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- January 31
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- 'It may seem like a whole new game': One of my favorite medieval city builders just got a huge update with a ton of new features
- YouTube's explanation for why Dr Disrespect can start making money on his channel again doesn't add up
- Fallout: New Vegas lead writer returns to Obsidian after leaving 14 years ago, but before you ask, no, 'It's not FNV2'
- For 20 years, WordPress existed without much drama—now it's at the center of a big fight that won't be over soon
- The Sims 1 cheats: a confirmed list of working Sims re-release cheats
- Path of Exile 2 has finally perfected the fantasy archer
- Baldur's Gate 3 Patch 8 testers are whispering that a previously mediocre subclass is now an S-tier war god of infinite thunder smites, but there's no way it can last
- Elder Scrolls voice actor Wes Johnson shares message of thanks after waking from coma to $175K GoFundMe: 'I love you all. I'm not going anywhere'
- A yuri VN about national parks that turn into anime girls is, somehow, the most relatable game I've played in my 20s
- 'Dragon Age isn't dead because it's yours now,' former BioWare writer reassures fans: 'EA/BioWare owns the IP but you can't own an idea'
- Truly the dumbest timeline: Mexican president formally requests Google Maps does not re-name the Gulf of Mexico, jokes about renaming North America 'América Mexicana'
- Hello Kitty Island Adventure warns players coming from 'other cozy games' not to do that cheat-y time travel stuff or risk corrupting their save files
- Jedi Power Battles is old-fashioned, weird, and frustrating—but God, I wish they still made Star Wars games like this
- The new game from the Blasphemous devs is like if Commandos was a metroidvania set in a Spanish monastery, and also the Green Beret kept losing his mind
- Warner Bros. says that's all, folks for Multiversus: The next season will be its last, but you'll be able to play offline 'for the foreseeable future'
- Spider-Man 2 swings straight into hard crashes, performance issues, and a very mixed Steam rating: 'Issues up the wazoo'
- 'It's just such a depressing thing': Mythic Quest's creative team on the challenge of making a comedy amidst widespread gaming industry layoffs
- 'On a pirate ship, they'd toss the captain overboard': Larian head of publishing tears into EA after BioWare layoffs waste 'institutional knowledge'
- The Sims and The Sims 2 re-releases finally arrive today after weeks of hints and leaks
- One YouTuber has been poisoning AI tools that access her videos with .ass subtitle files and you can too
- Deep trouble: Infosec firm finds a DeepSeek database 'completely open and unauthenticated' exposing chat history, API keys, and operational details
- Arrowhead CEO says Games Workshop 'would love' a 40K Helldivers 2 crossover, 'but time and resources are finite and we've got our hands busy'
- It looks like there will be no new Intel desktop CPUs until 2026 now that next-gen Nova Lake is officially a 2026 product
- ReSetna, the exhilarating post-apocalyptic action-adventure, is available now on Steam
- Jen-Hsun Huang's net worth dropped by a reported $20,800,000,000 after DeepSeek fears shook the AI market to its core earlier this week
- eBay users are getting back at graphics card scalping bots by listing pictures of the RTX 5090 for $2000, occasionally framed
- Intel nixes its next-gen AI GPU but still has plans to take on Nvidia
- Beyond Citadel is a horny, ultra-violent retro FPS that I want to recommend to everybody and nobody
- Intel says next-gen Panther Lake laptop chips on its new 18A silicon are still on track for later this year but things are more complicated on the desktop
- Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 is already getting a live-action movie from the folks behind the Tomb Raider and Just Cause adaptations, even though the RPG isn't out yet
- Alas, it's been estimated that WoW's $90 FOMO dinosaur mount probably made Blizzard around $15-17 million, and at this point I think we all deserve to be here
- This Minecraft creation blots out the sun for the villagers below, they surely praise it as God, but we know it really to be a functioning 32-bit computer with 2 kB of RAM
- Where to find rubber in Hello Kitty Island Adventure
- Somehow, some way, Edge has over 30% market share in the US on Windows—and has taken share for over 3 years
- Hello Kitty Island Adventure gift guide: make the best first impression with your fellow islanders
- Today's Wordle answer for Friday, January 31
- Remember the Jean-Claude Van Damme movie Kickboxer? They're making a videogame of it now
- January 30
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- Wayne June, famed narrator of the Darkest Dungeon games, has died
- Banks in Japan are blocking Steam payments for sex games, leaving Japanese adult game devs cut off from income
- Where to find Sniper Elite: Resistance's propaganda posters to unlock Propaganda mode
- Midnight Society, the studio co-founded by Dr Disrespect, is closing its doors the same day the disgraced streamer says his YouTube channel is being remonetized
- As Elder Scrolls: Legends shuts down, a mod delivers the perfect dedication to the rampers, aggros, mids, late gamers, invaders, ropers, comboers, and everyone else who loved it: 'Whoever you are: You are Legends'
- Inzoi won't stop promising new features even though its launch is only 2 months away
- Gamer priest defrocked and the staff of his God is a Geek website quits after he imitates Elon Musk's salute
- Final Fantasy 7 Rebirth’s minigames, ranked
- BioWare veterans confirm they were laid off by EA, including senior Dragon Age and Mass Effect devs
- A former Air Force pilot was so disappointed with Windows 95's aquarium screensaver that he established a 25-year dynasty of digital fish that continues to this day
- Random guy on Twitter asks Marvel star Simu Liu about a Sleeping Dogs movie, Simu Liu says he's working on it—and he wants a new game, too
- Teasers for The Sims 1 and 2 re-releases continue with this official Y2K-inspired Sims site that's giving me severe nostalgia whiplash
- John McAfee is back from the grave as some sort of AI ghoul-slash-memecoin, and his widow's picking a fight with Elon Musk
- My two loves, books and cozy games, meet again in this tiny shop sim demo
- Citizen Sleeper 2: Starward Vector review
- Nvidia's latest 572.16 driver isn't just for the RTX 50-series, as 20, 30 and 40-series cards are also gifted with significant updates
- In a sea of bad videogame clothing, I've already fallen in love with Final Fantasy 14's upcoming collaboration with BlackMilk
- Hello Kitty Island Adventure multiplayer: how to play together with friends
- Asus says its easy-peasy PCIe slot causes 'no damage that would affect functionality' following claims of excessive wear, but says it'll cover any damage
- Team Ninja says a Ninja Gaiden 2 Black patch with 'balance adjustments' will arrive in a few weeks, and hopefully kill us all that little bit harder
- At long last, Hello Kitty Island Adventure has come to PC after 2 excruciating years and it's the perfect outlet for my ever-growing Sanrio obsession
- Color me not-shocked: RTX 5090 and RTX 5080 goes out of stock across the US and UK in 5 minutes
- That Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles roguelike I refuse to stop going on about is adding Casey Jones as a playable character and a junkyard full of frogs to goongala your way through
- To celebrate Spider-Man 2 coming to PC, Marvel Rivals is adding a new Spider-Man skin, and saying fans are excited is an understatement
- DLSS 4's announcement may have convinced me to switch from AMD to Nvidia for the next generation of GPUs, and I doubt I'm the only one
- Japanese hardware chain instantly regrets use of lottery system for RTX 5090 and RTX 5080 launch
- Path of Exile fans are having a very normal one after an expansion was delayed thanks to Path of Exile 2: 'I need to make peace with myself and let go of this burden'
- Poppy Playtime Chapter 4 is out so get ready to meet 'Doey the Doughman' and find out if he really is 'fun until the day that you die'
- After 7 hours, Dune: Awakening might be the mix of survival and RPG that finally wins me over to the genre
- 52-year-old 'Super Mario' supermarket in Costa Rica wins unlikely victory against the Nintendo lawyers: 'He is Don Mario, he's my dad'
- Nvidia RTX Blackwell release day live: where to buy the RTX 5090 and RTX 5080 for the picosecond they're in stock
- Overwatch 2 prepares to share 'Groundbreaking PvP gameplay changes,' and players can't decide whether this means we're getting 6v6 back or skill trees
- This fascinating Lovecraftian RPG has me determined to build an army of ghoul-slaying cats—and no I haven't been driven mad by forbidden knowledge, why do you ask?
- I'm haunted by the decline and fall of Dragon Age, and can't help but wonder how it came to this
- PC Gamer magazine's new issue is on sale now: The Blood of Dawnwalker
- Today's Wordle answer for Thursday, January 30
- The cyberpunk immersive sim I've been itching to play finally has a release date
- How towns and cities work in Civilization 7
- The trailer for Astartes 2, the official follow-up to 40K fan film Astartes, goes unbelievably hard
- January 29
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- The IOC says 'discussions are still ongoing,' but it sounds like the first-ever Olympic Esports Games may be delayed, possibly until 2027
- Sometimes fashion is an XXXXXXL purse for holding an entire desktop computer that's also an advertisement for a web browser
- The seemingly inexhaustible supply of Alien-related projects continues with a TV prequel where xenomorphs come to Earth
- Beyond: Two Souls is being made into a TV series by Elliot Page's production company
- This ancient city sim constantly simulates 1000 NPCs in a clockwork murder sandbox where you can poison someone's drink and leave 'confident that you've pulled off the perfect crime'
- Don't worry, Mass Effect 5 is totally fine, EA reassures as BioWare downsizes, moving 'many' employees to other studios
- The brass balls on these guys: OpenAI complains that DeepSeek has been using its data, you know, the copyrighted data it's been scraping from everywhere
- Ninja Gaiden 2 Black review
- Where to buy the Nvidia RTX 5080: the high-end GPU just launched and stocks are already running low, so here's every RTX 5080 retailer listing I've found so far
- Sony finally surrenders: PSN accounts will be 'optional' for games on Steam including Spider-Man 2 and The Last of Us Part 2, but they'll give you free stuff if you sign up
- Waiting for the launch of Nvidia's RTX 5090 and RTX 5080 is getting in-tents with hopefuls already pitching up outside of Micro Center stores
- HP Omen 35L review
- I'm still waiting for a high-end VR headset good enough to make me ditch my Quest 3
- New Intel Battlemage graphics cards spotted but they may not be the cut-price RTX 4070 killers we're all desperate for
- The best noise cancelling gaming headset we've tried is now over $100 off at Amazon and I'm tempted
- Arrowhead CEO reassures Helldivers 2 players in the wake of Johan Pilestedt's sabbatical that if they can keep the game 'going for 10 years, we will'
- Monster Hunter Wilds director is proud of his horrible, oily giant octopus son that belches flame and writhes in the muck, says it's a technical challenge he's 'finally getting to attempt'
- Forget DeepSeek R1, apparently it's now Alibaba that has the most powerful, the cheapest, the most everything-est chatbot
- Reddit user unearths $850+ RX 7900 XTX from bargain bin, pays about 10 bucks for it, and claims 'it's working'
- No Man's Sky is getting 'trillions of new planets,' some with oceans 'several kilometers deep,' plus explorable 'end-game' gas giants
- Nvidia RTX 5080 Founders Edition review
- It's high time League of Legends got full voice chat
- For COD’s sake: One player’s 763-day legal quest to make Activision unban their account ends in total success: ‘Worth the effort’
- The best part of this brilliant detective game is going back to a time when searching the internet was a huge pain... uh, for different reasons than it is now
- Today I learned I can run my very own DeepSeek R1 chatbot on just $6,000 of PC hardware and no megabucks Nvidia GPUs required
- GOG just brought Dino Crisis 1 and 2 back to life, and wants your help shouting at the execs imprisoning your favourite games
- Today's Wordle answer for Wednesday, January 29
- After falling victim to the recent US TikTok ban, Marvel Snap switches to a new US-based publisher
- January 28
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- Age of Empires 3: Definitive Edition DLC promised last year is cancelled: 'We announced content before it had been built, and we now feel that announcement was premature'
- Total War: Warhammer 3 hotfix makes a dwarf who longs for death slightly less likely to die
- Destiny 2's new episode hits next week, sending players back into the giant, haunted spaceship where the first game had its finest moments
- I only just noticed this, but Merriam-Webster has put together a solid collection of free daily puzzle browser games
- Destiny 2 is getting Star Wars cosmetics and I'm kind of tired of these multimedia crossovers but yeah, that armor does look cool
- Rise of the Ronin is coming to PC in March with support for 8K resolution, ray tracing, and 'mouse clickability'
- 'The moon haunts you': Moon Knight's ultimate is killing Marvel Rivals players twice as fast as it should
- Brace yourselves Civ fans: Civilization 7 is going to be contentious among critics and fans
- Everything we know about Inzoi—the first major Sims competitor to finally launch
- Baldur's Gate 3 Patch 8 stress test is now live for real
- The OG Dying Light is giving away its first DLC in more than 4 years for free, and it's very shiny
- Eternal Strands review
- Trevor's voice actor says he won't be in GTA 6, though would've liked a cameo where he got 'killed at the beginning'
- Intel's modular designs could make your next laptop last longer, but probably won't deliver the holy grail of cheap GPU upgrades
- ChatGPT vs DeepSeek: which AI can build me a better gaming PC?
