bannon, is that artificial superintelligence development should be paused while we figure out, y'know, the safety concerns
- Blizzard tackles World of Warcraft Legion Remix's tank infestation by doubling healer and DPS health, with a little defensive buff on the side
- Ninja Gaiden 4 reduces DLSS to a mere on/off toggle with no built-in options to tweak it, which is a new one on me
- OpenAI launches its new agentic AI Atlas browser with the intention of taking over 'most web use' and a warning to 'weigh the tradeoffs' of using its most powerful features
- Suspicious Scarface: The World is Yours re-release taken off Steam and Epic, along with a community announcement that has also vanished without a trace
- Vampire: The Masquerade – Bloodlines 2 is sitting at Mixed reviews on Steam: 'It's not a Bloodlines game'
- Cooler Master rescinds its recommendation to physically tamper with its angled 12V-2x6 GPU power connector for a 'fix' that doesn't work, and says it's ditching the right-angled design
- Effulgence RPG is a game made entirely of ASCII art where you convert your enemies' raw parts into new weapons, and if that doesn't convince you to give its demo a look I don't know what will
- Today's Wordle clues, hints and answer for October 22 (#1586)
- October 21
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- Palworld studio Pocketpair says its new publishing division won't handle games that use generative AI: 'We don't believe in it'
- This minimalist platformer's mouseclick parkour is singlehandedly curing my 2D platformer phobia
- The Sinking City 2 is delayed into 2026 because of the war in Ukraine, but not just that: Making a survival horror game requires 'a completely different kind of design thinking' than adventure games, and that 'definitely makes development slower'
- 'Controller players are winning slightly more in close-range engagements': Treyarch throws a live grenade into 'controller vs mouse' debate, says aim assist will be less forgiving in Black Ops 7
- Battlefield 6 officially nerfs XP farming servers into the ground, draining them of nearly all XP
- Former Bethesda designer says Starfield fell flat because of its reliance on procgen planets: 'I don't think it's in the same calibre as the other two, Fallout or Skyrim'
- Starbreeze hands off Payday 2 to another developer as it goes all-in on trying to salvage the beleaguered Payday 3
- The Wolverine V3 Pro is no longer the best high-end PC gamepad, because Razer's been indulging in some seriously rabid regicide
- 'The freedom we have with this sci-fi space is a bit terrifying': upcoming FPS Den of Wolves is laid bare in a new studio documentary
- This €130 gaming PC in a plastic jug churns out a whole 15 fps in Fortnite and might be the best/worst DIY build I've ever seen
- Reports of OLED's death are greatly exaggerated and it's not about to be replaced by RGB mini-LED displays
- The ROG Xbox Ally X seems surprisingly repairable and upgradeable judging by iFixit's teardown video, which could be good news for stick drift
- Wikipedia says it's getting fewer 'human pageviews' thanks to AI and social media but it's got a plan to deal with it
- Former Battlefield 6 campaign boss calls out EA for leaving him and other developers out of the credits after closing his studio in 2024
- Brace yourself for yassified Homer Simpson as leaks say an entire Springfield map is headed for Fortnite
- Estimates on the financial impact of yesterday's AWS outage range from 'hundreds of billions' to over $75 million per hour, but one thing we can all agree on is it was pretty bad, chief
- Jackbox Party Pack 11 is the first to not include sequels to earlier Jackbox games, but there's still plenty of familiar DNA in the all-new offerings
- AMD's dual V-Cache uber CPU gets a (rumoured) name and a high-clocked single-die cousin: Give it up for the Ryzen 9 9950X3D2 and Ryzen 7 9850X3D
- Congratulations to Victoria 3 players on causing 860,000,000,000,000,000 deaths by famine in a single year, enough to depopulate Earth 107,000,000 times
- Ball-bouncing, city-building, off-the-wall roguelike Ball X Pit is a huge hit, selling 300,000 copies in just its first five days on sale
- This new Humble Bundle has one of my favourite TTRPGs in it, alongside a bunch of expansions, for just $15—or $25 for a nest of great Magpie Games books worth $365
- This utterly mesmerising beehive PC desk build took six months of painstaking labour and hypnotically simulates the bittersweet rise and fall of bee colonies in real time
- Morrowind mega-mod Tamriel Rebuilt is adding 'one of the holy grails' that players have wanted 'for more than 20 years' in its next mammoth expansion
- Nier: Automata creator Yoko Taro says 'nearly half' of his autographs 'being resold are actually fake', since he puts 'small unknown features' in them
- The first US-made Nvidia Blackwell wafer just came out of TSMC Arizona, but don't get carried away thinking about RTX 50 Supers yet
- The best modern platformer I've played is getting a huge 10-year anniversary update, and the devs reckon there's 'no way anyone 100%s it'
- Former God of War exec says the blockbuster games industry needs to steer away from spectacle and focus on what matters: 'if it's not fun, it's not worth the investment'
- Today's Wordle clues, hints and answer for October 21 (#1585)
- October 20
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- Battlefield 6 players are ragging on its 'useless' smoke mortar and its pitiful little plumes: 'I've seen 13 year olds rip vape clouds bigger than this outside of Target'
- Dead Cells studio opted to make a new game despite 'super strong' pressure for a sequel because 'we are driven by what we want to make'
- Catholic church calls for a global AI regulatory framework as the Pope pontificates against the technology arms race, calling for the 'audacity of disarmament'
- I tried that viral Battlefield 6 mouse tweak that makes sensitivity more consistent, and yep, my aim already feels smoother
- Our most anticipated 13th-century Mongolian horse game had such a popular Next Fest demo the developers have decided to delay it
- Duck-themed extraction shooter Escape From Duckov sold 500,000 Steam copies in its first 3 days
- Server shutdowns claim another victim: The Sims Mobile will disappear for good in January
- Fallout is coming to a museum near you (if you are near Las Vegas)
- Windows 11 25H2 has borked the mouse and keyboard controls in the Windows Recovery Environment, because what would a major update be without a fresh batch of bugs
- Fellowship just solved a UI problem that's plagued MMOs like WoW for literal years
- This Redditor is playing Battlefield 6 on an AIO cooler and I can't for the life of me figure out why
- China accuses the US of attacking time—or being behind a series of cyberattacks on its National Time Center, anyway
- Exclusive: Monster Train 2: Echoes From the Void first details
- Arc Raiders seems set for a meteor-impact-sized launch as its weekend playtest becomes Steam's 89th most-popular game by concurrent players
- 'It really was Asus' says Microsoft about the ROG Xbox Ally X's eye-watering $1,000 price tag: 'That is all of their insight into the market'
- Critical Role won't be rushing the adaption of its second D&D campaign The Mighty Nein, since the 'pace suffered a little bit for it' when it came to The Legend of Vox Machina
- Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang: 'At the moment we are 100% out of China... it's important to be mindful that what harms China could oftentimes also harm America'
- The Sleeping Dogs movie has a finished script draft, per series torchbearer Simu Liu and his own sleepy dog
- Marvel Rivals is getting a PvE zombies mode, so you can finally know what it feels like to cleave through hordes of the undead as a cute little shark guy
- The MindsEye fallout continues as axed staff allege crunch, mismanagement, and a total lack of direction: 'Leslie [Benzies] never decided what game he wanted to make'
- AWS outage affecting Fortnite, Roblox, Reddit, and many others is close to fixed, with Amazon saying services are showing 'significant signs of recovery'
- A cheap SanDisk memory card was just found completely unscathed inside an underwater camera found among OceanGate submersible wreckage
