News archive
April 2026
Filter
444 articles
- April 20
-
- Ubisoft announces that 'gaming's worst-kept secret' will finally be revealed later this week
- Gunzilla's unpaid bills are piling up, say sources—including one for over $100,000
- Fallout: New Vegas dev says don't expect a remaster, argues Bethesda doesn't have the source code or 'the engineering knowhow'
- Redditor shares gaming PC build with cooling system that can only be described as 'biblically accurate'
- Anthropic had a 'productive and constructive' meeting with White House officials after the preview release of its new cybersecurity-challenging AI model
- The Elden Ring movie is coming in March 2028, and Nick Offerman and Peter Serafinowicz are in it so you know it's (probably) going to be good
- Full path tracing might not be such a GPU hog in future, as Nvidia claims over 2x performance improvements in new research
- Primal Repairs is basically a handyman sim set in the world of The Flintstones
- Arc Raiders' latest Riven Tides teaser hints that the terrifying UFO we've been seeing is actually the next mega-boss enemy
- A Redditor tries to return a failed enterprise HDD to Toshiba, but it turns out that a replacement would take at least a year to arrive
- Elon Musk is more at risk of losing his job to AI than artists are according to Take-Two's CEO: 'If AI were going to take anyone's job, wouldn't it take his job?'
- Gigabyte describes its new PSU range as a 'Hardware Guardian', protecting your graphics card from melting and presumably fighting crime in its spare time
- Oh, how times have changed. I'd now buy an RTX 5060 Ti gaming PC with 32 GB RAM over an RTX 5070 PC with just 16 GB any day of the week in the RAMpocalypse
- This AMD-powered, Linux-running mini PC looks like a Steam Machine disguised as a vinyl record player, without the fancy controller
- "DDoS is not a game. It's a crime!" Europol targets the youth in latest bid to take down DDoS-for-hire infrastructure
- Doja Cat has spoken: 'I think I like Overwatch more than Marvel Rivals' after just one match
- Report claims the global CPU shortage is 'more acute for processors than memory' as industry waits for Intel's 18A chips to plug the gap
- Pragmata has sold over 1 million copies in just 2 days, after 3 delays dragged out development by 4 years
- At long last, fishing will finally come to RuneScape: Dragonwilds tomorrow, so I'll wave goodbye to my other skills now
- I thought this sci-fi mystery looked cool, but my interest dropped when I realized it's another multiplayer survival-crafting game
- Magic: The Gathering's next wizard university set feels like going back to school, because we sure are going to have to learn a lot of mechanics
- April 19
-
- Philips and AOC's upcoming 5th-gen OLED gaming monitors were a feast for my eyes and a dire threat to my wallet
- If you want to remember feeling hopeful for the future, you can read over 200 issues of the legendary Byte magazine for free on the Internet Archive
- The Internet Archive has preserved 758 old PC Gamer demo discs you can download and play
- I never want to play a Cleric in D&D, but 2026's best RPG stars one for a simple reason: 'I'm sorry to say they are just overpowered'
- Windrose sails past 1 million copies sold in six days as it hits 200,000 concurrent players
- Space-obsessed Pragmata actor was so wary of breaking embargo that he refused to post about Artemis 2: 'I know so much about the f**king moon'
- The sequel to flying city-builder Airborne Kingdom just hit 1.0 with a huge update and a 50% discount
- A YouTuber has unearthed Dark Souls 2's enormous cut sewers map, and it's another fascinating insight into the design of FromSoftware's most divisive work
- This hugely impressive Minecraft mod lets you build all manner of functioning vehicles, including planes, combine harvesters, and even airships
- Marathon's most popular shotgun is getting nerfed a second time, as Bungie worries it is 'eclipsing a lot of the other short range options that exist in the game'
- Almost 28 years later, the mystery of what's under women's skirts in Elder Scrolls spin-off Redguard has finally been solved
- Owlcat reveals two new 40K companions, one for Rogue Trader and one for the upcoming Dark Heresy
- April 18
-
- 'Are monitors anti-inflation?': AOC argues monitors are a better upgrade than graphics cards or memory right now, which seems like the kind of thing a monitor manufacturer would say
- Philips is bringing its 5K dual-mode gaming monitor to the West, and it comes in a neat white shell
- Turtle WoW classic server announces shutdown after Blizzard wins injunction
- We owe Fallout's existence to an admiral and his officers teaching its designer to play D&D in 1979
- Portal 2: Community Edition promises to take the game's modding potential to new heights, and it's out in open beta now
- A ludicrous Doom mod which adds 28 pilotable mechs just released after 2 years in development
- 'I've read your reviews': AOC says its software is 'one of the most highlighted' problems and it's 'finally, finally' updating its OSD
- BAFTA pulls game trailer over 'themes that may be a trigger' even after developer revision
- This wildly ambitious total conversion mod for Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas lets you explore the setting of 2003's Manhunt
- After 23 years, CCP is about to do the unthinkable: add a non-PvP zone to EVE Online
- Here's that free fan remake of 1999's PlayStation-exclusive Medal of Honor you were looking for
- Last Flag, the debut game from the studio founded by Imagine Dragons' lead singer, becomes the latest multiplayer shooter struggling to find an audience
- Slay the Spire 2 dev rejects the concept of deadlines: 'I don't want Sloppy Spire 2'
- April 17
-
- Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 wins Best Game at the BAFTAs, but this time some other games got to win awards, too
- US may force operating systems to have mandatory age verification, share info with third parties
- I've always wanted to fire the infinite cannons of a giant anime battleship, and this solo dev's giving me a chance on Steam later this year
- Stop Killing Games delivers 'absolutely incredible' hearing in European Parliament: 'There was no [parliament member] that wasn't responding positively'
- Former BioWare producer Mark Darrah says it's valuable to have 'an idiot at the table' during game development—but only if they can remember who the experts are
