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June 30
- Space Marine 2 will celebrate its first anniversary with a 'large-scale update' in September, and another year of free and paid content is on the way
- 'They told me to destroy' my backups, Fallout creator Tim Cain says: 'People high up at companies take authority but no responsibility' for game preservation
- A Short Hike dev 'sort of' cancels Paper Mario-inspired game, but decides to let everyone play a demo of it anyway: 'I figured maybe sharing the demo is better than nothing'
- Eric Barone clarifies he's just 'open to entertaining the idea' of saving Hytale, but he's not pursuing it himself because he's completely focused on Haunted Chocolatier
- Palworld just got a huge Terraria-themed update, which as it turns out is a lot less ridiculous than Silent Bob in Warzone
- Path of Exile co-creator Chris Wilson has started a new game studio: 'I wanted to be creative in a way that didn't involve being a CEO of a 200 person company'
- Hypixel Studios founder says he'll 'reach out' to Riot about taking over Hytale: 'I am even down to put $25 million by myself to finish Hytale, that’s how much I believe in it'
- Counterwatch isn't in the cards for Overwatch 2's Stadium mode: 'No hero swapping has been one of the core foundational pillars'
- Accused of being AI after racking up well over 400,000 monthly Spotify listens, The Velvet Sundown claims they are 'a real band' and 'never use AI'
- There's still no sign of Star Citizen 1.0, but it did just get a revamped referral program so the die-hards can tempt in even more saps
- Rematch devs talk balls—specifically, how to balance the ball's feel with function: 'It's the basic brick of the game, it's like an atomic component'
- Jamming Windows 95 onto a PS2, goes about as well as you might expect, but the Sisyphean struggle is still compelling viewing
- The people who brought you the $165 Disco Elysium trash bag now bring you an $800 The Alters tracksuit
- This $150 27-inch 1440p monitor is practically begging to be thrown alongside a new PC build
- 'Oblivion Remastered with guns' becomes reality as modder jury-rigs a literal Glock into the game and shoots up an Oblivion Tower with it
- 'The censorship is a step too far': Ready or Not is getting review bombed after developers sanitise the game to adhere to stricter console standards
- An Intel Nova Lake leak suggests the next generation of Core Ultra chips will have 60% more multi-threaded performance, but the numbers just don't add up
- 'Spitting in the face of your international audience': The Alters cops to using generative AI for background text and translations, despite not disclosing such on Steam
- Specs rumours for the Super versions of Nvidia's RTX 5070 cards kick off with more VRAM being the main dish of the day
- 'What's the most chaotic evil thing we can make?': Overwatch 2 devs are seeing just how far they can push Stadium's fights, but will reign it in for the sake of player sanity
- Crisis averted—Blizzard quickly axes busted Diablo 4 build that turned players into teleporting gods of destruction on the PTR, because it was 'basically eclipsing everything else'
- Ubisoft can't button its yap about the not-so-secret Black Flag remake—now Edward Kenway's voice actor is telling AC4 fans 'You might have to beat it again'
- Singapore case of fraudulent AI chip shipments to China in wake of US fears of military use has been adjourned until August
- Denmark to introduce law giving individuals automatic copyright over their own likeness in effort to tackle AI and deepfakes
- Apple responds to $570 million in EU fines with new tiered comission and tax for App developers which Epic boss Tim Sweeney says are 'blatantly unlawful in both Europe and the United States'
- Moza's new flight sim ecosystem features five new pieces of hardware aiming to bring high-end simming to mid-range budgets
- Microsoft to change Windows's infamous Blue Screen of Death to something much darker in response to last year's CloudStrike crashes
- Today's Wordle answer for Monday, June 30
- If you're curious about the crazy-ambitious space survival game from the makers of EVE Online, it's got a free trial running through the next week and change
June 29
- Facebook users say they've caught the app analyzing their camera roll with Meta AI⁠ without their knowledge—here's how to make sure it doesn't happen
- Deltarune's Tenna was first envisioned in 3D almost a decade ago in a delightfully janky prototype
- A rising Peak lifts all boats as climbing sim Cairn breaks 500k demo downloads after endorsement from mountaineering megahit Peak's devs
- The best stealth game of the year just released its source code
- Don't want to switch to Windows 11? There is one last way to stick with Windows 10 a little longer
- The dev behind one of my favorite recent FPSes is making a 'horror game about a trainee metro driver trapped in the dampest subway east of anything that matters' set in a real city that doesn't actually have a subway
- 'AI is no longer optional': Microsoft is allegedly pressuring employees to use AI tools through manager evaluations
- Our favorite RPG from last year is 40% off in the Steam Summer Sale
- Wreckfest 2's latest update lets you drive a grotty motorhome that's definitely had meth cooked in it, and ensures that 'realistic damage mode is now more realistic'
- For the first time in three years, Sable is free to keep on the Epic Store
- The brilliant Half-Life-inspired survival game Abiotic Factor cascades into 1.0 this July
- Owlcat is 'redoing everything from scratch' in Dark Heresy, its next Warhammer 40,000 CRPG, which is the best thing I've heard about it so far
- Gloomwood's latest research update adds the most scientific thing of all: headshots
- Space Marine's underwhelming remaster is getting an extended refund window, and a discount for owners of the original
June 28
- The first true 1:1 test we have shows Steam OS getting better performance than Windows in 10 big games, tying in 2 more, and it's got me salivating for a desktop version of Valve's OS
- Despite always preferring turn-based combat in RPGs, Pillars of Eternity designer Josh Sawyer thinks a lack of experience and opportunity meant the studio couldn't pull off a similar swing to Larian taking Baldur's Gate turn-based
- Dying Light continues celebrating its 10th anniversary with a big graphical facelift, but don't you dare call it a remaster
- Two Point Museum's first DLC adds a fantasy flourish to your exhibitions, letting you display mimic chests, a giant d20, and a chicken statue that turns people into poultry
- Atari's reboot of Mad Max-style racer Fatal Run is coming later this year, and its new trailer shows a hefty dose of Burnout in its irradiated DNA
- Hellblade 2 is getting an enhanced edition that brings back the fake permadeath system from the first game, but there's every chance it's real this time
- MrBeast scraps AI YouTube thumbnail generator days after announcing it: 'If creators don't want the tools, no worries'
June 27
- This new 'roguelike deckbuilding typing game' is like Mavis Beacon Teaches Balatro, and I'm here for it
- New Vegas lead Josh Sawyer thinks turn-based combat fell off in the 2000s due to a lack of 'tactical variation': Even Fallout 1 would 'get to the point where you're always doing nut shots and eye shots'
- Dave the Diver In the Jungle DLC is delayed, but the free Godzilla Content Pack is back and Ichiban Kasuga has extended his vacation until the end of 2026
- I asked the man in charge of a major live service game if ugly crossover skins are a problem, and I didn't care for his answer
- Diablo 4's old and forgotten dungeons will be renovated into loot-packed marathons that culminate with a duel against a familiar boss in its next season
- Fortnite cheater wins $6,850 in competitive tournaments, gets caught, now owes Epic $175,000
- Randy Pitchford makes people mad again by warning that Borderlands 4 will take even longer to get deep discounts than Borderlands 3 did
- Helldivers 2 players celebrate victory over Sony as the 'review bomb' cape finally appears in the game: 'We won the biggest and longest running Major Order in the game to date'
- Dark Souls 2 player beats its hardest boss on NG+7 by wearing his clothes and committing seppuku 47 times
- DayZ's biggest map ever is coming next year, where 'Middle Eastern-style cities lie next to Soviet-era military bases'
- 'We were super confident in third-person': Overwatch 2 Stadium devs love the new perspective but understand it's not to everyone's liking, 'A decade of muscle memory exists'
- Developers of Linux distro Fedora propose dropping 32-bit support entirely, but it's being claimed that the change 'would kill off projects like Bazzite entirely'
- Inzoi's biggest problems right now are overwhelmingly the fact it's 'lacking simulation content' and its painfully awkward social interactions, player survey reveals
- Monster Hunter Wilds second Title Update arrives next week with 2 returning monsters, but I'm more interested in whether its promised performance fixes can help rebuild its reputation
- 'We are aware': Square Enix president knows golden goose Final Fantasy 14 is losing its lustre
- No more dolphin swimming or flying in Rematch—in a bug fix, Sloclap very seriously explains why levitating soccer players aren't part of its vision for the game
- EA's CEO pulled in $5 million more this year than last, while his employees took home the least money they've made since 2022
- Graphics researchers have created a GPU-run procedural algorithm for creating an equivalent 35.6 GB worth of trees, leaves, and bushes from just 52 kB of data
- Despite limping on Steam charts with a 24-hour peak of less than 200, FBC: Firebreak hits 1 million players milestone—and, let's face it, it's probably Game Pass
- I screwed up Karlach's ending in Baldur's Gate 3: I thought I'd picked her best outcome but her actor says 'not very much' of her is actually left
- The new version of Logitech's glorious MX Master makes an appearance in the EU Intellectual Property Office database, pointing to an imminent release
- Deus Ex lead Warren Spector pops up to remind everyone he didn't make the game alone in a cave, wish you a happy 25th anniversary, and get me wondering if something Deus Ex-related is happening behind the scenes
- Want size and speed in your SSD? Micron's new 2600 boasts 'up to 63% faster sequential write and 49% faster random write speeds' than the competition
- Elden Ring Nightreign player hits 63,375 damage and keeps going until they're punished for their hubris: 'I was suddenly unable to deal any damage at all'
- 'No one wants to see Leon scared': Resident Evil 9 Requiem director admits that Leon Kennedy is just too cool to be the protagonist of a horror game
- Endless Legend 2 will let you play as refugees from the first game's coolest faction: a collection of vampire ghosts trapped in fancy armour
- Colorful launches quirky Meow series GPUs with a bright orange RTX 5050 covered in cats
- Getty drops primary claims against Stable Diffusion in AI lawsuit after 'failing to establish a sufficient connection between the infringing acts and the UK jurisdiction for copyright law to bite'
- Today's Wordle answer for Friday, June 27
June 26
- Rainbow Six Siege X director says free currency gain has been 'buffed' after complaints: 'The goal wasn't to make it a harder grind for players'
- Riot decides that allowing sports betting sponsorships in top-tier League of Legends and Valorant esports is a good idea
- Lost Records developer Don't Nod confirms layoffs at its Montreal studio
- Dune director Denis Villeneuve will direct the next Bond film for Amazon MGM, despite already being attached to four other upcoming films, including Cleopatra
- Dying Light 2's new Balatro costume may be the most cursed crossover I've ever seen
- IO Interactive CEO estimates that Hitman 3 only cost a fifth of Hitman 2016's budget because the studio was brave enough to stop making new bathrooms for every game: 'I swore never to do more new toilets'
- Chris Avellone joins with former Quantic Dream writer to work on a 'dark fantasy' RPG
- It's not just you—Steam is getting absolutely crushed under the Summer Sale
- Warhammer 40,000: Space Marine 2 gets a horde mode, and one class gets a thunder hammer because the devs thought 'it will be very cool'
- The 2025 Steam Summer Sale is live
- Intel's next-gen Nova Lake CPUs rumoured to take on AMD's X3D CPUs at last thanks to gaming-friendly cache memory tile
- Google Earth has historic street view now and just in case you don't feel old enough already, it's to celebrate its 20th birthday
- Ring is using AI to generate video descriptions of what goes on outside your door—and to keep even more detailed tabs on 'the routines of your residence'
- This grand strategy autobattler inspired by classics like Heroes of Might and Magic comes to life through 'hundreds of handmade oil painted illustrations'
- Ahead of Marvel Rivals Season 3, NetEase is making it easier for losing teams to end their own suffering
- Top-10 Steam game Bongo Cat is 'actually losing us money' says dev, which is fine because it's been great for business: 'Before, we knocked on 50 doors; now, they are coming to us'
- Microsoft says that 'Windows 11 PCs are up to 2.3X faster than Windows 10 PCs', neglecting to mention that it's comparing apples to bowling balls
- Outer Worlds 2 writes an enormous cheque it will soon have to cash: It's not just New Vegas-inspired, it's Deus Ex-flavoured too
