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- July 17
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- Looks like the Taiwanese chip industry is becoming a hot target for Chinese state-sponsored hackers trying to nab trade secrets
- OptiScaler has been updated to theoretically support AMD's FSR 4 in all games with upscaling that don't use Vulcan or anti-cheat—which is nice, but why the heck doesn't AMD do this?
- Hyperbeat is one of the best rhythm games I've played, with one of the most confusing UIs which at times makes me feel sick
- Meta is using its own blend of AI-optimised, low-carbon 'green concrete' in one of its honking great data centers
- Nintendo's found its Zelda and Link for the upcoming movie—and British soap opera Emmerdale finally gets the silver screen recognition it deserves
- 'Father of Elder Scrolls' steps back from game development because of cancer: 'We are preparing to say goodbye to a true legend of the industry'
- It's not just Nvidia that's looking to cash in on those loosening US/China chip export restrictions, as AMD also seems close to resuming AI GPU shipments
- A capacitor 'mix-up' is causing some mini PCs to fail and it's giving me flashbacks to the great capacitor plague of the early '00s
- Intel's fancy new AI tool measures image quality in games in real time, so upscaling artifacts and visual nasties have nowhere to hide
- Mercedes just put in a bid for the worst idea ever by enabling you to stream yourself driving during those vital Teams meetings
- 'Cease this behaviour immediately': Marvel Rivals is finally punishing smurfs by forcing them—and some innocent players—to smurf
- This might be the first AMD Strix Halo chip in a handheld gaming PC we've seen, but I'm more excited for those mini PCs around the corner
- 8BitDo's newest Pro 3 Controller has magnetic swappable face buttons for Switch and Xbox configurations
- PC Gamer magazine's new issue is on sale now: Dying Light: The Beast
- 'Listening to gamers is at the heart of what we do' says company that are putting out a hand shaped gaming keyboard with a thumbstick
- Oblivion Remastered studio is reportedly laying off 300 people
- Today's Wordle answer for Thursday, July 17
- July 16
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- After leaving Ubisoft to launch an anime avatar AI/NFT startup, Yves Guillemot's son returns to take charge of its new Tencent-backed Assassin's Creed, Far Cry, and Rainbow 6 subsidiary
- An absolute Elden Ring madlad just soloed Nightreign's most-hated boss at level 1 with the power of Sekiro parries
- Unknown Worlds founders' lawsuit accuses Krafton of a 'months-long campaign to delay Subnautica 2' so it wouldn't have to pay $250M earnout
- Umamusume players are engaging in unhinged summoning rituals to enlist the aid of Egyptian gods and biblically accurate angels for the release of a really good horse card
- Seven months after putting Johnny Silverhand in your car, Cyberpunk 2077's latest update will let you kick him out
- Microsoft's Copilot AI assistant can now optionally see your entire desktop—maybe it will be able to finally explain what Windows error code 0x8007002c means
- Reddit just had a meltdown for a moment: 'no content to display' on any subreddits, before deploying a server fix in surely record time
- The US squeezed Nvidia's AI chip export deal with China into negotiations over important rare earth elements, bizarrely claiming 'we put that in the trade deal with the magnets'
- As the Nintendo eShop fails to protect from 'eslop', indie devs reflect on how it affects their work and why Steam is just better: 'Their algorithm will more or less naturally bury AI slop'
- You can now stream Xbox-only games to your PC if you're an Insider with Game Pass Ultimate
- Steam will let you reverse your last 7 days of CS2 (and soon other) trades if you accidentally swap your $10,000 AK-47 for some magic beans
- EU-commissioned study on generative AI and copyright suggests overturning the current opt-out approach that 'effectively treats silence as consent'
- 73-year-old takes the crown in Japan's old-folks-only Tekken 8 tournament, beating out a 93-year-old vet and a sprightly up and comer of 63 years
- 'I finally managed to make her smile': Umamusume player gives 'the shining star of losers everywhere' her first big win in a race intentionally set up for her to lose
- 'All throughout my life I've had to deal with Xfinity's bull****': Frustrated with living in a Comcast-only neighbourhood, two brothers-in-law started their own ISP
- Intel rumoured to be working on a Nova Lake-based CPU with a mega iGPU to take on AMD's Strix Halo
- PC gamers don't have many options for CPUs and graphics cards but when it comes to gaming mice, we're absolutely spoiled for choice
- Steam's got a new rule that puts the kibosh on 'certain kinds of adult only content' that make Visa and Mastercard sad
- A game I can only describe as 'gooner Fortnite' has an upcoming closed beta test where you can see your own melons for the ultimate immersion
- Japanese researchers achieve 1,020,000,000 Mbps internet speeds over a 1,123 mile line, 3.5 million times faster than the average US connection and a hell of a lot quicker than mine
- We might have to wait until next year to see those all-Nvidia laptops with custom Arm processors
- Seagate has proved thumb drives are finally worth investing in again, and you will likely find one hanging off my keys from here on out
- Today's Wordle answer for Wednesday, July 16
- Avowed update basically reinvents the fighter and ranger classes, while also adding new weapons and better Steam Deck optimization
- July 15
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- Bungie says it's 'actively re-recording' some voice lines for Destiny 2: The Edge of Fate after fans notice one of the game's best-known heroes suddenly sounds like one of its most notorious villains
- Our favorite 1v1 FPS just became our favorite 2v2 FPS, and you can still play it for the low price of free
- Cyberpunk 2077's delayed 2.3 update will be revealed tomorrow and could go live later this week
- Treasonous Helldivers 2 players are weaponizing the Super Earth flag to crash the game for everyone but them
- 'We could have, at that point, put out a s*** game': Former Deep Silver comms boss says Dead Island 2 released 8 years late because an earlier version 'would have killed the franchise' if it wasn't binned
- Minecraft says to hell with it, adds in-game version of Lava Chicken song, which you get by beating a chicken jockey
- Tony Hawk's Pro Skater 3 + 4 developer is trying to figure out who put the edgy Guitar Hero gag in the game it made, promises to remove it in the next update even though players want it to stay
- Microsoft's 200 laid-off King devs are reportedly being replaced by AI they helped build, while its 'absolute 's***show' HR department looks away and whistles
- The Nintendo DS had it right all along: Ayaneo launches Flip 1S DS and Flip 1S KB, two new clamshell handheld gaming PCs with prices to make your teeth clench
- Guild Wars 2's sixth expansion is taking players to an island paradise this October, with beachside player housing and a major addition to buildcrafting
- Escape from Tarkov begins to quietly U-turn after last week's hardcore wipe left players penniless and bored to tears with the grind
- It might give me the heebie jeebies but I can't help wanting one of these transparent power supplies to soothe my retro-starved mind
- Meta is expanding its AI capabilities so quickly it's housing data centers in tents, which would make them data tenters, no?
