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- July 16
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- Marathon's 'experimental' PvE mode will only be playable for 2 weeks when it goes live in July, full rollout expected to happen sometime in Season 3
- Let's play a quick round of 'Which game has more DLC?' to test your knowledge of videogame add-ons
- After 13 years, Path of Exile's devs are finally ready to ditch one of its most iconic and frustrating mechanics
- Closed game studio returns to un-live service its game with community servers before shutdown: 'We don't believe Deceive Inc. should quietly disappear'
- Matt Damon, now a Fortnite skin, once turned down 'a bunch of money' to appear in a Bourne game because they wouldn't make it more like Myst
- Saber's new business boss says the KOTOR remake will 'hopefully' be out in 2028
- Grand Theft Auto 6 leaker who was given an indefinite sentence in 2023 because he wouldn't stop hacking is now out of hospital and awaiting retrial
- Arc Raiders is fixing a bug that would sign players up to be shipped off to the apocalyptic wasteland without telling them
- 'It's not like natural intelligence is always all that great either': Linus Torvalds addresses anti-AI sentiment in Linux development
- The team behind Windows NT sent 'black cardboard coffins' and fake dog poop to their rivals back in the 90s, because nerds
- This is the cheapest Nvidia's RTX 5070 has been all year... and [whisper] there's actually a deal on the RTX 5070 Ti, too
- This AliExpress-sourced $5 USB hub has been described as 'mildly dangerous' for your PC, thanks to a nasty power issue
- Turns out Microsoft's Secure Boot was little better than a busted lock for about a decade
- Report paints a picture of brutal cord-cutting inside Xbox layoffs: 'Many of us did not know what was happening for weeks'
- Infinity Ward aims to make MW4 even 'more immersive,' and it's already proving divisive: 'Mouse and keyboard is OFFICIALLY DEAD'
- The company that makes all the West's chipmaking machines says it's selling more than it expected thanks to 'very strong momentum in both DRAM and advanced logic'
- Desktop Explorer is a mystery/horror game about the last time when computers were good
- Modern Warfare 4 lead isn't scared of the GTA 6 black hole: 'It’s a little head-to-head, that’s great'
- Marvel Rivals is making some big visual changes to 'cut down on battlefield chaos' which is wonderful because my old brain can't handle that level of overstimulation
- Redditor fashions a 'game cartridge' system for their Steam library out of cheap SATA SSDs
- Report contradicts Microsoft's statements that id Software hasn't been shoved onto Unreal from id Tech: 'It's most likely going to end up in the trash can'
- Against a backdrop of advancing Chinese production, TSMC announces another $100 billion worth of chipmaking will be invested in the US
- Two utterly unique and long lost '90s PC horror classics have been exhumed, and they're coming to Steam soon
- The future of the Elder Scrolls Online looks rocky after culling of leadership team
- July 15
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- The Washington Post selects Doom as one of the 25 'most influential works of American culture'
- Steam reveals all the sale dates and themed events for the first half of 2027
- Original Witcher dev says remaking it as an open world won't be easy: 'As a player, I might be happy about that, but as a designer, I'm starting to get gray'
- As Sony prepares to end game disc production, GOG jumps up to remind PC gamers that you can just make your own
- A year after its debut, Blizzard is done adding new heroes and maps to Overwatch's MOBA-inspired Stadium mode
- I'm officially obsolete because this robot can operate an Xbox controller, open unhealthy snacks, and make clumsy sexual passes
- Black Flag Resynced is missing iconic combat mechanics simply because they were 'lower priority'
- RPG players are conditioned to think they're 'built different', says Josh Sawyer, so some of them hate it when games like Pillars of Eternity tell them they can't do something
- Another Spiderweb RPG that looks like it was made in 1993 drops on Kickstarter and immediately crushes its goal
- Valve to send iFixIt more Steam Deck LCD batteries, replacements will be back in stock next week
- Poll finds 100% of Japanese online game developers are using AI, though mostly for 'user preference analysis' and 'user behavior prediction'
- Thief gets a mini-remaster ahead of its actual Nightdive remaster, courtesy of the GOG Preservation Program
- NY governor orders a pause on large AI data center construction, to ensure that 'when companies succeed because of New York, New Yorkers succeed too'
- Pathfinder 2e creators Paizo end partnership with Archives of Nethys, which offers most of the D&D alternative's ruleset for free, over legal confusion and paperwork
