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- August 17
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- Rainbow Six Siege X is going absolutely bananas with laser tripwires next season
- Fighting games continue to hold the title for coolest videogame soundtracks of all time
- Homeworld 3 developer acquires the rights to its superior previous game about salvaging spaceships, with 'multiple' new projects in the works
- 1930s media mogul sim News Tower leaves early access in November, letting you build your journalism empire on the shoulders of the Mafia
- SnowRunner dev's latest vehicle sim lets you channel your inner Frank Sobotka by managing a struggling port
- Starship Troopers: Extermination implements a 'total overhaul' to its spawning system, adding a Left 4 Dead style AI director: 'We realized that our original spawning system, while functional, was starting to show its limit'
- The First Descendant is using AI ads with weird digital clones of actual streamers
- Today's Wordle clues, hints and answer for August 17 (#1520)
- Dawn of War: Definitive Edition sold 150,000 copies in its first day
- August 16
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- Former BioWare producer Mark Darrah thinks the studio failed to 'prepare' fans for how different Dragon Age 2 was: 'People look at it and they're like, well this sure isn't Dragon Age: Origins 2, which it isn't'
- I played this free, 15-minute claymation horror game about examining an ancient idol in the morning while the birds were chirping, and it still scared me more than anything I've played in years
- Sea of Thieves' latest update slips The Smugglers' League in through the back door, offering high-risk, high-reward voyages for the most daring pirates
- Get $170 worth of RPG books for $15 with the Witcher's TTRPG bundle
- The sequel to Half-Life modding classic Pirates, Vikings & Knights quietly hit 1.0 after nearly 18 years of development: 'It's been over 6,500 days since PVK2 was unleashed'
- As the legal debate between Subnautica 2's publisher and former studio execs rages, the original game and its spinoff quietly receive small patches and big discounts
- Today's Wordle clues, hints and answer for August 16 (#1519)
- On his 75th birthday, Apple legend Steve Wozniak pops up in a comment thread about his 'bad decision' to sell his stock in the '80s with a devastatingly zen reply: 'I gave all my Apple wealth away because wealth and power are not what I live for'
- August 15
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- Partying with Hololive vtubers is finally possible with an app that is basically VRChat for fans of anime girl streamers
- 'The Day Before 2?': Everyone is skeptical about this survival game promising a map five times the size of DayZ and 5,000 players per server
- Robocop: Rogue City, which I admit I was completely wrong about, is just $5 in the Humble Store Summer Sale
- 'It is straight up junk': Fan favorite mode Rush is going down like a lead balloon in the Battlefield 6 beta
- Louisiana sues Roblox over child safety concerns: 'It's basically open season for sex predators on this platform'
- Battlefield 6 and Valorant's invasive anti-cheats are locked in a turf war
- I had low expectations for this upcoming FMV 'interactive horror' game, but its hour-long demo turned out to be one of the most entertaining things I've played all year
- Bongo Cat, still one of the biggest games on Steam, gets even bigger with multiplayer: You can now have up to 100 cats on your screen at once, all of them happily bapping away as their owners type
- 'Veilguard is 4 games stitched together', says ex-BioWare lead Mark Darrah, and it might've been better to 'shut the project down completely' around 2017
- If you were ever worried about a machine uprising, check out the World Humanoid Robot Games and have a giggle with me
- Wuchang: Fallen Feathers patch messes the game's story all up, renders bosses technically unkillable, and it's all the Qing Dynasty's fault, apparently
- WoW players are losing their minds over a 19-quest long chain about bees, and while it is a bit much, I remember far worse
- Borderlands 4 has 'more passive perks than all the previous Borderlands combined'—uh, is that a good thing?
- Biwin has announced a teeny-tiny new type of SSD with shock and water resistance built-in, but it might be a while before you see one in your next mobile device
- Valve says Steam's performance monitor should now report GPU utilisation more accurately than Task Manager in the latest beta, and as a nerd, this pleases me in ways I can't describe
- Synth YouTuber releases twin-stick shooter with interactive soundtrack using moddable synthesizer weapon based on real kit
- Razer's esports keyboard goes low-profile with its latest Blackwidow V4
- After more than a year of waiting, Jurassic Park: Survival gives us a tiny gameplay tease in a fluffy behind-the-scenes video
- Samsung cuts back on traditional foundry costs as it leans into HBM for AI computing
- Intel engineer reassures gamers the company is 'still 100% vested in APO and in growing the capabilities of the technology' though not on older chips
- I think I've found the actual best gun in the Battlefield 6 beta, and it's not the M87A1
- Talks are reportedly underway for the US Gov. to take a stake in Intel, and its share price has already jumped 7% in response
- AMD made major gains on Intel in the desktop CPU market over the last year, but still lags significantly behind in mobile, according to a Mercury Research report
- Today's Wordle clues, hints and answer for August 15 (#1518)
- Subscription services like Xbox Game Pass turn developers into 'wage slaves', says former PlayStation boss
- August 14
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- New report suggests that there are 3 million fewer PC gamers in Japan than 10 years ago, despite the market having at least tripled in size
- Steam store pages just got thicker than Emma Frost's thighs
- Someone at Blizzard might've accidentally revealed Diablo 4's new class, which fans have been begging for since release
- After adding yet another tiny map, Battlefield 6 players are rightfully clowning on its definition of 'all-out warfare'
- Roblox explains crackdown on 'vigilantes' after ban of a popular YouTuber sparks furor: 'They are acting in ways that could be harmful to others, both on and off our platform'
- A game was unintentionally listed as 'Sh***y Dungeon' on Steam in Japan thanks to goofed-up machine translation
- Meta's AI rules permitted 'sensual' chats with kids until a journalist got ahold of the document and asked what was up with that
- Rematch's latest update aims to fix 'major netcode releases' including missed tackles and false goals, crossplay will 'hopefully' go live by the end of August
- Viva Las Vegas! We're getting a Fallout Season 2 teaser at Gamescom
