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- January 31
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- I'm finally hitting 144 fps in Rainbow Six Siege after switching to Vulkan
- BB-8 and its evil, droid-ball twin brother are coming to Star Wars Battlefront 2
- Fallout 76 Wastelanders reputation system has seven levels of trust
- Black Book trailer reveals a shadowy world of Slavic myths and card-based combat
- Gigabyte launches another 27-inch 'tactical' IPS gaming monitor for $550
- Legends of Runeterra already has several card expansions 'nearly done'
- 80 Days studio Inkle reveals more about its next game: 'Camelot has fallen'
- PowerColor sheds light on why memory speeds differ on the Radeon RX 5600 XT
- Taipei Game Show postponed over coronavirus emergency
- A retailer appears to have leaked AMD’s next ‘Raise the Game’ bundle
- Lair of the Clockwork God mixes platforming with a point-and-click adventure in February
- An indie 'demo disc' of PS1-inspired horror games is launching on PC next week
- Buy a new AMD graphics card and get Monster Hunter World: Iceborne, Resident Evil 3 and more for free
- The Sims 4 hits 20 million players, with online play hinted for a next-gen game
- Wizards of the Coast announces 'story driven' RPG studio led by ex Bioware vets
- WW2 shooter Days of War finally launches after three years in Early Access
- Sega Europe announces all its physical PC releases will use recyclable packaging
- Solve a robotic murder mystery in free detective game Lockheart Indigo
- Castle Crashers devs have announced a new Alien Hominid game
- Destiny 2's 'Empyrean Foundation' event will almost certainly lead to the return of Trials
- Apex Legends is still coming to mobile and China, EA says
- January 30
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- Dota Underlords is leaving Early Access on February 25
- Google responds to Stadia complaints, says it's 'up to the publishers' to announce games
- Overwatch is getting hero bans, but Blizzard will pick them, not you
- Microsoft reveals the user feedback that helped shape Windows 10
- $60 sure is a lot for a PCIe riser cable, Asus
- Play four games of Tetris at once in this puzzler with a very long name
- Farming Simulator 19 is free on the Epic Games Store
- Not For Broadcast mixes '80s newsroom satire with Papers, Please
- Community round-up: giveaways, contests, spotlights, and more
- Avast apologizes for 'hurting the feelings' of its AV users by selling browsing data
- This Acer Predator 4K G-Sync gaming monitor is $899, its lowest price ever
- Iron Danger is an RPG that lets you rewind time to avoid death
- Kingdom Under Fire: The Crusaders is coming soon to PC
- Slay the Spire fans should jump aboard Monster Train
- Public sign puzzler The Pedestrian is out on Steam
- Halo Forge on PC is making 'great progress,' gets first screenshot
- Free survival horror Alisa is Resident Evil with murderous dolls
- Overwatch League matches in China canceled due to coronavirus fears
- The horrible goose can now live on your desktop and steal your cursor
- January 29
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- Henry Cavill gets really intense about swords in a new Witcher video
- Twitch Prime is offering six months of Destiny 2 reward drops, including exotics
- Dead Cells' first paid DLC, The Bad Seed, is coming in February
- XFX's factory overclocked Radeon RX 5700 DD Ultra is on sale for $300
- Bethesda is holding a 24-hour sale for Australian fire relief
- AMD will introduce new GPUs with next-gen architecture this year
- Several antivirus firms will continue supporting Windows 7 for at least 2 years
- Stoneshard launch trailer shows off the Diablo-meets-Darkest Dungeon roguelike
- EK launches a proper all-in-one CPU liquid cooling line
- This Resident Evil 2 Remake mod lets you play as Geralt
- Putting Garfield in The Elder Scrolls: Arena was a mistake
