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June 15
- Dishonored dev defends loading screens: 'I actually have a soft spot for all that'
June 14
- If you're bored of shop sims about restocking shelves, here's one about helping someone find the album that could change their life
- Hide-and-seek game where you paint your body to blend in sells a million copies in four days
- Blizzard sues to kill another World of Warcraft private server for 'large scale, egregious, and ongoing infringement of [its] intellectual property'
- FromSoftware boss Hidetaka Miyazaki references 'yet to be announced' games while commenting on controversy at parent company Kadokawa
- Spore devs say the evolution game's previews were more ambitious than what they were actually making, and they 'built a fantasy in people's minds that was unachievable'
- Mina the Hollower has a secret ending, but good luck seeing it
- Frontier is making a Planet game that isn't about zoos or rollercoasters, and has just filed trademarks for Planet Resort and Planet Festival
- This hand-embroidered medieval adventure game looks like a lovely, chill time—but I'm warning you, don't be fooled by its pleasant exterior
- Sony pulling back from PC also means it's pulling back from China
- You can download Planescape: Torment's unofficial DLC mod right now
June 13
- Alongside its new expansion, Warhammer 40K: Rogue Trader got a massive patch buffing its weakest classes and companion
- Nintendo's legal battle with Palworld looks shakier than ever: It may only get '$30,000 chump change' if it wins at all
- Alright, who's the joker trying to charge $100 on Steam for an almost entirely AI-generated game?
- 'Make some noise': Vanillaware reportedly wants more of its games on PC, but it's up to the publishers
- New Crimson Desert patch lets you hoard 100 pets and gives you more chainsaw access
- This massively ambitious The Witcher 3 mod aims to recreate its biggest cut questline, and you could be the voice of Geralt of Rivia
- Palworld 1.0 won't wipe your data, 'but you should' says Pocketpair's publishing boss
- Dying Light 2 is a platform now, as the Breach update opens up Techland's zombie survival game 'even more to UGC content'
- Don't expect the Death Stranding movie to retell the story of the games, as its director says the film will be set in his 'own corner of the world'
June 12
- Microsoft is looking to speed up development of future Elder Scrolls, Fallout, and Halo games
- Even a fantasy game like Skyrim won't let me be a trillionaire
- RPG Maker forums are closing, nearly 15 years of knowledge and online culture are at risk of being wiped
- Over the Hill's Next Fest demo promises a stylized off-roading game for people who actually like to drive
- Consumer rights champion and tech-whizz Louis Rossman is taking Samsung to court over a failed 990 Pro SSD it says it can't replace, even though Amazon has plenty of them in stock
- Former Destiny 2 CM claims Bungie was 'very close to shutting its doors' before the buyout
- Dutch non-profit set to take Valve to court for keeping game prices high
- Judging by how well Gothic Remake has sold, we still love eurojank
- Possibly the first instance of Asus' anti-melting 12V-2×6 power cable…err…melting shows up, adding more fuel to the fire that is Nvidia's connector
- OpenAI says it busted a shadowy Chinese operation that used ChatGPT to whip up data centre hate (and that achieved basically nothing)
- Havn is making a smaller, lighter version of the excellent HS 420, with a few convenient upgrades too
- 17 years ago, one engineer made a very important discovery: If you shout at data centre HDDs, they slow down
- Arm's ray-traced demo of its neural technologies for mobile phone gaming proves that there's an alternate chip for handheld gaming PCs to use outside of AMD or Intel
- The Steam Frame is arriving in the US, suggesting the VR headset's launch isn't far off
June 11
- Time to get a little sadder about Destiny 2: TWIDs are coming to an end
- A single crab has the third highest player kill count in Path of Exile 2
- Quake Champions gets a huge update and free battle pass to celebrate the 30th anniversary of Quake
- Pokémon Go data was used to help train AI systems being developed for military drones
- Phantom Blade: Zero devs couldn't care less about releasing near GTA 6: 'We don't even think of the competition, what matters is how polished the game is'
- Dragon's Dogma 2 hands out an infinite fast travel item after people wouldn't stop moaning about how laborious it was to go anywhere
- Phanteks shows off PC case that bucks the fish tank trend in favour of greater thermal efficiency and giving your GPU its own little room
- An SSD company has just agreed to an almost $2 billion multi-year NAND deal, which is a sign it expects the memory crisis to stick around for a while
- Xbox's new chief strategy officer is still a big believer in in-game ads
- SK hynix claims it will be able to triple its memory chip output by 2034, roughly 10 years sooner than first projected
- Witchspire is a charming Palworld-esque survival crafting game that replaces the unpaid monster labour with magic and whimsy
- Humble's offering a nearly buck-a-game deal on some of the best reactive narratives out there, including one of my personal favourite games of all time
- There's one AI machine that doesn't need a nuclear power station to run, and it points to a potential way forward in the memory crisis
- The latest market data shows GPU shipments are holding up for now but AMD isn't making any inroads on Nvidia
- Browser-based dirt bike game is 'Motocross meets Wall Street,' letting you ride Nvidia and Intel's stock charts
- Dog tries to shoot PC gamer, but their rig (and RAM) takes the bullet instead: 'It would have hit me while I was sleeping if the PC hadn't been there'
- This DIY motion capture rig features 16 cameras made from scratch and is doing nothing to assuage my Vtubing delusions of grandeur
- This custom fingertip mouse is one of the weirdest I've seen and now you can build one for yourself, though you'll need to sacrifice another mouse first
- The BBC quizzed chip maker TSMC on the possibility of increased prices and you're really not going to like the answer
- WoW Classic players are in an arms race against annoying RMT casinos, but Blizzard's working on strategies so 'they will hopefully piss off'
- Framework has delayed its 'MacBook Pro for Linux users' by a month, citing problems with its display and touchpad
- Reports suggest Meta was working on another facial recognition feature that was quietly pushed out to millions of users before being just as quietly deleted
- Xbox CCO Matt Booty says he's seen The Elder Scrolls 6, 'it looks amazing, and it's coming along well'
- Xbox speedruns 'we're so back' to 'it's so over' pipeline at a speed previously thought impossible
- Your dad's favorite TV show might become a videogame
June 10
- While you're waiting for Valheim 1.0, why not try this map that transforms it into a massive RPG?