- The new HyperX SoloCast 2 looks like a return to gaming microphone simplicity, whereas its bigger brother is covered in all the bells and whistles you could think of
- Marvel Rivals director says its 'gooner game' reputation really just reflects a commitment to authenticity: 'These all come from classic comic designs'
- HyperX just updated one of our favorite wireless gaming headsets with a new RGB base station... and slightly worse battery life
- HP announces an updated set of Omen Max 45L RTX 5090 rigs with Ryzen CPUs, but no word on price yet leaves me worried
- Samsung has announced the world's first 500 Hz OLED monitor, but it's the new 5K2K panel that's got my wallet twitching
- Randy Pitchford says Borderlands 4's story is inspired by the sale of Gearbox, then glazes over and says it's about where we as individuals want to be on the spectrum of anarchy to fascism
- This is not an Xbox 360, it's a gaming PC in disguise
- I hope you've been sharing your Battlefield 6 clips to social media, because we're only 8% of the way through the $1 trillion destruction challenge and the clock's ticking
- We're joining Frosthaven's party to give you a chance at winning a gaming laptop, a game key, and some swag to boot
- White House says it's still working on the 'legality' of 15% China tax for Nvidia and AMD GPU sales as it threatens similar deals with other companies
- Konami fumbles the ball ahead of MGS Delta's release, says the Fox Hunt multiplayer mode won't have crossplay with zero explanation
- Razer claims optical gaming keyboards are more precise than Hall effect ones because magnets are 'hard to control'
- Borderlands 4 has, like, so many guns, 30 billion guns, so many they had to put 'em on a 'wall of guns' like the Matrix, say devs
- A 'massive and unpredictable presence of jellyfish' has partially shut down one of Europe's biggest nuclear power plants with four out of six of its reactors taken offline
- Microsoft's vision for the next version of Windows is an all-seeing, voice-controlled chatbot that gives you productivity 'superpowers'
- WoW's Legion Remix won't make you choose between transmogs and gear—adds harder world content, Mythic+ style dungeons, and enough cool stuff to make me almost forget about Mage Tower
- He once said playing Metal Gear Solid 5 would be '60 hours of humiliation,' but Snake actor David Hayter finally played the game: 'All is forgiven'
- 'Just a tap water, please': Starbucks Korea asks customers to stop bringing desktop PCs, printers, and pop-up dividers into its coffee shops for a cheeky work session
- The Battlefield 6 beta probably is running worse for you this time around: 'We'll follow up with additional updates as soon as possible'
- OneXPlayer is releasing an ROG Flow Z13 competitor with its own massive gaming tablet powered by an AMD Ryzen AI Max+ 395
- Dreaming of an Nvidia Steam Deck? This modder converted an RTX 4090 laptop GPU into 4K 'portable' handheld gaming PC
- The pro AI UK government has advised citizens to 'Delete old emails and pictures as data centres require vast amounts of water to cool their systems' to help reduce water consumption during national drought
- Windows on Arm gamers will be able to download Xbox app games locally but cloud gaming might still be a better option
- PC Gamer magazine's new issue is on sale now: Metal Gear Solid Delta: Snake Eater, with Top 100 mini mag + A1 poster
- Today's Wordle clues, hints and answer for August 14 (#1517)
- Steam and GOG are having an isometric games sale with discounts on enough CRPGs to fill your entire inventory
- August 13
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- This game about channel surfing surreal alien broadcasts used to be exclusive to a 1-bit console with a crank—but now it's coming to Steam
- Pity poor Capcom: Monster Hunter Wilds' latest patch introduced a new crash bug, developers are working on it and 'will provide further updates when we have them'
- In what was likely a karmic inevitability, Palworld now has its own shameless imitator on the Switch
- If this beta is any indication, Battlefield 6 isn't all that serious about supporting closed weapons
- I think Dungeons and Dragons peaked in 1982 and that's why I can't wait to play this 'hand-drawn black and white dungeon crawler' coming next year
- 'This year seems shakier than ever,' BioWare veteran Mark Darrah says, and live service games are a big part of the reason—but Grand Theft Auto 6 might force the industry to change
- Steam payment headaches grow as PayPal is no longer usable for much of the world: Valve hopes to bring it back in the future, 'but the timeline is uncertain'
- My most anticipated fantasy tabletop RPG of 2025 is available now, and it's got a free demo in the form of a gorgeous interactive comic
- Team Fortress 2 player cooks themselves by destroying a Golden Frying Pan worth $6,800—for the second time
- Stalker 2 says to hell with it, let's just update our entire Unreal Engine implementation in new roadmap for the rest of the year
- The Framework Desktop's small footprint is deceptively cute, as it's actually sequestering serious compute power that makes it the best mini AI PC
- Cyberpower begins selling desktop PCs with carbon nanotube CPU cooling, possibly spelling the end of thermal paste catastrophes
- Former DayZ lead thinks survival games should let players tinker with every variable: 'Here's the keys. Have fun'
- Baldur's Gate 3's Neil Newbon wants to reprise his role, but when people say 'this character's just like Astarion, would you like to play them?' he's 'like not really, no'
- The Esports World Cup has marked one of Tekken's fiercest rivalries with a weirdly sticky poster
- 'You've got basically one AI playing in the mind of another AI': Google DeepMind CEO Demis Hassabis explains how AI is coming full circle back to gaming
- Things I have (sort of) learned: Audio fades are one of the most CPU-intensive tasks you can possibly do, and my maths is too awful to properly explain why
- Final Fantasy 14 wins my personal award for the Most Specific Bug Fix in a MMO 2025, and I'm astonished anyone even found it in the first place
- Crimson Desert is being 'unavoidably delayed' for a second time, now set to release in early 2026
- Controversial AI outfit Perplexity puts in speculative $34.5 billion bid for the Chrome browser, but Google never said it was selling
- Monster Hunter Wilds director wants to reduce the game's strain on your CPU, but is worried about its impact on overall performance: 'We plan to proceed with caution'
- Between pained cries, the YouTuber who made this 'neuromuscular aim assist' that shocks his muscles for fast Counter-Strike 2 reactions insists it's 'not cheats'
- The Battlefield 6 beta returns with yet another close-quarters map and two iconic modes for a four-day Weekend 2 trial, so I know what I'll be playing
- Elden Ring Nightreign's next Everdark Sovereign is the GOAT. No, literally.
