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August 17
- Warner Bros. mentions existence of 'second installment of Hogwarts Legacy,' and that's about it
- Toymaker Mattel launches a new game studio with a focus on Roblox and Fortnite that could signal a growing shift in where studios spend money
- I'm modding GTA 5 every day until it becomes GTA 6 or breaks, starting with a new vehicle and enough missiles to level a city block
- Resident Evil Requiem's Angela Sant'Albano reportedly joins Tides of Annihilation, replacing Jennifer English as the new voice of its protagonist
- Beastfolk Barber is an adorable hairdressing sim that offers up more than just shop talk
- Intel is keeping Raptor Lake CPUs around for 'years to come' as a cheaper alternative to DDR5-compatible chips
- How NordVPN protects your gaming desktop
- Intel might be cooking up a budget-friendly handheld chip but I'd still be surprised if it's cheap enough or fast enough to matter
- The Sinking City 2 review
- SSD price increases might be with us for the long haul, as Phison's CEO says NAND supply won't catch up with demand for four years
- Tests show newer OLED TVs can still experience significant burn-in because they're much brighter, proving that you can't have your cake and eat it
- Marvel Rivals players are messing with their config files 'to cancel games with no consequence' before they get a loss
- Kingdom Hearts and Until Dawn actress Hayden Panettiere has died at 36
- The Elder Scrolls 6 is probably subtitled Sentinel, and there's been an easter egg in Starfield hinting at it this whole time
- Steam Week in Review: Here are the 32 Steam games brave enough to release on GTA 6 day
- Request for comment: Which way did you go when you reached the controversial ending of Mass Effect 3?
August 16
- League of Legends YouTuber unearths the original investor pitch from when the game was called Onslaught: War of the Immortals
- David Brevik, creator of Diablo, reveals the 'worst ending' to any game he's played: 'But I really love the game. It's amazing'
- Where's the weirdest place you've heard videogame music?
- The next big videogame TV adaptation is a Kingdom Hearts anime
- Iron Nest is the best 'Battleship' game I've played in years—and it doesn't even have boats
- Marvel Tōkon's simple but effective combo trials are an elegant tutorial solution that I wish more fighting games had
- I played the economic simulator that could 'make a convert out of Karl Marx himself' to see if it could convert me
- The Quake community simply cannot stop delivering, having just released a 22-map 'Deathmatch Jam' to celebrate the shooter's 30th birthday
- You could win a slice of €30,000 by building the best mod for Mount & Blade 2's controversial seafaring expansion
- Kingdom Hearts 4 finally has a release window, and it's sooner than I expected
- Poll: Do you turn your PC off at night?
August 15
- Saber's AI Rideshare Stimulator controversy almost closes on high note with CEO apology, then he calls Portal scribe who mocked him an 'unsuccessful writer'
- Matthew McConaughey could have played Joel in The Last of Us, but says 'it just wasn't for me at the time'
- Simpsons creator Matt Groening implies that a Hit & Run remaster is coming, current showrunner hastily disputes
- Witcher 3 designer says it wasn't easy to convince players its NPC simulation wasn't 'just fakery': 'People nowadays are interested in those kinds of details, and it really came to haunt us'
- I got so freaked out by the fact that Gordon Freeman is canonically 27 that I decided to find out how old all the other classic FPS protagonists are, and it didn't make me feel better
- EverQuest Legends is the only MMO that could hook me in 2026
- Star Wars: The Old Republic hopes to recapture the 'classic' experience with difficulty options and a new way to start from scratch
- RPG companions need to be hateable, otherwise nobody's going to love them
- The bigwigs who want AI-generated NPCs and writing think you're too dumb to appreciate a good story—don't prove them right
- This Solitaire game is so tiny it can load from a QR code, which is just what I need in the age of massive games and expensive storage
