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June 30
- Fans have resurrected the PS3's quirky, beloved Metal Gear Online 2 on PC
- Call of Duty 2021 may have appeared on Battle.net under the name 'Slipstream'
- People are really pissed at Final Fantasy Pixel Remaster's ugly fonts
- The coolest sword ever has been forged, and it's a mod for this VR sword fighting game
- Blizzard is trying to make Diablo 4 characters look cool while keeping them 'grounded in reality'
- Former Dragon Age chief Mark Darrah says 'you are wrong' about game piracy
- Cryptocurrency miners in China are beginning to sell off GPUs for cheap
- The most important update in Windows 11 is 😎 and I 💖 it
- Los Santos isn't ready for GTA Online's football talkshow
- Call of Duty: Modern Warfare's elusive new maps are back for good
- The ugliest Final Fantasy games are vanishing from Steam next month
- Need masses of RAM? Corsair’s 64GB kit of Vengeance RGB DDR4-3000 is $261 today
- EVGA is making its first motherboard for AMD Ryzen CPUs and it’s about time
- Apex Legends' trios briefly doubled in size this week
- The Medium developer is now creating games with Silent Hill publisher Konami
June 29
- 3 years after The Elder Scrolls 6 was announced, Todd Howard is thinking about making it
- Half-Life 2's Citadel is 3 times taller than everyone thought, says guy who spent 9 years thinking about it
- World of Warcraft's long-awaited 9.1 update, Chains of Domination, is now live
- Battlefield 2042 keeps Nvidia partnership, will support DLSS and Reflex latency optimization
- Remedy is working on a new, 'bigger budget' Control game and multiplayer spinoff
- Ex-BioWare boss Casey Hudson's new studio promises to 'combine excellence in the arts with advanced sciences'
- Magic: Legends is closing down permanently in October
- Todd Howard has been trying to make an Indiana Jones game since 2009
- Microsoft corrects its Windows 11 minimum PC requirements, and makes us sad
- Forza Horizon 4's next update will be the last to add new cars and features
- Old-school RPG Legend of Mana is getting an anime adaptation
- Windows 11 could support AMD Zen and Intel Kaby Lake CPUs after all
- The first 32GB DDR5 RAM kit lands at retail for $311 and it’s already sold out
- Explore Death Trash's gristly apocalypse with a permanent demo
- Reverse-engineered GTA 3 and Vice City projects are back online
- Microsoft acknowledges the Windows 11 PC Health Check was 'not fully prepared'
- Chris Avellone files libel suit over last year's sexual misconduct allegations
- AMD Ryzen 7 5800X is currently super cheap on Amazon AU
- Seattle got so hot today Bungie shut its doors early
- Xbox Cloud Gaming has rolled out for Windows 10 PCs
June 28
- Respawn promises to crack down harder on Apex Legends cheaters
- Australian Classification Board rates Id Software's 'Project 2021B,' whatever that is
- Hearthstone's next expansion will be revealed this week
- Knockout City's next season promises a new ball type, map, and more events
- The first Windows 11 preview build is available right now
- Near, creator of the higan and bsnes emulators, has died
- Intel is sampling DG2, its gaming graphics card, right now
- New Teardown difficulty options let you unlock everything at once
- After 6 months, Cyberpunk 2077's stability is apparently at a 'satisfactory level'
- This AMD mini PC kit is likely made out of b0rked PS5 chips
- Windows 11 is due out this year, but the free update for Windows 10 arrives in 2022
- This first-person Sonic the Hedgehog mod is utterly nauseating
- Finally, someone put a Greggs in Far Cry 5
- A driver containing rootkit malware was certified by Microsoft
- Cancelled 1990s FMV game American Hero returns for some reason
- Halo TV series showrunner will leave after one season
- Minecraft archivists have found their holy grail
- Marvel's Avengers July update will let players be the same hero
June 27
- Valheim mod lets you punch wolves with your own two hands in VR
- Orcs, ant-people, Barbarians, and all 14 wizards return in Master of Magic remake
- Avatar: Frontiers of Pandora will be a 'brand new story with new characters'
- River, the dog best known as Fallout 4's Dogmeat, has died
- The murder door in Call of Duty: Warzone is no longer doing murder
- Play Skyrim as Ash from Evil Dead with this Bruce Campbell mod
- Here's why the Mass Effect movie never got made
- Team Fortress 2 hits all-time player high following anti-bot patch
June 26
- Impressive, fan-made Dark Souls sequel Nightfall is coming in December
- You'll be able to sideload Android apps in Windows 11
June 25
- Enjoy watching Hearthstone players, casters react with horror at this three-turn lethal
- Activision smacks down pro wrestler Booker T. in Call of Duty copyright lawsuit
- Konami mashes up anime, Among Us, and Sherlock Holmes in a new multiplayer murder mystery
- EA removes Ultima Underworld and Syndicate from GOG
- Cozy Grove's Spanish localisation chose to spare players the horrors of US healthcare
- Win a Death Stranding PC case in our giveaway over on the PC Gamer forums
- GOG is giving away the entire Shadowrun trilogy until Monday
- Halo Infinite's multiplayer will feature its own ongoing story
- The Sims 4 is staging an in-game music festival headlined by Bebe Rexha
- Disconnect your WD My Book Live from the web or you could lose all your data
- DirectStorage won't be supported in Windows 10
- This keyboard is so small it doesn't have a spacebar... how the hell do I jump?
