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August 31
- One of Elden Ring's top sleuths has already unmasked its new DLC characters
- After the debacle of Cyberpunk 2077, CD Projekt says The Witcher 4 is already running on PC and consoles, promises 'it's going to run' on all target platforms
- Blizzard doing 'a thorough scrub' of illegitimate World of Warcraft Mythic-Plus dungeon rankings, with more changes to come
- CD Projekt Red opens its 'Arasaka hardware archives' to help an indie dev whose gear was stolen during 1 of at least 4 Gamescom thefts
- Empulse and Splitgate: Arena Reloaded are officially over as 1047 Games says it's probably done making arena shooters
- Some of WoW's hardest dungeons and raids have gotten just a bit easier—that's on purpose, developers say
- Haunted Chocolatier's development has been 'very productive' in recent months, Eric Barone says: 'Working on Haunted Chocolatier is what I’m most eager and driven to do'
- Court grants Take-Two's latest request for more user information from Discord as the GTA 6 leaker hunt intensifies
- Fable's story will be '15-20 hours' long, according to its game director, although the game's life systems are 'limitless'
- A 38-year-old NES platformer is getting a Steam remake by its original husband-and-wife team, as the pair's 'final major game product'
- The Steam 'teraleak' extends far beyond Valve games, including prototypes of third-party titles like Mafia 2 and Grand Theft Auto 3: 'This may be one of if not the biggest leaks to occur'
- 1666: Amsterdam's developer says it 'won't be using any AI anymore', and the tech was only used 'in conception and pre-production'—arguably the most creative phase of the entire process
August 30
- 'Sidequests are almost my reason for doing videogames in the first place:' The dev behind one of the coolest upcoming RPGs says its word count is ballooning because they just love side stories so much
- A Star Wars Galaxies community server was allegedly hacked with AI assistance by a Reddit moderator harboring a primeval grudge
- Total War: Warhammer 40,000 wins best PC game at Gamescom
- Thanks to a dedicated team 'art-directing' every single NPC, GTA 6 has over 10 times as many unique animations as GTA 5
- Am I out of touch? No, it's the children who are wrong: The Wii and PS3 are 'retro' now, according to iconic Japanese gaming show
- This newly announced FPS will let you blast through the worlds of Medieval Europe's weirdest artist, and I really hope it includes the 500-year-old butt song from hell
- A massive cache of Valve data has reportedly leaked online, appearing to include Portal 2's elusive beta build and a potential weapon from Half-Life 2: Episode 3
- Activision serves cease and desist to infamous Call of Duty cheat maker—and films the whole thing: 'We will find you'
- Peter Cullen, voice of Optimus Prime in The Transformers, dies aged 85
- PSA: Swap the radial ability menu in Star Wars Zero Company for more of a trad XCOM-style experience
August 29
- A native port of Donkey Kong 64 is finally playable on PC thanks to a team of programmers who boast that 'no generative AI [was] used at any point in the process'
- Elden Ring players are hard at work putting the new Tarnished Edition DLC's gear to the test
- Valve assures Deadlock players hungry for its next big update that it will notify them, 'or order a ton of pizza', when it's ready
- The Long Dark will get new DLC again as studio shifts devs away from the sequel to survive an 'uncertain' industry: 'We have to adapt to this'
- Rockstar considered having four protagonists in Grand Theft Auto 6, but the studio 'worried about diluting the amount of player time' with each character
- 'Well, that didn't go as planned' says EA as it footage of its Iron Man game leaks online
- Hello Neighbor's multiplayer spinoff has been 'temporarily shut down' after a hacker wiped player progression and demanded the game's 'removal from sale across all platforms'
- 'Claude Strife': DLSS 5 has escaped into the wild, and things are immediately weird
August 28
- Path of Exile 2's first event league goes 'oops, all bosses' and reworks its worst mode so sane people can finally enjoy it
- I tried the sequel to Task Manager and it has too many special effects
- Chinese memory maker YMTC wants to dethrone Samsung and SK hynix by the end of 2027
- Rockstar has to 'be careful' about what GTA 6 picks to satirize because 'very specific political issues or memes will date fast'
- Fable director says they aren't 'scared of other big games' except one—it's GTA 6, in case you were living under a rock
- Pulsar's new mouse is sliced in half to make it genuinely 'crazy-light'
- id Software's former co-owner says they absolutely would've used gen AI back in the day: 'John Carmack would be like making Skynet or something'
- 'I'm done. I used up my luck for this timeline': Redditor accidentally saves $5,000 on RTX 5090 Razer Blade 18 thanks to labelling error
- GTA 6 is adding a more nuanced version of Red Dead Redemption 2's honor system to ensure player characters aren't too 'all-powerful'
- Netflix is likely pleased as punch with the GTA 6 extended look, which more than doubled its web traffic
- Looks like you can try DLSS 5 out today yourself
- The GTA 6 Netflix exclusive reveal is on YouTube now
August 27
- GTA 6 gameplay reveal breakdown: A summary of all the details we spotted
- GTA 6 map is apparently 3 times larger than Red Dead Redemption 2's, twice as large as GTA 5's
- What do you think of the GTA 6 reveal?
