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March 16
- Blizzard struggles to balance its Abundance world event in a way that makes anybody happy, with recent potential nerfs making it even more stressful to optimize
- 'C:\ is not accessible – Access denied': Windows 11 users locked out of own boot drive on Samsung PCs due to major issue
- Bethesda steps in again to calm down hype around Starfield news next week, saying Todd Howard's EA College Football 26 skills are his 'only visionary power'
- If you were scammed by malware hiding in your Steam games, the FBI wants to hear all about it
- Capcom celebrates 6 million units sold for Resident Evil Requiem, 'the fastest that a title in the series has reached this milestone'
- Nvidia's very keen on you 'catching the future of real-time rendering' at this year's GTC, though I suggest not waiting with bated breath for anything groundbreaking
- Witches and glitches are your targets in retro adventure Witchhunter.exe
March 15
- The remastered collection of the first Tomb Raider games just got a controversial patch with some truly terrible-looking new outfits: 'Lara deserves better than this'
- This indie dev is making a Mirror's Edge-inspired freerunning game, complete with an in-game PDA that looks a lot like a PlayStation Portable
- GTA roleplay’s latest craze has players risking their cars in tense bouts of high-stakes hide and seek
- Beaver-themed city-builder Timberborn has gnawed its way out of early access, and surprise! It has Factorio-style automation now
- Fantasy heist sim Project Shadowglass is even more inspired by Thief than I had realised, as a new trailer shows off water arrows, blackjack knockouts, and authentically sloppy swordfighting
- Deep Rock Galactic: Survivor is getting an expansion that introduces the series' first ever new class, and it’s a dwarf driving a weaponised bulldozer that flattens terrain and enemies alike
March 14
- Darktide is getting a new extraction-esque mode where you go outside and try not to die from radiation poisoning: 'If time runs out and you die, you get nothing'
- Executive producer on The Simpsons says 'never say never' regarding a Hit & Run revival, even if he prefers the 2007 game
- I desperately want the Just Cause creator's new open-city game to be great, but I'm not convinced by its latest trailer
- Embark CEO says 'a real professional actor is better than AI' after the studio re-records some Arc Raiders dialog with real humans
- 'Even though I threw out my back from overworking, I'm feeling high in spirits': Slay the Spire 2 sold 3 million copies in its first week
- Get up to 85% off the Dead Space games in EA's franchise sale, including Motive's excellent remake that will probably never see a successor
- The creator of Stephen's Sausage Roll has released a new puzzle-platformer where you play as an egg, in the latest example of a developer fallen to the sunny side
- Throwback XCOM successor Xenonauts 2 leaves early access in April, though the developer says the milestone 'doesn't mean our work is done'
- 22 years later, this classic Half-Life zombie survival mod shambles onto Steam with all new features
- Marvel Rivals made Blizzard ask 'what if we could just drop 30 new heroes into Overwatch?' and inspired its biggest update ever
- Baby Steps' designers trolled players by placing stacks of cans at the top of 'plausible' climbing challenges they didn't even bother testing, and players managed to climb them all—except one
- Major investor is 'shocked and sad' that the games industry is 'demonizing' generative AI
March 13
- Marathon's murderous audio change was an 'overcorrection,' Bungie admits, promises to pull it back in an upcoming update
- Amidst high profile live service failures, Arc Raiders production director says he hopes other studios are 'given the same chance we had, because it's so hard to put a game out'
- 'No matter what we changed, somebody was going to get mad:' After hearing what an Obsidian dev went through to get RPG difficulty right, I get why nobody's ever gotten RPG difficulty right
- Disco Elysium writers marvel at how a game made 'in a f**king squalid flat' in Estonia had such a huge impact, and welcomes successors like Esoteric Ebb: 'We make games, but we also like them'
- Japanese furniture brand reveals the Electric Gaming Bed 2, the 'forbidden layout' built for the 'supremely decadent'
- Starfield's composer says the game will become 'legendary', Todd Howard's a 'visionary', and maybe you 'were just not ready for it'
- As rumors about new a Witcher 3 expansion continue to swirl, CD Projekt pointedly says it has 'no plans for additional DLCs or expansions'—for Cyberpunk 2077
- Arc Raiders could one day get vehicles, but Embark says no promises: 'We have prototypes from seven years ago'
- Palworld's Bucky got off a plane to find 'about 8,000 Discord messages from Palworld fans' who really wanted him to know about Pickmon: 'God bless their little hearts'
- Dead By Daylight devs reckon the game has 'at least' another 10 years in it
- Arc Raiders once had jump pads and the Snap Hook made you 'like Spider-Man' before its extraction shooter pivot: 'It was much more heroic'
- Google is adding official Chrome support for users running Arm and Linux and it's about time
- 'We want that the real-time images look indistinguishable from reality. We want them to look like a film.' Nvidia has lofty goals for path-traced graphics, but its support for Microsoft's shader stutter cure is a lot more interesting to me
- Arc Raiders' devs didn't expect such a passionate PvE-only crowd
- Notorious UK rights group launches legal action against Valve for distributing music in games on Steam without a license
- Microsoft teams up with Nvidia, AMD, Intel, and Qualcomm to share 'our dream of bringing console-level GPU developer tools to Windows'
- You've got a narrow window to nab OpenTTD on Steam for free, because Transport Tycoon Deluxe has just been un-abandonwared by Atari
- Arc Raiders' old machine designs sound so diabolical, it's no wonder they were reworked or removed after poor playtest feedback: 'At that time, they didn't fit with the game very well'
- 2 years after its announcement, FF14's monster-taming Beastmaster job finally arrives this year, along with what looks like a Slay the Spire-esque roguelike mode
- 'GeForce 3 was such a transition for us': Nvidia's Jensen Huang looks back on 25 years of the classic graphics card
- 'It was supposed to be the greatest time ever': Jeff Kaplan only got 6 weeks to come up with and pitch Overwatch: 'We were probably the most demoralised we'd ever been'
- The first thing Arc Raiders' devs did during its extraction pivot was to reduce the speed of everything by 60%: 'All the craft that was in the game was kind of background noise'
