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- November 29
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- Cyber Monday is a great time to give yourself a first dose of Gunpla brain poison with $18 Gundam kit deals and 20% discounts on hobby supplies
- Fallout co-creator Tim Cain says canon is 'whatever the owner of the IP says it is' but that's okay because 'the best part of interpretation is you can't be wrong'
- We used to be a society in which PC gamers had little speakers on their desks instead of RGB headsets—here are 2 speaker deals that I like
- GTA San Andreas modders tease fully-fledged standalone indie game inspired by Stardew Valley, Graveyard Keeper, Mafia and Schedule I
- This Half-Life mod reimagines the game as a boomer shooter—yes, even boomier than the original
- Arc Raiders got a surprise cameo in South Park, and the devs learned about it just two days before the episode aired
- Sektori developer says the response to his Geometry Wars-inspired roguelike has been 'awesome', but the game's sales still leave him 'with zero salary for 4.5 years'
- MindsEye developer offers a starter pack that lets you try the beleaguered action game's best mission for free, though you should imagine air-quotes the size of skyscrapers around the word 'best'
- The Long Dark's final episode has been pushed back yet again, but at least it has an actual release date now
- What's the point of being an adult if you can't buy yourself a big Joytoy Warhammer 40,000 action figure to display on your PC gaming desk?
- I freed myself from my organizational sins by simply sticking my desk clutter where I don't have to see it, and you can do the same with this $9 Cyber Monday deal on nano tape
- This spiritual successor to Desert Strike has exploded into Steam early access with a 98% positive rating, and its developer plans to represent the whole Strike series in future updates
- Tempest Rising's next update will add massive superweapons that'll let you 'unload devastating payloads onto the enemy'
- November 28
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- For its 15th anniversary, anime sleuth 'em up Danganronpa is cheaper than ever by a wide margin—but only for a few days
- Team Cherry may not attend The Game Awards even though Silksong is nominated for GOTY, but they're pretty sure a different 'exceptional and broadly palatable' game will win
- Silksong devs felt they didn't 'have a lot of control' over its release date and sympathize with all the games that were delayed to avoid it: 'To some extent that probably is unfortunate'
- Revived survival RPG Hytale already has a release date after springing back to life, but the owner is reminding everyone the game 'isn't good yet'
- In a major plot twist, Intel could soon be making chips for Apple once again, only this time, it'll be the Arm-based M-series
- Good news: You can hold on to that Noctua cooler a little bit longer, as it'll still work with Intel Nova Lake
- GOG says it's 'proud to give Horses a home' after the horror game was rejected by Steam, but commenters won't let it forget the time it rejected another horror game
- Garry's mod successor s&box goes open source and even opens up the finances, Garry says: 'Valve gave me my chance, I'm already rich, I don't want to f*ck anyone over'
- Only 1.5% of Arc Raiders players have turned a Rocketeer into a mobile weapons platform, and I'm baffled it's even that common
- Helldivers 2 has players excited about the chance of a rogue fourth faction after Super Earth declares a 'War on Dissidence'
- Great news: Yakuza Kiwami 3 will let you improve Kiryu's 'Daddy Rank'
- Valve's decision not to sell the Steam Machine at a loss 'isn't stupid' but it is 'peculiar' says Baldur's Gate 3 publishing boss
- This interactive Arc Raiders database has become my go-to second-monitor companion
- A new Control trademark filing has Remedy fans hoping for a big reveal at The Game Awards
- 'The prices will continue to rise': Better get your new gaming PC or system upgrades now because this problem isn't getting any better, says Maingear's CEO
- After 13 years of being a gamer on YouTube, PewDiePie has shared that he's 'done' with games right now: 'I'd rather be doing something else'
- The AI slop-hose comes to Let It Die as its surprise sequel reveals 'voices, music, and graphics' shaped by the tech
- AI is reportedly 'democratising' cybercrime by making it easy for bad guys with limited tech skills to have a crack at ransomware and other malicious code
- The Cherry era of keyboards might be at an end as the company pulls the plug on German manufacturing after a $23 million loss
- Benedict Cumberbatch is World of Tanks' new 'Holiday Ambassador', starring in a bizarre (and expensive) Christmas advert that has very little to do with either tanks or Christmas
- Could a new generation of dedicated AI chips burst Nvidia's bubble and do for AI GPUs what ASICs did for crypto mining?
- Lies of P director says 'I will not disappoint you' when it comes to the sequel, and after playing its award-winning DLC this year, I fully believe him
- Last Epoch players turn on the action RPG for announcing a paid DLC class, tanking its Steam reviews: 'go play Path of Exile instead'
- Ring-a-ding-ding! A Fallout: New Vegas beta full of cut content has been unearthed
- November 27
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- Clair Obscur creative director says he knew the game was going to be 'cool,' but he really didn't expect it to be so 'big'
- Step aside, Doom: Mad lad plays Minecraft using a receipt printer for reasons known only to him and God
- Fortnite's Kill Bill collaboration censors the Pussy Wagon, because I guess you can't say 'Pussy Wagon' in Fortnite
- The ZX Spectrum is one of the most iconic PCs of all time, and it could be making a fun LEGO-based comeback
- This FPS is basically Spongebob meets Duke Nukem, and it's only $10 on Steam
- It took a full 10 years but one of Ubisoft's most popular games finally has achievements on Steam
- Surprise surprise, people are still in no hurry to switch to Windows 11, Dell reveals
- MIT's new 'Iceberg Index' study claims AI already has the 'cognitive and administrative' capability to replace 11.7% of the US workforce
- Arc Raiders' latest patch has fixed the infamous door glitch by turning rooms into ovens and cooking cheaters alive, all while sneaking in a new Stella Montis modifier
- Destiny 2 director doesn't want it to 'be a dead live game', as the ailing shooter stares down the barrel of fan outrage: 'We want to keep building Destiny'
- Sorry folks, but CD Projekt says it's not going to surprise us with any breathtaking Witcher 4 moments at The Game Awards
- Magic: the Gathering's Monster Hunter reveal went so poorly that the whole thing is delayed: 'Back to the drawing board'
- Assassin's Creed Shadows has no plans for more expansions like Claws of Awaji, a first for the series in its modern form
- Dangerous security flaws could potentially affect millions of Asus PC and router owners - here's how to protect yourself
- Gaming PC with bizarre Chinese-made but AMD-derived 16-core x86 CPU and Nvidia graphics goes on sale, but only in China for now
- Original Yakuza 0's getting delisted from Steam on December 8, but you can tuck away a GOG copy for 45% off right now
- Schedule 1 creator had a backup plan if Steam rejected it—pack up the product, don a farmer's hat, and 'pivot it to be a farming game' like Stardew Valley
- 'Every moment flawed and messy because we are, also': Indie developer rallies against big studios' increasingly flippant remarks about generative AI
- I've just learned you can shimmy along walls in Arc Raiders, and now I'm determined to find a practical use for it
- Oh great, the latest rumours suggest Nvidia might stop bundling VRAM with its GPUs, because who cares about cheap graphics cards
- Obsidian says The Outer Worlds 2 isn't a deliberate critique of capitalism, which is even more ridiculous than the time Fallout's co-creator said that isn't either
- Intel will reportedly take the fight to AMD's dominant X3D gaming CPUs with monstrous Nova Lake chip packing 288 MB of vertical cache and 52 cores
- The Sims' biggest sex mod creator says that around 300,000 people use it—that's more than some of Steam's top games: 'It doesn't make sense to me'
- Vampire: The Masquerade – Bloodlines 2 didn't sell as well as Paradox expected, and the publisher is taking the blame: 'The responsibility lies fully with us'
- Dispatch's original script would've let you pick 3 heroes like 'starter Pokémon', snagging Invisigal, Waterboy, or Mr Whiskey to pull under your wing
- Framework delists standalone memory to 'head off scalpers' and Cyberpower announces system price hikes as the memory supply crisis deepens
- November 26
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- OpenAI says teen's 'misuse' of ChatGPT is to blame for his suicide, because he broke the TOU: 'Users must comply with OpenAI's Usage Policies, which prohibit the use of ChatGPT for suicide or self-harm'
- Sean Murray just crushed my hopes of playing Light No Fire anytime soon by describing the dev team as 'tiny' and working 'in the background' at Hello Games
- 'Child labor is unbeatable': Baldur's Gate 3 players discover how to build an army of unkillable kids through the power of polymorph and German media laws
- For 33 years, a 'true story' about the 'resonant frequency of a chicken's skull cavity' written in an MS-DOS help file has fueled an urban legend that a certain sound wavelength will make chicken heads explode
- The standout Steam Black Friday deal is undoubtedly Doom: The Dark Ages for 50% off
- 2 months after being acquired by private equity, Splash Damage is making major layoffs so it can 'remain agile,' even though it hasn't released a game since 2020
- Epic boss Tim Sweeney thinks stores like Steam should stop labelling games as being made with AI: 'It makes no sense,' he says, because 'AI will be involved in nearly all future production'
- Despite getting delayed, Paralives looks like it's avoiding Inzoi's biggest flaw
- An outage briefly affected Fortnite, Arc Raiders, Battle.net, PSN, and more, but now appears to be resolved
- Yes, Arc Raiders servers are down (Update: We're back)
- World of Warcraft: Midnight might be the MMO's biggest expansion yet, and it's coming out in March
- Galaxy Princess Zorana is like if you made BG3 passive checks into a whole game, a great tale of political intrigue, and will give you like 4,000 ways to die embarrassingly
- Cyberpunk 2077 is now CD Projekt's 'main source of income,' and sales are outpacing The Witcher 3: Its latest milestone is 'a better result than The Witcher 3 was able to achieve in the same post-release time frame'
- The fantasy RPG that started as a viral AI-made video is 'free of AI-generated content,' pledges its maker
- Mount & Blade 2: Bannerlord gets free patch alongside War Sails DLC that's so big, the 17,000 word update run more than twice the length of Age of Empires 2's 'legendarily long' patch notes
- The ROG Xbox Ally now has tailored per-game profiles and I never thought I'd say it but as a SteamOS user I'm quite jealous
- After seeing the science, I hereby vow to never underestimate or misuse Arc Raiders' attachments ever again
- After 17 years, Ubisoft is hiring up for Beyond Good and Evil 2, a definitely real videogame that exists
- 22 years since launch, a classic Dungeons & Dragons adventure from the developer of Bloodlines is finally coming to Steam
- Sam Altman says the prototype AI 'thing' he's making with Jony Ive gives the 'vibe' of 'sitting in the most beautiful cabin by a lake in the mountains' and I'm left wondering if he's ever listened to the noises coming out of the hole under his nose
- AMD's Ryzen 7 9800X3D is now down to £390 this Black Friday, making the champion of all gaming CPUs the cheapest it's ever been
- Fantatical's Capcom sale offers up two Resident Evil games you need to play before Requiem releases for just $12
- The ESRB just leaked a Death Stranding 2 PC port, and I think we can say bye-bye to Jim Ryan's '2 or 3 year' wait for PlayStation games on PC
- Call of Duty has been the biggest-selling shooter in the US since 2006, but that could soon change according to industry analyst: 'This part of the market hasn't been this competitive in 20 years'
- Intel's next-gen Panther Lake CPU pops up in Geekbench with decent but not exactly spectacular benchmark numbers
- Embracer Group sells publisher Arc Games and Star Trek Online developer Cryptic Studios, but once again clings on to the publishing rights for Remnant 2
- November 25
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- The circle is closed as Clair Obscur mocap actor Maxence Cazorla thanks Charlie Cox for his kind words: 'Bringing Gustave to life was a team effort, and I’m honored to have played my part in it'
- The Battlefield 6 free trial is live, and if you're new to the scene EA has a detailed guide to get you started
- Despite Krafton ownership, Last Epoch dev won't charge for its first expansion and isn't pivoting to AI: 'To be clear, our development approach is not changing'
- After its 'make FPS great again' controversy, Splitgate 2 is relaunching with a humbler tone: 'The goal is to grow over time, not aim for a massive splash on day 1'
- Former Ghost of Yotei artist says she wasn't fired because of a Charlie Kirk joke, but 'because of a harassment campaign' that nobody at Sony or Sucker Punch bothered investigating
- The first thing Bungie asked LucasFilm about its Star Wars-themed Destiny 2 expansion was: 'What is the bad version of this?'