- The return of Trials of Osiris to Destiny 2 in Season 10 has been datamined
- Dwarf Fortress introduces interrogations and lets dwarves have multiple partners
- All your Warcraft 3: Reforged custom games belong exclusively to Blizzard
- Star Trek Online’s Legacy update lets you live your Star Trek: Picard dreams
- Take a hike in a strange desert in free wild west adventure Red Desert Render
- The Division 2 takes a trip to Coney Island next month
- Latest Rainbow Six Siege patch rolls out big changes, Ubisoft says a Lesion nerf is coming
- January 28
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- Important: you can now hit things in Monster Hunter: World with a giant meat hammer
- Stylish horror-tactics game Othercide is looking for closed beta testers
- Rockstar is giving away in-game cash and items in GTA Online and Red Dead Online
- Unconventional fantasy MMO Crowfall gets a funding boost as it nears release
- Stadia Pro adds 2 more freebies, but subscribers are desperate for new games and missing features
- Need for a cheap monitor? Get a 27-inch 1080 display for $80 or 32-inch for $90
- Former Windows president reflects on how Apple's iPad broke Microsoft's brain
- Henry Cavill shows how he chopped up eight guys at once in a Witcher fight scene
- Oops! Destiny 2's newest update is deleting rare enhancement materials
- NZXT put a LCD screen in its coolers, and you can customize the image
- AMD claims its latest GPU driver boosts Warcraft 3 performance up to 11 percent
- Sea of Thieves launches the Affiliate Alliance to help you find a crew
- Ninja allegedly made $20-30 million by moving to Mixer
- Kentucky Route Zero's last episode is finally out today
- Battlefield 5 heads Into the Jungle next week
- Frog Fractions will be getting weird on Steam this year
- Resident Evil Resistance has connections to the series but isn't canon
- Dying Light players can get its battle royale spin-off for free
- Hypercard returns in free adventure Madness of the Coastal Structure
- January 27
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- Bethesda's fix for stolen Fallout 76 inventories is generous and complicated
- Battlefield 5's next chapter, Into the Jungle, will be revealed tomorrow
- A Terminator is joining Ghost Recon: Breakpoint this week
- The quest to put RGB lighting in everything, part 47: dice
- Apex Legends’ new character may have just murdered its other new character
- This Radeon RX 5700 XT card is the cheapest around with this deal
- The Witcher author had little involvement with the Netflix series: 'I do not like working too hard'
- Atari is building gaming hotels with the producer of the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles film reboots
- Beware of what you're opting into when installing free antivirus software
- Asus is launching a portable 240Hz display for 'after-hours action' from your laptop
- Torchlight Frontiers is now Torchlight 3, will release on Steam
- Doom Eternal won't have microtransactions or an in-game store
- Metro Exodus is getting a sandbox expansion in February
- Half-Life remake Black Mesa is almost ready for its 1.0 launch
- Fortnite and Warner Bros. tease a Birds of Prey crossover event
- Lazr is a cyberpunk platformer with a free demo and a thing for cloth physics
- Hearthstone VR was prototyped by Blizzard
- Rocket League Mac and Linux players can now get refunds
- Team up with your reflection in clever, free platformer ORUL
- Chinese League of Legends pro series suspended due to coronavirus
- Rumor: Two Silent Hill games are currently in development
- January 26
- January 25
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- Ballistic Craft is a bullet hell where you design the crazy weapons
- Village Monsters has a charming Stardew Valley meets Undertale vibe
- The tactics game based on The Dark Crystal comes out next month
- Duelyst to shut down servers forever
- When does Warcraft 3 Reforged unlock?
