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- December 30
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- Eric Barone makes $125,000 donation to the C# framework Stardew Valley uses, as well as 'an ongoing monthly commitment' in what the team behind it calls an 'extraordinary show of support'
- This indie WarioWare-like released a teaser just to show off its 'game over' music, and after hearing it, I can see why
- This sequel to a classic NES beat 'em up is about to be delisted from Steam, but you can get it for a few bucks in the meantime: 'The delisting process is currently underway'
- I can tell World of Warcraft's player housing is going well by the amount of Star Wars stuff this one player keeps building
- Some of my favorite childhood platformers are free on Epic for today only, and they've all been updated for better crossplay with Steam owners
- Arc Raiders was Steam's best-selling game the week of Christmas, and Battlefield 6 wasn't far behind
- December 29
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- None of us are at good at action RPGs as the Path of Exile 2 player who beat one of its toughest bosses without any gear: 'What did I just witness?'
- Fallen Aces's second episode won't be out this year, but it will feature a first-person car chase with a tommy gun in both hands and a foot-operated steering wheel
- Rainbow Six Siege servers are back after hackers randomly doled out bans, unbans, rare skins and 'billions' in in-game currency
- GOG crawls out from under CD Projekt Red with a new owner and teases 'ambitious' plans for classic game 'rescue missions' starting next year
- December 27
- December 26
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- Action RPG players will exploit anything in the name of efficiency, which is why Path of Exile 2 players are locking themselves in the campaign for profit
- Peak devs were ready to go 'into vacation mode' after releasing it, but then it sold 1M copies in the first week: 'That quickly became a pipe dream'
- 'It was definitely interesting': Persona 5: The Phantom X developer was surprised that people outside of Japan were 'cheering' for the Subway Slammer
- Persona 5: The Phantom X had a hard time doing away with the series' iconic calendar system: 'It was very difficult to convince the team'
- 'Our fans have been very passionate': How player feedback has been at the core of the first six months of Persona 5: The Phantom X
- An innocuous video about how FromSoft protagonists are 5 feet 7 inches tall led to me becoming weirdly fixated about videogame character height this year
- December 25
- December 24
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- Steam seems to be back to normal, at least for the moment, but now it looks like the Epic Games Store is getting hammered
- Blade director reassures suffering fans with soothing words: 'Please be patient, it will be a special game'
- Intel's 'Serpent Lake' rumoured to be its first chip developed in collaboration with Nvidia
- Commander Shepard actors will return for the new Mass Effect game 'with bells on' if BioWare asks them: 'Email the powers-that-be who make these games and say, Give us more Shepard'
- 2025 saw game developers scrambling to avoid heavy hitters like Grand Theft Auto 6 and Hollow Knight: Silksong
- Samsung outs world's first 1,040 Hz and 6K 3D gaming monitors ahead of CES
- Fallout season 2's second episode arrives at the best Wasteland location to date as Todd Howard praises the show for taking 'such amazing care to treat locations with this obsessive authenticity'
- December 23
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- Wait, there was a new live-action Witcher movie? Starring Dolph Lundgren? On Netflix? In October?
- Polish analyst adds fuel to rumors that The Witcher 3 will get new DLC in 2026 to set up The Witcher 4
- Electronic Arts shareholders vote overwhelmingly in favor of Saudi-led takeover
- Hollow Knight: Silksong player discovers Hornet's taunt does damage, proceeds to spend hours trying to beat every boss with it: 'This is like watching Sisyphus push the boulder and win'
- The games industry pays tribute to the late Vince Zampella: 'Thank you, Vince—You were one of the good ones'
- 007 First Light, IO Interactive's James Bond game, is delayed 'to ensure the experience meets the level of quality you players deserve on day one'
- 'It's a pretty big deal for me as a human': One of the FGC's most popular commentators is stepping away from future EVO events following its Saudi buyout
- Hideo Kojima says Super Mario Bros. 'was the catalyst that brought me to the game industry', and made him realise 'this medium would one day surpass movies'
- Grand Theft Auto could have been a globetrotting series like Assassin's Creed, according to former Rockstar technical director: 'We had ideas about GTA games in Rio de Janeiro, Moscow and Istanbul' while 'Tokyo almost actually happened'
- Fallout 4's lead designer reckons it is the 'most replayable' game in the series thanks to its interweaving quests, which I'm sure will go down swimmingly with New Vegas sickos
- Turns out that Fallout: New Vegas beta stuffed with cut content also contains early versions of the DLCs with some big differences
- Danganronpa creator says his latest game 'might truly become the last grand, 200-hour game story in human history written entirely without AI'
- If you thought Bloodlines 2 lacked bite, remember that The Witcher 3's director left CD Projekt to make a vampire RPG, and it's out next year
- Five Nights at Freddy's 2 is one of the worst-rated movies of the year just like Borderlands was last year
- EVE Online players destroyed 1,142,260,784,813,930 ISK worth of ships in 2025, which according to my caveman-level maths amounts to over $6 million lost to the void
- This neat Windows registry trick boosts NVMe SSD performance up to 80% but it's only officially available for enterprise users
- Marvel Rivals wants to go big for 2026, and the team has 'already planned more than a year ahead'
- The now-settled KOTOR 2 lawsuit saw accusations of demonic possession and the plaintiffs' lawyer hitting back at Aspyr with Lil Wayne lyrics: 'Okay you're a goon, but what's a goon to a Goblin? Nothin. Nothin. You ain't scaring nothing.'
- Goodbye text fringing: LG's new RGB Stripe panel might solve one of the last remaining issues with OLED gaming monitors
- December 22
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- Swen Vincke warns Divinity newcomers that they probably shouldn't play the early games in the series: 'They're a bit outdated by now,' which is putting it very mildly
- Vince Zampella, the co-founder of Infinity Ward and head of Battlefield, dies in car crash
- 2K Games chokes out another WWE game just 2 years after launch
- The ill-starred Perfect Dark reboot had 'entire chapters' completed before cancellation, says Joanna Dark's voice actor, who 'did not see it coming… it was devastating'
- Clair Obscur's famously small (but not that small) developer isn't interested in becoming less not-that-small: 'I think it's good to have limitations when you are creative'
- The horse girl sickos have done it again, this time raising $800,000 for a farm that houses some of Umamusume's real-life horse counterparts
- Battlefield 6 fans suspect EA used generative AI in a cosmetics pack for the shooter: 'I would literally prefer to have no sticker than some low quality AI generated garbage'
- An indie dev worried about being seen as a ripoff after discovering a game similar to the one they were making, but then the original dev responded: 'Don't be discouraged'
- Hideo Kojima says MGS2 was never about AI 'but rather a future I didn't desire' of data gaining a will of its own and 'unfortunately we're heading there'
- I am desperately trying to wrap my head around this upcoming heterosexual omegaverse game
- Blue Prince is 'the result of 8 years of development, fuelled by imagination and creativity' not AI says publisher
- Over 30 years since release, this classic PC platformer built with the tech that led to Doom just got a remaster
- Roguelite city builder Super Fantasy Kingdom has been a big success, and now its developer can afford a luxury he's always dreamed of: 'A real winter jacket'
- Fortnite has quickly pulled its latest accolades trailer after letting a saucy foreplay reference slip through the cracks
- Obsidian's Josh Sawyer leads the charge of RPG fans playfully roasting Stranger Things for its D&D rule flubs: 'The oldheads are going to catch all these things'
- December 21
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- You might think reimagining Washington DC as a nuclear hellscape for Fallout 3 would have been grim, but it made the lead designer want to set the next game in his hometown: 'It's just kind of fun to blow things up'
- There's a Transformers XCOM-like on Steam, and it's on sale for 90% off before it gets delisted
- Fallout: New Vegas lead writer worries Caesar's argument for authoritarianism 'was done a little too well,' but still believes 'you can't just make your tyrants cardboard villains'
- Indie Game Awards pulls two awards from Clair Obscur over generative AI use: 'We have a hard stance against gen AI in videogames'
- Warhammer 40,000: Dark Heresy shows off equal helpings of sleuthing and smashing in its new trailer, as its first playable alpha test goes live
- This dystopian free-running sim set in a brutalist megacity is being codeveloped by one of the designers of last year's best FPS
- Dishonored co-creator says it was 'a shock' when Microsoft closed Arkane Austin after Redfall's release: 'We were working on something really cool'
- Quake's third Brutalist Jam now has a whopping 75 maps, and its organiser is working on a hub to stitch them all together: 'this is going to be an insane challenge'
- Google killed support for the Dreamcast web browser after 25 years
- The New Blood-published 'immersive stealth FPS' Blood West is free on Epic—but only for 24 hours
- Blizzard's focus is on existing properties, president Johanna Faries says: 'We have iconic IP and in many ways it still has a lot of room to scale'
- December 20
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- One of the internet's top experts on Skyrim minutiae hosted a $10,000 charity competition to guess how many trees there are in the Bethesda classic
- Nobody can agree what an 'immersive sim' is, but OG Fallout lead Tim Cain has his own definition: 'The very elements that make something an immsim are the ones that I also think make good RPGs'