- When CEO Lisa Su is finished making AMD the default choice for GPUs, she wants to use AI to help fix the 'travesty' that is modern healthcare
- Assassin's Creed devs say they'll be getting around to the whole Assassins vs Templars and modern setting stuff 'at some point, in some fashion'
- Scrubby is a top robot. Scrubby scrubs whiteboards. Scrubby un-scrubs whiteboards. Scrubby sleeps to scrub again
- GameSir's G7 Pro has removable faceplates, TMR sticks, and 1000 Hz polling rate for under $80
- Today's Wordle clues, hints and answer for August 13 (#1516)
- The sequel to the best high-end Hall effect controller just dropped with Razer's esports focussed Wolverine V3 Pro 8k PC
- This retro-styled programmable high-polling wireless mouse comes with a charging dock for under $60 USD
- August 12
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- Elon Musk and Sam Altman deploy each other's chatbots as proxies in public slapfight
- Take-Two boss is really very confident that Grand Theft Auto 6 won't be delayed again: 'My level of conviction is very, very high'
- Arkane employees demand Microsoft sever ties with Israeli military: 'We don’t want to be part of this sinister project for Gaza'
- Battlefield 6 lead producer says 'large maps exist,' confirming the full game will offer bigger battles than the beta's cramped, chaotic firefights
- Krafton fires back at Unknown Worlds lawsuit, says Subnautica 2 was at risk of causing 'irreversible harm to the entire franchise' like Kerbal Space Program 2
- Remedy is 'unsatisfied' by poor sales of FBC: Firebreak and a tiny PC playerbase, but says 'despite the rocky launch, we believe we have a solid game to build on'
- Fae Farm announces the looming end of online play on Steam, and disappears entirely from Epic, but Phoenix Labs is still around
- If you felt way too killable in the first Battlefield 6 beta weekend, you might not have imagined it: BF6 devs are investigating reports of instakill 'super bullets'
- You might not have heard of Biwin but it's made the best value PCIe 4.0 SSD we've tested in some time
- 'Eager to move on from failure': Ex-producer Mark Darrah thinks BioWare suffered spinning plates for EA, starving itself for talent as it ate itself alive: 'We weren't getting the people'
- Samsung's new Micro RGB tech is confusingly still an LCD panel with a backlight, but it could have the most precise local dimming yet
- Marvel Rivals' bloated DPS roster won't be solved 'overnight', creative director says: 'The heroes we are currently deciding on are for a release slot next year'
- Still using WinRAR? It might be time for an update, as a zero-day vulnerability is being 'exploited in the wild in the guise of job application documents'
- Former Google exec says AI's going to lead to a 'short-term dystopia' because the idea it will create new jobs for the ones it's replacing is '100% crap'
- The first RX 9060 benchmarks show the non-XT AMD GPU going toe to toe with the RTX 5060
- I had no idea it was possible to create a working floppy disk from scratch, and neither did this YouTuber until they broke out their engineering chops
- League of Legends is getting its first major control scheme change in 16 years: the option to use WASD to 'get new players to the fun parts of League faster and with less friction'
- OpenAI's performance charts in the GPT-5 launch video are such a mess you have to think GPT-5 itself probably made them, and the company's attempted fixes raise even more questions
- Former BioWare exec Mark Darrah says the team working on the new Mass Effect game should 'scapegoat Veilguard as much as they need to to get what they need'
- Helldivers 2's newest trailer basically confirms a Halo 3: ODST crossover with a melancholy saxophone
- RTX 5090 prices are so ludicrous that Alienware gaming PCs actually feel, dare I say, reasonable
- Trump says Nvidia's 'super-duper advanced' Blackwell AI chips might be part of future China deals as long as they're 'somewhat enhanced, in a negative way'
- 'I don't know what it means to have a Manhattan Project for AI': Nuclear war experts remind us of the frightening risks of our artificial intelligence controlling our nukes
- OpenAI CEO Sam Altman says some folk are using AI in 'self-destructive ways' so it's on us as a society to work out how 'to make it a big net positive'
- Hmm, Fortnite's new season looks familiar, says Arrowhead: 'It's giving we have Helldivers at home'
- Dragon Age wasn't meant to be a series, says former BioWare executive producer, and that's why Origins was full of storylines that 'had to be abandoned'
- Ex-Intel CEO calls current Intel CEO's plans for chip factory investment a 'joke' and wants Nvidia, Apple and Google to stump up the cash to save the fabs
- This undetectable AI-powered aimbot physically moves the mouse pad to cheat in Valorant, an invention so unholy I demand it be cast down to the depths of hell where it belongs
- Marvel Rivals reminds players it doesn't use 'EOMM', matchmaking designed to make you feel better about your terrible W/L ratio
- Roblox's top experience Grow a Garden is shifting into a 'new era' and promises deeper farming after a series of disappointing updates: 'I hope the community can see this change as a positive attempt to keep the game fresh and enjoyable for everyone'
- After saying he should resign 'immediately', President Trump changes his mind about Intel CEO Lip-Bu Tan and calls his 'success and rise' an 'amazing story', looks forward to fixes for Intel's foundry
- Today's Wordle clues, hints and answer for August 12 (#1515)
- In 15 years of interviewing AAA game developers, I think this is the first time one's straight up told me 'Many people make games for money, but we make money for games'
- AI chatbot once again transforms from super genius into stupid tool the moment it goes off-script: 'Grok doesn't actually know why it was suspended'
- August 11
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- Nexon teases its next big thing: A singleplayer action-adventure about a 'Mage of the Way' who battles injustice and corruption in ancient Korea