- You can now play the secret best immersive sim in coop thanks to this mod
- Stalker 2's imminent free update aims to make the sequel more atmospheric and less relentlessly hostile: 'The Zone isn't one constant gunfight'
August 14
- Before Grand Theft Auto Online, GTA 4's multiplayer added 'glorious chaos' to the open world sandbox
- Disney says that Kingdom Hearts is now a 'billion dollar franchise'
- Modding the Khajiit lands into Oblivion is still the cat's meow
- Here's a first for Call of Duty: The Modern Warfare 4 beta will have a campaign mission and Warzone stuff
- WoW's haunted: Players report that their disconnected friends' characters are starting to play the game on their own
- Thimbleweed Park 2 is happening because Ron Gilbert's friend knows a rich guy who's a big fan of the original and wanted more
- Old School RuneScape began when a dev 'found the 2007 server in their desk drawer:' 13 years later, it's setting subscriber records for the long-lived MMO
- Pocketpair 'not planning to spend a year making a massive update' for Palworld 1.1
- US Senate launches investigation into Roblox: 'Children on your platform are hurting. Congress will not look the other way'
- A dev tried to warn WB Games not to launch Lord of the Rings: War in the North 10 days before Skyrim, but was 'overruled'
- We've been tracking graphics card prices for exactly one year and it's never been worse than this
- Fields of Mistria review
- Arc Raiders' next major update will present players with a 'new high-level challenge' with a frozen map and arcs which will 'challenge the ways you've learned to move'
- 'To own a Razer Artisan Keycap is to display one’s allegiance, a mark of belonging within the Cult of Razer' says the PR nonsense behind this $90 coil of snakes
- The Epic Games Launcher will be available on Linux 'soon' says dev, after it's had a bit of work
- Palworld fans 'do not realize the sheer number of collabs we've rejected' even with the survival game's 'fun-first approach'
- Marvel Tokon: Fighting Souls review
- GameSir T7 Pro Sugar Whirl review
- After a public scrap between CEO and former writer, Saber Interactive finally adds AI disclaimer to Steam page and doubles down: 'AI can and should help shape gamer experiences'
- Asus ROG Harpe II Extreme Edition 20 review
- Microsoft's blobby AI companion has begun his ascent to the heavens to join Clippy and Cortana. Okay, he's being booted to another platform
- Come September, you won't need a single Total War: Warhammer game to play its colossal, trilogy-spanning Immortal Empires campaign
- Why I love my gaming notebooks
August 13
- Shoutout to this particular skeleton, who researchers believe is the first confirmed case of being totally obliterated by a trebuchet
- Nightdive's System Shock remake is coming to VR
- This spy game is a dream come true if you love spending time in character creators
- If you're not paying attention to retro game recompilations, you're missing the most exciting thing in gaming right now
- The 'father of Master Chief' doesn't like the new Halo's new halos
- Netflix closes Oxenfree developer Night School, just a month after praising its new game as one of the company's 'most successful cloud game debuts'
- The Lords of the End Times are landing in Total War: Warhammer 3 on September 24, and everything's coming up rat men
- Beast of Reincarnation director apologizes for not providing 'a sufficiently enjoyable experience,' but promises Game Freak is working on it
- A redditor is making super-fancy marble Steam Machine faceplates, *allegedly* sourced from the same quarry as Michelangelo
- Where to find Hokuryu Sunflower Farm in Forza Horizon 6
- How Stephen King watching a train hit a kid led to Kiefer Sutherland making his videogame horse crap on command: A PC Gamer Causality Chain™
- Where to find the Shimanoyama region Treasure Hunt in Forza Horizon 6
- Is it a bird? Is it a plane? No, it's the Steam Boy, a Steam Deck crammed inside a Game Boy-like chassis
- Stop Killing Games has joined a lawsuit against Sony's move to digital-only sales: 'You won't have any choice at all'