- Valve has quietly discontinued the last LCD Steam Deck model
- Abiotic Factor's 1.2 update invites you to explore the 'Holiday Cryosphere', a festive interdimensional snowglobe where everything's on fire for some reason
- Co-op smash hit RV There Yet? gets an 'unplanned content update for an unplanned game' as the comedy vehicle sim surpasses 4.5 million copies sold
- Painkiller's creator isn't a fan of its recent co-op reboot: 'I disagreed with every single thing they've done in it'
- Stalker 2 gets a new zoning permit in its 'Stories Untold' update, adding 8 missions and 7 locations as you explore what's giving Stalkers 'headaches, nosebleeds, and even hallucinations'
- December 19
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- FromSoftware just dropped an absolutely busted item in Elden Ring Nightreign that has completely shifted the meta overnight
- A major overhaul of League of Legends is reportedly coming in 2027: 'Once we're done, it should be the best time ever to get your friends into League'
- Epic ritually humiliates another Fortnite fraudster who was stealing and selling accounts
- TikTok's US arm has been sold, in a deal that one Senate Democrat says won't do 'a thing to protect the privacy of American users'
- 3 months before launch, Marathon art director Joseph Cross departs from Bungie: 'I'm incredibly proud of the visual world we built'
- Sam Altman says Google is 'still a huge threat' and ChatGPT will be declaring code red 'maybe twice a year for a long time'
- Taiwan plans to keep cutting-edge nodes close to home, leaving Intel with the opportunity of a lifetime
- Ark 2 is now set to come out in 2028, and it may not have as much Vin Diesel as we were expecting: After years of delays, his involvement is 'an open question'
- It's an older node, sir, but it checks out: Samsung appears to have scooped a deal with Intel to make its next generation of motherboard chipsets in its 8 nm fabs
- OLED monitors are starting to get their flowers, as 2025 marks a 65% increase in shipments
- The likelihood of another Battlefield: Bad Company is slim, but its former lead designer thinks Battlefield boss Vince Zampella could make it happen: 'He knows his sh*t'
- Securities firm research suggests that Intel is on track to garner chip manufacturing and packaging orders from Apple, Broadcom, Google, and maybe even Nvidia
- Keystroke lag alerts Amazon security staff that recent US-based IT hire was actually in North Korea
- Dave the Diver's next DLC really changes things up: you can freely explore the new village in real time, complete quests to win over locals, and your restaurant doesn't serve sushi
- AMD stealth-launches a new low power version of its Radeon RX 9060 XT graphics card that could be great for a DIY Steam Machine, though it's only shaved 13% off the energy consumption
- The Razer DeathAdder V3 HyperSpeed wireless gaming mouse is now even cheaper than it was during the Cyber Monday sales
- You won't be able to play Valorant until you update your motherboard BIOS: 'this is a necessary step in our arms race against hardware cheats'
- Microsoft celebrates 10 years of DirectX 12: A decade of updates to the low-level graphics API but it's still not the master of all things rendering
- PowerWash Simulator 2 will kick off the new year with its best collaboration yet—hold onto your BMOs because Adventure Time is coming to powerwash
- Brennan's latest trick on Critical Role is actually one he's done before—breaking with D&D tradition to let players choose when they level up, instead of just after they've taken a really good nap
- December 18
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- We're hitting peak saturation for first person dungeon crawlers, but Queen's Domain stands apart from the crowd
- Naughty Dog developers reportedly hit with mandatory overtime to finish an internal demo for its upcoming sci-fi game Intergalactic: The Heretic Prophet
- This birdwatching take on Pokémon Snap says my awful Junco photography is worth $6000 and I'm not about to argue
- Swen Vincke promises an AMA to clear up Larian's use of generative AI: 'You’ll get the opportunity to ask us any questions you have about Divinity and our dev process directly'
- Less than a week after dropping a big new trailer at The Game Awards, Exodus studio head James Ohlen has stepped down because he 'felt his work on the game was complete'
- Pressing buttons is optional in this 'walking simulator' paladin build Diablo 4 players have just cooked up
- World's most powerful 92-year-old wins Tekken 8 tournament for the elderly
- The Doom-playing rats are back, and now they've learned how to shoot
- Horizon-like survival game Light of Motiram disappears from Steam and Epic after Tencent reaches a 'confidential settlement' with Sony
- Arc Raiders patch brings blueprint drop rates back down to Earth, but Embark says they're 'still higher overall than before'
- FIFA wants to redefine 'the pure motion of simulation games' with its 2026 World Cup game, which will also be a Netflix exclusive
- The Steam Winter Sale kicks off with deals on some of 2025's biggest games, including PC Gamer's 2025 Game of the Year
- 80% of the world's data centres have been built in places either too hot or too cold for the hardware inside
- WoW devs plan to 'whitelist' spells for use in combat mods and addons, and while it looks like Blizzard's going soft, I'm not sure that's the whole picture
- Intel Panther Lake laptops leak early onto retailer sites, so it looks like 18A really is ready to roll
- Ex-ASML workers reverse-engineered state of the art chipmaking machines to get China far closer than previously thought to independence from foreign tech
- Arc Raiders continues in the Christmas spirit with $10 worth of free currency alongside the ongoing blueprint bonanza
- Battlefield liked to 'take the p*ss' out of Call of Duty, but it was a 'very healthy rivalry' that pushed DICE to do its own thing
- Asus tells owners of its Intel motherboards to update the BIOS because they 'may allow unintended access to system memory'
- Game devs charged up to 50x more for fonts by Japanese typeface maker and yes, even this might be AI's fault
- All I want to see in Dune: Awakening is a third-stage Guild Navigator, and according to game director Joel Bylos: 'You'll be a very happy man during the next year'
- Dune: Awakening's Chapter 3 update includes a 'completely revamped Landsraad system,' a new 'specialization experience system,' and eight new overland maps to visit
- This RTX 5070 gaming laptop is the cheapest one I've seen and will probably be better than anything new in 2026 because of RAM prices
- 'We're all big fans of Walton': Walton Goggins reprised his role as the Ghoul for Fallout 76's latest expansion, and it was a big hit among the devs
- Despite being banned from Steam and Epic, horror game Horses sells 18,000 copies—and while that's enough to pay loans and royalties, it's not enough for a new game
- CEO of Manor Lords and Against the Storm publisher says publishers should not be trying to 'break even at the expense of developers' and should be willing to take a loss because they can afford to 'spread the risk'
- Add it to the pile: G.Skill issues statement on surging DRAM memory prices and the company totally blames AI
- Micron says memory shortages will persist beyond 2026 but 'more memory is essential' for the 'AI experience'
- Wikiflix offers up the classics for all to enjoy: 4,000 public domain movies from the last 100 years—and I want games to get the same treatment
- Analyst firm says the games market is expected to reach a record-breaking $197 billion by the end of 2025, 'driven primarily by stronger-than-expected performance on PC and mobile'
- December 17
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- Forget Pewdiepie, YouTube will become the exclusive home of the Academy Awards beginning in 2029
- Fallout's Justin Theroux drops a hint for a possible New Vegas character cameo that's got me pumping my fist
- Another MOBA gives up: Supervive, developed by former Riot devs, is closing in February, just 7 months after it launched
- Remember that bodycam shooter that went viral in 2023? Now it's got them sweet Tencent megabucks to reach its 'full potential'
- Kingdom Come: Deliverance 2 is PC Gamer's GOTY because it 'trusts' players and takes them seriously, says Warhorse co-founder: 'I think you can only eat so much popcorn'
- Meta puts third-party VR headsets using Horizon OS on indefinite pause 'to focus on building the world-class first-party hardware and software needed to advance the VR market'
- Eric Barone doesn't want to 'reveal much yet,' but Stardew Valley's 1.7 update is starting to sound like another big one
- Swen Vincke says the price of RAM and SSDs means Larian will be doing lots of optimisation in Divinity's early access 'that we didn't necessarily want to do at that point in time'
- Kingston sounds the SSD pricing alarm as the company has seen a 246% increase in NAND wafer prices, with the biggest increase 'within the last 60 days'
- Nvidia is reportedly looking to cut gaming GPU production by up to 40% in 2026 due to VRAM supply issues, but it's not as bad news as you might think. Not yet, at least
- It has taken Final Fantasy 14 players no time at all to form a cult around this glitched level 1 mob with no name or purpose
- It turns out Arc Raiders Expedition skin might be the most-requested outfit in the game, which has me awfully tempted to retire my Raider
- Todd Howard says 'Fallout 5 will be existing in a world where the stories and events of the show happened or are happening'
- The RAMpocalypse has developed a whole new style of scam: one unlucky gamer opened a sealed box of new DDR5 memory from Amazon only to find two sticks of DDR2
- Samsung's new Odyssey OLED monitor has dropped by a whopping $170 in the holiday sales
- Arctic's new MX-7 thermal paste looks seriously good and I'm already regretting buying a ginormous tube of MX-4
- Firefox is becoming an AI browser and the internet is not at all happy about it
- Steam's 2025 Replay reveals we all once again spent around 14% of our time on games released in the same year—which apparently shakes out to a median of 0.56 new games
- A location shown in Fallout Season 2 Episode 1 got me pointing at the screen like Leo—and it has nothing to do with New Vegas
- The first episode of Fallout season 2 solves the 15-year-old New Vegas mystery of the missing Vault 24
- Arc Raiders players say blueprint drop rates have exploded after Cold Snap update: 'Blueprints everywhere!'