- Google's Gemini AI tells a Redditor it's 'cautiously optimistic' about fixing a coding bug, fails repeatedly, calls itself an embarrassment to 'all possible and impossible universes' before repeating 'I am a disgrace' 86 times in succession
- A veteran Final Fantasy programmer hates how indie games deliberately recreate PS1 visual bugs he made 'many futile efforts' to fix: 'I just don’t get what’s so interesting about trying to replicate that'
- Ubisoft announces a live-action Far Cry TV series then immediately pretends it didn't announce a live-action Far Cry TV series
- The internet is about to get a little worse as Reddit moves to block the Internet Archive so AI companies can't scrape its content
- I'm hooting and hollering for this upcoming RPG about staging heists in the underworld from the publishers of Dwarf Fortress and the designers of one of the best narrative games of all time
- Former BioWare producer Mark Darrah thinks Dragon Age remasters are the series' best hope for a future, but I doubt EA and BioWare even have it in them anymore
- Take-Two boss says Civilization 7 projections 'are very consistent with our initial expectations' despite its rough start: 'The key thing is that Civ has always been a slow burn'
- Wikipedia challenged the UK's new Online Safety Act and lost, but may have set a new precedent for fighting the rules all the same
- 'We're genuinely psyched that there are more options out there': 2XKO head says he's jazzed to see more studios jumping in to help revive the humble tag fighter
- Oh cool, we've got screens on SSD coolers now. For reals. I wonder what they'll slap one on next
- The Steam performance overlay will finally show CPU temps but it will require kernel access to do so
- Take Endless Legend 2 for a spin ahead of its early access launch—you've got a week to conquer an alien world in the new demo, starting today
- 'Everyone's little monkey brains like shelter and food': Subnautica 2 designer says primal instinct is the reason we're so drawn to smashing blocks of wood into weapons
- More than 2 million people grabbed co-op roguelike Guntouchables when it was free for 24 hours
- Mortal Kombat 1 has cemented itself as the best-selling fighting game of this generation despite ending support after just 20 months: 'We're still committed to refining MK1 to be our most balanced game'
- Intel CEO set to meet with President Trump and probably discuss company's woes, domestic chip manufacturing, and that awkward moment Trump called for his resignation last week
- Nvidia and AMD will reportedly pay 15% of their Chinese revenue to the US government so they can sell AI-capable chips there, despite warnings from security experts
- Today's Wordle clues, hints and answer for August 11 (#1514)
- Much anticipated Persona-like RPG Demonschool finally has a release date
- A man gave himself an ailment rarely seen in the last hundred years after consulting ChatGPT on how to cut down on salt in his diet
- This asynchronous autobattler is like Backpack Battles meets FTL
- August 10
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- D&D's new Forgotten Realms books come with Astarion-themed digital DLC
- id Software co-founder John Romero was apparently one week removed from co-founding a completely different icon of PC gaming, but he'd already made plans
- New study shows that Gen Z is spending way less money on videogames than older gamers
- A guy in California is suing Microsoft for discontinuing Windows 10, demanding free extended support
- It almost feels like AMD hoped no one would notice the quiet launch of its ultra-budget RX 7400 GPU
- One of the first ever American videogame magazines is now available online for free
- Doom: The Dark Ages latest update adds a 'Ripatorium' that lets you build your own wave shooter from its demonic menagerie
- 'The prejudice against turn-based RPGs isn’t completely gone': despite Clair Obscur: Expedition 33's massive success, its director reckons real-time action games still have an easier time
- Valve's superfans are back to break the player concurrent record for Portal, but the challenge may be steeper than anyone has realised
- 'You'll now be at the mercy of what loot you can find': Rust's latest update brings back hardcore mode tougher than ever, removing the ability to craft guns entirely
- Today's Wordle clues, hints and answer for August 10 (#1513)
- The US Air Force wants to test blowing up Cybertrucks because 'it is likely the type of vehicles used by the enemy may transition to Tesla Cyber trucks'
- August 9
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- The Battlefield 6 beta has broken Call of Duty's Steam player count record, surging past half a million concurrents
- Steam has a sale celebrating small developers, and you can get my favorite post-Balatro deckbuilder for just $2
- 'Let's just kill everyone on the station:' The videogame audio log was apparently invented to avoid 'awkward' RPG dialogue trees
- AOL discontinues its dial-up internet, and we're just surprised they even offered it in 2025
- Steam for Chromebooks is getting axed in 2026 instead of exiting its 4-year beta
- Absurd Japan-themed delivery sim Promise Mascot Agency just added a whole bunch of grinding, but don't worry, it's the good, Tony Hawk kind of grinding
- The follow-up to one of the decade's best detective games will have you selling cursed antiques to Victorian weirdos next month
- The iconic look of BioShock's Big Daddy has its roots in System Shock 2's low polygon counts: 'If you embraced your designing limitations on that stuff, you'd end up with a better model'
- Portal sicko beats the game with 'switched' wall textures so no surface is where it's meant to be, creating a whole new puzzling challenge in the process
- With over 10,500 posts and 3 years of research, this GTA 6 map thread is a hivemind of hot speculation, educated guesses and meticulous analysis on the potential size and scale of Vice City
- Today's Wordle clues, hints and answer for August 9 (#1512)
- New report lays out Israeli military use of Microsoft services that prompted employee protests and a boycott of Xbox and Game Pass
- August 8
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- Battlefield 6's anti-cheat has already stopped 330,000 'attempts to cheat' in the open beta, but players are still calling out wallhackers who slip through the net
