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January 31
- Skyrim's design lead says if you play Morrowind today, you will 'cringe': 'The reality of playing Morrowind would not stand the test of time'
- The company that made a Dark Souls tabletop RPG is doing the same for Elden Ring Nightreign, and honestly, that's harder to imagine
- A mega-mod is kicking GTA 5 into 2026 thanks to one hobbyist creator and roughly 20,000 aggressively placed trees and street props
- Highguard adds an experimental 5v5 mode with longer respawns during raids, though it's 'not meant to replace 3s'
- Deadlock now lets you avoid certain heroes when queuing for a game, but you can't avoid the newest ones
- Jeffrey Epstein was banned from Xbox Live
- The best Elder Scrolls game that isn't an Elder Scrolls game is getting a big patch in February and free DLC in March
- In a beautifully ironic twist, a YouTuber attempting a pacifist run of Bully discovered a secret weapon hidden for almost 20 years: 'I can see why they tried to lock it inside a building'
- Old-school MMO Project: Gorgon launches into 1.0 with an update that adds 'by far the largest and most complex map we've ever made'
- Thousands of players flood into Team Fortress 2 Classified, the free 'TF2 Classic' mod that just launched on Steam
January 30
- Roblox walks back some of its dramatic changes to avatar faces, but not enough to make everyone happy
- Top football manager reminds football media that real football 'is not Football Manager, unfortunately'
- Epic Games boss Tim Sweeney voices support for $900 million Steam lawsuit: 'Valve is the only major store still holding onto the payments tie and 30% junk fee'
- Beyond Good and Evil 2 somehow survives the bloodbath at Ubisoft: creative director says he's 'saddened' by the layoffs and cancellations, but the 19-year project is 'unaffected'
- There's a huge Arc Raiders duplication glitch which has players hoarding mountains of rubber ducks worth millions, 'I extracted with 2.8 million. Still confused'
- Microsoft is apparently now going to focus on 'improving system performance, reliability, and the overall experience of Windows' which is better than more AI
- What's a gamer to do if they need more storage? 😭obviously, but also consider this 2 TB drive for a whole lot less than our favorite SSD
- Mozilla says it's building a 'rebel alliance' to challenge Big Tech and what it's doing with AI, which is wild but I'm kind of here for it
- You can now view the Computer History Museum's collection from the comfort of your own home, and it's full of retro blasts from the past
- Anthropic's apparently starting to learn that it can't have its cake and eat it when it comes to working with the military
- Darren Aronofsky wages war on art with his new AI-generated American Revolution drama series, presented by Salesforce
- DeepSeek has reportedly been given conditional approval by the Chinese government to buy Nvidia's AI GPUs
- Microsoft says the Windows 11 boot failure bug is linked to another buggy update: 'This issue can occur on devices that failed to install the December 2025 security update and were left in an improper state'
- Deadlock players have chosen Graves, the goth girl, as the second new character to be added, beating out unicorn lady and demon boy
- Phasmophobia's roadmap includes evidence of a 1.0 launch in 2026: a player character overhaul, new event, and Horror 2.0
January 29
- Fallout 76 is free to play until Feb 5, but if you want that sick NCR power armor from the Fallout show, it's gonna cost you
- Over 50% of game developers now think generative AI is bad for the industry, a dramatic increase from just 2 years ago: 'I'd rather quit the industry than use generative AI'
- Nearly one-third of non-US game developers have cancelled plans to travel to the country because of immigration and gender identity policies
- One third of US games industry workers were laid off in the last 2 years, GDC survey says
- Rainbow Six Siege's next operator is, and I swear this is real, Solid Snake
- Square Enix says a 'new version' of Final Fantasy 7 is coming to Steam, but doesn't say what's actually new or when it's coming
- Mighty No. 9 studio Comcept, which somehow still existed, is now officially dead and buried
- After a server glitch, Final Fantasy 11 is dispatching Game Masters to manually assassinate bugged monsters just so the game knows they're really dead: 'God personally stepping in to correct the world itself'
- Roguelike beat-'em-up Absolum's new update is adding even more variety to 2025's most replayable game
- You can find Code Vein 2's best early-game weapons almost immediately, letting you breeze through MagMell Island
- World of Warcraft: Midnight's new roadmap includes prop hunt, mega-dungeon sized delves, and a new experimental game mode from the folks who brought you Remix and Plunderstorm
- World of Warcraft's player housing will eventually get a copy/paste, mass select, and import/export feature for your kitbashed creations: 'This is just the ground floor for housing in WoW'
- Google says Chrome's new 'auto browse' feature is 'a powerful agentic experience that handles multi-step chores on your behalf'
- Psst, hey, Fallout season 1 is going free on YouTube until they yank it all back down in February
- 'I shouldn’t have announced the game so early,' Eric Barone admits about Haunted Chocolatier, says he had his reasons for doing so but then doesn't tell us what they were: 'The only thing that really matters is that I keep making progress on the game'
- Vampire: The Masquerade – Bloodlines 2 left a gaping, $28 million hole in Paradox's year-end financial report
- Scientists say they've developed transistor-dense, flexible fibre chips as thin as a human hair, which can survive 'crushing by a container truck weighing 15.6 tons'
- Any gaming setup will look infinitely posher when you slap this classy wood-trimmed Keychron keyboard on your desk
- A whole bunch of different Linux gaming distros are teaming up to 'improve the open source gaming ecosystem'
- 'An unprecedented bombardment': Cloudflare claims a new world record for a 31.4 Tbps DDoS botnet attack it recorded late last year
- Xbox hardware sales slump by 32% as Microsoft reports that its overall gaming revenue is in decline
- Nvidia GeForce Now is officially on Linux, and after testing it I'm equal parts impressed and optimistic for the future of non-Windows gaming
- France is banning government officials from using Microsoft Teams and Zoom 'amid rising geopolitical tensions and fears of foreign surveillance or service disruptions'
- Meta lost $19.1 billion on VR last year despite the mother of all pivots to AI including plans for AI-generated gaming
- Ubisoft is now memeing about Black Flag remake leaks, which is a change from threatening to sue its lead actor over them
- The AI money merry-go-round shows no sign of stopping as Meta, OpenAI, Nvidia, Amazon and Microsoft linked to deals worth nearly $200 billion
- Fallout co-creator Tim Cain says 'remote work isn't all sunshine and lollipops' and explains why he's happy to be back in the Obsidian office after 5 years of semi-retirement
- Microsoft says Windows 11 now has one billion users, 'up 45% year-over-year', which is probably no surprise after Windows 10 was put out to pasture
- WoW's expansion pre-patch event has buffed its rewards after being a little stingy at first, and I am running out of ways to phrase these sorts of headlines without plagiarising myself
- An Arc Raiders player recycled 109 Venators after it was accidentally nerfed for a day, prompting the question: 'Who tf has room for 109 vennys?'
- 'We can fix the internet' says Tim Berners-Lee—just don't ask what he thinks about AI
- Nioh 3 just got a Steam demo, and given Team Ninja's history I'm surprised how well it runs on my aging rig
- There's a turn-based tactics game about the eternal war between tea and coffee, and you can get it for free: 'We've made enough money from the game'
- Atom Zombie Smasher, a 15-year-old game, just got updated out of the blue on Steam
- The Fallout series finally let us meet a character who's been part of the lore for more than 25 years
January 28
- Deadlock's big update added one very important feature: A secret bedroom for its teeny tiny dream-gremlin
- Bloober Team updated its strange countdown page, and fans of a controversial cult-classic horror game from 20 years ago are getting their hopes up for a big surprise
- The Linux community now has a succession plan for when Linus Torvalds checks out, after an apparently uplifting discussion about 'our eventual march toward death'
- The call goes out for a 'massive international strike' at Ubisoft: 'We are treated like children who need to be supervised, while our management gets away with lies and breaking the law'
- Sorry if this jinxes it, but the latest Monster Hunter Wilds performance improvement patch seems like it actually improved performance
- Bloodlines 2 2026 roadmap moves up expansion release windows slightly, and yes, Bloodlines 2 has a roadmap for 2026
- Fatal Frame 2 is one of the scariest horror games I've played, and it sounds like the remake is tweaking all the right things
- Hooray! Linux is GOG's 'next major frontier'. Oh no! It wants to 'Actively use and promote AI-assisted development tools'
- There's a hot new personal AI in town that can send texts, check your calendar, come up with business ideas, spend your money and leak your data—all depends on how you use it
- 'Vibe coding kills open source' claims new paper, as its authors lament the lack of 'human attention' towards OSS products
- Pope Leo XIV brings not peace but a sword to AI oligarchs and a slop-mad world in new address, says it's 'Turning people into passive consumers of unthought thoughts'
- 'Slay, bestie' just some of the Gen Z slang used in programming language dreamt up by AI in a 'Ralph Wiggum loop' that its creator feared may be too powerful
- Helldivers 2's next Warbond has a hammer that explodes in your face, and it's about the most Helldivers thing I've ever seen—also, the Cyborgs are back for round 2
- Arc Raiders players are celebrating a 'huge update' for rubber ducks as the OG gets a facelift alongside several new funky variations
- This 'scientifically dubious' Linux CPU scheduler makes decisions 'based on real-time planetary positions, zodiac signs, and astrological principles'
- Arc Raiders has been hit with 'extensive' and 'coordinated DDoS attacks' as Embark reassures players that it is working hard to mitigate the issues