- Today's Wordle clues, hints and answer for October 20 (#1584)
- Lana Del Rey might have written a Bond theme for 007 First Light
- A Nintendo DS horror game first pitched as a Silent Hill sequel is coming to Steam
- October 19
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- If emulating classic DOS games seems like a pain, there's a DOSBox fork 'aiming for simplicity and ease of use', now standalone for the first time
- Hearthstone and Warcraft Rumble devs join the over 1900 Blizzard workers to unionize: 'We deserve to be heard and respected'
- Arc Raiders designer says Marathon's reception 'was a great A/B test': 'They made decisions that we didn't, and vice versa … we could compare and contrast how some of those things shook out'
- Shovel Knight dev's next game doesn't have a single parry, pulling from Castlevania and Bloodborne instead of Sekiro: 'Every game has a parry now … even Doom has Dark Souls stuff in it'
- 'I’ve never used AI and probably never will': Final Fantasy composer Nobuo Uematsu reckons 'fluctuations and imperfections' are what make music satisfying
- Warhammer 40,000: Boltgun's free typing spinoff doubles its wordcount with 3 new levels and over 400 extra phrases
- Surviving Mars: Relaunched arrives in orbit next month, bringing a whole new political system and every DLC from the get-go
- After 6 years, fantasy survive 'em up Necesse leaves early access with 'infinite seamless biomes', an end to its endgame, and a half-price discount
- Techland reveals an 11-week roadmap for Dying Light: The Beast, the gaming equivalent of a hastily-drawn sketch showing the way to the nearest post office
- Today's Wordle clues, hints and answer for October 19 (#1583)
- Final Fantasy 7 Rebirth director says all that timewasting filler was good actually
- October 18
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- Total conversion mod for The Simpsons: Hit & Run turns it into the Futurama game of our dreams
- Just in case you thought reviving dead games seemed easy enough, GOG had to hire a private investigator to find an IP holder living off the grid for its preservation program
- 'This is definitely my last TwitchCon': High-profile streamer Emiru was assaulted at the event, even as streamers have been sounding the alarm about stalkers and harassment
- It got a lot of love, but Arc Raiders 'was absolutely not ready' to release after its popular April playtest, says design director: 'There were some bad bugs'
- Don't count on Arc Raiders ever getting a first-person mode: 'Once you start being able to put your face right up against an asset, it kind of falls apart'
- The sleeper hit of the Fall might be this mad lad's hyper realistic traffic management sim that uses real census data and a 'distance-based gravity model' to produce millions of NPC commuters
- 'Remember Beach': Arrowhead has awarded thousands of 'inexplicably dedicated' Helldivers 2 players with a commemorative 'Avengement Day' after they ignored High Command to save a planet reminiscent of Halo Reach
- Expect to serve up 'floor chicken casserole' in the new Two Point Museum update—a crossover with, of all things, Vampire Survivors
- With a lawsuit looming, World of Warcraft private server Turtle WoW has issued a formal plea for a fan server licensing: 'We hope that Blizzard embraces fan‑driven content as its own legacy, rather than alienate this passionate community'
- This wild mod for Metal Gear Solid 5 massively expands its Subsistence system and makes enemies learn new tactics within missions rather than across them
- 'GZDoom is basically dead' modders proclaim as contributors split from Doom's most popular sourceport, with tensions boiling over after its creator adds AI-generated code to the project
- Drive a truck filled with explosives across horrible terrain in this gnarly mix of Snowrunner and Baby Steps—inspired by one of Hollywood's most misunderstood films
- Doom: The Dark Ages gets Steam Deck verification and a bunch of portable optimisations, just in time for the launch of Microsoft's new handheld
- My new most anticipated game is about a lonely house who can roll, jump, fish and go on dates
- Today's Wordle clues, hints and answer for October 18 (#1582)
- October 17
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- Arc Raiders playtest slams past 185,000 concurrent players on Steam alone
- OpenAI stops itself from generating 'disrespectful' Martin Luther King Jr. deepfakes, but this is the tip of the iceberg: 'Who gets protection from synthetic resurrection and who doesn't?'
- Sony accuses Tencent of playing a 'shell game' with its Horizon-like survival game, seeks a preliminary injunction against it
- So, uh, why are there suddenly at least 4 sinister convenience store simulators on Steam at once?
- Football Manager 26 announces partnership with FIFA, so get ready to take the mighty Scotland to glory in World Cup 26
- World of Warcraft's adding player housing in December, so naturally there's an add-on to let players earn as much furniture as possible in advance
- Routers don't grab headlines like graphics cards but having a good one in your home can make a world of difference to your digital life
- Arc Raiders, one of our most anticipated games of 2025, is free for all in its final pre-release playtest this weekend
- PayPal's crypto partner accidentally minted $300,000,000,000,000 worth of stablecoins, which is more than twice the world's total GDP
- People are falling for AI phishing attempts 4.5x more often than human ones but the solutions are the same as ever
- Microsoft says it's making 'every Windows 11 PC an AI PC' with a dizzying array of Copilot upgrades, including voice activation
- Amnesia: The Bunker is one of the best straight-up horror games ever made, and it's free on Epic for the next week
- Battlefield 6 is already walking back its Conquest changes after immediate backlash, but it's still not what we were really asking for
- Battlefield 6 is so well-optimised it's playable on an eight-year-old RX 570 with just 4 GB of VRAM
- PC Gamer is joining Dames 4 Games for its spooky Halloween monster mash, Ghouls 4 Games, which includes a showcase, Steam event, and fundraising streams
- Nightdive puts out surprise 'definitive' update for 30-year-old I Have No Mouth And I Must Scream
- A Google AI model has discovered a promising new cancer treatment method, described as 'a milestone for AI in science'
- Gigabyte's new gaming laptops come with voice control for performance, fan, and privacy settings, so you can shout at them if they won't pipe down
- Steam is officially bigger than Canada with a 41-million concurrent user record
- Battlefield 6 devs are trying to find the balance between 'zoomers' and 'battledads', following movement nerfs: 'We're looking at adjustments for sure to find a good in-between'
- Battlefield 6's lethargic progression is getting a much-needed overhaul, but Portal is unsurprisingly paying the price after we all abused it
- Assetto Corsa Rally features fully laser-scanned courses, Unreal Engine 5 visuals, and it’s out in early access on November 13
- Total War: Warhammer 3's Tides of Torment DLC will be out on the same day as 'a special showcase event where the future of the franchise will be revealed'
- Today's Wordle clues, hints and answer for October 17 (#1581)
- October 16
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- Former Assassin's Creed boss says he did not leave voluntarily: 'I stayed at my post until Ubisoft asked me to step aside'
- The top 50 demos of Steam Next Fest feature competitive typing, first-person cigarette smoking, a giant menacing cube, and 2 convenience stores where nobody should shop
- Breaking Bad's Aaron Paul made superhero adventure Dispatch his first ever videogame acting role because the script was 'so honest and poetic and just raw'
- The Borderlands 4 update that's going to take away your infinite-bleed god-knife is delayed until next week
- Gamers hand Ubisoft a rare 'W' as The Crew 2's offline mode finally goes live
- Battlefield 6 blows past 7 million copies in 3 days, 'the biggest launch in franchise history'
- Elon Musk is 'full of crap' for claiming xAI will make an AI-generated game in a year, says Glen Schofield: 'I want to actually say that to him'
