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- March 31
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- What the heck: A superhuman has beaten Dark Souls at level 1, hitless, and without using dodge roll or ranged weapons
- Nightdive's Larry Kuperman retires after 25-year career in games: 'We never looked at games as products'
- France's 'leading consumer association,' backed by Stop Killing Games, sues Ubisoft over The Crew shutdown
- World of Warcraft secret hunters perform synchronized dance in a 40-player raid group to finally solve a year-old puzzle, proving they will do anything for a new outfit
- Bungie nerfs Marathon's slide cancel movement tech, says no movement freaks allowed: 'Unbounded movement, while expressive and clip-worthy, is ultimately unhealthy for the pace of play'
- Vaporizer swarms are wiping out squads en masse as Arc Raiders diehards finally get the tougher Arc they were asking for
- Zero Parades, the spy game from Disco Elysium studio ZA/UM, is coming in May
- I opened my own store in Stardew Valley so now Pierre has to buy my seeds. MY SEEDS
- GTA Online's first-of-its-kind community showcase offers a glimpse of what's to come in GTA 6—and might just answer a big question facing the multiplayer offshoot
- Arc Raiders' latest update brings its best improvement yet: Making late spawns less awful
- The new Crimson Desert patches are grand and all, but the Ray Reconstruction performance and lighting options are still all kind of b0rked on my machine
- Skyblivion dev team is once again putting out a call for 'experienced mod authors and developers' to help get it finished, and it sure sounds like there's a lot left to do for a mod that's supposed to be out this year
- Report claims OpenAI spending cuts have 'hit' memory prices but there's little evidence right now of cheaper PC components
- This tool tells you exactly how much your latency could improve by changing your mouse's polling rate
- Two and a half months into the filming of Amazon's big budget Tomb Raider TV show, star Sophie Turner has suffered an on-set injury that has 'paused' production
- Crimson Desert's waterskiing shoes are my favorite silly gadget the game has produced so far
- WoW players are beating Mythic+ dungeons at a rapid pace, and it's raising fears about difficulty
- Forget Doom, how about a Prince of Persia port on a Flipper Zero
- Microsoft is building new '100% native' Windows programs to replace memory-hogging web apps
- Larian publishing boss takes some spicy swipes at Crimson Desert, calling it a 'cynical amalgamation of borrowed mechanics'—but I think he might be the cynical one this time
- LocalSend is the most useful app I've come across in a very long time, letting me share files across devices with a couple clicks
- In the long list of awful things AI might lead to we can also add killing open-source software
- Crimson Desert voice actor says he had to keep pushing to get a cohesive story for Kliff
- TSMC is reportedly sold out until 2028 and even its next-gen Arizona fab is fully booked before it has even been built
- The Slay the Spire board game is getting an expansion based on one of the PC game's most popular mods
- March 30
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- Clever WoW players exploited bugs and some poor little rats to try and kill a Midnight raid boss early, but Blizzard was one step ahead
- Inzoi Studio head says early access was unavoidable, but he feels kind of bad about it: 'The users are testing it on our behalf, so I always feel sorry for them'
- Peak's new update gives you the keys to the climb with a suite of custom settings, including the option to turn on 'Grapple Mode (Stupid)'
- Remember when Mastercard pressured Steam to remove a bunch of NSFW games? The FTC says that's not cool—sort of
- Too Many F*cking Nazis is the name of a new Steam FPS, and coincidentally an accurate description of its Steam community forums
- Eidos Montreal studio head departs as it lays off another 124 employees 'across production and support teams'
- Arc Raiders' Flashpoint update finally streamlines crafting—oh, and you can also supercharge Scrappy using food because that just makes sense
- 'The most boring protocol on the internet is also, quietly, one of the most abusable': Doom has been broken down into 1,964 DNS text records and can be run via a PowerShell script
- Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 devs never imagined to achieve the kind of massive success it did: 'Our official goal towards the end of production was to reach for 85 in Metacritic'
- You can chow down on this edible thermal paste made from gold leaf and honey, and it's not as horrible for your temps as you might expect
- You're missing out on getting Marathon's best loot for free because it's hidden in a menu
- Pearl Abyss says to roll back your GPU driver if you're struggling to get Crimson Desert working on your ROG Xbox Ally X
- Grab my favourite ever Lovecraftian TTRPG along with a huge range of adventures and supplements for an amazing price this week
- Disney Dreamlight Valley's next free update releases next month, and it'll add Pocahontas
- Indie studio co-founder believes 'nobody cares about' huge open worlds anymore instead devs should pick just one thing and do it 'exceptionally well'
- Jack Black would be up for playing a 'portly American' if there's another live-action Yakuza movie: 'Sega, give me a jingle'
- Yes, some DDR5 RAM prices have dropped recently—but I wouldn't pop the champagne just yet
- WoW to get an official pride event, based on a community run that's raised money for 12 years
- March 29
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- Batman: Arkham Origins has a graphics mod that looks like a remaster
- Death Stranding 2's PC port pushed it past 2 million copies sold
- Star Wars Zero Company director has 'an axe to grind' with turn-based tactics, says fans don't have to settle for no story, crummy graphics, and clunky controls: 'Depth doesn't cost you elegance'
- A programmer with terminal brain cancer was caught in Epic's mass layoff, but CEO Tim Sweeney says the studio 'will solve the insurance for them'
- The latest Crimson Desert patch adds five new mounts and makes it so you only get in trouble for stealing if you get caught
- Kingdom Come: Deliverance 2 translator says he was 'fired from Warhorse Studios and replaced with AI'
- Altera is a hardcore, realistic, unforgiving military survival sandbox, so of course it features penguin soldiers with reflex sights on their heads
- XCOM meets Rashomon in Vaunted, a tactical RPG where your characters can rewrite history from their perspective
- I'm unsure how much of a detective game Artificial Detective will be, but I enjoyed the bit in the trailer when your character attacks a robot with a massive drill
- If you're sick of waiting for Ubisoft to make a new Splinter Cell, this newly announced indie stealth game might fill the Sam Fisher-shaped hole in your life
- Deus Ex: Invisible War's audio director says 'there was room for improvement,' but remains proud of the team's work
- Resident Evil Requiem patch adds photo mode, and apparently 'Character expressions in some cutscenes have been adjusted to better convey emotion'
- March 28
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- 'Early on in the 2000s, we got enamored with consoles and I think certain games didn't make the leap right:' Star Wars Zero Company's director has a theory about why old school PC gaming genres are back with a vengeance
- Owlcat says everything in its new Expanse RPG 'will definitely 100 percent be human-made,' but also that generative AI will be used for 'vision coordination' and 'inspiration'
- Elder Scrolls mobile spinoff Blades is shutting down this summer after eight years, but at least all its store items are ultra-cheap now
- Meta to pay $375 million for 'thousands' of children's safety violations, a whole 0.19% of its 2025 revenue
- Starship Troopers: Extermination's latest update adds a big stompy mech, ideal for squashing the shooter's newly polished bug holes
- Baldur's Gate 3 YouTuber discovers 'time travel' glitch that also reveals 4 nude Gales hanging out in your camp for some reason
- Sintopia, the management sim that smashes together Dungeon Keeper and Black & White, will stand before Steam's pearly gates for judgment in April
- Forgotten FPS sequel Heretic 2 gets a 'reverse-engineered sourceport' that fixes bugs, improves the framerate and adds 'lots of cosmetic improvements'
- Lawn Mowing Simulator 2 takes to Kickstarter with the lushest virtual grass I've ever seen
- Developer of cozy tea shop adventure Wanderstop is shutting down: 'It's a particularly tough time for raising game funds'
- March 27
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- Zero Parades devs knew they didn't want to make another cop game after Disco Elysium: 'How people think of the police these days, it's a bit different'
- Get every Frictional horror game ever made—Penumbra, Amnesia, and SOMA—for just $15 in this screamingly good bundle
- Path of Exile's richest player and item trading kingpin gets banned and pleads with Grinding Gear Games to restore 'more than 1,500 items, some of which can't ever be recreated': 'This is the worst day of my life'
- Deus Ex: Human Revolution could've had a track from the original game's composer but it was rejected for not being the 'right fit,' and in hindsight he says they were right
- Soren Johnson on keeping his game studio small: 'You get better games if you take longer to make games'
- PUBG: Blindspot is closing after less than 2 months of early access
- D&D Beyond's slick new online character creator lets you make a hero in seconds
- Overwatch reveals that only 32% of players stayed loyal to Winston until the end: 'You are not to be trusted'
- Linux kernel maintainer says AI has suddenly become useful for devs: 'We can't ignore this stuff. It's coming up, and it's getting better'
- Street Fighter 6's new DLC character is into incest, and somehow Capcom is making the whole thing even weirder
- 'The industry's in a really horrible place,' Brenda Romero says: 'We were there in the '80s for the crash, and this is definitely crashier'
- This legendary Baldur's Gate 3 exploit has taken my latest solo Durge run to a new level of immersion and god-tier power
- Astarion's actor from Baldur's Gate 3 has dodged similar roles: 'Repetition breeds stagnation'
- There's nothing 'euro' about 'eurojank,' says Stalker dev—after all, what are some of the 2000s' best RPGs if not beautiful all-American jankfests?