- Todd Howard says he's been offered 'a whole bunch' of cameos in the Fallout show but won't be tempted: 'I don't want to distract'
- December 16
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- The Elder Scrolls 6 is 'progressing very well,' Todd Howard says: Everyone wishes it could go faster, but 'it’s a process that we want to get right'
- There's a new Arc Raiders outfit you can only get by playing Embark's other game, The Finals
- Steam Replay 2025 is live: I spent half my gaming time this year in Bongo Cat, and I regret nothing
- Baldur's Gate 3 developer Larian defends itself as fans react to generative AI use: 'I'm not entirely sure we are the ideal target for the level of scorn'
- Get a head start on Fallout Season 2: the new Fallout Shelter update adds The Ghoul, Lucy, and Maximus in a Vault under New Vegas
- Dead Island 3 is aiming for release in 2028, which means it'll take 7 years less to make than Dead Island 2
- Stellar Blade boss receives presidential commendation for his contributions to the Korean videogame industry
- 'Give us the chip. Give us the RAM. Let us have our fun. Let us go nuts': Sapphire's PC gaming evangelist wants AMD 'to get out of the way' when it comes to designing graphics cards
- AMD is allegedly sizing up Samsung's new 2 nm node as an alternative to TSMC's N2 silicon for its next-gen chips
- Funcom may have closed down Metal: Hellsinger studio The Outsiders, but its co-founder and Battlefield vet David Goldfarb says it's not over yet: 'We're working on the 2.0 version of The Outsiders, so we're not dead'
- A reviewer's board game gift guide to ease the run-up to Christmas
- Fallout Season 2 review roundup: Is the show is 'spinning its wheels' or is it 'a hell of a lot of fun'?
- Microsoft's new guide to PC gaming hardware is very slightly more useful than you might expect but oddly has never heard of upscaling
- Merriam-Webster's word of the year is 'Slop,' summing up 12 months that have been especially soggy with AI-generated content in only four letters
- Goldman Sachs research seems to point towards DRAM and SSD prices spiking next year as memory supply lags behind demand
- Swen Vincke says there's 'definitely more pressure' to nail Divinity after the critical acclaim of Baldur's Gate 3
- People of Note's blend of turn-based combat and musical theatre is the exact kind of weird concoction my sicko brain has been yearning for
- Kiss goodbye to cheap VRAM, reports say supplies of Nvidia's RTX 3060 graphics cards are finally running out
- Divinity will be turn-based with a 'new ruleset' based on everything Larian has learned so far, says Swen Vincke: 'it allows you to do fantastic things'
- Divinity has even 'deeper sequences of consequence' than Baldur's Gate 3, says Larian: 'We wouldn't be excited if we were making the same game again'
- Divinity is 'past pre-production' and already recording actors, but don't read too much into that: Swen Vincke says Larian will be 'recording non-stop'
- Acer and Asus will also pass on surging memory costs to the consumer, highlighting a growing industry-wide consensus
- Astarion actor Neil Newbon doesn't get why games like Arc Raiders using 'dull as hell' AI for voice work don't 'go back and actually redo the lines with actors' once they make it big
- Anthropic reveals that as few as '250 malicious documents' are all it takes to poison an LLM's training data, regardless of model size
- Silksong has sold more than 7 million copies in 3 months—and no, that's not counting Game Pass
- Surprise! Hollow Knight: Silksong's getting an expansion promising 'new areas, bosses, tools, and more' next year
- December 15
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- Ace Combat 8 will feature custom cloud tech, but not just for prettier skies: 'I personally am not particularly interested in improved visuals without improved functionality'
- Amazon sells a free-to-play MOBA it had in development, and the studio making it, to Ubisoft
- Diablo 4 players still haven't found a cow level, but they did just find the next best thing: a secret boss battle with piles of loot
- Bungie takes its second shot at revealing Marathon: $40 price tag, proximity chat, solo queue, and March release confirmed
- Arc Raiders interview: Embark talks behavior-based matchmaking, map updates, and playing nice with strangers
- Everyone who thought Diablo 4's original villain made some good points will be happy to know she's coming back in its next expansion as an ally
- Fallout: New Vegas' Mr. House was based on Howard Hughes, but the game's lead writer says his sense of the character 'has changed as we've seen the rise of Silicon Valley would-be messiahs'
- Roblox ban sparks protests in Russia
- We're getting the first episode of Fallout Season 2 earlier than we thought
- 'Leon isn't just handsome': Resident Evil Requiem devs gush about how great our favourite Resi character is, but do warn that this game will push him 'to his limits more than ever before'
- Samsung denies reports that it is exiting the SATA SSD consumer market
- If you want to scrub Windows 11's AI features off the face of the earth some legend has made a tool that does just that
- Arc Raiders' Cold Snap event will turn 'every raid into a high-stakes survival run' as frostbite drives players into what little shelter remains
- This RTX 5060 Ti gaming PC seems to have missed the memory crisis memo as it costs less than $900 and has 32 GB of DDR5 RAM
- Hades 2 lead says they didn't nerf the game's most popular boons, but rather found 'new homes' for them during early access development
- Arc Raiders devs are uplifted by how kind players have been to one another, but admit 'we're way worse people than the community' when it comes to engaging in PvP
- Framework raises its memory prices by 50%, but says 'it is highly likely that we will need to make further price updates...whether DDR5, LPDDR5X, or GDDR'
- Fallout: New Vegas modders are having a field day restoring cut content found in the recently leaked beta
- Divinity: Original Sin 2 has shot back up the Steam charts after Larian's Game Awards announcement, and it just got a surprise Switch 2 version, too
- The Warhammer Conference continues making deep dives into grim peril: 'it makes the papers themselves more approachable for a non-academic audience'
- December 14
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- Silent Hill f's lead actor was worried her first stream of the game would 'end with an apology press conference,' but she ended up loving it and got millions of viewers
- Peak just added an in-game concert starring rapper bbno$, but it's gone tomorrow
- RPG dev pushes back against Steam review AI accusations: 'We poured years of our lives into this game and only worked with real human artists on everything'
- Get up to 90% off historical murder in the Assassin's Creed franchise sale
- Microsoft nukes popular Halo 3 mod for Counter-Strike 2 from orbit: 'It was fun while it lasted'
- Phoenix Point's Terror from the Void mod is so good Snapshot Games just released a massive patch to make the original game more like the fanmade overhaul
- December 13
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- Love wins: This woman has 'married' a cardboard cutout of Kazuma Kiryu from the Like a Dragon games
- This roguelite claims to have the dubious honor of being 'the world's first fully playable game created 100% through AI' in a milestone for slop everywhere
- Fate of the Old Republic director promises release before 2030 even though studio was only recently formed: 'I'm not getting any younger'
- French President Emmanuel Macron gives a second public shout-out to Clair Obscur after its Game Awards sweep: 'A source of great pride for Montpellier and for France'
- This '90s CG render-core 3D platformer is finally out in early access after 'five years of hermetic grinding' from its solo dev
- Prolific voice actor Jim Ward, whose credits include Knights of the Old Republic, New Vegas, Grim Fandango, and more, has died
- After 17 years the most sophisticated bike mod has landed in GTA 4, and it wasn't easy: 'I wanted it to feel like GTA 4 always meant to have bikes—not like some clunky workaround'
- Race a Kei truck through a collapsing Japan in DriveCrazy, which is like Burnout if you could drive on walls and fight towering kaiju
- Gate Guard Simulator is Papers, Please with fewer terrorists, more geese, and the chance to throw people into a moat
- Sins of a Solar Empire 2 gets a massive diplomacy overhaul that makes wars 'economically ruinous'
- I'm never getting any work done ever again, thanks to this website that lets me play thousands of user-made Doom levels in my browser
- December 12
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- The most promising action game of 2026 finally has a release date, and we now know it'll launch on PC day one
- Hogwarts Legacy goes free for the first time to kick off the Epic Games Store's 2025 Holiday Sale
- The new voice of Lara Croft is a veteran of Cyberpunk 2077, Lies of P, Dragon Age, Assassin's Creed, and a whole bunch more
- Yes, IO Interactive really scanned Lenny Kravitz's incredible sculpted abs for his 007 First Light character model
- Kingdom Come: Deliverance 2 devs tweet 'Blame the French!' after losing every Game Awards category to Clair Obscur, but it was in good fun: They partied together after
- The internet is not convinced it should care about another PvP hero shooter, drops a collective eye-roll that plunges the big Game Awards final reveal into a YouTube dislikes hole
- More than 19,000 games launched on Steam this year—but almost half have fewer than 10 reviews
- 'Our ambition is to keep this game alive for the longest time': Embark's devs want to keep working on Arc Raiders 'as long as players engage with it and have fun'
- MIT electronics researchers develop a new way to fabricate transistors on the backend of finished dies, to keep pushing the limit of chip densities ever higher
- 'We have spooked Disney legal': Court filings reveal a KOTOR 2 remake stuck in the phantom zone, who's working on the KOTOR 1 remake, plus Aspyr's doomed efforts to get the Restored Content Mod past anxious lawyers
- You got the juice now, man. Well, so long as you remember to pick up this half-price charger for all your devices this holiday anyways
- OpenAI is now 10 years old, but how well has its mission statement to 'benefit all humanity' aged?