- NuPhy Air60 HE review
- After resuming work following a 'hold' in 2024, Fallout: Nuevo Mexico is now officially cancelled: 'The costs ahead, both financial and personal, are too great'
- Baldur's Gate 3's accidental PS5 release of Patch 8 has the theorycrafters in a flurry—though I'm just glad D&D's blade cantrips are officially here
- XPG Precog Studio gaming headset review
- China's DeepSeek chatbot reportedly gets much more done with fewer GPUs but Nvidia still thinks it's 'excellent' news
- NZXT Capsule Elite review
- NZXT Function Elite MiniTKL review
- NZXT Lift Elite Wireless review
- In the middle of the LA fires, I played a new extraction shooter that challenged me to survive angry robots, other players, and planet-destroying climate change
- Final Fantasy creator says screw retirement, he's got one more game in the tank: 'Humans are greedy creatures, aren’t we?'
- Bill Gates says Elon Musk's 'populist stirring' around the world is 'insane s**t'
- Deadlock's latest update makes a bunch of hero changes, including one suggested by a player who got laughed at for raising the idea
- Enshrouded 1.0 target date and 2025 roadmap revealed, new update arriving today, and dynamic water on the way
- Rumour has it that The Sims and The Sims 2 are being re-released this week
- Death Howl is an impossible and brilliant blend of soulslike, turn-based strategy, and deckbuilding, and you can try it for free now
- If Trump's new threat of massive 100% tariffs on chips from Taiwan comes true an RTX 5090 for $2,000 will seem cheap
- Fractal Design Era 2 review
- Today's Wordle answer for Tuesday, January 28
- Johan Pilestedt is taking a sabbatical from Helldivers 2 after working 'around the clock' for 11 years, will move on to 'the next Arrowhead game' when he returns
- It's been about four years, so yeah, let's go ahead and give Resident Evil yet another movie reboot
- Civilization 7 player stacks so many bonuses that the game breaks and demands negative food
- Five new Steam games you probably missed (January 27, 2025)
- January 27
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- Assassin's Creed Shadows will be censored in Japan to remove dismemberment and decapitations
- Is this the end of Dragon Age? Veilguard was good, but BioWare needed an all-timer, and I'm nervous about what's next
- Dauntless developer Phoenix Labs lays off 'the majority of the studio' after a year of turmoil
- Nvidia share price plummets as it loses more than $600B in valuation, the biggest single-day loss in history
- Magic's death race set Aetherdrift gives us the goblins we deserve: ones who look like a psychobilly album cover
- Hogwarts Legacy goes Harry Modder to become the first Warner Bros. game with official support, and by the way has now sold over 30 million
- Beloved Bethesda RPG voice actor Wes Johnson is in critical condition after being found 'unconscious and barely alive,' and his family is asking for help from fans
- I'm not even a car guy, but Y2K throwback Tokyo Xtreme Racer '25 looks incredible and has thousands of Overwhelmingly Positive Steam reviews after 4 days of early access
- Ubisoft closes another studio, announces layoffs at 3 more as part of 'ongoing efforts to prioritize projects and reduce costs'
- Musk reportedly tells X staff 'we're barely breaking even' as the big banks start getting antsy over their debt
- FSR 4 may be a simple upgrade for FSR 3.1 games according to leaks, which hopefully means we won't see a repeat of FSR 3's poorly-supported launch
- This ultra-cool Apollo computer-inspired smartwatch looks rather beautiful but at the same time weirdly incongruous with the fashion-man model shots
- Final Fantasy 7 Rebirth debuts to the highest peak concurrent users of the series on Steam—except for the MMO, naturally
- Larian scrambles to find out who exactly put Patch 8 on the PS5 early, meanwhile I, a PC unfortunate, rattle the bars of my enclosure
- This '90s PC game's one-of-a-kind combination of puzzles and RPG heroics was the perfect way to jumpstart my brain for the new year
- 'Geralt cannot let Yennefer go': The Witcher: Sirens of the Deep has an easter egg that was cut from the main series, and it'll likely include more about Geralt and Yennefer
- MSI says that the supply of its RTX 5090 cards will be very tight, due to a limited supply of GPUs from Nvidia
- US congressman calls again for the government to ban Chinese-made TP-Link routers: 'I would not have that in my home'
- I adore this chunky, reliable external SSD, so for a third off the 4 TB version I will absolutely recommend it in a heartbeat
- Marvel Snap apologises for US TikTok outage by throwing a bunch of free stuff at its players
- 'AI's Sputnik moment': China-based DeepSeek's open-source models may be a real threat to the dominance of OpenAI, Meta, and Nvidia
- Sniper Elite: Resistance review
- You don't need an RTX 5090 or a 4K monitor for gaming when you can play Snake on your monitor's subpixels. But you will need a microscope or a good macro lens
- This spectacular GB202 die shot shows just how massive Nvidia's RTX 5090 GPU is but it's not the largest chip it's ever shoehorned into a gaming graphics card
- 'Rocket's devastated': Marvel Rivals player who took on the daunting task of rising to GM without doing any damage accidentally fumbles the ball right before Celestial
- Orcs Must Die: Deathtrap review
- Microsoft wants to 'recruit your squad' in the latest unbidden Game Pass ad on your Windows Settings homepage. Also, it might crash
- Swamped with 1,500+ LinkedIn invitations in 24 hours, the manager at Palworld's new publishing arm 'underestimated how much interest there would be'
- Today's Wordle answer for Monday, January 27
- Spacefleet fight sim Nebulous gets carriers in biggest update yet
- January 26
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- Avowed's newly-revealed character creation backgrounds tripped my RPG sicko radar, offering funky fantasies like 'Noble Scion,' 'Court Augur,' and 'Vanguard Scout'
- One mad modder has massacred the Steam Deck, folding it into a 'Steam Brick' with 'no screen, no controller, and absolutely no sense'
- Nvidia is winding down developer support for 9 and 10-series graphics cards, but they'll likely keep getting driver updates for a while yet
- Firaxis celebrates Civilization 7's launch with the Civ World Summit, a live streamed five-way strategy showdown with 'an exciting announcement' planned
- Hyper Light Breaker gets a community-driven update that makes 'some pretty big changes' to the game's enemies and medkit system, following its debut to mixed reviews on Steam
- Final Fantasy 7 Rebirth's director says 'I respect the modding community' and uses mods himself, though he still thinks we shouldn't use ones that 'detract from the intended game experience'
- The Video Game History Foundation launches its digital library later this month, providing access to over 1,500 videogame magazines and 'never-before-seen game development materials'
- Today's Wordle answer for Sunday, January 26
- A Warhammer 'live service RPG' made in Unreal Engine 5 was apparently canceled after three years of development
- After turning over a new, crypto-free leaf, Atari would like to stress that the meme currency 'RealPongCoin' does not have its 'consent or approval'
- Every prestige blockbuster game should have Final Fantasy 7 Rebirth's fast-forward option
- January 25
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- ConcernedApe isn't ruling out future updates to Stardew Valley: 'Maybe even 50 years from now, I might add something'
- Vermintide 2's still getting free maps added to it, with the latest being an elven temple and a warpstone nuke factory
- I paid money to drive a real car that filled up with fumes when I didn't pump the pedal, and it's all because I loved Jalopy
- The Royal Shakespeare Company has announced a Her Story-like game where you hack into Lady MacBeth's computer
- Celeste developer starts 2025 with a 'huge, heartbreaking, and yet relieving failure' as creative difficulties and internal conflict lead to the cancellation of Earthblade
- Call of Duty: Black Ops 6 Season 2 will let players battle on boats and bullet-trains, with the Terminator entering the fray 'shortly after launch'
- 'That's why they call me the Elden Ring sicko' proclaims streamer as he beats FromSoft's RPG at NG+1000 without taking a single hit
- Today's Wordle answer for Saturday, January 25
- I missed this co-op open world base-builder when it first came out, but it's got over 10,000 positive Steam reviews and it's free to play all weekend
- WoW's Plunderstorm battle royale mode is much more popular the second time around: 'I can just play and screw around'
- January 24
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- Synduality Echo of Ada review
- Ascend through 'ten thousand meters of concrete and decay' in this horrifying 'first-person roguelite speed-climbing game'
- Ninja Gaiden 2 Black is Team Ninja making a statement of intent, and I am here for it
- Assassin's Creed Shadows started with a single Ghost of Tsushima-like protagonist, but 'it's not representing what the samurai and shinobi are if it's the same character'
- By opting out of an open world for Avowed, Obsidian says it can give players more interesting choices to make: 'Pacing is really tough in open world games'
- While I'm trapped indoors by one of the UK's worst storms, I'm enjoying one of my favourite pastimes: trudging through gnarly weather in videogames
- 'When the world ends, people just dance': As another MMO comes to an end, players come together for a final farewell rave
- How to romance Aerith in Final Fantasy 7 Rebirth
- Dragon Age: The Veilguard's latest update sure sounds like its last
- The team behind one of 2024's hidden gems is following it up with a stop-motion 'relaxed digging and discovery' game about a happy robot's underground adventures beneath a lake of slime
- I put a $139 gamer muzzle on my loud husband to muffle his Rainbow Six shouting, but the quiet wasn't worth the guilt
- Dynasty Warriors: Origins goaded me into spending an hour trying to beat Lu Bu, then gave me nothing for winning—and I loved it
- A European storefront listing suggests the RTX 5070 Ti may be launching on February 20 and there might actually be a good reason to believe it
- Adata SE880 1 TB external SSD review
- Scalpers are already trying to rip off gamers by flipping RTX 5090 graphics cards they don't actually have for up to $7,000
- Coder creates an 'infinite maze' to snare AI bots in an act of 'sheer unadulterated rage at how things are going' on the content-scraped web
- I love the look of this foldable 'backpack class' Mini-ITX case but it still looks like something I'd screw up at the last minute
- Former BioWare vet says the studio is focused on a single game 'for the first time maybe ever' with Mass Effect 5—and whether that's good or bad is anyone's guess
- I tried out GeForce Now's expanded mod support for Baldur's Gate 3, and it's nothing but a good thing for the future of the game
- Fortnite has 58 creators that got paid over $1 million in 2024, and 7 of those made over $10 million
- This USB flash drive has a built-in anti-malware system, but I still wouldn't use one I found in a parking lot
- Air coolers are still cool
- The RTS genre might be in a bit of a state, but at least you can pick up these 10 classics for $30 in the Steam Real-Time Strategy Fest before it ends soon
- The world's fastest nuke-simulating supercomputer is now online, boasting peak performance of 2.79 quintillion calculations per second and other numbers my pea-sized brain can't comprehend
- Hyte Y40 review
- Logitech and iFixit team up in repairability collab to make your mice, keyboards and headphones last longer
- Tim Sweeney says Epic is losing billions fighting Apple and Google because it can afford to, jokes that 'we might run into serious financial problems after a couple more decades'
- Dataminers turn up potential details on WoW's upcoming player housing feature—from the Cataclysm Classic PTR, of all places
- Palworld studio's first move as a publisher is to save a struggling indie dev: 'This is the energy I want to see driving games in 2025'
- Doom: The Dark Ages' 'iron tank' gameplay takes things back to the very beginning: 'It feels more like classic Doom than any game we've made up to this point'
- Doom: The Dark Ages system requirements have been revealed, and you'll need a ray tracing graphics card to run it on minimum