- Sony hikes the PS5 price by $100, PS5 Pro by $150: 'this was a necessary step'
- Google says its new algorithm reduces AI memory overhead by 6x which could be good news for the RAMpocalypse but bad news for Micron and co
- Warhammer 40,000's 11th edition is set to kick off a nostalgia-filled era for the setting, with a starter set that recreates 2nd edition's from over 30 years ago
- This simple gaming chair bracket could have saved me years of sim racing with two wooden blocks holding my pedals in place
- 'We want more for them': Arc Raiders' lead dev reassures players that balance and end-game content are a top priority
- All Genshin Impact 6.5 livestream codes
- 'There are no leaks', says Stardew Valley creator, taking a hammer to the rumour mill
- Tossing servers for sport: IT experts are once again seeing how far they can fling a server rack
- 'Realtime-with-pause is not dead,' says lead designer of promising turn-based game Star Wars Zero Company
- In its first major visual overhaul ever, RPG Maker will soon let you make games in the style of Octopath Traveler
- Actual-play series Dimension 20 is partnering with White Wolf for a Vampire: The Masquerade show
- March 26
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- Pro World of Warcraft player disconnects mid-fight because he forgot to renew his subscription before Midnight's world first race: 'I actually bought a WoW token, I forgot to use it'
- Valve veteran slams Tim Sweeney and Epic Games for laying off 1000 people while making 'as much money as possible… and hey Tim, Gabe's better at that than you'
- Neuralink patient raiding in World of Warcraft after only 100 days of having the implant installed calls it 'pure magic… exploring Azeroth hands-free at full speed'
- Stranger than Heaven is Yakuza except set between 1915 and 1965 in five different cities—including Kamurocho
- V Rising studio is working on a new game, and it sounds like it's got teeth: 'The odyssey of the Vampire continues'
- Hades 2 trailer teases a new steamy scene that will be added with 'bonus content and quality-of-life improvements' in an update next month
- There are two different Jesus sims launching within a week of each other
- Alien Deathstorm is the very real title of the new 'action horror game' coming from Atomfall developer Rebellion
- It's brutal out there: Deus Ex and Unreal composer says he's submitted 50 resumes and gotten one interview in the last year
- That Hunter: The Reckoning game that was accidentally leaked on Steam is now officially revealed as a new FPS RPG
- Our full chat with Embark: How Arc Raiders was saved mid-development, the balancing process, and the possibility of vehicles
- The Expanse: Osiris Reborn will get pre-orderers in for beta testing nearly a year before launch
- Extraction shooter Sand delayed from March as Ukrainian developer cites 'a difficult few months' with 'severe power outages and air alert disruptions'
- Baldur's Gate 3 gets a new hotfix to fix the old hotfix that fixed corrupted saves but started causing crashes
- Pragmata's devs created human-made AI slop to mimic the 'uncanny feel' of LLM art
- Stalker 2's first major story expansion is coming this summer with two new regions and 'dozens of hours of gameplay'
- Serious Sam is being turned into a run-based roguelite multiplayer shooter later this year, and seriously—this one might not suck
- This intrepid bug bounty hunter is splicing together Tesla parts from crashed cars, and has somehow managed to build a semi-working computer system on their desk
- Say what you want about burn-in, sales of OLED PC monitors surged by 92% in 2025
- Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang says of AI that 'open is not a thing, it’s proprietary and open', sparking a conversation about bot orchestras
- Google says it's preparing for the quantum apocalypse, when traditional encryption methods are broken by quantum computers, by 2029—which is much sooner than originally expected
- Videogames are more of a rich guy's hobby than ever, says analyst, and that's 'leaving a whole portion of the market to Fortnite, Minecraft, Roblox'
- Star Wars Zero Company's lead mission designer is eagerly waiting to watch all your all-astromech challenge runs: 'Granted, it might not be a very easy thing to do'
- Final Fantasy 14's Japanese age rating gets a bump, and it's all because of screenshots
- AMD announces Ryzen 9 9950X3D2 Dual Edition: a CPU with a mighty 208 MB of cache aimed at game devs
- Star Wars Zero Company devs said 'there were some fights' about its story-centric squadmates suffering permadeath, but accepting that 'Star Wars is about loss' made the game stronger
- Dying Light: The Beast's new mode means the zombies you kill won't respawn… but neither will all the loot you need to survive
- Senator Bernie Sanders announces bill to pause US data center construction: 'AI and robotics will impact our economy, our democracy, our privacy rights... even our very survival as human beings on this planet'
- Global PC sales forecast to dip by 5% in 2026 due to spiralling memory prices
- Arc Raiders players aren't happy with the Flashpoint update's direction as Embark drops a teaser showing the Shredder escape from Stella Montis: 'Shredders are the new Arc aren’t they'
- Intel launches the Arc Pro B70 graphics card based on the Big Battlemage GPU we've been waiting for forever but it's for AI, not gaming
- Asus says it's confident in its 'strong product security' after FCC foreign-made router ban, also *checks notes* fixes major security hole in its routers
- Trump appoints Nvidia's Jensen Huang, AMD's Lisa Su, Meta's Mark Zuckerberg, and more to science and technology advisory committee
- WoW player finds out it costs 25 gold more for them per dungeon to use their mitigation
- March 25
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- Horizon Chase Turbo, a great arcade racer with no online functionality or licensed vehicles, is being delisted in June
- Stardew Valley farmer takes advice from AI, ends up brewing 136 useless bottles of rice juice
- 'I'm not sure it was a rational decision': Caves of Qud devs ported the roguelike to Nintendo Switch because they're 'interested in solving impossible problems'
- Splitgate studio 1047 Games is working on something new: 'If you're a fan of games like Titanfall or Black Ops 3, we would love to hear from you'
- Discord hit with 'major outage' affecting voice chat (Update: fixed!)
- Infamous World of Warcraft guild exploits its way to a world first in new Midnight raid until Blizzard says its instant 300 million damage doesn't count
- Fortnite producer asks for patience as developers 'pick up the pieces' after massive layoffs: 'We cannot even fully understand what kind of impacts this will have on the game for the rest of the year and likely beyond'
- The best non-Hitman game from Hitman's devs wouldn't have happened if it didn't blow EA execs' minds and 'low expectations' with a hocus-pocus demo powered mostly by dreams
- Sony takes cancelling things to a whole new level by cancelling the car it was making with Honda
- 'Cripple their sales, tank their stock price. Stop collaborating with them as developers': New Blood CEO on fighting against DLSS 5
- 2026 is shaping up to be a golden year for gaming mice, as Razer's battery-boosting FrameSync adds more goodies to the pot
- Marathon is rescheduling its frustrating endgame, but you're still against the clock: 'No schedule is perfect, but we're here to listen and learn'
- Marvel Rivals producer says 'it's not the time' for original heroes, the devs are more concerned with its UI
- LG claims its new 1-120 Hz auto-refresh rate LCD display for laptops extends battery life by 48% and helps the new Dell XPS hit 31 hours
- Baldur's Gate 3 had romance system ambitions that got killed by 'time constraints,' like a 'friendship' alternative for the companions you don't smooch
- UK regulators explain what 'highly effective' age assurance for the Online Safety Act actually means
- Tekken 8 devs promise better after latest patch, but fans are in full doom mode
- The Forza Horizon 6 system requirements are in and it's good news for older PCs and handhelds
- Fallout megamod maker says there were 'moments of uncertainty' about how okay Bethesda was with it, but gives props to Todd for staying cool about the whole thing
- Death Stranding 2 developer says his wife had a rather strong reaction to its first big plot twist: 'Kojima Productions are psychopaths'
- MSI's new power supplies have a buzzer that warns you if your graphics card is about to melt, which seems like a solution to a problem that really shouldn't exist
- Players are starting to click with Crimson Desert as it climbs up to Very Positive on Steam and reaches 3 million sales—but Pearl Abyss promises more improvements
- CPU shortage is 'getting more serious day by day, no less than the memory chip situation' according to an unnamed gaming PC company
- Epic CEO Tim Sweeney says 'employers will see a stream of resumes of once-in-a-lifetime quality' after the company laid off more than 1,000 people
- 'Continuing to sell this product is no longer sustainable': Ayaneo has suspended pre-orders of its uber-powerful Next 2 gaming handheld after costs approached 'twice the price we originally set'
- Kingdom Come: Deliverance 2 director defends DLSS 5: 'No way haters will stop this'
- Geekbench warns that Intel's BOT tool for the new Arrow Lake Plus CPUs generates results that 'aren't comparable with standard runs'
- March 24
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- After feedback that Death Stranding was 'too slow,' Kojima wanted more players to see Death Stranding 2 all the way through to the end
- OpenAI discontinues Sora video generation app, Disney pulls out of $1 billion investment deal
- Analysts say Slay the Spire 2 is the best-performing deckbuilder of all time—and the competition isn't close
- Call of Duty veteran's new studio, which was just announced in 2025, is being closed by Sony
- Popular Skyrim mod returns after 9 years with a major update and a full source code release to keep it relevant 'for many years to come'
- There's a new Payday game coming later this year, and it's VR
- Mark Zuckerberg is building an AI co-CEO as part of his continuing mission to free himself from the burden of human interaction
- Fortnite's new Peak skin costs almost 3 times as much as the indie game it's based on: 'That's actually a slap in the face to the Peak developers'
- Even after ZA/UM's messy breakup, the writing team still has a cadre of sad communists—but you won't have to play Zero Parades as one if you don't want to
- Epic is ending 3 Fortnite game modes following its latest round of layoffs: 'We failed to build something awesome enough to attract and retain a large player base'
- Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang says Doom is the most influential game ever made, and now I really want to ask him whether he prefers the chainsaw or the BFG
- Someone already beat Marathon's pinnacle three-player Compiler boss solo, just to rub salt in the wound of everyone who didn't even see it
- Sony reveals that its new PSSR upscaling for the Playstation 5 Pro has the same 'core' as AMD's FSR Redstone but that doesn't necessarily mean older AMD PC graphics cards are set to get an FSR upgrade
- Nvidia's Jensen Huang confirms he was once asked to become chief executive of TSMC: 'I declined it... it's an unbelievable offer, but I simply couldn't take it'
- Epic Games lays off more than 1,000 employees: 'We're spending significantly more than we're making,' CEO Tim Sweeney says
- Hello Kitty Island Adventure has announced its second DLC, adding one of Sanrio's most colourful characters, a customisable cafe, and over 90 quests
- Razer's web-based gaming mouse and keyboard software remains 'in Beta while development continues' despite support for the Viper V4 Pro
- Razer's new Viper V4 Pro could be as big of a deal for competitive gamers as the Logitech Superstrike, even without those haptic clicks
- 'I don't love AI slop myself' says Nvidia chief Jensen Huang: 'I'm empathetic towards what [gamers] are thinking. That's just not what DLSS 5 is trying to do'
- You can play Peter Molyneux's new god game, Masters of Albion, before it launches in early access
- Former Windows boss reveals previous plans to reduce Windows 11's memory and storage footprint by 20% and now I'm hoping Microsoft includes that in its new Windows 'quality' drive
- The best game design programs, ranked by The Princeton Review 2026
- 'We are not going to pick one': Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 dev confirms there's no canon ending, instead opting for a more elusive 'Schrodinger's ending'
- 'Golden goose' indie games get Gabe Newell's attention, says Steam expert: 'You're like a little goblin that has a magical power to turn straw into gold'
- Microsoft is 'working on' removing the online account login requirement for new Windows 11 installs and also 'reducing unnecessary Copilot entry points'
- The FCC says foreign routers 'pose an unacceptable risk' and now require special approval to be sold in the US
- PAX Australia 2026 is returning in October, and early bird tickets are now available
- I felt like playing a janky choice-driven RPG on my Steam Deck, and this gritty AA deepcut is hitting the spot for just 99 cents