- 'Yes, that's Counter-Strike on a PSP!': Modder gets favorite PC FPS working on Sony's 22-year-old handheld console
- Monster Hunter Wilds is getting a permanent price cut less than 18 months after launch
- The best gaming headset out there right now has just received a tidy $19 discount at Best Buy
- The devil works hard but AI ripoffs work harder as Meccha Chameleon falls victim to hordes of copycats coming out of the woodwork
- HWMonitor now shows you thermal hotspot data for RTX 50-series graphics cards, so I thought I'd give one of ours a quick test
- GTA 6 isn't on PC at launch because it's 'always better to start with the constraints', suggests former Rockstar producer
- That annoying day one DLC in Assassin's Creed Black Flag Resynced was less than 3% of its initial Steam sales, but hey, $1 million is $1 million
- Latest Microsoft Patch Tuesday updates stamp out a record 622 security vulnerabilities, as the company's AI-enhanced bug hunt looks to bear fruit
- Level up your game with Logitech G's most flexible and customisable keyboard yet
- Dead Space creator and Call of Duty veteran Glen Schofield announces retirement: 'I had a front row seat to one of the greatest creative explosions in history'
- Fighting game developer previously accused of sexual harassment confirmed to be working on Avatar Legends a week before release
- July 14
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- Steve Buscemi joins the Far Cry TV series cast and now we're all wondering: will he be a weird, helpful NPC, or a weirdly charismatic villain?
- Future Games Show returns to Gamescom with 3 shows
- Epic Games Store boss quits after 8 years to take up new role at Saber Interactive
- Dragon's Dogma 2: Dark Arisen's new region and dungeons sound great, but I'm more excited to finally high-five my Pawn on command
- After releasing a bummer of a Diablo 4 season, Blizzard swoops in with an update that fixes some of its worst issues
- A forgotten dungeon crawler from the Baldur's Gate era is coming to Steam and GOG for the first time ever
- The PC Gaming Show Tokyo Direct returns September 20
- George Lucas says rejecting AI is like rejecting cars in favour of horses: 'There's nothing you can do about it… it's the future'
- This DIY 'OpenPuck' project allows the Steam Controller to emulate Xbox, Switch, and PlayStation controllers, but no wireless charging for you
- Ubisoft promises new Assassin's Creed, Far Cry, and Ghost Recon games are coming, but says this year will be 'quieter' than most
- DRAM demand predicted to outstrip supply by 28.7 exabytes in 2030, which is almost as much as the actual DRAM in the world right now
- Despite adding an eternal fast travel stone, Dragon's Dogma 2 director maintains you don't have to use it: 'It's just you now have a third option'
- BOE's new $9 billion OLED monitor plant, capable of churning out 10 million panels this year alone, is now up and running—with some big names already on board
- I reckon Assassin's Creed Unity is one of the series' best, and a former Ubisoft director agrees it's 'One of the most underestimated games in the series'
- The designer of cult classic King of Dragon Pass says his upcoming hellish heist game is pushing the boundaries of a concept he invented in 1999: 'There's really nothing else quite like it'
- 'Worse than our expectations': IBM's shares drop 25% after CEO says it hasn't adapted quickly enough to AI industry changes
- I've found six 1440p gaming monitors for under $200, so now's the time to ditch 1080p and pick up some more pixels for less
- WoW devs hotfix annoying grappling hook that takes a spot on your action bar, despite only being used in one zone
- New changes to Windows 11 Start menu and search look genuinely exciting and thank the heavens that we'll be able to disable web results
- So THIS is why component makers have started validating their products for Chinese memory
- 'The company has turned its back on us': Black Flag Resynced developers at Ubisoft Barcelona are being laid off instead of celebrating the series' latest hit
- id Software producer says 'you'll never get another WoW or Morrowind in the current climate' in the wake of Xbox layoffs
- We might see a new Logitech Superstrike this September, just a few months after the world's first proper analogue mouse launched
- July 13
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- Fallout: New Vegas director Josh Sawyer reveals his optimal outcome for the Mojave Wasteland
- My Chemical Romance front man Gerard Way pauses concert to talk classic RPGs, admits he hasn't played Baldur's Gate 3 yet: 'The first one was a lot of fun, the closest thing at the time to playing D&D'
- Sick of holding F in Palworld? Change these two settings to make crafting and building less obnoxious
- One week after going independent in the Xbox bloodbath, South of Midnight developer Compulsion Games is looking for work
- The GoldenEye homage that left us 'shaken and stirred' in 2022 is finally launching in August