- Yoshi-P says FF14 team is 'discussing' options to fight mod that can be used for stalking, like 'legal action' and, uh, asking them to stop
- All Genshin Impact 5.4 livestream codes
- A variant of Asus' Q-release system has been accused of grinding GPU contact pins and the thought is making my teeth hurt
- OpenAI's Operator is your new autonomous AI assistant ready to do your biding across the web
- Mythic Quest Season 4: Still a nimble comedy with a ton of heart, and the best it's been since its first season
- Today's Wordle answer for Friday, January 24
- January 23
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- How to romance Tifa in Final Fantasy 7 Rebirth
- The new off-road exploration game from the makers of Art of Rally looks like Mudrunner meets Firewatch, and I can't wait to get behind the wheel
- Doom: The Dark Ages is overhauling Glory Kills so you can 'transition from melee strikes to guns to shield play to an execution' without interrupting your demonslaying momentum
- Dwarf Fortress finally got its roguelike Adventure Mode on Steam, so if you'll excuse me, I've got to go fire up a fresh wombat man
- Doom: The Dark Ages has no multiplayer: 'Our campaigns are, to a great extent, what people come to the modern Doom games to play'
- Quit worrying about game install sizes with these future-proof SSDs
- GTA 6: What we know about Rockstar's return to Vice City
- Cyberpunk 2077's new patch arrives the day after I finally finished the game, and of course it fixes the one late-game bug that really annoyed me
- Tiny Garden is an adorable Polly Pocket-sized farm sim where you crank a handle to grow crops
- Clair Obscur: Expedition 33, the surreal debut RPG from Sandfall Interactive, is out this April and I can't wait to hang out with my inscrutable balloon comrade
- 'I like making Doom games': Doom: The Dark Ages won't be the end, says director Hugo Martin
- The head of WB Games is stepping down and the first person to mention Suicide Squad gets a cookie
- Assassin's Creed Shadows PC requirements are here, and it sure seems like forced ray tracing is a normal thing now
- South of Midnight, the Southern Gothic soulslike where folktales are real, is coming in April
- After Doom Eternal's intense acrobatics, Doom: The Dark Ages will focus on simplified, ergonomic controls: 'You shouldn't be fighting the controls, you should be fighting the bad guys'
- Endless Legend 2, the sequel to Amplitude's sublime 4X, is finally coming, and it's fully leaning into the joy of exploration: 'It is a feeling that will stick with you until the end'
- Doom: The Dark Ages is out in just 4 months, with 'a grounded combat system with an emphasis on power over the acrobatics of Doom Eternal'
- Ninja Gaiden 4 is coming this year, and PlatinumGames is helping
- The 'um, actually' guy you know just got infinitely more powerful with these AI glasses
- I regret to inform you that The Witcher 3 is a decade old this year, but you can forget about unceasing mortality for a few hours at the anniversary concerts
- Mindwave is the story-driven spiritual successor to WarioWare that is so good I don't care that I keep messing up on the supposedly simple final boss
- Reddit users are officially as sick of Elon Musk as I am, with a number of popular subreddits completely banning all links to X
- Google is bulk buying HTC Vive engineers to help Android XR become a platform that can rival Meta's VR/AR dominance
- I played 6 hours of Assassin's Creed Shadows, and folks, I think this one was worth the wait
- Former Arkane designer says Dishonored 2 cost more to make than Skyrim, and while it didn't meet Bethesda's sales expectations, the series' reputation still 'saved the studio'
- Mai in Street Fighter 6 isn't just good—she has me howling for Capcom vs. SNK 3
- Guilty Gear: Strive's anime gets a full trailer and a release window for April, and I'm just hyped to see my girl Elphelt having a good time
- Sony gets people scratching their heads after region-locking purchases of Horizon Forbidden West, 10 entire months after its initial release
- Glorious Series 2 Pro wireless mouse review
- AMD claims it's 'taking a little extra time' to get 'maximum performance' out of the RX 9070 and RX 9070 XT before the GPUs launch in March
- Nvidia GeForce RTX 5090 FE review
- Eagle-eyed digital snipers have a chance to win 1 of 5 Steam codes for Sniper Elite: Resistance
- Overclockers UK say they have a 'single digit' number of Nvidia's RTX 5090 cards a week before launch
- 'Black smoke filled the room': Reddit user says their Gigabyte mouse spontaneously combusted 'with large flames' and now the manufacturer is taking a look
- Pokémon TCG Prismatic Evolution scalpers are starting to hurt, thanks to the promise of reprints despite the current lack of supply
- Today's Wordle answer for Thursday, January 23
- January 22
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- Of all the Balatro-likes on Steam, I think I'm enjoying this Mahjong version best
- Diablo 4 players pleasantly surprised to find the first boss of the new season is a challenge for once: 'it's nice to actually have to think and prepare for fights'
- 'I'm so sorry Imagineddy': Path of Exile 2 players unite to shower gifts on a poor, sweet soul who got yelled at for trying to buy a quiver
- Insomniac games founder Ted Price is retiring after more than 30 years of making games: 'It was simply time to step aside and let others pave the way'
- Electronic Arts says 'Dragon Age and EA Sports FC 25 underperformed' as it revises its financial outlook downward
- 'PC development has skyrocketed,' GDC survey finds: 80% of developers are now making games for PC, more than double the number working on PS5 or Xbox games
- When does Final Fantasy 7 Rebirth unlock on PC?
- This 'physics-based survival city builder' stuffed all my favorite words into its title so I'm automatically psyched
- Geralt voice actor Doug Cockle is 'really excited' to see Ciri star in The Witcher 4, but if you want to know why you'll have to read the books
- Quad-slot prototype enabled Nvidia to achieve 'mission impossible' with RTX 5090 GPU's dual-slot cooler
- Microsoft Edge Game Assist hits Stable release so you can now use it to pin videos in-game without setting it as your default browser
- Cloudflare claims to have mitigated biggest DDoS attack on record with requests flying in from 5,500 IP addresses per second
- Kingdom Come: Deliverance 2 forum rules that banned racism, homophobia, and neo-Nazism walked back by the publisher, which now just asks everyone to please be nice
- Where to buy the Nvidia RTX 5090: the top-end GPU just launched and here are all the RTX 5090 retailer listings I can find, though stocks are fast dwindling
- I built the mullet of gaming PCs with MSI's Project Zero 'Back-Connect' parts
- Trump likes the idea of Elon Musk or Larry Ellison buying TikTok but thinks the US government should get half of the social media app in the bargain
- 'Super Bowl for Excel nerds' crowns the king of the spreadsheets in Vegas, complete with championship belt and adoring crowd: 'You'd never see this with Google Sheets'
- Final Fantasy 7 Rebirth is technically functional on Steam Deck, but it's a terrible way to play
- Arrow Lake's had three months of Windows and BIOS updates to fix its performance, and my testing shows in some games, it's worse
- Here are the best gaming rig deals you can get for the measly cost of an Nvidia RTX 5090
- It's still grim out there, even if you aren't AAA: Industry report claims that 1 in 10 respondents were laid off in 2024—with 'narrative' roles taking the biggest overall hit
- Mere months after Sonic the Hedgehog 3's release, we already have an exact date for its sequel
- Film director clarifies that historical epic The Brutalist did use AI during production, but not how you think
- 'Oh, don't worry about this': Tekken boss denies he's leaving Bandai Namco after saying he's open to work on LinkedIn, claims it's just because he wants to 'meet more people'
- Final Fantasy 7 Rebirth PC performance analysis: Runs well and looks good, but the tight system requirements and dearth of PC-centric options spoil the show
- Final Fantasy 7 Rebirth review
- If you're planning to mainline Final Fantasy 7 Rebirth, turn the difficulty down to easy
- Marvel Rivals players are coming together to decide their least favourite map, and the loser will surprise no one: 'It's the worst in the game'
- Chappell Roan’s idea of a good time is eating an edible then playing Fortnite as Ariana Grande, and she has a simple message for Epic: 'Please give me a skin, please'
- If you thought PCIe Gen 5 SSDs were a little pointless, don't worry, here comes 32 GB's worth of Gen 6 technology
- Diablo 4 meets Vampire Survivors in this clever roguelike that makes every round its own epic viking adventure
- Latest Windows 11 Insider Build fixes 24H2 update's most annoying issues, including Auto HDR bugs and mouse stuttering
- How to complete the Poison in the Roots quest in Diablo 4
- As if I needed any more reason to jump back into Minecraft, a Hello Kitty and Friends DLC has been released
- Intel's next-gen desktop CPU Nova Lake allegedly spotted and can't come soon enough
- Ascendant brings a unique spin to the bullet hell dungeon crawler with its huge item stash and extensive build crafting for new and deadly synergies
- Today's Wordle answer for Wednesday, January 22
- The biggest PC gaming subreddit has blacklisted X for being 'hateful' and 'toxic', citing Elon Musk's 'distasteful' behavior
- 'Stargate' is now a real thing, but sadly not a portal to an alien planet: A bunch of tech companies plan to spend $500 billion building AI data centers
- The Borderlands movie gets 6 'Razzie' nominations including Worst Picture, plus 2 separate nominations just for Jack Black's acting as Claptrap
- Blade Chimera ditches the usual metroidvania progression in favour of a radical idea: skipping straight to the good stuff
- January 21
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- Steam reviewers finally trolled me: I bought a game they called 'calm' and 'relaxing' before I noticed those were the 'funny' reviews
- Civilization 7: Everything we know about the first new Civ game in nearly a decade
- The best games like The Sims for building beautiful characters, homes, and a life full of drama
- Destiny 2 players have found the true endgame: Composing spooky remixes on a giant gothic space organ
- GDC's annual State of the Game Industry survey reveals 1/3 of 'triple-A developers' are working on live service games
- Kingdom Come: Deliverance 2 reveals 3 expansions and a 'Hardcore Mode' coming in 2025
- Capcom's hoping to make the recommended specs for Monster Hunter Wilds less monstrous thanks to post-beta performance improvements
- Lonely Mountains: Snow Riders review
- Marvel Rivals' upcoming Spring Festival introduces a few pretty cool skins and a new game mode that has a stark resemblance to Lucioball
- I'm enraptured by this Zelda maniac who worked out there are 1 quadrillion 83 trillion 414 billion and 90 million possible permutations for a dog race in Majora's Mask
- Planet Coaster 2 isn't the financial success that Frontier needed, according to a report, which means there's more pressure on Jurassic World Evolution 3 to bring in the big bucks
- Action adventure game Unknown 9: Awakening was a 'failure,' says developer, which has cancelled a follow-up project and laid off staff
- A special Frost edition Gainward RTX 5090 D has been spotted ahead of launch, proving once again China gets all the prettiest gaming hardware
- Final Fantasy 14's chaotic alliance raid lives up to the name by swapping around 2 wrongly labeled attacks an entire month after everyone's already learned them
- CRKD Neo S review
- RTX 5090 prototype GPU with 24,576 cores reportedly leaks hinting at possible 800 W 5090 Ti or Titan monster
- Oh well, looks like the next 4 years are going to be an AI free-for-all as Trump nixes Biden administration's safety order
- Now Nvidia's hardware blocks have been AI'd out of existence all it will take for Frame Generation support on RTX 20- and 30-series GPUs is 'further optimization and testing'
- Havok, whose software is famed for its use in Half-Life 2 and Elder Scrolls, just showed off its updated physics engine in first YouTube trailer in over ten years
- A Marvel Rivals player 'hit GrandMaster doing 0 damage' through the blindingly simple strategy of healing teammates a lot
- Elon Musk admits account-boosting on PoE2 and Diablo 4 but says deal with it: 'What would I be apologizing for?'