- Embark admits 'grinding for monetary value' isn't fun, so future Arc Raiders Expeditions will reward you for smashing bots instead
- Iron Galaxy lays off more people, says it still had too many employees even after 2025's 'last resort' cuts
- Apparently the name of one of the most famous RPG series of all time was a last-minute band-aid: 'I don't think he knew what it meant any more than we did'
- I know all you pirates are busy with Windrose, but you should drop anchor and check out this new pirate-themed city builder
- Alexander Morton, the voice of Geralt's pal Zoltan in The Witcher games, has died
- Last year's best climbing game was also a horror game, and it gets a big anniversary update today
- Silent Hill f's director believes 'I am not qualified to tell you how women should feel' and instead relied on female devs for insights to Hinako's fears
- I guess I shouldn't be surprised that 43% of you care the most about a game's world when it comes to RPGs
- Forza Horizon 6 has reportedly already sold 500k on Steam a month before launch, while my beloved Motorsport has crashed into a brick wall
- Design lead on the first Elder Scrolls fondly recalls the days when Bethesda would finish a game, then the team would 'assemble boxes, inserts and use the heat gun' to get it shipped
- The European Commission wants to push Google off its web search throne with a data sharing proposal
- It's not just Intel that investors are loving right now: At over $450 billion, AMD's market cap is the highest it's ever been in 54 years
- This is not a drill: All-timer weirdo game Deadly Premonition now playable on Linux as of Valve's most recent Proton beta, plus 17 others and your EA library (until EA breaks it again)
- Hero modder gives all of Skyrim's jarls unique sitting poses on their fancy thrones
- Marathon players are using new Mercy Kits to murder people twice: It's already been branded the 'most troll-friendly item imaginable'
- If you're still battling to get your Arc B-series graphics card to play nicely with Crimson Desert, Intel's new drivers might help a little
- Valve's latest Proton 11 beta has been quietly released in an even more beta Arm64 flavour and you can thank the Steam Frame for that
- Kingdom Come 2 director welcomes LGBT award nomination, then spends around 175 words explaining that it doesn't make him 'woke'
- Among Us hits over 1 billion downloads on the Google Play Store: 'I'm gonna barf in a vent, this is so cool'
- An oldie but a goodie: John Carmack once told us Quake Arena 'was my favourite id Software game… always the one that I looked at as a pure game'
- Meta is raising the price of the Quest 3 and Quest 3S due to memory price rises made worse by Meta
- Intel launches Wildcat Lake Core Series 3 processors: Kitten-sized chips for the business and budget markets only
- MSI says its refreshed Raider gaming laptops have been designed to combat the one thing I hate most about portable PCs: fan noise
- Zohran Mamdani turns philanthropy and corporate greed into an extended Mario Kart metaphor: 'Government is Yoshi'
- The classic Xenosaga series is finally making its PC debut, but don't get too excited because it's a 2004 mobile game port
- Charlie Cox has finally played Clair Obscur: Expedition 33—a bit
- Wizards of the Coast's official D&D actual-play series will feature Neil Newbon and Devora Wilde from Baldur's Gate 3 among its players
- Fortune's Run resumes development following creator's prison release: 'The parole board reviewed my case and instantly kicked my ass out of jail'
- April 16
-
- Shameless Palworld imitator Pickmos removed from Steam after publisher 'officially intervenes' in development: 'We will be supervising the Pickmos team'
- Alan Wake heads to Phasmophobia next month in a new limited-time event, because we all know writers love a deadline
- The Call of Duty Movie is coming in June—of 2028
- Lana Del Rey surprise-drops the 007 First Light theme song, and I regret to inform you that it is not great
- After 7 years, Metro 2039 brings us a voiced protagonist, old friends turned Nazis, and 'a much darker tone'
- Fortnite Festival now lets you hit the skins for real with new MIDI drum kit compatibility
- A $3 billion infringement suit against Intel has opened up once more due to a US appeals court decision
- The Street Fighter movie trailer is here, and it looks like fun but good luck spotting Jason Momoa in it
- Though not a gaming mouse, the new Asus squeaker enjoys gaming-grade features and a 'ceraluminium' top coat that makes it look like a crunchy little snack
- Overwatch Season 2 brings some big hero changes, but the most OP has to be Sierra's carpet-bombing ultimate
- Battlefield 6 enters its 'we've heard your feedback' era: 7 more maps are coming in 2026, including fan-favorite Wake Island
- Battlefield 6 is getting a server browser, which is confusing because it already has one
- A 17-year-old Excel vulnerability is currently being exploited by threat actors, and it's been flagged by the US' cyber defence agency
- Bungie's latest experiment turns Marathon into a battle royale, and it's a hit: 'Free kit queue might be the most fun I've had so far'
- TSMC's latest bank report is exactly as you'd expect it to be: mo' wafers, mo' money
- AMD could be releasing a special version of the classic Ryzen 7 5800X3D to celebrate 10 years of the AM4 socket
- Fable's cinematics are getting a helping hand from Blizzard's stellar cinematic team, Xbox boss says
- Pirate survival Windrose sees 500,000 mateys buy the game as Steam reviews are 'Very Positive'
- This RTX 5070 gaming laptop is a little low on GPU power but at $1,200, it's a lot of low on price
- Pulsar actually sold its 500-gram April Fools' Day joke gaming mouse, and despite looking 'extremely sluggish', it's 'really not that bad'
- Silent Hill f's director 'didn't have a good night's sleep' the whole way through the game's production
- Valve could be prepping to roll out 30-day Steam price tracking in the US, making it harder for publishers to mess with discounts
- This YouTuber mod project brings the original PlayStation up to date with HDMI output, USB power, and wireless controller support
- Yes, technically you can play World of Warcraft with hot dogs
- About 30% of Arc Raiders players focus on PvE, and Embark's happy with that: 'We want to instil hope in the player'