- Activision signs exclusive deal with YouTube for pro esports livestreaming
- The biggest PC gaming stories of the week
- Play an endless, ruthless seagull battle royale in The Beach
- January 24
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- Being 'muted' in a game does not violate your civil rights, US federal court declares
- As coronavirus sparks new interest in Plague Inc., dev warns it's 'not a scientific model'
- Frame Fatales, the all-women speedrunning event, returns in February
- Beware of AMD coolers with extra heatpipes: they aren't real AMD products
- Here's a cheap AMD laptop for the kids that isn't a Chromebook
- Apex Legends fans have found more images of the rumored new character Revenant
- Save $260 on the RTX 2080 Ti, the fastest graphics card you can buy
- This clever contraption makes the bezels on your multi-monitor setup disappear
- GDC survey reports that 54% of developers think game workers should unionise
- GOG's Lunar Sale is live
- Fortnite Chapter 2 Season 2 finally has a release date
- Apex Legends dataminers have a good theory about the mysterious flying lights
- Hearts of Iron 4: La Resistance will let you build a spy network next month
- Age of Empires 3: Definitive Edition is getting a beta soon
- Amnesia developer Frictional Games is teasing its next game with an ARG
- Rush Grotto is a cute, fast-paced, free dungeon crawler
- Fanatical's Lunar New Year sale discounts over 1,500 games
- January 23
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- Stardew Valley has sold more than 10 million copies
- Rocket League for Linux and Mac is losing online multiplayer
- Suspended Hearthstone Grandmaster Blitzchung says he'd do it all over again
- New Fallout 76 Wastelanders screenshots prove the raiders definitely have the coolest base
- Apex Legends' new character is a big, beefy boy with a metal arm
- Disco Elysium gets a Hardcore 'True Detective' mode and ultrawide support
- Save $50 with this Wi-Fi 6 router deal and give your home network a boost
- Here come the BIOS updates for Radeon RX 5600 XT cards shipping with slower clocks
- Corsair just added a couple of high-end AMD configs to its Vengeance PC line
- Gravity-bending puzzle game The Bridge is free on the Epic Games Store
- Steam's Lunar New Year Sale has begun
- Vermintide 2 heads to Castle Drachenfels and opens its in-game store
- MMO Last Oasis wants clans to test its open-world PvP
- Observer 2 is likely Bloober Team's next game
- Hideo Kojima wants to work on smaller games and manga
- Diablo or Bob Ross? Take Blizzard's quote quiz
- Rust will let you dress up as a rat for Chinese New Year
- Nioh 2 gets gloomy in a new trailer
- Stormdivers is on hold so Housemarque can work on its 'most ambitious' game so far
- Overcooked 2 adds adorable rat and turtle chefs in a free update
- Dishonored is being turned into a tabletop RPG
- Unending is the free sequel to excellent roguelike puzzler Ending
- Wasteland Remastered will release next month
- Paradox is testing a subscription service for Europa Universalis 4
- January 22
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- Homeworld 3 studio Blackbird Interactive is working on something new
- Legends of Runeterra beta won't wipe player progress according to its new patch notes
- Halo and a Nancy Drew game were among the most popular Steam games in December
- Hearthstone Battlegrounds gets new heroes: a good one, and a less good one
- Get Europa Universalis 4 and a bunch of DLC for $1 in the new Humble Bundle
- Valve is 'confident' Half-Life: Alyx won't be delayed
- Intel Tiger Lake-U benchmarks show up in Geekbench 5
- A Witcher anime film is coming to Netflix
- Get this Dell G5 gaming desktop with an RTX 2080 for $1,309
- Hearthstone's Lunar New Year event begins next week
- Microsoft downplays customer support database error that exposed 250 million records
- Ninja Theory reveals a new game that aims to 'recreate the horrors of the mind'
- Mortal Kombat 11's Joker seems to be teasing Injustice 3
- Sapphire details how to update its Radeon RX 5600 Pulse BIOS to make it run faster
- A Plague Tale, Gris and more coming to Game Pass for PC