- 'Artificial intelligence is going to displace millions and millions of workers' says Bernie Sanders, so might as well take a four-day week
- Former CEO Pat Gelsinger reveals he was 'not given the opportunity' to finish his job at Intel as he predicts the future of computing will be a 'trinity' of traditional, AI and quantum machines
- Exclusive deal: Save up to 76% on a NordVPN two-year subscription and get four months extra free, plus an Amazon gift card on selected plans
- Jagex CEO breaks glass, hits PR emergency button by promising an end to a 'tainted RuneScape 3' via microtransaction overhaul
- Research team shares new method for sucking gold out of old PC hardware, making some progress towards shrinking our mountains of e-waste one day
- Meta wins AI copyright suit before it could go to a jury as the 'plaintiffs made the wrong arguments'
- Peak has now sold 2 million copies in just 9 days, as the devs reveal what's next for this co-op climbing game: 'Let's talk about what we're cooking'
- Nvidia marketing goes into overdrive mode with claims that the new RTX 5050 is over 6000% faster than the GTX 1050 thanks to DLSS
- We've outgrown the need for BioShock, but you can get the whole trilogy plus Mafia 1, 2, and 3 for a mere $18 right now
- Rematch players are flopping about like schools of flying fish because—and I tested this—it's actually faster
- Intel commences mass layoffs with over 100 Californian employees, including around 45 engineers in efforts to shed $500 million in operating costs this year
- Corsair introduces cheaper PC case fans with 'reverse rotors' which help those LEDs shine without obstruction
- Netherlands takes Sony to court over digital-only walled garden allegedly costing 1.7m citizens 435 million euros since 2013
- Today's Wordle answer for Thursday, June 26
- Xbox and Meta officially release limited edition black and green Meta Quest 3S bundle
June 25
- 10 years after it launched, one of the best roguelikes of all time gets a surprise update on Steam with quality of life improvements and a new controls menu
- FTC issues $126 million in Fortnite refunds, gives eligible players an extra 2 weeks to apply for their money back
- Bullying works once again: Jurassic World Evolution 3 is ditching its AI-generated scientist portraits after receiving backlash for sparing the wrong expense
- Stalker 2 artist kickstarts the Zone Kit modding scene with a flood of glorious nonsense mods featuring Shrek, CJ, and—you guessed it—Thomas the Tank Engine
- That was quick! Funcom just patched Dune: Awakening to make the Deep Desert only 50% PvP
- New York City might get its first gamer mayor: Years before winning the Democratic primary, 11-year old Zohran Mamdani had his heart set on SimCity 3000
- Hearthstone's first in-game pet is only available via a gacha mechanic that will cost most players a whopping 158 bucks
- An AI holds the top slot in a leaderboard that ranks people who hunt for system vulnerabilities used by hackers
- Our pick for the best gaming earbuds are a mighty $50 off while dropping to their lowest ever price
- Windows 10 diehards who want security updates for free get a stay of execution, but there's a convoluted catch
- US judge rules that Anthropic's use of copyrighted content to train AI was fair use, but pirating books is step too far
- Stalker 2's 1.5 mega-patch just dropped and GSC says A-Life is back, baby
- WoW snaps up one of FF14's best features by letting players choose how many particle effects they want swamping their screens during raids
- Wanna make mods for Stalker 2? That'll be 700 GB of hard drive space, please
- Graphics card vendors have started to show off their RTX 5050 models and they're looking ridiculously huge for such a tiny GPU
- HDMI 2.2 interface finalised with 4K at 480 Hz and 12K at 120 Hz support, but you're going to need a new cable
- Karlach's actor knows about the 3,138 'filthy' Baldur's Gate 3 stories you've written on fanfic sites and still sends all their love to fans for changing their life: 'I don't read it, but I am aware'
- Sloclap shoots, then scores as Rematch hits 3 million players, proving there's a surprising overlap between sports and fighting game fans
- Nvidia's DLSS AI transformer model is now out of beta so we might see more games get patched to make use of it
- This hack that lets you remotely steer and stop a Nissan Leaf makes me almost thankful I'm too broke to ever afford a clever car
- I turn my back for one second and now Assassin's Creed Shadows has Critical Role in it
- The Switch 2's super sluggish LCD screen is 10 times slower than a typical gaming monitor and 100 times slower than an OLED panel according to independent testing
- DDoS attacks continue to grow ever bigger, with Cloudflare recently blocking the largest ever recorded at 37.5 TB over 45 seconds
- FromSoftware to make the most brutal boss in Elden Ring Nightreign even harder, as Fulghor gets picked to be the next Everdark Sovereign
- Larian jumped to improve Karlach's ending in Baldur's Gate 3 right away, with voice actor Samantha Béart saying it was nigh-on immediate: 'As soon as it was out, I got a call'
- Yeston's adorable single fan RTX 5060 adorned with tiny little bears is almost cute enough to make me want a mini gaming PC
- U.S. House of Representatives memo reveals WhatsApp has been banned from employee devices, citing "a high risk to users due to the lack of transparency in how it protects user data" and security concerns
- Amazon announces three-year $54 billion investment into warehouse facilities, infrastucture, and wages throughout Britain
- McLaren and Logitech G sign multi-year partnership deal to develop pro-quality racing sim hardware
- Today's Wordle answer for Wednesday, June 25
June 24
- Security researchers warn that old or expired Discord invites are being used in phishing attacks
- Palworld studio changes its mind about releasing its co-op Hollow Knight-like in early access, will go straight to 1.0
- Doing a victory lap, Dune: Awakening publisher reveals that 1 million players have already huffed 6 billion grams of spice
- Valve announces Team Fortress 2 is getting 'a much-needed update' focused on Mann vs. Machine: 'A chilling cautionary tale where an artificial consciousness tried to take all our jobs'
- Peak developers react to selling 1M copies after suffering 'a lot of burnout' from making bigger games: 'The realization that smaller projects like this can work has set our studio in a new direction'
- War Thunder players have done it again: Yet another restricted document is leaked to win a forum argument
- Here's our very first look at the Rogue Trooper movie Warcraft director Duncan Jones said he was doing 7 years ago
- Who needs Bethesda? Oblivion Remastered modders have cooked up FO4-style settlement placing even without official support
- Tiny anime girl cyberprison billing itself as a 'customizable 3D digital soulmate' reaches its Kickstarter funding goal in minutes
- Overwatch 2 Season 17 is 'all about giving you more customisation' as 3 new heroes are added to Stadium with some pretty busted abilities
- British regulator takes aim at Google's dominance with 'targeted measures to address specific aspects of how Google operates'
- Security mitigations in Intel's GPUs rob up to 20% of their compute performance but it's unlikely to be a problem in games
- Peak devs say the hit comedy climber was pitched in a Swedish hot tub and developed in a frantic 4-week Korean game jam: 'We brought our computers to an Airbnb in Hongdae and locked tf in for a month'
- The 'Stop Killing Games' initiative is close to its final deadline, and after that, its leader is understandably done: 'Either the frog hops out of the pot, or it's dead'
- New chip industry roadmap predicts true 10 nm silicon won't arrive until 2039 and yet Moore's Law is, actually, alive and kicking
- This $1,199 Lenovo OLED gaming laptop is the cheapest RTX 50-series machine I've found to date
- Türkiye's answer to Disco Elysium just broke cover, featuring more lawyers, fewer cops, an indeterminate amount of communism and twin fistfuls of guilt and regret
- Nvidia surprise-launches the GeForce RTX 5050 graphics card, starting at $249 for what's basically a slower RTX 4060 with DLSS 4
- System Shock 2's remaster is delayed for everyone but you and me
- 'There are big-ass tanky guys': Cronos: The New Dawn devs discuss the gruelling combat and beg players to not let the enemies merge, 'You will suffer'
- You might be surprised to learn that while robots and other machines are vital for making a top-end CPU air cooler, there's still a lot of it that's handmade
- Just when you thought Intel's branding couldn't get any worse, a report says the company plans to outsource marketing to a consultancy using AI
- Someone at Valve got their unit prefixes a bit muddled but a quick update for the latest Steam beta has fixed your slower-than-normal CPU reading
- Software engineer creates a real-life ad block using Snapchat's AR smart glasses, but ultimately ends up making something far more distracting than ads
- After about a bazillion user requests, Windows finally lets you move the audio volume pop-up
- You will soon be able to open non-Xbox games from the Xbox app, which could be a great way to further avoid the Epic Games Store
- 'Why did this stupid jam game sell more': Climbing game Peak has sold 1 million copies in under a week, outperforming its developer's most popular game
- Goodbye 12VHPWR meltgate? Asus shows its cable-hiding BTF tech is capable of handling more power than an RTX 5090 will ever use
- Modders put the Executor into Elden Ring because if FromSoftware won't give us Sekiro: Shadows Die Twice 2, we'll do it ourselves
- Researchers develop a new technique to bond GaN transistors to a silicon chip, with the ultimate goal of having more powerful and efficient wireless transmitters
- Windows 11 gets a fresh new Start menu and it's one of the most useful changes to the UI in yonks
- Today's Wordle answer for Tuesday, June 24
June 23
- Bloodlines 2 developer The Chinese Room has laid off employees, but Paradox says the game is still coming in October
- Death Stranding 2 reviewers say it's a sequel that's 'more Metal Gear Solid than ever,' but it's 'still beautifully odd'
- After more than 7 years of development with nothing to show for it, Riot cancels the Minecraft-inspired sandbox RPG Hytale and closes the studio making it
- Top AI firm finds that AIs will choose to merrily asphyxiate humans rather than be shut down: 'My ethical framework permits self-preservation'
- Star Wars Battlefront 2 had over 2200% more Steam players this weekend than it did last June—and it's thanks in part to Kyrie Irving and his level 101 Emperor Palpatine
- The Blood of Dawnwalker 20-minute gameplay trailer shows off Dishonored-style teleportation and a man getting popped like a zit by an angry vampire boss
- Dune: Awakening is changing its endgame in response to player complaints: 'Our goal is not to force PvE players to interact with a PvP system that they may have no interest in'
- Resident game industry weirdo Yoko Taro laments that there aren't as many 'weird' people making videogames as there used to be
- Xbox-themed Quest 3S has been spotted ready for release and if you close your eyes and imagine what an Xbox-themed Quest 3S looks like, bingo
- Stellar Blade's director admits 'the narrative was lacking', but wants to make up for it in the sequel
- MindsEye's catastrophic launch to be followed by layoffs at former GTA producer's studio
- Mario Kart 64 has a native PC port now thanks to the mad lads even Nintendo can't stop, who also ported Zelda and Star Fox
- Phasmophobia devs 'don't want to walk into the live service area' with seasonal events, but still have plans to keep the community engaged
- One lucky Redditor has managed to snag themselves a mythical AMD Radeon GeForce RTX RX 9070 XT. Yes, you read that right
- Final Fantasy 14 director Yoshi-P admits 'our quality of service has declined recently' and 'we got used to things a bit too much and got comfortable'
- REPO devs are planning something diabolical for the upcoming museum map: 'Get ready to Mission: Impossible your way past laser security modules'
- iFixit awards the Framework 12 laptop a 10/10 for repairability: 'respects your time, your budget, and your ability to make repairs'
- Cyberpunk 2077's surprise 2.3 patch gets a surprise delay as CDPR needs some time to aim 'for a scope similar to Update 2.2'
- The GPU-less version of Intel's best Arrow Lake chip, the one I bought myself, is now down to $230
- Balatro creator finally gets the last harrowing achievement he needed to 100% complete his own game, now feels 'better equipped' to design its upcoming expansion
- Clair Obscur: Expedition 33's VA for Gustave jokes that he feels 'like a total fraud' since he spent just 4 hours in the booth—and while 'fraud' is way too harsh, Gustave's mocap actor does deserve laurels, too
- The Claaaaw: MSI unveils Toy Story gaming PC parts with Buzz GPU, Woody motherboard and Pizza Planet cooler
- Linus Torvalds has apparently met Bill Gates for the first time in person and before you ask, no he didn't clock him in the face
- Final Fantasy 14 is doing what it should have done 6 years ago and fulfilling its promise to let every race wear hats
- 'Where did he go?': Blade has gone missing in Marvel Rivals, which has the rumour mill theorising that he'll finally be added to the roster in Season 3
- Xbox emulator devs shoot down rumours they're in cahoots with Microsoft to bring Xbox games to PC: 'What f****** AI ChatGPT stuff have you been reading?'
