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- September 15
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- Mad-lad fans have revived The Crew after Ubisoft killed it: 'No one will ever be able to take this away from you now'
- I can think of few things more ridiculous than a tiny OLED screen slapped on the side of some DDR5 RAM, but here we are
- I fixed Borderlands 4's stuttering issue by upping my shader cache size to 100 GB, which feels like something I shouldn't have to do in a well-optimised game
- Gearbox CEO Randy Pitchford's chronic tweeting syndrome strikes again, says 'less than 1% of 1%' of players are filing tickets about performance so clearly the internet's overblowing it
- Who needs Silent Hill? The 'anxiety horror' game I'm most looking forward to is this freakish, grotesque thing about who you let stay at your house in the apocalypse
- 'We are subservient to the players': Battlefield 6 ditched 128-player matches in favour of classic 64 players after it 'didn't catch on' in Battlefield 2042
- You can finally scream at your friends once you've died in REPO thanks to one of the most requested features being added in its upcoming update
- This tiny version of Windows 11 fits into just 2.29 GB and is 'extremely aggressive' in removing bloat such as Xbox, Solitaire and Defender
- 'Borderlands 4 is a premium game made for premium gamers' is Randy Pitchford's tone deaf retort to the performance backlash: 'If you're trying to drive a monster truck with a leaf blower's motor, you're going to be disappointed'
- Rockstar is already calling GTA 6 'the largest game launch in history' 7 months out from release, counting a few hundred million chickens before they've hatched
- 'Ya jackass!' Europe's Pro golfers are wearing VR headsets that shout insults at them as they prepare for the American Ryder Cup crowd
- Today's Wordle clues, hints and answer for September 15 (#1549)
- 'Because no one was paying attention we could just put anything into the game,' says the writer responsible for sneaking The Lusty Argonian Maid into Morrowind
- September 14
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- Saints Row 2's Juiced Patch makes the PC port so much better it's criminal
- It only took a week for the ultimate Silksong sicko to beat every boss in the game without getting hit
- Netflix released another Witcher teaser showing off Liam Hemsworth as Geralt, and I gotta say I was pleasantly surprised
- In a week dominated by Silksong and Borderlands, co-op roguelike Shape of Dreams still managed to launch on Steam as an instant top-seller
- If you can't get enough of precious Sherma in Silksong, a true Shermaniac uploaded a 10-hour cut of his sweet little song
- Conan O'Brien played Borderlands 4 for charity, but somebody should have told him about the Claptrap mute button: 'He's my least favorite trash can'
- This Quake 2 mod bridges the gap between the original game and its sequel, with hybrid enemies including dog-headed parasites and rocket-blasting shamblers
- Inevitably, someone has made a cooperative take on A Game About Digging a Hole, where you play as burly shirtless men whose hands swell up when they flip each other off
- Get Arma 3 for less than the price of a coffee in Bohemia's Interactive's publisher sale
- X4: Foundations' massive diplomacy update adds an actual embassy room to your HQ, where you can entreat with aliens from across the galaxy and establish yourself as space Machiavelli
- Today's Wordle clues, hints and answer for September 14 (#1548)
- Fatal Frame 2: Crimson Butterfly, which is apparently the good one, is getting remade and coming to PC
- The Danganronpa 2 remaster also includes a remake or maybe a stealth-sequel, honestly it's hard to tell
- Dying Light: The Beast's release date has been moved forward by one whole day
- September 13
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- Randy Pitchford challenged players to break the Borderlands 4 servers over the weekend, offering free DLC for anyone who takes part
- Final Fantasy composer shares concern about 'stagnation' in game music: 'Frankly speaking, there’s less weird things now'
- Blood Bowl 3 has vampires now, and Eternal League continues improving
- The BioShock movie is still in the works, but scheduling conflicts mean it likely can't come out before 2027, maybe even later
- A Silksong gumshoe meticulously pixel counted both games to directly compare the size of their worlds, and Pharloom looks twice as big as Hallownest
- Fallen Order and Jedi Survivor are just $25 bucks together on Steam right now, letting you become Cal Kestis on the cheap
- This physics platformer about a wiggly worm that travels into space has even got Tim Schafer excited: 'It looks super cute and fun'
- If you were hoping to see Sly Cooper on PC for some reason, think again: Ghost of Yōtei dev says 'it's been a long time' since the series' heyday and nobody at Sucker Punch wants to make those games anymore
- One of the best wargames on PC is currently 85% off
- This surprisingly great Arthurian Elder Scrolls clone just got a huge update that adds new game plus, extra dungeons, and tons more loot
- Today's Wordle clues, hints and answer for September 13 (#1547)
- September 12
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- 'Players ended up just shooting Doritos': Battlefield 6 is toning down its aggressive ping ability after open beta feedback
- Furious Destiny 2 players accuse Bungie of secretly moving a stunning free armor set into the Eververse Store so players have to pay real money for it instead
- Battlefield 6 is 'secretly console first,' says half-joking dev who has bravely risked resurrecting 2000s-era console vs PC bitterness
- Battlefield 6 devs knew 'everything' would leak from playtests but said the risk was worth it to get feedback from players: 'That had to come at any cost'
- Borderlands 4 has a volume slider specifically for muting Claptrap—if you're a coward
- As Call of Duty flips a U-turn on goofy skins, Battlefield 6 devs are making their stance clear from the start: 'We're not chasing trends. We're not chasing other products'
- Star Citizen fans sigh deeply, rub their foreheads as developer casts doubt on Squadron 42's 2026 release: 'I don't know if we're going to make it'
- 'We understand the disappointment': Funcom apologizes for Dune: Awakening DLC's 'building set' that's actually just four pieces
- Activision says CoD's anti-cheat system is catching more miscreants than ever, and permits itself a chuckle about dolts who 'promptly tell on themselves across social media, asking 'Why did this happen?''
