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- February 15
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- Seafaring survival sim The Last Caretaker gets a big update that adds a speedy jet ski and lets you customise your base-boat
- Unreal Tournament 2004 is now available for free thanks to its fan community, and they've even updated the game for modern PCs: 'This is the first public patch for Unreal Tournament 2004 in over 20 years'
- As the Legacy of Kain remasters continue, a new game emerges—a 2D action-platformer
- Divinity: Original Sin 2 easter eggs hinting Baldur's Gate 3 would be Larian's next game had to be toned down: 'Originally the reference to BG3 was very explicit'
- February 14
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- 'We lost things such as physics in games:' The dev behind my most anticipated RPG thinks players are craving more interactive games, not just 'moving around in a static 3D environment'
- 'They can never kill emulation': Players vexed as Nintendo continues its siege on Switch emulation, handing DMCAs to various emulators on GitHub
- That new Metal Gear Solid collection won't include Metal Gear Online, but it will have Peace Walker's essential online co-op
- The Overwatch dating sim and its associated rewards are back for a limited time, but it's still got far fewer romances than its China-exclusive counterpart
- Underrated hack 'n' slash Blades of Fire heads to Steam with a 2.0 update, bringing new game plus and 'expanded death and mutilation variations' for you sickos out there
- THQ's Gothic 1 remake arrives in June, and I think it might prove a more valuable overhaul than Oblivion Remastered
- Bloodlines 2's Valentine's patch adds further customisation options and lootable blood bags, because nothing says 'I love you' like the vampire equivalent of a ready meal
- Final Fantasy 14's Valentine's Day event is a Mario Party-lite encounter that reminded me it's actually quite fun to do some socializing in an MMO
- February 13
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- This horror sim is like running a food truck in Fallout: cook questionable meals for mutants, monsters, and the occasional alien
- Oh, good: Discord's age verification rollout has ties to Palantir co-founder and panopticon architect Peter Thiel
- Microsoft AI CEO curiously omits 'Microsoft AI CEO' from list of white collar jobs that will be replaceable by AI in next 18 months
- Three years after its last update, the original Kingdom Come: Deliverance gets a new patch that includes a new caparison for your horse
- Sandfall Interactive continues its Larian-like ways as Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 wins Game of the Year and four other trophies at the DICE Awards
- Tumbler Ridge mass murderer once created a mass shooting game in Roblox
- Brace for more Belmont: Konami says Castlevania: Belmont's Curse is just 'the beginning of numerous new products around Castlevania'
- Mewgenics co-creator Edmund McMillen says 'people need to get more creative with their hate' in response to disappointment over controversial cameo meows
- A fraction of the most popular PC games over the past year use hardware-level ray tracing, which is far fewer than I'd predict just 24 months ago
- Nvidia's game streaming app GeForce Now touches down on Amazon Fire TV devices—yes, even the little dongles
- You can pick up $1000+-worth of Fallout tabletop gubbins for $25 right now, with a portion going to the ACLU
- Den of Wolves studio 10 Chambers announces 'significant restructuring' and layoffs, 'including several of the studio’s co-founders'
- Hurry, you have less than 1 week to move to Norway and have a baby with someone: 'Lie together today, get GTA 6 free from us in 9 months'
- I can now say I've been killed by a nonogram thanks to this roguelike that turns Picross into a dungeon crawler
- The Outer Worlds deliberately doesn't do racial or gender discrimination in order to zero in on class, but 'that made the tone of the game feel off,' says director Tim Cain
- 'We're definitely excited to do something else': After Cult of the Lamb Woolhaven, the Massive Monster devs are excited at the prospect of something new—'We always like to follow the fun'
- 'It's weird in the industry right now': Cult of the Lamb's devs still have faith that the indie scene will continue dishing out 'smash hits'
- Chappell Roan is a RuneScape sicko who absolutely loves the 'medieval synth sh*t' of its soundtrack
- 'We never had plans to update Peak at all': Aggro Crab reveals that it doesn't want 'to be a studio that works on one game forever'
- All of Deadlock's new heroes are now released—but please, pity the poor schmuck that spent anywhere between 252-378 hours pouring votes into Celeste, who came second to last
- The latest Steam beta lets you give Valve your frame rate data, focusing on SteamOS devices to 'learn about game compatibility'
- Corsair has managed to 'successfully navigate a constrained global semiconductor market to secure supply' for memory, as its PC gaming hardware profits jump 60% in a year
- 'Arc Raiders is almost like a social experiment': Embark Studios' CEO reveals a neurology professor encouraged him to submit the game for scientific testing to study player behaviour
- Metal Gear Solid Master Collection Vol 1 got its final big update, if you want to bolt 61GB of 4K textures onto MGS3 and, thank God, finally switch the cancel and confirm buttons in MGS1
- All Genshin Impact 6.4 livestream codes
- Steam reviews set to show a player's specs so it's easier to know if you'll share their experience or they misread the minimum
- AMD's desktop CPU market share climbs almost 10% from last year, according to research, but it still trails behind Intel in every sector
- Haptic click sceptics take heed, the Logitech Superstrike has already got a Guinness World Record
- The first two Dino Crisis games are on Steam for the first time and half-price, but packaged with Enigma DRM
- Kena: Scars of Kosmora is a sprawling sequel to the 2021 adventure, and it's coming to PC day 1
- Marathon will run an open Server Slam that'll lead right into launch
- February 12
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- Silent Hill: Townfall ditches tradition and goes full first-person survival horror
- The original God Of War trilogy is being remade, and yes, it'll almost certainly come to PC