- Dwarf Fortress is getting a siege update in November with goblin battering rams and defense-destroying troll engineers that'll dismantle over a decade of dwarven siege strategy
- Saudi Arabia's acquisition of Electronic Arts faces pushback from game developers, petition calls on FTC to 'scrutinize this deal closely'
- Diablo 4 as you know it is about to change again as Blizzard drops an expansion's worth of changes to its loot and combat
- Nvidia's little gold box of pure AI power, the DGX Spark, is finally out and the comparison with AMD's much cheaper Strix Halo chip is looking a little fugly
- Tomonobu Itagaki, the Tecmo genius behind Team Ninja, has died at the age of 58
- EU MEPs agree on recommendation for Europe to 'make full use of its powers' to ban loot boxes for minors and social media for those under 16
- If you regret not living through the floppy disk era why not try this 3D printed Linux project that uses the cartridges to launch games
- Apple announces new M5 chip with double the per-core performance of the M1 and it's got me wondering why AMD and Intel can't keep up with Apple's single-core performance gains
- A new trailer for Disney Dreamlight Valley's next DLC reveals two new villagers, and the ability to customise horses
- The Minecraft devs probably wouldn't add the creeper if they were following their current design rules 'because it would actually be so controversial'
- AI content now outnumbers human-written articles on the internet, but the good news is that the slop seems to have plateaued, for now
- Big networking software hack seemingly backed by China poses a 'significant cyber threat targeting federal networks'
- Disney Dreamlight Valley has shared details on its next update, The Winter Ball, which will bring one of the games most anticipated characters to the valley
- Battlefield 6 devs are working to squash a bug that could be making your aim worse—despite already fixing it in the beta, because game development is a nightmare
- The first look at Disney Dreamlight Valley's 2026 roadmap hints at Lady and the Tramp, Pocahontas, and Hercules coming to the game
- The foldable OriMouse is a mere 5 mm thick and weighs just 38 g but the photos give me a serious case of the heebie-jeebies
- Today's Wordle clues, hints and answer for October 16 (#1580)
- Total War: Warhammer 3 has spent this month being review-bombed over AI bugs specifically and bad vibes in general
- October 15
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- Netflix's Splinter Cell: Deathwatch has already been picked up for a second season
- US senators express 'profound concern' over EA buyout: 'The proposed transaction poses a number of significant foreign influence and national security risks'
- Yep, I get why this co-op RPG sandbox that's part Minecraft, part Skyrim, and also has airships, is one of the most played demos on Steam Next Fest
- A very silly Battlefield 6 bug is letting players levitate by smacking drones with hammers
- 'Scottish dark fantasy Dynasty Warriors' sounds like a game pitch from a fever dream, but this roguelike demo proves it's got juice
- Rockstar pays tribute to D'Angelo, 'a true titan of soul' whose music 'will forever be an enduring part of the legacy of Red Dead Redemption 2'
- The Outlast Trials is adding a PvP mode in its next update, which I'm sure will do wonders for my inability to trust friends in any horror game
- The plot thickens as Intel announces a new data center GPU that could also preview its next-gen gaming graphics cards, but there's still no mention of Celestial
- Battlefield 6 fiddles with the pace of Conquest mode but somehow avoids giving the people what they want: 'Remove the timer'
- Assassin's Creed franchise boss leaves Ubisoft just 7 months after heading up one of the best-selling games in the history of the series
- Team Group has built the world's first external SSD with built-in Apple-based location tracking and it's padlock-shaped
- Motorslice is a shot of liquid nostalgia for the PS1-era action platformers I was too young to play—with a dash of Shadow of the Colossus in there for good measure
- Bungie executes spectacular U-turn by removing new currency it just added to Destiny 2, desperately bestows 777,777 unstable cores on all players for the apology tour
- Cozy witch-life sim Witchbrook is delayed to 2026 'to ensure the world feels rich, immersive, and alive'
- 'Systems that have a secure boot process, in reality, do not': Major backdoors have been discovered in Framework Linux machines and it might just be the tip of the iceberg
- A lawyer caught using AI citations and quotes in a Supreme Court legal case has been called out by a judge for defending themselves with, err, AI citations and quotes
- 'It should be silly': Overwatch 2's newest Halloween event, Haunted Masquerade, connects characters' lore while also not taking itself too seriously
- I've never really been sold on the whole external GPU thing, but I can't deny this Thunderbolt 5 eGPU dock is seriously slick, it'll even charge your phone wirelessly
- These are the last few Windows 10 zero-day security updates you'll see without signing up to extended coverage
- Capcom execs were bewildered that people might want to play original Resident Evil when GOG approached them about it: 'We have all of those remakes. It’s already the superior experience'
- Despite past posting, Randy Pitchford is actually 'happy to live in that world' where Borderlands 4 complaints aren't about 'how we f*cked up the story', after all
- The all-powerful 3rd-person-camera lobby convinced Obsidian to stick a Bethesda-style view mode in The Outer Worlds 2
- OLED monitors are the perfect match for any speedy gaming PC and if you're eyeballing a new ultrawide, we've just crowned a new champion for you to consider
- MSI denies selling selling the RTX 5090 in China after pictures surface showing giant pallets of the restricted GPUs in the country
- Uh oh, it's happening: ADATA chairman says the perfect storm of simultaneous DRAM, SSD and HDD shortages is already upon us and it looks like prices are only going in one direction
- It's happened again—WoW Legion: Remix players have had their demi-godhood taken away after grinding elites for several hours, and at least I don't have to talk about gulp frogs this time
- If anything were to convince me to try out carpentry it would be this gorgeous DIY mini walnut PC case housing an Asus ProArt RTX 5080
- Today's Wordle clues, hints and answer for October 15 (#1579)
- Battlefield boss Vince Zampella: 'The only reason that Call of Duty exists is because EA were dicks'
- October 14
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- Splinter Cell: Deathwatch director wishes he had 'the security clearance' to get us info about Ubisoft's Splinter Cell remake
- ChatGPT is getting 'erotica for verified adults' in December: Sam Altman claims mental health concerns have been addressed, so now it's time to 'safely relax the restrictions in most cases'
- Battlefield 6 is lousy with 'land mine spam,' but there's an easy way to avoid an explosive demise
- Steam Next Fest's most popular demo is an old Half Sword tech playtest, which just proves the timeless appeal of physics-based swordfights
- Road to Vostok finally has a playable demo on Steam and it's the most terrified I've ever been of getting shot at in a videogame
- It's not just you: Hit registration is bugged in Battlefield 6 and DICE is working on it
- Employee uploads 187,000 explicit images to US Department of Energy network intending to create 'robot porn', gets caught and loses his security clearance, complains he's facing 'the Spanish Inquisition'
- Intel attempts to clarify whether the new Xe3 iGPU in Panther Lake is next-gen Celestial technology but I'm left confused and fearing for the future of Intel Arc graphics
- Activision anti-cheat team goes on another victory lap after 'the strongest beta results in Call of Duty history', brags '99% of matches were cheater-free' and warns that every day they get 'faster'
- 'Death Stranding, but Norman Reedus is a horse in 13th-century Mongolia' is the pitch for this demo with the most detailed steed mechanics I've ever seen
- One the the best parts of Phasmophobia's success is the new wave of co-op horror games, 'There was nothing, now there's obviously quite a lot'