- What to expect from Expeditions: Samurai's early access build
- OLED monitors more popular than ever says analyst firm, which makes sense as one of the few good deals left in PC gaming
- Redditor buys what looks to be a prototype Xbox Elite Series 3 controller, posts about it on Reddit, then the thread goes dark
- Videogame lawyer says it's become 'just boilerplate' this year to include no-AI clauses in contracts: 'It's not worth the legal liability'
- PC Gamer magazine's new issue is on sale now: Onimusha: Way of the Sword, with a huge A1 poster and Top 100 games mini-mag
- Update: Saber CEO apologizes to fired writer for insulting comments to press
- Big Walk devs talk the Australian bush and friendslop: 'I'd prefer the second word wasn't slop'
August 12
- Big Walk review
- Take-Two won't reveal raw GTA 6 preorder numbers because it doesn't know what they mean: 'It's just never happened before'
- Twitch under fire for new gen AI training system that harvests streamer data for Amazon, says it's on by default because 'if it was opt-in, nobody would opt in'
- Helldivers 2 borrows from Dead Space and Silent Hill for its horrific new aliens
- Wes Fenlon's recommendations
- Immortality creator Sam Barlow reveals his next game: A 'sci-fi horror' collaboration with Brandon Cronenberg
- CD Projekt cuts more than 20% of The Witcher spinoff development team 'to reflect the project's needs at this stage of development'
- It looks like Windows updates might actually be speeding up the OS now
- Amazon drops Lost Ark and Throne and Liberty
- Dawn of War 4 has been delayed: 'We saw an opportunity to further enhance Dawn of War 4 and deliver the quality of experience we've always envisioned'
- Someone hooked an RX 9070 XT up to their Steam Machine and it works surprisingly well, like fitting a V8 engine into your Honda Civic
- You can now cuddle Helldivers 2's beloved SEAF troopers, though maybe don't do what I did and try it when a Crusher's standing next to you
- Sony has 'zero understanding for what their customers want' says gaming preservation group
- Nvidia reckons new $500 billion investment should allay fears AI companies are just funded by the same pot of cash moving around in one big circle. Reassured yet?
- Crimson Desert has done so well it'll be getting a DLC this year, with more details coming sooner than I expected given Pearl Abyss' breakneck pace
- Marvel Tōkon's first big PC patch has mostly fixed performance woes, though it hasn't done much for its Steam reviews
- All new titles in Helldivers 2's Devoid of Liberty update
- Micron's top brass wins the memory crisis corpo double speak award: 'We do not have line of sight as to when that supply vector will intersect the demand vector'
- Asus ROG Swift PG32UCWM review
- Welcome to the internet in 2026, where AI agents are both victim and attacker in malware wars
- After giving it 2 patches and dropping it like a stone, Bethesda promises to bring Switch 2 optimisations to Oblivion Remastered on other platforms
- Lego shut down a Bionicle fangame 8 years in the making—1 year later, its developers are back with something legally distinct and arguably cooler
- Harry Potter nerds reportedly forced an undersea cable to be moved to avoid Dobby the house elf's grave, now runs close to Bronze Age remains instead
- Phantom Blade Zero just dropped a huge secret: Hong Kong legend Donnie Yen has been guiding its kungfupunk stunts since 2023
- This week's most compelling new Steam game is Horse Magnifier, which is about magnifying horses
- Xbox's CEO teased that she's seen The Elder Scrolls 6, so now we have to guess what it's called
August 11
- Saber Interactive denies replacing writer with ChatGPT on its new driving game, but says it will use AI for dialog 'as the number of passengers in the game is infinite'
- Absolutely everything you need to know about romance and marriage in Fields of Mistria
- Hardcore FPS immediately becomes Steam top seller as devs list '10 reasons not to buy' it
- A long-lost Lord of the Rings action RPG makes a surprise return to Steam