- It's still too early to lose all hope: Euro Truck Simulator 2 is getting a whole new country soon
- Analysts say PC gaming is now the one platform where more than 50% of revenue comes from games outside the top 20
- Rejoice, Steam Deck and couch lovers: Gloomwood just got controller support
- My favorite cosmic horror RPG is still being updated, and thanks to this latest patch 'The rat child's Copy Dad ability no longer copies gun skills for free'
- The indie metroidvania that started it all just got a huge update on PC, adding co-op and mod support after 22 years
- April 15
-
- Windrose developers ask players if they 'happen to know someone at a major ISP' who can help diagnose online co-op issues
- Yes, Take-Two's share price rose after the stolen Rockstar data was released, but don't read too much into it
- While I go stir-crazy waiting for another FromSoft game, I'm counting on these 4 indie Armored Core-likes to satisfy my mecha cravings when they hit Steam
- Krafton still 'supporting the early access launch of Subnautica 2' despite its name being removed from the Steam page
- 'Close enough. Welcome back Thanos': Marvel Rivals' power creep reaches new levels of busted with Black Cat
- Apple rubberstamps an open source driver to allow Nvidia GPUs to run on Macs, though gaming isn't on the table just yet
- A shoe company has taken $50 million to pivot to, of all things, GPU-powered AI infrastructure
- Crimson Desert has managed to hit 5 million sales in its first month as its constant patches and improvements are successfully drawing in new players
- Seems like opting out of website cookies doesn't actually guarantee you are opted out of website cookies
- Cybersecurity experts raise the alarm over Windows Recall again: 'The vault door is titanium. The wall next to it is drywall'
- Tiny MMO Book of Travels is ending development after 5 troubled years
- 'In 10 years of tracking retail CPU sales, I have never seen such a steep decline,' says one tech channel after staring at the grim figures
- Supergiant drops a Hades 2 patch with a bunch of new dialogue, better romances, and buffs to the game's weakest god
- The PC Gaming Show and Future Games Show return in June to brighten up your summer with world premieres, interviews, and fresh demos to install
- As a dual gaming monitor connoisseur, this Acer 1080p pick would be my choice for a second panel now that it's just $90
- MediaTek is 'cautiously optimistic' that discrete memory pricing will look less gloomy during 2026
- Halo composer Marty O'Donnell welcomes Trump endorsement in Nevada Congress race, despite previous statements that Trump is an 'idiot' he loathes
- Nvidia spent 1003% more on warranty claims in 2025 than the year before according to a new report, with the total cost almost reaching $900 million
- After making Mythic+ slightly too easy in World of Warcraft: Midnight, Blizzard's adding new high-end rewards for the sweats
- Arc Raiders' players have created a bounty system that's meant to punish unsportsmanlike behaviour but surprise, surprise, top of the list sits streamer TheBurntPeanut
- Historical Steam survey data suggests the Big Switch from Windows to Linux has yet to happen
- Giving Graveyard Keeper away for free apparently earned its publisher 'almost 250k'
- The director of sandbox vampire RPG The Blood of Dawnwalker doesn't mind seeing it compared to The Witcher 3, which he also directed: 'I feel really confident about our game'
- Three years after its release, Star Trek: Resurgence is about to be delisted for good
- Hades 2 patch is a smorgasbord of tiny additions, adding more closure to sidequests, an extra level of zoom, buffs to boons, and more romance
- April 14
-
- 'AI experts' disagree with the public about whether it's a good thing
- More than 20 classic Warhammer and WH40K games just came to Steam, 7 of them for the first time ever
- Dwarf Fortress is coming to Magic: The Gathering and I'm beginning to suspect Wizards of the Coast is targeting me, specifically
- Baby Steps developer react video goes off the rails into hilarious meta-commentary about fake reactions and 'Herzogian ecstatic truth'
- Marathon's mid-season patch is a big one: 11 new weapon variants, Recon buffs, and a 'Mercy Kit' for reviving strangers
- 'Tarkov for life': After announcing a new sci-fi shooter, Escape from Tarkov's creator assures players that there's enough room in his heart for both
- Metro author Dmitry Glukhovsky says the next game in the series 'will be darker than anything you've seen before'
- Roblox to introduce new kid accounts in its quest to appear less of a child safety nightmare
- One YouTuber has built their own $950 Steam Machine, with a custom wood panel, because 'Valve was taking too long'
- Sony squares up to Asus and LG in the dual-mode, esports OLED gaming monitor market with a Fnatic collab
- Microsoft's already pricey Surface laptops have suddenly got a whole lot pricier and you know exactly what to blame for this
- Normal memory chips couldn't withstand the hellscape of Venus so scientists have crafted something that can
- Brace yourselves, Jetpack Cat is coming to Overwatch Stadium this season and players are already prepping for it: 'My sniper build is gonna demolish her'
- NZXT class action lawsuit settlement includes $3 million in damages, and some buyers will get to keep their rented PCs
- Morbid Metal is a deeply satisfying hack 'n' slash with some subpar roguelike elements, but hey, that's what early access is for
- Players have already found exploits for the Sulfur Cube in Minecraft, including using it as a mode of transportation
- 15 more Disney games delisted from Steam, including the original Star Wars: Dark Forces and 1997's Outlaws
- China's YMTC is reportedly aiming to more than double its wafer production, which could eventually help put cheap gaming SSDs back on the menu
- Forget the dual-mode, I want this 32-inch 4K OLED gaming monitor with a mega discount because it looks absolutely lush
- Stalker 2 just got a free pre-DLC to gird you for its first actual DLC
- Alienware's new $350 OLED gaming monitor could become the cheapest way to score the enviable panel tech
- WoW's Burning Crusade Classic servers are removing the time-honoured tradition of dungeon boosting
- Gigabyte's latest Intel motherboard is a little bit sideways, and it's all about reaching 10,400 MT/s with a megabucks DRAM kit
- Windows 11 now lets you skip the time-consuming updates on a fresh install. Neat!