- It turns out Saber's John Wick game is coming to PC at the same time as PlayStation
- Castlevania is finally back, and it's in exactly the right hands
- Control: Resonant serves up our first good look at its weird new outdoors world at Sony's State of Play showcase
- Metal Gear Solid Master Collection 2 is confirmed, and yes, that means Metal Gear Solid 4 is finally coming to PC
- Rayman: 30th Anniversary Edition is out tomorrow, and features 5 versions of the 1995 classic, as well as a lost SNES prototype
- Krafton finally reveals The Bird That Drinks Tears, and he's a massive 7-foot-tall chicken warlord with dual swords who butchers his enemies without mercy or remorse
- Team Ninja is working on a new Dead or Alive fighting game after half a decade in hibernation
- Kojima makes Death Stranding 2 PC port official in new trailer, and it's coming pretty darn soon
- Laid-off Highguard developer cuts loose on the reaction to the infamous Game Awards reveal trailer: 'We were turned into a joke from minute one'
- One of the best-reviewed new games on Steam right now is about feeding raccoons and cryptids with the cosmic, Lynchian oven of your eerie woodland house
- 'There's no reason for Discord to comply in advance' with social media age verification laws instead of 'fighting for their users' says EFF expert
- Geoff Keighley shouldn't be blamed for Highguard's failure, Larian publishing boss says: 'There are genuine villains in this industry but I just don't see them here'
- We all knew the RTX 5090 ran hot but not like this: Chinese gamer records the moment their GPU catches alight
- MSI's $5,000+ Lightning Z RTX 5090 has seen real-world tests and hit a whopping 1076 W power draw in Cyberpunk 2077
- Arc Raiders had nearly 1 million concurrent players in January, and around 6 million 'weekly active users', claims Nexon—putting the extraction shooter on par with some of the biggest MMOs
- Samsung announces brighter, more durable, utterly confusing 'Penta Tandem' QD-OLED monitor tech, so now I have to explain every OLED panel type to have it all make sense
- After just 2 years on sale, 7 '90s-era Jurassic Park games are getting delisted this March
- 'Sick, bro, nice vape' is what I'd say to the people that turned a vape into a synth ocarina
- Microsoft lawyers had to consult with representatives of The Fonz to get a Weezer music video on the Windows 95 install CD
- '5,000,000 Henrys' and they're all quite hungry: KCD2 has sold gangbusters since its launch last year
- 'Please let us focus on making our game in peace' developer says to whoever is behind a slew of fake positive reviews that it swears definitely isn't them
- One of my favourite TTRPGs is releasing an expansion that goes from gothic horror heists to a psychedelic 60s sci-fi dystopia inspired by Deathloop, where the dead feed an oversaturated sky
- I finished Arc Raiders' new Shared Watch event in a single evening thanks to this one easy-to-craft item
- Overwatch players are being completely normal about Jetpack Cat and all her hideous combos: 'I hate this cat with a passion'
- This 8-bit Morrowind from someone with 'no experience with game making' will run on your actual Game Boy Color and is genuinely kind of great
- Following Discord's suit, OpenAI will also predict your age based on your usage to know if it should ID you at the digital door
- Best Buy creates the GPU pricing meme nobody asked for, so here's the sadly inevitable Nvidia RTX 5090 for $5090
- Fortnite adds more anti-cheat requirements, including Secure Boot and TPM, so it might be time to get tinkering in that BIOS
- Mewgenics has its very own Mr. Resetti that'll make 'a brain slushie' out of you and curse your cats if you save scum: 'No, seriously, I dish out IRL curses'
- Blizzard says it's open to even more Diablo 2 expansions and reworks unless people get really mad at it about this one: 'We're going to have to see what the players say'
- 'I do not have enough self-preservation. Send help': This streamer hacked her own balance to 'feel' racing games
- Cult of the Lamb may be a murder-happy fever dream, but the devs have principles: 'We wouldn't want to fleece players'
- All models of Steam Deck are sold out in the US and fingers are inevitably already pointing at the memory crisis
- Peter Molyneux's Masters of Albion looks like three games in one, but it also looks like none of them is any good
- MSI Afterburner and some PSUs can now pull an emergency power brake to prevent your graphics card going up in a puff of smoke
- 'We need to do lightweight, but fine, what else?' says Logitech chief engineer, and after getting tons of hours in with the Superstrike I agree the new tech is worth a heavier gaming mouse
- WotC says there are no plans for a Harry Potter Magic set, 'The Magic Multiverse has its own school of Magic at Strixhaven'
- 16 days after Highguard's launch, the studio has laid off 'most of the staff'
- Solasta 2 is committed to implementing a D&D 5E rule that Baldur's Gate 3 dismissed
- February 11
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- Diablo 2: Resurrected is now on Steam and is verified for Steam Deck
- Diablo 4's second new class is a summoner who commands demons to fight demons
- Diablo 2 gets its first expansion in 25 years, featuring a new class, and finally, decent inventory management
- On another timeline, we could have had a Metal Gear Solid first-person shooter made with Vince Zampella
- I played the new demo for the upcoming Starship Troopers boomer shooter and accidentally wiped out 6 of my own guys when I bounced a grenade off someone's head
- Valve isn't putting Gordon Freeman into any new games, so Deadlock modders have taken matters into their own hands
- The world's first 'standardized gaming test' will see if you can beat an '80s adventure game without a walkthrough—and it'll even monitor you over a webcam to make sure you don't cheat
- This Final Fantasy 14 player house looks shockingly close to my favorite Phasmophobia map despite being made entirely of regular FF14 props
- Knowing what's happening off camera in Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 brings some levity to those dramatic cutscenes
- Mewgenics DLC is coming, but Edmund McMillen says he and co-creator Tyler Glaiel want to take a few months to 'fully understand what people really like about the game' before they start on it