- Steam had a slow start on Monday just like the rest of us
- Marvel Rivals has upset players yet again with some peculiar balances that buff some of the strongest heroes
- More Windows security updates to come as Microsoft leverages AI vulnerability detection, but 'only the highest-confidence findings reach the engineering team'
- Too hot to handle: A leaked internal Nvidia tool re-enables blocked GPU hotspot sensor data for RTX 50-series graphics cards
- AI did a surprisingly good job with designing a rack for three Framework mainboards
- You can currently buy three of my all-time favorite microstrategy games for $10
- More evidence that Multi Frame Gen is on the way to AMD RDNA4 GPUs, potentially as high as 8x
- 'After stealing an open source AI charity, you then stole all of Apple’s phone technology! Wow': Elon Musk and Sam Altman are fighting on the internet again
- Steam Machine compatibility checks are here, though not every game on the store enjoys a rating
- Summer Games Done Quick raises $2.4 million for charity, cancels sponsored stream with SNK over Saudi Arabia ties
- Warframe creative director says Destiny 2's end is tragic, because even with hard work 'the business side of this industry always gets the last remark'
- The gaming PC market is a mess right now but this RTX 5070 rig is still at the same reasonable price it's been at for months
- Palworld pulled in almost 900,000 players over the weekend, its second-highest peak ever
- Report suggests the US gov may have 'urged' Apple into Intel chipmaking deal to avoid tariffs, at almost the same time it took a $9 billion stake in blue team stock
- 'Customer demand will remain higher than our supply capacity even beyond 2030': SK hynix CEO predicts memory supply crisis may run even longer than we feared
- A new Copilot feature tells you what might be slowing down your PC—while gorging itself on a fair chunk of your system RAM
- A Silent Hill fan is making a PC port of Silent Hill: Downpour that restores a cut boss battle and plenty more
- Watch a new Total War: Warhammer 40,000 gameplay video and weep for your graphics card
- July 12
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- Dutch consumer group suing PlayStation argues the end of physical discs just proves its point: 'Sony alone decides what a game costs and even how long you are allowed to use it'
- Christopher Nolan celebrates Backrooms' success, believes younger generations are rejecting AI: 'Their judgement of AI slop has been immediate and harsh'
- Elder Scrolls Online studio echoes id Software, claims to now be the same size it was 10 years ago following Xbox layoffs
- Analyst says Sony going all-in on digital is like the death of PC disc drives: 'Not a single person is complaining about it today'
- League of Legends' 'classic' mode has a release date, and it isn't just an old version of the game—players will vote on new patches, Old School RuneScape-style
- Helldivers 2 dev cracks down on 'suspicious super credit activity', though it would help if earning premium currency wasn't so boring to begin with
- Tempest Rising's elusive third faction will get its own singleplayer campaign as a paid expansion, and you can play the demo right now
- Valve has rewired Counter-Strike 2's bomb to make it more spectacular, but potentially less deadly
- You can mod out the yellow filter in Assassin's Creed Black Flag Resynced
- Obsidian game director is sick of hearing bad takes about the state of the studio: 'The through line from KotOR2 to our current games is pretty clear'
- July 11
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- Steam has raked in an estimated $11.1 billion gross revenue so far this year, says market analyst—its 'biggest-ever six months'
- College Football 27 to remove microtransactions after player backlash, though EA maintains they were only added to 'give players more choice'
- Star Citizen's next update will switch focus to fixing its bug-riddled previous update, with bigger changes shunted to a later patch
- After 17 years, a developer has finally revived the dream of Hannah Montana Linux, an open source operating system themed around Hannah Montana
- Mortal Shell 2 is the latest game to join the Grand Theft Auto 6 release crush, but I don't think it has much to worry about because it looks sick as hell
- After Space Marine 2 'literally changed everything', Saber Interactive has been inundated with offers from major licenses: 'We are in a very fortunate position to turn down more than we can accept'
- A piece of GTA modding history that was considered lost has been rebuilt from scratch and fixed 22 years later
- Call of Duty fans surprised to discover new Black Ops 2 port preserves the emblem editor, not surprised to find swastikas being made with it
- July 10
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- 'Surprised there was anyone left to post this': Fans react as The Elder Scrolls Online debuts seasonal content days after hundreds laid off from studio