- Microsoft removes its 'This is an Xbox' marketing campaign and is slowly purging all mention of it
- Major copper foil supplier raises prices by 12%, potentially ushering in a fresh wave of spikey prices for PCBs and plenty of PC components besides
- Fortnite players revolt over V-Bucks changes as Epic devs appeal for calm: 'Paying the bills frees up our teams to continue driving stories and building stuff you love'
- Over 48% of unreleased games have a Discord server, and I'm sure this is all fine and normal and I don't miss forums at all
- Journey composer Austin Wintory played an unreleased song from his canceled 'dream job of all time' during the Game Developers Choice Awards, just to drive home that the industry's doing great
March 12
- Shadowstone, the new game from Secret Door and Dreamhaven, kicks off a surprise public playtest at the Future Games Show Spring Showcase
- Blizzard vet Rob Pardo closed this year's GDC keynote by urging executives to cool it with the layoffs: 'The game team is more valuable than the game itself'
- Turing Award winner Tony Hoare, computing pioneer who invented the Quicksort algorithm for a sixpence bet, dies at the age of 92
- Marathon got deadlier overnight, and some think yesterday's sound change is the culprit
- Former Overwatch director Jeff Kaplan's favorite hero is Reinhardt, and reveals his charge was inspired by Left 4 Dead 2: 'It's what separates a great Rein from a sh*tty one'
- Dave the Diver DLC adds a little Stardew Valley time management and relationship building to the formula when In the Jungle releases in June
- Vin Diesel's character in Ark 2 was originally written as a nerd: 'Yeah, that ain't gonna work'
- Bravely Default Flying Fairy HD Remaster, a hi-def update of the 2012 Silicon Studio classic, shadow-drops on Steam
- Company that makes generative AI-powered NPCs reports that 95% of players enjoy their generative AI-powered NPCs
- Indie deckbuilder All Will Rise's dev joins No Games For Genocide boycott and plans to hand back funding it received from Microsoft
- WoW's questing system was inspired by a playtest that didn't work out as planned, because the testers didn't play MMOs and had no idea what they were supposed to do: 'I ran out of quests right away!'
- Subnautica 2 developer video reveals a 'brand new' base building system with some pretty fabulous windows
- Playing World of Warcraft with a controller might become my preferred playstyle thanks to this excellent gamepad-friendly addon that's letting me enjoy Azeroth from my couch
- One Australian gamer was denied a replacement for DRAM kit bought just two years prior and was only offered a refund of original price, four times less than its cost today
- Europe's game rating agency takes aim at in-app purchases, loot boxes, and 'unrestricted communication' with new 'interactive risk categories'
- Arc Raiders received 'substantial negative PvP sentiment' during testing, causing the devs to second-guess its big pivot before realising it was really frustration with weapons and matchmaking
- ZA/UM doesn't want 'to invite too many comparisons' to Disco Elysium with new game Zero Parades—'We didn't feel like we wanted to repeat our greatest hits'
- PC games revenue will outgrow consoles by 2028, analyst predicts
- New benchmarks show the iPhone chip in the cut-price Apple MacBook Neo beating every single x86 PC processor for single-core performance
- No one at Embark could describe Arc Raiders before its extraction shooter pivot, leading to 'playtest battles' of competing directions for the game
- 'There is no scenario where memory prices correct in the second half' of 2027, according to new market research
- This horror game where you're a conscious nuclear missile boasts 'one handed mouse only controls', leaving me with assumptions that proved incorrect when I had to saw my own limbs off
- Dispatch's character and concept artist was picked up on ArtStation 'as a last resort', a temporary solution 'to get us through the pitch phase', before defining the entire game's artstyle
- Bluepoint tech boss suggests Sony's scared of Valve, not Microsoft, and that's why it's pulling back from PC: 'It would be quite ironic if Valve ultimately ended up winning the console war'
- Game dev union members marched at GDC to propose a 'Game Workers' Bill of Rights'
- Asus thinks 'high-end brand value and high-end product mix' will help it weather the memory crisis alongside AI
- Ever complained about Overwatch matchmaking? There's a chance Jeff Kaplan checked your account and all he has to say is: 'There's gotta be winners and there's gotta be losers'
- Garry's Mod creator says programmers over-relying on AI is like using too much porn: 'You lose your ability to ejaculate using your imagination'
- A terrible quest in vanilla WoW 'holds a really special place in my heart', says Jeff Kaplan, but was also 'the hubris of a junior game designer who thinks he's clever but is actually a dipsh*t'
- One of Jeff Kaplan's 'regrets about Overwatch' was making it so team-orientated: 'I would downplay the team factor and try to put more focus on individual contribution'
- Texture pop-in may be about to pop-out of existence thanks to even faster asset streaming ushered in by new Zstandard support in DirectStorage
- Modder behind cancelled Star Wars game's unofficial revival has 'no concern at all' about Disney reprisal: 'We pose little to no threat to any upcoming or ongoing titles'
- AMD announces next-gen 'FSR Diamond' AI-enhanced upscaling for future Xbox consoles, but the question is whether it's coming to PC and which GPUs will support it
- PlayerUnknown reckons he can take back the term 'metaverse' because 'It's just been co-opted by certain people… like, I still use Twitter because f**k [Elon Musk]'
- Microsoft is paving more PC roads to Project Helix, releasing a Windows 11 Xbox Mode in April for laptops and desktops
- WoW's Horde/Alliance split was 'really controversial', says Jeff Kaplan, to the point where it was only locked in 9-12 months before the game's launch
- Mewgenics will have 'at least two' DLCs, and the 'small' one is almost a third as big as the base game
- Dawn of War 4 playtesters want the combat to take longer because of how much they enjoy watching it
- Overwatch co-creator Jeff Kaplan on his exit from Activision Blizzard: 'It was the biggest f**k you moment I've had in my career'
March 11
- The latest Humble Bundle packs 9 CRPGs, including some of the best to ever do it, for a little over $20
- The Blood Bowl update, using the tabletop game's latest rules, will be a separate game called Warhammer Blood Bowl 'free for all players who already own Blood Bowl 3'
- Dispatch doesn't let you derail conversations with blank, vacant stares because 'less than 1%' of players ever chose to stay silent in Telltale games