- Finally some good buyout news: A writer just bought back the game she co-created from a blockchain company so it 'doesn’t end up being turned into AI slop'
- After splurging on EA, Saudi Arabia's Public Investment Fund is reportedly tightening its pursestrings, due to 'financial distress' caused by numerous troubled projects
- Hero modder who started the Thomas the Tank Engine meme with Skyrim thumbs his nose at 'legal threats' and 'black vans with the Mattel logo' by modding Thomas into Morrowind: 'I have issues with authority'
- This fishing game awards bonus XP for no-scoping an airborne mackerel, and I think that's beautiful
- Valve responds as indie horror studio accuses Steam of 'censorship' for banning its game about nude human 'Horses' (Update)
- Quantic Dream's upcoming MOBA is opening its doors for a closed beta weekend in just a couple of weeks, but only a few players will make the cut
- Another Fallout 4 update fixes performance issues while leaving modders angry, but it doesn't have to be this way
- In a relatable bout of impostor syndrome, Clair Obscur actor Charlie Cox says please give all the credit to mocap actor Maxence Cazorla after he nabs a Game Awards nom
- This sneaky malware variant has been caught using fake Windows Update screens to trick users into installing info-stealing software themselves
- Arc Raiders' streamer war is finally over, and it ended in the most underwhelming way possible via a Discord call: 'I declare sweeping victory for the Bungulators'
- Warhammer 40,000: Space Marine 2 dev admits some damage buff combinations are 'already insane', but its latest patch deliberately opens 'a huge can of worms' by increasing the netcode cap anyway: 'for now, have fun'
- Google needs to double its AI serving capacity 'every six months' and scale 'the next 1000x in 4-5 years' according to an internal presentation
- Please stop scooting around while you're downed in Arc Raiders: it's making you die faster
- Disappeared survival horror Cold Fear magically returns in GOG's immortal games lineup, with 4K, crash fixes, and support for modern controllers
- Magic: The Gathering's original art director says one of its most famous expansions was a protest against the Satanic Panic: 'I was getting really tired of the judgmental, holier-than-thou attitude coming from a lot of conservative so-called Christians'
- Microsoft spits in God's face with Xbox-style Crocs that cost $80 and the sum total of your dignity
- Demonschool's credits go one step further than names and job titles, adding full descriptions for designer roles: 'We wanted to give people proper, actual credit'
- Live-action Far Cry TV series starring It's Always Sunny's Rob Mac will mimic the games' standalone format, with each season given 'a new setting following a new cast of characters'
- November 24
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- 2025 Steam Awards nominations are open, and I wonder if Valve's wonky personalized suggestions will affect the results—you'll know they did if Bongo Cat gets nominated in the 'story-rich' category
- Battlefield 6 player hits max rank with 'death trap' jeep everybody hates, and it only cost his sanity: 'It’s a bad vehicle'
- 'It wasn't fun for the first 7 years' says maker of fantasy sim Tavern Keeper, which spent more than a decade in development
- 'Most of the innovation in gaming has happened on PC' says EVE Online studio boss: 'When I love a game, it's so deeply PC'
- Steam's first-ever Black Friday sale makes a surprise appearance to fill the gap left by the Steam Autumn Sale
- Windows 11 is going to start quietly preloading File Explorer in the background to make it faster, which is a good reminder that you should probably try a different file manager anyway
- Ghost of Yotei star Erika Ishii wants the world to know their pick for Game of the Year is not Ghost of Yotei: 'Blue Prince, all day, every day!'
- Escape from Tarkov director says the launch week's wobbles were 'actual stress testing not only of our servers but also our mind and nerves'
- The Chinese Room's co-founder told Paradox 'we can't make Bloodlines 2' but then they did make Bloodlines 2 and it was like 'untangling an anaconda f***ball of competing priorities'
- 'These reports are misleading': Google denies claims that Gmail is scraping your emails to train its AI
- Metaphor: ReFantazio and Persona 5 director wants to usher in the age of 'JRPG 3.0', which will change 'the genre's structure and presentation at a fundamental level'
- Baldur's Gate 3 Shadowheart actor Jennifer English has advice for AI pushers: 'Don't'
- 'It's rumor and speculation. There's nothing to it': Intel's Lip-Bu Tan dismisses worries that the company's new hire gave it TSMC's 2 nm IP secrets
- It turns out that I've been carrying heavy items wrong in Arc Raiders for over 50 hours, though the best method is far from intuitive
- Bloodborne sees a massive performance boost thanks to PS4 emulator update, with hunters' dreams becoming more accessible on Steam Deck
- Resurrected racer The Crew Unlimited swerves to avoid yet another death, as its curators issue 'one of the most important updates we've ever released'
- Estimates peg Valve as a capitalism fusion reactor, making such ungodly money per employee that it's no wonder Gabe Newell bought all those yachts and the whole damn yacht company
- Less than 15% of you have revived a fellow player in Arc Raiders, and we've gotta bump up that depressing number
- Rockstar Games co-founder and former Grand Theft Auto scribe reckons there's 'always that danger' that the industry will get 'overly focussed on making money'
- Forgotten gacha game Tower of Fantasy is launching a new server to de-RNG itself into a purer MMO
- Almost 13 years since reveal, TimeSplitters Rewind is finally out: 'Sorry it took so long. We've only been making the largest free content video game ever'
- Xbox full screen experience is no longer just for handheld gaming PCs, but the feature is rolling out gradually and we're not having much luck with workarounds
- Arc Raiders player loses 100,000 Raider Coins-worth of items fighting the Matriarch in the worst way possible: 'I will not top this death anytime soon'
- Udo Kier, star of Red Alert 2 and Hideo Kojima's OD, dies aged 81: 'There will never be another like him. Udo, rest in peace'
- The world's busiest toilet temporarily made detective sim Shadows of Doubt a murder-free zone: 'You can't always legislate for the fact that everyone's going to need a wee at midnight'
- Two Point Museum lets you run wild in its biggest (and hairiest) DLC to date and players can sink their claws in for free this week
- The $4,000 limited edition Asus ROG Matrix RTX 5090, rated to 800 W, is officially out and oh it's sold out already never mind
- Baldur's Gate 3 is 'an inspiration' for CD Projekt, but it's all-in on big open worlds: 'We are definitely not going to make a game like Larian did'
- November 23
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- Valve coder confirms the Steam Machine will be priced like a PC, albeit at a 'good deal': 'If you build a PC from parts and get to basically the same level of performance, that’s the general price window that we aim to be at'
- This absurdly stylish side scroller feels like playing two different genres of retro shooter at the same time, and I love it
- This GTA 6 fan's fascinating deep-dive into co-protagonist Jason's military background is a must-read for all you lore heads out there
- This roguelike take on Geometry Wars is the best game I've played this month, and the latest to become a permanent fixture on my Steam Deck
- Fatshark celebrates 10 years of rat-bashing by adding one of Vermintide's 'most popular' maps into Vermintide 2, but 'things are not as before'
- Classic text adventure Zork is going open source, but I'm side-eyeing Microsoft's announcement about it hard
- Mafia: The Old Country's Free Ride update is out now, replacing its empty open world with an extremely basic one
- The original Dawn of War games have 109 new Steam achievements after 20 years—if you have the definitive edition, at least
- Mod fixes 17-year-old lip-sync bug in Fallout 3 and New Vegas
- November 22
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- 'A big document of stealth' requested by Todd Howard from a designer of one of the best stealth games of all time was the blueprint for Skyrim's most beloved playstyle
- A 'small update' just shook up Deadlock's basic mechanics and tweaked nearly every hero
- A former Valve dev revealed how, while a VR version of Half-Life 2 was being made, a single metro cop's toe created a 'time-travelling' bug that softlocked all versions of the game
- Cities: Skylines 2's bicycle update adds a lot more than just bikes, as Colossal Order prepares to hand over development to a new studio
- 5 months after launch, cooperative shooter FBC Firebreak finally has integrated voice chat, but its Vampire Survivors-style wave mode is delayed until next year
- This mech themed XCOM-like just got a gargantuan update that overhauls its campaign, redesigns its overworld, and adds personalities to pilots with 'over 100' unique traits
- Doom: The Dark Ages' latest update overhauls its customisable arena mode, and id Software wants to add the best player-made slaughter-fests as selectable presets
- Windows used to secretly use green screens to render videos, which is how you could trick MS Paint into becoming a video player
- I tested that spot in Arc Raiders that supposedly guarantees rare rusted parts, and my results were mixed
- November 21
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- Interview with Roblox CEO kicks off with an unbelievable answer about its predator problem being 'not just a problem, but an opportunity,' and somehow just gets crazier from there
- The Game Awards nominated another Hololive vtuber and her boss just wants voters to give her a chance: 'I would hope that they watch her stream at least once'
- 'We cloned Gmail, except you're logged in as Epstein and can see his emails' is the most impressively cursed tech project of the year
- The UK turns to videogames to recruit future drone pilots with the International Defense Esports Games, as the plot of Ender's Game inches ever closer to reality
- Poets are now cybersecurity threats: Researchers used 'adversarial poetry' to trick AI into ignoring its safety guard rails and it worked 62% of the time
- One of the best horde shooters of all time is free to keep on Steam this weekend
- Hytale honcho says early access will be $20 because 'charging more didn’t feel right': He doesn't think the game is good yet, but 'my team and I will push hard to make it good, then great'
- The PUBG extraction shooter spinoff springs back to life with a closed alpha test set for December, and its focus on exploration over pure combat sounds a lot like my favorite part of Arc Raiders
- Resident Evil Requiem producer hints at the return of 'some characters from the past' then—way too late—warns players not to 'over-expect or hype it'
- 'We've got some big changes coming in Season 1': Call of Duty: Black Ops 7's design director talks buffing aim assist, adjusting spawn locations, and a drone pod nerf ahead of the next season
- Helldivers 2 players exercise managed democracy to rename destroyed city 'New York Supreme' rather than the infinitely better 'Bernard'
- The voice of Geralt isn't worried about Ciri's recasting in The Witcher 4: 'I think she's going to do a great job'
- Nvidia reminds us it's not a gaming company anymore, but 'an AI data center infrastructure company'
- Stranger Things refuses to let you forget its about to end forever by immortalising itself in Fortnite
