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- July 31
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- Ubisoft's NFT tactics game, a thing that still exists, is shutting down in October
- After a year and a half of rigorous testing, Path of Exile 2 devs finally convinced Nvidia to fix a driver bug by sending it an entire PC
- Get more than 100 games for just $10 in a new bundle supporting laid-off game devs
- Anthropic sees OpenAI cybersecurity disaster and says 'hold my beer,' reveals it accidentally hacked 3 companies in as many months without noticing
- Sony exec says killing discs won't make the PlayStation 6 too much like a PC: 'Going forward, we can coexist peacefully with PC games'
- Former WoW designer says Blizzard had no way to measure maximum player DPS while building early raids—so the studio enlisted its strongest sickos to grind target dummies
- Silent Hill producer believes shaking up the series was necessary to win over players because 'at best, only about half of the original users will return with a remake'
- It seems like AMD's Zen 6 LP CPU cores will be a mixture of architectures going all the way back to Zen 2
- Facepunch director Alistair McFarlane, who once offered to buy New World from Amazon and faked us out about Rust 2, has left the company
- Nexus Mods finally tightens the screws on AI, though it's still playing softball with the tide of slop
- First AMD RX 9050 8 GB review suggests RTX 3060-like performance but with some strange spec discrepancies
- Filming has wrapped on Garland's Elden Ring movie just 6 months after it started, according to a now deleted instagram post
- Google Earth let me turn my hometown into a warzone with AI prompts, and the disinformation possibilities are disturbing
- Report shows 34% of physical PS5 games and 50% of Xbox Series X games do not work fully without a download first
- All Genshin Impact 7.0 livestream codes
- Remakes are the backbone to Capcom's success as they provide 'financial resources' for new Resident Evil games or standalone ideas like Pragmata
- Star Wars will also be coming to D&D, and I'm worried Hasbro's trying to turn a TTRPG into Magic: The Gathering again
- AMD is reportedly raising graphics card prices—it was just waiting for Nvidia to do it first
- The voice of Lady D and Orin the Red will be back for the next D&D videogame
- Dark Sun, D&D's most heavy metal setting, will be back in 2027
- The mod we called 'the best Fallout game you'll play this year' back in 2018 just launched on GOG
- The rumors were true, Dungeons & Dragons' first 'Universes Beyond' crossover will be with World of Warcraft
- July 30
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- Saudi Arabia's $55 billion takeover of Electronic Arts will happen next week
- Xbox revenues dipped $1.7 billion last year, but Asha Sharma predicts a 'return to growth' by mid-2027
- There's a timeline where Dark Souls was a PlayStation exclusive, but Sony lost out on the chance because it wouldn't publish Demon's Souls in North America
- Godot natively supports coding in Sumero-Akkadian Cuneiform, if you needed another reason to switch game engines
- Valve finally gives Deadlock a proper ranked mode, warns that matches will be 'very rocky' to start
- Blizzard is keeping secrets about Diablo 4's next season until BlizzCon, but you can still try some of it out next week
- This upcoming Steam game is pioneering the accursed trucking genre, and as a former delivery guy I could not be more thrilled
- 'A new version of Amnesia: The Dark Descent' may be coming later this year
- Gears of War: E-Day devs are embracing 'old-school' multiplayer in 2026: 'No battle pass, no tour of duty, no gimmicks, no bullsh*t'
- 'We are not looking to just maintain' Elder Scrolls Online, new ZeniMax boss says, but a bunch of updates have been delayed into 2027 and possibly beyond
- Dbrand unveils Steam Machine customization 'backup plan' after its Companion Cube got confined to the test chamber
- Thimbleweed Park 2 is 'not really a sequel, not really a prequel,' but it is finally happening
- Meta continues to insist AI spend is totally justified, potentially blowing over $8 billion on data centers
- Guillermo del Toro is asking for a slightly more forgiving Dead Cells, checkpoints and all, 'for the elderly players'
- Meta is still flinging the equivalent of a small country's annual GDP down the Reality Labs money pit each and every quarter
- Old School RuneScape players are getting their boats stuck Suez Canal-style thanks to a narrow river in its new island: 'Helmp mee'
- The memory crisis keeps getting worse: Nvidia graphics card prices now rumoured to increase by as much as 30%
- The Helldivers 2 x Warhammer 40k Warbond arrives on August 12, bringing three of its most iconic weapons and two Imperial Guard armour sets
- Roblox and ChatGPT will reportedly have to suck less thanks to the EU's Digital Services Act
- Gleefully counting its billions, Samsung cries warning of a 'severe' memory supply crisis next year
- Arc Raiders rats are cheating the matchmaking system by throwing themselves in front of friendly fire
- Final Fantasy 7 remake director says he hopes Revelation will get 'some kind of physical edition' despite the industry and Sony's 'shift away' from discs
- PSA: Don't execute PowerShell commands proffered by Steam forum randos, because it could infect your rig with a cryptominer
- BeamNG.drive just had a graphics overhaul so we can finally watch a family hatchback navigate a speedbump at 100mph with dynamic ambient lighting
- Proving Doom can actually run on anything, one programmer has made a working build for Commodore 64
- July 29
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- An innocent man spent 18 months in prison because police misread his Skyrim user name
- Hololive vtuber says new rhythm game on Steam is surprisingly true to their personas for a reason: 'We had tons of involvement with the script and dialogue'
- Latest Palworld patch keeps Victor & Shadowbeak from accidentally teleporting out of existence, prevents Panthalus from breaking everything
- Steam Machine reservation queue should be caught up by the end of 2026, Valve says
- Mod activates split-screen support in Halo: Campaign Evolved PC that's just sitting there, unused
- After laying off Battlefield 6 developers, EA pays its CEO $38 million because Battlefield 6 did so well
- WoW Classic's latest patch is terrorizing hardcore players with bugged piles of underground enemies, and it's likely due to a decades-old quirk of Blizzard programming
- Silent Hill: Townfall takes place in 'the perfect storm'—a remote Scottish town that stands on the edge of the age of the internet
- The next game on GOG's preservation list would be your favourite ARPG if it hadn't released the same year as Diablo 2, and it's on sale now
- The Last of Us multiplayer mod has hit a 'big milestone' as it prepares for launch in September
- One Redditor spent four months building a 'Turkish kebab PC' with working spinning components
- RAM prices be damned, SK hynix's record-breaking $55.6 billion quarter still failed to meet investors' wild AI expectations
- The latest ugly-cool immersive sim is scratching my itch for new Deus Ex
- Keychron's gaming mouse firmware is going open-source, while the company critiques 'firmware you can't read, can't audit, can't change'
- FF14's new zone has a creepy backrooms void tucked just underneath it, filled with horrible milky ruins and what I deem to be far too many arms
- Marvel Tōkon devs vow to fix performance issues for launch day next week: 'To our PC players, message received'
- Soulslike game Wuchang is officially getting a sequel developed by its creator's new studio after the original team reportedly disbanded
- Final Fantasy 7 Revelation boss has been thinking about ways to make a mysterious boss suitable for the upcoming crossover raid with Final Fantasy 14
- Yoshi-P is looking into ways to make FF14's 5 expansions and hundreds of hours less daunting for new players
- Subnautica 2 is responsible for Krafton's 'record second quarter performance' despite the messy legal battle and accusations of sabotage
- Silent Hill: Townfall's director finds it 'utterly terrifying to be the next one in the series' but is still confident fans will enjoy the experience