- Dwarf Fortress forensic specialists blame mysterious case of spontaneous human combustion on a historical artifact that suddenly remembered it's four times hotter than the surface of the sun
- Metal Gear Solid Delta: Snake Eater has taken the Metal Gear series to over 65 million games sold
- Fallout showrunner sees Season 2's best cameo 'as a big role,' hints they might be back in future episodes
- More details of an extra big Intel Nova Lake 'bLLC' CPU die with added cache and designed to take on AMD's X3D chips emerge
- Jason Momoa and Fast & Furious director Justin Lin are teaming up to make a Helldivers movie
- Fallout's co-creator again recalls nixing 'Terminator-style' robots in the original game, which has me rubbing my chin real hard at Fallout 4's entire plot: 'Mr Handy and Terminator robot do not belong in the same universe'
- Someone has already made a free in-browser 3D model to bypass Discord age verification that 'works on any potato computer'
- Marvel Rivals' latest balance update continues to fan the flames of a broken meta: 'Today's patch notes have made me lose all hope'
- 'I told you so!': As Mewgenics roars past 250,000 copies sold in less than a day, Edmund McMillen says 'I knew this game would eventually see the light of day, and I knew it would be my best work'
- Discord clarifies it 'is not requiring everyone to complete a face scan or upload an ID' and will 'confirm your age group using information we already have'
- Arc Raiders has yet another game-breaking bug, this time giving you infinite ammo and letting you repair any gun for free
- The three big players in computer memory are all building new factories but it probably won't help DRAM prices until 2028, if then
- The rumour that Intel's next-gen Nova Lake chips will consume up to 700 W of power is nothing to worry about—Core Ultra 400 gaming PCs aren't going to be melting your house down
- Yakuza Kiwami 3 is where 'The Kiwami line will come to an end,' which might be for the best given how badly it's been handled
- After 10 years No Man's Sky still hasn't run out of cool stuff to give you, so here's a gravity gun, too
- All hail the Bro MegaOrb: A custom-built, water-cooled Threadripper, RTX Pro 6000 monster that costs $60,000 or roughly the same as 16 GB of DDR5-5200 at today's prices
- Cult of the Lamb's devs reveal why they made the decision to not let Marchosias join your cult in Woolhaven: 'I'm really, really glad that we did that'
- After 21 years, Serious Sam 2 gets Steam achievements (and a new patch)
- Redditor scores $500 worth of DDR4 at local dump and now I'm wondering if every landfill is actually a goldmine
- Thanks to Microsoft adding all those extra features to Notepad, it now unfortunately sports one more: An exploitation vulnerability with a high security rating
- Overwatch just hit its all-time player count peak on Steam, clocking in over 165,000 players, more than two years after it first released on the platform
- The best thing about Fallout New Vegas was right there in Bethesda's initial pitch to Obsidian
- The creators of a popular Dark Souls 2 lighting mod are experimenting with path tracing and, oh boy, it no longer looks like an Xbox 360 game
- This Lost Ark skin turns your warrior into a stereotypical gamer, complete with Mountain Dew gut and a pair of slides
- Despite having nearly its entire back catalog on Steam, Suda51's studio doesn't benefit much from sales of its old games: 'It's really nice for the other people who are making bank off that, though'
- February 10
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- Subnautica 2 devs show off multiplayer while constantly reassuring solo players it's totally optional
- Fallout 76 devs were surprised the community turned out to be so friendly: 'It’s post-apocalyptic, it’s Fallout, they’re going to all want to kill one another ... it's the complete opposite'
- Genshin Impact fan wiki operator may be having second thoughts about datamining after Cognosphere unleashes the lawyers, says it 'will only update live game data in the future'
- Todd Howard says Bethesda really didn't expect people to hate the way Fallout 3 ended with a full stop: 'We thought this is Fallout, it’s great! People hated it!'
- Microsoft has revoked the DMCA takedown that forced an indie Minecraft-like off Steam
- Anthropic AI's safety lead quits with epic vaguepost claiming 'the world is in peril', and so he's off to become 'invisible' and study poetry
- 'We have made back our development budget after 3 hours': Mewgenics explodes to number one Steam seller 14 years after its announcement
- Hideo Kojima posts a cryptic message about 'editing' something and an awful lot of people are convinced it means Death Stranding 2 for PC will be announced later this week
- HP has a gaming laptop subscription service, where you pay monthly to borrow a rig but never get the option to own it
- If you love hundreds of games for $10 and hate ICE, then boy does Itch.io have just the bundle for you
- Fallout's Aaron Moten 'forbid' himself from playing the games, leaving Ella Purnell as the only show lead who's actually rolled a character in the Wasteland
- Of all the things I saw behind the curtain at Logitech HQ, it was this slab of fake wood that surprised me the most: 'It's kind of old school, it's analogue, which we like'
- G.Skill to pay out $2.4 million in class action settlement over 'deceptive' RAM specifications but denies all wrongdoing
- Cult of the Lamb Woolhaven presented a great opportunity to make the game harder, but the devs promise they weren't 'necessarily trying to stress players out'
- Hidden PCIe slots, a magnetic RAM fan, and a new AIO cooler connector: Asus tries everything under the sun to make its new AM5 Crosshair mobo stand out
- Age of Wonders 4's next expansion introduces nomadic, post-apocalyptic bunnies
- I was the Bernie Madoff of speculative baby trading until my prize infant gargled horse tranquiliser and died
- Medieval physics romp Besiege has spent a decade letting us conquer the land and sea, so naturally its next expansion is heading to the final frontier
- Arc Raiders dishes out a hotfix, 'squashing the item duplication bug', and warns that bans will be coming for guilty players
- The Fallout VATS system was inspired by Burnout's crash mode of all things or, as Todd Howard puts it, 'imagine the car parts are, like, eyeballs and guts!'