- Antarctic Peninsula's long-awaited rework adds a new environmental hazard to Overwatch that'll be a pain for flyers
- Researchers have developed a way to peek inside electronic parts as they're running and plan to see if they can snoop encrypted data
- Nvidia denies report that it is in talks to acquire a major PC company but Dell, HP, Lenovo and Asus share prices jumped at the thought
- Bloodborne is getting an R-rated film adaptation co-produced by JackSepticEye
- Send us your best gaming clips from Crimson Desert and you could win a $500 Amazon gift card
- Xbox Game Pass is too expensive, new Xbox boss reportedly says: 'we need a better value equation'
- April 13
-
- After his city builder flopped in early access, Firewatch's Nels Anderson didn't give up: 'Smarter people than me … probably would've pulled the plug'
- Rockstar hackers release their stolen data, reveal that Rockstar was right to not pay them anything for it
- A 'free kit frenzy' mode for cheapskates arrives in Marathon this week
- 91-year-old gamer gets a visit from police after she misses her daily check-in call because she was 'trying to beat her record level'
- Palworld imitator Pickmon changes a single title letter 'to better align with our brand identity' and definitely not for any other reason, guys, honest
- Despite rumors of a GTA 6-inspired delay, Fable studio says it's 'excited to welcome you back to Albion in autumn 2026'
- If you're finding Resident Evil: Requiem a bit scary, why not mod it to make the enemies tiny
- The voice of GTA 5's Lester wonders if GTA 6 'can't make the same splash as previous games' because the world is just so weird now
- A Valve developer has just made it easier to run games on Linux with 8 GB cards thanks to a simple fix
- The new Linux 7.0 kernel is here and as always, it's all about lots of little improvements rather than one significant update
- Task Manager's creator says it used to be 50 times smaller because 'in that time and place, small was fast and fast mattered'
- These custom Linux lock screens styled after Minecraft, NieR Automata, and Genshin Impact are single-handedly eroding my loyalty to Windows
- Crimson Desert players have a new way to slay its powerful bosses—slowly unleashing a swarm of individually-caged bees at them
- Todd Howard says Starfield's NG+ was misunderstood and defends Bethesda's new U-turn on how it works: 'You can tell us if we've done our job right'
- Metro 2039 confirmed as the next game in the Metro series, full reveal coming later this week
- Overwatch's hero ban system is being reworked, which means we may be able to ignore the role-limit rule and ban a 5th hero
- Epic is reportedly cooking up a Disney extraction shooter, and suggestions staff are lukewarm on it are 'not reflective of the ambitions of the Disney collaboration'
- Nearly here! Microsoft ups the partition size limit of FAT32 from 32 GB to 2 TB in the latest beta of Windows 11
- Bethesda's ex-marketing VP says Skyrim was its first game to make other studios scared of it: 'You have to be concerned about us if you think you're going to win game of the year'
- Exclusive deal: Get Surfshark's unlimited VPN connections for over two years at just $1.78 per month
- YouTuber builds PC side panel out of 15 Noctua fans and names it the 'Superdome', cuts temps by 20 °C
- Lucky Redditor gets hands on unreleased Steelseries Rival Pro Mini, revealing another UWB wireless gaming mouse will soon hit the market
- Crimson Desert update has a few surprise improvements, like finally letting you teleport on your horse and a new ability
- Not that we should be at all surprised, but Nvidia leans on AI pretty hard for speeding up how it plans and designs its next generation of GPUs
- The upcoming 'hardcore sci-fi FPS' from the creator of Escape from Tarkov just got a huge lore drop trailer
- 'It has a real 'ring of power' dynamic to it, and makes people do crazy things' says Sam Altman on AI after alleged arson attack on home
- Fake Windows Support website offers 'cumulative update' for version 24H2 but delivers password-stealing malware that can avoid anti-virus detection
- Fresh Intel Nova Lake leak fills out the details on the range of Core Ultra 400-series CPUs we can expect to see later this year
- If you're struggling with Crimson Desert's double jump as much as I was, it's because of this mistranslation
- Make Skyrim's weather feel more impactful with this particle mod
- Check out the internet's best gaming videos from March—including one of the coolest custom gaming rigs we've ever seen
- The AI smut peddlers have come for Warhammer 40,000 now
- April 12
-
- Modder turns Sekiro into Tony Hawk-style skateboarding sim 'Jet Set Sekiro'
- Defunct MMO studio founder denies allegation he spent Kickstarter funds on private chefs, antiques, and TCGs
- One of our favorite games of 2025 is just $16 on GOG this week, and the dev says 'if it's still too expensive just pirate it honestly'
- ChatGPT will praise the mood and 'bedroom/DIY texture' of fart sounds pulled from YouTube
- Blizzard wins injunction against vanilla World of Warcraft private server
- Broken bones, bodyslams and brutal executions—my no-guns return to GTA 5 story mode took an unexpected twist with this must-have melee murder mod
- Open-world crime game Samson beats up a bunch of bugs in a new patch, as developer admits it 'released a game with flaws'
- Anno 117's first DLC will let you disregard history by building your Roman city next to a massive volcano
- Terraforming survival game The Planet Crafter gets a beefy 2.0 update and a 50% discount: 'We wanted to take some time to improve multiple things'
- Tribal survival game Soulmask leaves early access with a new Egypt-themed DLC that's free for the next month
- Marvel Rivals creative director says it's going to become 'a comprehensive Marvel "moving anime" experience' and no, I don't know what that means either
- Wizards of the Coast is uploading the old Dungeons & Dragons cartoon if you'd like a reminder of what the 1980s were like
- 1000xResist developer added a video sequence 'out of desperation' but now they're bringing FMV back for their next game
- April 11
-
- Fighting game YouTuber offers $10,000 bounty for upgraded netcode in Ultimate Marvel vs. Capcom 3
- They finally made an action figure of Star Wars' most evil and nasty grandma but it's already sold out
- Dead or Alive creator was once held at gunpoint by LAPD, says former colleague: 'It was a real Dead or Alive situation'
- Graveyard Keeper devs respond as players make AI accusations: 'You may not believe me, but we're not using the AI in Graveyard Keeper 2'
- Hackers demand ransom from GTA6 studio Rockstar, threaten to leak stolen data
- New Proton Experimental build fixes up a bunch of old Capcom games for Steam Deck and Linux
- This wildly ambitious modpack transforms the third-person, N64 exclusive Duke Nukem: Zero Hour into a 'jank '90s FPS' for your PC
- A character model datamined from Grand Theft Auto 5's source code 'could actually be Agent's protagonist', according to online sleuth
- This 'highly realistic' city-builder could be the first real competition Cities: Skylines has seen in over a decade
- You can finally rescue Half-Life's guards and scientists thanks to this mod inspired by Lemmings
- April 10
-
- World Championship Wrestling once spent millions on a gimmick ripping off Mortal Kombat’s Sub-Zero, before Midway threatened to sue and WCW immediately gave up: 'We were gonna lose big, like real big'