- As if being worth $4 trillion isn't enough, Nvidia claims the US government says it can start selling AI GPUs to China again
- 'I think Todd in particular gravitates not towards the weird stuff': Skyrim's co-lead and Morrowind 'torchbearer' says Elder Scrolls 6 will probably be pretty normcore
- Google's Gemini AI backed out of a chess match against a 46 year-old Atari 2600 engine after suffering a crisis of confidence: 'Canceling the match is likely the most time-efficient and sensible decision'
- Fallout 76 is preparing to line up future content 'with the seasonal releases of the show,' despite the two being set 194 years apart
- US Defense Department awards $200 million contract to Elon Musk's Grok aka 'MechaHitler' and is looking forward to deploying it 'in our warfighting domain'
- Finally, a good use for crashing Intel Raptor Lake CPUs: You can track Europe's record-breaking heatwaves as they fall over, according a Firefox browser dev
- Frostpunk 2 is hosting a modding contest for a 'chance to leave your mark on the Frostpunk universe'—oh, and a $10,000 prize pool
- Oblivion Remastered's latest patch stealthily fixed the most lore-breaking door in videogames
- If you're on the latest Windows 11 Insider build you might have to uninstall your Xbox controller driver to get it to play nicely
- If you're using an Intel 8–11th Gen CPU with a Gigabyte motherboard, update your BIOS to protect from a newly discovered vulnerability
- The Lenovo Legion Go S SteamOS finally has joystick RGB lighting support, but the most annoying issue still isn't fixed
- This aerospike rocket engine designed by generative AI just completed its first hot fire test
- Nintendo banned a Switch 2 user for playing second-hand games and only reinstated after providing proof of purchase
- AMD partner retailer leaks Threadripper 9000-series preorder details: they start next week with prices looking between $1,600 and $13,000
- Intel's new Nova Lake CPU is reportedly being made on TSMC N2 right now, pointing to a hybrid 18A node and late 2026 launch
- Today's Wordle answer for Tuesday, July 15
- July 14
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- Less than 6 years after it launched, John Wick Hex is being removed from sale on all storefronts later this week
- 'A future has been stolen from many of us and our community will never experience an amazing game': Microsoft MMO devs respond to cancelation of project Phil Spencer reportedly loved
- GTA 4's most famous lighting mod gets its first major update in 11 years, brightening up Liberty City from cloud to ground
- Epic publicly humiliates 2 more Fortnite cheaters by forcing them to say sorry and promise to never, ever do it again
- My most-played game of the last 5 years is 30% off on Steam right now, alongside a ton of other factory games that can absolutely devour your life
- Fresh from telling laid-off employees to console themselves with AI, Microsoft doubles down by advertising Xbox jobs with pathetic AI image: 'So tone deaf I hope it is satire'
- Good news for multitaskers: Microsoft is gradually rolling out taskbar scaling to squeeze in as many icons as possible in the latest Windows 11 Insider build
- Leaked pricing suggests the ROG Xbox Ally X might be the most expensive Xbox console yet, which probably isn't the award Microsoft is aiming for
- One problem with making an Assassin's Creed game in Ancient Greece, says Ubisoft, is that there just weren't enough tall buildings for a 'climbing frame game'
- Borderlands 4 is hiding more than 200 collectible Marcus bobbleheads in hard-to-reach places, and Randy Pitchford reckons 'most players will never see any of them'
- The Tales of the Shire system requirements are so light you'll be able to play it on an actual potato (whether boiled, mashed, stewed, or cooked in any other manner)
- 'Western players are getting treated like trash': Persona 5: The Phantom X global release is being flooded with negative reviews over alleged worse rewards than its Chinese counterpart
- 'Competition is healthy': Overwatch 2's director sets the record straight about its rivalry with Marvel Rivals
- Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang says 'we don't have to worry' about the Chinese military using US chips to improve their capabilities because 'they simply can't rely on it'
- RTX 40-series graphics cards can now enable Frame Generation in unsupported games via the drivers: up to a 44% fps improvement in my initial tests
- Razer's DeathAdder V4 Pro won an esports tournament before its release, hiding in plain sight with a camoflage colorway
- There's another golden RTX 5090 made of over 1,000x more gold than the first, and I'm pleased to say it's absolutely hideous
- At long last, PCIe 5.0 SSDs are finally worth buying
- Anime horse girls are causing one real-life mare dubbed 'the shining star of losers everywhere' to receive so much $40 grass she broke the donation website
- This YouTube channel is converting a 3,287-hour FAA-certified flight simulator into a gaming PC-based sim rig and it wants your help
- A fan favourite X-Men hero has just been name-dropped in Marvel Rivals, and while I want her to join the fight, I just don't know if it would be possible
- 'We made it too difficult for players to even get into the raid in the first place': Final Fantasy 14 director admits its latest dungeon was 'a misstep in development'
- Today's Wordle answer for Monday, July 14
- July 13
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- Those shadow giants in the distance in Elden Ring Nightreign are over 2 miles tall—almost as big as the Erdtree—and nobody even mentions them in the game
- A new Dark Souls 3 lighting tool is giving modders the power to make next-gen facelifts of the FromSoft classic
