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- October 15
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- The plot thickens as Intel announces a new data center GPU that could also preview its next-gen gaming graphics cards, but there's still no mention of Celestial
- Battlefield 6 fiddles with the pace of Conquest mode but somehow avoids giving the people what they want: 'Remove the timer'
- Assassin's Creed franchise boss leaves Ubisoft just 7 months after heading up one of the best-selling games in the history of the series
- Team Group has built the world's first external SSD with built-in Apple-based location tracking and it's padlock-shaped
- Motorslice is a shot of liquid nostalgia for the PS1-era action platformers I was too young to play—with a dash of Shadow of the Colossus in there for good measure
- Bungie executes spectacular U-turn by removing new currency it just added to Destiny 2, desperately bestows 777,777 unstable cores on all players for the apology tour
- Cozy witch-life sim Witchbrook is delayed to 2026 'to ensure the world feels rich, immersive, and alive'
- 'Systems that have a secure boot process, in reality, do not': Major backdoors have been discovered in Framework Linux machines and it might just be the tip of the iceberg
- A lawyer caught using AI citations and quotes in a Supreme Court legal case has been called out by a judge for defending themselves with, err, AI citations and quotes
- 'It should be silly': Overwatch 2's newest Halloween event, Haunted Masquerade, connects characters' lore while also not taking itself too seriously
- I've never really been sold on the whole external GPU thing, but I can't deny this Thunderbolt 5 eGPU dock is seriously slick, it'll even charge your phone wirelessly
- These are the last few Windows 10 zero-day security updates you'll see without signing up to extended coverage
- Capcom execs were bewildered that people might want to play original Resident Evil when GOG approached them about it: 'We have all of those remakes. It’s already the superior experience'
- Despite past posting, Randy Pitchford is actually 'happy to live in that world' where Borderlands 4 complaints aren't about 'how we f*cked up the story', after all
- The all-powerful 3rd-person-camera lobby convinced Obsidian to stick a Bethesda-style view mode in The Outer Worlds 2
- OLED monitors are the perfect match for any speedy gaming PC and if you're eyeballing a new ultrawide, we've just crowned a new champion for you to consider
- MSI denies selling selling the RTX 5090 in China after pictures surface showing giant pallets of the restricted GPUs in the country
- Uh oh, it's happening: ADATA chairman says the perfect storm of simultaneous DRAM, SSD and HDD shortages is already upon us and it looks like prices are only going in one direction
- It's happened again—WoW Legion: Remix players have had their demi-godhood taken away after grinding elites for several hours, and at least I don't have to talk about gulp frogs this time
- If anything were to convince me to try out carpentry it would be this gorgeous DIY mini walnut PC case housing an Asus ProArt RTX 5080
- Today's Wordle clues, hints and answer for October 15 (#1579)
- Battlefield boss Vince Zampella: 'The only reason that Call of Duty exists is because EA were dicks'
- October 14
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- Splinter Cell: Deathwatch director wishes he had 'the security clearance' to get us info about Ubisoft's Splinter Cell remake
- ChatGPT is getting 'erotica for verified adults' in December: Sam Altman claims mental health concerns have been addressed, so now it's time to 'safely relax the restrictions in most cases'
- Battlefield 6 is lousy with 'land mine spam,' but there's an easy way to avoid an explosive demise
- Steam Next Fest's most popular demo is an old Half Sword tech playtest, which just proves the timeless appeal of physics-based swordfights
- Road to Vostok finally has a playable demo on Steam and it's the most terrified I've ever been of getting shot at in a videogame
- It's not just you: Hit registration is bugged in Battlefield 6 and DICE is working on it
- Employee uploads 187,000 explicit images to US Department of Energy network intending to create 'robot porn', gets caught and loses his security clearance, complains he's facing 'the Spanish Inquisition'
- Intel attempts to clarify whether the new Xe3 iGPU in Panther Lake is next-gen Celestial technology but I'm left confused and fearing for the future of Intel Arc graphics
- Activision anti-cheat team goes on another victory lap after 'the strongest beta results in Call of Duty history', brags '99% of matches were cheater-free' and warns that every day they get 'faster'
- 'Death Stranding, but Norman Reedus is a horse in 13th-century Mongolia' is the pitch for this demo with the most detailed steed mechanics I've ever seen
- One the the best parts of Phasmophobia's success is the new wave of co-op horror games, 'There was nothing, now there's obviously quite a lot'
- The story for Paradox's original, canned Bloodlines 2 has gone the way of the dodo, and its fired narrative lead says no one's spoken to him about it, but the good news is he's working on 2 games at once right now
- After 5 years Phasmophobia is closing in on its 1.0 release with immersive updates and more plans to come: 'If players are still there, we'll still be there'
