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- December 15
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- Fallout: New Vegas modders are having a field day restoring cut content found in the recently leaked beta
- Off the back of Divinity's new trailer Divinity: Original Sin 2 just shot back up the Steam charts, have fun in Fort Joy everybody
- The Warhammer Conference continues making deep dives into grim peril: 'it makes the papers themselves more approachable for a non-academic audience'
- December 14
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- Silent Hill f's lead actor was worried her first stream of the game would 'end with an apology press conference,' but she ended up loving it and got millions of viewers
- Peak just added an in-game concert starring rapper bbno$, but it's gone tomorrow
- RPG dev pushes back against Steam review AI accusations: 'We poured years of our lives into this game and only worked with real human artists on everything'
- Get up to 90% off historical murder in the Assassin's Creed franchise sale
- Microsoft nukes popular Halo 3 mod for Counter-Strike 2 from orbit: 'It was fun while it lasted'
- Phoenix Point's Terror from the Void mod is so good Snapshot Games just released a massive patch to make the original game more like the fanmade overhaul
- December 13
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- Love wins: This woman has 'married' a cardboard cutout of Kazuma Kiryu from the Like a Dragon games
- This roguelite claims to have the dubious honor of being 'the world's first fully playable game created 100% through AI' in a milestone for slop everywhere
- Fate of the Old Republic director promises release before 2030 even though studio was only recently formed: 'I'm not getting any younger'
- French President Emmanuel Macron gives a second public shout-out to Clair Obscur after its Game Awards sweep: 'A source of great pride for Montpellier and for France'
- This '90s CG render-core 3D platformer is finally out in early access after 'five years of hermetic grinding' from its solo dev
- Prolific voice actor Jim Ward, whose credits include Knights of the Old Republic, New Vegas, Grim Fandango, and more, has died
- After 17 years the most sophisticated bike mod has landed in GTA 4, and it wasn't easy: 'I wanted it to feel like GTA 4 always meant to have bikes—not like some clunky workaround'
- Race a Kei truck through a collapsing Japan in DriveCrazy, which is like Burnout if you could drive on walls and fight towering kaiju
- Gate Guard Simulator is Papers, Please with fewer terrorists, more geese, and the chance to throw people into a moat
- Sins of a Solar Empire 2 gets a massive diplomacy overhaul that makes wars 'economically ruinous'
- I'm never getting any work done ever again, thanks to this website that lets me play thousands of user-made Doom levels in my browser
- December 12
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- The most promising action game of 2026 finally has a release date, and we now know it'll launch on PC day one
- Hogwarts Legacy goes free for the first time to kick off the Epic Games Store's 2025 Holiday Sale
- The new voice of Lara Croft is a veteran of Cyberpunk 2077, Lies of P, Dragon Age, Assassin's Creed, and a whole bunch more
- Yes, IO Interactive really scanned Lenny Kravitz's incredible sculpted abs for his 007 First Light character model
- Kingdom Come: Deliverance 2 devs tweet 'Blame the French!' after losing every Game Awards category to Clair Obscur, but it was in good fun: They partied together after
- Internet not convinced it should care about another PvP hero shooter, collective eye-roll plunges big Game Awards finale reveal into a YouTube dislikes hole
- More than 19,000 games launched on Steam this year—but almost half have fewer than 10 reviews
- 'Our ambition is to keep this game alive for the longest time': Embark's devs want to keep working on Arc Raiders 'as long as players engage with it and have fun'
- MIT electronics researchers develop a new way to fabricate transistors on the backend of finished dies, to keep pushing the limit of chip densities ever higher
- 'We have spooked Disney legal': Court filings reveal a KOTOR 2 remake stuck in the phantom zone, who's working on the KOTOR 1 remake, plus Aspyr's doomed efforts to get the Restored Content Mod past anxious lawyers
- OpenAI is now 10 years old, but how well has its mission statement to 'benefit all humanity' aged?
- Your bloodlust does have consequences in Arc Raiders, as a dev confirms, 'we do analyse behaviour and match accordingly'
- Everyone's arguing about whether Divinity will be turn-based or an ARPG, and I'm not sure why because the answer seems obvious
- AMD wants to hire people with experience of Intel's new silicon tech, but would AMD ever actually make chips with its arch rival?
- 'Quite a few things have taken us by surprise': Arc Raiders' wallhacks caught the devs off-guard as heaps of greedy players hunted for exploits
- Crypto boss sentenced to 15 years over 'epic, generational scale' fraud that lost over 40 billion dollars
- Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 developers are so thankful for the awards, they dropped a big stonking DLC for free that you can go play right now, with some clutch quality-of-life updates, too
- Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 takes home an absurd 9 wins at The Game Awards, more than Baldur's Gate 3 in 2023
- C'mon, Remedy, you can't use the words 'Rise and Shine' in your TGA trailer—don't you know you're hurting all those hopeful fans in r/Halflife?