- 'A game, once sold, belongs to the customer': Prominent EU politician stands up for Stop Killing Games
- Ahead of its remaster, GOG added Neverwinter Nights 2 to its preservation program and is also giving owners of the original a 'loyalty discount' on the enhanced edition
- OpenAI is making its own browser, presumably to spite Google and cut out the middleman when collecting user data
- The Expanse RPG's developers are 'humbled' by comparisons to BioWare's heyday, but don't expect it to be a straight Mass Effect clone: 'We make our story a little bit differently'
- Total War: Warhammer 3's Tides of Torment DLC is delayed: 'We asked ourselves if this next DLC met the standards that we’ve set in recent releases, and the short answer was no'
- This wildly ambitious Yakuza 5 co-op mod lets you play together as Kiryu and Ichiban, even folding Like a Dragon's protagonist into the game's cutscenes
- You can now play both campaigns of the original Command & Conquer in 2-player co-op, thanks to one of its best mods
- Warhammer 40K: Rogue Trader just received another 'massive' update, this time directed at its expansion
- Today's Wordle answer for Sunday, July 13
- July 12
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- Rockstar support sites let slip that we might be getting current(ish) gen versions of GTA4 and Red Dead Redemption 2—but they probably won't be anything to write home about on PC
- Krafton confirms Subnautica 2 leak showing that the publisher wanted more content for the early access launch, leading to delay and leadership ouster
- The Steam Summer Sale may be over, but Humble's got a $15 bundle with monster 40K RPG Rogue Trader, one of my favorite soulslikes, and more
- Black Mirror's creators have left Netflix, leaving the sci-fi anthology's future in question
- Monster Hunter fans are building LEGO models so good they should be official
- After 7 years in development, the most exciting Grand Theft Auto total conversion mod sets its sights on an August showcase
- Norland's 'big summer update' is even larger than March's 'damn big update', introducing a politics system, a new economy and more authentically medieval buildings to the Crusader Kings-inspired colony sim
- Two Point Museum's latest update lets you manage a museum atop a massive mountain, and allows all players a taste of its upcoming fantasy-themed DLC
- Witchfire's massive next update is inspired by games like Syndicate and Bloodborne, and it's the biggest one yet: 'We really mean it'
- Ken Levine wanted System Shock 2's final level to be set in outer space, but the idea was shot down by its senior designers: 'They're like dude, we have 14 months to make this game'
- Today's Wordle answer for Saturday, July 12
- July 11
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- Rematch developers didn't 'get' the game, Sloclap boss says, until they started playing internal tournaments: 'I don't give a s**t about football, but this really struck something in me'
- Gear is optional: Diablo 4 player strips their character naked and slides through its most brutal dungeon without a single death
- An ambitious upcoming Eurojank RPG is holding a closed playtest on Steam and it's probably worth your time if you're into that sort of thing
- Microsoft shareholders demand report into the company's 'human rights due diligence' over allegations of war crime complicity in Gaza
- Final Fantasy producer Yoshi-P says 'there's no clear-cut answer' to whether Final Fantasy will return to turn-based RPGs, because the direction of the next Final Fantasy will be up to the directors of the next Final Fantasy
- BioShock maestro Ken Levine says Judas is 'very old school' because 'you buy the game and you get the whole thing… no online component, no live service'
- Capcom celebrates the first anniversary of Kunitsu-Gami: Path of the Goddess by ripping out its Denuvo DRM
- Playdead's classic minimalist platformers Limbo and Inside are being pulled from GOG next week, so grab 'em while you can
- Stalker Trilogy fixes the issue that made me melt my PC with infinite quicksaves and repairs the blurry textures that have blighted players for months
- Umamusume's horse girl lore has grown so out of control that its developer has had to put real-life stable etiquette in place
- If you're at all into driving games you should treat yourself to one of these Prime Day racing wheel deals
- My bank account isn't exactly overflowing at the moment, so here's the gaming laptop I'd buy with my own money this Prime Day
- D&D continues to shed talent to other TTRPGs, as its former VP of franchise and product joins Vampire: The Masquerade creator White Wolf
- The Sims' latest patch has caused a pregnancy epidemic, even if they've never had 'woo-hoo'
- It's time to sort your life out and marathon the finest WW2 real-time tactics games of the early '00s—and for a mere $10, too
- 'Coconuts will now bonk scouts': Peak's latest update makes fruit even deadlier but has spared other items from the same treatment
- WoW continues to eat FF14's lunch with its housing system on paper—says it'll just make more neighbourhoods if they're full, and you can have private guild ones, too
- The Subnautica 2 saga gets nastier, with ousted leaders confirming they'll sue Krafton: 'It continues to be an explosive and surreal time'
- Today's Wordle answer for Friday, July 11
- My favourite PC gaming headset is going for a record-low price during Prime Day—just AU$82.40 for the HyperX Cloud Alpha
- July 10
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- Ghost of Yōtei's big gameplay showcase had new weapons, smoother exploration, and a 'lo-fi beats' mode from Samurai Champloo director Shinichirō Watanabe
- Yep, Steam is down (update: we're so back)
- Shark Dentist is a 'horror roguelike' that's basically The Meg mashed up with an early '90s Milton Bradley toy
