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March 20
- Game dev union marches through industry event to demonstrate that it's about 'taking action and organizing change'
March 19
- Balatro's LocalThunk isn't 'trying to pull a Banksy', he just 'wanted to be left alone to make his game'
- This is why the Minecraft movie is called A Minecraft Movie
- The warframe with a guitar that shoots fire is out today alongside a bunch of metalcore-inspired skins, cementing Warframe's spiral into Y2K madness
- Johan Pilestedt warns that Helldivers 2 took 4 more years than planned because Arrowhead skipped pre-production and dove right in: 'Always do your homework before you start spending millions and millions and millions of dollars in making a game'
- Helldivers 2's Johan Pilestedt says developers need to start taking more risks: 'Safe bets are a death sentence for the studios that try to make them'
- A pair of Split Fiction players will be heading to Sweden for an early look at Hazelight's next game after completing a secret challenge so tough, some developers can 'barely' beat it
- Arrowhead’s CEO got a call from PlayStation when he said players could save their money and wait to buy Helldivers 2 until the servers were fixed: They ‘asked me what the f*** I’m smoking’
- New Ark DLC gets AI-generated trailer so awful that the original developer's washing its hands of the whole thing, and fans are in uproar: 'This is disgusting and you should be ashamed'
- The United Nations asked Helldivers 2 studio Arrowhead if it'd give a talk on psychological manipulation: ‘Could we brainwash an entire community to fight for a fascist state? … Would we be okay with that? Turns out, yeah’
- It's not for PC gamers but Razer's new AI QA Copilot could ultimately benefit every PC gamer out there, and it's looking like it could be a killer app that AI needs right now
- I honestly thought Razer's Sensa haptics stuff was just a gimmick until I tried it with a sim racing setup, and now I'm absolutely sold
- Kingdom Come: Deliverance 2 sold 5 times more than the original in its first month
- Here's how to watch the Future Games Show 2025 Spring Showcase
- Nvidia has cut the MSRP of RTX 50-series FE cards in the UK and Europe and that means... not a whole lot right now
- Microsoft's Adaptive Joystick is geared towards 'players with limited mobility' and is available now for just $30
- Silksong's weary hollows tossed another scrap of hope from Xbox on high, as a blog post namedrops it next to other 'upcoming games'
- Game developers launch North America's first industry-wide union 'to build worker power irrespective of studio and current job status'
- Rejoice! PCI Express 7.0 hits 'final draft' status enabling bandwidth that you probably won't notice on devices that won't appear for years
- American Truck Simulator’s latest teaser is just a sound effect and no one seems to agree on what exactly it means
- Microsoft is finally rolling out its controller-friendly virtual keyboard for a better Windows handheld gaming PC experience
- Palworld's Crossplay Update does far more than let you play with console buddies, adding photo mode, a drafting table and 'dimensional Pal Storage'
- It's not looking good for D&D's virtual tabletop Sigil, as Hasbro follows a quiet release by reportedly laying off 90% of the people working on it
- While we despair of RTX 50-series supplies and wait on next-gen Rubin, Nvidia reveals its next-next GPU architecture will be known as Feynman and is due in 2028
- Some Fallout 76 players have encountered a 'major game-breaking bug' which either makes it impossible to complete the ghoul quest or just makes you temporarily invisible
- Major performance issues aside, over half of Monster Hunter Wilds’ sales are from Steam alone
- Remember those fiddly screw-locks for VGA and DVI-D? Bet you didn't know USB-C also has them
- After launching as an Epic Store exclusive, World of Goo 2 dribbles onto Steam this spring: 'We’re grateful to Epic for funding development of the game'
- The nail-biting, 100-hour BIOS update stream which garnered 88,000 peak views ends with a cut to black
- Razer is collaborating on a gaming CAPTCHA to combat AI-powered bots, and of course the first game to use it is the worst Web3 nonsense I've ever seen
- Nvidia reveals Vera, a new CPU with 'custom' cores which could be very exciting for its upcoming premium PC processor
- 'You are hereby conscripted': Fallout 76 players demand newly-transformed ghoul players help them mine radioactive ore
- Marvel Rivals' devs like throwing in curveballs 'to make the roster more interesting,' meaning we'll probably get more characters like Squirrel Girl and Jeff the Land Shark
- Monster Hunter Wilds' next set of event quests let you snag a snazzy earring, plus armor and weapon decorations
- This Redditor rocked up to Best Buy and bought an RTX 4060 gaming PC for cheaper than its extended warranty, saving $1,195 and their friend from buying a console
- 'We balance for fun, first and foremost': Marvel Games' executive producer discusses Marvel Rivals' priorities and why competitive balancing comes second
- Nvidia's GTC keynote inevitably went all in on AI but I'm definitely here for the Isaac GR00T robots
- Today's Wordle answer for Wednesday, March 19
- The best budget controller for PC gaming can be had for just AU$20, if you know where to look
- Inzoi will cost as much as a Sims 4 expansion pack and until it leaves early access 'all DLCs and updates will be free'
- In good news for Sim-murdering sickos, Inzoi has '16 different types of deaths'
March 18
- Nvidia's expanded Zorah demo tells us how AI is the future of graphics: 'There's no rasterization going on at all. This is all ray traced and the amazing part is that it's actually faster than rasterizing'
- Sennheiser says it 'will not become a gaming brand' but its new HD 550 are a good excuse to use audiophile headphones for gaming
- After years of playing as stupid, boring humans in Fallout, you can finally channel your inner Walton Goggins and become a ghoul in Fallout 76
- Hasbro will be ready to share news about the future of Baldur's Gate 'in pretty short order'
- World of Warcraft Classic’s Season of Discovery may be teasing a legendary weapon that players have speculated is in the game for two decades
- Get in here, stalker: Stalker 2’s Patch 1.3 is here with a whopping 1,200 fixes
- I'm creeped out by this trailer for a generative AI game about people using an AI-powered app to solve violent crimes in the year 2028 that somehow isn't a cautionary tale
- After 12 days and 100s of wipes, World of Warcraft's latest world first raid ends in anticlimax: 'That's the boss?!?'