- Lost Words gets a new trailer at the New York Video Game Awards
- Marcus Lehto left Bungie due partially to crunch
- Vermintide 2 is getting an in-game store that actually sounds pretty good
- Netflix's Witcher soundtrack will go on sale this week
- State wants Riot to pay more in gender discrimination settlement
- Explore the rooftops in free 3D platformer Myrtle Takes The City
- Tencent wants to buy 'full ownership' of Conan Exiles developer Funcom
- Temtem's Early Access launch is faring better after an update
- Intel and Micron sued for not paying royalties on 3D XPoint technology
- Valve is holding a Half-Life: Alyx AMA tomorrow on Reddit
- January 21
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- The Witcher may be Netflix's biggest series debut ever
- Fortnite's latest skin is the enemy of my anemone
- Telltale's The Walking Dead games are coming back to Steam
- The internet has decided Doomguy and Animal Crossing's Isabelle are best friends now
- Doom Eternal developers were 'crunching pretty hard' for most of 2019
- This thin and light gaming laptop with a GTX 1650 is on sale for $639
- Hearthstone's new solo adventure Galakrond's Awakening is live
- SteelSeries launches a $30 gaming mouse and a $50 water-resistant keyboard
- Godfall's full-length 'internal teaser' showcases Dark Souls-style hack-and-slash
- AMD's latest GPU driver arrives with RX 5600 XT support and several bug fixes
- Here are the Radeon RX 5600 XT graphics cards you can buy right now
- Doom Eternal is apparently twice as long as its predecessor
- Half-Life Collection is free-to-play until the launch of Half-Life: Alyx (Updated)
- Untitled Goose Game Lego might get made if you give it a honk of approval
- FTL is finally getting Steam achievements
- The Division 2 is 85% off, along with its DLC and special editions
- Yooka-Laylee and the Impossible Lair is getting a free demo this week
- Cyberpunk 2077 Funko Pops are definitely not breathtaking
- January 20
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- Rockstar responds to tax avoidance criticism, says UK tax relief is 'a proven success'
- Sega is promising lots of Sonic the Hedgehog news in 2020
- Mythic Quest: Raven's Banquet has already been renewed for a second season
- Former Splinter Cell creative director has reportedly returned to Ubisoft
- Black Desert Online's 2020 roadmap includes new classes and playable music
- Zombie survival game Pandemic Express is now free to play
- Panzer Corps 2 continues the classic wargame series in March
- This Nvidia hotfix addresses crashing in The Witcher 3 and Modern Warfare
- Snag this 15-inch gaming laptop with a GTX 1650 for $649 today
- Dying Light 2 has been delayed
- The Last of Us Part 2 job listing asks for PC, DX12 and Nvidia experience
- Mortal Kombat's Scorpion is getting his own animated movie
- Destiny 2's Corridors of Time mystery has been solved
- Death is a matter of paperwork in the free demo for Death and Taxes
- Halo: Combat Evolved Anniversary PC test starts in February
- See an entire apartment recreated one-to-one in VR
- Australia, Dell is currently selling an RTX 2060 powered laptop for less than AU$1,500
- January 19
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- Ubisoft files lawsuit against hackers selling DDoS service
- Looks like Unity of Command 2 Axis missions are coming
- Monster Hunter World: Iceborne lays out some 2020 roadmap, PC parity in April
- Creature-collecting MMO Temtem drops details on training and breeding your monsters
- Loot boxes push kids into gambling, says England's NHS mental health director
- Here’s a mod that adds 90 more weapons to melee VR game Blade and Sorcery
- Ubisoft is making changes to ensure its games feel more distinct
- January 18
- January 17
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- Ys 8: Lacrimosa of Dana update includes major enhancements and 'experimental' co-op mode
- There's an official rap version of Toss a Coin to Your Witcher that you might get to hear someday
- Valve is 'absolutely not' making Left 4 Dead 3, for VR or anything else
- Ah shit Scoob, here we go again with Dragon Ball Z mods
- This 17-inch gaming laptop with an RTX 2060 and 144Hz display is on sale for $999