- No pods in sight, but Star Wars: Galactic Racer still looks rad
- Screamer's multi-lingual anime inspiration comes from a love of fighting games: 'We really like them, even the weird ones'
- While some aren't happy about the new Screamer going all-in on anime vibes, its director says the 'essence' of the original is still present: 'This is still Screamer'
- Ace Combat 8: Wings of Theve is coming to Steam and consoles in 2026
- The true highlight of The Game Awards was Werner Herzog explaining Warframe
- The rumors were true, Creative Assembly really is making Total War: Warhammer 40,000
- Open world RPG shooter No Law is going straight on my wishlist after its Game Awards reveal—we spoke to the devs to find out more
- That sick-looking first person sci-fi game at The Game Awards is actually the sequel to Sons of the Forest
- Diablo 4's age of reworks might finally be over with its next expansion as it plans to deliver major features players have wanted for years
- Diablo 4's highly anticipated paladin class is playable today, before its second expansion launches next year
- I think The Game Awards just broke the record for most people presenting a single award, with the entire cast of the Street Fighter movie announcing 'Best Ongoing Game'
- Jonathan Blow's new game has the most 'Jonathan Blow's new game' pitch imaginable: A 'game design supercollider' that takes 4 puzzle games and jams them together into a 500-hour saga
- Tomb Raider comes to The Game Awards with not just one but two new games: a 're-imagining' and an all-new adventure
- The new Control game isn't a shooter, it's not set in the Oldest House, and it doesn't star Jesse Faden—but, y'know, otherwise it seems like a faithful follow-up
- Resident Evil Requiem will have Leon S. Kennedy as its second protagonist, and he's bringing his sick roundhouse with him
- A weird sci-fi thriller starring Stellan Skarsgård? That takes place in a hotel on the moon? From the makers of SOMA? Yeah, I'm in
- The next official D&D videogame won't be anything like Baldur's Gate 3: 'We're making a third-person action-adventure open world game that focuses on the warlock'
- I'm sad to report that you cannot romance the space octopus in Exodus, the Matthew McConaughey-starring space opera RPG from former BioWare devs
- Larian reveals Divinity, its 'biggest game ever,' that will be 'even larger than Baldur's Gate 3'
- After 21 years, Knights of the Old Republic's original director is returning to the series for Fate of the Old Republic
- Some of the stars of Baldur's Gate 3 and Final Fantasy 16 will be blessing Solasta 2 with their voices
- Decrepit is a 'dark fantasy first person soulslike' in a castle full of zombies who'll repeatedly drag your clobbered body back to the dungeons until you get good enough to escape
- Disney quaffs the Kool-Aid with a $1 billion investment in OpenAI that will see its most iconic characters used to generate AI slop
- December 11
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- The Game Awards live coverage: Every reveal and announcement as it happens
- Rockstar now says fired employees were let go because they revealed 'specific game features from upcoming and unannounced titles' in a public forum
- Capcom says Monster Hunter Wilds performance improvements are arriving next week, but more PC-focused fixes will be coming in January
- Fallout 4 was initially set in New York because it's 'something grand and American' and Nick Valentine capped-off the very first design document: 'I think the photo was of Humphrey Bogart'
- The Deus Ex remaster that everyone thinks looks awful is delayed, there's no new release date, and preorders are being refunded
- 007 First Light's first villain is Lenny Kravitz, and I bet he's not going to get away
- This Zotac mini PC has an inventive way of ditching its RTX 5060 Ti's power cables, and no it's not the same as the Asus BTF way
- Handheld PC maker Ayaneo unveils its first phone, the Pocket Play, with a hidden controller behind a sliding screen
- Arc Raiders' latest mini update fixes a bunch of ratty exploits, including the zipline that set players free in Stella Montis, as Embark announces it's stepping back from weekly fixes
- New Magic: The Gathering infinite combo is just making The Hulk step on caltrops over and over until he's mad enough to win
- Oracle will shop around for AI chips after adopting a policy of 'chip neutrality'… but of course it'll still buy the latest Nvidia GPUs
- Arc Raiders players are begging Embark for a new high-risk augment 'that secures the weapon, not the loot' and I'm fully on board
- These glorious little animations offer the best visual explanation of the benefits of SSDs over hard drives I've ever seen
- December 10
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- McDonald's achieves AI apotheosis with a generative AI Christmas ad so miserable the production company responsible pulled a statement defending it after the ad was removed: This was 'an important learning,' McDonald's exec says, but what did we learn?
- Arrowhead founder casually mentions that a Helldivers 2 'roguelite mode' is in the prototype phase: 'It changes the game fundamentally!'
- Legendary FPS developer John Romero says his studio 'survived the cancellation of our huge game' and its shooter project 'will be new to people the way that going through Elden Ring was a really new experience'
- Not even the UK government knows why Rockstar fired more than 30 employees in October: MP says that after meeting with the studio, 'I did not leave informed on exactly what these 31 people had done to warrant their immediate dismissal'
- Fallout's holiday 'Ghoul Log' features Walton Goggins, Dogmeat, and the return of a beloved Fallout: New Vegas character
- King of Meat studio was reportedly expecting 100,000 concurrent players, but it peaked at 320 on Steam—and that was during a free weekend
- If 4K gaming is just too easy for your RTX 5090, then try it on Asus' new 5K ROG Strix display and watch it weep
- L33t! Razer is bringing back the Boomslang, the original gaming mouse. Kinda...
