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- April 4
- April 3
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- Slay the Spire 2 adds end-of-run badges 'to let you know what was unique about each adventure' in latest beta patch
- Magazine generates fake AI interview with One Piece actor Mackenyu
- Get the Homeworld Remastered Collection, Deserts of Kharak, and 8 more RTS games for just $8
- 'There's always the chance s**t hits the fan and we suffer another major setback,' Skyblivion lead says about the possibility of another delay, but 'from what I see internally I am pretty optimistic'
- Google AI embarrasses itself when asked to perform the one simple task computers have always been good at
- Beloved YouTuber The Gaming Historian moves on from making videos with a 'parting gift': A ton of ancient Nintendo court docs you can browse on the Internet Archive
- 'There are times when you want to put GTA down and pick up something else,' Samson studio founder says: 'I think there's a space for us there'
- House Flipper is free to keep on Steam for the next few days
- Our favorite open world FPS indie gem is getting New Game+, Spider-Man swinging, and wallrunning later this month
- State of Decay 3 springs back to life to announce alpha tests in May
- Rust is getting hydro power through water wheels that can also be powered by humans: 'Before you ask, yes, you can force handcuffed players into them'
- Petit Planet, the upcoming 'cozy galactic life sim' from HoYoVerse, is taking signups for a new beta test happening later this month
- After 36 years at the legendary FPS studio, Raven Software co-founder Brian Raffel is retiring
- Bungie provides details on Marathon's imminent Recon buff 'by popular demand', revealing an improved Echo Pulse and a 'more aggressive' tracker drone
- Take-Two has seemingly laid off an unspecified portion of its AI team, including its head of AI
- April 2
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- A former GameStop exec thought building its Steam competitor would be his 'forever job,' but the retailer bet the house on digital distribution being 'a passing phase'
- Mega Crit co-founder says he wasn't bothered by the Steam backlash to Slay the Spire 2's beta balance patch: 'It's difficult for players to feel like they're heard'
- The Emperor Protects: A Warhammer 40,000 Musical is a deeply committed April Fool's joke from Games Workshop, and I don't care if it's a day late because it's just that good
- 43% of you have, or will be switching to gaming on Linux this year, but more surprising than that over a quarter of you actually don't mind Windows
- A contributor to GameStop's long-forgotten Steam competitor explains why he thinks Valve came out on top: 'What Steam did better than anybody else was to create a community'
- Warren Spector's multiplayer Thief successor changes direction: Instead of PvPvE, it's now focusing on 2-player co-op and singleplayer
- Slay the Spire 2's team is already cooking on 3 ideas for new game modes, each offering 'ways to interact with Slay the Spire that don't exist right now'
- MechWarrior studio Piranha Games lays off 30% of its employees
- Marathon game director says Bungie's rebalancing 'god-like' knife damage, buffing Vandal and Recon shells, and knocking bubble shields down a peg
- What will Slay the Spire 2's final ending be like? 'I do want it to be more extravagant when you win,' says Mega Crit
- The most hardcore Jak & Daxter heads in the world have finished their native PC ports of the entire trilogy
- Nexon CEO admits The First Descendant had 'no staying power,' and that can't be addressed with a quick fix: 'These are design issues that are not fixed with a patch'
- Seasonic teases cherry blossom-themed Focus ATX 3.1 'Sakura' power supply
- CoreWeave co-founder says even older GPUs are still rising in price and are in demand for AI servers
- 'It's like having the secret to Coca-Cola': Illumination CEO attributes the success of the Super Mario movies to the 'inclusion of Miyamoto and the Nintendo artists'
- Arc Raiders is a 'Trojan Horse' for demonstrating AI tool usage in game development, according to Nexon, after Embark built two hits at 'a fraction of the cost you’d expect'
- Apparently you can't escape Microsoft Outlook issues even in space as Artemis II astronauts ask NASA for help with the software
- This new climbing game is a bit like Darkest Dungeon on a mountain: Sometimes you have to cut the rope, and not everyone on the team is going to take it well when you do
- I turned my gaming laptop into a PC Gamer bug out kit
- Minecraft creator Notch says 'DLSS fundamentally makes no sense', but the X comments say 'um, actually'
- AMD says Intel's 'interesting choices' around multithreading could help Epyc CPUs gain server market share
- If Gigabyte's original X870E X3D Wood motherboard didn't do it for you, how about this moody 'Dark Wood' respin?