- Ubisoft shoots down a fan's impressive remake of GoldenEye 007 inside Far Cry 5
- Windows Store devs 'can keep 100% of their revenue', unless they're making games
June 24
- Halo Infinite team 'feels good' about holiday release, Phil Spencer assures
- Swedish Esports Association confirms The International 10 will be moved
- Razer's RGB-covered 144Hz gaming monitor is on sale for $150 off
- Overwatch crossplay is a confusing mess so far
- Borderlands 3 crossplay is live, but PlayStation owners get left out in the cold
- Sonic Mania and Horizon Chase Turbo are free on the Epic Store
- Skywind mod shows off a year of progress, but needs your help to finish
- The Microsoft Store finally gets a much-needed overhaul for Windows 10 and Windows 11
- Microsoft says 'if you're a gamer, Windows 11 was made for you'
- How to fix your PC when it says it can't run Windows 11
- The Steam Summer Sale has begun
- Microsoft confirms Windows 11 will be a free update for licensed Windows 10 users
- Apex Legends returns to the original King's Canyon next week
- Windows 11 will have built-in support for Android apps
- GOG adds a bunch of Amiga classics to kick off a retro summer sale
- How to watch the Windows 11 announcement today
- I'm terrified of Teardown's unrelenting robots
- Microsoft announces Windows 11 release for the holidays, and beta builds releasing next week
- Hardspace: Shipbreaker's derelicts now come with a radiation warning
- Inkle reveals more about its next project, says it's more 'gamey'
- G.Skill's 16GB DDR4-5066 kit is faster than entry-level DDR5 and is down to $150
- Xbox wants to do more with Killer Instinct, but not right now
- Kerbal Space Program is getting one last big update for its 10th anniversary
- Epic CEO on Google: "It's a business with a rotten soul."
- Seagate enlisted EK to build a heatsink for its FireCuda 530 SSD with 7.3GB/s reads
- PAX returns as a live event, but won't make vaccinations mandatory
- Now even Warhammer has a subscription service
- CCP wants to make EVE Online's galaxy a little less grey
- Halo: Combat Evolved gets a full suite of mod tools in The Master Chief Collection
June 23
- You can now build your very own Maypole in Valheim
- Microsoft's special Cyberpunk 2077 refund policy will end in July
- John McAfee found dead in Spanish prison cell
- Aliens: Fireteam is coming in August with a slightly new name
- You can hack Nvidia's DLSS 2.2 into Cyberpunk 2077 today
- Our favourite multitasking gadget for PC now controls Philips Hue lights
- Team Fortress 2's latest bot-fighting update might actually work
- Steam is making it harder to get cheap games from other regions
- Leak suggests Battlefield 2042's unannounced third mode is a nostalgic sandbox
- Review bombing sees Facebook's VR ad test in need of a new game
- WD is fixing a bug that makes Black SN850 SSDs run slow on X570 motherboards
- This year's best Sonic game is Minecraft, apparently
- AMD has picked a bad time to drop support for older GPUs
- Koduri's new graphics group proves Intel is serious about GPUs long term
- Halo: The Master Chief Collection may someday support up to 60 players
- Arma: Cold War Assault is free on Steam and GOG
- Epic has made Easy Anti-Cheat free for game developers
June 22
- The Left 4 Dead survivors are coming to Zombie Army 4
- Bungie tells Destiny dataminers to 'respect the fun' and stop spoiling things
- The Razer Cynosa V2 Chroma is going for less than AU$50 for the first time
- The official Rainbow Six Siege board game will include a 'line-of-sight ruler'
- PAX West is coming back in September as an in-person event
- I'm a weirdo and these are my favourite crappy Prime Day deals
- Overwatch crossplay beta is live, and there's a new Ashe event too
- Ghost of Tsushima dropping the 'Only on PlayStation' badge probably means nothing
- Marvel's Avengers patch fixes bug that was exposing streamer IP addresses
- Make the most of Amazon Prime Day by upgrading your SSD
- Bloodborne is the most-played Playstation Now game on PC, to absolutely no one's surprise
- Damn it. The PC Gamer test rig could've been $350 cheaper with these Prime Day deals
- Activision CEO Kotick pockets a whopping $155 million following contentious vote
- Tencent now has a majority stake in Spec Ops: The Line studio
- Wireless VR gaming here we come, thanks to these Prime Day Wi-Fi 6 router deals
- You can't get a new AMD Radeon GPU, right? These ready-to-ship Prime Day gaming PCs disagree
- Tetris Effect: Connected will become a free upgrade, get crossplay
- AMD launches FidelityFX Super Resolution, its answer to Nvidia DLSS
- Xbox head of publishing says commitment to diversity will get them to 3 billion players
- ASRock’s H510 Pro BTC+ can hold up to six graphics cards
- Fortnite is throwing another concert, this time at London's O2 Arena
- Dota 2 championship must move because Sweden won't classify it as an 'elite sporting event'
June 21
- Chinese market GPU prices drop amid crypto crackdown
- Our favourite PC gaming headset is under AU$100 today
- This genre-bender is a creepy marriage of Factorio and Don't Starve
- Final Fantasy 9 is becoming an animated series
- Sony insists it really likes crossplay now, honest
- Rust is getting a free Nvidia DLSS performance uplift in July
- This short beautifully captures the long-term World of Warcraft experience
- Here's your chance to win a huge RPG bundle over on the PC Gamer forums
- This brick texture was used to build hundreds of games
- This is Grand Theft Auto as made by AI
- Ireland's marketing itself with Assassin's Creed: Valhalla
- Turns out Tekken x Street Fighter might not be dead after all
- Recompile, the 3D action platformer set inside a mainframe, is out this summer
- Give Dad Geralt the flannel shirt he deserves with this Witcher 3 mod
- PUBG's Taego map update might add self-pickup and other features