- If you ever feel like you'd have won a fight in Arc Raiders if you actually heard the player sneaking up on you, then you need to turn this setting on right away
- Ahead of Black Friday, Fanatical has dropped more comic and book bundles than I know what to do with, covering Dragon Age, Mass Effect, Cyberpunk 2077, Halo, and more
- Team Cherry says that 'if there were ever other' Hollow Knight games after Silksong, they'd all be self-contained and 'exist alongside one another'
- It's a shame HoYoverse's new game is sporting offensively cheap-looking character models because everything else has me sold on its paranormal cop mystery
- Ubisoft says AI is 'as big a revolution for our industry as the shift to 3D,' its magical AI NPCs are out of prototyping, and you bet it's got 'all our studios' working with the tech
- A gang war has erupted in Arc Raiders, and a victor is already emerging as Ninja joins the Bungulators: 'I am not declaring war or picking sides against somebody whose AFK stream gets more viewers than me'
- Ubisoft hasn't exploded or been bought by Tencent: Its finances were delayed because of maths nerds, AC Shadows is 'Overperforming', and it's got one upcoming game you don't know about, thank you
- All Genshin Impact 6.2 livestream codes
- Gearbox finally fixes Borderlands 4's infuriating class mod drops and snore-inducing Wildcards—oh, and its first DLC is now free
- Grok AI temporarily so sycophantic it claims Elon Musk is the best at drinking pee, and other things I'm not going to put in a headline, you can't make me
- We used to be a society (with a good Windows Task Manager icon)
- November 20
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- Someone really did their homework figuring out ways to make the four kinds of bending from Avatar: The Last Airbender work in Magic: The Gathering
- Reviews be damned, The Witcher voice actor Doug Cockle thinks Liam Hemsworth 'holds up pretty well' as Geralt in Netflix's television series: 'I think he's done a fantastic job'
- Over 9M dungeons have been cleared in co-op RPG Fellowship's first month of early access and now the devs are teasing big updates in the next few months
- Anticipated anime action RPG halts updates just 3 months after launch because of poor sales: 'The game wasn’t fun enough to sustain a consistent, healthy player base'
- In October 2025, a full 205 months after the ill-fated life sim Spore first launched, someone walked into a store, found an old DVD copy on a shelf, and bought it
- After missing the last few updates, Path of Exile 2's new druid class is finally ready to play in its next update
- Rumors about a Sims 4 remaster are probably bunk, but we do already know EA is quietly cooking up some unified multi-platform Sims Hub
- Every death costs you 10 years in this open world roguelike, so your missing daughter might be a grandmother by the time you find her
- Another Marathon playtest is coming in December, but this one is restricted to North America and it's still 'strictly under an NDA'
- Sandfall Interactive expresses shock as Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 matches Baldur's Gate 3's record-setting run at the 2025 Golden Joystick Awards: 'What the f**k is happening'
- I am going to kill Slim Shady with mom's spaghetti
- I'm escaping to the one place that hasn't been corrupted by capitalism: A fanmade browser version of the best Command & Conquer
- Vampire Survivors is getting a deckbuilding dungeon crawler spin-off that looks purpose built to annihilate your free time
- Inzoi's getting multiplayer after South Korea's president told the director to hop to it: 'It almost felt like I was getting talked to by the company's CEO'
- If you own any Total War: Warhammer game, you'll get the best part of Total War: Warhammer 3 for free on December 4
- GameStop's 'Trade Anything Day' has some employees bracing for the worst: 'We're probably going to have to reject some of the things because they're a biological hazard'
- Fortnite outdoes itself once again: the next chapter features an unfilmed scene from Kill Bill, announced by Quentin Tarantino
- MrBeast's pop up theme park in Saudi Arabia looks to be a masterclass in cynicism
- Arc Raiders players have been trading guns for binoculars, and it's making for some incredibly cinematic on-field reporting that's hauntingly good
- Overwatch 2's first melee damage hero was 'pushed forward' in the release schedule despite fans expecting a new tank: 'It's more about servicing that playstyle that we really didn't have in the roster'
- My prayers have been answered: Battlefield 6 Engineers can now spawn with 5 rockets, meaning you can send tanks straight to the scrap yard
- Rust developer has 'no plans' for Linux or Proton support, says games that support them are 'not serious about anti-cheat'
- WoW game director steps in to reassure players that its AddOn overhaul is a work in progress, and the temporary death of cosmetic mods is simply 'collateral damage that we are working on repairing'
- Just Cause dev Avalanche closes its Liverpool studio, its 3rd in just over a year
- Researchers have scraped the personal data and images of 3.5 billion WhatsApp users in what's claimed to be the 'largest data leak in history'
- Where Winds Meet has the most buckwild 'mounts' I've ever seen: Getting chased by jaguars, standing on a goose, or just cranking a normal run animation to turbo-speed
- NCSoft launches MMO with terrible monetisation—puts out emergency broadcast 15 hours later, promising to fix it while its wax wings melt: 'We were complacent and unthoughtful'
- Arc Raiders' latest update rightfully nerfs the Venator, buffs the drop rates of Aphelion blueprints, and brings crucial overhauls to your rubber duck showcase
- Treyarch is opening up Call of Duty: Black Ops 7's Endgame extraction shooter to everyone after realising that most people probably won't finish the campaign
- I spent years on a journalism degree to tell you Homer's nipples have leaked in Fortnite
- Nvidia beats AI bubble fears with record revenues of $57 billion and 'off the charts' AI GPU sales
- Dispatch proves the death of Telltale-style games was a mere mirage, as it rakes in 2 million players: 'Wouldn't be here without you'
- Stardew Valley has left Miraland for a new collab, and it looks a little sus
- Big AI companies and the people that supply big AI companies are once again investing billions of dollars in one another: this time, Nvidia, Microsoft and Anthropic
- November 19
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- Marathon cinematic director Alberto Mielgo says the 8-minute reveal video was not made with AI and frankly he can't believe he even has to say that
- After Downdetector itself went down, someone made a Downdetector Downdetector, and then someone made a Downdetector Downdetector Downdetector, and then…
- 'Keep dying to goose pls help': Where Winds Meet players are being chased around by demonic geese
- After Krafton denied its CEO consulted with ChatGPT on the Subnautica 2 mess, Krafton CEO says he consulted with ChatGPT on the Subnautica 2 mess
- A year after Gearbox released Risk of Rain 2 DLC so broken the developer admitted it put the game 'in a really bad place,' it's finally got a win: the new DLC's 96% positive reviews have blasted it up Steam's top sellers chart
- Peter Jackson's King Kong: The Official Game of the Movie modder just released a fan patch for Peter Jackson's King Kong: The Official Game of the Movie to celebrate the 20th anniversary of Peter Jackson's King Kong: The Official Game of the Movie
- Sure, why not: The next videogame movie will adapt friendship-ending indie Chained Together
- This game had a 100% positive Steam review score for months, until yesterday when someone finally gave it a thumbs-down just 'to be different'
- Roblox to make facial age checks mandatory to access any chat features, and will put 'common-sense limits' on the age ranges users can chat within
- Geoff Keighley denies he's hiding Half-Life 3 in his Steam wishlist, posts a screenshot to prove it, nobody believes him, and I'm starting to wonder if he's just messing with us
- After bagging a Kingdom Come: Deliverance 2 quest designer for The Witcher 4, CD Projekt snaps up BioShock 4's former narrative lead to work on Cyberpunk 2
- Now that I've learned the cost per shot of weapons in Arc Raiders, I'm an even bigger fan of my beloved Stitcher
- Old School RuneScape just got its first new skill ever and players are psyched about it, apart from the guy the game accidentally branded 'Morbid Loner'
- Arc Raiders players are dominating Stella Montis with 25 million visits, 26,923 Matriarch kills, and 117 self-KOs with a volcanic rock—ok, that last one isn't great
- Hardcore space sim Ostranauts just joined the legendary patch notes canon: 'Corpses should no longer become hotter than the Sun and explode the ships/stations they are on'
- The SpongeBob SquarePants Limited Edition Xbox controllers are made for goofy goobers and you can't convince me otherwise
- This online tool makes choosing a motherboard easier and coincidentally has me pulling my hair out a little less
- Samsung's next-gen 2nm node is in mass production, but will it beat TSMC's N2 silicon to market and help make chips cheaper?
- Dragon's Dogma 2 is already at half the lifetime sales of the original cult classic, and if Capcom wants more, it should give us a Dark Arisen-style expansion
- The first 'official' Android game spotted on Steam suggests you might not need to buy games twice to run them natively on the Steam Frame's own chip
- 'I like boring, and boring to me is no super exciting new features that will break machines for millions of people around the world' says Linux creator Linus Torvalds
- 14 minutes and 650 bullets later, one determined Arc Raiders player somehow killed a Matriarch with the worst gun in the game
- The internet as we know it emerged out of the Protocol Wars, which is as nerdy as it sounds but also somehow involved the Pentagon
- AMD finally gives its AI-enhanced FSR 'Redstone' upscaling tech a December 10 launch date
- Forget Half-Life 3, the talking rat in Fatekeeper's latest trailer is the best thing you'll see this week
- Guild Wars celebrates 20 years with a 'Reforged' overhaul that's free for existing players, and offers the whole shebang to newbies for $20: 'It was a good time to give it a refresh'
- You can pick up the System Shock remake, SS2 remaster, detective imsim Shadows of Doubt and more in a $20 bundle right now, and if you already own some of them you can trade them in for something else
- A vital rare earth element you've probably never heard of has surged in price by nearly 1,500% this year and it's essential for global chip manufacturing
- WoW's proposed transmog overhaul is 1 step forward, 2 steps back, and has Azeroth's fashionistas rioting: 'Blizzard truly are the masters at snatching defeat from the jaws of victory'
- The best way to level your horse in Disney Dreamlight Valley isn't through daily gifts, it's by creating a shoddy obstacle course
- Borderlands 4 has a 'very stupid' glitch that lets you unlock a character's most powerful abilities before refunding all your skill points, but don't expect it to be around long as Gearbox says 'we're on it'
- This 2-meter tall statue of Hatsune Miku is actually a gaming PC—the gaming PC of my dreams, that is
- I was surprised just how good this compact PC case is, considering its low price, and now it's only £30 for Black Friday
- Epic Games announces sweeping cross-platform collab' bringing Unity's games and commerce platform to Fortnite
- 'No one leaves'—one Arc Raiders player has devoted themselves to turning Stella Montis into an inescapable maze, revelling in the cries of stuck players: 'I am the engineer of chaos!'