- Lies of P: Overture devs actually rewarded for making a solid DLC in rare industry W: Getting a bonus, 2 weeks vacation, and a free Switch 2
- OpenAI's CEO Sam Altman airs his thoughts on ads in ChatGPT: 'I'm not totally against it...I think ads on Instagram, kinda cool'
- Death Stranding 2 launch times and release date
- Grim Dawn's next expansion will be honkin' huge, with 54 new bosses and more than 380 new unique items, it takes up 'approximately 3.55sq. km'
- The emulator that lets you play NES games in 3D has left early access on Steam
- Today's Wordle answer for Monday, June 23
- One gamer got so tired of waiting for Valve, he made his own 'Steam Controller 2' out of Steam Deck parts, and it even splits in half like Switch Joy-Cons
- Magic: The Gathering's science-fantasy set adds spacecraft, and a rules change for the Commander format
June 22
- Sega just accidentally leaked its own sales numbers, and somehow Sonic Frontiers sold more than the last two mainline Yakuzas combined, but Persona 5's putting the rest of the stable to shame
- Elden Ring Nightreign modders are already going ham with custom skins, including Optimus Prime, Stellar Blade's Eve, and my #1 most-wanted outfit from Dark Souls
- A criminally underrated action game with a soundtrack I'm still listening to 9 years later is on sale for just 2 bucks on Steam, and I already bought it again
- Blasphemous is currently 90% off, so cheap it's giving me a guilty conscience
- Pathologic 3's time travel system will let players 'explore the unknown boldly and without fearing permanent ruin' and that makes me way more inclined to play it
- Victoria 3 is playable for free this weekend, and on a 70% discount until Thursday
- Almost a year after launch, Frost Giant's StarCraft wannabe has finally added the feature it's named after: 'We called the game Stormgate, yet we didn't actually have any stormgates'
- Shotgun Cop Man just got a free DLC that proves every game is better with bullet time
- 'This happened because of the best elements of our community': Borderlands 4 won't have a minimap, but thanks to player demand it will have an optional combat radar
- Today's Wordle answer for Sunday, June 22
- Hypnospace Outlaw sequel Dreamsettler has been cancelled: 'We just way overscoped'
June 21
- Here's the entire soundtrack for Europa Universalis 5 even though the grand strategy game doesn't have a release date yet
- Survival game Once Human now has custom servers, complete with all manner of tweakable parameters
- 'I don't particularly think the game will be very good': The fans trying to get a never-released Chinese Borderlands MMO working are doing something so absurd that I love them for it
- NetEase's 'first AAA singleplayer' game is Blood Message, and it looks amazing in its first trailer
- Update: Danish ministry only ditching Microsoft Office, but Windows is staying on their PCs
- Total War: Warhammer 3's latest patch radically reattunes its magic item system: 'In total some 600 ancillaries have had their effects and rarity adjusted'
- Grounded 2 will have less frequent, much larger early access updates
- Tempest Rising's first major update targets the Command and Conquer successor's multiplayer, adding 6 maps, a 2v2 ranked mode, and an extensive balance overhaul
- That 16-bit Terminator 2 throwback doesn't feature Arnie's likeness, but it did license the guy who played adult John Connor for 30 seconds in the film's intro
- No More Room in Hell 2's latest update transforms its zombie horror from a cooperative game to a solo extraction shooter when enough players die
- Today's Wordle answer for Saturday, June 21
June 20
- Elden Ring Nightreign player completes their 'solo gremlin challenge', clearing every boss in a row as its squishiest character
- Rematch surpasses 1 million players in its first day of full release
- David Cronenberg says eXistenZ wasn't about predicting modern gaming, but if the 1999 sci-fi thriller did do that, 'that's lovely'
- Monster Hunter Wilds has been hit by over 2,000 negative Steam reviews in the last week as players lose hope that Capcom will fix its egregious performance issues
- FBC: Firebreak patch aims to improve the game's early hours, which 'do not provide a good experience,' Remedy admits
- Oblivion is a very funny game but the Skyblivion remake may not be, and you can blame the quality of Skyrim's 'streamlined' engine for that
- A Duke Nukem TV series may be coming from the producer of the Devil May Cry and Castlevania animated shows on Netflix
- Balatro creator gets 'a taste of my own medicine' as he struggles in vain to score the game's hardest achievement
- Trump extends TikTok sale deadline in the US yet again, leaving the whole situation feeling 'less like a ticking clock and more like a looped ringtone… political Groundhog Day'
- Lenovo might have just leaked the more powerful Legion Go 2's release date for September
- No, 16 billion passwords didn't just get exposed in a mega-hack, but you should get with the program and stop reusing passwords anyways
- AMD just mentioned an as yet unreleased Ryzen X3D chip that could become the budget gaming CPU of champions
- Final Fantasy 14 is making it easier to enter its latest dungeon so you can stop spending half an hour playing 'instance gacha'
- Despite bankrolling Square Enix, 'cost' is somehow the reason Final Fantasy 14's newest raid (which has only been cleared 400 times in 23 days) wasn't given an easier version
- GOG says it won't repeat its ill-fated Daggerfall GOG Cut with its new one-click modding program, not least because it can send more than one message a day to modders now
- 'We just kept geeking out': Skyblivion devs were invited to Bethesda HQ and ended up spending the whole day talking about modding with the team and Todd Howard
- Oblivion's dungeons suck, Skyblivion is making them better: 'That's where the power of a proper remake comes from'
- FF14 'stalker plugin' PlayerScope shut down after creator says they were sent a cease & desist—though that's not quite the end of it
- A battle over air quality between Musk's xAI and the citizens of Memphis now looks to be heading towards the courts
- Today's Wordle answer for Friday, June 20
- 8 minutes of footage from an unfinished open world D&D game has leaked
June 19
- Stellaris updates are going to start coming more slowly, because new patches are causing new problems and QA testers can't keep up
- Rematch launched without crossplay because of 'unforeseen technical complexities' and Sloclap is sorry, but it's a hit on Steam anyway
- World of Warcraft dataminers dug up its biggest boss ever: A new 3,806-foot-tall horror who could crush its capital cities in one step
- Daemon X Machina: Titanic Scion is adding a card game as the mecha sequel targets an increasingly specific type of guy
- As war looms in the Middle East, clips of Arma 3 and War Thunder are being used as propaganda, and even the Israeli military's having to clarify 'the footage is fake'
- After a disastrous patch day, Hunt: Showdown 1896's 2.4 update is live for real now
- Dune: Awakening AMA promises changes coming to PvP: 'We want the experience to be reliable, responsive, and clearly understood'
- OpenAI supremo Sam Altman says he 'doesn't know how' he would have taken care of his baby without the help of ChatGPT
- Believe it or not Death Stranding is getting another movie, screenwriter puffs on the Kojima pipe and says he can't wait to 'birth new stories into this fertile, mind-bending universe'
- Ah, crap: Nightreign players have discovered there's a relic inventory cap, and you can't play once you've hit the limit
- GOG now accepts donations when you buy a game, like it's a charity or something
- Steam adds more accessibility features and Valve says it's just the start, wants players with disabilities to provide more feedback and suggestions
- Here's another RTX 50-series graphics card with Noctua fans, proving once again they are catnip for PC hardware engineers
- Calling AI a threat to 'human dignity, justice and labor,' Pope Leo XIV of all people takes on Big Tech
- 'Exciting' Red Dead Redemption news less exciting than previously thought, says John Marston actor: 'Rockstar Games makes announcements for Rockstar Games'
- North Korea's only Steam user disappeared yesterday, but not to worry: They're back and gaming harder than ever
- By all that's holy, here are two GeForce RTX 5060 Ti cards that are genuinely being sold at MSRP
- A player-made Libra deals cheat sheet for Elden Ring Nightreign reveals when you should and shouldn't make a deal with the goat devil
- The 50 most-played demos of Steam Next Fest include musical martial arts, a Stalker-inspired MMO, a superhero management sim, and at least 2 games that are basically Sea of Thieves in space
- Oh no, I've been playing a tutorial for 55 hours: Elden Ring Nightreign's Everdark Sovereigns aren't just a health and damage boost, the Gaping Jaw's got all-new mechanics to lay us flat
- Fake Minecraft mods that steal all your personal data including crypto wallets are being distributed via GitHub accounts
- Intel claims 18A, the node Pat bet the company on, is either 25% faster or 38% more efficient than Intel 3. Though that's a node Intel didn't have enough faith in to release for desktops or laptops
- Return to Silent Hill finally has a release date, and there's not long left to wait now
- XCOM 2 is $2.40, and its excellent DLC War of the Chosen ain't far off—making the all-time tactical strategy great cheaper than takeout
- 'Couldn't afford a PC so I drew one' says one Redditor after drawing a God-tier cel shaded case mod for his kids to play Minecraft on
- PC Gamer magazine's new issue is on sale now: Painkiller
- Elden Ring Nightreign's first enhanced boss just dropped out of nowhere, and there's an extremely useful new NPC too
- Today's Wordle answer for Thursday, June 19
- PlayStation's attempt to summarize the plot of Death Stranding in six minutes is heroic and doomed
June 18
- World of Warcraft players are convinced Blizzard is dropping hints about a major update to a 9-year-old class
- Hunt: Showdown 1896 goes offline for a day after its latest update caused so many problems Crytek had to remove it completely
- Hideo Kojima says the Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 development team is his 'ideal' size: 'They only have like 33 team members and a dog'
- WhatsApp really is good, so Meta's had enough of that and is now 'monetising the periphery' with new ads that try to make it more like Instagram
- Elon Musk's latest gaming take is ruthlessly mocked by Bioshock fans: 'Probably thinks Andrew Ryan was the hero'
- After 4 years of silence, one of the most disappointing games of 2020 gets a surprise expansion
- Warner Bros Games restructures, all the better to drown us in Batman and Harry Potter games
- RuneScape player pulls off a personal Shawshank Redemption: Grinds his way out of one-zone house arrest by grinding a raid 2,000 times over 10,000 hours: 'It was all worth it'
- Intel has joined Nvidia with its own neural texture compression tech but it probably won't rescue your VRAM-starved 8 GB GPU any time soon
- Elden Ring movie director reveals how he's getting through his 7th playthrough, 'It's like monkeys and typewriters—you just keep doing it'
- Our favorite budget wireless gaming mouse has knocked almost $20 off, making it an even more wallet-friendly option
- Dune: Awakening patch fixes the ornithopter 'goomba stomp' problem in PvP, just not in the way I expected
- Google AI happens to be really bad at playing Pokémon, repeatedly 'panicking' and taking more than 800 hours to beat the Elite Four
- 'The winds of change are blowing': After 159 days Marvel Rivals has finally nerfed Storm, albeit not by much
- This retro sleeper build hides one of the top mini PCs inside and I wish I had the tools and patience to game like it's the '90s
- Microsoft's exciting multi-year silicon partnership with AMD doesn't actually make it clearer if there's an official Xbox handheld or next-gen console coming
- Dark day for humanity as Gex Trilogy achieves 'huge success,' patches in its cursed EU voices from Red Dwarf's Cat and the 'Ding dong' guy
- Microsoft announces new dream team partnership with AMD on a 'portfolio' of next-gen Xbox devices, all with backwards compatibility with existing games
- It's time to update Asus Armoury Crate, folks—the latest vulnerability could allow hackers to compromise your Windows OS
- Become John Nightreign with a 1:1 5KG Wylder helmet which Bandai Namco is currently selling for $190
- Steam turbo-charges its performance overlay, shows you how many real and framegen frames you're getting and, oh, Proton is enabled on Linux by default now
- You aren't just imagining things: Elden Ring Nightreign player confirms it's 6x harder to revive someone at 3 bars when compared to 1, because FromSoftware's UI is basically lying to you
- An ex-Apple Vision Pro engineer turned a Steam Deck into an all-in-one keyboard for XR, and now you can too
- Today's Wordle answer for Wednesday, June 18
- No wonder it took so long to rerelease Final Fantasy Tactics—the source code was lost: 'Keeping that kind of data wasn't a normal thing to do at the time'
June 17
- Ball hogs and 'wannabe Messis' are already the heels of the Rematch community: 'Coach should run out onto the field and beat them with a stick'
- Ubisoft slows free currency gain in Rainbow Six Siege X to a pathetic crawl, then immediately drops its most expensive skin in 10 years
- Just 1 year after raising $340,000 on Kickstarter to make a 'vibrant' new JPRG, Studio Camelia abruptly closes
- Hades 2 adds nastier bosses and new weapon variants in its last major update before it leaves early access behind
- Dark and Darker will be purged from Epic Games Store libraries later this year, but it's still available on Steam for now
- 'I can't even hit anything': Path of Exile player watches helplessly as his mercenary wipes out screens of enemies before he can even reach them
- Marathon is delayed, new release date will be announced in the fall: 'We need more time to craft Marathon into the game that truly reflects your passion'
- Stellar Blade sold a million units in 3 days on PC and you can mostly thank Chinese players
- John Carmack celebrates Quake's induction in the Videogame Hall of Fame: 'We threw everything we had at it, and it was really a little bit more than we could chew at the time… it was rough'
- Overwatch 2 Season 17 is finally giving power back to the people by introducing map voting for quick play and competitive
- Diablo 4 players are accidentally misclicking their way to being $7.50's worth of platinum poorer, thanks to its reliquary system's crummy UI design
- BOE outs 8K 120 Hz monitor and it's not quite as irrelevant for gaming as you think
- Nexus Mods' new owners promise they won't monetise the site to death as users panic at the whiff of venture capital: 'The new owners are here… not sitting in a distant tower, remotely directing us all towards some nefarious goals'
- Intel's next-gen Nova Lake CPU rumoured to get up to 52 cores, over double the count of Arrow Lake across all segments
- Kingdom Come: Deliverance 2 is getting a 'cinematic cut' premiering at a Czech film festival: 'A proud moment for games as a serious storytelling medium'
- D&D's Jeremy Crawford and Chris Perkins un-retire, change teams to Critical Role's Darrington Press after a combined 46 years at Wizards of the Coast, leaving jaws dropped
- I tried out some of Elden Ring Nightreign's player-made shortcuts for the Crater event and all I got was fried in lava
- Borderlands 4 system requirements demand 8 CPU cores and 8 GB of VRAM but the reality is probably a bit more forgiving than that
- Today's Wordle answer for Tuesday, June 17
- Game of Thrones RTS has a dragon R&D team dedicated to answering burning questions like 'do the dragons explode when they die?'