- March 23
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- 'A firm announcement is dependent on this final stretch of work': Fans are spinning out over extraction shooter Sand's lack of a specific March release date
- Crimson Desert players demand bear domestication
- Capcom says it 'will not implement assets generated by AI into our game content,' but still plans to use AI to 'enhance efficiency and boost productivity' in game development
- 'If this was a trial about whether I made stupid tweets I would say I'm guilty' says Elon Musk in trial before being found guilty
- Shadowheart and Lae'zel's Baldur's Gate 3 romance came naturally because their writers realised they 'were writing the same story from different directions'
- Grab this early gold bar in Crimson Desert to open a bank account and make some money
- Oops, ASRock says motherboards will support 'newly launched' AMD Ryzen 9 9950X3D2 CPU that has definitely not yet been launched
- The Witcher 3 modders are still discovering and restoring deleted scenes, including one that adds new texture to the game's best villain
- Baldur's Gate 3 writer says its Dragon-Agey rep system is there to stop you totally breaking the NPCs, but it 'becomes a dice roll' at points to keep romance natural
- Nintendo is re-releasing the Switch 2 in the EU with a replaceable battery—and it's high time handheld gaming PCs followed suit
- Cat Parents amasses over 100,000 wishlists in just 3 days, leaving its indie devs speechless: 'We never imagined that our little dream would spark interest in so many people'
- Intel VP says future sockets should last longer and support more CPU generations
- Pearl Abyss working on bringing Arc GPU support to Crimson Desert, with Intel 'ready to assist'
- The new Crimson Desert patch adds private storage at base camp and nerfs a few bosses—also, Pearl Abyss knows the control scheme isn't great
- Microsoft might actually make Windows 11 good as the company promises to roll back AI features and improve performance
- Ex-Blizzard president says gamers need to 'man up' over AI usage in games after Crimson Desert devs issue apology
- New Blood boss Dave Oshry 'quadruples down' on supporting GOG after worrying about its future, committing to sales, demos, one-click mods, plus day-and-date releases alongside Steam
- Now you can play Resident Evil Requiem in VR if that's a thing you want for some reason
- March 22
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- Cult online action RPG Marvel Heroes, after more than eight years offline, has player-run servers at last
- Man pleads guilty to generating songs with AI then having bots stream them 'billions of times' to make over $8 million in royalties
- Mega Crit responds to the panic over Slay the Spire 2's 1st balance pass, saying these changes are 'the first of many': 'No change is necessarily permanent'
- That Dragon Quest MMO still isn't coming to the west, but it is getting a Gemini-powered AI slime companion
- Crimson Desert team apologizes after players find AI art in the game: 'Our intention has always been for any such assets to be replaced'
- With Steam reviews at 'Mixed', the developer of Half Sword addresses differences between the early access game and its hugely popular tech demo: 'The final version of the game will differ from what has been shown previously'
- Nearly 2 years after hitting 1.0, goblin pachinko roguelike Peglin adds a fourth act and a final boss: 'It's been a long time coming'
- The Wheel of Time is getting an animated show and a PC/mobile game, which is different from the open-world action RPG already in development
- An ambitious mod management tool for the original Baldur's Gate games just got a massive overhaul
- Bethesda learned its lesson from DLC pop-ups in its older RPGs: 'We've gotten better at that'
- March 21
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- Now you can replace Resident Evil Requiem's product-placement Porsche with a drivable hamburger
- Hero modder restores the coolest bit of Elden Ring cut content: The heartbreaking tragedy of the second guy you meet that actually kinda justifies the game's most evil ending
- Minecraft's second drop of 2026 will feature an all-new underground biome, shaking up the caving experience we know and love
- Minecraft's Diablo-inspired spinoff is getting a surprise sequel this year
- Toby Fox says 'most of the development team has moved on' from Deltarune's fifth chapter, as focus moves to bug fixes and translation
- Steam gets big ups for promoting the human artists behind its latest spring sale graphics: 'Thank you for using real artists and not slop'
- If you simply cannot wait for the new Heroes of Might and Magic, this sci-fi take on HoMM just launched from Steam early access
- After one of Blood's best mods added a new episode in January, another brilliant spin on Monolith's shooter just got an even bigger overhaul
- The Last Caretaker's latest update embraces its inner Dr Evil by adding sharks with frickin' laser beams attached to their heads
- Blight: Survival offers a fresh slice of its medieval zombie-slaying, after its developer took a break to 'rebuild our core systems from the ground up'
- Death Stranding 2 devs thought 'Brutal' mode was hard enough, but pushed the game to 'the upper limit' with its new difficulty option on PC
- March 20
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- Crimson Desert dev says it 'takes time' to get used to the game's notoriously clunky controls, but advises players to 'think of it like riding a bike, it comes naturally after you learn it'
- The Minecraft Movie sequel casts Kirsten Dunst, which is not surprising because she wanted to be in a film 'where I don’t lose money'
- Silksong player tracks down a secret version of its act 1 boss and immediately discovers why Team Cherry probably cut it
- Slay the Spire 2 players leave over 9,000 negative Steam reviews in one day over a card nerf that hasn't even gone live yet—but China's Steam restrictions might bear some of the blame
- OpenTTD asks people to please stop being mad at Atari for forcing the game off Steam: 'OpenTTD as a project retains its full independence,' and you can still get it for free
- Subnautica 2 chief says Krafton is still messing with him, because the May release date announcement was news to him and he's not happy about it
- Major industry survey finds that, surprise surprise, 9/10 game devs think generative AI use should be more fully disclosed on Steam
- Amazon US sold nearly half the number of CPUs it did this time last year
- I really thought Nvidia's DLSS 5 was going to be smarter than this
- Pearl Abyss announces Crimson Desert has sold more than 2 million copies in less than 24 hours, promises to 'work to make improvements quickly'
- Grab 8 Warhammer ebooks and audiobooks for free just by downloading the new Black Library app—and listen to the glorious sound of Brian Blessed playing the universe's angriest dwarf
- 'We're honoured to share the same name': Two indie devs accidentally released games with the same name only days apart and it ended in the most wholesome way possible
- The co-founder of a major datacenter company has been charged with smuggling $2.5 billion in AI chips to China
- Controversial Space Marine 2 DLC has been made free: 'It's obvious this DLC has failed to meet your expectations'
- Crimson Desert's bafflingly convoluted controls are already frustrating players: 'I shouldn't need to spend 12 seconds picking up a handful of potatoes'
- Marvel Rivals puts the wrong hero under the balance microscope, with some huge changes to Captain America's combat while only dealing out a painfully small nerf for Gambit
- Crimson Desert will not boot on Intel Arc graphics cards and users are being encouraged to refund the game
- Big update to SteamOS improves support for non-Valve handhelds, newer platforms, discrete GPUs, and Steam Machine
- Crimson Desert launches to 239,000 players on Steam but 'Mixed' reviews, and it's mostly because of how dense and cryptic the whole thing is
- Bungie admits Marathon's weekend-heavy endgame means 'there are likely some who cannot participate'
- Crimson Desert deluxe and pre-order special items are inaccessible for some, but Pearl Abyss is working on a fix
- The best Fallout game is 99 cents right now
- Ultima's Robert Garriott was worried about there being too many PC games on the market… 37 years ago
- Hoarder is what happens when a Darkwood co-creator makes a cleaning simulator: Your job is to clean the abyss and 'no one is coming to save you'
- March 19
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- This game about running a '90s video rental store is the first job sim to really grab me since Schedule 1
- The sequel to the most underrated RPG of 2022 is launching in early access next month, but you can try its massive updated demo right now
- Diablo 4 game director believes it's 'normal' for most action RPGs to undergo major reworks: 'Friction points that we could never imagine suddenly rear their heads over the course of 10,000 hours'
- Crimson Desert has the most diabolical lock and key system I've ever seen
- Crimson Desert can be overwhelming—do this one thing in each new city to make your life much easier
- CD Projekt's mysterious Hadar is 'progressing dynamically,' which means we're at least one step closer to finding out what it is
- 'We're playing game designs from 2005 still': Caves of Qud's co-creator wants to build new kinds of sicko gameplay systems that'll use all the processing potential being left untapped
- Marathon community crushes Cryo Archive puzzle, unlocks release date, and learns the map is only playable on weekends
- World of Warcraft players go back to work on a year-old mystery after one of them accidentally unlocks the 10th orb in a puzzle hidden in the new Midnight expansion
- Capcom proudly announces 2025 was its 12th straight year of growth, and it has PC to thank for it
- Tomb Raider is fine, Crystal Dynamics says, as it lays off employees for the fourth time in the past 12 months
- Is Reacher's Alan Ritchson a Kojima nerd? 'The Dream' he says next to a picture of him as Solid Snake, adding: 'La Li Lu Le Lo'
- Vampire Crawlers, the 'Turbo Wildcard' Vampire Survivors spinoff, is coming in April
- Counter-Strike 2 introduces the game's biggest shake-up in years: Now when reloading, you lose all the mag's remaining ammo
- Marathon's competitive mode is so complicated that Bungie made a literal maths test to figure it out, and it actually helps
- Gnome gets Nvidia performance boost, offering 'smoother window animations and general desktop fluidity' for Linux gamers
- The Steam Spring Sale 2026 kicks off with discounts on thousands of games of every type
- High-end systems dominate booming gaming PC sales according to new report that also claims Arm chips are coming to the rescue of gamers on a budget
- The memory crisis certainly isn't ending soon, as Micron confirm 'demand significantly in excess of our available supply for the foreseeable future'
- Ubisoft lays off 105 people at Red Storm, the studio co-founded 30 years ago by Tom Clancy, converts it to a support role
- Optiscaler updated to support FSR 4 on older AMD RX 6000 GPUs without the need for driver mods
- Fake Pudgy Penguins phishing page 'plays dead' when it thinks it's being probed to avoid detection
- Capcom and Ubisoft developers surprised by DLSS 5 announcement: "We found out at the same time as the public"
- An indie asking for $250,000 is 'a drop in the bucket' says Tunic's publisher, but indies are in a 'survival' era because companies think that 'isn't profitable enough' to fund
- Forget about PCs or LLMs, Micron says driverless cars and humanoid bots will soon be gobbling up 300 GB of RAM per device
- Clair Obscur's narrative lead says while it's 'a painful process' to write, AI has never tempted her: 'The whole point of writing is to express what I have in my head'
- Arc Raiders devs wanted to make it an adventure game more than a shooter: 'We saw more potential in allowing players to explore rather than just shoot'
- Dead by Daylight's new K-pop chapter doesn't add a new killer, but it does sound like one more step towards a healthier game: 'It's a bit of a trial'
- March 18
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- You're laughing—Thomas the Tank Engine is being brutalized by Unreal Engine physics, and you're laughing
- Tomb Raider Remastered studio denies using generative AI in latest update, says fixes for bugs and 'texture issues' are on the way
- Exodus, the space opera epic with trailers narrated by Matthew McConaughey, drops a trio of gameplay clips that still look a lot like Mass Effect
- Cities: Skylines 2 boss says they 'completely overestimated' the Unity engine's capabilities
- Dealing trillions of damage in Diablo 4 isn't a problem worth worrying about as long as 'there's something that makes it meaningful', game director says: 'I know a lot of it is from fear'
- After this game dev shared her prototype online, it took less than 5 hours for someone to post their vibecoded knockoff
- Lost Ark fans fear the worst as Amazon lays off more employees 'as part of broader organizational decisions'
- Capcom says yep Leon is married, and now has 'a place to go home to' after killing an army of infected: but who's waiting for him when he gets there?