- Believe the hype for Wardogs, possibly the next great multiplayer FPS
- Saber CEO hides jab at Randy Pitchford in game trailer as payback for Pitchford dumping on Embracer: 'Without Embracer, Randy is performing magic tricks at birthday parties for a living'
- In a fascinating use of free will, Old School RuneScape player spent 4,304 hours catching 275,196 shrimp and 257,064 anchovies to max out his fishing skill in the worst way possible
- Mark Zuckerberg's rambling AI manifesto is 6,434 words of high-handed platitudes and dubious conclusions
- These could be the first leaked images of the new Logitech Superstrike, which looks rather dashing in all-black
- It's time to update Asus Armoury Crate and several other Asus software tools again, as another high severity security vulnerability has been discovered
- GTA 6 might not technically be $100, but it's had its cake and ate it too as pre-orders are 'skewing more to the premium edition'
- 3 months after the release of Directive 8020, Supermassive Games is laying off even more people
- Yet another sign the Steam Frame is approaching launch—maybe really for real this time?—as the SteamOS beta adds 'preliminary support' for its wireless adapter
- MMO heads rejoice, Razer is bringing out the Naga V3 Pro with upgraded switches, loads of customizability and a ridiculous DPI
- Thief designer says that the immersive sim audience is too small for AAA games: 'There's quite a few of us who think the way to do it is be III or AA'
- Pulsar Feinmann F01 Noctua Edition review
- Star Wars Zero Company is a very safe XCOM descendant, but its most interesting parts are found in its Midnight Suns DNA
- After 10 years, Terraria's biggest mod shuts down due to an 'irrecoverably tainted reputation' and grooming allegations
- Star Wars: Galactic Racer's singleplayer is a clever roguelike gauntlet I could easily sink hours into
- As if PCs weren't expensive enough already, Microsoft is reportedly now charging OEMs more for Windows licenses
- Firefox stunts on Edge as Microsoft gears up to neuter adblockers: 'uBlock Origin isn't going anywhere'
- A researcher says 'we just undid about 20 years of progress' when it comes to memory prices, so I broke out my calculator and compared actual RAM kits from 2007 to 2026
- The Simpsons is back in Fortnite, bringing 'one of the best' seasons to Reload
- Big Walk has sold 1 million copies, making it a bigger hit than Untitled Goose Game
- Fans spent 3 years secretly crafting a full Metroid Prime 2D demake, and it rocks
August 10
- Halloween: The Game is banned in Australia because incentivized drug use is bad but incentivized ultra-violence isn't
- The vibey offroading game with more than a million Steam wishlists has a release date
- id Software dev says mass layoffs like Microsoft's are weakening the games industry, because developers 'don't have the incentive to care anymore'
- 50 Cent is producing a Payday project for 'the screen'
- Grand Theft Auto 5 averages more copies sold per year than most megahits manage in their entire lifetime, with a total of 230 million since 2013
- Battlefield 6 player claims to have received Steam refund after 470 hours due to surprise mode removal
- 'Thank you so much for the best weekend ever': The id Software gang got together at QuakeCon, and it sure looks like everyone had a great time
- Overwatch's old battle passes are finally coming back permanently starting next month, but some of the rewards will be left out
- There was originally supposed to be a 'much bigger' reveal of Light No Fire: here's why Sean Murray changed his mind
- Steam user data 'may have been compromised' by a cyberattack targeting Valve's European shipping partner
- Payday has come to Fortnite, because today's cool gamers are 'discovering legendary IPs in entirely new ways'
- How to upgrade the Cargo Elevator antennas in Arc Raiders
- Persona big boss says 'I think we have to do' remakes of the series' most-neglected games
- The Steam Machine design makes for a frightfully good tissue box, and now you can 3D print your own
- 1666: Amsterdam has the makings of something brilliant but I came away from its preview with a bad feeling as its early access release creeps too close for comfort