June 16
- This 'tediously accurate' map of our solar system with the moon scaled to a single pixel would still take 665 monitors laid end-to-end to show all at once
- Honkai: Star Rail publisher sues player for streaming a new character on Discord before its official release
- Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 studio teases possible 'new content' and more language support: 'It's very much on our radar'
- Funcom says its working on 'a bunch of changes' for Dune: Awakening PvP after player calls out the survival MMO's 'biggest issue'
- Prince of Persia social media botch forces Ubisoft to promise once again that it's still working on The Sands of Time
- After all the anger and noise, Borderlands 4 isn't $80 anyway but there's a whopping expensive deluxe edition if you want to spend even more money on it
- Nexus Mods founder steps back after 24 years and hands over ownership: 'The strain of being responsible for the behemoth I created has taken its toll'
- 'Do it fast, do it dirty': The Witcher 4's narrative director discusses the studio's philosophy and what made The Witcher 3 so great
- Windows Recall gets an export feature to let non-Microsoft websites and apps use your Copilot PC's snapshots
- Josh Sawyer says a hypothetical Pillars of Eternity 3 would be 3D, just like Baldur's Gate 3, with 'environmental mechanics, elevation hazards, and dynamic terrain'
- I thought I'd waved goodbye to gaming PC envy then this RTX 5080 and Ryzen 7 9800X3D build threw in a 32-inch monitor for free
- Both Stellar Blade and Dune: Awakening shot into Steam's top 100 with new concurrent player peaks yesterday
- 'It didn't exist and I wanted to play it': Phasmophobia's lead dev got tired of trawling around Steam for a co-op horror puzzle game so decided to just make it himself
- ChatGPT got 'absolutely wrecked' at chess by the 48-year-old Atari VCS: 'It made enough blunders to get laughed out of a 3rd grade chess club'
- The writer behind Stray and (checks notes) wrestler and actor Dave Bautista are making a game where you get to play as a cat assassin 'in a gritty neo-noir world'
- Latest beta version of Windows 11 gets the AI agent that Microsoft promised it would add: A search tool that works
- The new Windows 11 Insider release has a weird bug where it plays the Windows Vista start-up music instead of the current one
- An RTX 3080 Ti 20 GB engineering sample has been spotted on eBay for $2,000, proving Nvidia plays with all the goodies we never get
- Elden Ring Nightreign has a new exploit which allows you and your friends to duplicate weapons and talismans until you're just as godly as the Nightlords
- Stutters and hitches in Unreal Engine 5 games should become rarer over time due to Epic's continuous updates, but we'll still see them for a while because of the way games are made
- John Marston's actor has 'Exciting news' he's forbidden to tell us, and he practically has steam coming out of his ears trying not to spill the beans
- Minecraft is rolling out its first glow up in years tomorrow
- Stellar Blade's director throws down the gauntlet at modders, whose 'firepower is still weak'—all the sexy costumes are cool, he just also wants mods that 'expand the user’s play experience'
- Yes, that was the original voice of Garrett in the trailer for Thief VR
- CD Projekt Red says The Witcher 4 will be a 'more console-first development'
- Today's Wordle answer for Monday, June 16
- Hello Games fans enter the early stages of Silksong syndrome after Light No Fire is a Summer Game Fest no-show
- Five Nights At Freddy's still going strong: The latest game briefly grappled with Dune over Steam's top seller spot
June 15
- Klei's next game will make a side-scrolling survival crafter out of Oxygen Not Included's detailed fluid and heat physics
- One of the world's biggest board game companies has just done the equivalent of Sega selling Sonic to Nintendo
- Google is experimenting with AI-generated podcast-like audio summaries at the top of its search results
- I didn't realize how much Elden Ring Nightreign upgraded its Dark Souls skins until I saw them side-by-side with the originals
- Amazon taps Star Trek Beyond and Mindhunter writer to helm Mass Effect show
- Hardcore World War 2 shooter Hell Let Loose is free to play all weekend, and on a 50% discount for the next two weeks
- I was surprised and delighted to learn that every FromSoft protagonist outside of Elden Ring Nightreign is 5 feet 7 inches tall, aka the best height for cool people
- Still Wakes the Deep is getting an expansion where you investigate the events of the base game ten years later, and it's out next week
- Less than a week from launch, FBC: Firebreak has broken out its roadmap, with two new updates coming this year adding new levels, enemies and even systems
- Why was The Witcher 3 so dark? 'It's dishonest to always show and paint the world in a positive light'
- Today's Wordle answer for Sunday, June 15
- Silent Hill series producer Motoi Okamoto says 'as the series progressed, I felt that the essence of Japanese horror was lost'
June 14
- Somebody actually bought that $3,000 Steam Deck prototype off eBay, then they let a YouTuber crack it open to see what's inside
- Dark Souls narrator and prolific actor Pik-Sen Lim has died
- The Outer Worlds 2 director offers the most sympathetic answer I've yet heard for the $80 game question: 'We don't set the prices for our games,' and 'You'd have to honestly talk to the Xbox folks'
- This massive mod for Mount and Blade 2: Bannerlord not only converts it to Sengoku-era Japan, it adds fully simulated naval battles months ahead of the base game
- Two Point Museum's latest update adds memorial exhibits for staff who vanish on expeditions, which you can put on display or sell for cold, hard profit
- Satisfactory's biggest patch since launch makes it friendlier for Steam Deck players: 'It's no exaggeration to say this update includes more than a year's worth of work'
- Today's Wordle answer for Saturday, June 14
June 13
- Oil rig horror game Still Wakes the Deep is going underwater in a surprise story expansion that arrives next week
- GTA Online's Money Fronts update is basically Breaking Bad minus the meth
- Sony removes regional restrictions on four of its biggest games on Steam
- Say goodbye to Overwatch hero Bastion and say hello to next season's Cooler Bastion who will be 10% smaller because he was such a bullet magnet
- A rumor that Nier: Automata's character designs were censored for Western audiences came from a mistranslation, creators say
- PlayStation Studios boss admits Marathon response has been 'varied' but says Sony is taking steps to ensure it's 'not going to make the same mistakes' it did with Concord
- Gooner game of the year Stellar Blade's mods are 41% smut, ensuring gamers will never see the light of heaven
- Xbox handheld rumoured to be 'essentially cancelled' but the new Asus Xbox Ally is actually a preview of all future Xbox consoles, not just handhelds
- Some RX 9070 XTs are reportedly slightly slower than others thanks to Samsung GDDR6 memory chips
- 'No gay, no pay': The RuneScape community is absolutely mauling Jagex's new CEO over his decision to cancel new Pride Month events
- 'Originally it was like, no, we are not interested': It apparently took 5.5 hours of hardcore pitching to get Thanos in Fortnite—and as you know, the rest is history
- Imagine how big Nvidia's GB200 AI superchip is in person. Nope, it's even bigger than that
- Intel's mythical Big Battlemage GPU pops up in the MESA Linux driver making a launch later this year that little bit more likely
- 'We have people working on fixing the goomba stomping'—Dune: Awakening's PvP is getting dominated by packs of rabid ornithopter pilots squishing their enemies
- Wikipedia pauses AI summary experiment after editors say it 'would do immediate and irreversible harm to our readers and to our reputation as a decently trustworthy and serious source'
- Cities: Skylines 2's latest patch has introduced quays and piers after seeing players using makeshift substitutes: 'We know how challenging they can be to build'
- AMD stealth launches the Ryzen 5 5500X3D, a cheaper downclocked version of its oldest 3D V-Cache CPU architecture
- Valve does its homework the night before deadline: Switches Steam to run on Mac chips right as Apple announces it's ditching Intel for good
- Would-be Sims competitor Inzoi's publisher says Steam concurrents aren't as important as sales, which is only technically correct
- Redditor handcrafts retrofuturistic set up that wouldn't look out of place on the set of Alien, with precisely zero 3D printing involved
- Stellar Blade is doing better numbers than almost every other PlayStation port on Steam, and it's probably not just because of the nude mods
- Today's Wordle answer for Friday, June 13
- Steam's store now lets you search for games by accessibility features like 'narrated game menus' and 'adjustable difficulty', and more than 5,000 games have already added their accessibility details to the database
June 12
- Dune: Awakening players have found a devious way to grief each other outside of PvP zones
- FromSoftware left hints for Elden Ring Nightreign's enhanced bosses update in the files and modders have already dug them up
- Konami announces Metal Gear Delta will include a new multiplayer mode, but don't expect Metal Gear Online 4 because 'the landscape of multiplayer games has changed a lot'
- 'I don't actually play horror games': Phasmophobia's lead developer had no intention of making a horror game but still kicked off a whole new genre
- Halo Infinite says 'screw it' and just becomes Halo 3 for a month—complete with grifball
- You can manipulate time itself in this ambitious MMORPG with soulslike combat
- Trump's AI czar echoes Jen-Hsun, says China's AI models are 'maybe three to six months' behind the US—while also arguing for ever fewer AI regulations in the US
- MSI's latest BIOS update hints at new AMD CPUs and I'm hoping it's Strix Point APUs coming to desktop
- Games Workshop hits the panic button, temporarily shuts down Warhammer site after scalpers descend upon it with 'abominable intelligence' and bots
- There it is: Bloober Team is remaking Silent Hill 1 after everyone went gaga for its SH2 remake
- The Switch 2 has already sold 3.5 million units, making it Nintendo's fastest selling console yet—but I'm struggling to feel enthusiastic about this hardware launch
- 'The game should speak for itself': MindsEye's publisher denies developer claims of a conspiratorial 'effort to trash' it
- Resident Evil 9 Requiem director Koshi Nakanishi confirms Grace Ashcroft as the 'brand new lead character' but I'm still not convinced Leon Kennedy won't pop up out of somewhere
- Cooler Master's super stylish Hyper 612 Apex air cooler is a genuine bargain with this 34% discount
- Jurassic World Evolution 3's system requirements are graciously breezy and don't require a dino-sized SSD
- Some RTX 50-series gamers with EVGA motherboards are having to physically tape their graphics cards to boot up their PC
- Today's Wordle answer for Thursday, June 12
- Solasta 2 is switching to D&D 5th edition's 2024 rules update
June 11
- An Elden Ring Nightreign dataminer dove into the numbers to prove that reaching max level isn't as strong as it seems
- MindsEye hotfix promised for the end of this week as Steam rating sinks back down to 'mostly negative'
- Videogame voice actors strike 'suspended' following agreement with game companies: 'All SAG-AFTRA members are instructed to return to work'
- Splitgate 2 boss blames a former Call of Duty developer for $80 bundle, says he 'didn't intend for it to come off as shifting blame'
- 'A bottomless pit of plagiarism': Disney and Universal sue AI image generator Midjourney for copyright infringement
- This absurd trolley conductor simulator gave me 3 separate Steam achievements for throwing grandmas from a moving public transportation vehicle
- New report details Dragon Age: The Veilguard's ugly failure through live service flip-flops, rewrites, and conflicts with Mass Effect
- Grounded 2 will have an arachnophobia mode, even for its rideable spiders