- The story for Paradox's original, canned Bloodlines 2 has gone the way of the dodo, and its fired narrative lead says no one's spoken to him about it, but the good news is he's working on 2 games at once right now
- After 5 years Phasmophobia is closing in on its 1.0 release with immersive updates and more plans to come: 'If players are still there, we'll still be there'
- Copilot can now help you find settings in the latest Windows Insider build, which is fine by me—as long as it doesn't touch anything
- Peak dev's next co-op game—Crashout Crew—is like spinning a plate, except the plate has a bunch of dynamite on it, and also somebody put bees in the road
- AMD and Intel teaming up to stick it to Arm has led to 'significant progress' improving x86 after just a year
- I've got a fix for Battlefield 6's blinding brightness, and no, it's not wearing sunglasses
- Ex-Intel CEO Pat Gelsinger says 'of course' we're in an AI bubble but it won't end 'for several years'
- RPG developer Owlcat launches free game dev learning resource: 'A rising tide truly lifts all ships'
- Ubisoft surprise-revives its neglected Splinter Cell middle child on Steam, puts it on sale, then slaps a Uplay requirement on it so you don't get too excited
- Battlefield 6's already mountainous grind is being exacerbated by assignments failing to track
- 'They just really didn't think anyone would look up': Researchers snooped on unencrypted satellite data with basic equipment, finding private calls, text messages, and even military communications
- Tavern Keeper's Next Fest demo, which now has an endless mode, might just steal hours of your time making custom decor alone
- 'Imagine delivering the smallest supercomputer next to the biggest rocket': Jensen delivers a DGX Spark to Musk at SpaceX facility but some think the Nvidia launch is little more than a 'PR stunt'
- Keychron's upcoming fully ceramic keyboard is a strange choice for rapid trigger and 8K polling but it's incredibly shiny so I'll take it
- Minecraft's Mounts of Mayhem drop is now available to test, including sailing with the nautilus and a brand new weapon enchantment
- Today's Wordle clues, hints and answer for October 14 (#1578)
- October 13
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- World of Warcraft Legion Remix is suffering from a problem MMO players rarely experience: Too many tanks
- Skyrim's lead designer reckons open world games are 'almost a cliché statement' these days, and that Skyrim owes its continued popularity to a focus on player agency: 'We didn't put anything off limits'
- Arrowhead is delaying Helldivers 2 updates to fix its performance problems: 'We're focusing way more on addressing these issues to make sure this sort of thing doesn't happen again'
- Steam Next Fest is back with a trove of demos in tow, and the highlights range from a new Heroes of Might and Magic to physics-based combat sims
- The original Fallout's lead developer says China nuked first, vault suits were meant to be 'extruded' by a machine, and yes Sugar Bombs are a Calvin and Hobbes reference
- Magic: The Gathering's latest crossover is with none other than the heroes in a half-shell, and they come bearing 'pizza lands'
- A Battlefield 6 bug that made jumping with (mostly) melee weapons halt your momentum just got fixed
- Scientists have integrated 2D materials a few atoms thick into a working memory chip for the first time and you can't tell me this isn't some prime Star Trek-level tech
- RPG vet Josh Sawyer keeps things like Fallout and D&D grounded in history because 'Once things get too magical… it's impossible to bring it back down to Earth'
- A new co-op RPG is coming for World of Warcraft fans by offering endless MMO dungeons without the MMO grind
- Randy Pitchford says sifting through the loot in Borderlands 4 is tickling a fundamental part of you: 'Our brains need to do it, and our brains like doing it, and we’re better off when we do it'
- For the boujee among us, we've just crowned this the best luxury gaming desk (though I'd be picking the budget choice)
- Elon Musk has been snapping up ex-Nvidia specialists to help make AI world models, which is fine but please keep away from our games
- Edifier's new desktop speaker is treating gaming PCs as a luxury HiFi aesthetic, but it's just not doing it for me
- I've been training my whole life for a battle royale like Final Sentence, it's just a shame the demo is a tad undercooked right now
- This RTX 5070 Ti with a literal hole in it has been kept on life support by a spliced-in AMD RX 580, because no GPU gets left behind
- Masters of timing, Microsoft: Just one day from Windows 10 EOL and apparently the official Media Creation Tool isn't working
- The Deus Ex mod that's a better sequel than Invisible War just got a mondo-update, and playing it couldn't be easier
- 2005 FPS Serious Sam 2 just got a big update for reasons known only to God
- Trump announces new 100% China tariff along with export controls on 'any and all critical software' over rare earth spat, as Chinese gov says it doesn't want a trade war but is 'not afraid of one'
- Ninja Gaiden 4 directors say a 'sense of fairness' is vital for difficult games: 'If the player gets killed unreasonably, it's hard for them to reflect and think about what they could've done'
- Today's Wordle clues, hints and answer for October 13 (#1577)
- October 12
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- The Mortal Kombat 2 movie doesn't come out until next year, but Mortal Kombat 3 is already confirmed because the studios are 'convinced there's a giant fanbase waiting for it'
- Despite declining sales and the latest 'Xbox' being a handheld PC, Microsoft says it's still making a next-gen console: 'We are actively investing in our future first-party consoles and devices'
- Over 100 of the world's strongest Path of Exile 2 players are lining up to get chomped by a shark with trillions of health and an instant-kill tail swipe
- Preview users have noticed OneDrive's AI-driven face recognition setting is opt-out, and can only be turned off 'three times a year'
- After learning his cult '90s RPG influenced Undertale, this Japanese developer finally got 'the courage' to make another RPG decades later thanks to Toby Fox
- Abiotic Factor gets new roadmap featuring a mystery crossover, DLC plans, and new difficulty modes alongside dev Q&A: 'We're terrified of our obligations to the community so be nice, we love you'
- Battlefield 6 hits a peak of 747k players on Steam, hot on the heels of Baldur's Gate 3's record and in the platform's all-time top 20
- Promising RTS Dinolords, which is basically Age of Empires with dinosaurs, is getting a closed alpha playtest that you can join later this month
- Kick ass and chew brains in Duke Nukem: Horror Castle, a spooky mod where you blast skeletons and chow down on the gooey insides of their skulls
- Strategy roguelike 9 Kings finally has 9 kings, though a new perk lets you revert it to 8 kings if nine kings proves too many
- A new ToeJam and Earl is 'in the planning stage' according to its co-creator, but don't expect to see it anytime soon: 'We intend to make it happen'
- Today's Wordle clues, hints and answer for October 12 (#1576)
- October 11
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- Prolific D&D novelist R.A. Salvatore says writing around 4th Edition rules 'almost broke' him and he knew its setting changes were a mistake: 'In about 5 years they're going to come to us and say, Bob, we got to fix this'
- Diablo 4 player hands their necromancer a gun for a 1-button build that covers the screen in hundreds of bone bullets and billions in damage
- Borderlands 4 post-launch roadmap includes seasonal event, paid DLC, and its first raid boss
- User-created games are coming to Genshin Impact in a new mode that couldn't be more Roblox if it tried
- Cleanse-'em-up PowerWash Simulator is free to play this weekend, so go try the first game to cross over with both Warhammer 40,000 and Wallace & Gromit
- I tried the Bubsy 4D demo, and it spits on the series legacy by actually being pretty good
- EA doles out free Battlefield 6 battle passes and XP boosts to players locked out on launch day by the EA App: 'We wanted to offer an apology… with perks'