- Here's 10 minutes of gameplay from the Salt and Sanctuary sequel
- Ubisoft server shutdown leaves Might & Magic X players without purchased DLC
- Silent Hill fans have convinced themselves a new game is going to be announced
June 20
- Our favourite wireless gaming keyboard is AU$250 for Amazon Prime Day 2021
- Combine city builder and god game to get The Immortal Mayor
- Here are the videogame dads celebrating Father's Day today
- In the new Sea of Thieves Tall Tales, other players won't be able to mess with you
- Psychonauts 2 made with 'no crunch' so far, according to senior producer
- Castlevania Advance Collection leaked courtesy of an Australian rating
- Battlefield 4 server capacity increased to deal with players hyped for Battlefield 2042
- Back 4 Blood will be always-online at launch
- Twitch bans streamers for simulated earlicking ASMR in yoga pants
June 19
- Next Crusader Kings 3 patch means fewer jester hats, spectral children
- Big Biomutant patch doubles the level cap
- This new free-to-play fairytale card game was designed by former Magic pros
- A third of the games at E3 2021 were non-violent, a big increase over 2019
- Gaming-related ER visits in 2020 include 'celebration injuries,' a scorpion sting
June 18
- Here's a mesmerizing montage of 3D artists all using the same animation
- You can now see inside some FIFA loot boxes before you buy
- Give yourself the ultimate 4K treatment with the latest Gigabyte gaming monitors
- Two new ghosts join Phasmophobia, plus the return of Dirty Water
- Stalker 2 dev diary teases a new faction, and explains mysteries from the trailer
- Inside the E3 control room: behind the scenes of gaming's biggest show
- Developer finally accepts that Outriders' grind is just too much
- Final Fantasy 7 Remake listing shows up on Epic Games Store database tracker
- Raven removes Warzone's buggy, OP trucks (again)
- George R.R. Martin: Elden Ring is a 'sequel' to Dark Souls
- Alder Lake is not here yet, but you will be able to buy DDR5 RAM this month
- CDPR keeps fiddling at the edges of Cyberpunk's doomed world
- Microsoft Flight Sim's latest update makes the Nordic countries even prettier, somehow
- Among Us' sudden Twitch success left its developer feeling burnt out
- Baldur's Gate 3 won't leave Early Access this year 'for sure'
June 17
- World of Warcraft: Shadowlands' big Chains of Domination update goes live June 29
- The official Destiny toaster is real and you can order one now
- Ubisoft's Star Wars and Avatar studio boss steps down
- See Jack Sparrow in action in a new Sea of Thieves gameplay video
- Absolute Drift: Zen Edition is free on GOG
- Age of Empires 4's last launch civs are the Holy Roman Empire and the Rus
- New Psychonauts 2 gameplay video dives deep into Raz's mind
- Overcooked 2's chef-on-chef co-op chaos is free on Epic
- Valorant introduces KAY/O, a killer robot who silences enemy abilities
- Bloody frisbee-tosser Boomerang X flies onto Steam next month
- The demons in this Doom dating game are more kissable than killable
- Mad Catz made an ambidextrous mouse 'inspired by spaceships and batmobiles'
- Loop Hero's 1.1 update adds mid-game saves and a fast-forward button
- ASRock says China's hunger for graphics cards to mine cryptocurrency is dwindling
- GTA Online players respond poorly to an in-game performance of Hamlet
- Five Nights at Freddy's creator retires amid controversy over political donations
- Future Call of Duty: Warzone patch will make 'sweeping balance changes' to weapons and TTK
- The SK hynix Gold P31 SSD is the perfect SSD for gamers
June 16
- Facebook to start testing ads in Oculus games
- Amazon wants help dealing with user review abuse
- Bethesda VP apologizes for Starfield being an Xbox exclusive
- Arma 3's newest DLC simulates a Cold War clash in Czechoslovakia
- Steam Next Fest gives you a week to try 700-odd demos
- Todd Howard says focusing on fewer platforms will mean better games
- Halo: The Master Chief Collection finally shows the aliens some love
- Half-Life 2's G-Man gets a well-earned glow-up
- Dead By Daylight's Resident Evil crossover is here
- You can buy an official Atari console again, if you've lost all self-respect
- An entire build of Windows 11 has leaked, but we'd be very cautious
- E3's best announcement was really this Fallout: London mod
- I'd love to build a tiny PC in G.Skill's new and compact Z5i mini-ITX chassis
- PUBG's first full-sized map since Miramar is dropping next month
- The world wide web source code is being auctioned off as an NFT
- Townscaper's pleasant islands drift out of early access this August
June 15
- Fatal Frame: Maiden of Black Water escapes Wii U exclusivity to hit PC
- 11 years overdue, UFO2: Extraterrestrials is finally out on Steam
- A Walk With Yiayia is a 'thoughtful, bite-sized adventure' about the importance of family
- Cyberpunk 2077 is returning to the PlayStation Store next week
- Leaked Windows 11 screenshots apparently confirmed to be genuine
- Finally, a sequel to Elex
- These are the Stalker 2 system requirements you'll need to meet
- Microsoft sets a kill date for Windows 10 support as Windows 11 draws near
- Sit back, relax, and chill to Noctua's utterly ASMR passive PC build vid
- Seasons return in Forza Horizon 5, with one important twist
- There's a whole 27 games coming day one on Game Pass for PC
- This new sim flying rig comes with a mini display built for MS Flight Sim
- Half-Life: Alyx's lights flicker just like they did in Quake, almost 25 years later
June 14
- Razer upgrades Raptor 27 gaming monitor to 165Hz
- Razer officially unveils the svelte AMD Blade 14 gaming laptop. About time, guys
- Razer announces a powerful 130W GaN charger for a small fortune
- Monster Hunter Stories 2 will have a demo on June 25 and progress will carry to the full game
