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- September 4
- September 3
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- After seeing 30 minutes of the new Bond game, I'm more excited for the shooting than the stealth
- September is absolutely stacked with city builders: Here's 8 releasing this month
- Path of Exile 2's newest update has me thoroughly convinced it's about to have one of the best action RPG campaigns in a long time
- Blizzard co-founder Mike Morhaime announces layoffs at his new company Dreamhaven
- Roblox to begin using 'facial age estimation technology' on its users, promises to 'limit communication between adults and minors unless they know each other in the real world'
- Cronos: The New Dawn reviewers say it's an 'atmospheric and uniquely introspective' survival horror outing—but it's held back by 'run-of-the-mill combat'
- If you're hungry for a co-op Borderlands 4 appetizer, give Big Daddy roguelite Abyssus a try
- As bugs and bad performance spoil an otherwise excellent Helldivers 2 update, Arrowhead CEO says its 'technical debt is crippling'
- The best Hollow Knight lore videos to watch before playing Silksong
- Amazon's live-action Tomb Raider series names Game of Thrones actor Sophie Turner as its new Lara Croft
- You can finally ride a horse in Disney Dreamlight Valley thanks to its new expansion coming this November
- 007 First Light is the first time IO Interactive has taken on an outside project, but CEO Hakan Abrak isn't worried: 'We're able to stand on the shoulders of ourselves'
- IO Interactive stuck with a young Bond for 007 First Light because it wanted to make 'something for the gamers'
- 007 First Light's opening mission was enough to convince me that I have to play this game, if only for IO's newer, younger Bond
- The most exciting new turn-based strategy game of 2025 throws together Jagged Alliance and Warhammer 40,000 in a dark sci-fi sandbox
- David 'Solid Snake' Hayter found out Raiden was replacing him in Metal Gear Solid 2 'in the booth while we were recording, and I'm like: 'What the hell?''
- Leaked Prey 2 development footage shows scifi bounty hunter gameplay that our cold and uncaring universe continues to deny us
- Jetrunner is a great little 'Trackmania meets Titanfall' speedrunning platformer I had to peel myself away from to write this headline
- Acer shows off the very first Intel Panther Lake laptop with what's claimed to be the world's biggest haptic touchpad
- Obsidian promises 'No dictates' from its capitalist Microsoft overlords while making The Outer Worlds 2, but yes the devs appreciate the irony
- As Bungie flounders following Destiny 2's disastrous Portal update, is there any saving the game?
- Yes, Stardew Valley's newly announced update will probably slow down work on Haunted Chocolatier, 'but not as much as you might think'
- Ex-Skyblivion dev says it 'was never in the state that the videos would show off' as they claim it's crunching on a 'pointless and unachievable' 2025 release goal—but remaining devs seem optimistic
- Grovemade desk review
- Shift codes in Borderlands 4: what you need to know for launch, plus a reward available now
- Helldivers 2's new hive world update is absolutely kicking my ass, and it's just what the game needed
- A last-ditch attempt to save the Perfect Dark reboot fell through because Take-Two and Microsoft couldn't agree who'd own the IP
- This new Japanese consortium wants to develop a novel method for making the next generation of interposer layers for multi-chiplet mega-processors
- This Kickstarter-backed battery maker claims you can smash a nail through its solid-state USB-C pack and it will still work
- The latest Lenovo leak reveals what looks to be a new long boi laptop concept—though this one is ever so slightly less ridiculous
- After a tease drove fans mad, Cyberpunk 2077 sheepishly warns that tomorrow's news will be quite boring, actually
- This RPG lets you enable (or disable) the Oxford comma, despite there being just 15 of them in the entire game: 'He added the setting when nobody was looking'
- Cronos: The New Dawn review
- $350 collector's editions, an 8-billion all-time peak, and fake thank-you letters: Silksong's finest meme merchants enjoy one last bout of Silkposting before the curtain call
- Nova Lake shipping manifest confirms rumours that Intel's flagship CPU will be packing up to 52 cores, but more cores aren't all Intel needs
- Here's the Hollow Knight: Silksong release time for each region
- Big updates are coming to player housing in Guild Wars 2's next expansion
- Intel spent so much cash on research and development last year that it outspent Nvidia by 28% and AMD by a whopping 156%
- TSMC, the biggest semiconductor manufacturer in the world, has special export privileges revoked as US continues to crack down on Chinese importers
- AMD's PC graphics card market share falls to a worrying 6% according to the latest analyst data putting Nvidia at 94% and probably an all-time high
- One of Stalker's most legendary mods has joined GOG's one-click install program, making it easier than ever to die horribly in Chornobyl