- The cake was a lie, but Silksong 'is real, progressing and will release' say devs, after flurry of conspiracy theories revealed to be a 'nothingburger'
- The upcoming Asus VR project is rumoured to have eye and face tracking, yet the thing I'm most excited about is its OS
- Level up your campaigns with HP printers: essential equipment for gamers and storytellers
- The Blood of Dawnwalker's creative director explains how the RPG's narrative sandbox works: 'the core of it is maximising players' freedom'
- AMD finally gives the Radeon RX 9070 XT a release date and it's (roughly) March
- Marvel Snap is back online after falling afoul of TikTok's temporary ban, and unsurprisingly, its creators are on the search for a new publisher
- Today's Wordle answer for Tuesday, January 21
- January 20
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- 'You're not supposed to say this out loud!': Baldur's Gate 3 dev reacts to analyst who says some game makers 'hope' Grand Theft Auto 6 will cost up to $100 at launch
- 'S**t's about to get real': The first Steam sale of 2025 is live, and it's all about strategy games
- World of Warcraft has a currency problem: more than 500 kinds of tender can currently be used in the 20-year-old game
- Vertical extraction shooter Exoborne holds its first playtest soon, and you can sign up now
- Streamers including Kai Cenat named in Drake's UMG lawsuit for their reaction videos instantly respond with reaction videos: 'The biggest Ls come from not knowing how to take an L'
- The run up to the US TikTok ban got as messy, emotional, and weird as the final days of an MMO—and now everyone's back and no one can look each other in the eye
- The first multiplayer demo for my most anticipated RTS, Tempest Rising, is out now
- 'You deserve better customer service': Path of Exile 2 studio apologizes for long support wait times but with 545,000 emails received, it's kind of understandable
- 'Who planned this garbage?' Streamers unite in slamming the official Twitch Marvel Rivals tournament for last-minute rule changes and unbalanced chaos
- TeamSpeak could finally be so back, since it can't stop teasing a new makeover while sneakily encouraging you to delete your Discord account
- Obsbot Tiny 2 Lite review
- Samsung is working with a studio to 'create an immersive 3D gaming experience without the need for 3D glasses' using its fancy eyeball-tracking gaming monitor
- The Witcher 3's director says he has designed his new vampire RPG to explore 'something in pop culture that nobody yet has done' in videogames: 'We will see how people like it'
- Is time too precious to waste making gurning thumbnails for your YouTube videos? Huzzah for this AI tool that does it all for you, then
- Developer behind the Dino Crisis spiritual successor says 'vulgar' mods are the reason we're not getting a PC port
- Fractal Design Terra review
- Bitcoin hits a new all-time high, $Trump is stymied by $Melania, and I'm over here having a full-blown existential crisis
- 1,465 consecutive days of (mostly) no Silksong news: I spoke to the Sisyphean internet hero that's kept folks informed, every 24 hours, for 4 whole years
- EA announces the guillotine will finally fall on Origin this April thanks to Microsoft's abandonment of 32-bit Windows and, if you don't like it, 'use a newer computer'
- Call of Duty: Black Ops 6 has now banned 136,000 accounts as part of the ongoing struggle to ensure fair play but still says that IP banning isn't an option
- If you're worried about your RTX 50-series graphics card suffering another 4090-meltgate, MSI's yellow-tipped adapter cables might just give you peace of mind
- Previously borked Ubisoft games are now fixed on Windows 11 24H2 as the troubled update begins automatically downloading to compatible PCs
- It took a decade for NASA to piece together this 416,592,960 pixel image of the Andromeda galaxy and the key takeaway? 'Andromeda's a train wreck'
- Aokzoe teases its next-gen handheld gaming PC and it looks like it's just stuffed a better chip, screen, and battery into its not-bad, not-great A1 Pro
- Pimax Crystal Light review
- Today's Wordle answer for Monday, January 20
- Survival-stealth sequel Chernobylite 2: Exclusion Zone hit its Kickstarter goal in four days
- Five new Steam games you probably missed (January 20, 2025)
- January 19
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- I felt goodwill and hope for the future seeing Cybrlich and the Death Cult of Labor, an FPS that's 60% HUD and looks like an Adult Swim cartoon where you smoke 'deepweed' to restore your health and blow clouds that spell out 'doink' and 'loud'
- Baldur's Gate 3's shows off its upcoming photo mode by going haywire with memes
- Bethesda intended Starfield to be more violent, including 'meat caps' for beheaded astronauts, but the gore was toned down for technical reasons and because it 'didn't fit thematically'
- Total Chaos, the full-fat remake of one of Doom's best mods, is a getting a demo 'very shortly'
- The worst Tomb Raider game is getting cut weapons, areas and voice lines restored as part of its upcoming remaster
- TikTok is already back online in the US after less than a day, with ByteDance thanking President-elect Trump for 'providing the necessary clarity and assurance' it can keep running
- Update: Marvel Snap should be 'fully restored in the next 12 hours' after it became unexpected collateral in the short-lived TikTok ban
- Dead or Alive publisher requests between 2,000 and 3,000 takedowns on works of inappropriate fan art annually because it thinks of the game's characters 'like daughters'
- Today's Wordle answer for Sunday, January 19
- Heroic programmer of the first three Final Fantasy games says he'd 'never seen any roleplaying games until Final Fantasy'
- Disco Elysium-inspired steampunk RPG Sovereign Syndicate is getting a director's cut
- January 18
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- Crysis director says it was so hard to run it became a meme because its highest settings were meant for future PCs: 'I wanted to make sure Crysis does not age'
- Call of Duty is getting a microtransaction nobody can get mad at: A unique premium skin whose proceeds will go to LA wildfire relief
- Creator of horror game Poppy Playtime sues Google for refusing to remove 'bait-and-switch scam' apps that pretend to be the real thing then charge users up to $95 for literally nothing
- Climbing a lighthouse that was determined to kill me in Peaks of Yore was genuinely revelatory—now I understand mountaineers
- Sons of the Forest's first patch in 6 months is a doozy, adding buildable rafts, a procedural wall system, and fixing more than 100 bugs
- Galaxy-brained high schooler ports Doom to a PDF file, paving the way for a bloody revolution in invoicing
- Wartorn is a top-down fantasy tactics game co-created by BioShock's lead designer, inspired by a forgotten Bungie title where you command dwarves to blow up zombies
- The animator behind some of Castlevania's greatest moments racked up another instant classic with Nocturne Season 2's most intense scene
- Today's Wordle answer for Saturday, January 18
- January 17
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- As the LA fires raged, Riot Games provided a generator to a fire station that lost power and donated meals from its employee cafeteria
- This Path of Exile 2 build simply opts out of danger by keeping nearby enemies permanently frozen in time
- FTC says Genshin Impact 'deceived children' and orders its publisher to pay a $20 million fine and stop selling loot boxes to kids
- 'Please remember the game has no plot': Vampire Survivors dev points out one of the many challenges in turning its roguelike into a live-action film
- 'The kid is 100% getting kidnapped': Our 7 best guesses at what the plucky kid in the new Assassin's Creed Shadows art is gonna do in the game
- Final Fantasy 7 Rebirth is Steam Deck verified
- As a longtime GTA roleplayer, this documentary about actors putting on Hamlet inside GTA Online made me laugh, cry, and wholeheartedly regret ever calling Shakespeare a boring old bastard
- Kingdom Come: Deliverance 2 rolls out new forum rules to curb toxic behavior, which immediately sparks toxic behavior
- So is the US banning TikTok or not? The Supreme Court says go for it, but it's up to Trump now: 'You're going to see what I'm going to do'
- Instead of role queue, Marvel Rivals wants to trust players with the epic responsibility of creating a functioning team by themselves: 'We’ll be taking a little bit more of a Marvel-inspired approach'
- This is not a drill: The Razer Kuromi collab is finally more widely available, offering a pointy-eared headset, keyboard, mouse, and gaming chair
- Logitech G Pro X TKL Rapid review
- A not-so-subtle tease suggests Games Workshop is finally bringing Total War: Warhammer 3's Grand Cathay army to the tabletop wargame
- 'You can’t plan a success in this industry': Former Sony exec Shuhei Yoshida says he would've 'tried to resist' the company's ill-fated march towards live service gambles
- This leather-wrapped PC case is trying to be all executive chic but it looks like Don Draper's gaming PC
- Retired PlayStation exec reckons Bloodborne PC hasn't happened because Miyazaki 'cannot do it himself, but he doesn’t want anyone else to touch it'
- The FBI used self-destruct on malware infecting over 4,000 US computers, it's super effective
- Dragon Age: The Veilguard game director departs BioWare after 18 years at EA after an offer to build a new RPG she 'couldn't turn down'
- Ancient Egyptian horror game Amenti had everything lined up to make it a stellar scarefest—except it forgot to include some actual horror
- Asus TUF Gaming B860M-Plus WiFi review
- Super Mario Bros. speedrunner sets a new world record on a PC using keyboard controls and boldly proclaims they're 'now 0.3 seconds off of absolute perfection'
- Crucial X9 2 TB external SSD review
- The Best of CES 2025
- The manufacturer of 90% of the world's consumer drones will no longer automatically stop its products flying over US airports, power plants and prisons
- 10 essential boomer shooters that every FPS fan should play
- Legendary Japanese dev goes in hard on Switch 2 leakers: 'A filthy desire for approval that lacks a shred of rationality—The worst of scum'
- The Silksong hive is buzzing over a dev tweet that sees a chocolate cake, Napoleon Bonaparte, and Imagine Dragons all pointing with red string to the April Switch 2 Nintendo Direct
- After the catastrophe of Concord, Sony is reportedly cancelling other projects including a God of War live service game
- Ever wanted to become a published Warhammer author? Now's your chance—and you only need to write 500 words
- The Witcher 3's director explains why he had to leave CDPR to make his dream vampire RPG: 'We had crazy ideas'
- OnlyFans model explains calculus and machine learning on Pornhub because it pays better than YouTube
- Today's Wordle answer for Friday, January 17
- Chase sticky-fingered dragons across the cosmos (or just fly around, ramming spaceships) in this sci-fi deckbuilder
- January 16