- AMD, Intel, Microsoft, and Nvidia are all excited about cooperative vectors and what they mean for the future of 3D graphics, but it's going to be a good while before we really see their impact
- New super-thin '2D' metal sheets could enable ultra-low power chips and can you guess how they're made? Yup, by squishing stuff really hard
- Larian's Swen Vincke subtweets anyone still fixated on singleplayer games' commercial viability: 'They just have to be good'
- 'People like to hate EA, I don't know why': Split Fiction's Josef Fares says he has a good relationship with his publisher, but 'nobody believes' him
- The Silent Hill F system requirements look pretty modest at first but that's only for all my 720p gamers out there
- PC gamers spend 92% of their time on older games, oh and there are apparently 908 million of us now
- AMD claims it has 45% gaming GPU market share in Japan but jokingly admits it 'isn't used to selling graphics cards'
- This HyperX headset is quite literally for the clouds as it has the option for winged ear plates
- Cities: Skylines 2 celebrates 10 years of Cities with more nuanced homelessness and six new DLCs
- Rockstar hornswoggles lapsed GTAO players with $3 million welcome-back offer that actually requires you to spend money to get most of it
- 'I'm not a gamer,' says God of War Amazon series' new showrunner, unwittingly kicking a hornet's nest despite years of acclaimed writing experience
- Ratings board gives away Silent Hill f's gut-churning tricks, listing face-slicing, arm-sawing and, worst of all, 'exposed buttocks'
- The best game design schools, ranked by the Princeton Review 2025
- Helldivers 2's next warbond'll let you be a real space cowboy, and draw on those Automaton scum with a lever-action rifle
- The Half-Life 2 RTX demo is out now and well worth a go… if your graphics card can take it
- 'I made the world's worst keyboard': This YouTuber's homemade board has over 1,000 keys and types in words, not letters
- "Eager to get me on my knees, Raphael?" Baldur's Gate 3 mod lets you romance the silk-tongued cambion devil, although maybe you shouldn't, yeah?
- Chinese graphics card maker claims RX 9070 supply will be 'stable' from April while AMD commits to more MSRP graphics cards though admits it's something 'we don't directly control'
- Zenless Zone Zero developer finally embraces its divine domain as the god of jiggle physics, goes mad, adds them to cat balls
- Space Marine 2 CEO puts the boot into the Saints Row team's twitching corpse from his private jet: 'Who's going to fund them for the next game after that disaster?'
- The future of robots is looking ever more meaty as MIT researchers grow first bidirectional muscle tissue machine
- Today's Wordle answer for Tuesday, March 18
- Ark 2 is still on: The next Ark expansion 'leads into the events of Ark 2,' says Studio Wildcard
- It was 'super popular to hate Palworld' after launch, says community manager: 'A lot of companies might crumble under the threats, under the pressure'
- 'It was a very depressing day': Palworld community manager reveals studio's reaction to Nintendo lawsuit
March 17
- A gorgeous ground-up remake of Counter-Strike 1.6 is on its way to Steam, and one of the game's original creators says 'it really gives me old vibes'
- There's a new Portal game and it costs $12,500
- The best-looking gaming microphone is currently AU$100 off, so you can speak into a resplendent RGB rainbow for less
- Beast Games opens casting for season 2: MrBeast lost a ton of money on season 1 but apparently not enough that he won't do it again
- Rise of the Ronin's PC troubles continue as players report disappearing saves on Steam
- Former Treyarch studio co-head and Black Ops 3 director is heading up a new first-party PlayStation studio
- 'I want to raise this glass to our fans, to our community': 4A Games celebrates Metro 2033's 15th anniversary and hints at next Metro game
- Ubisoft reportedly has an anti-harassment plan in place for Assassin's Creed Shadows developers
- This MSI Afterburner file unlocks 36 Gbps RTX 50-series memory overclocks for, y'know, the few people that actually own a card
- Avowed's new patch just gave you 6 more talent points to muck around with, along with a heap of fixes and improvements
- Silent Hill 2 remake and Indiana Jones are at historically low prices this Steam Spring Sale—so long as you don't buy them directly from Steam
- A new and improved desktop experience just landed on Steam Deck and SteamOS is readying 'support for non-Steam Deck handhelds'
- Monster Hunter Wilds players wonder if frenzied monsters are a little undercooked, as one slaps a sickly bird into a fine paste in just 25 seconds
- This Pathfinder Humble Bundle lets you level up your TTRPG library and donate to charity at the same time starting at just $5
- Inzoi is giving eager life simmers another free taste of its gorgeous character creator, with a bonus build mode demo for the architecture nerds
- You can grab Undertale for less than $1, as the genre-defining indie RPG beats its all-time player peak for the first time in 10 years
- Age of Empires 2 team continues to cook while delivering 'legendarily long' 8,000-word patch notes about 'the biggest updates' the 26-year-old game has ever had
- Life is Strange: Double Exposure reportedly a 'large loss' for Square Enix, says analyst, who adds: 'The company's IP fundamentally varies too much between good and bad'
- Would you like to taste fish soup in VR? Me neither, but this electronic tongue does it anyway
- 'REPO is fun': Lethal Company creator recants their criticism of the new co-op horror game after trying to move a grand piano through a mansion
- Your Discord friends list may soon appear directly in the games you play
- KOTOR remake returns for annual tradition of reminding you it's still alive, but no you can't hear anything more about it until it comes back next year to say it again
- A rather pleasing Windows 11 update bug automatically uninstalls Copilot and unpins it from the taskbar, which is jolly nice of it
- Valorant dev accepts there's too much random crap cluttering up the screen: 'The balance team generally agrees with this take'
- New headset reads minds and uses AR, AI and machine learning to help people with locked-in-syndrome communicate with loved ones again
- 92% of Nvidia users turn on DLSS... if they've been lucky enough to bag an RTX 50-series card at launch AND have the Nvidia App installed
- This palm-sized PC has removable memory, a flip up screen, and a Ryzen AI 9 HX 370 processor