- Assassin's Creed Black Flag Resynced sells 2 million copies in 1 day and achieves the 'highest concurrent player count ever recorded for an Assassin's Creed title' on Steam
- Microsoft responds to racist Xbox layoff conspiracy theory, says CEO Asha Sharma is 'American born, raised, and educated'
- Palworld revises some of its most egregious creature designs for its 1.0 release
- id Software provides proof of life, says it 'still has the crew we need to build the games and tech we're known for' after massive layoffs
- Indie dev defends criticism of Steam refund abuse amid review bombing of his game: 'It's wrong to refund a game after having fun with it and completing it'
- Ubisoft tells Black Flag microtransaction critics that they control the DLC they buy
- Meta says its working on 'multiple next-generation headsets' despite the struggles of VR and the heat death of the metaverse
- Multiple motherboard and PC component makers move forward with Chinese-made memory validation
- 'Valve isn't interested in a nuanced conversation' says indie dev suffering from Steam censorship
- 'Finally a card I can afford': Nvidia announces GeForce-themed trading cards, which are free but you'll need to travel or get lucky to win some for yourself
- What memory crisis? 79% of PC Gamer readers are rocking 32 GB or more RAM in their gaming rigs
- E-Ink faceplates for the Steam Machine are coming, but not from Valve
- Legendary dad fixes their kid's dead RTX 3070 by ripping the capacitor out of an old radio and slapping it on the side, saving over $100 in the process
- Whether you have a need for speed or require retina-melting brightness, I've got two cracking deals on budget gaming monitors for you
- Indie developer says Steam did them a solid by fixing their unbootable game to beat the Next Fest deadline
- Valve's Steam Frame launch looks imminent, with new 'Great on Frame' category spotted
- Arc Raiders has targeted yet another duplication exploit just a couple of days after celebrating a drop in suspicious player accounts
- Bethesda union staff to march outside studios over Xbox layoffs: 'The company wants us to accept this as a done deal and quietly disappear'
- AMD Zen 6 server CPUs are launching this month, which has me hopeful for a desktop release this year
- One of my favorite Warhammer 40,000 books is getting an unexpected sequel
- The Rolling Stones are in Roblox, because I guess that's what rock and roll is now
- July 9
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- Steam was showing a 'too many requests' error, but it's back
- John Carmack reacts to massive layoffs at id Software: 'My 'Microsoft will probably be a good steward of the brand' statement isn't aging well'
- US Federal Reserve taps Xbox CEO Asha Sharma, who just laid off 3,200 employees, to lead task force on jobs
- Destiny 2 players get a final farewell gift from Bungie
- The most deranged videogame challenge run I've seen: A no-hit playthrough of the 'Unfair' difficulty in a 100-hour RPG
- Palworld studio says delete your old mods before the 1.0 release: 'Disabling them is not enough'
- Roughly 192 Subnautica 2 players have drowned every minute since launch
- Microsoft filing shows total ZeniMax layoffs at 379, with over half coming from Elder Scrolls Online studio that's lost at least 60% of its staff in the past year
- This is hands-down one of the best value CPU upgrades you can make to your AMD AM5 gaming rig
- Rumour suggests Intel is cooking up a 12 Xe desktop Nova Lake CPU
- New IDC report claims worldwide PC shipments fell by 5% but revenue didn't, as 'vendors are pushing through price increases faster than demand is dropping'
- Palworld won't raise its price for 1.0 as 'a small way of saying thank you'
- It looks like Samsung is taking a leaf out of Nvidia's book and making a proper PC processor
- AI data center servers predicted to glug more power than 'conventional servers' by 2027
- Xbox layoffs have likely killed another Perfect Dark reboot from the hollowed-out id Software, as well as a John Wick-style gun fu game
- It looks like monitor manufacturers can download bloatware without consent that will serve you pop-up ads
- YouTuber gets Minecraft running on an original Game Boy Color, and it even looks kinda playable
- Subnautica 2 celebrates 5 million copies sold ahead of Adaptive Measures, its first early access update
- 'Thank you again rural Walmart': Redditor picks up 32 GB of memory for $50, twice
- WoW's game director thinks its UI overhaul has been 'successful so far,' even if it's 'not perfect'
- Dragon Age's former lead writer thinks the series is probably dead, but he'd be happy to take it off EA's hands and 'go somewhere dark and dangerous' with it
- An alleged member of a hacking group was caught, thanks to one hated Windows feature
- Echoes of Aincrad release date and launch times
- Fallout series nominated for 9 Emmys, but not even one of them is for 'Outstanding Goggins'
