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- August 4
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- Sometimes you have to take a break from work to pay respects to the PC flight stick that ruled the '90s
- One of Big Walk's puzzles is simple to solve but still gave us an existential crisis
- March romance walkthrough: All the best gifts for the grumpy blacksmith in Fields of Mistria
- Statistically, your PC probably doesn't come close to the recommended RAM requirement for this third-person shooter's upcoming playtest
- Rockstar's great Midnight Club racing series was killed off for one simple reason, and you can probably guess what it was
- Larian drops new Baldur's Gate 3 stats and you're all monsters: More non-Durge players killed Alfira than Durge and, worst of all, 9,000 people played on portrait monitors
- Okay, this time it seems like Valve has *actually* fixed Steam's local game transfer problem
- I desperately need this TTRPG to become a videogame—it's one of the coolest things I've ever seen
- Endless Legend 2 is escaping early access in September and adding new major, minor and rogue factions
- Noctua NL-LC1 review
- NAND and HBM have been merged into a dorky megazord for datacenters by Sandisk and SK hynix
- SpaceXAI pats itself on the back for removing temporary turbines in Memphis under agreed order over the next year: "We care deeply about being good neighbors"
- Resident Evil Veronica hits 2 million wishlists to absolutely no one's surprise—come on, it's got the RE2 and RE4 remake team working on it
- OpenAI calls out Apple's 'careless, aggressive and oddly personal lawsuit' in latest blog post
- Our long Caribbean nightmare is over: You can hide the blow pipe in Assassin's Creed Black Flag Resynced now
- Gamers report a BIOS update is bricking their Legion Go handhelds, and Lenovo is quoting over $250 to fix the issue outside of warranty
- Stellar Blade boss completely misses the point of why people are upset with Blood Rain's AI slop video: 'The AI is not creating [Evie] from scratch'
- Gigabyte is launching B550 AM4 motherboards and recommending four-year-old CPUs because the memory crisis is really that bad
- Onimusha: Way of the Sword's bad guy has 'an edge of eroticism', confirms Capcom dev — he's 'very alluring in the way that he moves'
- Arctic announces price rollback thanks to a US gov tariff refund, which will continue until 'every single dollar Arctic received… has been paid back to our customers'
- I tried the 'stress test your GPU hopes you never run' and it made my main gaming rig look like a chump
- If you hate parrying, projectiles in Beast of Reincarnation are ridiculously overpowered if you focus on leveling them up
- Beast of Reincarnation review
- August 3
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- Henry Cavill confirms he'll star in the live action Warhammer 40K series written by Mike Flanagan, but his character 'shall remain a secret for now'
- Dave Bautista reportedly 'in talks' to take over the role of Kratos in Amazon's God of War series
- The original ethernet cable was canonically '1968 Corvette yellow' to distinguish it from a power cable—because you literally had to drill into it to install it
- Big Walk ignores 'friendslop' trends, and is better for it
- 'Wait for me, my Czech friend': Japanese dev adds Czech localization just for the one Steam user who wishlisted his game in the Czech Republic
- 'I would die': Obsession star Inde Navarrette would love a role in Resident Evil
- Microsoft is planning to bring Xbox 360 games to PC, according to leaked documents
- MacBook Neo outperforms Dell XPS 13 in Cyberpunk 2077 benchmark—though I wouldn't recommend gaming on either notebook
- Razer Blade 16 (2026) review
- MSI unveils its first 4K OLED monitor using a promising inkjet-printed panel, and it's not made by Samsung or LG
- Help shape the future of PC Gamer and enter for a chance to win $200
- Dragon's Dogma 2 will be getting an endgame hard mode difficulty in the future 'for seasoned players'
- Valve may be putting the finishing touches to the Steam Frame software stack, because Lepton and FEX are now on Steam
- Communication is the biggest puzzle piece in chill co-op game Big Walk, so don't take any shortcuts by using Discord
- Noctua shows off 'custom-built torture-test rigs' for testing fans, and now I'm afraid of ever setting foot in the Noctua factory
- 'Deck de France' is a new free software that can turn your bike trainer into a controller for your Steam Deck
- Microsoft raises prices of Xbox by 25% to 30% in Europe with the Series S now costing more than the Series X at launch
- FF7 Remake director had to tell his team to 'be reasonable' because they got too excited about the FF14 crossover: 'That would be putting the cart before the horse'
- OEM Steam Deck LCD batteries are back in stock on iFixIt, but now cost $130 for just the part
- Steam Week in Review: Once positioned as mainstream-friendly PC gaming solutions, can Valve's hardware survive the memory crisis?
- Company that said it could scan and destroy books for AI data-harvesting has deleted that part of its website: 'no such service was ever brought to life'
- August 2
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- Owlcat co-founder says the studio won't turn its back on hardcore RPGs as it hits 600 employees and preps its own Mass Effect killer
- One day Owlcat will make an RPG that's perfect out of the box, but 3 years after launch, it's time to get disgustingly into Warhammer 40K: Rogue Trader
- American Truck Simulator is headed to North Dakota in its latest DLC
- Champion modder ports the OG 'Father' Nier back into the PC remaster, original voiceovers and all
- Stellar Blade: Blood Rain's AI slop music video is terrible for us all
- Baldur's Gate 3 is the cheapest it's ever been to celebrate its third anniversary
- One of Kerbal Space Program's biggest inspirations was a promotional Flash game for Top Gear: 'That was the most similar game to KSP that I could find back then'
- Perennial early access game Project Zomboid hit a new concurrent player record after a huge map update added reworked towns, a spooky orphanage and '400 procedural basements'
- Space Marine 2's latest updates add Terminator Sorcerers and Steam Workshop support, so you can now play co-op with 9 other players if you want
- I enjoyed this video of Oblivion Remastered actor Wes Johnson goofing around in a sound booth dressed as Sheogorath, but a patch for the PC version would be nice too, Bethesda
- The maker of the Baldur's Gate 3 over-the-shoulder camera mod has gone to great lengths to demonstrate it's not like other third-person viewpoint solutions
- August 1
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- Developer of 'Spanking Exorcist' game held up by Steam content moderation releases free 'apology game' where you spank him as punishment: 'We would be delighted if you enjoy it'
- 10 expansions that were better than the actual game
- Dead Cells studio thanks Guillermo del Toro for playing its game, gently suggests he try the easy mode
- The voice of Shinji in Evangelion says AI voice cloning is 'heartbreaking,' calls for Japanese government to intervene
- Former Sony exec Shuhei Yoshida is 'a huge fan' of Bloodborne, says it's 'a complete mystery' why it was never put on PC
- OpenAI CEO suggests parents make AI-generated podcasts to remember their children's lives for them
- My new favourite Tolkien game is free, has over 40 years of history, and would run on a toaster
- The great RPG debate: Do RPGs really need romanceable companions?
- Crimson Desert adds 133 new trading posts and overhauls the in-game economy with supply and demand
- Question time: What makes a 'good' grind in an MMO?
- The games industry's 'fear of risk is currently the largest risk it faces' according to Nuclear Throne's producer
- Dragon Age's former producer had envisioned a 'Champions Edition' equivalent to Mass Effect's Legendary Edition, but he doesn't think it will happen anymore: 'There are basically no companies that could help you'
- We haven't needed motion blur in games for a long time, so I wish it would stop being the default
- I was excited for this Quake port of Half-Life until I discovered the creator's wild AI conspiracy theories
- Palworld 1.0 review
- In happier times, Sony was courting PC gamers with lavish magazine ads for its 'most popular CD-ROM titles'