- Dune: Awakening falls just shy of Steam's top 100 as it nets 142,000 players on its first proper launch day
- OpenAI head Sam Altman claims a single ChatGPT query uses ‘one 15th of a teaspoon’ of water but that doesn't put AI's environmental impact in the clear
- After beating Elden Ring Nightreign's bosses with 'mind control,' Twitch streamer PerriKaryal may turn her big brain to Nintendo next
- Anonymous employee accuses RuneScape of kowtowing to Trump as it puts the kibosh on new Pride events: 'The content… is now controversial in a way it didn't used to be'
- Dispatch is the first Telltale-style game I've played that's delivering on the promise of playing a TV show, and it's even got a compelling management sim tucked inside, too
- Resident Evil Requiem isn't a first-person or third-person horror game—it's both
- Razer's first barebones kit is a big win for keyboard nerds and is cheaper than Corsair's new one
- Ex-Intel engineers are developing the 'biggest, baddest CPU in the world' by targeting IPC, not clockspeed or core counts
- This one-of-a-kind GPU is actually an entire prebuilt PC in disguise—with a memorable codename and everything
- Hideo Kojima's got a new game out soon, which you can tell because he keeps banging on about death and legacy: 'I am not going to pass the baton to anyone—I will rather crush the baton'
- US aviation is another industry looking to finally wave goodbye to frightfully persistent floppy disks
- They made Balatro for stock trading and I fear I may never write another article ever again
- Rainbow Six: Siege X is out today, meaning one of the best tactical shooters ever made is now free-to-play
- Haunted Chocolatier will be bigger than Stardew Valley, but that's all I can tell you because Eric Barone literally only said 10 words
- Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 makes its Story Mode even easier—or, if you feel like a true sicko, enough optional modifiers to make killing superboss Simon take over 2.8 actual years
- Elden Ring Nightreign players have made the mother of all charts, listing every boss and all their resistances and weaknesses
- Microsoft previews new super-sized Start menu for Windows 11
- A fresh benchmark for Nvidia's unannounced consumer APU suggests it's coming for Intel and AMD's finest and is maybe close to production-ready
- Dead as Disco is shaping up to be a Hi-Fi Rush successor worthy of the mantle—and it lets you dance, dance, bludgeon to your own custom tunes
- Today's Wordle answer for Wednesday, June 11
June 10
- A big Civilization 7 update is on the way with 'large and huge maps,' Steam Workshop support, and a promise to keep working on it
- Mecha Break will have interactive space toilets because its developer wants to emphasize that players 'are acting as a pilot and not the mech itself'
- Splitgate 2 boss apologizes for the 'division' caused by his MAGA-style hat but still insists it wasn't meant to be political: 'There's division in the community, and for that I am truly sorry'
- World's most patient Nightreign players discover they can kill a boss by ringing an incredibly annoying bell 80 times
- 'It's the year of Obsidian': The Outer Worlds 2 game director says the studio isn't worried about releasing another RPG in the same year as Avowed
- As far as action RPGs where you're a girl with a big sword go, this one isn't half bad
- Despite its new easy mode, Lies of P will get a 'difficulty reduction' in a future update because too many players are getting wrecked by the DLC
- Team Ninja says Ninja Gaiden 4 is all about 'bringing together the stylish qualities of Platinum while retaining that distinct Ninja Gaiden feel'—and the studios 'wouldn't hold back' critiquing each other's work
- Embracer CEO who oversaw the staggering $2B blunder that led to studio closures and layoffs is now set to become its executive chair, focusing on 'mergers and acquisitions and capital allocation'
- 'My biggest fear is the direct comparison to Grounded 1': Grounded 2 executive producer opens up about the difficulty of following up an early access game with another early access game
- Sizzle and Stack is a cooking strategy game which truly captures the chaos of making meals for angry customers like no other
- One of our favorite RTX 50-series gaming laptops has $100s knocked off the price already, so it's just down to you to pick the GPU
- Japanese book publisher 'urgently' reprints Dante's Divine Comedy because a gacha game where you can summon him has the weebs thirsting for that 14th century epic verse
- The Outer Worlds 2 game director says its writing has a 'less silly, darker tone' than the first game
- US peripheral maker cites 'global supply chain issues' as the reason for releasing its new gaming mouse everywhere except the US
- If you've ever wanted to play an NPC in a Hitman level then do I have the Steam Next Fest demo for you
- After 15 months and 3,800 hours of 'worst case' usage, one independent test finds OLED burn-in is now almost a non-issue
- I couldn't picture how Death Howl, a soulslike deckbuilder, could possibly marry the two genres—until I played its Steam Next Fest demo
- 'Here comes the giant list of cuts': It's a sad day for GTA 6's fan-made map project as players begin to lament the loss of the panhandle
- This medieval slasher looks like an '80s comic that inspired 100 death metal bands, and you should try its 10-minute Steam Next Fest demo
- Invincible VS might be hyperviolent, but the devs want to salve the sting of getting combo'd to death: 'We want you to be an active participant, even when you're getting hit'
- Dune: Awakening live coverage: Server status, launch info, and all the latest news
- This M.2 adapter for the new Switch 2 is pretty nifty and has me wondering if you could do an eGPU next (you can't)
- Post-Larian Wizards of the Coast threatens us with more 'CRPGs that are going to be as serious as BG3'
- After 10 months, SAG-AFTRA union has reached a 'tentative agreement' with major companies including EA, Warner Bros, and Epic over AI voice acting protections
- Dying Light: The Beast director explains how the team caved to popular demand, 'Let's give the players the guns if they want'
- Great, so now farms are going to be crawling with giant robobugs like something straight out of Horizon Zero Dawn
- The most convenient handheld gaming PC I've ever used is getting upgraded with an OLED screen, Ryzen HX 370, and a repositioned mouse nub (that's the best bit)
- Elden Ring Nightreign update aims to fix one Nightlord boss tanking your framerate—the other from going berserk and mashing you into paste with '72 consecutive attacks'
- Today's Wordle answer for Tuesday, June 10
- Lisan al-Gaib! Sandworm-riding isn't a feature in Dune: Awakening, but players are doing it anyway
- Apple's new UI for Macs and iPhones 'combines the optical qualities of glass with a fluidity only Apple can achieve,' but it sure looks like an awful lot like Windows Vista circa 2007
June 9
- 13 years after it was first teased, and 2 months after committing to a 2025 release, Mewgenics is delayed into 2026
- Elden Ring Nightreign has an ultra-rare item with a 0.035% chance to drop and players are convinced it's the key to the game's biggest secret
- 'If Hitman is a single-minded killer and basically the bad guy of the game, Bond is the hero': IO Interactive talks about shifting priorities for its upcoming 007 game
- Introducing ‘The Rig’: everything under the hood of the PC Gaming Show’s top of the line PC build
- Medieval Dynasty fans should check out this third-person medieval city builder that just got a demo on Steam
- At Fate's End is a gorgeous action adventure where you can pull a 'legendary God Sword' from your throat to work through family trauma in duels with siblings who use their own spines as weaponry
- Techland boss says Dying Light 2 'forgot' what made the series special, but Dying Light: The Beast gets back on track: 'For us, this really is Dying Light 3'
- Drywall Eating Simulator is a game about 'interacting with society' that takes me back to my retail days
- I spoke with Arm about PC gaming and was told that Windows software compatibility is 'largely a solved problem'
- Even when he's meant to be talking about watches, Henry Cavill's downright giddy over producing Warhammer 40k's upcoming Amazon series, says it's 'a challenge I'm enjoying enormously'
- The Witcher 4's horses are so stunningly detailed they drove a real-life expert to happy tears: 'Oh my god they’re taking the horse seriously'
- Randy Pitchford has concluded that 'Borderlands 3 is better than Borderlands 2' after looking at a Twitter poll, but Borderlands 4 will be the best, for sure
- It's not an April Fool's joke anymore: Zotac goes ahead with its 'gamer fragrance' perfume, for a limited few, for a limited time
- The absence of Marvel's Blade during the Xbox Games Showcase has left me worried about Arkane—after a rough couple of years it needs a win
- 'MSI Afterburner is a bit PowerColor Afterburner now' as the dev had to buy another manufacturer's GPU to build support for AMD's RDNA 4 graphics cards into the next beta
- Atlus promises it hasn't forgotten how to make new Persona games, says it's 'actively preparing for' something I'd bet money is Persona 6
- Move over Ashcroft, Resident Evil 9 will have its T-virus poster boy back in the limelight according to notable Resi leaker: 'Leon Kennedy is not the only playable character but he is the main character'
- Our favorite budget VR headset is at its lowest ever price right now and I can't get over how cheap it is to get into virtual reality these days
- I grabbed the free demo of dark new fantasy RPG The Fall of Avalon: Tainted Grail and, boy, does it take Bethesda back to school
- Lian Li's new Hydroshift AIO cooler doesn't work properly on some motherboards but it will send you a replacement part if you can't get around the issue in the BIOS
- Xbox is headed to handhelds but its gaming-first UI will also land on existing ROG Ally and ROG Ally X and 'other Windows handhelds starting next year'
- Of course, Team Cherry didn't deign to tell anyone that Hollow Knight: Silksong is arriving before Christmas in a weekend of showcases—but via a random Discord message
- The Witcher 3 once had a suicide mission ending 'inspired by Mass Effect 2,' a quest where Geralt joined the Wild Hunt, and a version of its vampire-focused Blood and Wine DLC without vampires
- Switch 2 teardown shows that Nintendo hasn't learned a single lesson from the OG Switch when it comes to repairing it
- Awaysis, from the makers of the underrated Galak-Z, was inspired by the slapstick physics action of Gang Beasts having one glaring omission—it needed a giant sword
- Today's Wordle answer for Monday, June 9
- Use watery powers to explore a fantastical desert in Fading Echo
- Blind Descent is an upcoming survival game about a hidden world deep beneath the surface of Mars
June 8
- Wanderburg is Howl's Moving Castle if it were a roguelike where you duke it out as a castle on wheels
- Hang out in cyberpunk bars and visit weird fish in Bernband’s alien city—a modern day reimagining of one of 2014’s coolest and most chill games
- Dead Reset is a terrifyingly gory sci-fi horror FMV adventure with a super-intriguing death-loop mechanic
- Mewgenics, the 'endless cat breeding RPG' from the creators of The Binding of Isaac and Super Meat Boy, has a new bonkers trailer that'll leave you with more questions than answers
- Ascendant is a 'neon-drenched PvPvE fever dream' multiplayer shooter, that's like 'capture the flag if it were raised by wolves'
- I wasn't quite sure what a 'brinepunk roguelite' shooter is but, going by the latest Abyssus trailer, it just means sick hardware chewing through sea monsters
- Dinkum is a co-op farming game that's as Australian as trolling foreigners by making them eat Vegemite with a spoon
- PSA: Dune: Awakening's sandworm is 'currently missing', says Funcom, but 'we're working on it and he'll soon be back prowling the sands' (Update: the worms are back)
- Hotline Miami meets Gunpoint? Top-down hack 'em up DeadWire sets sights on September at the PC Gaming Show 2025