- Capcom says it wants Mega Man, Devil May Cry, and Ace Attorney to be 'core IPs' like Monster Hunter and Street Fighter: '[We] recognize the need to grow our pipeline going forward'
- RAM prices might be sucking all the joy out of building PCs but four-screen AIO coolers go a little way to bringing a smile back on my face
- A Red Dead Redemption 2 fan conducted an in-game census to test Rockstar's historical accuracy and found it wasn't half bad: 'It's videogame-ified in a lot of ways, but not as much you might guess'
- 'It's kind of like a blind date': Fallout 76's creative director discusses the shaky beginnings of life in Appalachia—'I view the initial launch as really the prelude'
- Noctua fans, rejoice: You can finally colour-match your 3D printed creations to that iconic colour scheme using official 3D printing filaments
- Nvidia has built location tracking tech that uses the 'confidential computing capabilities' of its AI chips to prevent smuggling, according to a Reuters report
- Ever-opportunistic bitcoin miners in the US are reportedly now transforming their crypto farms into 'AI megafactories'
- Microsoft wants to make Windows 'the best place to game—no matter where you play' but Linux and Valve's SteamOS have other ideas
- Blizzard sees players levitating their homes in WoW's player housing, 'even though there weren’t UI controls for that', decides it's now a feature, not a bug
- Google is under investigation in the EU to find out whether it imposes unfair terms on content creators for AI
- Fallout: New Vegas lead writer inconveniently points out that Fallout season 2 is all about New Vegas but 'there's no credit for that, there's no residuals for that'
- Marvel Rivals is turning up the heat with a new busted hero who can steal powers from her enemies to create shields, heal, and turn invisible
- Steam's latest cozy game has a fascinating backstory: Not only is it a PS1 game that predates the 'cozy' era, but it's only officially available in English thanks to fan translators
- From today, Australian teens and children under 16 can't sign-up to Twitch and 9 other social media platforms, as world-first ban takes effect
- Arc Raiders' big winter update is coming next week, Embark teases new temperature mechanic
- December 9
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- 'We actually didn't attribute any value' to Warner's game studios, Netflix boss says about the acquisition deal: 'They're relatively minor compared to the grand scheme of things'
- After Black Ops 7's weaker launch, Call of Duty will no longer do back-to-back releases in the same series
- 'Rethinking the survival genre': In this post-apocalyptic adventure, 'your body tells you what's going on' instead of stamina and hunger meters
- Why not: Mad wizard modder turns Red Dead Redemption 2 into Super Monkey Ball, complete with gyro controls
- The Outer Worlds is actually not being delisted from GOG after all: 'It was an unfortunate miscommunication'
- Senior Bethesda dev says the Fallout show works because Todd Howard wouldn't let the usual 'videogame directors' touch it: 'We want the best director, the best showrunner possible'
- Battlefield 6 Winter Offensive update introduces annoying stuttering issue that's apparently fixed by turning off your Steam friends list
- The mystery of The Game Awards statue in the desert may be solved, and I have to admit I did not see this one coming
- Repair shop simulator ReStory will finally let me live out my dream of being an electronic tinkerer without having to destroy my own belongings first
- I love a weird dating sim, and the trailer for bug dating simulator CatchMaker might take the cake
- Find Your Words will challenge you to develop connections without dialogue in a bright summer camp, and yes, it looks like you can birdwatch
- Cozy Caravan's 1.0 release is coming next month, and frankly I can't wait to continue where I left off
- PlayStation Store accidentally confirms Leon is in Resident Evil Requiem with an early peek at new cover art
- After accumulating more than 200,000 wishlists, a NSFW gacha game cancels its planned Steam release over a 'policy requirements' problem 'that cannot be reasonably resolved'
- League of Legends just got WASD controls after 16 years, and you can probably guess how smoothly the rollout's going
- Somehow the Assassin's Creed: Black Flag remake continues to leak, thanks to a PEGI rating for something called Black Flag Resynced
- Lenovo, HP, and Dell said to have warned customers of imminent PC price hikes, so I hope you've already picked up that upgrade you had your heart set on
- Framework calls out Dell and Apple for using the RAMpocalypse to 'gouge customers' on memory upgrade prices but the reality is more complicated
- The US gov shut down a $160 million smuggling operation trying to get Nvidia H200 chips into China and also, err, says the GPUs won't be restricted anymore
- This SIM-card-sized 2 TB SSD hits 3.5 GB/s and has full NVMe functionality, but it's arriving just in time for the memory apocalypse
- Square Enix hit with a brutal 100-slide presentation from one of its shareholders about alleged mismanagement, other shareholders asked to pitch in with 'frank views'
- Elden Ring Nightreign's first major DLC has sold over 2 million copies in under a week, as it manages to reignite that soul-crushing spark I had the first time I played
- Philips and AOC announce the 'world's first' 1,000 Hz dual-mode gaming monitors
- Microsoft killed the promising Perfect Dark reboot, but Take-Two has snapped up its leads for a new 2K studio
- Windows 3.1 included a red and yellow 'Hot Dog Stand' color scheme so garish it was long assumed to be a joke, so I tracked down Microsoft's original UI designer to get the true story
- December 8
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- Shenmue studio threatens legal action over an apparently faked Shenmue 4 trailer, which it says 'has absolutely no connection to Ys Net'
- The Game Awards reveals fan-voted Players' Voice nominees, and I'm sorry to say that Megabonk is once again out of the show