- Jason Momoa drops out of the Helldivers movie
- Once again players are right to suspect AI was used in a game, once again a dev apologizes for using AI in their game
- Ubisoft closes another 2 studios, lays off hundreds more employees
- Ico and Shadow of the Colossus creator Fumito Ueda would like to see his old games on PC someday, too
- Xbox 'console exclusives' are strictly about console releases, Xbox exec affirms: Games will 'still show up on all the normal places where we sell the PC version'
- Steam Frame's tutorial video appears to leak on Reddit, demonstrating a very brief explainer of its software
- After a 'corporate mandate' demanded they help with Call of Duty, Toys for Bob studio head says it took 'many mini miracles' to buy their independence from Activision
- Logitech's new mouse comes with a little bag to carry it around in. Oh, and it's foldable too
- Old Persona 4 voice actor is 'deeply grieving' being recast in the remake: 'Everything in life is transient… Thank you for sharing the journey'
- The Fable reboot won't have horns and haloes because of its 'nuanced and complex' take on morality, and also because you're going to constantly reinvent yourself
- Redditor finds AMD museum piece that once belonged to ex-CEO Rory Read, stashed away in a basement
- Archetype Entertainment founder and BioWare veteran wishes Exodus didn't look so much like Mass Effect
- Backrooms director's dad returns to old Facebook post asking for career help for his son as the movie hits #1 worldwide: 'Thanks for the help. He figured it out!'
- Linux driver for vintage AMD GPUs gets an update with a helping hand from Copilot AI, keeping old hardware alive and kicking
- Valve will stop selling Steam gift cards at retailers over scam concerns
- Pathfinder creators Paizo have $10 million of inventory stuck in a warehouse somewhere because of Diamond Comics, forcing it to lay off staff
- Google claims most users know 'information generated with AI should not be blindly trusted,' but a court ruled it's still liable for false claims made in AI Overview
- Microsoft rolls out Windows Low Latency Profile, giving older PCs a bit more snap when opening the Start Menu and apps
- Both lawyers in case use hallucinating AI, causing judge to throw up hands, bar them for 2 years, fine everybody, and call the whole thing off for 60 days
June 9
- The Mortal Shell 2 open beta was downloaded 250,000 times over the weekend
- Legendary JRPG studio's 23-year shun of the PC has ended: the next Vanillaware game will come to Steam
- Donald Duck has five fingers in official art for Kingdom Hearts Collection, and that is definitely not right
- 'The curse of MIXED is broken:' Suda51 & Swery65's Hotel Barcelona claws its way to 'Mostly Positive' on Steam after Hail Mary patch and scrubbing AI assets
- Destiny 2 goes out as God intended: Amidst absurd streamer drama featuring four content creators, an esports org, a boutique PC maker, an ex-NFL star, and $180,000
- Destiny 2's final update crushes the Steam concurrents peak hit by last year's Edge of Fate expansion
- Path of Exile 2 player willingly deletes level 100 character to become world first martyr, buffing everyone in the game: 'That was the coolest thing I've seen in a videogame in a very long time'
- One day before launch, extraction shooter Sand gets delayed again—oh, and it's an early access game now, too
- Nobody can tell if Overwatch's 52nd hero is supposed to be a robot or a human, but we won't have to wait long to find out
- The Elder Scrolls Online is now Steam Deck Verified after 2 years of tweaking
- Secretlab's new Atlas chair is cheaper, slimmer than the Titan Evo and I've been sitting comfortably in it for the past couple days
- Surely FromSoftware has something brewing besides that Switch 2 exclusive, right?