- Today's Wordle answer for Monday, March 17
- Deconstructeam's next game is about training to shoot a single fireball at an impossible target
- We asked two parkour athletes to rate the realism of Assassin's Creed's acrobatics, and a surprising 'crime against parkour' might actually be one of the most realistic things they saw
- MechWarrior 5: Clans is getting DLC with playable Elementals and a fight on the outside of a spaceship
March 16
- 'I feel worried about this art form:' Unsurprisingly, the real Aloy from Horizon isn't a fan of AI Aloy
- REPO's first update will add a new map and a 'duck bucket' so we can finally give that pesky quacker a time out
- Today's Wordle answer for Sunday, March 16
March 15
- The Day Before studio reportedly sues Russian website for calling infamous disaster-game a 'scam'
- The best Battlefield game of the last decade is 95% off until Thursday
- The hottest farming sim since Stardew Valley just got its second major update, adding lava caves and pets you unlock by having a 'pet dream'
- Grab the brilliant Doom 2016 for its lowest price ever
- Dune Awakening's latest trailer offers a glimpse of its massive coriolis storms, which reshape swathes of the map each week for 'infinite exploration'
- Today's Wordle answer for Saturday, March 15
March 14
- 'What are most games about? Killing': Black Mirror Season 7 includes a follow-up to 2018 interactive film Bandersnatch
- Sony, which is making a Helldivers 2 movie, is also making a new Starship Troopers movie, but it's not based on the Starship Troopers movie we already have
- Ubisoft is reportedly talking to Tencent about creating a new business entity to manage Assassin's Creed and other big games
- 'It really truly changed my life in every possible way': Lady Dimitrescu actor says her Resident Evil Village role was just as transformative for her as it was for roughly half the internet in 2021
- Another live service shooter is getting shut down, this time before it even launched on Steam
- Possibility Space owners sue NetEase for $900 million over allegations it spread 'false and defamatory rumors' of fraud at the studio that ultimately forced it to close
- 2024 was Steam's 'best year ever' of users buying newly released games—but I wouldn't celebrate the end of the forever game era just yet
- Valve tracked 1.7 million Steam users who joined in 2023 to see if they stuck around—they did, and they spent $93 million
- Varjo Aero VR headsets seem to be not working on RTX 5090s, and its community is opting for strange solutions while waiting for an Nvidia driver release to fix it
- Microsoft co-authored paper suggests the regular use of gen-AI can leave users with a 'diminished skill for independent problem-solving' and at least one AI model seems to agree
- Final Fantasy 14 patch 7.2's trailer has me finally hyped to get stuck back in—and to go to the moon and pilot some mechs, because why not
- World's smallest microcontroller looks like I could easily accidentally inhale it but packs a genuine 32-bit Arm CPU
- Fortnite comes to Snapdragon: Epic Games announces upcoming Arm support for its Easy Anti-Cheat software
- 'We've been keeping fans waiting for an awfully long time': We finally got to see more of Silent Hill f and boy, does it look great
- Penne for your thoughts: This pasta display can show three individual frames and it's trying its best, okay
- The hooligan hacker guild that tore up WoW's newest raid (twice) just posted video evidence of the whole thing, and it's got me feeling weirdly nostalgic
- Finally some good vibes from Intel as stock jumps 15% on new CEO hire and Arizona fab celebrates 'Eagle has landed' moment for its 18A node
- Asus appears to have quietly changed the design of its Q-Release PCIe slot after claims of potential GPU pin damage
- Mass Effect's Jennifer Hale, who played femshep, 'saw no line' before she recorded them for Bioware's flagship trilogy: 'It was all cold reading on the spot'
- After years of complaints about Windows Task Manager displaying CPU utilization incorrectly, a fix is finally on its way
- Sony's fixing the wrong panel problems while showing off its new 'RGB LED' backlight tech with outrageous colours and brightness
- All Genshin Impact 5.5 livestream codes
- Super Nintendo consoles appear to be running ever-so-slightly faster as they age and speedrunning detectives are hot on the case
- Three lucky folks in India can win the dubious honour of buying an RTX 5080 GPU at Nvidia MSRP
- Get ready to argue with your weird Uncle on Facebook again. Meta is rolling out its new fact checking solution to it's 190 million users in the United States
- Fresh leak suggests Intel's on-again-off-again Arrow Lake CPU refresh is back on the menu (boys)
- Today's Wordle answer for Friday, March 14
- Go ahead and complain the discounts aren't as steep as they used to be, but Steam just had its biggest year ever for seasonal sales
- 'The future of hardware at Valve is bright': Valve celebrates the success of Steam Deck and Steam OS
March 13
- One of my favorite indie RPGs is getting a follow-up made with FromSoftware's 25-year-old Super Mario Maker for first person dungeon crawlers
- Kingdom Come: Deliverance 2 now has Steam Workshop support, and of course one of the first mods lets you adjust the 'jiggle physics'
- Microsoft unveils Copilot for Gaming, an AI-powered 'ultimate gaming sidekick' that will let you talk to your console so you don't have to talk to your friends
- After holding out for 10 years, Rainbow Six Siege is finally going free-to-play (kind of)
- This RuneScape-looking 'simulated MMORPG' has all the nostalgia without the drama because all the other 'players' are NPCs
- Hello Sunshine is a desert survival sandbox where you live in the literal shadow of the colossus
- Pirate Bay co-founder and far-right politician found dead after plane crash
- 'Don't let your kids be on Roblox', Roblox CEO tells parents, before comparing himself to Walt Disney and declaring the platform 'the future of communication'
- Fate: Reawakened gives the nostalgic 20-year-old action RPG series a new lease on life
- Praise be to the Omnissiah! Warhammer 40,000: Space Marine 3 is officially in development
- Group allegedly trying to smuggle Nvidia Blackwell chips stare down bail set at over $1 million
- Rainbow Six Siege is getting its first permanent mode in 10 years, and it throws every Siege rule out the window
- Despite Disco Elysium Mobile aiming to 'captivate the TikTok user,' it looks surprisingly decent—but it's still insulting to Disco's ousted creators