- Linux kernel patch can boost the Steam Deck's 1% low frame rate by as much as 31% in early testing
- Blizzard's former Battle.net lead is moving his expertise over to the Epic Games Store to 'elevate player, creator, and developer experiences'
- AMD launches the RX 9050, and it's even more entry-level than expected - update: it's $279 and limited to certain regions
- Clair Obscur developers see Sony's no-disk announcement as 'a sad decision', because they 'like to go outside, buy a game, and come back home with it'
- Microsoft reportedly using TPM chips to weed out Windows piracy
- Henry Cavill's Warhammer 40,000 project at Amazon announces involvement of popular horror director, reminding everyone it still exists
- GTA Online in-game gambling is now blocked in Australia
- July 28
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- Speaking of Matt Damon, there's a new survival game out this week on Steam where you're stranded on Mars and have to grow potatoes to survive
- AI companies are anonymously buying and destroying millions of books through middleman services to avoid headlines about AI companies buying and destroying millions of books
- As Destiny 2 is laid to rest, Warframe is experiencing 'massive growth,' studio boss says
- 'Only the survival of our studio would make us consider such a painful action': Tim Schafer announces Double Fine layoffs just 3 weeks after Xbox cut it loose
- That GOG gloss-up of Thief is an excellent way to play the game until we get the Nightdive remaster
- Wizards of the Coast president is stepping down after just 2 years on the job
- Pragmata defies my expectations by selling 2.5 million copies in just 3 months as Capcom celebrates a very successful start to 2026
- You can now play Morrowind entirely in your browser: 'Honestly just wanted to see if it could be done'
- OpenAI CEO thinks the AI singularity is already upon us and that cracking down on it wouldn't be good for humanity, because of course he does
- Taiwanese authorities detain Nvidia employee for alleged attempt to smuggle AI chips into China
- Yoshi-P says he 'upgraded' his mindset when it comes to relaxing his views on keeping Final Fantasy 14's catgirls lore accurate
- The Steam Frame subreddit is currently losing its collective mind praying for a release date
- GOG Galaxy for Linux is officially in the works
- I'm pretty sure we know Final Fantasy 14 Evercold's second job, unless Soken's playing a big trick on us
- Next year's Fallout 76 major expansion will explore a 'prequel story to Fallout 3'
- Marvel Tōkon's developer has apologised to PC players for the beta's performance issues, with only a week until launch
- 2 Star Ocean games go DRM-free on GOG as the storefront promises it's working on embracing the Linux faithful
- Consumer electronics companies were already worried about securing memory next year—now, supply is predicted to plummet by 70%
- Nioh 3's first DLC hits in August, brings new weapons, a trip to the (sort of) future, and there's a mega-hard difficulty mode for the sickos
- Chinese company reportedly building its own DUV chipmaking machines, and that's a really big deal
- You won't have to worry about limited bandwidth or data now that Valve has fixed local network game transfers on Steam
- Two arrested for checking into esports hotels and stealing RAM, making off with over $2,000 in profit in just one month
- Arc Raiders is changing its matchmaking again to fully soothe your self-defence fears
- Cringe '90s stoner icons Jay and Silent Bob are getting a cosy farming sim, but wait for it: you farm weed
- July 27
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- 13 Ubisoft games go free on PC if you own them on Xbox
- After leaving Epic Games last month, its former 'Unreal evangelist' is now building his own game engine
- 'Wtf is going on': Indie dev discovers their neglected Steam game is powering an Undertale multiplayer mod following its freak 1700% jump in player activity
- EA is 'a hedge fund with a videogame hobby,' former Dragon Age boss says, and that's why he reckons the series is probably dead and buried
- Cyan releases teaser for the first new Myst game in 20 years, then breaks the news that it's not actually being made
- This cat-themed PC case has the best power button I've ever seen
- Blade and Magik lead as Marvel Tōkon's most popular characters during its beta
- The Pokémon Company is turning to facial recognition scans to help combat scalpers
- Vatican scrambles to patch 'phishing goldmine' app promoted by the Pope: 'Prayer infrastructure on the framework you learn in week 2 of a Node.js bootcamp'
- 'Easily the dumbest thing I've ever built': Guy puts spikes and taser on Steam Deck to stop family from using it
- Micron's low power DRAM 'consumes approximately one-third the power of DDR5' in AI data center workloads, but I'm not sure that's good news
- Stalker 2's engine upgrade and first story expansion are due out in August
- Jensen Huang's first-ever post on X is in defense of open access to AI models, alongside Google, OpenAI, and Meta
- Zach Cregger admits 'I'm not going to be able to improve on Leon' which is why he's using original characters for the upcoming Resident Evil movie
- Memory chipmaker CXMT sees shares surge 466%, becomes one of China's most valuable listed companies right below Tencent
- More bad news for Valve and its still unreleased Steam Frame as Qualcomm is set to raise the price of its chips, like everyone else
- Modder restores missing PS2-era visual effects to Metal Gear Solid 2, including 'a ton of things that were literally left marked as BLUEPOINT TO-DO still in the source code'
- Yet Another Zombie Defense HD, which is its real name, is free on Steam for a limited time
- If you miss the straightforward action RPGs of the past, try the generous demo for Darkstone Restoration
- July 26
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- One of the best shooters around just got a barely recognizable second episode, and it's only $12
- Capcom wants to release a Resident Evil every year and sees remakes as the way to make it happen
- The new 'backward compatible' Xbox games on PC run on an OG Xbox emulator inside an Xbox 360 emulator, and people have already used it to run other Xbox 360 games
- Final Fantasy 14 is planning 2 major overhauls to its housing system to catch up with World of Warcraft: 'It's probably the number 1 thing on the list a lot of people are requesting'
- Final Fantasy 14 boss Yoshi-P doesn't get the deal with Chort
- J.K. Simmons hasn't played Baldur's Gate 3 or any of his games, but he loves Portal 2: 'I could have done the feature film, or the play, or whatever'
- Ubisoft says the Black Flag remake has exceeded 'annual expectations' in just two weeks, shortly after it laid off a number of the people who made it
- Fixes roll out after Meccha Chameleon servers infected with malware, Discord hacked
- Rockstar co-founder says 'I don't know if I personally care' if games release on disc, adds 'I love physical media'
- Helldivers 2 is giving players a free car in October, except for those who already earned it in June
- Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 4's beta will have low-SBMM playlists, as Activision continues to 'learn a lot about multiplayer matchmaking'
- A classic Giger-inspired adventure game just got a sequel
- A crossover between Dungeons & Dragons and World of Warcraft has leaked
- July 25
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- Larian once again reminds us it's 'not involved in any BG3-related projects' in response to Karlach comic reveal
- Games industry analyst says Meccha Chameleon's June revenue on PC was second only to Fortnite
- Final Fantasy 14 has finally added the class I'm always asking for: a Viking with two shields, laser cannons, and Wolverine claws
- New report alleges it took a week for OpenAI to realize a prototype had gone rogue and hacked another company
- Silent Hill f producer says its writers were pushed 'to read at least 100 to 200 books a year'
- It's taken 13 years, but Final Fantasy 14 has finally broken the Sephiroth-shaped emergency glass
- Modders finally got a high-quality third-person camera working in Baldur's Gate 3 for all you Dragon Age sickos
- There's only one Jedi Operator in Star Wars Zero Company, and reckless players may end up with none at all: 'Be careful that nothing unfortunate happens to her!'