- 'The thing that gives me hope is there is an enormous amount of capacity being built' - AMD's head of Ryzen and Radeon is pinning hopes of an end to the memory crisis on a supply ramp into 2028
- 2026 is shaping up to be one of the worst years ever for new graphics cards as Nvidia's RTX 50 Super Series refresh rumoured to be pushed out to 2027
- Kingdom Hearts 4 shows first signs of life after 4 years of radio silence
- Tech leaker claims that the RTX 50 Super refresh is still on, despite the RAMpocalypse, and it'll be joined by a 12 GB RTX 5060
- We got our eyes and noses on a new PC case with a magnetic essential oils diffuser to make your gaming den smell less like a gaming den
- Gabe Newell's racecar driver son Gray Newell to compete in 24 Hours of Le Mans endurance race
- New rumour claims with '100%' confidence that AMD's next-gen Zen 6 desktop CPU will run at over 6.5 GHz
- We all know Arc Raiders' loot chase is broken—but this creator proved how bad the duping exploits and cheating really are
- Intel adds 7 more games to its IBOT-boosted list, though few of them stand out as being in dire need of more CPU horsepower
- Google reportedly orders at least three million chips from Intel to arrive in 2028, as TSMC struggles to keep up with the AI boom
- Apple's virtual Siri-ball is a glowing reminder to Google and Microsoft that user interfaces really matter in software
- AMD's next-gen RDNA 5 GPUs not out until late 2027 or even early 2028 according to new report citing graphics card makers at Computex
- Guild Wars 3 won't have a 'battle pass fee buried in it', says studio head: 'We're not gonna hold their time hostage'
- There's a wildly obscure easter egg in Lego Batman, I'm surprised anyone found it: it's hidden in BASIC code for the Commodore 64
- You should back up your Forza Horizon 6 save before its latest bug brings you to tears
- Before Obsession, Inde Navarrette was streaming her Call of Duty killstreaks with the type of unbothered grace I can only dream of
June 8
- No, Blade is not cancelled, Arkane artist confirms
- Xbox lost 'millions' of Game Pass subscribers after last year's massive price hike
- Famous game director Fumito Ueda says his studio does not use AI for 'game development'
- 15 minutes is all you need in this roguelike action RPG to feel like a maxed-out Diablo god laying waste to an entire screen of monsters
- One of the biggest VR developers in the business closes a studio: 'The VR market remains a challenging space'
- Studio says 'not every publisher' is swerving GTA 6's release and declares a November 5 release date for its game: 'Maybe we're just not afraid enough'
- Hellblade studio kills its mysterious 'horrors of the mind' project so it can make a new Senua game instead
- A developer got the original Half-Life running on a 2007 Nokia N95 at a respectable 30 fps, plus it even works with a mouse and keyboard
- It's fine if the visitors to your theme park die in this sim: it's actually the whole point
- After everyone hated his AI Prada ad, Hideo Kojima says he's 'not interested' in AI
- After huge delays, will The Wolf Among Us 2 make you wait between episodes? CEO says 'We live in a Netflix era. People can't wait'
- Fumito Ueda knows that you're worried about Gen Atlas's framerate
- Games Workshop showed us The Emperor's current state for the first time in 38 years and it's hard to overstate how monumental that is
- There are already two mods to make Gothic Remake's lockpicking less painful
June 7
- There's suddenly a terrifying number of games releasing this fall
- Generative AI 'was only used as a reference,' Crazy Taxi creator says: Artists would 'look at that generated image and draw the actual thing'
- Every game, trailer, and announcement in the PC Gaming Show 2026
- Into the Wind is a gorgeous, Ghibli-esque adventure about taking over your missing uncle's delivery service, but with more dogfighting in your aeroplane bike
- Oh, yep, that's a pregnant nun chasing you in the gameplay trailer for Remothered: Red Nun's Legacy
- Robots and matter-altering powers help you get the edge in combat and exploration, in a new Exodus extended gameplay reveal
- If you've ever wanted to play Geoguessr with a narrative twist, Locator: The Search for Abigail is what you've been waiting for
- If you've ever thought to yourself 'Yeah, me and my mates could probably take on Batman' then P.O.N is the next horror game you should check out
- Everything I saw on my trip to Valheim's final biome, the Deep North: from ghost vikings to rampaging moose
- After half a decade, Valheim 1.0 finally has a release date
- We're getting a new Vampire: The Masquerade game and, hell yes, it's a 'narrative-driven CRPG' with big Disco Elysium vibes
- Gears of War: E-Day gets the official Cliff Bleszinski seal of approval
- About Fishing keeps reeling me in further with its creepy, nostalgic vibes
- We got a fresh look at Total War: Warhammer 40k and, friends, I'm already on board to do some horrible things to millions of spacemen
- From the creators of Mouthwashing comes a co-op tank game with a disgusting twist
- Dave the Diver becomes a real boy in this new live-action trailer for the upcoming In the Jungle DLC
- Armatus, the demonic roguelite where you start strong and just get stronger, is coming this winter
- This co-op clown cacophony crams over 80 minigames into a single videogame
- Indie climbing game rebrands and debuts unconventional tools like pogo sticks to help you reach the Sunset Summit
- Pipes.exe is a co-op horror game about the world's favourite screensaver
- Action roguelite To Kill a God gets a new mage character, and a demo for you to try them out in
- Co-op RPG Terrinoth: Heroes of Descent brings the board game to PC—and it's available to play right now
- Beast of Reincarnation has some stellar voice actors, but one has to play protagonist Emma completely devoid of emotion
- A shooter we called 'one of the boldest, freshest games' of 2023 is getting a sequel: El Paso, Elsewhere 2 sends a slo-mo vampire into the void
- We've just got a new look at 'the sequel to the award winning strategy game', Duskers 2.0, which promises higher stakes and a more emotive story
- Off-road racing? Psh, try off-world racing: Exo Rally Championship just launched on Steam
- Oh hell yes, Nightdive's next delicious remaster treat is Thief
- Outward 2, the sequel to a survival action RPG we gave an 89% to, is in open beta now
- Lovecraftian horrors and tough calls await you in roguelite climbing game Ascenders: Beyond the Peak
- Mr Magpie's Harmless Card Game is Minesweeper but a deckbuilder where you're trapped in a horrible murder-lift
- Citizen Sleeper dev's next game looks nothing like it, and that's what makes me so excited
- Time Strike is a soothing balm in an age of twitch shooters and fast reflexes
- Rivage is a time loop puzzle game where something's gone terribly wrong, power's at a premium, and your salvation's a mysterious arcade machine
- Maximum Thunderness is a roguelike shoot-em-up that promises the same vibe 'of a Saturday morning cartoon'
- Shroom and Gloom is a deckbuilding roguelike that has you growing together 2 different stacks of fungal cards
- Wardogs looks like Battlefield with a persistent economy, and I'm fascinated by the consequences
- ReVamp, a castle defense roguelike where you command the armies of the dead for your mistress, is entering playtests soon
- Arkheron, an isometric Diablo-like battle royale where you ascend a tower, is getting a more forgiving Spire mode to prepare you for the big leagues
- Get ready for more puzzles and no rats as Resonance: A Plague Tale Legacy confirms its release date
- Empulse's frantic movement and giant mechs are giving me serious Xbox 360-era FPS nostalgia
- Planet Zoo 2's gameplay reveal shows how to manage the new aquariums and aviaries
- Wardens of Avalon is knightly ARPG with an intriguing touch of… wait, city repair?