- The Steam Spring Sale 2025 is here
- Venerable browser-based MMO Urban Dead is closing this week after a 20-year run, not with a bang but with a whimper
- Saudi Arabia buys Pokémon GO maker for $3.5 billion with a 'B'
- 4 short months after saying 'We'll have to adapt and change', Netflix's AI games VP adapts and changes into a person who isn't working there anymore
- Monster Hunter Wilds players can't stop blowing themselves to smithereens with its rollable barrel bombs
- The PC Gaming Show returns this June
- If you don't let us scrape copyrighted content, we will lose out to China says OpenAI as it tries to influence US government
- 'What do you mean real actors?': Astarion's VO, who shared an awards category with Idris Elba after Baldur's Gate 3, remembers the dark ages of mocap
- 'More evolution than revolution': PowerWash Simulator 2 is coming late 2025, and it's bringing online multiplayer and split-screen co-op with it
- The latest big game on Steam is Fragpunk, or as I like to call it, 'kitchen-sink Counter-Strike'
- Crusader Kings 3 saddles up for a long-awaited return to the east with its first Asian DLC, Khans of the Steppe
- LocalThunk gave up making Balatro for 3 months but resumed because 'I was bored but the internet was out so I couldn't play Rocket League'
- 'No AI used': Netflix's Devil May Cry showrunner confirms that all of Kevin Conroy's lines were recorded before he passed
- AI will be crammed in more of the graphics pipeline as Nvidia and Microsoft are bringing AI shading to a DirectX preview next month
- Nvidia says it's sold twice as many RTX 50-series cards as RTX 40-series in the first 5 weeks. I'd bloody well hope so given there was essentially just the RTX 4090 for competition
- Looks like a reference design AMD RX 9070 XT card has shown up in China, but let's not get carried away with thoughts of MBA cards just yet
- WoW flexes its MMO player housing system in a new blog post, and it really might just beat FF14's dated furniture placement into the dirt
- Today's Wordle answer for Thursday, March 13
- Spectre Divide and its studio are shutting down after just six months: 'The industry is in a tough spot right now'
- Ubisoft backflips, says Assassin's Creed Shadows will support Steam Deck at launch, but I doubt I'll actually want to play it there
March 12
- 'Diversify your fashion endgame' with this Kingdom Come: Deliverance 2 mod that gives Henry fly new gambesons, pourpoints, and caftans
- There's hope yet for Classic Offensive after its Steam rejection: The team behind the Counter-Strike 1.6 revival mod is in touch with Valve about its 'concerns'
- Here comes Intel's new CEO: a semiconductor veteran that won the same prestigious award as Jensen Huang and Lisa Su
- 8 months into their strike, videogame voice actors say the industry's latest proposal is 'filled with alarming loopholes that will leave our members vulnerable to AI abuse'
- Dune: Awakening confirms air-to-air combat in ornithopters
- LocalThunk forbids AI-generated art on the Balatro subreddit: 'I think it does real harm to artists of all kinds'
- Oh great, the full Inzoi system requirements are posted and I'm barely above the minimum specs so I guess my Zois will be beautifully blurry
- BioWare veteran says a big delay is better than lots of little ones, because sometimes you just gotta 'burn it down and take the other fork in the road'
- Rise of the Ronin is another crappy PC port, performance patch coming 'soon'
- A dead MMO that launched with a now-cancelled TV show in 2013 is coming back 4 years after servers were shut down
- Return of the gigahertz wars: New Chinese transistor uses bismuth instead of silicon to potentially sock it to Intel and TSMC with 40% more speed
- OpenAI is working on a new AI model Sam Altman says is ‘good at creative writing’ but to me it reads like a 15-year-old's journal
- 'This is essentially a fraudulent project': Some scientists are firing shots at Microsoft's recent quantum computing claims
- This impractical method of getting a 1-second capture time in Monster Hunter Wilds can make you the fastest hunter alive—on paper
- Lego is going to make its videogames in-house from now on, says it would 'almost rather overinvest'
- We've just got a first look at Vergil in Netflix's upcoming Devil May Cry series alongside another key character from Devil May Cry 3
- More affordable sub-$1,000 RTX 50-series laptops likely coming in May as RTX 5060 and RTX 5050 models spotted online
- GTA 5 publisher takes legal aim at account-selling site for allegedly raking in 'millions in revenue', while recruiting hackers to keep its cogs turning
- XFX is letting you add customisable 3D printed wings to its Quicksilver RX 9070-series graphics cards
- So, wait, now TSMC is supposedly pitching a joint venture with Nvidia, AMD and Broadcom to run Intel's ailing chip fabs?
- Marvel Rivals is carrying on the tradition of chaotic patches after buffing two of the most annoying heroes, but I main one of them, so I'm not complaining
- Some Sapphire RX 9070/9070 XT graphics cards have hard-to-spot foam inside that must be removed or it 'may result in a decrease in cooling capacity or product failure'
- Gemma's English VA is right with us on Monster Hunter Wild's confusing menus, which makes me feel a little better for having to Google symbols all the time
- Haunted printers turning on by themselves and printing nonsense has to be one of my favorite Windows 11 bugs ever
- This water-cooled gaming laptop packs a full-size desktop RTX 5090 and even fits in a backpack, but I sure wouldn't want it in mine
- Samsung's handheld prototype delivers folding phone screens to Switch-like gaming hardware, and I am absolutely here for it
- Corsair's Custom Labs is now available in Europe, allowing you to make your gear as cute or ugly as you want and no-one will stop you
- Trump says the United States is already talking to potential TikTok buyers: 'We're dealing with four different groups, and a lot of people want it ... all four are good'
- Today's Wordle answer for Wednesday, March 12
- The latest Monster Hunter Wilds event quest gives piles of Armor Spheres for hunting a Chatacabra, making this a very bad week to be a frog in the Forbidden Lands
March 11
- NBN bargain hunters, here's a good one: Optus is offering AU$210 off its NBN 1000 service
- Rebellion CEO seems kind of awed by major studios making massive videogames: 'How do you organize a game that has 2,000 people working on it?'
