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- March 7
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- 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 still 'hopes' to ship Steam Machines in 2026, but a delay into 2027 is starting to look like a real possibility: 'Memory and storage shortages have created challenges for us'
- 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
- 'Oh 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