- Wind Runners turned me into a wannabe fighter pilot in 30 seconds
- Samantha Béart and Ben Starr headline a new Stronghold game coming to Steam later this year
- My favourite card-battling action brawler just got a sequel, and you can play it right now
- Void/Breaker returns with another huge update that makes you an even more efficient killing machine
- Cassette Beasts 2002 is a GBA-style monster collection game where you can splice critters together with the power of music
- Carve up foes with elemental combos in side-scrolling roguelite SlashZero
- AfterQuest is a classic RPG roguelite where everyone's got oodles of lore—even your enemies
- Another Door is here to ruin your friendships with lies, treachery, and gambling
- Poor Gary: Happy Bastards' PC Gaming Show trailer is a masterclass in delegation
- Virtue and a Sledgehammer has a new demo and a thought-provoking trailer that proves the game is about more than just smashing things (but you will still smash loads of things)
- Starseeker: Astroneer Expeditions lifts off June 11, and my plan is to immediately try to deform a planet out of existence
- There Are No Ghosts at the Grand, but there is a reggae-punk singing cop who's going to die in 30 days
- Abiotic Factor's going on holiday with a new DLC, Entropic Break—just ignore the flesh dimension, I'm sure it's fine
- Get ready to rampage in this Hitman-like '90s sandbox revenge game
- Sated is a grimy cooking roguelike about preparing meals for biblically accurate horrors beyond knowing, and I'm signed up already
- An 'otherworldly algorithm' is affecting Manhattan in Control Resonant, which is why there are giant floating heads and everything looks like that
- Amid all the guts and gore of this year's Xbox Showcase the most pleasant surprise was the Ghibli-style life sim Vivarium
- Serious Sam: Shatterverse brings together 25 years of Sam in an absurd bloodsoaked roguelite
- Impress magical chefs and customers in this deck-building cooking sim, which has a new demo out now
- A sexy vampire game set in Cold War Berlin, what more do I need to say?
- Company of Heroes is back, and so is my urge to ruin friendships
- Return to the golden age of computing and take down evil corporations in Hack '95, which has a demo you can play now
- Boldly go where no gamer has gone before in a new Star Trek colony builder that just dropped a demo
- Spellsided is a strategy RPG where you play a hyper-customisable dice, and your challenges are 'a puzzle of your own design'
- Warhammer 40,000: Darktide just gave us a greater look at the upcoming cybernetic warrior Skitarii
- Wielders of the Essence is revolutionizing the bullet heaven genre by letting you play as swamp-dwelling amphibians instead of vamp-hunting Italians
- This FPS that looks like Bioshock with magicians has me under its spell
- Persona 6 gets announced in the same style as The Elder Scrolls 6—just the name
- I've always fancied myself as a decent cult leader which is why I'll be checking out Join Us when it releases in March next year
- Metro 2039's bad guy reveal trailer has me thinking that maybe not everything is quite what it seems here
- Sea of Thieves will get custom games and machinima creation tools
- State of Decay 3 just gave us a release year, and at least that's something?