- Resident Evil Village DLC is in development 'by popular demand'
- BioWare's new general manager promises to rebuild its reputation
- Back 4 Blood DLC will be accessible to everyone in a party as long as one player owns it
- Take-Two's E3 livestream wasn't quite what viewers were expecting
- Sci-fi Soulslike Hellpoint is free for keeps in the GOG Summer Sale
- Starfield is a 'bit more hardcore' than previous Bethesda RPGs, says Todd Howard
- A huge Elden Ring infodump just dropped
- Halo Infinite won't feature loot boxes, and its battle passes last forever
- You won't be able to buy a high capacity 5-bit PLC SSD until 2025 says WD
- Hitman 3 is getting lazy with the newest deadly sin DLC
- The Monster Hunter movie has marines in it because of Metal Gear Solid, apparently
- It's official, Nvidia will end GeForce GTX 600/700 series support in October
- Itch.io's Palestinian relief bundle wraps up at $900,000
- Microsoft announces Xbox Mini Fridge to show it's totally OK with Series X meme
- Fans are convinced the Starfield trailer reveals The Elder Scrolls 6 location
- Naraka: Bladepoint combines sword-swinging combat with a wild traversal system
- Warcry: Challenges is an FPS about speeding through short levels, looks potentially badass
- Her Story creator Sam Barlow's next game is a decades-spanning Hollywood thriller
- Solve a mystery from your window in Conway: Disappearance at Dahlia View
- Project Ferocious is a survival FPS on dino island
- Two Point Campus adds an almost 'city-builder element' to the Two Point universe
- Rune Factory 4 Special is coming to PC
- Tails of Iron's trailer spins a tale of brutal animal faction warfare, narrated by Geralt
June 13
- The bizarre, beautiful adventure Minute of Islands is out now
- Harold Halibut's stop motion and strange alien city continues to look absolutely gorgeous
- An alarming number of heads explode in this trailer for Happy Game, coming this fall
- Gameshow shooter Deathrun TV has a 'pilot episode' you can play now
- Space station sim Starmancer arrives August 5
- KeyWe is a very cute puzzle game starring mail birds out this August
- Here's how PvP will work in Back 4 Blood
- Esports Boxing Club brings 100 fighters to Early Access this year, with more to come
- Red Solstice 2: Survivors, real-time XCOM with multiplayer, hits Steam in June
- 50v50 World War 2 shooter Hell Let Loose leaves Early Access in July
- Project Warlock 2 is going all-out with more guns and 'vertical as hell' levels
- Wake up and roll the dice in interstellar RPG Citizen Sleeper
- Strategy RPG Songs of Conquest and its lovely pixels will appear in 2022
- Gorepunk RPG Death Trash hits early access this August
- Mechajammer is an isometric immersive sim-RPG inspired by '80s action films
- The frosty new Icarus trailer dares you to pick a fight with a polar bear
- Pull off a radioactive robbery in Chernobylite's heist finale when it leaves Early Access in July
- Solve all your problems by chucking pocket-sized aliens at them in Tinykin
- Squishy mutant roguelite Arboria to leave Early Access this August
- Lumberhill is a log-chopping party game, with pandas
- EVE Online is scary but its new EVE Academy website is a fantastic way to learn the basics
- Pioner looks like a different twist on Stalker, and I'm here for it comrade
- Warhammer 40,000: Chaos Gate - Daemonhunters is a new tactical RPG coming next year
- Watch 5 minutes of Gloomwood, the best game I've seen at E3 yet
- New Blood Interactive hid 5 new games inside a trailer for a bunch of other games
- Abzu meets Limbo in brutal underwater adventure Silt
- Watch the Neighbor take a shower in a new Hello Neighbor 2 trailer
- Killing Floor 2 is going to the moon in the new Interstellar Insanity event
- Far: Changing Tides is a lonely post-apocalyptic voyage, coming late 2021
- Ixion is a space station management sim with strong Frostpunk vibes
- WarTales is a gritty mercenary epic from the makers of Northgard
- Next Space Rebels is an amateur rocketry sim that's also about taking back the internet
- Time loop FPS Lemnis Gate gets a release date at the PC Gaming Show
- GigaBash is a cute and chaotic kaiju brawler that makes me miss arcades
- Vampire: The Masquerade—Swansong's new trailer reveals a vengeful game of hide and seek
- Orcs Must Die! 3 is coming to Steam at last
- The more arms the better in stylish side-scroller They Always Run
- They put PC Gaming Show host Frankie Ward in Humankind
- How Dying Light 2's day/night system completely transforms the city
- Rawmen is a saucy third-person shooter with a name that does not lie
- Chivalry 2's first free map coming 'sooner than fans would expect'
- Bombastic sports RPG Dodgeball Academia to hit PCs this August
- Martial arts battle royale Naraka: Bladepoint arrives August 12 with the biggest chainsaw I've seen in awhile
- Enter the Humankind Steam key giveaway
- Marvel's Avengers Black Panther expansion gets a cinematic trailer
- Platinum Games reveals new Babylon's Fall gameplay and details
- Here's a good look at the Life is Strange remaster
- Watch Life is Strange: True Colors demonstrate the magical power of empathy
- This newly revealed Final Fantasy game is so bad it's good
- Marvel's Guardians of the Galaxy will have no DLC or microtransactions
- The first 6 Final Fantasy games are getting a new lick of pixel paint
- Age of Empires 4 has a release date and plenty of Jeanne D'Arc
- Mushroom castles and the Brood Mother are coming in Grounded's next update
- Replaced is the cyberpunk platformer where you've been downloaded into a person
- Arkane's next game is Redfall, a Left 4 Dead-style shooter with magic and vampires
- Let's once again ride a wave of rats in A Plague Tale: Requiem
- Eiyuden Chronicle: Hundred Heroes and new spin-off announced for Xbox Game Pass at launch