- The next Helldivers 2 warbond is going superscience sicko mode with a seven-barreled assault rifle, a plasma cannon, and a wormhole-generating backpack that lets you warp around the battlefield
- Krafton accuses former Subnautica 2 bosses of abandoning the game in surprising new statement: 'We feel a profound sense of betrayal by their failure to honor the trust placed in them'
- McDonalds serves up super size AI botch with a 'McHire' platform that allowed admin access to 64 million candidate chats with the username and password '123456'
- The GameStop stapler that smashed a Switch 2 screen on launch day is being auctioned off for charity, and bidding has already broken $100,000
- The videogame voice actors' strike officially ends as performers ratify agreement between SAG-AFTRA and publishers
- Elon Musk claims Grok was 'manipulated' into praising Hitler, then makes wild claims about it discovering 'new technologies' and 'new physics' within the next year: 'Just let that sink in'
- The new 'UK Video Games Council' has announced its members—including reps from Larian Studios, Microsoft, and non-profit advocacy groups UKIE and TIGA
- Silksong subreddit hallucinates an analog horror called Snosk, ritually sacrifices a mod to be their very own Hollow Knight, continues to have a normal one, nothing to see here
- We're all trapped in a prison of our own filth, which is why I'm eyeing this little arsenal of an electronics cleaning kit that's on sale for less than $12
- Magic: The Gathering's space opera set includes a monster so big it eats planets
- Autonomous robots perform first of its kind surgery using AI to follow senior surgeons vocal instructions
- China is building data centres to house over 115,000 high-end Nvidia AI GPUs despite Trump's ban on selling the tech
- Startups are using Nvidia's AI GPUs as collateral to secure loans of up to $10 billion from financial institutions
- Today's Wordle answer for Thursday, July 10
- Escape From Tarkov blindsides players with immediately controversial 'Hardcore Wipe' that removes quests and disables most maps
- July 9
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- X CEO Linda Yaccarino calls it quits less than 24 hours after the platform's AI-powered chatbot Grok anoints itself 'MechaHitler' and starts posting antisemitic messages and graphic descriptions of sexual assault
- Oblivion Remastered's newest patch aims to smooth out difficulty bumps, improve performance, and fix wonky Khajiit tails
- Subnautica 2 publisher Krafton confirms 2026 delay, says the change 'was not influenced by any contractual or financial considerations'
- The anime horse girl who's terrorizing gacha players in Umamusume is based on a real, chaotic racing horse who once instantly obliterated 12 billion yen in betting losses
- Nvidia becomes first company ever to hit a $4 trillion market cap (yes that's 'trillion' with a 'T')
- Modder behind the 'Swiss army knife of PC gaming' deletes their 20 year-old Steam account with anti-Valve manifesto: 'By the end of my bitter dealings with Valve… there was zero hope'
- You can thank John Romero's hard-partying ways for the suits giving Deus Ex the extra dev time it needed: 'These British guys would just get hammered with the Dallas team for three days straight'
- Dune: Awakening studio says sorry for accidentally wiping a bunch of stuff in the last patch, promises to replace everything by the end of the week
- Get 34% off the Star Wars Shatterpoint core set this Prime Day and start playing my favourite miniature wargame ever
- Ready or Not's review bomb campaign may have been short-lived, as player count subsequently doubles on Steam and it tops PlayStation's pre-order list
- The Last of Us Part 2 has a 'chronological mode' now, in case you wanted to play through a story with all the finesse of a Wikipedia plot summary
- FromSoftware scrambles for content to keep Elden Ring Nightreign players interested as it announces the return of the first three Everdark Nightlords
- Roblox's hot gardening game gets a crack squad dedicated to new events after players kicked up over old ones being 'rushed and not very inspired'
- HP to implement CarFax inspired data collector to log lifetime use and health of PCs
- Missing the nostalgic tactility of VHS? Bring it back with this elegant DIY project using NFC and ESPhome
- For the first time this generation US retailers are listing Nvidia RTX 50 series graphics cards below MSRP
- New Arrow Lake refresh rumours confirm addition of NPU to bring Microsoft's Copilot+ AI features to desktop machines
- Today's Wordle answer for Wednesday, July 9
- July 8
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- Another live service shooter comes to a premature end: Steel Hunters, the mech game that launched into early access in April, is closing in October
- This competitive Blue Prince speedrun from SGDQ 2025 is the pinnacle of human athleticism
- For the next 2 weeks Destiny 2 is completely free to play, even the stuff you normally have to pay for
- John Wick Hex and Tron Catalyst dev Mike Bithell thinks licensed games have evolved past 'lunchbox tie-ins' because 'the people who played licensed games are now bosses in the companies that are licensing IP'
- The Pope got gifted one Pokémon card, signed another, and thought it was all a great laugh: 'He began showing it off to the guards'
- After 15 years of busted marksdwarves, Dwarf Fortress creator Tarn Adams says archers will finally refill their ammo 'instead of leaping over walls and clubbing people with their crossbows'
- After 3 years of trying, Lord of the Rings Online's 'Great Hobbit Run' ends in confused success as a mob of low-level players gets lost inside Mount Doom and decides it's close enough: 'Sauron can kiss my butt!'