- Inundated with slop, TikTok tests feature that will let users request to 'see less' AI generated content in their feeds
- Right after 'saving' Hytale from 7 years of development limbo, its new owner releases 16 minutes of 'raw and broken' gameplay footage to 'break the curse once and for all'
- Cloudflare apologises for 'the pain we caused the Internet' and admits a file size error brought down large parts of the web yesterday, not a malicious cyberattack
- This $150 controller from Honeycomb Aeronautical has not one, not two, not three, but four integrated Throttle Levers for the flight sim sickos
- AMD is the hardware of choice for France's first 'AI factory' supercomputer
- Plants vs. Zombies: Replanted adds a great quality-of-life feature from the console port: a sun vacuum
- Darktide's second new class is the Hive Scum, its first dual-wielder and drug fiend
- November 18
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- Half-Life fans are in a frenzy over the prospect of a Half-Life 3 announcement that there's (almost) no good reason to believe is happening
- Despite 'Mixed' Steam reviews and a touch of AI slop, strategy city builder Anno 117: Pax Romana has the best launch in series history
- Overwatch fans are desperately trying to solve a mystery with its newest hero, but Blizzard already revealed the answer
- Apple's 1991 Macintosh shipped with a bug that should've stopped it from booting, but no one ever knew because an undocumented CPU trick 'almost too crazy to be true' miraculously made it work
- Monster Hunter is getting a Magic: The Gathering collab, and I think I speak for all fans of cool lizard art when I say: Hell yeah
- Megabonk developer withdraws from 'Best Debut Indie Game' nomination at The Game Awards for a pretty good reason: 'It's not my debut game'
- Valve accidentally steps on the make-up deal it offered to the indie game whose 2024 release was ruined by a Steam bug: 'I really get the feeling that Planet Centauri is cursed'
- Over 20 hours of Elden Ring lore videos are being crammed into one big book by Souls YouTuber VaatiVidya
- Fallout co-creator Tim Cain says today's games suffer from trying 'to be everything for everyone' when they should be learning from '80s games: 'These games were really focused, because they had to be'
- Larian Studios responds to 2025 Game Awards nomination for Baldur's Gate 3, which came out more than 2 years ago: 'honestly, what the f**k'
- Everyone knows the AI business model is steal first, ask permission later, and Google's CEO is clinging to the notion of opt-outs as justifying it: 'We do give people those rights'
- Delta Force devs apologise after Facepunch Studios exec accuses them of stealing assets from Rust: 'If you wanted to collab, you should have reached out'
- Here's how to watch Clair Obscur, KCD2 and others jostle for GOTY at the Golden Joystick Awards 2025
- Mass Effect 3 redeemed to glory as modder puts its ME1-style elevator back in
- Anthropic reports the first 80-90% 'AI-orchestrated' cyber espionage campaign, but cybersecurity critics are sceptical
- A UK trial scheme is attempting to cut heating costs for households with shed-sized mini data centres
- PC and smartphone markets forecast to shrink in 2026 due to higher prices as memory supply crisis escalates and threatens to spoil Black Friday for PC fans
- Battlefield 6 is putting on a week-long free trial to celebrate the latest seasonal content, which brings the warzone to an affluent Californian neighbourhood
- The developer of 80 Days was once invited to pitch a Doctor Who game, but never heard back from the BBC afterward: 'Technically, we're still waiting for a reply'
- 'Elon [Musk] truly would be the best owner of any game company,' claims former Activision CEO Bobby Kotick with a completely straight face
- Former Activision CEO Bobby Kotick wanted to buy Minecraft until he found out Notch was leaving and Microsoft was offering a billion dollars more: 'I'll go airplane shopping with you, but you've gotta take that offer'
- This speedrunner has been making a glorious multi-handheld gaming PC body harness rig for IRL game streaming on the move
- Overwatch 2's newest hero has roots in one of the best PvE missions I played 7 years ago
- When Assassin's Creed's infamously dull main character was finally killed off, voice actor Nolan North didn't find out until a fan told him about it on Twitter
- Russia just added Stalker dev GSC to its no-no list of 'undesirable organisations', sobs that Stalker 2 promoted 'Ukrainian narratives' and 'aggressive Russophobic content'
- Staring down the barrel of a rough 2026, Ubisoft's UK arm says we're less interested in 'one time purchase' games and all about that live service dripfeed
- You might want to crack open Armoury Crate as Asus has some 'BIG' updates for the ROG Xbox Ally X and non-X, plus some smaller ones for the older ROG handhelds
- Arc Raiders' new Deadline mine is so effective that it can one-shot a Bastion, tear a Leaper apart, and help destroy a Queen arc in just 10 minutes
- State-level crackdowns in the US threaten to 'break VPN access for the entire internet,' claims online privacy nonprofit
- OLED PC monitor sales are booming, up 65% on last year with Asus leading the charge
- Cloudflare goes down, but a fix is in and ChatGPT and X are back online again
- Super-fast gaming mice that weigh less than a feather are all well and good, but what the market really needs are more options for fit and feel, just like the Orbital Pathfinder
- Google CEO's warning about the AI bubble bursting: 'No company is going to be immune, including us'
- Valve says the Steam Machine is better than what 70% of PC gamers have at home, a convenient reminder that not all gaming PCs are monster rigs
- Arc Raiders players decided to test who was friendlier, PC or console players: 'I am never playing the game on cross-play ever again'
- Ex-Square Enix suit says you can whine all you like, but 'Gen Z loves AI slop' and everyone and their grandma is already using it
- I've played 40 hours of Arc Raiders and only just discovered there's a locked room that requires an epic material to open, not a keycard
- 7 years after launch and 18 years after Steam, the Epic Games Store will now let you gift games directly to your friends
- AMD is reportedly planning a GPU price rise as the memory shortage crisis bites and odds of decent Black Friday graphics card deals look increasingly slim
- There is no glitch—turns out, you need more than just heroic dialogue choices to get Dispatch's best ending, you've gotta be good at your job, too
- Apparently Windows 11 becoming 'agentic AI' means letting the bots rummage through some of your files
- Legendary game designer, programmer, Space Invaders champion, and LGBTQ trailblazer Rebecca Heineman has died
- November 17
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- My favorite horror game of 2025 sounds like a literal nightmare because its composer sampled the creaking of an old house and a metal saw scraping 'an instrument that sounded horrifying yet could have been made in feudal Japan'
- Krafton CEO allegedly asked ChatGPT to help him find a way out of paying Subnautica 2 devs their bonuses because he wanted to avoid the 'professional embarrassment' of being seen as a 'pushover'
- Blizzard hit the $90 dinosaur mount emergency button to fill the gap before the next WoW expansion and players are already dumping millions of gold into the ether to buy it
- Arc Raiders physics don't get better than this one-in-a-million shot of a Queen getting suplexed by a probe
- The Game Awards 2025 nominees are here, and—surprise—Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 was nominated for every qualifying category
- Take-Two boss Strauss Zelnick says gaming is 'moving towards PC' as the industry shifts away from closed systems, but we still don't have a GTA 6 announcement
- 'Hytale is saved': Riot sells cancelled game back to original co-founder, who promises to take it 'back to the original vision for Hytale'
- 'I've had so many projects that have been discontinued lately': Nier creator Yoko Taro says he's been working on plenty of games—but they keep getting cancelled before he can announce them
- Jailed British hacker who hijacked X accounts including Apple, Bill Gates, and Barack Obama—then used them for a 'double your money' Bitcoin scam—has to hand back $5.4 million in ill-gotten crypto gains
- Microsoft's updated anti-cheating measures go far beyond Secure Boot, including 'Remote Attestation' for online system verification
- The Destoyinator is a data-blitzing coffin that can wipe up to 60 drives at once
- Silent Hill f fans reckon that its recent casual difficulty patch was inspired by the lead actor's livestreamed struggles with the game
- There's a valuable LEDX you can grab in Escape From Tarkov's tutorial—and it's lost forever if you don't
- Stalker 2 has faction wars now: Enemies 'can expand control over new territories' in its 1.7 jumbo patch that also adds mega-hard mode and makes hiding in bushes meaningful
- Phasmophobia devs say all that live service malarkey can do one: they focus on making 'a fun game that people want to play because it's fun'
- Resident Evil Requiem's producer assures fans that no punches have been pulled with its horror, but will still welcome player feedback: 'My mental health is very strong—I am fine to read the comments'
- After the bungled launch of Cities: Skylines 2, Paradox Interactive and Colossal Order part ways as development moves to a new studio
- I don't know how I missed this playable Windows 95-era 3D Maze screensaver, but it's making me feel like I'm tripping out, man
- Poor Monster Hunter Wilds gets politely thrown under the bus as Capcom promises Resident Evil Requiem won't run as badly
- 2005 survival horror shooter ups and vanishes from Steam suspiciously soon after entering Nightdive's orbit
- FF14 director Naoki Yoshida has big plans for the MMO after Dawntrail's roughspots—hinting at A Realm Reborn-style overhaul
- Resident Evil Requiem didn't just start life out as an online multiplayer game, but still retains 'some remaining elements' to ensure it's fun to play
- US Congressman calls for regulations to 'prevent companies from using AI to eliminate jobs to extract greater profit' following Call of Duty: Black Ops 7's calling card fiasco
- Bungie and sci-fi author settle lawsuit over alleged plagiarism of his old Wordpress stories for Destiny 2's launch campaign
- XDefiant was originally going to be a new Splinter Cell, according to former Ubisoft devs who went on to make Dispatch, but the publisher changed plans to chase those big Call of Duty bucks
- Dispatch is set to hit its fantasy 'Bull case' 3-year sales target in just 3 months, and players have gone gaga for its episodic release structure
- Arc Raiders hits a new record after three weeks, scoring 480,000 concurrent players on Steam
- The new Forgotten Realms books are set after Baldur's Gate 3 and show Karlach found her happy ending, though one jerk wizard also dodged his comeuppance
- November 16
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- The Blood of Dawnwalker's latest gameplay trailer starts out looking like a Witcher spinoff, then the main character starts walking on walls
- The sequel to one of my favorite 3D platformers always had a janky PC port, but a huge fanmade patch just dropped in hopes to fix it
- One artist is reimagining the first Metal Gear you've never played as an anime follow-up to The Phantom Pain
- Ubisoft touches up AI art 'placeholder' that slipped into Anno 117, but fans are not happy it was there to begin with: 'Of all the video games, not Anno'
- Walton Goggins and Aaron Moten make surprise appearance at New Vegas fan convention in the real-life Goodsprings, remind us that Fallout season 3 is already confirmed
- The best artillery-themed party game is celebrating its 30th anniversary, and you can get all the series' best entries for less than five bucks
- Wuxia MMO Where Winds Meet is full of AI chatbot NPCs, and people are doing all the standard obscene stuff to them: 'I made him think that my character was pregnant with his child'
- Warhammer 40,000: Space Marine 2 is 'definitely not competing for resources' with Space Marine 3, because the latter is still years away
- The creators of zombie survival hit Vein say its launch was 'much larger than expected' and there will be 'a bit of a transition period' as it looks toward future updates
- Almost 20 years since it hit Steam, Garry's Mod finally addresses 'lackluster support for weapons used by NPCs' and gives Dr Kleiner his gun license
- Slot machine roguelike CloverPit sells 1 million copies, and its developer celebrates the payout by adding its 'most requested feature yet'
- November 15
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- 'We definitely cut some sex scenes': There could have been an even raunchier version of superhero comedy Dispatch
- Escape from Tarkov fans are scrutinizing alleged sympathies for the Russian invasion of Ukraine within Battlestate Games: 'If I could refund it I would'
- Former id Software artist argues performance and optimization are 'as much of an art problem' as a tech one: 'Killzone 2 looks incredible today. FEAR looks incredible today'
- To celebrate Fallout: New Vegas' 15th birthday, one mad lad lugged a CRT and an Xbox 360 to the fan gathering at the real Goodsprings to play the game outside the Prospector Saloon
- Shortly after Concord's resurrection by fans, it looks like Sony might be about to kill it again: 'Due to worrying legal action we’ve decided to pause invites for the time being'
- Escape From Tarkov shoots to the top of Downdetector, debuts on Steam to ‘Mixed’ reviews as players struggle to log in: 'Best extraction shooter that you CAN'T play'
- Before The Witcher 3 launched, CD Projekt was terrified that Batman: Arkham Knight would flatten it with its Batmobile: 'They're just gonna roll over us'
- Fancy playing Sea of Thieves without the PvP? This pirate-themed survival game just left early access with a big update and a launch discount
- One of Elden Ring's best overhaul mods just received a massive update that adds fully functional multiplayer
- That weird Pac-Man metroidvania just got a big update, adding a new mode that 'significantly lowers the difficulty of combat and exploration'
- November 14
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- One of 2025's best games won't get a sequel, says its developer: 'Each of my projects will be completely standalone'
- Blizzard points to fish as the lead suspects in the case of the World of Warcraft: Midnight beta's borderline unplayable lag
- Wikipedia founder Jimmy Wales blows his top and hits da bricks 45 seconds into an interview, shouting 'It's a stupid question!' as he walks offstage
- Concord, one of the most infamous videogame flops of all time, may already be flopping again as Sony brings the hammer down on revival mod
- 'I will probably never fully acknowledge whether or not everything has been solved' says Blue Prince creator: 'There are certainly mysteries still in the game'
- 7 years of delays kept this anime sports RPG from coming out until now, and players say it was worth the wait: 'This game didn't just score, it hit my soul with a fire tornado of nostalgia'
- Call of Duty: Black Ops 7 under fire for using what sure looks like AI-generated Studio Ghibli-style calling card art
- Black Ops 7's launch day Steam player count is significantly lower than last year's Call of Duty, suggesting Arc Raiders and Battlefield 6 ate a hefty portion of its lunch
- Gabe Newell caps off Steam Machine week by taking delivery of a new $500 million superyacht with a submarine garage, on-board hospital and 15 gaming PCs
- Disney CEO says AI is an 'engagement engine' and Disney+ is soon gonna be crammed to bursting with it
- 'This was the wrong path for Destiny': After 4 months of dwindling players and community outrage, Bungie admits that The Edge of Fate's bold new vision for Destiny 2 was a mistake
- The glorious sound of silence: Researchers have developed the 'world's first spatial active noise cancellation', which uses the power of a GPU to deaden whole rooms
- 'No point making a high-spec Steam Machine,' Larian publishing boss says, because anyone who wants a powerful PC is going to look elsewhere anyway
- The life sim revolution may not be over but it will have to wait until 2026, because Paralives is delayed
- 'We resolved this misunderstanding': Misery returns to Steam after ending its Stalker DMCA spat with GSC Game World
- Don't repair your medium shields in Arc Raiders—it's a waste of resources when you could do something way easier instead
- Despite Intel dropping the desktop CPU ball this year, its share of the market fell by just 4.9%—while AMD still lags significantly behind on mobile
- The Drone Pod might just be the most stupid new field upgrade in Black Ops 7
- 'Windows is evolving into an agentic OS' says Windows president in what I can only assume is a bid to make me swap to Linux
- It’s a big choice-driven RPG, so get ready for a holy book’s worth of patch notes: The latest Outer Worlds 2 patch packs over 350 fixes
- One small indie developer has accidentally saddled itself with almost 65,000 extra people to thank after initially asking for 100 names to pad out its credits
- If your Windows 10 Extended Security Updates weren't working, they should now after Microsoft's latest patch
- Going ham with RAM: Adata and MSI max out DIMM capacities thanks to clock drivers and SK Hynix stacks flash with DRAM for the ultimate memory chips
- 'We're facing [what has] never happened before: HDD, DRAM, HBM, NAND... all in severe shortage in 2026' says Silicon Motion's CEO as memory prices continue to soar
- I can't wait to see this custom 'GabeCube' bootup video on a big TV hooked up to a Steam Machine
- Arrowhead CEO wades into the messy Arc Raiders AI debate: 'Would it have been better if Arc Raiders failed and it didn't use AI?'