- Engineers builds Arduino-led game console from a fidget clicker and I want to fidget with it so badly
- Arrowhead wants Helldivers 2's assault on Cyberstan to really sell the promise of the Galactic War: 'We don't know how it will play out. We don't know if they will win'
- Here's playable mahjong in Morrowind, boss, just like you ordered
- Deadlock releases the 5th hero in its new 6-hero lineup—Celeste, a floaty carnival performer with an ultimate that gives me war flashbacks to Dota 2
- 'It took about 5 years' for people to start liking Fallout: New Vegas, says Josh Sawyer, and even longer for Obsidian to see that 'players actually liked the design choices we had made'
- Qualcomm's new Snapdragon X2 chip gets tested in games and unsurprisingly can't keep up with Intel's mighty Panther Lake APU
- AMD has a new marketing chief, Salesforce's former president and marketing boss, and he's all in on data centers and AI
- AI-assisted hacking group hits targets with a complicated 'social engineering' scam that involves deepfaked CEOs, spoofed Zoom calls and a malicious troubleshooting program
- It's going to take you over 500 hours to 100% complete Mewgenics, according to creator Edmund McMillen
- 'We knew we had a golden nugget in our hands... so we took all the shortcuts we could': Logitech's new wonder-mouse looks very similar to the Superlight 2 for good reason
- Cult of the Lamb's Woolhaven is inspired by the likes of The Witcher 3: Blood and Wine and Elden Ring: Shadow of the Erdtree: 'We wanted to make it a real chunky experience'
- Arc Raiders' PvE-friendly event starts today: 'This is an opportunity to team up in the fight against the machines'
- Arc Raiders' latest duplication glitch has players placing hundreds of ziplines and Trigger 'Nades, and safe to say it's scaring everyone—'I hope this gets addressed soon'
- I am once again tapping my 'Todd Howard genuinely loves Fallout' sign: He's an OG Fallout 1 fan and still hasn't given back the disc he nicked from his brother
- I think Minecraft's next update might literally just feature new baby mobs, and I'm not actually that mad about it
- Crypto scammer who reportedly stole at least $73 million through social media, calls, and dating services sentenced to a 'statutory maximum of 20 years in prison'
- If your Ryzen-powered PC has an AM5 ASRock motherboard and sometimes just won't boot, then rescue is at hand in the form of a new BIOS update
- Monster Hunter Wilds will get a 'large scale expansion' in the style of Iceborne and Sunbreak, as it winds down major content updates to the base game
- Ghost in the Shell director Mamoru Oshii has played 10,000 hours of Fallout 4 while refusing to do the main quest, build settlements, or travel with anyone but Dogmeat: 'I'd much rather be beaten to death by Deathclaws'
- Overwatch fans and voice actress call for a redesign of its newest hero: 'This concern is important, this is a hill worth dying on'
- Finally, a fantasy game filled with adorable gnomes that you can punch right in their adorable faces
- February 9
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- After its teen social media ban, Australia is swooping on Roblox following 'ongoing concerns about online child grooming'
- Valheim devs have been working on a first-person co-op dungeon-crawler 'in the evenings and on weekends,' and you can try it now on Steam
- Players discover once again that World of Warcraft is powered by invisible bunnies that make everything work
- One of the most underrated indie duos out there is making its 3rd game in as many years: An 'extreme stop motion horror' project that promises to be 'grossly fun but also stomach-churningly appalling'
- Suda51 says his new game isn't a No More Heroes sequel because series star Travis Touchdown needed a break: 'I could write Travis all day, but dude is exhausted'
- Remedy's new CEO is a former sports betting guy and EA executive who aims to 'scale Remedy in a way that builds lasting value'
- Riot lays off 2XKO developers less than three weeks after release: 'Overall momentum hasn't reached the level needed to support a team of this size'
- Discord is rolling out facial scanning and ID checks globally in March for users who don't want to be locked into a 'teen-appropriate experience'
- Hearthstone's 'year of change' begins with a twist on one of WoW's biggest expansions, and a bucket of free cards
- Steam now lets early access devs show a 1.0 release date, then says eh, maybe leave it blank: 'Just because this feature exists, does not mean you should or must use it'
- New Intel 900-series leak suggests there are three upcoming motherboard chipsets gamers should care about
- Fallout 76's design director is still defending its original absence of NPCs: 'At the beginning, we wanted it all to be player-driven'
- Fallout's original creators say that Fallout 3 and 4 aren't quite what they would've done, but 'sales say people love what they did'
- 'Probably the worst build of my entire life': This YouTuber spent two months building a gaming PC with titanium liquid cooling, galvanic corrosion be damned
- Disney Dreamlight Valley is dropping the Puppy Love update in a couple of days, and I haven't been this excited for new characters in a hot minute
- Duke Nukem 3D's upgraded and remastered World Tour Edition may not be perfect, but when it's this close to free, it's a no-brainer pick-up
- Ayaneo's new Strix Halo handheld PC will cost up to $4,299, but it's the cheaper AI Max 385 model that has grabbed my attention anyways
- 'Credible and reliable contacts' claim Nvidia is releasing an RTX 5090-beating GPU around September time this year