- The most honest survival game I've ever played is this unemployment simulator
- The Tencent survival game being sued by Sony quietly purges most Horizon-like content from its Steam page, bumps release date to late 2027
- Peak players have dust devils and deadly cacti to fear in its Mesa Update coming next week
- Diablo boss Rod Fergusson is leaving Blizzard for a 'new adventure'
- 2-time Arima Kinen champion Grass Wonder dies at 30
- Less than 2 months after releasing Tron: Catalyst, developer Bithell Games lays off the majority of full-time staff
- Former Blizzard president predicts Battlefield 6 is going to 'boot stomp' Black Ops 7 because Call of Duty has become 'lazy'
- Noctua unveils RTX 5080 that looks like one of its lovely fans, and it promises 'exceptional performance with impressively low noise levels'
- Overclocked memory speed records usually don't mean squat to me but this one does because of the sheer amount of RAM involved
- Don't worry, Battlefield 6 is only putting bots in your matches while the training wheels are on in your 'Training Grounds' playlists
- Keeping us waiting, huh: Konami says the Metal Gear Solid Delta: Snake Eater multiplayer mode won't launch until fall
- The ROG Xbox Ally will reportedly launch in October, but I'm still not convinced there's a good enough reason to buy it yet
- Meta shows off two next-gen VR headsets: One with so many pixels it demands DLSS 3 upscaling, the other with a horizontal FOV twice that of the Quest 3
- Clair Obscur: Expedition 33's director had 2 scrapped scenes from the game's ending, gives props to mocap actors who 'saved' it at the last minute
- AMD's tiny FSR 3 update aims to improve upscaling quality but also lays the foundation for adding Redstone AI tech to games
- GTA publisher boss says he's 'running scared' despite billions in the bank and a GTA 6-sized financial nuke on the horizon: 'We are looking over our shoulders'
- Modders are trying their hardest to add an NVMe SSD to the Switch 2, which is both impressive and something I'm not going to do
- In a twisty tale of corporate espionage, TSMC employees allegedly shared 400 photos of the company's cutting-edge 2 nm process node with a Japanese rival
- We might actually have a tenuous Silksong release date, absolutely nobody on my team believes me, and I think I can hear Hornet in my walls
- Total War: Shogun started out as 'a quick and cheerful B-grade RTS' to help Creative Assembly raise funds for its dream game—an RPG based on Monkey: Journey to the West
- Today's Wordle clues, hints and answer for August 8 (#1511)
- The NBN 500 arms race steps up a notch with a new early contender—and it's less than AU$70 a month
- August 7
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- 'Consumers are not okay with okay': Take-Two boss says BioShock 4 is taking so long because the company's goal is 'to make the best entertainment, not necessarily the most entertainment'
- Just 2 weeks after its release, this Diablo-style roguelike has already reworked its entire campaign to please action RPG fans looking for a challenge
- Finally, I can get a straight flush with cabbages: Our favorite idle farming sim just got a Balatro crossover
- Id Software kicks off QuakeCon with a surprise release of Heretic + Hexen, an 'enhanced' bundle with cross-platform multiplayer, mod support, and more
- I cannot believe one of the best indie games of all time just got new DLC 17 years later
- Deliberately giving AI 'a dose of evil' may make it less evil overall, reads headline on ragged newspaper in the rubble of the robot apocalypse
- It looks like Microsoft's cuts got another one: Avalanche has stopped work on its 1970s smuggling sim Contraband to 'evaluate the project's future'
- Embracer brings original Guitar Hero publisher RedOctane back from the dead for 'the next evolution in rhythm gaming'
- Marathon will be out before March 2026, says Sony CFO—but 'this is not a commitment'
- As tag fighters face a resurgence, Tekken's director says it won't be joining in on the fun: 'There's just so much more knowledge that's necessary to enjoy the game'
- A creator spent multiple days streaming themself unfolding a Samsung Fold 200,000 times and at one point, 'an unknown black liquid came out of the hinge, but it has not appeared again'
- Purported Amazon GPU sales figures suggest that a lot of PC shoppers are buying some truly ancient graphics cards
- Nintendo scores a masterful own-goal by forcing its games out of a 9-year old charity speedrunning event, tells organisers those 9 years 'constituted unauthorized use' for good measure
- Trump Media and Perplexity team up for 'Truth Search AI,' a new tool in the fight against 'Big Tech's assault on free speech'
- Sony has seen enough: 3 years after acquiring Bungie, Sony says the days of independence are 'getting lighter' and its future 'is to become part of PlayStation Studios'
- Battlefield 6's 'Very Aggressive Listening' audio mode sounded like a joke until I turned it on, and now I can't go back
- Microsoft's beta Gaming Copilot AI is now available for Xbox Insiders, to 'help you get to gameplay faster, sharpen your skills, and be there when you need it and out of the way when you don’t'
- This bundle of award-winning tabletop RPGs brings together superheroes, Lord of the Rings, Lovecraftian horror, Dragon Age, and more for just $25
- Habbo Hotel survives years of 4chan raids to declare it's still alive for a 25th-anniversary jamboree
- This new 4-player co-op 'doomsday shooter' is free to own forever during its first 24 hours on Steam
- Trump says Intel CEO 'must resign immediately' as US senator questions Lip Bu Tan's China ties
- Acer's net income is up 110% in the past few months despite the Trump administration's tariffs and of course it's promising more 'AI solutions' to come
- Battlefield 6's open beta is already the most popular Battlefield of all time on Steam, and the platform's 44th most-played game ever
- 2 years later, starved Starfield players find morsel of hope in the files that hints at interstellar travel, possibly, maybe