- Space Invaders creator recalls building arcade games with mirrors, making a prototype console that never saw release, and how short-sighted Taito's sales team was about videogames: 'These things will never sell'
- GTA 6's server player count rumour could be great news for GTA Online 2.0
- World of Warcraft: The War Within's last major patch before Midnight drops early August, and it's time to go into space again
- I wish I'd snagged this Seagate Ultra Compact SSD at its cheapest Prime Day price before splurging my cash on non-smol storage
- Sci-fi horror game Routine just came back to life for the 2nd time in 13 years: 'We are beginning to approach the finish line'
- 'Knowing Steam players are hoarders explains why you give Valve that 30%,' analyst tells devs: 'You get access to a bunch of drunken sailors who spend money irresponsibly'
- Marvel Rivals digs its heels into the gooner dirt as it reveals five new swimsuit skins, giving the people what they want: Punisher in a Speedo
- Borderlands 4 certainly looks like it's taking its story more seriously: 'We wanted to go back to this sense of dread about the villain of our game'
- UK looking to revamp defense laws as undersea cable sabotage and cyber attacks create 'gray zone threats'
- Racks packing Nvidia's newest and shiniest AI supercomputer Blackwell Ultra cards have just been deployed by CoreWeave
- This striking two-toned mini PC features a fully customised fanless cooling system for Framework and AMD's new Halo Strix motherboards
- Today's Wordle answer for Tuesday, July 8
- Farming Simulator 25 finally figures out what the rest of us already knew: you gotta have some fishing in your farming game
- July 7
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- Romero Games is not closed: 'We are doing everything in our power to ensure that it does not come to that'
- 'Hi modders <3': Peak devs know we're using mods to break past the 4-player limit, and they're so cool with it they're even fixing mod-specific bugs
- Today's Dune: Awakening patch takes another sidestep away from the PvP-heavy endgame
- Peak modder celebrates the grim achievement of generating 10,000 skeletons in a single day with a mod that 'creates a shared experience of failure and discovery' by littering the island with the corpses of your fellow scouts
- A Steam Deck owner with three thumbs asked for help modifying the handheld, and Reddit came through: 'I've got 100 different people trying to print different attachments and mailing them to me. Nicest thing anyone has ever done for me'
- EA is reportedly betting the farm on a Battlefield 6 battle royale mode modeled after Call of Duty: Warzone
- 'Infinite damage' strikes again as Diablo 4 players overthrow the tyranny of mathematics with an exploit that grants sorcerers the power of the gods: 'No way that they leave that in the game'
- Capcom cancels a presentation on Monster Hunter Wilds performance at CEDEC 2025 amid ongoing developer harassment
- Vintage Story aims to save a piece of Hytale by hiring former Hypixel developers to create a new 'Adventure Mode' for the hardcore survival game
- After conquering ChatGPT, Atari 2600 Video Chess destroys Microsoft Copilot: 'The vintage silicon mastermind bested me fair and square'
- Ousted Subnautica studio co-founder says it was a 'shock' to get fired, Subnautica 2 is 'ready' for early access release, and no longer working 'at the company I started stings'
- Cyberpunk: Edgerunners was a depression-fest because its writer is 'from Poland and people in Poland are sad. They are born sad, they die sad, so I just wanted to make the whole world sad'
- The new Rimworld expansion adds therapy pandas, tameable insect hive queens, nanotech-enhanced alligators, prehistoric beasts, giant toads, flamingos, and something called a 'bog hound'
- Obsidian stuck to some fantasy conventions for Pillars of Eternity and Avowed because that's what people want: ''I didn't want to completely flip it and say, oh you want to play an elf? F**k you, this isn't your daddy's elf'
- I convinced myself that I could easily win Squid Game, but after putting myself through the Roblox version it's clear that I absolutely would not walk away champion
- Call of Duty: WW2 pulled from PC following reports of remote code exploit trolling players with 'Notepad pop-ups, PC shutdowns' and desktop wallpaper of a lawyer
- Monster Hunter Wilds' poor post-launch reception bubbles up to the surface in shareholder meetings, though Capcom says it's 'committed' to fixing performance and content woes
- EA Japan exec laments Microsoft's crushing layoffs, and the demands shareholders make for 'short-term results from large-scale investments'
- Chinese FMV game about getting 'revenge on gold diggers' plunges the country into online gender tumult
- 'Night City lives on'—Cyberpunk: Edgerunners season 2 teaser trailer may give us our first glimpse at the series' next protagonist
- Summer Games Done Quick 2025 is now live—kicking off a full week of speedruns and goofs to raise money for Doctors Without Borders
- I hit one of Australia's biggest retro fairs and PC gaming was nowhere to be seen, though collectors told me that's down to one of its major retro strengths
- Baldur's Gate 3 actor Samantha Béart says people don't realise how awful Karlach was before the events of the game: 'I think she was a piece of work in hell'
- Rematch players are still crashing out over 'self-absorbed' ball hogs, and while I do get it, I can't help but wonder if some zen is in order
- Grow a Garden has added new pets, mutations, and a seed even better than the Candy Blossom as part of its newest update
- Today's Wordle answer for Monday, July 7
- Update: Valve only blocked a creepy fascist Mount and Blade: Warband mod in South Korea, not worldwide, and the mod's own author took it down entirely
- July 6
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- 'The transfer of user data by DeepSeek to China is unlawful': Germany calls for Google and Apple to remove the AI app from their stores
- Romero Games reportedly met with Microsoft just a day before the publisher pulled funding for the studio, and there was 'no mention' of the decision that put over 100 people out of work
- 'There are no plans to drop support for SteamOS': The Finals devs commit to Steam Deck and Linux players despite new kernel-level anti-cheat
- 'Game Pass is an unsustainable model': Arkane founder slams Microsoft for its Game Pass focus after mass layoffs
- Warren Spector was so desperate to make Deus Ex that it almost became a Command & Conquer RPG: 'I was going to find a way to make it one way or another, even if it meant making another damn sci-fi game!'