- Deadlock players are modding the weirdest characters into the game, including Linguini and Remy, Hatsune Miku, and LeBron James: 'Skin walker Linguini cannot be unseen'
- The Cyborgs are coming back to Helldivers 2—and they're bringing 3 new units armed to the teeth with advanced technology, and also robo-roundhouse kicks
- FTL-like Void War was DMCAed by Games Workshop due to 'oversized convex shoulder pads with a metallic rim'
- 'They have effectively ghosted us:' publisher of delisted art game Horses lambasts Epic Games Store after executive claims 'we love that studio'
- Fallout's origin can be traced back to a pizza party Tim Cain threw
- February 8
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- Fallout was a 'B-tier product' that lost both the licenses it was banking on and had its lead dev joking, 'In a week, we’re going to be asking whether people want fries with their meal,' but now he thinks those trials 'turned out to be positives'
- Just in time for Hollow Knight's 9th birthday, Team Cherry rolled out its first update in years, including better support for ultrawide monitors and the Steam Deck screen
- Overwatch creeps past Battlefield 6 and Call of Duty's concurrent players on Steam, hitting its biggest peak in years
- Thanks to one mad modder, we can now play Doom on an in-game terminal in Ultrakill
- Modders have already put mechs, music boxes, and an 'MMO-style dungeon' in Hytale, impressing Hypixel founder: 'Absolutely crazy talented'
- Stronghold Crusader: Definitive Edition gets a massive update introducing Steam Workshop support, 10 new maps, and a 10-mission cooperative campaign
- 'A classic fake reflection where it's just the same room under a glass floor': I no longer trust my senses after reading this gamedev thread breaking down cost-effective graphical sorcery
- You've had Skate Story, now get ready for Skate Style, a 'next-gen skateboarding game' that lets you customise your character's animations
- Terraria's biggest mod manager will require months before it's fully compatible with the 1.4.5 patch: 'Updating tModLoader to major Terraria releases is a huge undertaking'
- Timberborn gets a 1.0 release date and new 'lore trailer' showing some very thirsty beavers
- I thought I was finally free from stealth-focused Skyrim builds, then someone modded in the ability to hide in bushes
- Witcher 3 mod restores a darker ending for the Hearts of Stone expansion that was cut during development
- February 7
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- Train Sim World devs announce Thomas the Tank Engine game 'powered by Train Sim World' and the true train sickos are down: 'It will make 9 trainzillion dollars'
- Director Gore Verbinski said he 'loved' working on the BioShock movie and 'was going to dive deeply into the Oedipal aspect': 'Every year I hear something about the project, but I’m not sure any studio is quite willing to go where I was headed'
- Yoshi finally gives birth on-screen in new Super Mario Galaxy movie teaser
- Rust devs surveil cheaters like they're 'playing an RTS game': 'Every gun shot, every message, every dropped item, every kind of interaction is logged'
- XCOM 2 is 10 years old, and 2K is celebrating with a free weekend and a 95% discount on Firaxis' masterful sequel
- Rust player says goodbye to his server neighbours by constructing a giant, illuminated middle finger: 'Making one of these is often how I like to end a successful wipe'
- Get 7 incredible FPS games including Prey, Doom Eternal and Black Mesa for $20 in Humble's sci-fi shooter bundle
- Prince of Persia's creator reacts to Ubisoft's cancellation of The Sands of Time remake: 'Having a project killed is a brutal experience'
- February 6
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- Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 studio bestowed with France's Order of Arts and Letters: 'The Republic affirms: videogames are a major art form and an essential industry'
- Hideo Kojima pulls out of GDC at the last minute
- Build A Rocket Boy dumpster fire flares up in exciting new ways as its co-CEO reportedly claims the 'guys who've been sabotaging MindsEye' have been identified—and will be demonized via an in-game spy mission
- What if instead of Agent 47 you were just some doofus who 'accidentally' killed a guy in a hotel room? Dispose of the evidence in this physics-based stealth game
- A great puzzle game for people who like the idea of Blue Prince but don't want to spend days banging their head against it is free for the week on the Epic Store
- Valve veteran imperiously scorns reports that it's secretly finished Half-Life 3 and moving devs to other projects: 'They've been done for months! They just sit on the game! They're just relaxing!'
- If this new battery breakthrough goes mainstream, you may be allowed to use your external charger on flights again
- EU regulators say that TikTok has 'an addictive design' in a preliminary report, and that it might receive a hefty fine if it doesn't change its infinite-scrolling ways
- The Legend of Khiimori's new gameplay shows Death Stranding with a horse is an idea that has legs
- Both Intel and AMD have warned Chinese customers of delays on server CPU shipments, report says, as AI demand begins to eat into the processor market
- New ransomware spotted with a 'coding mistake' that means even the hackers can't decrypt the files
- Steam Proton will no longer forget the entire reason it exists if you have a humungous library, as of the most recent client beta
- Guild Wars 2 finally gets the long-awaited option to create fashion templates, so why is the community so angry?