- The Outer Worlds 2 is coming, that's it, that's the news
- Atomic Heart's new gravity-defying trailer ramps up the Soviet-themed insanity
- Forza Horizon 5 is headed to Mexico this November and lordy it looks nice
- Microsoft still won't give us an exact release date for Halo Infinite
- Microsoft Flight Simulator is getting free Top Gun DLC this year
- Among Us is getting 15 player lobbies
- Get radical with Shredders, an open world multiplayer snowboarding game
- Slime Rancher 2 will be bouncing onto PC in 2022
- Far Cry 6 lets you bring a cock to a gun fight
- Here's our first look at Halo Infinite multiplayer
- Somerville is Inside set during an alien apocalypse, and it's coming next year
- Decide the future of the Brotherhood of Steel in Fallout 76: Steel Reign, coming in July
- Party Animals is Gang Beasts but with adorable fuzzy animals
- Star-studded interactive thriller 12 Minutes releases this August
- Diablo 2: Resurrected launches on September 23
- Captain Jack Sparrow will be joining your pirate crew in Sea of Thieves later this month
- Psychonauts 2 launches on August 25, is free with Game Pass
- Yakuza: Like A Dragon is now available on Xbox Game Pass
- Contraband is a 1970s co-op smuggling game from the Just Cause team
- Stalker 2: Heart of Chernobyl gets impressive gameplay trailer and April 2022 release date
- Back 4 Blood is coming this October
- Battlefield 2042 gameplay trailer revealed at Microsoft show
- Starfield releases in November 2022, here's the first trailer
- Be gay, solve crimes in the Season of Pride sale event
- Grow your own worlds in Grow: Song of the Evertree
June 12
- Five Nights at Freddy's creator 'won't apologize for' Trump support
- 17-Bit's VR survival game Song in the Smoke is looking lively
- It remains a travesty that Mario + Rabbids isn't on PC
- Titan Souls is free on Steam for a limited time
- The $1,000 VHS tape and purple suits from Devolver's E3 show were actually for sale and they already sold out
- Be a trigger-happy spellcaster in co-op survival sandbox Wizard with a Gun
- Become the Baba Yaga in the open-world horror-adventure Blacktail
- Ooblets goes to the arcade in the Port Forward update
- Far Cry 6 DLC puts you into the shoes of the biggest villains from the series
- Don't listen to Giancarlo Esposito: Far Cry 6's Anton is definitely a villain
- Ubisoft reveals Avatar: Frontiers of Pandora, out next year
- Don't play Guilty Gear Strive in 4k, ask developers
- Assassin's Creed Valhalla will get a second year's worth of expansions and loads of free content
- Riders Republic is basically every extreme sports game in one, and it looks radical
- Rainbow Six Siege crossplay is leaving PC players behind
- Rocksmith+ looks like a neat way to learn the guitar or bass
- Rainbow Six Extraction reintroduced with new gameplay trailer and cinematic
- See Aiden Pearce and Wrench duke it out in the Watch Dogs: Legion – Bloodline trailer
- Yakuza: Like A Dragon will be available on Game Pass from today
- Be an adorable magic school student in Witchery Academy
- Jump back into the art scene and sell out in Passpartout 2: The Lost Artist
- Sally looks like Animal Crossing set on Howl's Moving Castle
- E3 leaks and rumors: Everything we've heard so far
- Paralives looks to be every frustrated Sims player's dream
- Lake, the mail carrier and mid-life crisis sim, finally gets a release date
- Lego Builder's Journey is a charming puzzle game out this month
- Make friends with tea-loving cat customers in this cozy teahouse sim
- Originally a free to play game, Icarus will now have a $100 deluxe edition
- Beasts of Maravilla Island is like Pokémon Snap with banana birds and otter crocodiles, and it's out now
- Convert your dad's boring laundromat into a ripping arcade in Arcade Paradise
- Serial Cleaners shows off the trouser hoover
- Back 4 Blood might be coming to Game Pass at launch
- This cute management sim looks Animal Crossing in a casino
- Happy's Humble Burger Barn doesn't look like a very happy burger barn
- Archvale looks like a 2D Zelda, apart from the thousands of bullets
- Despot's Game is like Teamfight Tactics except it's also a roguelike dungeon crawler
- This card-based RPG adventure pits a reluctant witch against Slavic demons
- Stylish mech RPG Wolfstride gets a new trailer
- Akatori has that Neo Geo look I can't get enough of
- No Longer Home is a point-and-click adventure about the anxiety of moving out
- Grime is a trippy new Metroidvania featuring living weapons and a bizarre art style
- New Aragami 2 gameplay demo gives us a better look at Dishonored in Japan
- Douse fires, save people, and fly on a firehose in Firegirl: Hack 'n Splash Rescue
- Watch the Guerrilla Collective E3 livestream now
June 11
- Get Civilization 6 and every expansion and DLC ever released for just $50
- Black Skylands, the sandbox RPG where you pilot an airship, is coming to Early Access on July 9
- Core Keeper looks kind of like Stardew Valley, but in a cave
- Let creepy puppets teach you about creepier ghosts in the new Martha Is Dead trailer
- Psychological thriller Broken Pieces reminds me of Silent Hill and Syberia
- Here's a quick look at the next game from the GreedFall studio
- New Splitgate trailer reminds us that Halo with portals is pretty fun, actually
- Crossfire: Legion is a 'classic RTS' being developed by the makers of Homeworld 3
- Skateboard tricks are the most valuable currency in OlliOlli World
- Time-loop mystery The Forgotten City will release July 28
- Tiny Tina's Wonderlands has customisable characters, spells, and melee weapons
- Skatebird flips out this August
- Soulslike Mortal Shell is getting DLC inspired by Bloodborne's trick weapons
- This weird new horror game is inspired by creepy Nordic fairytales
- World War Z's Aftermath expansion adds melee weapons, crossplay, and a first-person mode in 2021