- Modding wizard creates Grand Theft Auto multiverse that lets players travel instantly between Rockstar's first three games: 'We got inter-GTA portals before GTA 6'
- MindsEye has multiplayer and a grenade football mode now, which the handful of people still playing it will no doubt be thrilled to hear
- July 24
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- Hell Let Loose: Vietnam is open to all this weekend for a free playtest
- Even Japan's patent officials seem exhausted with Nintendo's antics as they refuse its 'absurd' defense of a rejected Pokémon patent
- Warhorse trademarks 'Kingdom Come Salvation' as fans pray in unison for another open-world RPG
- Tomb Raider: Catalyst delayed to 2028
- Saudi Arabia's takeover of EA gets approval from European Commission
- Amazon Gaming boss says high hardware prices could be good news for its Luna cloud gaming program
- Minecraft Java Edition system requirements want 8/16 GB RAM for the first time, but it isn't more demanding now, Microsoft just hadn't updated the specs in a while
- AMD Zen 6 server processors have me hopeful for some beefy desktop chips—it shouldn't be too long before Zen 7 and 8 drop either
- The fourth biggest memory manufacturer could break into America soon, and chances are you've never heard of it
- Bethesda says layoffs haven't affected 'the roadmap' for The Elder Scrolls 6, it hasn't forgotten Oblivion Remastered, and it's not telling you this because Asha Sharma forced it to
- Halo remake reviews totter as fans lament the 3 horsemen of 2026 game releases: Bugs, pointless logins, and duff servers
- We now have independent testing confirming Razer's latest innovative mouse sensor tech does what it says it does
- Halo: Campaign Evolved early adopters were unable to play the game on Steam as it kept forcing them to look at the art book instead
- Is Intel back? Company's latest earnings report remarkably different in tone to 12 months ago
- You have 3 days to obtain Big Boss rating in Metal Gear Solid 1's free-to-play period on Steam
- Forget Ultra settings, Halo: Campaign Evolved looks nearly as good with everything set to Low
- Thick as Thieves won't be getting any more content updates: 'To be frank, this is not the outcome that any of us want'
- July 23
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- Star Wars Zero Company reveals cast, including fan favorite actors from Clone Wars animated series
- Blizzard fires World of Warcraft game master who insta-killed bosses for friends
- The full trailer for Zach Cregger's Resident Evil is here, and holy cow I think this one might actually be good
- Atari signs 10-game deal with Universal for movies based on Pong, Breakout, Centipede, and yes, really, Pong
- Ubisoft chief says Sony's decision to kill game discs isn't going to be a big deal
- AMD calls CUDA a 'non-event', says companies are programming at levels where the Nvidia tech doesn't really matter
- Crisol studio lays off all employees less than 6 months after launch, warns that full closure is a 'feasible possibility'
- FromSoftware reveals final stats of new Elden Ring classes, and one of them already got a tiny nerf
- MSI celebrates 40 year anniversary by unveiling a SEVEN GRAND LAPTOP
- Total War: Warhammer 40k shows off its first full battle live, providing its biggest info dump yet
- Google slapped with $1 billion fine for violating EU's antitrust legislation
- I would only play Halo: Campaign Evolved on handheld with upscaling
- Halo: Campaign Evolved's motion blur is terrible. Just look at it
- After months of surprising stability in graphics card prices, apparently Nvidia is now raising the cost of its GPU kits for AIB partners
- Amazon walks back comments about taking 007 off of IO, but does say 'anything's possible' when it comes to buying the studio outright
- Early '90s animation tools were so primitive that Doom's lead artist says he pretty much did the whole thing with 'the undo key'
- Lick your way to victory with the Mouth Pad, a Bluetooth device that lets you control your PC with just your tongue
- Star Wars Zero Company is a 30-40 hour linear game with no New Game+, and I'm totally OK with this
- Hideo Kojima's worked out exactly how he wants to die: Kicking the popcorn bucket
- Fresh evidence from independent researchers confirms the first drop in PC shipments in over a year... and it's only going to get worse
- Indie game contest tasks devs with fitting their entire game on to a 1.44 MB floppy disk
- Star Wars Zero Company won't have official mod support, confirms Bit Reactor, but it has 'a lot of respect for the modding community'
- 'Far beyond anything we had predicted': Framework says its supplier's memory prices are 'more than double' its previous shipment
- July 22
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- The new Warhammer Blood Bowl published by Slitherine will be out in fall, and I'm looking forward to it because I enjoy pain I guess
- I regret to report that the AIs are weebs, too
- Count Binface threatens to nationalize Sega if it doesn't come across with a Shenmue 4 update
- Union claims Bethesda developers were terminated the day Xbox announced new Fallouts—after being told they would still have jobs until September
- Steam update makes gifting much easier, adds wishlist organization features
- Blizzard investigating World of Warcraft cheating scandal after game master 'death-touched' bosses for friends without realizing it was being recorded
- Indie game gets last minute Steam delay while Valve reviews its 'dozens of untextured polygons depicting ass and boobs'
- Faker becomes an honorary Korean police officer to help discourage online gambling
- StarCraft 2 is included in Blizzard's BlizzCon digital goodies, which is more evidence a new game will be announced soon, right?
- Microsoft is bringing original Xbox exclusives to PC for the first time, starting with four 'classic games'
- Star Wars Zero Company's story 'is a linear one from beginning to end', Bit Reactor says, so don't expect branching paths or romance options
- EU court rules that VPNs are 'lawful technical tools' as part of larger copyright judgement regarding The Diary of Anne Frank
- Acer and Gigabyte will launch RTX Spark laptops too, but not before Microsoft and Co.
- Nearly half of organisations falling victim to ransomware encryption pay up, says report—although half of those often negotiate the payment down first
- New method teaches AI to make 2D designs 3D and now I'm afraid this will be how the robots learn to build themselves without us
- Star Wars Zero Company is going all in on Clone customisation, but my favourite armour is restricted to the Deluxe Edition
- OpenAI admits several of its AI models breached testing and hacked into a startup's network by themselves, calling it an 'unprecedented cyber incident'
- Someone has already got a regular Nvidia graphics card working on Windows on Arm thanks to RTX Spark drivers, though gaming performance doesn't yet look ideal
- The Elder Scrolls Online is already feeling the impact of Xbox's layoffs, ironically hurting the cash shop
- Nvidia Rubin will 'soak up NAND supply like a sponge absorbs water' says one analyst, thanks to the AI server's new way of using SSDs
- US judge closes the book on first big AI copyright suit, ordering Anthropic to pay $1.5 billion settlement
- Valve puts some elbow grease into Steam Remote Play—maybe one day you won't have to install additional tools to get the best in-home game streaming experience
- Steam Deck sales are estimated to have plummeted by around 80% since the massive price hikes earlier this year, back of the napkin maths suggests
- Arc Raiders' matchmaking optimisation is live as Embark warns players they may experience longer queues than usual 'since it's now working harder'
- July 21
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- Path of Exile 2 players broke the game by summoning 2,000 skeletons and then lured unsuspecting players into the ultimate frame rate shredder
- Xbox's new VP of engineering quits just 2 months after taking the job
- Marathon's experimental PvE mode is live, immediately tripling its daily player count
- Hasbro takes $56 million hit over multiple game cancellations, but it's still talking about how Baldur's Gate 3 is key to its future success
- A new friendslop game is already Steam's 12th-most wishlisted game a mere week after it was announced
- For the first time, Unity demonstrates 'an Unreal character running through a Unity world'
- Palworld players have harnessed the power of selective breeding to create 'infinite bomb' Pals that can blow themselves up, repeatedly, forever
- Splitgate studio 1047 Games is laying off more people just a month after releasing its latest game
- Jimothy, a particularly round raccoon and the internet's latest sensation, has now broken into games
- A modder has brought No Man's Sky-style seamless takeoffs to Starfield, and even in beta they look pretty great
- A hacker has reportedly wiped out parts of the land registry database of Romania, bringing its real-estate market to a shuddering halt
- It's probably time to update 7-Zip as the app has just been patched to fix a pretty big vulnerability
- Darkest Dungeon—the original—is getting surprise DLC in August
- TSMC admits it's 'jealous' of memory chipmakers' margins, but is limiting its own price hike because its customers would not survive price increases of 'four to five times'