- Valve says New York Attorney General's violent videogame fearmongering is 'a distraction and a mischaracterization we’ve all heard before'
- Diablo 4: Lord of Hatred's new crafting system will bring back season 11's sanctification and gives bad loot the potential to be legendary
- Valve comes out swinging against New York lawsuit with rare public statement: 'The type of deal that would satisfy the NYAG would have been bad for users and other game developers'
- Overhauling Minecraft's world generation was like 'trying to build a skyscraper with hand tools' which basically scared Mojang off of continuing massive yearly updates
- Valve says almost 6,000 games made over $100K on Steam last year
- Microsoft spills the beans on its Xbox-PC hybrid at GDC while suggesting it's still years away
- 'We are definitely not doing QTEs', said Dispatch's creative director before doing QTEs: 'We just needed it to not suck'
- Valve clarifies what's required for a game to be Steam Machine and Steam Frame verified, but it just makes me worry about the Gabecube even more
- One of my favourite 4K OLED monitors just got updated with Samsung's latest Tandem OLED panel tech
- Asus CFO Nick Wu thinks Apple's MacBook Neo is 'certainly a shock to the entire market'
- Meta bought Moltbook, an almost entirely AI-populated social media platform, for we don't know how much—and we're not completely sure why yet, either
- Cancelled LucasArts Star Wars shooter that 'would have just made Disney money' is playable online for the first time
- In an amazing live mash-up, composer Austin Wintory turned Ben Starr's Clair Obscur monologue into a Balatro gag
- Former Highguard dev who called out grave-dancing over the reveal trailer says the discourse 'had some very dark corners that may have accelerated the timeline of our failure,' but adds, 'it wasn't the primary cause'
- Pragmata's demo reaches 2 million downloads alongside its 2 million wishlists: 'I can't believe millions of people are excited for our game'
- More than 15 years after it was revealed to the world, the game once envisioned as Crytek's big move into the online military shooter scene is finally closing
- This year's Overwatch April Fool's event is a two week Underwatch mode which throws 'common sense off the nearest ledge'
- Dark Messiah modders given 'blank check' from Ubisoft to develop toolkit are now releasing a Community Edition of Arkane's classic
- Dispatch directors chose their animators because they'd made a 'really cool apple juice commercial'
- Intel announces Arrow Lake 'Plus' desktop chips with more cores and clocks for less cash—and IPC-boosting 'BOT' tool
- Memory prices could leap even higher as the supply of helium, crucial to making chips, is now impacted by the conflict in the Middle East
- Microsoft shows support for Anthropic's legal case against the US Department of Defense
- French pirates adrift as major torrent site nuked by hacker who accuses it of hoarding user credit cards and DDoSing rivals: '6.6 million users. Years of lies. An empire built on extortion'
- With the UK Amazon Spring Sale now on, here are the PC gaming deals I'd recommend
- Industry legend Shinji Mikami has a new(ish) studio with staff benefits like 'a chocolate fountain on Valentine's Day'
- Fortnite: Save the World, the game that spawned Epic's money-printing battle royale, is going free-to-play after nearly a decade
- Resident Evil Requiem mod makes Insanity mode even more brutal with zombie bites that actually infect you
- Garry Newman says companies have tried to buy Facepunch but the only reason to sell it would be for money 'and I feel like I've got enough money'
- Marathon's latest update fixes just about everything you had on your wishlist (no, seriously)
- Microsoft announces that Office has two critical security vulnerabilities, and here's where you can find patches to fix them
- Facepunch is 'talking to people' about a Rust movie: 'We definitely had interest'
- Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 studio drops legal action against L’Académie Clair-Obscur comic: 'Sorry for dragging our feet'
- If you're thinking about buying a Framework PC or laptop with 2 TB-plus of storage 'now is the time to do that' says company CEO
- Overwatch's mid-season update has given Mizuki a jawline buff before Anran's redesign (alongside actually important changes)
- Amazon owns up to needing more human oversight over AI code—unfortunately, it wants to do that with fewer people
- Hasbro CEO still has 'so much AI-based' grist in his own D&D games 'it would floor you', but he's not putting it in MTG cards or D&D books because people 'just don't want it'
- How to watch Minecraft Live 2026
- Nvidia will announce an x86 CPU in collaboration with Intel at its GTC event, according to one report, though Intel itself shoots down the whole idea
- Minecraft Live will return on March 21 and promises 'behind-the-scenes secrets, awesome guests, and more exciting stuff to come' over the next year
- Just like XCOM, superhero comedy Dispatch cheats random percentages of success in the player's favor: 'anything that had over a 76% success chance would automatically succeed'
- Garry Newman says his game creation platform s&box will 'probably' be priced similarly to Garry's Mod
- Crabmeat is a horror game about catching crabs—no, not like that
- Pokémon streamer's Kickstarter for a roguelite monster-collector hits its target in 10 minutes, then blows past $800K
March 10
- Brendan Greene says AI content is ruining the internet because it's 'a loop, LLMs are scanning this junk, and then that becomes truth… it's like a race to the middle of sh*t'
- Bungie is adding more shell skins to Marathon's battle pass after feedback
- Stardew Valley and Wordle sure do make for a cute combination in this daily guessing game on the farm sim's crops
- Former EA chief Peter Moore says his game industry style of PR irritated his bosses at Liverpool FC, and that's partly why he's not the CEO of Liverpool FC anymore
- Making Dispatch was motivated by 'a mix of arrogance and stupidity,' its creative directors say
- Mega Man 11 actor won't return for the next game in the series because Capcom refuses to work under a union contract
- Tim Cain says he got hired at Interplay because he knew THAC0 better than the other guy, and went out of his way to prove it
- Blizzard nerfed this WoW item, but players found an even better loophole that allowed them to travel across the planet every 2 minutes
- Sega says yeah you're all real nice about our games—but you sure ain't buying them
- Now you don't even need to pretend to read the terms of service, as US court rules that continued use can imply consent
- If you like high-refresh 1440p gaming monitors, how about the latest 540 Hz LG OLED with a 200 Hz IPS model thrown in for free?