- Cyberleek may have just cashed out on their GTA 6 leak, earning over $200,000 in the most predictable crypto rugpull ever performed
- Star Citizen's Squadron 42 delayed again, this time to avoid 'the attention buzz saw of GTA 6' says Chris Roberts
- Grand Theft Auto 6 reveal live coverage: breaking down the Netflix 'extended look' event
- Manor Lords celebrates 4 million copies sold with a new major update which gives players the chance to become 'a cow-herding mogul'
- Arc Raiders is adding a camera mode as part of October's major update, but some fans need more proof that the game's not going to wither away
- Xbox discs will now grant digital access to games as part of Microsoft's self-proclaimed 'broader commitment to game preservation'
- Holy crap, it's happening: Dwarf Fortress gets its first Myth and Magic update later this year, bringing each player's world its own procedural magic system
- Almost 20 years later, Arkane's founder says he understands why Valve cancelled the Ravenholm game that never was: 'It all came down to the economics'
- 'It's just not our money to keep': Handheld console maker Panic is refunding US tariff fees to its customers
- The Witcher 3 Remastered makes the original's best HD mod obsolete, but only because that same modder's been working on the real deal
- Linus Torvalds details his 'debug session from hell' pushing an AI to fix an error it repeatedly said was 'impossible and unsolvable'. He then made it write the report
- I barely remember the last time Nvidia mentioned gaming at all in an earnings call
- Konami is aiming for a new Silent Hill game every year with producer Motoi Okamoto trying to quell fears by promising fans that they 'will be able to provide positive kinds of surprises'
- Nvidia says it would be making a whole lot more money if it weren't for the memory crisis it's contributing to
- Crimson Desert will be slowing down its free updates in preparation for its paid DLC, and I'm just glad Pearl Abyss is finally pacing itself
- Total War: Warhammer 40k will let you stuff your 'almost dead' Space Marine characters into Dreadnoughts so they can keep fighting
- When and where to watch the GTA 6 gameplay reveal on August 27
- Amid a dire bargain drought, the best PC gaming headset is currently cheaper than I've ever seen it in Australia
- Brütal Legend is available free in honor of Tim Curry
August 26
- Tim Curry, Red Alert 3 star and camp icon of stage and screen, dies aged 80
- Poppy Playtime studio reveals its next survival horror game, and this time it's co-op
- GTA 6 leaker escalates spoilers, releases 4 minutes of Lucia's prologue
- I got my greasy mitts on a host of RTX Spark laptops running, what else, games at Gamescom 2026—and there's a couple I really want to take home
- New GTA 6 character swapping details revealed: Jason and Lucia can 'play as a couple, or go off and cause chaos independently'
- HoYoverse's Nodusfall is free to play but isn't a typical gacha game: 'Characters are not obtained through random draws'
- God help us, they overclocked Mega Man
- Move over Gamescom, Konami is heading to CatCon and it's bringing Metal Gear Solid-themed cat toys with it
- Metro 2039 devs say the ongoing war in Ukraine has changed how they write morality: 'The franchise's very nature is getting too close to reality'
- Micron, the trillion-dollar memory company, refused to replace a crucial drive for current market value until Reddit got mad
- AI is 'just a plagiarism machine that makes people lose their jobs' in the eyes of The Talos Principle 3's writers
- Rockstar responds to GTA 6 leaks: 'This is not how we intended for you see the game after all this time'
- AMD update fixes Apex Legends crashes with RX 9070 XT GPUs
- Crimson Desert's 2.0 update's most surprising change is an effort to make Kliff a fully realised character with thoughts and opinions
- OLED gaming monitors have finally gotten so good that a Counter-Strike 2 tournament is using one
- Ubisoft forgot to make sure the Steam release of Heroes of Might & Magic 3 included the actual game
- Solasta 2 is getting multiplayer and warlocks in its next update
August 25
- Humankind 2 trailer accused of being 'AI slop,' studio says nope: 'real actors, practical sets, and custom-made props'
- Metro 2039 gameplay trailer looks like bad news for your aging graphics card
- Tarae: The Unbound is an 'Eastern dark fantasy' action RPG, and I for one am here for K-Diablo
- Paradox's next grand strategy game is taking cues from Fallout and Mad Max
- The hardware crisis has hit a new low: We're now using rats for RAM
- The Witcher 3: Songs of the Past expansion is out next year, here's the trailer
- The Witcher 3 Remastered announced: another huge free update, and all Witcher 3 owners get the existing expansions free
- Lego is finally fulfilling its destiny by making a city builder
- Path of Exile 2 is finally getting swords in December, and also the rest of the game
- Atari is taking another shot at reviving RollerCoaster Tycoon
- Next big D&D game fully revealed with lengthy gameplay trailer
- Battle royale goes grunge: there's a new PUBG game and it's set in the '90s
- Exodus is out early next year, and I think I'm finally on board with the general Mass Effect vibes of it all
- The next game from Hoyoverse sure looks like someone put Elden Ring's clothes on Monster Hunter
- Ubisoft is making the first singleplayer Rainbow Six in 19 years, and it's a tactics game in the style of XCOM
- Here's how to watch the Future Games Show at Gamescom 2026
- Every announcement from Gamescom Opening Night Live 2026
- Lenovo says it is 'clear' Legion Go faults 'not user error' and even devices out of warranty could be repaired 'free of charge'
- Total War: Warhammer shows off its spicy new endgames, including a 'rat counter' that tells you how many Skaven still need killing in The Vermintide
- GTA 6 leaker goes full cornball in newest videos, insists 'using crypto is the only way'
- Microsoft had to change the anti-piracy hologram on the Windows 95 box because an undisclosed government assumed the baby on it was naked
- Hideo Kojima wants to 'continue to focus on making games' at 63, even as 'the time I have decreases'
- Two architectures on one chip: Arm and IBM team up in a legendary crossover, but alas it's for 'enterprise infrastructure'
- The upcoming Resident Evil movie will have first-person POVs as it demonstrates how authenticity is a moving target for a series that spans 30 years
- As Take-Two seeks IP addresses and phone numbers of thousands in GTA 6 subpoena, Discord says it's not been served the order just yet
- Redditor sent empty box instead of Ryzen 5 9600X from Amazon... twice
- How to watch Gamescom Opening Night Live 2026
August 24
- A disturbing '90s point-and-click horror game about waking up in a rundown asylum with no recollection of who you are is getting a glow up in 2026
- Nearly 500k players showed up for the Wardogs beta: 'The reaction from the FPS community has been insane'