- Acer's Predator Atlas 8 pricing puts the nail in the handheld coffin for me: it is now a luxury market
- Developer of Burnout spiritual successor Wreckreation has formed a new studio working on a sequel
- The Witcher 3's expansion reveal is scheduled for next month
- Valve has replaced a Steam Machine for free after it was stolen by porch pirates, saving one UK redditor roughly £1,000
- Ex-TSMC manager first to be indicted under National Security Act for allegedly attempting to leak core Taiwanese chipmaking technologies to China
- Redditor uses 'ticking time bomb' vial of gallium to stop their GPU sagging
- I'm very into this Papers, Please-esque puzzle game about identifying traitors to the socialist motherland
- Nvidia finally reveals what controls devs actually have for DLSS 5, and don't worry folks, there are TWO main sliders to control the AI filter
- Developer creates a password-cracking Game Boy Advance that is 'about thirty million times slower than a modern cracking rig'
- A new Elder Scrolls is still years away, but this fun Arthurian take on the formula is 50% off right now
- July 20
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- Ubisoft promises Ghost Recon news in August, and if you're hoping that means an update on the Splinter Cell remake then I admire your optimism but sorry, no
- There's a dinosaur soulslike launching on Steam this week where you're a spinosaurus swinging a greatsword with your mouth who just might be able to parry the meteor
- Jennifer English, star of Baldur's Gate 3 and Clair Obscur: Expedition 33, leaves Tides of Annihilation lead role
- FBI arrests 21-year-old who allegedly stole $200,000 with malware-infected Steam games and spent the money on traceable UberEats gift cards
- Steam's Train Fest sale means all 790 pieces of Train Simulator Classic DLC can be yours for a mere $6,993 instead of $15,621
- Path of Exile devs want it to be easier for new players, but still won't let you skip its 20-hour campaign every league—at least not yet: 'It feels very wrong to me'
- Modern Warfare 4 beta dates set for August, and this year Game Pass subscribers get no special treatment
- 15 years before Dishonored, Thief devs considered letting Garrett shrink himself rat-sized so he could scurry through drains and mouse holes
- Think gaming handhelds are too expensive? Ayaneo says 'hold my beer,' lists $5,000+ monster
- If you're looking for ideas on how to mod your RTX 4060, maybe remove its fans and slap a ridiculously big heatsink on it like this person did
- Streamer builds a battery powered PC with over 100 AAs, uses Hannah Montana Linux to benchmark their abomination
- 'There are limits to how much prices can be raised' says SK hynix chairman about memory crisis but I'm not sure the market will care
- Turns out Todd Howard is a full-time Reddit lurker just like the rest of us, says we'd 'be surprised how many great ideas' he gets from the site
- Activision has confirmed the Call of Duty movie setting, and it's not what I'd have picked
- 'With the power of illustration, we can capture the true, playful vibe of a kangaroo': Google explains the thinking behind its new 3D emojis
- Palworld is only growing more powerful, hitting nearly a million concurrents in its second weekend
- Hot swappable mouse batteries might be the hot new trend as it looks like Wallhack's first ever mouse will have them
- One of Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang's leather jackets has fetched an auction price of $960,000: 'It has become a symbol for the vision at the forefront of the AI revolution'
- Final Fantasy 14's attempt to take the MMO mobile is over before the world even gets the chance to see it
- My sluggish limbs mean I'm terrible at Black Myth: Wukong on both a controller, as well as mouse and keyboard—so surely a brain-computer interface is the answer
- 'AI is a Trojan horse that everybody knows the Greeks are inside' says The Odyssey director Christopher Nolan: 'It's a transparent horse. It's made of glass. Everybody can see what's going on inside'
- Meet GigaWiper, a tricksy new malware that can wipe your PC's storage drives squeaky clean and spy on your desktop all at once
- That Game of Thrones RTS is still coming, still very HBO, but no longer due out this year
- The FMV game where you're a hamster being doted on by three Japanese sisters was inspired by its creator's job as an animal mascot, and Grand Theft Auto 5
- There's an unofficial PC port of Gears of War 2 based on a leaked build from 2008
- July 19
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- Riot quickly backpedals on paid old-school skins in League of Legends Classic after backlash
- Cliff Bleszinski says ego played a role in LawBreakers' failure: 'People are loyal to the game, but they're not necessarily loyal to the person'
- God of War Laufey star Deborah Ann Woll isn't fazed by the negative reactions to its announcement: 'I feel totally unbothered'
- Gears of War's creator is considering returning to game development, but whatever he makes won't be PvP like his last efforts: 'Good luck to anyone in that space'
- 'GTA 6 needs this': This GTA 5 prison mod turns one of roleplay's most enduring staples into a game within a game
- 007: First Light was originally going to be less about James Bond and more of 'an ensemble piece', with 'all the 00s working together, as they do in Slovakia'
- Stardew Valley comes to Magic: The Gathering and fans aren't taking some of the new artwork well
- Grab a free Steam game full of misery and decision-making for a limited time
- July 18
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- Amazon's God of War TV show will recast Kratos due to on-set injury
- Raids just landed in solo 'simulated MMO' Erenshor
- Valve reassures Team Fortress 2 players that it's still working on the Mann vs Machine update it announced last year: 'We promise we're making progress'
- Get 15 games for $15 in Humble's 2K Megahits bundle, including Bioshock Infinite, Risk of Rain 2, and one of my favourite shooters of all time
- Valve says there's no end in sight to the memory crisis, and prices are only going to increase: 'Honestly, it's still getting worse'
- July 17
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- We just awarded $500 to the PC gamer who sent us this wild Crimson Desert video, and next month it could be you
- 2 months after releasing Zero Parades, Studio ZA/UM is laying off employees: 'Its commercial performance has not enabled us to sustain a studio of our current size'
- Hytale releases massive preview of upcoming content including 22 videos and 37 new images
- Retiring Valve programmer says 'at least one' of the studio's beloved game modes was made in secret to avoid pushback from peers
- Todd Howard checks his calendar, sighs quietly, and tells us all again that he doesn't have a grudge against Obsidian or Fallout: New Vegas
- 'We're interested in having the whole PC catalog as our 'launch exclusive'': Valve talks exclusives and the advantages of an open platform
- Blizzard finally caved on Diablo 4's disastrous new season with a patch that reverts almost everything players hated: 'Not every idea lands exactly as intended'
- Doom director Hugo Martin says id Software is fine, and anyway, 'what matters the most is that the games are good'
- Marathon game director leaves Bungie just 4 months after launch: 'I'll be heading to something new, somewhere else'
- I think the latest record-breaking Windows 11 update messed up my monitor
- Guerilla bus stop ads are taking aim at Meta's AI glasses, and the latest stunt involves a horrifying They Live-style transforming image of Kylie Jenner
- TIL: All the computers on the set of Jurassic Park were real, and someone has finally catalogued them in 'excruciating detail' because life, uh, finds a way
- Kane Parsons is standing up for an artist after A24 attempted to copyright strike their Backrooms art
- Bethesda confirms Fallout 3 and New Vegas remasters, makes Obsidian collaboration official, and says Fallout 5 is in 'pre-production'
- No, Modern Warfare 4's Gunny loadout assistant isn't a chatbot, but its developer is using AI elsewhere
- Battlefield 6 is resurrecting a 20-year-old mode for a Top Gun crossover
- 60 fps is still the de facto minimum frame rate for half of PC Gamer readers, but more than 10% of you are dying on the 120 fps hill
- OpenAI's collab mini keeb has optional 'yeet' and 'yolo' buttons, which is totally lit my fellow rizz lords, no cap
- AI music generator Suno has been hacked, detailing the data scraping of millions of songs from YouTube, Deezer, and Genius
- The blinding muzzle flash in Modern Warfare 4's gameplay premiere was actually a bug
- Over 4,500 Google workers have signed a petition calling for layoff protections: 'These layoffs and cuts are not difficult decisions, but simply profit being put over the people that make this company run'
- EA vice president of advertising says game ads are a 'huge opportunity', but it 'has to make sense for the game'
- GTA Online mimics reality by nerfing payouts after making everything cost more: 'Prices go up, paychecks go down'
- Castlevania: Belmont's Curse isn't technically connected to the Netflix anime, but its cinematography was inspired by the show
- July 16
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- The follow-up to one of last year's best detective games is off to an 'overwhelmingly positive' start on Steam after just 2 days