- Memory chip specialist SK Hynix reports record-breaking profits but doesn't have a word to say about almost anything apart from AI
- You can expect some of WoW's big timers to bite it during the Worldsoul Saga trilogy: 'It’ll be a lot of death, I’m afraid'
- Ultrawide, curved and a whopping 45 inches: This huge 1440p monitor has dropped to its lowest ever price
- Bethesda's former Elder Scrolls loremaster won't tell us where The Elder Scrolls 6 is set, but the team originally agreed on it way back in the Fallout 4 days
- Arc Raiders' snap hook just got another use case as The Burnt Peanut shows off a new movement tech that lets players fly through the sky
- Nvidia might be doing what was once unthinkable: asking Intel to make some of its future AI chips
- Google says a WinRAR exploit for Windows is in 'widespread' use by government-backed threat actors 'linked to Russia and China'
- Razer launches Synapse Web for browser-based peripheral management, but it's very limited and buggy right now in beta
- Leon Kennedy's 'hot uncle' design in the new Resident Evil is thanks to the women on the dev team, says director, who 'would point out and comment on even the finest details like the wrinkles on his neck'
- One of the strangest point 'n' click adventures of the '90s is getting a modern 'restoration' for Steam, making it easily playable for the first time this century
- Baldur's Gate 3 mod restores more than 100 conversations and 1,000 lines of voiced dialogue from the early access version previously lost in the ethereal plane
- The game that coined the term 'visual novel' just got its first-ever fan translation for its 30th anniversary
- Terraria's ginormous, 3 years in the making 1.4.5 update is live—a full 15 years after the game was deemed finished
January 27
- Grounded 2's first major content update delivers a new biome, bugs, a sweet new mount, and a really big snake
- Bluey, the inescapable Australian cartoon dog, is getting official Minecraft DLC
- Baldur's Gate 3 modder adds legally distinct Poké Balls so you can 'capture non-player characters inside a ball and free them later (or don't)'
- Valve needed to 'verify' footage of the 'alien orgy' in Earth Must Die before it was allowed to launch on Steam
- Internet confused as Highguard studio says Dr Disrespect lied about attending a press preview and his photo of an access badge was fake: 'DDR was not invited to any Highguard event past or present'
- Roblox comments on ongoing missing child case and the statement is, uh, not great
- $900 million lawsuit accusing Steam of overcharging gamers in the UK and 'abusing a dominant market position' will proceed after Valve loses appeal against it
- North Korea's crypto thieving went into overdrive in 2025, with one firm estimating it's responsible for roughly 60% of the $3.4 billion stolen in total
- New Vegas modder fixes one of those glaring issues you'll never un-see once you notice it: Your pooch pal doesn't have a sneaking animation
- Cryptic rises again? Former CEO Jack Emmert returns to the Neverwinter, Star Trek Online, and Champions Online studio: 'It was just meant to be'
- A professor lost two years of 'carefully structured academic work' in ChatGPT because of a single setting change: 'These tools were not developed with academic standards of reliability in mind'
- New report claims Samsung, SK Hynix and Sandisk are all planning to double the price of NAND memory chips this year
- Get ready to battle bruxae and swipe sorceresses in Reigns: The Witcher, out next month
- Nearly 20 years ago, the makers of Age of Empires tried to make a Halo MMO, and then the studio closed: 'I still feel like no-one has really done the action MMO I see in my mind'
- Arc Raiders' Headwinds update finally adds a new epic augment that lets you safely stow away your guns
- The Darkest Dungeon board game fiasco is finally over, and as expected it's ended in tears: 'Mythic Games is no longer able to manufacture or deliver' it, Red Hook says, so it's giving away the game files to all backers
- ASRock and Cooler Master partner up for no real reason that I can make out but aw hey that's kind of cute
- Redesigns for both Orgrimmar and Stormwind are on the table if World of Warcraft: Midnight's Silvermoon overhaul is well received
- Wikipedia celebrates its 25th anniversary with an ominous warning about the impact of AI
- Highguard's output resolution is bizarrely tied to its post processing setting, which feels like a crunchy bug that needs squashing
- GOG owns up to its poor handling of Devotion's delisting in 2020: 'We acknowledge that this decision understandably damaged the trust our users have in us'
- Zotac claims the 'very survival of graphics card manufacturers' is at risk thanks to the state of the market right now
- Indie devs should avoid 'most indie publishers' says Manor Lords indie publisher Hooded Horse: 'The vast majority of indie publishers are predatory and opportunistic'
- Mozilla is looking for 'Pioneers' to come up with new tools for 'the next version of the web', which is open-source but of course centred around AI
- I've found a cheap RTX 5070 gaming laptop you'll actually want to buy, an increasingly rare thing in these uncertain times
- Open source Steam Controller-a-like is a beast with new screens and gyro controls: 'there's so much more I can add' says creator
- Not content with utter GPU domination, Nvidia's new Vera chip is coming for CPUs though maybe not gaming CPUs just yet
- Intel Panther Lake continues snapping up victories as the Forza Horizon 6 system requirements list the integrated Arc B390 GPU
- Deadlock's next character fan vote has been won by the littlest guy around, Rem: 'May god have mercy on us all'
- Instead of difficulty, Obsidian designer Josh Sawyer thinks in terms of 3 RPG player archetypes: 'What are they trying to get out of this game?'
- Hytale update adds a new weapon for summoning undead hordes, but keep your early access expectations in check
January 26
- 'It's Whac-a-Mole of terror for the city you love:' Gaming channel MinnMax asks viewers to 'share what's happening to residents in Minneapolis, Minnesota when 3,000 ICE agents storm the city'
- Prince of Persia: The Sands of Time cancellation was 'the most devastating moment of my career,' actor says: 'It brought out what I honestly believe is the best performance of my career, and now nobody is ever going to see that'
- Hasbro is being sued by its own shareholders for printing so many damn Magic cards, 'destroying the long-term value of the brand'
- 15 years on, Dark Souls 1's best boss is nearly undefeated fighting Elden Ring's bosses, and one of his KOs definitely doesn't count
- The next Arc Raiders update adds Solo vs Squad matchmaking for PvP masochists and an exciting new map condition: Birds
- Check your Pip-Boy because the last two episodes of Fallout Season 2 are coming earlier than expected
- Ubisoft hopes 200 employees at its Paris HQ will agree to quit so it doesn't have to lay them off the regular way
- Microsoft says sure, it'll hand over your encrypted data to the FBI: 'The lesson here is that if you have access to keys, eventually law enforcement is going to come'
- 'Ultimately, we could have made a different trailer': Highguard CEO responds to that poorly-received Game Awards reveal
- 'We don't need [player counts] to be super huge in order to be successful': Highguard devs respond to posters declaring it dead on arrival
- Highguard devs promise it won't have gaudy crossover skins or bombard players with constant ads: 'We want to leave you the hell alone'
- Nightdive boss says no one's making immersive sims because they appeal to 'a very small, niche group' and tend to 'come together at the 12th hour,' even though it's obviously the best genre
- InXile's steampunk RPG Clockwork Revolution aims to 'bring the level of reactivity from our isometric titles into something first-person,' Brian Fargo says, calling it the studio's 'most ambitious title'
- Logitech has raised the price of its already-too-expensive G PowerPlay 2 charging mouse pad
- This obsessively detailed rocket flight sim finally lets me cause historic spaceflight disasters from the comfort of my own home
- Lenovo might bring AMD's monster Strix Halo iGPU and Nvidia's N1X to gaming laptops soon if this recent listing is anything to go by
- Panther Lake's limited number of PCIe lanes means you probably won't see any gaming laptops arriving with the 12-core Xe3 iGPU and a discrete GPU
- I've found you seven gaming PCs, all packing 32 GB of DDR5 memory and defiantly priced against the growing RAMpocalypse
- EU investigating Grok and X over whether it made citizens 'collateral damage' for its services
- Microsoft reports 'an issue in which devices are failing to boot' after downloading the latest update
- AMD's unannounced dual-CCD 3D V-Cache monster chip appears in official AMD docs
January 25
- The next Dead by Daylight chapter will feature character designs selected by the community, and voting is already open
- Former Marathon art director says 'what I could control, I feel really good about' in the face of pre-release animosity: 'You can't take that away from me'
- Final count for Stop Killing Games petition verifies 1.3 million of its 1.4 million signatures, well above the minimum to be formally considered by EU politicians
- Doom has been ported to a pair of earbuds, and you can play remotely on the programmer's own pair in your browser
- There's been an influx of players applying to the LSPD in GTA roleplay like it's a real police force—except the crimes are fake, the paperwork is real, and everyone appears to be shouting codes they found on Google into their headsets
- Modders just shadow dropped a PC port of the original Banjo-Kazooie with ultrawide support, improved controls, and quality-of-life features
- 'Brutally honest' city builder Microlandia gets brutally honest crime simulation: 'It's a spectrum of consequences that can become a death spiral every single day'
- Lort devs reluctantly tweak the fantasy roguelike's difficulty after players complain the Risk of Rain 2 successor is too hard: 'You are meant to die and learn how to overcome the challenge'
- Early access multiplayer shooter Out of Action is, ironically, full of action, with cyborg ninjas blasting each other in a mix of Titanfall and Max Payne
- Dinner is served in Star Birds' latest early access update, adding bakeries and restaurants to the Dorfromantik devs' factory management sim: 'Ever fed an alien pizza?'