- Two high-rated motherboard security vulnerabilities have been identified in Gigabyte Control Center, so come update your software along with me
- 'Any update is a bonus not a right': Peak devs snap back at ungrateful players demanding more updates, 'Neither us or Aggro Crab are live service studios'
- It turns out Crimson Desert has even more mechanics under the hood—like this 'fully-designed food consequence system' that modders have unlocked
- Linux installs jump to over 5% of gamers on the latest Steam Hardware Survey while the RTX 5070 reverts to the norm
- Dell XPS 14 laptop with a Panther Lake chip manages a staggering 43-hour+ battery life result, thrashing the latest MacBook Air
- April 1
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- 'What's your salary? I told him, and he said no problem, we'll double. And those days are gone:' Listening to game dev legends reminiscing in 1989 about the 'golden days of computer games' already being over is a trip
- Blizzard is hiring for an 'open-world shooter' using Unreal Engine, which is more evidence that a new Starcraft game could be on its way
- Instead of making a joke, Valve celebrates April Fool's Day by rolling out a Steam storefront 'refresh' that makes it look much nicer
- Diablo 4's 'April Fowl's Day' joke is a big chicken boss who drops a cluckton of unique loot, like the 'Cluckonomicon' and the 'Eggcecutioner'
- The most baffling apostrophe in gaming history: a PC Gamer investigation
- US Patent Office revokes Nintendo's controversial Pokémon battling patent in nonfinal decision
- Garry's Mod successor s&box finally arrives on Steam on April 28
- Black Ops 7's April Fools' joke is very much real: the smallest Call of Duty map in history
- April Fool's Day is upon us, and you know what that means: Bubsy feet pics
- Gabe Newell stepped back from game design during Portal 2's development, because 'he always wanted to be part of the team, but being Gabe and being in his position, that never really worked'
- Shinji Mikami's next game was just stealth-announced in a YouTube video and it sure looks like the creator of survival horror is back doing what he does best
- Marathon has made everyone's favourite loot spot harder to access but even more rewarding, and it's got solo players raising pitchforks
- Stormgate, the StarCraft-like RTS that launched last summer, is losing online multiplayer support because its server partner was bought by an AI company
- It looks like Intel might ditch regular E-cores for its upcoming Core 300 laptop chips
- Billy the pickpocket is the unluckiest man in Crimson Desert
- Oracle, darling of the AI boom, is reportedly laying off around 10,000 people
- If you want to crank tons more gaming performance out of the Apple MacBook Neo, apparently a custom water cooling loop works
- WoW's latest raid cinematic could be the start of a massive story retcon for its worst expansion
- No, there isn't going to be a new lovecraftian Nier game with a caked-up tentacle robot, despite cope to the contrary
- Nvidia's big frame gen update to DLSS includes a new model for improved UI elements, but I can't see any improvements whatsoever
- 512,000 lines of Claude Code's own CLI source code have leaked due to 'human error', but the company says 'no sensitive customer data or credentials' were exposed
- Google says quantum computing will crack bitcoin cryptography sooner than expected, estimating a 10% chance of 'Q-Day' by 2032
- MindsEye's first major update, 'Blacklist', really will be used to 'share some of the evidence of the sabotage’ that apparently made it bad
- 'Legally distinct Cammy': Overwatch revealed its newest hero and fans are saying she looks awfully familiar
- Crimson Desert's less than ideal launch is a distant memory as it hits the 4 million sales milestone
- Trendforce says DDR5 RAM kit prices have fallen 'sharply' in US, Europe and China but that contract memory prices 'remain stable'
- Web-code library with millions of weekly downloads poisoned by malicious release: 'This is unironically a malware nuclear missile'
- To the surprise of no one, running a PC without system RAM is not the solution to the memory crisis—but hey, you can always force Snake to run in the BIOS
- Now that you can try out Nvidia's new Dynamic Multi Frame Generation for yourself, you might want to know that there's a bit of an issue when it comes to frame rate limiters
- Geekbench says enabling Intel BOT paints an 'unrealistic picture' of CPU performance and makes Intel chips seem faster versus the AMD competition 'than they would be in typical, real-world usage'
- The latest Nvidia App beta update adds DLSS 4.5 Dynamic Multi Frame Generation support and an intriguing Auto Shader Compilation feature to the green team suite
- Amazon says its Fallout series has now been watched by 100 million people, 'with season two now joining season one as two of our top four biggest seasons we've ever launched'
- My 5 favorite cozy games in Steam's House and Home sale
- Super Mario Galaxy Movie reviews are in and, surprise: it's execrable churn