- New trailer for kung-fu brawler Sifu shows a nightclub beatdown
- Fight as Rocky, Ivan Drago, Clubber Lang, and more in Creed Champions
- Doki Doki Literature Club Plus adds HD art to the totally normal visual novel
- New trailer for Sherlock Holmes: Chapter One shows a younger, cooler detective
- Fallout meets weird Soviet sci-fi in the alt-history RPG Encased
- Final Form looks more Metroid than anything Nintendo's done recently
- 'The moment you have to steal an old lady's wallet, people think there's something wrong with you'
- Watch James McAvoy and Daisy Ridley discuss the making of 12 Minutes
- How to make the most of gaming’s biggest event with the E3 2021 online portal
- Arctic horror Signalis is like The Thing reimagined as a 90s cyberpunk anime
- Finally, the first trailer for season 2 of The Witcher is here
- There's going to be a Far Cry anime
- Netflix casts Lance Reddick as Wesker in live-action Resident Evil series
- Captain Laserhawk is a Netflix anime series based on Far Cry 3: Blood Dragon
- Behind the Frame is chill anime-inspired puzzle with strong Ghibli vibes
- Netflix's Splinter Cell series stars an older, grizzled Sam Fisher
- Netflix is working on a brand new Castlevania series
- Wayne Brady plays King Dice in the Cuphead Netflix animated series
- League of Legends' TV series looks brilliant and moody in this new clip
- Intel reportedly offering over $2bn for a competitor to Arm
- A Musical Story is a 70s-inspired rhythm game about the memories of a dying guitarist
- This soup game looks hot
- Meet the hosts for this year's PC Gaming Show at E3
- Intel could help end the GPU shortage by making chips for Nvidia, but will it?
- Audit into Scavenger Studio 'did not find the presence of systemic sexual or psychological harassment'
- The GPU shortage means MSI is re-releasing the GeForce GT 730
- Supernatural adventure Last Stop releases this July
- Travel through graphics card history in Colorful's new GPU museum
- Tactical shooter Synthetik 2 is coming to Early Access
- Say bye-bye to Fallout 76's battle royale mode
- The Elden Ring community has been reduced to inarticulate shouting
- You'll be able to complete Axiom Verge 2 without fighting any bosses
June 10
- New Koch Media label will publish Payday 3 and a new Painkiller game
- The hand-crafted world and stop-motion animation of this co-op platformer looks amazing
- Death's Door gameplay video showcases 'tight 2D pixel-art action'
- CD Projekt confirms stolen source code is being circulated online
- Dungeon crawler Loot River is like 'Diablo and Tetris had a baby'
- Great news! Elden Ring will feature at least 2 deadly swamps
- Endless Dungeon basically looks like anime space Diablo, with turrets
- Only one person in the world can beat a Phantom Abyss dungeon
- Giancarlo Esposito says his Far Cry 6 dictator is 'not a villain'
- The Game Awards will be held in front of a live audience this year
- More co-op Viking action is headed your way in Tribes of Midgard this July
- Evil Dead: The Game looks pretty good, actually
- The Elden Ring gameplay trailer is finally here with a January 21 release date
- Students major in pizza and magic in this trailer for Two Point Campus
- This Nier: Automata skin for Fall Guys is making me extremely uncomfortable
- Indie platformer Planet of Lana is a beautiful robot apocalypse
- Monster Hunter Stories 2's new trailer has me very excited to train my dragon
- Jurassic World Evolution 2 announced, coming this year
- House of Ashes will pick off unlucky soldiers one by one this October
- Baptiste and Sombra's Overwatch 2 looks are slick as hell
- Tales of Arise's new trailer shows off gorgeous new environments, teases story stuff that makes no sense
- Bloodhunt is a battle royale game set in the Vampire: The Masquerade universe, and it's out this year
- Escape from Tarkov shows off destructible scenery and a freaking APC
- Salt and Sacrifice is a 'hardcore RPG platformer' sequel to Salt and Sanctuary
- New Solar Ash trailer shows a gargantuan flying boss fight
- Blink, and you'll miss this tease for Valorant's new Agent
- The Anacrusis is a '70s sci-fi take on Left 4 Dead from former Valve and Riot developers
- Among Us is getting a hide and seek mode, new roles, and a whole lot more
- Call of Duty: Warzone's Season 4 trailer brings fire-breathing dragons to Zombies
- Hideo Kojima teases next project with 'societal elements' and no aliens
- Hideo Kojima has been 're-thinking his creative process' in light of Covid-19
- Beautiful open world exploration game Sable is being released on September 23
- Amazon Games is localizing one of South Korea's most exciting MMOs, Lost Ark
- What the hell, Metal Slug is coming back as a tactics game
- A Death Stranding Director's Cut is on the way, and might contain some Metal Gear Solid stuff
- Tiny Tina's Wonderlands isn't the Borderlands spin-off you think it is
- Hearthstone survey leaks images of Mercenaries mode and asks if Blizzard should hire Mr T
- Watch the Summer Game Fest live now
- Valheim's update schedule delayed, Hearth & Home will be out later this summer
- Hackers steal FIFA 21, Frostbite source code from EA
- FNCS All-Star Showdown combines competitive mode with creative mode
- Kingston furiously renames its memory brand having sold HyperX
- Control is free on Epic Games Store this week
- Possess enemies to fight a demonic army in Rogue Spirit
- The Sims 4 escapes to the country with Cottage Living next month
- Phil Spencer: "We’re the only platform shipping games on PC, cloud and console simultaneously"
- PUBG's terrifying bots have been toned back down
- Intel Raptor Lake's rumoured 24 cores could crush multi-threaded applications
- Game Pass cloud streaming is coming to the Xbox Windows app, smart TVs, and a new Microsoft device