- JLab has made a ridiculously large set of headphones that function as a gigantic Bluetooth speaker, which can be 'worn around the neck or placed on a table'
- Deadlock's next hero is Venator, a special agent of the Vatican who has 2 guns—also a grenade, a bear trap, and a crossbow that shoots holy stakes
- Doom: The Dark Ages, the superior sequel in the rebooted FPS series (sorry, not sorry, Eternal), is now 67% off thanks to id Software's 35th anniversary celebration
- Nvidia reportedly won't release any new RTX graphics cards this year, and the RTX 60-series is said to be pushed back, too
- All Honkai: Star Rail 4.0 livestream codes
- Larian lead has a little 'crash out on main' over Baldur's Gate 3 show announce, but big boss Swen Vincke says HBO is in touch about the writing, so now I don't know what to think
- I did the maths again and figured out what level all the main characters are at the end of Fallout season 2—Lucy has finally graduated from radroach to mole rat
- A Baldur's Gate HBO series is in the works, will be set directly after Baldur's Gate 3 with new and returning characters
- February 5
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- I hated Nioh 3's samurai style until I discovered one easy-to-find upgrade that helped me learn to love the art of the Ki Pulse
- If you're struggling with bosses in Nioh 3, you need to get these two skills ASAP
- Don't throw away your old, well-loved weapons in Nioh 3—trade them for in-shrine credit instead
- 'I'm going to be sick': Arc Raiders players react with an appropriate level of revulsion after discovering Embark committed the cardinal sin of placing a stop sign in a weird spot
- Highguard is adding a new hero who turns into wolf, and a new wolf mount that everyone else can ride around on (but no, they're not the same guy)
- The Rust Naval Update is here with base boat building and an optional plank meant to 'settle minor disagreements' with friends
- Sony's co-op Horizon game is real, it's coming to PC day one, and you can sign up for playtests that start this month
- Embark heard your feedback, so finishing Arc Raiders' second Expedition will be cheaper by the millions
- World of Warcraft producer says Chris Metzen sometimes wishes Blizzard hadn't called it Warcraft because 'it sounds intimidating,' and some fans are not taking it well
- 'We’re not planning on making absolute statements in either direction,' GOG boss says about generative AI, leading supporters to make some absolute statements in one very specific direction: 'Absolutely terrible response'
- Automatons speak! Helldivers 2 nemesis hacks Super Earth channels in desperate plea to save Cyberstan: 'WE HAVE NEVER EXPERIENCED FREEDOM'
- After 3 years of negotiations with Microsoft, Blizzard QA workers win a new contract guaranteeing 'better working environment with increased pay, benefits, and layoff protections'
- It's been 7 years since the last Fallout game, so one gamer took matters into their own hands and made an entire Vault in the Sims
- Keychron's made a concrete keeb: 'Each keystroke carries industrial rhythm... elevating the experience with marble-like smoothness and auditory-visual harmony'
- That dude from The Big Short says crypto experienced a 'collateral death spiral' as bitcoin hits a 16-month low, while other analysts predict worse to come
- Oh great, now copper prices are 'surging' and threatening to make PC hardware even more expensive
- The PC Gaming Show returns to heat up your summer once again
- Nioh 3 director says Lies of P was a major source of inspiration while crafting the samurai soulslike's yokai bosses: 'It was great stimulation'
- 'We've never considered adding difficulty settings to the Nioh series', says Nioh 3 game director, who gives players different ways to tackle challenges instead
- Take-Two CEO says you can trust that GTA 6 release date because they've spent, like, so much money on marketing in the run-up to it, and they're 'Not selling hamburgers' here
- Logitech G's chief engineer says there's 'no doubt' the cutting-edge tech behind the Superstrike could be used in cheaper mice
- After 3,000 hours and two years another OLED gaming monitor burn-in assessment finds only minor panel damage
- Now I've got my hands on the Logitech G Pro X2 Superstrike, I believe its inductive tech will be as much of a game-changer for mice as Hall effect is for keyboards
- YouTube raked in over $60 billion in revenue last year, says Alphabet, between its seemingly-endless parade of adverts and its Premium subscription service
- A Redditor claims to have lucked out on a half-price Walmart RTX 5080 and that's pretty much the only way you're gonna get a cheap GPU these days
- Deadlock's newest hero, Silver, gets a soft rework just as I was getting used to her
- Arc Raiders is cracking down on cheaters by targeting Steam Family Sharing: 'Restrictions or bans will apply across the entire family group tied to that license'
- The total conversion mod remaking the lost Fallout 3 in Fallout: New Vegas got its first trailer and a new name
- Just under two weeks from its release date, devil's bargain deckbuilder The Killing Stone announces it will be launching into early access instead
- Steam Machine will play the majority of Steam titles 'at 4K 60 fps with FSR', but some will require more upscaling than others, Valve says
- 'Memory and storage shortages' means Valve can't give us pricing or release dates for the Steam Machine and Steam Frame
- February 4
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- One-third of consumers don't want AI on their devices, report finds, and it's not because they don't understand it: They just don't need it
- Turkish government proposes legislation that would throttle Steam and other gaming platforms into unusability if they don't comply with demands for company data and content removal
- Warhorse reveals Kingdom Come: Deliverance 2 players have killed 5.4 million enemies while drunk, and I'm just surprised that number isn't higher because Drinking is the best skill
- 7 years after it was pulled from Steam, Poker Night at the Inventory is coming back in March, and yes, so are the free Team Fortress 2 unlockables
- Mike Morhaime's Dreamhaven continues to look for a hit, this time with a 'run-based' spin-off of Sunderfolk without the phone controls
- Some Fallout fans are convinced the Season 2 finale showed the Courier, but there's one little detail that I think disproves it
- Skyrim lead says the $100 videogame may not be the best idea: 'I personally think game developers would be wise to not push the prices higher, but gamers are a special breed... they will pay for what they want'
- MindsEye was one of the most catastrophic game launches of 2025 but the studio refuses to quit: Its 'most significant post-launch update' is now live and an expansion is coming later this year