- A game dev spent 40 days in the wilderness to make this new Steam survival game
- Latest GTA 6 leak confirms full dong
- Former Rockstar dev says the GTA 6 leaks are a 'nothing burger': 'There won't be much damage'
- The Witcher 4 is 'targeting' a 2028 release
- Both AMD and Intel's desktop CPU sales are falling off a cliff but Ryzen is falling a little slower
- 'The Guild' movie revival becomes highest-funded Kickstarter film ever, filling me with millennial nostalgia and making me very nervous
- Paradox commits a classic blunder and accidentally leaks its own post-apocalyptic grand strategy game
- There's a looming GPU supply crisis, which means prices are likely to get a whole lot worse. And it's not just because of memory
- Proposed class action lawsuit against Logitech demands money to be given back to customers after $61 million US tariff refund
- Windows update that breaks some multiplayer games linked to our desire for gaming PCs that light up all the colors of the rainbow
- Twitch hit with class-action lawsuit over Amazon AI training: 'Twitch sent no email, displayed no pop-up notification, and made no announcement'
- Nightdive's Thief remaster unearths a 'very very out of date version control repository' with 'the wildest things to say about the code'
August 23
- 'We didn't have layoffs before, and now all of a sudden we have yearly layoffs': Bethesda artist says 'something has changed' under Microsoft
- EverQuest Legends dev says 'I'm sure we would' add new classes, races 'in the longer-term vision of the game'
- If you're desperate for more Baldur's Gate 3, here's a 6-hour mini-campaign all about Astarion with 4 different endings and 6 new companions
- This newly announced soulslike has a main character inspired by Dark Souls' most heartbreaking boss fight
- Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 4's first beta patch adds a new map and mode, as Infinity Ward responds to complaints about footstep noise and weapon lethality
- The dungeoncrawler where you really can roll to seduce the dragon has been delayed until next year
- Can the Epic Games Store turn things around? 'I don't see how they can recover at this point,' says Newzoo analyst
August 22
- Compulsion Games' buyout is complete, so now Microsoft won't get a cut if you buy South of Midnight
- GTA6 leaker Cyberleek shows off gas station rampage, refueling, promises strip club gameplay if people juice his cryptocurrency enough
- Fallout dev Tim Cain says we should pay more attention to bad games: '[Publishers] often don't learn from failure because they only look at the games that sold well'
- This mod transforms Doom into a terrifying tactical shooter, and it's partly inspired by another PC gaming classic
- Dishonored was a last-ditch effort by Arkane Studios after years of fruitless contract work, according to the game's co-creator: 'I think we had four months of money left'
- The latest cooperative craze is a physics-based fishing simulator where you can launch your catch into the air and no-scope it with a sniper rifle
August 21
- Still more GTA 6 details from the latest leaked video: traffic cameras, car trackers, and drivers that put up a fight
- The GTA 6 leaker is selling ads now
- Robot Olympics runner bravely sprints headfirst into wall and collapses in shower of sparks, is not a metaphor
- The newly independent Psychonauts dev now earns all the revenue when you buy games it made under Xbox: 'Buying any of our games helps support the studio'
- Arc Raiders is halting Expeditions until 2027 so it can make 'major improvements' to the system
- 2 Steam top sellers, 2 simultaneous betas, 2 very different shooters: It's Wardogs & Modern Warfare weekend
- Lone game dev builds an explorable cyberpunk city almost entirely out of ASCII characters
- Take-Two kicks off GTA 6 leaker hunt with subpoenas demanding records from Microsoft and Discord
- Dave Bautista is confirmed as the new Kratos for Amazon's God of War series
- Thanks to this Final Fantasy 14 roleplayer survey, I know exactly how basic my Warrior of Light's backstory is
- Yes, the GTA 6 leaked footage was probably running on PC, and no, that doesn't tell us a whole lot about the eventual release
- Cyberleek's still at it: Another GTA 6 leak shows 2 full minutes of high speed driving, surprisingly few crashes
- Take-Two lost $2.8 billion in market cap after GTA 6 leaks—but what's more shocking to me is it probably barely felt it
- Don't tell Nvidia: 56% of you are willing to pay over $600 for your next graphics card... and 19% would spend over $1000 😮
- Someone has managed to run Zork on the Steam Controller's internal hardware, but it's risky business
- The most profound objective in any Halo series was 'spiritually inspired' by the nuke sequence in Modern Warfare 2
- 'Darth Vader' advocated in person for more Flock surveillance camera tech at a San Diego city council meeting: 'This technology will help us find the rebel scum and their hidden base on Hoth'
- Miyazaki says FromSoftware obviously isn't done with singleplayer games despite the combo of Elden Ring: Nightreign and The Duskbloods
- I've just finished reviewing AMD's latest gaming CPU and I would genuinely considering switching back to Intel
August 20
- US Army confirms it's offering 4 days to play GTA 6 to soldiers who reenlist for at least 2 years
- Riot is ending development of its 2XKO fighting game
- 'Dude no joke looks like Hugh Jackman now': The internet is swooning over Gabe Newell's svelte new look at The International
- Black Myth: Zhong Kui's 15-minute gameplay reveal shows off confident swordplay, boss fights with oyster men, and the coolest skeletons I've ever seen
- I'm a decade-plus FromSoftware sicko, and these are my 5 takeaways from the first Duskbloods gameplay
- This wild new PC pro controller runs its own custom OS across a 2.79-inch color display slapped beneath the thumbsticks
- The latest GTA 6 leak confirms the leaker likely has or had access to a playable build
- Palworld and No Man's Sky are intensifying their months-long flirtation, and if those two don't just kiss already, I'm going to lose my mind
- 'I would love that but we're cheap and poor': Jeff Kaplan speeds through everything players should know about his upcoming cowboy survival game, The Legend of California
- Screw the wedding photos, I'm playing Doom on a DSLR camera like the good lord intended
- Unboxing videos of the Steam Frame have been leaked, giving us a closer look at the long-awaited VR headset
- Former Arkane vets' new studio isn't going to try 'trend chasing', and in hindsight, thank God
- The latest Windows 11 update is borking some multiplayer games, but Arc Raiders' developer has a quick workaround
- 'This is not a theoretical risk—it is an active threat': The NSA, FBI, CISA and more warn of AI-assisted hacks against critical US infrastructure and facilities
- Redfall developers begged Microsoft to come back and finish its last patch: 'I know we don't work here anymore, but can we please release this?'