- Deadlock just shuffled everyone into new ranked leagues overnight, but players suspect matchmaking won't feel any different: 'If you were miserable before, you'll still be miserable now'
- Prepare to have your brain fried by this electric shoot 'em up from an ex-Housemarque designer when it launches next month
- You'll need to be careful moving around the forests of Hell Let Loose: Vietnam, as its trees will help players identify potential threats: 'It can be very hard to understand where you're dying from'
- A sequel to Aliens: Fireteam Elite is almost certainly in development, having briefly burst onto the ESRB's website
- Renegade graphics warlock makes Half-Life look like Half-Life 2, then runs it on an ancient laptop, raising a middle finger to poorly optimised PC games
- Today's Wordle clues, hints and answer for October 11 (#1575)
- Find and photograph cryptids in 2D adventure Lone Pine
- October 10
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- One little bug has broken Hollow Knight: Silksong speedrunning wide open with the ability to fly through the game as an unkillable god
- Remedy issues 'profit warning' after FBC: Firebreak's big overhaul fails to turn things around: 'Despite improved player and sales metrics after the update, sales have not reached Remedy’s internal targets'
- Battlefield boss Vince Zampella tells locked-out Battlefield 6 owners to ditch the EA App and just buy it on Steam
- MachineGames hints at a new game in the works, and everyone has their fingers crossed for the return of Wolfenstein
- Blizzard is giving everyone a chance to try out World of Warcraft's new player housing for free next week
- Team Fortress 2 Classic open beta halted at the last minute, and something secret is cooking behind the scenes: 'Valve has asked us to ███████'
- Hideo Kojima waxes lyrical about an Expo in 1970 he credits for Metal Gear and Death Stranding, says that 'young bureaucrats' asked him to help design the 2025 follow-up but his ideas cost too much: 'I haven't had any contact with them since'
- Update: EA is deploying a fix for the 'missing content' and 'purchase to play' errors locking EA App users out of Battlefield 6
- Battlefield 6 player shows off the power of Portal by immediately dropping a decent Call of Duty 4 Shipment remake, oh, and a Star Destroyer
- Holy baloney Batman: Final Fantasy Tactics genius/maniac proves that Chocobos canonically believe in god
- NetEase pulls the plug on another studio: Former Riot exec's Fantastic Pixel Castle will 'likely close' if a new publisher isn't found soon
- Borderlands 4 director says use dialogue skip mod at your peril—it might turbo-brick your missions
- The humble Rubik's Cube is now achingly 2025 thanks to the addition of 24 LCD screens and a whopping $299 price tag
- Battlefield 6 players hit server queues as it rockets to over 500k Steam concurrents just 25 minutes after launch
- 'Now you've got something that's a little bit easier and less expensive and can go a little bit faster': Intel's lead x86 CPU architect explains why it's not bringing Hyper-Threading back for Panther Lake
- A data center fire in South Korea sees 858 TB of government files and 'eight years’ worth of work' stored in the cloud go up in smoke
- Obsidian director Josh Sawyer says he's 'Never really felt secure in a job' in 26 years, and it's worse than ever now
- RPG devs stopped making games like Baldur's Gate 'because retailers told us no one wanted to buy them', says New Vegas and Pillars of Eternity director Josh Sawyer
- AI software company Graphite says it practices 'dogfooding' and 'onboarding roulette' by deleting employee accounts at random
- Thank you Galax for this skinny RTX 5060 Ti because there's something surprisingly alluring about single-slot graphics cards
- 'Cheated and manipulated' MindsEye devs eviscerate studio bosses who blamed botched launch on 'saboteurs' and say they'll see them in court: 'The games industry is not the Wild West anymore'
- Sony and AMD detail their 'gamechanger' for PS6: enhanced ray tracing and memory tech some of which is surely headed to gaming PCs in future
- All Genshin Impact 6.1 livestream codes
- 'I can never go back to paid': One of the best co-op indie platformers is free to play after its developer accidentally switched off the price
- EA exec pinky-promises there's no GenAI in Battlefield 6, but does say it's 'Very seducing' like someone being lured to an early grave in a Hellraiser film
- The US has approved billions worth of Nvidia GPU exports to the United Arab Emirates in 'transformational US-UAE AI partnership deal'
- Grove Keeper is Dungeon Keeper versus woodcutters and your greatest weapon is a giant in his underpants
- Today's Wordle clues, hints and answer for October 10 (#1574)
- After 5 years of stunning trailers, Skate Story is finally releasing in December, and its demo is so good it's immediately a GOTY contender
- October 9
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- Indiana Jones and the Great Circle is getting a New Game+ mode and some new duds in a free update
- Wordle comes to Cyberpunk 2077, only it's better because it accepts Night City slang like 'CHOOM' and 'GONKS'
- Throwback strategy game Heroes of Might and Magic: Olden Era is delayed to 2026, but a new demo on Steam means you can play some of it right now for free
- A Minecraft Movie sequel is coming in 2027, because iffy reviews couldn't stop it from chicken jockeying its way to almost $1 billion so far
- EA is charging Skate players $35 for a cardboard Dead Space skin and it took me 40 straight minutes of game crashes to confirm it
- After more than a year of delays, Cities: Skylines 2's big Bridges and Ports expansion is finally almost here
- Arc Raiders lowers its price in some regions 'to ensure a more fair price point for all'
- Cards Against Humanity avoids tariffs with an edition that explains all the jokes, says 'this holiday season… don’t give Donald Trump a f***ing cent'
- Hooray for the PC: Sales are up by nearly 10% on last year, but predictably things are quite a bit slower in the US
- Stadium is getting a huge update as part of Overwatch 2 Season 19, adding new heroes, armory upgrades, and gadgets, which will be the 'single ace up your sleeve'
- Overwatch 2's Season 19 kicks off the spooky season with returning Halloween modes and a new addition, Haunted Masquerade
- After warring with fans for years, Black Ops 7 will finally ditch aggressive skill-based matchmaking: 'Our team feels strongly about providing players with a more varied experience'
- A YouTuber has built his own VR headset for a little over $150 and made the whole project open source, so I might just give it a go
- Valve's long-awaited standalone VR headset, Deckard, could be here before year's end according to word on the street from China
- Bethesda enlisted its intrepid fan-wiki editors 'to design a character for The Elder Scrolls 6'
- Kiss goodbye to your smartphone OS, ChatGPT wants to become an operating system complete with an AI app store
- Apparently optical gaming mice can spy on what we're saying and video games are an 'ideal target'
- World's top banker says the AI bubble will burst, and shedloads of money 'will probably be lost'
- UK gov fobs off a 10,000-strong request to stop payment processors nuking NSFW Steam games, says it's a matter for the free market, baby
- Discord says 70,000 age-verification ID photos may have been leaked in recent security breach that also includes names, usernames, emails, credit cards, and IP addresses
- It's not Celestial, but Intel's new Xe3 GPU architecture looks like it'll be ideal for the next generation of handheld gaming PCs
- Intel announces XeSS 3 with multi-frame generation, putting it ahead of AMD in the AI-powered graphics performance race
- Battlefield 6 ditching ray tracing seems to have paid off because the latest system requirements say 4K at 240 Hz is possible
- Sick of clicky-clacky keys? Google Japan offers a reminder that it could always be worse, unveiling a rotary keyboard concept
- Still in early access, Hyper Light Breaker's ending development and laying off staff: 'This was not our ideal path, but rather the only one available given the circumstances'
- Today's Wordle clues, hints and answer for October 9 (#1573)
- A lost chapter of Warhammer 40,000 space marines has been found: 'A miracle!'