- Your bloodlust does have consequences in Arc Raiders, as a dev confirms, 'we do analyse behaviour and match accordingly'
- Everyone's arguing about whether Divinity will be turn-based or an ARPG, and I'm not sure why because the answer seems obvious
- AMD wants to hire people with experience of Intel's new silicon tech, but would AMD ever actually make chips with its arch rival?
- The WD_Black SN850X is a great fit for a gaming PC and a great deal at $159
- 'Quite a few things have taken us by surprise': Arc Raiders' wallhacks caught the devs off-guard as heaps of greedy players hunted for exploits
- Crypto boss sentenced to 15 years over 'epic, generational scale' fraud that lost over 40 billion dollars
- Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 developers are so thankful for the awards, they dropped a big stonking DLC for free that you can go play right now, with some clutch quality-of-life updates, too
- Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 takes home an absurd 9 wins at The Game Awards, more than Baldur's Gate 3 in 2023
- C'mon, Remedy, you can't use the words 'Rise and Shine' in your TGA trailer—don't you know you're hurting all those hopeful fans in r/Halflife?
- No pods in sight, but Star Wars: Galactic Racer still looks rad
- Screamer's multi-lingual anime inspiration comes from a love of fighting games: 'We really like them, even the weird ones'
- While some aren't happy about the new Screamer going all-in on anime vibes, its director says the 'essence' of the original is still present: 'This is still Screamer'
- Ace Combat 8: Wings of Theve is coming to Steam and consoles in 2026
- The true highlight of The Game Awards was Werner Herzog explaining Warframe
- The rumors were true, Creative Assembly really is making Total War: Warhammer 40,000
- Open world RPG shooter No Law is going straight on my wishlist after its Game Awards reveal—we spoke to the devs to find out more
- That sick-looking first person sci-fi game at The Game Awards is actually the sequel to Sons of the Forest
- Diablo 4's age of reworks might finally be over with its next expansion as it plans to deliver major features players have wanted for years
- Diablo 4's highly anticipated paladin class is playable today, before its second expansion launches next year
- I think The Game Awards just broke the record for most people presenting a single award, with the entire cast of the Street Fighter movie announcing 'Best Ongoing Game'
- Jonathan Blow's new game has the most 'Jonathan Blow's new game' pitch imaginable: A 'game design supercollider' that takes 4 puzzle games and jams them together into a 500-hour saga
- Tomb Raider comes to The Game Awards with not just one but two new games: a 're-imagining' and an all-new adventure
- The new Control game isn't a shooter, it's not set in the Oldest House, and it doesn't star Jesse Faden—but, y'know, otherwise it seems like a faithful follow-up
- Resident Evil Requiem will have Leon S. Kennedy as its second protagonist, and he's bringing his sick roundhouse with him
- A weird sci-fi thriller starring Stellan Skarsgård? That takes place in a hotel on the moon? From the makers of SOMA? Yeah, I'm in
- The next official D&D videogame won't be anything like Baldur's Gate 3: 'We're making a third-person action-adventure open world game that focuses on the warlock'
- I'm sad to report that you cannot romance the space octopus in Exodus, the Matthew McConaughey-starring space opera RPG from former BioWare devs
- Larian reveals Divinity, its 'biggest game ever,' that will be 'even larger than Baldur's Gate 3'
- After 21 years, Knights of the Old Republic's original director is returning to the series for Fate of the Old Republic
- Some of the stars of Baldur's Gate 3 and Final Fantasy 16 will be blessing Solasta 2 with their voices
- Decrepit is a 'dark fantasy first person soulslike' in a castle full of zombies who'll repeatedly drag your clobbered body back to the dungeons until you get good enough to escape
- Disney quaffs the Kool-Aid with a $1 billion investment in OpenAI that will see its most iconic characters used to generate AI slop
- December 11
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- The Game Awards live coverage: Every reveal and announcement as it happens
- Rockstar now says fired employees were let go because they revealed 'specific game features from upcoming and unannounced titles' in a public forum
- Capcom says Monster Hunter Wilds performance improvements are arriving next week, but more PC-focused fixes will be coming in January
- Fallout 4 was initially set in New York because it's 'something grand and American' and Nick Valentine capped-off the very first design document: 'I think the photo was of Humphrey Bogart'
- The Deus Ex remaster that everyone thinks looks awful is delayed, there's no new release date, and preorders are being refunded
- 007 First Light's first villain is Lenny Kravitz, and I bet he's not going to get away
- This Zotac mini PC has an inventive way of ditching its RTX 5060 Ti's power cables, and no it's not the same as the Asus BTF way
- Handheld PC maker Ayaneo unveils its first phone, the Pocket Play, with a hidden controller behind a sliding screen
- Arc Raiders' latest mini update fixes a bunch of ratty exploits, including the zipline that set players free in Stella Montis, as Embark announces it's stepping back from weekly fixes
- At $820, this isn't the cheapest RTX 5060 gaming PC I've seen but it does have one major plus: 32 GB of DDR5-6000 RAM
- New Magic: The Gathering infinite combo is just making The Hulk step on caltrops over and over until he's mad enough to win
- Oracle will shop around for AI chips after adopting a policy of 'chip neutrality'… but of course it'll still buy the latest Nvidia GPUs
- Arc Raiders players are begging Embark for a new high-risk augment 'that secures the weapon, not the loot' and I'm fully on board
- These glorious little animations offer the best visual explanation of the benefits of SSDs over hard drives I've ever seen
- December 10
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- McDonald's achieves AI apotheosis with a generative AI Christmas ad so miserable the production company responsible pulled a statement defending it after the ad was removed: This was 'an important learning,' McDonald's exec says, but what did we learn?
- Arrowhead founder casually mentions that a Helldivers 2 'roguelite mode' is in the prototype phase: 'It changes the game fundamentally!'
- Legendary FPS developer John Romero says his studio 'survived the cancellation of our huge game' and its shooter project 'will be new to people the way that going through Elden Ring was a really new experience'
- Not even the UK government knows why Rockstar fired more than 30 employees in October: MP says that after meeting with the studio, 'I did not leave informed on exactly what these 31 people had done to warrant their immediate dismissal'
- Fallout's holiday 'Ghoul Log' features Walton Goggins, Dogmeat, and the return of a beloved Fallout: New Vegas character
- King of Meat studio was reportedly expecting 100,000 concurrent players, but it peaked at 320 on Steam—and that was during a free weekend
- If 4K gaming is just too easy for your RTX 5090, then try it on Asus' new 5K ROG Strix display and watch it weep
- L33t! Razer is bringing back the Boomslang, the original gaming mouse. Kinda...