- $1 billion AI company co-founder admits that its $100 a month transcription service was originally 'two guys surviving on pizza' and typing out notes by hand
- This Arc Raiders wallhack will get you behind locked doors so you and your friends can find all the best loot
- After her TwitchCon assault, Emiru says the streaming platform has agreed to donate $100k to a violence protection charity: 'I wanted there to be some kind of public resolution'
- Arc Raiders players managed to unlock Stella Montis in under 38 hours, even after Embark buffed the event, because we were all being too generous
- A Wall Street Journal investigation claims to have tracked how 2,300 Nvidia Blackwell AI chips made their way to China via an Indonesian telecoms provider
- Peak's newest patch update buffs one of the game's most exploited items, and finally resolves an issue it's had since launch
- Hello Kitty Island Adventure's next update adds a load of content, but I’m mainly excited to turn myself into a frog
- Resident Evil Village harkened back to Resident Evil 4, but what about Resident Evil Requiem? 'Resident Evil 2', says producer
- Players flood back to co-op survival RPG Enshrouded as the new 'Wake of the Water' update gets everyone wet
- The Witcher 3 didn't originally make you choose between romancing Yennefer or Triss: 'This decision was made pretty late'
- Even the developers of Steam fave Deep Rock Galactic feel the heat from this year's popular multiplayer games: 'Competition is fierce'
- This Rust 'Blood Club' lures an entire server inside before pulling the literal floor out from under the party and exploding
- November 13
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- As Krafton evolves into an 'AI-first company', the boss of the recently acquired Last Epoch studio says he doesn't think the 'doom and gloom' is warranted
- Alien: Earth renewed for Season 2, which is a great opportunity to make up for the disappointing end of Season 1
- 'Do people even go to the main menu anymore in their games?' The Outer Worlds 2's player-roasting main menu was almost sunk by console gamer habits
- For the third time this year, Crystal Dynamics is making layoffs: Nearly 30 people are being put out of work 'to optimize the continued development of our flagship Tomb Raider game'
- Russia unveils humanoid robot to the Rocky theme and it immediately faceplants on-stage: 'At first there was a moment of silence'
- Rockstar is now under pressure from UK Parliament as protests grow and 220 employees demand fired workers be reinstated
- World of Warcraft director 'doesn't expect blind faith' in its plans to unshackle the MMO from popular combat mods: 'We take none of this lightly'
- A short history of John Romero wishing Sandy Petersen well before nuking his Doom tweets from orbit with ruthless precision
- One of our favorite 4X games is holding an extra-long free weekend starting today
- Uh oh: Ubisoft postpones its quarterly financial report at the last minute and halts stock trading
- Embark stealthily nerfs Arc Raiders skill everyone was using to farm legendary loot: 'We’re exploring the possibility of adding a skill reset mechanic'
- The Turnip Boy devs just announced a sudden left turn into horny territory: A dungeon crawler where you 'rizz up' monster girls
- Krafton launches voluntary resignation program weeks after declaring its 'AI-first company' future
- FPS ship battler Wildgate has struggled to find players on Steam since launch, but its next update could give it a second chance
- Fallout Season 2's latest trailer includes New Vegas easter eggs like Dinky the T-Rex and the enigmatic head honcho, Mr House
- AMD's FSR 4 Redstone Ray Regeneration update finally arrives in Call of Duty: Black Ops 7, which is better late than never
- New Arc Raiders patch makes crafting cheaper, Arcs scarier—and fixes one of the worst PvP issues
- The best store-brand Breath of the Wild-like on PC is free to keep this month, as long as you can stomach Ubisoft Connect
- Deep Rock Galactic's roguelite spin-off is delayed, but in the meantime it's getting another season of new stuff including a 'tomb-like' biome
- Bethesda is 'actively investigating' the Fallout 4 problems that Bethesda caused with its latest Fallout 4 update
- Task Manager can no longer become immortal after the most recent Windows update and I'm unreasonably sad about it
- Nell's Diner is the best Phasmophobia has ever looked, setting up Tanglewood for a promising rework: 'We're gonna make sure we do it justice'
- Godzilla is stomping his way into the world of tabletop RPGs, with a new game from three legendary Warhammer designers
- If you have one of these old Asus routers, update its firmware as it may have a critical vulnerability that 'may allow remote attackers to gain unauthorized access'
- AMD's graphics driver discovered making 'hundreds' of SSD writes for every mouse move, but it probably isn't actually a problem
- Dbrand has teased a render of a Portal companion cube Steam Machine case, so you can... put a case around your case?
- Sony says Marathon will still release by March 2026, pinky promise, and 'as needed, we will make corrections'
- Someone needs to take my wallet away because Once Upon a Katamari has revealed its first two DLC's and one is launching this month
- Arc Raiders devs just made the Stella Montis community event harder after players donated way more than expected: 'We had no idea all of you would be so altruistic'
- Here are the nominees for PC Gaming Show: Most Wanted Powered by Xbox Game Pass
- Someone has to challenge Meta for the VR throne and I really hope Valve has the guts to with its new Steam Frame
- Valve says a next-gen Steam Deck 2 still isn't possible, two years after it last said exactly the same thing
- There is no stopping Hideo Kojima: Yet another Death Stranding adaptation has been announced, before either of the existing two have been released
- Silent Hill f just became way easier as a new patch adds casual difficulty, sped up NG+ runs, and reduces forced combat areas
- Apple's $230 iPhone-carrying 'sock' looks like something you could buy from an Etsy seller for $20, and it's already splitting the room like a busted seam
- Valve recommends sharing your game library on microSD card between Steam Deck, Steam Frame, and Steam Machine: 'They're fully interoperable, just bring it along with you'
- Horizon: Steel Frontiers is an MMO based on the PlayStation series, and it's coming to PC and mobile (but not PS5)
- Looks like it's Tencent's turn to start turning off the money faucet for Western studios, as Bloodhunt developer Sharkmob says layoffs are coming
- November 12
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- Over half of Arc Raiders players on Steam have barely engaged with PvP, and 19% have never even killed another player
- Rockstar faces legal action from UK union after firing more than 30 employees last week: 'We are confident that what we’ve seen here is plain and simple union busting'
- 'If I see this skin, I shoot first': Arc Raiders players insist anyone wearing this 'sweaty' outfit cannot be trusted
- Mark your calendars: World of Warcraft will finally have player housing after 21 years when The War Within's final patch arrives next month
- Steam Machine will start shipping to Australia on the same day as the rest of the world, marking a brave new era for Valve
- Valve on viral marketing and leaks: 'Everybody assumes we have some sort of like grand plan... and it's literally just somebody fat fingering something'
- RuneScape fans have spoken: 'Treasure Hunter' microtransactions will be scrapped in January as 'part of a wider transformation across Jagex'
- Foveated streaming is the genius tech behind Valve's Steam Frame and its seamless wireless gaming performance
- Phil Spencer reminds everyone that Xbox is 'one of the largest publishers on Steam' as he congratulates Valve on its new hardware with all the enthusiasm of a man paying his taxes
- Valve is all over Arm: SteamOS launching for Arm alongside the Steam Frame, new FEX translation layer for x86 and Arm, and Arm games are coming to Steam
- How grip sensing was added to the new Steam Controller is a 'typical Valve story' involving a passionate employee moving desks
- Valve believes its new Steam Machine could open up a whole new world of SteamOS desktops: 'Put it on, say, something that's running an RX 9070 XT, you would be good to go'
- Valve wants you to know that the Steam Frame is not the Index 2: 'we're trying to do something new with this'
- Sorry PC gamers, Valve isn't announcing Half-Life 3 today
- Responding to problems in a live-service game is like having a 'big clock,' says Battlefield 6 director: 'You measure and value your time to the player' so they know you're paying attention
- Valve's new Steam Machine is a SteamOS-powered mini PC over six times faster than a Steam Deck
- Valve announces the Steam Controller and it's genuinely good: 'we knew we needed to make this controller'
- Valve announces three new products: the Steam Frame, Steam Machine and Steam Controller
- Valve announces the Steam Frame: 'a new way to play your entire Steam library'
- CD Projekt Red was considered the 'ugly child' of CD Projekt as a whole before the first Witcher became a hit: 'They will never earn any money here'
- SanDisk has launched the world's teeny-tiniest 1 TB USB-C drive, which looks to be one sneeze away from total oblivion
- Today I learned that the curvy lithography masks used by TSMC to make next-gen GPUs are 'alien', 'psychedelic' and look nothing like chip circuits
- SoftBank just sold its entire $5.83 billion stake in Nvidia but I'm sure it'll all feed back into Team Green's pockets before long
- 'We would rather cut off our own arms': Demonschool developers dispute Nexon CEO's claim that 'every game company is now using AI' in response to Arc Raiders backlash
- Bloodlines 2 just got a new roadmap with Christmas-themed goodies, as well things that probably should have been there from the start like an FOV slider and motion blur toggle
- Someone's finally making a spiritual successor to Bully, but I wish it wasn't inspired by some of the worst comedies ever made
- I've never been so happy to be wrong: Marvel Rivals has turned Gambit into a Strategist that's focused on utility rather than just healing
- WhatsApp is reportedly becoming a dreaded web app again on Windows 11, with RAM usage increasing to a claimed 2 GB under the weight of all your spicy group chats
- I've never been as excited by a social media website as much as I am by this solo dev's 'cyber-vibe text-only' site that is 'how the internet was supposed to be'
- The Super Mario Galaxy Movie is 'weeks away from completing animation' as the Italian plumber prepares to shoot into space next April
- A multiplayer wuxia RPG releasing this week has a whopping 10 million pre-registrations, and it might just fill that hole in your heart where a new MMO ought to be
- This new Mac Pro-inspired motherboard standard banishes all power cables for a single connector rated at over 2,000 W
- Far-right Polish politician tries to score points by addressing GTA 6's delay in parliament: 'This is a huge scandal'
- Arc Raiders has been testing duo matchmaking, cosmetics are getting their prices slashed, refunds are being doled out and more free raider decks are on their way
- Embark is about to drop a new Arc Raiders map, but first we have to unlock it together in a Helldivers 2-style community event
- You can slot a Switch 2 into this CRT-equipped retro console like a games cartridge, which sounds like the most satisfying use of a Nintendo product ever
- Former Bungie director thinks the term extraction shooter is 'so dumb' that he wanted to work with Marathon's marketing team to 'create a different genre name'
- This Minecraft mod lets you command Steve to do whatever you want, which means no more strip mining or wood gathering ever again
- InKonbini, the third-person Japanese convenience store sim, changed my perspective on customer service, and you can join me stacking shelves in the free demo
- An Arc Raiders player crawled for 15 minutes to an extraction while downed, all thanks to the best game-clutching MK3 augment
- AMD confirms next-gen Zen 6 CPUs to launch in 2026 and 'Medusa' APUs to launch in 2027
- Monster Hunter Wilds' first Elder Dragon is finally landing in December along with some much-needed optimisation focused on reducing the game's ridiculous load on our poor CPUs
- Sony's new 'PlayStation' gaming monitor is a relatively unexciting 27-inch 1440p model but it does have a DualSense charging hook
- Coffee Talk will open the doors to its next instalment on March 5, taking us to the series' most exciting location yet
- You can farm Arc Raiders' toughest robot with just a single blue grenade for easy endgame gear and 50,000 XP each time
- During Microsoft's peak-anti piracy era in the early 2000s, it awkwardly got caught shipping Windows XP with audio files made using pirated software
- November 11
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- FromSoft has finally plundered its work from 2012 to put the best Dark Souls boss in Elden Ring Nightreign
- For the first time since 2012, we're getting a new Silent Hill, Fatal Frame and Resident Evil within a 6 month window
- Elden Ring Nightreign DLC is hot dropping with new bosses and characters right before the end of the year
- Epic Games boss Tim Sweeney wades into the Arc Raiders AI voice debate with an imaginary scenario predicting 'infinite, context-sensitive, personality-reflecting dialog based on and tuned by human voice actors'
- 'I think we're in the fight of our lives': Fired Rockstar employees and IWGB are confident the GTA 6 developer will be held accountable for its alleged union busting
- Marvel Rivals is adding a 'non-combat map' where players can 'hang out, dance, watch videos, read books, and let your imagination run wild'
- Tech price rises: Tracking the PC memory and SSD supply crisis, now with added GPU fun
- Welp, says Sony, sure looks like buying Bungie didn't work out
- Arc Raiders sells 4 million copies, making it 'the most successful global launch in Nexon's history'
- CD Projekt 'hacked time and space' to cast Charles Dance in The Witcher 3, because they needed an announcement before the countdown on their website reached zero
- As Kingdom Come Deliverance 2's latest DLC launches, Warhorse reveals its grand plan for the future: 'We want to establish ourselves as the new kings of RPGs'