- Gears of War: E-Day is an 'Xbox console exclusive,' but still coming to PC
- Aion 2 producer says it's good to have 'friendly competition' with Guild Wars 3 'during this period where MMOs are struggling'
- Everything announced at Xbox Games Showcase 2026
- Helldivers 2 will evolve major orders into galactic war campaigns later this month, with huge changes to mission distribution and Super Destroyers also in the works
- CD Projekt Red's mysterious Project Hadar will be an 'emotional, open-world experience' similar to The Witcher 3 and Cyberpunk
- How to watch the Xbox Games Showcase
- Call of Duty: Black Ops 7, Season 4 adds a mode that removes OmniMovement and a gun that aims for you
- Satisfactory's first major update in a year brings back rain, adds fuel trucks and overhauls vehicle pathfinding, but Steam Deck players should approach with caution
- Bloober Team's making a Star Trek horror game
- Play a demo of survival horror game The Sinking City 2 ahead of the full release in August
June 6
- Halloween teases single-player slash 'em up campaign in grisly new trailer
- Exodus somehow looks even more like Mass Effect than it did before it dropped a big gameplay reveal at the Future Game Show
- Some but not all Vampire Survivors spin-offs are 'Survivatons,' its creator has decided, and one will be revealed soon
- Gothic devs are 'monitoring the sentiment about lockpicking,' promise a PC patch for crashes by Monday
- Wardogs is a '100% player driven' modern military shooter for up to 100 players that's 'not a battle royale' or an extraction shooter
- Three days before launch, one of the most wishlisted games on Steam warns players not to expect 'a huge survival game' with 'hundreds of hours of main progression'
- Guild Wars 1 and 2 will continue to get updates even after Guild Wars 3 is out: 'We are not replacing your favorite games'
- Indie devs mixed on Steam's latest redesign over visibility complaints
- Left 4 Dead meets friendslop as you and your pals try to escape 'the galaxy's most-unregulated waterpark'
- Fourleaf Fields is an adorable little farming sim with a spill-the-tea mechanic
- The vampire farm sim I've been anticipating for 3 years just released an even bigger, better demo for everyone to try before it launches next month
- I'm finally getting married in Fields of Mistria when its 1.0 update launches in August
- Call of Duty's new DMZ extraction mode is a 'full-featured game within Modern Warfare 4'
- Star Citizen's latest alpha patch adds 385 asteroid defence missions, but players are reporting problems with broken hangar doors and exploding pilots
- 2026's weirdest tech leak involves scuba diving, a Caribbean island, and Gearbox head honcho Randy Pitchford, and no, it's not what you expect
- Bloodlines 2's final DLC introduces swordfighting, dual pistol wielding, and other stuff that should probably have been in the base game
- The UK government is considering banning children from speaking to strangers in games like Fortnite and Roblox
- An 8-bit Cuphead game is being programmed in assembly language for the Sega Master System
- 7 years after it was announced, The Wolf Among Us 2 is finally set to arrive—in 2027
- I really want to know what the cube is all about in Haex
- These indie devs are so over algorithms they spent 1,500 hours listening to music on Bandcamp to compile the soundtrack
June 5
- GOG apologizes for emailing Nazi runes to its followers
- Believe or not, this co-op and PvP zombie shooter is 'inspired by true events'
- Stellar Blade sequel looks like it will melt my PC
- N Plus Infinity Times Two is a multiplayer-focused follow-up to one of the best platformers on PC: 'we don't think anyone else on this planet is as crazy about 2D platformers as we are'
- Final Fantasy 7 Revelation is the end of the remake trilogy and will launch on PC next year
- Monster Hunter Wilds: Ascendance caps off Capcom's redemption arc with a 'massive' expansion in 2027
- 1666: Amsterdam is still happening, and I'm downloading the demo as we speak
- Star Wars Zero Company, the tactics game from veteran XCOM devs, confirms August launch and Anakin Skywalker cameo
- Sebulba and a whole bunch of other Glup Shittos appear in the first story trailer for Star Wars: Galactic Racer
- Bandai Namco is pitting Gundams against kaiju in 2027
- ArenaNet announces Guild Wars 3, promising 'an entirely new type of MMO experience'
- Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: The Last Ronin is Platinum's next action game, and it's coming from Paramount's new games label
- Tupac Shakur, who has been dead since 1996, will appear in the next Yakuza game
- It took 12 years but we finally got a teaser for Alien: Isolation 2
- Resident Evil – Code: Veronica remake announced
- Shadow of the Colossus and Ico creator Fumito Ueda's next game will let us pilot a giant robot head to take over mech bodies
- Ubisoft's free-to-play Division shooter is coming to Steam
- As a fan of Lunacid and Bloodborne, I immediately fell in love with this first-person bugborne that cribs the best quick melee in PC gaming
- Anthony Stewart Head, star of Buffy the Vampire Slayer, has died
- Everything announced at Summer Game Fest 2026
- The console wars are back on, baby: Xbox CEO says 'we have to be very thoughtful' about console exclusivity on future releases
- Learning magic early in Gothic Remake saved me from constantly getting mauled by wolves
- How to watch the Summer Game Fest 2026 livestream
- The Tomb Raider: Legacy of Atlantis system requirements are here—even if the game just got further away
- This snazzy red laptop from HP and Ferrari has a “carbon fiber and glass construction”, costs $5,599, and doesn't have a dedicated GPU
- Godot devs are getting a helping hand from Microsoft to bring their games to Xbox on PC
- MSI's new Strike Alloy has almost every gaming keyboard buzzword thrown at it, with TMR, 8k, and rapid trigger, and you can even use it underwater
- Hyte's new prototype AIO cooler looks to pack funky RGB and transparent shrouds into an affordable package