- Path of Exile 2 director is on a 'quest to make the perfect action RPG' and isn't afraid to borrow from Path of Exile 1 to pull it off
- 'We're not doing a good enough job [with Portal] right now': Battlefield 6 dev says players are making 'fantastic' creations that nobody is seeing because of a 'technical issue'
- The effort to canonize a Steam tag for the world's 'survivorslikes' and 'bullet heavens' intensifies with a public poll and celebratory sale aiming to finally settle on a name for the misfit genre
- YouTube channel discovers a good use case for AI-powered robots: Shooting YouTubers
- Humble Bundle is closing out 2025 by bringing back some of its most popular bundles of the year, including one with every Borderlands game ever made for just $70
- Hideo Kojima says Death Stranding was 'too unique', OD's going to be 'completely different', but Physint's an espionage game so 'you can make it in your sleep'
- Looks like the Run dialog box is getting a sleek new look on Windows 11
- Paramount, backed by Saudi Arabia's Public Investment Fund, launches hostile takeover bid for Warner Bros. Discovery, one day after US president Donald Trump says the Netflix deal 'could be a problem'
- World of Warcraft players are already discovering new tech with its player housing—turns out, you can sit anywhere as long as you're able to fit a chair inside
- Good news and good news: Meta is reportedly hard at work on the Quest 4 and has delayed its mixed reality glasses to 2027
- Windows is rolling out the ability to handle all app updates from just your OS, but with limited support right now
- Tekken boss announces retirement after 30 years in the most Harada way imaginable: a lengthy social media post and hour-long mixtape
- Baldur's Gate 3 fan discovers the game has nearly 237 hours of spoken dialogue in it—and a whopping 14 hours are narrator Amelia Tyler's alone, though Astarion gives her a run for her money
- Fallout executive producer confirms season 3 should start filming next summer: 'We'll see if that all comes together'
- There's a mod that lets you play Hades 1 in Hades 2
- Statistics prove everyone is T-posing for dominance in Elden Ring Nightreign, the feared Bell Bearing Hunter is only the fourth-deadliest field boss, and nobody plays Guardian
- Team Fortress 2 Classic is now Team Fortress 2 Classified, has been delayed to January 30: 'it wouldn't be an authentic TF2 experience without a bit of Valve time'
- December 7
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- Gaming collectible purveyor iam8bit is suing publisher Skybound over alleged fraud related to cat sim Stray
- The creator of popular animated short The Backwater Gospel is making an FPS inspired by 'Half-Life and the golden age of narrative first person shooters'
- Forget the GTA 6 delay, one modder is quietly building an entire Grand Theft Auto multiverse inside GTA 5
- Wreckreation developer puts its entire staff on notice as publisher THQ Nordic abandons it: 'We simply cannot sustain the studio in its current form'
- Descenders Next gets a big multiplayer update as its developer apologises for taking so long with it: 'We're slowly working on getting the feel and flow of Descenders back into Descenders Next'
- World War 1 survival horror Conscript gets a 'huge' update that adds a hardcore mode, redesigned levels, new items and gear, and much more
- Viking RTS Northgard is now Northgard: Definitive Edition, thanks to an update that folds in its major DLC and adds a bunch of new stuff free to existing players
- Felicia Day says her New Vegas character 'is one of the best roles I've ever got to play,' but the actor won't be in Fallout Season 2
- December 6
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- Players are piling in to the Guild Wars remaster, and it's giving the servers trouble: 'Demand for Guild Wars Reforged blew past our projections'
- Arc Raiders finally lifts the curtain on its Expedition rewards, showing us what players can expect to get for retiring and prestiging their Raiders later this month
- Tom Morello worked on a song for Final Fantasy 14's latest raid tier after finding out the game's composer was a huge Rage Against the Machine fan
- Fan community announces it will revive Unreal Tournament 2004 with Epic's blessing: 'We're doing this for free because we're fans of the game and we like a challenge'
- Rust's hotly anticipated naval update is delayed into 2026: 'We took on too much'
- Tempest Rising's playable third faction has invaded its beta branch, as its developer commences testing for the next two weeks
- Monkey Island creator Ron Gilbert isn't interested in returning to making 2D adventure games: 'When we're all dead, it probably won't be the kind of thing that survives'
- Cities: Skylines 2 finally gets its asset editor in a parting gift from the series' original developers
- New Fallout clip gives us a glimpse of an iconic Fallout: New Vegas location
- December 5
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- Todd Howard says AI can't replace human 'creative intention,' but it's part of Bethesda's 'toolset for how we build our worlds or check things'
- Actor Cary-Hiroyuki Tagawa, known for his iconic depiction of Mortal Kombat villain Shang Tsung, has died
- There are too many hints at a Diablo 4 shadow drop at The Game Awards to convince me paladins won't be playable next week
- Netflix agrees to buy Warner Bros, including its game studios, for nearly $83 billion-with-a-B, but the fight may not be over yet
- 'We ended up flipping a coin': Slay the Spire devs left it up to pure chance whether they'd make a sequel or something else
- Ella Purnell shuts down theories that a romance between Lucy and the Ghoul is coming: 'You guys need therapy'
- Remember Postal? In the last 48 hours publisher Running With Scissors has announced a new game, insulted fans, apologized, canceled the game, the studio making it denied wrongdoing, shut down anyway, and we can thank the magic of AI for all of it