- Keychron is experimenting with a mic-equipped mini keeb that lets you chat to your AI agent while it vibe codes, and I have my head in my hands
- The 'world's first' water-cooled Steam Machine is a Frankenstein's monster of neon pink tubing and external hardware
- Sovereign Tower review
- Square Enix's 88% profit-bump financial report gives me hope for FF14, suggesting the MMO's finally not having to carry the company for once
- Corsair isn't rolling in money from its mega-expensive RAM kits—and it's all thanks to higher component costs and lower demand
- Sean Murray still loves playing the 2016 version of No Man's Sky: 'It's a little bit weirder, but it's got its charm'
- Light No Fire will 'absolutely' be like No Man's Sky, with new features coming post-release: Sean Murray says he'd like to still be working on it '10 years after launch'
- Dev at id Software says Microsoft 'burned a lot of bridges' in the industry: 'They fundamentally don't understand art, they don't understand games'
- Marvel Rivals hits the Ozempic, comes back 40 GB lighter
- Valve has added 'initial' SteamOS gamepad support for several new gaming handhelds, including the MSI Claw 8 EX AI+
- Australians must now prove their age to buy R18+ games on the Xbox store
- Steam Week in Review: Games about sorting 1000s of mundane objects onto shelves are the new craze sweeping PC gaming
- Free-to-play Division game launches on Steam to mixed reviews: 'Calling it slop disrespects actual slop'
August 9
- The designer of Diamond City, Little Lamplight, and Starfield's Neon thinks Bethesda's galaxy was just too big: 'I would have done a handful of planets with bespoke layouts'
- Lies of P studio reveals name change and hypes up sequel: 'My goal has been to create the world's greatest action game.'
- Deltarune's 'The Third Sanctuary' is an affront to time signatures, and also one of my favourite songs in a videogame ever
- The last season of Netflix's Witcher show has reportedly been delayed
- Blizzard is now reportedly Microsoft's top studio, according to leaked email
- Hit markers are an FPS crutch
- Fields of Mistria's cast has me head over heels in a way no farm sim has since Stardew Valley
- 'I am a big roguelike guy, but also a fan of minimalism and elegance': Sam Barlow, creator of Her Story, guides us through the games in his Steam Library
- Cancelled Quake 4 expansion gets surprise GitHub release after former XCOM 2 developer discovers it on an old hard drive: 'This essentially saved my life'
- Roblox shares plummet by 70% after the company reports persistent decline in player numbers, and of course the solution involves AI
- Lae'zel actor Devora Wilde didn't know she was in Space Marine 2 until players told her
- Warhammer 40,000: Battlesector has a roadmap of upcoming additions, including a new narrative DLC
- The GTA 3D trilogy fanpatch has its biggest update, with over 100 new fixes including restored dialogue for San Andreas
August 8
- id co-founder John Carmack revisits Doom at QuakeCon: 'Still a great game after all these years!'
- Bethesda 40th anniversary sale knocks 50% off Doom: The Dark Ages - Revelations just a month after launch
- The indie parkour game from one of the French brothers behind 2024's best FPS is coming out in just two weeks
- WoW developers reflect on Midnight's first season—a world without AddOns, task overload, and Prey
- Forget Quake, Worms: The Director's Cut just got a free expansion for the series' 30th anniversary
- Stop waiting for the Game of Thrones CRPG of your dreams and settle for the pleasant eurojank compromise instead
- Blocky zombie survival sim Unturned releases its source code so players can build a 'lasting legacy' for the game 'regardless of the changes we make'
- God of War TV series sees further recasts as Amazon seeks older actors for Atreus and Thrud
- Tencent's cyberpunk rival to Grand Theft Auto is in trouble as its developer lays off 80 people
- Big Walk: So, what's the deal with that number puzzle?
August 7
- GTA 6's Netflix deal forces us to ask: can you pirate an advertisement?