- Anthropic introduces Claude Code Review, so you don't even need to check all of your own AI slop
- Crimson Desert's updated system requirements look very promising for any PC gamer, and for what must be a first-ever move, the devs have namechecked the ROG Xbox Ally handheld
- Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 studio says it's seeking a 'fair solution' in dispute with comic artist who named his book after the same 15th century painting technique
- Nightdive re-announces the Sin remaster it un-announced 3 years ago
- Garry Newman says he originally expected Garry's Mod to make 'about $30,000' as a 'best case scenario'
- As if PC hardware news couldn't get any gloomier, one research report suggests mainstream laptop prices could rise by as much as 40%
- RuneScape's monthly membership now costs as much as a World of Warcraft subscription as Jagex announces its second price hike in less than 2 years
- Resident Evil 2 Remake descends into kaizo chaos in Resurgence of the Dead Shadows
- This Redditor has built a stained glass-style panel for their gaming PC with a 'magnificent and luxurious animal' on it and it is indeed magnificent and luxurious
- Fortnite's V-Bucks are about to get more expensive because 'the cost of running Fortnite has gone up a lot'
- DLSS 4.5 Dynamic Multi Frame Generation is coming to Nvidia App beta users on March 31, bringing on-the-fly 6x frame gen switching to RTX 50-series owners
- Nvidia's RTX Mega Geometry system will be sprucing up the forests of The Witcher 4, making for some lush-looking ray traced trees to go Witcher-ing within
- Resident Evil Requiem is one of the few games to use GPU data decompression but it's a bit hit and miss as to whether your GPU will ever actually use it
- This year's Future Games Show Spring Showcase has a dense game-per-hour hit rate and airs everywhere: Here's how to catch it
- Until Dawn remake studio is officially dead, a year after laying off nearly its entire staff
- The Resident Evil 2 Remake's fanmade VR mode with a full-body sim rig is sick—but I doubt I'll ever have the cash to enjoy its immersive frights
- Anthropic is suing the US government for blacklisting it and it's calling in support from Google and OpenAI
- Resident Evil Requiem director confirms 'extra story content' is in the works: 'It will take some time so we ask for your patience'
- The Slice of Life Minecraft add-on has become my new obsession after I realised I just needed a break from the mines
- Deadlock's latest update brings some huge movement buffs like jumping mid slide and 30% increased air control—it's a lot cooler than it sounds
- How to make your very own semiconductor-class cleanroom in a wooden shed and build your own chips, well kinda
- DRAM maker SK hynix has validated its next-gen LPDDR6 which would be great news for handheld PCs, except that the targeted market is AI devices
- Fallout 3 Remastered toy listing pops up on pre-order website, and we sure are nearly at Oblivion Remastered's 1-year anniversary, aren't we?
- Phison CEO says 'both money and inventory are insufficient' as NAND prices continue to climb at an astronomical rate
- This shady Amazon listing for a 1.1 TB laptop actually uses the cloud for 1 TB and it's only included for a year
- Intel has released the SDK for XeSS 3 so hopefully it won't be long before Arc GPU owners get in on native multi frame gen action
- Arc Raiders is handing out loadout refunds for last week's server issues: 'This outage impacted a large number of players, so we are making an exception'
- As the Marathon player count discourse reaches peak stupidity, Warframe and Overwatch devs speak up in solidarity: 'This is big unemployed, maidenless behavior'
- For the first time in years, there are no blockchain gaming talks at GDC
March 9
- Valve facing second, class-action lawsuit over loot boxes
- 3 months after revealing his debut project at The Game Awards, Yakuza creator Toshihiro Nagoshi loses NetEase funding for his studio
- Bungie snuck a bunch of Halo guns into Marathon
- Blizzard wants Diablo 4's outrageous damage numbers to mean something again in Lord of Hatred, so it's letting you crank the difficulty up to near-impossible levels: 'It's going to be really f*cking hard'
- Steam game listing achieves knockoff singularity by aping Pokémon, Zelda, and even Overwatch designs with a shamelessness Palworld could only dream of
- Valve says Steam users downloaded 100 exabytes of games in 2025, and are averaging 274 petabytes of installs and updates every day
- One of my favorite Daedalic point-and-click adventures is free on Steam, and a pile of others have been marked way down
- Meta's latest legal wheeze is to insist that pirating books is fair use, actually
- If you miss the old NBA Jam games, this new Harlem Globetrotters game looks like a slam dunk
- Microsoft's CEO insists that Xbox, 'at its best, lifts the entire company' and that it will 'always' invest in gaming
- Samsung's new 1440p gaming monitor sports a ridiculous 600 Hz refresh rate but that's nothing compared to the 1040 Hz it can do in 1080p mode
- Battlefield 6 was 'the biggest launch in franchise history.' 6 months later, EA is laying off people who made it
- Mode claims its upcoming Encore keyboard refresh 'delivers our most satisfying typing experience to date' and has a neat new mounting system to boot
- Cyberpunk 2077 redemption complete: You can now literally crap yourself to death with an alarmingly well-thought-out mod
- Marvel Rivals is enacting 'Victim Compensation Protocol' for everyone who has been negatively affected by the incentivised throwing epidemic: 'The system will automatically restore lost points'
- Bungie has learned its lesson about vaulting content in Destiny 2 and won't be so cruel with Marathon: 'It doesn't matter when you join'
- This creator shoved a Framework inside of a 2006 MacBook: 'A reimagined classic, that's only a little bit janky'
- Modder helps Sony unwittingly beat Valve to the punch: 'I ported Linux to the PS5 and turned it into a Steam Machine'
- Oh no: You can attach claymores to Thief's drones in Marathon, and it's just as hellish as it sounds
- Master Chief voice actor demands White House remove his voice from 'disgusting and juvenile war porn' video
- Counter-Strike's 'X-ray scanner' for loot containers is coming to Germany later this month
- I've somehow created Cthulu's own cursed Wingdings with this vibe-coded tool that promises to create fonts from your own handwriting
- Banquet For Fools is a CRPG like no other and the most interesting thing I've played this year, and between it and Esoteric Ebb, roleplaying fans are eating great right now