- Google will not be forced to sell Chrome, despite its near-monopoly, as its dominance is not 'sufficiently attributable to its illegal conduct'
- Borderlands 1's artstyle overhaul filled Gearbox CEO Randy Pitchford with dread because he thought he'd 'Have to go in and look at what they did' and 'shoot it in the head'
- The PC hardware requirements for Dying Light: The Beast are heavy on the CPU side, but they're all over the place when it comes to the GPU
- Gigabyte have finally released its RTX 5090 external GPU—but it's calling it an 'AI box'
- GameSir G7 Pro Tri-Mode review
- Today's Wordle clues, hints and answer for September 3 (#1537)
- Blood Bowl's getting a new edition with teams for Bretonnians and Tomb Kings in the box
- September 2
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- GTA Online 2025 roadmap: Leaks, DLC, and upcoming events
- The Crew is set to spring back to life as fan-made server emulator project prepares to launch later this month
- Randy Pitchford says the Borderlands film would've sucked a whole lot more if he'd directed it: 'It would have been way worse'
- How to watch the 30-minute 007 First Light gameplay 'deep dive' at Sony's State of Play
- Final Fantasy Tactics remaster devs built a replacement for its lost source code from fansite downloads, director says: 'I do want to thank all of the fans for all of their help in keeping that information archived'
- Left 4 Dead lead Mike Booth is making a new 'four-player co-op shooter built on the foundations of what made L4D special'
- Call of Duty movie confirmed: Activision and Paramount promise 'an authentic and exciting experience for longtime fans and newcomers alike'
- This 3D-printed mini arcade cabinet turns the humble Lenovo Legion Go into a bartop Street Fighter machine
- A laptop brand I've never heard of beat Razer's Project Valerie to the market with a three-screen laptop
- Google's self-loathing Gemini chatbot admits to being wrong 'every single time' and offers to pay software developer to fix the bad code it wrote
- You can pick up literally 382 games for $8 on Itch right now, with proceeds going 'directly to Palestine aid and relief'
- Tired of jiggling your GPU to get it to fit in a small form factor PC? Maxsun reckons it has the answer to that problem around the back
- Capcom president says PS5 prices are why Monster Hunter Wilds' sales aren't doing so hot, and we're trying not to take that personally here at PC Gamer
- Tesla claimed to have lost key evidence in wrongful death suit, right up until a hacker found it
- Story of Seasons: Grand Bazaar gift guide for romanceable characters
- Minecraft Copper Age update: everything you need to know about the 3rd drop of the year
- How to kill a Dragon Roach in Helldivers 2
- There are 3 dream remasters Atari's CEO wants to work on, but he has no idea if they'd actually 'do well'
- Wading into Helldivers 2's new Terminid hives to blow up their hearts, all as hordes of bugs swarm you is, unsurprisingly, exactly as cool as it sounds
- 'It crawls into every crevice, stains your cables, and turns teardown into a full day regret spiral.' That's what awaits you if you plan on immersing your graphics card in automatic transmission fluid for a spot of messy overclocking fun
- If this report about 2nm silicon from Japanese chip manufacturing start-up Rapidus beating TSMC is true, there might just be hope for GPU prices
- How to get honey in Story of Seasons: Grand Bazaar
- Silksong's onslaught claims another head—Dorfromantik team's next game gets punted to escape the 'hype-supernova': 'Both games deserve their moment to shine'
- Samsung and SK Hynix, the world's biggest makers of DRAM and flash memory chips, have potentially lost the right to buy US equipment for use in their China-based factories
- Oscar-nominated actor and Red Dead Redemption 2 performer Graham Greene dies age 73
- Linux almost turned my Gamescom trip into a catastrophic disaster, but a Windows USB came to my rescue
- Corsair Scimitar Elite Wireless SE review
- We're teaming up with Blumhouse to give away 500 Steam keys for co-op horror Eyes of Hellfire
- What if modern PC gaming were just a little more Nintendo? Kazeta, a Linux-based OS, aims to find out with plug 'n' play SD 'carts' and by going all in on retro simplicity
- Nvidia's RTX 5070 is the most popular current-gen GPU in the latest Steam hardware survey but AMD's RDNA 4 cards don't even make the top 100
- GPD shows how its Strix Halo handheld gaming PC battery fits in your pocket, but I'm still not convinced it's portable enough
- Intel's patent for 'software defined super cores' probably won't make an appearance in CPUs any time soon but implementing the tech could spell the end of the P-core
- Razer | Kuromi Collection PC peripherals review
- Final Fantasy 14's latest patch makes surprise nerf to an arduous 9-year-old dungeon grind, and I hope there's more like it to come
- We're never getting another Deus Ex, but we can relive the glory days with all this new unused music from Mankind Divided
- How to use the Shark Fin in Path of Exile 2