- Everyone is rushing back to Fortnite's Blitz Royale mode for a weekend of Iron Man-fuelled mayhem
- Stalker remasters hit 1.3 as GSC back-ports quick-inventory slots from Call of Prypiat to all 3 games
- Europe's first exascale supercomputer is now up and running, using 24,000 Nvidia GH200 Superchips to perform more than one quintillion operations per second with nearly 1,000,000 terabytes of storage
- Balatro's big 1.1 update is delayed to 2026, for a very good reason: 'I'm slow'
- The deflating realization that a neat little game was AI all along
- Borderlands 4 takes a shot at Embracer Group by naming a town filled with trash and an AI talking toilet after it
- Intel has rebranded the dusty old Core i5 10400 as the Core i5 110, presumably because it found a bunch of them tucked down the back of the couch
- What does OG Fallout's co-creator want to see in the series? An 'actual good faction, like 100% good'
- September becomes an even more ridiculous month for releases as Hades 2 announces it's dropping in 2 weeks
- 'Microsoft has become like an arsonist selling firefighting services to their victims' says US senator, referring it to the FTC for a cybersecurity flaw, though Microsoft says it has a plan
- Satellite snaps Starlink passing underneath while taking candid shots of Chinese airbase: 'a very rare instance, but not impossible!'
- Some Silksong players are clinging stubbornly to its release version as the 'first major patch' kills a secret technique and makes bosses a smidge easier
- 'Even with a 9800X3D and a 5090 it runs like absolute buttcheeks': 2K Games posts Nvidia's Borderlands 4 optimised settings guide, but the community is already in open revolt
- Silksong players have uncovered yet another secret—a little Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 easter egg
- AI, take the wheel: Gigabyte's latest motherboards will 'intelligently dynamically' improve performance of Ryzen chips by up to 25% in games through a built-in AI model
- Today's Wordle clues, hints and answer for September 12 (#1546)
- GOG wants to revive more classic Japanese games on PC: 'Working with Japanese partners often requires demonstrating both technical capability and cultural understanding'
- September 11
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- Holiday gaming plans in shambles as Slay the Spire 2 gets delayed to March 2026
- French Lara Croft actor issues C&D to Tomb Raider Remaster studio as multiple foreign dubs of the game are accused of adding AI voiceovers
- Gearbox responds to worries about Borderlands 4's terms of service: 'Take-Two does not use spyware in its games'
- Former Pokémon Company head lawyer says yeah, those latest Nintendo patents are a bit much, aren't they: 'I wish Nintendo and Pokémon good luck when the first other developer just entirely ignores this patent'
- FTC targets Google, Meta, X, and others with inquiry into AI chatbot safety: 'Protecting kids online is a top priority'
- Borderlands 4 launches to 'mostly negative' reviews on Steam thanks to widespread performance problems and crashes
- US DoJ puts $11 million bounty on ransomware king allegedly responsible for stealing $18 billion
- Our most anticipated kei truck delivery game featuring depressed Animal Crossing-esque gig workers is launching on September 18
- Gabe Newell waxes poetic about his love for the Dota 2 community in a special message for The International: 'People talk s**t at me in chat' and tell him to uninstall the game on a weekly basis
- Upgrading an RTX 4090 to 48 GB of VRAM is (slightly) easier than I thought, thanks to a custom PCB, some second-hand GDDR6X, and a leaked Nvidia BIOS
- CDPR returns to the fridge for one more Cyberpunk patch, somehow makes its autodrive less berserk while also making it ignore traffic lights
- Elden Ring Nightreign's latest patch has made it impossible for greedy teammates to farm extra runes after the second-day boss, which is music to my ears
- Oracle's $300 billion deal with OpenAI briefly knocked Elon Musk off the world's richest person spot, replaced instead by the company's head honcho, Larry Ellison
- Assassin's Creed Shadows adds a cat dressed like Ezio and its coolest weapon yet: A large stick
- Microsoft's big Windows 11 25H2 update is now available to download but in terms of new features it's a total nothing burger
- Help! I've been transported back in time to the days of Flash, Miniclip, and Adventure Quest by this charming little '90s-inspired RPG
- Borderlands 4 review round-up: 'The best Borderlands game I've ever played—but with a small hitch'
- This humanoid robot is playing ping pong better than most amateur players I've seen
- Silksong too easy for ya? Here's a mod that increases 'boring double damage' to triple for the true sickos
- Swen Vincke had to tell Baldur's Gate 3 writers to tone it down with the poop-based insults, which is saying a lot, since I still count at least 17 scat-based Vicious Mockery voicelines
- Apple's new A19 Pro iPhone chip has posted a genuinely astonishing score on Geekbench, and if it was a new gaming CPU we'd all be losing our minds
- This YouTuber added over an hour's worth of battery life to their Switch 2 with a pair of scissors and a weeb-themed 8,000 mAh pack
- You can make Silksong's terrible Bilewater boss 100 times easier by simply surrendering yourself to the maggot bath
- Kingdom Come: Deliverance 2 added a new secret happy(ish) ending for people who straight-up solo an entire enemy army
- RuneScape: Dragonwilds has delayed its major 0.9 update: 'We've encountered some bugs we are simply not happy shipping the update with'
- Hyte says all Thicc Q80 Trio users should 'remove the cooler from their system immediately' and get a refund after internal fault found
- PC Gamer magazine's new issue is on sale now: 007 First Light
- Today's Wordle clues, hints and answer for September 11 (#1545)
- Finally, someone's making an RPG about managing your own restaurant
- If you're desperate for Rosaries in Act 1 of Silksong, there's a place where you can rack up 300 per five minutes
- September 10
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- Bloodlines 2 narrative director tries to get players to lower their expectations, patiently explains it's not going to have the scale of Baldur's Gate 3 or Grand Theft Auto