- Slay the Spire 2 dev hates microtransactions, even though players would definitely pay for them: 'A lot of our players threaten to buy all and any cosmetics we may ever release'
- Players have rallied together to solve the first stage of Marathon's elaborate Cryo Archive ARG puzzle, and it's revealed some creepy footage of the next map
- A petri dish of human neurons has learned to play Doom: 'The cells play a lot like a beginner who's never seen a computer, and in fairness, they haven't'
- OpenAI hardware leader resigns over concerns about 'surveillance of Americans without judicial oversight and lethal autonomy without human authorization'
- A simple check with a magnet was the final clue that made Thermal Grizzly realise it had been hit by a 40,000 euro metal scam
- You can play Big Walk before launch, but only if you take a big walk to the publisher's office to play it in person
- Dragon Age creator says he 'had to take out half' of the quests in Dragon Age 2 once he found out they only had 16 months to make it: 'BioWare as a team did not know how to make a small game'
- My favourite virtual co-working game has received its first content update, and the new minigame will no doubt derail my productivity for a bit
- Discord fixes bug that caused app to take upwards of two whole minutes to launch
- Nintendo and Lenovo seeking refunds for tariffs, after Trump's use of an economic powers act was found unlawful
- This 3D printed, laptop-carrying 'suitcase' is not just a thing of beauty but it's also a neat solution to the dearth of eGPUs
March 8
- The best CRPG docuseries on YouTube just covered Ultima 8 with a 3-hour retrospective
- Hytale lead says they're pushing for modding in part because they 'hire from the community': 'We're building a scrappy, agile team full of people who actually make things'
- One coder's 'winter madness project' was making the Dreamcast-era cityscapes of Crazy Taxi explorable in our browsers
- Slay the Spire 2 dev says its Marathon joke turned out 'a bit meaner than expected' in hindsight: 'To be fair I didn't think we'd actually pass Marathon in concurrent users'
- This bizarre CRPG features claymation graphics, beat 'em up combat and the option to send defeated enemies to a prison colony, and it just left early access after a massive final update
- Human Fall Flat, which is bizarrely one of the best-selling games of all time, gets a Viking-themed map featuring Dave the Diver for some reason
- The sci-fi survival game from the creator of DayZ heads to space Skyrim in its latest DLC, accompanied by a free update that adds oil processing and chainsaws
- Before Doom, there was Dangerous Dave, and John Romero's 8-bit hero is getting a spiritual successor next week
March 7
- Valve quickly updates its own Steam Machine update, recommitting to a 2026 launch despite AI woes: 'Nothing's really changed on our end'
- Please send help: We can't stop opening packs in Wikigacha, a browser-based card game where you collect Wikipedia articles like 'List of Red Hot Chili Peppers band members' or 'Bariatric Surgery'
- Slay the Spire 2 dev compared it to unexciting 'chicken noodle soup' before its extraordinary launch, but it turns out people really, really like their soup
- You can play Cities: Skylines for free this weekend, ahead of the launch of its first expansion in 2 years
- I was pleasantly surprised by this BioShock-coded roguelike FPS, and its latest update adding a speargun has me yearning to dive back in
- Elder Scrolls wannabe Tainted Grail: The Fall of Avalon gets a 'huge' update overhauling its weaker third act with new locations, quests, enemies and more
- American McGee has come out of retirement to make an Alice spiritual successor based on his plushie empire
March 6
- It's a happy ending for the artist whose work was stolen by Bungie and used in Marathon: She's credited in the game as 'visual design consultant'
- Marathon secret hunters hit their first gold mine: Spooky terminals, a hidden website, and a Durandal audio log
- Valve nixes less confident Steam Machine language, recommits to 2026 release
- A decades-old Diablo 2 easter egg has suddenly become relevant again as players hunt for the best loot in Reign of the Warlock
- The horse gamers have spoken: This new horse sim has 'a beautiful sense of realism I haven't felt since RDR2'
- The makers of idle farming sensation Rusty's Retirement have announced a new game, and this one's taking over your whole screen
- Slay the Spire 2 dev celebrates its instant success by reminding players to support 'small indie passion projects' like Marathon too
- 'Ah s**t, here we go again': White House uses videogame clips to promote its war in Iran, including CJ's iconic line from Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas
- 'It's kind of like you're a butcher': Hundreds of Slay the Spire 2 card ideas were cut during development in an 'incredibly destructive process'
- The Pokémon Company criticises Trump administration's use of its imagery in political memes, says Pokémon is apolitical, Trump spokesman uses decade-old Clinton post to accuse them of bias
- 'We see everything': Report says Meta's AI smart glasses footage is reviewed by human contractors who see far more than they bargained for, which has led to a new lawsuit against the company
- Resident Evil 4 Remake's Berserker mod is the best way to ramp up the action for a replay
- Marvel Rivals has finally addressed 'incentivised throwing', the bounty system where people pay to ruin matches: 'We maintain a strict zero-tolerance policy against any form of malicious disruption'
- In what may be the worst new game reveal ever, Robocop: Rogue City was briefly replaced on Steam by an unannounced World of Darkness game
- An alleged crypto thief accused of stealing $46 million from the US Marshals has been arrested by the FBI
- iOS exploit kit Coruna may have begun life as a set of iPhone hacking tools used by the US government, according to security researchers
- 'The whole map was friendly, and we all extracted together': Peaceful lobbies exist in Marathon after all, though I don't feel safe putting it to the test
- The Legacy of Kain: Defiance remaster does the best thing possible—it gets out of the way
- I think I've found my gaming mouse heaven but it's on the other side of the world in Tokyo
- A rep for a major mouse company thinks half of gaming mice will be like the Superstrike in three years
- Cloudflare claims 'today’s threat landscape is more varied and chilling than ever' in latest report