- Here's a roguelite dungeon crawler Steam reviewers call 'a botanical Diablo' and 'like Cult of the Lamb' except you manage a mystical garden
- Oops! Bungie rolled out Destiny 2's Rite of the Nine event three weeks early, and new loot is already dropping
- No Rest for the Wicked developer Moon Studios is now 'fully independent' after acquiring the rights to the game from Take-Two
- Attention, fashion hunters: There's a Monster Hunter Wilds mod to disable all those obnoxious glowing buff effects that distract from your fits
- Should Age of Empires and Quake be in the 'World Video Game Hall of Fame'? You can vote for them to be inducted this year
- The Fallout season 2 leaks continue with videos of the New Vegas set, including a sign for Mr. House's casino
- BlizzCon 2025 isn't happening, meaning the event will miss its 20th anniversary, but it will return in 2026 to 'meaningfully elevate this iconic celebration'
- World of Warcraft guild uses exploits to get world 'first' on the game's new raid, gets banned, puts its name backwards and does it again
- The best baseball player alive is coming to Fortnite, and so is his dog
- How long can a live service game last? Theoretically, 'forever,' says Mecha Break developer: 'The last game I was in charge of has been alive and well for 16 years'
- Naughty Dog's next game is definitely steering clear of controversy: 'Let's do something that people won't care as much about. Let's make a game about faith and religion'
- Coder faces 10 years' jailtime for creating a 'kill switch' that screwed-up his employers' systems when he was laid off
- New modder tool makes it easier than ever to swap AMD's FSR 4 scaling for Nvidia's DLSS or Intel's XeSS and vice versa
- Gigabyte seemingly mocks Asus' recent Q-release debacle with a video swapping out an RTX 5070 Ti 100 times
- It's another day of Disco Elysium-related announcements trying to kneecap each other: Studio ZA/UM has put out a teaser for its first new game since 2019, and it's not Disco Elysium 2
- If you've ever wanted to trap your D&D character in dice like a fly in amber, 3,700+ people are paying Hero Forge close to $400,000 in Kickstarter funds for the pleasure
- 'I was recklessly brave to even think about creating a game of this scale': Inzoi director admits he now sees 'why so few companies have attempted to develop a life simulation game'
- PCG's best city builder of 2024 is adding a map with a gigantic hill in the middle: the perfect spot for your next castle
- Microsoft is reportedly prepping a handheld Xbox for later this year with new consoles coming in 2027
- WoW's nerfed its poor Delve companion into a dwarf-shaped crater after his tank spec made them too easy, and people aren't happy
- After REPO 'kinda blew up', its developer asks the community for advice on how to make matchmaking lobbies
- After suing a Disco Elysium writer to prevent him from making his own game, a tech CEO who's allegedly banned from the Disco Elysium subreddit is trying to crowdfund a spiritual successor
- The latest Windows 11 dev build gives you the ability to snap together commonly paired apps for access in a single click, and I'm already sold
- Limbo and Inside studio demands compensation from co-founder Dino Patti for alleged 'unauthorized use of Playdead's trademarks and copyrighted works'
- Some Monster Hunter Wilds players are skipping the endgame weapon grind because they just freaking hate how they look
- 'My own voice was driving me f***ing insane': GTA Vice City actor admits even he couldn't get past his own, notoriously difficult mission
- Specs for Nvidia's new RTX 5050, 5060, and 5060 Ti GPUs leak out and that 5060 might actually be half decent. If it's priced right
- Asus' new monitors purify 90% of airborne dust from your desktop and I've definitely seen some gnarly gaming setups that would benefit
- The AMD x Sony collab gave us FSR4 and a version will appear in PlayStation next year, too, having 'already started to implement the new neural network on PS5 Pro'
- A BIOS update could be all that's stopping you or someone else from jailbreaking your old AMD CPU
- Today's Wordle answer for Tuesday, March 11
March 10
- 'Don't you know what he did?': The truth comes out in The Last of Us Season 2 trailer
- 'Creepy,' 'ghastly,' 'rancid': Viewers react to leaked video of Sony's AI-powered Aloy
- Split Fiction sells 1 million copies over 2 days
- The original Verdansk map is returning to Call of Duty: Warzone, to celebrate which we get a soldier crying to Nat King Cole
- More than 5 years after launch, Control gets a surprise patch that lets everyone play the Hideo Kojima mission
- Swen Vincke stamps seal of approval on Stardew Valley mod that yoinks the Baldur's Gate 3 cast out of D&D and into a cosy pastoral life
- Nvidia says it really has sorted RTX 50-series black screen issues this time around as yet another driver fix finds its way to release
- Overwatch 2 is launching another Le Sserafim collab with 'more transformative' skin designs, guided by Blizzard Korea Studio's keen eye for Korean trends and street style
- Warner Bros says it will replace certain DVDs damaged by 'disc rot', but you might not get the same movie you sent in for replacement
- This Amazon-bought fake AMD Ryzen 7 9800X3D is actually a 14-year-old Bulldozer chip with a cheap sticker on it
- Rebellion CEO says Evil Genius 3 could happen but wonders 'what else could we do with it other than a base-building game?'