- Dev breaks down in tears when 4 years of work are rewarded with $250,000 earnings in a week: 'I don't know why people are so nice'
- Take-Two boss says he's not interested in putting ads into premium games: 'It would seem unfair'
- Another nail in the Metaverse coffin: Meta Horizon Worlds is shutting down in three months for VR, but the mobile app will remain
- Take-Two CEO Strauss Zelnick cannot fathom anyone not wanting to play GTA 6: 'I think we'll be able to engage every appropriate individual'
- Mewgenics' latest update makes one of its most unpredictable fights a bit fairer, and includes maybe the best patch note of all time: 'Fixed case where a non-binary cat with dwarfism would crash the game if playing in Brazilian Portuguese'
- Intel adds mobile chips to its updated Arrow Lake 'Plus' family with 8% more gaming performance despite no changes to core counts or their clock speeds
- 'You would not believe the number of AI games in our inbox' says Tunic's publisher 'I am tired of seeing it'
- You know it's bad when RAM manufacturers launch dummy kits to make it look as though you have dual-channel memory when you actually don't
- 'Sims don't plan anything' says former Sims 4 developer, though he always wanted to program them to: 'it's always shot down, rightfully so'
- China reportedly approves imports of Nvidia's H200 GPU, but the US government may cap exports to individual Chinese companies
- Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 'opened a new avenue' up for Daredevil actor Charlie Cox as he announces taking part in another videogame later this year
- AI is the villain in Pragmata, but director Cho Yonghee wants to stress that his evil AI is slightly different to our real-life evil AI thanks to 'the presence of an AI character like Diana'
- Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang says DLSS 5 backlash is 'completely wrong' because it 'doesn't change the artistic control'
- Overwatch players prove that there's still some good left in them as Winston and co triumph over Talon in the seasonal Conquest event
- Intel must also hate waiting for shaders to compile as it begins rollout of pre-compiled code from the cloud for faster load times
- The cheapest place to buy Crimson Desert for PC in Australia
- Starfield's Terran Armada story DLC will let you recruit a robot who is 'not evil' but also 'definitely not good'
- March 17
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- Steam build of Death Stranding 2 leaks two days ahead of launch
- Subnautica 2 set for early access release in May as Krafton signals surrender: 'We look forward to working with Ted Gill to support a smooth transition and work toward a successful launch'
- Take-Two boss declines to offer advice to the new Microsoft Gaming chief, says she'll be fine on her own: 'She’s a highly accomplished executive who’s done just great without ever having met me'
- The co-creators of Caves of Qud, our favorite roguelike fever dream, worked as narrative consultants on Marathon—which mostly meant they 'got to sit there in the room and throw completely absurd ideas at the wall'
- Remedy is moving on from FBC: Firebreak, but it's going out with a bang: One final update adds 5 new maps, a lower price, friend's pass, and a promise the game will 'continue to be playable for years to come'
- Hitman's planned crossover with MindsEye is cancelled as the publishing deal with IO Interactive is officially over
- Slay the Spire 2 is one of the year's biggest hits, which is a good time to remember it abandoned Unity because of the dev fee debacle: 'That is how badly you f****d up'
- Marathon nerfs the shotgun everyone is using, reverts sound back to normal, and sets the stage for Cryo Archive
- Arc Raiders studio splits with co-founder over 'unsustainable' situation involving streamer allegations
- 'If that was shown as a next-gen hardware reveal and not AI you guys would be going nuts': Epic Games lead producer says the idea DLSS 5 looks bad or detracts from art direction is 'absolutely insane'
- I'm even more excited for Zach Cregger's Resident Evil adaptation now I know he's beaten Requiem twice
- PUBG maker Krafton is an AI defense company now, signs deal with Korean aerospace firm that includes investment of up to $1 billion aiming 'to expand the physical AI ecosystem'
- Todd Howard would really have preferred not to announce The Elder Scrolls 6 a full 8 years ago, sounds like: 'Just pretend we didn't announce it. Doesn't exist. No one's heard a word'
- One Elite Dangerous fan scavenged parts from multiple VR roller coaster rides to craft the ultimate space faring sim rig, so I hailed him to find out more
- The latest game from the developer of Moonlighter is a tower defence roguelike about Dracula fighting off waves of vampire hunters
- Bethesda weighs in on negative DLSS 5 reaction: 'This will all be under our artists’ control, and totally optional for players'
- New report claims CPUs are next in line for a chip shortage but there's little evidence of that right now
- Baby Steps' level design was hugely inspired by a custom map in Mirror's Edge and Japanese skateboarder Gou Miyagi: 'All of a sudden I was actually looking at and seeing the space in a way that I hadn't in a single player level in a long time'
- GTA Wiki goes indie as it slams 'terrible' Fandom ad plague: 'Intrusive, unavoidable for most viewers, and huge'
- Pragmata's director appreciates all the comments likening it to an Xbox 360 game of old: 'I'm someone who's got a lot of happy experiences and memories from that generation'
- FromSoftware fans are so passionate, the upcoming Sekiro: Shadows Die Twice anime will be 'under the microscope', says director
- Pragmata's devs urge players to test out the demo beforehand to figure out whether controller or mouse and keyboard is best for them: 'There are some people who find keyboard and mouse too tricky'
- The Free Lanes update will finally demolish Starfield's most annoying loading screens, sort of
- 'Bad ending: now every game is slop': Game developers share mixed reactions to DLSS 5
- 'I took those files and deleted them': Former Sims 4 developer says he totally rewrote the sims' AI in the middle of development and 'that was a scary thing to do'
- The DLSS 5 memes are in full swing, so here are the ones that tickled me the most
- A native port of the GameCube Animal Crossing has made its way to PC, which means all other cozy games are cancelled as nothing else matters
- Nvidia's new Vera CPU has been designed for 'extremely high' single-core performance, but it's not coming to the PC for now
- Arc Raiders' new update puts the Il Toro in its place (a grave) at long last: 'This is an adjustment many of you requested'
- 'Insanely punishing' survival game Atlas is being distilled 'into a more accessible form' for Ark: Survival Ascended's new DLC
- March 16
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- Overwatch director says addressing the 5v5 versus 6v6 debates late 'cost us trust': 'We should have listened sooner'
- Our idea of Azeroth could have looked very different, because Jeff Kaplan said he 'really wanted WoW to be first-person' in its early days: 'I argued a lot for that'
- Bungie is adding an 'experimental' duos mode to Marathon for a few weeks: 'Some things will be a bit jank'
- Epic CEO and billionaire Tim Sweeney has been using some of his cash to buy up 50,000 acres of forest so it can't be flattened
- DLSS 5 clearly overwrites game characters with AI beauty standards, but Nvidia says devs have 'artistic control'
- A retired Microsoft engineer is training an AI to master Robotron: 2084, an incredibly difficult arcade game about a robot uprising
- Jeff Kaplan is sick of hearing you demonize games you weren't going to play anyway: 'Shut the f**k up. No one cares. We don't need to hear that you weren't into it'
- Resident Evil Requiem actor had to spend '2 to 3 minutes' audibly dying during her audition, while the casting director threw out surprise instructions: 'Now a zombie has bitten your left leg'
- Nvidia has just shown off DLSS 5 coming this fall... and currently it looks a lot like an AI filter
- MSI reportedly plans on tackling 'the most challenging year since the company was founded', with 15-30% price raises, making DDR5 motherboards DDR4 compatible, and increasing AI server revenue
- In a wild turn for the Subnautica 2 lawsuit, a judge orders Krafton to restore fired Unknown Worlds CEO and gives them 9 more months to earn $250 million bonus
- Digg, which just relaunched in January, lays off staff and shuts down, but promises it's going to 'rebuild with a completely reimagined angle of attack'
- Nvidia GTC live: Jen-Hsun lays out 'the future of real-time rendering' in today's keynote and potentially 'it's gonna blow your mind'
- The Hitman TV show has been silently assassinated: 'It's dead in the water'
- Tech creator proves for a second time that AA batteries are not a practical power alternative for your gaming PC
- YouTuber replaces PC fan with 15 miniature fans in unholy experiment dubbed 'The Fanhattan Project', performs pretty much the same as a standard fan
- FF14's most determined challenge runner finally hits a wall after 1,000 hours, then unveils a backup strategy that took 233 days to prepare in secret: 'I wanted so badly to tell people'
- Marathon dev effortlessly bodies haters who say Bungie's not the studio that made Halo anymore—rattles off 40 Halo OGs who still work there and says he can list more if you want
- Intel has published a whole host of security vulnerabilities, with mitigations rolling out, but attackers will need local access to actually do anything
- Blizzard struggles to balance its Abundance world event in a way that makes anybody happy, with recent potential nerfs making it even more stressful to optimize
- 'C:\ is not accessible – Access denied': Windows 11 users locked out of own boot drive on Samsung PCs due to major issue
- Bethesda steps in again to calm down hype around Starfield news next week, saying Todd Howard's EA College Football 26 skills are his 'only visionary power'
- If you were scammed by malware hiding in your Steam games, the FBI wants to hear all about it
- Capcom celebrates 6 million units sold for Resident Evil Requiem, 'the fastest that a title in the series has reached this milestone'
- Nvidia's very keen on you 'catching the future of real-time rendering' at this year's GTC, though I suggest not waiting with bated breath for anything groundbreaking
- Witches and glitches are your targets in retro adventure Witchhunter.exe
- March 15
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- The remastered collection of the first Tomb Raider games just got a controversial patch with some truly terrible-looking new outfits: 'Lara deserves better than this'
- This indie dev is making a Mirror's Edge-inspired freerunning game, complete with an in-game PDA that looks a lot like a PlayStation Portable
- GTA roleplay’s latest craze has players risking their cars in tense bouts of high-stakes hide and seek
- Beaver-themed city-builder Timberborn has gnawed its way out of early access, and surprise! It has Factorio-style automation now
- Fantasy heist sim Project Shadowglass is even more inspired by Thief than I had realised, as a new trailer shows off water arrows, blackjack knockouts, and authentically sloppy swordfighting
- Deep Rock Galactic: Survivor is getting an expansion that introduces the series' first ever new class, and it’s a dwarf driving a weaponised bulldozer that flattens terrain and enemies alike
- March 14
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- Darktide is getting a new extraction-esque mode where you go outside and try not to die from radiation poisoning: 'If time runs out and you die, you get nothing'
- Executive producer on The Simpsons says 'never say never' regarding a Hit & Run revival, even if he prefers the 2007 game
- I desperately want the Just Cause creator's new open-city game to be great, but I'm not convinced by its latest trailer
- Embark CEO says 'a real professional actor is better than AI' after the studio re-records some Arc Raiders dialog with real humans
- 'Even though I threw out my back from overworking, I'm feeling high in spirits': Slay the Spire 2 sold 3 million copies in its first week
- Get up to 85% off the Dead Space games in EA's franchise sale, including Motive's excellent remake that will probably never see a successor