- October 8
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- Laid-off devs of cancelled ZeniMax MMO Project Blackbird form new studio 'with no outside investors and full creative control,' and they're calling it Sackbird
- Ubisoft reportedly cancelled an Assassin's Creed game set around the American Civil War because of Yasuke backlash and political turmoil in the US
- Blizzard insists that now is the right time to axe World of Warcraft's popular combat mods: 'We're going to be paying very close attention in the weeks and months to come'
- As Rainbow Six Siege X numbers continue to slide, Ubisoft promises to crack down on cheaters and 'prioritize a fun experience' with future balance changes
- After cheaters broke Steam's most popular roguelike's leaderboards, its dev issued a fix and a warning: 'Cheaters you better watch your ass or I'm clapping your cheeks back to the shadow realm where you belong'
- Research firm estimates that North Korean crypto hackers have already made off with over $2 billion this year, reckons the regime has stolen over $6 billion in total
- UK police arrest two teenagers suspected of the nursery hack and ransom that saw images and the information of 20 toddlers posted to the dark web
- Kentucky sues Roblox, calling it 'a playground for predators who seek to harm our children'
- Epic sues Fortnite botters who filled their own maps with clankers and made off with tens of thousands of dollars
- I cut out my tongue to unlock a door in Eclipsium, then things started getting weird
- Clair Obscur Expedition 33 devs are 'working on a big thank you update' which'll include a new location, boss battles, and 'highly requested' quality-of-life improvements
- Larian lead calls out Elon Musk's harebrained scheme for a 'great AI-generated game', says 'We don't need another cash grab, we need sustainability'
- It's literally impossible to pick the 'real' murderer in Pentiment because Obsidian never considered having one: 'You're not a detective, you're a f***ing artist'
- Battlefield 6's lead oozes confidence by confirming that the servers 'should be' ready for its release on Friday, breaking a cycle of awful Battlefield launches
- Today's Wordle clues, hints and answer for October 8 (#1572)
- October 7
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- Shai Hulud defanged: In Dune: Awakening, your vehicles are no longer permanently lost if a sandworm eats them
- Founder of Dwarf Fortress and Caves of Qud publisher Kitfox Games says its procgen sims for sickos are 'giving storytelling tools back to the people when games and passive media took them away'
- The original System Shock 2 is being removed from sale later this week
- Today's Steam outage may have been part of a massive DDoS attack targeting Xbox, PlayStation, Riot, and other game companies
- The RTX 5080 MSI Vector 16 has dropped by $200, so it's time for me to tap the 'it's a really good gaming laptop' sign once more
- Battlefield 6 dev says its destruction tech is so delicious for one simple reason: 'The only magic trick is that we're not on the PS4 or Xbox One any more'
- Diablo 4 is gearing up for another major loot overhaul before its next expansion arrives next year
- Game Pass subscribers 'in certain countries' will not be affected by the price increase, at least 'for now,' because sometimes government regulation is actually a good thing
- The first gameplay footage from Astroneer studio's next space game looks like co-op chaos on colorful planets, but I'm not crazy about the idea of timed missions in a hangout game
- Elon Musk's AI-fuelled fever dream gets even hotter as he promises his AI game studio is going to release a 'great' game before the end of 2026
- Netflix reveals The Witcher season 4 debut date with a new trailer, but more importantly: Everyone's got fantastic hair
- This year's Physics Nobel goes to 3 researchers for discoveries way back in the 1980s that paved the way to quantum computing
- Steam is recovering from intermittent downtime on Tuesday
- As Destiny 2 hits its lowest ever daily peak for Steam concurrent players, Bungie U-turns on controversial plan to reset player power next season
- Microsoft is planning to make it harder than ever to install Windows without an internet connection and a Microsoft account
- Vampire Survivors devs say online co-op mode is 'coming soon'—along with the answer to 'a burning question that has been asked thousands of times'
- Despite mixed reviews, Skate's free-to-play excursion has managed to rake in over 15 million players in 3 weeks
- Broken Sword 2 is getting a 4K remaster, and this time AI won't be involved: 'I got into a bit of trouble talking about AI last time, but AI didn't really help us very much at all'
- This new 4K gaming monitor is so ridiculously bright I'm gonna need to wear shades
- Mortal Kombat player nabs a tournament victory just 5 days after giving birth, all while her newborn chills in her lap
- Thank God: The new Hell Let Loose will only have 'historically authentic' frogs
- 'We give players what they want': Battlefield 6 devs sing the praises of Battlefield Labs and chatty players, 'We believe in the power of tapping into the community'
- 'We're still on track to release *** *******': Arc Raiders pokes fun at EA and Activision censorship while reminding players that they're still coming for the end of the month
- Zelda Williams ethers AI 'tributes' to her dead dad: 'You’re making disgusting, over-processed hotdogs out of the lives of human beings'
- Peter Molyneux says 'We never took a penny of money from people' with his cursed cube game, contradicting Peter Molyneux who said it had made 'a few tens of thousands' in 2013
- The latest Intel Panther Lake CPU leak details next-gen Core Ultra 300 range with high-performance graphics restricted to a new 'X' model line
- Telltale-esque superhero management sim Dispatch was originally going to be a live-action TV show before it became a videogame, but then 'a thing called Covid hit'
- Today's Wordle clues, hints and answer for October 7 (#1571)
- Alien Isolation is way too long because its Xenomorph got way too smart: 'At the time it didn't seem that long'
- October 6
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- Co-op dino survival horror game Deathground prepares to launch with one final reminder that, no, 'you won't be able to play as a dinosaur'
- Activision extends the Black Ops 7 beta to wrap up just 24 hours before Battlefield 6 launches
- Silksong player smacks one of its toughest bosses until they turn off, flawlessly defeating them in just 35 seconds
- Unreal mastermind Cliff Bleszinski really likes this fan-made Redux remaster: 'Time for a new generation to learn that Unreal isn't just an engine'
- Bungie shows Marathon proof of life with the announcement of another closed playtest
- Madman modder takes one of Silksong's worst bosses and makes them even harder: 'This is seriously mucked up'
- After making Closed Weapons almost invisible in the Battlefield 6 beta, DICE says Open Weapons is 'the right path forward' because it was more popular
- Ubisoft reveals the surprise free Assassin's Creed Mirage DLC, which just coincidentally happens to be set in a region the Saudi government wants to turn into an 'economic powerhouse'
- This 'brutally honest' city builder features greedy landlords, cutthroat corporations, and a newspaper that gives you 'a constant reminder that your citizens' bad luck is perhaps your fault'
- Metal: Hellsinger studio The Outsiders is closing as part of Funcom's post-Dune: Awakening layoffs
- Activision says 'Arc Raiders' censorship in Call of Duty: Black Ops 7 lobbies was unintentional and will be fixed
- Intel's morale is reportedly 'in the toilet' as the chip maker strives to be 'really lean, fast moving'
- Don't look up: That's not a shooting star, it's another Starlink satellite burning up
- This 2025 shooter made in a decades-old Doom engine is gorgeous, fun, and tough as nails
- Monster Hunter Wilds' Steam reviews absolutely tank as players lose patience with its technical woes: 'Every time the game gets updated my performance decreases'
- 'I will die on this hill': Battlefield 6 players want DICE to edit the 'Resident Evil quickturn' or remove it entirely, but some aren't so sure
- AMD seals multi-year megadeal with OpenAI involving 6 gigawatts' worth of AI GPUs and a possible 10% stake in AMD
- As if doing a low honour run in Red Dead Redemption 2 didn't make you feel guilty enough in comes a mod that gives NPCs memories for you to watch before murdering them
- Activision claims 97% of cheaters it catches in Call of Duty: Black Ops 7 are banned within 30 minutes, thanks to secure boot and Ricochet
- You should read these 54 World of Darkness books for $25 to catch up on the lore ahead of Vampire: The Masquerade – Bloodlines 2
- Skipping all Baby Steps' cutscenes unlocks a secret, 28-minute punishment cutscene