- Finally, a comprehensive overhaul for third-person movement animations in Fallout: New Vegas
- Cancelled Prince of Persia: The Sands of Time remake claimed to have been 'close to the finish line'
January 24
- Fallout lead Tim Cain worked 70+ hours a week for 2 years to make the classic RPG: 'I'm glad things have changed, that was unsustainable⁠—but it was also absolutely amazing'
- UK judge rules that RuneScape gold is fair game when suing for theft, at least in this case where an ex-developer stole $700,000 worth of it
- Deadlock's new Street Brawl mode is like a better version of the infamous MOBA 'All Random, All Mid,' but I think it could stand to be even more chaotic
- Ubisoft shares plummet to lowest price in over 14 years amid its recently announced 'restructuring' centered on cancellations, layoffs, and generative AI
- Inscryption-inspired card battler The Killing Stone gets a rad new trailer showing off voice talent from Critical Role and Baldur's Gate 3, and it's out next month
- After debuting in Nightdive's second remaster, one of the best mods for classic FPS Blood just released its concluding episode for everyone to play
- This side-scrolling metroidvania inspired by Bloodborne just got completely free DLC, and the base game is 50% off until February
- No More Room in Hell 2 will add new ways to play in its upcoming 1.0 launch, one of which 'plays like your favourite classic game modes from the late 2000s'
January 23
- Building an optimized factory is so important in Arknights: Endfield that someone made a simulator tool for sharing your best blueprints
- One of Steam's most wishlisted games announces it's launching next week with a song so unhinged you've got to hear it for yourself
- Mass Effect boss Michael Gamble is looking for a production director for the next game in the series: 'They’ll report to me and it’s gonna be awesome'
- Creator of DMCA'd Cyberpunk VR mod takes ball and goes home, removing access to all his VR mods after receiving a second DMCA takedown from 505 Games and a warning from Patreon
- 'Came for the combat, stayed to be a factory worker': Anime gacha game players are discovering they were born to be factory builders in Arknights: Endfield
- That team-based shooter with phantom horses that debuted at The Game Awards and then promptly disappeared is not actually dead: A showcase featuring 'gameplay deep dive, year one plans, and much more' is coming next week
- I asked Garry Newman if he really was going to rename s&box as Garry's mod 2 after an overwhelming poll and he joked 'people are d*ckheads'
- More than 40 US Democrats call for a 'thorough investigation' of EA's Saudi-led buyout over risks of layoffs, studio closures, and 'coordinated anti-labor practices'
- Microsoft Windows 365 goes down the day after Microsoft celebrates 'reimagining the PC as a cloud service that streams a Cloud PC'
- Software engineer creates classic SimCity-style map of NYC—and argues that AI will be good for creatives, actually
- Not even Microsoft is confident that Copilot is right for coding, as it's encouraging staff to try out Anthropic's AI model, according to one report
- Minecraft's lead dev says Hytale is 'very polished' but he'd rather just play Minecraft, and Hytale boss says he's 'probably right'—for now
- Spellcasters Chronicles is getting its second closed beta weekend with more spells, a ranked mode, and better optimisation: 'We want every player to be able to play our game'
- Palworld developer Pocketpair requires job applicants prove their gamer credentials: 'If the number of Steam games played is 0, we basically pass on them'
- It turns out, GOG players get more achievements than Steam users do
- Panther Lake and 18A 'create a firm foundation on which to build the new Intel'
- Embark reveals Arc Raiders' next four major monthly updates, which it calls the 'Escalation' phase, teasing new matchmaking, machines, and more, but our second new map is months away
- Master Chief voice actor says he never wants AI cloning his hunky tones: 'That's where we cross a line… I don't like it, and I would prefer that it not be done'
- Fable is getting rid of the old games' horrible dog, who I hate
- Forza Horizon 6 finally returns to the wristband career mode the series has drifted so far away from: 'You'll start out as just a tourist in Japan'
- Making the invisible visible, this engineering artist's creation shows the incredible level to which modern devices fill our world with radio waves
- The new Fable's morality system will live in 'shades of gray', which is a huge shift for a series where being too mean made literal devil horns grow out of your head
- Calling all streamers: The Steelseries Alias Pro microphone is now at its lowest ever price
- Valve warms up for the Steam Machine with a client update bristling with gamepad fixes and, oh, the betas UI is fancier now if you're into that
- Deadlock just received a huge update, with 6 new heroes, overhauled patrons, and a new game mode—and it was all predicted with Domino's pizza
- 'We will f*ck up': The publisher of Against the Storm and Manor Lords is committed to keeping generative AI out, but it's easier said than done
- Intel's in no hurry to get 14A all tooled up: 'It does not make sense to build out significant capacity there until we know that we have the customers that will accept that demand'
- Prices are going up all over, but full PCs are still lagging behind. These are my favorite PC picks to beat the RAMpocalypse
- Nvidia reportedly cancels partner incentive scheme to sell cards at MSRP, says YouTuber Der8auer, signalling hard times ahead for GPU prices
- In less than 1 week, Blizzard's sliced WoW's transmog costs in half after upset to 'bring them more in line with what the prices were prior'
- 'There's no way that's real': Marvel Rivals devs send streamer Kingsman free units after he got wrongfully kicked out of a $40,000 Marvel Rivals tournament
- Hytale wants to 'achieve ultimate cosy heaven' by improving farming, cooking, and more with a specialist team
- After killing its multiplatform mod manager, Nexus revives its spirit with an announcement that its Windows-only app will support SteamOS in future
- Intel has the memory chips it needs to keep shipping Lunar Lake: 'we were relatively aggressive in terms of getting the memory early'
- Asus starts an 'immediate internal review' on its 800-series motherboards in light of 'recent reports concerning Ryzen 7 9800X3D CPUs'
- Intel Nova Lake CPUs on track for late 2026 as exec downplays shuffling capacity to meet datacenter demand: 'We have important customers in both datacenter and client and that needs to be our priority'
- Finally, another Armored Core instalment just surprise dropped on Steam, but you'll need to have the patience of a saint to play it
- Fable reboot devs aren't trying to make a Lionhead game, but one important hallmark will carry over because 'kicking chickens is classic Fable'
- After Hytale subreddit goes 'full panic mode,' dev assures players the new patch 'is NOT the magic system' that's coming in the full game
January 22
- Fable has 1,000 'handcrafted' NPCs, and you can apparently marry every single one of them
- Roguelike fatigue is real, but I can make an exception for this upcoming project that remixes some of my favorite stealth games at 90 mph
- 'There would be no Alan Wake 2 without Epic Publishing,' Remedy says in defense of Epic's deals with developers: 'The publishing deal with Epic was very fair to Remedy'
- An Italian hotel sharing a name with an Arc Raiders map is enjoying a flood of 5-star reviews from players praising the loot in its 'surprisingly charming' Seed Vault and its 'eventful' Night Raid nightlife
- Heroic former PC Gamer writer creates a script to banish all the AI features from Google Chrome
- The Sims 4's most notorious sex mod gets launched 400,000 times a day, which is more people than I realized were even playing The Sims every day
- Three months after laying off a bunch of people, Payday studio Starbreeze lays off a bunch more people
- Fable is coming this fall, will let you kill a giant Richard Ayoade and possibly destroy the local housing market in the process
- 'Lasting consequences where every action could leave a trail back to you' is just what I want to hear from a medieval thievery simulator, so this first person sneaker is now one of my most anticipated games
- Create beautiful pots and use them to smash your friends to pieces in Double Fine's new 'online multiplayer pottery party brawler'
- It's been 9 years of no word on a new Nier, but Pokemon creator Game Freak's upcoming action RPG might just scratch the itch
- Forza Horizon 6 races into Japan in May with the series' biggest map and widest day one car selection, but stubbornly refuses to confirm whether the kei trucks will be drivable
- Well today I learned: Fallout lead artist says 'we did a little bit of trickery' with the chunky guns, and scale them up when you're in power armour
- One for the sickos: Linux shell 'revives' Windows 8's infamous tile-based Metro look
- Palworld shows off concept art for new pals as part of its 2-year anniversary celebration as Pocketpair's CEO promises fans 'we will do everything we can to meet your expectations'
- Redditor ordered an RTX 5080 from Amazon Prime and claims a near-identical RTX 5060 Ti with the stickers swapped was sent out
- Social sandbox MMO Pax Dei is free to play this weekend, which is perfect for solo survival game enjoyers like me who are curious about all the community features
- A Baldur's Gate 3-style early access period wouldn't have done much for Deadfire, the secret best CRPG of the last decade, per its director Josh Sawyer
- Ron Perlman returns to Fallout, and this time he's playing the Super Mutant for Fallout Season 2
- D&D Beyond's official partner program to add one of the most popular homebrew classes, which lets you engage in fisticuffs like a true rowdy
- New gacha game takes gambling to a whole new level by accidentally charging purchases to random people's PayPal accounts
- Inkle co-founder says WW2 puzzler TR-49 is 'our best launch, ever, in 14 years,' and they made it in just 9 months
- If you've been saving up to buy a new 16 GB graphics card, then I have bad news for you: It's already a bloodbath out there and it's getting worse every week
- Microsoft's Xbox app has been released for Arm PCs—just in time for Nvidia's new chip?
- Hytale's already adding necromancy, improved mining, and better world generation just over a week after launch
- Latest Windows 11 build will start to address 'unexpected' app behaviour in Xbox Full Screen Experience on PC
- The Secretlab Pokemon Collection gaming chairs are shaping up to be a serious threat to my bank balance
- Blizzard's not been 'backtracking' on its combat addon plans for World of Warcraft, says game director Ion Hazzikostas: 'This was always the intent, to swing the pendulum to the other end and then creep it back'
- With DRAM and SSDs now all stupidly expensive, upgrade your gaming setup with this $260 ultra-curved, ultrawide monitor instead
- Blizzard let its UI mods 'go farther than we should have', says game director Ion Hazzikostas, but 'the best time to plant a tree is 20 years ago, the second-best time is today'
- Behold the future of PC gaming: Upscaled 77p potatovision—and it's not quite as awful as you imagine
- YouTuber orders pizza via Nintendo Wii thanks to homebrew resurrection of the console's elusive food delivery channel
- Jensen Huang talks AI's insatiable appetite for GPUs at the World Economic Forum: 'spot price of GPU rentals is going up, not just the latest generation, but two generation old GPUs'
- Blizzard has teased new Overwatch survey skins, and the usual suspects aren't shy about hogging the concept collections
- WoW's pre-patch stat squish has caused several low-level potions and food items to do literally nothing, with some even restoring '-0 health', whatever that means
- In response to Epic CEO Tim Sweeney waging war on Steam, Larian's publishing lead says, 'Giving everyone everything for free might bump numbers but doesn't create a viable storefront'
- There's a multiplayer mod for The Witcher 3 so you can turn one of the finest singleplayer RPGs of all time into an MMO instead
January 21
- 'There is a world beyond Embervale': Enshrouded dev diary paves the way to 1.0 in fall of 2026, says 'development will continue for years to come'
- Don't call it a layoff: Ubisoft issues a full return-to-office order for all employees as it confirms more studio closures are coming
- As Ubisoft struggles to get games out the door, it's investing even more into generative AI
- Intel's 'Big Battlemage' GPU rumoured to be launching soon but only as a megabucks Pro graphics card with 32 GB of VRAM