- Deep Rock Galactic Survivor is gearing up for launch, literally—adding a fully-fledged gear system when it hits 1.0 in September
- Preservationists discover a 'nearly complete' build of a lost Animaniacs game 22 years after it was cancelled, and you can play it right now
- Rust's developer is overhauling the survival sim's mission system so it can create in-game quests faster and more easily: 'The process to create new missions internally is quite cumbersome and error prone'
- Today's Wordle answer for Sunday, July 6
- Mount & Blade 2's naval expansion will have complex sailing with wind, currents, and respect for a boat's draft
- July 5
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- Subnautica 2 studio begs rioting fans for benefit of the doubt after leadership axed by owner Krafton: 'The team that has been working on the game day-to-day over the last few years remains completely unchanged'
- Academics critique Farming Simulator's portrayal of 'good farming' and praise modders for agro-ecology add-ons
- European game publisher group responds to Stop Killing Games, claims the proposal 'would curtail developer choice'
- Former Forza dev says original Motorsport series died in Microsoft's cuts, but Forza Horizon lives on
- After nearly 4 years, Windows 11 is finally more popular than Windows 10
- Even the beginner zone in Dune: Awakening isn't safe from sandworm-manipulating griefers anymore
- Runaway city-building success Manor Lords is getting a major overhaul to its systems: 'It's not just a new feature or two. It's a full rework'
- Chaotic destruction sim Teardown breaks cover on its multiplayer update, revealing 8 player team deathmatch and support for modded servers
- RoboCop: Rogue City's expansion will let you play as ED-209, but I'm more excited about having some guns I might use instead of the Auto 9
- Here's a mod that puts Halo's multiplayer into Half-Life, which to me feels like putting tea in your coffee
- Today's Wordle answer for Saturday, July 5
- Cyberpunk: Edgerunners, the anime so good it made Cyberpunk 2077 cool again, is getting a sequel
- July 4
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- Deep Rock Galactic board game Kickstarter pulls in nearly $1 million in 1 day for a trio of new expansions
- Ratatan, the new rhythm game from the designer of Patapon, delays early access release in response to negative demo feedback
- In the wake of Perfect Dark's cancellation, Joanna Dark's voice actor urges fans to help save the series: 'Agent Dark doesn’t give up and neither should any of you'
- Hideo Kojima's mysterious OD reportedly escapes the cancellation axe at Microsoft
- CWA union derides Microsoft layoffs when ‘the company is prospering’: 'We are living through a moment of profound corporate consolidation and disruption'
- Perfect Dark dev shoots down claim the ace-looking reveal was fake: 'It's probably more real than you think'
- Fortnite hints at making its hottest new mode permanent by asking fans what they want next
- Michael Madsen, the voice of Dishonored's supernatural assassin Daud, has died
- Marvel Rivals players may soon be able to vote on what heroes they want added: 'We will use them as an important factor in our planning'
- Picking the best GPU of 2025 has been the biggest challenge of my near 20-year PC gaming tech testing career. Now my brain hurts
- The Silksong subreddit is conducting elaborate ritual ban sacrifices in an attempt to cure 'silksanity' and secure the game's release
- Valve's reported profit-per-head from Steam commissions is out there, and at $3.5 million per employee it makes Apple and Facebook look like a lemonade stand
- A 'little educational game for middle-schoolers' left DayZ's creators obsessed, inspired, and embroiled in a contentious presidential campaign: 'It's 4.5 years later, and I'm still talking about this story'
- Open-source Morrowind project just got an update 3 years in the making that might have me saying bye to the vanilla game for good—oh, and you can load Skyrim in it now
- Tech billionaires including Palmer Luckey set up dumb new bank for those who didn't get burned enough in the 2022 crypto crash
- Rematch plans to add an in-game report system, punish own-goal griefers with 3 days in the slammer, and slap cheaters with indefinite bans
- Peak re-releases its next update aimed at improving stability and reassures players 'we don't have any issue with sharing video content, including modded stuff'
- OLED is the must-have gaming monitor tech and I've got some great early Prime Day deals for you
- Xbox exec suffers bout of terminal LinkedIn brain, suggests folks laid off by Microsoft use AI to 'reduce the emotional and cognitive load that comes with job loss'
- Steam's Hardware Survey continues to prove gamers don't have much free storage, and I am unfortunately among them
- Today's Wordle answer for Friday, July 4
- July 3
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- Surprise! The Anthem servers are still running—but they won't be after January 12
- Stop Killing Games surges past its goals, but a possible signature spoofing campaign could cause trouble: 'This is not a Change.org petition. This is a government process'
- Before cancelling ZeniMax's Destiny-style MMO shooter, Xbox executives reportedly enjoyed early demos so much that the controller had to be pulled from Phil Spencer's hands
- 'There has to be a better way than this': Game developers call Microsoft's latest layoffs 'a colossal waste of talent' from a publisher that seems like it's in 'a death spiral'
- MindsEye boss reportedly blames its failure on 'saboteurs' and says a re-launch is in the works, even as the entire development studio is at risk of layoff
- Brace yourself: Hades 2 just got what 'will likely be our final patch' before full release
- Founder of world's biggest mod site hits back at fans angry about upcoming age verification for NSFW mods: 'The law is the law and Nexus Mods will, and must, follow the law'
- Rematch's developers expected players to develop new tech fast, but 'not nearly as fast as it is going right now'