- Minecraft's next drop might be the thing that finally convinces me to explore underwater
- After telling Borderlands 4 player to 'game that sh*t', Randy Pitchford finds out that you cannot, in fact, game that sh*t—says 'well, sh*t', confirms it's a bug and that it'll be fixed 'within the next two weeks'
- Decade-long SSD and RAM 'pricing apocalypse' predicted as AI data centers gobble up hardware on an epic scale
- Today's Wordle clues, hints and answer for October 6 (#1570)
- With a final update, Paradox announces support for its Civ competitor Millennia has come to an end
- October 5
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- 'Nintendo has not had any contact with the Japanese government about generative AI': Nintendo denies anti-AI lobbying rumors
- First US videogame champion, legendary programmer, and Interplay co-founder Rebecca Heineman is fundraising to deal with the costs of an aggressive cancer diagnosis
- 'Enjoy Cronos on Steam, wherever you are!': Bloober Team announces native Linux build for Cronos: The New Dawn
- Valve yoinked a new Counter-Strike 2 map out of the game after just 2 days, either for potential Disney copyright infringement, a 'gamer word' hidden in its data, or both
- OpenAI hastily retreats from gung-ho copyright policy after embarrassing Sora video output like AI Sam Altman surrounded by Pokémon saying 'I hope Nintendo doesn't sue us'
- Titan Quest 2's second chapter transports you to The Northern Beaches, where you'll find 9 new dungeons and 3 more bosses to batter
- Rust developer is fed up with survivors cowering in their homes, so it's reworking progression to 'get players back out of their bases'
- Manor Lords gets its first update since January, and its creator says he is 'rethinking what went wrong to ensure it won't happen again'
- The creator of Voxel Doom has spent the last three years making Voxel Duke Nukem 3D, and it's almost ready to rock
- Five-year-old survival/crafting game Arctico just got Steam Deck and controller support from out of nowhere
- Today's Wordle clues, hints and answer for October 5 (#1569)
- It took 14 years for a streamer to walk to the Far Lands in Minecraft, but his long journey is finally over
- October 4
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- The Bloodlines 2 voice cast features actors from Cyberpunk 2077, Hitman, Vermintide, and Game of Thrones
- Microsoft reportedly estimated that Game Pass led to $300 million in lost sales of Black Ops 6, with 82% of copies sold being on the Game Pass-less PlayStation 5
- Fallout Shelter, Pentiment, and other Unity games have been delisted on Steam thanks to Unity's security vulnerability
- Call of Duty may have finally blinked on SBMM as the Black Ops 7 beta adds a playlist with 'drastically reduced' skill consideration
- The solo dev behind RPG Sword Hero is promising a 'seamless open world' with amazing combat, intricate simulation, and systemic dismemberment—the demo on Steam makes me think they can pull it off
- 'A threat to creative expression and social progress': Advocacy groups respond to Roblox's new 'sensitive issues' label
- 'Xbox Game Pass Ultimate is still $19.99 with us': GameStop somehow openly brushes off Game Pass price hike
- One of the worst case scenarios for ID age verification is already here, with a Discord breach compromising some users' data
- The most underrated GTA of all time meets Hotline Miami? This ultra-violent crime sim coming soon to Steam has shot straight to the top of my hit list
- After a decade in development, this massive Skyrim mod adds a whole new region, 50 new dungeons and 'the biggest main quest you've ever played in Skyrim'
- Chill city-builder Bulwark: Falconeer Chronicles just got a massive update that adds an 'OP AF' new airship, as the developer urges players to check out his game: 'Any review helps, even the critical ones'
- Fight like a Witcher in Elden Ring thanks to this ingenious moveset mod
- Civilization 7's latest update brings improved map generation, a better UI, and a 'full rework of Napoleon', but it hasn't moved the needle on its divided Steam rating
- Today's Wordle clues, hints and answer for October 4 (#1568)
- October 3
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- Fabulous news everyone: Market analyst says the AI bubble is 17X bigger than the dotcom goldrush, and 4X larger than the subprime bubble that caused the 2008 crash
- As Microsoft lays off thousands and jacks up Game Pass prices, former FTC chair says I told you so: The Activision-Blizzard buyout is 'harming both gamers and developers'
- 5869 days after releasing the greatest rock opera about Mega Man ever recorded, The Protomen's follow-up Act 3 is, unbelievably, finally here*
- Dying Light: The Beast players have killed enough zombies in two weeks to equal a quarter of the world's population
- As Game Pass prices get laughably high, Microsoft is reportedly spinning up a free version of Xbox Cloud Gaming—but of course you'll have to sit through ads
- All-women Counter-Strike 2 pro league ESL Impact will halt operations at the end up its upcoming finals
- Kingmakers, the game about bringing modern weapons to medieval battlefields, gets delayed just 5 days ahead of launch, and there's no new release date
- As the videogame industry continues to be hammered by layoffs, Netflix is offering up to $840,000 per year for a new Director of Generative AI for Games
- Helldivers 2 dev explains why the PC version takes a million years to update and has 3X the filesize of the console versions: old, undemocratic hard drives
- Meta's latest bid to get you into the metaverse is the Horizon Engine, promising 'infinite connected spaces, more realistic physics, and higher player counts'
- AMD and Intel are in 'early-stage talks' about signing a foundry commitment, a win that the struggling chip giant and US government would both love
- Critical Role: Campaign 4's first 13-player ensemble episode is chaotic, messy, and gripping D&D—and I feel like I've just seen a magician pull a fully-formed rabbit out of a hat
- Emperor of overpromising Peter Molyneux says he's done with games after Masters of Albion, which is also his 'redemption title'
- The 43rd Golden Joystick Awards shortlist is out, and just looking at the indie list alone, I can tell it's going to be a tough year
- Unity has found a security vulnerability that has sat dormant for almost a decade: 'Take immediate action to protect your games & apps'
- Worried about melty graphics cards? This seriously capable gizmo keeps power in check for more peace of mind
- Dial up is dead—at least as far as AOL is concerned, as the company is pulling the plug after 34 years
- New MIT research opens the door to faster-charging and longer-lasting batteries, and it could be implemented right away
- Amazon's giving away one great Fallout game and one bad one this October
- Vampire Survivors-like Megabonk makes megabucks, selling a million copies in 2 weeks, and currently has more daily players than Borderlands 4 on Steam: 'I'll be eating spaghetti with EXTRA sauce tonight'
- Today's Wordle clues, hints and answer for October 3 (#1567)
- 'The industry isn't dying, it's splitting into two different models': What experts are saying about the EA buyout
- October 2
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- If you missed Master Chief having sex on Paramount+ now you can see Master Chief having sex on Netflix
- The new Humble Bundle is a wild mix of Warhammer games for just $12
- One of my most anticipated shooters, which looks like Demon's Souls in the Doom engine, finally has a release date right around the corner
- Holy cow, the Epic Games Store supports preloading now
- The guy who says 'Toasty!' in Mortal Kombat has left NetherRealm after more than 30 years with the team
- Meta Vibes is an officially sanctioned feed of endless AI garbage, and The Daily Show nails it in one: 'You're a fat little pig for internet video slop, and we here at Meta want to watch you eat yourself to death'
- The new Swery/Suda collab's greatest sin is trying too hard
- Disco Elysium studio ZA/UM unionizes in the UK: 'We like being here. We want to continue being here. So let's try and get a seat at the table in the big management meetings'
- One of my favorite survival city builders is leaving early access this month, so here's your chance to buy it before the price goes up
- Amnesia creator Frictional Games teases its next game, and it may be something new but it sure feels like SOMA
- With Xbox hiking prices and a newly private, $20-billion-in-the-hole EA looking ready to gut Baldur's Gate series creator BioWare, Larian boss Swen Vincke points out that 'making games faster and cheaper while charging more has never worked before'
- After getting dumped by EA, FIFA's finally back with its own football game starring… animal mascots?