- I stop looking for 5 seconds and now Crimson Desert has pinball and a rideable wyvern
- AMD says that no decision has been made about bringing FSR 4.1 to RDNA 3.5 GPUs, which seems to contradict AMD also saying that it has no current plans to do so because of hardware reasons
- Be Quiet! unveils huge new PC case designed for 'maximum performance' with room for up to seven HDDs
- Persona 4 remake news feels all-but inevitable, but a little rating weirdness means I wonder about Golden content
- Cooler Master's concept AIO cooler looks like it could chill Venus into Pluto, and I'm already hunting down the back of my sofa to get the pennies to buy one
- Thermal Grizzly's experimental direct-die CPU block is '3-4 times better' than most—but it uses diamond sheets that cost €500 each
- Check out this gachapon-inspired custom PC with a floating heart on top, and mini RAM sticks in its capsules
June 4
- Valve really isn't budging: Steam Machine and Steam Frame are still 'shipping this summer,' it insists
- I regret to inform you that you almost certainly overlooked a sick as hell shrimp game on Steam last month
- 'There is no world where it makes sense,' Warframe creative director says of Destiny 2's demise: 'It's unthinkable'
- A Persona 6 announcement may be incoming
- Everyone in Rust is getting a new face
- 'We have a great relationship with IO Interactive,' Amazon says, but it won't commit to bringing the studio back for future Bond games
- 'What was unravelling is suddenly stabilizing': Destiny 2's last update is getting an absurd 71 pages of patch notes, but its story is closing with a shrug
- One mad lad has spent the past 3 years remixing hundreds of classic metal songs in the Doom midi soundfont
- Guy who swatted Grand Theft Auto 5 star is going to prison for 4 years: 'Won't be swatting anyone anytime soon... and they're coming for the ones he ratted out'
- Update: Bandai Namco confirms Elden Ring's new classes and gear update is paid DLC
- We could get a Resident Evil game set in Japan someday as producer Masato Kumazawa reveals the development team 'has given it some thought'
- MSI somehow has both the ugliest and prettiest laptop designs this Computex
- New report claims Intel is 'struggling' to supply laptop CPUs based on its latest 18A node after speaking to Computex sources
- Subnautica 2 promises to add 'one of the most requested' features, but sorry, it's not a knife you can stab fish with
- I thought I was over 2.5D, but make it look like Marvel vs. Capcom plus Berserk and I'm back, baby
- The best quiet gaming keyboard we've tried is getting a smaller TKL version this year
- Corsair's range-topping AX1600i power supply gets some much-needed upgrades, including pin monitoring, proper GPU power sockets, and a reduction in size
- This skyscraper-shaped custom PC at Computex has a food stall out the front selling 'Taiwanese sausage with sticky rice' and a rock climber free soloing up the side
- Ace Combat's developers have been making games about fighter jets for 30 years, but they've never gotten to fly in one
- The follow-up to one of my favorite RPGs of the 2020s finally has a demo, and it does not disappoint: Bat people, a mushroom hellscape, and funky JRPG combat from bizarro world 2005
- I never change weapons in RPGs, which means I've made Obsidian director Josh Sawyer's life a living hell when it comes to making cool armour systems
- Here's how to watch the Future Games Show's 40 games and 10 world premieres on June 6
- Shut the front door!: Alienware's new 5K2K RGB-stripe OLED could be the gaming monitor, er, endgame
- Gigabyte has shown off a microATX PC case with a 16-inch built-in LCD screen, which I assume would give you the most unique rig at the next LAN party
- New data predicts PC sales will tank in 2026 but Apple is doubling MacBook Neo production according to reports
- This gaming monitor has a feature that I've never seen before in a display: a slot that you can jam a full graphics card into
- Dominos Pizza UK has joined the gamer culture slapfight over God of War: Laufey, and I'd really like to just skip this part, please
- Keychron told us its new gaming mouse switches will have haptics like the Superstrike, but I'll still have to feel them for myself to be convinced
- Galax shows off 'next generation' GPU concept with actual Swarovski crystals in it, and I fear it may not have got the memo on the state of the market in 2026
- Corsair's fighter jet-inspired case comes with a switch to toggle a light above the rear IO panel
- Panther Lake has another powerful iGPU in its lineup but you'll probably never see it
- The overclocking headroom in AMD's Radeon 7000-series GPUs 'was certainly not accidental... the core of Radeon has to be all about value to the end user'
- Choosing to bring back the 5800X3D was a tough conversation for AMD... 'very hard, actually, very, very hard!'
- I got my hands on Framework's 'MacBook Pro for Linux users' and its tagline isn't just marketing hyperbole
- The blower is back: Cooler Master has made a GPU accessory that pushes hot air outside your case rather than onto your CPU
- Cooler Master is playing around with a 2000 W CPU and GPU cooling solution with four huge 180 mm fans
June 3
- Legendary Warhammer artist John Blanche has died
- Which gaming clip just won $500? Check out the best videos of May, featuring nukes in Minecraft, eternal drifts in Forza Horizon 6, and a dragon-riding giant in Skyrim
- 007 First Light sequels will be 'done by MGM and, theoretically, by Amazon Game Studios,' Amazon exec says
- Summer Game Fest is here, so get ready for a lot of, 'Ugh, that game with the cool trailer used AI'
- They did motion capture on a cube
- This is me playing Alan Wake 2's native Arm build on an RTX Spark laptop, and I'm here for it
- For the sixth year running, Dontnod honors Pride Month by giving away an award-winning adventure game
- So long suckers! I am leaving to drink heavily and repair cheap cars in Poland
- Corsair announces solid wood front panels for its Frame 5000D PC cases, including a ripple one I'm not entirely sure about
