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- Today's Dune: Awakening patch notes are as long as a sandworm, with more than 300 changes, bug fixes, and squashed exploits
- Blizzard ends new content development for Warcraft Rumble and lays off staff: Former employee says 'most' of the team has been let go
- Phil Spencer retirement rumor is made up, says Microsoft
- EA reportedly expects Battlefield 6 to bring in 100 million players, a number that even DICE devs don't think is feasible
- French court finds 3 former Ubisoft executives guilty of workplace harassment
- The Elder Scrolls Online director Matt Firor, who helped launch ZeniMax Online Studios in 2007, is leaving the company
- Microsoft cancels the Perfect Dark reboot that blew us away last year, closes developer The Initiative
- A new MMO in development at Elder Scrolls Online studio ZeniMax has been cancelled as Microsoft puts thousands more people out of work
- 'Instantly lost all desire to even start': Mecha Break's Steam rating lands at an early 'Mixed' as players realize the beta's customization options have been turned into MTX fodder
- Rare's Everwild has been cancelled amidst Microsoft's enormous cuts to staff and studios
- Amazon will soon deploy more bots than it employs people now that it has a million robots
- AT&T says 'um actually' to President Trump after he blames the internet provider for conference call woes
- Palworld's Terraria update lands it back in Steam's Top 10 with over 120,000 players coming back, but its community manager is just waiting for people to brand it a 'dead game' again
- 'It's not like we applied for the award ourselves': Dave the Diver director reminds people that 'there's nothing indie' about his game and the controversial indie nomination was out of his control
- I've finally found a budget Gen 5 SSD I can recommend, a cool, calm, and collected drive available for a very reasonable sum
- OpenAI execs whine about the New York Times lawsuit and user privacy during live NYT event, get roasted by NYT journalist: 'It must be really hard when someone does something with your data you don't want them to'
- Deus Ex devs say they weren't trying to make a statement when they made one of the most political games of all time: 'What I think is the right future for humanity is irrelevant. It's all about what each player thinks'
- Videogames on the scale of Vampire: The Masquerade - Bloodlines 2 could be on the way for other World of Darkness TTRPGs, including Mage: The Ascension and Changeling: The Dreaming
- Fresh zero-day vulnerability in Chrome found to be actively exploited by hackers in the wild
- Final Fantasy 14 is fast-tracking one of my most-anticipated fixes, releasing an entire month earlier than expected
- Persona 5: The Phantom X has blessed the community with a new sh**posting mascot so corny it eclipses the nuance around the real-world issues he represents
- 'Our platform, hardware, and game roadmap have never looked stronger,' Phil Spencer says, as Microsoft announces another round of mass layoffs at its gaming division
- 'We need to do a better job': FBC Firebreak devs are revamping progression after finding out that just 5% of players own a level 3 perk
- All change at the top: Corsair's founder and long-running CEO steps down after 31 years as former company president Thi La takes over the reins
- Human spirit triumphs as the Croc devs announce they want to remaster Buck Bumble and the greatest main menu theme song of all time
- The game that would become Deus Ex originally starred Jake Shooter, supercop
- Introducing the PC Gaming Show Tokyo Direct—coming from the Tokyo Game Show
- Turns out you can transform your very ordinary car into an actual Mario Kart controller (but you probably shouldn't)
- AMD offers an update on Project Amethyst, a Sony collaboration that's already 'delivered smarter, more efficient solutions like Super Resolution in FSR 4'
- After more than a year of conflict woes between Bigscreen Beyond VR headsets, Nvidia GPUs and Linux, there's good news at long last as a fix is nearly in sight
- To the surprise of nobody, sales of the 16 GB RTX 5060 Ti at retailer Mindfactory outstrip the 8 GB version by a factor of 16
- Minecraft is bringing back the copper golem from the mob vote graveyard, igniting my hopes for a Moobloom comeback
- Subnautica studio leadership gutted by Krafton, which outright says that Subnautica 2 needs 'renewed energy and momentum'
- Intel's ex-CEO said he bet the company on the 18A node but now a new report claims Intel is pushing customers to next-gen 14A instead