- The Battlefield 6 battle royale ring will instantly kill anyone caught in it: 'There's no jumping in and out of it, no using it for cover, no walking through it'
- 'An embarrassing failure of the US patent system': Videogame IP lawyer says Nintendo's latest patents on Pokémon mechanics 'should not have happened, full stop'
- Paradox apologizes for botching yet another DLC release: 'It hurts so much when we f**k up like this'
- The 'Phunky Physics' bundle is cooler than it sounds, with 9 great games including Hardspace: Shipbreaker and What the Golf? for just $13
- Former Anthem lead producer says flying in BioWare's doomed live action shooter is proof of the dysfunction in its development: 'It's Anthem's worst feature, because the consequences of flying aren't adequately taken into account'
- Producer says the Bioshock movie is 'definitely going to be based on the first Bioshock game'
- The US government is 'looking at' the connection between videogames and gun violence, because what else could it possibly be
- Peak dev says the 'tornado hell' of its newest biome wasn't actually a bug: 'We really did just make it that evil'
- With vapor-chamber cooling, ray-tracing, tensor cores and a high-refresh screen, the iPhone 17 Pro sounds like a premium gaming PC, but I'll stick with my trusty old Steam Deck, thanks
- Suffering with Silksong's hard-as-nails High Halls gauntlet? Fret not, there's a way to get some help
- Borderlands 4 now has updated minimum system requirements for an eight-core 'or equivalent' CPU, which leaves six-core CPU owners none the wiser
- In tribute to a player's departed baby son, Old School RuneScape players turn out in 'hundreds' to pay respects to his namesake: 'It was so overwhelming seeing so many people at Zeke's shop'
- 'This is an Xbox', Microsoft claims over an image of a car that will soon offer cloud game streaming
- Helldivers 2 won't be getting Fortnite victory royales for the democracy anytime soon, but Arrowhead certainly isn't shelving the idea entirely
- The creator of Dead Space 'would love to make an Alien game'
- Get those Steam Decks and Legion Go S handhelds updated because Valve's just released a metric ton of fixes in the latest client
- I bet Return of the Obra Dinn looks perfect on this open-source 75 Hz e-paper display kit—and it's compatible with a whole bunch of existing panels, too
- Red Dead Redemption 2 modder says to hell with your realistic western cowboy fantasy, get horse girl pilled instead
- Hideo Kojima relatably says job-hunting made him 'feel like I was a Showa-era detective trying to solve a murder,' and he almost became a no-name pharma guy but for some kind words from a HR person
- AMD candidly admits 'we charge more for our CPUs than our competitor' and that 'customers feel good about the price'
- Someone hacked AI into Animal Crossing to give villagers even more to gossip about, including Tom Nook's evil empire and Trump
- After 18 months and over 4,000 hours of brutal 'worst case' monitor usage, independent testing finds OLED burn-in is only just beginning to get 'annoying'
- Steam mega-update ends our long national game-sorting nightmare, adds CPU temp measuring, and a gajillion other bullet points
- One lucky Redditor has bagged a second-hand $8,000 RTX 3080 Ti Threadripper PC for a mere $32
- 'We're all still hungover': Ghost of Yōtei devs celebrated GTA 6's delay, which freed them from impending doom—'That was a great day'
- I nearly gave myself blisters playing Silksong, so I've taken a break to be a mail delivery turnip with a 'big juicy bum'
- Intel promises 'leadership across the board on desktop' when its next-gen Nova Lake CPU launches in late 2026
- AMD reckons its next-gen GPUs will beat Nvidia at 'any sort of AI workload' and we're praying that rubs off on the company's gaming graphics cards
- Today's Wordle clues, hints and answer for September 10 (#1544)
- September 9
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- Battlefield 6 producer acknowledges vehicles were underpowered in the beta, but says it's better than the alternative: 'Rather have too weak vehicles over too powerful'
- Watch: Destiny 2's next Star Wars-themed expansion has a Sarlacc pit, twirling light sabers, AT-ST walkers and—oh boy—Han Solo's blaster
- OpenAI is backing a new animated feature film 'made largely with AI' to prove it can make films 'faster and cheaper' than Hollywood
- The indie horror game that fought back against Monster Energy trademark trolling (and won) is now being made into a movie
- Silksong Easter egg hides a secret, super-hard permadeath mode, for those who want to suffer even more
- Maybe release a game in May sometimes? 'Fixation on the holiday window' is hurting game publishers, says industry analyst Newzoo
- Helldivers 2 isn't getting a social hub, Arrowhead CEO says it's 'on the feature list for the next one,' but the studio's next game is not Helldivers 3
- Halls of Torment's DLC is the only expansion I care about this year, and it's now got a release date
- 'The fact is that today, the open web is already in rapid decline,' says Google in court, then quickly rows back on that statement
- Microsoft Azure services experiencing latency to traffic through the Middle East due to undersea fibre cable damage in the Red Sea
- XFX says its 'V3' Radeon RX 9060 XT GPUs with Samsung GDDR6 run much cooler and quieter than previous models with SK Hynix memory
- Pacific Drive's first major expansion leans heavy into horror by introducing a cult of 'anomaly-obsessed fanatics'
- The impossibly-cool-looking Pocket Scion is a 'biofeedback instrument' that connects directly to plants, bathing you in the electronic sounds of, err, nature
- In a world of cursed videogame collaborations, Genshin Impact being in Among Us might be a top contender
- Bayonetta director Hideki Kamiya throws down the gauntlet, says if Hideo Kojima doesn't make another PT, 'Maybe I'll give it a go'
- The world's first 'true 8K' ultra-wideband gaming mouse is here, complete with a glowing dongle that's supposedly less prone to unwanted interference
- If Microsoft wins this UK court case it might spell the end of second-hand Windows licenses