- The Forever Winter, my favourite extraction shooter, just overhauled its most contentious feature for the second time: 'It was a hell of a rollercoaster to make the adjustment'
- A recently launched and now terminally sideways Moon lander contains Imagine Dragon's Starfield song, which seems eerily fitting
- A lot is going on for Cities: Skylines' 10th anniversary—from freebies to new creator packs—but there's still a big ol' elephant in the room
- Japanese game producer argues that thick thighs on anime girls are a natural byproduct of economic recession
- Hideo Kojima really just went 'screw it' and made Metal Gear Stranding
- If you've captured them for a minute, monsters in Monster Hunter Wilds are legally allowed to leave
- At least it's not NFTs this time: The new Wizardry RPG is a gacha game
- Today's Wordle answer for Monday, March 10
March 9
- Death Stranding 2's PS5 release date is in June, let's hope it doesn't take 8 months to hit PC this time
- You can theoretically beat Doom: The Dark Ages without using a gun, but 'You'd have a hard time, that's for sure,' says the game's director
- Fallout-themed Doom mod Vault 666 has multiple endings, an OP Dogmeat companion, and a Ron Perlman-impersonating narrator so good, I was worried it was AI-generated at first
- Doom: The Dark Ages won't end with the Slayer in a coffin waiting for the start of Doom 2016: 'That would mean that we couldn't tell any more medieval stories'
- Path of Exile 2 speedrunner dominates official race with the game's 'worst' class
- Rust's crafting update gives the survival sim real-time food cooking and pies to rival Monster Hunter, but the tastiest treat is the ability to make and throw 'bee grenades'
- Battlefield: Bad Company 2's director had big plans for a third entry in the series, with your squad reuniting for an impossible mission amid a war between Russia and the US over Alaska
- Warhammer: Vermintide 2 celebrates 7 years of rat bashing with a new versus map and double XP for all players, but its hotly anticipated weapon pack 'won't be coming out this year'
- One of the best city builders of the last decade is currently 90% off on Steam
- Company of Heroes 3 is free to try and 50% off, so it's the best time to check out the beefy 2.0 overhaul
- Rebellion CEO puts the studio's recent avoidance of layoffs down to control of scope and cost: 'Sometimes we say, guys, this game's too big'
- Today's Wordle answer for Sunday, March 9
- The Baldur's Gate 3 mod for Stardew Valley is out, so here's another opportunity to romance Astarion
- 'I think only the shotguns are the same,' says Doom: The Dark Ages director, otherwise the guns are brand-new or significantly transformed
March 8
- Parents are suing Epic over Fortnite item shop 'FOMO' timers they say are inaccurate and manipulative
- Doom: The Dark Ages already sneakily revealed its 'new Marauder,' and the devs hope he'll be just as challenging, but a little less frustrating
- Planet Coaster 2's spring roadmap splashes down, with 'round-bottomed flumes' coming in March and buildable restaurants arriving in April
- Bandai Namco will celebrate Pac-Man's 45th birthday with museum displays, live experiences, and an official cookbook featuring 'a maze of imaginative recipes'
- Microsoft's Civilization 7 competitor escalates tensions with Firaxis' embattled 4X, announcing that nukes are coming with its impending diplomacy update
- Today's Wordle answer for Saturday, March 8
- The sickest gun from Doom: The Dark Ages' trailer is called the 'Skullcrusher' and does such horrible things to demons, the game's lead dev boasts id has 'the best gore in the industry'
March 7
- The next Monster Hunter Wilds update is set to launch on March 10 and will ensure that when you chop off monster parts, the right monster parts get chopped off
- The official Balatro Timeline documents the history of 2024's biggest game as its developer went from 'obsessed' with making it to 'shocked' at the reception
- Battlefield playtest gameplay is leaking all over the internet, and fans seem cautiously but genuinely excited: 'Okay, we might be back'
- The Resident Evil movie reboot bidding war is over, and the winner is… Sony, who did every one of those other pretty terrible Resident Evil movies
- Half-a-dozen 2000AD games were in the works before fizzling out: 'The games you get to see are a tiny representative of the number that get started—sadly'
- Following a disastrous beta test, Killing Floor 3 is delayed less than three weeks before launch: 'We've realized we missed the mark'
- Intel is still using TSMC for 30% of its wafer demands: 'We were talking about trying to get that to zero as quickly as possible. That's no longer the strategy'
- I've never wanted a keyboard with cheese keycaps and a little mouse on it until I saw this one
- AMD clawed back 7% graphics market share from Nvidia at the end of 2024, but the outlook for the whole industry in 2025 looks iffy
- Starfield promises it still exists as silence drives fans to space-madness, but it mostly just annoys everyone: 'They are deliberately choosing not to communicate more'
- Sniper Elite CEO reckons Swen Vincke is right to snarl at short-sighted publishers: 'You could argue that their business at senior level isn't making games… their business is managing their shareholders' perceptions'
- Phasmophobia is getting a big rework for one of its oldest maps, turning the Bleasdale Farmhouse into a horrifying and confusing maze
- Google is rolling out an even more AI-heavy search engine mode because 'power users want AI responses for even more of their searches'
- 'Don't despair' says AMD to PC gamers as it continues to 'encourage' AIBs to supply MSRP-priced 9070 and 9070 XT GPUs
- AMD's new RX 9070 GPUs sold out within 10 mins at launch, unless you were willing to pay ever more ludicrous prices
- Nvidia denies reports that the 'missing ROPs' debacle is hitting its RTX 50 laptop GPUs and could delay their launch
- Nvidia RTX 5060 graphics cards are said to be revealed 'in about 10 days' and are expected to 'be on the shelf a month later'
- President Trump wants to kill the $52 billion CHIPS Act: 'a horrible, horrible thing'
- Today's Wordle answer for Friday, March 7
- Man builds Monster Hunter switch axe, complete with working flamethrower, because why not
- Longtime Monster Hunter producer promoted to head of all game development at Capcom
March 6
- Minecraft Live returns in March with everyone's favorite kind of content: 'exclusive movie content'
- EVE Online studio CCP Games hires former Iceland Central Bank economist for its crypto game, because nothing says 'fun' like 'removing currency controls and fostering emergent value systems'
- My favourite AA stealth series starring a loathsome centuries-old goblin is getting a new instalment
- Robocop: Rogue City is getting a 'standalone expansion' that sounds an awful lot like The Raid
- Monster Hunter's food looks so tasty it's apparently driving up demand for cheese naan in Japan
- Survival sandbox Core Keeper gets explosive next week with a whole new skill tree devoted to bombs and grenades
- Kingdom Come: Deliverance 2's upcoming 1.2 update has a ridiculous 34 pages of patch notes
- Dark and Darker delisted again, this time from the Epic Games Store
- Nacon's promising Revosim RS Pure direct drive racing wheel lets you use your phone as a dashboard and settings tool, but it feels like it could do with a little work
- The world's first 'body in a box' biological computer costs $35,000 and looks both cool as hell plus creepy as heck
- Frogwares shows off The Sinking City 2's first in-game footage and launches a Kickstarter safety net: 'After 3 years of this horrid war hanging over our daily lives, we've learned to adapt'
- The tough luck continues in Dead in Antares, the newest addition to the long-running series about people trying not to lose their heads in bad situations
- After 31 years in games, Persona director Katsura Hashino just got a 'Newcomer Award' and $5,000 from the Japanese government
- Final Fantasy 16 is the latest game to be freed from the shackles of Denuvo, though its 7-year-old predecessor still remains in DRM jail
- Brace yourself for Discord to get worse: Reports swirl that the company is in talks with bankers about opening itself up to shareholders
- Seeing how much I hate its ads, YouTube tries to sell me yet another subscription tier with Premium Lite rolling out in the US