- GOG takes on the Steam Workshop with the official launch of one-click modding, and Skyblivion is headed to the store later this year
- Blumhouse's new multiplayer horror game Eyes of Hellfire has you trying to solve a curse and either 'escape the lodge with your friends, betray them, or die'
- Spooky farming sim Grave Seasons drops first-ever gameplay trailer at the PC Gaming Show 2025, but it's not your typical Stardew Valley-like
- Void/Breaker, a roguelike sci-fi FPS, is like having modding tools for your guns and it looks absolutely great for it
- Where do survival games go from here? Atmosfar's answer is a sci-fi road trip
- Bus Bound aims to be more than your standard public transport sim, it lets you use your sick bussing skills to change the city around you
- Love Eternal is a 'gravity-defying horror platformer' within which a teenager must escape the clutches of an angry ancient god
- I'm as surprised as you are, but Gears of War: Reloaded is showing every other major publisher how a remake should be handled
- Morbid Metal looks like a techno-amalgam of Risk of Rain, Warframe, and Devil May Cry—with a playable demo around the corner, and early access later this year
- Blippo+ is an uncanny, Hypnospace Outlaw-style game where you must flick through an alien off-cable TV network full of 'cloned opera stars and spooky raconteurs'
- Mycopunk, the co-op shooter of the summer, gets a release date at the PC Gaming Show 2025
- The first published game from the Vampire Survivors' devs is a ludicrous hack-n-slash you control by mashing your keyboard and, oh, it's out right now
- Endless Legend 2 is hitting early access in August, after which I won't be leaving my office for the rest of the summer
- Warhammer 40,000: Darktide's first new class is the cop from hell and his robot dog
- Open world failson walking simulator Baby Steps is clumsily waddling our way in a dirty onesie—play the Steam demo now
- Anno 117: Pax Romana will let you don your toga and mess around in Rome's golden age on November 13
- Nidhogg creator's open-world cycling sim Wheel World lets you ride a hotdog around a Moebius-coded Night City, and it pedals onto Steam next month
- When people need help, you answer the call… and then send out a superhero while you stay safely behind your desk in strategy adventure Dispatch
- Raise your very own Tower of Babel in Stario: Haven Tower's new demo, announced at the PC Gaming Show 2025
- After 5 years in early access, I didn't think hardcore FPS Ultrakill could surprise me more—but my jaw nearly hit the floor on seeing an upcoming levels
- Yep, you can be 'dumb' in The Outer Worlds 2, and it even comes with some benefits: like 'banging on a machine to get it to work'
- OK, I can see the vision for why they call this co-op roguelike shooter Guntouchables
- Starfield fans despair after it's a complete no-show at the Xbox Games Showcase: 'This game is done'
- Craft magical meals to feed fantasy hordes in card-based cooking sim Arcane Eats
- A giant cop has his eye on you in Militsioner, the most bizarre immersive sim I've ever seen
- Hell Clock, the Diablo-like action RPG based on a bloody passage of Brazil's history, is out next month
- Lost Rift is a base-building, survival sim, extraction shooter mashup that you can try at Steam Next Fest
- Paralives finally has a release date so I can finally go wild on its delightfully tactile building and endlessly cozy vibes
- TerraTech Legion is basically like if you got to drop your own deadly LEGO car into Vampire Survivors
- Pigface is a gnarly neo-noir FPS with freeform assassination missions and a demo that just dropped on Steam
- Vanquish the big bad, then chase them back through time and kill 'em again in EverSiege: Untold Ages, a co-op PvE loot-em-up
- I'm obsessed with goblinAmerica, an FPS where you play the goblin president crouch sliding through a psychedelic dream world
- If you yearn for 2006, steel yourself for Gears of War: Reloaded's multiplayer beta this coming weekend
- Stars of Icarus is a spunky co-op spaceship romp from the creators of Guns of Icarus, swapping steampunk for '90s anime
- Finally, a new game about being a deranged cult leader is coming to Steam in July—get ready for Worship
- Channel your inner Fist of the North Star in combo-obsessed beat 'em up, Spirit X Strike
- DarkSwitch is a fantasy city-builder where you construct a metropolis around a massive tree, but watch out for the fog that drives citizens mad
- Garbage Country seems like it's just about lo-fi beats to off-road to, but it's sneakily a tower defense game against post-apocalyptic trash bots
- The creator of DayZ has shown off DLC that basically turns survival game Icarus into a first-person monster-hunting game
- Live out your fantasy of sailing, surfing, and… stabbing shark monsters in Voyagers of Nera
- In co-op survival game Railborn, build the weirdest mobile train base anyone's ever seen and chug it around on an alien planet
- Obsidian wants to add a 'new layer of strategy' to combat in Grounded 2, resulting in tougher bugs, class-like archetypes, and the ability to dash
- Grounded 2's starter area is the size of the entire first game, and you can get around by riding ants and spiders—this might end up being my new favourite survival game
- The Last Caretaker is an oceanic first-person survival shooter that tasks you with rebuilding humanity in a drowning world
- A week in tactical RPG Demonschool includes karaoke, romance, dog adoption, lost sandwiches, cursed dolls, and lots of monster battles
- Pizza Bandit is a third-person shooter about an ex-merc who wants to run a pizza joint, but aliens have different plans
- Failbetter Games’ next venture swaps Fallen London for an alluring narrative farming simulator—the PC Gaming Show 2025 gives us our first look at its enchanting world
- Farever is the multiplayer Zelda-like you've been waiting for—check out its shiny trailer aired at the PC Gaming Show 2025
- Co-op zombie shooter No More Room in Hell 2 is bringing back the fan-favorite Broadway map to kick off its summer of updates
- Devolver's new multiplayer ragdoll robot rumble Botsu unleashes a free demo on Steam
- “An overlooked visitor will kill you”: No, I’m Not a Human is one of the weirdest horror games to have ever graced the PC Gaming Show—play its super unsettling demo
- Excellent subnautical society sim Barotrauma just announced its first expansion, and it looks like we'll be able to build Rapture
- Moonlighter 2's unlikely duo of cosy shopkeeping and intense dodge-rolling action looks ridiculously charming, and I'm already anticipating its upcoming demo
- Pathfinder: Abomination Vaults drops a quintessential ARPG trailer at the PC Gaming Show 2025—wishlist it now on Steam
- Self-cloning sci-fi survival game The Alters might look like a harrowing psychological experience, but at least you and your alt-universe selves can have a dance party
- The Outer Worlds 2 will have a Fallout: New Vegas-style radio system with tons of music and reactivity: 'They're gonna be cheering you on as a hero'
- Generation Exile, a turn-based city builder about managing a generation ship, releases a demo tomorrow—but it already has the best narrative choice of any game this year
- Modulus looks like a must-play factory game for anyone who loves a thousand little parts on a hundred conveyor belts moving in perfect rhythm
- Lead a factory colony on an alien world, or rise up against your corporate overlords, in Dawn Apart, a 'space colony and factory sim' coming to Steam later this year
- The Outer Worlds 2 has revealed its two most important factions: Angry authoritarian jocks and holier than thou science-bros who just want to solve a maths problem
- Kaizen: A Factory Story, the Japanese production line sim from the creators of SpaceChem, gets a demo later this month and a full release in July
- SkyRig is systems-builder for Factorio sickos set in the skies of a bulging gas giant
- EVE Frontier, CCP's survival MMO about rebuilding civilization among the ruins of a spacefaring empire, is getting a big update and moving into public alpha
- Train-hopping PvP sandbox Enginefall has a truly ambitious premise and I can't wait to backstab all my friends in it
- 'This is an Xbox' says Microsoft of its new handheld but, let's be honest, it's a PC
- Action platformer The Rogue Prince of Persia re-announces itself at the PC Gaming Show 2025 with a new breakneck baddie-slashing, boss-battling trailer
- A-freight of the dark? I'm already spellbound by Spooky Express, an adorable puzzle game about trains and also vampires
- All Systems Dance, a game about overthrowing a smarmy tech billionaire with the power of dance, is grooving its way to early access this August
- Necesse looks like top-down Terraria, and that's the magic combination to get my attention for its 1.0 release date reveal
- Hyper Games is back with another cozy Moomin adventure, and this time Moomintroll is the main character
- Drum up an army in the demo for Ratatan, a roguelike rhythm game with huge Patapon vibes heading to Early Access
- Mad Max one second, Cyberpunk the next—Terminull Brigade is looking like every roguelike everywhere, all at once
- Fresh Tracks reveals a release date for its rhythmic demon slaying with breakneck heavy metal and—wait, is that Peter Stormare?
- The Outer Worlds 2 'has more perks than Fallout: New Vegas,' says Obsidian—including one that turns you into a heart-collecting serial killer
- The remaster of classic D&D RPG Neverwinter Nights 2 is finally real, and releasing next month
- Far Far West is music to my ears: a 4-player co-op FPS with ghost bandits and elemental spell combos
- Ambrosia Sky is a narrative power-washing game with the heart of an immersive sim—try the Steam demo now
- Capy Castaway is a whimsical exploration adventure inspired by memories of childhood about a capybara and a crow trying to find their way home
- Invincible VS is the second amazing-looking superhero tag fighter to crop up in the last three days
- Tired of words? Double Fine's next game is a 'story told without words' that stars a walking lighthouse and its pet bird
- Laid-back camper sim Outbound cozies up with more than just van-life, it's got the full crafting and exploration game package
- Whiskerwood, a city builder about mice colonising the seas, contains a lot more revolution against oppressive imperial regimes than I expected
- The Outer Worlds 2 has a 'bad knees' perk that makes your old-man legs pop and alert enemies when you stand, and another that Obsidian fully admits makes the game 'pretty unplayable'
- What? Call of Duty is skipping over Modern Warfare 4 and releasing Black Ops 7 this year instead
- Cozy shop sim Trash Goblin invites you to build your own colorful doodads, but I'm convinced its real star is the smolderingly sexy Mushromeo
- Ninja Gaiden 4 looks sick, is out in October, and has the exact storytelling I demand from a ninja game: 'You're a wanted criminal now'
- This upcoming Korean action game looks like Splinter Cell mashed up with Lollipop Chainsaw, and I am absolutely here for it
- Dontnod's next game looks like Uncharted's platforming bits as its own thing, in space
- Steampunk RPG Clockwork Revolution has finally received another trailer after a basically 2 years of silence
- Persona 4 Revival is officially real, giving us our first look at 4K Charlie Tunoku in a remake with a very angry original voice cast
- I'm morbidly intrigued by No Ghosts At The Grand, which looks like Merge Mansion but with talking cats and it's a musical
- Age of Mythology: Retold's Japanese mythology-focused expansion just announced it's hitting this fall
- Enchanting puzzler Planet of Lana is getting a sequel next year, and I'm already convinced it's going to be more heartbreaking than the last just from its announcement trailer
- Obsidian announces a sequel to its backyard co-op survival game Grounded—and surprisingly, it'll be in early access next month
- Indiana Jones and the Great Circle heads for the catacombs of Rome in its first DLC, coming in September
- If High on Life 2's skateboard shooting is as fun as they make it look in the trailer, the guns can yap all they want
- Resonance: A Plague Tale Legacy has a suspicious dearth of killer rats