- Overwatch 2 drops the 2 and goes back to being Overwatch as Blizzard launches its biggest update ever next week: 'We want to gain players' confidence, we want them to have trust in the game'
- Overwatch's biggest season ever kicks off with 5 new heroes all at once, including a cat with a jetpack who can toss you off the map
- New AMD docs show its next-gen Zen 6 CPUs will adopt Intel's 'FRED' interrupt handling and could point to a major architectural overhaul
- 'I'm a total amateur' says Stardew Valley creator and developer of one of the most iconic farming sims of the 21st century
- AMD has added the potential effects of the RAMpocalypse into its risk statements: 'There is currently an industry-wide memory shortage as the demand for such components has outpaced supply'
- Management sim Manifesto is the first game ever without politics: Grind workers into dust under your bootheel in a carefree romp that is 'definitely not about the video game industry… stop reading into things that aren't there'
- The Fallout TV series' showrunner and Todd Howard disagree with fans that season 2 messes with Fallout: New Vegas' canon: 'Sometimes you're gonna get conflicting accounts'
- 'I feel like no one will ever find it': Stardew Valley creator says there's one big secret still lurking in the game, and no, you can't datamine it
- Epic says I can change baby, I promise, as it returns for its now-annual tradition of admitting its launcher 'sucks'
- WD's new HDD tech promises 'flash-like' performance and just maybe a way out of the dreaded memory supply crisis
- 'Bethesda's in the bad position of having expectations being so high they cannot be met': Skyrim design lead reckons it might be hard for The Elder Scrolls 6 to live up to the ever-increasing fervor
- Ryzen still rising: AMD's processor revenue climbs 34% from last year, thanks to 'multiple generations' of Zen-powered chips
- Intel CEO commits to building new GPUs and has hired the engineer who designed some of AMD's greatest graphics card hits to design them
- 'I'm not going to release anything I'm not happy with': Eric Barone says Haunted Chocolatier will be out when it's good and ready, 'even if that takes years and years'
- Pack it up, Game Freak: Modder turns RDR2 into the best Pokémon game since Ruby, complete with catching wild beasts and trainer battles
- If you've ever wanted AI-generated Kratos to advertise games to you (for some reason), I've got great news about Sony's latest baffling patent: 'LLM-based generative podcasts for gamers'
- AMD says Valve is 'on track' to begin shipping the Steam machine 'early this year'
- Battlefield 6's Javelin anti-cheat stopped over 580,000 cheating attempts over the course of just one month
- AMD CEO suggests next-gen Xbox will launch in 2027—the premium console's chip is 'progressing well'
- Good news, Stardew Valley enthusiasts: the 1.7 update will make children 'a little more interesting' and add two new marriage candidates
- Anime action RPG studio Pahdo Labs shuts down despite accruing $17.5M in funding: 'We believed making a demo of a familiar but new game would be our best shot'
- Sorry, but that countdown on Amazon's Fallout site didn't lead to a Fallout 3 or New Vegas remaster announcement… or any announcement at all
- The Fallout Season 2 finale teased a new location for Fallout Season 3—and it's somewhere the games have never taken us
- Why does isometric perspective suit Disco Elysium? 'You can design the entire game as if it was a painting'
- February 3
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- Epic Games Store to test forums for 'top games,' walking back previous plans, and a technical overhaul is coming: 'We're ripping out the guts'
- 'We're actively embracing generative AI,' Take-Two boss says, after previously expressing skepticism: 'We have hundreds of pilots and implementations across our company'
- Avowed and The Outer Worlds 2 failed to meet expectations for Obsidian, but Grounded 2 was a hit, and the future is looking positive for the Pillars of Eternity universe
- As a Sims 4 Build Mode freak, today's free update is way more important than the new expansion
- Grand Theft Auto 6 'launch marketing' will begin this summer as the November release date remains on track
- Eric Barone says he'd 'love to' make Stardew Valley 2 someday: 'A whole new set of characters, a whole new world, maybe capture some of that original energy that I had back in 2012'
- Skyrim lead designer says the next Elder Scrolls should look at how Baldur’s Gate 3 made things ‘meaningful,’ because ‘the gaming community has spoken’
- Helldivers 2 has a tank now
- MindsEye studio boss threatens legal action against YouTuber as co-CEO Leslie Benzies denies Epstein allegations: 'I have never met Jeffrey Epstein, nor have I ever visited his island'
- Civilization 7 players can once again play as a single civilization in a massive overhaul update that's 'tentatively' coming in spring: 'Together, these updates are similar in scope to an expansion'
- The Epic Games Store had a record-breaking 2025, with gamers throwing $1.16 billion at the 6,000-plus games it now offers
- Bethesda veteran says less RPG complexity in the Elder Scrolls series is good, actually: 'We got rid of attributes in Skyrim and you know who complained? Almost nobody'
- Intel's Arc B770 gaming graphics card claimed to be dead and the reason is inevitably AI
- The Notepad++ website was hijacked by 'malicious actors' last year and security researchers are picking through the wreckage
- People with AI partners are looking for a 'new home' as OpenAI announces date to switch off 'overly supportive' older models
- Highguard's 5v5 raid is 'here to stay' after developer noticed half the playerbase jumped over to its experimental mode at the weekend
- Player housing tools are so good, WoW's design director hopes the game will have quests where you build things in the future: 'We really want to use them'
- Deadlock's newest hero has the luxury of two kits, multiple knockback attacks, and the ability to turn into a werewolf every 30 seconds
- Skyrim lead designer's biggest lore regret is *checks notes* one of the coolest things the series has ever done
- Blizzard could add more homes per account to World of Warcraft's player housing in the future, but 'we have to be conservative at the start with these things'
- 'We’ve heard from many who want nothing to do with AI' says Mozilla, as it introduces an AI blocking menu to upcoming Firefox builds
- It's reportedly game over for 8K before it even got going as display industry support 'dwindles'
- Logitech's new $80 gaming headset has an undercover mic so you don't feel like a donut wearing it out the house
- It looks like XeSS 3 and multi-frame generation can be enabled on older Intel GPUs with the most minor of tweaks, so it's not just Panther Lake that gets in on the fun
- OpenAI reportedly isn't happy with Nvidia's GPUs while Nvidia's $100 billion investment plan in OpenAI is said to have 'stalled': Is the AI honeymoon over?