- Save Intel's fabs before 'the rust of time makes them worthless': Four former Intel board members want a joint venture between Nvidia, Qualcomm, Google, Amazon, Apple, Broadcom and others to create an 'American Foundry'
- Alleged 3-person smuggling operation accused of shifting tens of millions of dollars’ worth of AI chips to China potentially faces up to 20-year prison sentence
- Sony CFO admits live service shift is 'not entirely going smoothly' in the wake of Marathon and Concord, takes a big hit of cope, says it's not all bad because Helldivers 2 and Destiny 2 exist
- Computer chips made outside the US to receive 100% tariff likely spiking tech prices, but 'there's no charge' for companies currently building on American soil
- OpenAI's new open-weight reasoning model can be run locally on an RTX card but you still need a pretty beefy rig to run it
- If you're doubting whether Battlefield 6 will be a hit, I was stuck in a 140,000 player queue at 9 am on a random Thursday to join a closed beta, twice
- Remote IT worker scam involving 90 laptops and stolen identities generated $17 million in illicit revenue allegedly bound for North Korea's nuclear weapons program
- Bing's latest 'just doing Bing things': Searching for certain AI models in Microsoft's Edge browser earns you a plea to use Copilot
- Fortnite Chapter 6 Season 4 Shock 'n Awesome live launch coverage: all new weapons, locations and mechanics in Battle Royale
- Bastion of sober videogame realism Microsoft Flight Simulator is about to get dinosaurs thanks to a Jurassic World crossover
- Today's Wordle clues, hints and answer for August 7 (#1510)
- God game Fata Deum will bring back those sweet Black & White vibes when it arrives in early access next month
- Will someone please sit with me when I play this super creepy game about examining dozens of old photos for evidence of g-g-ghosts?
- The Tekken board game reached its crowdfunding goal in 35 minutes and also, by the way, there is a Tekken board game for some reason
- August 6
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- Anthem's former executive producer says BioWare was so good at telling stories that its original Anthem pitch convinced EA to greenlight a game it couldn't deliver: 'Maybe there wasn't anything behind the very evocative statement'
- Battlefield 6 producer insists the game's 'cool' and 'relatable' PMC villain and its quest to destroy the US has no deeper meaning: 'We needed two factions'
- Elden Ring Nightreign dataminers have uncovered plans for a new endless mode with Armored Core 6's rank system and skill-based matchmaking
- Humble Bundle's new Warner Bros. collection has 15 really good games, plus Suicide Squad, for just $12
- The next Everdark Sovereign for Elden Ring Nightreign has been announced, and players are already placing bets on what its third phase will be
- Razer is the latest gaming brand to jump on the 'AI gaming' bandwagon as it opens up the 'first of three global AI hubs'
- Up to 700% faster than any interface in your gaming PC: PCI-SIG announces the specification goals for PCIe 8.0
- OpenAI now says ChatGPT 'shouldn't give you an answer' when asked: 'Should I break up with my boyfriend?'
- Google DeepMind's new AI is nearly here, finally giving us an interactive world that runs at 720p, 24fps, and only remembers what you did for 1 minute
- Kiss goodbye to your keyboard and mouse, in Microsoft's vision for the Windows OS in 2030 they'll both 'feel as alien as it does for Gen Z to use DOS'
- RTS sequel Ashes of the Singularity 2 promises to let you gleefully watch hundreds of thousands of units blow each other up in 2026
- 'There is no such thing as a good secret backdoor,' says Nvidia, reiterating that there are no kill switches, spyware, or secret ways to access its GPUs
- Demand has been 'very strong' and 'outpaced supply' for AMD's RX 9000-series cards according to CEO Dr. Lisa Su, as anyone who's tried to buy one can attest
- Microsoft's anniversary edition Windows XP-themed Crocs are definitely a look, but I'm not entirely sure I could carry them off
- UK politician unveils dead-eyed, Pixar-looking AI doppelganger, telling constituents to 'give AI Mark a try'—unsurprisingly, it's rubbish
- 'I won't show those illustrations to anyone as long as I live': Nintendo of America suggested giving Pikachu 'huge breasts' when Pokémon first came to the US, and no, it wasn't a mistranslation
- Security researcher quips maybe it's time to get 'a real job' after being paid meagre $1,000 bug bounty by Apple
- Ryzens and Radeons revitalise AMD's revenues but export restrictions delete data center profits, causing share prices to slip
- German phone repair and insurance firm goes bankrupt after paying €200,000 to ransomware hackers despite reported revenue of 70 million
- It's only taken six months but at long last, AMD's Adrenaline driver has FSR 4 support for Cyberpunk 2077
- The next videogame getting its own tabletop RPG is Diablo, an RPG that doesn't have any RP in it
- PSA: Persona 5 Royal is cheaper than it's ever been on PC right now, and you get 7 other games thrown in
- Today's Wordle clues, hints and answer for August 6 (#1509)
- August 5
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- I thought it was a cute and casual little mining sim right up until it devoured my entire morning
- After 10 years, there's a functioning Metal Gear Solid 5 co-op mod so you and a friend can be played like a damn fiddle together
- Indie horror game rejected by Steam releases for free instead: 'This is our response to being censored, and our rejection of the idea that horror can be defined as acceptable or not'
- After next week's Grafton Farmhouse rework, Phasmophobia is getting what I can only describe as 'haunted Waffle House'
- 'Touch grass, read a book, throw a ball, get tackled once in a while': Epic Games art director and OG System Shock 2 artist says the best-looking videogames are designed by people who don't just look at videogames
- 'We didn't vote for ChatGPT': Prime Minister of Sweden admits he uses AI chatbots for 'second opinions' and an awful lot of people are not happy about it
- EA tosses a last-minute life preserver to fans who missed out on Battlefield 6 beta early access, offers one more chance to get in