- Gamers are buying fewer graphics cards according to a new research report, although Nvidia looks to be sitting pretty with roughly 94% of the market share to AMD's 5%
- Wake up honey, it's time for your yearly 'The KOTOR remake is still alive' announcement
- Nvidia's Jensen Huang: 'I think the opportunity to invest $100 billion in OpenAI is probably not in the cards'
- Marvel Rivals is bringing back Chrono Rush, among other fixes, in its latest patch: 'With no cap on how many points you can earn'
- Ah yikes, World of Warcraft: Midnight's otherwise solid housing system is soured by its premium currency, which makes you 'minimize leftovers' even though Blizzard said it wouldn't
- Lost Fallout: New Vegas post-ending dialogue has been found and restored
- From next week, Australia will require users to verify their age to play GTA Online and other R18+ online games
March 5
- Diablo 4 will let you transform into its most fearsome demon, the Butcher, in an experimental mini season before Lord of Hatred drops
- Pragmata is releasing a whole week earlier than planned because who cares, it's got April all to itself
- Epic Games is suing one of its former contract workers, alleging that he is notorious Fortnite leaker AdiraFN
- Slay the Spire 2 is the #1 seller on Steam, above Marathon and Resident Evil Requiem
- Marathon players accidentally smuggle rare loot out of Server Slam and into full game
- A War Thunder clip shared on social media as footage of the war in Iran racked up over 7 million views, and was even shared by the governor of Texas
- Blizzard is giving away access to paladins for free at the start of Diablo 4's next season
- The next Xbox is codenamed Project Helix, and it will 'play your Xbox and PC games'
- Captain Obvious time: The Fallout TV series has massively increased game sales, even for the '90s originals
- Let it Die is dying, but offering players a onetime purchase to keep it alive offline
- You can lessen Marathon's faction rep grind by doing more than just contracts
- Ruiner 2 promises to evolve the original top-down shooter 'into a deep, systems-driven action RPG'
- Big Tech makes White House pledge to stump up for the increased energy costs of AI and prevent household bills from escalating
- This upcoming gaming mouse weighs just over 28 grams without poking holes in it
- This vibe-coded operating system looks like a nightmarish version of our AI OS future, although some of the function keys change the wallpaper so that's fun
- Microsoft CEO says 'I look at all agents as users', and that means AI ones too, as each agentic bot 'will have its own identity'
- Helldivers 2's big beefy build is going away for good, because Arrowhead is 'confident that players are having a great experience' with the new skinny version
- 'Begun, the Mushroom Wars have': Bodies are piling up next to shelf fungi in Arc Raiders as players fight for the slim supply of mushrooms
- After two years and over 6,000 hours, Monitors Unboxed's long-term OLED gaming monitor test shows increasing burn-in
- 'I think the fact that everything is scarce is fantastic for us' says Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang '...in a world of constraint, you have no choice but to choose the best'
- Nvidia's next hardware launch for us gamers could be an RTX 5050 with a whopping 1 GB of extra VRAM
- After whiffing its release date by 5 years, Crimson Desert is putting out oodles of preview stuff as 'We never want to be accused of hiding anything, because we have a lot of ground to make up'
- One of the largest hacker forums in the world has been seized by the US DoJ
- 'The reason why we're so beloved in the videogame industry and we're so deep in it still is, in a lot of ways, we created the modern videogame industry' says Nvidia CEO Huang
- 'Without Intel, I don’t know if Windows would have happened… without Mac, I wonder whether Office would have happened' says Microsoft CEO
- Intel bigs up its latest 18A chip node as fit for external customers but probably not Nvidia, for now
- You can blame some of Deus Ex: Invisible War's console limitations on the publisher's 'weird theories that FPS games don't sell or RPGs don't sell'
- Castlevania: Belmont's Curse isn't a roguelike, says Konami, despite it being made by the 2 studios behind Dead Cells
- After Resident Evil Requiem, Leon Kennedy's actor wants to see Code Veronica remade: 'I think that would be one hell of a game'
- Hallelujah, Bungie's confirmed that Marathon's battle passes don't expire, you can purchase old ones, and you never pay for power
- Final Fantasy 11, a 23-year-old MMO, is getting so many new players it's having to stop character creation on its busiest server
- Third time's hopefully the charm as Nvidia releases hotfix driver to tackle voltage issues and Resident Evil Requiem performance in one fel swoop
- Out-of-bounds camera reveals Resident Evil Requiem's Grace is a Redditor
- Copyright trolling kept evidence of Japanese cult classic Cookie's Bustle offline, until now
- Highguard gets a new playable character, skill trees and more ahead of next week's closure
March 4
- Hunt: Showdown keeps experimenting with the extraction genre, and its next twist sounds irresistible: Soon, extraction points and loot won't appear on the map
- US government reportedly debating whether to force Tencent to give up its US-based game holdings
- More than 800 gamers took an exam to prove they could complete an '80s adventure game without peeking at a walkthrough—and only 2 passed
- Stop the clock: Resident Evil Requiem's first sexy Leon mod hit Nexus Mods just 4 days, 11 hours, and 23 minutes after launch
- MindsEye studio claims it now has 'overwhelming evidence of organized espionage and corporate sabotage' that somehow made its game bad, and also it's laying off more people
- Resident Evil Requiem's 5 million sales have made it one of Capcom's all-time top 20 bestsellers in just 4 days
- Counter-Strike: Global Offensive is back: 3 years after it was muscled out by Counter-Strike 2, CS:GO has its own Steam page again and has powered its way back onto Steam's most-played chart
- Deus Ex: Invisible War wasn't what it should have been because the studio moved to an engine that was really built for Thief: 'A super-boneheaded call, very bad decision… it really tanked development'
- A 9,999,999 gold painting in World of Warcraft: Midnight sent secret finders on a hunt for the ultimate discount and one thrifty player finally figured it out
- Ubisoft finally confirms the Assassin's Creed 4: Black Flag remake is real, and it's dropping the '4' for some reason