- PlayerUnknown's survival game is shutting down 6 months after launch: 'I have reached the limits of how far I can continue to fund this journey'
- I made treants awkwardly rub shoulders with ringwraiths in the Total War-style RTS roguelike Tabletop Tavern, and I'm surprised as anybody that it worked
- What's better than one high tier gaming rig? A double-decker gaming rig, according to Thermaltake
- This new microATX PC case comes with a Venom-like black liquid that reacts to sound and magnets, and I find it weirdly alluring
- NAND flash makers earned a record $46 billion in revenues over the first quarter of 2026, a shocking 3.5 times more than last year
- We got eyes on Ducky's sleek Year of the Horse gaming keyboard, and I can say I like it more than its last horse one
- The action-RPG our editor was excited enough to fly to China for just got a 50-day delay
- Bungie's traditional launch woes made for a terrible first impression of Marathon's exciting second season and undermined its free-play week
- Cherry attempts to change my mind about wireless gaming keyboards with world's first Ultra-Wideband button basher
- Sticking two fingers up at the economy, Biwin's new Origin Code memory sticks are as extreme as you could imagine, with up to 256 GB of DDR5-8000 CL42
- Morrowind modder returns to remake a 20-year-old epic—a beloved 'Discworld, not Monty Python' project that's 'unexpectedly lore-friendly'
- Thermaltake has built a PSU that splits in two… on purpose
- Corsair's new and supposedly affordable seat continues 'the move away from traditional gaming chair style'
- 'One of my favourites': Even Jensen Huang recognises the GeForce GTX 1080 Ti as one of the best graphics cards Nvidia ever made
- We stood in awe in front of Corsair's RGB samurai sword PC at Computex, and we've got the pictures to prove it
- Final Fantasy 14's solo only challenge runner overcomes impossible odds again, this time by blowing himself up
- Gigabyte's new gaming mouse and keyboard look great and all, but can we get a round of applause for its web software
- Cooler Master is stuffing its latest cases with truly humongous fans for high airflow and quiet operation
- Wooting's big knob is much more than a volume dial, set to arrive later this year for 80 HE
- Silent Hill: Townfall will release in September alongside a handful of other blockbuster games hellbent on avoiding GTA 6
- New Ill trailer sets a new bar for videogame ultraviolence, with at least three skull crushings
June 2
- Bandai Namco just stealth announced that one of the coolest Ace Combat games is coming to PC for the first time as a pre-order freebie
- Backrooms movie is just a start toward the 'true root of the narrative,' says director: 'I am definitely not done'
- Magic: The Gathering's Marvel Super Heroes set brings back completely uncontroversial and universally beloved comics event Civil War
- Funcom is adding a singleplayer mode to Dune: Awakening, and wow, the new features are definitely gonna bring me back to the game
- Destiny fans cry 'We Want Destiny 3' into void, void does not respond
- New God of War game likely won't come to PC
- Now that we're living in a KPop Demon Hunters and Jujutsu Kaisen world, yokai-smiting action game Kemuri should be a slam dunk
- Tomb Raider: Legacy of Atlantis delayed into 2027, but there's a new gameplay trailer to make up for it
- The Rayman Legends remake has brought on Banjo Kazooie and DK64 composer Grant Kirkhope, who can apparently spin up gold in a day: 'He's super fast'
- Mina the Hollower sells 300,000 in 3 days, Yacht Club Games is saved
- 3 years after a $2 billion implosion, studio closures, and cancellations, Embracer's new CEO hopes 'trust is improving'
- Pragmata director Yonghee Cho says it's not a sad dad game for a very simple reason: 'I'm not a sad dad, I'm a very happy dad'
- Former Forza Horizon creative director reveals his studio's debut racer, which is still alive despite losing Amazon support
- Part of me wishes we could see the Subnautica 2 the devs scrapped: The Dwarf Fortress of ecosystem simulators
- AMD is considering a Ryzen 5 9600X3D 'later this year' but its value for gaming could suffer against its own stiff competition
- 'People talk about AI reducing jobs, complete nonsense': Nvidia's Jensen Huang criticises economic doomerism on GTC stage
- 'Tell me that's not R2D2. Tell me that's not robotics': Jensen Huang thinks the future of personal computing is letting AI agents run your PC
- Google is raising an army of 32 million mosquitoes like some kind of Metal Gear Solid villain
- Excess often sells in the world of gaming PCs, but Asus' new 3000 W power supply makes little sense for even the wealthiest of whales
- CEO Jensen Huang says Nvidia is too busy with the 'gigantic project' of 'reinventing the PC after 40 years' to do a handheld gaming PC based on RTX Spark
- Overwatch is changing the requirements for its rarest anniversary event reward after realising playing 240 games over 3 weeks may be too much of a grind
- Keychron's on-the-fly optical/Hall effect mouse switch is taking on Logitech over one of the few things people didn't like about the SuperStrike
- DarkFlash's Computex Floatron case looks wickedly evil scientist, but I don't know if I like its 'floating base'
- The Tryx Vas PC case: briefcase or air conditioning unit, you decide
- Congratulations to the Paralives community for immediately making its most popular mod something called 'Parapenis'
- It's wild that Destiny 2's biggest ever quality-of-life update is the one that ends the game
- DarkFlash unveils another Sanrio PC case collaboration, but I dread to think what a pretty penny it will cost to build a full Cinnamoroll gaming rig
- Asus outs 32-inch 4K OLED gaming monitor with new LG RGB-stripe panel, but it's a bit behind on brightness
- Keychron's carbon fiber concept is the skinniest keyboard I've ever typed on
- Thermal Grizzly enters the PC fan scene and of course it's more about quality engineering than RGB, though there's that, too
