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- May 2
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- After two long years in early access, my favorite indie Elder Scrolls-alike is getting its full release—and it'll let you fly around in your own airship
- XDefiant finally has a release date, and it's just a couple weeks from now
- Blizzard snuck in surprise quality of life changes into Diablo 4's massive list of season 4 patch notes
- Taking a lesson from Manor Lords, Hooded Horse delays Norland to July
- Helldivers 2 players are asking a reasonable question: Why has a whole planet turned green?
- Abiotic Factor, a 6-player survival game where you're scientists in a paranormal lab, is rising up Steam's top-sellers chart
- Elden Ring lead Hidetaka Miyazaki won't say how long the DLC is since everyone thinks he lowballed the main game: 'Everyone told me I was lying and that's not remotely enough time!'
- Balatro's first big balance patch fiddles with Fibonacci and makes a mod to Odd Todd
- Helldivers 2's next warbond makes slowdown an unpatriotic thing of the past with 'motivational shocks'
- That gorgeous cozy castle doodling game is launching a demo this month
- Kerbal Space Program fans react with anger over Intercept Games closure, and you know what that means: Review bombing on Steam
- The Outer Worlds once had an incredible secret ending that was cut for pushing the limits of 'too horny'
- Baldur's Gate 3 initially had an entire mechanic where you'd go to the fugue plane if you died, but it was scrapped
- These two SSDs are so good we use them ourselves, and they're both on discount this Amazon Gaming Week
- Casper Van Dien geeks out over Helldivers 2's references and gives it a patriotic 10/10—'such a tribute to Starship Troopers it's really quite wonderful'
- Cyberpunk 2077 dev says they went all-out on the memorial to Johnny Silverhand's nuclear attack, then found out bosses 'just expected a commemorative plaque'
- Hallelujah, Nvidia will now take care of the fiddly GeForce Now set-up on Steam Deck for you
- Baldur's Gate 3 dev spills the secret sauce: Players love finding a place, then 'ending up 2 hours and 3 puzzles later in a sacrificial chamber of a cult that murders giraffes'
- Total War: Pharaoh is getting a free expansion-sized update that adds 4 new factions, including Troy
- Alan Wake 2 hasn't turned a profit 6 months in and there's no Steam release in sight, but Remedy says it's in control
- D&D lore buff discovers Elminster's likely been leaving magic items strewn around Baldur's Gate 3 like a fantasy wizard Santa Claus
- Trouble connecting to your VPN? Microsoft admits that a recent Windows security update is preventing virtual connections
- WoW's released a short cinematic ahead of the War Within's pre-patch—and I'm just happy these characters are talking like actual people, now
- Master of horror John Carpenter doesn't 'need to see' the Borderlands film, may have quit Diablo 4 for the same reason he dropped Red Dead 2: 'I can't even get on that horse'
- Manor Lords publisher says the game's success is 'well beyond what we could have hoped'
- Windows 11 just isn't enticing Windows 10 users to upgrade, and its market share is actually falling
- Today's Wordle answer for Thursday, May 2
- May 1
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- Earth Defense Force 6 delivers a Helldivers 2-style call to action in its launch date announcement trailer
- Sandbox farm sim Mirthwood will let you bring your pets into battle with you
- Over half of Helldivers 2 sales have been on PC in the US: 'Already the 7th highest grossing Sony published game in history'
- Kerbal Space Program 2 developer Intercept Games and Rollerdrome studio Roll7 are reportedly closing as part of Take-Two's big layoff plan
- Todd Howard says Bethesda's trying to 'increase our output' with Elder Scrolls and Fallout 'because we don't want to wait that long either'
- Up your game in Helldivers 2 with the brilliant Logitech G502 Hero gaming mouse, now just $35
- Starfield's latest update lets you decorate your ship just like an outpost
- Square Enix announces it's tanked $140 million in losses due to 'content abandonment', though there's no clue as to what's been dropped—and where
- There's a Manor Lords VR mod already, which is so impressive even the game's solo dev is crying witchcraft: 'I have no idea how it's done, but I'm impressed it works'
- Skywind, the ambitious mod remaking Morrowind in Skyrim, has over 3,000 characters—three times as many as the original Skyrim
- The way World of Warcraft: The War Within quest rewards work is game-changing for transmog enthusiasts
- Todd Howard reckons he knows why Starfield was so divisive: It was too 'different than you've seen from us in past'
- 4X RTS Sins of a Solar Empire 2 is finally coming to Steam this summer with a new faction and modding tools
- Bamboozled Gray Zone Warfare players are protesting after realising their faction choices are stopping them from teaming up with friends
- Self-taught hardware engineer discovers that GPUs really are ridiculously complex and hard to design after all
- Cyberpunk 2077: Phantom Liberty's third deadliest boss is an OSHA-violating garage, making it 86.6% as dangerous as a giant killer robo-tank
- This $249 144Hz MSI beauty is just one of three super-cheap 34-inch ultrawide gaming monitors available right now
- Todd Howard says the Fallout show was so fanatical about detail that 'We were sharing the files right from the games and they were 3D printing things'
- A new Batman: Arkham game is coming later this year, and, oh, it's a VR game
- Oh god, no—stalkers in Helldivers 2 are actually invisible, now
- Coffee and PC gaming ground together in perfect harmony, in this fabulous Scandi wood-sauna-themed build
- Priest accused by cops of spending over $40,000 of church funds on Candy Crush and Pokémon Go, says it might have happened because he's not a 'details guy'
- Buckle up—Hasbro spent over $1 billion on games and has plans for 'the next 100 years', since Baldur's Gate 3 proved fans 'like a great, well-executed D&D game'
- Mass Effect Legendary Edition, the exceptional 4K remaster of the original trilogy that we said 'looks great' and 'absolutely flies on modern hardware', is now 90% off
- AMD's start to 2024: Big gains in client and data center, big falls in gaming
- Today's Wordle answer for Wednesday, May 1