- Will the next Mass Effect actually release under EA's new owners? 'I'll believe it when I see it,' says Newzoo's director of market intelligence and former EA manager
August 19
- Sony reportedly reverses course on live service co-op Horizon game after 'negative player feedback'
- Stop Killing Games distances itself from GTA 6 leak manifesto: 'Using illegal means to make a point is unacceptable to us'
- More GTA 6 leaks reveal new details: Cloning keys, combat changes, random bird deaths
- EA employees brace for the worst under Saudi ownership: 'Hard to feel good about being bought out by a regime that's very much at odds with progressive society'
- Firefox has officially 'earned its place' on the GeForce Now supported browser list
- Dishonored co-creator Harvey Smith launches a new studio and it literally has the word 'Immersive' in the name
- Stop waiting to play Stalker 2: The 2.0 update makes it the game it's wanted to be for 2 years
- Copilot was bamboozled into revealing how to hack itself, security researchers claim: 'Copilot wasn’t breached; it was played'
- Take-Two's former AI guy is, in a twist, skeptical about AI now: 'The guy should be selling you the gold if he's actually got the gold'
- The Blood of Dawnwalker's final system requirements include upscaling set to Balanced—so unsurprisingly, they're lower
- Subnautica 2's latest 1.2 update is friend focused—finally adding the key mechanic to any great multiplayer game
- Fired Rockstar workers say you shouldn't boycott GTA 6 for them: 'We spent years pouring our hard work, skill, and creativity into making GTA'
August 18
- Industry legend Warren Spector is retiring: 'I'm feeling like I've done what I set out to do'
- Grand Theft Auto 6 leaker says they won't stop until Rockstar and Take-Two apologize for 'anti-consumerism' and make a 'concrete commitment to do better'
- Former PlayStation boss Shuhei Yoshida told Clair Obscur devs to not call it a 'turn-based RPG' so people wouldn't 'overlook' it
- 2 seemingly real GTA 6 clips—and maybe the full map—just leaked online
- The new Rusty Lake game is a grim, sinister tale of family, destiny, and cooking: I fed a man porridge filled with dead bugs and he told me it tasted good
- Epic Mickey creator Warren Spector is 'a little bitter' that his studio isn't getting props for sparking Oswald the Lucky Rabbit's big comeback
- The new Framework 12 laptop's secret weapon is its battery life courtesy of Intel's Wildcat Lake
- The 3DMark Port Royal world record has been beaten, and all it took was a $5,000+ liquid nitrogen-cooled RTX 5090
- Arc Raiders' map conditions 'will shift to fit specific regions' peak hours' as part of the latest Phantom Targets update
- The Quake shareware CD-ROM contained encrypted copies of every id Software game—and yes, it was cracked 39 days after release
- OpenAI says it'd be a shame if something were to happen to your servers like what happened to Hugging Face, better use our AI models to protect yourself
- Microsoft is finally letting us turn the Windows 11 right-click context menu into something more like Windows 10
- Post Malone breaks into his $2 million The One Ring, stressing out a whole room of Magic: The Gathering players: 'our insurance doesn't cover that card'
- The RTX 5060 Ti 16 GB currently costs more than the RTX 5070 and RX 9070 XT, and I know which one I'd pick
- Chinese RAM hits 9000 MT/s and even matches the speed and latency of the memory in our western gaming PCs
- Star Citizen has a disastrously laggy stream with horrendous vibes, which isn't a great look when you're past $1 billion in funding
- Phantom Blade Zero finally shows off its interconnected game world, with exploration 'guided by 8 authentic hand-painted Chinese ink wash maps'
August 17
- Even though turn-based and real time RPGs 'have their loud, vocal advocates,' Fallout developer Tim Cain thinks they both have a place in the genre
- Heads up, Fallout 4 and Skyrim players: New updates are incoming, so it's time to tend to your mods
- Warner Bros. mentions existence of 'second installment of Hogwarts Legacy,' and that's about it
- Toymaker Mattel launches a new game studio with a focus on Roblox and Fortnite that could signal a growing shift in where studios spend money
- Resident Evil Requiem's Angela Sant'Albano reportedly joins Tides of Annihilation, replacing Jennifer English as the new voice of its protagonist
- Intel might be cooking up a budget-friendly handheld chip but I'd still be surprised if it's cheap enough or fast enough to matter
- SSD price increases might be with us for the long haul, as Phison's CEO says NAND supply won't catch up with demand for four years
- Tests show newer OLED TVs can still experience significant burn-in because they're much brighter, proving that you can't have your cake and eat it
- Marvel Rivals players are messing with their config files 'to cancel games with no consequence' before they get a loss
- Kingdom Hearts and Until Dawn actress Hayden Panettiere has died at 36
- The Elder Scrolls 6 is probably subtitled Sentinel, and there's been an easter egg in Starfield hinting at it this whole time
August 16
- League of Legends YouTuber unearths the original investor pitch from when the game was called Onslaught: War of the Immortals
- The next big videogame TV adaptation is a Kingdom Hearts anime
- The Quake community simply cannot stop delivering, having just released a 22-map 'Deathmatch Jam' to celebrate the shooter's 30th birthday
- You could win a slice of €30,000 by building the best mod for Mount & Blade 2's controversial seafaring expansion
- Kingdom Hearts 4 finally has a release window, and it's sooner than I expected
August 15
- Saber's AI Rideshare Stimulator controversy almost closes on high note with CEO apology, then he calls Portal scribe who mocked him an 'unsuccessful writer'
- Matthew McConaughey could have played Joel in The Last of Us, but says 'it just wasn't for me at the time'
- Simpsons creator Matt Groening implies that a Hit & Run remaster is coming, current showrunner hastily disputes
- Witcher 3 designer says it wasn't easy to convince players its NPC simulation wasn't 'just fakery': 'People nowadays are interested in those kinds of details, and it really came to haunt us'
- Star Wars: The Old Republic hopes to recapture the 'classic' experience with difficulty options and a new way to start from scratch
- This Solitaire game is so tiny it can load from a QR code, which is just what I need in the age of massive games and expensive storage