- Capcom says it wants Mega Man, Devil May Cry, and Ace Attorney to be 'core IPs' like Monster Hunter and Street Fighter: '[We] recognize the need to grow our pipeline going forward'
- RAM prices might be sucking all the joy out of building PCs but four-screen AIO coolers go a little way to bringing a smile back on my face
- A Red Dead Redemption 2 fan conducted an in-game census to test Rockstar's historical accuracy and found it wasn't half bad: 'It's videogame-ified in a lot of ways, but not as much you might guess'
- 'It's kind of like a blind date': Fallout 76's creative director discusses the shaky beginnings of life in Appalachia—'I view the initial launch as really the prelude'
- Noctua fans, rejoice: You can finally colour-match your 3D printed creations to that iconic colour scheme using official 3D printing filaments
- Nvidia has built location tracking tech that uses the 'confidential computing capabilities' of its AI chips to prevent smuggling, according to a Reuters report
- Ever-opportunistic bitcoin miners in the US are reportedly now transforming their crypto farms into 'AI megafactories'
- Microsoft wants to make Windows 'the best place to game—no matter where you play' but Linux and Valve's SteamOS have other ideas
- Blizzard sees players levitating their homes in WoW's player housing, 'even though there weren’t UI controls for that', decides it's now a feature, not a bug
- Google is under investigation in the EU to find out whether it imposes unfair terms on content creators for AI
- Fallout: New Vegas lead writer inconveniently points out that Fallout season 2 is all about New Vegas but 'there's no credit for that, there's no residuals for that'
- Marvel Rivals is turning up the heat with a new busted hero who can steal powers from her enemies to create shields, heal, and turn invisible
- Steam's latest cozy game has a fascinating backstory: Not only is it a PS1 game that predates the 'cozy' era, but it's only officially available in English thanks to fan translators
- From today, Australian teens and children under 16 can't sign-up to Twitch and 9 other social media platforms, as world-first ban takes effect
- Arc Raiders' big winter update is coming next week, Embark teases new temperature mechanic
- December 9
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- 'We actually didn't attribute any value' to Warner's game studios, Netflix boss says about the acquisition deal: 'They're relatively minor compared to the grand scheme of things'
- After Black Ops 7's weaker launch, Call of Duty will no longer do back-to-back releases in the same series
- 'Rethinking the survival genre': In this post-apocalyptic adventure, 'your body tells you what's going on' instead of stamina and hunger meters
- Why not: Mad wizard modder turns Red Dead Redemption 2 into Super Monkey Ball, complete with gyro controls
- The Outer Worlds is actually not being delisted from GOG after all: 'It was an unfortunate miscommunication'
- Senior Bethesda dev says the Fallout show works because Todd Howard wouldn't let the usual 'videogame directors' touch it: 'We want the best director, the best showrunner possible'
- Battlefield 6 Winter Offensive update introduces annoying stuttering issue that's apparently fixed by turning off your Steam friends list
- The mystery of The Game Awards statue in the desert may be solved, and I have to admit I did not see this one coming
- Repair shop simulator ReStory will finally let me live out my dream of being an electronic tinkerer without having to destroy my own belongings first
- I love a weird dating sim, and the trailer for bug dating simulator CatchMaker might take the cake
- Find Your Words will challenge you to develop connections without dialogue in a bright summer camp, and yes, it looks like you can birdwatch
- Cozy Caravan's 1.0 release is coming next month, and frankly I can't wait to continue where I left off
- PlayStation Store accidentally confirms Leon is in Resident Evil Requiem with an early peek at new cover art
- After accumulating more than 200,000 wishlists, a NSFW gacha game cancels its planned Steam release over a 'policy requirements' problem 'that cannot be reasonably resolved'
- League of Legends just got WASD controls after 16 years, and you can probably guess how smoothly the rollout's going
- Somehow the Assassin's Creed: Black Flag remake continues to leak, thanks to a PEGI rating for something called Black Flag Resynced
- Lenovo, HP, and Dell said to have warned customers of imminent PC price hikes, so I hope you've already picked up that upgrade you had your heart set on
- Framework calls out Dell and Apple for using the RAMpocalypse to 'gouge customers' on memory upgrade prices but the reality is more complicated
- The US gov shut down a $160 million smuggling operation trying to get Nvidia H200 chips into China and also, err, says the GPUs won't be restricted anymore
- Good gaming laptop deals are tough to find right now, but you can still pick up this beastly RTX 5080 machine with a $1,300 discount
- This SIM-card-sized 2 TB SSD hits 3.5 GB/s and has full NVMe functionality, but it's arriving just in time for the memory apocalypse
- Square Enix hit with a brutal 100-slide presentation from one of its shareholders about alleged mismanagement, other shareholders asked to pitch in with 'frank views'
- Elden Ring Nightreign's first major DLC has sold over 2 million copies in under a week, as it manages to reignite that soul-crushing spark I had the first time I played
- Philips and AOC announce the 'world's first' 1,000 Hz dual-mode gaming monitors
- Microsoft killed the promising Perfect Dark reboot, but Take-Two has snapped up its leads for a new 2K studio
- Windows 3.1 included a red and yellow 'Hot Dog Stand' color scheme so garish it was long assumed to be a joke, so I tracked down Microsoft's original UI designer to get the true story
- December 8
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- Shenmue studio threatens legal action over an apparently faked Shenmue 4 trailer, which it says 'has absolutely no connection to Ys Net'
- The Game Awards reveals fan-voted Players' Voice nominees, and I'm sorry to say that Megabonk is once again out of the show
- Path of Exile 2 director is on a 'quest to make the perfect action RPG' and isn't afraid to borrow from Path of Exile 1 to pull it off
- 'We're not doing a good enough job [with Portal] right now': Battlefield 6 dev says players are making 'fantastic' creations that nobody is seeing because of a 'technical issue'
- The effort to canonize a Steam tag for the world's 'survivorslikes' and 'bullet heavens' intensifies with a public poll and celebratory sale aiming to finally settle on a name for the misfit genre
- YouTube channel discovers a good use case for AI-powered robots: Shooting YouTubers
- Humble Bundle is closing out 2025 by bringing back some of its most popular bundles of the year, including one with every Borderlands game ever made for just $70
- Hideo Kojima says Death Stranding was 'too unique', OD's going to be 'completely different', but Physint's an espionage game so 'you can make it in your sleep'
- Elevating Your Entertainment: Exploring Dolby Atmos with HDMI® Technology
- Looks like the Run dialog box is getting a sleek new look on Windows 11
- Paramount, backed by Saudi Arabia's Public Investment Fund, launches hostile takeover bid for Warner Bros. Discovery, one day after US president Donald Trump says the Netflix deal 'could be a problem'
- World of Warcraft players are already discovering new tech with its player housing—turns out, you can sit anywhere as long as you're able to fit a chair inside
- Good news and good news: Meta is reportedly hard at work on the Quest 4 and has delayed its mixed reality glasses to 2027
- Windows is rolling out the ability to handle all app updates from just your OS, but with limited support right now
- Two of the best gaming PC deals from Black Friday and Cyber Monday 2025 are still live, and surprisingly they're from Alienware
- Tekken boss announces retirement after 30 years in the most Harada way imaginable: a lengthy social media post and hour-long mixtape
- Baldur's Gate 3 fan discovers the game has nearly 237 hours of spoken dialogue in it—and a whopping 14 hours are narrator Amelia Tyler's alone, though Astarion gives her a run for her money
- Fallout executive producer confirms season 3 should start filming next summer: 'We'll see if that all comes together'
- There's a mod that lets you play Hades 1 in Hades 2
- Statistics prove everyone is T-posing for dominance in Elden Ring Nightreign, the feared Bell Bearing Hunter is only the fourth-deadliest field boss, and nobody plays Guardian
- Team Fortress 2 Classic is now Team Fortress 2 Classified, has been delayed to January 30: 'it wouldn't be an authentic TF2 experience without a bit of Valve time'
- December 7
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- Gaming collectible purveyor iam8bit is suing publisher Skybound over alleged fraud related to cat sim Stray
- The creator of popular animated short The Backwater Gospel is making an FPS inspired by 'Half-Life and the golden age of narrative first person shooters'
- Forget the GTA 6 delay, one modder is quietly building an entire Grand Theft Auto multiverse inside GTA 5
- Wreckreation developer puts its entire staff on notice as publisher THQ Nordic abandons it: 'We simply cannot sustain the studio in its current form'
- Descenders Next gets a big multiplayer update as its developer apologises for taking so long with it: 'We're slowly working on getting the feel and flow of Descenders back into Descenders Next'
- World War 1 survival horror Conscript gets a 'huge' update that adds a hardcore mode, redesigned levels, new items and gear, and much more
- Viking RTS Northgard is now Northgard: Definitive Edition, thanks to an update that folds in its major DLC and adds a bunch of new stuff free to existing players
- Felicia Day says her New Vegas character 'is one of the best roles I've ever got to play,' but the actor won't be in Fallout Season 2
- December 6
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- Players are piling in to the Guild Wars remaster, and it's giving the servers trouble: 'Demand for Guild Wars Reforged blew past our projections'
- Arc Raiders finally lifts the curtain on its Expedition rewards, showing us what players can expect to get for retiring and prestiging their Raiders later this month