- The creator of Stephen's Sausage Roll has released a new puzzle-platformer where you play as an egg, in the latest example of a developer fallen to the sunny side
- Throwback XCOM successor Xenonauts 2 leaves early access in April, though the developer says the milestone 'doesn't mean our work is done'
- 22 years later, this classic Half-Life zombie survival mod shambles onto Steam with all new features
- Marvel Rivals made Blizzard ask 'what if we could just drop 30 new heroes into Overwatch?' and inspired its biggest update ever
- Baby Steps' designers trolled players by placing stacks of cans at the top of 'plausible' climbing challenges they didn't even bother testing, and players managed to climb them all—except one
- Major investor is 'shocked and sad' that the games industry is 'demonizing' generative AI
- March 13
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- Marathon's murderous audio change was an 'overcorrection,' Bungie admits, promises to pull it back in an upcoming update
- Amidst high profile live service failures, Arc Raiders production director says he hopes other studios are 'given the same chance we had, because it's so hard to put a game out'
- 'No matter what we changed, somebody was going to get mad:' After hearing what an Obsidian dev went through to get RPG difficulty right, I get why nobody's ever gotten RPG difficulty right
- Disco Elysium writers marvel at how a game made 'in a f**king squalid flat' in Estonia had such a huge impact, and welcomes successors like Esoteric Ebb: 'We make games, but we also like them'
- Japanese furniture brand reveals the Electric Gaming Bed 2, the 'forbidden layout' built for the 'supremely decadent'
- Starfield's composer says the game will become 'legendary', Todd Howard's a 'visionary', and maybe you 'were just not ready for it'
- As rumors about new a Witcher 3 expansion continue to swirl, CD Projekt pointedly says it has 'no plans for additional DLCs or expansions'—for Cyberpunk 2077
- Arc Raiders could one day get vehicles, but Embark says no promises: 'We have prototypes from seven years ago'
- Palworld's Bucky got off a plane to find 'about 8,000 Discord messages from Palworld fans' who really wanted him to know about Pickmon: 'God bless their little hearts'
- Dead By Daylight devs reckon the game has 'at least' another 10 years in it
- Arc Raiders once had jump pads and the Snap Hook made you 'like Spider-Man' before its extraction shooter pivot: 'It was much more heroic'
- Google is adding official Chrome support for users running Arm and Linux and it's about time
- 'We want that the real-time images look indistinguishable from reality. We want them to look like a film.' Nvidia has lofty goals for path-traced graphics, but its support for Microsoft's shader stutter cure is a lot more interesting to me
- Arc Raiders' devs didn't expect such a passionate PvE-only crowd
- Notorious UK rights group launches legal action against Valve for distributing music in games on Steam without a license
- Microsoft teams up with Nvidia, AMD, Intel, and Qualcomm to share 'our dream of bringing console-level GPU developer tools to Windows'
- You've got a narrow window to nab OpenTTD on Steam for free, because Transport Tycoon Deluxe has just been un-abandonwared by Atari
- Arc Raiders' old machine designs sound so diabolical, it's no wonder they were reworked or removed after poor playtest feedback: 'At that time, they didn't fit with the game very well'
- 2 years after its announcement, FF14's monster-taming Beastmaster job finally arrives this year, along with what looks like a Slay the Spire-esque roguelike mode
- 'GeForce 3 was such a transition for us': Nvidia's Jensen Huang looks back on 25 years of the classic graphics card
- 'It was supposed to be the greatest time ever': Jeff Kaplan only got 6 weeks to come up with and pitch Overwatch: 'We were probably the most demoralised we'd ever been'
- The first thing Arc Raiders' devs did during its extraction pivot was to reduce the speed of everything by 60%: 'All the craft that was in the game was kind of background noise'
- Microsoft removes its 'This is an Xbox' marketing campaign and is slowly purging all mention of it
- Major copper foil supplier raises prices by 12%, potentially ushering in a fresh wave of spikey prices for PCBs and plenty of PC components besides
- Fortnite players revolt over V-Bucks changes as Epic devs appeal for calm: 'Paying the bills frees up our teams to continue driving stories and building stuff you love'
- Over 48% of unreleased games have a Discord server, and I'm sure this is all fine and normal and I don't miss forums at all
- Journey composer Austin Wintory played an unreleased song from his canceled 'dream job of all time' during the Game Developers Choice Awards, just to drive home that the industry's doing great
- March 12
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- Shadowstone, the new game from Secret Door and Dreamhaven, kicks off a surprise public playtest at the Future Games Show Spring Showcase
- Blizzard vet Rob Pardo closed this year's GDC keynote by urging executives to cool it with the layoffs: 'The game team is more valuable than the game itself'
- Turing Award winner Tony Hoare, computing pioneer who invented the Quicksort algorithm for a sixpence bet, dies at the age of 92
- Marathon got deadlier overnight, and some think yesterday's sound change is the culprit
- Former Overwatch director Jeff Kaplan's favorite hero is Reinhardt, and reveals his charge was inspired by Left 4 Dead 2: 'It's what separates a great Rein from a sh*tty one'
- Dave the Diver DLC adds a little Stardew Valley time management and relationship building to the formula when In the Jungle releases in June
- Vin Diesel's character in Ark 2 was originally written as a nerd: 'Yeah, that ain't gonna work'
- Bravely Default Flying Fairy HD Remaster, a hi-def update of the 2012 Silicon Studio classic, shadow-drops on Steam
- Company that makes generative AI-powered NPCs reports that 95% of players enjoy their generative AI-powered NPCs
- Indie deckbuilder All Will Rise's dev joins No Games For Genocide boycott and plans to hand back funding it received from Microsoft
- WoW's questing system was inspired by a playtest that didn't work out as planned, because the testers didn't play MMOs and had no idea what they were supposed to do: 'I ran out of quests right away!'
- Subnautica 2 developer video reveals a 'brand new' base building system with some pretty fabulous windows
- Playing World of Warcraft with a controller might become my preferred playstyle thanks to this excellent gamepad-friendly addon that's letting me enjoy Azeroth from my couch
- One Australian gamer was denied a replacement for DRAM kit bought just two years prior and was only offered a refund of original price, four times less than its cost today
- Europe's game rating agency takes aim at in-app purchases, loot boxes, and 'unrestricted communication' with new 'interactive risk categories'
- Arc Raiders received 'substantial negative PvP sentiment' during testing, causing the devs to second-guess its big pivot before realising it was really frustration with weapons and matchmaking
- ZA/UM doesn't want 'to invite too many comparisons' to Disco Elysium with new game Zero Parades—'We didn't feel like we wanted to repeat our greatest hits'
- PC games revenue will outgrow consoles by 2028, analyst predicts
- New benchmarks show the iPhone chip in the cut-price Apple MacBook Neo beating every single x86 PC processor for single-core performance
- No one at Embark could describe Arc Raiders before its extraction shooter pivot, leading to 'playtest battles' of competing directions for the game
- 'There is no scenario where memory prices correct in the second half' of 2027, according to new market research
- This horror game where you're a conscious nuclear missile boasts 'one handed mouse only controls', leaving me with assumptions that proved incorrect when I had to saw my own limbs off
- Dispatch's character and concept artist was picked up on ArtStation 'as a last resort', a temporary solution 'to get us through the pitch phase', before defining the entire game's artstyle
- Bluepoint tech boss suggests Sony's scared of Valve, not Microsoft, and that's why it's pulling back from PC: 'It would be quite ironic if Valve ultimately ended up winning the console war'
- Game dev union members marched at GDC to propose a 'Game Workers' Bill of Rights'
- Asus thinks 'high-end brand value and high-end product mix' will help it weather the memory crisis alongside AI
- Ever complained about Overwatch matchmaking? There's a chance Jeff Kaplan checked your account and all he has to say is: 'There's gotta be winners and there's gotta be losers'
- Garry's Mod creator says programmers over-relying on AI is like using too much porn: 'You lose your ability to ejaculate using your imagination'
- A terrible quest in vanilla WoW 'holds a really special place in my heart', says Jeff Kaplan, but was also 'the hubris of a junior game designer who thinks he's clever but is actually a dipsh*t'
- One of Jeff Kaplan's 'regrets about Overwatch' was making it so team-orientated: 'I would downplay the team factor and try to put more focus on individual contribution'
- Texture pop-in may be about to pop-out of existence thanks to even faster asset streaming ushered in by new Zstandard support in DirectStorage
- Modder behind cancelled Star Wars game's unofficial revival has 'no concern at all' about Disney reprisal: 'We pose little to no threat to any upcoming or ongoing titles'
- AMD announces next-gen 'FSR Diamond' AI-enhanced upscaling for future Xbox consoles, but the question is whether it's coming to PC and which GPUs will support it
- PlayerUnknown reckons he can take back the term 'metaverse' because 'It's just been co-opted by certain people… like, I still use Twitter because f**k [Elon Musk]'
- Microsoft is paving more PC roads to Project Helix, releasing a Windows 11 Xbox Mode in April for laptops and desktops
- WoW's Horde/Alliance split was 'really controversial', says Jeff Kaplan, to the point where it was only locked in 9-12 months before the game's launch
- Mewgenics will have 'at least two' DLCs, and the 'small' one is almost a third as big as the base game
- Dawn of War 4 playtesters want the combat to take longer because of how much they enjoy watching it
- Overwatch co-creator Jeff Kaplan on his exit from Activision Blizzard: 'It was the biggest f**k you moment I've had in my career'
- March 11
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- The latest Humble Bundle packs 9 CRPGs, including some of the best to ever do it, for a little over $20
- The Blood Bowl update, using the tabletop game's latest rules, will be a separate game called Warhammer Blood Bowl 'free for all players who already own Blood Bowl 3'
- Dispatch doesn't let you derail conversations with blank, vacant stares because 'less than 1%' of players ever chose to stay silent in Telltale games
- Valve says New York Attorney General's violent videogame fearmongering is 'a distraction and a mischaracterization we’ve all heard before'
- Diablo 4: Lord of Hatred's new crafting system will bring back season 11's sanctification and gives bad loot the potential to be legendary
- Valve comes out swinging against New York lawsuit with rare public statement: 'The type of deal that would satisfy the NYAG would have been bad for users and other game developers'
- Overhauling Minecraft's world generation was like 'trying to build a skyscraper with hand tools' which basically scared Mojang off of continuing massive yearly updates
- Valve says almost 6,000 games made over $100K on Steam last year
- Microsoft spills the beans on its Xbox-PC hybrid at GDC while suggesting it's still years away
- 'We are definitely not doing QTEs', said Dispatch's creative director before doing QTEs: 'We just needed it to not suck'
- Valve clarifies what's required for a game to be Steam Machine and Steam Frame verified, but it just makes me worry about the Gabecube even more
- One of my favourite 4K OLED monitors just got updated with Samsung's latest Tandem OLED panel tech
- Asus CFO Nick Wu thinks Apple's MacBook Neo is 'certainly a shock to the entire market'
- Meta bought Moltbook, an almost entirely AI-populated social media platform, for we don't know how much—and we're not completely sure why yet, either
- Cancelled LucasArts Star Wars shooter that 'would have just made Disney money' is playable online for the first time