- We've reached unprecedented levels of cooked: The Mega Gengar Pokémon TCG is selling for $800 even though it doesn't actually exist yet
- Creative is on an absolute tear right now with its value gaming speakers, hogging fully half our top recommendations
- 'Every game company is now using AI': Nexon's CEO defends the use of generative AI in game development in the wake of Arc Raiders' controversy
- Flash storage has doubled in price over the last few months, says Phison: 'All the capacity is sold out'
- CD Projekt was worried people wouldn't really 'get' dark fantasy as a concept, and then Game of Thrones became the biggest franchise on Earth
- Phasmophobia's latest update introduces a spooky diner, bringing the game one step closer to its 1.0 launch
- Minecraft's Mounts of Mayhem update will include Netherite horse armor, which still won't convince me to take my noble steed to the Nether but is a nice touch
- 'No one truly knows what kind of game will succeed': Former PlayStation boss says that bigger companies should 'invest in smaller, experimental projects' to promote creativity
- I've been playing Arc Raiders for over a week and just discovered you can ride the Arcs
- Firefox is rolling out new privacy features to stop sites from giving you a hidden digital ID by fingerprinting your system
- 'We want skate to be great': Full Circle is handing out condolence rewards to players affected by game-breaking bugs, but still hasn't actually fixed them
- CD Projekt Red just bagged one of Kingdom Come: Deliverance 2's lead designers for The Witcher 4 and suddenly I'm far more interested in Ciri's upcoming adventure
- CD Projekt's co-CEO says The Witcher 2's momentous midgame choice was an 'experiment' and now regards it as a 'waste of resources'
- Hideo Kojima outdoes himself once again with an IRL Death Stranding exoskeleton that claims to make your steps 50% more powerful and costs thousands of dollars
- CD Projekt struggled to sell partners on The Witcher 3 because its gameplay was 'pretty standard' and they didn't believe it could combine storytelling with a cinematic open world
- CD Projekt joint CEO Adam Badowski made everyone's life miserable when he pointed out if the The Witcher 3 had water, they had to add swimming and create completely new underwater locations
- Call of Duty: Black Ops 7 is bringing back some iconic maps from Black Ops 2 for Endgame: 'You might even find a little piece of Hazard'
- You need to lug back 1,195 items in Arc Raiders to level up everything, so good luck finding space for it all
- Ex-PlayStation boss reckons 'growing confidence' of Korean developers 'owe something to Stellar Blade's influence'
- Bandai Namco leads the way in game and entertainment patents in Japan, taking the crown from Sony Interactive Entertainment
- A Japanese retailer is now restricting PC memory purchases, so is it time to properly panic?
- Fallout 4's Creations Bundle stumbles from the Vault to Mostly Negative reviews, as players lament the pack 'does not work' and 'made the game buggier'
- I've found another great loot spot in Arc Raiders—all you have to do is look up
- Frankenstein's monster actor Jacob Elordi passed the time in the SFX seat by whipping out a custom-shell Steam Deck
- Arc Raiders players crack its 'movement tech' wide open by mastering the ledge grab
- November 10
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- Tavern Keeper's item design tool is so good one player made a tabletop D&D set where you can actually read the stats on the character sheets
- Fully recovered from a messy year, Path of Exile 2's next update is still on track to fix its most glaring issues and, if we're lucky, debut a new class
- Game marketing company takes down blog post bragging about how good it is at astroturfing Reddit after Reddit finds the post
- Silksong's disastrous Chinese translation has received an official fan-made overhaul, and it's just been pushed live on PC with Patch 4
- Diablo 4 devs refuse to hint at the next expansion but urge fans to watch The Game Awards this year: 'Everyone should be watching it'
- Battlefield 6's worst bugs are finally getting the boot this week: Say goodbye to drone hammer flight and unstoppable lock-on missiles
- Arc Raiders surpassed 700,000 concurrent players across all platforms this weekend, and you better believe that most of them were on PC
- The Metal Gear resurgence continues with a Hayter-voiced Naked Snake coming to Delta Force
- A new Baldur's Gate 3 mod restores cut dialogue where Withers gets gently bullied by a child
- A Dispatch sequel is a whole lot more likely now that Dispatch season 1 is such a big hit: 'We're going to have to at least think about season 2 now'
- Tailside: Cozy Cafe Sim kicks off Steam Animal Fest by announcing a winter release date and full mod support alongside a warm demo that's available to play now
- Grand Theft Auto 5 has now sold an incredible 220 million copies, with roughly 20 million in the last year alone
- PC gaming's best free multiplayer shooter continues to be preposterously generous, with its latest update adding 50 new maps, custom music and more: 'We definitely want Straftat to live as long as possible'
- Intel is suing an ex-employee of 11 years alleging the engineer downloaded nearly 18,000 files, many of which being top secret or confidential
- Modder builds Windows 98 handheld gaming PC with Intel Pentium inside
- A few Redditors faked the recent Ryzen 7 9700X3D benchmark leaks and explain 'why you can't trust online bench databases'
- Todd Howard says that Fallout 4's cinematic dialogue system 'really did not resonate' with players, even though Bethesda 'spent forever' working on it
- 'He was scared s***less': Baldur's Gate director was so panicked after playing Final Fantasy 7 that it changed the entire shape of Baldur's Gate 2 (and nearly every RPG since)
- The Elder Scrolls 6 is 'Still a long ways off' says Todd Howard, but the slyboots says the Oblivion shadowdrop was 'A test run' and a select few have already played it
- Modder hero makes GTA 5 NPCs commit insurance fraud, ends up getting taken to court where he has to play 'Shag, marry, avoid' for his freedom
- Only in Arc Raiders could you find players kind enough to reverse extraction camp: 'Any violence brought to my extraction point will be met with severe force'
- 'The unimaginable has happened'—Dune: Awakening's player count drops below Funcom's other survival game released eight years ago, as engagement with Arrakis dries up
- Xpeng CEO demonstrates the company's latest sashaying robot is in fact not a person in a morph suit by cutting off its flesh live on-stage
- Planning for REPO's next update is underway, but the developer is taking a break for the time being: 'Frankly, my brain is a bit mushy'
- At a company sports day, Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang acknowledges 'without TSMC, there is no Nvidia today' and says thank you to the 'pride of the world' company
- Leaked PlayStation store files suggest that Sony could be exploring cross-buy between PC and PS5
- Larian publishing director says Steam is dominant because 'It isn't providing a s*** service defined by public shareholder KPIs,' but concedes 'A post-Gabe world is a terrifying one'
- Unsurprisingly, players have already found a way to use parts of Peak's newest biome to fire themselves into the stratosphere
- This bright spark built a 90 KB Minecraft server and got it running on a Wi-Fi-equipped lightbulb
- Arc Raiders is taking over Steam with a new all-time concurrent player high of 462,488, surpassing Helldivers 2
- November 9
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- I've already been getting my hopes up for The Expanse game from RPG factory Owlcat, and its main theme just skewered my Mass Effect-loving lizard brain
- This mad lad got Battlefield 6 to run on a 12-year-old AMD CPU, circumventing its stated anti-cheat requirements
- Before Titan Quest 2 gets a permanent price hike, you can grab the rare singleplayer-friendly Diablo-like on sale
- Mick Gordon is asking 'how heavy can we get it?' in his first full game soundtrack since Doom Eternal: 'I'm really exploring the extremes of distortion with this project'
- Microsoft Flight Simulator isn't just for nerdy dads anymore: Boeing will start using its tech to train actual pilots
- The best playable game documentary on Steam is getting a Namco-centric DLC this week, including the worst version of Pac-Man
- Battlestar Galactica Deadlock, one of the PC's best spaceship strategy games, 'will no longer be available for purchase on any platform' as of next week
- No Man's Sky is rerunning all of its expeditions from 2025, while also giving players another chance to add Mass Effect's Normandy to their spaceship collection
- Terminator 2D: No Fate has been pushed back a second time, as its publisher scrambles to assemble physical copies after tariff-induced shipping woes: 'We are sincerely sorry for the repeated delays'
- Rust doubles down on its 'controversial' meta changes by wiping everyone's crafting blueprints to 'bring back that sense of discovery', and it might become a regular thing
- This point-and-click horror adventure where you play a boy with a lightbulb for a head is currently free to keep on Steam
- Fresh from Space Marine 2, Titus gets promoted to captain in a slick animation that blesses an ad for toy soldiers with all the gravitas of a new Dune movie
- November 8
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- Stalker dev GSC Game World DMCA'd a Stalker-inspired indie off Steam, and the devs are crying foul: 'This is an abuse of power against small independent developers by a large corporation'
- FromSoftware's parent company let it slip that we'll get Elden Ring Nightreign DLC by March at the latest
- To the rapidly aging person reading this: GameFAQs is 30 years old, and people are sharing their memories of the venerable guide hub
- Blue Prince developer announces 'a plea for help': one of the game's lead playtesters 'has only a few months to find a living kidney donor'
- Arc Raiders briefly overtakes Battlefield 6's concurrent player count on Steam as it proves to be one of the hottest PC games this fall
- NetEase racks up its third studio casualty in one week, kneecapping dev working on a Warhammer MMO: 'Devastated doesn't even begin to cover it'
- The weirdest FPS of the decade just got a free, standalone PvP mode that's a blast if you can keep your lunch down
- After Helldivers 2 stole its thunder, Starship Troopers: Extermination is now cribbing from Arrowhead's worksheet by adding airstrikes in its next update
- The roguelike's unstoppable conquest of gaming continues with Age of Empires 4's latest DLC, and players declare the invasion successful: 'It may be my new favourite way to play'
- Underrated avian action adventure The Falconeer just got a free remaster that overhauls 'literally everything' about it: 'I hope and pray this remaster shows the dedication I have for my games'
- 'Roblox must do more to protect kids from sick and twisted freaks,' Texas attorney general says as he sues Roblox 'for putting pixel pedophiles and profits' ahead of safety
- OG Fallout artist Leonard Boyarsky says The Outer Worlds 2 almost had its own 'old school Obsidian' evil ending, but it took too much effort for too little payoff: 'I love making these types of games, but it is very stressful'
- My new favorite deep Windows lore: Microsoft once broke its Bluetooth driver code by sticking a ® symbol in the name of its own mouse
- November 7
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- Steam's wider store pages are now live, and Valve says it tested them on 'a tiny old iPod' to make sure they'd still work on narrower screens
- Halo Infinite is entering maintenance mode: 'With multiple Halo titles in development, we'll need our whole team's combined focus'
- The Mass Effect TV series will 'explore a brand-new story within the universe’s timeline,' BioWare exec says: 'It won’t be a retread of Commander Shepard's story'
- A new Arc Raiders update just fixed a bug where an otherwise underwhelming item could glitch you through walls, so I guess it's back to being underwhelming
- Mass Effect boss Mike Gamble slips a hidden message into his N7 Day update, asks fans to stop yelling at him for not sharing more info about the new game
- Attention parents of Roblox kids: I regret to inform you they are making a Grow a Garden movie
- World of Warcraft: Legion Remix players discover infinite power farm that's so broken it's lagging the servers
- Larian publishing director balks at Square Enix's push to replace QA workers with AI: 'The idea that QA people can be replaced at a large scale is stupid … They are a massively advantageous vibe check'
- One techie has built a camera out of an old Logitech gaming mouse, and it's inspired by the Game Boy Camera
- 'Once gamers try it, they won’t want to go back': The curse of wonky high-FOV graphics may be a thing of the past with this single plugin
- Marvel 1943: Rise of Hydra has been delayed again, and it no longer has a clear release window: 'The team is working hard to create something truly special'
- Palworld community manager points to a new problem with GTA 6's delay: 'Expect to see many games swerve to avoid the 2027 awards season'
- There's a bug in Arc Raiders that's causing the sound to drop out for some players—here's how to fix it
- Take-Two's big boss Strauss Zelnick says it got the 'perfect result' from slimmed-down mob tale Mafia: The Old Country, so I'd brace for more games like that if I were you
- 23 years later, Morrowind on controller and Steam Deck just got a million times better: The latest version of OpenMW is out now
- Windows 'really does suck for some people': Ex Microsoft engineer Dave Plummer explains how he would fix the popular OS
- 'This is cool and everything, but don't do it.' Sage advice for anyone hoping to copy the success of one Redditor's attempt at using Nvidia's $4,000 DGX Spark AI box to play Cyberpunk 2077
- If you think 2025 couldn't get worse, Collins Dictionary awards 'vibe coding' the word of the year
- CD Projekt Red tells Rockstar not to make the same mistake it did—posts a self-burn over Cyberpunk 2077's historically bad launch to support GTA 6's delay
- Arc Raiders players are finally revolting over expensive skin prices: 'How are you gonna just shrug at $25 skin bundles in a $40 game?'