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- Horror movie adaptation of horror movie-style horror game Until Dawn goes the time-loop route, so it's basically Groundhog Day with monsters
- Jagex outrages the Runescape community yet again, this time with a survey hinting at big price hikes and worse service for those who don't want to pay
- Undaunted by mixed Steam reviews, Hyper Light Breaker dev says it's 'encouraging' to have 'extremely reasonable' early access feedback
- Mouthwashing review
- Elon Musk and Asmongold are beefing over who the best gamer really is, and no matter who wins, we lose
- Path of Exile 2's first big patch of 2025 is here, bringing new maps, quality of life tweaks, unique item and monster rebalancing, and—let's see—improved visuals for 'Chaos Pustules'
- Visionary filmmaker David Lynch, whose influence can be felt throughout games, has died
- Castlevania: Nocturne Season 2 both rushes and drags, but finally arrives at its best action scenes ever
- Logitech G RS Wheel Hub and RS Track Wheel review
- Deadlock's ranked play has improved quite a bit since its arrival, but a small quirk has left only 75 people down at the bottom rank to battle it out
- 9 years after launching his own studio, former World of Warcraft lead designer Rob Pardo finally reveals what he's doing with it
- Alienware Pro Wireless gaming headset review
- Looks like the Nintendo Switch 2's Joy-Cons double as gaming mice, which is neat but I can't help think about how I basically never use the Legion Go's same feature
- Tekken 8 has finally reinstated the time-honoured tradition of deathmatching your foes for hours on end
- Nintendo Switch 2? Nah, I'll take a next-gen handheld gaming PC thanks very much
- I will get a Switch 2 for Pokémon and no handheld gaming PC on Earth can stop me
- Warhammer 40,000: Space Marine 2 made millions for Games Workshop, and now it wants more hit videogames: "Clearly we are looking for the next one"
- WoW's Plunderstorm mode is back, and it just lets you buy what you want with your in-game dubloons instead of having to grind
- GTA 5 mod recreating GTA 4's map nuked after 6 years of work because people noticed, and Rockstar insisted on a 'friendly takedown', if you know what I mean
- Some 20 hours in, I can say that Civilization 7's age transitions are the series' most radical and disruptive mechanic yet
- The Nintendo Switch 2 has just been announced and it looks a lot more like a handheld gaming PC than a console to me
- Obsidian vet Josh Sawyer says that while 'it's not that important' if players never finish an RPG—after all, who finishes Skyrim—'we can kind of chill out' on size
- If AMD isn't spilling the beans on the RX 9070 and 9070 XT at least online retailers are, but a release isn't imminent
- Razer BlackWidow V4 Pro 75% review
- Marvel Rivals devs have accidentally buffed Storm into a tornado-yeeting monster that everyone is picking, and no-one knows how to counter: 'A clustered group is a snack for us'
- Dragon Age voice actor arrested on multiple charges over allegations, including revenge porn and harassment
- The Blood of Dawnwalker's design director explains the ARPG's time-as-resource mechanic, and how 'both action and inaction have consequences’
- $1 million in refunds are on their way to those who picked up Razer's not-actually-N95 Zephyr mask
- Today's Wordle answer for Thursday, January 16
- They've started putting arms onto robot vacuums, so we're closer to either getting our own R2D2 or being strangled in our sleep
- January 15
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- New report says PC games are outselling console games, calling PC gaming a 'bright spot' in a troubled industry
- Arrowhead boss wants to get as many A-listers as possible for the Helldivers 2 film, 'as long as they all get killed violently'
- Romanian folklore, David Lynch, and heavy metal come together in a dark fantasy hack-and-slash action game 'with an even darker sense of humor'
- Riot admits it 'screwed up' League of Legends' new reward system, because somebody forgot to add a big chunk of numbers in the new XP calculations
- The Sims 3 just got its first patch in over a decade and fans aren't quite sure what it means
- Brutal survival RTS Age of Darkness kept me up until 4 am this morning as I tried to perfect the formula to halt the end of the world
- TikTok users wave goodbye to their 'Chinese spies' as they they ditch the app for another, er, Chinese one
- 'The team wants every kind of player to enjoy the game': Marvel Rivals director wants to foster a competitive scene, but not at the expense of fun
- Asus ROG Strix B850-F Gaming WiFi review
- Sims boss Lyndsay Pearson says 'leaks are unavoidable' and 'you're going to end up with crossed wires occasionally' as EA stays clammed-up about Project Rene
- 'We are incredibly sorry': Path of Exile 2 devs apologise for data breach that saw 66 accounts snatched and personal info potentially stolen
- Popular indie FPS won't get updates for a while because the dev was sentenced to 3 years in prison: 'What I did was wrong and that's all you need to know'
- 8BitDo Ultimate 2C wireless controller review
- AndaSeat X-Air Pro review
- Turns out there's 'a big supercomputer at Nvidia… running 24/7, 365 days a year improving DLSS. And it's been doing that for six years'
- Here's how the new RTX 50-series cards perform against the previous generation of GeForce GPUs
- I'll say it: The best thing I saw from Nvidia at CES wasn't its sweet new GPUs, but some tasty AI every RTX gamer can enjoy
- An ode to the RTX 4090 and why high-end GPUs can sometimes be the best value
- Marvel Rivals director all but tells players to git gud when going up against Jeff's ultimate, but I have a couple of tips that'll actually help you
- A UFO true believer made a grand strategy space game with input from alien abductees, but now claims shadowy forces have shut it down with a bomb threat
- MrBeast's YouTube schtick is somehow even worse with the obscene Amazon money being pumped into Beast Games
- Nine Sols review
- Baldur's Gate 3 modder says the community's been making 'huge strides' towards custom campaigns: 'I think we'll see many of them refined, improved, and released this year'
- TSMC's next-gen 2nm silicon is reportedly on track for later this year but don't expect chips for PCs until 2027 and beyond
- Diablo 4 is getting its first bird pet in Season 7
- Today's Wordle answer for Wednesday, January 15
- Former Stalker dev reveals new FPS set in a post-apocalyptic Paris that's been overrun by sentient trees
- January 14
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- Terraria creator jokes that the 1.4.5 update may not be the last one after all: 'Terraria will never die as long as there is one last final update'
- Black holes, buildings on poles, and a 'sea urchin planet': PUBG creator's world-sized tech demo may be hiding some bizarre machine learning 'hallucinations'
- Sid Meier's Civilization needs to keep reinventing itself to stay relevant
- 'We will take measures to vanquish this nefarious behavior': Marvel Rivals will ban console players who use a mouse and keyboard
- Hideo Kojima is 'tired' while crunching on Death Stranding 2 and wonders how long he'll be able to keep making games: 'Every day feels like I'm racing against the clock'
- Elden Ring geographer tests rigorous calculation against weed-fueled horse math to determine the exact size of The Lands Between
- Suicide Squad: Kill the Justice League is now officially finished as its final update goes live
- Gigabyte X870E Aorus Pro review
- The MySims: Cozy Bundle brings the blocky-headed chibi sims over to PC: 'It's still very, very Sims'
- Marvel Rivals game director says it'll be getting a new hero every month and a half, which hopefully isn't a display of classical hubris
- Blade and Soul Neo is a full-on remaster of NCsoft's 2012 wuxia-themed MMO
- Gigabyte Z890 Aorus Elite WiFi7 Ice review
- The new Sims 4 start screen is by far the best it's had in a decade
- Larian celebrates 100 million Baldur's Gate 3 mod downloads by bringing 'Withers Big Naturals' to consoles
- Gigabyte X870 Aorus Elite WiFi7 Ice review
- 'I like to be challenged': Sims boss Lyndsay Pearson is 'excited' to see more developers trying to break into the life sim space
- The Sims 4 is getting 2 base game updates to celebrate the series 25th anniversary
- 'The Sims continues to be this kind of funhouse mirror to the world': Sims boss Lyndsay Pearson on 25 years of the series and what's to come in the future
- League of Legends players are up in arms after an update to get rid of 'unnecessary complexity' makes it a struggle for new players to earn anything
- An incredible $43,690 donation to Awesome Games Done Quick 2025 doubles as the most expensive nerd joke I've seen on the internet
- Logitech G RS Shifter and Handbrake review
- The high-rise adventure SickWay VR is now available on Steam with a limited-time 10% discount
- Big AI beasts reportedly delay Nvidia Blackwell orders due to GPU overheating but it doesn't worry us for RTX 50 gaming cards
- Obsbot Meet 2 review
- The real Geralt comes back for a new Netflix animated film to slay monsters and give brooding speeches about humanity's failings
- Aloft strives to be the next co-op survival crafting game, but its early access version leaves a lot to be desired
- Pantheon: Rise of the Fallen is an aggressively old-school MMO that hates hand-holding so much it won't even give you a map—but a certain type of player might just love it
- This depraved roguelike will turn you into a desperate sociopath… uh, in a fun way
- It turns out NFTs of tennis balls that sold for $3 million aren't worth much after all and I just died of not-surprise
- 'I think geniuses come up with terrible ideas, too': Former senior artist at Bethesda likens Todd Howard's struggles with complete creative control to George Lucas
- Valve dev says SteamOS isn't about killing Windows: 'If a user has a good experience on Windows, there's no problem'
- Path of Exile 2 devs acknowledge the endgame is 'too severe' but are sticking to their guns because 'the whole death actually mattering thing is actually important'
- 'He was trying his best'—Palworld had a lone server guy trying to keep the game afloat during its 2 million player launch
- AMD says it took four goes to get its new Strix Halo uber APU right and that included designing new CPU dies that 'put Threadripper in the palm of your hands'
- Blasting AI into the past: Modders get Llama AI working on an old Windows 98 PC
- Today's Wordle answer for Tuesday, January 14
- Evidence mounts that Marvel Rivals stealthily places losing players in bot matches, and I know because I'm the loser
- Studio Wildcard remains quiet on Ark 2's release date, but just revealed a two-year roadmap for Ark: Survival Ascended
- Project to 'free social media from billionaire control' plans to take on Musk and Zuck using Bluesky's open source protocol: 'It will take years and hundreds of millions of dollars'
- January 13
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- The new RPG from Rebel Wolves, a studio founded by Witcher 3 and Cyberpunk 2077 devs, asks a bold question: What if Geralt was a vampire?