- Roblox unveils new Roblox Plus monthly subscription that pays creators who get players to sign up for the new Roblox Plus monthly subscription
- US government wants gamers to become air traffic controllers
- Pete Hines says he left Bethesda because he didn't want to watch it being 'damaged' and 'abused'
- Former Bethesda exec thinks the studio should get more respect for the complex, open worlds it creates: 'Go try that s**t in Red Dead Redemption 2'
- Get ready to play Overwatch's most popular maps even more in season 2 as Blizzard tweaks the voting process to prefer the majority
- Someone allegedly threw a Molotov cocktail at Sam Altman's house
- PC Gamer's 'first can't-miss cozy game of 2026' has gone missing on Steam, and some players think Tetris is to blame
- Amazon's Luna cloud gaming service is ending support for game purchases and subscriptions from third-party stores, and users will lose streaming access to purchased third-party games in June
- RAM spot prices are down by 5%, though they did spike by well over 2000% this past year
- Even the French government is switching to Linux now in a bid for 'digital sovereignty'
- Don't like the MacBook Neo's storage options? Well, with lots of electronics gear, years of experience, and nerves of steel, you too can have a 1 TB model
- Mozilla says 'Microsoft goes too far' with Copilot, right before reassuring that you can turn off Firefox's 'AI enhancements'
- Keychron has shared the source files for all its keyboard and mice meaning you could almost build an entire kit from scratch
- WoW's next patch drops in just over a week, bringing a whole heap of world content and yet another gearing method from a deeply suspicious ally
- Of course 1440p is your favorite gaming res, but I'm kinda stunned there are as many 4K gamers as 1080p ones in PC Gamer's ranks
- Intel's fabs may at long last be worth all those billions of dollars
- Tiny mitt bandits rejoice! You can pick up the best budget wireless gaming mouse for only $35
- 'It stayed exactly the same': Jeff Kaplan takes us back to 2016 by confirming that Blizzard did not change the size of Tracer's butt
- Microsoft is removing Copilot branding from Photos, Notepad, and more after promising to reduce 'unnecessary Copilot entry points'
- Asus announces the ROG Equalizer: a new cable aimed at making melting GPU power connectors a thing of the past
- Former Bethesda artist says 'every single developer' has already brought up 95% of the complaints that made it to launch, but as Todd Howard told him, 'we can't do everything'
- Framework: 'There is a very real scenario in which personal computing as we know it is dead'
- Crimson Desert devs are addressing all your complaints (and then some) in a long list of planned updates, which includes adding difficulty options
- CPUID's download page has been hacked, with its popular processor and PC info tools replaced with links to files containing malware (Update: Fixed)
- The James Bond rights owners have opposed an application for a James Pond trademark
- The ill-advised business software that helped sink videogame pioneers Infocom now runs on modern PCs: 'It's a new age for aficionados of failed 1985 database products!'
- Nexon confirms reorganizaton at The First Berserker: Khazan developer but says it's merely 'a strategic reallocation of talent' as development winds down
- Darkstone, a classic 1999 action RPG about eating apples and trying not to die of old age, is being remastered by its original creator
- Nine-year-old cult visual novel Doki Doki Literature Club has been abruptly pulled from Android for its 'depiction of sensitive themes'
- April 9
-
- Dune: Awakening is finally making Deep Desert and shipwreck PvP fully optional
- 20 years after Kojima announced a Metal Gear Solid movie was happening, Sony announces a Metal Gear Solid movie is happening
- World of Warcraft player housing was sorely lacking PvP so Blizzard is dropping its own version of prop hunt
- Facepunch boss Garry Newman shoots down Rust 2 speculation after mysterious Steam page appears: 'Nope'
- Castlevania: Belmont's Curse developers are trying really, really hard to make sure you know it's a metroidvania without using the word 'metroidvania'
- Graveyard Keeper 2 is coming this year, and the original is free to keep on Steam if you grab it now
- Survival shooter Road to Vostok 'secured the entire production budget for this game for years and years to come' within 24 hours of its Steam early access launch
- Gunzilla CEO denies delaying payments to 'full-time official employees,' denies calling unpaid contractors 'haters' (updated)
- Wait, how many 'horror Stardew' farm sims are in development right now?
- Crimson Desert is now somewhat playable on Intel Arc graphics cards, though Kliff's face didn't make it
- Over the Hill devs are celebrating reaching 1 million Steam wishlists by giving you a chance to play the Mudrunner-like off-roader early
- Hope you're hungry 'cause Don't Starve is back with a new co-op survival crafting adventure for Wilson and the gang
- One of Steam's most successful Pokémon-likes is doing a Palworld
- Valve rumoured to be working on 'SteamGPT' AI bot for support and anti-cheat functions
- Fortnite teases its next collab with Toy Story, but while fans are wondering where Woody is all I want to know is whether we'll be able to play as the aliens
- The creators of 1000xResist are making a game about convincing an AI she's not a real person
- Research suggests AI infrastructure projects are worth the investment less than 30% of the time
- Co-op pirate survival game Windrose breaks 1.5 million Steam wishlists, and good news for everyone who's added it to their list: It's coming out next week
- Crimson Desert does what other games do backwards and that's why it's a beautiful freak of nature, says imsim vet at Arkane Lyon
- 'Stardew Valley meets Twin Peaks' in this 'gritty farming thriller,' and if you don't find all of those words appealing I don't know how to help you
- Co-op heist-em-up Thick as Thieves reveals May release date with an all-new gameplay trailer
- Microsoft claims WireGuard and Veracrypt account termination was merely due to not verifying an email: 'Not everything is a conspiracy, sometimes it's literally paperwork'
- PC shipments have actually grown this quarter despite the RAMpocalypse says IDC. Well, everywhere except the Americas
- The Witcher 3 multiplayer mod adds new setting-appropriate features, like the ability to form a totem pole of Geralts or turn into a fox
- Hackers claim they've breached a Chinese supercomputer and are demanding huge amounts of crypto for the data, but security researchers are sceptical
- A renowned New York Times investigative reporter thinks British cryptographer is Bitcoin creator Satoshi Nakamoto, said cryptographer says no
- Final Fantasy 14 patch 7.5 site teases a potential return to the void for its next expansion
- Top dollar for top cache: AMD's dual 3D V-Cache Ryzen 9 9950X3D2 will sell for a wallet-burning $899
- US victims lost nearly $21 billion to cybercrime last year says FBI with crypto and AI 'complaints among the costliest'
- Crimson Desert might have an enemy density problem, fans worry as they approach endgame
- Use this handy cheat sheet to keep track of all those confusing Samsung QD-OLED gaming monitor panel generations
- It's a RAMpocalypse-buster: Even though it's two bucks over $900, this RTX 5060 gaming PC actually comes with 32 GB of DRAM and a 1 TB SSD
- South Korea takes one look at rising PC costs and decides to hand out free PCs to citizens