- PC repair shop discovers Corsair is selling Intel 14th Gen gaming rigs without all of the instability and voltage fixes, and there's no way around the problem
- OpenAI's Sam Altman is not looking for government rescue if things go bad: 'Taxpayers should not bail out companies that make bad business decisions'
- Arc Raiders clears up the mystery of Trials, explaining the challenges are unfortunately harder than they first appear: 'Here's the 101'
- The objectively 13th best game you can play right now is free to play until November 10, so you're officially out of excuses buddy
- Borderlands 4's sales were 'a little softer than we would've liked' due to PC performance issues, says Take-Two CEO, but he's confident it'll have a long tail
- A rumour that Nvidia will cancel the RTX 50 Super cards because of RAM is almost certainly nonsense but everything won't be fine, either
- Creative Assembly has revealed unique mechanics for the armies in Total War: Warhammer 3's Tides of Torment DLC, and their unit rosters too
- Don't sleep on the new solarpunk colony sim from devs behind Firewatch, Mini Motorways, Gone Home and more
- Despite another big delay, Devolver is still hell-bent on releasing a game on the same day as Grand Theft Auto 6: 'you can't escape us'
- November 6
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- Well, PC gamers, time to make peace with the fact that we probably won't be playing GTA 6 until, like, 2028 unless we cave in and buy the console version
- Blizzard's reason for adding premium currency to World of Warcraft after 21 years of doing just fine without one has everyone worried about player housing
- It took a staggering 28 days, but DICE has finally disabled the bugged lock-on missile that broke Battlefield 6
- Take-Two boss says 'we've never regretted' delaying a game following the Grand Theft Auto 6 pushback, says other studios might have better luck if they did the same thing once in a while
- I just learned that before the internet, 'online' actually meant 'offline' and it's turned my world upside down
- Square Enix aims to have AI doing 70% of its QA work by the end of 2027, which seems like it'd be hard to achieve without laying off most of your QA workers
- Grand Theft Auto 6 delayed to November 2026: 'These extra months will allow us to finish the game with the level of polish you have come to expect and deserve'
- Things are so bad for Payday 3 at this point, even Crime Boss: Rockay City is making fun of it
- NetEase closes a fifth Western studio: Just two years after it was founded, Bad Brain Game Studios will shut down for good next week
- Netflix is reportedly turning the best cooking game, Overcooked, into a reality competition, and if it doesn't get Nicole Byer from Nailed It! to host, I will riot
- 'I briefly burst into tears': After 11 years of work, the dev of this fantasy sim is 'elated and grateful' to reach Overwhelmingly Positive reviews on Steam only 3 days after launch
- Is this puny Arm-powered PC with a desktop graphics card slot a glimpse of the future of gaming?
- The age of beige is back! SilverStone's new case is a glorious nod to PCs of the 1980s and 90s
- Rockstar co-founder Dan Houser wanted to kill Niko Bellic at the end of GTA 4, and only stayed his hand because the studio was 'Full of fear' and the game didn't quite work with it
- No more hiding the impact of AI: The US government is looking to force companies to report how many folks have been fired because of artificial intelligence
- I'm sorry to break the bad news, but you need to gather a truly massive amount of items and hundreds more in donations before you can reset your skill tree in Arc Raiders
- Ubisoft CEO claims it just stopped feeding the trolls when it came to Assassin's Creed: Shadows, which 'very quickly eliminated the fights, which were just fake fights'
- PewDiePie creates an AI council, appoints himself supreme leader, and wipes out members who underperform—only for his 'councillors' to collude against him
- Arc Raiders' latest update will finally add the best and most terrifying map condition: 'Prepare yourself for the weekend'
- This bizarre but apparently usable RTX 5080 skateboard mod is kinda cool but surely if you wanted a mobile GPU there's a better way
- 'All you had to do was follow the damn law, Rockstar!': Workers are protesting outside Take-Two after GTA 6 dev's alleged 'brazen' union-busting
- Rockstar co-founder says he's 'less scared than a lot of people' of AI: 'If you use it to try and substitute for creativity, it's going to be really generic'
- WoW's game director says they don't want combat AddOns to do anything the base UI doesn't: 'The overarching goal of the changes in Midnight is to level the playing field'
- Peak's new update added a ridiculously powerful enemy which was swiftly nerfed after being labelled 'too much of a constant run-ender'
- Great, now even malware is using LLMs to rewrite its code, says Google, as it documents new phase of 'AI abuse'
- You can watch RAM prices going up almost in real-time on Amazon and it's only likely to get worse
- Marvel Rivals subtly teases the arrival of two X-Men in the background image of the latest patch notes
- In a true nightmare scenario, this anticipated indie has been delayed only hours before launch for a 'boring and frustrating' reason
- Ball x Pit just got a Bug x Fix and all the icons in the encyclopedia are full-color now
- Rockstar says the employees it fired were leaking information, but it's not going to escape union busting accusations that easily
- November 5
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- Jennifer Hale did not see KOTOR's twist coming: 'Knights of the Old Republic really showed me the level of writing, storytelling, and surprise that was possible in games'
- Microsoft was apparently so embarrassed by Windows 98's infamous on-stage Blue Screen of Death it built a new testing room on campus to ensure it would never happen again
- Battlefield 6 lead producer comes back from vacation and immediately addresses a storm of feedback: 'Need to go action on a bunch of this now'
- Battlefield 6 players says they got banned from Steam forums for sharing a config tweak that lets PC players disable crossplay, and yes, PC players can disable crossplay
- Plants vs. Zombies: Replanted patch brings back the dynamic audio so many players were missing from the original game
- 'You can have the loot. My reward is justice': Arc Raiders players are appointing themselves Topside Sheriffs to dispense vigilante vengeance on raiders who don't play nice
- Sorry, Fallout fans, but Obsidian isn't really interested in making New Vegas 2: After years of working on other people's games, the studio is finding 'joy' in doing its own thing
- Discord is preparing to sell you skins for your favorite games now that it's monetized just about everything else it can
- 6 years after the original, Planet Zoo 2 is finally happening and may be out next year
- An extremely distracting horse forced Koei Tecmo to crop a game's box art before release, artist says: 'People's eyes were drawn to the horse rather than the character'
- One of the biggest streamers on Twitch is trying to take Asmongold and Emiru to court over defamation claims
- Veteran game developer Scott Miller explains why it took 3D Realms so long to get PC gaming's most ambitious but ultimately flawed sci-fi FPS game over the line: 'Let's just put all our eggs into the Duke Nukem basket'
- OneXPlayer's new OneXFly Apex uber handheld gaming PC starts at a ridiculous $1,599 when powered by AMD's top Strix Halo APU and goes all the way to $2,299
- Our national nightmare is over: Battlefield 6 challenges just got 100 times easier
- Now we've had Doom in space, it seems that data centers and even chip foundries might be next in line to orbit the Earth
- Counter-Strike 2 has a fancy new feature that makes demo playbacks 'match the player's original experience much more closely'
- This week, Blizzcon 2026 tickets go on sale almost a year in advance—so what exactly is Blizzard going to bring?