- Copilot can now help you find settings in the latest Windows Insider build, which is fine by me—as long as it doesn't touch anything
- Peak dev's next co-op game—Crashout Crew—is like spinning a plate, except the plate has a bunch of dynamite on it, and also somebody put bees in the road
- AMD and Intel teaming up to stick it to Arm has led to 'significant progress' improving x86 after just a year
- I've got a fix for Battlefield 6's blinding brightness, and no, it's not wearing sunglasses
- Ex-Intel CEO Pat Gelsinger says 'of course' we're in an AI bubble but it won't end 'for several years'
- RPG developer Owlcat launches free game dev learning resource: 'A rising tide truly lifts all ships'
- Ubisoft surprise-revives its neglected Splinter Cell middle child on Steam, puts it on sale, then slaps a Uplay requirement on it so you don't get too excited
- Battlefield 6's already mountainous grind is being exacerbated by assignments failing to track
- 'They just really didn't think anyone would look up': Researchers snooped on unencrypted satellite data with basic equipment, finding private calls, text messages, and even military communications
- Tavern Keeper's Next Fest demo, which now has an endless mode, might just steal hours of your time making custom decor alone
- 'Imagine delivering the smallest supercomputer next to the biggest rocket': Jensen delivers a DGX Spark to Musk at SpaceX facility but some think the Nvidia launch is little more than a 'PR stunt'
- Keychron's upcoming fully ceramic keyboard is a strange choice for rapid trigger and 8K polling but it's incredibly shiny so I'll take it
- Minecraft's Mounts of Mayhem drop is now available to test, including sailing with the nautilus and a brand new weapon enchantment
- Today's Wordle clues, hints and answer for October 14 (#1578)
- October 13
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- World of Warcraft Legion Remix is suffering from a problem MMO players rarely experience: Too many tanks
- Skyrim's lead designer reckons open world games are 'almost a cliché statement' these days, and that Skyrim owes its continued popularity to a focus on player agency: 'We didn't put anything off limits'
- Arrowhead is delaying Helldivers 2 updates to fix its performance problems: 'We're focusing way more on addressing these issues to make sure this sort of thing doesn't happen again'
- Steam Next Fest is back with a trove of demos in tow, and the highlights range from a new Heroes of Might and Magic to physics-based combat sims
- The original Fallout's lead developer says China nuked first, vault suits were meant to be 'extruded' by a machine, and yes Sugar Bombs are a Calvin and Hobbes reference
- Magic: The Gathering's latest crossover is with none other than the heroes in a half-shell, and they come bearing 'pizza lands'
- A Battlefield 6 bug that made jumping with (mostly) melee weapons halt your momentum just got fixed
- Scientists have integrated 2D materials a few atoms thick into a working memory chip for the first time and you can't tell me this isn't some prime Star Trek-level tech
- RPG vet Josh Sawyer keeps things like Fallout and D&D grounded in history because 'Once things get too magical… it's impossible to bring it back down to Earth'
- A new co-op RPG is coming for World of Warcraft fans by offering endless MMO dungeons without the MMO grind
- Randy Pitchford says sifting through the loot in Borderlands 4 is tickling a fundamental part of you: 'Our brains need to do it, and our brains like doing it, and we’re better off when we do it'
- For the boujee among us, we've just crowned this the best luxury gaming desk (though I'd be picking the budget choice)
- Elon Musk has been snapping up ex-Nvidia specialists to help make AI world models, which is fine but please keep away from our games
- Edifier's new desktop speaker is treating gaming PCs as a luxury HiFi aesthetic, but it's just not doing it for me
- I've been training my whole life for a battle royale like Final Sentence, it's just a shame the demo is a tad undercooked right now
- This RTX 5070 Ti with a literal hole in it has been kept on life support by a spliced-in AMD RX 580, because no GPU gets left behind
- Masters of timing, Microsoft: Just one day from Windows 10 EOL and apparently the official Media Creation Tool isn't working
- The Deus Ex mod that's a better sequel than Invisible War just got a mondo-update, and playing it couldn't be easier
- 2005 FPS Serious Sam 2 just got a big update for reasons known only to God
- Trump announces new 100% China tariff along with export controls on 'any and all critical software' over rare earth spat, as Chinese gov says it doesn't want a trade war but is 'not afraid of one'
- Ninja Gaiden 4 directors say a 'sense of fairness' is vital for difficult games: 'If the player gets killed unreasonably, it's hard for them to reflect and think about what they could've done'
- Today's Wordle clues, hints and answer for October 13 (#1577)
- October 12
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- The Mortal Kombat 2 movie doesn't come out until next year, but Mortal Kombat 3 is already confirmed because the studios are 'convinced there's a giant fanbase waiting for it'
- Despite declining sales and the latest 'Xbox' being a handheld PC, Microsoft says it's still making a next-gen console: 'We are actively investing in our future first-party consoles and devices'