- Rumor: AMD's 5600 XT may launch with faster clocks to counter RTX 2060 price cut
- Kingpin Reloaded features remastered graphics, same old F-bombs
- Oculus Go standalone VR headset just got a permanent $50 price cut to $149
- Hunt: Showdown is getting a solo PvE mode
- Steam is coming to Google's Chrome OS
- Sekiro's prequel manga is getting a complete edition next month
- Cyberpunk 2077 developers will be required to crunch following its delay
- Monster Hunter World: Iceborne fixes lost saves and high CPU usage in latest patch
- Sea of Solitude, Worms WMD and more join the Origin Access library
- Baldur's Gate 3 developer Larian teases that 'something's brewing'
- Solve a festive puzzle in small, free adventure A Good Tree
- World of Horror, a creepy 1-bit style horror RPG, will release next month
- 7 of the 10 best-selling games of the decade were Call of Duty
- Rainbow Six Siege is tinkering with ADS times on all weapons and other big changes
- 500,000 new Witcher books are being printed in the US
- January 16
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- Nvidia drops the price of the RTX 2060 Founders Edition to $299
- A special Humble Bundle is raising funds for Australian animal rescues
- Skyrim has a vampire problem in The Elder Scrolls Online's next year of updates
- Xbox Game Pass for PC is getting 3 new games 'soon'
- Cyberpunk 2077 multiplayer probably won't be out until after 2021
- Horizon Zero Dawn rumored to be coming to PC this year
- Destiny 2's fund-raising 'Guardians for Australia' T-shirt is now available for preorder
- Corsair's K68 RGB mechanical keyboard is on sale for $85
- Try your hand at CTF Blitz in the Overwatch Lunar New Year event
- Stadia is aiming to add more than 120 games in 2020, including ten exclusives
- AMD releases its second GPU driver in a week, and it fixes intermittent reboots
- These 'smart' contact lenses have a built-in display for augmented reality
- Cyberpunk 2077 is delayed
- Climb ruins and burn your possessions in Bonfire Peaks
- Indie platformer Horace is free on the Epic Games Store
- The Joker is having a bloody good time in his Mortal Kombat 11 trailer
- Rocket League's Chinese New Year event kicks off next week
- Call of Duty: Modern Warfare Season One has been extended
- Quantic Dream's David Cage teases 'a lot of surprises' for 2020
- Star Wars Jedi: Fallen Order preorder bonuses have been unlocked for everyone
- Form a one-man band in free musical adventure Haunted Garage
- I'm pretty sure Fortnite's newest skin is a failed Metal Gear villain
- Dragon Ball Z: Kakarot releases on Friday, so here's a launch trailer
- The latest Sea of Thieves update is an opportunity to earn a lot of gold
- January 15
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- Disintegration beta testing begins later this month
- Rainbow Six Siege's 'Road to Six Invitational' event unlocks all operators and introduces a new map
- Stardew Valley is cheap in the Humble Sweet Farm Bundle
- Indie game dev sees big boost in sales after he uploads it to The Pirate Bay
- Finally, ISPs can't charge you for using your own router
- Check out four new cards coming in Hearthstone's next solo adventure
- Monster Hunter World: Iceborne patch to fix CPU and save problems is on the way
- HP's Omen Mindframe gaming headset is on sale for $60, its lowest price ever
- Microsoft’s retooled Edge browser exits preview and has already won me over
- Borderlands 3 will boost Legendary loot drops in a two-week 'mini-event'
- Ninja has an official Fortnite skin now
- Khronos Group releases Vulkan 1.2 specification to make games run faster
- Monster Hunter World: Iceborne has hit 4 million sales thanks to the PC launch
- Zombie Army 4's 101 trailer shows off new weapons, abilities and grotesque zombies
- MechWarrior 5 now has mod support and an editor
- Shenmue 3's first DLC is called Battle Rally and it sounds, uh, interesting
- Fight real-time battles with a deck of cards in free Nethercard Kingdom
- World of Warcraft's Visions of N'Zoth update is live now
- PUBG Season 6 and its new 64-player dynamic map are now on the test server