- Mysterious missile defense game PVKK named one of our most anticipated games in this year's PC Gaming Show: Most Wanted
- WoW's new player housing feature's been out in early access for less than a week, and players have already made battleships, dollhouses, and large hadron colliders
- The guy responsible for the whole battle engine in Total War since Rome 1 had 'never worked writing game code' when he got the assignment
- Enchanting metroidvania MIO: Memories in Orbit has revealed a January release date alongside a mesmerising new trailer
- Netflix sells the studio behind Cozy Grove back to its original owners, freeing the studio to bring its mobile life sim to other platforms
- It never rains, but it pours: A security bug with a maximum severity rating is putting many of the worlds' servers at risk
- I've just discovered that you can master time and space in Arc Raiders, and now I want to intimidate everyone with my physics-breaking aura
- In a surprise change of heart, Nvidia's brought 32-bit PhysX support back to RTX 50-series graphics cards, though only for a select number of games
- AMD's Lisa Su doesn't believe there's an AI bubble: 'Emphatically, from my perspective, no'
- Fallout co-creator Tim Cain is out of 'semi-retirement' and back at Obsidian
- To celebrate Total War's 25th anniversary, 4 of the series' best games are being added to GOG's preservation program—and they're currently available at up to 80% off
- Let It Die: Inferno promises it used AI 'that observes copyright laws' and isn't 'modeled after any human performers,' so please don't be mad at it
- I did the maths and worked out what level all these Fallout TV show characters got to by the end of season one, and it was going so well until someone gained 186,204XP in 2 minutes
- The TV show based on Total War was tricking us all along: 'It's kind of embarrassing, but it's television'
- Adding yet more needless features, Discord joins the 'wrapped' crew with a yearly stat recap called Checkpoint
- Todd Howard says that the Fallout franchise is 'a cautionary tale', and that 'that world before the bombs fall' is what makes it so special
- Disney Dreamlight Valley's new Dream Team feature will drastically improve life in the valley, and I cannot wait to beg my friends for resources
- The next update for The Outlast Trials features a terrifying new enemy and map that might be the thing that scares me so much I can't play anymore
- During Nvidia's formative years, its CEO reckons it 'had a mission statement for a company that has no chance of success' but it was fine because Sega's CEO thought 'Jensen was a young man he liked'
- Yep, Cloudflare was just down. Again
- December 4
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- Oh no, all of Reddit's NFTs are disappearing in less than 30 days, someone do something
- Hytale won't be on Steam when it launches into early access: Developers want to focus on the game, not 'on negative reviews from players that aren't as well-informed yet about what we are doing'
- Eidos Montreal lays off more employees, internal projects reportedly cancelled as the studio shifts focus to support work
- Every game, trailer, and announcement in the 2025 PC Gaming Show: Most Wanted
- 'Everything is bigger' in Slay the Spire 2, which has been crowned our Most Wanted game
- Capture the heart of hectic sea battles in upcoming pirate themed survival crafting adventure, Windrose
- Your chance to wreak havoc as an inseparable demon-infant duo is closing in with twin-stick action adventure game Damon and Baby
- Delightfully weird dream logic RPG Away From Home is out this week
- This first look at Inkblood is giving me the heebie-jeebies, but in a jaunty, dark carnivalesque way
- Springs, Eternal is the first full-sized game from Gone Home co-creator Steve Gaynor after the rest of Fullbright broke off
- Splitgate 2 is dead, long live Splitgate: Arena Reloaded—the shooter's back-to-the-basics relaunch is coming December 17
- Battle very, very sad bosses in The Relic: First Guardian, a Witcher-like RPG rooted in Korean folklore
- Samson is a game about a man on a quest to pay off his debt and save his family, but he'll have to kick some butt in the process
- The House of Hikmah is an upcoming puzzle adventure that dives into a young girl's journey through grief
- One of our favorite FPSes is getting a spin-off we didn't expect: Dungeons of Dusk
- I'm ready to 'ruin the campaign' as the world's worst cleric in Esoteric Ebb, a satirical CRPG launching this spring
- Starsand Island makes me want to quit my job and move to the coast with its adorable new trailer
- Regions of Ruin: Runegate just dropped a new trailer and I'm about to pledge myself to the Dwarven king, no questions asked
- A game where you buy and sell stocks based on the lives on alien babies has a demo out now
- Dance through the dark to the sound of zombie groaning in bullet hell roguelike Be My Horde, which just got a major update
- Craft a cornucopia of unique spells in 3D side-scrolling puzzle adventure Rhell: Warped Worlds & Troubled Times
- Rivage is a time loop puzzle game from the same publisher as Blue Prince
- Flight sim strategy game Remnant Protocol is set to release in March
- Luna Abyss really puts the 'hell' in bullet hell with a nightmarish new trailer
- Dawn of War 4 will let you play as the Dark Angels and their boss, a big lad with the best name in 40k, Lion El'Jonson—yes, he's really called Lionel
- Streets of Fortuna is a survival megasim set in an ancient city where you can take down an overlord, start your own religion, or otherwise live your best life
- Survival horror game Halloween just dropped eerie footage of one of its maps and I'm already planning my hiding spots
- Let it Die: Inferno inverts the roguelite action, sending you down into the Hell Gate instead of up into the Tower of Barbs
- Reality warps around you in Valheim-esque co-op survival crafter Brightfall
- Unyverse mixes action RPG combat with deep Afrofuturist world-building where tech meets tradition