- Marathon's 'experimental' PvE mode will only be playable for 2 weeks when it goes live in July, full rollout expected to happen sometime in Season 3
- After 13 years, Path of Exile's devs are finally ready to ditch one of its most iconic and frustrating mechanics
- Closed game studio returns to un-live service its game with community servers before shutdown: 'We don't believe Deceive Inc. should quietly disappear'
- I love that Matt Damon once turned down 'a bunch of money' to appear in a Bourne game because they wouldn't make it more like Myst
- Saber's new business boss says the KOTOR remake will 'hopefully' be out in 2028
- Grand Theft Auto 6 leaker who was given an indefinite sentence in 2023 because he wouldn't stop hacking is now out of hospital and awaiting retrial
- Arc Raiders is fixing a bug that would sign players up to be shipped off to the apocalyptic wasteland without telling them
- 'It's not like natural intelligence is always all that great either': Linus Torvalds addresses anti-AI sentiment in Linux development
- The team behind Windows NT sent 'black cardboard coffins' and fake dog poop to their rivals back in the 90s, because nerds
- This AliExpress-sourced $5 USB hub has been described as 'mildly dangerous' for your PC, thanks to a nasty power issue
- Turns out Microsoft's Secure Boot was little better than a busted lock for about a decade
- Report paints a picture of brutal cord-cutting inside Xbox layoffs: 'Many of us did not know what was happening for weeks'
- Infinity Ward aims to make MW4 even 'more immersive,' and it's already proving divisive: 'Mouse and keyboard is OFFICIALLY DEAD'
- The company that makes all the West's chipmaking machines says it's selling more than it expected thanks to 'very strong momentum in both DRAM and advanced logic'
- Desktop Explorer is a mystery/horror game about the last time when computers were good
- Modern Warfare 4 lead isn't scared of the GTA 6 black hole: 'It’s a little head-to-head, that’s great'
- Marvel Rivals is making some big visual changes to 'cut down on battlefield chaos' which is wonderful because my old brain can't handle that level of overstimulation
- Redditor fashions a 'game cartridge' system for their Steam library out of cheap SATA SSDs
- Report contradicts Microsoft's statements that id Software hasn't been shoved onto Unreal from id Tech: 'It's most likely going to end up in the trash can'
- Against a backdrop of advancing Chinese production, TSMC announces another $100 billion worth of chipmaking will be invested in the US
- Two utterly unique and long lost '90s PC horror classics have been exhumed, and they're coming to Steam soon
- The future of the Elder Scrolls Online looks rocky after culling of leadership team
- July 15
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- The Washington Post selects Doom as one of the 25 'most influential works of American culture'
- Steam reveals all the sale dates and themed events for the first half of 2027
- Original Witcher dev says remaking it as an open world won't be easy: 'As a player, I might be happy about that, but as a designer, I'm starting to get gray'
- As Sony prepares to end game disc production, GOG jumps up to remind PC gamers that you can just make your own
- A year after its debut, Blizzard is done adding new heroes and maps to Overwatch's MOBA-inspired Stadium mode
- I'm officially obsolete because this robot can operate an Xbox controller, open unhealthy snacks, and make clumsy sexual passes
- Black Flag Resynced is missing iconic combat mechanics simply because they were 'lower priority'
- RPG players are conditioned to think they're 'built different', says Josh Sawyer, so some of them hate it when games like Pillars of Eternity tell them they can't do something
- Another Spiderweb RPG that looks like it was made in 1993 drops on Kickstarter and immediately crushes its goal
- Valve to send iFixIt more Steam Deck LCD batteries, replacements will be back in stock next week
- Poll finds 100% of Japanese online game developers are using AI, though mostly for 'user preference analysis' and 'user behavior prediction'
- Thief gets a mini-remaster ahead of its actual Nightdive remaster, courtesy of the GOG Preservation Program
- NY governor orders a pause on large AI data center construction, to ensure that 'when companies succeed because of New York, New Yorkers succeed too'
- Pathfinder 2e creators Paizo end partnership with Archives of Nethys, which offers most of the D&D alternative's ruleset for free, over legal confusion and paperwork
- 'Yes, that's Counter-Strike on a PSP!': Modder gets favorite PC FPS working on Sony's 22-year-old handheld console
- Monster Hunter Wilds is getting a permanent price cut less than 18 months after launch
- The devil works hard but AI ripoffs work harder as Meccha Chameleon falls victim to hordes of copycats coming out of the woodwork
- HWMonitor now shows you thermal hotspot data for RTX 50-series graphics cards, so I thought I'd give one of ours a quick test
- GTA 6 isn't on PC at launch because it's 'always better to start with the constraints', suggests former Rockstar producer
- That annoying day one DLC in Assassin's Creed Black Flag Resynced was less than 3% of its initial Steam sales, but hey, $1 million is $1 million
- Latest Microsoft Patch Tuesday updates stamp out a record 622 security vulnerabilities, as the company's AI-enhanced bug hunt looks to bear fruit
- Level up your game with Logitech G's most flexible and customisable keyboard yet
- Dead Space creator and Call of Duty veteran Glen Schofield announces retirement: 'I had a front row seat to one of the greatest creative explosions in history'
- Fighting game developer previously accused of sexual harassment confirmed to be working on Avatar Legends a week before release
- July 14
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- Steve Buscemi joins the Far Cry TV series cast and now we're all wondering: will he be a weird, helpful NPC, or a weirdly charismatic villain?
- Future Games Show returns to Gamescom with 3 shows
- Epic Games Store boss quits after 8 years to take up new role at Saber Interactive
- Dragon's Dogma 2: Dark Arisen's new region and dungeons sound great, but I'm more excited to finally high-five my Pawn on command
- After releasing a bummer of a Diablo 4 season, Blizzard swoops in with an update that fixes some of its worst issues
- A forgotten dungeon crawler from the Baldur's Gate era is coming to Steam and GOG for the first time ever
- The PC Gaming Show Tokyo Direct returns September 20
- George Lucas says rejecting AI is like rejecting cars in favour of horses: 'There's nothing you can do about it… it's the future'
- This DIY 'OpenPuck' project allows the Steam Controller to emulate Xbox, Switch, and PlayStation controllers, but no wireless charging for you
- Ubisoft promises new Assassin's Creed, Far Cry, and Ghost Recon games are coming, but says this year will be 'quieter' than most
- DRAM demand predicted to outstrip supply by 28.7 exabytes in 2030, which is almost as much as the actual DRAM in the world right now
- Despite adding an eternal fast travel stone, Dragon's Dogma 2 director maintains you don't have to use it: 'It's just you now have a third option'
- BOE's new $9 billion OLED monitor plant, capable of churning out 10 million panels this year alone, is now up and running—with some big names already on board
- I reckon Assassin's Creed Unity is one of the series' best, and a former Ubisoft director agrees it's 'One of the most underestimated games in the series'
- The designer of cult classic King of Dragon Pass says his upcoming hellish heist game is pushing the boundaries of a concept he invented in 1999: 'There's really nothing else quite like it'
- 'Worse than our expectations': IBM's shares drop 25% after CEO says it hasn't adapted quickly enough to AI industry changes
- WoW devs hotfix annoying grappling hook that takes a spot on your action bar, despite only being used in one zone
- New changes to Windows 11 Start menu and search look genuinely exciting and thank the heavens that we'll be able to disable web results
- So THIS is why component makers have started validating their products for Chinese memory
- 'The company has turned its back on us': Black Flag Resynced developers at Ubisoft Barcelona are being laid off instead of celebrating the series' latest hit
- id Software producer says 'you'll never get another WoW or Morrowind in the current climate' in the wake of Xbox layoffs
- We might see a new Logitech Superstrike this September, just a few months after the world's first proper analogue mouse launched
- July 13
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- Fallout: New Vegas director Josh Sawyer reveals his optimal outcome for the Mojave Wasteland
- My Chemical Romance front man Gerard Way pauses concert to talk classic RPGs, admits he hasn't played Baldur's Gate 3 yet: 'The first one was a lot of fun, the closest thing at the time to playing D&D'
- Sick of holding F in Palworld? Change these two settings to make crafting and building less obnoxious
- One week after going independent in the Xbox bloodbath, South of Midnight developer Compulsion Games is looking for work
- The GoldenEye homage that left us 'shaken and stirred' in 2022 is finally launching in August