- The devs behind Peak and Content Warning made a publisher to support their games and other indie developers: 'We help them with money and advice'
- Crimson Desert lets you watch NPCs build statues and bridges in real-time which Kingdom Come: Deliverance director thinks is 'absolutely insane'
- After a Redditor said there's a 'zero percent chance' of porting macOS to a Wii, one developer went and did it anyway
- Whoopsie: Microsoft has been shipping Xbox controllers without batteries and is now compensating customers with rechargeable kits
- April 8
-
- Project Zomboid identifies and bans over a dozen Steam Workshop mods containing 'heavily obfuscated code' that was 'creating malicious files'
- Creative World of Warcraft player uses housing tools to recreate Counter-Strike's iconic Dust 2 map, complete with a car made out of wood, doormats, and fruit plates
- Split Fiction studio Hazelight celebrates selling 50 million games in under 10 years
- Today I learned that Excel incorrectly assumes 1900 was a leap year, and Microsoft will never fix it because the whole house of cards would collapse
- HipHopGamer says GTA 6's user-generated content 'will produce millionaires'
- Overwatch's new hero Sierra has an ability that could mean she's destined to dethrone Jetpack Cat as the most banned hero in ranked
- Crimson Desert female character creator mod lets you cook up your own gender-swapped Kliff, and there's a male version in the works
- Extraction shooter The Cube, Save Us has announced it's shutting down just three weeks after it launched
- A new version of The Exit 8 releases on Roblox to celebrate the upcoming film's premiere
- After years of 'extensive reverse engineering', you can play a janky Mirror's Edge prototype in all its glory
- Corsair announces new Frame cases, and one comes with a classy wood finish
- Intel updates Arc graphics driver with 'gaming support' for the GPU gamers aren't getting
- Supermicro 'committed to protecting America’s advanced technologies and intellectual property' as investigation into former employees over alleged AI tech shipments to China begins
- LG has unveiled the 'world's first 39-inch 5K2K curved OLED' gaming monitor, and it's about as expensive as you think it would be
- Apple's MacBook Neo is reportedly close to selling out which has got me thinking about why we can't have more simple and affordable gaming PCs like the Steam Deck
- Alien: Isolation's sound designer is working on the next Silent Hill game, creating a 'dynamic score system that evolves as you play'
- SK hynix's latest 321-layer QLC flash memory chips are ready to roll out, with Dell's PCs first in line to host the tiny SSDs
- No Man's Sky's latest update is a whole new Pokémon-style creature-collection and battle system that's 'an entire multiplayer game all of its own'
- These are the only RTX 5060 gaming laptops worth a damn right now, and I'd 100% be buying the OLED one
- Anthropic's new Claude Mythos AI model has apparently found thousands of vulnerabilities in 'every major operating system and every major web browser, along with a range of other important pieces of software'
- Raptor Lake chips 'not going anywhere' as Intel commits to making older CPUs 'abundantly available' and keeping DDR4 support alive
- 4K gaming monitor prices are now mighty reasonable and this $200 MSI would be my choice of the lot
- Here's a keycap that's also a watch, for the discerning gamer
- Dell's CEO reckons that the total memory demand from the entire AI market in 2028 will be 625x bigger than it was in 2022
- Stop the petition: The Rocketeer mimicking the Vaporizer's alert noise was actually a bug, and it's been fixed in Arc Raiders' latest patch
- After a recent patch, Death Stranding 2 is great on Steam Deck
- An astronaut rolled a D20 in space, so yes, you can play D&D in zero gravity
- April 7
-
- These 'hunger system' mods for Crimson Desert have gotten my hopes up for a full survival conversion
- Kerbal Space Program rockets to its highest concurrent player count on Steam in more than 10 years
- As frustration with Marathon cheaters intensifies, Bungie says improvements to its 'zero-tolerance policy around cheating' are underway: 'This is an area that we will continue to invest in'
- Double Dragon and Kunio-kun creator Yoshihisa Kishimoto dies at 64
- Browsing the Steam Workshop's 50 million mods just got better thanks to a redesign that loads faster and works better on mobile and Steam Deck
- Keith David proves he can make anything sound incredibly cool as he delivers a dramatic reading masterclass in an ad for Starfield's latest DLC
- 71% of you say you could never be convinced to turn on DLSS 5, with 37% saying it wouldn't matter how good it looked
- Qualcomm Snapdragon X2 Elite reviews are in, but these second-gen Windows-on-Arm chips still aren't grabbing me as a PC gamer
- Intel's new Nova Lake CPU claimed to have superior IPC performance to AMD's next-gen Zen 6 as rumour mill goes into overdrive with talk of higher core counts and an APU with a massive iGPU
- Crimson Desert players are visiting space and finding that Pearl Abyss modelled a really weird amount of it
- The multiplayer shooter with radioactive attack bears and moose-drawn artillery is closing after less than a year in early access
- Avalanche's cancelled AionGuard 'would have been Crimson Desert' but the publisher 'broke up with us on a text message'
- State of Decay 3 didn't really exist when we saw the reveal trailer: 'The game was in a Word document'
- Surprise! Intel has teamed up with Elon Musk and his Terafab project, to 'help refactor silicon fab technology' to give SpaceX and Tesla 1 TW per year of AI compute
- A Pokopia player has spent 260 hours over 22 days recreating an underground Cyberpunk city: 'I swear to god, you people aren't human'
- Samsung is cashing in on the memory crisis, as it estimates profits of over 8 times this period last year
- Sony will put you through a 2-stage job interview for the chance to get scanned into Gran Turismo 7 and other games
- Looks like DDR3 motherboards are back on the menu, boys, though only to keep older PCs going a bit longer during the RAMpocalypse
- AMD's senior director of AI thinks 'Claude has regressed' and that it 'cannot be trusted to perform complex engineering'
- Modder uses Claude AI to code new BIOS that gets obscure all P-core Intel Bartlett Lake CPUs running on a Z790 motherboard
- 'I have crawled through depths of hell': One coder's suffering is a potential joy to every web user, as their project could make sluggish browsers a thing of the past
- Disney Dreamlight Valley's all-new Star Path feature means rewards never truly disappear for good
- Crimson Desert has received FSR SDK 2.2 support, offering better upscaling and frame generation for AMD cards
- Team Liquid becomes the 4-peat World of Warcraft Race to World First champions after 2 weeks, 473 pulls, and one fake out
- OG Persona fans beg Atlus for a remake, Atlus says best I can do is a surprise rebrand and a phone case
- Valve could well be giving Steam its most useful update ever: Frame rate estimates for games, based on how well they've been running on users' gaming PCs
- Framework says stabilising memory prices are a 'temporary reprieve' and there are more cost increases to come this year
- Overwatch's Anran redesign fixes her controversial 'baby face' in Season 2: 'This process has really helped dial in the next set of heroes'
- Someone has made a tool to add achievements to non-Steam games on Linux, which feels like a niche in a niche