- In an amazing live mash-up, composer Austin Wintory turned Ben Starr's Clair Obscur monologue into a Balatro gag
- Former Highguard dev who called out grave-dancing over the reveal trailer says the discourse 'had some very dark corners that may have accelerated the timeline of our failure,' but adds, 'it wasn't the primary cause'
- Pragmata's demo reaches 2 million downloads alongside its 2 million wishlists: 'I can't believe millions of people are excited for our game'
- More than 15 years after it was revealed to the world, the game once envisioned as Crytek's big move into the online military shooter scene is finally closing
- This year's Overwatch April Fool's event is a two week Underwatch mode which throws 'common sense off the nearest ledge'
- Dark Messiah modders given 'blank check' from Ubisoft to develop toolkit are now releasing a Community Edition of Arkane's classic
- Dispatch directors chose their animators because they'd made a 'really cool apple juice commercial'
- Intel announces Arrow Lake 'Plus' desktop chips with more cores and clocks for less cash—and IPC-boosting 'BOT' tool
- Memory prices could leap even higher as the supply of helium, crucial to making chips, is now impacted by the conflict in the Middle East
- Microsoft shows support for Anthropic's legal case against the US Department of Defense
- French pirates adrift as major torrent site nuked by hacker who accuses it of hoarding user credit cards and DDoSing rivals: '6.6 million users. Years of lies. An empire built on extortion'
- Industry legend Shinji Mikami has a new(ish) studio with staff benefits like 'a chocolate fountain on Valentine's Day'
- Fortnite: Save the World, the game that spawned Epic's money-printing battle royale, is going free-to-play after nearly a decade
- Resident Evil Requiem mod makes Insanity mode even more brutal with zombie bites that actually infect you
- Garry Newman says companies have tried to buy Facepunch but the only reason to sell it would be for money 'and I feel like I've got enough money'
- Marathon's latest update fixes just about everything you had on your wishlist (no, seriously)
- Microsoft announces that Office has two critical security vulnerabilities, and here's where you can find patches to fix them
- Facepunch is 'talking to people' about a Rust movie: 'We definitely had interest'
- Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 studio drops legal action against L’Académie Clair-Obscur comic: 'Sorry for dragging our feet'
- If you're thinking about buying a Framework PC or laptop with 2 TB-plus of storage 'now is the time to do that' says company CEO
- Overwatch's mid-season update has given Mizuki a jawline buff before Anran's redesign (alongside actually important changes)
- Amazon owns up to needing more human oversight over AI code—unfortunately, it wants to do that with fewer people
- Hasbro CEO still has 'so much AI-based' grist in his own D&D games 'it would floor you', but he's not putting it in MTG cards or D&D books because people 'just don't want it'
- How to watch Minecraft Live 2026
- Nvidia will announce an x86 CPU in collaboration with Intel at its GTC event, according to one report, though Intel itself shoots down the whole idea
- Minecraft Live will return on March 21 and promises 'behind-the-scenes secrets, awesome guests, and more exciting stuff to come' over the next year
- Just like XCOM, superhero comedy Dispatch cheats random percentages of success in the player's favor: 'anything that had over a 76% success chance would automatically succeed'
- Garry Newman says his game creation platform s&box will 'probably' be priced similarly to Garry's Mod
- Crabmeat is a horror game about catching crabs—no, not like that
- Pokémon streamer's Kickstarter for a roguelite monster-collector hits its target in 10 minutes, then blows past $800K
- March 10
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- Brendan Greene says AI content is ruining the internet because it's 'a loop, LLMs are scanning this junk, and then that becomes truth… it's like a race to the middle of sh*t'
- Bungie is adding more shell skins to Marathon's battle pass after feedback
- Stardew Valley and Wordle sure do make for a cute combination in this daily guessing game on the farm sim's crops
- Former EA chief Peter Moore says his game industry style of PR irritated his bosses at Liverpool FC, and that's partly why he's not the CEO of Liverpool FC anymore
- Making Dispatch was motivated by 'a mix of arrogance and stupidity,' its creative directors say
- Mega Man 11 actor won't return for the next game in the series because Capcom refuses to work under a union contract
- Tim Cain says he got hired at Interplay because he knew THAC0 better than the other guy, and went out of his way to prove it
- Blizzard nerfed this WoW item, but players found an even better loophole that allowed them to travel across the planet every 2 minutes
- Sega says yeah you're all real nice about our games—but you sure ain't buying them
- Now you don't even need to pretend to read the terms of service, as US court rules that continued use can imply consent
- Anthropic introduces Claude Code Review, so you don't even need to check all of your own AI slop
- Crimson Desert's updated system requirements look very promising for any PC gamer, and for what must be a first-ever move, the devs have namechecked the ROG Xbox Ally handheld
- Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 studio says it's seeking a 'fair solution' in dispute with comic artist who named his book after the same 15th century painting technique
- Nightdive re-announces the Sin remaster it un-announced 3 years ago
- Garry Newman says he originally expected Garry's Mod to make 'about $30,000' as a 'best case scenario'
- As if PC hardware news couldn't get any gloomier, one research report suggests mainstream laptop prices could rise by as much as 40%
- RuneScape's monthly membership now costs as much as a World of Warcraft subscription as Jagex announces its second price hike in less than 2 years
- Resident Evil 2 Remake descends into kaizo chaos in Resurgence of the Dead Shadows
- This Redditor has built a stained glass-style panel for their gaming PC with a 'magnificent and luxurious animal' on it and it is indeed magnificent and luxurious
- Fortnite's V-Bucks are about to get more expensive because 'the cost of running Fortnite has gone up a lot'
- DLSS 4.5 Dynamic Multi Frame Generation is coming to Nvidia App beta users on March 31, bringing on-the-fly 6x frame gen switching to RTX 50-series owners
- Nvidia's RTX Mega Geometry system will be sprucing up the forests of The Witcher 4, making for some lush-looking ray traced trees to go Witcher-ing within
- Resident Evil Requiem is one of the few games to use GPU data decompression but it's a bit hit and miss as to whether your GPU will ever actually use it
- This year's Future Games Show Spring Showcase has a dense game-per-hour hit rate and airs everywhere: Here's how to catch it
- Until Dawn remake studio is officially dead, a year after laying off nearly its entire staff
- The Resident Evil 2 Remake's fanmade VR mode with a full-body sim rig is sick—but I doubt I'll ever have the cash to enjoy its immersive frights
- Anthropic is suing the US government for blacklisting it and it's calling in support from Google and OpenAI
- Resident Evil Requiem director confirms 'extra story content' is in the works: 'It will take some time so we ask for your patience'
- The Slice of Life Minecraft add-on has become my new obsession after I realised I just needed a break from the mines
- Deadlock's latest update brings some huge movement buffs like jumping mid slide and 30% increased air control—it's a lot cooler than it sounds
- How to make your very own semiconductor-class cleanroom in a wooden shed and build your own chips, well kinda
- DRAM maker SK hynix has validated its next-gen LPDDR6 which would be great news for handheld PCs, except that the targeted market is AI devices
- Fallout 3 Remastered toy listing pops up on pre-order website, and we sure are nearly at Oblivion Remastered's 1-year anniversary, aren't we?
- Phison CEO says 'both money and inventory are insufficient' as NAND prices continue to climb at an astronomical rate
- This shady Amazon listing for a 1.1 TB laptop actually uses the cloud for 1 TB and it's only included for a year
- Intel has released the SDK for XeSS 3 so hopefully it won't be long before Arc GPU owners get in on native multi frame gen action
- Arc Raiders is handing out loadout refunds for last week's server issues: 'This outage impacted a large number of players, so we are making an exception'
- As the Marathon player count discourse reaches peak stupidity, Warframe and Overwatch devs speak up in solidarity: 'This is big unemployed, maidenless behavior'
- For the first time in years, there are no blockchain gaming talks at GDC
- March 9
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- Valve facing second, class-action lawsuit over loot boxes
- 3 months after revealing his debut project at The Game Awards, Yakuza creator Toshihiro Nagoshi loses NetEase funding for his studio
- Bungie snuck a bunch of Halo guns into Marathon
- Blizzard wants Diablo 4's outrageous damage numbers to mean something again in Lord of Hatred, so it's letting you crank the difficulty up to near-impossible levels: 'It's going to be really f*cking hard'
- Steam game listing achieves knockoff singularity by aping Pokémon, Zelda, and even Overwatch designs with a shamelessness Palworld could only dream of
- Valve says Steam users downloaded 100 exabytes of games in 2025, and are averaging 274 petabytes of installs and updates every day
- One of my favorite Daedalic point-and-click adventures is free on Steam, and a pile of others have been marked way down
- Meta's latest legal wheeze is to insist that pirating books is fair use, actually
- If you miss the old NBA Jam games, this new Harlem Globetrotters game looks like a slam dunk
- Microsoft's CEO insists that Xbox, 'at its best, lifts the entire company' and that it will 'always' invest in gaming
- Samsung's new 1440p gaming monitor sports a ridiculous 600 Hz refresh rate but that's nothing compared to the 1040 Hz it can do in 1080p mode
- Battlefield 6 was 'the biggest launch in franchise history.' 6 months later, EA is laying off people who made it
- Mode claims its upcoming Encore keyboard refresh 'delivers our most satisfying typing experience to date' and has a neat new mounting system to boot
- Cyberpunk 2077 redemption complete: You can now literally crap yourself to death with an alarmingly well-thought-out mod
- Marvel Rivals is enacting 'Victim Compensation Protocol' for everyone who has been negatively affected by the incentivised throwing epidemic: 'The system will automatically restore lost points'
- Bungie has learned its lesson about vaulting content in Destiny 2 and won't be so cruel with Marathon: 'It doesn't matter when you join'
- This creator shoved a Framework inside of a 2006 MacBook: 'A reimagined classic, that's only a little bit janky'
- Modder helps Sony unwittingly beat Valve to the punch: 'I ported Linux to the PS5 and turned it into a Steam Machine'
- Oh no: You can attach claymores to Thief's drones in Marathon, and it's just as hellish as it sounds
- Master Chief voice actor demands White House remove his voice from 'disgusting and juvenile war porn' video
- Counter-Strike's 'X-ray scanner' for loot containers is coming to Germany later this month
- I've somehow created Cthulu's own cursed Wingdings with this vibe-coded tool that promises to create fonts from your own handwriting
- Banquet For Fools is a CRPG like no other and the most interesting thing I've played this year, and between it and Esoteric Ebb, roleplaying fans are eating great right now
- Slay the Spire 2 dev hates microtransactions, even though players would definitely pay for them: 'A lot of our players threaten to buy all and any cosmetics we may ever release'
- Players have rallied together to solve the first stage of Marathon's elaborate Cryo Archive ARG puzzle, and it's revealed some creepy footage of the next map
- A petri dish of human neurons has learned to play Doom: 'The cells play a lot like a beginner who's never seen a computer, and in fairness, they haven't'
- OpenAI hardware leader resigns over concerns about 'surveillance of Americans without judicial oversight and lethal autonomy without human authorization'
- A simple check with a magnet was the final clue that made Thermal Grizzly realise it had been hit by a 40,000 euro metal scam