- Tom Morello worked on a song for Final Fantasy 14's latest raid tier after finding out the game's composer was a huge Rage Against the Machine fan
- Fan community announces it will revive Unreal Tournament 2004 with Epic's blessing: 'We're doing this for free because we're fans of the game and we like a challenge'
- Rust's hotly anticipated naval update is delayed into 2026: 'We took on too much'
- Tempest Rising's playable third faction has invaded its beta branch, as its developer commences testing for the next two weeks
- Monkey Island creator Ron Gilbert isn't interested in returning to making 2D adventure games: 'When we're all dead, it probably won't be the kind of thing that survives'
- Cities: Skylines 2 finally gets its asset editor in a parting gift from the series' original developers
- New Fallout clip gives us a glimpse of an iconic Fallout: New Vegas location
- December 5
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- Todd Howard says AI can't replace human 'creative intention,' but it's part of Bethesda's 'toolset for how we build our worlds or check things'
- Actor Cary-Hiroyuki Tagawa, known for his iconic depiction of Mortal Kombat villain Shang Tsung, has died
- There are too many hints at a Diablo 4 shadow drop at The Game Awards to convince me paladins won't be playable next week
- Netflix agrees to buy Warner Bros, including its game studios, for nearly $83 billion-with-a-B, but the fight may not be over yet
- 'We ended up flipping a coin': Slay the Spire devs left it up to pure chance whether they'd make a sequel or something else
- Ella Purnell shuts down theories that a romance between Lucy and the Ghoul is coming: 'You guys need therapy'
- Remember Postal? In the last 48 hours publisher Running With Scissors has announced a new game, insulted fans, apologized, canceled the game, the studio making it denied wrongdoing, shut down anyway, and we can thank the magic of AI for all of it
- Mysterious missile defense game PVKK named one of our most anticipated games in this year's PC Gaming Show: Most Wanted
- WoW's new player housing feature's been out in early access for less than a week, and players have already made battleships, dollhouses, and large hadron colliders
- The guy responsible for the whole battle engine in Total War since Rome 1 had 'never worked writing game code' when he got the assignment
- Enchanting metroidvania MIO: Memories in Orbit has revealed a January release date alongside a mesmerising new trailer
- Netflix sells the studio behind Cozy Grove back to its original owners, freeing the studio to bring its mobile life sim to other platforms
- It never rains, but it pours: A security bug with a maximum severity rating is putting many of the worlds' servers at risk
- I've just discovered that you can master time and space in Arc Raiders, and now I want to intimidate everyone with my physics-breaking aura
- In a surprise change of heart, Nvidia's brought 32-bit PhysX support back to RTX 50-series graphics cards, though only for a select number of games
- AMD's Lisa Su doesn't believe there's an AI bubble: 'Emphatically, from my perspective, no'
- Fallout co-creator Tim Cain is out of 'semi-retirement' and back at Obsidian
- To celebrate Total War's 25th anniversary, 4 of the series' best games are being added to GOG's preservation program—and they're currently available at up to 80% off
- Let It Die: Inferno promises it used AI 'that observes copyright laws' and isn't 'modeled after any human performers,' so please don't be mad at it
- I did the maths and worked out what level all these Fallout TV show characters got to by the end of season one, and it was going so well until someone gained 186,204XP in 2 minutes
- The TV show based on Total War was tricking us all along: 'It's kind of embarrassing, but it's television'
- Adding yet more needless features, Discord joins the 'wrapped' crew with a yearly stat recap called Checkpoint
- Todd Howard says that the Fallout franchise is 'a cautionary tale', and that 'that world before the bombs fall' is what makes it so special
- Disney Dreamlight Valley's new Dream Team feature will drastically improve life in the valley, and I cannot wait to beg my friends for resources
- The next update for The Outlast Trials features a terrifying new enemy and map that might be the thing that scares me so much I can't play anymore
- During Nvidia's formative years, its CEO reckons it 'had a mission statement for a company that has no chance of success' but it was fine because Sega's CEO thought 'Jensen was a young man he liked'
- Yep, Cloudflare was just down. Again
- December 4
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- Oh no, all of Reddit's NFTs are disappearing in less than 30 days, someone do something
- Hytale won't be on Steam when it launches into early access: Developers want to focus on the game, not 'on negative reviews from players that aren't as well-informed yet about what we are doing'
- Eidos Montreal lays off more employees, internal projects reportedly cancelled as the studio shifts focus to support work
- Every game, trailer, and announcement in the 2025 PC Gaming Show: Most Wanted
- 'Everything is bigger' in Slay the Spire 2, which has been crowned our Most Wanted game
- Capture the heart of hectic sea battles in upcoming pirate themed survival crafting adventure, Windrose
- Your chance to wreak havoc as an inseparable demon-infant duo is closing in with twin-stick action adventure game Damon and Baby
- Delightfully weird dream logic RPG Away From Home is out this week
- This first look at Inkblood is giving me the heebie-jeebies, but in a jaunty, dark carnivalesque way
- Springs, Eternal is the first full-sized game from Gone Home co-creator Steve Gaynor after the rest of Fullbright broke off
- Splitgate 2 is dead, long live Splitgate: Arena Reloaded—the shooter's back-to-the-basics relaunch is coming December 17
- Battle very, very sad bosses in The Relic: First Guardian, a Witcher-like RPG rooted in Korean folklore
- Samson is a game about a man on a quest to pay off his debt and save his family, but he'll have to kick some butt in the process
- The House of Hikmah is an upcoming puzzle adventure that dives into a young girl's journey through grief
- One of our favorite FPSes is getting a spin-off we didn't expect: Dungeons of Dusk
- I'm ready to 'ruin the campaign' as the world's worst cleric in Esoteric Ebb, a satirical CRPG launching this spring
- Starsand Island makes me want to quit my job and move to the coast with its adorable new trailer
- Regions of Ruin: Runegate just dropped a new trailer and I'm about to pledge myself to the Dwarven king, no questions asked
- A game where you buy and sell stocks based on the lives on alien babies has a demo out now
- Dance through the dark to the sound of zombie groaning in bullet hell roguelike Be My Horde, which just got a major update
- Craft a cornucopia of unique spells in 3D side-scrolling puzzle adventure Rhell: Warped Worlds & Troubled Times
- Rivage is a time loop puzzle game from the same publisher as Blue Prince
- Flight sim strategy game Remnant Protocol is set to release in March
- Luna Abyss really puts the 'hell' in bullet hell with a nightmarish new trailer
- Dawn of War 4 will let you play as the Dark Angels and their boss, a big lad with the best name in 40k, Lion El'Jonson—yes, he's really called Lionel
- Streets of Fortuna is a survival megasim set in an ancient city where you can take down an overlord, start your own religion, or otherwise live your best life
- Survival horror game Halloween just dropped eerie footage of one of its maps and I'm already planning my hiding spots
- Let it Die: Inferno inverts the roguelite action, sending you down into the Hell Gate instead of up into the Tower of Barbs
- Reality warps around you in Valheim-esque co-op survival crafter Brightfall
- Unyverse mixes action RPG combat with deep Afrofuturist world-building where tech meets tradition
- Down with the Ship's demo proves it's a worthy spiritual successor to the space-faring magic captured by FTL: Faster than Light
- The Gods are dead and Death is your only master in Gods, Death & Reapers, a chaotic hack-n-slash extraction looter now accepting alpha playtesters
- Check out this game that's definitely About Fishing and not anything creepy or untoward at all
- Last Man Sitting gets a complete overhaul and open beta where you can shoot your office printer with a minigun
- Den of Wolves pre-alpha gameplay shows us what happens when you break stealth in the upcoming co-op heist FPS
- Attack to the beat in Wardrum, a new rougelite rhythm strategy game where you have to free the world from poorly timed magic
- Now's the time to relive classic MMO Guild Wars, which just got a big 'Reforged' overhaul
- In the new demo for upcoming factory sim Modulus, you not only build machines, but also design modules they're made of
- Atmospheric thriller When Sirens Fall Silent has an in-trailer twist that's really messing with my head
- Deep Rock Galactic: Rogue Core makes it into our top 25 Most Wanted games list, teases not-yet-officially announced fifth class
- Spellcasters Chronicles is a new MOBA that swaps item shops for deckbuilding, and its beta starts right now
- I forgot Crimson Desert has mechs and dragons in it, but you know what, now I'm even more excited for it
- City builder and creature collector Tamer Town shows off autobattling and Manor Lords-style plot planning
- Witchspire is another exciting upcoming game in the 'yes, of course I want to be a witch and join a coven and befriend a cool familiar' genre
- Hellraiser: Revival director thanks The Council for 'their depravity and generosity' as it's named our 17th Most Wanted game
- CTF shooter Last Flag now has a Steam demo, and it's worth trying whether or not you're an Imagine Dragons fan
- High on Life 2's skateboard went from 'dumb idea' to being so good the team 'designed everything else around it'
- Witness gargantuan mech fights in this desert survival game that's giving The Electric State meets Death Stranding
- Elven colony sim DarkSwitch just got an official release date, so buckle up for cable cars and airships as you erect your treeside utopia
- Upcoming action RPG Queen's Domain looks like just the thing for fans of classic FromSoftware games
- Defend Earth from the Arachnid scourge in Starship Troopers Ultimate Bug War, a new retro FPS coming next year