- Steam had a slow start on Monday just like the rest of us
- Marvel Rivals has upset players yet again with some peculiar balances that buff some of the strongest heroes
- More Windows security updates to come as Microsoft leverages AI vulnerability detection, but 'only the highest-confidence findings reach the engineering team'
- Too hot to handle: A leaked internal Nvidia tool re-enables blocked GPU hotspot sensor data for RTX 50-series graphics cards
- AI did a surprisingly good job with designing a rack for three Framework mainboards
- You can currently buy three of my all-time favorite microstrategy games for $10
- More evidence that Multi Frame Gen is on the way to AMD RDNA4 GPUs, potentially as high as 8x
- 'After stealing an open source AI charity, you then stole all of Apple’s phone technology! Wow': Elon Musk and Sam Altman are fighting on the internet again
- Steam Machine compatibility checks are here, though not every game on the store enjoys a rating
- Summer Games Done Quick raises $2.4 million for charity, cancels sponsored stream with SNK over Saudi Arabia ties
- Warframe creative director says Destiny 2's end is tragic, because even with hard work 'the business side of this industry always gets the last remark'
- Palworld pulled in almost 900,000 players over the weekend, its second-highest peak ever
- Report suggests the US gov may have 'urged' Apple into Intel chipmaking deal to avoid tariffs, at almost the same time it took a $9 billion stake in blue team stock
- 'Customer demand will remain higher than our supply capacity even beyond 2030': SK hynix CEO predicts memory supply crisis may run even longer than we feared
- A new Copilot feature tells you what might be slowing down your PC—while gorging itself on a fair chunk of your system RAM
- A Silent Hill fan is making a PC port of Silent Hill: Downpour that restores a cut boss battle and plenty more
- Watch a new Total War: Warhammer 40,000 gameplay video and weep for your graphics card
- July 12
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- Dutch consumer group suing PlayStation argues the end of physical discs just proves its point: 'Sony alone decides what a game costs and even how long you are allowed to use it'
- Christopher Nolan celebrates Backrooms' success, believes younger generations are rejecting AI: 'Their judgement of AI slop has been immediate and harsh'
- Elder Scrolls Online studio echoes id Software, claims to now be the same size it was 10 years ago following Xbox layoffs
- Analyst says Sony going all-in on digital is like the death of PC disc drives: 'Not a single person is complaining about it today'
- League of Legends' 'classic' mode has a release date, and it isn't just an old version of the game—players will vote on new patches, Old School RuneScape-style
- Helldivers 2 dev cracks down on 'suspicious super credit activity', though it would help if earning premium currency wasn't so boring to begin with
- Tempest Rising's elusive third faction will get its own singleplayer campaign as a paid expansion, and you can play the demo right now
- Valve has rewired Counter-Strike 2's bomb to make it more spectacular, but potentially less deadly
- You can mod out the yellow filter in Assassin's Creed Black Flag Resynced
- Obsidian game director is sick of hearing bad takes about the state of the studio: 'The through line from KotOR2 to our current games is pretty clear'
- July 11
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- Steam has raked in an estimated $11.1 billion gross revenue so far this year, says market analyst—its 'biggest-ever six months'
- College Football 27 to remove microtransactions after player backlash, though EA maintains they were only added to 'give players more choice'
- Star Citizen's next update will switch focus to fixing its bug-riddled previous update, with bigger changes shunted to a later patch
- After 17 years, a developer has finally revived the dream of Hannah Montana Linux, an open source operating system themed around Hannah Montana
- Mortal Shell 2 is the latest game to join the Grand Theft Auto 6 release crush, but I don't think it has much to worry about because it looks sick as hell
- After Space Marine 2 'literally changed everything', Saber Interactive has been inundated with offers from major licenses: 'We are in a very fortunate position to turn down more than we can accept'
- A piece of GTA modding history that was considered lost has been rebuilt from scratch and fixed 22 years later
- Call of Duty fans surprised to discover new Black Ops 2 port preserves the emblem editor, not surprised to find swastikas being made with it
- July 10
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- 'Surprised there was anyone left to post this': Fans react as The Elder Scrolls Online debuts seasonal content days after hundreds laid off from studio
- Assassin's Creed Black Flag Resynced sells 2 million copies in 1 day and achieves the 'highest concurrent player count ever recorded for an Assassin's Creed title' on Steam
- Microsoft responds to racist Xbox layoff conspiracy theory, says CEO Asha Sharma is 'American born, raised, and educated'
- Palworld revises some of its most egregious creature designs for its 1.0 release
- id Software provides proof of life, says it 'still has the crew we need to build the games and tech we're known for' after massive layoffs
- Indie dev defends criticism of Steam refund abuse amid review bombing of his game: 'It's wrong to refund a game after having fun with it and completing it'
- Ubisoft tells Black Flag microtransaction critics that they control the DLC they buy
- Meta says its working on 'multiple next-generation headsets' despite the struggles of VR and the heat death of the metaverse
- Multiple motherboard and PC component makers move forward with Chinese-made memory validation
- 'Valve isn't interested in a nuanced conversation' says indie dev suffering from Steam censorship
- 'Finally a card I can afford': Nvidia announces GeForce-themed trading cards, which are free but you'll need to travel or get lucky to win some for yourself
- What memory crisis? 79% of PC Gamer readers are rocking 32 GB or more RAM in their gaming rigs
- E-Ink faceplates for the Steam Machine are coming, but not from Valve
- Legendary dad fixes their kid's dead RTX 3070 by ripping the capacitor out of an old radio and slapping it on the side, saving over $100 in the process
- Indie developer says Steam did them a solid by fixing their unbootable game to beat the Next Fest deadline
- Valve's Steam Frame launch looks imminent, with new 'Great on Frame' category spotted
- Arc Raiders has targeted yet another duplication exploit just a couple of days after celebrating a drop in suspicious player accounts
- Bethesda union staff to march outside studios over Xbox layoffs: 'The company wants us to accept this as a done deal and quietly disappear'
- AMD Zen 6 server CPUs are launching this month, which has me hopeful for a desktop release this year
- One of my favorite Warhammer 40,000 books is getting an unexpected sequel
- The Rolling Stones are in Roblox, because I guess that's what rock and roll is now
- July 9
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- Steam was showing a 'too many requests' error, but it's back
- John Carmack reacts to massive layoffs at id Software: 'My 'Microsoft will probably be a good steward of the brand' statement isn't aging well'
- US Federal Reserve taps Xbox CEO Asha Sharma, who just laid off 3,200 employees, to lead task force on jobs
- Destiny 2 players get a final farewell gift from Bungie
- The most deranged videogame challenge run I've seen: A no-hit playthrough of the 'Unfair' difficulty in a 100-hour RPG
- Palworld studio says delete your old mods before the 1.0 release: 'Disabling them is not enough'
- Roughly 192 Subnautica 2 players have drowned every minute since launch
- Microsoft filing shows total ZeniMax layoffs at 379, with over half coming from Elder Scrolls Online studio that's lost at least 60% of its staff in the past year
- Rumour suggests Intel is cooking up a 12 Xe desktop Nova Lake CPU
- New IDC report claims worldwide PC shipments fell by 5% but revenue didn't, as 'vendors are pushing through price increases faster than demand is dropping'
- Palworld won't raise its price for 1.0 as 'a small way of saying thank you'
- It looks like Samsung is taking a leaf out of Nvidia's book and making a proper PC processor
- AI data center servers predicted to glug more power than 'conventional servers' by 2027
- Xbox layoffs have likely killed another Perfect Dark reboot from the hollowed-out id Software, as well as a John Wick-style gun fu game
- It looks like monitor manufacturers can download bloatware without consent that will serve you pop-up ads
- YouTuber gets Minecraft running on an original Game Boy Color, and it even looks kinda playable
- Subnautica 2 celebrates 5 million copies sold ahead of Adaptive Measures, its first early access update
- 'Thank you again rural Walmart': Redditor picks up 32 GB of memory for $50, twice
- WoW's game director thinks its UI overhaul has been 'successful so far,' even if it's 'not perfect'
- Dragon Age's former lead writer thinks the series is probably dead, but he'd be happy to take it off EA's hands and 'go somewhere dark and dangerous' with it
- An alleged member of a hacking group was caught, thanks to one hated Windows feature