- Zerg Rush! Blizzard drops first cards from its StarCraft x Hearthstone crossover mini-set
- High-flying RPG city builder Airborne Empire has launched on Steam, and it's testing my balancing skills in more ways than one
- Percy_Verence, Elon Musk's infamous Path of Exile 2 hardcore character, dead at level 97
- Despite the big Baldur's Gate 3 update in the works, Larian says its 'full attention' is now focused on its next game
- Powerwash Simulator studio ends VR development, but at least there are no layoffs happening
- Hyper Light Breaker has great combat, impeccable vibes, and its ambitious randomized open worlds actually work—the real test is if it goes the distance in early access
- Corsair Virtuoso Max review
- Core i9 14900KF CPU hits a world record 9.12 GHz and proves Intel chips are still good at something
- Hatsune Miku is the icon for Fortnite Festival Season 7, and it might be the collab that finally convinces me to become a rockstar
- D&D's revised Monster Manual is aiming to provide oodles of plot hooks along with its stat blocks, and I'm already quietly stealing some for my own encounters
- After fabled RTX 4090 Ti was allegedly dug out of a bin last year, tech testing YouTuber puts Nvidia's prototype GPU through its paces
- Man on hopeless quest to recover $600 million of Bitcoin from landfill is finally told by the High Court to quit it, says he's 'very upset'
- To the dismay of my colleagues, I paid $15 for this Hatsune Miku desktop pet so you don't have to
- Nvidia denounces Biden administration's 'rigged' and 'misguided' new AI chip export restrictions
- Halls of Torment review
- Marvel Rivals starts 2025 by clobberin' the most played charts, hitting over 640,000 players on Steam alone
- Chris Roberts sallies forth to declare 'we are closer than ever to realizing a dream many have said is impossible' with Star Citizen, but I'm sure I've heard this record before
- Around 66 accounts in Path of Exile 2 were compromised, due to a one-two punch of an old unused Steam account and a backend bug
- Marvel Rivals players have found a workaround for mods, but it involves potentially frying your PC and sacrificing your framerates
- It's hard to believe but 22% of PC gaming monitors are now OLED panels
- Today's Wordle answer for Monday, January 13
- Players are still finding edge-case Baldur's Gate 3 scenes, like one where you play as a kidnapped Astarion even if you made your own player-character
- Path of Exile 2's first patch of 2025 is coming later this week, with 'more rewarding' endgame mapping and the rollout of respawns when fighting pinnacle bosses
- Speedrunning Crazy Taxi with a live band is an inventive way to dodge a DMCA takedown
- Five new Steam games you probably missed (January 13, 2025)
- January 12
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- An ambitious Counter-Strike mod to emulate the OG 1.6 experience in Global Offensive has been rejected by Valve after 8 years of development
- When 2K removed its annoying launcher it broke a bunch of XCOM 2 mods
- Cruel is a frantic run-and-gun shooter where you boot cultists out of windows in a cursed apartment block that wants you dead
- Valve's Steam page currently lists a second mystery game alongside Deadlock, sending Half-Life 3 theorists into another frenzy of speculation
- CD Projekt Red boss says 'around 100' Witcher 3 designers still work at the company, while the Witcher 4's story director is 'the same person since Witcher 1'
- Today's Wordle answer for Sunday, January 12
- January 11
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- Watching an all-romances speedrun of the legendarily janky Fallout: New Vegas is a delight
- Activision will send you alarmingly detailed data for every single Call of Duty match you've played in the last 4 years if you ask, and players are using it to figure out their mysterious SBMM rankings
- Here's a game about being a depressed, lonely maintenance robot on a long-haul space colony ship
- Civilization 7 has been Steam Deck Verified ahead of its launch next month
- 23-year-old D&D RPG Neverwinter Nights just got a new update thanks to the 'unpaid software engineers' of its unkillable community
- The 11 big FPS games of 2025
- Wormhole is an impeccable arcade revival of Snake that plays like it fell off the back of Derek Yu's van
- My Summer Car, the absurdly detailed Finnish life sim about vehicle maintenance and drinking in your underpants, smashes into 1.0 after nearly a decade in Steam early access
- The Junji Ito collection brings eight new outfits to Dead by Daylight, letting you dress up its killers as cannibalistic supermodels and nail-toothed children
- Assassin’s Creed Shadows takes a run at improving parkour, as Ubisoft strives to make the system less 'like a gas pedal'
- Today's Wordle answer for Saturday, January 11
- The Last of Us season 2 trailer is a brief look at a story you should probably just play yourself in April
- World of Warcraft's most recent patch soars with fun additions that last just long enough
- Lords of the Fallen publisher embraces fear of the DEI boogeyman, says it will not include 'any social or political agendas' in its games
- January 10
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- Epic CEO Tim Sweeney says tech leaders are 'pretending to be Republicans' to gain favor with Trump, skirt antitrust laws, and ultimately 'rip off consumers and crush competitors'
- If you're trying to convince me your 'companionship' robot is 'lifelike', maybe don't rip her face off in the demo video
- Square Enix launches new anti-harassment policy to protect its employees and partners from abusive fans
- The Sims begins its 25th anniversary celebration next week with a Behind The Sims episode of news and announcements
- Path of Exile 2 numberlord spends 16 straight days killing rare monsters to prove that a stat that makes loot better makes better loot
- Palestinian developer raises more than $200,000 to make Dreams on a Pillow, a game about the horrors of the 1948 Nakba
- A tabletop RPG designer made a game about the way FromSoft NPCs say cryptic stuff and go 'heh heh heh' all the time, and the result is a love letter to the 'grubby little weirdos'
- World of Warcraft's competitive dungeon mode is struggling
- Piranha Games will lay off employees after Mechwarrior 5: Clans 'performed below projections'
- Marvel Rivals' latest update quietly killed the game's burgeoning mod scene
- Sorry everyone, Minecraft 2 is cancelled, and it might be our fault
- Team Fortress 2 just had the single biggest trade in its history, with 'the absolute best hat you can get' going for around $40K
- The best part of Marvel Rivals Season 1 is Mister Fantastic's obnoxiously fun chest-bump attack and his ridiculously OP kit
- Is the new RTX 5070 really as fast as Nvidia's previous flagship RTX 4090 GPU? Turns out the answer is yes. Kinda.
- It's time for me to admit that AI-accelerated frame generation might actually be the way of the future and that's a good thing
- Elden Ring: Nightreign is getting a closed network test, and I'm totally not fuming because PC players aren't invited to the party, or anything
- How to feed pegasus in Disney Dreamlight Valley
- 20 hours in, Kingdom Come: Deliverance 2 is a mad, systems-driven sandbox that captures some of the best parts of games like Stalker
- Dragonflight got WoW back on its feet, now we get to see if Blizzard can make the Worldsoul Saga run
- If you're a content creator and gamer looking for a CPU upgrade, this Ryzen 9 9900X deal will get you $90 off
- AMD is now reportedly making all-American Ryzen 9000 CPU dies at TSMC's Arizona fab
- Marvel Rivals ranks: Competitive rewards and rules explained in Season 3.5
- I tried a sim racing rig that generates 'wind' at CES 2025 and it's claimed to help keep VR nausea at bay
- Final Fantasy 14 communities panic as it turns out change to blacklisting, meant to help reduce stalking, also lets players use mods to track their alts
- TikTok's time in the US may be ticking to a close as it makes a last stand in the Supreme Court, though Trump now says he 'opposes banning' it
- MSI intros cheaper 'back connect' Project Zero Intel motherboards for super-clean PC builds you might actually be able to afford
- Thermaltake's new 2000 W PSU is too powerful to be sold in the USA and comes with four PCIe 5.0 GPU power connectors
- AMD accuses Intel's Arrow Lake of being a 'horrible' product and implies a lack of options for consumers has caused the Ryzen 7 9800X3D shortage
- This Jinx-inspired gaming PC is my favorite of CES 2025 and I'm head over heels for the hardware
- Harrowing report alleges years of horrific abuse at Brandoville Studios, an Indonesian support studio that worked on Assassin's Creed Shadows and The Last of Us Remake
- Tencent says it's not a Chinese military company and is willing to sue the US Department of Defense if it isn't removed from a blacklist
- All Zenless Zone Zero 1.5 livestream codes
- Asus reveals three new Slash Travel Bags for carting around your ROG Ally—however, none of them are particularly fashion forward
- Today's Wordle answer for Friday, January 10
- We may not have a roadmap or balance patch just yet, but at least Path of Exile 2's bugfix patch notes are funny
- Deus Ex: Mankind Divided writer didn't like the ending either: 'Nothing is resolved'
- It seems like Square's finally consistently taking the PC ports of Final Fantasy seriously
- Like a Dragon: Pirate Yakuza in Hawaii looks more like a zany RGG take on Black Flag than I dared hope
- January 9
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- The most important tool in Remedy's new co-op FPS is the shower: 'Saving water is essential'
- If you missed it over the holidays, this noir Half-Life 2 mod turns you into a hardboiled detective in Prohibition-era Chicago
- Path of Exile 2 players are calling foul on Elon Musk's high-level hardcore character after he streams his struggles with core game mechanics
- Alan Emrich, the game designer and writer who coined the term '4X,' has died
- Track down a missing person in this 'Geoguessr-inspired detective game' set on an alien planet
- Old meets new as classic MMO players worship a famous Vtuber via gifts of bones so she can max out the Prayer skill
- Hyper Light Breaker will cost $30 and for a limited time come with a free copy of Drifter
- Fallout season 2 filming delayed due to massive LA fires
- Assassin's Creed Shadows is delayed again 'to better incorporate player feedback gathered over the past three months'
- This bizarre roguelike has a new take on the Vampire Survivors formula: letting you build your own custom weapons out of brains, eyeballs, and chimpanzee spines
- The Freewrite Wordrunner with a built-in word counter might be the keyboard to look out for if you want to improve your writing process
- Thank Goodness You're Here! review
- 'I created it, let me move on': Ex-Cloud 9 player, the Overwatch team whose blunder inspired the infamous 'C9' slang, watches in horror as the term moves onto Marvel Rivals
- 18 games the PC Gamer team can't wait to play in 2025
- Lenovo's rollable laptop screen isn't just a CES party trick—you'll be able to pick one up yourself in June
- Nvidia CEO Jen-Hsun Huang's simple reminder that useful quantum computing is a long way off has somehow caused industry stocks to plummet
- After 15 years, Minecraft has finally added two new pig variations: The warm pig and the cold pig, meaning I can delete one mod off my list
- You've heard of a CPU cooler screen, but have you heard of a *curved* CPU cooler screen? Apparently it has 'unmatched performance and visual appeal'
- Nvidia seems to have just confirmed upcoming Arm and Blackwell laptop chips based on its new GB10 processor in collaboration with MediaTek
- Today's Wordle answer for Thursday, January 9
- The Asus ROG Strix Scar 18 now looks like a dazzler of a gaming laptop, even if it's still a bit of a paving slab
- The Witcher 3's now 2-year-old bonus quest is our first taste of the 'vibe' CD Projekt is going for in The Witcher 4
- Mythic Quest Season 4 trailer wrestles with Roblox, AI, and the US Congress
- Splash Damage says layoffs are likely as the Transformers game it announced in 2022 is cancelled
- 2024 was the year updates for old games beat out all the new ones for me
- Legendary joker ports Balatro to the 44-millimeter screen of an Apple Watch, calls it 'Wee Balatro'
- Even I was impressed by LG's gigantic transparent OLED chandelier of hopes and dreams, but I'm still not buying one
- January 8
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- Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang joins the rush to kiss Trump's ring: 'I'd be delighted to go see him and congratulate him'
- Deadly LA fires lead to office closures for major game studios: 'Nothing can be said to truly acknowledge the pain and suffering that we are witnessing,' says Riot CEO