- I've just noticed Zalman is spinning up a new line of circular tower coolers that look a lot like itty-bitty jet engines
- Marvel Rivals' updated hero hot list reveals the most-played and highest win-rate characters, and it's good news for Support players
- The European Commission wants Europe to become the world leader in quantum computing within the next five years
- Romero Games' new shooter loses funding, the studio may be closing, and it looks like Microsoft is to blame
- This whack-a-mole with floppy disks running on an Amiga looks equal parts hilarious and surprisingly difficult
- No PC gamer actually needs this 3000 W power supply unit but like Gollum and the one ring, I wants it
- Neil Druckmann leaves The Last of Us HBO, alongside Part 2's co-writer Halley Gross, despite there still being 2 more seasons to go
- Google Veo 3 users long to immerse themselves in the worlds of their AI-generated videos, seemingly forgetting entire videogame genres already exist
- Peak devs accidentally released a patch that 'made a number of players totally unable to play' so now there's a new public beta Steam branch for everyone to mess around in safely
- As fans lose it over sanitised nudity and violence, Ready or Not devs promise they haven't changed their 'creative vision': 'We’ve only made changes where absolutely required'
- Elden Ring Nightreign's Sentient Pest is the second Everdark boss to fall short of expectations set by Gaping Jaw: 'There's almost no challenge'
- Capcom's financials show that embracing Steam has paid off handsomely: It now accounts for a third of all the publisher's revenue
- Hyte's iconic new Wing Gundam Zero case is going to grab your eyeballs first, but it's these fresh-looking keycaps I really want
- Bankrupt supplier with unsold TTRPG and D&D books files to move its inventory without paying publishers—which is 'a giant pain' if you're anyone but Hasbro
- The Arctic P12 Pro has earned my vote as the best replacement for ageing radiator fans—here's why
- This B860 motherboard is what I'd pair with a Core Ultra 265K to make a powerful pairing for about $500
- 2023's true GOTY has had its name and assets jacked by 'some kind of crypto scam,' while bootlickers assure the dev it's actually great publicity
- This designer has created a Frankenstein's monster by strapping two Nintendo Joy-Cons onto the Framework 12 and they're letting you do the same too
- The Legion Go S SteamOS is completing the Steam Deck's mission to make handheld PC gaming genuinely convenient
- X's latest terrible idea allows AI chatbots to propose community notes—you'll likely start seeing them in your feed later this month
- Today's Wordle answer for Thursday, July 3
- PC PowerPlay brings the Painkiller
- July 2
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- Today's Dune: Awakening patch notes are as long as a sandworm, with more than 300 changes, bug fixes, and squashed exploits
- Blizzard ends new content development for Warcraft Rumble and lays off staff: Former employee says 'most' of the team has been let go
- Phil Spencer retirement rumor is made up, says Microsoft
- EA reportedly expects Battlefield 6 to bring in 100 million players, a number that even DICE devs don't think is feasible
- French court finds 3 former Ubisoft executives guilty of workplace harassment
- The Elder Scrolls Online director Matt Firor, who helped launch ZeniMax Online Studios in 2007, is leaving the company
- Microsoft cancels the Perfect Dark reboot that blew us away last year, closes developer The Initiative
- A new MMO in development at Elder Scrolls Online studio ZeniMax has been cancelled as Microsoft puts thousands more people out of work
- 'Instantly lost all desire to even start': Mecha Break's Steam rating lands at an early 'Mixed' as players realize the beta's customization options have been turned into MTX fodder
- Rare's Everwild has been cancelled amidst Microsoft's enormous cuts to staff and studios
- Amazon will soon deploy more bots than it employs people now that it has a million robots
- AT&T says 'um actually' to President Trump after he blames the internet provider for conference call woes
- Palworld's Terraria update lands it back in Steam's Top 10 with over 120,000 players coming back, but its community manager is just waiting for people to brand it a 'dead game' again
- 'It's not like we applied for the award ourselves': Dave the Diver director reminds people that 'there's nothing indie' about his game and the controversial indie nomination was out of his control
- I've finally found a budget Gen 5 SSD I can recommend, a cool, calm, and collected drive available for a very reasonable sum
- OpenAI execs whine about the New York Times lawsuit and user privacy during live NYT event, get roasted by NYT journalist: 'It must be really hard when someone does something with your data you don't want them to'
- Deus Ex devs say they weren't trying to make a statement when they made one of the most political games of all time: 'What I think is the right future for humanity is irrelevant. It's all about what each player thinks'
- Videogames on the scale of Vampire: The Masquerade - Bloodlines 2 could be on the way for other World of Darkness TTRPGs, including Mage: The Ascension and Changeling: The Dreaming
- Fresh zero-day vulnerability in Chrome found to be actively exploited by hackers in the wild
- Final Fantasy 14 is fast-tracking one of my most-anticipated fixes, releasing an entire month earlier than expected
- Persona 5: The Phantom X has blessed the community with a new sh**posting mascot so corny it eclipses the nuance around the real-world issues he represents
- Phil Spencer says Microsoft's gaming business has 'never looked stronger' as the company announces yet another round of mass layoffs
- 'We need to do a better job': FBC Firebreak devs are revamping progression after finding out that just 5% of players own a level 3 perk