- Ubisoft's cancellations-and-closures announcement sparks major union backlash against CEO Yves Guillemot, and the inevitable call for a strike: 'Perhaps he needs to be reminded that it is his employees who make the games'
- WoW's pre-Midnight patch slams players with massive fashion costs as the overhauled transmog system makes outfitting your alts absurdly expensive: 'Feels like they hired a mobile game monetization consultant'
- Epic responds to director Gore Verbinski's claims that Unreal Engine is making movie CGI worse: 'aesthetic and craft comes from artists, not software'
- Crimson Desert secures a March release date as the ambitious Frankenstein's monster of open world fantasy games goes gold
- Anthem subreddit gets a new lease on life as modder shows the game running without EA's servers: 'We didn't realize how much demand there'd still be for this forum to keep discussions going'
- 'Everyone will be able to try Marathon' before launch as Bungie takes a second, sharper stab at reviving the iconic series as an extraction shooter in a post-Arc Raiders world
- Be Quiet! enters the gaming mouse market with a pair of kinda plain-looking competitive rodents
- I just used this electric screwdriver for the first time to build a PC and I'm totally sold—now down to $40 with bits
- Prince of Persia: The Sand of Time Remake is cancelled as Ubisoft announces major internal restructuring and more layoffs and studio closures on the way
- Not having combat UI mods in WoW hurts way less than I expected, and while I think Blizzard still has some work to do, I'm mostly just happy for the peace and quiet
- Marathon's creative director says Bungie 'wanted to push the boundaries of what an extraction shooter can do with its story' as it goes head to head with Arc Raiders' evolving world
- Nintendo president is 'carefully considering the situation' around memory prices as research firm predicts Switch 2 price hike
- 'The FTC will continue fighting its historic case against Meta to ensure that competition can thrive across the country': FTC appeals 2025 antitrust ruling
- OpenAI's internal documents predict $14 billion loss in 2026 according to report
- Skyrim's co-lead designer says Starfield's main problem is that it never fully cohered as a game: 'It was a releasable game, but it wasn't the best'
- 'I think this is crazy': Anthropic's CEO takes a potshot at Nvidia and the US government for selling AI chips to China
- It's hard to say no to this 4K 144 Hz gaming monitor deal for just $180
- Memory manufacturer Kioxia reveals its entire NAND flash production volume for 2026 is already 'sold out'
- Hytale's elusive end-game ore, mithril, 'won't be as simple to mine as the others'
- If you're tired of fighting with your mouse cursor across acres of multi-monitor screen space, Microsoft's latest PowerToys update has it all wrapped up for you
- Arc Raiders may finally change the late spawn mechanic, but in the meantime, its design lead tells players that late joiners 'economically profit way more'
- Nvidia's long-awaited N1X Arm chip for the PC will be released within months according to a new report
- Painkiller's creator jokes that Clair Obscur: Expedition 33's team of newbies has 'ruined' his worldview: 'I don't know what to believe anymore'
- You're safe: Buying Marathon on Steam no longer downloads Destiny 2 automatically
- ReRAM has reentered the chat, with high-profile manufacturing deal positioning it as the 'successor to flash memory'
- One of the best (and oddest) blockbuster shooters of 2019 is $4 on Steam at the moment
- Arknights: Endfield launch times and release date
- Microsoft CEO warns that we must 'do something useful' with AI or they'll lose 'social permission' to burn electricity on it
- 'This game could never be made by AI… it's too human,' says Baldur's Gate 3 actor Neil Newbon after wrapping a playthrough on stream
- Director Gore Verbinski says Unreal Engine is 'the greatest slip backwards' for movie CGI
January 20
- 'I have no regrets saving Hytale,' says co-founder who purchased the game from Riot and released it just two months later: 'It's been the most challenging but rewarding experience of my life'
- Mewgenics will have 280 Steam achievements at launch, in case you were wondering how huge the Binding of Isaac successor is going to be
- Russian politician calls for Call of Duty ban and home-grown alternative because 'you're almost always shooting at Russian soldiers' in the Modern Warfare games
- Google's AI overview search results are so dumb, it took author Chuck Wendig just weeks to convince it he has a cat named 'Sir Mewlington Von Pissbreath' that can speak 'limited Cantonese'
- Dune: Awakening finally gets long-awaited character transfers
- 'What the f***': Modding arch-sorcerer casually invents Minecraft x Hytale crossplay, defies laws of god and man alike
- Life is Strange: Reunion, coming in March, promises an 'emotional conclusion' to the saga of Max and Chloe
- Marathon's system requirements look to continue one of 2025's best PC trends: great performance and low min specs
- Asus' new 4K dual-mode gaming monitors include even faster 1080p modes all the way up to 480 Hz
- As if LinkedIn messages couldn't get any worse, hackers are using them to install malware on people's PCs
- The WoW UI updates have come for Peggle, but its author is looking into it—as unexpected casualties of Blizzard's war on combat mods abound
- Fallout mega-mod maker hopes Bethesda upgrades or ditches its venerable Creation Engine soon: 'Start adding things like drivable cars, maybe even metro systems like what we built'
- Nvidia allegedly greenlit the use of pirated books from illegal sources to train its AI models, according to an expanded class-action lawsuit
- New Arc Raiders update takes aim at the Stella Montis boundary exploit, but may not have fixed it entirely
- Here comes an AMD Ryzen AI 400-powered handheld PC that's super cute, OLED and has an 80 Wh battery
- The first of smash hit roguelike Ball X Pit's three major free updates adds a falconer who fires balls out of her two pet birds
- Tech creator makes console gaming Megazord, squeezing a PS5, Xbox Series S, and Nintendo Switch 2 inside a homemade cooling array
- Lara Croft's design could've gone full FF7/Street Fighter in Japan to appeal to audiences in the mid-'90s, says co-creator, but 'All that was changed was the manuals & guide'
- Hytale is adding the ability to toggle armour so you don't have to hide your fancy clothes: 'Community asks? Community receives'
- Hitman's getting cross-progression as IOI limbers up for that co-op mode it announced last year
- Doom, Windows 95, even Hytale itself: It seems like there's nothing that modders can't make Hytale run
- Meta knowingly earns ad money from 'criminals and scammers' claims UK gambling watchdog
- Razer CEO admits users could fall in love with its holographic AI assistant project but 'that’s definitely not something we plan to build the product toward'
- The shift key trick to quickly restart Windows 95 wasn't a placebo, it was a neat little system to avoid a full PC reboot
- Steam now lets you gift 'complete the set' bundles to your pals, including relevant discounts
- 'People use Google because they want to, not because they’re forced to': As Google appeals antitrust ruling, it also asks to delay data sharing with rivals
- Zalman heard you like screens, so it put a screen on a GPU support bracket to go with your umpteen other PC case screens
- Blizzard devs talk about going back to WoW's beloved expansion continent, Northrend, and rebuilding it for The Last Titan: 'We wanna make sure we're doing justice to those memories'
- Larian's nine-year-old RPG has just had its best month since launch: 'Sales for both BG3 and D:OS 2 have been incredible' thanks to Divinity
- Intel signals the end for its 12th Gen Core processors, though the architecture lives on under the guise of its 13th and 14th Gen
- Marathon's full voice cast includes talent from Deus Ex, Baldur's Gate 3, Clair Obscur: Expedition 33, Red Dead Redemption and loads more
January 19
- Cyberpunk 2077 VR mod disappears after mod maker decides he'd rather take it down than make it free
- Devs recall 'sweating bullets' at showing The Beatles Rock Band to the actual Beatles, and 'tough customer' Yoko Ono making sure they made John Lennon a 'balls out rock and roll god not giving a f**k'
- The first trailer for The Mortuary Assistant movie is here to remind us that sometimes, work really sucks
- After a surprise last-minute delay, Helldivers 2's Redacted Regiment warbond is set to launch later this week
- RuneScape details its plans to scrap its 'Treasure Hunter' microtransactions, rework combat, and dole out other 'integrity-focused releases' for its 25th anniversary
- League of Legends MMO shows signs of life as Riot adds a former World of Warcraft lead producer to its roster
- The DockFrame is a USB-C hub compatible with Framework's modular, hot swappable kit so you always have just what you need
- Big Hops is a charming platformer with some great movement and a classic vibe, but most importantly it lets you rotate several bugs for science
- 5-star alert at Rockstar North's Edinburgh HQ as emergency services respond to 'structural damage' caused by an exploding boiler
- Because of AI 'memory's become sexy again'. That's what Micron told us as the alarm bells for the RAMpocalypse began ringing in 2024, but we just didn't listen
- Nexus Mods kills its multiplatform mod manager in favour of its Windows-only Vortex app: 'We were competing with ourselves instead of solving the actual problems'
- It's a ways off, but Elder Scrolls Online will get crossplay and cross-progression 'at the same time'
- Marathon release date is now official: After Xbox accidentally spills the beans, Sony sighs, throws up its hands, and says yes, it's coming on March 5
- Don't fret, 1337Gamer69: Google will soon let you change your embarrassing Gmail username
- Spraying kerosene over the DRAM inferno, US commerce secretary suggests memory chip makers could face 100% tariffs unless they commit to increased US production
- The 15-year-old star of 28 Years Later: The Bone Temple wants to see his character in Dead by Daylight
- Arc Raiders players are upping their explosive game by placing fireworks alongside deadline mines on lethal arcs
- Disney delists 14 games from Steam without warning, most notably Armed and Dangerous and that one Hercules game you vaguely remember playing in 1997
- Micron signs a deal to acquire a chip foundry in Taiwan for $1.8 billion, though it won't make a dent in the memory supply crisis until 2027 at the earliest
- A stupid Windows 11 requirement makes Asus' simple new Wi-Fi motherboard feature a winner
- Rockstar responds to plea for a terminally ill 'huge GTA fan' to get his hands on the game early
- No, Jeff Bezos didn't predict the future of the home PC would see it being swept away into the cloud
- WoW's combat UI mods break with this week's pre-patch, marking an enormous change for the 20-year-old MMO
- PSA - If you want a copy of the original Yakuza 3 PC remaster without also paying for 6 other games, you'd better snap it up soon
January 18
- Hero shooter Highguard reportedly didn't even pay for the Game Awards slot that's earned it so much preemptive hate—the showrunners thought it deserved the spotlight
- Wikipedia turns 25, still boasting zero ads and over 7 billion visitors per month despite the rise of AI and threats of government repression
- Former Assassin's Creed franchise boss sues Ubisoft for nearly $1 million, alleging 'constructive dismissal'
- 'Turns out having your game be free on Epic is great advertising for Steam sales': New Blood chief says Blood West sold 'like 200% more' the day it was a freebie on EGS
- Steam reportedly raked in a record-breaking $1.6 billion in December with Arc Raiders alone moving over a million copies
- FromSoftware-inspired RPG Lunacid is getting DLC, as its creator expresses bafflement at its success: 'This was supposed to be niche'
- Super Battle Golf improves the world's least interesting sport by letting you blast your competitors with orbital lasers
- You've got until Monday to get 80% off 2 of the best dungeon crawlers ever made
- Terraria's long-awaited 1.4.5 patch finally has a release date, and it's this month: 'start the countdown'
- Goblin Sushi is a cooking sim about a goblin who cooks sushi for other sushi-loving goblins
- Fallout reunites with Magic: The Gathering for cards featuring characters from New Vegas, the TV show, and more Dogmeat
- Skyrim mod The Rot Below promises a '3–6 hour dungeon experience' and is fully voice-acted
January 17
- Minecraft-like Hytale got a huge dinosaur update just a few days after release
- Armed robbers steal $100,000 worth of Pokéstock from New York City Pokémon store
- Diablo-like No Rest for the Wicked has sold a million copies, and co-op is coming next week