- You can now play the secret best immersive sim in coop thanks to this mod
- Stalker 2's imminent free update aims to make the sequel more atmospheric and less relentlessly hostile: 'The Zone isn't one constant gunfight'
August 14
- Disney says that Kingdom Hearts is now a 'billion dollar franchise'
- Here's a first for Call of Duty: The Modern Warfare 4 beta will have a campaign mission and Warzone stuff
- WoW's haunted: Players report that their disconnected friends' characters are starting to play the game on their own
- Thimbleweed Park 2 is happening because Ron Gilbert's friend knows a rich guy who's a big fan of the original and wanted more
- Pocketpair 'not planning to spend a year making a massive update' for Palworld 1.1
- US Senate launches investigation into Roblox: 'Children on your platform are hurting. Congress will not look the other way'
- A dev tried to warn WB Games not to launch Lord of the Rings: War in the North 10 days before Skyrim, but was 'overruled'
- We've been tracking graphics card prices for exactly one year and it's never been worse than this
- Arc Raiders' next major update will present players with a 'new high-level challenge' with a frozen map and arcs which will 'challenge the ways you've learned to move'
- 'To own a Razer Artisan Keycap is to display one’s allegiance, a mark of belonging within the Cult of Razer' says the PR nonsense behind this $90 coil of snakes
- The Epic Games Launcher will be available on Linux 'soon' says dev, after it's had a bit of work
- Palworld fans 'do not realize the sheer number of collabs we've rejected' even with the survival game's 'fun-first approach'
- After a public scrap between CEO and former writer, Saber Interactive finally adds AI disclaimer to Steam page and doubles down: 'AI can and should help shape gamer experiences'
- Microsoft's blobby AI companion has begun his ascent to the heavens to join Clippy and Cortana. Okay, he's being booted to another platform
- Come September, you won't need a single Total War: Warhammer game to play its colossal, trilogy-spanning Immortal Empires campaign
August 13
- Shoutout to this particular skeleton, who researchers believe is the first confirmed case of being totally obliterated by a trebuchet
- Nightdive's System Shock remake is coming to VR
- This spy game is a dream come true if you love spending time in character creators
- The 'father of Master Chief' doesn't like the new Halo's new halos
- Netflix closes Oxenfree developer Night School, just a month after praising its new game as one of the company's 'most successful cloud game debuts'
- The Lords of the End Times are landing in Total War: Warhammer 3 on September 24, and everything's coming up rat men
- Beast of Reincarnation director apologizes for not providing 'a sufficiently enjoyable experience,' but promises Game Freak is working on it
- A redditor is making super-fancy marble Steam Machine faceplates, *allegedly* sourced from the same quarry as Michelangelo
- Is it a bird? Is it a plane? No, it's the Steam Boy, a Steam Deck crammed inside a Game Boy-like chassis
- Stop Killing Games has joined a lawsuit against Sony's move to digital-only sales: 'You won't have any choice at all'
- OLED monitors more popular than ever says analyst firm, which makes sense as one of the few good deals left in PC gaming
- Redditor buys what looks to be a prototype Xbox Elite Series 3 controller, posts about it on Reddit, then the thread goes dark
- Videogame lawyer says it's become 'just boilerplate' this year to include no-AI clauses in contracts: 'It's not worth the legal liability'
- Update: Saber CEO apologizes to fired writer for insulting comments to press
- Big Walk devs talk the Australian bush and friendslop: 'I'd prefer the second word wasn't slop'
August 12
- Take-Two won't reveal raw GTA 6 preorder numbers because it doesn't know what they mean: 'It's just never happened before'
- Twitch under fire for new gen AI training system that harvests streamer data for Amazon, says it's on by default because 'if it was opt-in, nobody would opt in'
- Helldivers 2 borrows from Dead Space and Silent Hill for its horrific new aliens
- Immortality creator Sam Barlow reveals his next game: A 'sci-fi horror' collaboration with Brandon Cronenberg
- CD Projekt cuts more than 20% of The Witcher spinoff development team 'to reflect the project's needs at this stage of development'
- It looks like Windows updates might actually be speeding up the OS now
- Amazon drops Lost Ark and Throne and Liberty
- Dawn of War 4 has been delayed: 'We saw an opportunity to further enhance Dawn of War 4 and deliver the quality of experience we've always envisioned'
- Someone hooked an RX 9070 XT up to their Steam Machine and it works surprisingly well, like fitting a V8 engine into your Honda Civic
- You can now cuddle Helldivers 2's beloved SEAF troopers, though maybe don't do what I did and try it when a Crusher's standing next to you
- Sony has 'zero understanding for what their customers want' says gaming preservation group
- Nvidia reckons new $500 billion investment should allay fears AI companies are just funded by the same pot of cash moving around in one big circle. Reassured yet?
- Crimson Desert has done so well it'll be getting a DLC this year, with more details coming sooner than I expected given Pearl Abyss' breakneck pace
- Marvel Tōkon's first big PC patch has mostly fixed performance woes, though it hasn't done much for its Steam reviews
- Micron's top brass wins the memory crisis corpo double speak award: 'We do not have line of sight as to when that supply vector will intersect the demand vector'
- Welcome to the internet in 2026, where AI agents are both victim and attacker in malware wars
- After giving it 2 patches and dropping it like a stone, Bethesda promises to bring Switch 2 optimisations to Oblivion Remastered on other platforms
- Lego shut down a Bionicle fangame 8 years in the making—1 year later, its developers are back with something legally distinct and arguably cooler
- Harry Potter nerds reportedly forced an undersea cable to be moved to avoid Dobby the house elf's grave, now runs close to Bronze Age remains instead
- Phantom Blade Zero just dropped a huge secret: Hong Kong legend Donnie Yen has been guiding its kungfupunk stunts since 2023
- This week's most compelling new Steam game is Horse Magnifier, which is about magnifying horses
- Xbox's CEO teased that she's seen The Elder Scrolls 6, so now we have to guess what it's called