- 'What a slap in the face': Battlefield 2042 players are raging about the 'Road to Battlefield 6' battle pass after a purchasable tier skip function is added
- Watch The PC Gamer Streamer Showdown live today on Twitch
- Take-Two tries to hide GTA 6 websites behind its back after fans uncover them, achieving nothing but fuelling the fire
- Intel reshuffle puts engineering and 'a new custom silicon business' in the spotlight but also ends a 30-year career at Intel for Product CEO Michelle Johnston Holthaus
- 'The shining star of losers everywhere' who inspired one of Umamusume's most popular horse girls has passed away
- Nvidia's CFO says there's still 'a little geopolitical situation that we need to work through' before shipping its AI GPUs to China, but it's 'a $2 billion to $5 billion potential opportunity'
- Final Fantasy 14 director Yoshi-P says the long-awaited job redesign will change things, but also won't—which doesn't clear much of anything up
- Loot boxes could be coming to Marvel Rivals as a dataminer finds evidence of 'multiple references to mystery box logic', and like always, players are divided
- Upcoming Silksong patch will make the early game easier and the mid-game cheaper—nerfing 2 bosses and shoring up its stingy rosary economy
- Silksong already has 2 multiplayer mods, and we're not even a week in yet
- Former MS engineer Dave Plummer admits he accidentally coded Pinball to run 'at like, 5,000 frames per second' on Windows NT
- Packaging for Intel's high-performance Battlemage gaming GPU has popped up in a shipping manifest but I'm not sure I dare to hope it will really launch or actually be any good
- The latest AMD Adrenalin driver lets you turn FSR 4 on in a bunch more games but OptiScaler might still come in handy for older titles
- Today's Wordle clues, hints and answer for September 9 (#1543)
- Tee Lopes has turned Silksong's Sherma and Shakra into vocalists for unbearably cute club bangers
- September 8
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- Former Xbox VP says Game Pass creates 'weird inner tensions' because a game's popularity can actually damage sales: 'The majority of game adoption on GP comes at the expense of retail revenue'
- 'Do you think there would be a problem if we see Hitler's penis?' MachineGames considered having a full frontal Fuhrer in Wolfenstein 2: The New Colossus
- WotC president says he'd 'love to have' a new Dungeons & Dragons MMO, but it would have to 'rethink what an MMO is in this day and age'
- If Silksong's corpse runs and double damage hits are too demanding, here's a pair of mods to tone down the difficulty just a notch
- Keanu Reeves would 'love to play Johnny Silverhand again' in Cyberpunk 2—but that'd be a tough needle to thread with how the first game ends
- Catholic church canonises its first gamer saint, and one of his favourite games was Halo
- Gearbox boss says Borderlands 4 day-one patch 'does a lot' but warns that players should have 'realistic' expectations about performance: 'Older hardware may not provide buttery smooth performance'
- I've found a safe Silksong Rosary farm that nets 3,500 an hour—basically enough to buy anything in the game
- 'The game is ass on anything else but a 9800X3D': Esports players are complaining about using Intel CPUs at sponsored tournaments rather than AMD X3D chips, with multiple claims of crashing and significantly worse performance
- A week after removing special status from two Korean memory manufacturers to use US tech in China, the US government is thinking about letting them go for it again, with a caveat
- PC Gaming Show will be broadcasting a new dedicated direct during the Tokyo Game Show 2025
- Working out how to fix the Sinner's Road bench in Hollow Knight: Silksong has convinced me that Team Cherry just doesn't want me to sit down anywhere
- Nvidia has reportedly asked Samsung to double its production of GDDR7, possibly for AI GPUs to China—although we're hoping for some more VRAM-stacked RTX 50-series Super cards
- 'What we're building is a city': Take a tour inside TSMC's Arizona chipmaking fab and marvel with me at the vast scale and science fiction-like goodies inside
- Silksong players are wrestling with the game's 'stabs you and kicks you for crying about it' difficulty
- 'It has to be 100 percent safe because I cannot escape it': Study finds people are unsurprisingly creeped out by humanoid robots despite the industry's obsession
- These stunning new Xbox Wireless Controllers use transparencies and reflections to create a shattered depth visage
- Rather than buy a brand new PC case, one Redditor elects to make their own out of Lego-style bricks
- Semiwork gets all mysterious about REPO's new monsters ahead of the next update
- Acer announces mini Blackwell powered AI supercomputer, adding to Nvidia's lineup of partnered DGX Spark copies
- SK hynix claims world's first High NA EUV machine for 'mass production' of cutting edge chips, beating Intel to the punch
- Monster Train 2 update details and Q&A: developers share info on 4 new cards
- Razer upgrades its kitty eared headsets with a fancy wireless Kraken Kitty V3 Pro and a surprisingly affordable Kraken Kitty X
- Today's Wordle clues, hints and answer for September 8 (#1542)
- With Silksong in our hands, Steam's new reigning wishlist kings are both kind of basket cases: The partially-released Deadlock and lawsuit lightning rod Subnautica 2
- Adding controller support to the System Shock 2 remaster meant re-recording decades-old voice acting
- 'Solid as a paper Whopper wrapper in the rain': Hackers reported 'catastrophic' cybersecurity flaws at Burger King before the fast food giant nuked their criticism off the 'net via DMCA
- September 7
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- Stuck on Silksong's obnoxious big bug boss Moorwing? There's a cheeky way to kill him in 30 seconds—or skip the fight altogether
- After Indiana Jones, it sounds like MachineGames is ready to make another Wolfenstein game: 'We have always seen this as a trilogy'
- The $500,000 robot servant Elon Musk claims will sell 10 billion units by 2040 can barely walk and struggles with questions like 'where can I get a coke?'