- Netflix nabs streaming rights to the Legend of Zelda movie
- To celebrate the imminent launch of a new Styx adventure, Epic is giving away Cyanide's last two goblin-flavoured stealth games for free
- The sequel to isometric mech sim Brigador gives off serious Syndicate vibes in its latest footage, and you can play its alpha version right now
- Earth Must Die in this adventure game boasting a Dispatch-like voice cast of British comedy superheroes, and it releases later this month
- Ambitious The Witcher 3 restoration mod adds yet more cut dialogue to the game, including a new Yennefer romance scene and extra choices for its most famous quest
January 16
- Nexus Mods quashes rumor of 2-year bans for linking the site on Discord: 'There does not appear to be any risk of being moderated by Discord for posting Nexus Mods links'
- Fortnite bans paid prize wheels in third-party games just days after Steal the Brainrot started selling them
- Steam updates AI disclosure form to specify that it's focused on AI-generated content that is 'consumed by players,' not efficiency tools used behind the scenes
- There's a fantasy swordsmithing sim launching on Steam next week, which is a sentence I've been waiting to hear since browsing my dad's replica sword catalogs in 4th grade
- Here we go: OpenAI CEO Sam Altman once called it a 'last resort', but ChatGPT is about to get stuffed with ads
- UK police chief resigns over AI intel embarrassment, blames 'political and media frenzy' rather than his force's failure to fact-check Copilot
- Facepunch Studios COO says he'll buy New World for $25 million, and he might not be joking: 'We're always looking for new opportunities and we are open to all avenues'
- Arc Raiders almost had an auction house like Escape From Tarkov, but Embark nixed it because the game became 'just about coins'
- Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 continues its awards sweep, getting 8 out of 9 nominations at the GDCA
- Taiwan signs deal to invest $250 ‌billion into US tech industry and slash tariffs on its exports
- Audio devices that use Google's Fast Pair Bluetooth tech are vulnerable to hacks that could track location or listen to the mic, according to researchers
- Arc Raiders has released its Cold Snap numbers, and only 8% of raiders managed to finish their Candleberry Banquet
- With The Division 3 still in early development, series boss Julian Gerighty leaves Ubisoft to work on Battlefield instead
- Pricing crisis, schmicing crisis: Here are 3 reasonably priced 1 TB SSDs that cost much less than $150 each
- Fallout co-creator Tim Cain boils RPGs down into 9 different types of quests, but warns "more of one thing means less of another"
- SK Hynix's unique way of chopping cells in two is a big step in making PLC flash memory chips viable and could offer a solution to ballooning SSD prices
- Capcom shills a $2,175 watch by insisting that 'In Resident Evil Requiem, time is a main character'
- Nightreign's latest patch finally buffs my boy, the Executor, alongside Guardian, Revenant, and Raider
- Apple is no longer the apple of TSMC's eye, with Nvidia taking centre stage in the supply of wafers, according to one report
- There are a surprising number of programs designed to randomly kill processes on your computer until it crashes—or you wimp out
- Microsoft rolls out tables in Notepad for all Windows 11 users, though I'd feel happier about this if I knew this was the final addition to my favorite little app
- Asus and MSI have now both clarified the RTX 5070 Ti hasn't received an end-of-life status
- Yakuza Kiwami 3 includes the first official emulation of 2 bizarro Sega arcade games, including one like Crazy Taxi but you're racing an ambulance to the hospital before a patient bleeds to death
- Resident Evil Requiem was originally a tense, stealth-oriented horror starring only Leon, before the team went back to the drawing board: 'People wouldn't want to see a timid Leon'
- The studio behind the best metroidvania of 2021 has a new game coming out next month—and I'm dropping everything to play it
January 15
- Embark dev teases Arc Raiders 2026 roadmap with 'multiple maps coming this year' that span 'a spectrum of size'
- Dawn of War 4's combat director goes even further than the original game's sync-kill animations: 'I don't think any RTS has really done anything like this in the past'
- The JRPG veteran responsible for Persona and Megami Tensei is working on a 'school life RPG' with the Neptunia series studio
- Fatal Fury fans accuse new City of the Wolves trailer of being filled with AI slop: 'All that Saudi money and can't pay someone a couple bucks to make real s**t'
- Here's our first look at Sophie Turner as Lara Croft in the upcoming Tomb Raider show
- New World will join the graveyard of defunct MMOs when it goes offline in 2027
- Marathon's free loadout option will have limitations that some Arc Raiders fans keep asking Embark for
- It's my duty as a child of the early 2000s to let you know a Beyblade-inspired roguelike was released on Steam last month
- A 'deeply social, psychological' Fallout Shelter reality TV series is coming from the producers of the Squid Game reality series
- Skyrim's co-lead designer was building real-time horse and cart travel and a dynamic civil war: 'We were pretty disappointed that didn't ship'
- Arc Raiders lead admits putting together new loadouts is a pain when you want to just 'get in there and do stuff', says the game got a lot right but 'looking through a bunch of menus isn't necessarily it'
- The best parody account in gaming hangs up its hat after 17 years: Peter Molydeux is retiring
- Redditor claims that Monster Hunter Wilds runs better 'the more DLC you own', and it does—but not by much on my machine
- Total War: Warhammer 40,000 surpasses Steam wishlist milestone, with over 1 million people ready to fight for their dessicated corpse of an Emperor
- It's 2026, CES is over, and there's still no sign of Intel's Arrow Lake refresh, but one hardware channel is adamant it'll be here in the spring
- Avert thine eyes no more, as the file explorer 'flash bang' bug has finally been addressed
- WoW: Midnight beta introduces a new Mythic+ dungeon modifier that's kinda just yellow paint for routing, and you know what? Good
- While it's unclear How Many Dudes it'd take to beat up a gorilla, I can with certainty tell you that 15 zombies, 4 samurai, 2 barbarians, 4 ghosts, and 4 dudes do a pretty good job
- 'I know how stupid this is, but it had to be done': YouTuber gets Doom to run on touchscreen cooking pot
- The name's still Bond but at least everything is right this time, as 007 First Light's devs have corrected their system requirements after 'an internal miscommunication' error
- This $280 DDR5 memory kit and B580 motherboard bundle is the best way to beat the RAMpocalypse at its own game
- Monster Train 2's first DLC is transforming the game with a giant new mode and the hammer-swinging Railforged clan
- Asus is NOT killing off the RTX 5070 Ti as Asus issues statment saying 'certain media may have received incomplete information'
- To meet 'tremendous and humongous demand' from AI customers, SK Hynix accelerates 2027 fab plans by three months, with an even fresher fab beginning wafer production next month
- Gaming on Linux just got a bump with new Wine 11 improvements that'll make for a better Proton on SteamOS, too
- Despite an incredibly tough 2025 for ZeniMax, The Elder Scrolls Online's leadership is hopeful: 'We've definitely got our eyes on the future, because this is our home'
- Disco Elysium had so much text it broke the branching narrative software: 'we were writing too much'
- With only 2,300 hours to go until a full Ecco the Dolphin reveal, new details emerge about the forthcoming reboot
- Here's one big benefit to Hytale not being on Steam: its refund policy is way better than Valve's
- Quarantine Zone has been patched so now you can actually detect people smuggling hand grenades in their butts
January 14
- Ryan Hurst, the voice of Thor in God of War: Ragnarok, will star as Kratos in the God of War TV series on Prime
- All EB Games outlets in New Zealand will close by the end of the month following 'multi-million dollar' losses
- Hopes for an eventual Anthem private server resurrection ignited as former executive producer says code for running the game locally 'is there to be salvaged and recovered'
- Bully Online, the ambitious mod that brought multiplayer and more to Rockstar's classic school sim, shuts down a month after launch: 'This was not something we wanted'
- Umamusume developer Cygames bullied into apology by outraged horse girl enthusiasts after announcing AI subsidiary: 'We sincerely apologize for the concern we've caused'
- Forza Horizon 6 release date may have leaked in Forza Horizon 5
- Valheim player keeps building Dollar Generals despite friend begging them to stop: 'I do not want to play Valheim with Greg anymore'
- After closing Hypixel Studios with nothing to show for 6 years of development, Riot congratulates the resurrected Hytale for its early access launch
- Seeing the absolute state of memory pricing, Chinese DIY community opts for DDR3 motherboards instead
- Ron Perlman says he did the Fallout intro for $40 and a sandwich, he's never played it, and he's not interested in trying: 'The whole Fallout thing is a mystery to me'
- Rockstar prepares for the Roblox-ification of GTA 6 by launching an official mods marketplace, with one bundle costing just under $500
- One of The Elder Scrolls Online's oldest problems, overland difficulty, is finally getting addressed—but the devs are 'starting really small' because 'we didn't want to take a big swing and miss'
- A Steam glitch convinced some Fallout fans a New Vegas remaster was imminent, only to have the rug yanked out from under them: 'Slowly turning into r/HalfLife'
- Microsoft shares 112 vulnerabilities it addressed in January, which is 68 fewer than this time last year
- Running Factorio from over 1,000 floppy disks is a masochistically manual process that surely sets a new record for game load times
- Move over Ball x Pit—I just found a website that maps the location of over 51,000 and counting of the world's public pinball machines
- Major memory module manufacturer says: 'Trust me, we're not laughing our way to the bank'
- UK police apologise to parliament after admitting a major and controversial policy decision was based on AI making stuff up
- Secure Boot certificates used by anti-cheat software are set to expire in June but new ones are already in the mail
- Samsung's Odyssey OLED 1440p monitor is just $380 and it's the only one I'd buy right now
- 'For those who have acrophobia': Arc Raiders players have discovered a way to snag one of the hardest achievements without having to wrangle a live Rocketeer
- Stellar Blade's director says AI can see 'one person can perform the work of 100 people' but that won't wind up in job losses, somehow
- Framework 'held off as long as we could' but just cranked up prices of its Desktops and Mainboards
- 'Embark better not be giving streamers a pass on cheating': Tfue gets unbanned from Arc Raiders in less than 24 hours, and ordinary raiders aren't happy
- Steam has finally got rid of those goddamn clown awards
- Fallout Season 2 episode 5 finally mentions Forced Evolutionary Virus, an integral part of the Wasteland and the source of the Super Mutants
- Music marketplace Bandcamp bypasses AI disclosures and obtuse policies to announce a wholesale ban on AI slop
- ARG developer finds out his email hint system doesn't work anymore because young people don't know how to use email
- Games Workshop says its senior managers aren't excited about AI, prohibits its use and laments that it's 'included on our phones or laptops whether we like it or not'
January 13
- Meta is closing 3 VR studios and laying off roughly 10% of Reality Labs as it shifts focus from the metaverse to AI wearables, its next sure-fire, can't-miss idea
- It's January 13 and Ubisoft just announced its second round of layoffs for 2026, at Massive Entertainment and Ubisoft Stockholm
- An absolute madman has recreated the Windows 8 UI—for Linux
- Hytale surges to the most-watched game on Twitch, attracting over 420,000 viewers with its long-awaited launch
- Larry Hryb, better known as Xbox hype man Major Nelson, has been laid off from Unity less than 2 years after joining the company
- EA delays Battlefield 6's next season a month to 'further polish and refine Season 2,' and the only words I want to hear next are 'bigger maps'
- Judge denies interim pay for fired Rockstar employees, but the decision 'does nothing to suggest that Rockstar will not be found guilty of unfair dismissal when the case goes to trial,' union says
- GOG's new owner can't stand Windows either: 'It's such poor-quality software… I can't believe it!'