- Over 100 of the world's strongest Path of Exile 2 players are lining up to get chomped by a shark with trillions of health and an instant-kill tail swipe
- Preview users have noticed OneDrive's AI-driven face recognition setting is opt-out, and can only be turned off 'three times a year'
- After learning his cult '90s RPG influenced Undertale, this Japanese developer finally got 'the courage' to make another RPG decades later thanks to Toby Fox
- Abiotic Factor gets new roadmap featuring a mystery crossover, DLC plans, and new difficulty modes alongside dev Q&A: 'We're terrified of our obligations to the community so be nice, we love you'
- Battlefield 6 hits a peak of 747k players on Steam, hot on the heels of Baldur's Gate 3's record and in the platform's all-time top 20
- Promising RTS Dinolords, which is basically Age of Empires with dinosaurs, is getting a closed alpha playtest that you can join later this month
- Kick ass and chew brains in Duke Nukem: Horror Castle, a spooky mod where you blast skeletons and chow down on the gooey insides of their skulls
- Strategy roguelike 9 Kings finally has 9 kings, though a new perk lets you revert it to 8 kings if nine kings proves too many
- A new ToeJam and Earl is 'in the planning stage' according to its co-creator, but don't expect to see it anytime soon: 'We intend to make it happen'
- Today's Wordle clues, hints and answer for October 12 (#1576)
- October 11
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- Prolific D&D novelist R.A. Salvatore says writing around 4th Edition rules 'almost broke' him and he knew its setting changes were a mistake: 'In about 5 years they're going to come to us and say, Bob, we got to fix this'
- Diablo 4 player hands their necromancer a gun for a 1-button build that covers the screen in hundreds of bone bullets and billions in damage
- Borderlands 4 post-launch roadmap includes seasonal event, paid DLC, and its first raid boss
- User-created games are coming to Genshin Impact in a new mode that couldn't be more Roblox if it tried
- Cleanse-'em-up PowerWash Simulator is free to play this weekend, so go try the first game to cross over with both Warhammer 40,000 and Wallace & Gromit
- I tried the Bubsy 4D demo, and it spits on the series legacy by actually being pretty good
- EA doles out free Battlefield 6 battle passes and XP boosts to players locked out on launch day by the EA App: 'We wanted to offer an apology… with perks'
- Deadlock just shuffled everyone into new ranked leagues overnight, but players suspect matchmaking won't feel any different: 'If you were miserable before, you'll still be miserable now'
- Prepare to have your brain fried by this electric shoot 'em up from an ex-Housemarque designer when it launches next month
- You'll need to be careful moving around the forests of Hell Let Loose: Vietnam, as its trees will help players identify potential threats: 'It can be very hard to understand where you're dying from'
- A sequel to Aliens: Fireteam Elite is almost certainly in development, having briefly burst onto the ESRB's website
- Renegade graphics warlock makes Half-Life look like Half-Life 2, then runs it on an ancient laptop, raising a middle finger to poorly optimised PC games
- Today's Wordle clues, hints and answer for October 11 (#1575)
- Find and photograph cryptids in 2D adventure Lone Pine
- October 10
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- One little bug has broken Hollow Knight: Silksong speedrunning wide open with the ability to fly through the game as an unkillable god
- Remedy issues 'profit warning' after FBC: Firebreak's big overhaul fails to turn things around: 'Despite improved player and sales metrics after the update, sales have not reached Remedy’s internal targets'
- Battlefield boss Vince Zampella tells locked-out Battlefield 6 owners to ditch the EA App and just buy it on Steam
- MachineGames hints at a new game in the works, and everyone has their fingers crossed for the return of Wolfenstein
- Blizzard is giving everyone a chance to try out World of Warcraft's new player housing for free next week
- Team Fortress 2 Classic open beta halted at the last minute, and something secret is cooking behind the scenes: 'Valve has asked us to ███████'
- Hideo Kojima waxes lyrical about an Expo in 1970 he credits for Metal Gear and Death Stranding, says that 'young bureaucrats' asked him to help design the 2025 follow-up but his ideas cost too much: 'I haven't had any contact with them since'
- Update: EA is deploying a fix for the 'missing content' and 'purchase to play' errors locking EA App users out of Battlefield 6
- Battlefield 6 player shows off the power of Portal by immediately dropping a decent Call of Duty 4 Shipment remake, oh, and a Star Destroyer
- Holy baloney Batman: Final Fantasy Tactics genius/maniac proves that Chocobos canonically believe in god
- NetEase pulls the plug on another studio: Former Riot exec's Fantastic Pixel Castle will 'likely close' if a new publisher isn't found soon
- Borderlands 4 director says use dialogue skip mod at your peril—it might turbo-brick your missions
- The humble Rubik's Cube is now achingly 2025 thanks to the addition of 24 LCD screens and a whopping $299 price tag
- Battlefield 6 players hit server queues as it rockets to over 500k Steam concurrents just 25 minutes after launch