- All of Silksong's top mods make the game easier, including a returning Hollow Knight QoL favorite: An always-on compass without wasting a tool slot
- If you've ever wanted to defuse a bomb with your friends, your chance is here with upcoming Werewolf-style co-op puzzler Cut That Wire
- Nightdive Studios says System Shock 2's multiplayer was 'so hard to get working' for modern platforms, but you should still 'probably play it in singleplayer first to get the true experience'
- Star Trucker celebrates a year of space haulage with an anniversary update and a half-price discount
- RoadCraft introduces a free hard mode for all you SnowRunner sickos, adding limited fuel, more challenging convoy simulation and realistic gearboxes
- Bigger guns are louder and therefore riskier as of Rust's latest update, with other players able to hear you from 'much further away'
- The next Resident Evil movie is being directed by Zach Cregger of Weapons fame, who played 'thousands and thousands of hours of Resident Evil' but hasn't seen any of the movies
- Today's Wordle clues, hints and answer for September 7 (#1541)
- September 6
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- Paradox refunds PlayStation Store preorders of Bloodlines 2 in preparation for 'adjustments' to its reviled $30 DLC to be revealed later this month
- Update: Hollow Knight: Silksong sinks to 'Mostly Negative' Steam review status among Chinese gamers over its bafflingly bad translation, with Team Cherry promising to improve it
- Anthropic agrees to pay $1.5 billion to authors whose work trained AI in priciest copyright settlement in U.S. history
- Life is Strange is finally getting the streaming TV show treatment a decade after it came out
- This Australian puzzler that took seven years to make is basically Myst with endearingly naff FMVs and music composed by a 10-year-old
- Stellaris' Shadows of the Shroud DLC will make communing with cosmic entities more rewarding later this month
- Command & Conquer successor Tempest Rising gets a big new update next week, adding massive 3v3 multiplayer matches and active pause to singleplayer
- This brilliant boomer shooter inspired by Blood gets a whole new campaign and a free update later this month
- Today's Wordle clues, hints and answer for September 6 (#1540)
- Now that the wait for Silksong is over, gamers can get back to their true calling: asking for Half-Life 3 in the chat
- September 5
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- Former Bethesda marketing VP says he fought against reusing the Prey name for Arkane's 2017 immersive sim: 'I definitely pissed some people off internally over that'
- Borderlands 4 global release times mean some of you can play a day earlier than expected
- Silksong players stuck in Far Fields: Here's how to get out
- Starfield fans are pretty sure Bethesda just dropped the first teaser for the game's second expansion: 'We look forward to the adventures yet to come'
- Randy Pitchford shares thoughts on the Stop Killing Games campaign, gets very existential: 'It's so sobering to think about the fact that everything will end. Not just us, but literally everything, and I kind of hate that'
- Steven Spielberg reportedly wanted to direct the Call of Duty movie, but Activision didn't want to give up creative control: 'Imagine turning down the guy who made Saving Private Ryan'
- Missed a map in Silksong? Don't worry, there's an easy way to grab it
- Somehow, MindsEye is not dead: A new update promises to improve performance by removing 'ambient rubbish'
- Deus Ex's influence on Elon Musk 'may be its longest, worst legacy,' says its writer
- Asus says its Intel 800-series motherboards are approved to run DDR5-7200 without an XMP profile, pointing to a RAM speed boost for an Arrow Lake refresh
- Fallout 76's great canvas bag debacle marked 'the dumbest thing I ever did at Bethesda,' says its ex-marketing VP Pete Hines
- Metal Gear Solid Delta: Snake Eater sells over a million at launch
- OpenAI boss Sam Altman dons metaphorical hot dog suit as he realises, huh, there sure are a lot of annoying AI-powered bots online these days
- OpenAI has teamed up with Broadcom to make its own AI processors, according to a report, possibly as part of a long-term plan to move away from Nvidia's GPUs
- Former Call of Duty director stopped making foreign countries the enemy because he wanted 'to go to these countries' without needing a bodyguard
- Battlefield 6's Assault Class is finally getting a signature gadget that can rival the motion sensor and blowtorch: A ladder
- Microsoft has blown the dust off the source code for a version of Bill Gates' first-ever operating system
- Google now lets you choose who you trust for your gaming news—here's how to support PC Gamer and other human-made content
- God help us all, GTA 6 may be a 'AAAAA' game, says Devolver co-founder, and that's why the entire industry is taking cover from it like it's a nuclear blast
- Mark Zuckerberg has filed a lawsuit against Mark Zuckerberg. No, not that Mark Zuckerberg, an entirely different Mark Zuckerberg. Although the one being sued is that Mark Zuckerberg
- Yes, there's a bench in Hunter's March, Silksong's first real nightmare area
- Coughing baby vs hydrogen bomb comes to Marvel Rivals: They just buffed Scarlet Witch's ult damage from 800 to 9,999
- Silksong's speedrunning community is already at it: Dismantling the game's mechanics like mad scientists less than a day after release
- The minimum PC requirements for Football Manager 26 start so low that 15-year-old CPUs are good enough, though your graphics card will need to be a tad newer