- July 8
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- Former Destiny 2 and Marathon director settles $200 million lawsuit against Sony and Bungie: 'The outcome is one I am very satisfied with'
- MindsEye developers protest against a fan event their own studio is hosting
- Help, I can't decide if Stardew Valley in 3D is amazing or horrifying
- Laid-off id Software artist says Microsoft is 'nuking the team into the dirt' and is now the size of a 'support studio'
- Bethesda union says company HR forced staff to remove a display honoring their laid-off colleagues
- Obsidian is reportedly making a new Fallout game headed by Josh Sawyer after Microsoft pulled the plug on an Avowed sequel
- Less than 3 years after it launched on Steam, the Final Fantasy 7 gacha game is closing
- This month's Humble Choice is worth a look if you like RPGs, Zelda-likes, fast-paced shooters, or violating people's civil rights
- Marvel Rivals' Season 9 update will affect 80% of its roster as NetEase throws balance out the window for a more 'fun' approach to the game
- This Chrome extension hides 'knockoff' brands on Amazon: 'Sorry to brands like WNPETHOME, EHEYCIGA, YXY'
- Arkheron, a competitive PvP action game, will open its closed beta next week—and I'm getting that Battlerite nostalgia just looking at this thing
- Players prove Destiny 2 can still produce wonders with discovery of poopy pants transmog
- Bethesda layoffs include the artist responsible for designing Skyrim's khajiit and argonians, who had been at the company for 27 years
- David Gaider will never play Dragon Age: The Veilguard because he'd be 'wincing' the whole time: 'EA really did a number on them in terms of setting them up to fail'
- 'Slopfix': A software team is charging up to $10,000 to clean up AI-generated code, with the help of *checks notes* AI
- Valve's magical play-Windows-games-on-Linux tech is rebased, updated, and ready to play Resident Evil
- China's National Vulnerability Database warns that recent Claude Code models have a security backdoor
- You're invited to Destiny's cursed unofficial final raid: Pete Carsons' Vault of Cars
- GTA Trilogy remaster boss understands fan anger but says 'a lot of people were playing them and really enjoying them'
- Two men plead guilty to stealing over £71,000 worth of Pokémon TCG in a string of burglaries targeting small card stores
- This $110 1440p gaming monitor is the absolute cheapest I'd buy with my own cash right now
- WoW Classic player hits 60 on hardcore self-found with every class, decides that isn't enough, does a naked run for good measure
- Valve has released Windows drivers for the Steam machine, y'know for the three people who managed to buy one and inexplicably want a different OS
- Seasonic has removed the RTX 50-series Super GPU variants from its PSU wattage calculator. Was it just guesswork or actual info revealed too soon?
- July 7
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- Former Elder Scrolls Online designer laments the destruction of layoffs: 'There’s really no one left and no changing it now'
- Xbox layoffs hit accessibility leadership, calling into question Microsoft's continued commitment to accessibility initiatives
- Bernie Sanders is mad about the Xbox layoffs
- Xbox CEO Asha Sharma points the finger at Xbox's previous strategy for yesterday's sweeping layoffs: 'We simply spread ourselves too thin'
- You still can't kill fish in Subnautica 2, but starting tomorrow you'll at least be able to 'stun' them
- Obsession star Inde Navarrette built her gaming PC just like you and me: By watching Henry Cavill do it first
- A classic Daedalic adventure is free on GOG, and it's not one I particularly like but you can't beat the price
- Arc Raiders reveals it's been successfully targeting item duplication exploits as the percentage of players with 'unusually high profit per minute' drops below 1% for the first time in months
- This free software aims to turn Sony headphones into a head tracker for '200+ PC games'
- 'Not once have we been asked to verify our age': Study suggests companies falling under Australia's under-16 social media ban are failing to verify accounts
- Arc Raiders has finally added 'one of the most requested matchmaking features' meaning players can now Jekyll and Hyde their way through lobbies
- John Romero commiserates with ousted id devs as around half the studio reported axed, says he hopes someone is preserving its work like he did before he left
- IO Interactive says Project Fantasy isn't dead, but confirms that layoffs are happening
- Chill out your toasty gaming PC and beat the heat with these 12 deals on fans, liquid coolers, cases, and more from just $5
- Analysts think SK hynix's DRAM and NAND prices will finally drop by the end of 2028, but not before a huge rise over the next year
- After buying up between $1m and $5m in Dell stock this year, Trump tells everyone to 'go out and buy a Dell computer'. Again.