- 'Now you've got something that's a little bit easier and less expensive and can go a little bit faster': Intel's lead x86 CPU architect explains why it's not bringing Hyper-Threading back for Panther Lake
- A data center fire in South Korea sees 858 TB of government files and 'eight years’ worth of work' stored in the cloud go up in smoke
- Obsidian director Josh Sawyer says he's 'Never really felt secure in a job' in 26 years, and it's worse than ever now
- RPG devs stopped making games like Baldur's Gate 'because retailers told us no one wanted to buy them', says New Vegas and Pillars of Eternity director Josh Sawyer
- AI software company Graphite says it practices 'dogfooding' and 'onboarding roulette' by deleting employee accounts at random
- Thank you Galax for this skinny RTX 5060 Ti because there's something surprisingly alluring about single-slot graphics cards
- 'Cheated and manipulated' MindsEye devs eviscerate studio bosses who blamed botched launch on 'saboteurs' and say they'll see them in court: 'The games industry is not the Wild West anymore'
- Sony and AMD detail their 'gamechanger' for PS6: enhanced ray tracing and memory tech some of which is surely headed to gaming PCs in future
- All Genshin Impact 6.1 livestream codes
- 'I can never go back to paid': One of the best co-op indie platformers is free to play after its developer accidentally switched off the price
- EA exec pinky-promises there's no GenAI in Battlefield 6, but does say it's 'Very seducing' like someone being lured to an early grave in a Hellraiser film
- The US has approved billions worth of Nvidia GPU exports to the United Arab Emirates in 'transformational US-UAE AI partnership deal'
- Grove Keeper is Dungeon Keeper versus woodcutters and your greatest weapon is a giant in his underpants
- Today's Wordle clues, hints and answer for October 10 (#1574)
- After 5 years of stunning trailers, Skate Story is finally releasing in December, and its demo is so good it's immediately a GOTY contender
- October 9
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- Indiana Jones and the Great Circle is getting a New Game+ mode and some new duds in a free update
- Wordle comes to Cyberpunk 2077, only it's better because it accepts Night City slang like 'CHOOM' and 'GONKS'
- Throwback strategy game Heroes of Might and Magic: Olden Era is delayed to 2026, but a new demo on Steam means you can play some of it right now for free
- A Minecraft Movie sequel is coming in 2027, because iffy reviews couldn't stop it from chicken jockeying its way to almost $1 billion so far
- EA is charging Skate players $35 for a cardboard Dead Space skin and it took me 40 straight minutes of game crashes to confirm it
- After more than a year of delays, Cities: Skylines 2's big Bridges and Ports expansion is finally almost here
- Arc Raiders lowers its price in some regions 'to ensure a more fair price point for all'
- Cards Against Humanity avoids tariffs with an edition that explains all the jokes, says 'this holiday season… don’t give Donald Trump a f***ing cent'
- Hooray for the PC: Sales are up by nearly 10% on last year, but predictably things are quite a bit slower in the US
- Stadium is getting a huge update as part of Overwatch 2 Season 19, adding new heroes, armory upgrades, and gadgets, which will be the 'single ace up your sleeve'
- Overwatch 2's Season 19 kicks off the spooky season with returning Halloween modes and a new addition, Haunted Masquerade
- After warring with fans for years, Black Ops 7 will finally ditch aggressive skill-based matchmaking: 'Our team feels strongly about providing players with a more varied experience'
- A YouTuber has built his own VR headset for a little over $150 and made the whole project open source, so I might just give it a go
- Valve's long-awaited standalone VR headset, Deckard, could be here before year's end according to word on the street from China
- Bethesda enlisted its intrepid fan-wiki editors 'to design a character for The Elder Scrolls 6'
- Kiss goodbye to your smartphone OS, ChatGPT wants to become an operating system complete with an AI app store
- Apparently optical gaming mice can spy on what we're saying and video games are an 'ideal target'
- World's top banker says the AI bubble will burst, and shedloads of money 'will probably be lost'
- UK gov fobs off a 10,000-strong request to stop payment processors nuking NSFW Steam games, says it's a matter for the free market, baby
- Discord says 70,000 age-verification ID photos may have been leaked in recent security breach that also includes names, usernames, emails, credit cards, and IP addresses
- It's not Celestial, but Intel's new Xe3 GPU architecture looks like it'll be ideal for the next generation of handheld gaming PCs
- Intel announces XeSS 3 with multi-frame generation, putting it ahead of AMD in the AI-powered graphics performance race
- Battlefield 6 ditching ray tracing seems to have paid off because the latest system requirements say 4K at 240 Hz is possible
- Sick of clicky-clacky keys? Google Japan offers a reminder that it could always be worse, unveiling a rotary keyboard concept
- Still in early access, Hyper Light Breaker's ending development and laying off staff: 'This was not our ideal path, but rather the only one available given the circumstances'
- Today's Wordle clues, hints and answer for October 9 (#1573)
- A lost chapter of Warhammer 40,000 space marines has been found: 'A miracle!'