- Epic Games Store now has OpenCritic reviews (updated)
- Path of Exile will get four new expansions this year
- Slay the Spire's massive 2.0 update introduces a new character and loads more
- Take a look back at the retro stylings of these '80s floppy disk sleeves
- January 14
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- Valve's Index VR headset is sold out everywhere
- Arma 3 is free to try on Steam for the next four days
- Twitch's latest obsession is betting on a Final Fantasy Tactics autobattler
- Frostpunk's expansion is set before the freeze, but that doesn't make playing mayor any easier
- The Coma 2: Vicious Sisters is a Korean horror adventure about high school and demons
- Hundreds of millions of PCs still run Windows 7 as support comes to an end
- CES 2020 recap: What's new from AMD and Intel, a gold keyboard, and a hands-free car ride
- The DeathAdder, one of our favorite gaming mice, is now lighter and faster
- DRAM breakthrough puts us one step closer to instant-on PCs
- Doom Eternal has a new trailer, and it's very Doom
- Resident Evil 3 Remake trailer reintroduces the Nemesis and friends
- Rainbow Six Siege Year 5 Pass leak reveals a drop in the number of Operators
- Epic's weekly free games will continue through 2020
- Last Oasis trailer shows off what you'll be doing in the ambitious MMO
- Marvel's Avengers has been delayed until September
- Pathfinder: Wrath of the Righteous Kickstarter launches in early February
- Teamfight Tactics is launching on mobile mid-March
- Build a thriving hive in free bee management game Hive Time
- This Darkest Dungeon D&D-style monster manual looks amazing
- Cyberpunk 1997 is a PS1-style demake with old school GTA vibes
- Capcom Fanatical sale includes steep discounts on Devil May Cry 5, Resident Evil 2 and more
- January 13
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- Sony is skipping E3 2020
- Ubisoft is making a 100-player autobattler
- Fallout 76 Wastelanders testing begins this week
- Razer's Huntsman Elite opto-mechanical gaming keyboard is on sale for $160
- Control and Death Stranding get 8 nominations each for the 2020 DICE Awards
- Watch this Minecraft player get shocked by a dog collar whenever he takes damage
- Cherry is building a cheaper mechanical key switch for the value market
- Asus tries its hand at a wireless gaming mouse with a built-in joystick
- GTA 4 was removed from Steam because of Games for Windows Live
- Failbetter's next games are 'likely to play very differently' from Sunless Sea and Sunless Skies
- Explore a cake-filled underworld in free Metroidvania Satan Loves Cake
- This Skyrim mod mimics Sekiro's brilliant combat
- The Witcher's timeline makes a lot more sense thanks to Netflix's interactive map
- Call of Duty: Modern Warfare's Outback Pack profits will be used for Australian wildfire relief
- The Borderlands 3 Takedown at Maliwan Blacksite event has been moved back
- Rob more banks in Red Dead Redemption 2 with this mod
- Record-breaking Awesome Games Done Quick raises over $3 million
- January 12
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- Modders build a full-fledged Harry Potter RPG inside Minecraft
- AI War 2 has a huge new update making strategy’s toughest AI even harder
- First-person puzzler of lights and killer shadows, Lightmatter, releases this week
- Teen playing online in UK saved by friend in Texas
- Legends of Runeterra, the League of Legends card game, begins open beta testing next week
- January 11
- January 10
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- Monster Hunter World: Iceborne appears to be deleting saves, Capcom is investigating
- Lower prices on the RTX 2060 look like a preemptive strike on AMD's RX 5600 XT
- The White Door is a new, more 'personal' Rusty Lake game about memories and color
- At 8TB, this is the largest portable SSD we've seen
- Hop in your flying car and hunt down bounties in Blue Drifter
- Headsnatchers, the party game about ripping skulls off of bodies, is free on Humble
- AMD releases GPU driver optimized for Monster Hunter World: Iceborne
- VVVVVV goes open source for its 10 year anniversary
- Apex Legends is throwing a two-week fancy party