- Kingdom Come: Deliverance star says it didn't lead to work in other games: 'The industry at large has never really given a f***'
- It looks like Blizzard's escaped Xbox's grim reset scythe for now, though there's still time to be caught in the second 1600-strong layoff wave coming 2027
- A nasty Windows 11 bug is taking upwards of 500 GB worth of storage, and is surprisingly difficult to spot, but there's a fix
- How do you reconcile your lore-heavy, dark sci-fi MMO with mod tools that might let people get way too goofy? 'Everything's canon,' say the developers of EVE Frontier
- July 6
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- The games industry reacts to Xbox layoffs: 'We are clearly at a turning point'
- CD Projekt Red thanks 6000 Edgerunners 2 advance viewers for not spoiling the show in stunning display of opsec: 'Thank you so much for keeping your promise properly'
- Legendary former Tekken boss says people don't 'properly evaluate' Hidetaka Miyazaki's 'remarkable' FromSoft career
- Even Obsidian couldn't escape the Xbox cuts, with losses ranging from a 21-year veteran artist to an engineer who'd only been there 2 months
- French left-wing leader Jean-Luc Mélenchon declares 'Players have rights too!' over the death of physical discs
- Wisconsin residents file class-action lawsuit against Microsoft, alleging 'unreasonable and excessive noise' from data center
- Elder Scrolls Online developer left reeling by Xbox layoffs—with teams gutted, senior talent gone, and roadmaps 'shifting' as a result
- Bethesda Game Studios and ZeniMax hit hard by Xbox layoffs, says union
- Arkane temporarily spared in Xbox bloodbath thanks to French law, but its future is up in the air
- Do not buy an RTX 5060, not while the RTX 5060 Ti 8 GB is inexplicably cheaper
- Microsoft says 'cryptographically relevant quantum computers could arrive sooner than previously expected' as it bumps its QSP timeline to 2029
- Xbox's CEO wants its games to cater to 'more than a billion people each day', or 24 times more than the peak population of Steam, which is delusional
- Compulsion Games is returning to independent management amid sweeping Xbox reorganization: 'Our immediate priority is to support our team'
- Hardware creator makes hat that is both a 'functioning art piece' and also uses a Noctua fan to deliver six-hours of personal cooling
- Chinese-made YMTC SSDs have been spotted in Lenovo's latest ThinkBook laptops, as the memory crisis continues to bite
- Xbox is laying off 3,200 people and dumping 4 studios in 'the most significant restructure in Xbox history'
- Cheaters have infested Meccha Chameleon as dishonest players scan images and auto paint their models
- WoW server suffers outbreak after a debuff breaches containment, giving me flashbacks to a 21-year-old incident so large Covid-19 researchers referenced it
- This China-only RTX 4080 GPU combines laptop silicon with desktop hardware, and draws a fraction of the power of a more traditional graphics card
- A second OG Steam Controller prototype has been found at Goodwill
- 'I find it really sad': Hideo Kojima laments the current state of the videogame industry as companies turn away from physical discs
- Google's AI Studio lead has vibe coded a port of Command & Conquer for iOS
- Watch Night of the Living Dead and other public domain horror movies inside this creepy dollfest
- Another self-own for Sony: Marvel Tōkon's PC version is unavailable in over 100 countries thanks to our old friend PSN again
- July 5
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- Danganronpa 2x2 remaster will include a 'slayhem' alternate story mode with '20% more content' and a 3D world map, but it's been delayed to 2027
- One of our favorite Half-Life 2 mods is getting a stealth game prequel where you're a Combine assassin preying on the human resistance
- Meccha Chameleon celebrates 15 million sales by teasing a 'collaboration with a famous Japanese star'
- Marvel Rivals players suspect Captain America's summer sausage has already been downsized
- The launch of Commodore's social media-free privacy-first 'dumbphone' was apparently responsible for 'Our biggest week'
- Researchers studying ChatGPT conversations surprised to find one power user churning out thousands of Doki Doki Literature Club pregnancy fics
- July 4
- July 3
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- Epic reaches lawsuit settlement with former contractor who was also a notorious Fortnite leaker
- Sand publisher celebrates 300,000 copies sold: 'We getting a half hour of air conditioning tonight!'