- Inzoi is creating a newfangled life sim NPC that can 'grow and develop its own personality' with Nvidia's AI tech
- Marvel Rivals patch has way more nerfs and buffs than we thought: A whopping 24 heroes are changing this week
- Tiny anime girl cyberprison shown at CES
- Marvel Rivals' most-picked hero also has one of the lowest win rates
- NetEase pulls funding for another studio: Former Halo Infinite design head says Jar of Sparks is 'halting work' while it looks for a new publisher
- WoW's finally upgrading its dreaded swirlies so players can actually tell where it's safe to stand
- I saw a tiny robot dog do a handstand at CES 2025 and I recorded it for your amusement
- AIB vendors getting the RTX 5080's memory config wrong could mean 50-series Super cards have more and faster VRAM
- Early Radeon RX 9070 benchmarks are positive, though don't bank too much on them
- Monster Hunter Wilds is getting more open beta tests before launch—but they'll be missing Capcom's latest performance improvements
- Hyte's new $20 processor frames are yet another way to customise your gaming PC
- D&D's revised Monster Manual is tackling one of the game's biggest hangups—and adding a new menu of BBEGs: 'We wanted the Tarrasque to have some fighting buddies'
- 'That's my ass again': A Marvel Rivals body model realises she's the inspiration behind the new hero Sue Storm after recognising her butt in the teaser trailer
- Ken Levine never expected Take-Two to shutter Irrational after Bioshock Infinite: 'The decision was made at a corporate level'
- Valve is changing the way it updates Deadlock 'to help improve our development process', so you can say goodbye to the regular biweekly posts
- Colorful PC cases are so in this year
- Corsair's new 'personalised RAM' gives you the option to pick the look and speed of memory you hide in the case anyway
- AMD says there are no technical reasons for not having an X3D processor with 3D V-Cache on both CCDs, but we probably won't see such a dual-stacked chip anyway
- The 2025 Asus ROG NUC looks epic and has some mighty specs but a desktop gaming PC will probably be far better value for money
- Final Fantasy 14 data sleuth gathers more info on the game's script, finds Alphinaud is the king of yappers—though Wuk Lamat's in the top 3 after just 1 expansion
- SteamOS beta could be available to download to your handheld gaming PC of choice as soon as April
- All Kell's Fall organ puzzle codes in Destiny 2
- 'It's simply impossible to make a difficulty level that's just right for all players': How Final Fantasy 14's lead battle designer has been playing a precarious balancing game for Dawntrail's dungeons and raids
- The RTX 5090 might make triple-fan cards look light on cooling if these four-fan and five-fan versions from Gigabyte and MSI are anything to go by
- League of Legends' new season trailer is basically an epilogue to Arcane with 6 new Fortiche champion redesigns in it—so if it's not a preview of the upcoming Noxus show, I'll eat my hat
- MSI's spangly MEG Vision X AI desktop PC is just the ticket for anyone wanting to recreate that Scotty scene in Star Trek IV
- This $2000 Dual OLED screen laptop with 'outstanding computing power' has been spotted at CES but I'm unconvinced
- Jen-Hsun reckons Nvidia has driven the 'cost of computing down by 1,000,000 times'
- Will there ever become a point with AI where there are no traditionally rendered frames in games? Perhaps surprisingly, Jen-Hsun says 'no'
- Please join me in getting super excited for all the cool looking survival games coming in 2025 (and beyond)
- Today's Wordle answer for Wednesday, January 8
- The RTX 5090 Founders Edition might be svelte but the Asus ROG Astral cards are absolute chonkers
- Eight years after arriving on Steam, VRChat just hit a new peak concurrent player count
- Shiren the Wanderer: The Mystery Dungeon of Serpentcoil Island review
- January 7
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- The ROG Zephyrus G14 is calling to me even more now it has an RTX 5080 stuffed inside it
- Private Division's 'games and franchises,' including Kerbal Space Program, are reportedly being taken over by former Annapurna Interactive employees
- Competitive shooters are at a crucial crossroads in 2025: 'sweaty' teamplay vs. casual fun
- Call of Duty's development budget ballooned by $250 million between 2015 and 2020 to an eye-watering $700 million
- Facebook and Instagram are ditching fact-checkers in favor of a Community Notes system inspired by X: 'Fact-checkers have just been too politically biased,' Zuckerberg says
- Path of Exile player casually posts mind-blowing collection of ultra-rare and out-of-print items, including a ring there's only 4 copies of in the world
- This keyboard combines two of my favorite things: mechanical switches and bread
- I got hands on with the Lenovo Legion Go S handheld PC with Valve's SteamOS—and it seems like a bit of a winner to me
- Call of Duty's $28 Squid Game skins are the perfect crossover for our capitalist dystopia, and Activision knows exactly what it's doing
- 'We're extending the 6v6 playtest': The game director of Overwatch 2 stokes the flames that 6v6 will make an official comeback someday
- LG wants to turn your Smart TV into an Xbox, announces cloud gaming partnership with Microsoft
- An Elden Ring player has promised to fight Messmer every day with a new weapon until FromSoftware releases Elden Ring: Nightreign
- Corsair heard you like screens and PC cases so it made a new screen for your PC case that you can also use as a, er, screen
- Citizen Sleeper 2 will likely be the last in the series, though its creator plans to come full-circle with a TTRPG
- Nvidia RTX 50-series and dev kit show that rasterization is old news and we're now firmly in the era of AI rendering
- AMD might have told us little about its RDNA 4 graphics cards but at least we know the Radeon RX 9070 and 9070 XT have 16 GB of VRAM
- Nvidia's impressive AI-based computer tuneup tool G-Assist launches next month but the best bit is missing
- 'New year, new low, Microsoft'—even the search engines are firing shots on social media now, as Google employees take aim at Bing over 'long history of tricks'
- Extraction MOBA Seekers of Skyveil will launch into early access in March, but first, the 'largest playtest' yet is coming later this week
- Logitech has announced an 'intelligent streaming assistant' in Streamlabs to tell you when your live stream sucks
- Uber-bright new OLED TVs from LG and Samsung should finally enable PC gaming monitors with full-screen brightness of up to 400 nits
- Tencent has been designated a Chinese military company by the US Department of Defense, which the conglomerate calls a 'misunderstanding'
- Razer blew hot and cold air down my neck and rumbled my posterior at CES 2025, and I liked it
- Intel on its next-gen laptop chip: 'Panther Lake will take everything you love about Lunar Lake to the next level'
- Nvidia announces dedicated GeForce Now app for Steam Decks and more, streamlining cloud gaming for mixed-reality headset wearers too
- With its Prime and TUF Radeon RX 9070 graphics cards, Asus is ditching thermal paste for a thermal pad that melts when hot
- Razer has released a backseat gaming AI bot called Ava, and I'm not sure whether using it should be considered cheating or not
- PUBG teammates not good enough? Nvidia's new generative AI-led 'Co-Playable Character' aims to offer you an alternative
- AMD and Intel launch mainstream and budget motherboard chipsets at CES but some of the codenames are so similar that I've already mistaken them for each other
- Mister Fantastic will be Marvel Rivals' first duelist vanguard hybrid who can deflect Iron Man's ult and stun enemies into one another—in other words, he's busted
- The future of the PC according to Intel is a CPU-GPU-NPU trifecta and that definitely includes gaming
- The SSDs and RAM on this new Asus ROG Strix Scar 18 can be upgraded entirely without tools
- I reckon the Nvidia RTX 5090 Founders Edition is the best looking graphics card I've seen in... well, ever, actually
- The HyperX Saga and Saga Pro are magnetic build-a-mouse kits with interchangeable components and the option to add 3D printed parts
- Nvidia announces DLSS 4 with Multi Frame Generation, says it can help multiply frame rates by 'up to 8X over traditional brute-force rendering'
- Nvidia's new RTX 5070 will deliver 'RTX 4090 performance at $549' when it launches in February
- The new 'aggressively priced' Razer Blade 16 is slimmer, sleeker, AMD Strix Point-equipped, and may just be the Asus G16 competitor I've been hoping for
- Today's Wordle answer for Tuesday, January 7
- Alienware's new Area-51 desktop PCs are built for upgrading as it finally ditches the proprietary parts and covers everything in QR codes
- What's cooler than being cool? HP's Omen Max 16 featuring an omnidirectional fan that thwarts dust buildup and keeps this gaming laptop a little closer to ice cold
- Nvidia has announced a whole host of gaming laptop GPUs at CES 2025, from the RTX 5070 all the way to the big RTX 5090
- Nvidia announces the RTX 50-series, led by the $1,999 RTX 5090 with 'twice the performance of the 4090'
- Helldivers 2 is getting a film adaptation, even though Starship Troopers already exists
- BioShock maestro Ken Levine says Judas will double down on reacting to player choices because it's the future of games: 'I've never been a big fan of cutscenes because they're not interactive'
- Marvel Rivals' first balance patch targets two popular Duelists and Jeff's ultimate
- Nvidia CES 2025 keynote live: new GPUs or there'll be a riot
- January 6
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- AMD's RDNA 4 GPUs are about efficiency in terms of performance and price: 'We know where gamers buy products, it's well below that $1,000 price point'
- AMD says 'the performance data out there for RDNA 4 is completely inaccurate'
- Acer unveils the comically huge Nitro Blaze 11, a gaming handheld more than three times the weight of a Nintendo Switch
- Less than 2 years after launch, 2K Games delivers a fatal piledriver to WWE 2K23, taking servers offline and removing it from Steam
- OG Fallout lead Tim Cain dusts off a trove of old development photos dating back to 1994 to show 'what development looked like in the '90s'
- Intel is 'confident' about next-gen Arc Celestial GPUs following Battlemage's success
- Marvel Rivals mods that replace Captain America with Trump and Biden removed by Nexus Mods: 'We don't want to handle all the nutjobs that come out the woodwork whenever these mods get posted'
- Former Starfield lead quest designer says we're seeing a 'resurgence of short games' because people are 'becoming fatigued' with 100-hour monsters
- See ya later Inspiron and XPS: Dell has streamlined its branding down to a very Apple-like Dell, Dell Pro, and Dell Pro Max
- AMD announces new driver-based AI for 'AMD-related questions', local file summaries, and image generation for its new line of graphics cards
- The new ROG Flow Z13 is ditching dedicated graphics but making up for it with AMD's next-gen Ryzen AI Max APU
- It looks like AMD's expecting the RX 9070 XT to rival the RTX 4070 Ti, which is fine if it ends up being the right price
- AMD Ryzen AI Max is finally here: 'the most advanced mobile x86 processor ever created' with 40 RDNA 3.5 CUs and 16 Zen 5 cores
- AMD announces more powerful Ryzen Z2 Series processors for future PC handhelds, but Valve says 'there is and will be no Z2 Steam Deck'
- AMD just gave us our first look at the Radeon RX 9070 XT and RX 9070 RDNA 4 GPUs and I am officially whelmed
- AMD has just announced the two new 9000-series X3D chips we were hoping for, the Ryzen 9 9950X3D and 9900X3D
- AMD's throwing the considerably hefty Ryzen 9 9950X3D at gaming laptops and calling it a Ryzen 9 9955HX3D
- AMD's FSR 4 will use machine learning but requires an RDNA 4 GPU, promises 'a dramatic improvement in terms of performance and quality'
- Intel unveils second round of updates intended to bring Arrow Lake desktop chips up to expectations: 'our software for the 200S has reached full performance'
- Marvel Rivals season 1 starts on January 10 as Dracula and Doctor Doom team up to 'disrupt the moon’s orbit' and unleash an army of vampires on New York City
- Crytek went so overboard on the Crysis tech it created a whole blushing system, implemented nose shadows, and sent devs to photograph leaves in Haiti to get the translucency right: 'We went over bonkers on this one'
- Intel announces new mobile Core Ultra 200HX Series processors to power the next generation of gaming laptops
- Existential horror or cute fuzzy bag buddy? CES is off to a flying start with the wackiest tech for 2025
- This Swedish 'gamer' puffer jacket has pockets so big you can jam a full-sized keyboard and laptop in them because why not?