- OpenAI reportedly kicked around an 'insane' plan to pit world leaders against each other like a Call of Duty villain
- 28 years after the final Intel 486 desktop CPUs rolled off assembly lines, Linux is finally dropping support for it
- April 6
-
- I kept hearing that The Super Mario Galaxy Movie had a 'record-breaking weekend,' but then I looked at the actual records
- Zelda: Twilight Princess PC port inches closer to release with new showcase video—and modders have already added Linkle into the game
- Papers, Please creator Lucas Pope no longer feels comfortable talking about work-in-progress games: 'the situation just feels different'
- Devious Crimson Desert players are sending NPCs tumbling to their deaths by weaponizing their insatiable apple cravings
- There is a snake that hates Markiplier
- WoW raiders start celebrating world-first Midnight boss kill before watching it come back to life for a secret final phase: 'This cannot be'
- PlayStation 3 emulator gets shiny new UI for handheld PCs like the Steam Deck
- Italian television channel does DLSS 5 haters a favor by broadcasting footage from reveal trailer, then copyright striking Nvidia's own YouTube channel
- Gray Zone Warfare's player count jumps by over 1000% following its most recent update: 'Players are coming back'
- A Japanese indie developer is seeking legal action over alleged missing funds from a crowdfunding campaign, says the funding platform claims the money was 'mistakenly wired to a different client'
- Marathon's most powerful gun gets a major nerf, as Bungie seeks to 'curb a little bit of its dominion in the game'
- April 5
-
- Star Wars Zero Company studio founder praises Lucasfilm and Respawn for taking a chance on a tactics game
- Star Wars Zero Company writer wants its cast to have real friction: 'It's not a personal fantasy game'
- 'Blockchain-powered' game storefront reportedly shutting down and taking customers' games with it
- April 4
-
- A new Crimson Desert patch adds the only RPG feature that matters: A hide helmet button
- Our first look at Alex Garland's Elden Ring movie might be in this leaked set footage from a lucky fan in the UK
- Datamined Elden Ring cutscene gives more clues about DLC villain Miquella's original story
- Warframe community director says 'nothing in our games will be AI-generated, ever'
- Amazon TV head allegedly orders Mass Effect show rewrite to make it 'more appealing to non-gamers'
- Fallout: New Vegas for the PS3 mod adds Fallout: New Vegas for the PS3 to Fallout: New Vegas for the PC
- Subscription service for indie games gets a rough reception
- The best tool for playing obscure old PC games now supports the sublime FMV cheese of Crime Patrol 2: Drug Wars and a Lovecraftian adventure one YouTuber scored a 'terribly low 2/10'
- April 3
-
- Slay the Spire 2 adds end-of-run badges 'to let you know what was unique about each adventure' in latest beta patch
- Magazine generates fake AI interview with One Piece actor Mackenyu
- Get the Homeworld Remastered Collection, Deserts of Kharak, and 8 more RTS games for just $8
- 'There's always the chance s**t hits the fan and we suffer another major setback,' Skyblivion lead says about the possibility of another delay, but 'from what I see internally I am pretty optimistic'
- Google AI embarrasses itself when asked to perform the one simple task computers have always been good at
- Beloved YouTuber The Gaming Historian moves on from making videos with a 'parting gift': A ton of ancient Nintendo court docs you can browse on the Internet Archive
- 'There are times when you want to put GTA down and pick up something else,' Samson studio founder says: 'I think there's a space for us there'
- House Flipper is free to keep on Steam for the next few days
- Our favorite open world FPS indie gem is getting New Game+, Spider-Man swinging, and wallrunning later this month
- State of Decay 3 springs back to life to announce alpha tests in May
- Rust is getting hydro power through water wheels that can also be powered by humans: 'Before you ask, yes, you can force handcuffed players into them'
- Petit Planet, the upcoming 'cozy galactic life sim' from HoYoVerse, is taking signups for a new beta test happening later this month
- After 36 years at the legendary FPS studio, Raven Software co-founder Brian Raffel is retiring
- Bungie provides details on Marathon's imminent Recon buff 'by popular demand', revealing an improved Echo Pulse and a 'more aggressive' tracker drone
- Take-Two has seemingly laid off an unspecified portion of its AI team, including its head of AI
- April 2
-
- A former GameStop exec thought building its Steam competitor would be his 'forever job,' but the retailer bet the house on digital distribution being 'a passing phase'
- Mega Crit co-founder says he wasn't bothered by the Steam backlash to Slay the Spire 2's beta balance patch: 'It's difficult for players to feel like they're heard'
- The Emperor Protects: A Warhammer 40,000 Musical is a deeply committed April Fool's joke from Games Workshop, and I don't care if it's a day late because it's just that good
- 43% of you have, or will be switching to gaming on Linux this year, but more surprising than that over a quarter of you actually don't mind Windows
- A contributor to GameStop's long-forgotten Steam competitor explains why he thinks Valve came out on top: 'What Steam did better than anybody else was to create a community'
- Warren Spector's multiplayer Thief successor changes direction: Instead of PvPvE, it's now focusing on 2-player co-op and singleplayer
- Slay the Spire 2's team is already cooking on 3 ideas for new game modes, each offering 'ways to interact with Slay the Spire that don't exist right now'
- MechWarrior studio Piranha Games lays off 30% of its employees
- Marathon game director says Bungie's rebalancing 'god-like' knife damage, buffing Vandal and Recon shells, and knocking bubble shields down a peg
- What will Slay the Spire 2's final ending be like? 'I do want it to be more extravagant when you win,' says Mega Crit
- The most hardcore Jak & Daxter heads in the world have finished their native PC ports of the entire trilogy
- Nexon CEO admits The First Descendant had 'no staying power,' and that can't be addressed with a quick fix: 'These are design issues that are not fixed with a patch'
- Seasonic teases cherry blossom-themed Focus ATX 3.1 'Sakura' power supply
- CoreWeave co-founder says even older GPUs are still rising in price and are in demand for AI servers
- 'It's like having the secret to Coca-Cola': Illumination CEO attributes the success of the Super Mario movies to the 'inclusion of Miyamoto and the Nintendo artists'
- Arc Raiders is a 'Trojan Horse' for demonstrating AI tool usage in game development, according to Nexon, after Embark built two hits at 'a fraction of the cost you’d expect'
- Apparently you can't escape Microsoft Outlook issues even in space as Artemis II astronauts ask NASA for help with the software
- This new climbing game is a bit like Darkest Dungeon on a mountain: Sometimes you have to cut the rope, and not everyone on the team is going to take it well when you do
- I turned my gaming laptop into a PC Gamer bug out kit
- Minecraft creator Notch says 'DLSS fundamentally makes no sense', but the X comments say 'um, actually'
- AMD says Intel's 'interesting choices' around multithreading could help Epyc CPUs gain server market share
- If Gigabyte's original X870E X3D Wood motherboard didn't do it for you, how about this moody 'Dark Wood' respin?