- Revenge of the Savage Planet director isn't happy with the sequel's revenue, despite it bringing in millions of players on Xbox Game Pass: 'If you give stuff for free, what you've done is told people not to pay for it'
- 'I was single and miserable': Rockstar co-founder Dan Houser admits that his life in New York is why GTA 4's story was so dark
- Rockstar co-founder moved to New York to help create GTA, in part, because he got chased by a guy with a machete: 'I thought—this is not good—and I ran off'
- That guy from The Big Short movie who correctly predicted the World Financial Crisis has just placed a billion-dollar bet against Nvidia (and AI specialist Palantir)
- YouTuber salvages 500 disposable vapes to not only power his gaming PC, but take his entire house and workshop off-grid
- Most of Arc Raiders' Mobility skills don't work how you think they do, so I guess it's time to start building your Expedition caravan to respec
- Amazon threatens legal action against Perplexity over claims of 'illegal conduct' and it's all because of an AI shopping agent
- Kingdom Come: Deliverance lead says Obsidian should use its Microsoft fortune to make games more like Kingdom Come: Deliverance—'Give me something more than... level grinding in a static scripted world'
- This new leaked AMD Strix Halo variant could be the ultimate chip for handheld gaming PCs
- Football Manager 26 launches straight into a relegation battle as Steam reviews plummet to Mostly Negative: 'Been playing since 1993 and this is the worst one'
- Raising a digital digit to Nvidia, China reportedly set to ban foreign-made AI chips from state-funded data centers
- Electronics researchers have developed a new way to stack transistors in a die, to keep Moore's law alive for as long as possible
- EA's bug-blasting mission in The Sims 4 continues, with its latest patch preventing Sims from WooHoo-ing in broken steam rooms and rampaging werewolves from getting distracted by Tiktok
- Bethesda just can't help itself: It's gearing up to break some Fallout 4 mods one last time for the road—but at least it's just the main menu ones this time
- AMD posts record profits but it's not just all about endless chips for generating AI slop, gaming CPU and GPU sales are booming, too
- Final Fantasy 14's voice actor for beloved catboy G'raha Tia gets crowned sexiest man alive, entirely vindicating my taste in fictional men
- Warhammer's ridiculous new Christmas merch lets you dedicate your tree to the Chaos gods with a set of evil baubles
- Minecraft's DLC crossovers never fail to impress me, and the new Dragon Ball Z collab changes the experience entirely
- Ex Microsoft engineer Dave Plummer says 'SD cards are lame!' and opts to rescue a 200 lb 14-inch magnetic disc drive from the '80s with just 622 MB of storage
- Apple's new web store looks all spiffy, but its devs forgot to do something kinda important: Disable the sourcemaps
- Tiny PS5 build reduces size of original console by 60%, making it look like a mini PC while slashing its power draw and temps too
- MindsEye loses its free-roam mode, gains a dodge roll, and rebrands itself as 'Powered by Arcadia' whatever that means
- 'In a true RPG, you need to think about what is happening': RPGs have been coddling us, says Outer Worlds 2 director, who's glad to see games like Baldur's Gate 3 let players make mistakes
- Blizzard doesn't intend to rework Diablo 4 over and over again, but it also doesn't want to leave behind 'stuff that no one wants or cares about'
- November 4
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- If you don't already own XCOM 2 or Midnight Suns for some reason, they're part of a big Firaxis Steam sale right now along with a bunch of other strategy greats
- Finally! The Steam Deck can now download games in a new 'display-off, low-power' mode before automatically going to sleep
- Telltale-style adventures are back: Dispatch has sold more than a million copies in 10 days
- Rockstar co-founder Dan Houser says there's a reason the Grand Theft Auto games are always set in US cities: 'Guns'
- Bend fire and lightning with Avatar's Azula in Magic: The Gathering
- My favorite genre of Arc Raiders videos so far is people discovering why Leapers are called that
- Balatro's new merch is just as unhinged as we've come to expect
- Director Paul WS Anderson says you can blame Metal Gear Solid for the Monster Hunter movie, because juxtaposing machine guns and monsters is simply 'great imagery'
- One of the studios NetEase killed earlier this year is back from the dead as an 'independent production company,' but its original boss is nowhere to be seen
- World of Warcraft director says it's not getting easier in Midnight because it's coming to consoles: 'There's no reason for us to hide anything about this'
- I think I've found the best early loot spot in Arc Raiders and nobody seems to know about it
- Lord of the Rings Online player accurately recreates Frodo's journey to Mount Doom in 10-hour YouTube video: 'When I saw how perfectly the game followed Tolkien's imagination, I decided to do it properly'
- 'The return of baby driver': The Dwarf Fortress Siege Update briefly reintroduced an old bug where dwarf babies pilot their moms like mech suits until they die of dehydration because babies don't know what drinking is
- Study says only 72% of game developers reckon that Steam has a monopoly on PC games, and even with some big caveats, it makes me wonder what the other 28% are thinking
- Japan's biggest publishing house and one of the world's largest manga producers takes aim at OpenAI, accusing it of 'trampling on the dignity of artists'
- Give it up for the MCHOSE Ace 68 Turbo, the world's first 16 kHz keyboard and surely the last word in technological overkill
- If Microsoft can't source enough electricity to power all the AI GPUs it has, you have to wonder how Amazon is going to cope in its new $38 billion deal with OpenAI
- Toasty CPU? This microwave PC build demonstrates that you ain't seen nothing yet
- Approximately 2,555 days after a 'day one' giveaway, people are finally receiving copies of a game they won 7 years ago
- British MPs are comparing one another to Cliff Bleszinski's dead live-service FPS LawBreakers to score points as videogame debate comes to UK Parliament
- Civilization 7's latest update brings a sweeping balance pass and a broadside of naval mechanics, while Firaxis offers Blackbeard for free as a 'special thanks' to players
- 'The world became stupider' when Internet Archive's Open Library was hit by a lawsuit: 'We survived, but it wiped out the library'
- I've been playing with the 'world's first' glasses-free 3D handheld PC and my early impressions are that the $1,500 Abxylute 3D One is absolutely huge, annoyingly clunky and a little bit silly
- 'Gamers deserve clarity': UK Parliament debates videogame ownership while also beating the dead horse named Concord
- The 25th anniversary of the ISS operationally in orbit reminded me the ESA once challenged an Assassin's Creed and Far Cry dev to get DOOM running on a satellite
- EA pinky promises to 'maintain creative control' in its post-buyout era, but the list of 'cultural values' it plans to keep doesn't mean much at all
- I was fighting my inventory more than enemies in Arc Raiders until I discovered the magic space-saving button
- Stellar Blade studio swears it wasn't doing anti-small-penis 'hate speech' in art that had men in a tizz, and promises it won't ever 'tolerate' it in future
- Dwarf Fortress' Siege Update is out now, renewing Bay 12 Games' quest to create a simulation more complex than life itself
- This new Warhammer roguelike from the developer of Boltgun is also the official next game in the Vampire Survivors series
- Windows 'update and shut down' reboot glitch finally fixed, saving tiny gaming laptop batteries everywhere
- Creepers have no power over you now, someone has made a mod which forces them to ask you for permission before they explode
- Ayaneo is teasing a 'mobile phone truly made for gamers' and I hope it keeps its promises
- Technology IP firm files lawsuits against AMD for 'its extensive and unauthorized use of our semiconductor portfolio,' citing the move as a 'business highlight'
- 2025's best survival game just got a huge update that adds an ultra-hard mode and one of the community's most requested features
- I was baffled when I found out Minecraft's most popular Marketplace mod just adds owls—but now I've tried it, I can't live without it
- The Golden Joystick Awards has published its shortlist of 12 games that could take home its Ultimate Game of the Year trophy, and voting's open now
- Legendary FPS maker John Romero delivers the objectively correct answer when voting for the most satisfying weapon in gaming history: 'I strongly agree, Mr Romero'
- 'One of the chillest communities I’ve ever encountered': Arc Raiders solos are choosing love over war, and it's beautiful
- November 3
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- Arc Raiders studio is returning loot to players who get hosed by cheaters: 'We're committed to building an environment where gameplay is about skill, teamwork, and fun'
- Post-heist reports reveal the password for the Louvre's video surveillance was 'Louvre,' and suddenly the dumpster-tier opsec of videogame NPCs seems a lot less absurd
- It sure looks like World of Warcraft is getting its first premium currency after 21 years to monetize player housing in its next expansion
- Sure, there might as well be a 'World Solitaire Championship' and it might as well be hosted by Stephen A. Smith
- Pillars of Eternity's 10-year anniversary turn-based mode will sidestep the biggest issues I was worried it would have, and you can try it this week
- The MMO being led by former WoW designer Greg Street looks to be dead as his studio officially closes after NetEase ends funding: 'While we'd love to make our game, our first priority is to help our developers find employment'
- Redditors painstakingly measure Battlefield maps to prove BF6's biggest battlefield is only the 26th largest map since Battlefield 3
- I'm dying way less in Arc Raiders now that I know how healing actually works
- Arc Raiders gives free money to everyone to say sorry for the weekend server struggles
- Samsung and other memory manufacturers reportedly leave DDR5 buyers hanging as prices expected to surge 30–50% every quarter from the end of 2025 through the first half of 2026
- Trump says that nobody 'other than the United States' should have Nvidia's Blackwell AI chips
- Square Enix, Bandai, and other Japanese studios demand OpenAI stop using their content without permission, drop a not-too-subtle hint about legal trouble if it doesn't
- Just Cause 5 would be a 'no go' according to the series' creator, as 'extremely few from the original team' remain at Avalanche Studios
- The most dangerous thing in Arc Raiders is a ladder that leads to nowhere: 'My whole squad was wiped'
- After the Saudi-backed EA buyout, OG Sims director says diversity isn't just 'critical,' it's 'existential for the business': 'Love is love and people are people'
- It looks like a NUC, it smells like a NUC, but this is not a NUC: Asus ditches the Intel naming for new AMD-powered mini PC, but restricts its GPU choice
- Lethal Company developer says the freedom afforded by text adventure design is why his latest game took 10 years to make: 'That made it very easy for this project to spiral out of control'
- Windows 11 insiders can now share Bluetooth LE audio over two pairs of headphones, so now you and your bestie can both sob over K-Pop Demon Hunters on the plane
- Saints Row 1's director is pitching a prequel that gets 'back to the roots of what made SR 1 entertaining,' but I mostly want to know what became of the Saints Row 2 PC patch whose developer died
- REPO's monster update has arrived, and it is so much scarier than I thought it would be all because of one beast
- Starfinder: Afterlight snags Red Dead Redemption 2's Roger Clark to voice its narrator, and he's just as Arthur Morgan about it as you'd expect
- Schedule 1's Halloween update arrived two days late because the developer thought he should 'probably play it safe' and test it first
- The MSI Claw handhelds are the first non-Xbox devices to get the Windows Full Screen Experience, with more said to arrive 'in the coming months'
- Lone developer shrinks Windows 7 down to 69 MB, claims 'virtually nothing can run' but that it does actually boot
- As players debate whether to purchase Possessor(s) after Heart Machine lays off staff a week before launch, its creators and publisher respond: 'As a developer who is slated for lay off—please buy this game!'
- Cyberpunk creator says 'Contact me' after Keanu Reeves said he wants to be Johnny Silverhand again, then tries his luck and tells Scarlett Johansson, 'I have roles for you. You can do anything'
- Battlefield 6 is introducing a casual Breakthrough mode 'to create a more relaxed way to play', making it easier to progress and complete challenges
- Our pick for 2024's best tactics game just got a community pack of featured levels—which ignore the dev's difficulty balance goals because 'our community, god bless em, have no such qualms'
- A new biome is coming as an alternative to the Tropics in Peak, but the only downside is you might be attacked by spiders
- November 2
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- 'I've fixed the sun': Heroic modder finally deals with 20-year-old bug in Street Racing Syndicate
- Mortal Kombat: Legacy Kollection launches to mixed reviews on Steam
- Loot envy is at an all time high in Path of Exile as lucky players print the rarest items in the game while everyone else sifts through trash
- Arc Raiders players stuck in login queues and long matchmaking times as it blows past its Steam player peak of 330,000
- PSA: Look out sweaty PvPers, Arc Raiders' foliage looks a little different depending on your graphics settings
- Game developers have suddenly become obsessed with eggs for some reason, and you can play two ovoid games for free right now
- That VR Thief game will slip from the shadows in December, and I'm beginning to think it might be good, actually
- Remedy is 'not satisfied' with its Q3 results after FBC: Firebreak's flop, and has 'moved development resources' to other games in production
- 'I sometimes lie in bed thinking about it': Rockstar co-founder Dan Houser explains why open world spy game Agent never worked out
- Doom designer Sandy Petersen alleges former Xbox boss Don Mattrick killed Ensemble Studios and its Halo MMO to protect his personal stock bonus: 'Don started as an EA hatchet man so what would you expect?'
- Reliably good puzzle game-maker Draknek and Friends just released a spooky new game
- November 1
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- Andrzej Sapkowski say these days 'it's so rare' for CD Projekt Red to ask him about Witcher lore
- 'Skinballs,' a Saints Row test NPC that looks like four floating scoops of ice cream, has been preserved as part of a museum collection
- Build and defend your little time-looping castle town in Super Fantasy Kingdom
- Beloved boomer shooter Dusk celebrates coming to Xbox with new 'Dusk Gulch' level riffing on Halo's best multiplayer map
- Beaver-themed city builder Timberborn will leave early access soon, and while there's no specific date yet, you can try out some of its new features right now
- GOG's preservation program now includes Splinter Cell, Resident Evil HD and, er, Spore, while you can also get 95% off XCOM 2 in its Autumn Sale
- This wildly ambitious Bully mod adds online multiplayer, racing minigames and even a rat-based deathmatch, but the modders' demand for lunch money has fans worried about Rockstar's response
- Brendan Greene's open-world survival roguelike hikes into early access later this month, and it'll actually let you save your run through its brutal wilderness