- Down with the Ship's demo proves it's a worthy spiritual successor to the space-faring magic captured by FTL: Faster than Light
- The Gods are dead and Death is your only master in Gods, Death & Reapers, a chaotic hack-n-slash extraction looter now accepting alpha playtesters
- Check out this game that's definitely About Fishing and not anything creepy or untoward at all
- Last Man Sitting gets a complete overhaul and open beta where you can shoot your office printer with a minigun
- Den of Wolves pre-alpha gameplay shows us what happens when you break stealth in the upcoming co-op heist FPS
- Attack to the beat in Wardrum, a new rougelite rhythm strategy game where you have to free the world from poorly timed magic
- Now's the time to relive classic MMO Guild Wars, which just got a big 'Reforged' overhaul
- In the new demo for upcoming factory sim Modulus, you not only build machines, but also design modules they're made of
- Atmospheric thriller When Sirens Fall Silent has an in-trailer twist that's really messing with my head
- Deep Rock Galactic: Rogue Core makes it into our top 25 Most Wanted games list, teases not-yet-officially announced fifth class
- Spellcasters Chronicles is a new MOBA that swaps item shops for deckbuilding, and its beta starts right now
- I forgot Crimson Desert has mechs and dragons in it, but you know what, now I'm even more excited for it
- City builder and creature collector Tamer Town shows off autobattling and Manor Lords-style plot planning
- Witchspire is another exciting upcoming game in the 'yes, of course I want to be a witch and join a coven and befriend a cool familiar' genre
- Hellraiser: Revival director thanks The Council for 'their depravity and generosity' as it's named our 17th Most Wanted game
- CTF shooter Last Flag now has a Steam demo, and it's worth trying whether or not you're an Imagine Dragons fan
- High on Life 2's skateboard went from 'dumb idea' to being so good the team 'designed everything else around it'
- Witness gargantuan mech fights in this desert survival game that's giving The Electric State meets Death Stranding
- Elven colony sim DarkSwitch just got an official release date, so buckle up for cable cars and airships as you erect your treeside utopia
- Upcoming action RPG Queen's Domain looks like just the thing for fans of classic FromSoftware games
- Defend Earth from the Arachnid scourge in Starship Troopers Ultimate Bug War, a new retro FPS coming next year
- Upcoming adventure game Epoch Reset has awakened the Steins;Gate stan in me with its time-bending shoujo storyline
- Soulmask release window revealed as the gravity-defying Shifting Sands DLC trailer airs during the PC Gaming Show: Most Wanted
- Sable creative director's new studio aims to make games sustainably rather than 'trying to make loads of money off one big hit project'
- Battlestar Galactica: Scattered Hopes' new trailer reminds us that resource management only gets you so far—we have to fight with giant lasers to save humanity
- Killing Floor 3 just got a major update with Season 2: Operation Breakout, reintroducing the Stalker we've all been waiting for
- Lunar Strike is a thoughtful, combat-free, speculative sci-fi survival game that's heavily grounded in real science
- Cairn finally has a release date, so get ready to scramble your way through this atmospheric climbing game
- Turn small puppers into huge doggos in new deckbuilding roguelike Dogpile
- Eldritch horrors grasp your frail teammates' minds in Neath, an upcoming tactical roguelike RPG where you also control the enemy
- Cure the world by raining blood in Ex Sanguis, a ruthless, turn-based roguelite battler
- For a cozy, floof-filled co-op survival experience, complete with terraforming mech suits, Animalkind is just the game I didn't know I needed
- I am already falling in love with every alt NPC in Grave Seasons, the upcoming farming sim that ranks at number 24 in our Most Wanted games list
- Ferocious blends Far Cry chaos with Ark's dino-taming, and it's available on Steam right now
- Atmospheric indie platformer Memories in Orbit is a haunting, robot-infested metroidvania with deep and dastardly lore to uncover
- Retro football manager Nutmeg turns the beautiful game into a card battler
- Rogue Point looks like the Rainbow Six Vegas successor I've been waiting for, from the studio that made Black Mesa
- Carmageddon: Rogue Shift looks like the Death Race game we've always deserved
- Substructure is a multiplayer automation game with a deep, dark twist
- SOL Shogunate is a J-rock-infused samurai space opera from the developers of Horizon and The Witcher
- Raw Fury is kicking off 'Rawcember' with a stacked Humble Bundle, featuring a discount on one of the year's coolest puzzle games
- Blood: Refreshed Supply launches today, bundling new scenarios with the remastered '90s classic
- Survivorlike shooter Night Swarm just launched on Steam
- Path of Exile 2 devs 'had so much negativity' around druids not being able to dodge roll in animal forms that they spent the last month making it happen: 'Man it was tough to get that to work right'
- Tencent promises not to pull any shenanigans with its Horizon-like survival game while Sony's lawsuit works through the courts, unless and until a judge says it can
- Rockstar co-founder finally settles ancient debate: GTA is NOT as good as Charles Dickens
- Two men have been arrested for attempting to destroy government databases and they reportedly tried to cover their tracks with the help of AI tools
- Creative Assembly has been busy—Total War: Medieval 3 is coming, along with more Warhammer DLC and another game that will be revealed next week, 'marking the beginning of an exciting new era'
- Fallout season 2 won't pick a canon New Vegas ending: '15 years down the line, every faction might think they won'
- If the nukes drop, Todd Howard says he's signing up with the Brotherhood of Steel
- Ball X Pit is getting not just one but three free updates in 2026, adding new characters, buildings, evolutions, and of course more balls