- FromSoftware sleuth unearths earliest footage of Demon's Souls to date: A prototype with a first person camera mode
- From ancient Buddhism, to iconic manga hair, to Keanu Reeves: a PC Gamer Causality Chain™
- BioWare veteran says Baldur's Gate 3 was such a great sequel because it didn't try to be too much like Baldur's Gate 2
- Even with an $80 price tag, 'Grand Theft Auto 6 will be an incredible bargain,' Take-Two boss says
- Take-Two CEO says he expects the games industry to be in 'commercial streaming mode within 3 years,' which is great news if you hate owning things
- The latest Expeditions game launches into early access today, and I can't think of a better setting for the series than feudal Japan
- Big Walk patch addresses voice volume complaints with restraint: 'We consider it an important part of the game's design that you can only hear players who are close to you'
- Japan has reportedly asked the US to stop using Mario, Pokemon, and others in social media posts
- Take-Two boss dismisses hand-wringing over the end of disc-based games: 'Our business is well over 90% digitally distributed as it is'
- Overwatch's new mech hero is the sword-and-board sequel to D.Va, except her code isn't 'a plate of spaghetti' under the hood
- Launch day performance issues and forced logins take another victim: Marvel Tōkon: Fighting Souls sees mixed Steam rating, especially among Linux users
- Asus ROG Zephyrus G16 (2026) review
- The humble Wii Nunchuck has been turned into a video editing tool because it's 'one of the most ergonomic things ever made'
- ChatTJB is a fake chatbot where a guy called Tucker Bryant answers queries himself: 'I tend to overcommit to bits'
- 20 years of Asus ROG innovation: Which gaming machine is right for you?
- WoW's changing how world bosses work because they've 'really been a little bit lackluster' in recent years, says dev
- 'They call us old stupid farmers, you know, but we’re not': Family declines $26 million offer to convert their farmland into an AI data center
- If your AMD chipset drivers are mysteriously failing to install like mine, you'll need to manually update instead
- Sam Neill will reportedly star in the forthcoming The Legend of Zelda film
- How to craft an engagement ring in Fields of Mistria
- Following its excellent Lord of the Rings cards, Magic: The Gathering's new Hobbit set is a bit of a second breakfast
- Trent Reznor on Doom: 'In some ways I felt a parallel with what I was trying to do with music'
August 6
- 30 years after it 'ruined id Software,' Quake gets another big update while the studio once again grapples with adversity
- Devolver Digital wants to get off the stock market, because 'the ongoing challenge of delivering growth in line with market expectations' just isn't worth the headaches
- Diablo 4's newest class barely made a splash with Lord of Hatred, but it's shaping up to be king of the next season
- Capcom says it wants Monster Hunter Wilds to outsell World 'over the medium to long term,' but it'll need to muster a lot of sales momentum to get there
- Couple's dispute over playing Slay the Spire 2 in bed gets a ruling from comedian John Hodgman: 'Pick an arbitrary battle and stick with it'
- John Romero says id Software once sold empty Doom boxes to Taiwanese pirates so fans there could have legit copies: 'For us, it was distribution'
- You deserve a travel power adapter you actually like for your next trip
- Ghost Recon marks 25 years with a major update and free new missions for Wildlands, and a Ghost Recon: Future Soldier giveaway
- New Kingdom Come trademark filings mention 'online' virtual worlds—but we shouldn't assume Warhorse is making a multiplayer game just yet
- It is genuinely cheaper for me to fly to QuakeCon and buy a RTX 5090 at the Nvidia booth than pick up the GPU absolutely anywhere else
- Larian gets briefly kicked off YouTube, TikTok for demonic smut reasons in Baldur's Gate 3
- The first GTA 6 gameplay reveal will debut on Netflix later this month, as the streaming service tries yet again to get a piece of that videogame pie
- 'Slightly ugly, and insanely functional': Check out this custom Steam Machine faceplate that doubles as a charging stand
- Valve explains clever shortcut for the Steam Controller's Grip Sense, and I'm starting to think it's a killer feature
- Rules of Engagement: The Grey State's new gameplay trailer gives us a glimpse into the Horrorverse - and it’s genuinely terrifying
- Onimusha: Way of the Sword's incredible sword-fighting secret sauce explained: 'We really wanted to focus on creating this very realistic, grounded sword action'
- Microsoft quietly deletes 32 GB RAM recommendation, which I'm sure has nothing to do with it bringing back 8 GB laptops
- Grab shopkeeper-dungeoncrawler Moonlighter free on Steam for a limited time
- Can you play Big Walk alone or with randoms?