- While everyone seems to be ignoring the state of the economy at Computex, Arctic is keeping things real by giving us a new, affordable CPU cooler
- Jen-Hsun says RTX Spark 'is 100% awesome at everything everybody expects the PC to do, and it can do more'
- Corsair's new 'Nightsword' gaming mouse has a dedicated Stream Deck button, and I'm deciding if I'd accidentally press it too much
- Fallout 76's latest Infestations update will be 'one of the easiest ways to get a four star' legendary as new type of hostile encounter spreads through Appalachia
- Gabe Newell reportedly snapped 'What the f*** do I pay you for if that's your opinion?' at Valve lawyer pushing for more content moderation on Steam
- Next-gen GPUs aren't around at Computex, but MSI's got a taste of what they might look like
- Intel targets India for a new $3.3 billion factory that will make the base substrates for its next generation of chips
- Subnautica 2's no-killing policy isn't because it's 'a game about pacifism', says design lead, but because players would 'master the crappy combat' over anything else
- Tryx claims 'world's first holographic liquid cooler' at Computex but I doubt it was much of a contest
- Crimson Desert takes around 250 hours to complete, and if that's not meaty enough for you, good news: DLC is coming
- Pearl Abyss heard you didn't like Crimson Desert's story, so it's fixing it to 'strengthen the narrative flow of Kliff's journey'
- MSI's Maestro 900R case is almost here. Tremble in fear, poor wallet
- Gigabyte borrows space industry and data center tech, along with all the relevant buzzwords, for its 40th anniversary motherboards
- Corsair has shown off a military-themed PC case with fighter jet controls, and it's still not as over the top as its see-through PSU
- Nvidia may have announced the RTX Spark, but the first true Nvidia CPU for the PC could be coming in 2028
- Noctua's pumpless liquid cooler prototype is now 'neck and neck' with a normal AIO: successfully cools Ryzen 9 9950X3D at 230 W
- Asus is releasing 'mystery' mini loot boxes with the most peculiar little keycaps I've ever seen
June 1
- The League of Legends MMO adds another World of Warcraft vet to its team
- In 1997, Warren Spector told us the upcoming PC classic Deus Ex was inspired by Final Fantasy, Miyamoto, and 'the console guys'
- Guild Wars teaser has fans hyped up about a potential Guild Wars 3 announcement, and ArenaNet isn't outright denying it
- Marathon's first 'PvP-lite' experimental mode sounds like a delightfully terrifying alternative
- Gabe Newell on Steam monopoly accusations: Gamers have 'enormous choice' about where to buy games
- A Minecraft Movie Squared will explore 'new biomes, new characters, and new mobs' and confirms Matt Berry for a mystery role
- Asus has announced a gold-plated 82 g version of its Harpe II mouse with a 65K DPI, but it's way out of my budget
- Intel's attempting to break into the AI market once more, but this time avoiding Nvidia's dominance in training by going for inference
- Yet another rad gaming tool parts ways with Microsoft
- Acer tries to dodge the RAMpocalypse with its Nitro Blaze Link by making it streaming only
- As if ROG Astral 50-series graphics cards could get any beefier, Asus has just announced a CHONKY anniversary update
- MSI's new skinny two-in-one laptop has an Nvidia RTX Spark chip, which could make for some impressive gaming chops
- The Asus ROG Xbox Ally X has just received an upgraded OLED model in a bundle with AR glasses, and my wallet is thoroughly braced
- Patient gamers unite, as 25% of you only buy your games during Steam sales
- Former BioWare producer says we could be saved from a world where there's 'no AAA games that aren't live services' by looking to movies
- Tekken's game director follows in Harada's footsteps by saying sayonara to Bandai Namco, causing fans to worry about the game's future
- AMD confirms that AM5 will continue to be supported by new processors through to 2029, and drop the deets on a forthcoming EXPO update
- Noctua aims to effectively banish thermal paste horror stories and gooped-up CPU sockets
- 'Return of the king': AMD is bringing back the Ryzen 7 5800X3D for DDR4 platforms, launching it alongside the mid-range AM5 Ryzen 7 7700X3D
- A Baldur's Gate 2 remake is apparently in development, with the original co-lead designer returning
- MSI announces the MEG Vision X2 AI Plus, a gaming desktop with an AI agent and a 'cylindrical display interface' built in
- After being shut down by Blizzard, one of WoW's biggest private servers is saying screw it, we'll make our own MMO
- AMD announces global rollout of the RX 9070 GRE, which is slower than the standard model for the same original MSRP
- Nvidia announces that a DLSS 4.5 update for Ray Reconstruction is finally on its way, promising better ray-traced and path-traced graphics for 'similar performance' as the old model
- Minecraft's 3rd game drop of 2026 has been revealed, and its new biome automatically makes it the best one yet
- This could be the competitive panel of my dreams: the 'world's first esport OLED monitor' looks to be a 540 Hz, 24.5-inch beast
- Computex 2026 Live: The biggest PC gaming hardware announcements at this year's show
- Extrapolation is the future of frame generation without the latency hit… and it's not far off
- Nvidia RTX Spark's gaming battery life will be 'better than anything you've seen before on RTX laptops'
- Nvidia's working with all the anti-cheat vendors to make competitive games work on RTX Spark and WoA… just when gaming on Linux was looking good
- Nvidia sets out roadmap for RTX Spark, its new PC platform, which also gives us a better idea of when to expect next-gen RTX GPUs
- Developers are creating Arm game ports, wholly Arm-native versions, and Prism-optimised updates for Nvidia's RTX Spark
- The new animation for Warhammer 40,000's upcoming 11th edition goes incredibly hard
- Not just for AI agents: Nvidia's RTX Spark means Arm-powered laptops for gamers, too, promising 100 fps at 1440p in the latest games