August 11
- Saber Interactive denies replacing writer with ChatGPT on its new driving game, but says it will use AI for dialog 'as the number of passengers in the game is infinite'
- Hardcore FPS immediately becomes Steam top seller as devs list '10 reasons not to buy' it
- A long-lost Lord of the Rings action RPG makes a surprise return to Steam
- Saber CEO hides jab at Randy Pitchford in game trailer as payback for Pitchford dumping on Embracer: 'Without Embracer, Randy is performing magic tricks at birthday parties for a living'
- In a fascinating use of free will, Old School RuneScape player spent 4,304 hours catching 275,196 shrimp and 257,064 anchovies to max out his fishing skill in the worst way possible
- Mark Zuckerberg's rambling AI manifesto is 6,434 words of high-handed platitudes and dubious conclusions
- These could be the first leaked images of the new Logitech Superstrike, which looks rather dashing in all-black
- It's time to update Asus Armoury Crate and several other Asus software tools again, as another high severity security vulnerability has been discovered
- GTA 6 might not technically be $100, but it's had its cake and ate it too as pre-orders are 'skewing more to the premium edition'
- 3 months after the release of Directive 8020, Supermassive Games is laying off even more people
- Yet another sign the Steam Frame is approaching launch—maybe really for real this time?—as the SteamOS beta adds 'preliminary support' for its wireless adapter
- MMO heads rejoice, Razer is bringing out the Naga V3 Pro with upgraded switches, loads of customizability and a ridiculous DPI
- Thief designer says that the immersive sim audience is too small for AAA games: 'There's quite a few of us who think the way to do it is be III or AA'
- After 10 years, Terraria's biggest mod shuts down due to an 'irrecoverably tainted reputation' and grooming allegations
- As if PCs weren't expensive enough already, Microsoft is reportedly now charging OEMs more for Windows licenses
- Firefox stunts on Edge as Microsoft gears up to neuter adblockers: 'uBlock Origin isn't going anywhere'
- A researcher says 'we just undid about 20 years of progress' when it comes to memory prices, so I broke out my calculator and compared actual RAM kits from 2007 to 2026
- The Simpsons is back in Fortnite, bringing 'one of the best' seasons to Reload
- Big Walk has sold 1 million copies, making it a bigger hit than Untitled Goose Game
- Fans spent 3 years secretly crafting a full Metroid Prime 2D demake, and it rocks
August 10
- Halloween: The Game is banned in Australia because incentivized drug use is bad but incentivized ultra-violence isn't
- The vibey offroading game with more than a million Steam wishlists has a release date
- id Software dev says mass layoffs like Microsoft's are weakening the games industry, because developers 'don't have the incentive to care anymore'
- 50 Cent is producing a Payday project for 'the screen'
- Grand Theft Auto 5 averages more copies sold per year than most megahits manage in their entire lifetime, with a total of 230 million since 2013
- Battlefield 6 player claims to have received Steam refund after 470 hours due to surprise mode removal
- 'Thank you so much for the best weekend ever': The id Software gang got together at QuakeCon, and it sure looks like everyone had a great time
- Overwatch's old battle passes are finally coming back permanently starting next month, but some of the rewards will be left out
- There was originally supposed to be a 'much bigger' reveal of Light No Fire: here's why Sean Murray changed his mind
- Steam user data 'may have been compromised' by a cyberattack targeting Valve's European shipping partner
- Payday has come to Fortnite, because today's cool gamers are 'discovering legendary IPs in entirely new ways'
- Persona big boss says 'I think we have to do' remakes of the series' most-neglected games
- The Steam Machine design makes for a frightfully good tissue box, and now you can 3D print your own
- Keychron is experimenting with a mic-equipped mini keeb that lets you chat to your AI agent while it vibe codes, and I have my head in my hands
- The 'world's first' water-cooled Steam Machine is a Frankenstein's monster of neon pink tubing and external hardware
- Square Enix's 88% profit-bump financial report gives me hope for FF14, suggesting the MMO's finally not having to carry the company for once
- Corsair isn't rolling in money from its mega-expensive RAM kits—and it's all thanks to higher component costs and lower demand
- Sean Murray still loves playing the 2016 version of No Man's Sky: 'It's a little bit weirder, but it's got its charm'
- Light No Fire will 'absolutely' be like No Man's Sky, with new features coming post-release: Sean Murray says he'd like to still be working on it '10 years after launch'
- Dev at id Software says Microsoft 'burned a lot of bridges' in the industry: 'They fundamentally don't understand art, they don't understand games'
- Marvel Rivals hits the Ozempic, comes back 40 GB lighter
- Valve has added 'initial' SteamOS gamepad support for several new gaming handhelds, including the MSI Claw 8 EX AI+
- Australians must now prove their age to buy R18+ games on the Xbox store
- Free-to-play Division game launches on Steam to mixed reviews: 'Calling it slop disrespects actual slop'
August 9
- The designer of Diamond City, Little Lamplight, and Starfield's Neon thinks Bethesda's galaxy was just too big: 'I would have done a handful of planets with bespoke layouts'
- Lies of P studio reveals name change and hypes up sequel: 'My goal has been to create the world's greatest action game.'
- The last season of Netflix's Witcher show has reportedly been delayed
- Blizzard is now reportedly Microsoft's top studio, according to leaked email
- Cancelled Quake 4 expansion gets surprise GitHub release after former XCOM 2 developer discovers it on an old hard drive: 'This essentially saved my life'
- Roblox shares plummet by 70% after the company reports persistent decline in player numbers, and of course the solution involves AI
- Lae'zel actor Devora Wilde didn't know she was in Space Marine 2 until players told her
- Warhammer 40,000: Battlesector has a roadmap of upcoming additions, including a new narrative DLC
- The GTA 3D trilogy fanpatch has its biggest update, with over 100 new fixes including restored dialogue for San Andreas
August 8
- id co-founder John Carmack revisits Doom at QuakeCon: 'Still a great game after all these years!'