- Former Bethesda lead artist is looking forward to Fallout 3's remaster because the game they released was '100% not what we intended, and it was very, very constrained'
August 5
- What happens after GTA 6?
- Kingdom Come: Deliverance star is opening a real 'medieval-inspired bar' in Prague
- The guy in charge of EA Sports is now in charge of EA everything
- Path of Exile devs are planning 'an extreme shakeup' in the next major update to address concerns over its stale endgame and lack of exciting loot drops
- Destiny 2 players are learning how to crack into its infamous content vault by tinkering with old game builds
- You should really get Ace Combat 7 while it's 80% off on Steam, because AC8 might be one of the year's best games
- Fields of Mistria officially becomes the best farm sim since Stardew Valley with its 1.0 update today
- Black Library veteran Toby Longworth gives us his tips for voicing the perfect Space Marine
- Something big is coming to Helldivers 2 next week: Squid is back on the menu
- 'Sorry about this!' Big Walk is already fixing its biggest complaint
- Grand Theft Auto 6 publisher is holding an investors call at a very unusual time this week
- Marvel Rivals is gearing up for season 9.5 with major Vanguard adjustments alongside a teaser for its next hero, The Hood
- Chinese memory maker CXMT mops up even more market share away from the likes of Samsung, SK hynix, and Micron, giving me hope that competition is the way out of the memory crisis
- Assassin's Creed Valhalla director comes back to Ubisoft to be game director for the entire brand
- Fields of Mistria 1.0 changes: What's new in the full release version?
- The next game in a huge Chinese action RPG series has plenty of action, but I hope it hasn't totally abandoned the RPG
- We asked the voice of Eisenhorn, Gaunt, and Garro in Warhammer 40k who his favorite character to play is
- Pulsar to study how we all use our gaming mice to make them better, offering prizes to those who help them build the mouse of the future
- The actors behind Leon Kennedy and Grace Ashcroft will take to the stage for the Future Games Show at Gamescom this month
- 'AI PCs will become more important': AMD's Lisa Su remains optimistic about the market despite runaway pricing caused by *checks notes* the AI industry
- Saudi-acquired EA is reportedly planning to make massive cuts after taking $18 billion of debt, and we all know what that means
- EA has fixed a niche Battlefield 6 issue where some Nvidia GPUs were crashing while changing attachments or 'playing on maps with large bodies of water'
- Sovereign Tower looks like a cosy management game, but it's ruthless, full of murder and impossible choices, and features one of the best time travel systems I've ever encountered
- AMD made over 8 times as much revenue on data centers as it did gaming last quarter
- WoW will let some WeakAura-style mods function in its next major patch, as the war on combat AddOns turns into more of a truce
- A special weapon was forged to create Onimusha: Way of the Sword's brutal blade sound effects: 'We wanted that very raw, kind of rough feel'
- AI worms? In your Copilot PC? According to this AI researcher, it's more likely than you think
- Chinese RAM is reportedly landing in laptops from HP, Asus and Acer but it won't change the memory crisis overnight
- Steam's Cyberpunk Fest means big savings on games about high-tech lowlifes
- August is the calm before the storm for this year's new game releases
- Warhammer 40,000: Dark Heresy will let us recruit a space elf pirate and one of the holy psychics whose lives are nasty, brutish, and short
August 4
- Director Eli Roth seems to think the Borderlands movie sucked too: 'You got something that belonged to nobody'
- Embrace the great Tech Pause
- The deal is done: Electronic Arts is now officially owned by Saudi Arabia
- 'I was this close': Teenage dev's $200 joke game made nearly $1.4 million on Steam before the refunds came flooding in
- Deadlock's new ranked mode is driving players mad as they try to escape the casual modes and climb back to where they were
- Juniper romance walkthrough: The full Juniper gifts list, heart events, and marriage details for the arrogant witch in Fields of Mistria
- 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: The full March gifts list, heart events, and marriage details 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
- 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
- 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
- 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'