- Lucasfilm wanted Star Wars Jedi: Fallen Order to be about bounty hunters and blasters
- January 9
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- I'd be more into VR if all VR headsets looked like this
- Online WW2 shooter Days of War leaves Early Access at the end of the month
- Elden Ring will appear at Taipei Game Show next month
- Micron starts sampling DDR5 memory, but your PC will have to wait
- Sundered: Eldritch Edition is now free on the Epic Games Store, and there's more to come
- Fortnite food truck locations
- Where to find bus stops for Fortnite's Remedy vs. Toxin mission
- Here's a bigger case to house Intel's tiny Ghost Canyon NUC
- Doom and Doom 2 now run at 60 fps thanks to a new patch from Bethesda
- Toss a few coins at Humble's The Witcher sale and save up to 85%
- Thermaltake made a gaming chair for people who hate gaming chairs
- XPG's prototype SSDs blow the doors off today's fastest models
- Warner teases a new Arkham game with another 'Capture the Knight' image
- Hearthstone's new solo adventure launches January 21, adds 35 new cards
- Save the cutest cat in the universe in pastel brawler Super Crush KO, out next week
- Watch the Planeswalker classes in action in the new gameplay trailer for Magic: Legends
- League of Legends spawns another brilliant music video
- Hitman 2 is winding down, but Sean Bean is coming back
- Sea of Thieves has turned 10 million people into pirates
- Exit the Gungeon will release for PC 'early this year'
- This Fallout 76 CAMP trap is a brutal and hilarious math test
- January 8
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- We found a $10,000 gold-plated keyboard and ripped a key off of it
- The Surge 2 'Kraken' expansion visits a strange dystopian suburbia
- Steam is making big changes to the way it handles game soundtracks
- Blizzard details Hearthstone nerfs and Battlegrounds buffs coming later this week
- Next week's Sea of Thieves update is all about celebrating legendary players
- You can 3D print your own custom lightbar for Crucial's new RAM
- Our favorite portable SSD is getting a 2x speed boost and fingerprint sensor
- Speaking Simulator is a game about an android with anxiety who's trying to pass as human
- AMD reaffirms Zen 3 is coming this year, higher-end Navi GPU in development
- These charming RGB speakers started as an April Fools' joke and are now real
- Death Stranding, Control, and Outer Wilds lead the 2020 Game Developers Choice Award nominations
- Wargroove: Double Trouble is a free expansion coming in February
- Twitter's most talked about game of year was a mobile RPG from 2015
- Overwatch 2 could launch this year, according to a deleted PlayStation tweet
- Red Dead Online wants to tempt you to become a moonshiner with new bonuses
- The Universim developer Crytivo is donating its profits to Australian wildfire relief
- Frictional Games' weird teaser is growing
- Chinese is now Steam's most popular language, according to its hardware survey
- Tiny houses are coming to The Sims 4
- January 7
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- Digital tabletop game studio Fantasy Flight Interactive is closing
- Watch the first trailer for Rob McElhenney's new MMO comedy, Mythic Quest: Raven's Banquet
- Mutazione, Untitled Goose Game, and A Short Hike do battle for IGF award's top prize
- Alienware mulls turning your smartphone into a PC gaming dashboard
- Chinese open world RPG becomes a Steam top seller, English coming soon
- AMD simplifies FreeSync branding with new 'Premium' and 'Premium Pro' tiers
- Elgato’s new external capture card records 4K gaming at 60fps, costs $400
- Build a gaming PC in under a minute with Razer's modular desktop
- Blizzard retires StarCraft 2 WCS, joins with ESL and Dreamhack for new pro tour
- Kentucky Route Zero's final act will be out at the end of the month
- Escape from Tarkov dev says the military shooter will not be getting playable female characters
- The Royal Mail is honouring classic British games via the medium of stamps
- This new bullet hell adventure has a ghostly cat and a touching backstory
- Asus' newest laptop has a programmable dot matrix display on its lid