- Bethesda 40th anniversary sale knocks 50% off Doom: The Dark Ages - Revelations just a month after launch
- The indie parkour game from one of the French brothers behind 2024's best FPS is coming out in just two weeks
- Forget Quake, Worms: The Director's Cut just got a free expansion for the series' 30th anniversary
- Blocky zombie survival sim Unturned releases its source code so players can build a 'lasting legacy' for the game 'regardless of the changes we make'
- God of War TV series sees further recasts as Amazon seeks older actors for Atreus and Thrud
- Tencent's cyberpunk rival to Grand Theft Auto is in trouble as its developer lays off 80 people
August 7
- FromSoftware sleuth unearths earliest footage of Demon's Souls to date: A prototype with a first person camera mode
- BioWare veteran says Baldur's Gate 3 was such a great sequel because it didn't try to be too much like Baldur's Gate 2
- Even with an $80 price tag, 'Grand Theft Auto 6 will be an incredible bargain,' Take-Two boss says
- Take-Two CEO says he expects the games industry to be in 'commercial streaming mode within 3 years,' which is great news if you hate owning things
- The latest Expeditions game launches into early access today, and I can't think of a better setting for the series than feudal Japan
- Big Walk patch addresses voice volume complaints with restraint: 'We consider it an important part of the game's design that you can only hear players who are close to you'
- Japan has reportedly asked the US to stop using Mario, Pokemon, and others in social media posts
- Take-Two boss dismisses hand-wringing over the end of disc-based games: 'Our business is well over 90% digitally distributed as it is'
- Overwatch's new mech hero is the sword-and-board sequel to D.Va, except her code isn't 'a plate of spaghetti' under the hood
- Launch day performance issues and forced logins take another victim: Marvel Tōkon: Fighting Souls sees mixed Steam rating, especially among Linux users
- The humble Wii Nunchuck has been turned into a video editing tool because it's 'one of the most ergonomic things ever made'
- ChatTJB is a fake chatbot where a guy called Tucker Bryant answers queries himself: 'I tend to overcommit to bits'
- WoW's changing how world bosses work because they've 'really been a little bit lackluster' in recent years, says dev
- 'They call us old stupid farmers, you know, but we’re not': Family declines $26 million offer to convert their farmland into an AI data center
- If your AMD chipset drivers are mysteriously failing to install like mine, you'll need to manually update instead
- Sam Neill will reportedly star in the forthcoming The Legend of Zelda film
- Following its excellent Lord of the Rings cards, Magic: The Gathering's new Hobbit set is a bit of a second breakfast
- Trent Reznor on Doom: 'In some ways I felt a parallel with what I was trying to do with music'
August 6
- 30 years after it 'ruined id Software,' Quake gets another big update while the studio once again grapples with adversity
- Devolver Digital wants to get off the stock market, because 'the ongoing challenge of delivering growth in line with market expectations' just isn't worth the headaches
- Diablo 4's newest class barely made a splash with Lord of Hatred, but it's shaping up to be king of the next season
- Capcom says it wants Monster Hunter Wilds to outsell World 'over the medium to long term,' but it'll need to muster a lot of sales momentum to get there
- Couple's dispute over playing Slay the Spire 2 in bed gets a ruling from comedian John Hodgman: 'Pick an arbitrary battle and stick with it'
- John Romero says id Software once sold empty Doom boxes to Taiwanese pirates so fans there could have legit copies: 'For us, it was distribution'
- Ghost Recon marks 25 years with a major update and free new missions for Wildlands, and a Ghost Recon: Future Soldier giveaway
- New Kingdom Come trademark filings mention 'online' virtual worlds—but we shouldn't assume Warhorse is making a multiplayer game just yet
- It is genuinely cheaper for me to fly to QuakeCon and buy a RTX 5090 at the Nvidia booth than pick up the GPU absolutely anywhere else
- Larian gets briefly kicked off YouTube, TikTok for demonic smut reasons in Baldur's Gate 3
- The first GTA 6 gameplay reveal will debut on Netflix later this month, as the streaming service tries yet again to get a piece of that videogame pie
- 'Slightly ugly, and insanely functional': Check out this custom Steam Machine faceplate that doubles as a charging stand
- Valve explains clever shortcut for the Steam Controller's Grip Sense, and I'm starting to think it's a killer feature
- Onimusha: Way of the Sword's incredible sword-fighting secret sauce explained: 'We really wanted to focus on creating this very realistic, grounded sword action'
- Microsoft quietly deletes 32 GB RAM recommendation, which I'm sure has nothing to do with it bringing back 8 GB laptops
- Grab shopkeeper-dungeoncrawler Moonlighter free on Steam for a limited time
- Former Bethesda lead artist is looking forward to Fallout 3's remaster because the game they released was '100% not what we intended, and it was very, very constrained'
August 5
- Kingdom Come: Deliverance star is opening a real 'medieval-inspired bar' in Prague
- The guy in charge of EA Sports is now in charge of EA everything
- Path of Exile devs are planning 'an extreme shakeup' in the next major update to address concerns over its stale endgame and lack of exciting loot drops
- Destiny 2 players are learning how to crack into its infamous content vault by tinkering with old game builds
- You should really get Ace Combat 7 while it's 80% off on Steam, because AC8 might be one of the year's best games
- Fields of Mistria officially becomes the best farm sim since Stardew Valley with its 1.0 update today
- Black Library veteran Toby Longworth gives us his tips for voicing the perfect Space Marine
- Something big is coming to Helldivers 2 next week: Squid is back on the menu
- 'Sorry about this!' Big Walk is already fixing its biggest complaint
- Grand Theft Auto 6 publisher is holding an investors call at a very unusual time this week
- Marvel Rivals is gearing up for season 9.5 with major Vanguard adjustments alongside a teaser for its next hero, The Hood
- Chinese memory maker CXMT mops up even more market share away from the likes of Samsung, SK hynix, and Micron, giving me hope that competition is the way out of the memory crisis
- Assassin's Creed Valhalla director comes back to Ubisoft to be game director for the entire brand
- We asked the voice of Eisenhorn, Gaunt, and Garro in Warhammer 40k who his favorite character to play is
- Pulsar to study how we all use our gaming mice to make them better, offering prizes to those who help them build the mouse of the future
- The actors behind Leon Kennedy and Grace Ashcroft will take to the stage for the Future Games Show at Gamescom this month
- 'AI PCs will become more important': AMD's Lisa Su remains optimistic about the market despite runaway pricing caused by *checks notes* the AI industry
- Saudi-acquired EA is reportedly planning to make massive cuts after taking $18 billion of debt, and we all know what that means
- EA has fixed a niche Battlefield 6 issue where some Nvidia GPUs were crashing while changing attachments or 'playing on maps with large bodies of water'
- AMD made over 8 times as much revenue on data centers as it did gaming last quarter