- Cult of the Lamb's Woolhaven DLC will be 'almost the length of the original game' because the developers 'flew a little too close to the sun'
- Today's Wordle clues, hints and answer for September 5 (#1539)
- 'PLEASE DON'T NERF COYOTE': The new Helldivers 2 warbond has a fire-breathing rifle so good that players are begging Arrowhead to leave it alone
- September 4
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- Silksong newcomers, I can't stress to you enough that you should buy all of Shakra's map items ASAP
- Stardew Valley's Eric Barone is in the Hollow Knight: Silksong credits for voicing a mystery character
- Midjourney's troubles get worse as Warner Bros Discovery sues the AI image generator for copyright infringement
- Silksong is so popular, even people in the Piracy subreddit are encouraging others to just buy it: 'If we can afford to support them, we should'
- The Silksong subreddit spent launch day sharing boss strats for Steam's 'cart phase', banishing each other to the Skongless year of 2019, and—let's see—posting hole
- Dune: Awakening will be on sale for the first time next week, along with a 'zero restrictions' free weekend
- One of my favorite puzzle games ever is free for the week on the Epic Games Store
- Lawsuit over Roblox emote of Charli XCX Apple dance is 'amicably resolved'
- Silksong already has the 18th highest all-time peak player count in Steam history as it draws over 500,000 concurrent players in its first 4 hours
- Civilization 7 studio Firaxis confirms layoffs as it 'optimizes its development process for adaptability, collaboration, and creativity,' which is somehow even worse than just saying 'agility'
- Noctua's all-in-one liquid cooler has finally received a release window in 2026, but a few fans, cases, and mice have been pushed back in the latest roadmap
- Upcoming PowerToys utility will finally let you set light and dark mode to cycle on a schedule in Windows 11
- Silksong achievement suggests it'll take at least 10 hours longer to 100% complete compared to Hollow Knight—even for the fastest players
- Tech firms in China are reportedly still patiently waiting to buy Nvidia's AI chips, even though the Chinese government would prefer they didn't
- MindsEye's messy launch shenanigans has IO Interactive hesitant to play publisher for more games in the future: 'That remains to be seen'
- Forget Silksong, it is my earnest belief you should play like 17 Lego games
- 'Let the criers cry': 42,000 Pokémon TCG Phantasmal Flames products have been swiped by a scalper group thanks to a 'massive error' on the Pokémon Center
- After 1,693 days of daily Silksong news, its skeletal host signs off with heartfelt thanks: 'We have finally reached an end. So let's do this one last time'
- Silksong crashed Steam the nanosecond it released, but checkout is finally working
- Fill your entire field of vision with this ridiculous ultrawide handheld gaming PC
- 2 of Deadlock's 6 new heroes are running over low-skill matches—I'd know, because they've been stomping me flat into the sidewalk like a chump
- Critics claim the latest judgement against Google is a 'feckless remedy to the most storied case of monopolisation of the past quarter century' while the US DOJ says 'we're not done'
- Valve applies to use 'Steam Frame' as a trademark for a new console as speculation over a mythical next-gen Half-Life game continues
- The next two heroes coming to Marvel Rivals have officially been announced, and I only know who one of them is
- RuneScape boss says he killed new Pride events to keep things going 'as apolitically as possible,' which doesn't sound very apolitical to me
- Hacker jacks into Nexon game, causes a 'Koyuki apocalypse' by copy-pasting their favourite anime girl everywhere, forces 6 hours of emergency maintenance
- 'It's been out for years!': 11 years in, people are still asking Bethesda when The Elder Scrolls Online is coming out
- Cloudflare mitigates biggest ever DDoS attack, which tried to pelt its target with 11.5 Tbps of data in less than a minute
- On the eve of Silksong, ultrawide monitor support is confirmed, and the soundtrack looks to be double the size of the original
- Today's Wordle clues, hints and answer for September 4 (#1538)
- September 3
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- Blizzard co-founder Mike Morhaime announces layoffs at his new company Dreamhaven
- Roblox to begin using 'facial age estimation technology' on its users, promises to 'limit communication between adults and minors unless they know each other in the real world'
- Cronos: The New Dawn reviewers say it's an 'atmospheric and uniquely introspective' survival horror outing—but it's held back by 'run-of-the-mill combat'
- As bugs and bad performance spoil an otherwise excellent Helldivers 2 update, Arrowhead CEO says its 'technical debt is crippling'
- Amazon's live-action Tomb Raider series names Game of Thrones actor Sophie Turner as its new Lara Croft
- You can finally ride a horse in Disney Dreamlight Valley thanks to its new expansion coming this November
- 007 First Light is the first time IO Interactive has taken on an outside project, but CEO Hakan Abrak isn't worried: 'We're able to stand on the shoulders of ourselves'
- IO Interactive stuck with a young Bond for 007 First Light because it wanted to make 'something for the gamers'
- David 'Solid Snake' Hayter found out Raiden was replacing him in Metal Gear Solid 2 'in the booth while we were recording, and I'm like: 'What the hell?''