- You can play Big Walk before launch, but only if you take a big walk to the publisher's office to play it in person
- Dragon Age creator says he 'had to take out half' of the quests in Dragon Age 2 once he found out they only had 16 months to make it: 'BioWare as a team did not know how to make a small game'
- My favourite virtual co-working game has received its first content update, and the new minigame will no doubt derail my productivity for a bit
- Discord fixes bug that caused app to take upwards of two whole minutes to launch
- Nintendo and Lenovo seeking refunds for tariffs, after Trump's use of an economic powers act was found unlawful
- This 3D printed, laptop-carrying 'suitcase' is not just a thing of beauty but it's also a neat solution to the dearth of eGPUs
- March 8
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- The best CRPG docuseries on YouTube just covered Ultima 8 with a 3-hour retrospective
- Hytale lead says they're pushing for modding in part because they 'hire from the community': 'We're building a scrappy, agile team full of people who actually make things'
- One coder's 'winter madness project' was making the Dreamcast-era cityscapes of Crazy Taxi explorable in our browsers
- Slay the Spire 2 dev says its Marathon joke turned out 'a bit meaner than expected' in hindsight: 'To be fair I didn't think we'd actually pass Marathon in concurrent users'
- This bizarre CRPG features claymation graphics, beat 'em up combat and the option to send defeated enemies to a prison colony, and it just left early access after a massive final update
- Human Fall Flat, which is bizarrely one of the best-selling games of all time, gets a Viking-themed map featuring Dave the Diver for some reason
- The sci-fi survival game from the creator of DayZ heads to space Skyrim in its latest DLC, accompanied by a free update that adds oil processing and chainsaws
- Before Doom, there was Dangerous Dave, and John Romero's 8-bit hero is getting a spiritual successor next week
- March 7
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- Valve quickly updates its own Steam Machine update, recommitting to a 2026 launch despite AI woes: 'Nothing's really changed on our end'
- Please send help: We can't stop opening packs in Wikigacha, a browser-based card game where you collect Wikipedia articles like 'List of Red Hot Chili Peppers band members' or 'Bariatric Surgery'
- Slay the Spire 2 dev compared it to unexciting 'chicken noodle soup' before its extraordinary launch, but it turns out people really, really like their soup
- You can play Cities: Skylines for free this weekend, ahead of the launch of its first expansion in 2 years
- I was pleasantly surprised by this BioShock-coded roguelike FPS, and its latest update adding a speargun has me yearning to dive back in
- Elder Scrolls wannabe Tainted Grail: The Fall of Avalon gets a 'huge' update overhauling its weaker third act with new locations, quests, enemies and more
- American McGee has come out of retirement to make an Alice spiritual successor based on his plushie empire
- March 6
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- It's a happy ending for the artist whose work was stolen by Bungie and used in Marathon: She's credited in the game as 'visual design consultant'
- Marathon secret hunters hit their first gold mine: Spooky terminals, a hidden website, and a Durandal audio log
- Valve nixes less confident Steam Machine language, recommits to 2026 release
- A decades-old Diablo 2 easter egg has suddenly become relevant again as players hunt for the best loot in Reign of the Warlock
- The horse gamers have spoken: This new horse sim has 'a beautiful sense of realism I haven't felt since RDR2'
- The makers of idle farming sensation Rusty's Retirement have announced a new game, and this one's taking over your whole screen
- Slay the Spire 2 dev celebrates its instant success by reminding players to support 'small indie passion projects' like Marathon too
- 'Ah s**t, here we go again': White House uses videogame clips to promote its war in Iran, including CJ's iconic line from Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas
- 'It's kind of like you're a butcher': Hundreds of Slay the Spire 2 card ideas were cut during development in an 'incredibly destructive process'
- The Pokémon Company criticises Trump administration's use of its imagery in political memes, says Pokémon is apolitical, Trump spokesman uses decade-old Clinton post to accuse them of bias
- 'We see everything': Report says Meta's AI smart glasses footage is reviewed by human contractors who see far more than they bargained for, which has led to a new lawsuit against the company
- Resident Evil 4 Remake's Berserker mod is the best way to ramp up the action for a replay
- Marvel Rivals has finally addressed 'incentivised throwing', the bounty system where people pay to ruin matches: 'We maintain a strict zero-tolerance policy against any form of malicious disruption'
- In what may be the worst new game reveal ever, Robocop: Rogue City was briefly replaced on Steam by an unannounced World of Darkness game
- An alleged crypto thief accused of stealing $46 million from the US Marshals has been arrested by the FBI
- iOS exploit kit Coruna may have begun life as a set of iPhone hacking tools used by the US government, according to security researchers
- 'The whole map was friendly, and we all extracted together': Peaceful lobbies exist in Marathon after all, though I don't feel safe putting it to the test
- The Legacy of Kain: Defiance remaster does the best thing possible—it gets out of the way
- I think I've found my gaming mouse heaven but it's on the other side of the world in Tokyo
- A rep for a major mouse company thinks half of gaming mice will be like the Superstrike in three years
- Cloudflare claims 'today’s threat landscape is more varied and chilling than ever' in latest report
- Gamers are buying fewer graphics cards according to a new research report, although Nvidia looks to be sitting pretty with roughly 94% of the market share to AMD's 5%
- Wake up honey, it's time for your yearly 'The KOTOR remake is still alive' announcement
- Nvidia's Jensen Huang: 'I think the opportunity to invest $100 billion in OpenAI is probably not in the cards'
- Marvel Rivals is bringing back Chrono Rush, among other fixes, in its latest patch: 'With no cap on how many points you can earn'
- Ah yikes, World of Warcraft: Midnight's otherwise solid housing system is soured by its premium currency, which makes you 'minimize leftovers' even though Blizzard said it wouldn't
- Lost Fallout: New Vegas post-ending dialogue has been found and restored
- From next week, Australia will require users to verify their age to play GTA Online and other R18+ online games
- March 5
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- Diablo 4 will let you transform into its most fearsome demon, the Butcher, in an experimental mini season before Lord of Hatred drops
- Pragmata is releasing a whole week earlier than planned because who cares, it's got April all to itself
- Epic Games is suing one of its former contract workers, alleging that he is notorious Fortnite leaker AdiraFN
- Slay the Spire 2 is the #1 seller on Steam, above Marathon and Resident Evil Requiem
- Marathon players accidentally smuggle rare loot out of Server Slam and into full game
- A War Thunder clip shared on social media as footage of the war in Iran racked up over 7 million views, and was even shared by the governor of Texas
- Blizzard is giving away access to paladins for free at the start of Diablo 4's next season
- The next Xbox is codenamed Project Helix, and it will 'play your Xbox and PC games'
- Captain Obvious time: The Fallout TV series has massively increased game sales, even for the '90s originals
- Let it Die is dying, but offering players a onetime purchase to keep it alive offline
- You can lessen Marathon's faction rep grind by doing more than just contracts
- Ruiner 2 promises to evolve the original top-down shooter 'into a deep, systems-driven action RPG'
- Big Tech makes White House pledge to stump up for the increased energy costs of AI and prevent household bills from escalating
- This upcoming gaming mouse weighs just over 28 grams without poking holes in it
- This vibe-coded operating system looks like a nightmarish version of our AI OS future, although some of the function keys change the wallpaper so that's fun
- Microsoft CEO says 'I look at all agents as users', and that means AI ones too, as each agentic bot 'will have its own identity'
- Helldivers 2's big beefy build is going away for good, because Arrowhead is 'confident that players are having a great experience' with the new skinny version
- 'Begun, the Mushroom Wars have': Bodies are piling up next to shelf fungi in Arc Raiders as players fight for the slim supply of mushrooms
- After two years and over 6,000 hours, Monitors Unboxed's long-term OLED gaming monitor test shows increasing burn-in
- 'I think the fact that everything is scarce is fantastic for us' says Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang '...in a world of constraint, you have no choice but to choose the best'
- Nvidia's next hardware launch for us gamers could be an RTX 5050 with a whopping 1 GB of extra VRAM
- After whiffing its release date by 5 years, Crimson Desert is putting out oodles of preview stuff as 'We never want to be accused of hiding anything, because we have a lot of ground to make up'
- One of the largest hacker forums in the world has been seized by the US DoJ
- 'The reason why we're so beloved in the videogame industry and we're so deep in it still is, in a lot of ways, we created the modern videogame industry' says Nvidia CEO Huang
- 'Without Intel, I don’t know if Windows would have happened… without Mac, I wonder whether Office would have happened' says Microsoft CEO
- Intel bigs up its latest 18A chip node as fit for external customers but probably not Nvidia, for now
- You can blame some of Deus Ex: Invisible War's console limitations on the publisher's 'weird theories that FPS games don't sell or RPGs don't sell'
- Castlevania: Belmont's Curse isn't a roguelike, says Konami, despite it being made by the 2 studios behind Dead Cells
- After Resident Evil Requiem, Leon Kennedy's actor wants to see Code Veronica remade: 'I think that would be one hell of a game'
- Hallelujah, Bungie's confirmed that Marathon's battle passes don't expire, you can purchase old ones, and you never pay for power
- Final Fantasy 11, a 23-year-old MMO, is getting so many new players it's having to stop character creation on its busiest server
- Third time's hopefully the charm as Nvidia releases hotfix driver to tackle voltage issues and Resident Evil Requiem performance in one fel swoop
- Out-of-bounds camera reveals Resident Evil Requiem's Grace is a Redditor
- Copyright trolling kept evidence of Japanese cult classic Cookie's Bustle offline, until now
- Highguard gets a new playable character, skill trees and more ahead of next week's closure
- March 4
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- Hunt: Showdown keeps experimenting with the extraction genre, and its next twist sounds irresistible: Soon, extraction points and loot won't appear on the map
- US government reportedly debating whether to force Tencent to give up its US-based game holdings
- More than 800 gamers took an exam to prove they could complete an '80s adventure game without peeking at a walkthrough—and only 2 passed
- Stop the clock: Resident Evil Requiem's first sexy Leon mod hit Nexus Mods just 4 days, 11 hours, and 23 minutes after launch
- MindsEye studio claims it now has 'overwhelming evidence of organized espionage and corporate sabotage' that somehow made its game bad, and also it's laying off more people
- Resident Evil Requiem's 5 million sales have made it one of Capcom's all-time top 20 bestsellers in just 4 days
- Counter-Strike: Global Offensive is back: 3 years after it was muscled out by Counter-Strike 2, CS:GO has its own Steam page again and has powered its way back onto Steam's most-played chart
- Deus Ex: Invisible War wasn't what it should have been because the studio moved to an engine that was really built for Thief: 'A super-boneheaded call, very bad decision… it really tanked development'
- A 9,999,999 gold painting in World of Warcraft: Midnight sent secret finders on a hunt for the ultimate discount and one thrifty player finally figured it out