- October 8
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- Laid-off devs of cancelled ZeniMax MMO Project Blackbird form new studio 'with no outside investors and full creative control,' and they're calling it Sackbird
- Ubisoft reportedly cancelled an Assassin's Creed game set around the American Civil War because of Yasuke backlash and political turmoil in the US
- Blizzard insists that now is the right time to axe World of Warcraft's popular combat mods: 'We're going to be paying very close attention in the weeks and months to come'
- As Rainbow Six Siege X numbers continue to slide, Ubisoft promises to crack down on cheaters and 'prioritize a fun experience' with future balance changes
- After cheaters broke Steam's most popular roguelike's leaderboards, its dev issued a fix and a warning: 'Cheaters you better watch your ass or I'm clapping your cheeks back to the shadow realm where you belong'
- Research firm estimates that North Korean crypto hackers have already made off with over $2 billion this year, reckons the regime has stolen over $6 billion in total
- UK police arrest two teenagers suspected of the nursery hack and ransom that saw images and the information of 20 toddlers posted to the dark web
- Kentucky sues Roblox, calling it 'a playground for predators who seek to harm our children'
- Epic sues Fortnite botters who filled their own maps with clankers and made off with tens of thousands of dollars
- I cut out my tongue to unlock a door in Eclipsium, then things started getting weird
- Clair Obscur Expedition 33 devs are 'working on a big thank you update' which'll include a new location, boss battles, and 'highly requested' quality-of-life improvements
- Larian lead calls out Elon Musk's harebrained scheme for a 'great AI-generated game', says 'We don't need another cash grab, we need sustainability'
- It's literally impossible to pick the 'real' murderer in Pentiment because Obsidian never considered having one: 'You're not a detective, you're a f***ing artist'
- Battlefield 6's lead oozes confidence by confirming that the servers 'should be' ready for its release on Friday, breaking a cycle of awful Battlefield launches
- Today's Wordle clues, hints and answer for October 8 (#1572)
- October 7
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- Shai Hulud defanged: In Dune: Awakening, your vehicles are no longer permanently lost if a sandworm eats them
- Founder of Dwarf Fortress and Caves of Qud publisher Kitfox Games says its procgen sims for sickos are 'giving storytelling tools back to the people when games and passive media took them away'
- The original System Shock 2 is being removed from sale later this week
- Today's Steam outage may have been part of a massive DDoS attack targeting Xbox, PlayStation, Riot, and other game companies
- The RTX 5080 MSI Vector 16 has dropped by $200, so it's time for me to tap the 'it's a really good gaming laptop' sign once more
- Battlefield 6 dev says its destruction tech is so delicious for one simple reason: 'The only magic trick is that we're not on the PS4 or Xbox One any more'
- Diablo 4 is gearing up for another major loot overhaul before its next expansion arrives next year
- Game Pass subscribers 'in certain countries' will not be affected by the price increase, at least 'for now,' because sometimes government regulation is actually a good thing
- The first gameplay footage from Astroneer studio's next space game looks like co-op chaos on colorful planets, but I'm not crazy about the idea of timed missions in a hangout game
- Elon Musk's AI-fuelled fever dream gets even hotter as he promises his AI game studio is going to release a 'great' game before the end of 2026
- Netflix reveals The Witcher season 4 debut date with a new trailer, but more importantly: Everyone's got fantastic hair
- This year's Physics Nobel goes to 3 researchers for discoveries way back in the 1980s that paved the way to quantum computing
- Steam is recovering from intermittent downtime on Tuesday
- As Destiny 2 hits its lowest ever daily peak for Steam concurrent players, Bungie U-turns on controversial plan to reset player power next season
- Microsoft is planning to make it harder than ever to install Windows without an internet connection and a Microsoft account
- Vampire Survivors devs say online co-op mode is 'coming soon'—along with the answer to 'a burning question that has been asked thousands of times'
- Despite mixed reviews, Skate's free-to-play excursion has managed to rake in over 15 million players in 3 weeks
- Broken Sword 2 is getting a 4K remaster, and this time AI won't be involved: 'I got into a bit of trouble talking about AI last time, but AI didn't really help us very much at all'
- This new 4K gaming monitor is so ridiculously bright I'm gonna need to wear shades
- Mortal Kombat player nabs a tournament victory just 5 days after giving birth, all while her newborn chills in her lap
- Thank God: The new Hell Let Loose will only have 'historically authentic' frogs
- 'We give players what they want': Battlefield 6 devs sing the praises of Battlefield Labs and chatty players, 'We believe in the power of tapping into the community'
- 'We're still on track to release *** *******': Arc Raiders pokes fun at EA and Activision censorship while reminding players that they're still coming for the end of the month
- Zelda Williams ethers AI 'tributes' to her dead dad: 'You’re making disgusting, over-processed hotdogs out of the lives of human beings'
- Peter Molyneux says 'We never took a penny of money from people' with his cursed cube game, contradicting Peter Molyneux who said it had made 'a few tens of thousands' in 2013
- The latest Intel Panther Lake CPU leak details next-gen Core Ultra 300 range with high-performance graphics restricted to a new 'X' model line
- Telltale-esque superhero management sim Dispatch was originally going to be a live-action TV show before it became a videogame, but then 'a thing called Covid hit'