- Leaked Prey 2 development footage shows scifi bounty hunter gameplay that our cold and uncaring universe continues to deny us
- Jetrunner is a great little 'Trackmania meets Titanfall' speedrunning platformer I had to peel myself away from to write this headline
- Acer shows off the very first Intel Panther Lake laptop with what's claimed to be the world's biggest haptic touchpad
- Obsidian promises 'No dictates' from its capitalist Microsoft overlords while making The Outer Worlds 2, but yes the devs appreciate the irony
- Yes, Stardew Valley's newly announced update will probably slow down work on Haunted Chocolatier, 'but not as much as you might think'
- Ex-Skyblivion dev says it 'was never in the state that the videos would show off' as they claim it's crunching on a 'pointless and unachievable' 2025 release goal—but remaining devs seem optimistic
- A last-ditch attempt to save the Perfect Dark reboot fell through because Take-Two and Microsoft couldn't agree who'd own the IP
- This new Japanese consortium wants to develop a novel method for making the next generation of interposer layers for multi-chiplet mega-processors
- This Kickstarter-backed battery maker claims you can smash a nail through its solid-state USB-C pack and it will still work
- The latest Lenovo leak reveals what looks to be a new long boi laptop concept—though this one is ever so slightly less ridiculous
- After a tease drove fans mad, Cyberpunk 2077 sheepishly warns that tomorrow's news will be quite boring, actually
- This RPG lets you enable (or disable) the Oxford comma, despite there being just 15 of them in the entire game: 'He added the setting when nobody was looking'
- $350 collector's editions, an 8-billion all-time peak, and fake thank-you letters: Silksong's finest meme merchants enjoy one last bout of Silkposting before the curtain call
- Nova Lake shipping manifest confirms rumours that Intel's flagship CPU will be packing up to 52 cores, but more cores aren't all Intel needs
- Big updates are coming to player housing in Guild Wars 2's next expansion
- Intel spent so much cash on research and development last year that it outspent Nvidia by 28% and AMD by a whopping 156%
- TSMC, the biggest semiconductor manufacturer in the world, has special export privileges revoked as US continues to crack down on Chinese importers
- AMD's PC graphics card market share falls to a worrying 6% according to the latest analyst data putting Nvidia at 94% and probably an all-time high
- One of Stalker's most legendary mods has joined GOG's one-click install program, making it easier than ever to die horribly in Chornobyl
- Google will not be forced to sell Chrome, despite its near-monopoly, as its dominance is not 'sufficiently attributable to its illegal conduct'
- Borderlands 1's artstyle overhaul filled Gearbox CEO Randy Pitchford with dread because he thought he'd 'Have to go in and look at what they did' and 'shoot it in the head'
- The PC hardware requirements for Dying Light: The Beast are heavy on the CPU side, but they're all over the place when it comes to the GPU
- Gigabyte have finally released its RTX 5090 external GPU—but it's calling it an 'AI box'
- Today's Wordle clues, hints and answer for September 3 (#1537)
- Blood Bowl's getting a new edition with teams for Bretonnians and Tomb Kings in the box
- September 2
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- The Crew is set to spring back to life as fan-made server emulator project prepares to launch later this month
- Randy Pitchford says the Borderlands film would've sucked a whole lot more if he'd directed it: 'It would have been way worse'
- How to watch the 30-minute 007 First Light gameplay 'deep dive' at Sony's State of Play
- Final Fantasy Tactics remaster devs built a replacement for its lost source code from fansite downloads, director says: 'I do want to thank all of the fans for all of their help in keeping that information archived'
- Left 4 Dead lead Mike Booth is making a new 'four-player co-op shooter built on the foundations of what made L4D special'
- Call of Duty movie confirmed: Activision and Paramount promise 'an authentic and exciting experience for longtime fans and newcomers alike'
- This 3D-printed mini arcade cabinet turns the humble Lenovo Legion Go into a bartop Street Fighter machine
- A laptop brand I've never heard of beat Razer's Project Valerie to the market with a three-screen laptop
- Google's self-loathing Gemini chatbot admits to being wrong 'every single time' and offers to pay software developer to fix the bad code it wrote
- You can pick up literally 382 games for $8 on Itch right now, with proceeds going 'directly to Palestine aid and relief'
- Tired of jiggling your GPU to get it to fit in a small form factor PC? Maxsun reckons it has the answer to that problem around the back
- Capcom president says PS5 prices are why Monster Hunter Wilds' sales aren't doing so hot, and we're trying not to take that personally here at PC Gamer
- Tesla claimed to have lost key evidence in wrongful death suit, right up until a hacker found it
- There are 3 dream remasters Atari's CEO wants to work on, but he has no idea if they'd actually 'do well'
- 'It crawls into every crevice, stains your cables, and turns teardown into a full day regret spiral.' That's what awaits you if you plan on immersing your graphics card in automatic transmission fluid for a spot of messy overclocking fun
- If this report about 2nm silicon from Japanese chip manufacturing start-up Rapidus beating TSMC is true, there might just be hope for GPU prices