- Ubisoft finally confirms the Assassin's Creed 4: Black Flag remake is real, and it's dropping the '4' for some reason
- The devs on Deus Ex: Invisible War knew its most-hated part was a 'terrible idea,' and they give the director 'sh*t about it all the time'
- Qualcomm's new Snapdragon X2 Arm CPU pops up in Geekbench and wallops the x86 laptop competition by over 30% in single-core performance
- Highguard director shares stats and thoughts on the game's failure, denies conspiracy theories about where it all went wrong: 'Nobody will know the true story of the studio or game'
- As Assassin's Creed Shadows support comes to an end, Ubisoft reiterates what's coming in the future, and yes, co-op factors into it somehow
- As hardware prices make heads spin, Apple of all companies has just announced a new MacBook laptop for only $599
- Meta's new FrameSync feature aims to make VR a little less nauseating
- Indie dev says 'best I can do is sentient tofu' after fans demand a male protagonist—they respond oh yeah, actually Mr Tofu works fine, thanks
- South Korean authorities seized $5.6 million worth of crypto then accidentally posted pictures of the super-secret recovery phrase, resulting in the loss of... $4.8 million worth of crypto
- AMD's CPU division is booming as CEO Dr. Lisa Su says sales 'far exceeded my expectations'
- Arc Raiders devs had to nerf the blueprint drop rate because players are too good at finding them: 'First Wave caches have been handing out a lot of blueprints'
- After planning 2 more paid acts, narrative scifi power-washer Ambrosia Sky is instead finishing its story in one free update to 'maximize' its focus on what players loved: 'People got in on that sapphic yearning right away'
- Kiss goodbye to Ghost of Yotei on PC: Sony is U-turning on its 'let's put our games on PC' strategy and bunkering back down with console exclusives, says Bloomberg
- Overwatch is getting a bunch of Nier: Automata skins and at this point I'm convinced support mains are the only ones spending money on this game
- Rumor that Microsoft plans to launch a 'modular' Windows 12 this year retracted by its source, refuted by others [Updated]
- I've tested Resident Evil Requiem with different GPUs and different drivers, but cannot replicate the massive performance loss some PC gamers are reporting
- Resistance to operating system age checks coming from *checks notes* open source calculator and an OS that may just exclude Californians altogether
- Industry insiders say Samsung has confirmed a DRAM price increase of 'over 100%' for its customers, so brace yourself for the next phase of the dreaded RAMpocalypse
- Minecraft has finally revealed the name of its baby mob update, and I honestly didn't think it could get any cuter but here we are
- Malwarebytes says a fake Google Account security page is distributing 'what may be one of the most fully featured browser-based surveillance toolkits we have observed in the wild'
- Leon Kennedy's actor has seen all your thirst traps: 'I found myself in life embodying an avatar that's just infinitely better looking than myself'
- D&D's clunkily-named 2024 ruleset, a revamp of 5e, finally throws up its hands and goes fine, we'll call it 5.5e on D&D Beyond, you win
- This dice-rolling roguelite is like Balatro on steroids, and its bosses are pure evil
- World of Warcraft: Midnight player proves that you only need a single button and a clever build to heal your dungeon party
- Capcom makes the majority of its sales on PC, and it expects the 'ratio to continue increasing'
- March 3
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- Resident Evil 1's remake and the OG Resident Evil 4 are still must-plays, and you can make them both look even better with HD remaster mods
- Iron Galaxy says the Fallout: New Vegas image it posted yesterday doesn't mean anything: 'We use that slide every month and has nothing to do with anything Fallout being worked on'
- AI-generated images still can't be copyrighted as US Supreme Court declines to hear case
- Send us your wildest gaming clips from GTA 5 and you could win a $100 Steam gift card
- Star Citizen studio suffered a data breach in January, and some players aren't happy with the very quiet disclosure that only happened this week
- World of Warcraft: Midnight players found an empty campsite that references 2019's planet-hopping puzzler Outer Wilds
- Highguard is closing next week: 'Despite the passion and hard work of our team, we have not been able to build a sustainable player base to support the game long term'
- The Sims announces a Creation Club-style Marketplace and Maker program enabling content creators to sell their work directly to players
- Evil Dead's Bruce Campbell reveals 'treatable but not curable' cancer diagnosis, but says 'I am a tough old son-of-a-bitch' and expects 'to be around for a while'
- Bungie unveils Marathon's first season, confirming that, yes, it'll wipe all your loot and progress every three months: 'Each season of Marathon brings a clean slate for the whole community'
- A Florida woman has been sentenced to 22 months in prison for conspiracy to traffic thousands of stolen Windows 10 and MS Office keys via their Certificate of Authenticity stickers
- 'Half the fans would want to hang me': Leon Kennedy's voice actor won't say whether he's Team Ada or Team Claire, but he does point to all that Ada has done for Leon
- Fallout 3 lead Emil Pagliarulo tried to stuff it to the gills with Deus Ex DNA: 'As much immersive sim as was humanly possible'
- In yet another twist in the US-China chip export fiasco, it seems like America may limit the number of H200 AI chips being sent to China
- Killing Floor studio Tripwire Interactive lays off 23 people because of 'business realities' and all the other usual stuff
- Apple somehow just doubled the amount of storage in the new MacBook Air M5 base model to 512 GB despite the memory crisis
- 'We shouldn't have rushed to get this out on Friday': OpenAI hastily amends the terms of its controversial deal with the US Department of War as CEO Sam Altman claims it's been a 'good learning experience'
- 'I did create a whole mood board': Playing Leon Kennedy in Resident Evil Requiem was 'uncharted territory' for Nick Apostolides because the stakes were so high
- The OG Baldur's Gates are freshly patched, and you can pick them up with 500+ hours of other CRPGs for $23 right now
- Leon Kennedy's voice actor doesn't believe AI can replace human performances, and paying 'for an actor's voice session is not that big of a deal' for games as big as Arc Raiders
- The cores in Nvidia's upcoming PC processor achieve 'performance parity' with Intel and AMD's latest chips, but will it actually be any good for games?
- Scientists warn against crappy age verification: 'if implemented without careful consideration… the new regulation might cause more harm than good'
- Nvidia's RTX 5070 leaps to top of the Steam Hardware Survey but something looks fishy in the figures
- Resident Evil Requiem's The Final Puzzle has finally been figured out, and it's just as complicated and long as you'd think: 'We don't get the doll if we don't AFK at the grinder'
- WoW's new allied race in Midnight, the Haranir, has a model clipping issue with dozens of gear items—a problem that's been on the PTR for months
- Players were responsible for over 55% of kills during Marathon's Server Slam, I guess to protect their precious 384,866 drinkable cheeseburgers and 145,822 bottles of alien milk
- Marathon UI designer declares himself the 'fontslop merchant' and promises Bungie will never 'remove the SAUCE from the UI'
- Fruit Ninja studio Halfbrick hit with layoffs: 'we are navigating a challenging period for the games industry'
- March 2
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- Fallout: New Vegas remaster hopium goes off like Mount Vesuvius as Iron Galaxy teases 'what's coming next' with a very famous loading screen
- Fallout co-creator Tim Cain says less is often more in game design: 'As a very wise designer once said to me, a game that includes everything is about nothing'
- Once again, Arma 3 gameplay is being passed around as real combat footage: 'It doesn't even look real!' one overexcited poster exclaims
- Bungie is considering a dedicated duos mode and time-to-kill changes after Marathon server slam feedback
- Nacon postpones its Nacon Connect showcase so it can concentrate on going insolvent
- 'A new franchise in the God of War universe' leaked in time-honoured fashion: Someone getting too excited about buffing up their LinkedIn
- Lenovo's luxurious Strix Halo laptop features an on-device drawing tablet, up to 128 GB of RAM, and an eye-watering price to match
- No, AMD isn't abandoning Ryzen Z1 chip series: Lenovo says it's working with AMD on handheld gaming PC updates until 2029
- Lenovo is going long with a foldable 12-inch handheld gaming PC concept
- RedOctane's 'next evolution in rhythm gaming' sure looks a lot like 2007's Rock Band
- A redditor who found their exact gaming monitor in Resident Evil Requiem finds Reddit image of their monitor inside a monitor inside a monitor in Resident Evil Requiem and now my head hurts
- Resident Evil Requiem has broken the internet as fans find out Leon Kennedy is married: 'You'll play Chris in the DLC and see an identical ring on his hand'
- It looks like more memory price hikes may soon be on the way, as Samsung and SK Hynix reportedly inform customers of yet another DRAM price increase
- This Linux tool was the last thing I needed to wave goodbye to Windows
- UK games collector raided by police after purchasing £10,000 worth of hardware, including old dev kits, disposed of by Sega
- Microsoft banned the word 'Microslop' in its Copilot Discord server, then began restricting access after users started posting 'Microsl0p' and other funnies
- Battlefield 6 explains how its Javelin anticheat system works—and it kind of boils down to 'just trust me bro'
- Heroic madlad is working multiplayer into Kingdom Come: Deliverance 2, and the brass ring of the whole thing is functional 2-player Farkle
- World of Warcraft: Midnight's 'stay a while and listen' monologues might've just heavily hinted at a future big bad
- Top analyst firm Gartner predicts the 'sub-$500 entry-level PC segment will disappear by 2028', along with worldwide PC shipment decline of 10.4% in 2026
- I completely missed a new item being introduced to Minecraft in my excitement over its new baby mobs, and you bet I'm going to hoard thousands of them
- Grace's actor in Resident Evil Requiem says that Capcom 'wanted to go back to the horror Resident Evil games'
- March 1
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- One of my favorite Next Fest demos turned out to be this speedrunner's delight modeled after 3D Sonic games, which just added ranked multiplayer races
- Only 50 floppy disks of this prototype Japanese visual novel were ever produced, and one just got destroyed in transit: 'Today, an important piece of history has been lost forever'
- 'Sorry I can't hear you over the roar of the Sunwell': World of Warcraft players beg Blizzard to turn the volume down on the giant crackling beam in the sky
- World of Warcraft: Midnight's lead composer feels 'very lucky and happy that we're not using generative AI'
- After 4 years, I'm pleased to report I've inadvertently discovered Squid Game mods for GTA 5 are actually really good now
- Space Marine 2 players are not happy with its new $5 voice lines DLC: 'Just scummy as hell'
- One of the most impressive Star Wars mods in history just got a huge update, and co-op is on the table for the future: 'It has been almost a year-long journey to get to this point'
- The creators of Postal just announced a new FPS where you play as a victim of the Postal Dude's original killing spree, which is certainly an angle
- Citing Halo, FEAR, and Half-Life 2 as inspirations, Sprawl: Zero waves goodbye to boomer shooters and heralds the arrival of the Millennial FPS
- Teardown's massive multiplayer update arrives next month, bringing a full co-op campaign, competitive modes, and a free-roaming sandbox
- It's taken 2 decades to appear, but this fan-made spiritual successor to Command & Conquer: Renegade has finally hit 1.0: '12 years of beta testing has led us to this'
- Looks like Boltgun 2 will be the Warhammer game to finally give the setting's horniest Chaos god its due
- PSA: You can adjust your mouse sensitivity in Resident Evil Requiem, but the setting's not in an obvious place