- Upcoming adventure game Epoch Reset has awakened the Steins;Gate stan in me with its time-bending shoujo storyline
- Soulmask release window revealed as the gravity-defying Shifting Sands DLC trailer airs during the PC Gaming Show: Most Wanted
- Sable creative director's new studio aims to make games sustainably rather than 'trying to make loads of money off one big hit project'
- Battlestar Galactica: Scattered Hopes' new trailer reminds us that resource management only gets you so far—we have to fight with giant lasers to save humanity
- Killing Floor 3 just got a major update with Season 2: Operation Breakout, reintroducing the Stalker we've all been waiting for
- Lunar Strike is a thoughtful, combat-free, speculative sci-fi survival game that's heavily grounded in real science
- Cairn finally has a release date, so get ready to scramble your way through this atmospheric climbing game
- Turn small puppers into huge doggos in new deckbuilding roguelike Dogpile
- Eldritch horrors grasp your frail teammates' minds in Neath, an upcoming tactical roguelike RPG where you also control the enemy
- Cure the world by raining blood in Ex Sanguis, a ruthless, turn-based roguelite battler
- For a cozy, floof-filled co-op survival experience, complete with terraforming mech suits, Animalkind is just the game I didn't know I needed
- I am already falling in love with every alt NPC in Grave Seasons, the upcoming farming sim that ranks at number 24 in our Most Wanted games list
- Ferocious blends Far Cry chaos with Ark's dino-taming, and it's available on Steam right now
- Atmospheric indie platformer Memories in Orbit is a haunting, robot-infested metroidvania with deep and dastardly lore to uncover
- Retro football manager Nutmeg turns the beautiful game into a card battler
- Rogue Point looks like the Rainbow Six Vegas successor I've been waiting for, from the studio that made Black Mesa
- Carmageddon: Rogue Shift looks like the Death Race game we've always deserved
- Substructure is a multiplayer automation game with a deep, dark twist
- SOL Shogunate is a J-rock-infused samurai space opera from the developers of Horizon and The Witcher
- Raw Fury is kicking off 'Rawcember' with a stacked Humble Bundle, featuring a discount on one of the year's coolest puzzle games
- Blood: Refreshed Supply launches today, bundling new scenarios with the remastered '90s classic
- Survivorlike shooter Night Swarm just launched on Steam
- Path of Exile 2 devs 'had so much negativity' around druids not being able to dodge roll in animal forms that they spent the last month making it happen: 'Man it was tough to get that to work right'
- Tencent promises not to pull any shenanigans with its Horizon-like survival game while Sony's lawsuit works through the courts, unless and until a judge says it can
- Rockstar co-founder finally settles ancient debate: GTA is NOT as good as Charles Dickens
- Two men have been arrested for attempting to destroy government databases and they reportedly tried to cover their tracks with the help of AI tools
- Creative Assembly has been busy—Total War: Medieval 3 is coming, along with more Warhammer DLC and another game that will be revealed next week, 'marking the beginning of an exciting new era'
- Fallout season 2 won't pick a canon New Vegas ending: '15 years down the line, every faction might think they won'
- If the nukes drop, Todd Howard says he's signing up with the Brotherhood of Steel
- Ball X Pit is getting not just one but three free updates in 2026, adding new characters, buildings, evolutions, and of course more balls
- FF14's Yoshi-P reveals why he's finally lifting glamour restrictions—he's got his own preferences, but it's 'no longer the time to force them on players'
- The source code for Asus' phone cameras has been hacked, but it's apparently 'not impacted Asus products, internal company systems, or user privacy'
- First it was owls, but now I've become obsessed with adding baby dragons to my Minecraft world thanks to this mod
- The 2025 Microsoft Excel World Championship went way, way harder than it needed to with its wrestling-style intros and I'm so here for it
- 'This is a race towards who can get more and more of the world’s 7.5 billion people to become subscribers': IBM's CEO says the AI industry isn't a bubble
- Hot on the heels of Micron bailing out of the consumer RAM market, SK hynix is apparently committing over $500 billion to build four new memory fabs, with the first to be finished by 2027
- The 29 best PC gaming deals you can still pick up from Cyber Week
- I asked Fallout series executive producer Jonathan Nolan which he liked better, Fallout 3 or Fallout: New Vegas, and he said 'Fallout 3' without even hesitating
- 'It is such a thrill to have the power armor on': Fallout's Kyle MacLachlan says wearing the T-60 suit feels like 'you can do just about anything'
- 'Huge respect to the folks at Obsidian': Todd Howard invited Obsidian devs onto Fallout season 2's set so they could see New Vegas in the flesh
- Todd Howard reveals that Fallout's famous line 'War never changes' nearly didn't make it into the TV show 'because it can sound cliché'
- 'I haven't sat down to play the games, and I won't': Fallout's Walton Goggins says he 'not interested' in playing the RPGs his show is based on
- 'Never bet against' Jensen Huang's 'ability to disrupt himself' says IBM chief
- Want a perfect perch but without the gaming bling? This Flexispot ErgoX office chair is the cheapest it's ever been, now just $250
- Just in case you thought Helldivers 2 was a little too nice, Arrowhead's just added magma planets where everything's on fire, and this is fine
- A weird, never-released NES horror JRPG no one knew about 2 years ago is now translated and fully playable
- December 3
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- Skyblivion is 'in the best state it's ever been' but, you guessed it, it's also been delayed into 2026, and the dev team is once again asking for help to get it finished
- GameStop gives someone a historic $30,000 trade-in payout for an ultra-rare Pokémon card, then takes aim at the 'trolls' for some reason
- Russia bans Roblox over extremist content and 'LGBT propaganda'
- Ron Gilbert canceled his Zelda-inspired RPG, in part because a good publisher is hard to come by these days: 'It's like they have formulas that they apply to games to try to figure out how much money they could make'
- The RAM crisis is just getting started: Micron makes the 'difficult decision' to abandon the consumer memory business to focus on supplying AI data centers
- Nightreign's new patch fixes the most annoying part about prepping for its toughest bosses
- 'We're trying to use early access in the way it was meant to be': PUBG creator Brendan Greene wants his new survival game to be built 'with the community, rather than for them'
- PlayerUnknown's new survival game already has three DLCs planned, but won't include one fan-favourite idea: 'I think the weather is sufficiently worrying at this stage'
- Horses is back on the Humble Store: 'After a full review they determined that while the content is heavy, nothing in the game warrants removal'
- 'Just last week alone, we were notified that costs had risen by 50–100%': SSD maker Transcend further tightens its belt amid delayed Samsung and Sandisk shipments
- As NetEase pledges to 'replace' a No Man's Sky model in its survival MMO, Sean Murray says they played themselves because the asset's busted anyway
- This Ray-Ban Meta smart glasses detector helpfully lights up the word 'glasshole' when the specs are nearby, just so we're all aware of exactly what we're dealing with
- Here's our exclusive first peek at massive-scale RTS Ashes of the Singularity 2 in action, and would you look at the size of this thing
- Avowed says sorry gang, no fall update this year, but to make up for it the devs are rolling together a bunch of features into a ball and putting them out in February
- 'I expect the vibes out there to be rough for a bit': Sam Altman calls for a 'code red' alert at OpenAI as Google's Gemini 3 gives it a scare
- Even Raspberry Pi computers, some of the cheapest lil machines on the market, are getting price hikes thanks to the RAM shortage
- Ayaneo says that next up is the, err, Next II, a power-hungry handheld with a whopping 115 Wh battery
- Intel's next-gen 14A chip production node is the 'real deal' says leading analyst
- Cloudflare says DDoS attacks have multiplied to 1.7x last year's count and at points there's been about one attempt every second
- Hypixel Studios releases the PC system requirements for its Minecraft-lookalike Hytale, and it's the most comprehensive breakdown I've seen in a long time
- Samsung's new, more affordable OLED gaming monitor has already dropped in price by $150 in the Cyber Week sales
- Google's toying with nonsense AI-made headlines on articles like ours in the Discover feed, so please don't blame me for clickbait like 'BG3 players exploit children'
- The father of the Linux operating system, Linus Torvalds, says the reason why Windows has a rep for bugs and blue screens isn't down to bad code but bad memory
- Varmilo releases mildly cursed looking 'foot keyboard' designed to give you an edge in competitive games
- How to watch the PC Gaming Show: Most Wanted Powered by Xbox Game Pass on December 4
- Latest viral Game Awards tease could be teasing any videogame with hellish imagery from the last 70 years of the medium, but it's probably Elder Scrolls Online
- It turns out Saudi Arabia will own 93.4 percent of EA if the buyout goes through, which is effectively all of it
- December 2
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- Like a Dragon creators won't buckle to mainstream western tastes: 'people start making strange things when they misunderstand what their business is supposed to be'
- CD Projekt winds up Cyberpunk 2077 fans with fifth anniversary post, then cruelly breaks their hearts: 'We’re not teasing anything'
- Epic bans indie horror game Horses just one day before launch due to 'inappropriate content', despite having approved that content weeks ago
- The Marathon art theft debacle has been 'resolved to my satisfaction,' according to the artist Bungie stole from
- Shovel Knight developer Yacht Club Games will be in serious trouble if its next release isn't a hit: 'It's make-or-break for sure'
- Oxford English Dictionary rage baits traditionalists by naming 'rage bait' as its word of the year 2025