- When Microsoft finally pulls the plug on Windows 10 its successor will be four years old, and for three of those, it was never the OS of choice amongst Steam users
- Cloudflare will block AI web crawlers by default, and introduces new Pay Per Crawl scheme that means AI companies will have to fork out for the privilege to scrape
- Free-to-play mech brawler Mecha Break has attracted 50,000 players within 10 minutes of launching, proving our appetite for giant robots remains insatiable
- Today's Wordle answer for Wednesday, July 2
- A massive free NBN speed boost is coming this September, but one provider has already rolled out a ginormous increase
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- Destiny 2 just got weird: Launch trailer leans hard into time travel and looks more like a Control crossover
- A new WoW event boosts ultra-rare item drop rates tenfold, which admittedly isn't a huge difference when the starting number is 0.5%
- Hideo Kojima goes in hard on AI and is worried we'll all 'be unknowingly led into a predetermined lifestyle'
- 'It makes me cringe every time': 25 years after Diablo 2 reshaped the RPG landscape, Diablo creator David Brevik still thinks its stamina bar sucks
- A 'big beautiful bill' provision to prevent states from regulating AI for 10 years got nixed by the US Senate
- 'Give me more of that': Monster Hunter Wilds players have discovered its returning monsters got hands, and they're thrilled to be getting clobbered
- Youtuber PewDiePie is going all in on deGoogling and the Steam Deck is one of the surprising tools that's helping him to 'escape'
- Randy Pitchford asks fans if they'd swallow future Borderlands exclusivity deals, almost 10,000 people say just put your damn games on Steam
- Phoenix and Blade headline the new Marvel Rivals season, and it starts next week
- 'It took a while to get there, but now we feel we're in a good place': Fatshark's design director talks doing years of repair work on Warhammer 40,000: Darktide
- Get an entire tabletop role-playing library for the price of one book, thanks to what might be the most impressive bundle of RPGs I've ever seen in my 22 years in the hobby
- Nexus Mods will soon require age verification for UK and EU users looking for its treasure trove of adult mods
- Deus Ex was a hard sell because, among other things, the Thief devs thought 'if you give players a gun, they won't sneak'
- The US claims $81.5 billion bonus revenue from Trump tariffs but that's a drop in the ocean compared to its spending deficit
- 'Xbox hardware is dead' and 'there's literally no reason to buy' the ROG Xbox Ally handheld says founding member of the OG Xbox team
- Commodore's been bought by a YouTuber who's re-assembling key execs and already teasing new hardware
- Anthropic tasked an AI with running a vending machine in its offices, and it not only sold some products at a big loss but it invented people, meetings, and experienced a bizarre identity crisis
- Obsidian director Josh Sawyer says it's a 'mistake' for RPGs to sacrifice crunchy 'sweaty boy' systems in favour of a 'one size fits all' game, since easier difficulties aren't too hard to make
- Bing Bong is talking to you: Peak players are getting jump-scared by what seems to be the developers possessing a little green plushie
- BG3 might be the last hurrah for the era of the Hexblade, as D&D's 2024 rules revamp tries to dethrone the king of multiclass dips
- Anker recalls a number of power banks amid safety fears, though it says that 'the likelihood of malfunction is considered minimal'
- Good guy GSC wordlessly deletes ads in Stalker remaster menus with itsy-bitsy new patch
- Steam adds an in-game performance monitor so you can brag about hitting 900 FPS in Deus Ex
- The end is probably nigh for full Windows driver support for GTX 10, 9 and 7 Series graphics cards as Nvidia announces that its next major Linux driver fork will be its last for those GPUs
- Right to repair bill in Texas has been signed into law after winning by a landslide victory, with not a single vote against it
- Incredible neural implant translates neural activity into speech almost instantly by focussing on sound production instead of word choice
- Massive Ahold Delhaize data breach sees 2.2 million people's data exposed in ransomware attacks against major US food retailer
- Trump claims to have found a buyer for TikTok, but won't say who yet: 'I'll tell you in about two weeks'
- Author's petition requesting publishers swear off AI recieves over 1,000 signatures in first 24 hours
- Today's Wordle answer for Tuesday, July 1
- The first autonomous robot football match happened in China and it's like watching drunk toddlers with fewer ethical setbacks