- Silksong's onslaught claims another head—Dorfromantik team's next game gets punted to escape the 'hype-supernova': 'Both games deserve their moment to shine'
- Samsung and SK Hynix, the world's biggest makers of DRAM and flash memory chips, have potentially lost the right to buy US equipment for use in their China-based factories
- Oscar-nominated actor and Red Dead Redemption 2 performer Graham Greene dies age 73
- We're teaming up with Blumhouse to give away 500 Steam keys for co-op horror Eyes of Hellfire
- What if modern PC gaming were just a little more Nintendo? Kazeta, a Linux-based OS, aims to find out with plug 'n' play SD 'carts' and by going all in on retro simplicity
- Nvidia's RTX 5070 is the most popular current-gen GPU in the latest Steam hardware survey but AMD's RDNA 4 cards don't even make the top 100
- GPD shows how its Strix Halo handheld gaming PC battery fits in your pocket, but I'm still not convinced it's portable enough
- Intel's patent for 'software defined super cores' probably won't make an appearance in CPUs any time soon but implementing the tech could spell the end of the P-core
- Final Fantasy 14's latest patch makes surprise nerf to an arduous 9-year-old dungeon grind, and I hope there's more like it to come
- We're never getting another Deus Ex, but we can relive the glory days with all this new unused music from Mankind Divided
- Nvidia says AI models lack 'common sense' so it's drafting in good old fashioned human beings to give them a pop quiz
- A former mayor in the Philippines may have got a majorly bad deal on computing tech, reportedly paying $175,000 for 16 Intel 11th Gen machines
- Magic: The Gathering's Spider-Man set is full of Spider-Verse Spider-Folk including the superhero identities of Peter Parker's alternate-universe wife and daughter
- Today's Wordle clues, hints and answer for September 2 (#1536)
- September 1
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- Blizzard filed a copyright infringement lawsuit against one of World of Warcraft's biggest private servers, but the team behind it is putting on a brave face: 'Challenges come to us often, and each time we are prepared to face them'
- AI chatbots can be manipulated into breaking their own rules with simple debate tactics like telling them that an authority figure made the request
- Crusader Kings 3 players have struck out on nearly 5 million seduction attempts, but we still don't know how many Popes have been kidnapped
- Meta to take 'extra precautions' to stop AI chatbots talking to kids about suicide, which makes you wonder what it's been doing until now
- Final Fantasy 14 director Yoshi-P daydreams of more crossover events with Evangelion, Gundam, and especially Diablo: 'I love it so much that I would want to make a Diablo game myself'
- 'Gooning has been vaulted in Fortnite'—Epic stops certain emotes being used in proximity so that horny teenagers can no longer mock-hump each other
- 2024's true GOTY was a Diablo-flavoured Vampire Survivors-like, and it just announced a big free update and an enormo-DLC
- AntGamer is releasing a 1,000 Hz gaming monitor next year, with a helping hand from AMD, though the chances are you really don't need it
- Something Cyberpunk 2077 is happening on September 4 and that's all I can tell you because CDPR is a gold-medal vague-poster
- TSMC hits record 70% foundry market share, making a synapse singeing $30.24 billion in revenue last quarter alone
- 'Legality is not the defining factor': Anti-porn group that pressured Steam and Itch.io adult game delistings says it goes after games it doesn't like 'even when they are not illegal'
- I've tested the simple config file tweaks to improve Metal Gear Solid Delta's ray tracing and add frame gen, but the mod to ditch the 60 fps cap is what you really need
- 'Magicka scares me', says Helldivers 2's Johan Pilestedt, since it was made at a time where Arrowhead was much smaller—but he'd still like to revisit the series 'at some point'
- Age verification legislation is tanking traffic to sites that comply, and rewarding those that don't
- Escape from Tarkov finally puts on the big boy pants and announces a Steam release as it gears up for version 1.0
- 'We wanted to focus on performance': Battlefield 6 developer explains why EA is skipping ray tracing at launch
- Hero ports entirety of Morrowind into Elden Ring, thumbs nose at 'Bethesda lawyers' as steam presumably shoots out of their ears
- Even after performance fixes and price cuts, Intel's CEO admits that it 'fumbled the football' with Arrow Lake CPUs but claims that Nova Lake will fix everything
- 'Min spec is certainly one of our most important': Battlefield 6 dev says low-end build players were a 'meaningful percentage' of the beta, and he aims to keep it that way
- REPO has announced its next update, but we actually have a date this time, rather than a series of videos to slowly announce it
- 'The Copper Age' marks the 3rd game drop for Minecraft this year, and according to the announcement post 'It's almost like we're entering a new Minecraft era'
- The Blood Ravens' Chapter Master Gabriel Angelos won't be in Dawn of War 4 so it can focus on relatively 'normal' heroes instead
- Team Cherry confirms Silksong price and launch times—it's definitely $20, and it won't be releasing at the stroke of midnight on Thursday
- Today's Wordle clues, hints and answer for September 1 (#1535)
- See the remade version of Oblivion's tutorial dungeon in the first 15 minutes of a Skyblivion playthrough