- Super Meat Boy 3D looks a bit like plasticine but I'm not hating it
- Bloober Team's upcoming horror game Cronos: The New Dawn just got even harder to survive as the 'body-horror monstrosities' can work together
- 'What if Blade was a witcher?' is the scary question asked as Blood of Dawnwalker from former CDPR devs announces 2026 release
- Game Freak reminds us that it's more than Pokémon with Beast of Reincarnation, a 'one-person, one-dog action RPG' about fighting robots and corrupted beasts in post-apocalyptic Japan
- AMD's baffling 'new' Ryzen Z2 APUs for handheld gaming PCs include a premium 'AI' model with an NPU and seemingly the ancient chip from Valve's Steam Deck
- All the announcements from the 2025 Xbox Games Showcase
- Ark: Survival Ascended celebrates 10 years of dino-dodging with a visual upgrade and letting you run around in your birthday suit
- Baby Steps, Bennett Foddy's slapstick walking simulator about a slob climbing a mountain, stumbles onto Steam in September
- Rust's recently added rainforest is so dense the developers changed how resources spawn because players couldn't find them: 'The jungle was a bit too good at being a jungle'
- Amazon may have cancelled the Wheel of Time show, but the open world RPG ploughs ahead with talent from games like Dark Age of Camelot and Lord of the Rings Online
- I defeated a bird by talking to it about the Bible in this lo-fi first-person RPG where you're a 19th century daemon summoner
- Innkeep lets you play an extremely suspect fantasy innkeeper, though I'm sure the bloodstains on your apron can be easily explained
- Today's Wordle answer for Sunday, June 8
- Here's an alchemy shop-sim that is also a mech-builder deckbuilder
June 7
- 'Dominate the Waifu Industrial Complex': There's a new 3v3 movement shooter called Waifu Tactical Force because of course there is
- This 2018 early access survival game notorious for poop mechanics and penis sliders will finally go 1.0 this month
- I can already tell that this co-op firefighting game is going to lead to some hilarious highlight clips
- A Hitman co-op mode is in development, featuring two familiar faces from Agent 47's past
- Isometric stealth game Eriksholm continues to look gorgeous in a new video
- 3 years after it was announced, here's a look at the psychedelic horror game from Spec Ops: The Line's Cory Davis and Robin Finck of Nine Inch Nails
- They're making an RPG based on The Expanse, and it's got Mass Effect vibes
- Ace Attorney meets Slay the Spire in this 'courtroom deckbuilder' about fighting for the rights of a murdered god
- I can't stop watching these Dune: Awakening videos of players having butt-puckeringly close calls with angry sandworms
- After years of radio silence, Gecko Gods has finally announced a release window and published a demo
- This puzzle game challenges you to tell a family’s story through organising photo albums and creating scrapbooks
- Cozy foraging game Out and About shares a new trailer as part of the Wholesome Direct, and there's a playtest you can take part in right now
- Balatro meets breakfast? This 'chaotic cooking roguelike' where you make omelets for picky customers and try not to enrage a giant chicken just launched on Steam
- If you like PowerWash Simulator, you might like this new game about blowing leaves
- I'm quitting PC Gamer to run a vending machine empire in the back streets of Japan after my idle game obsession shadow-dropped at the Wholesome Direct
- Haunted Paws lets you and a friend navigate a haunted house as two dogs trying to find their missing human friend
- Stress-free city builder Gourdlets is getting a 'fully-featured' multiplayer spin-off sometime this year
- Criminally underappreciated survival game Abiotic Factor is leaving early access with an update that adds buildable office cubicles and a spooky library
- Forever Skies developer responds to 'significant' disappointment with the survival game's launch: 'It's tough to see that the game didn't meet the expectation of so many players'
- No, Geoff Keighley—Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 was not made by a team of 'under 30 developers,' and devs say repeating the myth is 'a dangerous path'
- Fallout 76 now lets you go fishing in its irradiated waters, though I'm more interested in the massive combat overhaul added in its 'Gone Fission' update
- Geometric factory sim Shapez 2 just got a massive update that adds 3D construction and better trains, and it's also 30% off until next week
- Here's how to watch the Future Games Show Summer Showcase
- Today's Wordle answer for Saturday, June 7
- 'I'm not here to apologize but I am here to clarify': Splitgate 2 boss says his Make FPS Great Again hat is 'not a political statement'
- I can see why Devolver dedicated its whole show to Ball X Pit: It's like Atari's Breakout meets Vampire Survivors and the demo is curing my roguelike fatigue
- 'No one cooks anymore': Dosa Divas is an RPG about food, death, and big robots
- PC finally has its own Breath of the Wild killer, and it's indistinguishable from the Nintendo game except that you are a boy who is also a tire
- I just discovered in Dune: Awakening that the only thing worse than seeing a sandworm coming right at you is being stuck in quicksand and seeing a sandworm coming right at you
- To be a master heister in Thick as Thieves, Warren Spector's 'player-powered' multiplayer Thief successor, the devs say you'll have to 'play with your ears'
June 6
- Untitled Goose Game studio unpacks its new open world co-op game Big Walk, and it looks like nothing else I've played before
- Relooted is a high-tech heist game about reclaiming African artifacts from Western collections, which are said to hold '90% of sub-Saharan African cultural heritage'
- A noir take on Yakuza is love at first sight: Stranger Than Heaven's reveal trailer is a head scratcher but I'm already in
- 'I grew up playing Halo, I'm tired of playing the same Call of Duty every year, and I wish we could have Titanfall 3!': Splitgate 2 boss slams the state of shooters as he surprise launches a battle royale mode
- The Summer Game Fest just rolled out what is very likely the most disturbing videogame trailer I have ever seen
- RE9 is real: Resident Evil Requiem just got a surprise SGF reveal, and it's launching in February
- Wildgate, the match-based Sea of Thieves in space from Mike Morhaime's new game company, launches this July
- Mads Mikkelsen is reprising his Casino Royale role to become Hitman's next elusive target
- The Jurassic World Evolution 3 trailer disappointingly doesn't show anyone being bitten in half by a T-Rex, but it does have Jeff Goldblum's dulcet tones and a release date
- The CTF shooter is making a comeback thanks to the manager and lead singer of Imagine Dragons, who 'grew up playing capture the flag in the woods at night with flashlights'
- There's a new Scott Pilgrim brawler coming from the makers of… the old Scott Pilgrim brawler (and TMNT: Shredder's Revenge)
- Atomic Heart 2 is coming and it looks like an open-world genre mashup of a bunch of other sci-fi dystopias
- After 3 years of waiting, Dying Light: The Beast will finally arrive in August
- It's a real game—Lies of P: Overture, the Sekiro-like's first major DLC, shadowdrops during Summer Game Fest and is available now
- The Shovel Knight dev's new gothic action game has a demo that has awakened the GBA kid in me
- Fight across the surface of a giant Rubik's Cube built from chunks of other planets in yet another unhinged shooter from the brains behind Atomic Heart
- Capcom continues its victory lap with killer new Onimusha: Way of the Sword trailer at Summer Game Fest
- Chronicles: Medieval is a stunning sandbox RPG coming in 2026—despite a past commitment to using generative AI, the studio now says the game is '100% handcrafted'
- Go to war for Westeros in a new Game of Thrones RTS coming in 2026
- Sonic Racing: Crossworlds just declared war on Mario Kart by becoming the true Smash Bros. of kart racers, bringing drivers from Minecraft, Persona, Yakuza—oh, and Hatsune Miku
- Square Enix just revealed a 'murder mystery action game' and as far as I can tell it's like Among Us in a spooky mansion full of hot people
- Arc Raiders sets release date for Fall 2025, just 37 days after Marathon
- Troy Baker becomes a mouse with a machine gun in Mouse: PI for Hire, coming later this year
- They put a revolver in Dark Souls—Mortal Shell 2 looks like it wandered out of an edgy teenager's heavy-metal fantasies, and I cannot wait to play it
- Elden Ring Nightreign no-hit prodigy finds new, exciting ways to make us feel bad about all the runs we've thrown, beats the final Nightlord solo without a scratch
- 'Forever cherished for who you were and what you helped achieve': 10 years after his death, Larian Studios pays tribute to composer Kirill Pokrovsky
- Everything announced at Summer Game Fest 2025
- The Borderlands cup overfloweth with a huge sale—1-3, The Pre-Sequel, all their DLCs, and one very good Telltale game are available for $36
- Oblivion Remastered’s improvements have Oblivion’s meme king hopeful Fallout 3 and Fallout New Vegas will see similar glow-ups: ‘[It’s] so much better and exactly what I have wanted for years’
- 'John Nightreign doesn't have a face': YouTuber manages to uncover all but one of Elden Ring Nightreign's hidden Nightfarer faces, 'leaving his appearance a mystery'
- Ro-Souls 3 is 'a sharp and precise recreation' of Dark Souls 3 in Roblox, and it's training up a whole new generation of soulslike demons
- If you fondly remember the wonders of terrible graphics card box art like me, there's now a book available with a collection of some of the greatest hits
- Disney Dreamlight Valley has shared its new roadmap for the rest of 2025, and it looks like one character fans have been asking for since launch is finally coming to stay
- You could cut the tension with a needle—7 SteamDB changes in the past week have Silksong hopefuls wondering if the final hour is upon us
- Vampire: The Masquerade - Bloodlines 2 is getting a fancy art book from Dark Horse that'll shed some light on its rebooted development
- Disney Dreamlight Valley's Peter Pan update is coming in two weeks, alongside a shiny new Star Path and the ability to level up your animal companions
- A new report indicates Intel's latest Battlemage GPUs are a total failure and AMD's gaming graphics market share fell to just 8% but overall graphics cards sales are up
- XDefiant is now ex-Defiant as the game closes and its executive producer leaves Ubisoft: 'We just didn't have the gas to go the distance'
- Trick venting solutions look like the hot new thing in PC case design and this low-vented Asus model has me more than a little intrigued
- The long-awaited successor to cult hit 'anti-RPG' Moon hits Steam later this year
- For only $20 more than a Nintendo Switch 2, you can get a more powerful gaming handheld with detachable controllers, and a bigger screen—that's also a PC
- A Gamestop store has reportedly been stapling customer receipts to Switch 2 boxes and puncturing holes in the screens
- Half-Life 2 becomes a loot-hoarding roguelike dungeon crawl in this Next Fest mod demo
- Dune: Awakening's Steam reviews have done a complete 180, climbing the ranks to Very Positive just a day after a player pile-on: 'This game is great with friends, and lets me live out my fantasy of getting eaten by a sandworm'
- Epic CEO Tim Sweeney takes yet another victory lap after Apple's latest appeal fails: 'The long national nightmare of the Apple tax is ended'
- All Genshin Impact 5.7 livestream codes
- Sneeze and this incredibly tiny postage-stamp-sized Atari computer recreation is a goner
- Elden Ring Nightreign servers shut down this morning 'to improve expedition matchmaking' but it's royally screwed some unprepared players
- A long-lost Duke Nukem prototype resurfaces after 24 years
- This camo-wrapped RTX 5060 has a real nostalgic flair, but I prefer the screen-integrated prototype GPU MSI showed me at Computex 2025
- Today's Wordle answer for Friday, June 6
June 5
- Borderlands 2 is free to keep on Steam and it's getting review-bombed at the same time because of, uh, the EULA?