- Today's Wordle clues, hints and answer for October 7 (#1571)
- Alien Isolation is way too long because its Xenomorph got way too smart: 'At the time it didn't seem that long'
- October 6
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- Co-op dino survival horror game Deathground prepares to launch with one final reminder that, no, 'you won't be able to play as a dinosaur'
- Activision extends the Black Ops 7 beta to wrap up just 24 hours before Battlefield 6 launches
- Silksong player smacks one of its toughest bosses until they turn off, flawlessly defeating them in just 35 seconds
- Unreal mastermind Cliff Bleszinski really likes this fan-made Redux remaster: 'Time for a new generation to learn that Unreal isn't just an engine'
- Bungie shows Marathon proof of life with the announcement of another closed playtest
- Madman modder takes one of Silksong's worst bosses and makes them even harder: 'This is seriously mucked up'
- After making Closed Weapons almost invisible in the Battlefield 6 beta, DICE says Open Weapons is 'the right path forward' because it was more popular
- Ubisoft reveals the surprise free Assassin's Creed Mirage DLC, which just coincidentally happens to be set in a region the Saudi government wants to turn into an 'economic powerhouse'
- This 'brutally honest' city builder features greedy landlords, cutthroat corporations, and a newspaper that gives you 'a constant reminder that your citizens' bad luck is perhaps your fault'
- Metal: Hellsinger studio The Outsiders is closing as part of Funcom's post-Dune: Awakening layoffs
- Activision says 'Arc Raiders' censorship in Call of Duty: Black Ops 7 lobbies was unintentional and will be fixed
- Intel's morale is reportedly 'in the toilet' as the chip maker strives to be 'really lean, fast moving'
- Don't look up: That's not a shooting star, it's another Starlink satellite burning up
- This 2025 shooter made in a decades-old Doom engine is gorgeous, fun, and tough as nails
- Monster Hunter Wilds' Steam reviews absolutely tank as players lose patience with its technical woes: 'Every time the game gets updated my performance decreases'
- 'I will die on this hill': Battlefield 6 players want DICE to edit the 'Resident Evil quickturn' or remove it entirely, but some aren't so sure
- AMD seals multi-year megadeal with OpenAI involving 6 gigawatts' worth of AI GPUs and a possible 10% stake in AMD
- As if doing a low honour run in Red Dead Redemption 2 didn't make you feel guilty enough in comes a mod that gives NPCs memories for you to watch before murdering them
- Activision claims 97% of cheaters it catches in Call of Duty: Black Ops 7 are banned within 30 minutes, thanks to secure boot and Ricochet
- You should read these 54 World of Darkness books for $25 to catch up on the lore ahead of Vampire: The Masquerade – Bloodlines 2
- Skipping all Baby Steps' cutscenes unlocks a secret, 28-minute punishment cutscene
- Minecraft's next drop might be the thing that finally convinces me to explore underwater
- After telling Borderlands 4 player to 'game that sh*t', Randy Pitchford finds out that you cannot, in fact, game that sh*t—says 'well, sh*t', confirms it's a bug and that it'll be fixed 'within the next two weeks'
- Decade-long SSD and RAM 'pricing apocalypse' predicted as AI data centers gobble up hardware on an epic scale
- Today's Wordle clues, hints and answer for October 6 (#1570)
- With a final update, Paradox announces support for its Civ competitor Millennia has come to an end
- October 5
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- 'Nintendo has not had any contact with the Japanese government about generative AI': Nintendo denies anti-AI lobbying rumors
- First US videogame champion, legendary programmer, and Interplay co-founder Rebecca Heineman is fundraising to deal with the costs of an aggressive cancer diagnosis
- 'Enjoy Cronos on Steam, wherever you are!': Bloober Team announces native Linux build for Cronos: The New Dawn
- Valve yoinked a new Counter-Strike 2 map out of the game after just 2 days, either for potential Disney copyright infringement, a 'gamer word' hidden in its data, or both
- OpenAI hastily retreats from gung-ho copyright policy after embarrassing Sora video output like AI Sam Altman surrounded by Pokémon saying 'I hope Nintendo doesn't sue us'
- Titan Quest 2's second chapter transports you to The Northern Beaches, where you'll find 9 new dungeons and 3 more bosses to batter
- Rust developer is fed up with survivors cowering in their homes, so it's reworking progression to 'get players back out of their bases'
- Manor Lords gets its first update since January, and its creator says he is 'rethinking what went wrong to ensure it won't happen again'
- The creator of Voxel Doom has spent the last three years making Voxel Duke Nukem 3D, and it's almost ready to rock
- Five-year-old survival/crafting game Arctico just got Steam Deck and controller support from out of nowhere
- Today's Wordle clues, hints and answer for October 5 (#1569)
- It took 14 years for a streamer to walk to the Far Lands in Minecraft, but his long journey is finally over
- October 4
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- The Bloodlines 2 voice cast features actors from Cyberpunk 2077, Hitman, Vermintide, and Game of Thrones
- Microsoft reportedly estimated that Game Pass led to $300 million in lost sales of Black Ops 6, with 82% of copies sold being on the Game Pass-less PlayStation 5
- Fallout Shelter, Pentiment, and other Unity games have been delisted on Steam thanks to Unity's security vulnerability
- Call of Duty may have finally blinked on SBMM as the Black Ops 7 beta adds a playlist with 'drastically reduced' skill consideration
- The solo dev behind RPG Sword Hero is promising a 'seamless open world' with amazing combat, intricate simulation, and systemic dismemberment—the demo on Steam makes me think they can pull it off