- FF14's Yoshi-P reveals why he's finally lifting glamour restrictions—he's got his own preferences, but it's 'no longer the time to force them on players'
- The source code for Asus' phone cameras has been hacked, but it's apparently 'not impacted Asus products, internal company systems, or user privacy'
- First it was owls, but now I've become obsessed with adding baby dragons to my Minecraft world thanks to this mod
- The 2025 Microsoft Excel World Championship went way, way harder than it needed to with its wrestling-style intros and I'm so here for it
- 'This is a race towards who can get more and more of the world’s 7.5 billion people to become subscribers': IBM's CEO says the AI industry isn't a bubble
- Hot on the heels of Micron bailing out of the consumer RAM market, SK hynix is apparently committing over $500 billion to build four new memory fabs, with the first to be finished by 2027
- I asked Fallout series executive producer Jonathan Nolan which he liked better, Fallout 3 or Fallout: New Vegas, and he said 'Fallout 3' without even hesitating
- 'It is such a thrill to have the power armor on': Fallout's Kyle MacLachlan says wearing the T-60 suit feels like 'you can do just about anything'
- 'Huge respect to the folks at Obsidian': Todd Howard invited Obsidian devs onto Fallout season 2's set so they could see New Vegas in the flesh
- Todd Howard reveals that Fallout's famous line 'War never changes' nearly didn't make it into the TV show 'because it can sound cliché'
- 'I haven't sat down to play the games, and I won't': Fallout's Walton Goggins says he 'not interested' in playing the RPGs his show is based on
- 'Never bet against' Jensen Huang's 'ability to disrupt himself' says IBM chief
- Just in case you thought Helldivers 2 was a little too nice, Arrowhead's just added magma planets where everything's on fire, and this is fine
- A weird, never-released NES horror JRPG no one knew about 2 years ago is now translated and fully playable
- December 3
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- Skyblivion is 'in the best state it's ever been' but, you guessed it, it's also been delayed into 2026, and the dev team is once again asking for help to get it finished
- GameStop gives someone a historic $30,000 trade-in payout for an ultra-rare Pokémon card, then takes aim at the 'trolls' for some reason
- Russia bans Roblox over extremist content and 'LGBT propaganda'
- Ron Gilbert canceled his Zelda-inspired RPG, in part because a good publisher is hard to come by these days: 'It's like they have formulas that they apply to games to try to figure out how much money they could make'
- The RAM crisis is just getting started: Micron makes the 'difficult decision' to abandon the consumer memory business to focus on supplying AI data centers
- Nightreign's new patch fixes the most annoying part about prepping for its toughest bosses
- 'We're trying to use early access in the way it was meant to be': PUBG creator Brendan Greene wants his new survival game to be built 'with the community, rather than for them'
- PlayerUnknown's new survival game already has three DLCs planned, but won't include one fan-favourite idea: 'I think the weather is sufficiently worrying at this stage'
- Horses is back on the Humble Store: 'After a full review they determined that while the content is heavy, nothing in the game warrants removal'
- 'Just last week alone, we were notified that costs had risen by 50–100%': SSD maker Transcend further tightens its belt amid delayed Samsung and Sandisk shipments
- As NetEase pledges to 'replace' a No Man's Sky model in its survival MMO, Sean Murray says they played themselves because the asset's busted anyway
- This Ray-Ban Meta smart glasses detector helpfully lights up the word 'glasshole' when the specs are nearby, just so we're all aware of exactly what we're dealing with
- Here's our exclusive first peek at massive-scale RTS Ashes of the Singularity 2 in action, and would you look at the size of this thing
- Avowed says sorry gang, no fall update this year, but to make up for it the devs are rolling together a bunch of features into a ball and putting them out in February
- 'I expect the vibes out there to be rough for a bit': Sam Altman calls for a 'code red' alert at OpenAI as Google's Gemini 3 gives it a scare
- Even Raspberry Pi computers, some of the cheapest lil machines on the market, are getting price hikes thanks to the RAM shortage
- Ayaneo says that next up is the, err, Next II, a power-hungry handheld with a whopping 115 Wh battery
- Intel's next-gen 14A chip production node is the 'real deal' says leading analyst
- Cloudflare says DDoS attacks have multiplied to 1.7x last year's count and at points there's been about one attempt every second
- Hypixel Studios releases the PC system requirements for its Minecraft-lookalike Hytale, and it's the most comprehensive breakdown I've seen in a long time
- Google's toying with nonsense AI-made headlines on articles like ours in the Discover feed, so please don't blame me for clickbait like 'BG3 players exploit children'
- The father of the Linux operating system, Linus Torvalds, says the reason why Windows has a rep for bugs and blue screens isn't down to bad code but bad memory
- Varmilo releases mildly cursed looking 'foot keyboard' designed to give you an edge in competitive games
- How to watch the PC Gaming Show: Most Wanted Powered by Xbox Game Pass on December 4
- Latest viral Game Awards tease could be teasing any videogame with hellish imagery from the last 70 years of the medium, but it's probably Elder Scrolls Online
- It turns out Saudi Arabia will own 93.4 percent of EA if the buyout goes through, which is effectively all of it
- December 2
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- Like a Dragon creators won't buckle to mainstream western tastes: 'people start making strange things when they misunderstand what their business is supposed to be'
- CD Projekt winds up Cyberpunk 2077 fans with fifth anniversary post, then cruelly breaks their hearts: 'We’re not teasing anything'