- Echoes of Aincrad release date and launch times
- Fallout series nominated for 9 Emmys, but not even one of them is for 'Outstanding Goggins'
- July 8
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- Former Destiny 2 and Marathon director settles $200 million lawsuit against Sony and Bungie: 'The outcome is one I am very satisfied with'
- MindsEye developers protest against a fan event their own studio is hosting
- Help, I can't decide if Stardew Valley in 3D is amazing or horrifying
- Laid-off id Software artist says Microsoft is 'nuking the team into the dirt' and is now the size of a 'support studio'
- Bethesda union says company HR forced staff to remove a display honoring their laid-off colleagues
- Obsidian is reportedly making a new Fallout game headed by Josh Sawyer after Microsoft pulled the plug on an Avowed sequel
- Less than 3 years after it launched on Steam, the Final Fantasy 7 gacha game is closing
- This month's Humble Choice is worth a look if you like RPGs, Zelda-likes, fast-paced shooters, or violating people's civil rights
- Marvel Rivals' Season 9 update will affect 80% of its roster as NetEase throws balance out the window for a more 'fun' approach to the game
- This Chrome extension hides 'knockoff' brands on Amazon: 'Sorry to brands like WNPETHOME, EHEYCIGA, YXY'
- Arkheron, a competitive PvP action game, will open its closed beta next week—and I'm getting that Battlerite nostalgia just looking at this thing
- Players prove Destiny 2 can still produce wonders with discovery of poopy pants transmog
- Bethesda layoffs include the artist responsible for designing Skyrim's khajiit and argonians, who had been at the company for 27 years
- David Gaider will never play Dragon Age: The Veilguard because he'd be 'wincing' the whole time: 'EA really did a number on them in terms of setting them up to fail'
- 'Slopfix': A software team is charging up to $10,000 to clean up AI-generated code, with the help of *checks notes* AI
- Valve's magical play-Windows-games-on-Linux tech is rebased, updated, and ready to play Resident Evil
- China's National Vulnerability Database warns that recent Claude Code models have a security backdoor
- You're invited to Destiny's cursed unofficial final raid: Pete Carsons' Vault of Cars
- GTA Trilogy remaster boss understands fan anger but says 'a lot of people were playing them and really enjoying them'
- Two men plead guilty to stealing over £71,000 worth of Pokémon TCG in a string of burglaries targeting small card stores
- WoW Classic player hits 60 on hardcore self-found with every class, decides that isn't enough, does a naked run for good measure
- Valve has released Windows drivers for the Steam machine, y'know for the three people who managed to buy one and inexplicably want a different OS
- Seasonic has removed the RTX 50-series Super GPU variants from its PSU wattage calculator. Was it just guesswork or actual info revealed too soon?
- July 7
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- Former Elder Scrolls Online designer laments the destruction of layoffs: 'There’s really no one left and no changing it now'
- Xbox layoffs hit accessibility leadership, calling into question Microsoft's continued commitment to accessibility initiatives
- Bernie Sanders is mad about the Xbox layoffs
- Xbox CEO Asha Sharma points the finger at Xbox's previous strategy for yesterday's sweeping layoffs: 'We simply spread ourselves too thin'
- You still can't kill fish in Subnautica 2, but starting tomorrow you'll at least be able to 'stun' them
- Obsession star Inde Navarrette built her gaming PC just like you and me: By watching Henry Cavill do it first
- A classic Daedalic adventure is free on GOG, and it's not one I particularly like but you can't beat the price
- Arc Raiders reveals it's been successfully targeting item duplication exploits as the percentage of players with 'unusually high profit per minute' drops below 1% for the first time in months
- This free software aims to turn Sony headphones into a head tracker for '200+ PC games'
- 'Not once have we been asked to verify our age': Study suggests companies falling under Australia's under-16 social media ban are failing to verify accounts
- Arc Raiders has finally added 'one of the most requested matchmaking features' meaning players can now Jekyll and Hyde their way through lobbies
- John Romero commiserates with ousted id devs as around half the studio reported axed, says he hopes someone is preserving its work like he did before he left
- IO Interactive says Project Fantasy isn't dead, but confirms that layoffs are happening
- Analysts think SK hynix's DRAM and NAND prices will finally drop by the end of 2028, but not before a huge rise over the next year
- After buying up between $1m and $5m in Dell stock this year, Trump tells everyone to 'go out and buy a Dell computer'. Again.
- Kingdom Come: Deliverance star says it didn't lead to work in other games: 'The industry at large has never really given a f***'
- It looks like Blizzard's escaped Xbox's grim reset scythe for now, though there's still time to be caught in the second 1600-strong layoff wave coming 2027
- A nasty Windows 11 bug is taking upwards of 500 GB worth of storage, and is surprisingly difficult to spot, but there's a fix
- How do you reconcile your lore-heavy, dark sci-fi MMO with mod tools that might let people get way too goofy? 'Everything's canon,' say the developers of EVE Frontier
- July 6
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- The games industry reacts to Xbox layoffs: 'We are clearly at a turning point'
- CD Projekt Red thanks 6000 Edgerunners 2 advance viewers for not spoiling the show in stunning display of opsec: 'Thank you so much for keeping your promise properly'
- Legendary former Tekken boss says people don't 'properly evaluate' Hidetaka Miyazaki's 'remarkable' FromSoft career
- Even Obsidian couldn't escape the Xbox cuts, with losses ranging from a 21-year veteran artist to an engineer who'd only been there 2 months
- French left-wing leader Jean-Luc Mélenchon declares 'Players have rights too!' over the death of physical discs
- Wisconsin residents file class-action lawsuit against Microsoft, alleging 'unreasonable and excessive noise' from data center
- Elder Scrolls Online developer left reeling by Xbox layoffs—with teams gutted, senior talent gone, and roadmaps 'shifting' as a result
- Bethesda Game Studios and ZeniMax hit hard by Xbox layoffs, says union
- Arkane temporarily spared in Xbox bloodbath thanks to French law, but its future is up in the air
- Microsoft says 'cryptographically relevant quantum computers could arrive sooner than previously expected' as it bumps its QSP timeline to 2029
- Xbox's CEO wants its games to cater to 'more than a billion people each day', or 24 times more than the peak population of Steam, which is delusional
- Compulsion Games is returning to independent management amid sweeping Xbox reorganization: 'Our immediate priority is to support our team'
- Hardware creator makes hat that is both a 'functioning art piece' and also uses a Noctua fan to deliver six-hours of personal cooling
- Chinese-made YMTC SSDs have been spotted in Lenovo's latest ThinkBook laptops, as the memory crisis continues to bite
- Xbox is laying off 3,200 people and dumping 4 studios in 'the most significant restructure in Xbox history'
- Cheaters have infested Meccha Chameleon as dishonest players scan images and auto paint their models
- WoW server suffers outbreak after a debuff breaches containment, giving me flashbacks to a 21-year-old incident so large Covid-19 researchers referenced it
- This China-only RTX 4080 GPU combines laptop silicon with desktop hardware, and draws a fraction of the power of a more traditional graphics card
- A second OG Steam Controller prototype has been found at Goodwill
- 'I find it really sad': Hideo Kojima laments the current state of the videogame industry as companies turn away from physical discs
- Google's AI Studio lead has vibe coded a port of Command & Conquer for iOS
- Watch Night of the Living Dead and other public domain horror movies inside this creepy dollfest
- Another self-own for Sony: Marvel Tōkon's PC version is unavailable in over 100 countries thanks to our old friend PSN again
- July 5
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- Danganronpa 2x2 remaster will include a 'slayhem' alternate story mode with '20% more content' and a 3D world map, but it's been delayed to 2027
- One of our favorite Half-Life 2 mods is getting a stealth game prequel where you're a Combine assassin preying on the human resistance
- Meccha Chameleon celebrates 15 million sales by teasing a 'collaboration with a famous Japanese star'
- Marvel Rivals players suspect Captain America's summer sausage has already been downsized
- The launch of Commodore's social media-free privacy-first 'dumbphone' was apparently responsible for 'Our biggest week'
- Researchers studying ChatGPT conversations surprised to find one power user churning out thousands of Doki Doki Literature Club pregnancy fics
- July 4
- July 3
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- Epic reaches lawsuit settlement with former contractor who was also a notorious Fortnite leaker
- Sand publisher celebrates 300,000 copies sold: 'We getting a half hour of air conditioning tonight!'