- Next-gen GPUs could get a 44% memory boost with future HBM3 interface
- Pirated games helped a malware campaign compromise 3.2 million PCs
- Roblox has been hit with a $200M lawsuit by music publishers for copyright infringement
- Nvidia's GeForce RTX 3070 Ti will be available to buy today, here's where to look
- Red Dead Online's summer update will add robbing homesteads and other "unlawful activities"
- The cheapest way to pre-order Battlefield 2042 in Australia
June 9
- Nvidia GeForce Now targets October launch in Australia
- Fortnite item shop: England captain Harry Kane and Germany's Marco Reus debut as new skins
- Former Bloodlines 2 writers join The Fermi Paradox
- Overwatch is getting crossplay
- I amassed an army of spritelings in The Wild at Heart and might actually cry
- Battle.net will now let you make friends from across the globe
- This week's internet blackout was caused by a single user updating their settings
- Battlefield 2042 won't include battle royale, but there are 2 mystery modes
- Battlefield 2042 will release on Steam and the Epic Games Store
- Report: Don't expect a new Call of Duty reveal at this year's E3
- Don't waste time queuing IRL for the Nvidia RTX 3070 Ti: Founders Edition is 'Online only' at Best Buy
- The Ninja Gaiden: Master Collection PC port looks rough as a dog
- Overwatch 2's maps won't be locked to one moment in time
- The GOG summer sale is here to save you from sunshine
- Intel issues driver fix for a wireless bug crashing Windows 10 PCs
- Valheim patch makes serpents braver and restores two bugged events
- IBM accused of chasing 'a quick payday' with $2.5B damages against AMD's OG chip maker
- E3 finally reveals this week's complete schedule
- US Senate approves massive $52B spend on easing the chip shortage
- 100TB hard drives could be possible thanks to graphene
- Download the new Nvidia driver hotfix to sort out BSODs and random screen flashing
- Itch's massive Palestinian Aid bundle has raised over $500,000
- Secretlab's best gaming chair is going cheap in its End of Financial Year sale
- Alex Kidd in Miracle World DX is coming earlier than expected
June 8
- Activision CEO Bobby Kotick still gets paid way too much, investment group says
- Gearbox acquisition kills Homeworld 3 Fig investments
- Capcom's E3 showcase is Monday 14 June, will contain monsters, zombies and lawyers
- Here's Fortnite's Rick and Morty crossover
- Sable still looks drop-dead gorgeous in its first extended gameplay preview
- E3's virtual convention centre is an absolute fiasco
- Fortnite Season 7's alien invasion has begun
- Google Stadia is finally coming to the latest Chromecast and the Nvidia Shield TV
- Phanteks launches a 360mm liquid cooler that will work with Intel's Alder Lake CPUs
- Nvidia, AMD and Intel could be 'lured into' dire chip shortage overcompensations
- I'm losing my mind at this trailer for open-world Pokémon clone Palworld
- Razer sets its sights on saving the seven seas with smart robots
- Valve Index will be available in Australia from August
June 7
- Prince of Persia: Sands of Time won’t release this year, and won’t be at E3 2021
- A Splinter Cell, Division, and Ghost Recon mashup FPS is rumored to be in development
- Mass Effect Legendary Edition patch promises better performance and quieter Mass Relays
- Genshin Impact casually reveals two new characters months ahead of their release
- Rainbow Six Quarantine officially renamed Extraction, full reveal coming on Saturday
- Restore a desolate ecosystem in 'reverse city-builder' Terra Nil
- AMD now has 30% of the gaming CPU market according to the latest Steam Survey
- The next Battlefield will reportedly be called Battlefield 2042
- Far Cry 6 is introducing limited third-person perspectives to the series
- Dying Light's dark-fantasy Hellraid DLC now comes with a story mode
- A faster AMD Radeon RX 6900 XT with liquid-cooling could launch this month
- Steam VR update lets you take control of your field of view
- Someone spent over $4,000 on this Gucci bag in Roblox
- Breakthrough energy scavenging carbon nanotube tech could banish wires forever
- Eurocom releases a 'fully upgradeable' Rocket Lake laptop but there's a caveat
- Noctua's high-performance fanless CPU cooler listed for $100
- CD Projekt created comedy bug reels before Cyberpunk 2077's release
- Much-needed first patch for Necromunda: Hired Gun arrives
June 6
- Free, popular survival game Muck exists because a YouTuber got salty
- Hearthstone pro ragequits in finals of Grandmasters tournament
- Bend gravity in puzzle-platformer Sky Beneath
- This week in PC gaming: Chivalry 2 and Backbone
- Devolver Direct returns for E3 2021
- Sonic co-creator and Balan Wonderworld director Yuji Naka has left Square Enix
- Lawsuit alleges Capcom stole art from photographer for Resident Evil and other games
June 5
- Mystery-solving life sim The Good Life delayed to Fall
- The No More Heroes games hit PC next week
- You can buy over 200 queer games for the price of one blockbuster
June 4
- Class action lawsuit filed against Dell for false advertising over Alienware laptop's upgradeability
- Itch.io's Palestinian Aid Bundle includes hundreds of games for $5
- Bungie says Destiny 2 PC performance is finally 'close to what it was before Beyond Light'
- Bloodstained: Ritual of the Night is getting a sequel
- Skyrim's Got Talent mod adds a progression system for wannabe bards
- Sorry, but Dead Island 2 (and Saints Row, and Timesplitters) won't be shown at E3
- Dicey Dungeons developer is now electrocuting strangers in Roblox
- Someone just spent almost $100,000 on an Among Us chicken nugget
- The NVMe interface built for lightning fast SSDs now supports the humble hard drive
- Knockout City dips, dives and dodges its way into 5 million players
- You can now mine cryptocurrency with your antivirus software. Wait, what?