- Dragon Age voice actor says his favourite way to play Inquisition is as a woman who romances himself, which is apparently 'the best'
- Gearbox CEO Randy Pitchford rants at internet randoms (again), insists we should 'root for' the Borderlands 4 team or 'we'll all pay the price', then whips around and says 'I love criticism'
- AMD Radeon RX 9070-series launch day live: The promise of a ton of reference priced stock is a tantalising one but likely won't last long
- US Justice Dept announces $10 million bounty on at-large 'hacker-for-hire' cabal it says targeted China critics, religious missionaries, and the Treasury
- Nintendo wins major French piracy case with EU-wide consequences: 'Significant not only for Nintendo, but for the entire games industry'
- AI helps turn highschool project into world saving tech which promises to devour 150 tons of fast-fashion plastic each year
- Japanese companies begin stockpiling in response to new Trump tariffs: Cue a ton of PS5 stock and stale cans of coffee
- Meta's Orion AR glasses still have no 'killer use case' but want devices to hang out on your face, on your wrist, and now in your pocket too
- Monster Hunter Wilds: Turns out updating drivers fixes brand new game. Again
- Today's Wordle answer for Thursday, March 6
- A demo for a lost videogame based on George Orwell's 1984 has emerged from the memory hole
- Firaxis says it's 'entering our Sukritact Age' as it hires popular modder to work on Civilization 7
- The thing I'm most excited about in Assassin's Creed Shadows is my hideout: 'a little over one acre of fully customizable land' to build on, decorate, and fill with pettable baby deer
March 5
- The Hand of Fate devs are back with a bullet heaven called Hordes of Fate
- Cities: Skylines 2's asset editor remains a distant dream: Colossal Order is still working on it but says it's 'proven more technically challenging than initially anticipated'
- Ubisoft reveals Assassin's Creed Shadows preload and unlock times
- Epic's war against the Fortnite fraudsters sees it simultaneously name and shame alleged ne'er-do-wells as its high-powered lawyers sue them
- The Witcher show finally adds a character exclusive to the games, too bad he's 'exceptionally loathsome and arrogant'
- Looks like we won't be seeing Western Digital SSDs in our gaming PCs as the company hands the reins back over to SanDisk
- Early backers of game decry 'bait and switch' after it backtracks on monetisation promises, dev chooses to stir the pot: 'Seeing Reddit lose it today lets me breathe a huge sigh of relief'
- '3 hours of my life that I'll never get back': A Minecraft modder did the lord's work, creating a mod that adds Jack Black's voice to the game
- The first Monster Hunter Wilds event quests let you wear an adorable forest creature as a helmet, which means my headgear is locked in for the next few months
- Steam users react ecstatically to update that lets them access their heaving game notes via the web, also it fixes Monster Hunter Wilds video recording
- Blades of Fire is a God of War-style action game coming to PC from the creators of Metroid Dread, and it's almost definitely a spiritual successor to Severance
- Lenovo's clever solar-powered laptop can turn 20 minutes of sunlight into an hour of video playback but sun-powered mobile gaming still isn't a goer
- Kingdom Come: Deliverance 2's March patch brings zoomer haircuts for Henry and the return of the hardcore mode that can kill you before the game even starts
- Google asks Trump's DOJ to please, please, please reconsider parting it from Chrome
- Marvel Rivals announces a new limited-time game mode, Clone Rumble, and manages to pull off a comic caper that players only thought was possible in theory
- Best Buy outs a load of non-MSRP RTX 5070 cards and many are priced above $700 and up near RTX 5070 Ti levels. Ouch!
- Finding a new and inventive way to annoy everybody, Activision has company use AI to generate fake advertisements for games that don't exist
- Alienware launches two new OLED gaming monitors and one of them is its cheapest yet at $550
- It launched upside down and on fire, but busted and brilliant Stalker 2 has attracted 6 million players to the Zone in the last 3 months
- Nvidia RTX 5070 launch day live: Heaps of non-MSRP cards and a handful of MSRP ones released today, but surprise surprise, stocks are low
- Today's Wordle answer for Wednesday, March 5
March 4
- 'He came. And now he must go,' and that's why Pinhead is leaving Dead by Daylight in April
- Civilization 7's 'first major update' tweaks balance and fixes some UI issues, but don't expect an overhaul
- Monster Hunter Wilds sells 8 million copies in 3 days, 'the fastest any game has done so in Capcom’s history'
- Legendary 1990s publisher Acclaim is back from the dead, and a pro wrestler famous for clobbering people with a guitar is on its advisory board
- Tony Hawk's Pro Skater 3 + 4 remake is real, and it's coming in July with new skaters, parks, music, and more
- Three women livestreaming on Twitch harassed by man who then goes for them while making repeated death threats: 'This happens off-camera to women all the time'
- Will another Avengers game be assembled? 'We would definitely be open to it' says Joe Russo, co-director of Avengers: Doomsday
- Grand Theft Auto 5 Enhanced launch is going poorly or well depending on how you look at it: It's got a 'mixed' rating on Steam and is one of the most-played games
- Nvidia loses over $200 billion in valuation in a single day, as Trump's tariffs continue to roll out
- It might be hard to imagine even worse GPU prices but the CEOs of Best Buy and Target both predict tariffs will push consumer prices up and fast
- The creators of Disco Elysium unofficially consulted on fascinating upcoming RPG Rue Valley during a brutalist architectural tour of Belgrade: 'It was completely unexpected'
- I was wrong, the Logitech G PowerPlay 2 charging mouse pad isn't smaller than the first one, it's just the official dimensions were listed incorrectly since 2021
- Saying what we're probably all thinking, Zotac cautions, 'Do not use third-party cables, angled adapters, or other cable accessories'
- This DIY 'infinite contrast' screen uses an old projector in a seriously clever way and makes monitors with full-array dimming look like absolute garbage
- Call of Duty: Black Ops 6 Season 3 has been delayed, as the devs say they're 'taking the time to deliver a great experience' for what will be a 'big moment' for Call of Duty
- Next-gen Snapdragon X2 chip rumoured to pack 18 cores and a new CPU architecture, but we're still waiting for gaming to really be a goer on the original Snapdragon X
- uBlock and a handful of other popular Google Chrome extensions have been axed overnight, but some of them just require turning off and on again
- Former Ultima Online lead says MMOs have 'been in a rut for a long time', and that cozy games like Animal Crossing have been filling a non-theme park hole
- Jeff the Land Shark's creator tells whiny Marvel Rivals players who can't deal with her hero to buck up: 'Sounds like a skill issue to me, if my boy is beating your ass every night'
- TSMC and Trump announce massive $100 billion investment in the US including 3 new fabs but it's reasonable to ponder whether it will actually happen
- Today's Wordle answer for Tuesday, March 4
- Monster Hunter Wilds dominated Steam so hard this weekend that a new game from a Nintendo legend attracted a mere 5 reviews, and another dev tweeted they hadn't sold 'a single game' since Wilds released
March 3
- I've been playing Monster Hunter for 10 years and even I'm terrified of this Wilds speedrunner deleting a Tempered Gravios in 37 seconds
- Twitch streamer Hasan Piker suspended after saying Republicans would 'kill Rick Scott' if they really cared about Medicare fraud
- There's already a Monster Hunter Wilds mod to change your appearance without a DLC voucher
- There's 'sort of' sex in Inzoi, its developers tell terminally horny life sim players asking about getting freaky and watching their Zois shower
- Just 2 weeks before the release of its next game, another studio falls victim to the relentless drive to be 'agile'
- Kingdom Come: Deliverance 2 modder snaps, transforms all women, animals, and doors into fleshy spheres but turns all men invisible: 'It’s just spheres. Experience spheres!'