- Epic bans indie horror game Horses just one day before launch due to 'inappropriate content', despite having approved that content weeks ago
- The Marathon art theft debacle has been 'resolved to my satisfaction,' according to the artist Bungie stole from
- Shovel Knight developer Yacht Club Games will be in serious trouble if its next release isn't a hit: 'It's make-or-break for sure'
- Oxford English Dictionary rage baits traditionalists by naming 'rage bait' as its word of the year 2025
- IO Interactive says that, once Bond is out of the way, hell yeah we're getting back to the good stuff: 'Of course there's going to be a next Hitman'
- Attention survival game sickos: you can be among the first to playtest the sequel to one of my favorite survival RPGs
- Escape From Tarkov player makes world-first escape from Tarkov
- Hideo Kojima will make furry criminals regret their words and deeds as a mole who is also a cop in Zootopia 2
- The company that invented the AIO cooler has accepted an $85 million buyout offer from a major Chinese electronics group
- Samsung rejects the claim that it is negotiating with itself over memory contracts
- Reports of Windows 10's death appear to have been greatly exaggerated as 29% of Steam users still cling on
- AMD graphics card prices could rise by $40 thanks to the RAM supply crisis, but the extra you pay could be even more
- 21 months and 5,000 hours in, this long-term OLED monitor burn-in test finds that panel degradation slows after six months
- Helldivers 2 cuts its install size from '~154GB to ~23GB' in a beta you can opt into now, defeating liberty-hating storage reqs with 'no functional differences' between versions
- Swen Vincke unable to utter 'giant Withers naturals' as Baldur's Gate 3 celebrates its 3rd Christmas with large rabbits, Baldstarion, and a 1996 Lada Riva
- Rumours suggest AMD might raise CPU prices but some industry sources disagree
- Embark has confirmed that Expedition bonuses in Arc Raiders are permanent, but that does little to clear up the confusion
- The dominoes are falling: motherboard sales down 50% as PC enthusiasts are put off by stinking memory prices
- Windows 11's latest update includes a free File Explorer flashbang bug for dark mode users wanting to relive their early Counter-Strike days
- My idle vending-machine sim obsession has dropped a big new update, so don't expect me to get any work done while I fixate on Oolong Tea
- Great news for Intel: It now owns fully 1% of the gaming GPU market
- Memory crisis and sky-high DRAM prices could run past 2028 as Samsung and SK Hynix opt to 'minimize the risk of oversupply'
- Runescape: Dragonwilds rolls out its farming update next week, and I can't wait to use it as another excuse to not complete the main quests
- Oh joy, it looks like OpenAI could be planning on turning ChatGPT into the ultimate advertising bot
- December 1
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- 'We're so back': After withdrawing from The Game Awards in November, Megabonk is back in the fight in the Players' Voice category
- The 11 Elden Ring Nightreign DLC features that would surprise and delight the biggest FromSoftware fans
- Proving truly nothing is sacred, Microsoft has included the Copilot AI logo on this year's ugly Windows Christmas sweater
- 15 years later, a heroic modder has finally added video poker to Fallout: New Vegas
- This super cool Red Dead Redemption 2 rowing machine mod might be the only thing that could get me to work out
- Konami veterans say they had to resurrect Metal Gear because no-one's getting any younger, are they: 'Given our age… now was the time'
- What's the point of being an adult if you can't buy yourself a big Joytoy Warhammer 40,000 action figure to display on your PC gaming desk?
- Rockstar animator posts unseen GTA 6 clips in demo footage which is immediately nuked, but the internet just does not forget
- It's not just RAM—SSDs could soon cost way more too, and it's all downhill from here
- The Speranza Watchlist isn't Arc Raiders' answer to evil players—it's just a roleplaying tool for people who want to spice up their games
- The new game about the loathsome ancient goblin who kills people for fun and profit is delayed into 2026
- The Splinter Cell remake gets a new director, and he's the same as the Splinter Cell remake's old director
- Dispatch being 'basically a live-service game for a month' did gangbusters, but leads say don't expect to copy it and get the same result
- This is getting ridiculous: Videographer directs three short films in Arc Raiders using real players as actors
- Hooray, Microsoft is making File Explorer faster, but it's still slower than Windows 10 and consumes more RAM. Boo
- Rockstar co-founder compares AI to 'mad cow disease,' and says the execs pushing it aren't 'fully-rounded humans'
- TIL the Wayback Machine saves 150,000 gigabytes of webpages every day and lives in a church in San Francisco
- AMD has just launched the Ryzen 7 9850X3D with zero fanfare, and I think I understand why
- Microsoft confirms that its new AI agent in Windows 11 hallucinates like every other chatbot and poses security risks to users
- Voice actor for Baldur's Gate 3's Karlach says 'we're still seen as outsources' in game dev: 'There's a weird disconnect'
- 'If you happen to love microtransactions, I am going to disappoint you deeply': REPO's next update is revealing deets, and it's more exciting than monsters
- Switching to a leverless fighting game controller is the smartest thing I ever did, and one of the best in the biz is at its lowest-ever price
- All I've bought this Cyber Monday are 2 boring ethernet cables and this exceptional comic book bundle
- Persona-adjacent turn-based tactics RPG Demonschool just got its second big patch, seems like now is the time to dive in
- Fortnite players are accusing it of using AI-generated art: 'I'm done with this game'
- Fortnite's latest live event drew in 10.5 million players to see Godzilla, Hatsune Miku, Homer Simpson, and countless other characters fight a giant squid man