- Arc Raiders' overpowered aim assist gets stronger at high frame rates, and I feel like I'm cheating when I use it
- One of the most intriguing plotlines in Fallout season 2 may have just been spoiled by *checks notes* Funko Pop
- Nvidia's DLSS 4.5 looks great and all but I'm surprised at just how much extra power it demands from your graphics card
- Former Bethesda lead says The Elder Scrolls 6 got announced so early because the studio had to make sure 'people were not just pissed at us' for revealing Starfield instead
- Arc Raiders' Cold Snap event is over, which means I have my sights set on the next possible event: a toxic swamp and maybe even a volcanic eruption
- With memory in short supply, Gigabyte unveils high-capacity set-up that can support up to 256 GB of DDR5-7200 and is bound to cost the prettiest of pennies
- Some of my favourite ever dungeons feature in this enormous and absurdly cheap tabletop RPG bundle
- The next Helldivers 2 warbond brings suppressed weapons and stealth tech to turn your helldives into sneaking missions
- Larian's main focus for Divinity is 'to see how far we can push the diversity of companions' so intra-NPC relationships can feel more natural and complex
- Arc Raiders has surpassed 12 million players worldwide: 'a milestone we owe entirely to the players', and to celebrate, Embark is handing out a free golden pickaxe
- Dwarf Fortress issues a 'naked dwarf fix' after accidentally turning players' pride-and-joy into bearded nudist colonies
- Lian Li offers purely aesthetic replacements for its white PSU power cables because they 'carry a noticeable purple hue'
- Nvidia's long-awaited N1X Arm chip for consumer PCs spotted in a near retail-ready Dell laptop
- Rockstar baulks as a Charlie Kirk assassination mission is created in GTA Online, bans it and censors his name, but there's more out there
- Somehow this svelte 32 GB OLED gaming laptop with an RTX 5070 Ti is down to $1,550 in the middle of the RAMpocalypse, and I'm asking no questions
- Even after its success, Embark design lead is still lukewarm on AI usage for Arc Raiders: 'I don't think it's fallen any way or the other'
- PC shipments grew in 2025 but the market 'will be far different in 12 months given how quickly the memory situation is evolving'
- Arc Raiders has officially nerfed two of the strongest weapons, the Trigger Nade and the Kettle, as previous stats created 'an unfair dynamic that favours using 3rd party software'
- My Winter Car is a 'dangerous, depressing and tiring' life sim, and the developer doesn't want you to play it unless you've mastered the infamously tricky My Summer Car
- Trump announces that AI companies must 'pay their own way' for energy consumption to prevent consumer utility bills from going up
- Minecraft's Mounts of Mayhem update has launched a DLC to add more trials that put your skills to the test, but most importantly it adds particle effects for when you're riding a horse
- In a bid to meet the memory supply crisis head on, SK Hynix announces it will invest nearly $13 billion into fresh AI packaging facility
- TikTok hit Quarantine Zone finally launched today and made the mistake of giving me a large medical hammer
- Blue Prince, the best game of 2025 (don't check our GOTY just trust me) is on sale on Steam for under $20 for the first time
January 12
- Anthem is finally, officially dead
- Peter Molyneux's final game is coming in April: 'Masters of Albion is the culmination of my life’s work,' he says, not that he's overhyping it or anything
- 'Steam is winning with its ease of use,' GOG's new owner says, but he's not interested in picking a fight: 'I think much can be done in GOG without losing its core values and the way it operates'
- Embark dispels myths about Arc Raiders' aggression-based matchmaking: 'We don't make any value or moral judgments … it's a bit of a blunt instrument'
- Indie dev is delisting his AI game from Steam because his new girlfriend convinced him it's evil: 'The game existing in its current form is a disgrace to all game makers and players'
- The day after Epic enables microtransactions in Fortnite islands, one of the most popular games on the platform rolls out a $37 'gift pack' and in-game gambling
- 'Um, as a favor, if you buy a new one, please sell your gaming PC to our company' says Tokyo-based computer store as it offers 'pretty high prices'
- One modder has already got Doom running inside the voxel-sandbox Hytale, and it's not even out yet: It plays 'a bit like a broken keyboard'
- Arc Raiders removes a hidden first-person exploit just 1 day after it was uncovered: 'This feature was never meant to be player-facing'
- Here's one solution to the ongoing PC memory crisis: Make your own DIY DDR5
- Micron says it's not to blame for its high memory prices: 'There's just not enough supply to go around'
- It looks like even power supplies and CPU coolers are set to rise in price, but AI isn't to blame this time
- Noctua once again delays its fan-equipped mouse and 140 mm desk fan but we're still on for the launch of its all-in-one liquid cooler soon
- Palworld takes the 'red rag to a bull' approach to its Nintendo lawsuit, announces 'a 2-player competitive card game'
- Arc Raiders is finally dishing out bans for cheaters, but some players think the punishment is too lenient: 'Anyone with cheats active just gets non-stop arc spawning on them'
- After a tumultuous 7 years, Hytale has 'officially secured the next two years of development costs' a day before launch: 'Thank you all for the support. Hytale is saved. We are almost home'
- Larian's learnt a lot from Baldur's Gate 3 going into Divinity, including the fact that hand-crafted loot is probably better: 'Randomization did not save us much time'
- In the midst of climbing prices, surprisingly it's the RX 9070 that's stepping up to the plate with this Ryzen X3D gaming PC for $250 off
- Steam defies RAM-ageddon and the AI-pocalypse to smash through a new concurrent user record, and I'll see you back here in like 4 months when it somehow does it again
- Nvidia CEO Jensun Huang critiques 'well respected people who have painted a doomer narrative' around AI right after saying 'I guess someday we will have God AI'
- Hytale launch times and release date
- Peak dev solves game pricing and possibly all economics: '4 bucks is also kind of 5 bucks, 3 bucks is 2 bucks. And 2 bucks is basically free'
- Fanatical bundle lets you snag 3 Fallout games, Disco Elysium, a ton of Steamworld, and more for roughly $3 a pop
- Intel's 'Big Battlemage' GPU did not appear at CES but the rumours just won't go away
- Anthem players log in to say goodbye to the game they loved before it's gone forever: 'Strong alone, stronger together'
January 11
- A dev on Minecraft-like Hytale has already used its creative tools to make a homebrew side-scroller
- Warhammer World, Games Workshop's pub-slash-hobby store celebrating the venerable wargame, is coming to the US
- 'Don’t toil away on the things that don’t really matter': Peak creator says its rapid development cycle has 'proved that there are definitely different, but maybe better ways to make games'
- Epic Games CEO Tim Sweeney argues banning Twitter over its ability to AI-generate pornographic images of minors is just 'gatekeepers' attempting to 'censor all of their political opponents'
- Larian says Divinity's character customisation will be 'even better' than Baldur's Gate 3's: 'More colors, more options, more control'
- Here's that noir thriller built in the original Half-Life engine you asked for
- The Witcher 3's former lead quest designer says 'of course' there is romance in upcoming vampire RPG The Blood of Dawnwalker: 'You can expect to build relationships with characters'
- Former Assassin's Creed director doesn't think the current way of making big budget games is 'tenable': 'I think the future lies in smaller teams'
- Manor Lords' dev is experimenting with a new trading system that allows for 'deliberate economic strategies', including establishing monopolies on resources
- After Netflix pulled the rug from under Monument Valley 3 six months after launch, its developer says it's a 'PC first' studio: 'we can build more direct relationships with our audience and community'
January 10
- Original Fallout lead Tim Cain reckons vitriol around games has always been around, but it's 'more hostile' these days: 'I see lot of people arguing past each other, even if that means denying that the other group even exists'
- 'Every year they got f***ing chocolates that we didn't': Valve gives a box of sweets to Steam's biggest breadwinners every year, and Peak's devs finally got one after years of jealously watching their Slay the Spire office mates enjoy GabeN confections
- Deadlock dev teases the community over its favorite hero that was briefly tested and removed: 'We made delicious stock out of his bones and meats'
- Larian's head writer has a simple answer for how AI-generated text helps development: 'It doesn't,' thanks to its best output being 'a 3/10 at best' worse than his worst drafts
- 'I can finally do the thing I wanted to do in every previous game': Divinity's head of design teases a new mechanic without saying what it is
- If you've got a spare 200 hours, the massively ambitious sci-fi grand strategy from the creators of X-COM: The Long War just launched out of early access
- Valorant's latest update adds a new pistol to spice up early rounds, as Riot plans to take 'a holistic look' at the shooter's arsenal through 2026
- If for some reason you can't get enough of Stranger Things' Vecna, you can now play as him in Dead by Daylight's latest crossover
- A classic space sim conceived by Star Citizen's creator just got an unofficial sequel after 15 years of development: 'The project was based on the crazy idea that Microsoft "axed" Chris Roberts' Freelancer'
January 9
- Baldur's Gate 3's lead writer hopes we won't want to save scum in Divinity: 'Our ambition is certainly to make failure more interesting'
- Baldur's Gate 3 composer Borislav 'Bobby' Slavov is coming back for Divinity: 'We wouldn't be able to stop him even if we wanted to'
- Arc Raiders player ranks 30 common outfits by how likely they are to shoot you in the back, and I have to admit it's right on the money
- Competitive demon slaying is about to take over Diablo 4 as its next update finally adds official leaderboards
- Over half of The Sims development team is working on The Sims 4 and 'the next evolution' so I guess it's time to start speculating again
- Divinity's reveal trailer was brutal and dark for a reason, Larian's writing director says: 'We want to give players the opportunity to be the light in that darkness'
- It's not the news we wanted but it's what we expected: EA has finally admitted Project Rene is a 'mobile-first' game
- The PvPvE extraction shooter where you build and drive a huge stompy mechanical base across a ruined planet gets a Steam release window
- You'll never guess what the 'Random Heart Attacks' mod for Red Dead Redemption 2 does
- For all the Divinity dev details Larian isn't ready to comment on, we got a firm answer about the game's controls: the studio's sticking to its guns on no WASD movement
- Tetris creator says the Rubik's cube is 'the symbol of modern civilisation' and we should send them into space
- Unfortunately, all of that doomsaying last year was correct and SSD prices are surging as a result of the memory crisis
- Panther Lake's gaming chops look solid but the battery life is truly what interests me as a PC gamer on the go
- Looks like the EU is getting serious about open source, which could eventually spell good news for Linux and hopefully gaming distros
- Larian's given us a single-word spoiler for Divinity, its next game, and for some reason it's 'alligator'
- 'I wish Wyll had gotten more content' says the Baldur's Gate 3 writer who wrote him, and splitting his story between devils and dads 'might have been a mistake in hindsight'
- Elder Scrolls fans are taking it well after Microsoft says it's a 'big year for games ending in 6' ahead of its upcoming Xbox Direct showcase: 'I'm practically living off hopium and copium at this point'
- Gigabyte's new OLED gaming monitor debuts 'HyperNits' brightness tech, so are screens with regular nits now second best?