- Thousands of people are so eager to blow stuff up in the Battlefield 6 beta they're idling in the main menu
- Kingmakers, the medieval combat sim with tanks and M16s, warns that guns don't always win knife fights: 'Not all of your bullets will have an easy time taking down all enemy types'
- No more deploy beacon clown cars for recon players in Battlefield 6—the assault class will get them instead: 'We're intentionally redefining it as a teamplay tool for frontline flanking'
- Intel's bad news year rolls on as new 18A chip manufacturing node is reportedly in trouble with 10% yields and doubts over profitability of the Panther Lake CPU
- TSMC fires several employees over the suspicion of stealing 2 nm process tech secrets, with Taiwan authorities investigating the matter due to national security fears
- Elden Ring Nightreign's Seamless co-op mod now allows up to 6 players, but won't add any more as 'the game just becomes comically easy'
- 'Btw, we recently found the Vine video archive' says Elon Musk after declaring Grok's video generation to be the AI equivalent
- DeepMind CEO makes big brain claims, saying AGI could be here within 'five to 10 years' and cause humanity to experience widespread change that's '10 times bigger than the Industrial Revolution, and maybe 10 times faster'
- Marvel Rivals 3.5 sneaks in one very minor change to appease those who hate the new end-of-match overview, and it works
- The official mod support of Baldur's Gate 3 is a heaving success with over 265 million downloads, 250,000 of which are Withers Big Naturals
- AMD's new AM6 socket has all the pins—2,100 of 'em—but don't worry, your old CPU cooler will apparently still fit just fine
- Silent Hill f's director is breaking tradition by adding 'more entertaining and thrilling action' to appeal to younger audiences
- Battlefield 6 devs have been 'closely tracking player behaviour' to perfect maps and change objective layouts ahead of launch
- Cloudflare calls out Perplexity for hiding 'crawling activity' as AI bot scrapes websites that explicitly disallow it, Perplexity responds by calling them 'more flair than cloud'
- League of Legends' Wild Rift China posts AI slop that looks like a fever dream you'd have after watching KPop Demon Hunters, executive producer says it 'frankly, did not hit the mark'
- Ex-Intel and AMD graphics chief Raja Koduri promises a RISC-V based IP that 'rearchitects the GPU from first principles' but with few details in the startup word-salad
- AMD rolls out Radeon RX 9060 non-XT with fewer cores, lower clocks and 8 GB of slower VRAM but you probably can't buy it direct
- AMD said it would be too expensive and of no real benefit to gaming, but if one rumour is to be believed, a dual 3D V-Cache Ryzen is actually in the pipeline
- Shadowheart has been respecced over 4,890,005 times in Baldur's Gate 3, and I know at least 2 reasons why
- Peak dev would rather you pirate Peak than play a 'microtransaction Roblox slop ripoff'
- Today's Wordle clues, hints and answer for August 5 (#1508)
- Gamescom Asia is joining with the Thailand Game Show this year, and Dead Space creator Glen Schofield will keynote
- Larian says it's going to expand the Baldur's Gate 3 mod toolkit 'to give you even more freedom,' so there goes another 100 hours I've lost to modding
- August 4
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- People are flipping out over recoil in Battlefield 6 because of one gun specifically designed to have no recoil in real life
- Larian celebrated a 'probably this time really maybe' defeat of Baldur's Gate 3's Zoom grandpa portrait glitch too soon, with the beloved bug already rising from the dead like a slasher villain
- Battlefield 6 producer says Bad Company 2 was a 'huge inspiration' for the new game, and you can't argue with his logic: 'When you look for excellence in our legacy, that's where you find it'
- System Shock 2's alien 'sphincter doors' were made with photos from a dev's colonoscopy
- After 3 years of bargaining with Microsoft, the Raven QA workers have secured their first union contract: 'Ratifying this contract is a win for game workers everywhere'
- How to access the Battlefield 6 open beta, how to preload, and when it starts
- McFarlane is making the Fallout: New Vegas NCR Ranger figure I wish I had 15 years ago
- Nvidia claims H20 chips do 'not have backdoors' after reportedly being summoned by 'Beijing authorities' for a quick word
- Intel's new Core Ultra 120 will be DOA if stores sell them at anything like these prices
- Silksong fan uses electrons to draw the 'world's smallest Hornet', which is 'about 1/5 the width of a strand of silk', '2 bacteria long', and '8,000 times smaller' than the actual insect
- A gaming benchmark face-off between AMD's Ryzen Z2 Extreme and Intel's Core Ultra 7 258V is surprisingly close, proving once more that Lunar Lake is the best chip Intel has made in years
- ChatGPT removes the ability for conversations to be displayed by search engines as 'nearly 4,500 conversations' indexed by Google
- 'I’d prefer working as a small team'—Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 devs think their studio is 'just the right size', with no real plans to expand it yet
- Microsoft yanks the plug on Windows 11 SE, giving school and college IT techs a little over a year to find a suitable replacement
- Linus Torvalds is still on the 'same old boring Radeon RX 580', which is a sign I probably don't need that upgrade I've been eying up
- Can a graphics card be 2.5x faster than an RTX 5090 in path tracing and use 80% less power? Bolt Graphics claims its Zeus GPU-powered models do just that
- Grow a Garden's newest update has introduced cooking, alongside a feature that players have been begging for
- Marvel Rivals is finally giving more competitive compensation to players struck down by rage-quitting teammates or friends with hamster-powered Wi-Fi
- Peak's latest patch fixes invisible chicken bodies crashing the game and lets you toggle off the ability to eat your friends: 'Now that you've all had your fun we're introducing some changes to cannibalism'
- Dimension 20's Brennan Lee Mulligan will DM Critical Role's next campaign, bravely sacrificing his budding American Girl Doll shoes career and presumably a lot of sleep