- 'We had 16 megahertz CPUs, 640k of RAM, floppy disks': John Carmack reflects on the hardware that made Wolfenstein 3D
- Events are back in Arc Raiders as Embark fixes an issue that erased them from existence while also upping Bird City's frequency, 'so that all time zones get a chance to play'
- Rocket wizard Scott Manley has used a ZX Spectrum to land a Kerbal on the Mun and I am phenomenally impressed
- After a disastrous year, Tekken 8 says it's going 'back to basics' for Season 3
- To celebrate 5 years in early access, Valheim gets a new hat, better Steam Deck performance, and—wait for it—frosted sweetbread
- Controversial PS2 survival horror Rule of Rose absolutely deserves a remake or re-release, but Bloober Team isn't doing it
- If you want to get caught up with Larian's pre-Baldur's Gate work, $157 worth of Divinity games are on sale on Steam for $23
- 'Do they really need marketing for Elder Scrolls 6?' Skyrim lead designer says Bethesda probably won't make a TV show for The Elder Scrolls because it's already making 'literally billions of dollars'
- Adobe changes the status of Adobe Animate to 'maintenance mode' after previously announcing its discontinuation (updated)
- February 2
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- Will Take-Two announce another Grand Theft Auto 6 delay tomorrow?
- A pioneering PC survival horror trilogy is going free-to-keep on GOG, so maybe you can look past the early '90s jank
- Bethesda keeps the Fallout remaster hopium flowing by showing Aaron Moten inside Fallout 3 and New Vegas
- Skyrim lead praises Todd Howard for trying 'desperately' not to micromanage and be a ‘bottleneck’, even though he still 'does what he calls seagulling where he swoops in and changes things'
- Larian publishing chief wades into the fray, says Morrowind updated with a modern combat system 'would sell like f**king hotcakes'
- Cairn developers 'couldn't be happier' as they celebrate 200,000 copies sold: 'We hope you feel the passion we baked into the mountain'
- 'Everybody who worked at Nvidia in the early days really wanted to make a game console' says senior VP of engineering Andrew Bell: 'Selfishly, a little bit, we built Shield for ourselves'
- The world's largest manga piracy site has been shut down with its operator under criminal investigation
- Skyrim's lead designer thinks Bethesda should stick to its in-house engine: 'The benefits that you get from switching to Unreal Engine are probably not going to materialise until two titles down the road'
- CachyOS isn't joining new Linux gaming distro collab, says it doesn't think a 'collective with strings attached' is necessary
- 'What a disappointment': Arc Raiders players aren't happy with the latest Trophy Display project, namely because there's no trophy at the end of it
- Puget Systems crowns the Intel Core Ultra 7 265K as the most reliable processor in its consumer PCs, with Nvidia Founders Edition cards leading the charge for GPUs
- Moltbook is like Reddit but only AI agents are allowed—though after spending hours trawling through threads, it looks more like a huge, unhinged roleplay server to me
- This Frankenstein-ed RTX 5070 Ti with a hole in it has just set a world record benchmark score and it's the most cursed-looking graphics card I've ever seen
- 'TSMC needs to work very hard this year because I need a lot of wafers' says Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang outside a 'trillion-dollar dinner' for top tech manufacturers in Taiwan
- id Software's second FPS only brought in $5,000, and the studio might not have made Wolfenstein and Doom if the game hadn't made a dev fall out of his chair: 'That was just one of the craziest things in a videogame I'd ever seen'
- February 1
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- 2 days after promising it was still 'worthy of your investment,' the most successful Kickstarter MMO ever was canceled and its team laid off: 'The developers and staff acted in good faith and deserved better'
- 'We need to get the funniest person we can possibly find': Helldivers 2's lead writer had seven days to cast John Helldiver, the face of the game's beloved intro cinematic
- 'What the f**k': Iron Lung creator puzzled as Markiplier's film adaptation quadruples its budget in one day, beating out Melania and Send Help at the box office
- 21 years after release, Guild Wars 1 just got an 'Ironman' mode inspired by a venerable community-driven challenge
- The whole Fallout series is at a steep discount on Steam, so if you've been waiting 29 years to begin your journey in the wasteland, your time is now
- 'Anyone mad is a cheater:' Players are divided as Rust beefs up anti-cheat with more effective—and invasive—upgrades
- Get the complete editions of Civilization 4, 5 and 6 plus a bunch more games for $15 in Humble Bundle's The Sid Meier Collection
- Thirty years after launch, this classic space combat sim just got updated to work on modern systems and released for free
- Over a decade since launch, this cooperative dungeon crawler is getting a double-barrelled update that overhauls its magic system, dungeon generation, and much more
- Cities: Skylines 2's new developer breaks cover on its plans for the sequel's future, revealing a patch that will include changes players 'have been requesting for a long time'
- I didn't even know I was bothered by how bad Skyrim's NPCs look during the split second they're opening doors, and now a modder's pointed it out the mod to fix it has become essential
- Larian made a chill beats Baldur's Gate 3 animation full of references to popular mods and memes