- Divinity will officially wave goodbye to Original Sin 2's broken armour system
- The 1 TB Lexar NM790 is the most sensibly priced SSD for gaming I've seen in weeks
- 'There is *zero* point in talking about AI slop. That's just plain stupid': Linus Torvalds weighs in on AI debate in Linux kernel documentation
- Larian swears off gen AI concept art tools and says 'There is not going to be any GenAI art in Divinity,' but it's still 'trying [AI] things out across departments'
- Attacks on Kingdom Come: Deliverance for gay romance, representation 'only mattered to a handful of terminally online culture warriors,' reckons KCD2's exec producer, and probably didn't impact the games' reception
- AMD leaves the door open to an official 'beta' version of its latest AI-enhanced FSR upscaling tech for older RDNA 3 GPUs
- Jen-Hsun needs to up his game because we've run the numbers and AMD's CES keynote hit 1.8 mentions of AI per minute—even more than Nvidia
- Meet Project Patchouli, an open-source drawing tablet project to 'build your own tablet from scratch'
- Intel's new handheld gaming chip rumoured to be called 'Core G3 Extreme' and rocks a full-spec Xe3 iGPU with 12 graphics cores
- Linux researcher and developer says 'there are bugs in your kernel right now that won't be found for years. I know because I analyzed 125,183 of them'
- GTA 6 speculation mutates into delay 'rumor,' leading to anxious fans and a prediction market betting frenzy for no good reason
January 8
- 'I f**king hate gen AI art,' Hooded Horse chief says: 'If we're publishing the game, no f**king AI assets'
- Witcher 3 DLC rumors pick up strength as IGN Poland says it knew about all of this years ago
- Arc Raiders has a cheater problem, but Embarks says 'significant changes' are coming to detection and ban systems
- After Activision promised Black Ops 7 skins would 'feel authentic to Call of Duty and its setting,' Fallout has arrived in Call of Duty
- Steam Workshop just got version control, hopefully making it less of a headache when game updates break all our mods
- Fallout 3's lead artist says its 'sparse' vision of post-apocalypse is 'messy, and there's lots of inconsistency—but I like that, because it mimics the real world'
- SOMA studio says its next game is not 'stressful or scary' in the traditional sense, but it'll still mess you up real good: 'The goal is to evoke this deep existential terror that stays long after you finish playing'
- Asus has tweaked the twangers out of Hifiman's planar magnetic drivers in its new audiophile-grade gaming headset, and it shows
- Update your MyAsus software now because there's a fix for a nasty hack that could easily ruin your day
- LG's new 39-inch 5K2K OLED is easily my favourite new PC monitor at CES 2026 and it might just be the gaming panel I've been waiting for
- Phasmophobia developer announces new indie publishing label: 'We’re now in the place where we want to support studios…and provide the support I'd have appreciated at the start of my journey'
- Larian's big Q&A session on how it's using AI to help make its next game is happening tomorrow on Reddit
- Dwarf Fortress kicks off another year of bonkers patch notes with the saddest 6-word story ever told: 'Mothers no longer seek ghostly babies'
- An expired certificate led to the Logitech app going down for Mac users and despite a quick fix, G Hub is taking heat for 'long-standing issues' and 'AI nonsense'
- VATS almost didn't survive the transition to Bethesda, says Fallout 3 dev: 'We only just got that working by the time we shipped'
- Change the course of history in Rewind 99, a nostalgia-infused retail sim where you'll fight back against streaming services as the last remaining video rental store on the planet
- GPU prices absolutely are on their way up but I've found a bunch of decent value options, whatever your budget is
- Intel had the most exciting product launch at CES 2026 and I absolutely wasn't expecting that
- AMD claims Intel's CES comparisons are 'not even a fair fight'; Intel says AMD is 'selling ancient silicon'—but they're both guilty of using confusing tactics
- Samsung estimates record-breaking $13 billion profits and says memory apocalypse tainted prices are 'inevitable'
- Embark's CEO says they couldn't compete 'with the likes of EA and Activision' head on so they had to 'change the way games were being developed'
- LG and Samsung announce new TV OLED panel tech cranking out 4,500 nits of brightness, but don't expect anything like that for PC monitors
- Square Enix asks early access players not to spoil a remake of a 25-year-old game—on the one hand, there are changes to the main storyline, but on the other hand, are you kidding me
- Asus is now implementing 'strategic price adjustments' and retailers are already hiking prices for laptops from other brands
- Minecraft teases its first drop of 2026, and it might finally be the thing that stops me from being a passive mob killing machine
- Embark CEO says Arc Raiders 'should do more with the trading part of the game' and he's right
- Embark CEO says 'it would be fun' to have an Arc Raiders TV show or movie after receiving multiple offers, but it's not in the cards right now
- Arc Raider's defining feature, according to Embark's CEO, is all the odd player interactions: 'We did not expect people to take on roles of Defender of the Swamp'
- Todd Howard didn't want Deathclaws to be 'just another creature' in Fallout Season 2, and from I've seen so far they're just as terrifying as I remember
- Intel says it has shipped nearly 100 million AI PC processors, which equates to roughly four 'ZOPS', or 'Zetta OPS' of AI processing power
- The Asus Micro-OLED AR gaming glasses might be the weirdest thing I've ever tested at CES, and that's saying something
- I did some quick and dirty testing of the Intel Arc B390 iGPU in Intel's new top-end Core Ultra chip and I'm pretty impressed
- The latest Magic: The Gathering trailer is a puppet musical fever dream by The Jim Henson Company
- Okay Asus, you've intrigued me: The ROG Zephyrus Duo might finally convince me that dual screen laptops are a good idea
January 7
- Europe's PEGI game rating website leaks a new Life is Strange game, and it sure sounds like Max and Chloe are getting back together
- More than 8 years after The New Colossus, a new Wolfenstein game is reportedly in the works at MachineGames
- The Elder Scrolls Online devs promise that its new seasonal model 'is the beginning of a major shift' for the decade-old MMO: 'Frankly, we think we could make the game more rewarding and exciting'
- Path of Exile 2 players suffer the consequences of dealing illegal amounts of damage as boss shrugs off a 95M-damage hit
- Ubisoft closes its recently-unionized Halifax studio, says it's not because of the unionizing
- Amazon's Fallout website is counting down to something, and fans are hoping the long-awaited Fallout 3 remaster (or maybe even New Vegas) is finally on the way
- Is today's puzzle game scene interesting? 'No, I don't think it is,' says Jonathan Blow, even though there are 'really good games in the past' devs could look to for inspiration
- Micron isn't done with consumer SSDs after all, unveiling a PCIe 5.0 QLC drive that should be both affordable *and* fast
- LG unveils a new home robot and declares its AI is actually 'affectionate intelligence' which feels a little too Her (2013) for my liking
- RAMpocalypse be damned, you can still bag an RTX 5080 gaming laptop for under $2K with 32 GB RAM, but I'm here to tell you I'd still go for the 16 GB option
- Nvidia's CEO says bringing new AI tech to older generation GPUs is 'within the realm of possibility'
- Don't be scared of AI, says Troy Baker, because it's gonna push us toward 'the authentic' rather than 'the gruel that gets distilled to me through a black mirror'
- 'We don't use AI…to replace people,' claims Arc Raiders CEO, without actually explaining what they do use it for
- 9 years after it aired, fans discover a Dr Who episode absolutely copy-pasted a Skyrim dragon PNG from a wiki for some background VFX
- Corsair's latest mouse pad is just begging to have my greasy fingers all over it
- HyperX is showing off a gaming headset prototype packed with brain wave monitoring EEG tech to better get your head in the game
- AMD and partners confirm Ryzen CPU with dual 3D V-Cache chiplets is coming but gamers are unlikely to see the benefit
- 'It is basically DLSS. That’s the way graphics ought to be': Nvidia's Jensen Huang has a clear vision for the future of its gaming GPUs and is going to be all about neural rendering
- Clair Obscur: Expedition 33's lead says they messed up a little by putting a ton of great endgame content next to a final boss you can easily outlevel: 'We weren't sure if our game was going to be that good'
- These $200 audiophile earbuds mix planar and dynamic drivers and they look like they might actually be decent for gaming
- AMD may resurrect some older CPUs to help users dodge the worst of the RAM crisis
- AMD suggests that FSR 4 will eventually be open-sourced, bar the core technology, as part of its 'long term plan'
- $420 for a 240 Hz OLED gaming monitor makes the New Year a perfect time for that upgrade
- Audeze slams out the new planar magnetic Maxwell 2 headset with 16 improvements over the original and still-brilliant design
- Final Fantasy 14's NA servers continue to struggle with DDoS attacks, likely due to a service provider's wonky nodes
- Just when you think there's no room for shooters to innovate, here's one where your health is literally your framerate
- 'We did not want to be close to them': The only game Arc Raiders wanted to avoid on release was predictably GTA 6, 'I don't think anyone wanted to be close to them'
- Intel and Samsung team up to cut OLED power consumption by up to 22% with HDR content
- InWin's latest 'signature' case looks not unlike a futuristic egg but requires more than a simple crack to open
- Lenovo's latest rollable screen concept laptop has finally got its rolly polly the right way around
- Lenovo's Las Vegas Sphere event delivered an absolute barrage of AI announcements, but at least we got this, err, FIFA-themed Legion gaming laptop
- I've seen Nvidia's G-Sync Pulsar in action and it's kinda ruined all other gaming monitors for me
- Sony patents AI-powered 'ghost' that shows you how to get past videogame obstacles, and can even play the hard bits for you
- We might have a new contender for the best handheld gaming PC, because Lenovo's just announced a SteamOS version of its mega Legion Go 2
- Amazon's live-action Tomb Raider show announces the rest of its cast, including Sigourney Weaver and Jason Isaacs
January 6
- 'Steam Charts don't measure fun,' Splitgate: Arena Reloaded studio says in response to worries about declining player numbers: 'They don't show the full picture'
- 'The game isn't about shooting other players': Embark CEO says Arc Raiders is unlikely to get a PvP leaderboard because the devs 'don't necessarily want to foster that kind of gameplay'
- Schedule 1 developer TVGS is 'an actual game studio' now, with an office, desks, and a new guy named Rob: 'By the end of the year, there will likely be 4 people working on Schedule 1'
- Embark boss says Arc Raiders $40 price was inspired by the likes of Helldivers 2: 'We'd rather make people feel like it's totally worth 40 bucks'
- Fallout Season 2 has doubled the number of people playing the Fallout games on Steam
- After 200 hours of intensive worm punching, Rubicon Karate master melees Armored Core 6's Ice Worm to death without taking damage
- 'That's pretty cool': Larian boss Swen Vincke responds after Stranger Things co-creator credits Baldur's Gate 3 for inspiring the show's climactic battle
- Huh, Arc Raiders' maps are heavily based on real-world locations: 'Spaceport was actually done in Tenerife'
- Phison's E37T controller could make PCIe 5.0 SSDs faster, cooler and *get this* slightly less pricey
- Due to 'extremely limited inventory', Meta's smart glasses with a display won't be shipping outside the US anytime soon
- Be Quiet! keeps the 'consumer' in CES with new PC components including a dashing new Dark Rock 6 cooler