- All change at the top: Corsair's founder and long-running CEO steps down after 31 years as former company president Thi La takes over the reins
- Human spirit triumphs as the Croc devs announce they want to remaster Buck Bumble and the greatest main menu theme song of all time
- The game that would become Deus Ex originally starred Jake Shooter, supercop
- Introducing the PC Gaming Show Tokyo Direct—coming from the Tokyo Game Show
- Turns out you can transform your very ordinary car into an actual Mario Kart controller (but you probably shouldn't)
- AMD offers an update on Project Amethyst, a Sony collaboration that's already 'delivered smarter, more efficient solutions like Super Resolution in FSR 4'
- After more than a year of conflict woes between Bigscreen Beyond VR headsets, Nvidia GPUs and Linux, there's good news at long last as a fix is nearly in sight
- To the surprise of nobody, sales of the 16 GB RTX 5060 Ti at retailer Mindfactory outstrip the 8 GB version by a factor of 16
- Minecraft is bringing back the copper golem from the mob vote graveyard, igniting my hopes for a Moobloom comeback
- Subnautica studio leadership gutted by Krafton, which outright says that Subnautica 2 needs 'renewed energy and momentum'
- Intel's ex-CEO said he bet the company on the 18A node but now a new report claims Intel is pushing customers to next-gen 14A instead
- When Microsoft finally pulls the plug on Windows 10 its successor will be four years old, and for three of those, it was never the OS of choice amongst Steam users
- Cloudflare will block AI web crawlers by default, and introduces new Pay Per Crawl scheme that means AI companies will have to fork out for the privilege to scrape
- Free-to-play mech brawler Mecha Break has attracted 50,000 players within 10 minutes of launching, proving our appetite for giant robots remains insatiable
- Today's Wordle answer for Wednesday, July 2
- A massive free NBN speed boost is coming this September, but one provider has already rolled out a ginormous increase
- July 1
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- Destiny 2 just got weird: Launch trailer leans hard into time travel and looks more like a Control crossover
- A new WoW event boosts ultra-rare item drop rates tenfold, which admittedly isn't a huge difference when the starting number is 0.5%
- Hideo Kojima goes in hard on AI and is worried we'll all 'be unknowingly led into a predetermined lifestyle'
- 'It makes me cringe every time': 25 years after Diablo 2 reshaped the RPG landscape, Diablo creator David Brevik still thinks its stamina bar sucks
- A 'big beautiful bill' provision to prevent states from regulating AI for 10 years got nixed by the US Senate
- 'Give me more of that': Monster Hunter Wilds players have discovered its returning monsters got hands, and they're thrilled to be getting clobbered
- Youtuber PewDiePie is going all in on deGoogling and the Steam Deck is one of the surprising tools that's helping him to 'escape'
- Randy Pitchford asks fans if they'd swallow future Borderlands exclusivity deals, almost 10,000 people say just put your damn games on Steam
- Phoenix and Blade headline the new Marvel Rivals season, and it starts next week
- 'It took a while to get there, but now we feel we're in a good place': Fatshark's design director talks doing years of repair work on Warhammer 40,000: Darktide
- Get an entire tabletop role-playing library for the price of one book, thanks to what might be the most impressive bundle of RPGs I've ever seen in my 22 years in the hobby
- Nexus Mods will soon require age verification for UK and EU users looking for its treasure trove of adult mods
- Deus Ex was a hard sell because, among other things, the Thief devs thought 'if you give players a gun, they won't sneak'
- The US claims $81.5 billion bonus revenue from Trump tariffs but that's a drop in the ocean compared to its spending deficit
- 'Xbox hardware is dead' and 'there's literally no reason to buy' the ROG Xbox Ally handheld says founding member of the OG Xbox team
- Commodore's been bought by a YouTuber who's re-assembling key execs and already teasing new hardware
- Anthropic tasked an AI with running a vending machine in its offices, and it not only sold some products at a big loss but it invented people, meetings, and experienced a bizarre identity crisis
- Obsidian director Josh Sawyer says it's a 'mistake' for RPGs to sacrifice crunchy 'sweaty boy' systems in favour of a 'one size fits all' game, since easier difficulties aren't too hard to make
- Bing Bong is talking to you: Peak players are getting jump-scared by what seems to be the developers possessing a little green plushie
- BG3 might be the last hurrah for the era of the Hexblade, as D&D's 2024 rules revamp tries to dethrone the king of multiclass dips
- Anker recalls a number of power banks amid safety fears, though it says that 'the likelihood of malfunction is considered minimal'
- Good guy GSC wordlessly deletes ads in Stalker remaster menus with itsy-bitsy new patch
- Steam adds an in-game performance monitor so you can brag about hitting 900 FPS in Deus Ex
- The end is probably nigh for full Windows driver support for GTX 10, 9 and 7 Series graphics cards as Nvidia announces that its next major Linux driver fork will be its last for those GPUs
- Right to repair bill in Texas has been signed into law after winning by a landslide victory, with not a single vote against it
- Incredible neural implant translates neural activity into speech almost instantly by focussing on sound production instead of word choice
- Massive Ahold Delhaize data breach sees 2.2 million people's data exposed in ransomware attacks against major US food retailer
- Trump claims to have found a buyer for TikTok, but won't say who yet: 'I'll tell you in about two weeks'
- Author's petition requesting publishers swear off AI recieves over 1,000 signatures in first 24 hours
- Today's Wordle answer for Tuesday, July 1
- The first autonomous robot football match happened in China and it's like watching drunk toddlers with fewer ethical setbacks