- Nvidia says AI models lack 'common sense' so it's drafting in good old fashioned human beings to give them a pop quiz
- A former mayor in the Philippines may have got a majorly bad deal on computing tech, reportedly paying $175,000 for 16 Intel 11th Gen machines
- Magic: The Gathering's Spider-Man set is full of Spider-Verse Spider-Folk including the superhero identities of Peter Parker's alternate-universe wife and daughter
- Today's Wordle clues, hints and answer for September 2 (#1536)
- September 1
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- Blizzard filed a copyright infringement lawsuit against one of World of Warcraft's biggest private servers, but the team behind it is putting on a brave face: 'Challenges come to us often, and each time we are prepared to face them'
- Delays to escape the shadow of a launch like Silksong are about way more than just day 1 players: 'Every game has to fight and use whatever edge they've got available to stay visible'
- AI chatbots can be manipulated into breaking their own rules with simple debate tactics like telling them that an authority figure made the request
- Crusader Kings 3 players have struck out on nearly 5 million seduction attempts, but we still don't know how many Popes have been kidnapped
- Meta to take 'extra precautions' to stop AI chatbots talking to kids about suicide, which makes you wonder what it's been doing until now
- Final Fantasy 14 director Yoshi-P daydreams of more crossover events with Evangelion, Gundam, and especially Diablo: 'I love it so much that I would want to make a Diablo game myself'
- Crucial T710 2 TB NVMe SSD review
- 'Gooning has been vaulted in Fortnite'—Epic stops certain emotes being used in proximity so that horny teenagers can no longer mock-hump each other
- If you're like me and fell off Valve's other MOBA Deadlock, these last few months of updates are worth coming back for
- 2024's true GOTY was a Diablo-flavoured Vampire Survivors-like, and it just announced a big free update and an enormo-DLC
- AntGamer is releasing a 1,000 Hz gaming monitor next year, with a helping hand from AMD, though the chances are you really don't need it
- One of Roblox's biggest experiences right now is a bizarre Italian Brainrot character-stealing simulator and, lord help me, I now understand why it's so popular
- Something Cyberpunk 2077 is happening on September 4 and that's all I can tell you because CDPR is a gold-medal vague-poster
- TSMC hits record 70% foundry market share, making a synapse singeing $30.24 billion in revenue last quarter alone
- 'Legality is not the defining factor': Anti-porn group that pressured Steam and Itch.io adult game delistings says it goes after games it doesn't like 'even when they are not illegal'
- I've tested the simple config file tweaks to improve Metal Gear Solid Delta's ray tracing and add frame gen, but the mod to ditch the 60 fps cap is what you really need
- Total War: Warhammer 3's new random locations can cause a game-ending plague, plant nukes under your settlements, or even buff you in all future campaigns thanks to the power of Tzeentchian time-warpery
- Crucial X10 review
- 'Magicka scares me', says Helldivers 2's Johan Pilestedt, since it was made at a time where Arrowhead was much smaller—but he'd still like to revisit the series 'at some point'
- MSI Crosshair 16 HX AI (2025) review
- I didn't know I needed dedicated photography lights until this $48 set turned up, but now I'm a convert
- Age verification legislation is tanking traffic to sites that comply, and rewarding those that don't
- Escape from Tarkov finally puts on the big boy pants and announces a Steam release as it gears up for version 1.0
- 'We wanted to focus on performance': Battlefield 6 developer explains why EA is skipping ray tracing at launch
- How to find and use the Well of Souls in Path of Exile 2
- Hero ports entirety of Morrowind into Elden Ring, thumbs nose at 'Bethesda lawyers' as steam presumably shoots out of their ears
- Even after performance fixes and price cuts, Intel's CEO admits that it 'fumbled the football' with Arrow Lake CPUs but claims that Nova Lake will fix everything
- 'Min spec is certainly one of our most important': Battlefield 6 dev says low-end build players were a 'meaningful percentage' of the beta, and he aims to keep it that way
- REPO has announced its next update, but we actually have a date this time, rather than a series of videos to slowly announce it
- 'The Copper Age' marks the 3rd game drop for Minecraft this year, and according to the announcement post 'It's almost like we're entering a new Minecraft era'
- The Blood Ravens' Chapter Master Gabriel Angelos won't be in Dawn of War 4 so it can focus on relatively 'normal' heroes instead
- Team Cherry confirms Silksong price and launch times—it's definitely $20, and it won't be releasing at the stroke of midnight on Thursday
- Today's Wordle clues, hints and answer for September 1 (#1535)
- See the remade version of Oblivion's tutorial dungeon in the first 15 minutes of a Skyblivion playthrough
- Five new Steam games you probably missed (September 1, 2025)