- Injustice 2 dev apologises for celebrating Pride in the worst way possible
- Some Alienware laptops are reporting fewer RTX 3070 cores than they should be
- AMD says it's up to Nvidia to optimize for FidelityFX Super Resolution
- Counter-Strike: Global Offensive kicks free players out of ranked matchmaking
- XCOM studio is working on a turn-based game with Marvel characters, according to rumor
June 3
- The Nvidia RTX 3080 Ti goes on sale today, here's where to find one
- The Atari VCS is going on sale later this month
- PvP MMO Crowfall is finally launching in July
- Now you can trigger your real home's alarm when your Rust base is raided
- Frigid survival sim Frostpunk goes free on the Epic Store
- GOG's Warhammer Skulls sale includes a free game and 'goodie pack' for everyone
- There's officially too much going on in the Ark: Genesis - Part 2 launch trailer
- Total War: Warhammer 2's final DLC is coming in July
- Dan Abnett wrote the orcs in Shadow of Mordor and has never recovered
- Leaked Nvidia cryptocurrency card could be powerful enough to save gaming GPUs from the mines
- Half-Life: Alyx multiplayer mod lets you join a friend as a useless floating robot
- NZXT expands its spiffy motherboard lineup with a Z590 model for Rocket Lake
- Elite Dangerous: Odyssey gets another massive bug-fixing update
- Fortnite is getting a graphics upgrade
- Ex-Riot devs unveil Palia, a community MMO that's more focused on baking pies than slaying beasts
- Apex Legends' DDoS issues are being fixed 'as we speak'
- Best Buy has figured out the best way for you to beat the bots to an RTX 3080 Ti FE
- Nvidia DLSS is coming to boost frame rates for Linux gamers this month
- The ultra-lightweight Glorious Model D is going wireless with a 71-hour battery life
- Mass Effect 3 designer maps out a Mars Rover easter egg kept hidden for 10 years
June 2
- Genshin Impact is coming to the Epic Games Store next week
- Netflix joins Summer Game Fest to show off The Witcher, Resident Evil, and more
- Sony Studios boss says not to expect future PS5 exclusives to hit PC at launch
- Hearthstone is getting new Battlegrounds heroes and minions, and more Standard nerfs
- The 'next generation' of Windows will be revealed on June 24
- The $77 million PUBG cheating empire smashed by the Chinese cops—and the founder who escaped
- Looks like Intel's new Xe gaming GPU is finished and ready to roll
- Studio behind 80 Days surprise launches a whodunnit where youdunnit
- You can nab Battlefield 4 for free (if you've got Prime)
- Shroud: 'Valorant is the first tac shooter in a long time that has a company behind it that truly gives a damn.'
- Aliens have begun abducting Fortnite players
- The nightmarish GPU market means the GeForce RTX 3080 Ti is a miserable bargain at $1,200
- Dark Horse wants wants to bring its comic icons into games
- Valorant has 14M monthly players, mobile version is on the way
- No Man's Sky gets a major visual overhaul and rideable flying critters
- I have no interest in mining Chia but new super-long endurance SSDs have caught my attention
- AMD's prototype Zen CPU delivers 15% gaming boost and will be in production 'by the end of the year'
- Minecraft quietly removes a dated 4chan reference
- Viewfinder's mind-bending photography puzzles are shaping up nicely
- Acer says it 'can only fill 50% of the worldwide demand' due to chip shortage
- Intel eyeing up frame rate boosting tech for Intel Xe-HPG gaming GPUs
- King of Fighters 15 gets delayed to 2022
- Biomutant's pesky narrator can now be turned off
- Breaking from tradition, Far Cry 6 won’t have an in-built map editor
- Here's our first look at Cate Blanchett as Lilith in the Borderlands movie
- Here are all the best PC gaming deals from the eBay Plus Weekend event
June 1
- Minecraft speedrunner Dream admits to accidentally cheating in record-setting run
- EA pulls the plug on old Need for Speed games after all
- The next Battlefield reveal will happen on June 9
- We're getting a Crysis 2 and Crysis 3 remaster later this year
- Phantasy Star Online 2: New Genesis arrives next week
- AMD wants you to tell it which games need the FidelityFX Super Resolution treatment
- Owner of ROM site represents himself in court, gets obliterated
- Sadist turns a Bop It into a Minecraft controller
- Tell Me Why is free this month
- Alienware's X-series might just make 4K gaming laptops worthwhile
- Looking for a monitor on a budget? This 24-inch Dell FreeSync model will only set you back $117
- Angry goats arrive in Minecraft next week
- Nvidia DLSS will soon give Red Dead Redemption 2 a much-needed FPS boost
- Twitch hit with another wave of DMCA takedowns
- AMD's FidelityFX Super Resolution coming June 22
- Get a free pair of wireless earbuds when you subscribe to PC Gamer magazine this Father's Day
- Nvidia announces new gaming flagship RTX 3080 Ti and RTX 3070 Ti
- AMD introduces two APUs for DIY builders capable of 1080p gaming
- AMD's RDNA 2 GPUs are finally heading to laptops this June
- Amazon AU's Mid-Year Sale 2021 is here with some great PC gaming deals