- WoW will let some WeakAura-style mods function in its next major patch, as the war on combat AddOns turns into more of a truce
- A special weapon was forged to create Onimusha: Way of the Sword's brutal blade sound effects: 'We wanted that very raw, kind of rough feel'
- AI worms? In your Copilot PC? According to this AI researcher, it's more likely than you think
- Chinese RAM is reportedly landing in laptops from HP, Asus and Acer but it won't change the memory crisis overnight
- Steam's Cyberpunk Fest means big savings on games about high-tech lowlifes
- Warhammer 40,000: Dark Heresy will let us recruit a space elf pirate and one of the holy psychics whose lives are nasty, brutish, and short
August 4
- Director Eli Roth seems to think the Borderlands movie sucked too: 'You got something that belonged to nobody'
- The deal is done: Electronic Arts is now officially owned by Saudi Arabia
- 'I was this close': Teenage dev's $200 joke game made nearly $1.4 million on Steam before the refunds came flooding in
- Deadlock's new ranked mode is driving players mad as they try to escape the casual modes and climb back to where they were
- Statistically, your PC probably doesn't come close to the recommended RAM requirement for this third-person shooter's upcoming playtest
- Rockstar's great Midnight Club racing series was killed off for one simple reason, and you can probably guess what it was
- Larian drops new Baldur's Gate 3 stats and you're all monsters: More non-Durge players killed Alfira than Durge and, worst of all, 9,000 people played on portrait monitors
- Okay, this time it seems like Valve has *actually* fixed Steam's local game transfer problem
- I desperately need this TTRPG to become a videogame—it's one of the coolest things I've ever seen
- Endless Legend 2 is escaping early access in September and adding new major, minor and rogue factions
- NAND and HBM have been merged into a dorky megazord for datacenters by Sandisk and SK hynix
- SpaceXAI pats itself on the back for removing temporary turbines in Memphis under agreed order over the next year: "We care deeply about being good neighbors"
- Resident Evil Veronica hits 2 million wishlists to absolutely no one's surprise—come on, it's got the RE2 and RE4 remake team working on it
- OpenAI calls out Apple's 'careless, aggressive and oddly personal lawsuit' in latest blog post
- Our long Caribbean nightmare is over: You can hide the blow pipe in Assassin's Creed Black Flag Resynced now
- Gamers report a BIOS update is bricking their Legion Go handhelds, and Lenovo is quoting over $250 to fix the issue outside of warranty
- Stellar Blade boss completely misses the point of why people are upset with Blood Rain's AI slop video: 'The AI is not creating [Evie] from scratch'
- Gigabyte is launching B550 AM4 motherboards and recommending four-year-old CPUs because the memory crisis is really that bad
- Onimusha: Way of the Sword's bad guy has 'an edge of eroticism', confirms Capcom dev—he's 'very alluring in the way that he moves'
- Arctic announces price rollback thanks to a US gov tariff refund, which will continue until 'every single dollar Arctic received… has been paid back to our customers'
- I tried the 'stress test your GPU hopes you never run' and it made my main gaming rig look like a chump
August 3
- Henry Cavill confirms he'll star in the live action Warhammer 40K series written by Mike Flanagan, but his character 'shall remain a secret for now'
- Dave Bautista reportedly 'in talks' to take over the role of Kratos in Amazon's God of War series
- The original ethernet cable was canonically '1968 Corvette yellow' to distinguish it from a power cable—because you literally had to drill into it to install it
- 'Wait for me, my Czech friend': Japanese dev adds Czech localization just for the one Steam user who wishlisted his game in the Czech Republic
- 'I would die': Obsession star Inde Navarrette would love a role in Resident Evil
- Microsoft is planning to bring Xbox 360 games to PC, according to leaked documents
- MacBook Neo outperforms Dell XPS 13 in Cyberpunk 2077 benchmark—though I wouldn't recommend gaming on either notebook
- MSI unveils its first 4K OLED monitor using a promising inkjet-printed panel, and it's not made by Samsung or LG
- Dragon's Dogma 2 will be getting an endgame hard mode difficulty in the future 'for seasoned players'
- Valve may be putting the finishing touches to the Steam Frame software stack, because Lepton and FEX are now on Steam
- Noctua shows off 'custom-built torture-test rigs' for testing fans, and now I'm afraid of ever setting foot in the Noctua factory
- 'Deck de France' is a new free software that can turn your bike trainer into a controller for your Steam Deck
- Microsoft raises prices of Xbox by 25% to 30% in Europe with the Series S now costing more than the Series X at launch
- FF7 Remake director had to tell his team to 'be reasonable' because they got too excited about the FF14 crossover: 'That would be putting the cart before the horse'
- OEM Steam Deck LCD batteries are back in stock on iFixIt, but now cost $130 for just the part
- Company that said it could scan and destroy books for AI data-harvesting has deleted that part of its website: 'no such service was ever brought to life'
August 2
- Owlcat co-founder says the studio won't turn its back on hardcore RPGs as it hits 600 employees and preps its own Mass Effect killer
- American Truck Simulator is headed to North Dakota in its latest DLC
- Champion modder ports the OG 'Father' Nier back into the PC remaster, original voiceovers and all
- Baldur's Gate 3 is the cheapest it's ever been to celebrate its third anniversary
- Perennial early access game Project Zomboid hit a new concurrent player record after a huge map update added reworked towns, a spooky orphanage and '400 procedural basements'
- Space Marine 2's latest updates add Terminator Sorcerers and Steam Workshop support, so you can now play co-op with 9 other players if you want
- I enjoyed this video of Oblivion Remastered actor Wes Johnson goofing around in a sound booth dressed as Sheogorath, but a patch for the PC version would be nice too, Bethesda
- The maker of the Baldur's Gate 3 over-the-shoulder camera mod has gone to great lengths to demonstrate it's not like other third-person viewpoint solutions
August 1
- Developer of 'Spanking Exorcist' game held up by Steam content moderation releases free 'apology game' where you spank him as punishment: 'We would be delighted if you enjoy it'
- Dead Cells studio thanks Guillermo del Toro for playing its game, gently suggests he try the easy mode
- The voice of Shinji in Evangelion says AI voice cloning is 'heartbreaking,' calls for Japanese government to intervene
- Former Sony exec Shuhei Yoshida is 'a huge fan' of Bloodborne, says it's 'a complete mystery' why it was never put on PC
- OpenAI CEO suggests parents make AI-generated podcasts to remember their children's lives for them
- Crimson Desert adds 133 new trading posts and overhauls the in-game economy with supply and demand
- The games industry's 'fear of risk is currently the largest risk it faces' according to Nuclear Throne's producer
- Dragon Age's former producer had envisioned a 'Champions Edition' equivalent to Mass Effect's Legendary Edition, but he doesn't think it will happen anymore: 'There are basically no companies that could help you'
- I was excited for this Quake port of Half-Life until I discovered the creator's wild AI conspiracy theories