- One of the best sci-fi strategy games of 2004 is free in GOG's Summer Sale
- Cyberpunk 2077 has now sold more than 40 million copies, 'a testament to what CD Projekt does best'
- EVE Online studio Fenris follows through on yearslong promise to make its in-house game engine fully open source
- New Sims 4 update cuts back on excessive notifications—you can finally silence your phone, and the grim reaper will try to recruit you less
- Another player has swiped a colossal discount on GTA 6, paying just $2 thanks to a forgotten Best Buy card
- Remember your Paradox account? No? Well you might want to look into that because it could be deleted next year
- 'Your code is physically yours, forever. Until you lose it, let's be real': Github, wagging its finger at Sony's own goal, is offering CD-ROMs of your code for a few days
- Google loses protracted antitrust fight and will have to pay record-breaking €4.1 billion fine equivalent to less than 3% of Alphabet's annual profit
- Intel quietly bumps the price up of the best CPUs it's made in years to 'reflect current market dynamics'
- Valve's aim for a console-like experience with its Steam Machine lands a little too close for comfort as one of the first cases of 'Red Line of Death' comes to light (Update: The machine survived)
- Meta's solution to the global memory shortage is to use DDR4 in a DDR5 server, with a custom chip making the impossible possible
- The best gaming mouse is 'a superior squeaker in pretty much every respect' and its finally enjoying a $20 discount
- Suicide Squad: Kill the Justice League's development got so bad that it almost turned its devs away from the industry for good: 'I could feel myself coming apart at the seams'
- SK hynix to invest over $60 billion in chip plants in South Korea, but the memory crisis still seems a long way from being over
- Top scientists uncover way to make Kingdom Come: Deliverance more complicated—turn it into a board game
- Clair Obscur is flawed on purpose, says director: 'Games that try to be perfect, that try to fix all their flaws—they're usually just really boring'
- Nuclear reactor start-up targeting AI energy demands showcases its tech with an Nvidia DGX Spark, though the website demo needs its own power plant
- 'Something has gone completely wrong': Palantir CEO rants on live television about his problems with the AI business model: 'Why are they charging for tokens if it's so valuable?'
- Rumours suggest Intel may be planning to join the club of hardware manufacturers reviving old product lines, all the way back to Comet Lake
- July 2
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- The internet is agog at Captain America's hog
- The new Company of Heroes is a wave-based defense game that throws prospective generals straight into the action
- Carcass Clad is less story-heavy than Mouthwashing, but 'a lot of thought' has gone into it: 'We haven't discovered how much we can push it'
- Following the success of Mouthwashing, developer Wrong Organ wasn't ready to make a better 'story game,' so it's making a 'gameplay game' instead
- 'Fewer than 10' employees remain at Thick as Thieves studio following another round of layoffs
- Rust gets even more cutthroat by adding its own version of apartment rentals
- Amnesia studio delays its new game into 2027
- Former Call of Duty frontman launches new studio with a 'Stop Killing Games'-style mission statement: If the game bombs, it goes open source
- Relax, PC Gamers: We're not getting GTA 6 on November 19, but we've got, um... 'Phantom Vice Auto' launching the same day on Steam
- World of Warcraft's on the quality-of-life boost warpath, with fixes including an auto-loot setting that's been mildly inconveniencing alt-lovers for years
- Ubisoft hires former Take-Two and Amazon vet to head up its Tom Clancy games
- 'Meta will need to reduce or possibly stop AI investment in datacenters, as it already has excess capacity': The AI infrastructure bubble feels the heat
- Intel's mega-core Nova Lake desktop processors look all but confirmed to have sustained full boost power limits at least 220 W higher than Arrow Lake
- Sony's PlayStation 6 is now estimated to cost over $900 in materials alone, signalling a launch price tag double that of the PS5