- This is the coolest pricing gimmick I've ever seen: the temperature in London determines the price of this videogame
- AMD says its ghostly 'Toyshop tech demo is truly not reflective' of what FSR4 will look like when it ships with the RDNA 4 cards this week
- MSI pulls its MSRP RTX 50-series cards from its online store, not that we ever saw any of them in stock
- 'The market is large enough to accommodate both games': NetEase is confident it can make space for Marvel Rivals and Overwatch 2
- Forget Gondor, Drop's latest LOTR-themed keyboard has my approval because it's got a tiny little sword on the Enter key
- Broadcom and Nvidia are claimed to be testing manufacturing on Intel's 18A process node, and even AMD is reportedly interested
- You might mock Microsoft's new emoji button in Windows 11 but as someone that's explained how to quickly access emojis and special characters too many times, I get it
- The Grand Theft Auto series has now sold over 440 million copies, and say g'day to Rockstar Australia
- Space Marine 2 dev acknowledges its FOMO events are 'a source of frustration and stress for everyone', says it'll fix things and isn't trying to make 'a full live service game' by stealth
- It Takes Two follow-up Split Fiction's system requirements are here, and it's verified for Steam Deck and potato-PCs alike
- Freeware tool CPU-Z now warns you if your GPU doesn't have the correct number of ROPs
- Marvel Rivals is considering 'crossover events and promotions with other media' but all players want is more comicbook and movie skins
- Windows 10, 32 GB of RAM, and the RTX 4060 all surge to the top spot in the Steam Hardware Survey, seemingly due to a huge influx of Chinese-language user data
- Ex-Intel CEO Craig Barrett suggests the company should 'fire the board and rehire Pat Gelsinger to finish the job he has aptly handled over the past few years'
- Today's Wordle answer for Monday, March 3
March 2
- The New Vegas remake of the Fallout 3 that never was just got its first demo, not to be confused with the straight-up remake of the cancelled Fallout 3 or, indeed, Fallout 3
- I just started playing Monster Hunter Wilds and this monster health bar mod might be the first one I install
- Is Monster Hunter Wilds' borked PC performance because of a spelling error in the game's config files? Probably not
- No-Skin is an incredibly simple horror roguelike about the worst party ever, full of strong booze, bad conversation and eldritch violence
- Rusty Rabbit turns Yakuza's Kazuma Kiryu into a fluffy bunny
- Steam just cracked 40 million concurrent users for the first time⁠, meaning Valve's user count was bigger than 80% of the countries in the United Nations
- The Local is a free and blazingly-fast tribute to surf maps and bunny hopping
- Mozilla is already trying to backtrack on Firefox's controversial data privacy update, but it might be too little, too late
- An $8 cooperative horror game is rocketing up Steam's top sellers list: 'Never occurred to me Lethal Company was missing physics until I played this'
- Total War: Warhammer 3's next patch will overhaul its Kislev faction, which Creative Assembly has 'identified as the most in need of a deep review and rethink'
- Tread carefully, Atomfall's world includes 'exploding sheep' that can 'infect you with spores that creep into your lungs'
- Apparently the canceled Twisted Metal game would have been a battle royale where you could get out of your car for some reason
- Today's Wordle answer for Sunday, March 2
- Steam Next Fest's most-played demo is a game almost everybody hates
March 1
- Wait a minute, Geralt of Rivia actor Doug Cockle was in Baldur's Gate 3 this whole time
- Avowed's rarest ending has only been seen by 0.2% of players and demands you make the correct choice at every major quest to not get your head chopped off
- Runescape is finally wrapping up one of its earliest storylines, 24 years after the first quest debuted
- It turns out you can get Baldur's Gate 3's best assassin armor without killing a baby angel elephant and joining a cult, all you have to do is pickpocket a ghost
- Paleontologist says Monster Hunter's monsters are 'a little' realistic, but if a lizard swallowed something that big it would have to sleep for a month
- As it unveils its roadmap, Eternal Strands' dev defends the 'slippery' feeling of its physics-based player character, saying it 'can't be as snappy or reactive as it is in games that rely on animation'
- You can save rare hunts for later in Monster Hunter Wilds, so you can come back for that Rey Dau gem when it's convenient
- One of the best Return to Castle Wolfenstein mods just got an update that turns the WW2 FPS into a Killing Floor-style wave shooter
- Shockingly, nobody bought the $386,000 special edition of Dying Light that came with parkour lessons and a full-size custom zombie survival shelter
- Japanese boffins invent the 'world's smallest shooting game' by using an electron beam to blast particles one billionth of a metre in size
- Today's Wordle answer for Saturday, March 1