- One of the best sci-fi strategy games of 2004 is free in GOG's Summer Sale
- Cyberpunk 2077 has now sold more than 40 million copies, 'a testament to what CD Projekt does best'
- EVE Online studio Fenris follows through on yearslong promise to make its in-house game engine fully open source
- New Sims 4 update cuts back on excessive notifications—you can finally silence your phone, and the grim reaper will try to recruit you less
- Another player has swiped a colossal discount on GTA 6, paying just $2 thanks to a forgotten Best Buy card
- Remember your Paradox account? No? Well you might want to look into that because it could be deleted next year
- 'Your code is physically yours, forever. Until you lose it, let's be real': Github, wagging its finger at Sony's own goal, is offering CD-ROMs of your code for a few days
- Google loses protracted antitrust fight and will have to pay record-breaking €4.1 billion fine equivalent to less than 3% of Alphabet's annual profit
- Intel quietly bumps the price up of the best CPUs it's made in years to 'reflect current market dynamics'
- Valve's aim for a console-like experience with its Steam Machine lands a little too close for comfort as one of the first cases of 'Red Line of Death' comes to light (Update: The machine survived)
- Meta's solution to the global memory shortage is to use DDR4 in a DDR5 server, with a custom chip making the impossible possible
- Suicide Squad: Kill the Justice League's development got so bad that it almost turned its devs away from the industry for good: 'I could feel myself coming apart at the seams'
- SK hynix to invest over $60 billion in chip plants in South Korea, but the memory crisis still seems a long way from being over
- Top scientists uncover way to make Kingdom Come: Deliverance more complicated—turn it into a board game
- Clair Obscur is flawed on purpose, says director: 'Games that try to be perfect, that try to fix all their flaws—they're usually just really boring'
- Nuclear reactor start-up targeting AI energy demands showcases its tech with an Nvidia DGX Spark, though the website demo needs its own power plant
- 'Something has gone completely wrong': Palantir CEO rants on live television about his problems with the AI business model: 'Why are they charging for tokens if it's so valuable?'
- Rumours suggest Intel may be planning to join the club of hardware manufacturers reviving old product lines, all the way back to Comet Lake
- July 2
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- The internet is agog at Captain America's hog
- The new Company of Heroes is a wave-based defense game that throws prospective generals straight into the action
- Carcass Clad is less story-heavy than Mouthwashing, but 'a lot of thought' has gone into it: 'We haven't discovered how much we can push it'
- Following the success of Mouthwashing, developer Wrong Organ wasn't ready to make a better 'story game,' so it's making a 'gameplay game' instead
- 'Fewer than 10' employees remain at Thick as Thieves studio following another round of layoffs
- Rust gets even more cutthroat by adding its own version of apartment rentals
- Amnesia studio delays its new game into 2027
- Former Call of Duty frontman launches new studio with a 'Stop Killing Games'-style mission statement: If the game bombs, it goes open source
- Relax, PC Gamers: We're not getting GTA 6 on November 19, but we've got, um... 'Phantom Vice Auto' launching the same day on Steam
- World of Warcraft's on the quality-of-life boost warpath, with fixes including an auto-loot setting that's been mildly inconveniencing alt-lovers for years
- Ubisoft hires former Take-Two and Amazon vet to head up its Tom Clancy games
- 'Meta will need to reduce or possibly stop AI investment in datacenters, as it already has excess capacity': The AI infrastructure bubble feels the heat
- Intel's mega-core Nova Lake desktop processors look all but confirmed to have sustained full boost power limits at least 220 W higher than Arrow Lake
- Sony's PlayStation 6 is now estimated to cost over $900 in materials alone, signalling a launch price tag double that of the PS5
- Hideo Kojima's upcoming horror game OD is said to survive Microsoft's culling for the second time now
- WoW's bug-filled April patch was actually from trying to fix too much too fast, says director Ion Hazzikostas—like an elevator from 13 years ago that blew up housing
- AMD is reportedly bumping the price of its GPU and VRAM bundles to graphics card makers and you can expect to feel the sting soon
- I'm learning to love autobattlers and it's because this Steam demo let me build a gnarly squad of combat freaks out of weird meat and goblin blood
- 'A wild testament to the obscene bloat and waste of GenAI': Google's electricity consumption is exponentially increasing
- Data centers reportedly targeted by cargo thieves, with over $1 million worth of copper and equipment found in two trucks in Chicago
- Even Hideo Kojima is afraid that 'digital data will no longer be owned by individuals' and that access to art that we love 'may suddenly be cut off'
- Rockstar UK employees say the GTA 6 developer's still plagued by gender pay gaps, crunch, and vague bonuses which make them 'as pliable as possible to their boss's whims'
- 'Meh': Ex-PlayStation president Shuhei Yoshida weighs in on Valve's Steam Machine after a few hours with it
- Onimusha: Way of the Sword is releasing 21 days earlier than expected, possibly cramping The Blood of Dawnwalker's style
- Blood Bowl's videogame rights have been acquired by Slitherine and at this point I'll take any change as a good sign
- Valheim will get a 50% price hike when it hits 1.0, and no changes to the ocean biome
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- 'They refuse to offer a meaningful alternative': Game preservation leader agrees that piracy is the only preservation option for a discless future
- Windrose might get wind
- 'There’s something we’ve been dying to tell you': The best city builder of 2023 is getting a survival game set in the same world
- Reinstated Subnautica 2 studio CEO immediately peaces out after Krafton agrees to pay the developer bonuses it went to court to avoid
- Former Unreal Engine director retires after 15 years at Epic
- Dragon Age setting creator says AI push is a delusion of the executive class that's a 'virulent plague' on games
- French retailer briefly offers the 'Stim Machine,' a Steam Machine competitor made of standard PC components for less than a grand
- Xbox reportedly wants to put a stake in Blade and sell off Arkane, even though Todd Howard says development is going well
- The maker calls it the 'world's worst USB drive' but to my eyes, it's far more impressive than any external SSD you can buy right now
- The ESA quietly starts walking back baffling statements about private servers being 'illegal', though it's still tutting and wagging its finger
- Google kills yet another API, shutting out all non-Google platforms from favoured gif database
- Battlefield 6 is an FPS where 'the guy obsessed with metas is having the least fun', and it's free-to-play for a week
- 'No bloat, no telemetry, no nonsense.' Former Microsoft coding wizard makes an OG Notepad clone that's just 2,686 bytes in size
- EA accidentally made the right decision twice in one month and reverted it both times, inflicting psychic damage on Battlefield 6 players
- Security researchers have leveraged bad maths to get around AI safety guardrails, naming the attack method after one of 2007's best PC games
- 'I cannot do my job when Microsoft refuses to do theirs', say Xbox union workers as destructive reset looms from a company that spent over $80 billion on AI last year
- With 32 GB as a minimum and 64 GB as the recommended amount, Cinder City's RAM requirements are all kinds of wrong in today's AI-mangled memory market (update: phew, it's a mistake)
- Sure would be great if Oblivion Remastered got patched on PC to coincide with the Switch 2 release
- Total War: Warhammer 3 is getting new endgames, individual victory conditions, a Vampire Counts rework, and Nurgle's three grossest champions
- Based on Meccha Chameleon's incredibly short 2-month dev cycle, its creators have already earned $1 million per day of work