- The RAMpocalypse won't end any time soon, so here are the cheapest 16 and 32 GB memory kits I'd fit in my own gaming PC
- Two high-rated motherboard security vulnerabilities have been identified in Gigabyte Control Center, so come update your software along with me
- 'Any update is a bonus not a right': Peak devs snap back at ungrateful players demanding more updates, 'Neither us or Aggro Crab are live service studios'
- It turns out Crimson Desert has even more mechanics under the hood—like this 'fully-designed food consequence system' that modders have unlocked
- Linux installs jump to over 5% of gamers on the latest Steam Hardware Survey while the RTX 5070 reverts to the norm
- Dell XPS 14 laptop with a Panther Lake chip manages a staggering 43-hour+ battery life result, thrashing the latest MacBook Air
- April 1
-
- 'What's your salary? I told him, and he said no problem, we'll double. And those days are gone:' Listening to game dev legends reminiscing in 1989 about the 'golden days of computer games' already being over is a trip
- Blizzard is hiring for an 'open-world shooter' using Unreal Engine, which is more evidence that a new Starcraft game could be on its way
- Instead of making a joke, Valve celebrates April Fool's Day by rolling out a Steam storefront 'refresh' that makes it look much nicer
- Diablo 4's 'April Fowl's Day' joke is a big chicken boss who drops a cluckton of unique loot, like the 'Cluckonomicon' and the 'Eggcecutioner'
- The most baffling apostrophe in gaming history: a PC Gamer investigation
- US Patent Office revokes Nintendo's controversial Pokémon battling patent in nonfinal decision
- Garry's Mod successor s&box finally arrives on Steam on April 28
- Black Ops 7's April Fools' joke is very much real: the smallest Call of Duty map in history
- April Fool's Day is upon us, and you know what that means: Bubsy feet pics
- Gabe Newell stepped back from game design during Portal 2's development, because 'he always wanted to be part of the team, but being Gabe and being in his position, that never really worked'
- Shinji Mikami's next game was just stealth-announced in a YouTube video and it sure looks like the creator of survival horror is back doing what he does best
- Marathon has made everyone's favourite loot spot harder to access but even more rewarding, and it's got solo players raising pitchforks
- Stormgate, the StarCraft-like RTS that launched last summer, is losing online multiplayer support because its server partner was bought by an AI company
- It looks like Intel might ditch regular E-cores for its upcoming Core 300 laptop chips
- Billy the pickpocket is the unluckiest man in Crimson Desert
- Oracle, darling of the AI boom, is reportedly laying off around 10,000 people
- If you want to crank tons more gaming performance out of the Apple MacBook Neo, apparently a custom water cooling loop works
- WoW's latest raid cinematic could be the start of a massive story retcon for its worst expansion
- No, there isn't going to be a new lovecraftian Nier game with a caked-up tentacle robot, despite cope to the contrary
- Nvidia's big frame gen update to DLSS includes a new model for improved UI elements, but I can't see any improvements whatsoever
- 512,000 lines of Claude Code's own CLI source code have leaked due to 'human error', but the company says 'no sensitive customer data or credentials' were exposed
- Google says quantum computing will crack bitcoin cryptography sooner than expected, estimating a 10% chance of 'Q-Day' by 2032
- MindsEye's first major update, 'Blacklist', really will be used to 'share some of the evidence of the sabotage’ that apparently made it bad
- 'Legally distinct Cammy': Overwatch revealed its newest hero and fans are saying she looks awfully familiar
- Crimson Desert's less than ideal launch is a distant memory as it hits the 4 million sales milestone
- There's only one budget wireless hall effect controller I'd recommend right now, and my current favorite is only $30
- Trendforce says DDR5 RAM kit prices have fallen 'sharply' in US, Europe and China but that contract memory prices 'remain stable'
- Web-code library with millions of weekly downloads poisoned by malicious release: 'This is unironically a malware nuclear missile'
- To the surprise of no one, running a PC without system RAM is not the solution to the memory crisis—but hey, you can always force Snake to run in the BIOS
- Now that you can try out Nvidia's new Dynamic Multi Frame Generation for yourself, you might want to know that there's a bit of an issue when it comes to frame rate limiters
- Geekbench says enabling Intel BOT paints an 'unrealistic picture' of CPU performance and makes Intel chips seem faster versus the AMD competition 'than they would be in typical, real-world usage'
- The latest Nvidia App beta update adds DLSS 4.5 Dynamic Multi Frame Generation support and an intriguing Auto Shader Compilation feature to the green team suite
- Amazon says its Fallout series has now been watched by 100 million people, 'with season two now joining season one as two of our top four biggest seasons we've ever launched'
- My 5 favorite cozy games in Steam's House and Home sale
- Super Mario Galaxy Movie reviews are in and, surprise: it's execrable churn