- These are the 14 biggest upcoming RPGs of 2025—get ready for another amazing year for the genre
- Microsoft's latest trick to get you using Bing is disguising it as Google
- Crysis' magical Nanosuit was so convincing that a nanotech conference asked Crytek's boss to give a keynote speech: 'I said, excuse me, but this is all fake'
- That Banana clicker game is somehow still one of Steam's most-played games, with 100K+ concurrents seeing it consistently outranking the likes of Call of Duty and Helldivers 2
- Microsoft plans on investing $80,000,000,000 in AI this year, with no sign of the machine learning spending spree stalling just yet
- Balatro developer bestows the 'very prestigious Golden Thunk award' on Animal Well, says it's so good it makes him 'feel like an imposter'
- I was wrong—Call of Duty: Black Ops 6 players are still finding fault with the Squid Game skins despite them looking cool
- Corsair rolls out its first CUDIMM memory sticks for Intel Arrow Lake gaming PCs and they're as pricey as you'd expect them to be
- Hero modders take a break from their 25-year quest to make the rest of Morrowind to make the Oblivion we should have got instead
- The most absurd Magic collection I've ever seen, including a Black Lotus that's 'the best of the best', is going for a mere $2.2 million
- 'Game has become mahjong': WoW Classic player installs over 3,600 addons in a bout of eldritch madness, somehow only needs to remove 20 to get it to 'work'
- Now D&D's 2024 rules revamp is almost finished, I've been visited by the ghosts of TTRPG past, present, and future to help me predict the next 5-10 years
- Today's Wordle answer for Monday, January 6
- Finally someone turned Doom into an enriching cultural experience for art snobs
- Five new Steam games you probably missed (January 6, 2025)
- January 5
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- Zach-like automation puzzle game ABI-DOS is available on Steam for free
- It sounds like we'll have to wait even longer to find out what the deal is with OD, Hideo Kojima and Jordan Peele's game, movie, and 'new form of media' that had the trailer with all the faces cryptically talking at us
- I've seen enough: No more forcing singleplayer studios to make mediocre live service games
- After losing his father to cancer, mega streamer Shroud is running a January 'Fragathon' where he'll donate to cancer research for each in-game kill
- Today's Wordle answer for Sunday, January 5
- If you want Fallout: New Vegas to look a little more lived-in, these mods have you covered
- January 4
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- Elden Ring: Nightreign players won't be able to troll each other with messages
- Meta wants AI characters to fill up Facebook and Instagram 'kind of in the same way accounts do,' but also had to delete a humiliating first run of its official bots
- Minecraft creator Notch says that he 'basically announced minecraft 2' with a Twitter poll and a commitment to making a spiritual successor
- Today's Wordle answer for Saturday, January 4
- Civilization 7 senior historian prays it'll be a 'gateway drug' into textbooks: 'I teach undergraduates in my other life, and my God, man, they don't read'
- January 3
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- 6 games that could be bigger hits than you're expecting in 2025
- Floridians appear to be frantically Google searching for VPNs in the wake of the state's invasive porn ban
- Fallout co-creator Tim Cain says violence will be the default in AAA RPGs as long as we keep buying it: 'Companies don't make them because they feel like it. They make them because they sell'
- 'Elon is a father who gets lots of sex' somehow leads to renewed claims that Elon Musk superfan Adrian Dittmann is actually Musk himself
- What are your 2025 gaming resolutions?
- The FBI put a $5 million bounty on the 'Cryptoqueen' last year but still hasn't found her, so take your pick: Russia, South Africa, or murdered on a yacht in 2018
- The Witcher season 4: Everything we know about Hemsworth's debut on The Continent
- Helldivers 2 director decides to kick off 2025 by wading into a conversation about DEI: 'Make good games, don't make a contemporary political statement'
- PC Gamer's Best City Builder of 2024 has sold over 2.5 million, but here's the big news: Now it has bridges
- Popeye and Tintin have entered the public domain, so I'll just go ahead and start the countdown clock for our first Sailor Man soulslike
- The TDP of the Nvidia GeForce RTX 5090 and 5080 have been leaked, suggesting it's a little less power-hungry than we thought, though still massive
- Marvel Rivals admits that it accidentally banned some players for trying to run the game in a different operating system, which isn't cheating
- Ex-Bioshock lead Ken Levine says the problem with AAA games is how risk-averse they've become: 'If you don't innovate, especially in games, you start losing people'
- Marvel Rivals has some truly cursed mods, but that's what happens when you mix weirdly detailed character models with the internet
- MSI's new 24-inch gaming monitor hits a sizzling 600 Hz and has me wondering how many Hz you genuinely need
- AGDQ 2025 kicks off this weekend, featuring an Elden Ring saxophone boss rush, an 'All Romances' run of Fallout: New Vegas, and some of the worst games ever made
- A German retailer reports the Ryzen 7 9800X3D has outsold the entire non-X3D 9000 line
- LG's new 45-inch 5K2K OLED could be the pixel-packed gaming monitor you've been waiting for
- Bioshock's Big Daddy Ken Levine says that while he doesn't want to 'underestimate' AI, he's 'not overly impressed' by it, either
- The Secret Level creator wants you to know that they did ask Halo to take part in the series, but Microsoft turned them down: 'Man, you think we didn't talk to Halo?'
- Defending a kinda wimpy Killzone crossover gun, Helldivers 2's Johan Pilestedt says the game's past balance woes were due to weapons being 'seen as game objects' and that 'balance doesn't matter'
- Nvidia is giving away 5 classic Jensen-signed GeForce cards if you tweet to build hype for its CES 2025 briefing, and its first choice is almost older than me
- Hiding in the shadows, this Nvidia teaser video might have given us our first look at a Founders Edition RTX 50-series GPU
- MSI, Asus and Samsung are announcing new 27-inch 4K models with '4th gen' QD-OLED panels but they're not a huge step forward
- PC Gamer magazine's new issue is on sale now: Sid Meier's Civilization 7
- Today's Wordle answer for Friday, January 3
- Gulp! Dune: Awakening beta testers are dying of thirst nearly as often as they're dying of sandworms, and some are even drinking mouse blood to stay alive
- 8 bold gaming predictions for 2025
- January 2
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- Net neutrality is dead again: US court says the FCC can't bring back Obama-era internet regulations
- Clobberin' time is confirmed: The Fantastic Four is coming to Marvel Rivals and they're bringing a cute little robot along with them
- New beverage technology unlocked: this gaming controller mug keeps your drink warm and has a trigger so you can sip and shoot at the same time
- The PC game releases we're most excited about in January
- Eternal Strands, the physics-heavy RPG being headed by Dragon Age veteran Mike Laidlaw, will roll out a playable demo a week ahead of its full release
- Thanks to Doom, I can finally solve captcha prompts without wanting to spoon my eyeballs out and wander into the wilderness
- 'Lunatic' crypto fugitive Do Kwon finally extradited from Montenegro to the US to face charges over $40 billion crash
- Hi-Fi Rush studio Tango Gameworks is officially reborn for the New Year, with a slightly new name
- Call of Duty: Black Ops 6 hits peak lack of awareness with its Squid Game skins which, unfortunately, look rad as hell
- This upcoming Micro-OLED VR headset has absolutely everything and weighs less than 200 grams but of course it costs nearly 4x the Quest 3
- G-Man's voice actor rings in the new year by dropping a cryptic tweet grenade promising 'unexpected surprises' into the starving Half-Life 3 fanbase
- Ultra-high refresh gaming monitors might be all the rage in 2025 if MSI's and ASRock's latest 500+ Hz panels are anything to go by
- PUBG creator Brendan Greene swears his infinite, mega-ambitious digital universe isn't like all the others: 'I want to build a metaverse because I don't think anyone else is'
- Marvel Rivals' FPS bug puts players with potato PCs at a disadvantage, and that's not the only optimisation issue happening right now
- Not only did FF14's controversial chatter Wuk Lamat rank 1st for words spoken in Dawntrail, 'Wuk Lamat' was the most-used phrase by the characters in 2nd and 3rd place, too
- Twitter is dead, X is a cesspit, let's make 2025 the year of the message board
- A debloating wizard has managed to get Windows 11 running on just 184 MB of RAM, and it looks like it can actually run apps
- Today's Wordle answer for Thursday, January 2
- Skyblivion only has one region of the map left to finish: 'We are nearly ready to release an entirely remastered Elder Scrolls game'
- Former Age of Empires developer says the RTS genre's stuck in a rut: 'you're still playing the same game'
- January 1
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- 2025 PC hardware preview: This is the tech we want in our gaming rigs from the coming year
- Why do some games get a pass for jank and others don't?
- After a year in its company, I've done a complete 180 on my Steam Deck
- With the next Elder Scrolls and Fallout games still years away, here are 6 upcoming total conversion mods for Skyrim and Fallout 4 to get excited about
- Sorry, 2024's record-breaking 402,000,000 Mbps internet connection isn't available at your house yet
- Today's Wordle answer for Wednesday, January 1