- IO Interactive says that, once Bond is out of the way, hell yeah we're getting back to the good stuff: 'Of course there's going to be a next Hitman'
- Attention survival game sickos: you can be among the first to playtest the sequel to one of my favorite survival RPGs
- Escape From Tarkov player makes world-first escape from Tarkov
- Hideo Kojima will make furry criminals regret their words and deeds as a mole who is also a cop in Zootopia 2
- The company that invented the AIO cooler has accepted an $85 million buyout offer from a major Chinese electronics group
- Samsung rejects the claim that it is negotiating with itself over memory contracts
- Reports of Windows 10's death appear to have been greatly exaggerated as 29% of Steam users still cling on
- AMD graphics card prices could rise by $40 thanks to the RAM supply crisis, but the extra you pay could be even more
- 21 months and 5,000 hours in, this long-term OLED monitor burn-in test finds that panel degradation slows after six months
- Helldivers 2 cuts its install size from '~154GB to ~23GB' in a beta you can opt into now, defeating liberty-hating storage reqs with 'no functional differences' between versions
- Swen Vincke unable to utter 'giant Withers naturals' as Baldur's Gate 3 celebrates its 3rd Christmas with large rabbits, Baldstarion, and a 1996 Lada Riva
- My favorite sub-$1,000 OLED gaming laptop deal has returned from the dead this Cyber Week because it's a stone cold badass
- Rumours suggest AMD might raise CPU prices but some industry sources disagree
- Embark has confirmed that Expedition bonuses in Arc Raiders are permanent, but that does little to clear up the confusion
- The dominoes are falling: motherboard sales down 50% as PC enthusiasts are put off by stinking memory prices
- Windows 11's latest update includes a free File Explorer flashbang bug for dark mode users wanting to relive their early Counter-Strike days
- My idle vending-machine sim obsession has dropped a big new update, so don't expect me to get any work done while I fixate on Oolong Tea
- Great news for Intel: It now owns fully 1% of the gaming GPU market
- As Cyber Week continues, the cheapest RTX 5080 gaming PC right now is this $1,900 Alienware machine
- Memory crisis and sky-high DRAM prices could run past 2028 as Samsung and SK Hynix opt to 'minimize the risk of oversupply'
- There are still some great gaming PCs under $2,000 as Cyber Week rolls on—here are the best I've found after scouring around
- Runescape: Dragonwilds rolls out its farming update next week, and I can't wait to use it as another excuse to not complete the main quests
- Oh joy, it looks like OpenAI could be planning on turning ChatGPT into the ultimate advertising bot
- December 1
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- The official successor to one of the most dunked-on controllers in history, the Xbox 'Duke', is 40% off for the rest of Cyber Monday
- 'We're so back': After withdrawing from The Game Awards in November, Megabonk is back in the fight in the Players' Voice category
- The 11 Elden Ring Nightreign DLC features that would surprise and delight the biggest FromSoftware fans
- You can get the first 5 Witcher novels for just $33 during Cyber Monday, then go back to patiently waiting for The Witcher 4
- The best Fallout fan artist I've ever seen is running a Cyber Monday deal on their amazing prints
- Proving truly nothing is sacred, Microsoft has included the Copilot AI logo on this year's ugly Windows Christmas sweater
- These three AMD RX 9070 XT gaming PCs are all mighty tempting this Cyber Monday, but I think I've found the victor
- 15 years later, a heroic modder has finally added video poker to Fallout: New Vegas
- Behold, another RTX 5080 gaming PC for under $2,000 this Cyber Monday, and this one's got a whopper of a CPU to boot
- This super cool Red Dead Redemption 2 rowing machine mod might be the only thing that could get me to work out
- I hate the stands that most gaming monitors come with, so join me in my one-man crusade to get everyone to use display arms this Cyber Monday
- Konami veterans say they had to resurrect Metal Gear because no-one's getting any younger, are they: 'Given our age… now was the time'
- What's the point of being an adult if you can't buy yourself a big Joytoy Warhammer 40,000 action figure to display on your PC gaming desk?
- This mouse made an RGB lover out of me, so props to the Razer Basilisk V3 Pro which is over $60 off this Cyber Monday
- Rockstar animator posts unseen GTA 6 clips in demo footage which is immediately nuked, but the internet just does not forget
- Immerse yourself in grimdark Warhammer lore this Cyber Monday with up to 82% off novels and audiobooks
- It's not just RAM—SSDs could soon cost way more too, and it's all downhill from here
- Whether you're just starting off in PC gaming or need a simple second display, this $90 1080p gaming monitor is easy on your eyes and your wallet
- Let everyone in your life know you're a true gamer with these discounted Halo and Apex Legends graphic keyboards
- The best Cyber Monday deals every aspiring Streamer should know about
- The Speranza Watchlist isn't Arc Raiders' answer to evil players—it's just a roleplaying tool for people who want to spice up their games
- The new game about the loathsome ancient goblin who kills people for fun and profit is delayed into 2026
- The Splinter Cell remake gets a new director, and he's the same as the Splinter Cell remake's old director
- Dispatch being 'basically a live-service game for a month' did gangbusters, but leads say don't expect to copy it and get the same result
- This is getting ridiculous: Videographer directs three short films in Arc Raiders using real players as actors
- There are simply too many tempting Cyber Monday gaming headset deals, so here are the four best that I'd buy
- Join me as I select the most chewable Cyber Monday PC gaming deals. Yes, you read that right
- 3 essential Cyber Monday board game deals that are sure to amuse '90s kids, teens who push their luck, and even Grandad
- iFixit makes the best PC building toolkit in town and the whole lot is down to $60 for Cyber Monday
- The best value GPU is still $350 this Cyber Monday, so upgrade your old card to a 16 GB RX 9060 XT before the RAM price crisis ruins things completely
- From TMR sticks to budget picks, these are the nine best game controller deals in the Cyber Monday sales
- Hooray, Microsoft is making File Explorer faster, but it's still slower than Windows 10 and consumes more RAM. Boo
- If you bought a new graphics card in the sales, it's my solemn duty to remind you to consider upgrading your power supply with one of these three Cyber Monday deals
- As a Cyber Monday veteran, here's one essential PC gaming deal for every one of the 20 years I've been doing this. Happy anniversary to me
- For $630 this Cyber Monday, you could buy a 64 GB DDR5 RAM kit or a 16-inch RTX 5050 gaming laptop. Wow, what a tough choice
- The Samsung T9 beats the best budget external SSD on price this Cyber Monday, now offering 1 TB for only $95
- I've come along to save your ass this Cyber Monday with an immense TC500 Luxe gaming chair discount
- Two of the best gaming keyboards with the worst naming schemes are on sale this Cyber Monday and I think that's neat
- Rockstar co-founder compares AI to 'mad cow disease,' and says the execs pushing it aren't 'fully-rounded humans'
- TIL the Wayback Machine saves 150,000 gigabytes of webpages every day and lives in a church in San Francisco
- The best Cyber Monday gifts for the gamers in your life
- You don't need to pay an arm and a leg for a gaming soundbar because our favorite budget pick is down to $55 in the Cyber Monday sales
- This $520 RX 9070 16 GB is the only Cyber Monday graphics card deal I'm into right now
- My two favourite wireless gaming headsets are both on sale on Cyber Monday, and I can't recommend them enough
- Fractal's Cyber Monday Mini-ITX PC case deal is the best way to build your Steam Machine lookalike
- The Elgato Prompter is down to $200 this Cyber Monday—but I've spotted an even cheaper teleprompter for aspiring content creators
- I couldn't live without my MMO mouse, and this Razer option on offer for Cyber Monday is the perfect entry point if you're looking yourself
- AMD has just launched the Ryzen 7 9850X3D with zero fanfare, and I think I understand why
- Microsoft confirms that its new AI agent in Windows 11 hallucinates like every other chatbot and poses security risks to users
- Despite the name, it's the exact opposite of a sex thing: The Playseat Challenge racing chair is down to $179 this Cyber Monday
- Voice actor for Baldur's Gate 3's Karlach says 'we're still seen as outsources' in game dev: 'There's a weird disconnect'
- 'If you happen to love microtransactions, I am going to disappoint you deeply': REPO's next update is revealing deets, and it's more exciting than monsters
- My favorite bookshelf speakers have received a big $110 Cyber Monday price cut
- So many gaming chairs aren't worth it, but these Cyber Monday deals are such great value, that I might just buy two
- At just $50, our favorite midrange microphone is practically a budget choice in the Cyber Monday sales
- Switching to a leverless fighting game controller is the smartest thing I ever did, and one of the best in the biz is at its lowest-ever price
- I've been keeping my eye on gaming PC deals every day for the past two weeks and these are the best sub-$1,000 deals I've found
- All I've bought this Cyber Monday are 2 boring ethernet cables and this exceptional comic book bundle
- I tried to build a high-end AMD gaming PC out of Cyber Monday deals but RAM prices make prebuilts better value for money
- Cyber Monday deals live - like a real human boy I'm bringing you the best laptop, PC, GPU, and general gaming tech deals around
- It feels weird to type these words but Alienware's Cyber Monday deals are offering some of the best available prices on prebuilt Nvidia gaming PCs
- These three Cyber Monday gaming PC deals show why prebuilt rigs are better value than DIY builds at every budget this year
- Persona-adjacent turn-based tactics RPG Demonschool just got its second big patch, seems like now is the time to dive in
- Fortnite players are accusing it of using AI-generated art: 'I'm done with this game'
- Fortnite's latest live event drew in 10.5 million players to see Godzilla, Hatsune Miku, Homer Simpson, and countless other characters fight a giant squid man