- Intel says its next-gen laptop CPUs double the graphics performance of 10th Gen processors
- AMD reveals a faster graphics card than the GTX 1660 Ti, plus new mobile processors
- January 6
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- Alienware made a prototype portable PC that works like a giant Nintendo Switch
- Gollum 'doesn't look like Andy Serkis' in Daedalic's new Lord of the Rings game
- Sundered: Eldritch Edition is going free on the Epic Games Store later this week
- The race is on to launch the first gaming laptop with a 300Hz IPS display
- Heaven's Vault studio Inkle drops a strange message to tease its next project
- The Witcher showrunner Lauren Hissrich is holding an AMA later today
- There’s a console inside this PC and you can play both at once if you’re Goro
- Lenovo's latest 'gaming' laptop needs an external GPU to play games
- Acer’s Predator X32 is a beastly monitor with a monstrous $3,599 price tag
- Intel reveals its tiny modular gaming PC, Ghost Canyon
- Dota Underlords' peak player count has dropped by more than 90 percent
- Manipulate the politics of a country in FMV game Not For Broadcast
- Crytek is trying to get its Star Citizen lawsuit dismissed, but only temporarily
- Asus and Nvidia announce the first 360Hz G-Sync monitor
- Biomass is a 2D, sci-fi Soulslike with a hefty free demo
- New League of Legends season starts soon
- Vice Cry Remastered brings the Vice City map to GTA 5
- Diablo 2's rogue encampment is being upscaled by a modder
- January 5
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- Kentucky Route Zero's final episode is coming soon
- New Top Steam Game: CS:GO player counts have officially overtaken Dota 2
- Own a Keanu Reeves with Cyberpunk 2077 action figures
- Here’s a fun, free action game about collecting magic knives
- Fantasy colony sim Odd Realm is quite charming and a bit weird
- The Ni No Kuni movie is coming to Netflix
- Older Americans are playing more games, especially on PC and Mobile
- Riot feared angering gamers with mobile and card game announcements
- January 4
- January 3
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- Awesome Games Done Quick 2020 begins on Sunday
- Henry Cavill rejects your notion of a 'gaming man cave'
- This guy made a USB kill switch for his laptop for $20, and you can make one too
- Soma studio Frictional Games may be teasing its next horrific thing
- XFX just spilled the details on AMD's Radeon RX 5600 XT
- A Rune 2 patch is finally coming, despite ongoing legal issues
- Star Wars: Rise of Skywalker makes KOTOR's Revan canon
- Samsung’s Odyssey G9 is an ultra-curvy 49-inch 'dual QHD' gaming monitor
- Oddity is an Earthbound spiritual successor that used to be a fan sequel
- Fortnite was the highest-earning game of the year again
- Australia's climate crisis inspired this indie game about a doomed island
- Sign in to Twitch Prime this month and get 10 free games
- Dig Dug meets Bomberman in free roguelike Holy Smokes
- Stalker 2 will use the Unreal Engine to make modding 'more easy and accessible'
- January 2
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- Respawn boss Vince Zampella is taking over DICE LA to head up work on a new game
- We're finally learning more about Valve's long-secret Portal prequel
- Running low on space? This 2TB NVMe SSD is on sale for $200 right now
- After nearly a decade, Stalker: Call of Pripyat's Gunslinger mod is in open beta
- Alienware is making a 25-inch IPS monitor with a 240Hz refresh rate
- The Witcher 3 breaks 100K concurrent players on Steam for the first time
- Predicted rise in NAND pricing could make SSDs more expensive this year
- Intel's Core i9-10900K could have more cores, up to 30% better performance in threaded tasks
- The Steam Winter Sale 2019 is about to end
- Road sign side scroller The Pedestrian is out later this month
- Skyrim Grandma's NPC follower mod will be out in early 2020
- Final Fantasy 7 Remake's leaked PS4 demo allegedly contains PC code
- WWE 2K20 started the year even more broken than usual
- The Epic Games Store kicks off 2020 with a trio of free games
- Sekiro: Shadows Die Twice is Steam's Game of the Year 2019
- January 1