- 'Now you've got no excuses': Palworld is teaming up with Core Keeper for a Steam Autumn sale bundle because the folks over at Pocketpair are 'just big fans'
- Horrible news: exploit found in Humanoid robots capable of 'creating a robot botnet that spreads without user intervention' over Bluetooth
- Capcom legend tackles Palworld-Nintendo battle and manages to annoy almost everyone: 'It's a game that transcends the boundaries of war'
- Starbreeze lays off a bunch more people as it cancels its co-op D&D game and shifts focus to building Payday 3 into a 'modern live-engagement game'
- Nonprofit turned investment magnet OpenAI is now valued at $500 billion
- Hero 100% beats Silksong using a saxophone as a gamepad, says it's not even the hardest game he's sax'd
- One of the coolest rhythm games I've ever played—with distraction mechanics straight out of those fake mobile ads—is finally coming out of early access
- A TikToker flew all the way to Scotland to harass and yell at Rockstar developers about a non-existent GTA 6 delay: 'I'm sick and tired of waiting for the answers'
- Job losses might be likely due to AI but Nvidia's CEO says the booming billion-dollar industry will always need more plumbers and electricians
- World of Warcraft: Midnight's design director wasn't sure players would enjoy Delve bosses jumping you, but 'it turns out people really like that', so now we're getting Prey
- Amazon breaks glass marked 'AI-powered Snoop Dogg game where he's a judge' to get you to pay attention to its wilting Luna streaming service
- Fortnite insists it wasn't stitched up by Warner Bros. and the Peacemaker emote, but is modifying it anyway 'to avoid any confusion'
- There's a new king of lightweight gaming mice and I'll 1v1 anyone who disses the ultralight market
- Intel's quietly buffed its GPU drivers to fix gaming frame rate issues with some older processors
- 'We will be looking at everything': Call of Duty: Black Ops 7 devs will be paying close attention to community feedback during the upcoming beta
- EA could sell off studios after Saudi and Kushner-funded $55 billion acquisition, says former Dragon Age producer: 'It's hard to imagine that you'd have BioWare pivot from having very progressive messaging to having the reverse'
- Private collector's GPU horde tours through 30 years of Nvidia and AMD hardware history
- Fortnite's collaboration with K-Pop Demon Hunters is the most excited I've been since Epic gave Hatsune Miku an AK-47
- A bunch of Steam players just made the switch to Windows 11 as Windows 10's death date is now less than two weeks away
- The first hotfix for Hades 2 nerfs one jerk miniboss in particular
- Today's Wordle clues, hints and answer for October 2 (#1566)
- October 1
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- Blizzard will break WoW's most popular combat mods sooner than expected, kickstarting a new era for the MMO's boss design in the next major patch
- Henry Cavill bares rippling chest, powerful triceps, and deep-cut Planescape: Torment knowledge in new photo that inspires one PC Gamer editor to declare, 'He just like me fr'
- World of Warcraft: Midnight's collector's edition lets you own the Dark Heart, but please don't use this void relic to resurrect an all-devouring shadow god
- Game Pass gets major price hike 'to offer more flexibility, choice, and value,' Microsoft says with a completely straight face
- Final Fantasy Tactics - The Ivalice Chronicles director is a big PC gamer, and says he was 'very particular' about making sure they got the new UI just right
- YouTube rolls over and pays $24.5 million to settle Trump lawsuit after suspending his account in the wake of the Capitol riots, president calls himself a 'shadowbanned patriot'
- Teenager pleads guilty to sending Epic staff death threats: 'I intended for the messages to be viewed as a threat'
- Swery/Suda51 collab Hotel Barcelona sheepishly apologises for AI content, promises 'We are opposed to any professional GenAI use' that kills the planet, steals jobs, or is otherwise 'Unethical'
- As World of Warcraft winds down its combat AddOn support, director Ion Hazzikostas is all composure about rule-breakers because 'Frankly, this is far from the first time'
- World of Warcraft: Midnight deep dive reveals a continent-hopping questline as part of its main campaign, a cosy 'Arcantina' hub, and the release date of player housing's early access
- Dune Awakening was 'the biggest release' in Funcom's 32-year history, so you can probably guess what comes next in this rotten world: layoffs
- Asus is finally bringing RTX 5080 card themed around everyone's favourite Vocaloid songstress to the US—but there's a steep Miku tax
- One of the coolest games of 2025 is a Marvel superheroes beat-'em-up—and you can play a demo for yourself right now
- 'We want to keep experimenting': Silent Hill f won't become the new norm as Konami wants each new Silent Hill game to stand out and have 'its own distinct flavour'
- Fallout: London's first big DLC is here with 80 NPCs, 30 new quests, a bunch of other stuff and, most important, 'Thousands of bug fixes and improvements'
- Ubisoft's new Tencent-backed company is called Vantage Studios, a 'creative house' that will take over development of Assassin's Creed, Far Cry, and Rainbow Six
- Apparently the most popular clip on OpenAI's new AI video app Sora depicts Sam Altman stealing graphics cards
- Fallout 76's Burning Springs update draws its 'main influences from Fallout 3 and Fallout: New Vegas' as players venture to a whole new state, Ohio
- 'There are rainbows coming out of my heart': Walton Goggins' The Ghoul is finally coming to Fallout 76 as part of Burning Springs, and get this, he'll pay you to off people
- One of last year's best Metroidvanias, Nine Sols, currently has an entirely different first-person horror game tucked inside its Steam betas
- OpenAI's new video generation tool Sora 2 is here, but don't worry, Sam Altman says it will avoid the 'degenerate case of AI video generation that ends up with us all being sucked into an RL-optimized slop feed'
- Borderlands 4's Thursday patch will buff the game's cast, but UI improvements are coming later
- BioWare's just waiting for the axe to fall after EA's $55 billion buyout, say anonymous staff
- Today's Wordle clues, hints and answer for October 1 (#1565)
- CoD: Black Ops 7's wallhack killstreak is receiving a frenzy of criticism, but isn't the point of killstreaks that they're unfair?