- The devs on Deus Ex: Invisible War knew its most-hated part was a 'terrible idea,' and they give the director 'sh*t about it all the time'
- Qualcomm's new Snapdragon X2 Arm CPU pops up in Geekbench and wallops the x86 laptop competition by over 30% in single-core performance
- Highguard director shares stats and thoughts on the game's failure, denies conspiracy theories about where it all went wrong: 'Nobody will know the true story of the studio or game'
- As Assassin's Creed Shadows support comes to an end, Ubisoft reiterates what's coming in the future, and yes, co-op factors into it somehow
- As hardware prices make heads spin, Apple of all companies has just announced a new MacBook laptop for only $599
- Meta's new FrameSync feature aims to make VR a little less nauseating
- Indie dev says 'best I can do is sentient tofu' after fans demand a male protagonist—they respond oh yeah, actually Mr Tofu works fine, thanks
- South Korean authorities seized $5.6 million worth of crypto then accidentally posted pictures of the super-secret recovery phrase, resulting in the loss of... $4.8 million worth of crypto
- AMD's CPU division is booming as CEO Dr. Lisa Su says sales 'far exceeded my expectations'
- Arc Raiders devs had to nerf the blueprint drop rate because players are too good at finding them: 'First Wave caches have been handing out a lot of blueprints'
- After planning 2 more paid acts, narrative scifi power-washer Ambrosia Sky is instead finishing its story in one free update to 'maximize' its focus on what players loved: 'People got in on that sapphic yearning right away'
- Kiss goodbye to Ghost of Yotei on PC: Sony is U-turning on its 'let's put our games on PC' strategy and bunkering back down with console exclusives, says Bloomberg
- Overwatch is getting a bunch of Nier: Automata skins and at this point I'm convinced support mains are the only ones spending money on this game
- Rumor that Microsoft plans to launch a 'modular' Windows 12 this year retracted by its source, refuted by others [Updated]
- I've tested Resident Evil Requiem with different GPUs and different drivers, but cannot replicate the massive performance loss some PC gamers are reporting
- Resistance to operating system age checks coming from *checks notes* open source calculator and an OS that may just exclude Californians altogether
- Industry insiders say Samsung has confirmed a DRAM price increase of 'over 100%' for its customers, so brace yourself for the next phase of the dreaded RAMpocalypse
- Minecraft has finally revealed the name of its baby mob update, and I honestly didn't think it could get any cuter but here we are
- Malwarebytes says a fake Google Account security page is distributing 'what may be one of the most fully featured browser-based surveillance toolkits we have observed in the wild'
- Leon Kennedy's actor has seen all your thirst traps: 'I found myself in life embodying an avatar that's just infinitely better looking than myself'
- D&D's clunkily-named 2024 ruleset, a revamp of 5e, finally throws up its hands and goes fine, we'll call it 5.5e on D&D Beyond, you win
- This dice-rolling roguelite is like Balatro on steroids, and its bosses are pure evil
- World of Warcraft: Midnight player proves that you only need a single button and a clever build to heal your dungeon party
- Capcom makes the majority of its sales on PC, and it expects the 'ratio to continue increasing'
March 3
- Resident Evil 1's remake and the OG Resident Evil 4 are still must-plays, and you can make them both look even better with HD remaster mods
- Iron Galaxy says the Fallout: New Vegas image it posted yesterday doesn't mean anything: 'We use that slide every month and has nothing to do with anything Fallout being worked on'
- AI-generated images still can't be copyrighted as US Supreme Court declines to hear case
- Send us your wildest gaming clips from GTA 5 and you could win a $100 Steam gift card
- Star Citizen studio suffered a data breach in January, and some players aren't happy with the very quiet disclosure that only happened this week
- World of Warcraft: Midnight players found an empty campsite that references 2019's planet-hopping puzzler Outer Wilds
- Highguard is closing next week: 'Despite the passion and hard work of our team, we have not been able to build a sustainable player base to support the game long term'
- The Sims announces a Creation Club-style Marketplace and Maker program enabling content creators to sell their work directly to players
- Evil Dead's Bruce Campbell reveals 'treatable but not curable' cancer diagnosis, but says 'I am a tough old son-of-a-bitch' and expects 'to be around for a while'
- Bungie unveils Marathon's first season, confirming that, yes, it'll wipe all your loot and progress every three months: 'Each season of Marathon brings a clean slate for the whole community'
- A Florida woman has been sentenced to 22 months in prison for conspiracy to traffic thousands of stolen Windows 10 and MS Office keys via their Certificate of Authenticity stickers
- 'Half the fans would want to hang me': Leon Kennedy's voice actor won't say whether he's Team Ada or Team Claire, but he does point to all that Ada has done for Leon
- Fallout 3 lead Emil Pagliarulo tried to stuff it to the gills with Deus Ex DNA: 'As much immersive sim as was humanly possible'
- In yet another twist in the US-China chip export fiasco, it seems like America may limit the number of H200 AI chips being sent to China
- Killing Floor studio Tripwire Interactive lays off 23 people because of 'business realities' and all the other usual stuff
- Apple somehow just doubled the amount of storage in the new MacBook Air M5 base model to 512 GB despite the memory crisis
- 'We shouldn't have rushed to get this out on Friday': OpenAI hastily amends the terms of its controversial deal with the US Department of War as CEO Sam Altman claims it's been a 'good learning experience'
- 'I did create a whole mood board': Playing Leon Kennedy in Resident Evil Requiem was 'uncharted territory' for Nick Apostolides because the stakes were so high
- The OG Baldur's Gates are freshly patched, and you can pick them up with 500+ hours of other CRPGs for $23 right now
- Leon Kennedy's voice actor doesn't believe AI can replace human performances, and paying 'for an actor's voice session is not that big of a deal' for games as big as Arc Raiders
- The cores in Nvidia's upcoming PC processor achieve 'performance parity' with Intel and AMD's latest chips, but will it actually be any good for games?