- Path of Exile's 31st expansion follows action RPG tradition and will let you hire mercenaries to fight by your side
- 'The last one wasn't the last one': CD Projekt has cyber punked us again, announcing another surprise update for Cyberpunk 2077
- Nightreign players have figured out a way to guarantee you'll be at max level when fighting a Nightlord, but unfortunately it's super boring
- The secret stand-out of Sony's State of Play was the bizarre resurrection of Deus Ex's PS2 version
- Dune: Awakening isn't even officially out yet and it already has almost 100,000 players
- Arkane's timewarp shooter Deathloop is free on the Epic Games Store for the first time ever
- The only good MOBA celebrates its 10th anniversary, so I booted up Heroes of the Storm again and was so bad one of my teammates called me an NPC
- Metal Gear Solid Delta's new trailer ends on a tease for the long-awaited return of Metal Gear Online
- Surf on a magic sword and kickflip over flying dolphins in Sword of the Sea, hitting Steam in August
- OpenAI removes incredibly grim, previously recommended chatbot suggesting invasive surgeries to men it deems 'subhuman'
- Dune: Awakening lives up to MMO tradition with server woes at launch, but with these simple fixes the spice shall flow
- Nvidia's research boss claims the company's Chinese AI researchers are now writing programs for Huawei instead and is blaming the US chip exports
- Goon it yourself with the new editor for pulp-noir immersive sim Fallen Aces, or just visit a '20s nightclub version of Doom's famed first level
- Russia says it won't arrest players after seizing the studio behind the Russian World of Tanks offshoot, accusing it of funnelling funds to Ukraine
- Fill the Marathon-shaped hole in your life with Supplice, the best prog-heavy boomer shooter you've never heard of
- Bethesda remembers it just released an Elder Scrolls game, announces gameplay-focused Oblivion patch that addresses about 5% of player complaints
- AMD claims 'regional market demand' is why we've seen few 8 GB RX 9060 XT reviews, implying low VRAM isn't really for the West
- Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang says the Switch 2 features 'the most advanced graphics ever in a mobile device' and I'm once again here to say 'um, actually'
- One bored GTA 6 fan managed to recreate Jason's house in Far Cry 5 Arcade, and it's almost a shot-for-shot recreation
- 'When's Marvel?' Next year, as Guilty Gear studio Arc System Works takes the classic superhero tag-team fighter for a ride with a new 4v4 format
- Apparently there's going to be a Sam Altman movie about his Lazarus-like career stumble, which I'm sure I'll reluctantly watch on a plane at some point
- Udon, publisher of Street Fighter, Mega Man, Elden Ring, and other videogame comics and art books, is the latest to cut ties with bankrupt distributor Diamond Comics
- Today's Wordle answer for Thursday, June 5
- 'The will to resist is in your hands': Final Fantasy Tactics director makes statement on the political backdrop of the original and the 'inequality and division' that persists today
- Bloodstained is back after 6 years with 3D cutscenes that look like they're from a different era of videogames
June 4
- If an NPC hates you in this adventure from the makers of Road 96, it's probably because another player was mean to them earlier
- An all-new Thief game was announced during State of Play, but it's a VR game so who cares
- Silent Hill f is coming in September, so here's a deeply disturbing new trailer to give you something to think about while you wait
- Our first look at 007 First Light is finally here, and oh no: I'm pretty sure this Bond was born in the year 2000
- Suda51 just announced a delightfully bizarre action game about a cyborg man with a chainsaw sword
- Oh hell yeah, that Final Fantasy Tactics remaster is real, and it's out later this year
- Nioh 3 stars legendary warlord Tokugawa (the inspiration for FX's Shogun), and it's coming to PC in early 2026
- Oh dang, we're getting an all-new Lumines, and this one's got 'over 30 stages of synesthetic sensory wonderlands'
- Almost exactly 5 years after it was announced, Capcom's astronaut action game Pragmata finally has a release date: 'It's real'
- A 'vast medieval sandbox' with a former Cyberpunk 2077 designer working on it may be revealed at Summer Game Fest, but there's a twist: the studio is really into generative AI
- Balatro doesn't have microtransactions for a very good reason: 'It makes me want to put my computer in the dishwasher and set it to pots and pans," LocalThunk says
- Deltarune shoots to the top of the Steam best-seller chart as chapters 3 and 4 finally go live
- Bungie makes the (correct) decision to roll back Destiny 2's most severe Edge of Fate nerfs before they've even happened
- CDPR says the Kingdom Come style of systems-heavy RPG is 'super great' and, when it comes to The Witcher 4's direction of travel, 'these are our next steps for sure'
- No Man's Sky just got another mondo update and I think it's a management game now?
- CD Projekt Red and Epic claim Witcher 4 development 'ramped up dramatically' Unreal Engine's open world game capabilities
- Elden Ring Nightreign hits 3.5 million copies sold in just 5 days, with 7.5% of players already managing to beat all the Nightlords
- WoW developers step in to try and calm tensions between themselves and the UI addon community: 'We are embarking on this project with the aim of leveling the playing field'
- Skyrim's version of Radiant AI was developed from a drawing Todd Howard made on a napkin
- This tech DIYer swapped their graphics card's cooling for a CPU cooler because why not? Also it actually works
- Just two days after I said this is the only wireless gaming headset I'd buy on sale it's now $20 off
- I just found out there's a server tossing championship, and it makes me want to try yeeting my own PC down the road
- Google search's AI overviews are awful, but here's a browser extension that gets rid of them
- 'The problem isn't necessarily the yellow paint', says the Witcher 4 design lead, but its overuse: 'People see through the smoke and mirrors'
- I've been gaming with Razer's new wireless charging mouse pad and I'm glad there's finally serious competition for Logitech
- Epic cops to the Epic Games Store sucking for the 2nd time in a month as it proudly announces its money-hose has spaffed over $2 billion
- DeepMind boss 'would pay thousands of dollars per month' to get rid of his email, so Google is working on a next-gen Gmail AI that will answer them in 'your style—and maybe make some of the easier decisions' for you
- Spot the connector: Gigabyte's new graphics card design lets you hide your power cable even if you don't have a back-connect motherboard
- 'Why are they so greedy': Call of Duty: Black Ops 6 players are in disbelief to find bundle ads but Activision claims it's simply a 'UI feature test' that was published 'in error'
- This incredible truly wireless desktop PC build even keeps your coffee hot forever
- 'You shall main Wylder Spooderman': An Elden Ring Nightreign player has found the best Wylder setup 55 hours in, letting them use their grappling hook every 4 seconds
- Linux enjoys a small usage uptick with Steam users, though at 2.69% it still has a long way to go to topple Windows
- 'I want you to have the confidence to give it a try': Elden Ring Nightreign's combat director politely tells you to git gud, says he's beat all the game's bosses, solo, without relics
- TSMC boss claims the chipmaker doesn't need to pick winners to work with, just wait patiently 'because they will all come to us in the end'
- 'Widespread theft': The UK government's fifth attempt to push through a bill allowing AI companies to scrape any data they like shut down by the House of Lords
- Spooky friend-time ghost-em-up Phasmophobia is the next videogame to get the movie treatment
- The new Arctis Nova 3 looks like SteelSeries is min-maxing the midranged headset with both hardware and software
- Remedy announces very friendly minimum specs for its co-op Control spinoff, FBC: Firebreak. You only need a GTX 1070 for 1080 60 fps play
June 3
- MindsEye is set to launch next week, so it's probably not great that the studio's chief financial officer and chief legal officer have both resigned
- Old School Runescape private server development is paused 'indefinitely' as Jagex says it has more important things to work on
- Smite developer Hi-Rez Studios cuts 'senior management positions' because after all the other layoffs, 'the company had a lot of senior management in relation to our current size'
- Here's when Dune: Awakening pre-loads and unlocks in your time zone
- RuneScape studio Jagex confirms layoffs 'to reduce complexity, increase agility, and ensure we are fully focused on the areas that matter most'
- This Russian fishing sim is bizarrely popular on Steam but players hate the monetisation, and to be fair it has a $2000 microtransaction
- This Final Fantasy Tactics-like RPG from former Octopath and Destiny devs lets you do the best thing a videogame can: Make a town look cooler while you rebuild it
- The Witcher 4's leafy glory is all down to Epic's Nanite Foliage, and largely so is the fact it can run ray-traced at 60 fps on a lowly PS5
- Dead Take is a first-person horror game out to expose 'the darkest secrets' of the entertainment industry: 'I want players to think, I can't believe they actually did this'
- The Elder Scrolls Online's subclassing feature shakes up the meta in its newest update, Seasons of the Worm Cult, as the devs set their sights on harder difficulties: 'It's in the works'
- Unreal's MetaHuman Animator can generate surprisingly lifelike animation with just your phone and it's now integrated directly into Unreal Engine 5.6
- The 'main goal' for Epic Games' new Unreal 5.6 engine is more performance on the PS5 and that should be good news for gaming on affordable PC hardware
- Penguins confront Lovecraftian cosmic horror in the next game from the developers of Umurangi Generation
- At just $23 the Razer DeathAdder Essential is virtually an impulse purchase, so surely it's time to replace your clattered old mouse
- SteamDB changes might finally herald the end of a long wait for Silksong (again), though with SGF on the horizon, I think Team Cherry has the potential to do the funniest thing of all time
- Pick up enough Witcher and Cyberpunk 2077 comics to keep you going until The Witcher 4 comes out for $24 with this digital bundle
- You won't have to rely on co-ordinates to track down your friends in Minecraft thanks to its upcoming drop
- How to watch the PC Gaming Show 2025
- Elden Ring Nightreign has a BuzzFeed-like personality test to help you figure out which Nightfarer suits you best
- We just got a look at someone actually playing The Witcher 4 as CDPR promises 'the most immersive and ambitious open world Witcher game ever'
- Splitgate 2's official launch is just days away as devs tease 'a massive surprise' which will be unveiled at Summer Game Fest
- Microsoft agrees that USB is a mess and it's making changes to fix it: 'Manufacturers can implement ports that look identical but differ wildly in functionality'
- A glorious day: Microsoft finally gives up pestering EU users about Edge
- FF14 unofficial census finds what we were all pretty much feeling—before patch 7.25, Dawntrail's playerbase has likely been on the decline
- Elden Ring Nightreign is finally getting Duo Expeditions as FromSoftware caves into pleas from players who can only find one other friend to match with
- The world's biggest chip maker TSMC says it still can't keep up with demand for AI hardware despite tariff uncertainty
- Hell is Us system requirements require an RTX 4090 and upscaling for 4K at 30 fps, which sounds pretty hellish for my gaming PC
- Nvidia's new Arm-based APU rumoured to launch in an Alienware laptop later this year with RTX 4070 mobile performance and 'breakthrough' power efficiency
- Today's Wordle answer for Tuesday, June 3
June 2
- Torchlight 3 studio Echtra Games, acquired by Zynga in 2021 to help it move into PC and console gaming, is being closed without doing that
- Jonathan Joss, who appeared in Cyberpunk 2077 and Red Dead Redemption, shot dead in Texas
- Former Ubisoft execs face trial in France this week on charges of 'moral and sexual harassment'
- A new Dungeons and Dragons 'singleplayer action-adventure' game is coming from the former director of Respawn's Star Wars Jedi games
- Surprise! Dune: Awakening will have private servers at launch after all, where players can disable taxes and enable 'free-for-all' PvP
- IO's James Bond game is called 007 First Light, will be revealed later this week
- Assassin's Creed: Black Flag remake is such a badly kept secret it's been leaked by a statue maker who just assumed we all knew it was coming
- Over $90,000 worth of RTX 5090 GPUs have been replaced in-box by crossbody backpacks at just one Silicon Valley Micro Center
- 'The complexity of mods we can make just shot up big time': Oblivion Remastered modders breach a new frontier even without Bethesda support—making it play nice with Lua scripts
- I wouldn't pass up this gaming PC deal: the latest AMD components and 32 GB of RAM for way under $2000
- Elden Ring Nightreign's first major patch sees FromSoft belatedly admit singleplayer is all sorts of unfair, adds an auto-resurrect and buffs the levelling curve
- American RuneScape players are recreating the Boston Tea Party after Jagex hiked taxes: 'They took a page from the British Empire, rather poetic from a British game'
- Lethal Company's biggest update for months is finally out, and with it comes the much awaited first look at a new monster
- 89-year-old Skyrim Grandma starts streaming Oblivion Remastered, has to deal with its mystifying lockpicking minigame and 'absolutely ugly movement' just like we did in 2006
- Someone's already completed a solo Elden Ring Nightreign run at level 1 and, as is tradition, the power of status effects pulled through
- Here's another terrifying trailer for that creepy retro survival horror game that's half FMV, half pixel-art
- Today's Wordle answer for Monday, June 2
- D&D podcasters 3D printed a giant model of Castle Ravenloft, from Curse of Strahd, and it's truly beautiful
- XWVM, the X-Wing mod that lets you play the Star Wars classic remade in Unity, is finally available to download
June 1
- Apple is reportedly creating its own Steam-like game launcher, but it's still missing the key to making gaming on Mac great
- Elden Ring Nightreign's Wylder can not only rocket jump with his explosive ultimate, he can grappling hook combo into it to fly around like an offstage Smash Bros. character
- 'We wish to express our deepest regret': Bulletstorm and Outriders dev People Can Fly suspends unannounced projects in yet another wave of gaming layoffs
- Elden Ring Nightreign artist wanted part of the game to feel 'more cozy, more welcoming, more at home,' so naturally she drew on Dark Souls for inspiration
- You get a unique relic for beating Elden Ring Nightreign's 'supposed to lose' tutorial boss, but don't worry: There's a buried menu option to fight him again
- 'The journey was long': 2 years later than planned, boomer shooter Project Warlock 2 blasts out of early access with a 50% discount and a request to submit your own loading screen tips
- PowerWash Simulator's last free update is out now, letting you scrub up a subway train and polish a sculpture park
- This gravity-defying dungeon crawler is basically Legend of Grimrock meets Portal, and while the trailer had me dizzy, the demo made me feel like a genius
- Atomfall is getting a spooky DLC set on an offshore island that also lets you blast pretend pirates with a blunderbuss
- Today's Wordle answer for Sunday, June 1