- Hideo Kojima's upcoming horror game OD is said to survive Microsoft's culling for the second time now
- WoW's bug-filled April patch was actually from trying to fix too much too fast, says director Ion Hazzikostas—like an elevator from 13 years ago that blew up housing
- AMD is reportedly bumping the price of its GPU and VRAM bundles to graphics card makers and you can expect to feel the sting soon
- I'm learning to love autobattlers and it's because this Steam demo let me build a gnarly squad of combat freaks out of weird meat and goblin blood
- Great gaming monitor deals are like buses: You get none for ages, then three turn up at once
- 'A wild testament to the obscene bloat and waste of GenAI': Google's electricity consumption is exponentially increasing
- Data centers reportedly targeted by cargo thieves, with over $1 million worth of copper and equipment found in two trucks in Chicago
- Even Hideo Kojima is afraid that 'digital data will no longer be owned by individuals' and that access to art that we love 'may suddenly be cut off'
- Rockstar UK employees say the GTA 6 developer's still plagued by gender pay gaps, crunch, and vague bonuses which make them 'as pliable as possible to their boss's whims'
- 'Meh': Ex-PlayStation president Shuhei Yoshida weighs in on Valve's Steam Machine after a few hours with it
- Onimusha: Way of the Sword is releasing 21 days earlier than expected, possibly cramping The Blood of Dawnwalker's style
- Blood Bowl's videogame rights have been acquired by Slitherine and at this point I'll take any change as a good sign
- Valheim will get a 50% price hike when it hits 1.0, and no changes to the ocean biome
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- 'They refuse to offer a meaningful alternative': Game preservation leader agrees that piracy is the only preservation option for a discless future
- Windrose might get wind
- 'There’s something we’ve been dying to tell you': The best city builder of 2023 is getting a survival game set in the same world
- Reinstated Subnautica 2 studio CEO immediately peaces out after Krafton agrees to pay the developer bonuses it went to court to avoid
- Former Unreal Engine director retires after 15 years at Epic
- Dragon Age setting creator says AI push is a delusion of the executive class that's a 'virulent plague' on games
- French retailer briefly offers the 'Stim Machine,' a Steam Machine competitor made of standard PC components for less than a grand
- Xbox reportedly wants to put a stake in Blade and sell off Arkane, even though Todd Howard says development is going well
- The maker calls it the 'world's worst USB drive' but to my eyes, it's far more impressive than any external SSD you can buy right now
- In the wake of Prime Day, this RTX 5070 Ti laptop is looking mighty alluring next to all those lesser RTX 5070 machines
- The ESA quietly starts walking back baffling statements about private servers being 'illegal', though it's still tutting and wagging its finger
- Google kills yet another API, shutting out all non-Google platforms from favoured gif database
- Battlefield 6 is an FPS where 'the guy obsessed with metas is having the least fun', and it's free-to-play for a week
- 'No bloat, no telemetry, no nonsense.' Former Microsoft coding wizard makes an OG Notepad clone that's just 2,686 bytes in size
- EA accidentally made the right decision twice in one month and reverted it both times, inflicting psychic damage on Battlefield 6 players
- Security researchers have leveraged bad maths to get around AI safety guardrails, naming the attack method after one of 2007's best PC games
- 'I cannot do my job when Microsoft refuses to do theirs', say Xbox union workers as destructive reset looms from a company that spent over $80 billion on AI last year
- With 32 GB as a minimum and 64 GB as the recommended amount, Cinder City's RAM requirements are all kinds of wrong in today's AI-mangled memory market (update: phew, it's a mistake)
- Sure would be great if Oblivion Remastered got patched on PC to coincide with the Switch 2 release
- Total War: Warhammer 3 is getting new endgames, individual victory conditions, a Vampire Counts rework, and Nurgle's three grossest champions
- Based on Meccha Chameleon's incredibly short 2-month dev cycle, its creators have already earned $1 million per day of work