- 'A threat to creative expression and social progress': Advocacy groups respond to Roblox's new 'sensitive issues' label
- 'Xbox Game Pass Ultimate is still $19.99 with us': GameStop somehow openly brushes off Game Pass price hike
- One of the worst case scenarios for ID age verification is already here, with a Discord breach compromising some users' data
- The most underrated GTA of all time meets Hotline Miami? This ultra-violent crime sim coming soon to Steam has shot straight to the top of my hit list
- After a decade in development, this massive Skyrim mod adds a whole new region, 50 new dungeons and 'the biggest main quest you've ever played in Skyrim'
- Chill city-builder Bulwark: Falconeer Chronicles just got a massive update that adds an 'OP AF' new airship, as the developer urges players to check out his game: 'Any review helps, even the critical ones'
- Fight like a Witcher in Elden Ring thanks to this ingenious moveset mod
- Civilization 7's latest update brings improved map generation, a better UI, and a 'full rework of Napoleon', but it hasn't moved the needle on its divided Steam rating
- Today's Wordle clues, hints and answer for October 4 (#1568)
- October 3
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- Fabulous news everyone: Market analyst says the AI bubble is 17X bigger than the dotcom goldrush, and 4X larger than the subprime bubble that caused the 2008 crash
- As Microsoft lays off thousands and jacks up Game Pass prices, former FTC chair says I told you so: The Activision-Blizzard buyout is 'harming both gamers and developers'
- 5869 days after releasing the greatest rock opera about Mega Man ever recorded, The Protomen's follow-up Act 3 is, unbelievably, finally here*
- Dying Light: The Beast players have killed enough zombies in two weeks to equal a quarter of the world's population
- As Game Pass prices get laughably high, Microsoft is reportedly spinning up a free version of Xbox Cloud Gaming—but of course you'll have to sit through ads
- All-women Counter-Strike 2 pro league ESL Impact will halt operations at the end up its upcoming finals
- Kingmakers, the game about bringing modern weapons to medieval battlefields, gets delayed just 5 days ahead of launch, and there's no new release date
- As the videogame industry continues to be hammered by layoffs, Netflix is offering up to $840,000 per year for a new Director of Generative AI for Games
- Helldivers 2 dev explains why the PC version takes a million years to update and has 3X the filesize of the console versions: old, undemocratic hard drives
- Meta's latest bid to get you into the metaverse is the Horizon Engine, promising 'infinite connected spaces, more realistic physics, and higher player counts'
- AMD and Intel are in 'early-stage talks' about signing a foundry commitment, a win that the struggling chip giant and US government would both love
- Critical Role: Campaign 4's first 13-player ensemble episode is chaotic, messy, and gripping D&D—and I feel like I've just seen a magician pull a fully-formed rabbit out of a hat
- Emperor of overpromising Peter Molyneux says he's done with games after Masters of Albion, which is also his 'redemption title'
- The 43rd Golden Joystick Awards shortlist is out, and just looking at the indie list alone, I can tell it's going to be a tough year
- Unity has found a security vulnerability that has sat dormant for almost a decade: 'Take immediate action to protect your games & apps'
- Worried about melty graphics cards? This seriously capable gizmo keeps power in check for more peace of mind
- Dial up is dead—at least as far as AOL is concerned, as the company is pulling the plug after 34 years
- New MIT research opens the door to faster-charging and longer-lasting batteries, and it could be implemented right away
- Amazon's giving away one great Fallout game and one bad one this October
- Vampire Survivors-like Megabonk makes megabucks, selling a million copies in 2 weeks, and currently has more daily players than Borderlands 4 on Steam: 'I'll be eating spaghetti with EXTRA sauce tonight'
- Today's Wordle clues, hints and answer for October 3 (#1567)
- 'The industry isn't dying, it's splitting into two different models': What experts are saying about the EA buyout
- October 2
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- If you missed Master Chief having sex on Paramount+ now you can see Master Chief having sex on Netflix
- The new Humble Bundle is a wild mix of Warhammer games for just $12
- One of my most anticipated shooters, which looks like Demon's Souls in the Doom engine, finally has a release date right around the corner
- Holy cow, the Epic Games Store supports preloading now
- The guy who says 'Toasty!' in Mortal Kombat has left NetherRealm after more than 30 years with the team
- Meta Vibes is an officially sanctioned feed of endless AI garbage, and The Daily Show nails it in one: 'You're a fat little pig for internet video slop, and we here at Meta want to watch you eat yourself to death'
- The new Swery/Suda collab's greatest sin is trying too hard
- Disco Elysium studio ZA/UM unionizes in the UK: 'We like being here. We want to continue being here. So let's try and get a seat at the table in the big management meetings'
- One of my favorite survival city builders is leaving early access this month, so here's your chance to buy it before the price goes up
- Amnesia creator Frictional Games teases its next game, and it may be something new but it sure feels like SOMA
- With Xbox hiking prices and a newly private, $20-billion-in-the-hole EA looking ready to gut Baldur's Gate series creator BioWare, Larian boss Swen Vincke points out that 'making games faster and cheaper while charging more has never worked before'
- After getting dumped by EA, FIFA's finally back with its own football game starring… animal mascots?