- You probably won't be able to afford it but Gigabyte's new Aorus RTX 5090 Infinity card is so damn ugly, you'll be demanding payment just to tarnish your rig with one
- 007 First Light reveals some pretty forgiving PC system requirements, with a couple caveats
- I give up: They're doing no-hit Souls trilogy runs with a saxophone now
- These new dual-slot Nvidia RTX graphics cards from PNY are a throwback to a simpler time of sensibly-sized GPUs
- MSI announces the 'most powerful gaming laptop on the planet' in the form of the 300 W RTX 5090 Raider 16 Max HX
- This Panther Lake-led 'semi-modular' laptop is taking a page from Framework's very upgradable book and I'm all for it
- HP's new AI PC might look like a laptop that lost a fight with an angle grinder but it's compact and discreet as you could possibly get
- AMD and Nvidia talking up local AI for consumers could be bad news for those ChatGPT subscriptions but good news for us PC gamers
- Gigabyte loudly and proudly says it's 'AI Forward' at CES 2026
- The Splinter Cell-ish game where you're a North Korean soldier guarding a K-Pop star has gone dark: Its YouTube channel is silent and we haven't seen the director since September
- Hacker, dressed as the pink Power Ranger, takes down 3 white supremacist sites live on stage after scraping details with AI: 'Maybe try mastering to host WordPress before world domination'
- Set sail into the seas of streaming with Corsair's new Galleon 100 SD keyboard, with its built-in deck
- Asus launches new gaming monitors with two completely different 'RGB stripe' OLED panel technologies
- 'Not bad for a dead game': Palworld managed to get four nominations in Steam's Best of 2025 Awards, including 2nd place for most played game
- Corsair brings Hall effect to its dinky enthusiast gaming keyboard in the form of the MAKR Pro 75
- Project Ava is a holographic AI assistant that promises to watch your every move to offer both gaming advice and 'wardrobe tips'
- Corsair just announced carbon fiber and magnesium alloy versions of my favourite gaming mouse since Logitech's G Pro X Superlight
- Razer announces Project Motoko: kind of like AI glasses but a gaming headset
- 'We built a breathable performance engine': Razer announces Iskur V2 gaming chair follow-up that seems a lot like the previous one
- Qualcomm unveils the Snapdragon X2 Plus, with up to 35% more single-core CPU performance and 29% faster GPUs than X Plus chips
- CyberPower PC unveils 'elegant' new case with three dedicated knobs on the side purely to adjust colours and I think I'm a bit smitten
- Lego's smart new 2x4 Smart Brick packs a custom ASIC, speaker, and synthesiser created by 'an expert team from the worlds of video gaming, computing... and more'
- Arc Raiders is looking to nerf the Trigger Nade among other items, but we're not sure whether it'll only be weaker against players, not Arcs
- Arrowhead CCO Johan Pilestedt corrects player who thought he'd griped about Magicka being review bombed, says 'we got so-so reviews' in 2011 because of bugs—also, it was 'released without our knowledge'
- Someone has done the unthinkable and essentially turned Red Dead Redemption 2 into Katamari Damacy, but you can't argue with their reasoning: 'Because why not'
- The Asus ROG Zephyrus G16 redesign is spoiling for a rematch against the Razer Blade 16, featuring a beefy RTX 5090 and improved cooling
- Dell resurrects XPS brand with slick new laptop that's smaller than a MacBook Air, lasts 40 hours and relies on Intel's Panther Lake chip for gaming grunt
- Asus has announced a sweet new Kojima Productions collab but I wish it picked a better laptop
- Asus goes all out with its new ROG G1000 gaming PC: The 'world's first' to have a holographic fan system built into the case
- The latest ROG Zephyrus gaming laptop sports two screens and a unique way to play local co-op
- If you're disappointed by the lack of gaming talk in Nvidia's CES keynote, fear not because the company might be, umm, bringing back the RTX 3060
- Nvidia looks to further eradicate motion blur with new G-Sync Pulsar improvements for '4x the effective motion clarity'
- Dell's CES 2026 chat was the most pleasingly un-AI briefing I've had in maybe 5 years
- Intel says its graphics drivers are now 'light years ahead of where we were a few years ago', and they'll need to be if it's going to tempt gamers towards its new iGPUs
- Intel's new top-end Core Ultra Series 3 mobile chips promise up to 77% faster iGPU gaming performance than Lunar Lake, and come with a whole host of friends
- Nvidia's promising '4K 240 Hz path traced gaming' with DLSS 4.5 but do you want 6x Multi Frame Gen?
- I thought I was crazy for thinking Fallout 4 feels like a perfectly crisp fall day, but that's exactly what Bethesda was aiming for after a 'field trip' to a national park: 'I was like, this is what our world needs to look like'
- Alienware promises it's not 'cutting corners on the things that matter the most' with its new entry-level gaming laptops
- Alienware is taking on Razer and Asus with its new ultra slim 'covert' gaming laptop tease
- 'Quite frankly it was missing one thing': Alienware has fixed one of the biggest issues with its Area-51 gaming PC
- AMD launches its fastest gaming CPU yet, though the new Ryzen 7 9850X3D is clocked just 8% higher than the 9800X3D
- The AMD Ryzen AI Max range gets two more entries, one of which looks perfect for the ultimate in handheld PC gaming
January 5
- Cyberpunk 2 director says there'd be no point in giving players more time with Jackie in Cyberpunk 2077: 'It's like saying we should spend more time on Tatooine with farmer Luke before he got involved with all this Jedi stuff'
- 'I'm a medieval otaku, after all': Legendary Final Fantasy composer Nobuo Uematsu says FF9's soundtrack is some of his best work—even if it's more popular overseas
- HyperX gaming monitors are a thing now, and HP says this 34-inch QD-OLED model has next-gen V-Stripe tech to banish text fringing
- HP has smushed together the HyperX and Omen brands to create its new HyperX Omen range of gaming laptops, and I'm over here playing spot the difference
- The last 5 years have all kicked off with a huge co-op hit on Steam, and this sci-fi survival game from the makers of Green Hell might be 2026's ticket
- A mystery that went unnoticed for 7 years has Red Dead Redemption 2 players working furiously to make the connection between spiderwebs, telegraph poles, guitars, and maybe even Grand Theft Auto 5
- MSI's monstrous 1000 W watercooled RTX 5090 has been designed to 'completely ignore the concepts of balance in favour of extremes', apparently
- In a truly galaxy-brained rebrand, Microsoft Office is now the 'Microsoft 365 Copilot app,' but Copilot is also still the name of the AI assistant
- No new Deus Ex game this year, according to Adam Jensen actor Elias Toufexis, who says the owners are 'psychopaths' for not concluding the trilogy
- League of Legends players worldwide couldn't login for hours because Riot forgot to renew the client's SSL certificate—just like it did 10 years ago
- Cherry may be down but it isn't out with two new 'more than magnetic' TMR gaming keyboards
- Thermaltake's collaboration PC case with a French artist is so lovely it makes me want to finally start that mini PC build
- CES 2026: all the upcoming releases and announcements a PC gamer should know about
- Sega's American co-founder David Rosen dies at 95 years of age
- Kingdom Come: Deliverance 2 nearly had a San-Andreas-like Fat Henry system that would have let you create Bohemia's chunkiest boy, and forced you to wear clothes that fit to boot
- The deal on this RTX 5070 gaming PC almost made me forget there's a memory shortage and general component pricing crisis right now
- The names of some of the most popular SSDs are changing so their new owner Sandisk gets the glory
- 'There is a bit of pressure': Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 devs will stay true to themselves for their next game despite expectations—'we need to trust our instincts'
- Asus unveils 240 Hz Micro-OLED gaming glasses capable of a virtual 171-inch screen, but the resolution feels like a whiff
- Not only does Todd Howard not hate Obsidian, it was his 'only choice' to take up Fallout's reins in the wake of Fallout 3
- No Rest for the Wicked lead spends New Year's Eve picking a fight with former Blizzard president Mike Ybarra over Diablo 4, who points out: 'You need to chill'
- If you're looking for a way to fill the Stranger Things-shaped hole in your heart, the new Minecraft DLC has you covered
- You've got 1 week left to play Anthem, the game that mortally wounded the one-time king of RPG studios
January 4
- Arc Raiders dev says it uses 'aggression-based matchmaking' to pair bloodthirsty, PvP-minded players with each other
- Fallout designer Tim Cain reckons his subsequent 3 projects were buggy games 'or, as people called them, flawed masterpieces' because 'we had a lot of feature ideas, we did not edit ourselves at all, and we were a small team'
- Quake modders banded together to release the third Brutalist Map Jam, with two campaigns' worth of FPS goodness in 'a megalithic community project more than a year in the making'
- 'Yeah, that didn't suck. That was good': Fallout: New Vegas lead writer says the Survivalist's journal in Honest Hearts is 'one of my favorite bits of content that I've written in a game'
- MSI's brilliant new QD-OLED screen fixes one of the biggest issues with OLED gaming monitors
- An entire intro where you play as Ashley was cut from the Resident Evil 4 remake
January 3
- Fallout: New Vegas lead writer 'loved writing' Yes Man, but thinks his questline may have been a mistake: 'It lets you get through the game without getting your hands dirty'
- My favorite Fallout fan artist paints New Vegas how you imagine it, and he refuses to touch AI tools: 'I believe it's innate in humanity to appreciate real human-made art'
- Steam Awards 2025 give Game of the Year to Hollow Knight: Silksong
- 'I'm over making other people really wealthy with my own creations': Fallout co-creator Tim Cain isn't interested in making a new IP or a sequel to one of his classic RPGs and, at this point, he's 'exasperated with the question'
- 2025 was so stacked with great games I missed the free, ass-kicking Christmas update to its best singleplayer shooter
January 2
- 'It's a damn miracle we were able to salvage Hytale,' original co-founder and new owner Simon Collins-Laflamme says: After years in development at Riot, 'it was barely playable'
- Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella says it's time to stop talking about AI 'slop' and start talking about a 'theory of the mind that accounts for humans being equipped with these new cognitive amplifier tools'
- Silent Hill 2 Remake dev Bloober Team kicks off 2026 by giving us 45 days to figure out what 'RemoSdNeulSerore-hsoOvamCeyerd' is
- 'There's a lot of cool things that, if you think too hard about it, they should never have worked': Fallout 3's pathfinding system had to be completely reworked over several months to account for Liberty Prime, but it was worth it because he's 'awesome'
- Former Elder Scrolls Online chief confirms Microsoft's 2025 bloodbath drove his departure from ZeniMax: 'Project Blackbird was the game I had waited my entire career to create'
- Baba is News: One of the best puzzle games of the last decade just got a major update seven years after release
- All Genshin Impact 6.3 livestream codes
- Tabletop Simulator announces a free 2.0 update that includes a UI overhaul and a marketplace for paid mods
January 1
- 'Happy Gloom Year!': The new Gloomwood update is out, and it includes the game's 'largest, most vertical open area' yet
- Pluribus lead Rhea Seehorn's career began as the 'tutorial sorceress' in a Magic The Gathering PC game from 1997
- Dispatch sold over 3 million copies in 2025, and only around five percent of players beat the game without romancing anyone
- Betty Boop, Blondie, and a slew of Mickey Mouse cartoons are entering the public domain, so let's hope for something better than bargain bin horror games