- Scientists warn against crappy age verification: 'if implemented without careful consideration… the new regulation might cause more harm than good'
- Nvidia's RTX 5070 leaps to top of the Steam Hardware Survey but something looks fishy in the figures
- Resident Evil Requiem's The Final Puzzle has finally been figured out, and it's just as complicated and long as you'd think: 'We don't get the doll if we don't AFK at the grinder'
- WoW's new allied race in Midnight, the Haranir, has a model clipping issue with dozens of gear items—a problem that's been on the PTR for months
- Players were responsible for over 55% of kills during Marathon's Server Slam, I guess to protect their precious 384,866 drinkable cheeseburgers and 145,822 bottles of alien milk
- Marathon UI designer declares himself the 'fontslop merchant' and promises Bungie will never 'remove the SAUCE from the UI'
- Fruit Ninja studio Halfbrick hit with layoffs: 'we are navigating a challenging period for the games industry'
March 2
- Fallout: New Vegas remaster hopium goes off like Mount Vesuvius as Iron Galaxy teases 'what's coming next' with a very famous loading screen
- Fallout co-creator Tim Cain says less is often more in game design: 'As a very wise designer once said to me, a game that includes everything is about nothing'
- Once again, Arma 3 gameplay is being passed around as real combat footage: 'It doesn't even look real!' one overexcited poster exclaims
- Bungie is considering a dedicated duos mode and time-to-kill changes after Marathon server slam feedback
- Nacon postpones its Nacon Connect showcase so it can concentrate on going insolvent
- 'A new franchise in the God of War universe' leaked in time-honoured fashion: Someone getting too excited about buffing up their LinkedIn
- Lenovo's luxurious Strix Halo laptop features an on-device drawing tablet, up to 128 GB of RAM, and an eye-watering price to match
- No, AMD isn't abandoning Ryzen Z1 chip series: Lenovo says it's working with AMD on handheld gaming PC updates until 2029
- Lenovo is going long with a foldable 12-inch handheld gaming PC concept
- RedOctane's 'next evolution in rhythm gaming' sure looks a lot like 2007's Rock Band
- A redditor who found their exact gaming monitor in Resident Evil Requiem finds Reddit image of their monitor inside a monitor inside a monitor in Resident Evil Requiem and now my head hurts
- Resident Evil Requiem has broken the internet as fans find out Leon Kennedy is married: 'You'll play Chris in the DLC and see an identical ring on his hand'
- It looks like more memory price hikes may soon be on the way, as Samsung and SK Hynix reportedly inform customers of yet another DRAM price increase
- This Linux tool was the last thing I needed to wave goodbye to Windows
- UK games collector raided by police after purchasing £10,000 worth of hardware, including old dev kits, disposed of by Sega
- Microsoft banned the word 'Microslop' in its Copilot Discord server, then began restricting access after users started posting 'Microsl0p' and other funnies
- Battlefield 6 explains how its Javelin anticheat system works—and it kind of boils down to 'just trust me bro'
- Heroic madlad is working multiplayer into Kingdom Come: Deliverance 2, and the brass ring of the whole thing is functional 2-player Farkle
- World of Warcraft: Midnight's 'stay a while and listen' monologues might've just heavily hinted at a future big bad
- Top analyst firm Gartner predicts the 'sub-$500 entry-level PC segment will disappear by 2028', along with worldwide PC shipment decline of 10.4% in 2026
- I completely missed a new item being introduced to Minecraft in my excitement over its new baby mobs, and you bet I'm going to hoard thousands of them
- Grace's actor in Resident Evil Requiem says that Capcom 'wanted to go back to the horror Resident Evil games'
March 1
- One of my favorite Next Fest demos turned out to be this speedrunner's delight modeled after 3D Sonic games, which just added ranked multiplayer races
- Only 50 floppy disks of this prototype Japanese visual novel were ever produced, and one just got destroyed in transit: 'Today, an important piece of history has been lost forever'
- 'Sorry I can't hear you over the roar of the Sunwell': World of Warcraft players beg Blizzard to turn the volume down on the giant crackling beam in the sky
- World of Warcraft: Midnight's lead composer feels 'very lucky and happy that we're not using generative AI'
- After 4 years, I'm pleased to report I've inadvertently discovered Squid Game mods for GTA 5 are actually really good now
- Space Marine 2 players are not happy with its new $5 voice lines DLC: 'Just scummy as hell'
- One of the most impressive Star Wars mods in history just got a huge update, and co-op is on the table for the future: 'It has been almost a year-long journey to get to this point'
- The creators of Postal just announced a new FPS where you play as a victim of the Postal Dude's original killing spree, which is certainly an angle
- Citing Halo, FEAR, and Half-Life 2 as inspirations, Sprawl: Zero waves goodbye to boomer shooters and heralds the arrival of the Millennial FPS
- Teardown's massive multiplayer update arrives next month, bringing a full co-op campaign, competitive modes, and a free-roaming sandbox
- It's taken 2 decades to appear, but this fan-made spiritual successor to Command & Conquer: Renegade has finally hit 1.0: '12 years of beta testing has led us to this'
- Looks like Boltgun 2 will be the Warhammer game to finally give the setting's horniest Chaos god its due
- PSA: You can adjust your mouse sensitivity in Resident Evil Requiem, but the setting's not in an obvious place