- Huge news for base organisers and decorators, Minecraft's next drop will add shelves
- Today's Wordle clues, hints and answer for August 4 (#1507)
- Choose to be an upstanding burgher or a criminal mastermind as The Guild series of medieval life choice simulators returns
- August 3
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- FPS legend John Romero says Wolfenstein 3D was the first game id Software took its time with—a luxurious 4-month development instead of just 2
- Skyblivion's first major dev update since Oblivion Remastered makes its case as more of a full remake—including a mega dungeon based off a legendary bit of cut content
- Steam Hardware Survey shows AMD CPUs are more more popular than they've ever been in 17 years
- Over a million people have claimed free NSFW games from GOG's FreedomToBuy initiative
- Today's Wordle clues, hints and answer for August 3 (#1506)
- The flood of Silent Hill F previews highlight an emphasis on combat that seems like a bit much
- Please enjoy this short, cheap, upsetting psychological horror game about hacking a terrifying supertech machine from the developer of Buckshot Roulette
- August 2
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- Fatekeeper is an upcoming first-person RPG with heavy Dark Messiah vibes
- The next survival game from the developers of Green Hell plops you on an alien planet with atmospheric firestorms and a horde of giant spiders
- Low-Budget Repairs is like House Flipper but you're trying to cut every corner you can as the scummiest handyman in '90s Poland
- Bucking the trend of triple-digit installs, EA confirms Battlefield 6's file size can be as low as 55 gigs: 'You will be able to pick and choose which components of the game you install'
- New report alleges Microsoft Recall is still screenshotting credit card numbers and passwords
- 'Chat do I go to the office on Saturday to fix this:' The clock is ticking on Peak accidentally hitting players with a map that's impossible to beat
- It sounds like all the pieces are in place for one of the most underrated RPG greats—from the creators of Fallout, no less—to get the remaster it deserves, but good luck getting someone to make it happen
- Today's Wordle clues, hints and answer for August 2 (#1505)
- August 1
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- Death Stranding 2's vtuber cameo is only the beginning of more anime girls appearing in your favorite games, Hololive CEO says
- Setting up trade routes is gaming catnip to me, so I'm pouncing on this beautiful city builder on Steam that has some strong Catan vibes
- It's a bad day for BioShock fans: BioShock 4 studio heads have been removed as development struggles, while a BioShock remake in development has been cancelled
- The Elder Scrolls Online 'isn't going anywhere,' new ZeniMax boss says: 'The studio is continuing to work hard on new features, adventures, and improvements'
- Reddit's pausing its paid subreddit plans and focusing on 'making Reddit the go-to place for search,' presumably because we're all adding 'reddit' to everything we Google anyway
- Pathfinder's space opera spin-off is getting its own videogame, an RPG called Starfinder: Afterlight
- OpenAI just raised another $8.3 billon in a funding round that values it at an unbelievable $300B, surpassing AMD, Coca-Cola, and General Electric
- Mastercard deflects blame for NSFW games being taken down, but Valve says payment processors 'specifically cited' a Mastercard rule about damaging the brand
- The Battlefield 6 multiplayer reveal exploded roughly 1.476 helicopters per minute
- 'It has to be grounded': Battlefield 6 devs say cosmetics won't be as goofy as Call of Duty, but that sounds almost too good to be true
- One of Elden Ring Nightreign's returning Dark Souls bosses launches into the stratosphere halfway through the fight to hide that he gets replaced by a second, smaller guy
- Epic's win against Google is upheld, and the Sweenster is loving it: 'Total victory'
- We just got our first proper look at GPD's battery-optional Strix Halo handheld gaming PC and I'm still unconvinced
- Microsoft made $27.2 billion in 3 months and still chose to lay 9,000 people off, in case you thought there was simply no other way
- Nearly two-thirds of Brits surveyed about the UK's new age verification laws think the changes aren't effective, but even more support them being made in the first place
- 'It's not player friendly': EA boss says making The Sims 5 is 'not a good idea for our community' because players have over 10 years of spiritual, mental, and financial investment
- Microsoft has fixed the only Windows bug I've ever liked: the Vista startup sound 'unexpectedly' playing on Win 11 machines
- The first gaming benchmarks for AMD's Ryzen Z2 Extreme show memory bandwidth is hobbling the full potential the new handheld chip
- Gabe Newell acquires yacht company building the $400 million ocean-fortress he'll pick up later this year, because he 'respects the sea'
- New Steam update adds new 'customise' tab your games—letting you finally organise things by release date, or just look at Big Naturals Withers every time you open Baldur's Gate 3
- Semiconductors left in Trump's trade purgatory as new US tariffs on Taiwan set at 20%
- The latest version of Intel's XeSS 2 now lets other GPUs run its AI-based frame generation system, throwing RTX 30-series owners a Team Blue-shaped bone
- D&D is 'here to earn your trust, not ask for it', starting with making Beyond's maps software free, brushing up the SRD, and sharing 'third-party creations across our official channels'
- Assassin's Creed 4: Black Flag actor says Ubisoft threatened to sue him for blabbing about the remake that everyone and their grandma knows is coming
- The best superhero TTRPG to ever do it is getting a second edition, with a quickstart launching in 2026
- A trio of Alienware gaming monitors are going for all-time low Aussie prices right now, including a new QD-OLED model for under AU$900
- Today's Wordle clues, hints and answer for August 1 (#1504)
- Free adult NSFW content returns to itch.io, as one of the platform's major payment processors expresses hope to 'support adult content in the future'