- 'Now you've got no excuses': Palworld is teaming up with Core Keeper for a Steam Autumn sale bundle because the folks over at Pocketpair are 'just big fans'
- Horrible news: exploit found in Humanoid robots capable of 'creating a robot botnet that spreads without user intervention' over Bluetooth
- Capcom legend tackles Palworld-Nintendo battle and manages to annoy almost everyone: 'It's a game that transcends the boundaries of war'
- Starbreeze lays off a bunch more people as it cancels its co-op D&D game and shifts focus to building Payday 3 into a 'modern live-engagement game'
- Nonprofit turned investment magnet OpenAI is now valued at $500 billion
- Hero 100% beats Silksong using a saxophone as a gamepad, says it's not even the hardest game he's sax'd
- One of the coolest rhythm games I've ever played—with distraction mechanics straight out of those fake mobile ads—is finally coming out of early access
- A TikToker flew all the way to Scotland to harass and yell at Rockstar developers about a non-existent GTA 6 delay: 'I'm sick and tired of waiting for the answers'
- Job losses might be likely due to AI but Nvidia's CEO says the booming billion-dollar industry will always need more plumbers and electricians
- World of Warcraft: Midnight's design director wasn't sure players would enjoy Delve bosses jumping you, but 'it turns out people really like that', so now we're getting Prey
- Amazon breaks glass marked 'AI-powered Snoop Dogg game where he's a judge' to get you to pay attention to its wilting Luna streaming service
- Fortnite insists it wasn't stitched up by Warner Bros. and the Peacemaker emote, but is modifying it anyway 'to avoid any confusion'
- There's a new king of lightweight gaming mice and I'll 1v1 anyone who disses the ultralight market
- Intel's quietly buffed its GPU drivers to fix gaming frame rate issues with some older processors
- 'We will be looking at everything': Call of Duty: Black Ops 7 devs will be paying close attention to community feedback during the upcoming beta
- EA could sell off studios after Saudi and Kushner-funded $55 billion acquisition, says former Dragon Age producer: 'It's hard to imagine that you'd have BioWare pivot from having very progressive messaging to having the reverse'
- Private collector's GPU horde tours through 30 years of Nvidia and AMD hardware history
- Fortnite's collaboration with K-Pop Demon Hunters is the most excited I've been since Epic gave Hatsune Miku an AK-47
- A bunch of Steam players just made the switch to Windows 11 as Windows 10's death date is now less than two weeks away
- The first hotfix for Hades 2 nerfs one jerk miniboss in particular
- Today's Wordle clues, hints and answer for October 2 (#1566)
- October 1
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- Blizzard will break WoW's most popular combat mods sooner than expected, kickstarting a new era for the MMO's boss design in the next major patch
- Henry Cavill bares rippling chest, powerful triceps, and deep-cut Planescape: Torment knowledge in new photo that inspires one PC Gamer editor to declare, 'He just like me fr'
- World of Warcraft: Midnight's collector's edition lets you own the Dark Heart, but please don't use this void relic to resurrect an all-devouring shadow god
- Game Pass gets major price hike 'to offer more flexibility, choice, and value,' Microsoft says with a completely straight face
- Final Fantasy Tactics - The Ivalice Chronicles director is a big PC gamer, and says he was 'very particular' about making sure they got the new UI just right
- YouTube rolls over and pays $24.5 million to settle Trump lawsuit after suspending his account in the wake of the Capitol riots, president calls himself a 'shadowbanned patriot'
- Teenager pleads guilty to sending Epic staff death threats: 'I intended for the messages to be viewed as a threat'
- Swery/Suda51 collab Hotel Barcelona sheepishly apologises for AI content, promises 'We are opposed to any professional GenAI use' that kills the planet, steals jobs, or is otherwise 'Unethical'
- As World of Warcraft winds down its combat AddOn support, director Ion Hazzikostas is all composure about rule-breakers because 'Frankly, this is far from the first time'
- World of Warcraft: Midnight deep dive reveals a continent-hopping questline as part of its main campaign, a cosy 'Arcantina' hub, and the release date of player housing's early access
- Dune Awakening was 'the biggest release' in Funcom's 32-year history, so you can probably guess what comes next in this rotten world: layoffs
- Asus is finally bringing RTX 5080 card themed around everyone's favourite Vocaloid songstress to the US—but there's a steep Miku tax
- One of the coolest games of 2025 is a Marvel superheroes beat-'em-up—and you can play a demo for yourself right now
- 'We want to keep experimenting': Silent Hill f won't become the new norm as Konami wants each new Silent Hill game to stand out and have 'its own distinct flavour'
- Fallout: London's first big DLC is here with 80 NPCs, 30 new quests, a bunch of other stuff and, most important, 'Thousands of bug fixes and improvements'
- Ubisoft's new Tencent-backed company is called Vantage Studios, a 'creative house' that will take over development of Assassin's Creed, Far Cry, and Rainbow Six
- Apparently the most popular clip on OpenAI's new AI video app Sora depicts Sam Altman stealing graphics cards
- Fallout 76's Burning Springs update draws its 'main influences from Fallout 3 and Fallout: New Vegas' as players venture to a whole new state, Ohio
- 'There are rainbows coming out of my heart': Walton Goggins' The Ghoul is finally coming to Fallout 76 as part of Burning Springs, and get this, he'll pay you to off people
- One of last year's best Metroidvanias, Nine Sols, currently has an entirely different first-person horror game tucked inside its Steam betas
- OpenAI's new video generation tool Sora 2 is here, but don't worry, Sam Altman says it will avoid the 'degenerate case of AI video generation that ends up with us all being sucked into an RL-optimized slop feed'
- Borderlands 4's Thursday patch will buff the game's cast, but UI improvements are coming later
- BioWare's just waiting for the axe to fall after EA's $55 billion buyout, say anonymous staff
- Today's Wordle clues, hints and answer for October 1 (#1565)
- CoD: Black Ops 7's wallhack killstreak is receiving a frenzy of criticism, but isn't the point of killstreaks that they're unfair?
